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Guns are our shared responsibility
By Barack Obama - The epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis. Gun deaths and injuries constitute one of the greatest threats to public health and to the safety of the American people. Every year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns. Suicides. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesEven though I am very pro gun I also support him on most of these things.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The NRA is a joke now.
Too difficult for the average guy They only understand guys like Trump or perhaps Stalone or Willis.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A lot of what he says has merit but he is damaged by previous hysterical actions and the latest crocodile tears performance.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What about the responsibility of the gun owners to keep them safely out of the hands of others? Electronic locks don't always open, have you ever been locked out of your hotel room because the electronic lock failed, I know I have on many occasions over the years. If you need the gun to function and you lose your life because it hasn't unlocked is Obama going to cry tears over you? No fucking chance.
And how can a gun being fired in the correct sequence be a product liability fault?
Cue the deniers!
There is much I don't support Obama on but this I do.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He's a liar.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He's the worst Prez we've had in the last 100yrs..maybe ever
30,000/340,000,000 is not an epidemic
I don't think he understands nobody takes him seriously
The best thing he did was turn most of the USA conservative again.
Watching a WWII movie, I spotted a denier (I recognize a fine stocking when I see one).
Jan 11th, 2016 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I guessed that Elaine #4 would be next up to check out her stockings, no matter what denier they are;
and Chris R #3 is a man of fine taste no matter what the denier.
[Not dead yet!
Geoff.]
@6 Glad you are still with us. :)
Jan 11th, 2016 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“30,000/340,000,000 is not an epidemic”
Jan 11th, 2016 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah... it is!
The fact you can't see it shows how out of touch you really are.
8. Its less than auto fatalities and nobody says that's an epidemic or ban cars.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hello GeoffWard2,
Jan 11th, 2016 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Long time, no see, or no hear.
Welcome back.
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lts a difficult subject.
Although l don't like to see a public defenceless, its very hard to filter out the crazies from owning a gun.
e.g. lf the troops(& their guns) left the Falklands tomorrow, the RGs would be here within hours. Extreme example, they are not civilians l know.
But if you are going to outlaw ALL guns then you have to be able to account for & confiscate ALL guns.
No use taking them off the law abiding public & leaving them in the hands of criminals etc.
Don't know the answer.
@10 They are not trying to take the guns away are they? I agree it would be near impossible as they are so entrenched in the culture of the U.S. and it would take a massive change of thinking. Gun owners seem incredible attached to their killing machines and some seem to need them to feel macho.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I just don't accept the criminal argument. If we were to follow the logic of that why have any laws because the criminals don't respect them. Criminals in the U.K. have guns (some criminals) but we don't have the same level of gun fatalities.
I don't think there is an easy answer but it should be debated.
They are trying to make it more difficult and chip away at the constitutional rights. of law abiding citizens.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The debate has been over long ago.
National polling shows there's no public outcry for any changes.
Life's tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.” - John Wayne.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13 It's even tougher when the stupid are armed.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Some of the reasons Americans got shot in September 2015:
My cousin and I found a gun. I was posing with it to take pictures to post online and unintentionally shot myself to death. (TX, 9/1)
My neighbors threw a benefit BBQ to raise money for funeral services. I tried the chicken and it was cold. I got in an argument with them, beat them up, and shot two women. (TX, 9/5)
I invited my neighbors to hang out but they didn’t want to, so I shot at them through their door. (OK, 9/8)
I needed to use the bathroom, so I unholstered my gun, unintentionally discharging it through a wall and into the kid I was babysitting. (AZ, 9/8)
I was at a memorial service and some people drove by playing loud music, which seemed disrespectful, so I shot the driver and passenger. (IL, 9/11)
Two football players told me to leave a college party I tried to crash, so I shot them both. (UT, 9/12)
I didn’t like the musical selections at our karaoke party, so I shot three people to death and then killed myself. (LA, 9/13)
I thought a 43-year-old man was a squirrel, so I shot him. (WI, 9/13)
I was having a dispute with my girlfriend, so I went to her church and shot her, her pastor, and an infant. (AL, 9/20)
I saw somebody getting carjacked, so I started shooting. I shot the carjacking victim in the head. (TX, 9/26)
The guy I was tailgating tapped his brakes. So I shot him. (TX, 9/28)
I saw a guy painting a peace mural. I got into an argument with him and shot him. (CA, 9/29)
https://www.facebook.com/ParentsAgainstGunViolence/?fref=nf
Tradition
Jan 11th, 2016 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://youtu.be/MQyoSLOlglw
