There is a spectrum of views about abortion. Extreme pro-lifers believe the "morning after" pill is murder. Extreme "pro-choicers are comfortable with partial birth abortion in the 40th week. Most reasonable people fall between these extremes, with the stage of gestational development as a deciding factor. If you were writing the law, where would you draw the line, and why?

The classroom door wasn't even locked ... ...

I spent part of the day educating friends and explaining the importance of Juneteenth to people who were mocking, dismissive or downright annoyed to have another holiday (go figure). I spent the afternoon with family, fried chicken and collard greens.

So yeah.the "Juneteenth-whatever" was rude. The food part gave me a chuckle.

Was the intern under his desk?

What is untrue about this statement?

"Guns have always been readily available in this country but mass shootings and particularly mass shootings of schools were non-existent or extremely rare until they became a grisly recent phenomenon," he told the committee.

"So what's changed in the last 50 years? There's been a noticeable breakdown of the family, there's been an erosion of faith and there's been a seismic drop in social interaction in large measure due to the overuse of these dang smartphones and the proliferation of social media, which is probably better described as anti-social media"

Burger King is inherantly patriarchal. Why would you want to go there when you can go to Dairy Queen and get soft served a dilly bar?

I sold a dryer on Craigslist for $50. A week later the guy who bought it came to my door telling me he found @ bunch of coins in between the drum and the enclosure. I told him to keep it. He said, " You don't understand , it was almost $100, that's more than I paid for the dryer." I still told him to keep it. Years ago I had quit bothering to check the families pockets for change, that was the result.

#13 Where CAN real in-depth news can be found?

When I want to get the truth, I flip channels back and forth from CNN to Fox. Seeing the biased versions of each story usually helps sort out the true facts.

What I would love to see is a total separation of news from commentary. We need trusted anchors reporting facts, using tenets of responsible journalism. Give the pundits their own, separate channel.

"... Since water rescue was a fire/rescue function (not police...

I don't agree. How was that determined?"

I didn't agree either. That's what the higher ups told me.

#42i agree. When I proposed this the pushback I got seemed to be your typical "liability" argument. Since water rescue was a fire/rescue function (not police) and we weren't well trained for it, the idea was that if we carried that type of equipment we would set ourselves up for liability. Dumb argument but that is how government thinks.

I never had to use that buoy, but my spouse rescued at least 10 people in similar situations. He had a bunch of lifesaving award pins, which I always thought was funny because everybody he rescued was trying to get away from him.

#23
"I have no idea how much stuff is in officer's trunks, but based on this, some form of floatation device attached to a substantial length of rope needs to become standard equipment for emergencies like these."

ABSOLUTELY!!!! I always carried a buoy and rope, which I purchased myself. I raised HELL trying to make this required/issued equipment for all officers. It never happened. I don't know what possesses people who can't swim to run into the water when fleeing police, but it happens all the time.

Clown you are just sh***ting straw today. That's not what I said. Sorry you can't understand the difference betweeen identifying a problem and laying blame. Probably goes back to your childhood. Projection.

AIDS disproportionally impacts homosexuals. That doesn't mean it's your fault, does it?

Thats easy. We are still governed by the Baby Boomers and the incredibly old because:

A> They turn out to vote
B> They have most of the money

I spent a year doing statistical analysis of voter date. Old people vote reliably. Young people have an abysmal turnout.

Many have pensions (unheard of today) and have accumulated wealth over their lifetimes. In particular, many benefited from the huge bull markets in the 70's and the 80's, when double digit bonds were commonplace.

It seems that a lot of these mass or spree shooters have difficulty handling rejection by women or girls. In the days before the Uvalde shooting, the shooter was participating in gaming chats and threatening to rape girls who refused his advances. We need to do a better job of educating young men to understand that having a sexual partner is not an entitlement. Kids raised on a combination of porn, video games, Netflix and social media develop unrealistic expectations about intimate relationships, and lash out when they feel cheated out of the experiences they are led to believe they deserve.

Rifle vs handgun, lethality depends entirely on the ammo and range. I'll defer to El Buscador on that (Glad you are okay!) but the important thing to recognize is that mass shooters don't choose an AR-15 because it is the best choice to inflict mass casualties. They choose the AR-15 because it is scary looking and best emulates the experience in their favorite video games. They could easily kill just as many people just as quickly with a semi-auto handgun. A handgun can be easily concealed and brought anywhere. A shooter with a handgun is far more agile and difficult to disarm than a shooter with a long gun.

I'm all for reasonable gun control, but so far every proposal I have seen will make only modest (and temporary) reductions in fatality counts. If they ban tactical military style rifles, the shooters will spray paint semi-auto hunting rifles black. If all rifles are banned, they will use handguns. Age related laws are easily overcome with straw purchases and illegal gun sales. Someone intent on mass murder is not going to let a "regulation" stop him. We have to make bigger changes in our society if we want to make a real lasting difference.

#66 An AR-15 is not a "machine gun", and isn't "military grade". . As far as I know, it isn't considered an "assault rifle" either under the old law, and wouldn't have been banned by the Assault Weapons ban if it had remained in effect.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I do not claim to be a firearms expert.

The boneless chicken s were the first to perish. Poor things couldn't even run away.

Arthel Neville has been at Fox for a long time. She is a very interesting and intelligent woman who adds a fresh point of view. I'm pretty sure she is related to the Neville family of jazz musicians from NOLA.

Very well written article shows another perspective in the ongoing debate.

By the way, the author of this poorly researched article graduated from Berkeley 2 years ago with a B.S. in Environmental Science and a minor in Environmental Economics and Policy. I think I know a little mo9re about Homicide than she does.

Yes, I probably am the smartest person in THIS room, when it comes to the subject of Homicide. I've been to over 500 Homicide scenes. I've qualified in court as an Expert in Homicide Investigations. How many Homicides have YOU investigated, Clown? (Court TV and Reddit don't count) What is your area of expertise? Whatever it is, you would probably be the smartest person in the room on that matter, and I would be glad to hear about it and respect your viewpoints, even if they differ from my own. Because that is how civilized people relate to one another.

#63 Exactly what did I say that makes you think I'm a fascist? Just curious.

#66
Come on Clown, you have hit me with dozens of nasty names in other threads. You can't seem to stay away from me. And no, I have NOT defended red states failure to control gun violence. Not even once, link please? I also haven't "blamed" local mayors, link please? You are right, I haven't condemned Republicans, because I haven't condemned anyone....except the media. More straw.......go back to the barn.

I have also not denied the CDC statistics what I said was the conclusions drawn by the article were erroneous. Once again, your reading comprehension fails you. You are in such a hurry to fight someone you percieve as the enemy that you don't even bother to read. You do it all the time, to me and others. I think you have confounded all the people you disagree with into one composite character, and attribute everything one says as having been said by the other. Work on that.

Thank you for the detailed timeline Tony.