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Have to agree with many of the posts here. When you move from "comedy show for everyone" to "liberal propaganda hour," don't be surprised when half or more of your audience finds something better to do. That said, while I'm pretty sure that didn't help matters, the most likely cause here is the...

That's right up there with cruises on my "nope" list.

We should sue rape victims for spreading venereal disease, too!

A few thoughts: California, meh. They get what they voted for. I am not a proponent of this constant cycle of building in disaster-prone areas, then seeing them wiped out by a disaster, and rebuilding in the same place. At the very least, we need to prevent taxpayers - and insurance payers -...

Yup, same ol' Albany logic. Person kills another person with a gun, we must outlaw guns, never mind that murder was already illegal.

Seems pretty pointless. One, how would they know that it requires an external power supply? Two, you don't need an external power supply to make a ton of noise. I was into aftermarket systems when I was younger. My system registered 143.3 dB in a competition, powered by a stock alternator, and I...

Either your BIL isn't telling you the whole story, or he found the worst lawyer ever. My money is on the former.

No. They had no valid reason to pull him over in the first place.

He can't grill for shit. ...oh, we already knew that, too.

I think you have some of your facts mixed up. Refusing a breathalyzer can result in an automatic 1 year license suspension and $500 fine (first offense), and said refusal can be used as evidence against you in a DWI trial. It is not an automatic DWI.

You gotta adjust your phone's autocorrect settings or something. Seems like at least 50% of your posts have issues like this :ROFL:

By my rough calculations, it would be $20/year. But we all know that $20/customer/year won't be going back to ratepayers. It will go into the pockets of the companies. No way are they reducing the bills.

At the class my wife and I took to remove restrictions from our permits, she kept hitting the clip holding the target instead of the target itself. I was amused, the RSO was not. In her defense, she was shooting a snub-nose and the target was a fair bit away from her.

Jesus. That must have been horrible. Every time my old man woke from his morphine-induced stupor, he would ask for water. I can only imagine that it must have been 9 days of dreaming about dying of thirst.

Parents letting kids get away with poor muzzle control always drives me batty. Trust me on this, I will have no problem straightening out your kid if I catch them sweeping someone and you don't. Don't like it? IDGAF.

After watching my old man get starved/dehydrated to death for 9 days via "comfort care," I support legalized assisted suicide. Not disagreeing that there can/will be abuse, but no one should have to suffer like that. We give our pets better end-of-life care.

We don't need to subsidize electric vehicles to make them take hold. We need to get cheap electricity online and the infrastructure to deliver it in place. If your house electric bill dropped to $5/mo, it would not take anyone long to realize the massive savings they could realize by switching...

There was a lot of good to that show, but so much bad. I lost count of the number of times they were in a "desperate" situation at the end of one episode, then at the next episode, they remembered that there were only 10 dumb zombies on the other side of a fence and they could just stab them all...

lol... that's awesome

Make sure you have a winter's worth of dried and seasoned firewood to go along with that plan. It will be too late to harvest it when SHTF... no gas for chainsaws, splitters, tractors, and vehicles to move the wood around; plus competition and exposure for standing dead wood. Someone could...

In this case, I think it will be. This is the first time anyone with authority has directly told the sheriffs they are violating the law. It's one thing to do something you think might be legal, it's a whole different ballgame to do something the US AG has specifically told you is not. Their...

I've been fighting against PA sheriffs who refuse to accept non-resident LTCF applications for over a decade now. I'm guessing this letter will straighten a lot of PA sheriffs out. Great to see this issue finally get some attention... did not expect it from the federal government, but I'll take...

I was there that day! I tossed my gun safe out to you in hopes you could use it as a flotation device. It didn't work as expected, and I suffered a tragedy remarkably similar to your own.

I buy from an egg farm, where the eggs are still warm when I buy them. 1.5 months ago, we were paying ~$15/flat (30 eggs/flat). Last week I paid $5/flat. So the prices have come way down, but it may take a bit before that is reflected in grocery store prices.

My "driveway" is actually a dead-end public road with only my house on it. Long ago... like, before Google Maps... it was not a dead end, it went up the hill and connected to another road. But Google Maps still thinks it's not a dead end. Thankfully, there's not much traffic here apart from the...

Ugh... in addition to the obvious historical realities, "show me your papers" is also a violation of the fourth amendment. Furthermore, no one should need ID to simply exist.

