SkyDekker

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    Just as I am not worried about the gun, but about the drunk carrying the gun actually using it to fire bullets. Now, it tends to be less dangerous to wrestle away the car keys than the gun before it happens. This is where people started screaming I have no facts for that. It does remind me of that saying about common sense not being that common. And brings us back to the original point I was making. Comparing drunks with car keys to drunks with guns is not an equal comparison.
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    This is one of those precarious situations where democracy might work out to be extremely detrimental to western interests. Take Egypt as an example, which has been one of the better "allies" of Isreal under Mubarak. Under a democracy the new regime will have to pay a lot closer attention to the mood of the people, which is decidedly more against Israel. Forces western nations to walk a very difficult tightrope. (and causes Egyptian generals to simply not answer the phone when US officials call to drum up support for an overrun Israeli Embassy.)
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    The gay marriage issue is one of those issue where many people will openly say they support it and then go and vote against it.
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    You missed my point. You can't commit suicide that easily with a rig. First of all you would need an airplane (and the whole point is that you wouldn't actually need the rig....or you wouldn't be killing yourself).
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    Your agencies don't seem to keep track of murder by car key. Stupid isn't it....
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    I agree. But I don't think this is a recession. Unfortunately, I think it is the fall of the American Empire and the rise of the Chinese Empire.
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    This move towards the "common man" as a base for the Republican Party predates the current Tea Party movement. Joe the Plumber coined October 2008 Rise of current Tea Party movement early 2009 (Plus I don't live in a bunker, I live in our National Igloo. I am pretty sure I have some video here of a US Senator and an American professor at Harvard congratulating all us Canadians on our National Igloo )
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    A strategy? No A good start? Yes How so? You wouldn't last a month.
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    WalMart is one of the major capitalist success stories. It is one of the ultimate supply and demand examples. I don't understand how any American Republican can be against WalMart.
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    I know. Murder by car key is very prevalent. My point was that a person drunk in a bar with a set of car keys or with a gun was not an apples to apples comparison. If some people do see that as a valid comparison, I don't really have much to discuss with them. I don't have any problem with sober person having a gun with him. But I would rather deal with a drunk person trying to use a car key than dealing with drunk trying to use his gun. (Hence why it isn't a valid comparison)
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    Except those are exactly the people the Republican party has embraced as their base. Joe the Plumber.
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    The new aprt is that you need the other countries to stay afloat. You barely manufacture anything You have run out of money, other than just printing new money You don't have enough domestic oil to satisfy demand You are addicted to cheap chinese trinkets Fuck the world isn't exactly the wisest of strategies right now.
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    No, but I would suggest not letting a suicidal friend go on a skydive.
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    You just can't decide on what you actually want to talk about.
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    That's great, but I am pretty sure that will be the only thing he will be winning. He won't be winning when it actually counts.
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    No, we have the National Post http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/09/13/matt-gurney-getting-shot-doesnt-make-you-a-firearms-expert/
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    Uhmmmm
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    I said car keys, not car. Both driving the car and shooting the gun are equally stupid when drunk. However, I still rank the drunk with a gun as more dangerous than the drunk with the car keys. I stand a better change wrestling the car keys away than the gun, before they decide to do something stupid (like use the tool).
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    The current state of your economy does not seem to support that statement.
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    I think you are trying to reference FoxNews. If that is the shining light of honest, fact based news without double standard, well then quite frankly, I am speechless.
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    First off, dishonest is quite a bit broader in scope than double standard. Make up your mind which one it is that you are outraged about. As a bright conservative light, you of all people should realize that if there was a large demand for honest, factual news reporting, such a channel would be created. That is how the free market is supposed to work. I thought strong conservatives like yourself were in favour of little government involvement in a truly open and free market place. Things should be driven by supply and demand, right? Isn't that exactly what is happening?
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    Not really the shows I had in mind. They air on the Comedy Channel, that really should say enough.
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    Generally more of a danger than a totally sober person without a gun. But in the grand scheme of things, not much of a danger. Thought we were discussing mixing alcohol and firearms and the very contrived examples both pro and con. Most can agree that a drunk with a gun is slightly more dangerous than a drunk with car keys.
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    Not at all. I think it is important to make distinctions between reporter bias, which is what I was referring to, and networks with a pre-determined slant. I have a significantly bigger problem with the latter. I would prefer networks show both sides of the coin with basically factual reporting. I have no use for any of the bombastic news entertainment personalities and quite frankly think they do more harm than good. There are just too many people who cannot see the difference between entertainment and news.
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    There is no law that indicates how reporters have to report a story. There is and will always be an inherrent bias in people reporting on a story. The bigger problem is that Americans tend to be more interested in entertainment than news. Just look at the programming of all the news networks.