CanuckInUSA

You need some sort of education to succeed in life, but one size does not fit all. Is your higher education specializing in business, technology, medicine or science? Then with some hard work it can all be worth it. You could also pursue an education in law and proceed to become some sort of law professional and/or politician and then proceed to screw everyone else around you out of every last penny they have. Or you could pursue some useless liberal arts and/or social studies degree that puts you in massive debt but does teach you how to be a social activist in the pursuit to overthrow the capitalist world and replace it with a utopia global communist regime where all animals are created equal, except that some animals are more equal than others. Or you could avoid all this BS, study some sort of trade, leave school with little to no debt and where there is a shortage of work for decades to come. But silly me I forgot, academics have been telling people that the trades are only for stupid people. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Kind of like how the progressives felt the need to protect a 4 year old girl from her father by arresting the father and searching his home without a warrant all because the 4 year old drew a picture with crayons of a stick man (who was described as the girl's father) holding what looked like a gun fighting the bad guys and monsters. http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/24/ont-dad-arrested-after-daughter-draws-picture-of-gun-reports Oh and what did the police find in the man's home after they arrested him, taking the children away from the parents and searching the home without a warrant? They found a nerf gun. When the school's superintendent was asked "Did you overreact", his response was "No I would do it again". Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

It's been reported that 90s country music singer Mindy McCready has taken her own life. http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/02/18/troubled-country-singer-mindy-mccready-37-dies-in-apparent-suicide/ Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Very few (except for the suicidal want to be shot dead), but there are millions and millions (it is impossible to know the real number) of people in the 20th Century who were denied the right to have a gun and then were proceeded to be shot dead by those in government who had the guns. And this all happened after the 2nd Amendment was well intrenched into the US Constitution. Oh and history does have a way of repeating itself. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Actually we are limited to only 5 round mags in rifles. Also, as far as the SKS is concerned, I don't have any personal experience with it, but I did talk to John Rich about them a couple of years ago and he gave them a thumbs up. But has John been banned from here? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Agreed ... I am also going to go out on a limb and say "Life is random, events can not be predicted, and government is never going to protect you from all these random events". Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

All knives need to be seized immediately. We can not risk having people randomly stabbed. Random stabbing sends six to hospital in Vancouver, Canada Only when every knife is seized from society can we sleep easy at night. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Academia seeks to use the innocence of children to go after parents that don't buy into academia's Big Government Statist ideology. Think this is a myth? Think again, the insanity has already begun. Father arrested after 4 year old daughter draws a picture of a man holding a gun but wait that happened in Canada, there is no way this would happen in the USA. Think again, it did happen, it did happen in the USA. Philadelphia 5th grader scolded, searched for pulling out piece of paper that resembled gun Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I think it sucks the way the media has demonized the firearm and as long as you are not a criminal (I trust you are not) I support your right to own any firearm you want. I can't remember who it was, but several years ago I was debating someone here on the DorkZone about guns and I foolishly was taking the stance of saying "I don't think private citizens should own military assault rifles" and whoever it was they said something to me that hit close to home, They said "they learn to use and learned to respect appreciate their firearms in the military" and then I remembered I too spent sometime in the military (actually my military experience was likely more like boy scouts compared to some of the folks here) and I remembered getting a chance to shoot machine guns and learning the responsibility that went along with being able to fire these machine guns and my views on firearms instantly changed. I know it is rare, debating and having someone change their mind, but who says debating others on the DorkZone is a waste of time. PS: Sorry to hear about your friend, but you are doing the right thing saying he has what ever is coming his way. Losing one family member to a drunk driver is horrible. Hard to imagine what losing 7 would be like. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

There are a lot of parities that can be used to compare automobiles and firearms. A low horse powered car can kill when operated improperly just as a small caliber firearm can also kill when used improperly. Currently in society people can buy a high horse powered car and with little training they can drive their car on the public roads. How they drive their cars dictates whether they survive their experience. If they keep their high horse powered car well within the limits, their chances of survival are pretty good. It is however kind of a waste of horse power never to explore the limits of the car, but of course driving any car, let alone a super car at the limit on the public roads is just plain dumb. However for those who have an open mind and are willing to allow those who have more experience than you have teach and mentor you, you can to learn to drive your car at the limits in the controlled confines of the race track and you can become pretty good at it. Firearms are similar. Anyone can pull the trigger, but unless it is an emergency pulling the trigger in an uncontrolled environment is just plain dumb. But take the firearm to a controlled environment and let those who know more about the firearm teach and mentor you and you might actually get good at it and you yourself could in the future end up teaching and mentoring someone else. On the public roads I only use about 25% of my car's potential. But since I do drive the car 99.99% at my limit on the race track and as long as I am paying attention, I know everything I need to know about how to control the car and the odds of me doing the right thing on the public roads in an emergency are much better than someone who has little to no track time under their belt. The same goes with firearms. There are no guarantees than someone with range time will do the right thing 100% of the time. But the odds of them doing the right thing in an emergency are much better if they have spent time on the range. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Within the next century (possibly sooner) I can see the human no longer in control of the vehicle they travel in. The computers will be in control. When that day arrives, it will be a sad day for the human spirit, for adventure, for the sheer joy of pushing yourself to your limit without going over that limit. Well at least we got to live in the era where we still had some control of our destiny. I pity the fools who will live in the sanitized future who will be controlled by the state. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Some of us drive our high performance cars at the limit where they were engineered to operate. Some of us drive our high performance cars on the race track. Don't knock it if you have not tried it. It's a pretty cool experience to drive at the limit, lap after the lap. The only down side (besides the risks of a crash) is that you burn through tires and brakes at an extremely high rate. PS: my car is not one of the really fast super cars (I don't have the money to own and operate a super car), but it is not slow and I can easily pass the super cars when they are driven by people who lack the appropriate skill. The faster your car is, the better of a driver you need to be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kj1hv51sg Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Cool videos. BSBD Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I do happily and willingly consume the koolaid from a certain German automaker. But I will acknowledge that GM offers a lot of bang for the buck with the Corvette. I have never driven one at the track, but I have ridden along with them as a passenger and they are a serious track car capable of very fast lap times. But once you get to know how to drive a rear engine car at the limit, it's hard to go back. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

