I think you are giving them far too much credit – their generally not well endowed with either a brain or a p…Glock. But there is an assload of money involved. Absolutely.
dogbreath September 27, 2011 Comment to NRA’s “Single Issue” Is Obama, Not Guns [Nice! Dogbreath invokes Markley’s Law, says we have small brains while saying “their” instead of “they’re”, and attributes the motivation to protect a specific enumerated right to making money all in just two sentences. That is impressive.—Joe]
That’s Left-Speak for “a People’s [communist] Revolution”. Cornel West wrote an article for the NYT to describe it. “Martin Luther King Jr. Would Want a Revolution…”
Often has the left attached itself to good causes, co-opting them and bending them into radicalized socialist movements.
Have you heard much about the protests on Wall Street? Me neither. Here is Cornel West leading a group of drones in one of those protests. Listen carefully. He wants an “American Fall” to coincide with the recent Arab Spring. The Belt-way left is in a pickle. The base was fired up and ready to go, but they didn’t get their revolution. They feel it’s time to pounce. They’ve taken off the masks, taken to the streets, and now they’re feeling let down. Wait ’till they’ve simmered and seethed for another year and then see their hopes and dreams, their radical democratic vision, slip away. That could get ugly.
This is why we aren’t supposed to feed the bears in the national parks. You give them a little bit of socialism here and there, and before you know it they’re ripping the doors off your car trying to eat your children. Then you’re forced to shoot them. It’s inhumane. DON’T FEED THE SOCIALISTS! The Republicans have been happily feeding socialists for generations, trying to prove their own good intentions, the fools; “Look! Aren’t they cute? And that one has some little cubs! Awww! I’ll be nice and give them my cold french fries, so they don’t go away unhappy…” I think we should convince some park rangers to have words with the GOP leadership.
North Carolina Democrat Governor Beverly Perdue gave us a rare moment of honesty as she called for a suspension of elections in order to Get Things Done.
This confirms, once again, my definition of “Divisiveness” in the language of the left– “Speaking ill of or disagreeing with socialists or socialism.” She didn’t use the “D” word, but used “partisan bickering” instead, which is the same thing. When they win an election, it is the beauty of democracy in action– the will of the people expressing itself in the best of ways. When they lose, democracy itself is under attack. Things can’t get done due to political posturing and gridlock, the American People are throwing a temper tantrum, etc., etc.
The assumption is always the same with communists– the stupid little people don’t know what’s good for them. They don’t appreciate all the great things we smarter and better people could do if only they’d stop asserting their will and submit to ours. In its naked form, it is a cult of mass destruction.
The mindset is nothing new of course. What’s unique is the blatant honesty in Governor Perdue’s statement. It’s very, very rare for a socialist to say something so direct in public in an official capacity They very much love hiding in complexity and have said exactly so. This only shows us that they’re beginning to feel comfortable, and that tells us something. It means things are getting more dangerous, but I suppose that anyone who’s been paying attention already knew that.
We’re now being told it was all a little joke. Reading the quote I don’t see it as a joke. I see it as a trial balloon. Leftists can get away with that.
Not only are you stripping the right of the local municipalities to protect safety but you’re also asking them to adhere to gun laws at the state level that don’t even exist.
I suppose it’s possible the reporter had the crap for brains and messed up the quote but I doubt it because the quotes from the other people in the article weren’t just word salads. It could have been deliberate maliciousness by the reporter but usually the bias is against gun owners.
It’s true that we are sometimes our worst enemy but it may be more so for our opponents. We don’t always act as a team and give conflicting messages to the public and the politicians. We have people that sometimes say things that which, while true, can be exploited by our opponents. They have crap for brains and it shows.—Joe]
It leaves me somewhat dumbfounded in a way, and yet it’s thoroughly normal and predictable. What leaves me dumbfounded is that fact that it is so normal and predictable.
“Where’s Waldo” was one title that occurred to me, but there is no Waldo.
I have a challenge for you. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find one thing that Rick Perry actually said in this ad;
Just one meaningful statement– one example of what he’s done to further some goal or other in the past, one guiding principle, one thing that would suggest what he actually wants to do as president. Anything. I only watched it twice, but I don’t think you can do it. Right now as far as I can tell, this ad is recycled from an old Obama ad. As I said in comments over on Uncle’s blog, it was probably produced by the same people, who did Bush’s and Clinton’s ads.
And yet there are people who really love this ad, and that is the rub. Are we as a society capable of thinking critically anymore, or is it simply over and done for us?
