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Re: Search for Colorado shooter underway after 3 killed, 1 wounded in apparent dispute over property lines - 7 days ago

QuoteSmote QuoteMr645 quick, take away guns from 85 million other people. We should take away cars from sober drivers to prevent drunk driving deaths too Each and every driver is just 3 stiff drinks away from a DUI. Less if on meds. The perennial gun-hugger false equivalency; cars are NOT the same as guns in any valid, logical analogy!

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Re: Target: 22-Piece Pyrex Glass Food Storage Container Set $22 - 8 days ago

…and I don’t think it’s the “Pyrex” you can put in the oven.

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Re: Oregon Magazine Ban Permanently Struck Down & Ruled Unconstitutional! - 8 days ago

QuoteSmote …the good parts. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

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Re: BREAKING: Biden confuses Brittney Spears and Taylor Swift during turkey pardoning ceremony - 8 days ago

“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice…”

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Re: ‘Perrrfect’ Newspeak peeve. - 8 days ago

QuoteJoeM The phrase they use that gets me is “no problem”. “Think nothing of it.” “De nada.”

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Re: Noticed this at War-Mart (Ammo) - 8 days ago

QuoteMr645 We need to put violent criminals in prison and also reform some of the reasons we incarcerate people, especially non violent. . “Though President Donald Trump was initially skeptical of the legislation, intense lobbying by his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner eventually persuaded him to back the bill and push for a floor vote in 2018. Kushner's efforts included reachi

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Re: Ban these assault weapons? - 8 days ago

QuoteSmote can you expain this data then? Tom Grieve - “… served as speaker at the University of Wisconsin Law School on behalf of the Federalist Society concerning the 2nd Amendment…” ” The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S.

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Re: Noticed this at War-Mart (Ammo) - 9 days ago

Clean up in aisle “Law-abiding-citizen”!

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Re: Thanks to state laws, gun violence was decreasing. Then death started winning in Krazy court. - 10 days ago

“You get a car an insult! And you get a car an insult!” Insults for everybody!

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Re: Chinese invade Ireland - 10 days ago

QuoteDon C Assuming it is real, it is interesting that the government allows dancers to spend the time needed to learn this "foreign" dance style. Shouldn't they be learning and promoting their own heritage? "Anything you can do, I WE can do better. I WE can do anything better than you."

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Re: Noticed this at War-Mart (Ammo) - 10 days ago

Guess "Political Ranting" is now "Ammo Ranting".

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Re: 1919 Invoice For Model T - 10 days ago

Quotegadje QuoteDeusxMac Price = $11,559.89 in 2023 dollars. So a new car today is 3x that much. A new car today is more than 3x the car! 1919 Model - Crank-start engine (starter was an option on the open cars, which the Touring was) - "electrical equipment as standard in the closed cars," which the Touring is not - Non-electric cars had no instrument panel - etc., etc.

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Re: 1919 Invoice For Model T - 10 days ago

Price = $11,559.89 in 2023 dollars.

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Re: Ban these assault weapons? - 10 days ago

Quotepdq You didn’t read any of the link I provided. Got it. “We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!"

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Re: not an original Mustang per se, but .... - 11 days ago

For the record... The 2023 Audi R8 starts at $161,395. The 2023 Mercedes-AMG SL 63 starts at $178,100. The 2023 McLaren GT starts at $208,490. The 2023 Ferrari Roma starts at $247,310. The 2023 Porsche 911 Sport Classic starts at $272,300 The 2023 Lamborghini Huracán Tecnica starts at $275,000

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Re: Apple suspends ads on X after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic post - 11 days ago

Quotesekker The US science community started eugenics. Ah, no... "Types of eugenic practices have existed for millennia. Some indigenous peoples of Brazil are known to have practiced infanticide against children born with physical abnormalities since precolonial times. In ancient Greece, the philosopher Plato suggested selective mating to produce a "guardian" class] In Sparta,

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Re: Various complete shows on sale at iTunes - 11 days ago

