Where is Hogan on G&S reform????

[44man]

Education, more specifically of women. Colleges today are majority female. They don't invest that time to graduate and raise large families. Birth rates in the world. Education still coincides today. Look at the skew in France, those are not native French being born..

education for city folk and liberals, men and women, is the cause for them to have fewer children to love and take care of, I have little doubt.

country folk just cant afford them. I would have loved to have had 4 or 5 more kids but as I said my wife couldn't have them, I wasn't getting rid of her for that BUT I surely don't know how I would have been able to feed and clothe them. I would have figured something out though.

city folks think very differently than we do down in the woods. they think about themselves first and foremost. maybe it is the education they are getting. I do not know.

it may well have to do with years ago the state asking small communities to add diversity to our families and making meeting woman from other places more available to those same small communities. that way we didn't have to marry our first cousins and all dontcha know.

 

[Brooklyn]

62% is quite weak, OK..

I've never laid out a version of gun culture, but I'm sure yours is fascinating. If you are denying the gun culture in America is important/glamorized disproportionately by white males by a multiple margin, be my guest.

I am denying that your version of gun culture is not the enemy of liberty.. just who do you think passed all those gun laws in the first place..

The rest is explained by that fact..

 

[BeoBill]

Welcome aboard Okletfish and thanks for posting in the 'Introductions' thread.

It can be extremely discouraging at times, but do what you can to fight the machine. Call/write/visit your reps, don't be a silent sheep, get on as many .gov lists as you can.

Just don't tug on Superman's cape.

And NEVER eat the yellow snow.

 

[BeoBill]

education for city folk and liberals, men and women, is the cause for them to have fewer children to love and take care of, I have little doubt.

...city folks think very differently than we do down in the woods. they think about themselves first and foremost. maybe it is the education they are getting. I do not know.

Having been born and raised in NYC, I agree with you. But I also need to make a couple of points.

City folk by definition live in apartments. Small apartments go for a lot of money any more (compared to wages). Bigger families will necessarily require bigger apartments, which cost a premium. And one can only cram just so many bodies into a given space until it becomes unbearable.

Also, the city dweller mainly thinks about three physical spaces: their block; their work location, and their immediate surroundings. Everything else is "flyover country" and doesn't figure into their thought process to any lasting degree.

 

[rambling_one]

Oh stop.. Romney was weak among us white guys.. frankly I almost sat this one out...

Against Obama? To the woodshed with you.

 

[Matlack]

Romney won 59% of the total white vote, 20 points over Obama. White males voted >62% for Romney. Now go back to 1980 demographics, Romney wins every state.

I question if you read that article. You took 2 pieces of it and somehow came to the conclusion that in 1980 Romney would win every state. You took percentages of votes and this line:

twenty years ago whites were 87 percent of the electorate; this year they were 72 percent

No where does it state that he would have won every state or even in 1980. If you want to learn why Carter lost you should read about it. Its everything I already said. Here is the first site when I googled it for you: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/carter-election1980/

So recap, his 4 years were terrible. 79 in particular was bad. Energy crisis (oil embargo), inflation, continuing hostage crisis, etc. Not to mention the debate. Reagan's famous line, "It might be well if you ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago? If so vote for four more years of Carter. If not, I could suggest another choice that you have."

 

[44man]

Having been born and raised in NYC, I agree with you. But I also need to make a couple of points.

City folk by definition live in apartments. Small apartments go for a lot of money any more (compared to wages). Bigger families will necessarily require bigger apartments, which cost a premium. And one can only cram just so many bodies into a given space until it becomes unbearable.

Also, the city dweller mainly thinks about three physical spaces: their block; their work location, and their immediate surroundings. Everything else is "flyover country" and doesn't figure into their thought process to any lasting degree.

I never really thought about the lack of space of city folk. thanks for that info.

kinda the opposite of how it use to be down here when everyone grew tobacco and having 10-15 free helpers was welcome!!!

 

[Schipperke]

I question if you read that article. You took 2 pieces of it and somehow came to the conclusion that in 1980 Romney would win every state. You took percentages of votes and this line:



No where does it state that he would have won every state or even in 1980. If you want to learn why Carter lost you should read about it. Its everything I already said. Here is the first site when I googled it for you: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/carter-election1980/

So recap, his 4 years were terrible. 79 in particular was bad. Energy crisis (oil embargo), inflation, continuing hostage crisis, etc. Not to mention the debate. Reagan's famous line, "It might be well if you ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago? If so vote for four more years of Carter. If not, I could suggest another choice that you have."

OK I'll retract every state, hyperbole. He'd of still won a landslide electorally. 48+ states if you want to be more granular. Don't assume that article is the limit of research. You are really overthinking. 59% of white vote went to Romney. White population 1980 was 80% , in 2010 , 64% It is no doubt even less in 2015.
59% of an 80% block is near unbeatable.

 

[Mr H]

With that attitude, why are you here?

Or....

We educate.

 

[Brooklyn]

Against Obama? To the woodshed with you.

Almost..

 

[DaemonAssassin]

Or....

We educate.

We can try...

 

[teratos]

It's all in the approach.

 

[Schipperke]

It's all in the approach.

 

[Matlack]

OK I'll retract every state, hyperbole. He'd of still won a landslide electorally. 48+ states if you want to be more granular. Don't assume that article is the limit of research. You are really overthinking. 59% of white vote went to Romney. White population 1980 was 80% , in 2010 , 64% It is no doubt even less in 2015.
59% of an 80% block is near unbeatable.

Yes and if Obama ran in 1980 he would have lost for entirely different reasons. Romney would have had a different outcome. Ultimately the 2 campaigns aren't comparable.

 

[Schipperke]

Yes and if Obama ran in 1980 he would have lost for entirely different reasons. Romney would have had a different outcome. Ultimately the 2 campaigns aren't comparable.

Has nothing to do with comparing campaigns it is much simpler but you don't see it, but enough of the wander off topic.
My only tie in with Hogan, and politics is that the country is changing demographically and culturally at a rapid pace now, I believe 2A rights have hit the best they will be "publicly and legislatively" , so in those two areas, worse is now the only direction. Hogan publicly never promised any change in Maryland gun laws, and to get bent he's doing nothing just means people did not want to listen. All 2A can hang on is the Constitution and the Courts interpretation.

 

[DC-W]

http://fcx.news/435/governor-hogan-makes-open-carry-gun-permits-legal-for-al

 

[JRMills]

http://fcx.news/435/governor-hogan-makes-open-carry-gun-permits-legal-for-al

You sir are an @$$#**€

You didn't get me but I clicked that last night on Facebook.

 

[DC-W]

You sir are an @$$#**€ You didn't get me but I clicked that last night on Facebook.

Lol.

Wife sent that to me.
I was like "Dafuq is fcx news?"

 

[Alutacon]

Why a problem against Obama relative to gun control??? Outside of every gun owner's insistence that he would take your guns away, he has, in fact, done absolutely nothing in his presidency to take actions against gun ownership. He's only just started spewing anti-gun rhetoric, with which I disagree, but even he says he can't and isn't going to do anything.

 

[Mr H]

He overestimated the will for gun control in Congress.

Hold no illusions that the GA won't keep trying (though some are softening).