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I agree that the government should not be in the business of marriage, that their authority should end at civil unions. But let's be realistic here: we're playing semantics. Civil unions would bestow all of the same legal benefits, and plenty of religions support gay marriage, plus anyone can...

Should have and would have, sure. Could have? I dunno, NY has been dominated by liberals for as long as I can remember. Any exceptions - such as Pataki, or when Republicans controlled the NY Senate - seem to have just been RINOs.

lol... no shit, Sherlock. That doesn't make it any less disgusting, and it completely misses the point. The proper answer to a large landmass ruled by a concentration of population is to separate the two to ensure adequate representation of interests. The reality is that upstate and downstate...

I cooked an entire Thanksgiving meal this past weekend, stuffed 5 people and had 5 huge belly-busting leftover meals for the freezer. Turkey, mashed potatoes, butternut squash, stuffing, corn, asparagus, gravy. I am pretty sure I spent no more than $25 on the entire meal. $11 for the turkey...

It's in court right now...

From that article: 13 counties. 13 counties out of 62 are what chose our governor. Disgusting.

Even before the recent-ish court decision, many non-residents had licenses by following the method. The law did not prohibit non-residents from possessing a license, it prohibited non-residents from applying for a license. And the only thing the law said about a resident moving was that they...

I've always been surprised that no one has started coming out with vacuum-sealed clothing. Infinity % improvement over trapped-air insulating. I mean, I get some of the technical barriers. I just figure someone somewhere would have figured something out to get around them.

Picked up a .30-06 with a scope from a gun raffle the other day. That's three guns from two raffles in the past year, all large caliber rifles, which is something I was lacking. I hacked this raffle. 10 guns, only 500 tickets. I bought 10 tickets, which gave me an 18.26% chance of winning at...

The thing is, policies don't override the law. Anyone can write a policy and it can stand until it's tested in the courts. Also working against them is the term "reasonable suspicion." It's been pretty well defined in courts and definitely has to be more than a hunch. Now, as someone mentioned...

That's the thing, they can't... if they could, they would have already. They had no reasonable suspicion, they just knew he was a gun owner.

Yup. I was always a cream-and-sugar guy, until one day I started working at a garage where we had coffee, but no cream and sugar. A few weeks later, I had a cream-and-sugar coffee and almost spit it out. Crazy how that works.

I hear you on this, and agree. I'm being pragmatic... the reality is, it's politically impossible to get rid of welfare. It's just not going to happen. But we might be able to reduce the cost, fraud, appeal, and nutritional issues. That's worth something... billions, in fact.

I think limiting the per-person carry would prevent that. Say, one bag of potatoes, one bag of rice, etc. Enough to last weeks or a month, even, but not enough to make collecting and shipping worth the cost.

I have a plan that would ensure no one would go hungry, and would save us 80%+ of the costs of our current programs. I call it the "beans and rice" plan, and it is pretty similar to what you're saying here. Basically, in every area, there should be a warehouse filled with bags of quality staple...

Really depends on how the payouts go. If a payout is inversely proportional to income, then I'm against it. If a payout is proportional to taxes paid in, I'm for it. That's the difference between wealth transfer and tax reduction.

AI lies, all the time. I used it to search for something for work, and it just made up some complete bullshit. It claimed software libraries that don't exist, did :ROFL:

Don't worry, the tolls will all go away when the initial construction costs are paid off. I mean, that's what the state told us back when it was built, and SURELY they wouldn't lie. Right? ...Right? Oh...

Sentence seems right to me. Not because he is transgender, but because he didn't actually attempt the murder. He prepared for it, went to Kavanaugh's house, then called the police on himself.

Well, remember that it never comes back down, it's really just about how fast it continues to rise. And a lot of the impacts of inflation are delayed, since the inflation hits the cost of the raw materials that then have to be made into stuff that then needs to be shipped overseas and stocked on...

Oh, I'm fully aware that my $300 check is actually costing me $3000. Just like how I make too much for my daughter to qualify for free community college, but am obligated to pay for everyone who does qualify. Or how we paid, what, a million dollars per $50k/yr job with StartUp NY. The list...

Article I read earlier stated he had undergone multiple background checks, including one through the FBI. Found it: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/us/iowa-superintendent-ian-roberts-licence-revoked

We should make it a felony to go past that 6 month limit, or to take more than three days to process a renewal. God, this shit is so terrible. A felony should be a crime that really matters, not a goddamn expired license.

Unless, of course, the citizens consented. Which many do, particularly under the pressure they can find themselves in such situations... which, IMO, is very likely an indirect violation of our rights.

