SoCal Deek

Asking for a friend: When is the appropriate day to hold a protest rally?

So in a nutshell....LOCK HIM UP?

By the guy.....do you mean Putin? The oil company executives? Bill Barr? The Rich? I'm having a hard time keeping up with who we're supposed to be blaming these days?

The real question is whether Turkey's tentacles can reach across the ocean to cite those on this Message Board. Everyone knows it's a treasure trove of disinformation! BillsTime alone will be in a Turkish prison for many lifetimes to come. (Kidding Billsy....keep up the good work you're doing.....we need you on that wall!)

Tibs....have you ever been deposed?

This must be true....he has not one, not two, but THREE Ukrainian flags in his Twitter handle. Truly ridiculous people.

This has now gotten beyond silly.....WHAT A MESS! Can we please get some people who actually know what the heck they're doing to run this country?

This must be true....she has not one but TWO Ukranian flags on her Twitter handle. These are truly ridiculous people!

He’s going to have resist the urge to jump offside at least once a game.

I hear an awful lot about oil companies making record profits but a deeper dive into that generalized statement is most definitely required. Oil companies don’t make oil. They refine it into other products, like gasoline. So I’m guessing that their profit margin hasn’t changed all that much. But when the price they pay to buy crude oil goes up, their total profit does as well. The same is true for almost every industry. Again, I don’t know this for a fact, but I’d hesitate to make the blanket statements Biden likes to make. And…if Exxon makes even a 10% profit, how much impact does that really have on your price at the pump? Answer….50 cents…maximum!

Once again….there is only one side presenting evidence here…so let’s not get too carried away with drawing conclusions. I know, I know, it’s not a trial! Tibs was closest when calling it a grand jury hearing, but I’ll caution him and others to remember that a grand jury is not televised and is not intended to taint the eventual national jury pool. So watch the hearings if you’d like, but don’t get drawn into making any statements of guilt. If you’ve ever been deposed in a court proceeding you’ll know why….I have.

It takes a significant amount of specific desensitization to ‘train’ soldiers to kill even armed enemy combatants let alone innocent unarmed civilians. The same is true for police officers. And all of these trained professionals carry guns. Most people think the training is all about teaching them who NOT to shoot, but in reality the training is just as much about fighting against the god given instinct to NOT kill other people. So…how or why do untrained people let go of that instinct and open fire in an elementary school? Mental illness? Possibly. But it’s more specific than that generalization. Mental hospitals are filled with people who pose no threat to attacking anyone but themselves. The urge to NOT harm other people is very very strong to overcome. But somehow these mass shooters become completely desensitized to committing extreme violence. Want to hazard a guess?

Fitz may have gone to Harvard but there’s no way he can play safety in this league! Come on, man.

So you’re saying we have a chance? SWEET!

Huh?

Raise the age to 21 And Require a training/gun safety class every three years after purchase. It won’t solve everything but it’s better than doing nothing and really shouldn’t bother anyone who’s a responsible owner.

Bob…I agree. I see nothing wrong with people having to take a safety test every so many years. If nothing else it puts more emphasis on gun responsibility. And in my opinion it doesn’t negate the 2nd Amendment.

The entire point of being a fan is to root for your team to do well. If this turns out to be THE year and you sit there with folded arms until February…you’re going to be really sad you missed the ride. And if you join in the fun, what’s the worst that can happen? Wide right? Music City Miracle? Thirteen Seconds? For me and my household we’re going to be cheering from the season opener.

The root cause of gun violence is not guns. (And I always mention when I post in these threads that I’m not a gun owner.)

I’m not claiming the election was stolen. I’m just not falling for this politically motivated sideshow. There’s a difference. (And for what it’s worth…it doesn’t matter whether everyone around the President was giving him different advice. He is/was the President. Not following the advice of your staff is neither a crime nor the sign of a bad leader.)

Trust me sir….EVERYONE understands what’s going on here….but unlike the other 350 million Americans we aren’t hanging on every word of this farce as you appear to be with your color coded detailed rundown of the ‘fact finding’. You honestly don’t know that in every single criminal and civil trial the prosecution tells the jury ‘these are the facts’…honestly? I’m not trying to be mean but let’s not be silly.

You have got to be kidding me. Your partisan colors are turning deeper blue every day. This is not the fault of a single person or party.

Do you know ANYTHING about the American judicial system? Yes…most times when the defense doesn’t put on a defense, and isn’t allowed to question witnesses, and where the prosecution is allowed to splice together deposition segments…it makes the defendant look pretty ridiculous and generally pretty guilty. Luckily that’s NOT the system we have. Now it doesn’t always mean that the defense’s case would convince/sway the jury….but for heaven’s sake…calm down.

I don’t want to get into a back and forth here….but Congress has two really important jobs to do: author legislation and allocate funds to carry it out. Unfortunately, they’ve decided instead to spend almost all of their time these days being the police department for the other two coequal branches. It’s one of the main reasons we have the structural problems we do. If Congress would get together and do their job there’d be a whole lot less policing required. (And I’m pointing the finger at both parties here!)

Why are you so fixated on what I pay in taxes? You don’t see me complaining that you don’t pay anything. Shouldn’t it be the other way around ?