For the trivial record, they're... "Masters of Sex", not "Master of Sex" Just "Community", not "The Community" "The Andy Griffith Show", not "The Andy Griffith"

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Re: Apple suspends ads on X after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic post - 11 days ago

QuoteTiangou QuoteDeusxMac QuoteTiangou On the rationale that Jews hate white people and want to replace white people... If "white people" are people "of European origin", isn't a Polish Jew therefore a white person? Or Jews from any of the other 49 states and territories of Europe? Are you assuming/suggesting that any of this appears rational with any degree of object

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Re: Allan Holdsworth Memorial Video Compilation - I can't stop watching this - 11 days ago

Interesting. I was a John McLaughlin fan back in the early Mahavishnu Orchestra days, so then got pointed towards Jean-Luc Ponty (and Billy Cobham*, and Jan Hammer, and Jerry Goodman**). Bought Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean when it came out (still listen to it often), but sadly didn't pay much attention to the other musicians on this album. *Total Eclipse **Country and Eastern Music

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Re: Apple suspends ads on X after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic post - 11 days ago

QuoteTiangou On the rationale that Jews hate white people and want to replace white people... If "white people" are people "of European origin", isn't a Polish Jew therefore a white person? Or Jews from any of the other 49 states and territories of Europe?

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Re: cynical Amazon pricing question - 11 days ago

Don’t the vendors on Amazon set their own prices there, not Amazon (except of course Amazon’s own products)? If the vendor wants to climb on the Black Friday (or Cyber Monday) discount wagon, isn’t that entirely up to them?

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Re: Death count from Re’im music festival massacre reportedly updated to 364 — a third of Oct. 7 fatalities - 11 days ago

Quotegabester How many of those 40 hostages are now part of the death toll from Israeli military action in Gaza? Do those count against Hamas or Israel, or is it circumstantial? Where would you assign the death of a human shield?

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 11 days ago

Quotepdq From his link, some of the stuff Smote left out: QuoteOn the other hand, some scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997). The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field. In other words, they are simply recounting what others have claimed, not concluding the

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 12 days ago

"Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal" "Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense" "Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime" "Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one i

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Re: Las Vegas yoinks another pro sports team - 12 days ago

Quotefreeradical I can't imagine playing football when it's 117 in the shade. Not a problem... Allegiant Stadium "The Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas is an air-conditioned arena, as it is a fully enclosed, climate-controlled dome." "Allegiant Stadium is a domed multi-purpose stadium in the western United States, located in Paradise, Nevada, southwest of adjacent Las Vegas

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Re: Quiet, fast and no wake: Swedish Electric hydrofoil ferry - 12 days ago

A 12 passenger "ferry" is not very capacious; only equivalent to a stretch van. Are there very many 12-passenger diesel "ferries" in operation now?

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Re: US House: “Same clown car with a different driver” - 12 days ago

QuoteTed King ["Yeah but how big is the intersection of the nutjob conspiracy circle and the law enforcement circle?" - I ask in a conspiratorial tone. Venn diagram

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Re: Ceasefire demands will grow without proof of Hamas HQ at Al-Shifa - 12 days ago

QuoteMr645 QuoteDeusxMac QuoteMr645 How come no one is calling for a Hamas cease fire? “We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!" cease fire "A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice]), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 12 days ago

QuoteMr645 QuoteDeusxMac QuoteMr645 QuoteDeusxMac “We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!" Yet again, you OBVIOUSLY have NOT actually read your own link! QuoteMr645But clearly the high suicide rate indicates a mental health issue in this country. However the USA is far from being in the top ten per capita. South Korea, Japan, Belgium and many others ar

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Re: Worth a repost. Gunners with AR-15s and their slaughters - 12 days ago

QuoteMr645 QuoteDeusxMac “We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!" Yet again, you OBVIOUSLY have NOT actually read your own link! QuoteMr645But clearly the high suicide rate indicates a mental health issue in this country. However the USA is far from being in the top ten per capita. South Korea, Japan, Belgium and many others are far worse, so the menta

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