We need to able to watch something like this, looking, probing, asking ourselves; “Where’s the meaning. Where’s the substance? What’s actually being said here? Anything?” It should be automatic – you’re waiting for something to be said.
Now I don’t want to hear about Perry. For all I know he’s the greatest defender of liberty the world has ever seen, but if so he would tell us in his very own words. However, there is nothing here that would tell us one way or the other, and the fact that he can’t actually say something in his own ad already tells me he’s not my man. Don’t defend him. If he were the leader we need, he would never allow an ad like this to be produced in his name. If he comes out tomorrow and tells us it was done against his wishes, and that those responsible for it have been fired, I might change my mind, but not before. When ads like this one are soundly ridiculed in the public arena, by all sides, that’s when I’ll know we’ve made progress, yet we are nowhere near that now.
He did say that the greatest deeds are reserved for future generations, but like all the other statements, that one has no substance. No indication of what he thinks is a great deed, but the strangest part about that statement is that it makes no reference to current generations. What about us? Why can’t we be doing any of the greatest deeds? Why are they reserved for someone else, and who is in charge of reserving deeds these days, and why? Who appointed this new “Deed Tsar”? See; you can go crazy trying to infer meaning where there is none.
…and then denying it. Pete Sessions, NRCC Chairman, sends out regular e-mail alerts. Every single one of them can be interpreted as “Look at those dirty rotten Democrats! Give us money!”
Today’s e-mail alert title was “Threatening is Not Governing”. Even though it’s completely wrong of course, I might be tempted to see that title as a sign of some positive development in Mr. Sessions’ understanding in that it touches upon an important point, but I know him too well.
What he referred to as “threatening” was Obama’s “threat” to “…veto any plan aimed at fixing our budget crisis that does not include his demand for a new $1.5 trillion tax increase.” That contains so many layers of idiocy that I won’t even get into it. Forget the president and that it’s fully within his job description to “threaten” to veto anything Congress pukes out.
The point is that any and all governing is threatening. Every law, rule, ordinance, every tax or restriction, every subsidy– they’re all backed by threats, and all government threats include a group of people with guns who are ready, willing, and I dare say eager to make good on those threats.
I’d say I’m hopeful that even Pete Sessions has stumbled upon an important truth, but he of all people will never admit to understanding it. Maybe, since he has broached the subject, more of us can expand on it.
Mr. Sessions; I see your accusations in much the same way I’d see a drunk sitting at a bar with a martini in his hands accusing the drunk next to him of being a drunk. Only worse– the typical drunk probably isn’t going to work every day to find new ways to formulate threats against the whole of The People.
The evil use the intellectually challenged and the ignorant to further their agenda but fortunately there are not that many evil people currently in positions of power and/or they are keeping a low profile. They have not been a significant threat in recent battles. There probably is no cure for evil except to recognize it and to remove them from positions of power.
The ignorant are less able to remain ignorant with the Internet. They are very quickly informed once they publically show their support for gun control. That they vote without becoming visible or becoming informed is probably the biggest threat they pose to us. Probably our best weapon against these people is for us to come out of the closet and to take these people to the range.
The intellectually challenged can be transformed into gifts to our cause. Every time they say something stupid we can (and do) broadcast it for others to see and point out the stupidity. Who wants to be on the same side as people who say such stupid stuff? So, yes, we are blessed to have opponents such as these!—Joe]
Fortunately, physicians no longer believe that bleeding the sick will make them healthy. Unfortunately, many of the makers of economic policy still do.
Paul Krugman September 19, 2011 Decline in manufacturing capacity is probably only the beginning of the bad new: Paul Krugman [He is apparently oblivious to the irony as he goes on to say, even though the U.S. Government is broke, “For the time being we need more, not less, government spending, supported by aggressively expansionary policies from the Federal Reserve and its counterparts abroad.”
Krugman believes that budget austerity is the equivalent of “bleeding the patient” when sane people would recognize it as reducing the hemorrhaging. One has to wonder if Krugman is practicing doublethink, doublespeak, or both. In any case he has crap for brains if he thinks the majority of the people will believe him.—Joe]
We are a modern civilized community, and we should work on peaceful solutions to end criminal behavior.
Charlie Beck Los Angeles Police Chief September 16, 2011 Gun control bill in Gov. Brown’s hands [Since the people that work for him are on the front lines of the criminal behavior modification efforts Beck should be consistent. He should order all of his police officers to not carry firearms in public.
