I’m kind of surprised other news outlets aren’t jumping on this.  I would think if MSNBC, BBC, and a couple other big hitters started to question this he might change his tune.  We’ve seen it before with Trump.  He’s a bully, punch him in the nose (figuratively) and he’ll back down.

I think he hit the nail on the head.  People don’t want talking points, they want action plans.  If you’re just repeating the national party rhetoric, voters in local districts can’t connect that to their own lives.  If Sagan can break down how a national effort will improve the local lives in a specif way and a…

A rose by any other name. It’s still a police force, just the authority has changed. I think breaking the social ties could be good in some instances, but bad in others. You’d stop Boss Hogg from putting his cousin Cletus as a deputy, but would you want CPT Whitebread in an all POC area with no clue about social…

I have two sisters, both married with 4 kids each. My wife and I have 3 kids. We do a name draw for the adults and one for the kids so everyone buys one present for the extended family. We do the name draw at Thanksgiving dinner. My parents said they don’t want presents anymore, so the three families all chip in $50…

I’d be interested to hear what your non-police force would look like. When someone breaks into your house, what actions do you then take? If you rear end someone, besides insurance, who sorts the traffic out?

I think the most sobering part of this is that we are measuring the time between worst mass shootings in weeks, not months or years. How long until days?

I don’t do drugs, but I’ve always wondered if stoners try and time their high to be able to walk to the tunnel while bombed.

How is Detroit worse than Atlanta? Unless you have to go from one end of the terminal to the other, Detroit’s a breeze.  Atlanta has god-awful security, is always mobbed, and it’s death if you have to go from one terminal to the other on the doom-train.

I liked Henry Rollins take on this (said in sarcastic, mildly threatening tone):

Trump’s whole brand is dependent on him being the winner in everything. He can’t be shown to lose at something or else it will erode that. It’s not even about politics with him, it’s about brand. He’s hewed to that for so long, there isn’t another way for him to think about it. That’s linked with his inability to let…

If I spend 80 hours a week developing, selling, and marketing a product people want, shouldn’t I be able to reap the reward? If I make $10M a year, is that ok or is $10.1M and now I’m destroying the country? Is there a difference between a producer such as this and someone who has been gifted the wealth through a…

I used to travel ~a quarter of the year for business. I had all my cards (and passport) photocopied on to a single double sided sheet. I kept a copy in my briefcase that never got more than a dozen feet from my body while traveling and a digital copy on my laptop. I also had a copy zippered into the lining of my…

When I was in the Army, in my platoon I had 2 illegal immigrants, a kid who overstayed his student visa and joined to because he loved America, a dozen guys who would now be considered DREAMers, and my warrant officer who got a “go-to-war-or-go-to-jail” sentence when he was busted for being a coyote. Half my platoon…

I wonder if this is also playing into Trump’s hands. If they are allowed to sue, they have to be under US jurisdiction. If there is a child born during this time, the child would be a citizen under the 14th amendment, further giving Trump ammunition in his quest to repeal it.

I shot 2 O’Driscols, looted the bodies, then chucked them off a cliff.  The next time I accidentally shot someone, I threw the body on the back of Comet, the Wonder Horse, and took it back to the same cliff to add to the other bodies.  I’ve been doing that all week.  I’m going to give the in game serial killer a run…

For me, TDK and The Incredibles are 1 and 1A depending on my mood that day.  The Incredibles showed how to do a superhero team movie to give the story weight for the team and still give each hero their own journey and time to shine.

I don’t see any “news” on my feed.  I also don’t go looking for it either or like and news sources.  I do my daily hop around to different news sources separate from facebook.  Like I said, I’m just there for the social part with friends, I know where to get new on my own.

That’s the problem, the Democrats don’t have a bench. Are you going to go with the aging journeyman in Bernie or try and hustle one of the prospects from the minors up for a big league start in the World Series?

Who are the people who go to Facebook for news and influence? I’m there to catch up on what family and friends are doing. If I see a link to a “news” story, I’ve learned its generally either “Trump is the devil” or “Libs want to destroy America” and scroll on by. I’ve muted a few friends who’s feed is solely far…

I read it until the end, then went back and re-read it in a JR Ross voice once I got to the “Bah Gawd.”  Totally worth it.