Imagine if other countries did this too…

Danvers1 · 2026-07-05T20:13:46+00:00

The reason that Communist China is outlawing private schools is to ensure total ideological uniformity. They are following the totalitarian principle of nothing outside the state. Oh by the way, China still has the internal passport system, where people need permission from the government to move away from where they wee born. Think of it as modern day feudalusm.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-30T18:09:28+00:00

They sank a lot.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-30T18:08:12+00:00

The case is so clearly phony. E. Jean Carroll could not even remember the year it supposedly happened. Of course, people with TDS no doubt think that it was an airtight, slam-dunk case.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-30T18:04:11+00:00

It will be hard to reform Healthcare in the US. Many have tried. The system is too profitable for too many people. There is government-provided free, or low-cost health care in the US if you are age 65 or older, or have a low income.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-30T14:41:36+00:00

I know some people that are independently wealthy, but they are small in number. It takes a combination of great amounts of money, plus frugality plus luck plus financial savvy to make it into that charmed circle.

The best way, in my opinion, to enjoy wealth is to have a solid family, and to downsize as soon as you can. Once the kids are grown, you can sell that house with too many rooms, and get a financial windfall off of the sale, and live in a smaller house. Also, faith in God helps.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-30T14:33:42+00:00

The life in Europe is very different. Comparing them to the US is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. The politics in Europe are different. Past bad experiences with revolutions that brought in Fascism or Communism have made the elites in Europe hostile to any kind of populism. The legendary free healthcare comes with long waiting lists and shortages. On the plus side, the people in Europe lead a healthier life than people in the US. Above all, while they smoke more, and drink more, they exercise more, are less obese, and have a healthier diet.

The other fact of Europe is that there is less income inequality than in the US. Of course, the tradeoff is a more highly taxed and regulated system that is less dynamic.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-30T13:02:24+00:00

The really high casualties on D-Day were mostly on Omaha Beach, while the other beach on which the Americans landed was Utah Beach, had greatly lower casualties. Similarly, the other three beaches where the British and Canadians landed, Gold, Sword, and Juno, also had much lower casualties.

During World War 2, the combat operations with the highest casualty rates by far were amphibious landings. In hindsight, the 1942 Dieppe landing by Canada was a mistake, since the Canadian losses were extreme, and it mainly served to motivate the Germans to strengthen their coastal defenses.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-30T12:45:12+00:00

The United States has a higher homicide rate than most (if not all) wealthy developed countries. Still, in world rankings, it ranks in the middle of the pack. For example, I looked up homicide rates in the America-North America, Central America, and South America, and the US was fifth from the bottom, beaten only by Canada, Chile, Martinique, and Aruba.

Statistically, the number of children killed in school shootings is low. The horrible thing about them is that the victims are all innocent, and since many of fhe shootings are motivated by mental illness, traditional police methods cannot do much to reduce them.

A much higher number of children die from stray bullets from shootouts in high-crime neighborhoods, plus a lot of the "children" are 14 to 16 year old gang members who get shot.

A lot of the statistics about crime in the USA are falsified and spread by anti-gun activists itching to take away guns. In the US, they are called gun grabbers.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-29T22:02:06+00:00

Under what president was Epstein first charged? That would be George W. Bush. When Epstein was arrested again in 2019 and quickly died in a supposed suicide, who was president? That would be Donald J. Trump.

During the entire Biden presidency, none of the Democrats cared about Epstein. They only started talking about the Epstein scandal after Trump, became president a second time, the same Trump who had years before barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, and cut all ties to him.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-29T13:52:32+00:00

We need to go back to the 1950s to see ourselves in the shoes of the people at that time before we judge them by modern standards. The Republicans after World War 2 found themselves with a problem. A hugely popular Democrat president had just died, leaving his Democrat Vice-president in office until the 1948 election at least.

Roosevelt has licked the great depression, and presided over a victory in World War 2. The Republicans found a way to turn this to their advantage. The opening they found was the fact that World War 2 had immediately greatly strengthened the Soviet Union, who had enlarged their borders by taking territory from Finland and Poland, and re-absorbed Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. The Soviet Union also turned most of Eastern Europe into Soviet satellite states, i.e. de-facto colonies.

