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A man woke up one morning with a terrible toothache. His wife said, "You need to get to the dentist right away!" The man said, "No! I'm afraid of dentists." By the middle of the day, the pain was so bad that he went to the dentist anyway. When he got to the dentist, the dentist took X-rays and told the man, "That tooth is really bad. It's got to come out right now!" He picked up a syringe with Novocain and the man screamed, "No needles! I'm scared of needles!" The dentist said Ok and picked up a cannula to give the man nitrous oxide. The man screamed again and said, "No! if something is over my mouth or nose, I'll feel like I'm going to suffocate!" The dentist said, "Can you handle pills?" The man said, "Yes." The dentist left the room for a minute and came back with two pills. He gave the pills to the man and said, "Take this Viagra." The man took the pills and said, "Wow! I didn't know Viagra was also for pain." The dentist said, "It's not.....but it'll give you something to hang on to when I pull that tooth!

Most truckers are to the right of the median most of the time.

?? I am the one saying we have to understand it. You are the one saying "just add more guns." Yes, because he did a better job than I did. But if you prefer my approach: Limits on magazine size A "gun owner responsibility" law. If your gun is used in a crime, you go to jail for a minimum of ten years. Even if it's stolen. Even if you lost it. Even if it's your 18 year old son who takes it. Period. An end to the gun show loophole. Everyone gets a background check. Everyone. A law that allows police to rapidly confiscate guns from people with mental health issues. They can then go to court and get them back, after (for example) being examined (and potentially treated) by a doctor. I could care less about "satisfaction." I care about dead kids. Why the f*ck is that so hard for you to understand? Finally you say something that makes sense. Yes, they are THE big part (not the only part, but the biggest part) of the problem. They are the tool used in all school shootings. They are why shooting deaths are now the #1 killer of kids. Their lack is why other countries don't have even 10% of the school shootings we have. If all school killers had to use knives, slingshots or compound bows there would be a lot fewer dead kids. And again, that's the goal. Child deaths due to shootings are up over 50% in the past 25 years. That's how well your solution is working. Want to go for 100%? With enough guns that's quite possible. Forgive me if I don't root for you achieving that. I prefer Australia's approach myself.

Remember Kid Rock? How he just shot up a case of Bud Light because Bud Light dared use a trans spokesperson? Fighting back against the Woke Menace with his manly weapons? Here's a picture from 20 years ago, with him drinking Bud Light and performing with a trans singer. As long as it benefits HIM it's fine.

I'm going to add - every sale including private get's a background check and registered at that time. Your local dealer can help with this. When you go to a gun show and purchase a weapon from a dealer from another state; you must go to a dealer in that state to transfer the weapon and do a "yellow sheet" + either dealer has to do a background check. This can usually be done at the gun show. Most in-state dealers will have a sign over their table saying "$15.00 fee" for being the receiving dealer. The rest of your post was most eloquent, Bill.

So the dentist said, "I can pull it with no Novocain, the pain shouldn't be too bad." He quietly said to the dental assistant, when I pull the tooth, jab him in the ass with this needle. The dentist grabs ahold of the tooth and as he gives it a yank, the dental assistant gives him a jab. After the tooth is out, the dentist asks the man, "that didn't hurt too bad did it" the man said no but I didn't know the root went that deep".

The next generation being raised in combat environments, a.k.a. "schools", disagree with this approach. Thankfully they WILL change this. Hopefully before the child sacrifice for guns in America impacts us ALL personally.

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AUF1 is an Austrian far-right online channel promoting fake news and political conspiracy theories. The channel was founded in June 2021 by Stephan Magnet and has an audience in Austria and Germany. In 2022, the Austrian media authority Komm Austria [de] initiated proceedings against AUF1.[1] From - Wikipedia. Brent - I know critical thinking is not your strongpoint - but even you should have worked out in the last century or so that allying yourself with far right Austrians probably puts you on the wrong side of history.....

Dude, read the first post in the thread you started.

Larry Finegold 1980... "It's difficult now to separate fact from fantasy," "I'm no longer sure what I saw - and I was trained by the FBI. I think I got a good, solid look at Cooper's face. Now I don't know."