14. Most likely democrats.
Jan 11th, 2016 - 11:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'All horse thieves are Democrats, but not all Democrats are horse thieves.'”
@16 YB
Jan 12th, 2016 - 12:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0“14. Most likely democrats.”
For someone of your IQ, I see you are easily manipulated into repeating Tea Party dogma that makes no sense.
17. Maybe your IQ doesn't allow you to see the patterns as easily as I can.
Jan 12th, 2016 - 12:22 am - Link - Report abuse 018
Jan 12th, 2016 - 04:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Then again, you are perhaps betrayed by your own IQ
Deluded by his supposed IQ. Haven't seen an iota of proof of it. Indeed push him too hard and he does a Nostrils.
Jan 12th, 2016 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh well, at least the chances of Yankeeboy and his family getting shot are much higher than those of us that live in other English speaking countries.
Silver linings and all.
@20 TTT and YB are two sides of the same coin. The similarities are compelling.
Jan 12th, 2016 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fortunately, YB is does not think the way the majority of Americans think. He is incredibly insecure about any changes.
Elaine/Think/Voice, My thinking on just about everything is now how the majority is shown in every poll, guns, Progs, Welfare on and on. The USA is more like me than like you.
Jan 12th, 2016 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The best thing abour Odumbo is he's done more for Conservative America than any Repub has done since Reagan.
Skip, you are over 25 and probably in your mid-30s and live in a group house. I wonder if your parents cry themselves to sleep every night wondering if you will ever grow up and not be a loser.
@22 Bless you, I didn't say you were TTT, I said you were the equivalent of two peas in a pod. (You are very literal, like TTT) You think putting everyone else down elevates you. (It doesn't) You are desperate for attention. You are nationalistic to your toes about your country. You have been inculcated from birth that your country is the best in the world and everyone is jealous. (Nope). You claim to speak for everyone in your country. (You don't). You want every other country to fail so you can gain some self-esteem by being on the 'winning team'. (It is not a competition).
Jan 12th, 2016 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you have an individual identity? Why can't you own your own opinions rather than claim they are the opinions of all Americans. Are you not confident standing alone?
Fortunately Trump has done a lot to turn people away from Republicans. You need those floating voters and they are moving out of reach.
Do you read old polls? Trump is doing just fine, he's getting more Independent votes than the Dems and he's not even the nominee yet. Self-identified Dems are at their lowest point since Carter.
Jan 12th, 2016 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I never said I speak for All Americans, you often do that with posters, ALL MEN, ALL CONSERVATIVES, ALL blah blah blah whatever you don't like.
You don't seem to realize that you are usually the one that starts the fight. You are such a ridiculous, smug self-satisfied sanctimonious stupid prog. You believe so much in your “rightness” you can't see where you are so very wrong.
Its not just me saying this.
I don't care if other countries succeed or fail. I just point out where I think they're going wrong. Like Germany. I said it here first and you and loser Skip said I was off. Watch and learn. The dominos are just beginning to fall.
@ 6 GeoffWard2
Jan 12th, 2016 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0DENIER! DOH.
My Freudian slip must be showing. I bet it raised a 'titter'.
Hope both you and your partner are in good health, any chance of coming back to Brazil? ;o)
@24 All you can't stand that I call you out on your nonsense.
Jan 12th, 2016 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I do quite the opposite to making emphatic statements.
