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Music is music. And good music is good while bad music is bad. What one wants to label it is another matter and not always so clear cut. There have been plenty of country hits that were written by people who were the furthest thing from country music. One example Willie Nelson had a hit with "Blue Skies", and that song was written by Irving Berlin who was the furthest thing you can get from country music. There are many other examples also. Elvis had a pop hit, "It's Now or Never", and that was the Italian folk song tune "O Sole Mio" with English lyrics. So labeling something "country", "pop", or anything else isn't always exactly accurate. With that said, modern day music, be it country, pop, rock, rap, etc. is quite atrocious. Doesn't hold a candle to ANY music of the past.

I would agree with this. People, especially women these days need to realize that when both parents work and leave others (nannies, day care, school, etc.) to do what a parent should be doing it isn't the same as the parent doing it. You can't have everything in life. Women want careers and kids, but the reality is that it's very difficult to have both. Something has to give, and unfortunately many times it's the kids who lose out.

Haven't looked at this thread for a while. So this will only become a desk?? Major disappointment actually. I was hoping it would be something a bit more interesting like Lawdwaz was named county coroner and this would be his autopsy block. LOL

Storm914, you need to change your name to Sunnyday914 since you were ill prepared for a storm. I'm surprised no one else picked up on the irony of his name.LOL

Statistics can sometimes be manipulated, but there is no refuting the ones you posted. I have always said that if it wasn't for blacks occupying American prisons, they'd probably be able to close at least half of all the prisons in the U.S. Of course no one will ever bring this up. Blacks want to make it look like they are being locked up for no good reason which is BS. No one gets locked up for nothing.

L.L Bean went to age 21 also. Does anyone think that Cabelas and Bass Pro will follow? I surely don't have a clue, but wonder if people would also boycott them? If they did go to age 21, I don't think it would be too long before small gun dealers went that route also. I think many of the small dealers would be afraid to sell to anyone under 21 thinking that if the person they sold to committed a crime, they'd be sued by everyone and their uncle. Especially since everyone else isn't selling to those under 21. The risks may be too high for them.

Growie's story about those killer labs she had to fight off makes your story sound like a walk in the park.

Who is to say that he wasn't trolling the pro-gun side all along? He got their financial support, votes, etc. and now he may do "whatever the F*%k he wants", no matter what he told or promised them. At one point a number of years ago, well before he ran for president he did say that assault weapons should be banned. So go figure what this guy is really thinking??

A very good point actually. Give those (democrats) that want to burn you something they want, and maybe they will let up on you.

Wow, Wooly that is an amazing story. Glad you made it out OK. I don't think anyone will top that story. Of course Growie would have, but haven't seen her around lately......!

I would agree. Still too early to call. Like I said in an earlier post, he may tweet something completely different in the middle of the night one of these nights. Maybe he sleepwalks and what he tweets isn't him saying what he really means? Or maybe it is?? LOL

This is what I don't understand. If Obama had made the type of statements that Trump did yesterday, most here would have been on him like flies on poop. Yet other than WNY I really haven't heard anyone calling Trump out on this. Even FOX news seems to be giving him a huge pass on this, which I find quite interesting. Doc, Philo?? You two are Trump's biggest lackey's here, what do you guys say?? I'm all ears. And please don't tell us that "he's still better than Hillary". He may be, but that's not the explanation we need here. I for one could have told everyone from the very beginning that Trump is the epitome of a two-face. He will promise you something one day and say something completely different the next day. Just because you voted for him, gave him financial support or other support don't mean anything to the guy. He is like the wind and can change direction at any moment. I guess all those who have resigned in his cabinet since he took office had gotten a taste of his character, and now I reckon some here are also. My .02 for the day.

I guess with Trump we have to wait until the next morning where he might tweet something completely opposite at 3:00 A.M., so the jury is still out on what he really thinks. For all we know he may tweet tomorrow morning that the legal age to purchase guns should be lowered to 12 years old. Maybe Doc can send him an email at 2:30 A.M. to set him straight? They both like to write stuff early in the morning it seems. LOL

I had predicted several times over the years on this forum (wish I had the time to find the posts), that the next significant federal gun legislation would happen with a republican president in office. So here we just might be getting some.

