Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by James Brown

James Lacey pissed off?  I have never seen that in my nearly 20 years here...  James is the epitome of cool, collected, and analytical.  Jim

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark

Back to down under, looks like Labor will have a majority in their own right in the house, but will need to support of the greens and/or independents in the senate.


A couple of other comments. richie, you were correct in that we got rid of the liberals because we were sick of how they were running things. However, you really did put your ignorance on show. In Australia, the liberals are the right-wingers, and under SoMo and Joyce, they went hard right. As a result, they lost much of their heartland and safest seats to independents. Also worth pointing out that labor also lost a seat to an independent. The link below is an excellent analysis of the election.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-26/australian-election-voters-rage-despair-major-parties-on-notice/101095010

In a nutshell, the voters were angry with how the liberals were treating issues such as women and climate change, and sick of the BS coming from the government. It is shame that independents have no chance in the US.

One other point richie, you really should try to educate yourself more. You claim that what happens in Aussie does not matter to you. It should. Australia is a major trading partner with the US and extremely important to the US interests in the Pacific and in countering China. Have you not heard of AUKUS or "The Quad"?

Maurice

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

So ok to draft them to go die but they cant defend themselves here right? Horse shit. If you are old enough to do all the things adults do then you are old enough to buy a gun and that includes drink as well. Either raise the age to 21 on everything including voting, draft or join the military. Make it all 21 or make it all 18.....anything else is severely hypocritical......

Originally Posted by James Brown

What about driving?  Do you want to drop the drinking and gun-buying ages to 15 or 16 to avoid the appearance of hypocrisy?

Personally, I think that some activities require more maturity than others.  I would be fine raising the draft to 21, btw.

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

I said 18 or 21 for everything.....and I mean for anything that requires being responsible for lives other than your own. Your response about 15 or 16 year olds just means you are not prepared to be serious.....particularly by asking me if I want to lower it when I have made it pretty clear in several posts now I would rather see it go in the other direction.

I would also bet the military would not be fine with raising the draft to 21.....they want minds that can be molded still.....

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Doubt you could get a Marjorie Taylor Green or a Lauren Boebert if not for Sarah Palin blazing the trail.

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

"Four dead in OHIO"

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I suppose that's why Hillary won the popular vote, because she was toxic to independents and Republicans? Huh?! 
"In two key states that President-elect Donald Trump won, his margin of victory was smaller than the total number of votes for Green Party nominee Jill Stein."
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/308353-trump-won-by-smaller-margin-than-stein-votes-in-all-three/ 

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Ah huh...
Coming back on topic, Margi is too, now claiming Canada's proposed ban on handguns will it make vulnerable to an invasion from Russia!
https://news.yahoo.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-mocked-saying-173020551.html

Originally Posted by James Lacey

We indeed get who we vote for, but it's also true we get a system that doesn't always work well for the people's will. The electoral college, the Senate, the filibuster, gerrymandering, campaign finance, corruption, and lack of ethics, constantly work against the people's will, whomever we elect. I know you know this. I merely wanted to point out it's far more complex than simply who we elect.