Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "LastWeekTonight" channel.

  1. The problem with "not lying to coal miners" is that the last person to do that lost the presidential election to Trump. And that's a big problem with our system: admission of reality will keep you from getting elected.
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  2. Yeah he's right, my grandmother's maiden name was Schtönkulkeller.
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  3.  @willritter4076  It could use a bagpipe and some recorder flutes.
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  4. In fairness it would have to be compared to how not having the policy would be effecting a China with 400 million more births.
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  5.  @mohnishm1372  It's more complicated than that. Some have suffered from the policy. Some have suffered egregiously as demonstrated by Oliver's selection of examples. I think it could be argued that the vast majority of Chinese suffered less or even benefited because of the policy compared to their alternative position in an overpopulated China with unchecked runaway population growth. Certainly the rest of the world has benefited enormously from this policy. What's important now is what China and the world can do to address the concerns of those who were scarred by the policy.
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  6. Long live the catheter cowboy!
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  7. "Racist, misogynistic, homophobic and even undemocratic views", seriously? Undemocratic is the kicker on this?
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  8. MrBanousos the term inalienable rights refers to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness spelled out in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. The Constitution is a document describing how the government should be organized and maintained and what limits the government is not permitted to exceed in its operation. The first ten amendments, usually referred to as the Bill of Rights, sets out protections from actions by the government, some of which have no spelled out avenue of exception and others that have a high bar of alienation, but even "life, liberty, or property," are only protected in the absence of "due process of law" according to the Fifth Amendment. A number of later amendments protect the heretofore alienated right of previously disenfranchised citizens to vote: The Fifteenth Amendment by prohibiting any government from denying voting rights of citizens based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.", the Nineteenth Amendment enforces the same prohibition based "on account of sex.", the Twenty-Fourth based on "failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.", and the Twenty-Sixth based "on account of age." for those "18 years of age or older".
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  9.  @edd..e  If the UK loses Northern Ireland would they remove the Cross of St. Patrick from the Union Jack?
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