Other advice for Beck might include having his police officers hold hands with the criminals and sing Kumbaya.
While he is evaluating how that turns out the rest of the country will be packing heat and questioning his sanity.—Joe]
Let’s start with the obscenely irresponsible laws that cover gun sales in America. For instance, anyone without a criminal record can legally purchase as many rifles and other long guns as they want in the United States. You read that correctly. If you have no criminal record, you can walk into a gun dealer and buy 100 AR-15 rifles, 200 AK-47s, the store’s entire inventory of shotguns, or a .50-caliber sniper rifle that can take down a low-flying aircraft — as long as you have the cash.
James Verini August 30, 2011 Mexican Roulette [And anyone, regardless of their criminal record, can purchase as many copies of the Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, and Korans as they want in the United States. Anyone can also purchase as much gasoline, road flares, and matches as you want. Or you can purchase as many baseball bats, hammers, and knives as you want. What you can’t legally do is deliberate or carelessly harm other people.
As seen in this light that you have to pass a government mandated background check to exercise a specific enumerated right demonstrates that firearms are over regulated.
It’s time for Verini to grow up. The government is not, cannot, and should not be his mother or anyone else’s.
In this case, the sclerosis of the USPS. My wife thought I’d taken care of it, and I thought she’d taken care of it, so neither of us took care of it and our P.O. box rental lapsed. “No problem” says the postmaster to my son on Friday, “you can still renew it on-line by the end of day Saturday.”
After much searching I find the PO boxes link in that grey fine print at the bottom of the page. Then I have to create an account. Funny – I’ve never run into this hurdle before, “profanity in the password. please choose another password”. I always figured no one would ever see your password, so why the hissy fit?
After much fussing around, I finally get to enter my particulars. “Street Address” That’s an easy one. It’s been the same for decades. As far as I know it’s been the same since the house was built, more than 100 years ago. “Invalid Address. Please select from the the alternatives below.” There were none, so I click through and this time it accepts it. Next is “Post Office Box Number”. So I enter that along with my zop code. That box number with that zip code has only existed since that post office was built, sometime in the mid 20th century, so I can understand how they might not have gotten it entered into their database yet. So it comes up “invalid Post office box”. I quit. I did get a nice e-mail notice this morning though, thanking me for setting up an account. It listed four or five things that were really super great about having an account with them, one of which was “manage or renew a post office box”. Super.
So I went in to the post office this morning, saying I’d tried the on-line thing and failed, explaining in detail. “Oh, No!” the flabby man behind the counter says, “you should have entered your PO box number, not your street address…” “It asked for the street” and I spell it out for him “Ess Tee Awr Eee Eee Tee, Street Address.” He ignores that. “So what can I do” Now this is the Monday after the Saturday that was our last day to renew. “I have to change the lock, and you’ll have to pay the fee. How many of the new keys do you want?” “I’d rather keep the same keys if it’s all the same to you. Charge me the fee and you can avoid the absurdity of changing the lock” Well that put him all in a pother. “I’ll have to fool the computer….” and he pittered and pattered around the office for a bit, printed something off, cussed, threw it away, printed something off again, I wrote the check, thanked him, and was on my way.
All I could think of after that ordeal was the old saying among business owners everywhere; “If they ran a business like that, they’d be bankrupt.” Oh wait.
It also reminds me of Douglas Adams’ Vogons, or of Ayn Rand’s description of the Soviet Union as a “morbid absurdity”.
Develop strategies to determine and promote evidence-based arguments for public policies, which are grounded in research and support common sense efforts at reducing gun violence.
As a scientist I would be persona non-gratia in most scientific circles if I advocated for something like that. You don’t look for evidence to support your preconceived notions. Furthermore an abundance of evidence exists which supports the conclusion that the Brady Campaign is on the wrong side of the data.
And finally since they are looking for justification to infringe upon a specific enumerated right this goal is like the KKK looking for evidence to justify racial segregation and discrimination. Even if it exists they have no business attempting to use the force of government to achieve their objectives.—Joe]
I have to conclude that either my gun or Jennifer’s brain malfunctioned. I’m going to gather some more data today but for now I’m going with Jennifer has crap for brains.—Joe]
…even when I’m watching good comedy. Maybe it comes from growing up in a large family. If you LOL, shut up already. I’m trying to listen, and anyway, how can you listen while you’re cackling? (In a live social situation, at least the deliverer of the comedy usually has the sense to wait for some degree of quiet, so that’s different) Stuff like that. But I LOL’d at this, from Tam;
Meanwhile, I’d like to offer my services to moderate the next GOP debate:
“Now, if you will all look down at your podiums, you will notice that you’ve all been provided with a short document. A few of you might even be vaguely familiar with it. If you don’t mind, could you each just look in the part headed ‘Article II’ and point out to me the sentence or phrase that indicates that ‘job creation’ or ‘the economy’ is within the presidential purview?
