End Gun Epidemic in America ~ Page 1 NYT
Be sure to read this historic piece… http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/opinion/end-the-gun-epidemic-in-america.html?referer=https://www.google.com/
“All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are searching for motivations, including the vital question of how the murderers might have been connected to international terrorism. That is right and proper.
But motives do not matter to the dead in California, nor did they in Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut and far too many other places. The attention and anger of Americans should also be directed at the elected leaders whose job is to keep us safe but who place a higher premium on the money and political power of an industry dedicated to profiting from the unfettered spread of ever more powerful firearms.
It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency. These are weapons of war, barely modified and deliberately marketed as tools of macho vigilantism and even insurrection. America’s elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing, as they did on Thursday. They distract us with arguments about the word terrorism. Let’s be clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of terrorism…”
johnnyboy
8 years ago
Any weapon that wasn’t designed to kill with speed and efficiency wouldn’t be worth owning. Why else would anyone buy a weapon?
tbonetylr
8 years ago
For Gun Epidemic – 1 (johnnyboy)
Against Gun Epidemic – 2 (Hillary, tbonetylr)
Hillary Clinton: ‘If you are too dangerous to fly…you are too dangerous to buy a gun’
MADAM CLINTON ~ 45TH PRESIDENT of USA & Julian Castro Vice President! Clinton & Castro – Rings a Bell Doesn’t it – The 2016 winning presidential ticket! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9K8riFYBUQ
December 4, 2015 – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton decried the reluctance of the U.S. Congress to pas new gun control measures saying, “if you are too dangerous to fly in American, you are too dangerous to buy a gun in American, in my opinion.” (Reuters)
This weekend, Clinton will be on ABC’s The Week on Sunday morning. For all the latest, follow our Scheduled Events page and follow Clinton on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Watch the 23rd minute or in full… http://hillaryspeeches.com/2015/12/04/clinton-brings-infrastructure-plan-to-iowa/
“On Friday, Hillary Clinton held an event in Sioux City, Iowa in which she focused on her infrastructure plans. Speaking at the Carpenters Local 948 Training Center, Clinton said her plan would focus on airports, sea ports, broadband internet, and highways and would create thousands pf jobs across the country. Of our current infrastructure, she said, “The infrastructure is old, it is broken down. My image is, it is held together with duct tape.”
setnaffa
8 years ago
I wonder what Constitutional rights the so-called “Gun Control” folks think are important enough to protect?
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
How IGNORANT must anyone be to salute the anniversary of Pearl Harbor? 😈 F****** war mongerers ❗
ChickenHead
8 years ago
“How IGNORANT must anyone be to salute the anniversary of Pearl Harbor? F****** war mongerers ”
I somehow always presumed any salute of the anniversary of Pearl Harbor was done to honor those who defended America and its way of life against a surprise attack by a nation known for its brutality against those it conquered.
I’m not sure defending against a surprise attack is “war mongering”… but maybe Tbone was talking about the Japanese. Do they celebrate Pearl Harbor?
How do people so disconnected from reality function in society?
Oh. That’s right. They don’t, really.
Next question, then.
How do they get an internet connection?
Tbone has outlived his usefulness in stirring up topics to comment on. He has now passed into topics that are so dillusional that they need no comment.
Time to ignore him until he goes away.
tbonetylr
8 years ago
195 Nations Agree On Climate Change
That’s 195 nations vs. one American political party, the imploding Republicans. And do you know why they agree…for the good of their own nation’s economy! You see, the GOP doesn’t care about the American economy DUUUH! The GOP only cares about war, killing, hating everyone/everything other than special white men and little/young boys they can rape! http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/05/world/global-climate-change-draft-agreement/
“Negotiators from 195 countries agreed Saturday on a blueprint deal aimed at reducing global carbon emissions and limiting global warming, a significant but far from conclusive step in the multinational effort to keep climate change in check.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) posted on its website a copy of the draft agreement, which officials have been working on intensively for some time.
The document addresses deforestation, food security, poverty and a host of other issues, with chunks of the document focused on what developed countries can do to reduce carbon dioxide missions by a yet to be determined level by 2050.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@6, “Constitutional rights”
Don’t tell me you mean the 2nd amendment? Too bad the GOP doesn’t care about other amendments aye 🙄 If only you could understand English so that you could understand the constitution as meant to be EGGHEAD #2 😈
Second Amendment Wasn’t Meant To Protect Individual Right To Own Guns
The 2008 Heller decision changed our founders’ intent.
How the Supreme Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment. http://www.thenation.com/article/how-the-roberts-court-undermined-sensible-gun-control/
“Heller’s 5–4 majority decision, written by Justice Antonin Scalia and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, was less in sync with the founding generation than with the top priority of a powerful interest group closely aligned with the Republican right…
To grasp the audacity of what Scalia & Co. pulled off, turn to the Second Amendment’s text: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” To find in that wording an individual right to possess a firearm untethered to any militia purpose, the majority performed an epic feat of jurisprudential magic: It made the pesky initial clause about the necessity of a “well regulated Militia” disappear…
“The Second Amendment was a response to concerns raised during the ratification of the Constitution that the power of Congress to disarm the state militias and create a national standing army posed an intolerable threat to the sovereignty of the several states,” then-Justice John Paul Stevens correctly noted in his minority opinion, joined by Justices David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer. “Neither the text of the Amendment nor the arguments advanced by its proponents evidenced the slightest interest in limiting any legislature’s authority to regulate private civilian uses of firearms.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
GOPers Love Bombs Too ❗
Hey Marco Rubio, We Could Have Had ‘Bomb Control’ But NRA Opposed It – Video of idiot blabbing on FoxNOTnews…
“the left” never talks about “bomb control.” http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/liberals-soft-bomb-control-are-you-sure
“When this first came out, without knowing anything about the case, the first thing they started talking about was gun control, and gun control, ” the junior senator from Florida said. “I don’t hear anybody talking about bomb control. They put bombs, they left bombs behind on the scene of attack, intending to kill even more people than they did with the guns.”
