Random Politics & Religion #00

you can't live life afraid. safety, even in pennsylvania, is merely an illusion, grasshopper.

Why do you think Japan is the best place to live other than it being a beautiful place?

The rural areas are much cleaner than the rural areas in the states.

Coal is the work of the devil I tells ya !

To the first thing you mentioned about " people are generally nicer".

There is a lot of places in the U.S the same way. No one State is the same or region. When i moved from Ohio to Connecticut it was night and day difference. The attitude was vastly different people seemed more to themselves folks who i talked to want to move out of CT a lot. Which shocked me but i understood. Because of high taxes, it is insane about the property differences of CT to Ohio. The house my wife and i live in is roughly a quarter of a million dollars. I almost puked about the price difference. Because i had the same size house and a bigger garage in Ohio for roughly 30k and more property and hands down less taxes.

The public transportation system you mentioned.

That is what the U.S needs a lot to catch up to some nations around the world. Do you realize how many more jobs we would have today if we invested in upgrading our Infrastructure and transportation in all 50 states?

You mentioned liking mountains instead of plains.
If you live in Texas my friend your in a good spot to put your finger on our country's map and choose which mountains you want to live by. I'm not a fan of dormant volcanoes myself but mountains i agree are beautiful.

You said there way of life was healthier then here in the U.S.
Again you choose the way you want to live your life. Your body is your own, but we find regulations happening more in the U.S to limit independent lifestyles. Which i find wrong in a free society i always look back at the Constitution.

Much of that is attributable to industry and industry-related abuse of our country's rural areas.

Coal, gas, and oil aren't exactly clean industries, even when executed as responsibly as is possible...and that almost never even happens.

What I was referring to was the amount of trash Americans throw out their windows in rural areas vs. the rest of the world.

Well that's just an issue period, not just in rural areas. That's ignorance at play in a society that doesn't properly punish it.

I mean, look at Singapore. Clean as a whistle!

I'm surprised that nobody has brought up the 2 year old boy accidentally shooting a (first perceived) relative at a Walmart.

I'm surprised that nobody has brought up the 2 year old boy accidentally shooting a (first perceived) relative at a Walmart.

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What I was referring to was the amount of trash Americans throw out their windows in rural areas vs. the rest of the world.

The Rutherford Institute had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hold law enforcement officials accountable to knowing and abiding by the rule of law. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Court’s lone dissenter, warned that the court’s ruling “means further eroding the Fourth Amendment‘s protection of civil liberties in a context where that protection has already been worn down.”

Is "Manspreading" A Medical Necessity?

A shot of “manspreading” in action from the crowdsourced Tumblr, Men Taking Up Too Much Space On The Train.

“I’m not going to cross my legs like ladies do,” Fabio Panceiro told the New York Times last week, “I’m going to sit how I want to sit.”

He’s not alone in his sentiments about New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) new campaign to discourage “manspreading,” the practice of male passengers, essentially, feeling the need to open their legs as widely as possible while riding public transportation.

(The city agency is also encouraging subway passengers to please not take up extra seats with backpacks and packages, and instead keep those objects situated in their — compact — laps.)

The slogan for the city’s campaign is “Courtesy Counts: Manners Make a Better Ride” and many other cities across the country have engaged in similar campaigns to curb the unwieldy, sometimes graphic, seated position.

In addition to being generally impolite, some women feel that the posture is not just a subtly aggressive statement of male privilege, but often also a potentially threatening one. By manspreading, a male passenger is not only insisting his right to take up as much space as he desires in public, regardless of the needs or desires of others, but can also use his physicality as a means of intimidation.

Manspreading, some argue, is a form of passive assault.

Yet men’s rights activists in both the U.S. and Canada have been outspoken in their insistence that sitting with their legs spread out is not only their god-given right, but also necessary for their health.

One group, the Canadian Association For Equality (CAFE) have started an online petition to speak out against the Toronto Transit Authority’s similar encouragement to their male passengers to please keep their legs closed. As of yesterday, the petition has 820 signatures.

Rural?

When I was a teen aged beatnik in NY city "air mailing" stuff too big for the garbage down the airshafts in apartment buildings was standard. I don't think this has changed.

In Seattle, where the apartment buildings are small enough to not need airshafts, people leave that stuff on the curb. Honestly do they think the homeless are going to use a broken computer desk? No, just like airmailing, its abandonment and therefore some one else's problem.

In addition to being generally impolite, some women feel that the posture is not just a subtly aggressive statement of male privilege, but often also a potentially threatening one. By manspreading, a male passenger is not only insisting his right to take up as much space as he desires in public, regardless of the needs or desires of others, but can also use his physicality as a means of intimidation.

Or anyone, for that matter, with oversized briefcases

Some of us can't help having a large briefcase.

I have to carry my company laptop, several files (some of which can be as large as 4" thick) and various other items (every once in a while I bring a 10 key calculator small enough to fit in one).

These items (especially the laptop and files) are too important to put in the headrack, and pretty much needs to be held in front of me at all times.

Some people are being rude

That's people.

Everyone in their life is rude to somebody else at one point in their lives.

The people who are bitching about people being rude are in fact being rude themselves.

It's hypocritical to think otherwise.

(Not attacking you Ramyrez btw, just pointing out the obvious)