en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/350681 Comments by PapaDawg http://www.debateitout.com/would-gun-control-reduce-crime.html#IDComment530827170 Just like our 535 idiots at the seat of our government . . . The lights are on but nobody's home! Sat, 29 Dec 2012 06:24:39 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/would-gun-control-reduce-crime.html#IDComment530827170 http://www.debateitout.com/would-gun-control-reduce-crime.html#IDComment527063365 Hello? Debate it out censors? Hello? Is anybody there? 5 days ago I wrote an opinion about this question. When are you going to post it? What century are you going to post my comments? I know you don't like my opinions because they go against your political views and actually contain common sense. If you really wanted people to debate you wouldn't censor our remarks because they might be practical but contrary to your views. Hello? Debate it out censors? Hello? Is anybody there? Hello? Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:18:40 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/would-gun-control-reduce-crime.html#IDComment527063365 http://www.debateitout.com/would-gun-control-reduce-crime.html#IDComment523414795 Thank you. I went to post my comments on this issue, but "debate it out" doesn't like certain political words. My comments have to be cleared by their censors, I suppose. Debate it out needs to get with the program here and knock off this censoring! I mean, if you don't like people knocking your political posture, well, that is sort of juvenile now isn't it? Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:31:18 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/would-gun-control-reduce-crime.html#IDComment523414795 http://www.debateitout.com/what-will-happen-on-december-21-2012.html#IDComment516536250 Really? Do you really think that the majority of the general population of this planet will give up their long-sought-after stupidity so easily? I mean, after all, there is a general consensus world-wide that the now extinct Mayans were all-knowing in their mathematical calculations to which they applied their calender dates. Who among us mere modern mortals dare to go against the predictions of a long ago "civilization" that placed its hopes and dreams upon the altar of human sacrifice? Just kidding. My warped sense of humor sometimes gets the best of me . . . B) Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:13:04 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/what-will-happen-on-december-21-2012.html#IDComment516536250 http://www.debateitout.com/will-more-states-legalize-marijuana.html#IDComment512586888 Colorado and Washington have legalized it, and CA, OR, and AZ (the only states that I know about, but there may be others that I do not know about) have legalized it for medical use. Since I first entered law enforcement back in 1962 I have noticed a definite move to make "recreational" narcotics use legal among those stupid enough to use dope. They still haven't figured out just why it is called "DOPE"! I could write volumes on what narcotics, including MJ, ends up doing to you body and reproductive system and eventually your future offspring. However, no one wants to listen to what one lone former cop has to say. They all just want to get high. To them, that is all that matters. Stupid is as stupid does. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 06:54:21 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/will-more-states-legalize-marijuana.html#IDComment512586888 http://www.debateitout.com/will-the-internet-remain-free-and-open.html#IDComment510006490 Not if the U.N. has anything to say about it! Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:19:29 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/will-the-internet-remain-free-and-open.html#IDComment510006490 http://www.debateitout.com/what-will-happen-on-december-21-2012.html#IDComment505773511 BEWARE ALL YE WHO READ THIS! J-A-D IS COMING ON 12/21/2012! So what is J-A-D you ask? Are you really ready for the answer????????? Drum roll, please . . . . J(ust)-A(nother)-D(ay) B) Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:56:59 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/what-will-happen-on-december-21-2012.html#IDComment505773511 http://www.debateitout.com/should-the-u-s-remove-the-electoral-college.html#IDComment505270496 Which ever political party loses the Presidential election ALWAYS wants to end the electoral college. Before anyone can make an intelligent answer to that question, they must completely understand what the electoral college is and why it was implemented in the first place. Hint; there were only thirteen states and very little educated population back then as most folks were illiterate, so only male landowners were allowed to vote (Landowners were usually educated to some degree and could read and write). Now, from what I hear, there are some folks who want to do Presidential elections by county vote, some want to do it by popular vote, and some want to do it by state vote. My choice would be the popular vote as that way everyone's vote would count. However, since the electoral college favors the northeastern states the most, I doubt if there will ever be a change during my lifetime. Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:29:00 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/should-the-u-s-remove-the-electoral-college.html#IDComment505270496 http://www.debateitout.com/will-new-york-city-be-underwater-in-50-years.html#IDComment504237652 Yes, we DO need a Department of Common Sense. This little argument is proof of that. Why? Have you noticed that you and I are the only ones debating this issue? And our specific disagreement is not the original issue, but wether or not (and yes that answer is definitely not) I used accurate scientific information and calculations to determine my statement. (I don't know if that is an admission that you just might be correct or not) However I think (and I might be wrong) that we both agree that NYC won't be under water anytime in the foreseeable future. I know that I have a sense of humor (however warped as it may be), but do you? If you happen to live in NYC (which I know I never will), my question is . . . "How long can you tread water?" ;) B) Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:36:48 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/will-new-york-city-be-underwater-in-50-years.html#IDComment504237652 http://www.debateitout.com/will-new-york-city-be-underwater-in-50-years.html#IDComment503781366 Someone told me before this last election that what we need is a department of common sense. To have everyone on this planet be a mathematical analyst and calculate everything mathematically just doesn't make any sense. I have been told that scientists come up with ideas and engineers turn their ideas into practical reality. In that sense, you being an engineer, then you should know that the reality that you have predicted is just not practical. Am not trying to insult you either, but you need to input some much needed common sense into your calculations. Then you could conceivably become much more accomplished. Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:43:51 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/will-new-york-city-be-underwater-in-50-years.html#IDComment503781366 http://www.debateitout.com/will-new-york-city-be-underwater-in-50-years.html#IDComment503295150 Am sorry, forgot that you are the knowledge guru of everything. So tell me o' great guru, just WHAT are the scientific odds of THAT ever happening in the foreseeable future? Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:11:19 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/will-new-york-city-be-underwater-in-50-years.html#IDComment503295150 http://www.debateitout.com/will-recent-events-spark-more-talks-about-global-warming.html#IDComment501812624 Okay, let me educate all of you who read this; Our planet Earth is not in a perfect orbit around the Sun, its orbit is in a constant state of flux (change, for all uneducated), which means that after several hundred thousand circuits (years) it is either slightly closer ("global warming") or slightly farther (Ice age). Way back in the early 1950's while I was in the fifth grade I read this in one of the science textbooks we had at the time. Since then, due to all the studies that NASA has done from space, we have learned that our Earth is not perfectly round. It is slightly egg shaped, and that is why we have varying weather patterns that sometimes deluge us with excessive precipitation (rain & snow) and alternately with long dry periods (droughts). All this put together tells us that we are now in a period of warm (closer to the Sun) and that we will eventually cool off in several hundred years or so. So, would Chicken Little (Al Gore) PLEASE shut your uneducated political beak because the sky really is not falling! What we are experiencing is NORMAL for our planet! (yes, I know, politicians and so-called journalists are having a field day with scaring the s**t out of the uneducated masses world wide so they can get more of our hard earned money in more taxes!) Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:36:54 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/will-recent-events-spark-more-talks-about-global-warming.html#IDComment501812624 http://www.debateitout.com/will-obama-be-successful-in-imposing-immigration-reform.html#IDComment497180781 What immigration reform? Do you dare call open borders and free citizenship to drug traffickers immigration reform? Are you drunk, on drugs, or just plain stupid!?! Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:31:23 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/will-obama-be-successful-in-imposing-immigration-reform.html#IDComment497180781 http://www.debateitout.com/will-new-york-city-be-underwater-in-50-years.html#IDComment495219634 There isn't enough ice to melt to raise the sea level enough to flood NYC, that is just plain scientific fact! Having said that, NYC is already doomed from the idiocy of Bloomberg et al. And that is why I do not live there! B) :p Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:21:16 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/will-new-york-city-be-underwater-in-50-years.html#IDComment495219634 http://www.debateitout.com/what-is-the-future-for-libraries-as-all-things-go-digital.html#IDComment494620879 The future of libraries will be to preserve the old ways as they make the digital age available to all of us, just like they have been doing since the concept was started. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:22:24 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/what-is-the-future-for-libraries-as-all-things-go-digital.html#IDComment494620879 http://www.debateitout.com/will-obamas-strong-win-carry-him-past-ideological-gridlock.html#IDComment494619352 We are headed to a fiscal cliff, and Obama will decimate our military in hopes of avoiding it, but all it will do is make us vulnerable to our enemies! Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:19:48 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/will-obamas-strong-win-carry-him-past-ideological-gridlock.html#IDComment494619352 http://www.debateitout.com/why-did-mitt-romney-lose-the-election.html#IDComment494616321 His message was clear, however Hispanics still think Obama will give them a free pass to citizenship and the inner-city poor still believe Obama will give them free money and everything else they want. We are all in for a really big disappointment! Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:14:33 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/why-did-mitt-romney-lose-the-election.html#IDComment494616321 http://www.debateitout.com/who-will-win-the-2012-presidential-election.html#IDComment483072850 Its over. Obama won. America is no more. Wed, 7 Nov 2012 13:00:31 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/who-will-win-the-2012-presidential-election.html#IDComment483072850 http://www.debateitout.com/who-will-win-the-2012-presidential-election.html#IDComment482438341 As of right now - 2:30 PM in Arizona on 11/06/2012 - it is anybody's guess. I voted at 9:30 this morning and was happy to show my drivers license and voter registration card at my polling place. Where I live we have a fairly large Hispanic population and I was happy to see many of those folks there, also happy to show their drivers license and voter registration cards. FYI, I do not know any people of Hispanic descent who want to open up our borders like a flood gate as they immigrated to here from South America to get away from all the corruption and drug trafficking violence. Tue, 6 Nov 2012 21:35:18 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/who-will-win-the-2012-presidential-election.html#IDComment482438341 http://www.debateitout.com/who-will-win-the-2012-presidential-election.html#IDComment482433030 I sure hope and pray that you are right, because if Obama is allowed to continue his destructive policies we won't have a United States of America by the end of 2013! Tue, 6 Nov 2012 21:28:04 +0000 http://www.debateitout.com/who-will-win-the-2012-presidential-election.html#IDComment482433030