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Dancing Fire, I think what Arkteia is trying to say is how painful it will be for Heather's mother to have to go through a trial with all that will entail, not that there shouldn't be one.
No need when he is 100% guilty...:rolleyes2:
 
Dancing Fire, I certainly wouldn't have acted like Trump has. He has no diplomacy skills whatsoever. Most rational people innately know not to goad an unstable person. I think we all can agree that it has been common knowledge for years than Kim is unstable. I wonder how Trump supporters would feel if they had to spend the next week in Guam?
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You are safer living in Guam today than the E. side of Chicago but of course the left wing media don't wanna talk about the murders there b/c a Dem. Mayor name Rahm Emanuel is running the city into a war zone. Hmmm...:think: who did Emanuel worked for before he became the mayor of Chicago?
 
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You are safer living in Guam today than the E. side of Chicago but of course the left wing media don't wanna talk about the murders there b/c a Dem. Mayor name Rahm Emanuel is running the city into a war zone. Hmmm...:think: who did Emanuel worked for before he became the mayor of Chicago?

Here is a link to a table with murders in Chicago from 1957 through 2015. Rahm was elected in 2011. The murders from 2011 through 2015 (where the data ends) are in the lower third numerically over the past six decades.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...cides-data-since-1957-20160302-htmlstory.html

The info can be copied and pasted into excel and sorted in a variety of ways for your further analytical pleasure.

It's the south side BTW, not the east side. If you're on the east side of Chicago you're wet. Any murders taking place in the east side of Chicago would involve drowning.

You will note that more murders tend to take place in the summer months. Would you would like to blame Rahm and/or Obama for the fact that it's hot here in the summer? Or perhaps that's somehow linked to Hillary's emails...
 
You will note that more murders tend to take place in the summer months. Would you would like to blame Rahm and/or Obama for the fact that it's hot here in the summer? Or perhaps that's somehow linked to Hillary's emails...
Chicago is Chicago no matter how you spin it and it is up to the Mayor (Dem. or Rep) to keep the city safe from crimes. My chances of getting shot in Chi. is greater than the war zones in the middle east.
 
Chicago is Chicago no matter how you spin it and it is up to the Mayor (Dem. or Rep) to keep the city safe from crimes. My chances of getting shot in Chi. is greater than the war zones in the middle east.

If I were you DF I'd stay out of both of those places, sheerly for you own safety. As a matter of fact DF, it's a dannnnnnngerous world out there. Just stay home.
 
If I were you DF I'd stay out of both of those places, sheerly for you own safety. As a matter of fact DF, it's a dannnnnnngerous world out there. Just stay home.
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I'll come to pay you a visit since I know you live in the safe side of Chi.
 
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I'll come to pay you a visit since I know you live in the safe side of Chi.

There is no safe side of Chicago, DF. There's no safe side ANYWHERE. But don't worry, I'll protect you!
 
There is no safe side of Chicago, DF. There's no safe side ANYWHERE. But don't worry, I'll protect you!
In your armored Porsche?..:bigsmile:
 
Maybe DF and our old pal Ruby need to get a Safe Room together. :eek2:

Only if that safe room can be on the east side of Chicago!

DF, bring a snorkel... you're gonna need it!
 
Maybe DF and our old pal Ruby need to get a Safe Room together. :eek2:
Where is Ruby?...Did she finally surrendered to all the left wing PS liberals?. ...:lol:
 
Where is Ruby?...Did she finally surrendered to all the left wing PS liberals?. ...:lol:

There was no surrender. I'd say it was more like when Dorothy threw the pail of water on the Wicked Witch.
 
Only if that safe room can be on the east side of Chicago!

DF, bring a snorkel... you're gonna need it!
And as for Prez. Obama. He make no efforts during his 8 yrs by trying to take his hometown back from the criminals... Yeah, Chi. is very safe ...FOR CRIMINALS!
 
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Chicago is Chicago no matter how you spin it and it is up to the Mayor (Dem. or Rep) to keep the city safe from crimes. My chances of getting shot in Chi. is greater than the war zones in the middle east.

That's because all the radical conservatives, and white supremacists and every day citizens on your side of the political fence DF refuse to believe you need better gun laws....
 
That's because all the radical conservatives, and white supremacists and every day citizens on your side of the political fence DF refuse to believe you need better gun laws....
News flash!!...This may come as a shock to you, but all the street gangs just now volunteered to turn in all their illegal guns...:o

Yea, they just found out that it is against the law for felons to carry guns. ..:rolleyes:
 
News flash!!...This may come as a shock to you, but all the street gangs just now volunteered to turn in all their illegal guns...:o

Yea, they just found out that it is against the law for felons to carry guns. ..:rolleyes:

So apparently other places in the world that have better gun control laws don't have street gangs, gangs in general and drug problems. Last time I checked we have all of those things, societies like ours and the UK just make it harder for EVERYONE that shouldn't have a gun including the criminals to walk around with them.

