Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "ReasonTV" channel.

  1. I take three 30 mg morphine pills a day and now, after begging and pleading for a year, one 10 mg hydrocodone pill a day for breakthrough pain. which generally happens several times a day. Before the DEA went on its killing spree, I got my 90 mg of morphine and had four 10 mg hydrocodone a day. That didn't make me have no pain, but the pain was bearable. The DEA has doctors terrified that, if they don't prescribe exactly within the DEA guidelines, they'll go to jail. They are solving a non-existent problem on the backs of patients that need opioids to make it through a day.
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  2. With proper legal protections, we need to have a place to do extended treatment of the most severely mentally ill. Szasz was right in 1960 and 1970. We weren't treating people, just warehousing them. We threw out the baby with bathwater. We can treat people with severe mental illness much better now than in 1970, especially with behavioral therapy combined with appropriate medications. Leaving people with no ability to care for themselves has proven to be far worse than reasonable hospitalization.
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  3. I was a police officer for 27 years, retiring in 2005. I fought the "War on Drugs" all those 27 years and drug use is certainly no less now than when I started in 1978. the types of drugs have changed, but there is always an irreducible minimum of people who will take drugs for a plethora of reasons. We tried prohibition for 15 years, and we know the results of that. I've never been comfortable with the idea we should make drugs like heroin legal, and there are some drugs like flakka that present a clear public threat. I don't know the answer, but I know what we have been doing hasn't worked.
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  4. A high capacity 12 gauge shotgun firing 00 buck shells will wound and kill more people in the same amount of time that any "fully semiautomatic" rifle.
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  5. "What do Instagram models think of GMO"...lol, so true. Amazing when you ask for a link from one of these people and they link to Instagram.
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  6. LOL. Marty looked like he was run over by a bus after Knut's first presentation. He knows damn well that we avoided almost nothing, but at a tremendous cost in lives and and to society. Then he uses a statement from a mayor of a medium sized city with no actual numbers to bolster his case? Give me a break.
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  7. My wife of 38 year died of acute myelocytic leukemia in 2004, in part because the FDA was so slow releasing a drug that had the potential to at least slow the advance of the disease. Once they finally did release it under "compassionate care", it was only available at six different medical centers around the country. We lived in northern California, in an area with several renowned leukemia specialist, but we had to travel to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and stay for over a month at great cost so she could finally get the drug treatment. I have nothing but good things to say about the Hutch, but it turned out it was just too late in the disease for the drug to really help. The doctors at the Hutch gave it their best shot, and she did live probably a month longer due to the drug. If she had been allowed to get the drug sooner, she might have lived a year longer, and that was when every minute more life was worth more than everything I owned or ever would owned. It my times of deepest despair after her death, I fantasized about hunting down the bureaucrats in the FDA that dragged their feet on releasing the drug and killing them. I've recovered from that kind of hatred, but what the FDA does or doesn't do is more than numbers entered in a database. Let patients that are fatally ill make the decision to a try a drug, not a bunch of faceless doctors at the FDA.
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  8. Good luck ever trying to get a direct answer out of an attorney. The spent their whole time in law school learning how to do anything but that.
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  9. No, we panicked over outliers rather than the usual. Hubei, the province that contains Wuhan, has 58 million. The total deaths there have been 4850. Even if we assume the PRC was under reporting by 100 times , that still would have been a death rate of .008%. We listened to scare stories from China and Italy, the media amplified the stories, and if we didn't close down everything and lock everyone up, we were all going to die. We knew early on this wasn't true and this was, in fact, a low morbidity virus. Our problem was, once the narrative started rolling downhill, there was nothing to stop it but time. Global hysteria is a lousy way to manage public health.
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  10. My uncle was an expat working for Maraven, the Shell oil company concessionaire in Venezuela. The Venezuela of today started in 1976, when Carlos Andrés Pérez, the first socialist president of Venezuela, decided to nationalize all the foreign oil concessions. The country was very well off at the time relative to the rest of South America, with a strong social and education program. The nationalization was the beginning of the end as oil revenue became a giant slush fund for future dictators to steal from while spending almost nothing on upkeep and modernization of the oil fields. Today, oil production is at levels not seen since the 1950's. Yeah, socialism has worked great for Venezuela.
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  11. Crime does disproportionately occur in minority areas. That's why the prison population is also disproportionately minority. He may be wrong about a lot of things, but not that.
