What is your government putting in the water?

[ZOA NOM]

What's interesting about the situation is that the one thing that these socialists always ignore is the fact that the "rich" people from whom they seek to extract their "shared" wealth can simply leave. The only "rich" that will remain are those hardworking middle class folks who can't afford to leave. This is the point where the dictator steps in to confiscate whatever they have left, and voila! We're suddenly in Venezuela.

[PaulG]

What's interesting about the situation is that the one thing that these socialists always ignore is the fact that the "rich" people from whom they seek to extract their "shared" wealth can simply leave. The only "rich" that will remain are those hardworking middle class folks who can't afford to leave. This is the point where the dictator steps in to confiscate whatever they have left, and voila! We're suddenly in Venezuela.

Yes the dictator.  Now I get it.  It all makes sense now.

[ZOA NOM]

Cute

[JPaganel]

I think the problem with Islam in the Western world is that it cannot be separated from Sharia Law,

Islam is really more than a religion - it's a complete political and legal system. Old Testament has something similar in it, but Jews are content with it applying to no one but them.

The Caliphate is real,

It's a theoretical goal, in the same way Communism was.

and the Muslim world has one goal; Islam will dominate the world.

They couldn't dominate a wet paper bag.
Look at all the hardline Muslim countries - how is dominating going for them? They are either poverty-stricken messes or precariously held together by force of the ruler, which is going to come crashing down if that one guy, or his family, wavers a little.

You being afraid of them is them winning.

They aren't interested in simply making non Muslims move, they must be eradicated. They are using immigration and procreation to accomplish that goal.

Muslims have the same problem that conservative Christians do. Young people are a lot more interested in Hollywood movies than in fiery sermons.

Sex, booze, and rock-n-roll are more damaging to Islam than any war you could wage against it.

[andyoutandabout]

Yay for sex, booze and rock and roll. What would we do without them?

[Mike Ramos]

What's interesting about the situation is that the one thing that these socialists always ignore is the fact that the "rich" people from whom they seek to extract their "shared" wealth can simply leave. The only "rich" that will remain are those hardworking middle class folks who can't afford to leave. This is the point where the dictator steps in to confiscate whatever they have left, and voila! We're suddenly in Venezuela.

Mr. ZOA NOM,

Lighten up, just because socialism is a close & evil cousin to communism, sunny Venezuela would never becomes as is Zimbabwe; the situation that is developing in South Africa or closer to home Cuba...  hmmmm - perhaps at home add in a few states where people are moving from because of confiscatory policies...

From the article:  ''The subsistence economy stands in stark contrast to the oil boom years when abundance seeped into the most remote reaches of what was once Latin America's richest nation."

And the article: (from Reuters of all news organizations).

  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/with-venezuela-in-collapse-towns-slip-into-primitive-isolation-idUSKCN1T823D

Please note: the situation in Venezuela has been eroding for a number of years; it began long before the current U.S. president - my comment is not about him; is an observation of a political construct that is not sustainable as a whole, nor equitable except to a few.

When is the next Rally...?

[Mike Ramos]

Yay for sex, booze and rock and roll. What would we do without them?

Exactly!  The question remains when is the next Rally!? 

But Mr. Andyoutandabout you left out the riding! 

Seems as if I got the booze part okay (well, at least I try), however I prefer more moderate music and the should not the sex subject should wait until I get married...?!

Midget

[ZOA NOM]

Well, all the head patting aside, times are changing, and the current administration will, in my view, be nothing more than an 8-year temporary pause in the slide. There aren't enough individuals left that are willing to fight for the traditions we built this nation on.

For reference, Hugo Chavez outlawed (through common sense gun laws, of course) guns in Venezuela in 2012 before he passed on. It only took 7 years for the "government" to turn their weapons on the defenseless People.

[JPaganel]

Venezuela has a couple of problems, and the fact that they have oil is really more of a curse than anything else.

US is really not in much danger of that.

should not the sex subject should wait until I get married...?!

Midget

If you're a Muslim, absolutely. That's totally a thing they like.

Well, all the head patting aside, times are changing, and the current administration will, in my view, be nothing more than an 8-year temporary pause in the slide. There aren't enough individuals left that are willing to fight for the traditions we built this nation on.

For reference, Hugo Chavez outlawed (through common sense gun laws, of course) guns in Venezuela in 2012 before he passed on. It only took 7 years for the "government" to turn their weapons on the defenseless People.

Ironically, Obama has done more for gun owners than Donald "ban bump stocks and I don't like silencers" Trump.

[ryanschoebel]

As interesting as this has been to read, I'm starting to think its time to move it over to the political section haha

[Tuned forks]

Ryan is correct.  Where's Father Pat when we need him.'

Joe

[racerrad8]

You are just about right Ryan.

I post up poking fun at the Aussie's because they do everything backwards.

They drive in the wrong side of the road
The water spins the wrong way on the toilet

And then they sent over...

Gingzilla — an Australian native whose real name is Ben Hudson

But leave it to the American's to take it someplace totally different.

Kind if sorry I posted it now.

Randy - RPM

BTW... Has anyone seen Klav or could he be Gingzilla...?

[ZOA NOM]

[JPaganel]

So, you're saying "not white" is a problem?

That's rather straightforward there...

[ZOA NOM]

I didn't say a word. Interesting you jumped to that part first.