Looks like Trump agrees with increasing the age to 21 also, so maybe it will be pointless to boycott Dick's. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/28/trump-to-announce-sweeping-gun-control-safe-schools-package.html

I hear what you are saying, but honestly good parenting shouldn't even need to get to the point where you need to beat the kid to make them understand. There are ways to get your point across without having to whip them. You have to start them off young and follow thru with what you promised them the punishment would be. I know it don't take much these days for the authorities to deem things "child abuse", but at the same time some parents punishments can go a bit overboard also. What some parent thinks is an acceptable punishment may in reality be a bit more than that. So there can be a fine line there sometimes. I surely don't have all the answers to this, but do know that one can discipline kids without ever needing to worry that it will be considered child abuse by anyone. If you start beating them, then you better have some self-control and know when to say when. Sometimes if one goes looking for trouble, they find it, so it's best to approach things with your head rather than act out in rage.

I've mentioned in an earlier post that if I look back at the MANY teachers I've had from kindergarten thru 4 years of college, for the life of me I couldn't think of one that I could see fighting off or shooting down a gunman. Most would have probably been the first ones to hide inside a school locker to avoid getting shot themselves. I just never seen one. Even my kids teachers. Absolutely none of them could I imagine dropping and armed perpetrator. Not to say that there may not be some teachers out there who'd be qualified, it's a big country after all, but I just think most teachers simply don't have this in them.

I wouldn't disagree with you on that, but whose fault is it that family values are going to hell?? Just because many families these days have poor values, and society puts little emphasis on good old fashioned values, doesn't mean your or my family has to go down the same route. To hell with what today's society wants or expects, it's time for everyone to get their OWN house in order. I can't stand people blaming society for this and that while their own lives are so F*&$ed up that it isn't even funny! Why would that be everyone else's fault??

Absolutely did not suggest that. I am only stating that if your "broad-brush" theory had any merit, we'd also have just as many mass shootings in Europe. You guys were the first to say that if people didn't have access to guns, which many don't have easy access to in Europe, they'd use other means like bombs, cars, trucks, knives, etc. So why aren't they using these other methods instead? And again, don't throw the jihadists in the mix here, because they are a whole different animal in this discussion of American style mass killings. I was only bringing up your theory here and will again say that it holds absolutely NO water on why some Americans are driven to such mass killings. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why these people commit such crimes, many which will probably never be figured out, but to say that it's "progressive socialism" that is causing it is pretty lame. So the "progressive socialists" are the ones brainwashing our kids in school that guns are bad and that people shouldn't have any guns, and then you think these same kids are going out to buy an AR15 to shoot the school up? Yeah, that makes a LOT of sense. The facts are that both the Sandy Hook killer and the Florida killer were living in homes WITH guns, so ANY brainwashing they might have gotten in school by the "progressive socialists" wasn't lived out in the home.

So, you are saying that the reason there are less mass killings in Europe is because they "haven't got the means to carry out mass killing"?? In other words fewer guns available would equal fewer mass shootings? You sure are making a good argument for what the anti-gun side has been trying to say all along, aren't you? LOL

Yeah, so why doesn't Europe have more of these type of mass killings since most countries in Europe are way more socialist than we are?? Other than some of the immigrant jihadists that may have wrecked some havoc in Europe over the last few years, it's not like mass killings happen there very often by native Europeans. There was one well publicized mass killing in Norway a few years ago by a native where he killed 77 and that guy was a neo-nazi, so he sure as hell wasn't indoctrinated by the type of socialists you are talking about. Your "broad-brush" answer really doesn't hold much water I'm afraid.

Please elaborate on who you are calling "pieces of shit" here??

My disdain for this a$$wipe Cuomo goes well beyond the gun control issue. How he got elected twice as easily as he has is beyond me. If you upstate folks don't get out to vote this year he will surely win again. I know that NYC gets blamed for him easily winning, but if you look at the last gubernatorial and mayoral election in NYC only about 1 million people of the 8.5 million living in the city voted so that isn't much. Surely could be surmounted if everyone upstate got out to vote. That is the only way you will get rid of this tyrant.

No, I couldn't agree with this. I could agree to doctors being able to enter names of people with histories of mental problems into the NICS system, but no way doctors should be able to make final decision on who should or shouldn't own a gun for everyone. Why would anyone think doctors are so infallible and know everything? Thank goodness I've been healthy my whole life and I myself try to avoid doctors as much as possible so why should he be the one making final decisions on whether or not I should own a gun?

I second what First-light said. If she doesn't like it she doesn't like it. We can't expect our kids to be clones of us and like everything we do.