Today's Heroes are . . . the republican legislators in the Tennessee house. Today they are voting to expel three lawmakers in the opposite party for being part of an anti-gun protest. For not caving into gay woke agendas like free speech and protection of children from gun violence, they win today's award as Heroes of the Anti-Woke.

No you aren't. Being not white and or not of reasonable economic footing impacts experiences and outcomes. You can't be in favor of having "equal right and equal responsibilities" if you are unwilling to acknowledge those influences, and sometime work to address them. Is that even a coherent thought? Can you give an example? Frequency of existing violations explains the focus, not necessarily racism. Lets look at the focus on negative interactions between minorities and law enforcement. Per capita nonwhites are more likely to have interactions with law enforcement, and they are more likely to be the type of interactions that result in the violation of rights. Getting better funding and training for law enforcement can cause positive interactions for everyone irrespective of color, but the focus isn't on Frappuccino Karen in her Lululemon active wear because she will probably go the whole year driving shitty like everyone else, but she will never get pulled out of her car by police, or be in danger from interactions with them, because she is white her husband is a lawyer and she lives in a very nice neighborhood with high property values and a really high property tax rate.

You are correct. He will tweet and say all kinds of outrageous things about the judge and the court that would get any normal person slapped with a contempt charge in a millisecond. And it will be completely ignored. But......not forgotten, judges have ways of getting even.

Hi Mark, According to my local tv news last nite, they were out in force yesterday. They just need to keep it up & not lose direction. * Jerry Baumchen * It's called voting the gun-nutz out of office.

Every time I see Chicago hatred paraded about, I just chuckle. Not even in the top 100 dangerous cities in America. Some of the best big city architecture in the country, food and museums to DIE for, a walkable downtown, a proper China town, and Vienna Beef!!! The mayor stealing the downtown airport still pisses me off though. I need to take Skymama on a Chicago trip. We've both not been in years. I don't think she's been up the Mag Mile.

I was thinking the judge would not want one in place. No way Trump could NOT violate it, forcing the judge to find him in contempt. You wanna be the judge that jailed a twice impeached insurrectionist former POTUS?

There's talk of a possible gag order being imposed on Trump. I would hate to see him deprived of his right to talk himself into deeper trouble.

This data from the patent filed in 1953 about 12 years before the tie existed does not match the TiSb tie particles.. The particles had 6 - 8% Ni... these do not. In fact, I went through all of the data and there is no match anywhere,, that patent has nothing to do with the TiSb particles on the tie. Instead of including it excludes the tie particles. It is just a random coincidence that the Sb is around 17%. This has been a red herring, the tie particles have no relationship to this 1953 filed patent or the later patent which has no related data.

It was revealed in court filings that Fox personnel consider their viewers "cousin-fucking morons". Says something about the people who consider them a 'reliable source', doesn't it?

This is an example of how the rest of the world views the US on this issue. God has indeed blessed America, but at the same time She has cursed it as well. As the saying goes, "it's complicated." In his autobiography Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography, Howard expressed his support for the anti-gun cause and his desire to introduce restrictive gun laws long before he became prime minister. In a television interview shortly before the 10th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre, he reaffirmed his stance, "I did not want Australia to go down the American path. There are some things about America I admire and there are some things I don't. And one of the things I don't admire about America is their... slavish love of guns. They're evil."

Apparently some people still believe that Fox has actual news on its broadcast. Rather foolish of them. Not surprising, but pretty silly.

The ad from Look Magazine that Cameron was referring to showed a C-130, not a jet.

Depends completely on how the Castle Doctrine is written.

The argument is that Ti was rare,, I don't think it was as rare as people think.. The tie was sold circa1964-65... it had 7 years to accumulate those particles from many environments.. There are so many particles it is impossible to sort them out. Some could be from a shop, from the plane, after the plane, from finger print powder, from dentistry, from explosives exposure, from electronics, military etc... All I know is the patent being the only source for the TISb is bogus.. it is like finding fried chicken on the tie and claiming it was worn by Colonel Sanders.. I have also looked at a broken sodium lamp,,, or fireworks.. It is impossible to sort out, too many possibilities and environments. Then, we don't know if Cooper was the person wearing it when the particles were deposited...

