My thoughts are with the folks who lost children in the lastest US tragedy.

[shayman]

I appreciate you digging up the links but those hardly count as proof that Google has a political agenda.

I'd see them as proof that Google's PageRank algorithm - which Google is constantly tweaking to fight off spammers and search-engine-optimization cheaters who want their stuff to appear first - is complicated, constantly evolving, and sometimes will deliberately not index low-quality sources or exclude non-news-sites from the 'news' index. People actually do set up networks of blogs that contribute nothing new other than all mutually linking to each other, all to pollute Google's indexes which (among other things) rate web sites by how many sites link to them. If you can get your site to rank unusually high in a Google search, you'll make more money off of ads. It's tough to build a quality index and fight off people gaming the system at the same time.

[Midnight Blue]

I appreciate you digging up the links but those hardly count as proof that Google has a political agenda.

I'd see them as proof that Google's PageRank algorithm - which Google is constantly tweaking to fight off spammers and search-engine-optimization cheaters who want their stuff to appear first - is complicated, constantly evolving, and sometimes will deliberately not index low-quality sources or exclude non-news-sites from the 'news' index. People actually do set up networks of blogs that contribute nothing new other than all mutually linking to each other, all to pollute Google's indexes which (among other things) rate web sites by how many sites link to them. If you can get your site to rank unusually high in a Google search, you'll make more money off of ads. It's tough to build a quality index and fight off people gaming the system at the same time.

I'd say that eliminating Anti-Obama sites constututes a political agenda. Not to mention the disrespect for Soldiers, or the banishing of the critic of the UN. But people are free to believe what they want to.

[Midnight Blue]

I'd say that eliminating Anti-Obama sites constututes a political agenda. Not to mention the disrespect for Soldiers, or the banishing of the critic of the UN. But people are free to believe what they want to.

Should read : constitutes.

[1argoholic]

I'll say I'm glad I'm Canadian and I'm glad I'm free, I wish I was a dog and Harper was a tree. That classic started way back in the Trudeau era.
I've mentioned my theory as to who gets into politics on here before. They are the dorks who got the crapped kicked out of them in school and now they come back to torcher the rest of the population as adults.

[shayman]

A Google search for "CFL" returns 37,900,000 matches.
A Google search for "NFL" returns 367,000,000 matches.

Proof of Google's anti-CFL agenda!
:-)

[294life]

I'll say I'm glad I'm Canadian and I'm glad I'm free, I wish I was a dog and Harper was a tree. That classic started way back in the Trudeau era.
I've mentioned my theory as to who gets into politics on here before. They are the dorks who got the crapped kicked out of them in school and now they come back to torcher the rest of the population as adults.

seems like that theory should become law.

[Rids]

Very sad.

What I've found interesting in the aftermath about this one is more people are talking about mental heath and how with universal health care this could have been prevented, than about gun control and banning weapons.

Universal health care can't help those that don't believe there is an issue. There are a lot of issues at hand here and many were undiagnosed that should've been caught much earlier in school.

There should be more rules on gun control but they should be in respects to proper storage. However the likelihood to enforce these rules in a proactive sense makes it fairly impractical. Really you wouldn't know they were improperly stored until there was an issue and then you're just piling on. The current gun control laws don't work in either country. The city of Chicago is technically a "gun free" area and yet 10 people were shot there Friday night by a trio of individuals driving around the city's downtown.

In this particular issue the gun laws actually worked. Adam Lanza had tried to purchase both weapons and ammo through a couple of retail outlets and been declined. So instead he did it the way most lawless individuals would, he took weapons that had been purchased legally and used them both against the owner and others.

In the end you don't stop criminals with laws, you stop them with the enforcement of the laws. Save money from paying politicians and hire more police officers.

[294life]

Ironic that an autistic killed another. for anyone wishing to help.

http://www.dougflutiejrfoundation.or...Joeys-Fund.asp

I've donated my 28.27$

[Midnight Blue]

I've mentioned my theory as to who gets into politics on here before. They are the dorks who got the crapped kicked out of them in school and now they come back to torcher the rest of the population as adults.

Respectfully, 1argoholic, it was you, who brought up politics in two recent threads, to which I felt inclined to respond.

The first one was just after the US Election in November, where after you praised Obama's win, you went on to crap on right-wingers.

And even though all of us right-wingers do not share the same beliefs, I decided to respond.


On this above recent thread, I decided to respond again, after you suggested that right-to-carry arms laws, were at least partially if not probably, responsible for this latest tragedy.


Personally, I have no interest in changing people's opinions, because generally it is a waste of time. And I do value my time.

I will though, make clear that not all of us on this site, share the same political views.


I am happy to leave it at that.


If you, or anyone else decides, that their way of thinking is not to be construed as the predominate, prevailing, opinion on this forum, then I, will not have to contravene, to suggest that at least 3 to 5% of us on this forum, are proud Conservatives. And Libertarians. We are right-wingers, and we will drink you under the table, because, we have had a lot of experience at drinking.

Perhaps if no one starts political rants, no one will have to intervene.


Cheers !


And, Ka 'Pla !

[argolio]

WTH was the NRA thinking with that press conference? Even Republicans are now trashing them.

They should have kept their mouths shut and let things blow over.

[T-Bone]

WTH was the NRA thinking with that press conference? Even Republicans are now trashing them.

They should have kept their mouths shut and let things blow over.

I'm glad they didn't. People are finally starting to see the foolishness of their logic.

[Ron]

They did make a very good point about how much armed security we are surrounded by every day.

[Will]

They did make a very good point about how much armed security we are surrounded by every day.

I was in a Barnes & Noble yesterday in Boca Raton with an armed security guard!

[T-Bone]

They did make a very good point about how much armed security we are surrounded by every day.

No where near the amount as in US and it's not necessarily a good thing to have armed guards everywhere.

[Wobbler]

The current gun control laws don't work in either country.

I'm curious about this. What do you mean by "don't work", and is the definition of effective firearm legislation the same for both countries?

[294life]

No where near the amount as in US and it's not necessarily a good thing to have armed guards everywhere.

for 1argoholic's own safety, i agree.