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  12. Your editor in chief has purple hair and that problematic fire engine red lipstick? This series has nothing to do with libertarianism. It has everything to do with radical feminism, normalization of the destruction of the family, and the kind of leftist politics we see today. I can't believe Reason doesn't see this...or maybe I can, with the person in charge looking like she does.
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  13.  @CaptainBones222  Uh, dude, I'm a boomer. The youngest boomer is now 56 years old. I can guarantee you from my rather extensive contacts with the FDA that most of those making decisions are younger than 56. There's nothing special about any generation wanting to control us. The same thing happens with student "leadership" at colleges like Evergreen to the AARP advocating for dump truck loads of money for those of us on Social Security. It's just what happens when people get too much power. I agree about leaving things like vaping alone, but dropping boomer insults doesn't help your cause, any more than me ragging on millenials.
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  14. There is no way we are going to do contact tracing for tens of millions of people. Contact tracing is only useful at the start of a pandemic. It's an expensive, intrusive, and useless thing to be doing now.
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  15.  @cravinbob  Kiss my ass. I was reserve deputy who didn't get paid a dime for my work. You know, a volunteer. In addition to knowing nothing about drug pharmacology, you know even less about the law and police work. Time for you to give something back to the community. Sitting in front of the computer and spewing out cop hating bullshit doesn't count..
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  16. Just when I think the dumpster fire that's Reason and the Cato Institute can't get worse, the millennial libertarians that run both outfits manage to drive them off the cliff a little faster.
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  17.  @Gamer1st1  18th Amendment passed - 1919 21st amendment, repealing the 18th amendment, ratified - 1933 1933 minus 1919 equals 14 years, but just less than 15 years by dates ratified. Do you post things like this just to make sure your keyboard is still working? Your calculator isn't and your understanding of historical dates obviously isn't.
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  18.  @Liberty4Ever  The average person reading my comment won't think a shotgun or rifle is perambulating itself around firing at people. The idea that inserting "a person with" changes anything is specious. It's like saying "A chainsaw can kill or injure people" makes it less true because I didn't say "A person using a chainsaw can kill or injure people".
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  19. Oh, please. If he had written down the same things in a blog, book, or even social media posts, they'd also be used in a trial to show his state of mind and his threats against other gangs and gang members. Now we have this old white liberal arts professor type trying to convince us that everything in their lyrics is just "art". GTFO. Don't make songs either threatening to kill people or glorifying killings you've actually been involved in and you won't run afoul of the law.
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  20. I was a police officer form 1978 to 2005. I stopped making drig arrests when it was only for personal uses by about 1985. We were ruing people's lives with felony records when they were doing exactly the same kind of thing as people wh9o wen thome and a couple of drinks after work. The War on Drugs never worked and will never work. Just decriminalize all drugs. Those that want to use things like meth, crack, and heroin will continue to do so until they get some kind of drug treatment, and many will continue to do so regardless of treatment. We need to take sales off the street and away from criminal cartels. We already have a model in the way we sell alcohol. Sell all drugs the same way. We'll all be a lot better off, yes, even the users. They won't get mugged on the street for the drug money they stole from us, and we won't have four year old kids getting killed in drive by shootings.
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  21.  @andyp29  Thanks. I'm doing okay for a geezer. I turned 74 in February and am spending my time indoors watching Youtube videos. This is not how I thought I'd be spending my declining years! :-)
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  22. No, you're not. Reason just seems to attract people that have been self isolating long before coronavirus.
