Recent content by RonDean

Everything Bullfrog! says - in spades. 1. For some people I guess it's not a crisis that needs to be addressed until someone they personally know gets shot. For the rest of us, we can still ask why anyone needs to get shot. And why it should take a crisis before correcting or parsing a need due...

I know this post is wasted digital ink, but I'll post my opinion with no expectation of changing a single mind. I was raised rural. That means I grew up hunting. I started with a .22 for rabbits (only city folk that couldn't aim used shotguns in my estimation), maybe a 40-10 for small field...

I didn't ask anything. I just stated my position. Like many things these days, this is a topic that it is impossible to discuss rationally.

I don't know where I fit on the Loony Socialist and Hateful Fascist spectrum, but until guns are no longer the prime cause of child and teen deaths, I'll keep advocating for SOME kind of change.

I Cheerfully Refuse Leif Enger It's a hard book to categorize. Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife (in a time when books...

I agree on all your basic points - as well as some others recently posted. To add or contrast I suggest the following. 1. Sure, there are individuals that can rise above others with the same opportunities. But the greater majority will not achieve nearly as much as those with greater...

So true. I would be happier if the US had fewer at the absolute top and bottom of the income range and far more somewhere in the middle. From https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262036160/the-vanishing-middle-class/ Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how...

I'm thinking that with 2 old men running for Pres, who their VP is should make a difference. On one side we have a previous attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021. On the other side... Hmmm... Don't seem to see anyone there. OK, how...

Morgana, I could not agree with your observations more. I also use many of the same sources to guard against misinformation.

Like in most regressive societies, we have children to support us when we can no longer be self supporting. Especially since the social safety net is not keeping up. In so doing we provide the country's owners (as George Carlon described them) with more cannon fodder and more subservient minimum...

I have found a couple RV Forums that might interest me more. Tine will tell. But, while I might not be happy with one or two moderators here, I am not so upset as to encourage anyone else to leave this forum. Nor do I think such a post would last long anyway. :)

OK, I'll stick my toe in here a bit more. I agree that if we all just shop for news and opinions we agree with, we'll miss a lot. That applies to both (all) sides of politics and or issues we face today. It's unfortunate that so many of us have accepted tribalism. There are some on this forum...

G8, No. For all / any of your or other's personal pokes, I'm not back. Just making an occasional flyby these days and looking for another RV forum. Life is just too short to spend much more time doing things that are not fun. And I've found little of that here lately.

Global warming refers to the average temperature of the GLOBE getting WARMER. That's why it is a more descriptive term than "climate change" - which could be accurate if the climate changed in either direction. Weather is a local phenomenon that can actually get colder in some locations and...