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10878. robertjayb - 4/27/2013 1:45:50 AM Interesting program about the 2nd Amendment on the PBS Need To Know program. You could look it up. 10879. robertjayb - 5/7/2013 7:43:52 PM Time to relax those jerking knees?
Violent gun crime has dropped dramatically in the past two decades, but the majority of Americans think it's more of a problem now than ever, according to a Pew Research Center study released Tuesday.
According to the survey, done in March, 56% of Americans believe gun crime is worse today than it was 20 years ago. And 84% believe in recent years, gun crime has either gone up or stayed the same — when the reality is that it has dropped significantly.
The rate of non-fatal violent gun crime victimization dropped 75% in the past 20 years; The gun homicide rate dropped 49% in the same period, according to numbers Pew researchers obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Bureau of Justice Statistics.
(USA Today) 10880. judithathome - 5/7/2013 10:20:35 PM This is ludicrous...I think I need to seriously start looking for a new state in which to live:
Gun Giveaways: Coming To A City Near You 10881. judithathome - 5/7/2013 10:23:02 PM I just saw something on Andrea Mitchell's show commenting on testimony at the hearings on the incidence of rape in the military...some General made a remark about "a hook-up culture" being a contributing factor...searched on Google and nothing came up. Maybe it's too soon to be reported on...I think the hearings are happening right now, today.
I missed the guy's name but that is a stunningly dismissive remark to make about women being raped in the military...he said "they join the military and are coming from hook-up culture that starts in high school."
Really? 10882. robertjayb - 5/7/2013 11:20:10 PM google "hook-up culture in usaf" 10883. robertjayb - 5/7/2013 11:41:43 PM google "hook-up culture in usaf" 10884. judithathome - 5/8/2013 5:14:37 AM Mark Sanford wins a Senate seat in South Carolina.
This, despite the fact the RNC withdrew any monetary support for his campaign.
I don't care what anyone might say, this proves that Republicans who voted for him are either ignorant or have no moral core. I'm sure those voting for him were first in line to harp about Bill Clinton. 10885. Wombat - 5/9/2013 3:57:52 PM They're Yaller-dog Republicans.... 10886. robertjayb - 5/23/2013 8:23:52 PM Darwin candidate removes self from gene pool...
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A teenager is recovering after police say he shot himself in the penis and testicle while cleaning a gun he just bought.
Police say 18-year-old Michael Smeriglio first lied to police saying someone shot him while he was walking down the street. After being questioned by police he admitted to accidentally doing it himself.
Doctors say the bullet went through his penis, his left testicle and then lodged itself in his thigh.
Smeriglio told police he bought the gun last month at a party.
(Thanks to Juanita for the link and the line.)
10887. judithathome - 6/20/2013 4:22:32 AM Actor James Gandolfini Dies at 51 10888. Trillium - 6/21/2013 7:05:23 PM The following "advice column" made me laugh out loud. I've shared it with several other people of various political persuasions and backgrounds who have also enjoyed it.
For your amusement, if you could use a chuckle:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/10/ask-james-clapper/
10889. iiibbb - 6/24/2013 7:08:26 PM Let me just say... I've got no real horse in gay, bi, and transgender rights... but I hope the SCOTUS comes out on their side.
I don't know why people in this country go so far out of their way to deny love and/or happiness to others when it in no way is going to affect them one iota.
At least this 6 yr old will have some breathing room for a few years at least.
It isn't about "choice"... it's about identity.
The notion that some 6 yr old or anyone or any family would go through the trouble of getting doctors and psych exams likely required to raise this child as a girl just so they could get 15 minutes of fame, or that any person would risk so much in a currently unfriendly society toward them just so they could get a peek at the opposite sex in a bathroom is downright ludicrous. 10890. PincherMartin - 6/25/2013 2:34:19 AM "It isn't about "choice"... it's about identity."
What utter crap. Gender is about chromosomes and biology, not identity. 10891. PincherMartin - 6/25/2013 2:38:32 AM "The notion that some 6 yr old or anyone or any family would go through the trouble of getting doctors and psych exams likely required to raise this child as a girl just so they could get 15 minutes of fame, or that any person would risk so much in a currently unfriendly society toward them just so they could get a peek at the opposite sex in a bathroom is downright ludicrous."
Nothing ludicrous about it at all. People lie, steal and cheat all the time to get some fame. They put their families at risk to get fame. They even on occasion make their kids complicit in their lies. They will do just about anything so that other people pay more attention to them. 10892. Ms. No - 6/25/2013 3:00:15 AM Gender is about chromosomes and biology, not identity.
No, sex is about biology - male, female, intersex.
Gender is about how one identifies - masculine, feminine, neuter.
10893. PincherMartin - 6/25/2013 5:37:11 AM The only meaningful idea about gender should be based on biology. Everything else is hogwash.
If you have a nut sack, you're a man and should use the men's restroom and play men's, and not women's, sports.
If you have a vulva, you're a woman and should follow the prescribed rules for that gender.
If you have neither, you're a freak - a biological mistake - and should be placed in the closest approximate category that biology can assign to your genetic makeup.
This isn't complicated. 10894. judithathome - 6/25/2013 6:47:40 AM What if you have ovaries and a penis? 10895. PincherMartin - 6/25/2013 8:50:14 AM Then you're a freak. You probably have a one in a 100,000 mutation that's caused you to be a biological oddball.
But even then, science can still show whether you, genetically, tend to lean male or female and categorize you appropriately. That's certainly preferable to having everyone just make their identity up - as Ms. No seems to want to do. 10896. thoughtful - 6/25/2013 2:23:44 PM There's plenty of evidence that gender resides in the brain, regardless of how the body may have messed up creating the genitalia. Some of it comes from the fact that all fetuses start out as female. For males, the ovaries drop down into the labia majora to become testicles and a scrotum while the labia minora close up to become the shaft of the penis and the clitoris becomes the head of the penis. Lots of stuff to get messed up in the process leading to people who are of undetermined gender...at least not by their genitalia. Parents who are smart will leave their children gender neutral until they start to express their own gender which usually will become apparent by the age of 2 or 3.
Then there are those who have XXY chromosomes instead of the XX or XY. 10897. PincherMartin - 6/25/2013 4:16:21 PM "There's plenty of evidence that gender resides in the brain, regardless of how the body may have messed up creating the genitalia."
That people are occasionally screwed up biologically in their thinking, as well as in their bodies, should not be news. Just as children are sometimes born without fingers, feet, or other essential parts that most people consider normal, so they also are sometimes born psychopaths or child molesters or with the strong desire to be a woman when they are clearly a man.
"Some of it comes from the fact that all fetuses start out as female."
All human embryos also go through animal stages. At one point in their development, for example, they have gills. Are you going to use this to argue that if your husband wants to be a fish, he can be?
"Then there are those who have XXY chromosomes instead of the XX or XY."
Yes, the Klinefelter syndrome. They're boys who aren't normal because they have an extra chromosome. They're often infertile and have small penises and big boobs. The condition is not some variation of normal.
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