If I piss you off I must be doing something right.
You don't make me mad.
Jan 12th, 2016 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you're stupid and pathetic.
Not sure why you'd read that as being mad or upset?
Think/Voice often did the same...
wonder why?
TWIMC
Jan 12th, 2016 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Continuing the “fine meshed” analytical line of Mr. Geoff Ward at (6)..., I will use the opportunity to educate (yet again) that youngish, haughty but ignorant Anglo Ozzie poster at (20)...
He says...:
“Oh well, at least the chances of Yankeeboy and his family getting shot are much higher than those of us that live in other English speaking countries”
I say...
Oh well, at least the chances of Yankeeboy and his family getting shot are much higher than for those that live in SOME other English speaking countries...
(Excluding..., from the top of me mind..., them brownish/blackish English speaking Countries as Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Chana, Guyana, Jamaica Kenya, Leshoto, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philliphines, Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zuid Afrika...)
[Not dead yet!
Think.]
I think we should limit the use of autos since they cause more fatalities than guns.
Jan 12th, 2016 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Said no one ever.
Stupid progs can't argue facts only emotions.
Yet again Mercopenguin, a British government run propaganda organ, has offered an article on which their “subjects” can use to attack the US. But we could care less what you Brits think. You place is to take orders and shut up. That is all.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 01:23 am - Link - Report abuse 06
Jan 13th, 2016 - 01:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mr. GeoffWard...good to see you posting again...
Hope you are getting better...;-)
30 Hepatia
Jan 13th, 2016 - 03:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0...as American as apple schnitzel.
@30 Hepatia,
Jan 13th, 2016 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Since when has an Argentino had the authority or the guts to order anyone to do anything?
Even the Americans on here know that you are a fake.
You are just so transparent, & also stupid.
As John Wayne said, “you're a special kind of stupid”.
Go back to your 25 year predictions, you're no good at anything else.
Oh Yankeeboy
Jan 13th, 2016 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Skip, you are over 25 and probably in your mid-30s and live in a group house. I wonder if your parents cry themselves to sleep every night wondering if you will ever grow up and not be a loser.”
My father is inordinately proud of me for following my dream.
I mean, I could have become yet another chubby, white, middle aged, guy trussed up in a suit that lives to work because money is the goal in life perhaps joking with Facebook friends how they could buy me some expensive townhouse for my next birthday.
But honestly that is just so cliched and..... well common really.
But hey it's working out for you! Kudos!!!
Guess your parents just had little real ability to install drive in you.
Guess getting shot is another thing that I don't have worry about in my life either. But again, kudos to you for living with that part of the American Dream as well.
Aaaah Think
You would think at your age you would have finally learnt your lesson with me. But seems not. Hardly surprising. Old dog... new tricks.... etc etc.... yawn yawn.... wank wank....
There's a reason I said “....those of us that live in other English speaking countries.”
Unless you know of some posters on Mercopress that hail from ”Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Chana (***misspelt), Guyana, Jamaica Kenya, Leshoto (***misspelt), Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philliphines (***misspelt), Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zuid Afrika (***Afrikaans requires a hyphen as in Zuid-Afrika)”
But considering you can hardly spell all the countries it won't surprise me that you won't find any of us that come from them.
If you think your parents are proud of a 30+ y/o living in a group house and still in school you're wrong.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They're lying to you and crying themselves to sleep every night.
If they're immigrants from LatAm to Austrailia they expected you to work and start a family 10 years ago.
They put their lives on the line to give you a better life and you are frittering it away.
and You know it.
35
Jan 13th, 2016 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When you say start a family...I'm thinking you may not quite have thought that one through...
No offence Skip...;-)
@34 Well done for having the balls to tread the path you want. You don't get prizes for mediocrity.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Careful of old YB. He insults to gain personal information so he can completely misrepresent your life. He has a limited understanding of any life not devoted to the pursuit of money and is too afraid of anything different. Whilst I know you couldn't care less of his opinion -the opinions of those you respect are the only ones that count - he is a nasty character to his core.