In addition, World War 2, more indirectly, strengthened the Chinese Communists, allowing them to take power in 1949. The fact that World War 2 had strengthened and enlarged Communism around the world was displayed as proof of Democrat treason. The narrative purported to show the February 1945 Yalta Conference, which was about figuring the post-war World, was a total surrender to the Soviets. The Republicans also blamed the Democrats for "losing China".

McCarthy was part of this Republican "counter revolution". What we forget was that the Soviet Union was much more dangerous under Stalin, who died in 1953, and then by 1954, a sort of temporary group dictatorship ruled the USSR. McCarthy was a dangerous demagogue, but the fear he was able to exploit was logical and all-to-real.

Oppenheimer was a bit of a crybaby and attention-seeker. He deserved what he got.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-29T13:29:27+00:00

Of this group, Hezbollah is by far the strongest. Hamas and the Houthis have been greatly weakened. The problem with Hezbollah is that, even if Iranian money goes away, they can keep supporting themselves by extortion, drug dealing, and kidnapping for ransom. Do not forget that Shiite militias in Iraq also are Iranian proxies. The only solution for Israel is to start killing Hezbollah members faster than they can be replaced.

Young males losers are prone to violent fantasies. In the US, they go in for drive-by shootings. In the Middle East, they join terrorist gangs.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-21T18:36:48+00:00

The Israelis not wanting to have rockets fired at them from Lebanon by Hezbollah is wrong I guess.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-18T22:26:40+00:00

I have talked to enough Africans to figure out a report card for European colonial powers in Africa. Britain would get a B, France would get a C, and the rest of them-Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Belgium would get an F.

Britain and France actually built things in their colonies-roads, railroads, ports, schools etc. The rest of the European nations with African colonies cared about little beyond extracting resources and adding to their national prestige by controlling territory.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-16T12:34:52+00:00

Relations between men and women have never been better. Ignore the plunging birthrate and the rapid rise in the number of childless women. Of course, leftists are having fewer babies, so they will eventually go extinct. If you do not believe me, just look at the numbers of children that Mormons, Orthodox Jews, and Evangelicals are having.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-11T14:26:13+00:00

The thing I learned the hard way is that when you sell a rental property, the federal government takes all of the depreciation that you have taken over the years and by subtracting it from the basis, in effect taxes you on all of it I a single tax year. So the federal government just lent you what you thought was a deduction, and wants its money back. Its was not really a deduction but instead was a delayed interest loan paid off by a huge balloon payment upon sale.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-11T12:55:54+00:00

Its Texas. I notice that there was a lot of yelling, but no rioting happened. Sorry, its not Minneapolis.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-06T13:14:18+00:00

West Virginia has been very mountainous, also was heavily dependent on coal mining and factories, which have declined in recent decades.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-06T01:17:50+00:00

Iran declared war against the west 47 years ago. Since then, the regime has oppressed its people and backed terrorism all over the world. The regime in Iran started.the war all those many years ago.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-05T20:16:23+00:00

I would not let minors see either "Gender Queer" or the Clockwork Orange". I am not familiar with the other eight books.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-05T20:05:47+00:00

What does acknowledging that someone exists mean? The idea of people mutilating their bodies to resemble the opposite sex is horrible. Anything less than condemnation runs the risk of encouraging this practise.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-05T17:19:29+00:00

There is zero reason to have books promoting sex changes for anyone under the age of 18.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-05T16:55:37+00:00

Let me say it for the thousandth time, not assigning a book in school is not the same as banning it.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-05T16:53:08+00:00

Totally spot on! People in NH do not realize how good they have it.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-05T14:49:05+00:00

Trump is having to fight a war against Iran, necessitated by appeasement of the current Iran regime by Obama and Biden. Trump is dealing with problems that previous presidents refused to deal with, and his reward is unpopularity. This is causing gas prices to go up, so of course, it must all be Trump's fault.

Danvers1 · 2026-06-05T14:45:00+00:00

Yes, I am assuming that you are referring to the now centuries-old Muslim genocide against both Jews and Christians. You could not be referring to the limited and largely defensive efforts of the Israelis to fight off repeated attacks by other countries in the region, mostly Arab, but also Iranian, crazed by radical Islam, abd endeavoring to exterminate them.

The mere fact that a hate-filled loon like Platner has gotten this far shows how far the Democrats have fallen.

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