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If most go unreported, how do you know they happened? And how many go unreported?

Yes, like I said if using raw numbers. But with percentages, it's hardly self-evident. I would submit that the percentage of expediters who verifiably pee daily in public, in relation to all expediters, than is the percentage of cops who daily verifiably violate citizen's rights, in relation to...

Interesting how one salient paragraph was conveniently left out of that piece from May 30, 2012 penned by Wayne Allyn Root, who left the Libertarian Party this year rejoined the Republican Party, and has endorsed Romney for president (read all about him here, of you don't know about him already...

However, that's only true of things that are, in fact, self-evident, such as the different between the grains of sand in a sandbox and the grains of sand on all the beaches of the world. There is no question that either of us could produce story after story of cops abusing people, but by the...

Well, maybe anyone reading the news and gets their information spoonfed to them and believe everything they hear, yeah, sure, THEY can see it. But these are the same people believe that Ron Paul wasn't even running in the primaries, and that child abduction is so common that 50% of all children...

The glitz and glitter of driving the truck onto the tarmac has apparently lost some of its luster.

No, I didn't say that. At least not in this brand new context you've now introduced. You're the one who set the parameters of it being costly and stressful to "society in general, and that makes if a matter of the public good." They might, but frankly I'd be surprised if those women would say...

"Exponentially" is an interesting choice of words. In order to you that word and have your statement retain any validity or be taken seriously, then you must know the specific numbers. What are they? How many times per day, on the average, are there verifiable instances of violation of rights...

When CSA started, it was no different to me than when they started the "test scores standards" in schools. Teachers immediately started teaching to the test scores. Education, and the quality thereof, didn't matter. The only thing that mattered was those test scores. CSA is the same thing. As...

I can tell you for certain that I witness expediters peeing on tires or in public far more often that I witness a cop using a taser or excessive force. Not even close.

Not really. Religion is what caused the debate in the first place. Until the late 1800s religion wasn't involved in abortion issues, and there was no debate beyond the debate of the mother and the one who got her pregnant. Now that religion has gotten involved, there is a debate, but the debate...

The Founding Fathers never intended for the government to be the administer of health care, either. Taxes were never meant to be for the public good insofar as family planning and women's health care. Taxes were meant to keep the government functioning to provide for security, roads, commerce...

You can't compare peeing on tires to Tasering somebody, at least in impact and severity, but the analogy is spot on. It's simply a matter of scale. Stereotypes, while usually based in truth somewhere, can be real problematic when applied to a group as a whole. "If cops aren't prohibited from...

Note to self: never pee on Phil's truck again.

We wouldn't get very many free SUVs that way.

My use of the word trolling was probably not the best choice of words, as often zealotry and trolling can be easily confused and it's hard to tell which is which. Clearly, he's not trolling.

I do. :D A lot of the quotes above, and others like them to found on Web sites with an agenda, cannot be verified at all, and appear nowhere in the writings of those they are attributed to. Some are real, but often taken out of context (wouldn't be prudent to put something in a proper context...

True. There are a bazillion diesel repair facilities with only a few Sprinter repair facilities. However, many mechanical problems with Sprinters do not necessarily require a Sprinter technician to repair. A water pump is a water pump. So is an alternator. Turbos, radiators, belts, hoses...