What about the Browns? Would the Cleveland Browns would continue to use their bland orange helmets? Plus WTF is a 49er? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Unless the MtF began their hormone treatment before puberty set in (usually not the case), it is a lot harder to detect the FtM than the MtF. Of course one can always observe their hips. If the person possesses female hips, there is a high chance the person was born female regardless of how much hair they have on their face or how deep their voice may be. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Why Notre Dame went into this game rank #1 is a mystery. There was never any doubt that Alabama was going to smack them down and smack them down hard. I wish the other conferences were stronger and more competitive, but the elite teams rising to the top of the SEC are just so much better than anyone else. Congrats to the Tide for yet another championship. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

A couple of bad calls from the refs for sure. But I don't think it would have matter too much. The Tide is beginning to roll and the Irish don't seem to have any answers. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I have no sympathy for the greedy players. Several weeks ago I caught this "30-30" show on one of the cable sports channels (ESPN classic or something like that) and the show was about how poorly some of the players from the major leagues managed their money. The show focused around Football and Basketball players, but they also referenced some Baseball and Hockey players. Anyway about 80% of Football players go bankrupt within 3 years of retirement from the sport and about 60% of Basketball players go bankrupt within 5 years of retirement. It's insane, these young men making millions just do not have the knowledge of how to manage their fortunes and they are far too loose with their spending while partying with their entourages. Of course it also does not help when the sharks (their families, friends, girlfriends, wives, acquaintances, managers, so called advisers etc, etc, etc) prey on the players lack of financial planning taking them for as much money as they can. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I hope it is not a blow out. But it is hard to imagine the Tide losing this one. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Robert you should know CO is a pretty dry place and trust me when I say this, it never really gets cold there either. Not once in the 8 years that I called CO home did I ever experience a cold day, a cold day like we get up here in Canuckistan. Now once in a while when a low pressure system situates itself on the east side of the front range and the temps dip below freezing, the front range does get absolutely dumped on and when this happens on some Monday night Football game, the peeps back east think that CO is a cold state. But it's not cold and it is dry due to it's altitude and lack of being close to any large water sources. I remember wearing shorts and a t-shirt in January on the ground waiting for the next load at Mile-Hi. Most of your normal mountain snow comes from moisture coming up from Mexico and the southwest as well as cold air coming down from Canada. If one of these two does not exist, there is no snow. But CO is not exactly the best place to be judging Northern Hemisphere snow levels now is it. Look at an atlas. CO is not in the north. PS: I miss CO and the part I miss the most about CO was the warm sunny winter days. Come visit us in the north where the real cold temperatures exist and you will know why I liked CO's weather so much. Oh and my winters here in Calgary are pretty tame compared to other places on the prairies. You see every once in a while warm winds from the mountains break our frigged temperatures while other places stay in the deep freeze all winter long. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

What is so extreme about snow? Some of us actually live with snow for a good 6-8 months of every year and if we don't think it is extreme, why should you. There is nothing abnormal going on this winter. This winter is like most other winters we have experienced in the past. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Too funny ... just a few weeks ago you were whining that there was no snow and now you are whining that there is snow. What is the common denominator here? The common denominator is that there is no shortage of whine. How about some cheese to go along with your whine? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Since when has snow ever been extreme? Maybe for those who do not experience a lot of snow, the cold white, sometimes fluffy stuff, sometimes icy stuff may seem a little extreme. But for those of us who experience snow for a good 6 months of the year, there is nothing extreme about snow. It is all part of our daily reality we learn to live with. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I have no idea if FB and Twitter are part of some sinister "Spy on the World" plan, but the twits who use FB and Twitter to spread their revolutions are making it easy for those who feel the need to spy. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over