I doubt we'll ever find a direct, irrefutable link between X and autism. I suspect there are a myriad of things that "elevate risk" as opposed to "definitively cause." It's like cancer. Not many things "cause" cancer, but many things "increase the risk of" cancer. I'm quite certain genetics play...

Chugging Tylenol is not the brightest idea. Pretty easy to screw up your liver something fierce.

I am a free speech absolutist. People should be able to say or otherwise express anything, to anyone, at any time. Even intentionally incite riots. People are responsible for their own behavior. A rioter is responsible for their actions, not the person who suggested they riot. Like guns and oh...

I'm surprised by how much this is affecting me. I'm normally quite detached from deaths that aren't really, really, really close to me. A tidbit from an article someone linked in the closed thread might speak to why: I don't know about seeing myself, but what I did see in Charlie was an...

Black shirt guy is almost certainly on his security team, I've seen those arms many times.

The party of inclusion and tolerance has to shoot a man who does nothing more than debate with people. Absolutely disgusting.

It's not the start, it's a continuation of the path down the slippery slope we are already on: 1. See the question about "involuntary commitment" on the 4473. 2. See the SAFE act giving the state the ability to look into your medical records to determine whether or not to allow you to own...

Bad, bad, bad idea. The only people who should be restricted from possessing firearms are people who are incarcerated.

Yeah, I'm not going to fight the military on my own. But that doesn't matter, because I lost all of my guns in an unfortunate boating accident the day before the confiscation order came out. I'll contract Darth to scuba them out when the real fight starts.

Eh, this seems like a pretty weak argument. "2A is a right, so firearms or firearm parts should be excluded from tariffs" is a cop-out. The whole point of tariffs is to bring manufacturing to home soil. If that means increased prices for a while, that's fine... it's a cost of implementing good...

Remember when our governor declared that we were "extremists?" Many on the left consider our interest in firearms to be a mental illness in itself. Again, agree to exclude certain groups and the other side will seek to expand that group to include you.

Holy shit, am I on a gun-grabber forum? Have we learned nothing? Opening the door to gun control is akin to opening the floodgates. You guys aren't wrong, per se: some people are too stupid to have guns. But, give the government the right to make that distinction and pretty soon, everyone will...

I'm not a fan of the early seasons - bow, youngsters, etc. It's not about competition for me (I'm the world's least inspired, and possibly least successful, hunter).

Female cop kinda cute, but she's probably gaining a point or two from the uniform. She's useless at best as an actual cop... all I saw her doing was standing in the wrong spots and running around with her hands in the air like she saw a mouse. I didn't see her service weapon out at all...

I wonder what the woman was up to. I saw "retrieving mail from the residence," but then it says she drove up the driveway to turn around... so she was retrieving mail from a mailbox that was not hers? Is she a porch pirate? Not saying that shooting the vehicle of a porch pirate is a good idea...

I love how CNN is making the Texas thing front-page while completely ignoring the never-ending attempts of NY to do the same thing. We've had our redistricting thrown out by courts twice now, IIRC, and now they're pushing to do it again.

Overpriced, underwhelming. Just like what will come out of the things discussed in this thread.

He's saying that someone commented on a post of Stefanik's, not that she said it. There's a possibility it's true, but if so, it's the usual confusion: correlation is not causation. Homicide rates and crime rates in general have been dropping for decades. No one can point to any single law or...

You haven't been paying attention, sir. The Big Beautiful Bill removed silencers from the NFA.

I might know why. I worked at that Wegmans warehouse for a bit. I busted my ass stacking boxes on pallets for 8 hours a day, making $10/hr. Meanwhile, three senior guys stood at the end of the line shooting the shit. When my pallet was full, one of them would hop on a ride-on pallet jack, lift...

Maybe, but if so, $200k per charger? WTF... I suspect what they're doing government accounting tricks. Sure, it's "only" $78k per vehicle for the production contract, but we spent $200k per (projected) vehicle on R&D that we're now pretending isn't part of the total cost. Of course, now that...

Phew... $10B for 35,000 vehicles? That's almost $286k per vehicle. Also known as A COMPLETE RIPOFF.

Have to agree with many of the posts here. When you move from "comedy show for everyone" to "liberal propaganda hour," don't be surprised when half or more of your audience finds something better to do. That said, while I'm pretty sure that didn't help matters, the most likely cause here is the...

That's right up there with cruises on my "nope" list.

We should sue rape victims for spreading venereal disease, too!

A few thoughts: California, meh. They get what they voted for. I am not a proponent of this constant cycle of building in disaster-prone areas, then seeing them wiped out by a disaster, and rebuilding in the same place. At the very least, we need to prevent taxpayers - and insurance payers -...