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[lippy 918]

4 hours ago, brenthutch said:

That is a common problem with progressives, they often confuse change with progress.

That's a pretty slick one-liner until you stop and think about for a second.

[JerryBaumchen 1,363]

53 minutes ago, lippy said:

That's a pretty slick one-liner until you stop and think about for a second.

Hi lippy,

Me thinks you ask too much.

Jerry Baumchen

[brenthutch 444]

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[winsor 236]

On 9/28/2023 at 5:08 PM, brenthutch said:

Just listened to NPR refer to the perpetrators of a smash-n-grab robbery of a store in Philadelphia as “youngsters”

Then a piece on how higher levels of CO2 causes poison ivy to use water more efficiently and grow faster (ignoring the fact that it has the same effect on all other plants).  In the past they reported higher levels of CO2 will hurt barley, grape and arabica production, threatening our beer, wine and coffee but the same thing will result in the unchecked spread of poison ivy. I smell an agenda.

It's that river in Egypt again.

Similarly, when the "children killed by gun violence" statistics are bandied about, the fact that the lion's share are teenage gang bangers working out business disputes is somehow overlooked.  It turns out that, absent these numbers, juvenile fatalities due to firearms are well less than drownings, traffic accidents and the like.

Go figure.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

9 hours ago, winsor said:

It's that river in Egypt again.

Similarly, when the "children killed by gun violence" statistics are bandied about, the fact that the lion's share are teenage gang bangers working out business disputes is somehow overlooked.  It turns out that, absent these numbers, juvenile fatalities due to firearms are well less than drownings, traffic accidents and the like.

Go figure.

You know, when you remove cars from traffic incidents, they really aren't that bad. Nobody ever talks about that!

Edited October 4, 2023 by SkyDekker

[JoeWeber 2,720]

13 hours ago, winsor said:

It's that river in Egypt again.

Similarly, when the "children killed by gun violence" statistics are bandied about, the fact that the lion's share are teenage gang bangers working out business disputes is somehow overlooked.  It turns out that, absent these numbers, juvenile fatalities due to firearms are well less than drownings, traffic accidents and the like.

Go figure.

No figuring required when the topic is guns. Let's just all be glad that the regulations prohibiting the open carry of swimming pools in the vicinity of schools has prevented mass drownings of school kids in their classrooms.