Fail Quotes

[BlameThe1st]

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Uninformed Statist: If you're voting for either of the two main parties, you're not paying attention.

[MrBogosity]

Rebuttal coming tomorrow on the Bogosity Facebook page, but I just had to post it here.

[Travis Retriever]

Rebuttal coming tomorrow on the Bogosity Facebook page, but I just had to post it here.

IOW:  "I know you are but what am I?"

[AnCap Dave]

[Travis Retriever]

Fail from David Wong of Cracked:



Last I checked, the min payment would have you paying it off in full.  Also, since when does debt get inherited by heirs without their explicit consent?  Well, besides govco's debt?

[AnCap Dave]

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I'm not exactly a fan of MMA, but Rep. Brenda Kupchick's logic is complete bullshit.

I just think, since what happened to Connecticut on December 14th that, I don't think the state should be promoting violence. To me it's not like a real sport.

Really? You're bringing up the shooting as an excuse to not legalize a sport here? And no, fuck you, it IS a sport. It might be barbaric, but it is a voluntary exchange between individuals and by all accounts IS a sport.

[MrBogosity]

Last I checked, the min payment would have you paying it off in full.

Generally in about 30 years. What's interesting is that paying slightly more than the minimum payment will get it paid off in less than 10. This is assuming no late fees or anything.

Also, since when does debt get inherited by heirs without their explicit consent?  Well, besides govco's debt?

If something happens in the allocation of the estate assets that causes a debt to be incurred, then i can happen. An example would be inheriting a house that still has a mortgage; you inherit the house, but you inherit a house with a lean. I don't see any way this could be applied to credit card debt, although the credit card company would have a crack at getting some of the estate's assets to cover the debt before the children inherit it.

[AnCap Dave]

Richard Dawkins posted this on Facebook.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 31,672 people died by guns in 2010 (the most recent year for which U.S. figures are available), a staggering number that is orders of magnitude higher than that of comparable Western democracies. What can we do about it? National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre believes he knows: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." If LaPierre means professionally trained police and military who routinely practice shooting at ranges, this observation would at least be partially true. If he means armed private citizens with little to no training, he could not be more wrong.

Consider a 1998 study in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery that found that "every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides." Pistol owners' fantasy of blowing away home-invading bad guys or street toughs holding up liquor stores is a myth debunked by the data showing that a gun is 22 times more likely to be used in a criminal assault, an accidental death or injury, a suicide attempt or a homicide than it is for self-defense. I harbored this belief for the 20 years I owned a Ruger .357 Magnum with hollow-point bullets designed to shred the body of anyone who dared to break into my home, but when I learned about these statistics, I got rid of the gun.

More insights can be found in a 2013 book from Johns Hopkins University Press entitled Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis, edited by Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick, both professors in health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to the 31,672 people killed by guns in 2010, another 73,505 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for nonfatal bullet wounds, and 337,960 nonfatal violent crimes were committed with guns. Of those 31,672 dead, 61 percent were suicides, and the vast majority of the rest were homicides by people who knew one another.

For example, of the 1,082 women and 267 men killed in 2010 by their intimate partners, 54 percent were shot by guns. Over the past quarter of a century, guns were involved in greater number of intimate partner homicides than all other causes combined. When a woman is murdered, it is most likely by her intimate partner with a gun. Regardless of what really caused Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius to shoot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp (whether he mistook her for an intruder or he snapped in a lover's quarrel), her death is only the latest such headline. Recall, too, the fate of Nancy Lanza, killed by her own gun in her own home in Connecticut by her son, Adam Lanza, before he went to Sandy Hook Elementary School to murder some two dozen children and adults. As an alternative to arming women against violent men, legislation can help: data show that in states that prohibit gun ownership by men who have received a domestic violence restraining order, gun-caused homicides of intimate female partners have been reduced by 25 percent.

Another myth to fall to the facts is that gun-control laws disarm good people and leave the crooks with weapons. Not so, say the Johns Hopkins authors: "Strong regulation and oversight of licensed gun dealers—defined as having a state law that required state or local licensing of retail firearm sellers, mandatory record keeping by those sellers, law enforcement access to records for inspection, regular inspections of gun dealers, and mandated reporting of theft of loss of firearms—was associated with 64 percent less diversion of guns to criminals by in-state gun dealers."

Finally, before we concede civilization and arm everyone to the teeth pace the NRA, consider the primary cause of the centuries-long decline of violence as documented by Steven Pinker in his 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature: the rule of law by states that turned over settlement of disputes to judicial courts and curtailed private self-help justice through legitimate use of force by police and military trained in the proper use of weapons.

I could have sworn the numbers were actually in favor of private gun owners than with police...

[BlameThe1st]

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ROFL! "Critical, in-depth and intelligent discussions and debates" my flank! HP comment sections are cesspools of hate and ignorance. I've heard temper-tantrum throwing kindergarteners utter less puerile, derogatory ramblings that what is routinely posted there. It makes you wonder why they even bother with comment moderation. Oh, yeah, that's right: censorship of dissenting views!

[MrBogosity]

Progressive Thinker still continues to fail in these comments: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=248329058641394&set=a.173299716144329.42587.173278339479800&type=1&notif_t=photo_reply

He SERIOUSLY needs to change his name...

[R.E.H.W.R.]

Watching a school town hall here in the Ozarks. And what are they calling for. Increased funding.

[tnu]

Yes because if any private group is oding poorly the solution is always jsut to give them more money and hope for the best.

[tnu]

I need a rebuttle ot this one. I don't know enough about the issue myself ot acutally ahve anything of meaning to say on it but I can't let this stupidity slide.

You do realize that all federal reserve profit is turned over to the Treasury right?

The devaluation of currency is generally very minor and isn't a big deal when spread out over long periods of time (all major currencies around the world pretty much are being steadily devalued).

[MrBogosity]

I need a rebuttle ot this one. I don't know enough about the issue myself ot acutally ahve anything of meaning to say on it but I can't let this stupidity slide.

You do realize that all federal reserve profit is turned over to the Treasury right?

The devaluation of currency is generally very minor and isn't a big deal when spread out over long periods of time (all major currencies around the world pretty much are being steadily devalued).

The first one doesn't need a rebuttal because it's true.

The second is like saying pushing a spike into your heart isn't a big deal when spread out over long periods of time. The "if everyone else was jumping off a bridge would you do it, too?" thing applies as well.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

So according to the Comic Red Son, where Superman leads in the Soviet Union, having a super-powerful leader beats economics.