dayman

Defending yourself from nonphysical violence with violence never is in this day in age. Too many kids hitting heads when falling to ground and dying

As romantic as these "i fought" stories are you can't have it. Large kids kill small kids with punches it happens all the time. Pussify the world? Maybe so...but physical violence is not acceptable.

More reason to be a pcp now than before

If hard caps on damages are imposed malpractice rates probably would adjust accordingly...but in states w/ aggressive tort reform that saving has not made it to the price tag and just as much if not more in some cases medical spending occurs it has had not effect in Texas (for one...being the golden child of tort reform) at all on saving for instance

The Brill article was, IMO, one of the better pieces of actual journalism that highlighted why the whole "responsible for your own health care spending" only goes so far on its own. Also the state lines and tort reform is meaningless won't do a thing to lower costs...

Hehe, I think to look at this story and say it is important for America b/c it delivers the above typed message is a bit overboard...

I still don't get how it is instructive in anyway...

So...you are basically saying that TJ Lane is an important story for bullies to know...while obviously saying it with the disclaimer "I don't approve of murder" you are still basically saying this is an important story b/c it show you can die if you bully? Or in the other direction showing bully victims they can "stand up for themselves?" This makes no sense. This story is about a kid that snapped and did unthinkable evil that is not logically proportionate to anything he may or may not have suffered as an outcast in a high school social environment...the lesson should be that childish BS is just childish BS and kids should knock off the uglyness and to the extent it can't be done the outcasts are just going to have to grit their teeth and get to adulthood...the lesson is not some grand or novel revelation about bullying...

I like how the Judge never knew apparently...

Jboys I don't even know what this topic is ... I mean yes it is unfortunate people are rude or bully other people certainly when they are young but ... this topic ...

Actually no it is not that simple but I would be for kicking them all out anyway just for ***** and giggles.

If there is data supporting something, then data showing that supporting data is no good, and you cherry pick the supporting data and leave out the other data that show the supporting data is crap....is that fabrication or confirmation bias?

Ya think we were the ones initiating hostility in 1812?

Operation...war... Little real difference these days

El oh el

My sympathy is with people like this guy...but I can't help but side with Tasker here...I mean I rarely do but lets face it we're all thinking exactly what is said above when we here stuff like this about the military...

That looks like Obama if he was electrocuted by his own force lightening bouncing off Samuel L Jackson.

lol this guy...don't pay anything you owe the government...ok..see where that gets you

Been saying it for a few years now...biggest problem is attitude. Most people not auto-pilot GOP voters find the CPAC "attitude" to be ridiculous ... a few of the meaningless policy points regarding social issues and whatnot are just not winners and neither is immigration that is true...and IMO large cuts right now would be the wrong move but I doubt that it couldn't be sold by a talented politician (although lesser cuts than some on the right want) so honestly as contentious as the budget battle is to politicos....it really is just simple...don't appear to be an obnoxious rednecks mixed w/ fat-cat puppeteers...optics of that are bad. Politics is the furthest thing from policy. Somehow the GOP hasn't figured that out yet. Policy arguments are great to me and most of us (even though I disagree with many of you) however...anyone with a brain knows that the entire thing is a popularity contest as far the WH is concerned and you have to be attractive. The truth is, at the instant moment anyway, the Dems are more willing to take a guy that may or may not give them pricks or slight stabs in the back at some point. A good portion of the GOP want a God-like ultra-conservative to come save them and that has and will get them nothing but disappointment...unhappy forever....politicians make deals....officials serve a diverse country not a party...one party is slightly more able to win the WH right now as a result.

CNN has no clue what to be...but they have Zakaria on Saturday so they still have the best man in media.

Uh...how is MSNBC even 85% opinion? Pretty much every show, at least to my knowledge, is opinion/talk. That's all it is, and they don't hide it. And also, O'Reilly constantly hides behind this whole "we have news during the day" defense when people talk about the quality of their personalities. It means nothing though. To pretend that what they classify as "hard news" (which is questionable anyway if you ever care to watch a bit) airing in the middle of the day is somehow a defense against those who point at prime time talk (Hannity in particular) and say "wtf is that?"...makes no sense. Hell, I actually feel worse about people getting hard news from Fox than I do a whacko eating up Hannity's BS.

there is really nothing "elite" about some of most cited problem issues though...that's the thing...it's really not elite to want to reform immigration nor is it elite to think gay people can get hitched or really even that reasonable abortion scenarios should not be illegal

What is "big media" to you? And what is "the Internet" and why in God's name does "the Internet" heighten people's attention span and overall intelligence? I'm just curious btw not trying to defend any particular media group but I find it hard to believe what I think you are saying is as likely as you seem to think it is...

A bit more than optimism in this one...

What you saw was his team win. So now you think that our team will win with Tebow b/c he's magic? No. No he is not. He's a bad QB. He doesn't read defenses or throw a good ball. What is so hard to understand about the FACT that he doesn't read well or throw well. That's a huge problem.