Jake? This kind of thing tends to happen whenever "journalists" decide issues in advance. Or when they go to work for a network whose sole raison d'être seems to have become driving Donald Trump from American public life.
How fairly do you think you'll treat anyone who thinks, mirabile dictu, that you just might be, oh, what's that word...I just now remembered what it is...wrong? Do you think Republicans enjoy getting abused because they want something slightly more empirical than your word for it?
Why should any Republican ever talk to you or Sciutto or Hot Toddy or any other American "journalist" ever again? Intelligent people have long realized that most of you are biased; it'd be really nice if you guys could figure it out and admit it.
What happened to you, Jake? Trump's really messed you up, hasn't he? When you worked for ABC, you and I didn't agree all the time but I could and often did respect you.
I don't now. At all. CNN has sucked out whatever journalistic integrity you had left.
UPDATE: Tough but fair.
UPDATE: Andy's not helping your cause, Jake. You might want to have a talk with him.
How fairly do you think you'll treat anyone who thinks, mirabile dictu, that you just might be, oh, what's that word...I just now remembered what it is...wrong? Do you think Republicans enjoy getting abused because they want something slightly more empirical than your word for it?
Why should any Republican ever talk to you or Sciutto or Hot Toddy or any other American "journalist" ever again? Intelligent people have long realized that most of you are biased; it'd be really nice if you guys could figure it out and admit it.
What happened to you, Jake? Trump's really messed you up, hasn't he? When you worked for ABC, you and I didn't agree all the time but I could and often did respect you.
I don't now. At all. CNN has sucked out whatever journalistic integrity you had left.
UPDATE: Tough but fair.
UPDATE: Andy's not helping your cause, Jake. You might want to have a talk with him.
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Republicans have figured out that it makes no sense to go on these biased networks and get misquoted and sandbagged. Good for them.
Katherine, yes, and you'll notice the comments at the link are maybe 50:1 in agreement with you. And why would anyone be a guest on a show that no one's watching?
TLM, what I wish is that "The View" would become a program no one watches. Apparently Chelsea Clinton went on it to say that America isn't a country she wants her children to grow up in. Good, Chelsea; you've enough money to go somewhere else. I hear the weather in Mexico is nice.
I was already to move to Mexico until the cartel whupped the feds the other night. My word!!
Apparently Chelsea Clinton went on it to say that America isn't a country she wants her children to grow up in.
I have some in-laws who have declared that they will not be returning to the US for as long as a Republican is in the White House. Yeah, Baby! Guess how I'm voting from now on?
Heh, Rebel. Four more years!
And I've got to give ur this much. Somebody finally got the dimensions of the Battle Flag right. :-)
Virginians understand such things.
Speaking of places people don't want their kids growing up in....
Since I discovered a few days ago that MCJ was up and running again, I have been reading up on what I missed, including the posts on proposed Missouri gun laws. I wonder if part of the reasoning behind those proposals wasn't only to stick it to the Blue voters in STL and KC, but also to discourage any liberal riff raff from Illinois or other collapsing states from moving in? I would think that the stereotypical pro-abort, pro-gun control, Hillary voter from Chicago and the burbs would rather live in a cardboard box on the street than be surrounded by 6 million gun totin' rednecks, right?
That's hard to say, Elaine. As I read it, in Illinois, there's Chicago and then there's everybody else and right now, Chicago pretty much runs the place. Downstate Illinois doesn't like it but that's the way it's pretty much always been. Downstate Illinois is more like Missouri anyway.
As for Missouri, gun proposals here just reflect the way most of this state thinks. We're not looking to anybody else. And this is one thing to always watch out for in Missouri elections. St. Louis and Kansas City are both solidly blue. Most of the rest of this state is solidly red. If you want some kind of handle on how elections here will go, always remember to keep an eye on the purple St. Louis and Kansas City suburbs. Because that's where Missouri elections are won or lost.
What you are seeing is the fundamental divide between rural & urban folk. Rural folk dispose of their own trash & keep a shotgun near the front door because the sheriff is a good 45 minutes to an hour away. Urban folk want somebody else to dispose of their trash, want lighted streets (which is why only rural folk can still name the constellations), and the police patrolling their streets at all hours.
Completely different world view.
Completely different world view indeed. In IL those ideas would be totally unthinkable and crazy even among conservative politicians. Even though I agree with those proposals up to a point, I was actually shocked to see that your legislature took them seriously. That would NEVER happen here.
What you are seeing is the fundamental divide between rural & urban folk. Rural folk dispose of their own trash & keep a shotgun near the front door because the sheriff is a good 45 minutes to an hour away. Urban folk want somebody else to dispose of their trash, want lighted streets (which is why only rural folk can still name the constellations), and the police patrolling their streets at all hours.
The average non-metropolitan county in this country has an area of around 1,110 sq miles. There are in this country about 640,000 police officers. That datum does not include jail guards, supervisory officers, plainclothes investigators, or civilians employed by police departments. Just cops. Let's posit 20% work for exurban, small town and rural forces. That translates into 40-odd cops per non-metropolitan county. About 20% will be on shift any one time. That gives you 9 cops on shift, each covering a territory of roughly 129 sq miles. The territory is 11-12 miles on a side. The diagonal measures are about 16 miles. He'll be at your house in 20 minutes or less if he's not hurrying.
Having lived in small towns and adjacent countryside, I'm not seeing what's so grand about taking a Saturday trip to the county dump as opposed to putting your trash out for the collector on Thursday. You have municipal trash collections due to public health concerns in densely settled areas, not because the ordinary run of town residents are bums.
Yes, people in town want their streets patrolled because (1) when you have dense settlements with considerable populations, emergencies can occur at all hours and (2) there are lots of feral young men in this world and they congregate in cities.
As a suburban resident in the 1970s, I learned the names of the constellations. You can actually see them in towns with street lighting, FYI. Can't always see them in my home town, not because of the street lights, but because it's overcast most of the time. It's overcast in the adjacent countryside, too.
And, again, having lived in a rural homestead, I'm quite aware of something you don't acknowledge: you don't see many pedestrians after dark. People don't have much interest in street lighting because they're at home or in their vehicles.
You have about 100 million people living in country homesteads in the U.S. Maybe one in 30 are living in farm households. It was over 20 years ago that the director of co-operative extension for our county told me there were fewer than 700 farmers therein, out of a rural population over 35,000.
I don't know how many years ago this was but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch once took it upon itself to get the seal of St. Louis County, where I live, changed and were unsuccessful. The County's seal had and still has a plow on it and the Post thought that was unsophisticated or something since there wasn't a working farm left in the County. Big old long, complicated political story that I won't bore you with but when the City of St. Louis split from the County in 1876, the County was basically nothing but farms with the odd railroad town thrown in here and there. The City was where all the money in this area was then but that's completely changed. In the early 70's, when I took the buses out to West St. Louis County for football games, I still saw lots of working farms. Ten years later, most if not all of them were gone. The only things that might qualify as farms here now are the occasional horse ranches.
So, in the seventies, could you count the Seven Sisters? Where I am living now, the light pollution is blinding.
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