Admit being an immigrant? I've never said anything else. The point is, and always has been, that it is over four hundred years of immigrant generations.
Admit being an immigrant? I've never said anything else. The point is, and always has been, that it is over four hundred years of immigrant generations.
By the way, I did not note it, but will here: even though I am inclined to the idea that the Court does not and should not need term limits [I interpret Article III as already imposing it], I thought your vote analysis was just grand. Well done!
Of course, you're right. I forgot that. Thanks, I've been retired too long
Allahu Akbar
Allah, like God, is a title, not a name, so we may be talking about the same Person, in the end, so I don't give a flip what you akbar. Plenty of "akbar" has been invoked to kill allegedly indiscriminately for Allah, too, so don't get too wrapped up in that nosey atmosphere.
By the way, ""Verily, Allah created Adam in His image." [Hadith, Muhammad]
And I told you that Cherokees and Iroquois, Apaches, Mohicans, etc, usurped the term "Native American" from the Irish, and waited a bloody long time to do so. And who was here before them?. We don't know for sure, but it is damn well certain there was. Sorry, but true.
I'm from America, and my father's fathers have been here since 1625, a mere 5 years following the Mayflower. Can't get much more legitimate "immigrant" than that.
What makes you think working for a living is servitude? It is a barter system that pays for work rendered in a commodity [coin of the realm, usually]. If you don't like what you're being paid and think you are worth more than what you are paid, calculate your individual worth to the company's bottom line to prove your individual worth. And one does not need a union rep to do that for them. All workers should figure out that formula and calculate it themselves, and say "heave-ho" to the unions of the world, which are as worthless as buggy whips. That's how personal wealth is developed.
Better yet, stop working for a job and be the job. Self-employment allows you to set your own wage for product/services rendered.
People who call themselves "immigrants" who also just strrolled across the border to gain entry to the U.S. are NOT "immigrants" by proper moniker, since by doing so without checking in with Border Patrol is ILLEGAL, and has been for years upon years, and therefore just being here, they are a drain on our monetary resources. Want to get with the program, please? Donald Trump did not invent it.
Not to mention that the claim of $2300 [approx] may not be accurate since the number calculated likely came from a math problem that likely used the total population of legit citizens [340M], but not even all legit citizens of the US pay taxes, the source of the funding. What's the source?
I'll have you know that "Native American" was a moniker that first-generation born-in-America Irish immigrants gave themselves over 300 years before Indians thought to abandon their tribal name in favor of that more generic name in the 1960s, so let's not get loosey-goosey with that moniker. I wonder if that is known among them?
Yes, but murder rate with an undefined weapon only confuses the pot since even a practical, allegedly harmless tool like a spoon can be a murder weapon. So can a thumb. As I originally criticized. Neither is likely eligible for a ban.
And, I'm not sure if you're ignoring a per capita comparison, or not, but per capita removes the difficulty in honest calculation since we happen to be 3rd in the world in population, and one of the other two engages in unofficial murder by official disappearance of people they find contrary to kneeling to the system.
Ricky Gervais is a whining alley cat. David Barton is a misguided evangelist who never considered that the Sermon on the Mount is likely the best, most practical political platform ever suggested, and which virtually no one understands as such, but is better than anything else out there, Republicans, Democrats, or Communists, Greenies, or whatnots.
But then Higgs Boson is the abject enemy of creatrio ex nihilo, but a whizbang design that had supreme intelligence behind it. Meant as a joke, it is well named "the God particle." Joke's on the rest of physicists who only think they have their middle finger on the pulse.
it does not explain the "GOD principle" of creation and existence.
Of course, it does, forgiving that the H-B was just lacking memory when it first allegedly kaboomed. Another H-B before ours did it, too, and they're likely doing it all over the place that we do not yet see. The ability demonstrated by our own primary Higgs Boson is of intelligent design, not creatio ex nihilo, as some well-meaning but ignorant folk wanted to describe creation. They have misguided ideas about who the Creator is, Who preceded Him, and why He, and They are so intelligent. And that is mostly tied up in not recognizing what eternity really means, and why it does not have to have a beginning, not even with a Higgs Boson, which only assumes there was nothing before it, since even Peter Higgs did not have his finger on the true pulse of God.
