Well, I don't think anything in the US truly maps to Iran, but Washington is the Japan of the US (if Japan had guns, since WA has one of the oldest concealed carry laws in the US, and one of the highest per capita rates of carry), and I say that being 3rd generation born and raised in WA. CA is like India in that it's full of people who can't seem to run themselves very well. New York is nowhere near Germany. New York would be like our Italy, with entrenched corruption (not to mention more Italians than most of the rest of the country).

Now the real question is, which is more like Canada, Minnesota or Maine?

Replace him with Danica McKellar and we'd have an awesome system. :-p

What kind of government have you given us?

A republic, sir, if you can keep it.

This is not a mob rule democracy. We have a Constitution for a reason. Minorities do have value in this country, and we should all fight to keep it so, because we are all in one way or another a minority, whether by race, creed, or just in our simple individuality.

A wrong thing believed by most is not made right by its popularity.

I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you over the screams of all the Saudi women beheaded for no reason in the last decade. Well, I guess there were reasons, really good ones like, being a witch, or doing things not approved of by their male owners, I mean "husbands" and "fathers". Hell, they're allowed pretty much to do it themselves without repercussion and save the state the time and trouble of a show trial where they can read the Quran to justify to everybody why they should slice women up for attempting to live their lives. How dare they. And America is totally worse than that.

You're a delusional asswipe.

Nowhere even in the same universe.

But thanks for the blind, knee-jerk anti-Americanism, it was clearly good for some cheap moddings-up.

State control is not a solution to negligence.

Now that joke was funny. Macabre, but funny. We're well beyond the "too soon" period, so I think people should lighten up a bit. As a species we need to be able to laugh, however wryly, about our mortality sometimes.

My wife sometimes forgets who she's talking about and makes 'your mom' jokes about our kids. Then stammers for a bit when she realizes that would be her. Seriously.

I would prefer a one way ticket to midnight.

Irish Ted Stevens. Needs more tubes.

You and the poster above you are very, very naive about the role of "Westerners" (really just bai ren, white people, Latinos not so much because Asians think they're like the diaosi of Westerners) in East Asian businesses, especially mainland Chinese. It's often not about talent at all, it's about the company's image. Having a 'white guy' on your staff is 'impressive', so much so that there are 'rent a white guy' services in China for business affairs where you want to impress but don't want a full time 'white guy' just hanging around on the payroll.

Written like a real cultist idiot. All the hardware Apple uses is available in OEM form for less money. They don't have some sort of magical fairy dust that makes Intel processors better, despite what the Apple Tax apologist advertising they've run might claim otherwise.

There are a lot of OEMs, dawg. Clevo, Uniwill, Compal, Arima, MSI, etc. Those are just what immediately spring to mind.

I have open carried plenty in Virginia, never had any problem with law enforcement, most of whom are properly trained and will usually tell whiny people that it's legal and they should mind their own business. Virginia is awesome that way, but where the rest of the benighted country is concerned law enforcement is still generally accommodating since groups like opencarry.org have been organizing people to reestablish their rights. This has catalyzed a few court cases, and where the law is on the carriers' side it ends up making the agencies look bad and costs said agencies money too, so they straighten up and fly right usually after a couple of such burns. (And thanks to a supportive community, the pay to play aspect of our legal system is frequently collectively defrayed.)

I love how you ask for citation, then say that some unspecified, unsourced, vaguely referenced "data" suggests otherwise. Alright, pot, how about you pony up a citation yourself, and maybe then the kettle can be arsed to dig up things as simple as FBI's uniform crime stats or whatever for your lazy, ignorant ass.

And I'd love it if you dug up some nonsense by the hyper-biased VPC. Then I could lay bare their intellectually dishonest methodologies borne of pure desperation for maximum numbers. They're so whacko they actually called Tamarlan Tsarnaev a "victim of gun violence" because he was shot by police. (Or it was Bloomberg. One or the other.)