Unless Skip is studying to be a Brain Surgeon or the like he'd be considered a loser in the USA.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just sayin....
Elaine, Download Tinder you need to clean those cobwebs out.
I do love love love that I live rent free in so many people's heads
Voice, Even gays have kids now. You really do need to get in this century.
@38 No he wouldn't, fool. Many people change direction and increase their qualifications. Others take a five year vacation. I know which one would be considered a loser in the U.S. and it isn't Skip.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well I could afford a 5 year vacation.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And lived well doing it
Just like I live well now
I can't imagine anyone with a decent job going back to school and being forced to live in a group house in their 30s not being considered a loser.
Most would take night classes wouldn't they?
Or is it he doesn't ever want to grow up
like pajama boy?
Did you install Tinder yet? Clean out the cobwebs? You need it.
Second thought, go to Cologne for a weekend.
I hear just outside the train station is nice and friendly
@40 We were talking about perception. An American would admire someone who dedicated full-time to retraining and gaining further qualifications. They wouldn't admire someone who bummed about for five years.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It really is incredibly easy for a person from America to live well in a developing country. It is not impressive at all.
41. Not if they were living in a group house in their 30s they wouldn't.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0People in the USA expect people to grow up and be responsible for themselves by their mid 20s unless they're getting a doctorate in something really difficult.
As I said, I wasn't trying to impress anyone. I went there to have fun and I did, lots and lots of fun but when it got scary I left.
Why is that so difficult for you to understand?
Go to Cologne and help the refugees.
Let me know how it turns out for you.
I wish you lots of luck.
@42 You are speaking rubbish again. People make sacrifices to retrain. It takes real commitment and courage to work through it and come out with new qualifications. Dossing around for five years and having nothing but bitterness at the end of it is a complete waste of time. I know which would be admired.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is your obsession with housing?
Elaine, world traveler, all knowing, all seeing, you are a blockhead. You must travel in a circle of liberal losers.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If my kid quit work to go back to school in his 30s I would be very disappointed and he's be counseled to go to night school after work.
Group houses are for kids going to school not for adults not wanting to grow up.
Frankly its creepy that a 30 something found a place that would accept him.
Its almost like you don't live in the real world.
@44 You have a very narrow-mind and a tiny set of parameters for what constitutes success.
Jan 13th, 2016 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If my kid quit work to go back to school……
If my kid quit work to laze around for five years……….
Which would be most disappointing? I guess your parents.
What is your obsession with housing?
Can't you read?
Jan 14th, 2016 - 02:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0I said above what my problem was with a 30 yo living in a group house.
My version of success is most people's version of success and I can't imagine who'd think a 30+yo still in school living in a group house is successful.
Most people would think its creepy.
And the rest would think he's a loser.
I could afford to live well for 5 years without working, playing, traveling, eating well and doing whatever I wanted.
Not many people, unless they were born into money, can do that.
I am lucky.
I know that
and most would call that successful.
Go to the Cologne train station and help the savages you love so much.
It may solve the itch you can't scratch...
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Martin Luther King
@46 No, that was not the entirety of your insults to Skip. You made the following vicious comment:
Jan 14th, 2016 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0YB: “Skip, you are over 25 and probably in your mid-30s and live in a group house. I wonder if your parents cry themselves to sleep every night wondering if you will ever grow up and not be a loser.”
To which Skip corrected you by stating: “My father is inordinately proud of me for following my dream.”
But you seem to think you know Skip's parents but most likely are projecting your own relationship with your parents and said:
YB “If you think your parents are proud of a 30+ y/o living in a group house and still in school you're wrong.
They're lying to you and crying themselves to sleep every night.”
You have huge issues you project all over this message board. In your last post you stated:
“I can't imagine who'd think a 30+yo still in school living in a group house is successful.
Most people would think its creepy.