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  23.  @brenthunter5078  Spent a lot of years on the job did you? 27 years for me. Let me give you some real life realities of police work. Vagrancy isn't a crime and hasn't been for about twenty years now. Same with loitering except in very specific instances. Like around schools or other places children frequent. Do you think cops carry around tape measures so they can tell if you're exactly 100 feet, one inch away from that doorway? Open container laws on the street? Never, not one. I've written tickets for open containers but no one goes to jail for that alone. You actually think cops can circle the block and randomly pick out someone to frisk, black or white? The first question from the defense is going to be "Officer, what was the articulable suspicion that caused you to stop and frisk my client?", and you'd better have a good answer. The reason why less "richies" to use your term, get stopped is they aren't doing anything suspicious. It's as simple as that. In the hood, there's a good chance we know the guy we're stopping because of his past criminal record and he did something suspicious, like toss something behind him when he saw the cops or started reaching around in his waistband. It might be because we've had a call that a person matching the person we stopped was doing things like checking car doors or engaging in retail transactions in the middle of the street while blocking traffic. "Richies" don't do things like that. We don't "stick our hands in your pockets" We pat it down from the outside. How big a joint do you usually carry? The chance of feeling a normal size joint in a pat down is near zero. Frankly, even if we did, we didn't give a shit. We had way better things to do than arrest someone for that. In many jurisdictions, it's only a citable offense anyway, just like a traffic ticket. And we patrol every area looking for people who are doing suspicious things. It's our job, and it's a metric ton more likely there are people doing just that in the hood than out there on Ritchie Street. I don't know why you're trying to run cover for criminals, especially minority criminals. Okay, yes I do, it's the old internet virtue signaling again, and who better to show you dislike than cops? You'll get about 50 likes compared to one old fart like me trying to set you straight. Seriously, you have no idea what you're talking about. Here's a way to get an idea. Go to your local police department and sign up for a ride along. Spend eight hours watching what it's like doing actual police work. And yes, there are bad cops and times things go wrong but, in the time of body cams, dash cams, and every bystander within shouting distance pulling out their cell phone in hopes of a viral video and big money from some thug website, do you think every cop on the street doesn't know his name and what he did can't become a household name in like eight hours?
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  24.  @af146983  Trump is just not libertarian enough for Reason. Actually, no one is.
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  25. Thomas Jefferson, 1787. It was his assumption we should have at least small revolutions once every 20 years. We are past our expiration date on that.
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  26. Thanks for your kind words, Joe. I don't think most people realize all of us on opioids for chronic pain are addicts. The only difference is I need the drugs for pain while others seek it for recreational pursuits. Methadone was supposed to solve the problem of the recreational user. Now it's used for pain relief (although it never worked for me) and is a street drug just like heroin. There were suspects that told me about all these great highs using narcotics. All I feel is some relief from the never ending pain. My body is so tolerant of narcotics now that they don't even impair my ability to drive. I had one of the guys I trained give me a field sobriety test after I retired and I passed with flying colors. Frankly, I'm in favor of just legalizing all drugs. Let those who want them for getting high get them with the same laws we have now for alcohol. Those who want to will get drugs somewhere. We have created a huge crime industry with no decrease in addiction, not to mention the death and sorrow that goes with it. No more people will dies of overdose then that do now. If anything, once we have USP quality heroin, we'll have far fewer deaths, since the dosage will be controlled. I took the oath in 1978 and retired in 2005. I was fought the "war on drugs" the whole time, and we were putting more people in jail for narcotics when I retired than when I signed on. I've tried weed several times. Unfortunately, it doesn't do anything for me. It doesn't seem to relieve pain and I don't seem to get any psychoactive effects. All it does is make me cough like crazy. Since I also have COPD, the last thing I need is more irritants ending up in my lungs. For those of you who are heavy dope smokers now, you're going to end up with COPD if you keep it up. Your lungs are just not built to take that kind of insult on a daily basis.
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  27. Opioids are a problem everywhere. What the DEA needs to do is target the illegal sellers of drugs and stop trying to enforce the law on the backs of chronic pain patients. I'm 71 and a retired police officer. I don't fit the profile for a drug dealer. Stop scaring my doctor that he's going to have his license suspended if he increases my dose of hydrocodone. Let my doctor practice medicine and the DEA go after the dealers.
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  28. Try looking things up before you spread such a long discredited quote : https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/04/al-gore-lincoln-quote-fake/
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  29.  @Mit852  As I said, not libertarian enough for Reason and, then again, no is. If you think Trump is not libertarian in any real capacity, you are beyond a lost cause. One of the reasons why libertarians can't get any traction is the proclivity of one so-called libertarian to throw another so-called libertarian under the bus because they fail the Murray Rothbard purity test.
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  30. Except for the one black council  member who seemed to understand why two moths for a sign is ridiculous, the rest of them don't seem to get it all, especially Mr. Snappy Dresser. Clevel and remains a doomed wasteland.
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  31. And the left wing voters burning and looting? I find the supposed right wing voters a lot more forgivable.
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  32.  @TheAspiringNerd  And I see your brand of libertarianism makes you blind to culture and politics. Interesting.