Are you busting out the micrometer and measuring?
Could be; it's part of what I did for 25 years. Measurement, analysis, and improvement was my professional career, but, as it happens, using iMac, I have the advantage over being broke on the pane of Windows. Apple invented wysiwyg - "what you see is what you get." The reason why many people in graphic arts who use computers prefer the use of Mac over Windows [cough, cough] because what is projected on screeen is exacting in size. Something Windows could not just copy to make themselves appear impressive, but still used dos as an operating system for far too long [2001]. I abandoned Windows in early 83, mostly for that reason.
The reason they almost always leave on their own is because they become too old to do the job effectively and/or would rather live out their final days in peace.
Really? So, Sherrod Brown, Jason Chaffits, Joe Manchin, were/are old men? In fact, there are 50 members of Congress [House & Senate] who are not seeking re-election in 2026. That's 11% of the total Congress that have seats eligible for re-election in this cycle [about 468 members]. Yes, some are old, but many are leaving who are still relatively young, not yet ready to live their "final days." This is the highest number of Congress not seeking re-election, ever. Try again, with facts, this time.
To apply "superstition and ignorance" to religion merely demonstrates the ignorance of the scientists and others who claim it. Those scientists who also embrace religion understand a very simple concept you are overlooking. "Empirical evidence," so-called, depends upon evidence obtained by use of our five senses, plus a sentient brain [capable of independent thought and analysis]. Those scientists who reject religion also happen to dismiss that any other senses are available to humanity, such as faith. Yep, that's a sixth sense, and some scientists are beginning to acknowledge it. Most people equate faith with belief, but mere belief makes no imposition on us to act on belief. Faith does, and Paul, the Apostle, explains how that is necessary, and how it is done. Have to read to get it, though, and few people bother to do that, cover-to-cover. There are other senses, as well, that science is beginning to recognize as available to humans, that traditional science denies. Their loss.
Doesn't matter where you live.
The hell it doesn't! Where I live, the population density is 23 per square mile. In New Orleans, the top murder rate in the country, it is 2,300 per 100,000, with a comparative murder rate [all weapons, combined] 2.2 per 100,000 in my region, and 46 per 100,000 in New Orleans.
By education level [another key element of variable murder rate [all weapons, combined], in my region, 59.8% have a college degree, or higher [including me]. In New Orleans, college degree or higher is 42.4%.
Both factors weigh heavily on our civil consideration for one another.
Yes, the red bars are homicide, the blue, suicide. That's clear. But the numbers do not match. Italy, for example, your upper numbers list indicates the death rate there as 0.2:100,000, but the graph, by measurement, is 0.19 ÷ 0.47 = 0.4, not 0.2. There are several examples of your inaccurate conversion, or the source, on your upper list.
Many physicists who disavow the existence of God were and are still enraged by the nickname given to the Higgs Boson when that particle was finally demonstrated to exist. Peter Ware Higgs, a theoretical physicist, first announced his theory of the existence of the Higgs Boson in 1964. In 2012, the particle was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Switzerland.
In the 1990s [pre-discovery], another physicist, Leon Lederman, wrote and published a book re: the Boson Particle, and wanted to title his book "The Goddamn Particle," because it was taking a long time with great difficulty to find it [48 years]. The publishers, so the story goes, pulled a clever switcheroo on the author to title the book "The God Particle." This enraged physicists because, as said, many disavow the existence of God, and thought the title misrepresented science because, they claimed, science has nothing to do with religion.
Won't they be surprised to discover, finally, that religion and science are not even two sides of one coin, but co-exist on the same side.
USA culture is not a singular entity. Not in the melting pot we are with varied elevations, climates, population density, ancestry, etc. My particular example, and there are many like me, is at an elevation of 7,500 feet in a forest. That's a little different from Queens, NYC, Detroit, L.A., etc, isn't it?
