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On the article Introducing Southeastern Wisconsin's Theoretical Subway System
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On the article Introducing Southeastern Wisconsin's Theoretical Subway System
Bert
4:50 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
So your NON-socialist president will price-fix the gasoline market? I'm not sure you understand what a socialist is.
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On the article NFC Wildcard Blog: Green Bay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings
Bert
2:39 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
"I loooove being the underdog."
Then you root for the right team! ;-)
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On the article NFC Wildcard Blog: Green Bay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings
Bert
2:38 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
After last year, the Packers will be ready to go tomorrow. Look for a reverse of Sunday's game, with Pack up 10 early. Force Ponder to throw, and it will be over quick.
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On the Blog Post NRA (Not Responsible Americans)
Bert
5:45 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Since the last Al Qaeda attack in this country, over 100,000 Americans have been killed by gunfire. 87 die every day. Mostly, we don't see them, or hear about them, or give two flying craps about them. But, they're still dead. America stands alone among developed nations in its cold-hearted acceptance of nonstop death. The gun death rate in the US is 20X higher than the other 22 wealthy nations in the world (4 deaths per 100,000 people versus 0.2), according a 2010 UCLA study. UN and WHO studies find similar rates. THIS is why gun control is critical.
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On the Blog Post NRA (Not Responsible Americans)
Bert
5:40 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
40% of gun sales in the US require NO background check. A certified mentally ill person with a felony record a mile long can walk in to a gun show and drive home with trunk full o' guns and ammo. More, the databases against which a gun buyer's background is checked are full of more holes than the mush between Steve's ears. To claim that we have ANY control of guns in this country is absolute nonsense.
You mention federal tracking of explosives... why not guns? Lyndon Johnson called for that after the assassinations of RFK and MLK. Nothing. Before we conclude that "gun control won't work", we ought to give it a try. Register EVERY gun. License EVERY gun owner. Require background checks on EVERY gun sale. Private gun sales can take place at the local Sheriff's office, where a Sheriff's Deputy can verify the legitimacy of the buyer. Hold EVERY gun owner civilly responsible for what happens with the guns he owns.
Crazy people will do crazy things. I'd trade the 22 Chinese children INJURED by a knife-wielding nutjob there for the 20 American children SLAUGHTERED in a rain of bullets here. (But that's just me. I have trouble ignoring the pain of others.)
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On the Blog Post NRA (Not Responsible Americans)
Bert
5:31 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Gun violence is gun violence. More guns = more deaths. Let the NRA tell you whatever they want you to believe.
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On the Blog Post NRA (Not Responsible Americans)
Bert
4:25 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Incapable of rational points, Steve resorts to the juvenile responses that probably served him well as a high school nobody. Steve is OK with seeing 20 children shot dead. He can turn his back on others' suffering. Steve is the NRA. "Give me mine, and to hell with the rest of you".
It's time for us to leave Steve behind, to let the grown-ups take control of gun policy in this country. It's time for us to acknowledge that inaction only means more dead children. It's time for us to open our eyes, look at the other developed countries, and ask ourselves why so few of THEIR citizens die from gun violence, and so many of our do. Steve won't do that. He's afraid that he might not be allowed to keep his shiny toys. The rest of us think the lives of children are far more important than Steve and his shiny toys.
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On the Blog Post NRA (Not Responsible Americans)
Bert
4:15 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
ReplyGun violence is higher in states that tend to vote Republican.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/07/geography-gun-violence/2655/
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On the Blog Post NRA (Not Responsible Americans)
Bert
5:03 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
We're first going to need to undergo a re-urbanization before we can truly solve the transportation issue. Fortunately this is already beginning in some parts of the country. As energy costs continue to rise, moving individual people around in 3,000+ pound cars will become unaffordable. It's possible that technology can increase car fuel efficiency to keep up with fuel costs, but it's more likely that people will choose to move closer to work, and businesses will choose to locate closer to city centers. Spread-out suburban areas make mass transit challenging, but as people reverse the post-WWII suburban migration and re-converge on the cities, that calculus will change.