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

  1. How did he ever get in a peer reviewed journal without out disclosing his sources and data? Who reviewed his study? Something stinks here.
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  2. Bezos isn't a capitalist. He's a manipulator of public benefits to get him to build warehouses and distribution centers in certain cities, all of which are ruled by Democrats. Bezos knows who he has to please to keep those subsidy dollars flowing.
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  3.  @stevehagen9804  I saw their YT video on the Grievance Studies. It was hilarious. I tried to read this study but it's located behind a paywall and I don't have $42 laying around just to read this tripe. He has written and published many other studies about mass shootings. The boards of the journals that published his studies should be looking at the data behind them. I suspect this isn't the first time he's just made things up.
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  4. All speech that doesn't condone specific acts of violence or the violent overthrow of the government is free speech. Period. Hate speech, by definition, is free speech. If we don't defend this principle now, the only free speech we'll have is speech that agrees with me.
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  5. Don't be fooled. She's warning you that things won't go well when she's off script.
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  6.  @aixamagr2897  Right. Working at your parent's business doesn't mean you know squat about to run a business. She's merely less insane about some thing the Dems support while being on board with spending even more money we don't have.
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  7. We had it. It was called the Hong Kong Flu of 1968 and it was many times more deadly that this one. It was my first year as a respiratory therapist and we had patients stacked up in the hallways on cots. These dancing nurses today have no idea what a real pandemic is like.
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  8. Walter E Williams was also a national treasure who went to his final reward on December 2, 2020. Tom Sowell just turned 90. Where are the next generation of great black voices coming from? It sure as hell isn't from BLM.
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  9. Correct. Assuming that restaurant was successful, one of the reasons why was free child labor, something she'd never support otherwise. It has nothing to do with an concept of running a business. As far as I can tell, she has never held a private sector job in her life.
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  10.  @bbgun061  I looked up the journal that published this study and it's a well cited and reputable journal. The first thing I look for is if it's one of those pay to publish "journals". Indeed, the biggest problem I see now is these studies get out into the wild with no replication and then become truth. Way back when I was doing studies, you never publicized one except among your peers until another author had replicated it. Now that seems to have gone right out the window. How do scientists expect the average person to believe study findings of big picture things like climate change with sloppy standards like this?
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  11. The important thing is to deal with the most dangerous and violent persons. The only way to do that is reopen or build new secure treatment facilities with two levels of care. One is a temporary confinement until a patient gets the right medication and shows they will continue to take their medication. For those whom medications don't help and remain violent, or those who consistently refuse to take their medication and remain violent, they will need confinement until a medication is found, or some psychiatric treatment is found, that will make them not a risk to the public. In some cases, that will mean lifetime confinement. The only other option is these people roaming the streets assaulting, injuring, and killing people. Enough is enough.
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  12.  @spicycracker7828  You might want to read more than one Forbes article before coming to a conclusion. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/04/solved-why-poor-states-are-red-and-rich-states-are-blue/#67c8b4701d60) Just because California, for example, may have a higher average annual income than a place like Alabama doesn't mean much unless you're a very high income earner. You pretty much have to earn a high income in California to live a decent life. In Alabama, your income might be lower, but you can buy more with that lower income than you can in California with a higher income. That's one reason I can walk around town here and not see block after block of tents on the sidewalks and not be confronted with drug crazed psychotic panhandlers.
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  13. SF's system of "beat special" police was probably unique in the nation. They were were what would normally have been private security that was trained to police standards and supervised by SFPD. A beat special paid a fee to "buy" his beat. The business owner could hire an officer well trained on police procedures, use of force, and firearms to fill in the holes in what the city police officers didn't have the manpower or time to cover. This system went back to the turn of the last century. I left that hellhole in 2005 and didn't realize beat specials had had been discontinued. Just another reason for San Francisco's descent into madness.
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  14.  @garybuck6535  What do I mean about what? My first post is a warning that otherwise attractive women who think purple hair looks good may have some psychological problems that will make your life miserable. See Anita Sarkeesian as an example. My second was implying that she's not 300 pounds yet. Purple hair and morbid obesity tend to go together.
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  15.  @khalilali2450  You mean *yet*...
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  16. Airplanes and moving vans leave everyday. The money you earn in a place like that costs too much. I got out of California in 2005 because I could see where things were headed. The real estate bubble has maybe two more years to run. Get out while you can. You'll be amazed at how much more pleasant it is to live in a city that's not an open air insane asylum.