Your summary numbers per country above the graph don't seem to equate with the graph numbers. Further, your data is 26 years old. Nothing more recent? Mine is data from 2025.
"Safer" by what parameters? Actually, it's easy to find countries with a lower death rate by intentional gunfire than the USA, considering we rate at 50-60 per 100k annually. Note, however, that you offer no specific parameters by which to make the claim. Note, for example, that Skeptical's graph merely relates to "gun deaths," which broad factor that includes accidental deaths, such as someone not using caution in cleaning their own gun. My figures relate only to intentional death by another, i.e., murder.
A fair number of posts have been made here with the suggestion that gun control would lower our murder rate in the United States compared with the rest of the world. No doubt, it would. However, virtually all such posts merely count the number of murders in the US annually, and we rank highly in the world with those hard numbers. Not taken into consideration in these posts, however, is that the US is the third most populous country in the world.
That comparison ought to be per capita, not merely hard numbers. When approached by per capita, boys and girls, the US does not even rank in the top 50 nations of the world in murder rate. We rank between 50th and 60th, and that is in the top quarter, approximately, of the nations of the world. It does not justify gun control to the extent that some in our country would impose.
Not to mention that not all murders are committed by a gun [about 75% are, but that leaves 25% unaffected by gun control of any kind], and we certainly are absurd to think the gun itself is responsible. No gun, by itself, has ever shot, let alone killed anyone by deliberate intent.
A thumb, used improperly, can kill. Should we ban the opposable thumb, so useful in a myriad of other activities we would lose by loss of thumbs? Or spoons, elbows, butter knives...
No, according to John Keats, writing of a Grecian urn, beauty is only half the equation.
Non sequitur.
I do not do Mafia games, and have never ever clicked on the prompt. Absolutely no interest in that whatsoever.
Curious, though, that some of us are fixated on the belief we can live in one another's heads. And whether or not you would start such a conversation as this is fine. I did. Live with it, just as I live with there being a Mafia section. I have never been a gamer. I got bored quickly with Pong, and virtually never touched another.
How am I supposed to know what you understand and don't? How can I speak but in terms I know I understand, without assuming I deal with a bunch of three-year-olds? Contrary to your apparent belief, we have little capability of being in one another's heads, but some sure like to think they can. f-stops are the aperture settings on a camera to allow long or short field of sharp focus from foreground to background while still allowing enough light through the lens. It's the mechanical means of duplicating the function of the human [and some other animals] eye's iris relative dialation, an autonomic function in living creatures, as well as, now, in many digital cameras.
No, otherwise, it's fine. Just a matter of unfamiliarity on my part.
What about pointing out the video's poor quality and yet being expected to represent true facts is so hard to understand? Even when this video was shot, the potential of quality work was better than this. It's the same with most bigfoot video and photographs, or Loch Ness monster. Seems fringe-believable events are not being photographed by people who know the first thing about the equipment they use. It's just a bad look. I'm done with this one.
I completely disagree. And attraction [I presume you mean physical, since your attitude is "skin deep," of all reasons to have association with others, is at the shallow end of the pool. That's age & experience talking.
Sorry, I backed out of debate a few months ago [I intend it to be temporary], and the whole visual of debate has changed, and it is frankly more difficult to tell by glance of the debate's cover page what the status is.
As I alleged, "permanence' depends on depth of field. By historic perspective, in photographic terms, you're an f2 [shallow depth of field]; I'm an f32 [deep depth of field]. You are bothered by the risk of border change, and perceive that as a frequent occurrence. Yes, risk is an ever-present factor, but, as I noted, the last actual sanctioned border change was 15 years ago. You act like that was yesterday.
This debate apparently ended with no votes. This may be one reason why: since 1900 [that's 126 years], 85% of Supreme Court Justices have retired, or otherwise left the Court prior to death. That's called personally-imposed term limitation, and, at that rate of personal dismissal, there's no need to amend the Constitution to impose term limits.
Not to mention that Article III already does not say the Justices serve a lifetime appointment as the debate challenge alleges. Observe: "The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour...' https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text
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