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a) Indeed. b) The issue is clearly defined here, a detrimental trend in public opinion. For the health of the nation, for the benefit of humanity, should basic diversity tolerance be taught at successive levels starting in elementary school? If not that, what?

R5, please pardon my simple-minded intrusion. I reduce this issue to mathematical simplicity. Ratio of Social Security Covered Workers to Beneficiaries Calendar Years 1940 - 2013 According to ht tps://www.ssa.gov/history/ratios.html in 1940 the ratio was over 150. It reached 4 by 1965. By 2013...

Who are "they"? HOW do you know? Is there a security leak that needs security improvement? (y) "Jewish space lasers" ?! 🌴 🌴 = palm plant

Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2019 killing of his landlord A Virginia man found not guilty by reason of insanity in a 2019 killing fled the United States on a one-way flight to Tajikistan while on an approved 48-hour pass from a state mental health...

But Castro's victory was not U.S. trade policy. I apologize if any part of my post seems like a "mine is bigger than yours" contest. I'll sidestep your "no valid reason" formulation and state simply I believe the U.S. has overdone it, PARTICULARLY in this 2nd Trump administration. Perhaps...

I suspect McConnell's formerly keen mental faculties have failed him, because McConnell's absence from the senate obviously isn't being handled well. Keeping this secret obviously isn't a very good idea. Why would McConnell's coterie resort to secrecy, unless they just can't come up with a...

If it were a simple binary: either: - trade policy, or - no trade policy we could pick one. BUT ! It isn't. So isn't it basically a question of whose ox is gored?

That's not subtraction ? Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days? Answer: All of them

I can't imagine a more persuasive argument for your position. And while I don't dispute its premise or logic, I respond: Any status quo has its constituency. Thus any change is likely to produce both winners & losers. I believe non-violence is a sensible principle, BUT ! I believe Jainism...

Smoke & mirrors? ... or

Not in any way to diminish or dismiss journalist Brown's valuable contribution here, BUT there's more to this story. She did NOT gain access without the vessel commander's knowledge and permission. Command of such war ship in this Trump / Iran stalemate may be more tricky politically than...

Londoners are more civilized than real people. They don't yell and howl at you when you drive on the left side of the road, like they do in this country.

Not only "like" a pyramid scheme. Social Security PRECISELY matches the dictionary definition exactly. pyramid scheme n. A fraudulent moneymaking scheme in which early participants are paid out of money received from later recruits, with the final recruits putting money in and getting nothing...

I'm not sure that's the most precise description. Seems obvious to me they didn't want to lose the general election to the Republican. I suspect any of the top 5 or so Democrats in the primary would have received DNC preference over the Republican. BUT ! S a v v y electoral political...

clarification: "required"? I don't recall having asserted such requirement. True but irrelevant. I will exclude the notable complication of the electoral college, not to dismiss its impact. Very serious! BUT ! Instead to cite the basics of the democratic process: most adult citizens in the...

That needs clarification. U.S. federal government leaves much electoral administration to the States. Thus basic standards vary widely from one State to another. Example: in New York State a voter must register as a Democrat or Republican to vote in that party's primary. In some other States...

? I suspect the distinction between party population, and national population is blurred here. Care to clarify? The superficial appeal of that idea wears thin quick. Reductio ad absurdum, if 3 is better than 2, and 7 is better than 4 then is 99 better than 56? Why not a million? Ideal ! Right...

S2 a little bit beat me to it. Social Security is by treacherous design a monumental curse on the Peoples of the United States. Social Security might be considered to have direct revenue. BUT ! Regardless of what statute requires, congress has been slushing Social Security revenues into the...

"Simple" indeed! Simple, but with the penalty of multiplying the cost of administering them, knowing that key to reducing per capita healthcare cost is $efficiency. I wouldn't assume that. Either way, ignorance is not peril. It is lack of assurance. And we have enough history to know the risks...

And how much more angry must they be to cook us breakfast? Vacuum the living room?