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  33.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Reining in regulations, getting us out of bad trade deals, starting get NATO countries to pay their share, increasing school choice, decreasing taxes, appointing judges who may stop federal overreach, not getting us into new wars, basically telling the Philippines to pound sand over their threat to end joint basing, off the top of my head. Compared to the other choice (and let's not pretend Gary Johnson was any kind of libertarian), I'll take it.
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  34.  @steveperreira5850  The natural human inclination towards fear needs a kicker, either evidence that something really is scary, or something that scares people regardless of evidence. As humans, we are prone to be the least fearful ow that's likely, like being killed in a car crash, while fearing being killed while flying in a modern airliner. We brush off fears for things like heart disease and cancer, two likely killers, and relieve those fears by panicking over unlikely killers. In the case of Covid-19, it was a combination of left wing media, incompetent doctors, and an inept government response. All the ingredients were there for a global hysteria, they just had to come together in the right order.
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  35. So how do you get your Tesla repaired under warranty without some kind of dealership network? Are you expected to ship it back to California? I don't much care about car dealership monopolies, but I do care about getting my car fixed.
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  36.  @ssunkite1  Thanks for the kind words. Things do improve with time. The pain never goes away, but I've learned to live with it. At least I don't fantasize about being a mass killer now. :-)
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  37. A virulent virus like Covid-19 will always moves through the population, infecting people opportunistically. The only thing that stops a virus is when enough people die, in the case of a highly morbid virus like the 1918-1919 flu or, with a low morbidity virus like this, when enough people get it and recover. That's when herd immunity sets in, and there just isn't a big enough pool of the naive left to allow the virus to continue to spread. Every single virus in human history has followed the same path, and so will Covid-19.
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  38.  @Liberty4Ever  I think you have it completely backwards. The anti gun people people believe it is the type of gun that makes it dangerous, not the person using it. If the same person shooting into a crowd with an AR-15 had a Daisy air rifle instead the toll would be considerably less. We should be stressing that all guns are just tools, just like steak knives and chainsaws. There is no gun firing the same caliber of ammunition that's more dangerous than any another of the same caliber. They are selected by the buyer as the best tool for the job, whether it's hunting, target shooting, or self defense. A criminal using the same kind of gun doesn't make the gun more dangerous, it's the intent that makes it more dangerous. Stopping criminals and the deranged before they can get a gun that should be our first priority, not trying to convince people who hate guns that we're the good guys with a gun, so they should cut us a break. It just doesn't work.
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  39. Lineman - The voice of young man with NO chronic pain issues who thinks veganism is the answer to every question.
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  40. Randall Smith fucking dipshit.
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  41. Aaron, they do a better job than most car maker's service centers. Because there are so few of them, the common complaint I heard was they were too busy and it too long to get an appointment. That's not surprising seeing that the whole state of Texas only has three of them.
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  42.  @Gorrgrim  And I don't think many who are not involved in the actual crimes they rap about are just creating "art", and they won't go to jail for that. There's a reason why so many rappers die in drive bys and shootouts, and it's not because of "art".
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  43.  @kennythekid130  No, your boss would have that option. No employee gets to independently work from home. Do you work somewhere that allows you to make those kinds of decisions? I'm getting the feeling you don't have a lot of real world job experience.
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  44.  @kennythekid130  I'm 74 years old and have been retired for fifteen years. Before that, I ran my own consulting firm for ten years. I made my own rules. If, however, I had to go back to working for someone else, they made the rules. Try this - next time you go for an interview, let them know that working remotely is one of your top priorities. Let me know how that works out for you.
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  45.  @kennythekid130  Right. Just have the right unicorn skills and find the right unicorn company and you can get paid the big buck for working in your PJ's for ten solid years. Why haven't you already quit and joined that firm too?
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  46.  @kennethfharkin  Cue the butthurt millennial libertarians. Sorry the truth hurts, boys. Very few Americans will ever agree to the proposition in the title of this video.
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  47.  @Mit852  What's your option? Vote for the greater of two evils? Don't vote at all because that'll show 'em? Have you ever actually been to an authoritarian hellhole? Didn't think so. My late wife was from the former Yugoslavia, and I was there several times before and after the breakup of the country. We have a long way to go before we end up like them, and Yugoslavia was one of the better authoritarian hellholes.
