DaVinci

Have you lived in Dallas? Having lived in both Chicago and Dallas.... I'd live in Dallas again any day. I'd NEVER live in Chicago again. So, have you actually lived in Dallas, or are you talking out of your ass?

That "child" would of most likely kicked your ass as well. Key word ACCUSE. Not saying Zimmerman is a choirboy... But he was ACCUSED of murder and that charge did not stick (I know you ignore the FACT he was found not guilty.... But it is a fact).

Or he was justified in the TM case and all the crap thrown at him messed with his head. Spike Lee attempted to tweet his address to people who wanted to kill him. Not claiming he is a choirboy.... But his current actions do not mean he was not justified in shooting a guy that was trying to kill him. No disagreement. The question is what caused him to get to this point... Ignoring the pressure put on him by the trial and the public opinion against him has to be considered a factor. I am not sure any person would be sane after what he went through.

Yet, they do not require you to buy a car or pay a penalty. Your comparison would be that IF you buy a HC plan then it would have to cover certain things. But in this case they are doing that AND making you buy a car.

The problem was that the Japanese congress needed 100% agreement to surender and they were never going to get that because of a few war hawks. IIRC, they actually had votes and could not get the 100%. We had two bombs, we didn't even know if they would work. We could not set up a demonstration and have it fail - We would have looked worse. Also while the destruction was massive... The firebombing of Tokyo killed more people, again IIRC. The massive destruction from ONE bomb (and the lie that we had many more of them) forced the Emperor to ask the Congress to agree to the surrender.

I can't blame him for not wanting to put his personal information out there anymore than I could be upset at you for being upset that I put your information out there, sorry if that really upset you.... Fact is that I have had people try to call my employer because of something they read online that they didn't like. My boss laughed at them, but the point is that it is wise NOT to have personal information available when getting into discussions that might turn heated. PhillyKev I think got fired over something like that. And when telling people where I live, I often tell them something like San Jose instead of something like Redwood City. Most people don't know where the hell Redwood City is and then you have to explain more. Heck most times it is easier to say SF. Like when a skydiver asks where are you from and you answer with "The Ranch" instead of New York. So someone putting they live in "Orlando" when the house is actually in Apopka is not a 'lie'. Most people don't know where Apopka is and the next question is normally, "What is that near?" So for 99.9% of the population, mentioning the Large city close to them is enough. It is only when people want to get ridiculous that the actual city matters.... And it seems that is all some people care about.

False. Saddam gassed the Kurds. Germain's used Mustard Gas in WWI In medieval times people would throw plague infected body's into forts.

All anyone needs to do is read any of your posts. You claim Chicago's gun laws do not work since guns are available across the state line.

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/08/27/15-moronic-things-liberals-call-racism-since-obama-was-elected-n1674131/page/full "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American." -- Jimmy Carter

You blast another person for lying about where they live... Yet you did the same. You are bashing a guy because he didn't put his (what you consider) true information online. That information was given was available from the FAA on the web. Also the AMA, BTW. But if you are upset about it, I apologize.

I'll give you an example.... I am against the CDC doing gun research. Even though the most recent bit of research (and all the research done before) actually support my position. And the reason is simple - The CDC has a history of having a political agenda. Dr. Mark Rosenberg, who was then director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC, explained his aim was to make the public see firearms as “dirty, deadly—and banned.” (Quoted in William Raspberry, “Sick People With Guns,” The Washington Post, Oct. 19, 1994.) Dr. Katherine Christoffel and Dr. Robert Tanz of the Children’s Hospital in Chicago, “plan to do to handguns what their profession has done to cigarettes … turn gun ownership from a personal-choice issue to a repulsive, anti-social health hazard.” (Harold Henderson, “Policy: Guns ‘n Poses,” Chicago Reader, Dec. 16, 1994.) So I just can't support the CDC doing such research. They have shown their intentions and have juggled some studies to create issues. One thing they did was classify people in their late teens as "children" to make child deaths by firearm look like it was increasing. If that would keep the anti gunners away, it would be great. I could support better mental health spending and education spending even without the gun benefit (and it would be without it.... Gun crime is DOWN yet the anti's still call for bans. It is not about stopping gun crime, it is about getting rid of civilian owned weapons for them and they have said exactly that). The problem is I am not for tax increases without proven strategies for improvement. It is nothing more than throwing good money after bad. Education has been dumbed down to the point that High School grads can't make change. I am not willing to throw more money at a program like that. And the curriculum, the "common core". It has some glaring problems. States should be in charge of the education in the State. the Federal govt should stay out of it. I am for education improvement. That does not mean doing the same but just spending more money.

