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Comment on Giveaway: Enter to Win Tickets to Rock the Bells Festival by Marla Taormina

Marla Taormina — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:59:50 +0000

My Favorite Rap Song has to Be Thinking of A Master Plan by Eric B and Rakim

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Comment on Paper Tigers by LarryC

LarryC — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:30:13 +0000

awesome buddy

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Comment on Nostalgic No More by Louie

Louie — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:26:46 +0000

Im not a fan of cookie cutter shopping centers either. But did you want to keep those building as a museum? What do you think they should have done with the buildings?

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Comment on Nostalgic No More by Hamisi White

Hamisi White — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:42:06 +0000

I worked at this plant in 1968 and was stationed in a portable until bldg 12 was completed. I was there until 1971 and worked for James Galway and Sam Scribner.

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Comment on Nostalgic No More by rich lieberman

rich lieberman — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:28:48 +0000

He should visit my place Chester Chicken he would love my fried chicken using days old grease in Oakland.

Dick Lieberman
rich.lieberman@gmail.com

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Comment on New Drug War by James abreu

James abreu — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:15:11 +0000

None of it should be legal this has been the biggest mistake that I have seen in my lifetime let’s just legalize everything and while we are at it let’s lift all gun regulations

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Comment on Deschedule It by John

John — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 13:05:01 +0000

What a joke , people these crooked politicians get kick back money from the big tech pill pushing companies pay to leave the crooked system the way it is,we need to stop this garbage and look what cannabis can cure , only the good lord knows why he put it here, so I say research a lot more.

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Comment on Deschedule It by James Paltza jr

James Paltza jr — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 23:59:29 +0000

THE DEA WANTS TO MAINTAIN, THE MONEY, POWER AND CONTROL OUR DICTATORSHIP GOVERNMENT HAS HELD FOR DECADES OVER INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY SOCIETY!

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Comment on Short-Term Think: Will a Tax on Short-Term Rentals Deflate the Airbnb Bubble? by Lael Miller

Lael Miller — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:58:37 +0000

No one is pointing out the unfair idea of taxing individuals with short term rentals and exempting corporations. I run a small bed-and-breakfast with units I built myself on rural property that could not possibly support low income housing due to zoning. I already pay 10% off the top to our local government as a transient occupancy tax. How is a housing mess in the bay area my fault? City and county planners must adapt local policies to this trend without shooting themselves in the foot by killing the travel industry they depend upon.

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Comment on Letters to Metro by Smokey

Smokey — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:48:40 +0000

The original Constitution and Bill of Rights is still the best template for governing a country, but zeroing in on one particular aspect while ignoring other attacks on it has a deleterious effect.

What the Media Borg broadcasts isn’t what the average person thinks. The public knows that the nearly half of American households have firearms. Those guns are owned by honest, law abiding folks who don’t misuse them. If they did the number of Americans killed or seriously injured would skyrocket.

The same folks wringing their hands over the 2nd Amendment are ignoring the rising attacks on the 1st Amendment. Goaded by the country’s media, they presume that disarming the population would end gun violence.

Since there are hundreds of millions of firearms in this country no matter how many new laws are passed, many if not most of them would be kept by the the folks who own them.

Whenever there has been a buyback of firearms by local authorities, few guns were turned in for the simple reason that the government is stingy, offering people between 15% and 25% of the resale value. If the gov’t really wanted to take guns away from law abiding folks, it would have to offer more than resale value.

The bureaucrats and electeds who come up with these buyback schemes aren’t stupid, they know that if they offered, say, double what a gun is worth, a lot of people would take them upon on the offer. So why don’t they make a serious offer?

Because they’re not serious. It’s a dog and pony show where they can put their presumed virtue on public display. Then when the show is over they put the dozen or two guns they bought from NRA widows on a table for the media to photograph, and MovOn to star in their next virtue extravaganza.

What good does it do?

The media constantly refers to the high rate of gun violence in America. But as the saying goes, figures don’t lie; liars figure. Yes, gun violence is rising, but where? The media doesn’t really say, objectively.

The overwhelming number of crimes committed by firearms take place in big city downtown areas. But if we remove just five cities: Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, St. Louis, and New Orleans from the statistics—cities with the strictest gun laws—the murder rate in America drops the U.S. to the 189th out of 193 countries in the world.

Despite the constant emo-scares that bombard television viewers, the truth is that America is an exceptionally safe country to live in—for folks who don’t live in the downtown areas of big cities.

If local and state governments made a concerted effort to fix the problems in those and similar big cities and left the rest of us alone, gun violence would plummet.

So why don’t the powers that be do that?

The only reasonable conclusion: they want the violence to continue.

Gun violence is part of the Left’s agenda. They want to disarm all Americans. But why?

The answer to that is also obvious: in every country that becomes a dictatorship, the government first disarms the people because a disarmed population has no choice; everyone must bow down to the government.

It’s that, or the gulag. Your choice.

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