J.C.MacSwell

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to commit crimes...

...careful not to step in a poodle...

From Slate News describing the reaction at Fox News: https://slate.com/business/2024/09/debate-donald-trump-kamala-harris-winner-fox-news.html "Brit Hume, the network’s chief political analyst, was starker. “Make no mistake about it: Trump had a bad night,” Hume told the Fox viewers. “This was pretty much her night.” Sounding exasperated, Hume complained that Trump had been repeatedly baited by Harris, leading Trump to relitigate “so many of the old grievances that we had long thought Trump had learned were not winners politically.” Harris, meanwhile, was composed and prepared, Hume said: “She kept her cool.” “You’re saying she had a good night?” host Bret Baier asked him. “I’m saying she certainly did,” Hume said sternly."

I like to think of it as an American problem, but I have to admit I see immigrants here buying "pet food"...I've heard rumours some of them even feed it to their pets!

Meanwhile in the rest of the World pets are now flourishing...those that used to eat them are all now in America...

Harris clearly won...she accomplished what she needed to do...though I am a little concerned that if she gets in she'll come back to Canada and eat my pets... If Trump accomplished anything new...he accomplished that...

Well...that debate certainly went better than the last one!

Related to this, Biden himself is polling much better now than he has since becoming President. He's becoming more of a campaign asset than one might have expected IMO, even while Harris works to distance herself on some aspects of policy toward mitigating some of the negative views of his administration. (The economic one's are a little unfortunate, given the hand he was dealt from Covid) https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/02/politics/biden-reemerges-as-top-surrogate-for-harris-campaign/index.html? iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirchttps://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/harris-separate-biden-economy-trump/index.html I also think Harris's "tack toward the middle" might help not just by encouraging Republican's that dislike Trump to not hold their nose and vote for him anyway, but to in fact vote for Harris. Who knows? Maybe this campaign could help end the plague of rampant political polarization so prevalent lately...

The catch 22 is the necessity of recognizing the physiological differences, often statistically, on one hand, with the importance of recognizing that not only might some assumed differences be exaggerated or off the mark entirely, or might not apply at all to an individual, on the other. Many are incapable of holding opposing thoughts in their heads. They like to generalize. Generalizing can still be an important tool, as long as it doesn't lead to mental blocks. There is a lot of truth to this post of course, along with the obvious bias. I'm not sure what OP list you are referring to Phi. My statement certainly wasn't limited to it in any case.

Somewhat of a catch 22. Especially where in health care where both economics and efficiency are almost always essential, even while personal stakes can be very high.

Are there reasons mental health might be harder for men? Also, of course! As others have implied it's important to understand the differences while not assuming they apply to a particular individual.

The square cube law applies here. Smaller objects of the same substance will have proportionately more frontal and surface area for their volume and mass, so will generally dissipate their kinetic energy relatively faster in the atmosphere prior to colliding with the Earth.

I knew nothing of the particular history. My comments were general. I sometimes object to the mods but I trust them. At least they explain what they do. I do like the positive side of the system.

I've never been too keen on the neg reps, especially for newcomers that have no way of knowing how the rules are going to be interpreted (if they even read them...(put up your hand if not a mod and have read them all...a quick scan notwithstanding) Some grandmothers are fine with F-bombs, while others, not just grandmothers, might be offended by the language in your second paragraph, and be a little surprised it's actually a +1. Should they not be welcome here while they adjust? The mods can weed out the bad ones without our help...beyond reporting of some of the worst posts. Just my $0.02

Voted Harris. She's playing the hand Biden gave her pretty well so far IMO.

That doesn't hold much hope for humanity.

LOL. Could he help himself? LOL. Could he help himself?

Nice to know at least 34 other sites "read" the same way as us. Is it still okay to give joe a like?

I don't know much about him but I like what I'm hearing so far... ...I guess I need to tune in to Fox News so I will know what to really think...😄 Ol white guy though...obviously a DEI pick but at least they had the sense not to announce it as that this time...

I remember author Robert Ringer (libertarian individualist) paraphrasing it (not in support of it) to: "Ask not what those in power can do for you...ask what you can do for those in power"

I wonder how that would go... "At least Trump does it himself and doesn't leave it to subordinates!"

Cue Saturday Night Lives sequel to "I Don't Wanna' Go!" "I Don't Wanna'Go Against Harris!"

Lol, just give the nomination to Niki Haley already...this is getting too easy... If you take Trump and the GOP since the last election and condense it...you've got the makings of a good Monty Python skit....

A long way to go but so far so good...

Seems Vance might turn out to be "too much of a good thing"? Trump may now be regretting his choice: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-better-off-with-nikki-haley-jd-vance-bad-decision-2024-7 On one hand if Trump managed to get in I would certainly prefer Haley as VP (despite her taking a hit in my books for endorsing Trump). On the other I think Trump would be more likely to win with her on the ticket. I'd prefer he stick with Vance. Hopefully I won't regret it.