Jesus, are you kidding me? Half of us would be hung within a year. Don't you know how this would play out? Step 1: make gun crime a capital offense Step 2: expand the definition of gun crime

Might be some progress coming on this front. In the name of racial equality, though. NY proposal to ban police from making traffic stops for minor violations

Yup, I worked near-full time during school and well over full-time (2 jobs) in the summers. But, I needed to use the money to live - I moved out when I was 16, so there was no financial support of any kind coming from the family.

IMO, unless you're in a field that requires it, one should never pay for a graduate degree. The reality is that they just aren't necessary. A degree (which he'll already have) gets your foot in the door for employment, and he'll learn way more from actually doing the job than he will in grad...

In many industries, it's quite common for the employer to pay for some/all of the costs of a (field-related) graduate degree. Given your son's degree choices, I'm guessing that will hold true for him as well. IMO, when he graduates, he should look for a job in his field that will cover the costs...

Yeah, late 90s. I didn't pay them off early, but there were many different loans with varying terms and they weren't eligible for consolidation, so most of them were paid off in the first 3-5 years. I might have underestimated the interest I paid, but I don't think it really changes anything.

I'll try to tabulate the cost, but the tl;dr is that yes, I came out way ahead. All numbers are rounded estimates, of course. $30,000 - debt I was left with after college $5,000 - interest paid on that debt $5,000 - money paid out of pocket during school (books, etc) $15,000 - opportunity cost...

Highly disagree with the notion that college degrees are a waste, but there are plenty of people who waste their time in college, and/or choose degrees with very limited employment potential. A STEM degree will give a person a big leg up. While I will agree that a person who knows what they are...

I was too young to remember this story, but my grandfather told it to me many times. My grandfather took me out ice fishing one day. We weren't having any luck, but the guy fishing just a little ways down from us seemed to be pulling fish left and right. So I walked over and dropped my line...

My FIL told my wife that she doesn't need to worry about retirement, she'll be inheriting a tidy sum from him. I told her what you're saying here... never count on anyone else's money for anything. I told him that his plan was silly, that he should buy a Corvette and a boat and find other ways...

I think anything and everything will be used against you in court. "He used hollow points to cause more damage" vs "he used FMJ rounds, this shows that he had no regard for the lives of people behind his target." It's a crappy example, but you get the idea. Here, let me try again: "He used...

I think that most sentences tend to be too heavy-handed. We hand out years like they're candy. 1 year for keying a car seems excessive, for example - that's 1.5% of someone's entire life. I think they'd learn the same lesson from 1 month. That said, it would certainly serve as a good deterrent...

JD is an incredible politician. They would be foolish to not run him.

Politically, it always seems like "things are worse now than ever." With this in mind, I once took some time to read up on the US political climate over its entire history. What I found is that things "back then" were not really any more or less divided than they are now. In fact, the issues...

I just don't think you guys get it. We don't get to determine the value of classified info. If it's classified, it's classified. Period. And this information most certainly was. I have seen white images full of static that were classified. Nothing to be discerned from the images, they were...

Violent or no, once a person has served their sentence (including follow-up conditions), they should have their rights fully restored. If you can't trust them out on the streets with a gun, they shouldn't be out of prison in the first place.

My first impression was that, yes, he could have filed a major lawsuit. Keep in mind that we're talking about town justices here, not judges. There's a big difference. The requirements to be a town justice amount to "be elected." One does not need to be a lawyer, have a law degree, pass the...

SCIFs are pretty strict about what goes in or out of them. Like, no recording devices, cell phones, laptops etc. Even getting new keyboards or mice in there can be a real PITA. Notes made in the SCIF can't be taken out. A participant could certainly still relay a discussion from memory, of...

Here's a pretty damning one, IMO. Note that this is before the strikes occurred...

Just a reminder that a PA LTCF is not required to carry through PA. Non-residents who possess a pistol permit from their home state can legally carry in a vehicle in any fashion, and can openly carry outside their vehicle. That said, it's always a good idea to get a PA LTCF. They're cheap and...

Well, what was released today clears that up. Clearly sensitive info regarding strike times and operational results. But, even last night, the following was abundantly clear: These were the highest-level officials discussing details about military operations and political considerations that...

You're not wrong, but... if you or I did the same thing, we'd be facing charges with a very real possibility of prison time. Are the penalties surrounding this too stiff/unforgiving? I lean towards "probably." But the answer in that case is to change the penalties for everyone, not give...

I wonder how they're even getting away with texting classified info in the first place. AFAIK, classified info can only be sent over very secure channels. Maybe they have cell phones that are somehow secure enough to send classified info... but if so, I'd have expected recipients to be filtered...