The focus should always be “protect”. “Stopping” is but one of many potential responses. I think “stopping” should be the rare, once in a lifetime level of response and all training should be presented as such. Keep in mind that dozens of nations don’t arm their police yet seem to be able to protect their citizenry.…

It CLEARLY is not agreed upon by everyone. Believing otherwise is delusional. The fact we have more than one traffic stop that has lead to the death penalty this year alone flat out proves there is at least one group - cops - who believe it is entirely appropriate to sentence and execute the death penalty for traffic…

Who cares what anyone is “saying”? Words don’t matter. ACTIONS matter. This kid got the death penalty with a judge, jury, and executioneer of exactly one cop for a normal traffic stop. That’s the facts of the situation.

The job isn’t “stop violent criminals”. The job is “Protect and Serve”. Even in a scenario in which a violent criminal is actively shooting a weapon, there’s a demonstrably faulty assumption the police can actively identify the criminal, positively identify the degree of response required to stop that activity, and -…

Total population doesn’t matter.  It’s working population, which is (incorrectly) defined as 15-64 (about 28% of the population aged 65-72 are employed or looking for employment).  There are around 200,000,000 “working aged” population.  

Complex explanations are almost always needlessly complicated to make one seem more informed than others. They’re usually equally if not more-so wrong, but sound like they’re right so people believe want to believe them more. Nothing could be more true than in this particular case.

So let’s lock all their guns in the trunk. Then make it so you have to enter a code to open the gun safe in the trunk. That automatically logs when and how long the gun was out of the safe. Or better yet, make’em send a signal back to home base and get approval before the safe can be unlocked.  Then every time a gun…

Unfortunately, as complicated as a lot of people want things to be.... it IS just that simple. Capitalism happened. The demand for labor has outstripped the supply of labor, thus putting upward pressures on the price of labor. Between roughly 1950 until the pandemic, the historic rate has hovered around 5.8%. It’s…

Traffic stops should not receive the death penalty.  

420k were over 65, and another 100k were. over 50.

Yeah, those old bone spurs might start acting up

Lemme get this straight; two judges, a court and an appeals judge upheld the DUI citation.

Is there any actual evidence he was drunk driving? As far as I know “claims to smell alcohol” is not a legal metric. Did a breath alcohol or blood test confirm this? Otherwise it’s the cop’s word against the private citizen.  His “crime” was playing music too loud - hardly much of a crime to set aside the 4th…

I’m curious what the Maverick’s seating feels like.  I was super stoked for the Ranger.... right up until I sat in it.  Something about the seats and my body just didn’t mix.  

I think it competes with the Ridgeline for a different set - middle aged ‘weekend warrior’ DIY types who don’t need a trucky-truck every day of the week, just for that load of mulch or a couple of 2x4's. I remember the Honda Element was originally aimed at the same “young, outdoorsy” group and did terrible with…

WV is a lost cause. I say that as a WV Democrat active in WV politics.

The best I’ve been able to pull off is do things that require exercise but exercise isn’t the point, just a byproduct. For instance, I’m in the process of building this garden wall in our yard. Moving all those damn bricks in freakin’ exercise man! Not to mention shoveling dirt, gravel, what have you... it’s as much…

Uhhh.... I am clam. I’m not sure what you’re reading but it ain’t in what I wrote. You can’t “absolve” me of anything there sport. I have have zero guilt over whatever I feel about exercise so there’s literally nothing to ‘absolve’.

Hiking is just walking. Walking is perfectly fine, especially if you’ve got somewhere to be. Do I want to go for a walk every day? Nope. At least not to the point where it counts as ‘light exercise’ or anything.

This is the problem I have with that attitude - it presupposes that exercise a pleasurable activity for literally EVERYBODY. If it isn’t for you, then you’ve failed in some way - you didn’t do it long enough or you just didn’t find the right thing for you. Look, if at the end of it I feel tired and sweaty and it took…