mclumber1

I actually disagree. I don't believe the 14th amendment grants birthright citizenship. That being said, I don't have a problem with birthright citizenship, but it should be born from legislation and not interpretation of the 14th amendment.

After we sold our house earlier this year, we put the equity into a money market account at our bank. It's a 1% return, which isn't great, but it's better than what you'd get in a normal savings account.

To teach them a lesson!

lol

Very fine people on both sides

When I was a career counselor in the Navy, and people would complain to me about how much life on the ship/in the Navy sucked, I told them that as long as they don't think about how much it sucks, it's easier to get through it. Moral of the story: Try not to dwell on the negative things in life - especially things you have little to no control over.

Maybe both? That part of Henderson is probably one of the worst in the city.

My boss lived in a trailer park temporarily while his house was being built, and he had to pay twice as much in auto insurance as myself - it was a baaad neighborhood. He just moved to a new neighborhood (gated community with low crime) so I wouldn't be surprised to see his premiums reduced drastically. I find it hard to believe insurance companies wouldn't take overall crime rate and other factors in to determining what premiums a gun owner would have to pay.

I thought we were using the invisible hand of the market doe.

Hardly any. This would only affect those people who want to stay within the law. You would effectively price poor people and minorities out of legal gun ownership.

I only really thought about it after I left the store and got in my car.

The invisible hand would make the rates for people who live in urban areas, like blacks and latinos, sky high compared to their white, suburban and rural counterparts. A person living in these neighborhoods are going to be paying more than these people in these neighborhoods.

I was at a store the day after El Paso and I got a look from a latino guy as if he was making sure I wasn't a crazy white nationalist. I honestly don't blame him. If I was targeted by a shooter (or an entire movement) because of my ethnicity, I would be wary of people who look like they belong to that group.

Justice served.

Thanks

What gun did he use? I thought it was a pistol.

Good idea. It's a shame it's taken this long. Edit: I wonder if the people who man suicide hotlines end up having PTSD like many emergency room nurses have. It wouldn't surprise me in the least. It's got to be numbing or heartbreaking to an operator who is trying their hardest to convince someone not to end themselves, only to have the person go through with it.

Aside from the more urban parts of Spokane, Yakima, Tri cities, and Pullman, Eastern Washington votes reliably red. I think the only county to vote for Clinton in 2016 was Whitman, which is home to WSU.

My Greenland stocks dropped like a rock these last few days!

Once it becomes America, the natives will be the invaders.

We had a kickass underground (under ice really) base there in the 60s. It was powered and heated with a small portable nuclear reactor. They had to eventually abandon that base because the ice shifts slowly overtime, collapsing the tunnels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm

At one point after Wold War II, I read that there was a movement on Sicily to get annexed by the United States. It obviously never really gained popularity. Other interesting what ifs include Cuba and the Philippines - what if we had never granted them independence and they stayed territories (and eventually became states)?

If we built a military base on Greenland it could probably employ a great number of people who live there. That's kind of how Guam's population makes a living. Without the Air Force and Navy bases on Guam, it would be a "shithole" territory.

Is it possible to break your neck bones in a self hanging? I could see separated/broken vertebrae if you dropped some distance before the rope goes tight (like in a state sanctioned hanging), but if you essentially just choking yourself, it seems...far fetched.