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We've discussed this with Tom and a couple of metallurgists. Tom says it may account for some residue on the tie but not for the more exotic elements. He says the residue would likely be in the form of carbon soot. The metallurgist said that there would be titanium alloy, stainless, inconel, and nickel in jet exhaust, plus all the fuel particles. He said it would account for some of the bits on the tie, but not all. It's an intriguing development to be sure.

a quick google search got this https://www.google.com/search?q=UAE+medical+doctor+who+is+certified+to+do+aircrew+medicals&rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA916CA916&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Try to find a UAE medical doctor who is certified to do aircrew medicals. If you are in the USA, that should be an aviation medical examiner certified by the US Federal Aviation Administration. In Canada, an aviation medical specialist certified by Transport Canada, etc. Start by asking local pilots where they get their medicals updated. You need at least an FAA Class 3 medical, the same as an American private pilot.

Thing is they are not uninformed. They are just misinformed. (They see it as "having done their research.") The filters and content-creation in social media systems create news feeds, post feeds, memes etc tailored to that person, so in many ways it's a political persuasion amplifier. If you are a bit of a libertarian? Click on enough libertarian memes and pretty soon it seems like the government is worse than Orwellian, that only libertarianism and guns can save people, that trans teachers are forcing little kids to have fake sex with them, and that Grafton was a libertarian utopia. Click on an ad for clothing that blocks cellphone rays? Pretty soon you are getting stories about how 9/11 was a government plot, that the government is spraying chemtrails on everything, and how the COVID vaccine is what killed those million-plus people in the US. Etc etc. In the olden timey days it was harder to get that misinformed because most newspapers (for example) did not print regular stories about how the vaccine contains 5G Bill Gates tracker chips - you had to go to a library and go to the same section that had "Elvis was an alien" and "John Wayne shot JFK" books in it. And that was a bit of a clue that you were in cloud cuckoo land. Nowadays such material is cleaned up, meme-ized, colorized and presented right next to a story about (say) how there was a plane crash in LA. So it looks like real news. And many people (and yes, a lot of these are in rural America - but a lot of them aren't) don't have the tools to be able to quantify the validity of such news, and so start believing it. So it's not that they are uninformed. If anything they are overinformed by algorithms designed specifically to feed them misinformation. Which is one reason that fact-checkers on social media are so important. That little note on that Facebook post may not cause people to reject it immediately, but it is a way to provide people a link back to reality.

Headline on BBC News: Donald Trump Under Arrest after Arriving at Court Headline on CNN: Trump Arrested Headline on WaPo: Trump surrenders to authorities to face charges Headline at the NYT: Trump Surrenders to Authorities to Face Criminal Charges Headline on Reuters: Trump arrives at New York courthouse to face criminal charges Headline on FOX News: TENSIONS RUNNING HIGH Protesters get physical outside New York City courthouse ahead of Trump's arraignment And the lead story is one Trump supporter who tried to destroy an anti-Trump banner - and fell down.

Anyone who does anything for Trump without being paid upfront in cash is a fool.

Also in Florida: DeSantis announced his plans to gut First Amendment rights in Florida by making it easier to sue people for defamation. The standard is now pretty high for reporters and the like - the defendant has to prove that they knew they were wrong and were doing it to harm the defendant. By reducing that threshold it makes it easier to (for example) sue CNN if CNN says that Trump lost the election. DeSantis put it this way: "It’s our view in Florida that we want to be standing up for the little guy against some of these massive media conglomerates." Unfortunately there is now a little guy (Dominion) suing a massive media conglomerate (FOX News) for defamation. And there is growing concern that the next Dominion will be able to sue FOX in Florida - and have a much easier chance of winning. Trump's GA Bill Barr put the concerns of FOX News consumers like this: "For the foreseeable future, we will likely be on the wrong side of the culture-setting consensus. There are precious few conservative news outlets as it is. Why make them more vulnerable to the multitude of left-wing plaintiffs’ lawyers?” Many conservatives hate it when the laws they pass to own the libs turn out to apply to them as well.