It must be verifiable or it is legend, a tool for suasion, but not appropriate for analysis.  We must be able to speak with confidence about our rational choices based on fact, regardless of how fondly we speak of our beliefs based on faith. There is a place for faith, but we must be able to abstract ourselves from what we wish was true from what can be determined as fact. Otherwise we become slaves to the most enthralling myth.

And they respond so well when things don't go their way.  They will panic at the first signs of failure and take very stupid, very destructive actions.

1. Gun registration is imaginable for otherwise dull minds who are inflexible in their attitudes. It gives a certain class of barbarians who consider themselves elites an unhealthy fixation. 

2. Registration would give the lazy minds the expectation that confiscation was possible and therefore reasonable.

3. Registration is like smut, it attracts the fascination of those given to the perversion of fascism.

Thank you. Every so often I stop my morning or evening time with my wife to read her something from my explorations on the net. I read her every word of this so she knows, so she remembers. There once was a time when civilized people pretended barbaric isolation was normal, but at it's most glaring the barbarism could not be explained.

We will face those times again, probably with less civil engineering and more savage butchery. We must also remember that there were and are enablers giving the barbarians cover.

Rob, the 0.2% wakeup risk is not bad. What would be bad would bad is a 0.2% never-wakeup risk. The people who pass gas are a lot more worried about that. 

Too much screaming, too many liars, too much dishonesty, too much assurance of evil intent on the other side. This calls for an assumption of innocence on the part of the detractors of firearms not consistent with reality. In the same way we do not hand our enemies ammunition, or leave ourselves disarmed before criminals, we can not give this weapon to those who will do us harm. 

Goofus gets people killed. And as surely as the sun rises tomorrow, some twit would have "Goofus" inked on his face before he went on a murder spree. This is a bad plan.

I think very highly of Dr. Carson. The correct thing for anybody contesting his nomination would be to point out that he has no organization, he has never run a campaign, his overt religiousness is offputting to the cool crowd, and he isn't media savvy enough to overcome the Democratic advantages.

Dr. Ben Carson is a tremendous man and I wish him all the best in life. But he'd get the Herman Cain treatment on steroids. Some nurse from a union hospital would accuse him of harassment or something and he'd be gone.

There's a lot of that going around. It's the folks in their sixties and older that really bug me by keeping pretending to be naive.

Weakness is portrayed as virtue in Gun Free Zones and not using force on rogue nations.

Spending is portrayed as virtue in the form of stimulus.

Repeating past failures is portrayed as virtue in the form of Universal Health Care.

I agree there is no virtue achieved, but the pose of seeking virtue is present.

I would love to have the Ricocheti provide other examples because I embrace the virtue of being very lazy. What insanities in pursuit of virtue do you see?

I'm on my way to the DEQ to pay extra money for a new bridge that will serve a non-existent community with a transportation system that does not work and kills many of my fellows, so I don't have a lot of time this morning.  Maybe later?

Chivas Revolve, shared a bottle with a PUK party officer in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan six years ago and brought a bottle home with me. 

For day-to-day tipple, I am quite fond of Cardhu. When traveling I rely on JW Black Label for survival; if you can't get Hitchen's choice, you should find someplace more hospitable.

The street in front of my house is not in use as a transportation method 90% of the time, we should certainly tear it up! Or perhaps it is a useful feature by it's constant presence and availability, like the fire department.

Despite the advances in fire reduction technology and methodology, the readiness for utility of a fire department is all. While I am happy to consider reduction in the unsustainable efforts of my local department of Sustainability, fire is too primal and persistent a threat to take lead as a source of reconsidering.

It is important to note  that the last fifty years has seen a revolution in fire and emergency management greater than all progress in history before the Apollo project and highway safety efforts of the 1960's. It is a bit soon to be reducing fire agencies since the limiting factor is proximity, rather than technology. If we develop teleportation or ways of traveling supersonically inside metropolitan areas, perhaps a reduction would be in order.

CJS, meet Bill Whittle and Declaration Entertainment: https://www.declarationentertainment.com/

Give them money, watch them produce entertaining content with conservative values.

It is about money. Right now Hollywood makes so much money unattached to belief because their accounting turns even the worst films into profitable endeavors.

Skipsul may not be a mole, he may have just fallen into apostasy. Apparently he is unaware that the Cherokee is one of the ten best American vehicles ever built. Perhaps the concept of Wikipedia was daunting to him and he was afraid to do basic research before posting.

Or maybe traumatic experiences have warped his comprehension to the point of being unable to understand how great a vehicle the Cherokee really is. I imagine there are any number of Iraqi's, Japanese, and Chinese people who briefly held negative opinions about the Iowa class battleship, regardless of that vehicle's manifest greatness.

I live in Portland and use my Jeep as a Jeep. It gets me to work when the Subaru's stop moving.

The Jeep Cherokee is a five person vehicle. The old Grand Cherokee is a five person vehicle for people who long bodies. The newer Grand Cherokee is a five person vehicle for people in the back seat who have legs.

The stupidites of other vehicles in the SUV category do not apply to the Cherokee, a Jeep that was designed to not turn turtle. Please try to contain your superstitions.

Hotels are frequently under-utilized for people in stress situations. Your wife would have been much better served taking a room near the Bar exam for the night if traffic was a concern. We get in patterns and fail to acknowledge the exceptional, like the idiot who ruined a perfectly good Cherokee by driving faster than they could stop.

First, I love both the Cherokees my family has. I can work on them, and the vehicle has a lot of spares readily available.

Second, the exceptional design is being more thoroughly recognized as one of the great vehicles of all time, so great effort is being made to conserve them as outstanding rides.

Third, bad drivers don't make a vehicle bad, but coincidence can apparently drive some folks right round the twist. It seems that you combine stress events and miserable lack of planning to generate a conspiracy event in your life. Next time you get close on time and energy during bad weather, stop and take time to avoid bad situations.

Riddle me this: in any of the above situations, wouldn't prior planning and strategic use of nearby hotel rooms have saved you thousands of dollars in auto repairs and replacement? Next time, take a room instead of taking a drive. Plan your critical events or acknowledge that bad weather makes for bad travel. Don't blame Cherokee's because your life is going wrong.