Recent Comments

1. about 13 hours ago on Pickles

   “No-one would tell me what aisle I could pick one up in.”

   I know what you mean. Several times I have seen a good specimen in a shopping cart and asked for the aisle location. The greedy women refuse to answer, just smile push by.

2. about 13 hours ago on Candorville

   I try.

   (My beloved says I am very trying.)

3. about 16 hours ago on Pickles

   “tomayto”

   ‘mater, as in "I’d like me a ’mater sammich."

4. about 16 hours ago on Candorville

   So if every murder which happened with use of a gun did not happen, there would have only been 5,192 murders in the USA in the year 2020. (Also assuming no murders were avoided because of fear someone might kill the one wishing to kill with an axe, knife, sword, garrote, club or hands.)

   Using that philosophy, if you could remove the exact bullets used to kill, none of those firearm homicides would have happened. If you could have effectively outlawed the exact knives or other tools used to kill, the 5,192 other murders would not have happened.

   It seems a stretch, but we do know access to better tools makes more attempted tasks successful.

5. about 17 hours ago on Candorville

   “Where is that statistic from and what year is it for?”

   He told you: “this year (24,576)” The year 24,576 AD

   (Okay, maybe I should be serious, but it was interesting to think about a time traveler coming back to join in the discussion.)

   https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

   Mortality

   All homicides

   Number of deaths: 24,576

   Deaths per 100,000 population: 7.5

   Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2020) via CDC WONDER

   Firearm homicides

   Number of deaths: 19,384

   Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.9

   19384 homicides using firearms/24576 homicides total=78.887% but close enough to 80%.

6. about 17 hours ago on Pickles

   “Perhaps you’ve never met a geode.”

   I saw a beautiful one at the entrance of a supermarket in Rio many years back. It had to be over six feet in diameter in a small pool of water and lights showing off the blue crystals. I thought, “In a grocery store??”

   Most impressive.

7. about 17 hours ago on Pickles

   The name stays the same, the comment which follows is apt to change.

8. about 17 hours ago on Brewster Rockit

   And THAT’S how you develop a surplus, dear children.

9. about 18 hours ago on Candorville

   “you can’t take out an entire grocery store or classroom with ‘em”

   I CAN. I choose not to.

10. about 18 hours ago on Brewster Rockit

    “I am not a number.”

    Tell it to Agent 99.