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  48. "Where do we go?" How about back to where you came from?
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  49. The main purpose of a mask for non-healthcare personnel is just to serve as a barrier for airborne droplets. Civilians don't need to N95 masks. And no one will be doing mask inspections in hospitals, for heaven's sake.
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  50. Corruption in Cleveland? No way! I left in 1966 because I could see where Cleveland was headed and, unfortunately, I wasn't wrong. Cleveland will never take any initiative until it shrinks by another quarter million. Even then, it will take some big crisis we don't yet see coming. On top of everything else, Cleveland has some of the worst weather in the nation. There's nothing anyone can do to change that. 
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  51. This is a good deal for me while the taxpayers of Alabama (which would also include me) get screwed. I happen to live in a town only a mile from the Georgia state line. Georgia allows any licensed retail establishment to sell liquor. As you might imagine, the guys in Georgia can sell booze a lot cheaper than going to a state store here. Consequently, everyone flocks across the state line while the local ABC store employees sit and twiddle their thumbs. As a result, Alabama sustains higher costs to run the ABC, so they have to raise prices. Then even more people flock across the state line. It is technically illegal for someone for Alabama to do this, but illegal in the same way we all report the lost sales tax when we buy online. It's a stupid situation, but one that's propped up the churches and their undue influence on what state government does.
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  52. Sara, I quit smoking almost exactly two years ago. I have used vaping as my substitute and it has worked. I'm down to 6 mg nicotine juice after starting with (whew!) 48 mg. The most important thing is get good vaping hardware and test enough vape juices to find ones that work for you and don't make you short of breath. Get your vape kit from a vape store with staff that understands vaping and can help you with recommendations. Don't get your first kit online and try to save money. It's going to cost you about $200 up front for good hardware and about $50 to get enough juice to test. Some juice has chemicals that do affect my lungs. They might be fine for you. I'm older than most on here and my COPD is more advanced so I have to be more careful. If you're still young and haven't been diagnosed with COPD, vaping is the way to go if you can't quit altogether. The other thing about vaping is it gives you something to do with your hands that mimics cigarette smoking. That's an important psychological thing for many smokers.
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  53. Jeff, oxy is a semisynthetic while morphine is not synthetic. Regardless, both have their main source as the Persian opium poppy. I am presently on MSContin 30 mg. It is the extended release version of morphine. I have also been on oxycodone 30 mg. My experience was the pain relief wasn't much different but the oxy was hugely more expensive than the morphine, like $500 a month compared to $50. Most insurance won't cover it because MSContin is the preferred generic. I would have paid the price if it had some amazing pain relieving qualities but, for me, it didn't.
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  54. Not only doesn't Cleveland have many business advantages, it also has about the worst climate in the lower 48. Spring, while, it can be beautiful, lasts about 2 weeks before a late frost kills the blossoms or the heat and humidity of summer sets in. Summer lasts for about 2-6 months, depending on the year. It can be incredibly hot and humid for months or rarely make it above 70. No matter what, it will rain when you are supposed to go on a picnic. We had some beautiful falls but, most of the time, it lasts three weeks before the leaves turn brown, fall off, and that's it. Then we have winter. It usually starts around Halloween and  goes on until Easter. We went weeks without ever seeing the sun. There's just enough snow to make things miserable but not enough to make it fun. The weather is not only cold but it's a damp cold when it's above zero which, for some winters, isn't much of the time. If you're suicidal, don't come to Cleveland in the winter.
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  55. There must be some totally cranked off FBI agents tonight. You could tell his entire speech was damning Clinton by faint praise. The bottom line was Comey was told not to go after an indictment, and he didn't All we can hope for now is a whistleblower agent to come forward with the truth.
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  56. I just looked it up for Texas. There's one in Houston, Austin, and Dallas. I assume that's enough the catch all the likely Tesla buyers in Texas. God forbid you live in someplace like El Paso. Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Columbus OH, or Minneapolis MN. These are all cities with a comparable metro population to Austin that do not have a Tesla service center. I know the concept of flyover states is sometimes said jokingly, but Elon Musk really believes it. If you live anywhere between Indianapolis and San Francisco, you can forget about getting warranty service without a long. long drive. I used to own stock in Tesla, and one of the reasons why I sold it is their stark number and distribution of service centers. I don't think Tesla has a snowball's chance in hell of meeting its sales goal without opening more service centers.