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  17.  erik r  A lot of guys here are spending too much time looking at her body and not enough time listening to what she says.
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  18.  @OneTrippin  LOL. Did you ever work in a family business? I kind of doubt it. My family owned a bakery. I was mostly paid in donuts and pocket change until I was 17, when I got an actual paying job elsewhere.
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  19. Jesus H Christ on a Skateboard. The women with purple hair have even invaded Stossel TV...
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  20.  @homewall744  Sure. That explains why the ten fastest growing cities are are all blue like these, right? Boise City, Idaho Greeley, Colorado The Villages, Florida Odessa, Texas Lakeland-Winter Haven, Florida St. George, Utah Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina-North Carolina. Midland, Texas Provo-Orem, Utah Unless you are also among the richest people living in Seattle or Silicon Valley, having all these millionaires around is a positive detriment to your quality of life. If you're even upper middle class, you have to run ever faster in the hamster wheel just to stay in the same place.
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  21. Couldn't agree more. I was the search and rescue coordinator for my county's sheriff's department from 1978 to 2005. We had several very high profile child-stranger abduction cases in the early 90's. These got national attention and were the start of every parent thinking there was a perv around every corner ready to grab their child. We never had a true stranger abduction before that two year period in the 90's ad we never had one afterwards. I don't know what was going on in America in that period that caused this spike in child abductions, but it seems as if it had run its course by 1996. We have now terrified generations of children and parents over a risk that's vanishingly small.
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  22.  @OneTrippin  Far more use their kids for free or low cost labor than pay them the same as other employees. You apparently worked in an unusual grocery store.
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  23. Sorry, Gabbi, but it is hypocritical to decriminalize use while maintaining the war against drugs, which has always been primarily against sellers. She's not any more honest about many of these issues, including giving out free money to everyone who bellies up to the bar. There are an awful lot of thirsty incels supporting her just because she's a babe, but she's no better than the rest of the Democrats.
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  24.  @mohnjayer  I agree. Redistribution of wealth by the government owning the means of production is the definition of socialism. Taking over healthcare and health insurance are the first steps down that road.
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  25.  @JamesSmith-dn8lb  Yep and there are still lots of values still around in real estate now. A six bedroom, five bath 5,000 sq ft house down the street from me just sold for $299k, and that's an expensive house here. YOu can buy a nice 2,000 sq ft house in a nice neighborhood for $100k or less, and that's in town. As you say, country property goes for even less.
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  26. The TDS is really strong with you. Go out and take a nice walk. You'll feel better.
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  27.  @MegaTeeruk  Yep, the highest rates of utilization are seen with Medicaid patients or aliens using the ER who know they'll never have to pay. Every single transaction should come with a cost, even if it's only a dollar. These Dems, including Gabbard, know in their heart that medicare for all is totally unworkable and will bankrupt the country. They are just hoping to sucker enough people into voting for them before they tell you this is really obamacare 2.0. I always expect politicians to bend the truth while on the stump, but this is the first time I've seen the entire field telling outright lies.
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  28. You were obviously really pissing her off. You violated the green rule and the woman rule. No mater how stupid the argument, as long as it's green and coming from a woman, she wins.
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  29.  @hertzair1186  Cool. Nice to find an honest commenter here.
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  30.  @filipelimartins  So Joker didn't take place in crime and chaos ridden Gotham City? Justice League wasn't based in crime ridden Central City?
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  31.  @filipelimartins  I understand how mathematics works. I see you're from Brazil, so your understanding of a large city is different than those in the US. Nevertheless, the fastest growing large city is Phoenix AZ, currently at 1.66 million. Second is San Antonio TX at 1.53 million. None of the rest of the fastest growing cities exceed a million, although Fort Worth TX and Charlotte NC are close. Rounding out the top five large cities is Seattle, the only red city, at 746,000, and that experienced a paltry growth of 2%, almost all of which came from annexations. No city outside of Texas or Arizona with a population of a million or more experienced even a small population growth, and many are losing population.
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  32.  @filipelimartins  Maybe because there are 17 cities over a million in Brazil while the US has ten, even though we have about 120 million more people? Maybe because every one of those 17 has a growth rate of over 9% and many are growing at 20%? Maybe because we have only one large city outside Texas or Arizona with a growth rate of more than 5%? It is more than rocket science if you understood the American economy and housing market. Places like New York City have rent and price controls on most real estate that artificially inflates the cost of housing. Cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco have "growth control" ordinances that makes it nearly impossible to build more homes in the city limits. This artificially increases demand and prices for the existing housing stock by people already living there, not from people emigrating to those cities. These aren't organic price increases, they are created by the government. Name me a single city in Brazil with those kinds of laws. I wouldn't try to school you about the housing market in Brazil, or the economy there. I suggest you stop trying it with me.
