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There's 98,817 public schools in America.
Geeze, We're gonna need more guns!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
This may sound awful but maybe civilization needs a fire.
Yosemite has a history of naturally occurring fires.
A Move Away from Fire Supression
"Yosemite has also always experienced low-intensity surface fires naturally ignited by lightning. However, open and park-like forests captured in historic photos have been replaced with denser, altered forests as a result of fire supression. The lack of natural fire has led to overgrown and unhealthy forests."
(From the National Park Service site)
http://www.nps.gov/yose/parkmgmt/fire-history.htm
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Maybe what we need is a financial firestorm.
One that can expose the the inflated value of paper money.
Money is just a tool.
Real labor/engineering/management/resources/product have lost value.
We use paper money to create more paper.
Corporations have moved Upper Management to Financial experts.
Wow! What a powerful observation/post.
I truly don't want to acknowledge the truth in your words.
And you are speaking truth.
Let me point to your statement:
Geo, so much can be done...........
Something very simple like a short 20hr. course in high school.
Geese, how many get through high school and don't know how to manage a check book?
There's other ideas that would have to pass through the Supreme Court:
Forced insurance. Not just for loss of gun but for damages.
Implanted ID chip on the handle, national data base.
Medical/psychological testing every four years.
These may sound a bit extreme.............
Most opposition to gun control is from rural and even suburban Americans.
Most Americans (and police) who live in cities understand the risk.
How's about a $10 to $30 simple trigger lock!
Geeze, maybe it's the first gun law we can make--------
Every gun must be sold with a simple trigger lock.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=slv8-msgr&va=gun+trigger+locks
The evil empire....Darth Vader? LOL
What the hell is wrong with the Republican Party?
The Tea Party has been directed by the Koch brothers since their inception.
Karl Rove still manages the party candidates.
Norquist controls tax policy.
If republicans won't think on their own,
America will be a one party system.
I'm a real son-of-a-bitch aren't I?
Truth is:
The second Amendment provides for the population to have the aliment power of the people to control Government if the Government where to be corrupted.
That ship sailed.
Now we fight against ourselves.
And it's you.
You're full of shit!
There were three guys who robbed me.
The other two were hiding.
If I were to disable the first, the other two would have popped a couple rounds in me.
The bastards have been trough the education system.
They sent the dupe to gauge the situation.
I only know one side of this as I'm a guy.
There are personality traits that depict 'a' mentalities as being dominant and cross gender.
But even 'a' character traits are dependent on the other people who just don't give a damn.
Important is the physios that is the mass murderer....
It's a documented fact that it's more prevalent in the male gender.
It's within all males to choose.
Bull shit! Restraint saves lives.
Cool heads saves lives.
Having power is never at the point of a gun.
It's called civilization.
Or it's called anarchy.
Observing the rights of others is what gives value to all our Constitutional rights.
I've spent many years contemplating strength, I'm sure you have too.
Am I strong when I fight back against someone who would control me?
Or someone who would defame me?
Is it strength that can rise above the negativity?
Can physical strength give me mental strength and the strength of purpose?
Ladies don't ask these questions.
(Now, don't judge the artist)
No, there is a line in the sand.
I didn't want to kill my robber, nor did my friend who shot his assailant in the leg a couple times.
He did control his weapon. I guess his training as a cop and his judgement as a human guided him.
I swear to my Lord this is a true story.
He and I both know the life of another is a gift.
My life is valuable as is yours.
Hurt before you maim.
Maim before you handicap.
Handicap before you destroy any life.
Learn the rules!
fred, you're showing signs of a pathology.
If he or I or any employee packed we'd be discharged.
In words even you can understand:
Our company is perfectly willing to sacrifice my life against some lawsuit otherwise I'd pack.
Your 'facts' about guns protecting lives is pure bull shit!
When I was robed it was by a dupe sent by two other thugs.
One guy was sent in and the other two waited.
Even the dupe had the draw on me if I had a gun.
The other two showed up after.
Police and justice gave the dupe 12 years.
The other two are still out there.
A few years before my event, another co-worker shot his attacker.
That lead to the company banning all employees from packing.
We talked about things of course, he was a cop before he changed jobs.
The company wanted to throw him to the wolves, he had to go to the media and the 5 O'clock news.
He firmly believes he would have lost his job.
My short answer; I don't know.
There should be a moral question anytime we (America) favor a failed corporation.
'Spare the rod and spoil the child.' comes to mind.
Here's an article that puts a price on the loss:
http://news.yahoo.com/factbox-u-treasury-plans-gm-stock-sale-tarp-201946340--business.html
Here's the paragraph:
"As part of its effort to unwind its position in GM, the Treasury on Wednesday said it would sell 200 million shares of common stock back to the company at $27.50 a share. If it were to sell its remaining 300.1 million shares at the same price, it would face a loss of more than $12 billion on the automaker's bailout."
Men are different.
A Possible Explanation Of Why There Are So Few Female Mass Murderers
Ryu Spaeth, The Week|Dec. 17, 2012, 8:04 PM
http://theweek.com/article/index/237938/why-are-there-so-few-female-mass-murderers#ixzz2FVynyNcQ
Yes, it will be a loss for taxpayers.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha..........