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  57. It's great these people have set up this charity to help Venezuelans. My question is why would anyone get pregnant in that country today? Seems like it's hard enough to just feed your non-pregnant self.
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  58. First, they needed 10,000 mask and then, just a day later, the same hospital needed 100,000 masks. This is a great example of hysteria in action. We are going to end this worldwide panic with a ten times lifetime supply after all the production is done, with the path to the finish littered with bankrupt companies and broke entrepreneurs. This kind of production only works when you have a willing wholesale supplier (the government), a customer with an unlimited appetite for product because it's either at cost or free, (The Healthcare Industry), and unlimited pool of investors (the terrified taxpayer) to fund the products. Have any one of those three legs fold up and the whole thing grinds to a halt.
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  59. There will never be a second lockdown . People simply won't put up with it. We will have to expect that more people will get sick and more people will die once the restrictions are lifted. The lockdown was never to stop everyone from dying. It was to flatten the rate of infection so hospitals could handle the influx. We will never get herd immunity until we have a sufficient number who get the virus and recover. We can never get back to where we were if we remain totally risk adverse. And before I'm accused of wanting to kill grandpa, I AM GRANDPA ! I'm 74 with COPD. If I get sick and die, I probably would have died within several years away. I don't want to survive only to lose the country I knew five minutes ago.
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  60.  @kennythekid130  And my point is you didn't have his unicorn skills, so you couldn't just demand to work at home. My point is many people, for many reasons, don't want to work from home. There's pretty good evidence that you're not going to get promoted or promoted more slowly if you're not working face to face with your boss. The same is true if you don't see your coworkers at least 50% of the time. You guys that aren't unicorns will give less than glowing reports about that colleague, either through jealousy or just because they don't know you very well. You actually pay a pretty heavy price for more the 50% of your time not being in the office. Work is still a social as well as professional activity, and taking part in the social part is pretty hard when you live thousands of miles away. Remote commuting is a lot trickier than it first appears. If you want to get promoted and make more money, you're taking a wiser path than your unicorn mate
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  61.  @pete1853  The truth that most Americans don't support the premise of the title of the video. Do you actually think the average American looks at this impeachment as "no big deal"? There's a reason libertarians have still not won any major elections.
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  62.  @SETHPCAMPOS  Ron Paul is pretty much loved by everyone? Define "everyone".
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  63.  @f__kyoudegenerates  Was that directed to me? Read what I said about the PRC again and see if you understand what I said about the PRC stats this time.
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  64.  Bullets Forteeth FULL AUTO  So I guess there was no M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle then. Nor SOCOM's Precision Sniper Rifle program. When say there's no such thing as a military sniper rifle called a SNIPER RIFLE you are just revealing your own ignorance of military rifles. I won't even get into the rest of your tinfoil hat rant.
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  65. So now you have to be a simp and approve of simpism to be a Reason level libertarian? Time to find another channel.
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  66.  @Cacowninja  That's a nice libertarian position and all, but there are some drugs, like flakka and spice where the proportion of users become so violent is so high that trying to remove the drug from users before they get it has clear public safety implications. There are a few other drugs in the same class that still need to be outlawed because they are just too dangerous to the public and police. If you'd ever been in a 20 minute fight with someone ripped on flakka you might have a better understanding of what I'm talking about. I'm uncomfortable with heroin being sold at the corner store because I've seen what a life destroying drug it is. I've seen 20 year olds that have a life ahead of them dead by the time they reach 40 after spending their second 20 years only looking for their next fix. This has nothing to do with it being legal or illegal, it's the nature of the drug. I'd point out the authors of the first article are both economists. The author of the second article is a law professor who is an activist against bail and so-called mass incarceration. None of them have any experience in street level policing. I presume you don't either. It would be a good idea to get the views and experience of those of us who do before you decide to start advocating for changes in laws.
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  67. I generally like Reason, but you guys have gotten Trump completely wrong. People aren't voting for him because they agree with all his views. They see it as our last chance to get the party hacks out of Washington and send in a guy who'll break up the furniture. It's the same reason that Bernie has been giving Hillary an assraping. No one outside DC and NYC wanted to see another Bush or Rubio. They've all been tried before. Trump will go to Washington beholden to almost no one. He's also not going to be cosying up to all you millennial bloggers either. There will be a new sheriff in town, and I can see you guys profusely sweating all the way from my house.