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  33.  @filipelimartins  lol no, what offends me is someone from another country feeling like they need to explain supply and demand in the US to me, and then ending with a snarky comment about me needing to get out of my bubble. You came into this discussion setting up a strawman about superheros, and you have proceeded to set up and knock down a new strawman with each reply. My mistake for not recognizing it sooner. I'm done with you.
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  34.  @MegaTeeruk  Or at least allow health insurers to compete across state lines like car insurers do now. That alone would decrease the cost of insurance with no federal government intervention.
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  35.  @MegaTeeruk  Another ball of wax that may be, but it's the easiest and most effective way to reduce insurance costs.
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  36.  @MegaTeeruk  I was a nursing home administrator so I'm only too familiar with federal reimbursement. Costco also only has a tiny profit margin. They make a profit by spreading that margin over hundreds of stores. You're not seriously saying my car insurance would cost the same if I was forced to buy it from Blue Cross, are you?
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  37.  @MegaTeeruk  Well, I'll take small. And the market price is not totally fixed. We have hospitals and doctors now that will either pay part or all of a deductible for patients ot increase their patient counts and census. However, in my ideal world., we'd all be private pay, with an increasing amount of required catastrophic coverage for older patients and lower income patients.
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  38.  @gergc4871  She is attractive, but my experience is that purple hair is hiding something in her brain that's not so attractive.
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  39.  @gergc4871  I endured three of the worst years of my life by letting an attractive face and nice smile override my creep alarm. As the Jews say, Never Again!
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  40.  @robertlockey75  Dude! This is what every presidential candidate in modern times has said. It means nothing. The most important things are what she says here policies are now because you can bet they will only get worse the longer they are in office. With the exception of her at least saying she wants to get out of foreign wars (even though she had no problem going overseas to fight in one), the rest of her policies are no different than Bernie's. She was an early and vocal Bernie supporter in 2016.
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  41. My deepest sympathy, John. Thank goodness for you and Tom. You've both helped change the world.
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  42. Yes, the "expert" that was doing science in between shagging his mistress.
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  43.  @gabrielfraser2109  You have zero idea what you're talking about. There is no "state managed health insurance" in Switzerland. It's compulsory to buy insurance, but it's provided by private companies. Switzerland has made basic health insurance available across cantonical borders at a fixed non-profit price, but those companies can sell supplemental insurance at a profit, and they do. The government doesn't buy health insurance for anyone. Everyone pays minimum of 8% of their income for insurance. If that's not enough to pay the premium, the government give a cash subsidy so a person can still buy the insurance. Healthcare insurance in Switzerland and what Gabbard and the rest of the Dems are proposing couldn't be more different.
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  44.  @gabrielfraser2109  Once again, you have no idea what you're talking about. We barely have people pulling their own weight when it comes to paying for healthcare now. Medicaid and other public insurers pay for nearly 25% of hospital care and doctor's visits. Nearly 40% is paid for by employer provided health plans. Gabbard and the rest want to stop employer paid plans for public insurance. How is this "the few who fall through the cracks"? It's a government takeover of one of the largest sectors of our society. Are you in college or something? You don't seem to know much about the real world.
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  45. Libertarians don't want to take my money and hand it out to everyone who wants it. Don't confuse a less insane Democrat with a libertarian.
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  46. Uh, yeah, show the thug at the end skidding to a stop really helps.
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  47. She's just as irrational as the other Dems on most issues, just less irrational than some. It's like saying a person isn't insane because they only do crazy things on weekends.
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  48. I couldn't agree more. I'm a Trump supporter, but that doesn't mean I don't notice when he shoots himself in the foot.
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  49.  @filipelimartins  Decades ago? Like the lastest Death Wish from last year? Like the Bad Ass series? Almost everyone living in and being subject to the bad side of urban life has a secret fantasy to become an urban vigilante. The problem with these ambitious young people is they wake up one day and find out they're not young but they are still arricted the money they think they can't live without.
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  50.  @filipelimartins  Maybe you'd better restate you point then. I thought it was about superheroes and those problematic cities.
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