More like cave-man culinary creativity.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
I don't know if you find this relevant to your post.......
The use of opiates has risen 450% since 2000.
Medically prescribed.
(Sorry, I couldn't find the article I read.
I believe it was front page of the WSJ a week ago.)
Psychotropic drugs have grown favorable with treating kids suffering from a behavioral or emotional disorder.
They (drugs) have shown to be life changers.
It's not that I believe these drugs aren't helpful or necessary.
What has changed so drastically from when I was a kid?
Could be a sick society, meds are at am all time high!
Oboy! I've never melted chocolate but I had this brain storm to shave a half pound,
melt it in a bowl over boiling water,
and dip 'Nilla Wafers' in it.
That's as as close as I can get to home made Christmas cookies.
Hahahahahahaha.........
A little lumpy........must be the love.
That's the idea behind relativity:
We live in a dynamic universe and matter/energy/time are constantly interacting to find balance.
Reality is not confined to our senses or our awareness to the world around us, both physically and mentally.
We change reality by our existence;
We have the power to influence reality even if we do nothing at all.
Yea, it's Christmas and it's a great time to share our positive vibes.
That's my rant for today.
God bless us, everyone.
Nice post, Sherm............
Perpetrators do continue with their modus operandi.
In this case it's derivatives.
I'll post the very end of the article:
.....con't..
"Once again, the media and its master, the US government, hide the real issues behind a fake one. The fiscal cliff has become the way for the Republicans to save the country from bankruptcy by destroying the social safety net put in place during the 1930s, supplemented by Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” in the mid-1960s.
Now that there are no jobs, now that real family incomes have been stagnant or declining for decades, and now that wealth and income have been concentrated in few hands is the time, Republicans say, to destroy the social safety net so that we don’t fall over the fiscal cliff.
In human history, such a policy usually produces revolt and revolution, which is what the US so desperately needs.
Perhaps our stupid and corrupt policymakers are doing us a favor after all."
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/12/the-fiscal-cliff-is-diversion.html
Is matter a wave or a particle?
Is energy a substance or a field of relationships?
(Pick 'D'; All of the above)
It's up to the observer..............
"Magnified Reward"...........
Just a little effort like squeezing a trigger can give a big adrenalin rush.
BAMM! and that old beer bottle is history.
I call them 'Wack-a-Doodles'.
People who need guns as a second Amendment right.
Think of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia......
Could anyone imagine a population that packed and had the 'right to hold ground'?
There just isn't enough Funeral Homes to accommodate the potential.
And the legal disputes......
Geeze, people use the middle finger to make a U-Turn,
Just think if they had a gun!
Did you ever conceive of health care to mitigate the problem?
As you say: "no law will stop them",
True as it is; people will always do wrong,
including the most heinous of crimes,
The question that I pose to you is:
"Can we prevent this from happening to your family?"
This is what government intervention is about.
To protect and advance the human condition.
Excellent sentiment, Wall.
Political minds have degraded to a 'win/lose' mentality.
Here in America we create laws to document every citizen just to vote............
But try to stop us from buying an assault weapon and we're up in arms! LOL!
Sarcasm? Or just mutual deterrence?
According to your observation,
we need to arm our children.
Hilarious!
I'd say it's all going to collapse around the financial interests that support their bad tax and spend mentality.
You understand why I posted on this board to get into short term bonds.
Please, it's an abundance of money that needs a parking place.
Sure, I'll agree that government workers (State City Federal) shouldn't have pensions.
Pensions are guaranteed, retirement plans aren't.
The idea of unemployment benefits not only secure an income for the individual, they protect against the down ward spiral of the economy.
Oh, I agree to your point.
These catch words like 'free lunch' make for self righteous indignation.
Pure emotional manipulation that divides.
It's THEM against Us mentality.
Companies that are too big to maintain growth give out after tax earnings to secure share holder's interest.
Most investors look for growing companies.
GE is just so damn big they don't have the growth potential as some start-up company.
Verizon is another.
Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) get tax breaks and are forced to distribute to share holders.
Friedman has been given a lot of attention since the 1960's and became a regular Guru of economics in the 1980's.
He's an intelligent man, sure......
But his field of economics is NOT a science.
He's famous for the idea that greed or personal gain drive economic decisions.
Kinda silly at this time of year when retail has it's biggest season.
Yea, gift giving, decorating, parties, donations, etc are the motivation at Christmas.
I made up my definition of free lunch, you're right.
Getting payed while your money is in Treasuries, corporate bonds and equities requires nothing more than diligence.
That's not my idea of productivity.
I don't believe myself to be a 'die hard liberal'.
Poverty in America is an economic and a societal problem.
It shows the weakness/failure of our Government's economic policies.
Your idea of liberals is unrealistic.
Not everyone who isn't a radical conservative is a liberal.
Why SOROS, you can just look at people and fit them into categories like:
You do understand that the free lunch is a concept that is relevant to people of wealth?
Many people of wealth choose to protect their assets at a return above inflation.
That would be a free lunch; earning a return above inflation for doing no work.
Don't debate me on this concept.
Simply;
Investing isn't work.
Creating, building, managing, producing, developing, etc. is work.
Put your excess cash in short term bonds; five years or less at this time.