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  68. I couldn't agree more. My late wife and I had to battle for over a year for her to try an experimental drug that might have worked on acute myelogenous leukemia. She, along with other AML patients finally got that right. As it turned out, the drug didn't work, but enough terminal AML patients tried the drug to prove it didn't work and get it removed from any further trials. That can be just as valuable as finding out an experimental drug actually does work.
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  69. There's a reason I left both Cleveland and California and now live in Alabama. We can't run a deficit, and that automatically keeps the size of government within the control of the taxpayer. Is is perfect? No. But it's still a lot better than what I saw in Cleveland and California.
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  70. Boys, I hope you're following the up vs down vote count. No, it's not some mythical trolls voting you down. It's generally loyal viewers who think you've let getting on the wrong side of this cause this 6+ minutes of petulant whining. A good lesson to learn from this is to take defeat gracefully. There are a lot worse things than Trump, and one of them is Hillary. Are you guys going to start attacking the real enemy now?
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  71. +John Harrison They're right about what? What does Romney have to do with Trump getting the nomination? They got on the wrong train and now they're having a group cry because they arrived at the wrong station
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  72. Alex, I don't think you need my morphine pills.
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  73. And, Mr. Cartoon Character, you know about the efficacy of oral morphine how, exactly? The thread is now attracting bottom feeding trolls.
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  74. Joe, there's no need, but sometimes it just feels good anyway...
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  75. Jeff, one of my best friends has had Crohns since he was in his late 20's. It's a terrible disease. I guess if there's an upside for you it's that you don't have to worry about the constipation that plagues so many on narcotics. He ended up with a colostomy and, from his experience, I'd urge you not to have it done unless there's no other way to bring what's left of your bowels under control. It has been a continuing nightmare for him. Didn't fix the problem, and he's had several near fatal infections.
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  76. Well, that was three minutes and one second of my life I'm never getting back.
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  77. Realistically, how many are ever going to get sold without a local service center? This is a huge problem for Tesla. Opening service centers are very capital and labor intensive operations, but there's no way for Tesla to expand their market without them.
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  78. No, it's 350 vans, and they only travel within 100 miles of an existing service center. This is still not an answer for people who live in the flyover states.
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  79. I read three press releases. They all said these were replacements and additions for their previous flat tire vans. I certainly could be wrong, but these vans are still not an answer to the people in the flyover states who have no access to a Tesla service center.
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  80. Just one more reason I left California in 2005. It was headed down the dumper then and has only gotten worse.
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  81. This is just one of the reason I left the Bay Area in 2005. It's like an open air mental asylum with the Board as the one with the keys. That place is doomed.
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  82.  @hymospheir989  And he would be if he had actually done that. Nice try with the strawman though
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  83. Bloomberg is not a boomer. He was born in 1942, four years before the first boomers.
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  84.  @michaelpearce8661  Umm, what choices are we free to make here? The auditions to sing "Imagine" are down the hall.
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  85.  @michaelpearce8661  I don't know where you live, but you need to move to Detroit right away. There's a huge market for what you're doing there. As the economy improved (or at least did until the shit hit the fan with the virus), there were lots of investors buying up abandoned houses and fixing them up as rentals. They need guys with tools to help do the work and house sit while it's going on so all the new appliances don't walk out the back door. Seriously, check that out. You can make some good money in Detroit.
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  86.  @michaelpearce8661  I feel you. I turned 74 in February, and nothing works on me as well as it did either. Unfortunately, what I fear is going to turn into another wave of defaults and foreclosures as a result of our shooting ourselves in the head may be an opportunity for you, since I think California will be the hardest hit. Start talking to banks, real estate companies, and mortgage lenders now.
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  87.  @brutustantheiii8477  You are also showing your age, and that's not a compliment.
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  88. Jesus H Christ on a Skateboard. The women with purple hair have even invaded Reason TV..
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  89.  @dexter131  Kids? I turn 74 in a month. I was involved with the Libertarian Party mostly likely before you were born.
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  90.  @dexter131  Being legitimate libertarian organizations and supporting the idea that impeachment is no big deal are two wildly different things.
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  91.  @dexter131  Say what? Yes, the libertarians represented in this video believe something that most Americans don't. Do you believe most Americans are libertarians or what?