When you tout how great Chicago's gun laws are and then ignore the gun violence.... Then you are being intentionally dishonest. Yes, I use the one where things do not work are called stupid. You seem to use the definition of the things you don't like are called stupid.

You just make stuff up don't you? I have said REPEATEDLY that I think race should be mentioned no matter what race it is. Data is important. Without the raw data you are relying on what others see as important. This is one of the classic methods where people push an agenda.

Your tribe constantly complains that people opposing Obama are immediately called racist. Can you give me a single example of that, preferably not from another racist like Sharpton or Jesse Jackson? How about almost any post from Kallend? Easy to prove you wrong yet again on that one. A simple use of the SEARCH function yields: "Your search for racist in posts made by Kallend returned 175 results "

Without the outcry, they would have gotten what they said they would get.

Irony score 10/10. At least I live where I claim to live. You CLAIM to live in Chicago.... But you live in Flossmoore, IL. You are actually closer to Indiana than down town Chicago. Nope. Moved to Chicago in August Do you LIKE being wrong so often? Might want to let the FAA know. I have, and my address is shown correctly in the airman certification database. https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/ So you're wrong yet again. :P] Your plane is not registered to Chicago. edited to remove personal details

Irony score 10/10. At least I live where I claim to live. You CLAIM to live in Chicago.... But you live in Flossmoore, IL. You are actually closer to Indiana than down town Chicago. Nope. Moved to Chicago in August Do you LIKE being wrong so often? Might want to let the FAA know.

Good point. The main point I was trying to make is that CA's gun laws do not actually work. TX has far more guns and has a lower rate than CA. The biggest factors in gun violence no one ever wants to talk about.... Social. Less education, and lower resources almost always lead to more gun violence. There is a reason that most gun deaths are black males.... It has nothing to do with race, and it has absolutely nothing to do with gun laws. Until people are willing to drop the BS (Guns laws work!, Make every honest citizen go through a background check!) and focus on the real issues.... We will never solve anything. You want to stop mass shootings? Better reporting of people with mental health issues and better mental health services will do that. Making 99.9% of the population go through background checks will not do anything. You want to stop gun violence? Focus on stopping *violence* and focus your efforts in poor urban areas. Work on improving the lives of the people in those areas. As long as people focus on the item - make the item out to be evil.... We will never get anything done. And no, I am not willing to continue to give up my rights in the hope that some already proven ineffective plan will "do something".

Your tribe constantly complains that people opposing Obama are immediately called racist. Can you give me a single example of that, preferably not from another racist like Sharpton or Jesse Jackson? How about almost any post from Kallend?

Lincoln or FDR. Both took massive swipes at the Constitution. Both grossly increased the power of the Federal Govt. Both suspended habeas corpus. FDR threatened to stack the SC to get his way.

I see the opposite. I see a demand for race description when a crime is committed by some one who isn't white. I see the opposite, I see the media dancing around the race when it is not a white person. I see no issue in the media mentioning race as long as they mention it in ALL of the cases and not only when one race is involved. News is supposed to be about facts. Leaving out facts is not very news like.

There is an "epidemic of black-mob violence". There is indeed. And it's pretty much confined to 2 neighborhoods. But DESPITE that, Chicago still doesn't make the top ten US cities for murder rate, and there are 78 worse cities than Chicago for violent crime rate. So why pick on Chicago when Atlanta, Miami, Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, Orlando and Cincinnati (to name a few) have worse violent crime? Oh yes, because Obama comes from Chicago. Chicago gets picked because unlike the other locations you mentioned none of them have the draconian gun laws Chicago has. It has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the stupidity of the gun laws of Chicago.

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I feel pretty certain that this is false. We've seen the same declines in murder rates as every where else. Would be pretty noticeable if our rate was 5x the national average. Sorry you are correct. CA has 68% of its murders by *firearm*. And it is the State with the best gun laws according to the Brady center. CA is the largest State: ~37M and had 1220 gun murders. TX is the next largest with 25.6M and had about half as many murders at 699.