Amtrak, guns. Guns, meet Amtrak.

And, dear pale-imitation-of-your-european-big-brother Amtrak, goodbye.

 

It has been decreed, that there are too many places in this great country that are safe from firearms.  Ostensibly, Amtrak is to approach guns in the same way airlines do - i.e., allowable in checked baggage.  In reality, however, many Amtraks don't do checked baggage.  So...

 

So I guess I'll drive.  Wait, does this mean the car companies were behind the lobbying on this one?

More healthcare

Responding to the Rude Pundit...

 

1. Agreed.

 

2. Sarah who?

 

3. Double yes, except - we can't win the argument because the other side isn't arguing.  They're fighting.  More specifically - I find that the democrats are arguing with republicans, while republicans are fighting for voters.  This goes back to the uselessness of bipartisanship in this effort - the other side simply has no interest.  Democrats need to stop standing around arguing against the inane and insane, pissing themselves in frustration from the effort of arguing with a 10,000 pound gulliver-sized screaming child.  They need to make these arguments to the people and treat the republicans like the irrelevant screaming children they are.

 

Non violence

So I say if you are committed to nonviolence then commit nonviolence flagrantly. See how far you can take it. Show how utterly fraudulent is this belief that every man must participate in the dance.

The argument may be made that a man must show he is willing to fight or he will be a victim. That may obtain in prison. But prison rules should not obtain in a free society. If a man is unsafe because he is not feared, then there is something wrong with the agreements that obtain in his social group. He then has a choice of leaving that social group. If nonviolence is to take hold in the world and stop war, then a man must be willing to leave his social group if its belief system is mired in the perpetuation of violence. It is a high price to pay but those who have changed the world nonviolently have paid a high price.

Hmm.

Primary Care Physicians

I agree.  Far and above my greatest frustration is simply having a fucking doctor to see, one that I trust and who I feel is willing to help me with decisions about my health.  I've had none, zero, zilch luck with this so far in DC.  Our profit-centered system rewards health insurance companies for denying care and (specialist) doctors for ... being specialists.  What about good health?  Show me, come on you goddam free market worshippers, where is the incentive for good health?