And the rest would think he's a loser.”
Completely failing to understand that Skip in not STILL in school but had the courage to change direction in life and retrain. Huge respect to Skip as most people would be too afraid to make the sacrifices involved in doing that - including shared housing.
You, on the other hand claim to like work but wasted five whole years of your life dossing with '5 or 6 staff', you claim. Really? What on earth would one grown-up man need with '5 or 6 staff waiting on him? Lazy much.
Skip has told us how proud his father is of him but we haven't heard your parents are proud of their lazy son wasting away the best years of his life.
What is your obsession with property? Is that your benchmark for success? Living alone in a big house?
Clearly you read through the whole thread. I am sorry you don't have good reading comprehension.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My Staff in Argentina:
Maid
Cook
Driver
Gardener
Intern
All very much needed and easily affordable.
I've never in my life cleaned my own house. The driver was mainly for protection. I had 25 hectares/pool/tennis courts so too much for me to handle. Cook...obvious and Intern so I didn't have to stand it lines to pay bills and do errands.
You must know how everything in Argentina or any 3rd world country takes 10X longer to do anything than it does in the UK or USA. Why if I had the $ would I spend my time doing crap I don't like?
Yes STILL in school at 30 something and not shared like he has a roommate, no he's got multiple roommates in a group house.
Instead of arguing with me and looking like a fool. go on USA Craigslist, look at apt/room shared and see how many group houses would take someone in their late 20 or 30s. You're not going to find many if you can find any at all.
Elaine, I don't know why you think taking an extended vacation is not enviable?
When people ask about my life they're very interested and nobody thinks its something to be ashamed of, most people are envious.
You're an odd duck and a complete fraud.
@49
Jan 14th, 2016 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cook - A grown man who can't cook for himself? Now that is sad. (Did your Intern have to feed you?)
Driver - You can't drive? You need security? What a baby. I never needed security.
Gardner and Maid - Reasonable
Intern - Hahahaha. You mean errand boy.
'Very affordable' Of course it is in a developing country. That is why it not impressive, though you seem to want to brag about it like it is an achievement.
'I don't know why you think taking an extended vacation is not enviable?' Of course you don't Mr. Bragger. Nothing about you is enviable though you crave it so much. Five wasted years.
What is your problem with Skip making something of his life? You think putting other people down elevates you but it just makes you look a complete prick.
This obsession you have with housing is peculiar. Is it your trade?
I don't have an obsession with housing but you obviously do. I wouldn't bring it up but you keep asking about it.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think the cook was U$150/mo or about the same as 1 nice dinner for two at a decent restaurant. Total luxury and totally worth it.
He called himself an intern and it did get him his next job practicing his English everyday. He's doing well now living in UK. He was so lucky to escape.
Its not bragging if you answer a question is it?
I don't have a problem with Skip. I will never meet him. I don't care about him.
Like you, he's always the ones that starts something and I am not one to back down.
Your shaming doesn't work on me and it has you absolutely insane.
Thanks for thinking about me.
When are you going to Cologne to help the needy peaceful refugees?
@51 I don't need to shame you, sleazy boy, you do it yourself.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You try but fail.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I imagine you're used to it.
BTW keep in mind and I know you're not very smart but when I answer a question honestly it's not bragging. The parts of my life I have told people about are always an honest answer to a question.
If you think that bragging that says more about you than me.
You're used to being able to shame people or use emotions as a weapon rather than use facts.
Doesn't work with me.
@53 Your own words shame you. I just tee you up and you do the rest.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Except I don't feel ashamed of anything I've posted.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If I did do you really think I'd keep on posting?
Clearly you don't know any better.
Anyone else notice that Mr. Chronic has gone to ground and is staying there, ever since he was called out by Derke Blake?
Jan 14th, 2016 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr Derke Blake announced he will be at O'Hare today and would gladly accept a lift and a meeting with his Chicago host as so generously and ostentatiously offered to a complete stranger by Mr Chronic.
