#4 | Posted by tonyroma So why should we treat Turkey as an ally? Why should we support it's membership in NATO, Turkey has become an authoritarian Islamist state.

So, if I understand the jest of this, the damn Yankee refused to get us involved in another land war in the ME. I thought that the Democrats were the peace party. A little fact that you will not enjoy, Erdogan likes to be referred to as Mahdi by his supporters. He has declared a new caliphate, led by Turkey. I doubt it would be a good ideal to support him in any manner. What should happen is collectively we kick Turkey out of NATO when they begin their war of aggression.

#13 | Posted by fresno500,You do realize that China is an authoritarian ethno-state. Ask the Tibetans how tolerant the Chinese are, while they still exist.

#27 | Posted by Zed That is always the rebuttal of the defenseless argument, "well they did worse". I have watched politicians retire much richer than when their carrier started. It is high time we impose term limits on the house and senate.
Now, describe under the rule of law what charges should be delivered to the Senate to impeach Trump? This is something the democrats have been screaming for before the damn Yankee ever took office and only cast light on many of the more unsavory aspects they have practiced for decades.

#24 | Posted by tonyroma,we have a manufactured faux scandal? The Ukraine gas company deal is not a fake, else why would a gas company hire a druggy who got kicked of the Navy for failing a drug test, later busted in Las Vegas for possession, who had no experience in the oil and gas industry what so ever, yet was worth 1.4 million a year for his "services". What is out in the wings coming in like a hurricane is a little hedge fund deal with the Chinese, which amounted to 1.5 billion. You can bet Biden believes that charity begins at home.

What we need in the medical arts is more GPs (general practitioners), but the call of easy money drives most to specialist care.

We could start to draft Doctors again. The shortage of physicians is deliberate, a shortage always drives up costs. The AMA is just another lobbying group to protect doctor's cash flow.

AOC is down 18 points in her own district. After next election she will be a foot note, one of many one term wonders who made a lot of noise and accomplished nothing. The "Squad" is yesterday's news, fit to line a bird cage or wrap fish.

There is a reason not to trust corporate/government media. No Chinese will see a news report on a million plus Muslims in concentration camps, thousands in prisons for being in "underground Churches" or the deep corruption endemic throughout the "People's government. October is the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the current government. I expect they will "reestablish order" before the end of the month. Expect a few hundred thousand residents of Hong Kong to disappear or end up in Stalinist show trials.

As I understand the term as used now, "far right" is anything that disagrees with Marxism.

I thought North Dakota was the "Peace Garden" state?

When they move a condemned prisoner through a common area of the prison, the guards announce "Dead man walking" with that announcement the other prisoners are required to stop and face the wall, hands behind their backs. Never doubt being on death roll is worse than being executed. Life in the Huntsville death roll is considered being burred alive. Strict segregation, limited every thing else. Beyond that, justice delayed is justice denied. The victim's families deserve closure. The state has the power of the sword, it always has. One of the reasons I dislike big government.

#4 | Posted by Sniper, On land there are only two predators in this country which will eat you. One is the Grisly, the other is the Javelina, a wild American pig. I doubt these feral pigs would hunt a human, but as I said above, they will eat anything. That used to be a preferred manner to dispose of inconvenient bodies. AM might remember those hill jacks can dispose of you without any evidence remaining beyond teeth.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL#6 | Posted by gtbritishskull#7 | Posted by randomcanyon#8 | Posted by snoofy#10 | Posted by hatter5183 The accused is guaranteed a process, not perfection. BTW, life is cheep. Your government can pull you out of your life and put you into a uniform to fight and likely die because they say it is necessary. I say putting a monster to death is preferable to vengeance by a victim's family. I doubt that would be as antiseptic as a lethal injection.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL, so? That is not true about all the individuals on death roll. The court process for a death sentence in Texas takes better than a year. First trial establishes guilt. A second trial determines if the offense is worthy of the death penalty by a separate jury. Then there is a automatic appeal by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the court of last recourse. Additional appeals can be submitted endlessly, each delaying the execution by months. If it wasn't for the work of a lot of liberal lawyers making pointless appeals on procedure, the time on death roll would be less than two years.

After the Lucas fiasco, where a homicidal drifter claimed to have killed dozens, the police are a little skeptical. Lucas was a killer, but after the dust settled his actual body count was likely three. The worst place in the country to admit to capital murder is Texas. I would think this guy has a death wish. Texas will accommodate him.

Julia was the first TV program that had a black lead that was not a domestic. Still it is extremely campy and short on plot. But it was a first, one can see it was written by and for a white audience.

Hogs if left to their own devises get big. They eat anything from acorns to snakes and are a serious pest around here. Example:Alabama Boy Kills 1,051-Pound Monster Pig, Bigger Than 'Hogzilla' An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found. Jamison Stone's father says the hog his son killed weighed a 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.May 26, 2007. Hog that weigh more than 1000 pounds are not uncommon. But the rate of growth slows as the hog gets older. Not economical for meat production. Beyond that is the problem of boar taint. Even dogs refuse to eat that meat.

#23 | Posted by snoofy Nothing in my mission required me to protect his arrogant posterior, he chose to be there. I didn't view the press as an enemy, just a minor irritation. We killed the enemy, and they were exceptionally easy to identify, they shot at us. Strange every press and media personality I saw was an expert within a day of arrival. Green zone mafia, who couldn't get back to their booze and computer terminals fast enough. They seldom stayed the night in a real CZ. Where there were real rocket and mortar attacks every day, real snipers, an abundance of IEDs and every sort of nasty you would not want to see.

#20 | Posted by snoofy, I am sure you have dwelt with those professionals as much as I have. No, on second thought you haven't. The most fun I ever had in Iraq was leaving one of those parasites stranded downtown among the locals, for a hot minute. He lived, and for some reason he wasn't as talkative going back in to the FOB, enlightening us knuckle daggers with his pearls of wisdom. He was lucky, the other guy from the NYT go up close and personal with an IED, he lived too. Just wasn't with as keen an ear afterwards.

Ferret Face Schiff's flying schif show has had all the impact of a marshmallow. After years of him promising some great revelation about the Russian collusion myth and delivering nothing, the press should have been a little more cautious running with this ball of bovine excrement.

Lyndon LaRouche cultist are pro-Trump? I seriously doubt that. I haven't seen them selling their books at air ports in decades. After the death of their ascended master I didn't think they were still a thing. Knock me over with a feather.

TSA is a bunch of wadge slaves, who have a dull repetitive job, with little respect. I have noticed that if you act in a rude or privileged manner, they get more assertive. I can guess what type of manner talking heads and journalist exude.

If you look at the texts written pre-fifth century, most of academics would be embarrassed. At least half are copies of the Bible, portions of it, or commentaries on the same.

When I was a teen, there was a list of books that had been banned in the United States at one time or another for one reason or another. I started with Johnny Got His Gun, Thumbo and continued with little books like The Grapes of Wrath. A good start to learn some critical thinking. I didn't agree with everything I read, but I had to ask myself why. That seems to be a rare thing now. Most now just read that which they already agree with, or avoid anything that might disagree with our precious prospective.