We’ll start with you, on the end, with the hair. No, not you… the other one on the end, with the hair…”
It’s absurd in its truth. Funny and sad.
When thinking of the most recent, absurd rationalizations and excuses for government meddling, and the obvious expectation from politicians that we revere them (why is never explained) I find, more and more frequently, the phrase, “None of your filthy, stinking, rotten business, you sniveling, made-up, hairsprayed, lying piece of shit with the painted-on smile” comes to mind, followed by the thought that if you actually told them to mind their own business they wouldn’t understand– they actually believe that your business IS their business. Tam made it funny is all.
There are no other options. While one would say maybe they just need a job, the bottom line is they sold their morals down the river and now are molesting people. They are molesting people cause obviously they’re too stupid to get a job any place else.
They could be of the opinion that it is the job of government to do these sort of things. The reasoning could be something like, “Government is for the good of the people. If the government does this then it must be good.”
They simplistically believe that laws against “molesting people” do not apply if they are wearing the proper badge (see examples where people have explicated claimed that possession of a badge means “the law doesn’t apply to us” here).
Still, Barron gets it almost completely right in the rest of his post which I categorize as “a nice rant”.—Joe]
If you believe the BATFE merely “allowed” criminals to buy the guns, you have to believe that there were regular, on-going attempts, by Mexican gangsters, to make huge purchases at U.S. gun stores, that these huge purchases were being regularly denied, and that the Mexican gangsters simply kept trying, failing, trying, failing, and then one day, all of a sudden, the gigantic sales start being approved, one and another and another, simply because our local dufi started pushing the green button instead of the red button. And nothing else.
Sorry; I can’t believe it. I say those purchases were engineered. Someone had to be in contact with known criminals, asking them, or ordering them, to come here and make those purchases and take delivery down south. Can we please stop using “allowed” or “let” when talking about this? It defies logic.
Let’s also be very careful about getting indignant, saying in essence, “Allowing guns to be sold in the U.S. resulted in crime.” No, Little Grasshopper. Criminals result in crime (and the sons of bitches who work with them at our expense). I cannot be convinced, in any case, that said criminals couldn’t have gotten, wouldn’t rather have gotten, their guns from any of multiple sources in their own country including U.S. government arms supplied ostensibly as aid, from other Central and South American countries, and from the black market.
Criminals and tyrants will always be armed. The only question is whether the good guys will also be armed, and Gunwalker was an attempt to engineer a crisis so as to help answer this question in the negative.
When I first heard about this last week in an email, I said ‘That’s a joke, a sick joke. Nobody could be doing that.
This is like tearing the scab off a wound. This community is still healing.
Jeff Rogers September 1, 2011 Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Republican gun raffle in Gifford’s county draws criticism [Would he say something similar if it were a group had a speaker come in that was of the same skin color as someone who, eight months previously, was known as the “D.C. Sniper”? Or what of someone who spoke on behalf of the mentally ill after someone eight months earlier had shot numerous people? Would they be treated with such scorn?
I can’t imagine someone getting away with that. Yet a different model of one of the most popular brands of firearms is regarded as if it shares some blame in the shooting. In this guys view people apparently should treat certain brands of firearms as if they are an infectious disease or something.
The entire purpose of a gun is to KILL THINGS. That’s why they exist. Do we really need to have more of them spread throughout our neighborhoods, parks, public buildings, schools? Really!? That’s what we need? This is such a no-brainer.
I’ve fired about 100,000 rounds through my guns and I’ve only killed two deer and one rattlesnake. They must be malfunctioning something terrible.
What Ryan No-Brain (La Verne) is apparently incapable of understanding is that the threat of lethal force has benefits. In this country cops almost always carry guns. Does that mean a major purpose of law enforcement is to “KILL THINGS”? Would he object to more cops “spread throughout our neighborhoods, parks, public buildings, schools?”
Like nearly all anti-gun people Ryan No-Brain (La Verne) is an ignorant bigot.
And to the headline writer, the NRA is not pushing to “expand 2nd Amendment rights”. It’s pushing to stop the current infringement of rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment.—Joe]