'Chronically' in Mr. YB's shadow until just very recently, but where is he to be found now?
@56 Quite. As I said he is all mouth and trousers. Just like sleazyboy.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@56 'Except I don't feel ashamed of anything I've posted'. Of course you don't. If you had any decency you wouldn't post the repugnant insults you so favour.
'If I did do you really think I'd keep on posting?' Yes because you desperately need this and lack a conscience.
Keep posting. Everyone here can see what you are.
This forum seems to be a place for people to have serious personal arguments. The 'I am' losers and braggers are under sniper fire constantly. You need to be careful in case you overstress them and they burst a blood vessel. Whilst not doubting the justice of this treatment I am sure their carers will take a dim view of it and no doubt wheel them off to the TV room.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Elaine, All the ridiculous tripe you post about me you should be saying in front of a mirror.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I just was thinking about you and Skip chiding me about the savages they let into Germany.
Funny how your tune has changed
Not only are you stupid you're a fraud.
Troy, I'm not Chronic. I do love his posts though.
58. I also worry about Elaine bursting a blood vessel. How was your vacation Stevie? Quite familiar with the TV room are you?
@58 It is unseemly but necessary.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@59 Please, sleazyboy, try thinking about something else.
YB
Jan 14th, 2016 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As I was saying,
Black Hawk down, Black Hawk down!
Stevie? Is that someone else that was having a poke at you? From what has been alleged and your responses sounds like you deserve it. But then you do claim to be a yank - known the world over for over inflated egos, and bellies, and using a fork as a shovel!
Jan 14th, 2016 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Our Egos are the appropriate size.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We are rich
I don't think we're fatter than Mexicans, Germans or Brits.
At least from what I've seen.
You havent travelled far have you, America holds the world cup in fatness, its even worse than Chile! America even has cops the shape of soccer balls, that isnt allowed in Europe. America also holds tbe prize for the worlds worst food which it exports all over the world. That is very strange. Colonel Sanders face is more widespread than Chairman Maos in China. America is the primary source of the worlds fatness.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 064. I've been to 30+ countries. There's plenty of fat people everywhere I've been.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0KFC, MCD, etc. It just goes to show you how well accepted aand sought after American products are across the globe.
Seems like everyone wants what we have.
“Seems like everyone wants what we have.” Delusional too!
Jan 14th, 2016 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Laughed at and pitied would be more accurate, especially as so many of you have to carry guns to feel safe.
Whatever, loser.
Jan 14th, 2016 - 11:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You may not like us but we will be the richest most powerful nation long after your ggg grandchildren are dead.
Good luck living in whatever sh*thole you come from.
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/01/11/guns-are-our-shared-responsibility#comment427132: Seems that you are a magnet for fat people, probably a result of your attractive personality.
Jan 15th, 2016 - 02:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0@68 hep-C
Jan 15th, 2016 - 03:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Whoa ... Heppy...!
Just a day after you were saying YOU were an American too!
From a smart redneck:
Jan 15th, 2016 - 08:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Saturday Night Special
Two feet they come a creepin'
Like a black cat do
And two bodies are layin' naked
A creeper thinks he got nothin' to lose
So he creeps into the house, yeah
And he unlocks the door
And as a man's reaching for his trousers
Shoots him full of .38 holes
Mr Saturday night special
Got a barrel that's blue and cold
Ain't good for nothin'
But put a man six feet in a hole
Big Jim's been drinkin' whiskey
And playin' poker on a losin' night
And pretty soon ol' Jim start's a thinkin'
Somebody been cheatin' and lyin'
So Big Jim commence to fightin'
I wouldn't tell you no lie
Big Jim done pulled his pistol
Shot his friend right between the eyes
Mr Saturday night special
Got a barrel that's blue and cold
Ain't good for nothin'
But put a man six feet in a hole
Oh, it's the Saturday night special, for twenty dollars you can buy one too
Hand guns are made for killin'
They ain't no good for nothin' else
And if you like to drink your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don't we dump 'em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some fool come 'round here
Wanna shoot either you or me
Mr Saturday night special
You got a barrel that's blue and cool
You ain't good for nothin'
But put a man six feet in a hole
Mr the Saturday night special
And I'd like to tell you what you could do with it
And that's the end of the song
Ronnie Van Zant 1975
@69 Troy,
Jan 15th, 2016 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hepatia is an Argentine.
