Politics

[Subb]

Might want to look up the violent crimes stats for the UK.   You might be surprised when comparing it with ours

Was talking to someone who thought the same n likwid's Facebook. I'll copy and paste my reply:

I'm sorry, but I question your increased crime stats opinion. http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/crime-research/hosb1011/hosb1011?view=Binary page 57 shows a peak in violent crime in 1995, after which it falls from 4,000 to 2,000. In '97 all handguns were banned, exception being Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. Page 58 shows the different crime types - robbery has plateaued, admittedly, but everything else has fallen. Assault without injury is still the most prevalent, which is good. Also, how many of your police officers have been shot whilst on duty? We had three shootings in the span of a decade. http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/crime-research/hosb0212/hosb0212?view=Binary

[Anamodiel]

* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000

Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:

* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts so far: $38.50

[Da6onet]

Yep, seems like the typical American household financial situation :-P

[Da6onet]

If you have an hour, please watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNtKk2EmI-o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

While there are some points that he is cleverly framing, for the most part he is spot on.

[Heironymus]

http://www.examiner.com/article/president-obama-could-get-3-terms-if-h-j-res-15-abolishes-term-limits

uhh.. this is bad.. mmmkay?

[Tbone]

It's all symbolic. It would never pass unless we had some kinda huge disaster or something. It didn't get any attention in 2009 and it won't get any attention now, except maybe to stir up the Obama haters.

[Sared]

It's all symbolic. It would never pass unless we had some kinda huge disaster or something.

9/11 part 2?

[Subb]

It's all symbolic. It would never pass unless we had some kinda huge disaster or something.

9/11 part 2?

9/11 x a million.

[Subb]

"Piers Morgan's anti-gun argument is based on statistics, but statistics aren't necessarily causal. Italy has more organised crime, it isn't necessarily because they eat more pasta.

Some American's will aruge the UK has more stabbings, but we don't ban knives, so why should they ban guns? Well you can't take your bread knife to the pub, but the bread knife has another use; you can't ban bread knifes in the home because you need them to cut bread. In America, you don't because they don't have bread that isn't already sliced. They don't know how to use a knife. If you gave real bread to an American, they would shoot it into smaller pieces."

Jeremy Hardy, 2013.

[Da6onet]

Italy has more organised crime, it isn't necessarily because they eat more pasta.

I would like to conduct a controlled study of this.

Also, doesn't everybody shoot their bread?

[Lithium]

[Subb]

*facepalm*

[Ghisteslwchlohm]

Lithium, you're the best.

[Sared]

[Opey]

True Story Brah?