In other news:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/31/us/chicago-memorial-day-violence/index.html
42 People were shot over the Memorial Day weekend, yet the media's focus was on a primate named Harambe.  What are the names of the 42 human beings?

Willie, Leroy, Tyrone, Jamal. . .

Many, if not most public school require vaccinations even over the objection of parents, or children are not permitted to attend.

This is not really accurate, but even if it was, that is not forcible vaccination.

Spoken like a true progressive. The state is always in first place above parent's rights, no matter how often the state is proved wrong later.

Spoken like someone who types before thinking. I've said from the start that citizens aren't forcibly vaccinated and that this is the way it should be. That gives the parents the ultimate right to fail to vaccinate their children. It'll just be more difficult to function in society without the vaccinations. This is also as it should be.

I know this is Pilot Spin and all, but no matter what anyone says, if you don't, yannow, actually vote for a candidate, you haven't voted for that candidate. The contention that abstaining or voting third party is a vote for the eventual winner is garbage. This is inarguable, and can be shown to be logically true.

But beyond that, many of us consider our one vote more than just a simple tool.  It is an affirmation of our republic and a deep honor. Using the vote is meaningful. And so, too, can not using it be meaningful.

"Whatever one may think of the Donald, he has exposed not only how far out of touch our political elites are, but how insular is the audience that listens to our media elite."

This is true, but also I think he's further exposing just how much our population has dumbed-down.  And it's not just him.  It's the fact that Hillary, Sanders, Trump, etc. are even major contenders.

I have had just about fucking enough of this.

This is the problem with the discourse, I don't agree with you or whoever and I somehow must be fucking stupid. 

I've got a damnned genius level IQ, tested.  I have a 22 year career in engineering and management.  I am a Commercial rated pilot with flight time in more than 40 different make/model aircraft.  I have started and purchased businesses, employed people, managed multi-million dollar programs in the aerospace and defense fields.

I have specific reasons for most of the choices I make in life, and that includes political choices.

This is what is wrong with us as a divided people - it is not just a lack of respect for people of differing opinion, it is an outright pathological compulsion to denigrate them, demean and dismiss them.  Call them names.  Insult their intelligence, to malign their education and to mock their choices with no respect for how or why they arrived there.

It calls to the worst in us and I am fucking sick and tired of it.

'Gimp

Who would have thought that the courage to push back on FedGov would have come from the CEO of Apple?

"You know what would be better than prosecuting those who helped the San Bernardino jihadists?  Stopping them, i.e., for the Men in Black to do their goddamned jobs. An arranged marriage to a Pakistani woman who spent years doing...something...in Saudi Arabia?  Those two murderous misfits had more red flags on them than Bernie Sanders's front yard on May Day, and the best minds in American law enforcement and intelligence did precisely squat to stop their rampage. Having failed to do its job, the federal government now seeks even more power - the power to compel Apple to write code rendering the security measures in its products useless - as a reward for its failure."

 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431491/apples-tim-cook-right-resist-governments-demand?target=author&tid=903320

I think instead of banning "assault style" weapons, we should ban "assault style" religions.