@68 'Patty old girl.
Make a little slip did we?
Snigger
71 Isolde
Jan 15th, 2016 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks Isolde. I know Hepatia is an Argie - I like to point out her inconsistencies to her.Hep is not very clever, but quite tiresome.
More than one of our “American” posters is not what they claim to be.
Hope you had a good Christmas and you're enjoying your summer.
Troy
CAD$ $0.69 and falling.
Jan 15th, 2016 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:)
Anyone know when they'll turn out the lights in Alberta?
73
Jan 15th, 2016 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yawn...
exporting products and selling for USD - good for me
Looks like Canada is going to have some trouble with its trade balance soon.
Jan 15th, 2016 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These are interesting times we have coming up.
I wonder how many people realize it...
Trump and Cruz, Hillary's dream team. Bahahahaha
Jan 16th, 2016 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse 076. She's most likely going to lose NH and Iowa. I will be very surprised if she's the nominee. 2 FBI investigations with 150 agents assigned.
Jan 16th, 2016 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dems are getting desperate...
Err.. Don't you mean Republicans are getting desperate. Looks like a wipeout - again!
Jan 16th, 2016 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not by the polling it doesn't.
Jan 16th, 2016 - 08:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Even Trump is polling 20% of self declared Dems
and has about 100% of the white blue collars...
The Dems are trying hard to corral the cats of the various and sundry dregs of society that they used to win last time.
Problem is nobody likes Hillary
and their ideas are spent
They know Odumbo was their last great hope...
alas...
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/01/11/guns-are-our-shared-responsibility#comment427304: !00% of the white blue collars? Don't make me laugh. The GOP trashed them decades ago. They are dying demographic.
Jan 18th, 2016 - 03:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0I haven't heard of Odumbo. Is he some guy born in Kenya....?
YB
Jan 18th, 2016 - 03:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hepatia needs to talk to his other operators. Wasn't one of them claiming to be as American as you and Chronic??
@80 Hepatia,
Jan 18th, 2016 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0lf you're talking of the US President(not your actual Argentine Pres)then he was born in Hawaii.
You're not a dumb Yank, you're just not a Yank, are you sister?
It has not idea what it's talking about:
Jan 18th, 2016 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Frankly there's too many good articles to even reference here.
Just use google news and ”white blue collar polling' as the search term
Its the reason the Dems are in panic mode.
They won the last election because they had historically high turn out of various and sundry dregs of society voting for the first minority Prez. I can't imagine that will happen again.
Plus what scares the Dems even more is Trump is polling well with 20% of their base, good with blacks and good with latinos. They can't will with just the trans vote.
yankeeboy #83
Jan 18th, 2016 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't like the idea of you calling them the US's 'dregs of society'.
I hope you don't mean the AfroAmericans.
My partner would kill him if the 'damned yankee' called him a 'dreg'.
She was an Embassy person, an intellectual and stunning.
Where is Bernie Sanders in all this? He seems to have a much higher profile all the time. He even agrees with things Hillary says at times - could he be the one who bridges both camps?
Jan 18th, 2016 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The GOP has very little chance of gaining the presidency - especially, as seems possible, they elect Trump as the candidate. But the last consecutive two-term presidents from the same party were James Madison and James Monroe. The only way for the Democratic Party to avoid a one term presidency is for them to elect Sanders as the candidate.
Jan 19th, 2016 - 12:24 am - Link - Report abuse 084. Dregs can be any color.
Jan 19th, 2016 - 12:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bernie Sanders is certifiably insane.