If you spent a fraction of the money that is currently being spent on the armarda of warships currently in my part of the world sitting off the coastline of Korea, on better gun control laws we might all happily be able to get on with it....

And while I am on the subject you might actually train some of your new young police officers better as well like when an overly zealous US police officer shot and killed an unarmed Australian woman in her pyjamas when she had heard what she thought was a domestic going on outside her house and called them there in the first place...
 
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So apparently other places in the world that have better gun control laws don't have street gangs, gangs in general and drug problems. Last time I checked we have all of those things, societies like ours and the UK just make it harder for EVERYONE that shouldn't have a gun including the criminals to walk around with them.
But your country does not already have millions of illegal guns flowing around in the hands of felons like we have here in the U.S.

I think most Americans are in fav of stronger gun control laws but how can we take the guns away from the bad guys?
 
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Not sure if this will make Iran another North Korea - I've yet to even think that North Korea is going to do anything. Iran has neighbors who don't take kindly to their atomic power and more apt to do something about it.

Why does the US Russia and the other nuclear powers get to have nuclear weapons and not other countries?



You heard it from me first. I guess it'll happen sooner than I thought.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-rouhani-idUSKCN1AV0LW
 
Maybe she changed her mind about Trumpster. I hope so. Maybe she was kicked off also.

Where is Ruby?...Did she finally surrendered to all the left wing PS liberals?. ...:lol:
 
Spend less money on war games provoking North Korea and more money on better policing, more police and better incarceration systems. And introduce tighter gun control laws. I don't know how many times I have to say it, it's not about removing guns from decent people, it's about cutting back certain guns and making it harder for people who shouldn't have them to actually walk around with them.
 
That's because all the radical conservatives, and white supremacists and every day citizens on your side of the political fence DF refuse to believe you need better gun laws....

@arkieb1 I've lived in the NW suburbs of Chicago for over 30 years. Illinois is a blue state, Chicago has been run by Democrats for DECADES. Illinois HAS gun laws. Why wouldn't Obama have done more about the gang shootings in Chicago? Why do you think that is? Do you think gun laws matter to the gang bangers who have no shortage of guns? It's not as simplistic as you think.
 
Spend less money on war games provoking North Korea and more money on better policing, more police and better incarceration systems. And introduce tighter gun control laws. I don't know how many times I have to say it, it's not about removing guns from decent people, it's about cutting back certain guns and making it harder for people who shouldn't have them to actually walk around with them.

Where does the money come from for "better policing, more police and better incarceration systems?" Pretty over simplistic to say "Just throw them all in jail!." Illinois is on the brink of bankruptcy. Let me know when you have the answer to Chicago politics.
 
@arkieb1 I've lived in the NW suburbs of Chicago for over 30 years. Illinois is a blue state, Chicago has been run by Democrats for DECADES. Illinois HAS gun laws. Why wouldn't Obama have done more about the gang shootings in Chicago? Why do you think that is? Do you think gun laws matter to the gang bangers who have no shortage of guns? It's not as simplistic as you think.

Bonfire, another factor is that even if Chicago/Illinois changed the laws (which, as you aptly point out, are irrelevant to those that don't give a rat's a$$ about the laws to begin with) there is an ample supply to be had just over the Indiana border.

MY proposed idea is that anyone found in possession of a gun FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, I don't care if it's grandma carrying a gun in her purse to church and back because the streets are dangerous, then they get a MANDATORY 10 year prison sentence. No time off for good behavior. End of story. And I'm not talking about tying the gut possession to any other crime (in the instances where one has been committed) or anything else. Possession = 10 years in the slammer. PERIOD. In my utopia BTW, a license to carry a gun is irrelevant because there would be NO licenses. And if you carried a gun for you job, like police officers, you would have to leave that gun at your place of employment when you went home for the day. Sign it into the weapons cache at the end of your shift and sign it back out when you come to work next.

Whew.

Utopian rant over.

I have strong feelings about all this in general, but having spent the day down at 26th and California yesterday for jury duty I am even more in a snit about the gun thing. I worked down there when I was in law school -- night narcotics court. We would start at 4 pm and go until the cases were all cleared off the docket. Now THAT was a life experience...
 
Where does the money come from for "better policing, more police and better incarceration systems?" Pretty over simplistic to say "Just throw them all in jail!." Illinois is on the brink of bankruptcy. Let me know when you have the answer to Chicago politics.

Bonfire, I didn't even attempt to address the financial aspect of all this in my last post. We are indeed screwed here on many financial fronts.

DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED on the pension situation!!!
 
Bonfire, I didn't even attempt to address the financial aspect of all this in my last post. We are indeed screwed here on many financial fronts.

DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED on the pension situation!!!

I hear ya sister!:x2
 
Thank you @Dee*Jay for responding to Dancing Fire. Great response Dee!
 
I just read on Bloomberg that the CEO Strategy Council is disbanding after the CEO "exodus."
 
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