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Try that in a small town.......

Wow. CHOP zone was dismantled over 2 years ago. Slim being on top of current events as well as he does science.

The video is incorrect in stating that the difference between a democracy and a republic is the constitution that protects minority rights. PLENTY of democratic countries have constitutions or other ways to protect minority rights and if the ONLY definition of a democracy is that 'all people vote on all laws' - as stated in the video, then there is NO democracy in any part of the world. All governments, even democratic ones elect representatives that do their bidding, or are supposed to do their bidding. The video does a decent job of explaining some differences but in no way does it state that a constitutional republic is not democratically run or is NOT a democracy. federalist society rhetoric that offers no more information or solution to any issue than before the argument was presented. it is moot to say that the USA is not a democracy or that the differences that you can find prove that it is not..

It’s a good thing that’s not what I said then, isn’t it? You are a constitutional republic, you are also a democracy. A rudimentary understanding of what those words mean would clear things up for you.

Which is a democracy.

So your point is why should we try to mitigate damage when there is still damage occurring? Is that it? You are the one constantly bragging that emissions are going up, now you're asking how a law designed to curb emissions over the coming decades didn't have an instantaneous affect? You've got to either be trolling, or you should be requesting a refund on your education.

A much better rule is "do unto others as they wish you would do unto them". The biblical version assumes they want what you want, which may well not be the case.

Yeah those stupid dumb scientists with their agendas ain't got nothin on Brent and Slim with their tireless research of the postings of climate deniers on Rumble and YouTube.

The tiny percentage of those guys that regularly visit a range aren’t the ones that worry me most.

And if you don't know, it's OK to ask them. Wendy P.

Yeah - because just like you, a bunch of us over here are apparently stupid enough to think that the government trying not to spend money on anything more than the absolute bare minimum level of service is better than committing to spending sufficient money on a wide enough range of services in the first place. Thanks for pointing out just how catastrophic those policies can be.

I have dual citizens in my family; I have a feeling their story reflects those of lots of others. US (as well as Canadian and most European and Japanese) citizenship has a certain cachet, in part because most people know that those countries will stand behind their citizens to some degree. They negotiate from a position of power and wealth. Anyone who travels would want that. The other citizenship eases repeated trips to the other country (or residence, which happens). And especially for people from places like Iran that they’ve had to abandon through no fault of their own, and who actually want to return there “when things change,” it’s a way of self-identifying as from there. I know Palestinians who are native-born US refugees who still consider themselves to be Palestinian. The Palestinian refugee in my family considers himself fully American — but not all of his 11 siblings do, and he no longer flies in the US if he can avoid it because he wasn’t treated like one after 9/11. There are Jews using their religion to get citizenship in Israel, as well as many Americans of European extraction using their family connections (Irish-born grandfather etc) to secure dual citizenship. It’s a global world; emigrating is not always a one-way trip forever, as it generally was even 100 years ago. People will use tools, and sometimes that tool will be used wrong, but we haven’t outlawed hammers because sometimes they’re used to murder Wendy P.

Things change with time. When I was a child abuse investigator in the 1970's, the stated rule was that children never lie about sexual abuse. Never. Think that still holds? Nope, it doesn't. Because publicity (i.e. 24 hour news, the internet, etc) makes everything a moving piece. Children are smart enough to use that as a weapon, whether for good or for evil. But assuming that parents are always right, and that children must therefore be lying if they accuse them of sexual abuse it at least as wrong. Same with gender transition in Sweden. They haven't stopped it completely, but are strictly limiting it because of soaring numbers. Think publicity. From an article in France24.com I realize that it's a little more nuanced, and not as easily drawn with crayons and sharpies, but that's more what the real world is like. Wendy P.

Guys "open-carrying" guns scare me. If their neighborhood is so dangerous that they feel the need to "open-carry" I just avoid that neighborhood. For example, while working at Perris Valley, Elsinore, Hemet, etc. DZs, I visited Los Angeles and Orange County a dozen times, but never got off the highway near Compton. Professional police and soldiers "open-carrying" do not phase me ... considering that I was a soldier for 13 years. BUT half of the Americans who "open-carry" are the sort of bungling amateurs who scare me. I would be afraid to visit the same indoor shooting range as most of them.

As someone who only fairly recently upsized (I’m a 68-year old woman — if I break, I won’t heal fast), I completely agree with most of the advantages of a smaller rig. Comfort in wearing isn’t huge, simply because you really don’t wear your rig that much outside of sitting in an airplane. And anyway, I still remember wearing converted military gear Wendy P.

Hi John, That makes at least two of us. Jerry Baumchen

The GOP tried everyting it could to rig this election, from choosing the date to lying about its purpose, and it still lost. Maybe there is hope.