Although with the way Hillary is polling he may be the nominee. It seems this new and improved Hillary is the same as the 2008 Hillary. Who'd a thunk it?
@87 YB
Jan 19th, 2016 - 06:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bernie is volatile.
Lots of wackjob comments from fake Americans on this thread.
@88 Troy Tempest,
Jan 19th, 2016 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0lndeed there are fake Americans.
You wouldn't be thinking of that half-wit Hepatia, perchance?
Bernie's campaign is running on tripling our taxes to pay for “free” healthcare very few people want.
Jan 19th, 2016 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hillary is crashing just like in 2008. I hope she ends up in jail so Bill can spend his time on having sex with minors on RapeIsland with his buddies.
@89 Isolde
Jan 19th, 2016 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0amongst others.
“chronic” has shown that he knows exactly what a “piker” is, and he uses the term quickly and freely - because he is NOT a real American.
My Grandfather used that word...
Jan 19th, 2016 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He was American.
So doesn't really prove anything.
You all have a weird obsession of knowing where someone comes from and then not believing them.
I believe Skip eventhough I haven't personally witnessed him boxing a kangaroo.
or Troy eventhough he doesn't end every sentence with an Eh buddy.
@91 Troy,
Jan 19th, 2016 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0l've never had a problem with “chronic”, l thought that he was from the US.
Does it really matter?
You can see that he doesn't think too much of the RGs.
So that makes him an ally at least! lol.
@92 yankeeboy,
Earlier generation Americans had more in common with older generation British than modern American generations have with modern British.
We are moving apart & if it were not for television & films then its quite possible that our languages would have evolved that much that they would be separate by now.
Peace
If “chronic” were not instigating confrontation and making caustic remarks, specifically representing them as the US point of view, then it would not concern me.
Jan 19th, 2016 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However, as the object of such unwarranted 'anti-Canadian' trolling attacks that seem so out of character for Americans, I wonder if he is lying, or what his motivation is.
The use of “piker” is archaic and unheard of in America.
The bragging that he can prove he is American, while insulting all those who are not, and then backing down, leads me to think he is a liar and his opinions as a real American, are worthless.
It would be like Hepatia claiming to be an Islander and dissing Rex Hunt, and then offering to meet ElaineB at the pier in Stanley.
Anti-Canadian anything isn't out of character for an American.
Jan 19th, 2016 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We make fun of Canadians all the time.
I was listening to some Canadian on CNBC yeterday talking about the loony crashing and people feeling the increased inflation already. You guys are in a tough shape. Good thing you're next to the largest free market in the world.
Yet another reason to Thank US.
92 YB
Jan 20th, 2016 - 01:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0“You all have a weird obsession of knowing where someone comes from and then not believing them.”
Why do the Trolls have a weird obsession with saying they are from somewhere they ain't?
Chronic claims to be a Yank, which clearly he is not.
Claiming to be something you are not, is a good BS detector - what else is he lying about, and what are his motives?
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/01/11/guns-are-our-shared-responsibility#comment426738: Rubbish. George Bush is the worst president the US has ever had - by far! At worst Obama has managed nothing more than to drag us out of the financial mess that Bush left us in when he trashed the US. Unfortunately, he has not managed to drag us out of the mess left by Bush when he trashed the Middle East. But who could have done that? Certainly not McCain (and Sarah Palin!) or Clinton.
Jan 20th, 2016 - 03:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0In any case the Middle East is a European problem. The US has very few vital interests there.
Hepatia,
Jan 20th, 2016 - 06:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Please limit your “observations” to Argentine domestic affairs or continue to forecast that “something”is going to happen “within 25 years”.
Nothing else you say is believable, lol.
96. Motives? What are your motives? What are Elaine's motives? Thinks?
Jan 20th, 2016 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0You think too much about this board.
98. Don't pay attention to that nutter. It lives in some sort of delusional alterverse that exists only its it head.
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