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  92.  @dexter131  Right. The chances of ten libertarians in the same place agreeing on the same things is why libertarians never get anywhere. The two things libertarians and communists have in common is the quest for Ideological purity and doing the idea "right" this time.
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  93.  @gorgthesalty  Ah, the required Boomer insult comes out, something cranked off millennials just can't seem to avoid. Do you have a link to any study that shows "...that illegal drug use is, in many cases, equal to or greater among those white suburbians, but it's the black that get to do the time at 5 to 1 ratio."? Just one that shows white people who live in the suburbs have a drug use rate as high as inner city residents. You claim you have statistic that show that, so let's see them. I was a deputy sheriff, so I could be assigned patrol anywhere in the county. Sometimes that was in the hood and sometimes among those drug besotted white "suburbians". Do you think I couldn't tell the difference between those two areas? It seems as if you subscribe to the ACAB school of dealing with the police, so let's try a thought experiment. For one month, police departments cease patrolling all areas of a "diverse" county. All the cops just stay in the station, playing pinochle and checking out the latest at PornHub. At the end of that month, do you think there would be any difference between the hood and white suburbs in terms of crime related stats like shootings, murders, assaults, arson, burglaries...that kind of thing? Be honest now. If there would, why do you attribute the differences, which already exist on a day to day basis, as being the fault of the police instead of the culture of people who live in those areas?
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  94.  @homewall744  No, mental illness is not curable. We do have medications and therapy that allow some mentally ill people to still live a normal life, but the profoundly mentally ill still need to live in some kind of supervised environment.
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  95.  @Liberty4Ever  Believe me, if your style and brands of shotguns start getting used in mass shootings, those same nuts will be after them too. My point in my original post was going after assault rifles is illogical when there are other long guns that are, or can be, just as deadly. I wasn't writing my post in response to some leftist, it was on a post about why assault rifles get banned because they look scary on a channel that not many leftists care to read. The comparison between the friendly looking Ranch Rifle in the video and the scary looking AR-15 is the same as between my friendly looking Ithaca 37 and all your tactical shotguns when the shit hits the fan.
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  96.  Bullets Forteeth FULL AUTO  The US Army calls them sniper rifles and the programs that developed them are called sniper rifle programs. A designated marksman rifle is not the same as a sniper rifle. A designated marksman rifle doesn't have the same specifications for MOA at range as a sniper rifle. You are absolutely wrong about this, and it just diminishes whatever case you're trying to make, although all the CAPITAL letters for things and frothing about treason don't help much either.
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  97. I smoked for 50 years but was able to quit four years ago thanks to nicotine pills (which I notice are never mentioned by these busybodies) and vaping. I would probably be dead by now if I continued to smoke cigarettes. Vaping is not safe, and no should start who isn't already a nicotine addict. For those of us who are, it's a potential life saver. And to you young punk vapers trying to outdo each other in a public place to see who can make the biggest and most obnoxious cloud of vapor - grow up and stop it! Do it in your house or some place private. You are giving the pearl clutchers more ammunition.
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  98. You realize the majority of people still have to make things with their hands, right? Even for those that are "knowledge workers", have you ever tried to figure out how well your presentation is going over when you get zero body language feedback? I was able to work from my home office as a construction project management consultant for over ten years, but I still had to get out and make sure things were being screwed together in the right places or concrete was being mixed properly. Meet formen and other engineers face to face so I had a better idea of how their personality was influencing the job. Doing things remotely when it consists of things like cranking out project plans and gantt charts works fine, but not being on site for a real overview and understanding of the project progress...well, not so much. I think you're vastly overestimating the place of the cloud in business.
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  99.  @kennythekid130  That has already happened. I really don't think were going to see more than a small percentage increase in that once this insanity ends. People still need to go to work sites regardless of how well collaboration software works...or doesn't.
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  100.  @raymondwelborne4998  You have won the internet prize for the most useless post of the day.
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  101. With all this public interest, I wonder how many 3D printed AR-15 style "ghost guns" have ever been successfully assembled and fired? I suspect very few. It's a heck of a lot easier and cheaper to just get an AR-15 on the street if, for some reason, you can't legally buy one, than to buy a 3D printer and machine tools. The feds and states are chasing a ghost in more ways than one.
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  102.  @Rockyboxing  I have no idea who or what you're talking about. What "facts" exactly did you check?
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