I’d like to take Young Marco back to the mid-1990s, when a number of terrifying incidents — the first attack on the World Trade Center, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Olympic park bombing in Atlanta — led to calls by President Bill Clinton and other Democrats for a requirement that traceable “taggants” be included in explosives. The NRA was having none of it, and therefore neither was the GOP:
President Clinton’s attempt to pass an anti-terrorism bill … ran into the brick wall of National Rifle Association opposition. The most desirable item in Mr. Clinton’s proposal was a plan to make it easier to trace explosives by adding chemical markers known as taggants to black powder and gunpowder during their manufacture. The President, in deference to the powerful gun lobby, had already watered down his idea before it hit the House of Representatives. Then Republicans substituted a meaningless non-government study on the already exhaustively studied taggant issue.
The requirement never passed, and the NRA/GOP taggant blockade still hasn’t been broken, as we were reminded after the Boston Marathon bombing:
…As David Cay Johnston noted shortly after the Marathon attack:
But for the NRA-backed policy of not putting identifiers known as taggants in gunpowder, law enforcement could have quickly identified the explosives used to make the bombs, tracking them from manufacture to retail sale. That could well have saved the life of Sean Collier, the 26-year-old MIT police officer who was gunned down Thursday night by the fleeing bomb suspects.
If Marco Rubio is suddenly concerned about bombs, perhaps he’d like to announce his support for taggant legislation right now.
But that isn’t going to happen, is it?”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Hillary: I Don’t Say ‘Radical Islam.’ It ‘Doesn’t Do Justice’ To Good Muslims
Hillary Clinton explained why she won’t say “radical Islam.” http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hillary-clinton-i-dont-say-radical-islam-because-it-doesnt-do-justice-to-good-muslims/
This Week host George Stephanopoulos called out the former U.S. Secretary of State for not using the phrase during a discussion of the San Bernardino shooting and ISIS.
“Isn’t it a mistake not to say it plain? That the violence is being pushed by radical elements in their faith?”
“Well that’s another thing,” said Clinton. “‘Radical elements who use a dangerous and distorted view of Islam to promote their jihadist ambitions.’ I’m fine with that. I say it all the time.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Hey Marco, We Could Have Had ‘Bomb Control’ But NRA Opposed It – Video of idiot blabbing on FoxNOTnews
“the left” never talks about “bomb control.” http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/liberals-soft-bomb-control-are-you-sure
“When this first came out, without knowing anything about the case, the first thing they started talking about was gun control, and gun control, ” the junior senator from Florida said. “I don’t hear anybody talking about bomb control. They put bombs, they left bombs behind on the scene of attack, intending to kill even more people than they did with the guns.”
I’d like to take Young Marco back to the mid-1990s, when a number of terrifying incidents — the first attack on the World Trade Center, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Olympic park bombing in Atlanta — led to calls by President Bill Clinton and other Democrats for a requirement that traceable “taggants” be included in explosives.
The NRA was having none of it, and therefore neither was the GOP:
President Clinton’s attempt to pass an anti-terrorism bill … ran into the brick wall of National Rifle Association opposition. The most desirable item in Mr. Clinton’s proposal was a plan to make it easier to trace explosives by adding chemical markers known as taggants to black powder and gunpowder during their manufacture. The President, in deference to the powerful gun lobby, had already watered down his idea before it hit the House of Representatives. Then Republicans substituted a meaningless non-government study on the already exhaustively studied taggant issue.
The requirement never passed, and the NRA/GOP taggant blockade still hasn’t been broken, as we were reminded after the Boston Marathon bombing:
…As David Cay Johnston noted shortly after the Marathon attack:
But for the NRA-backed policy of not putting identifiers known as taggants in gunpowder, law enforcement could have quickly identified the explosives used to make the bombs, tracking them from manufacture to retail sale. That could well have saved the life of Sean Collier, the 26-year-old MIT police officer who was gunned down Thursday night by the fleeing bomb suspects.
If Marco Rubio is suddenly concerned about bombs, perhaps he’d like to announce his support for taggant legislation right now. But that isn’t going to happen, is it?”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Supreme Court Deals Blow To Group Behind Planned Parenthood Videos
David Daleiden is not “pro-life” he is pro-birth and non-life just like most pro-birthers. So, Cecile Richards can be trusted after all aye Liz http://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-videos-401597
“The Supreme Court just dealt a blow to the Center for Medical Progress, a California-based anti-abortion group that released a series of videos in which Planned Parenthood employees appear to discuss the sale of fetal tissue.
David Daleiden, the pro-life auteur behind the videos, asked Justice Anthony Kennedy to block an order from a district judge to hand over the names of his organization’s supporters and donors. Kennedy denied the request, and Daleiden will have to provide the information to a California district court.
The National Abortion Federation has sued the Center for Medical Progress on the grounds that Daleiden’s allies infiltrated its meetings by lying about their identities; in the videos, CMP members posed as Planned Parenthood employees. Although the content of the videos shocked and offended many politicians, prompting a national outcry, the countercharge that the whole thing was a sting operation to discredit Planned Parenthood has gained momentum among pro-abortion activists and politicians.
“It’s time to end this shell game…. The key issue here is the disclosure of the identities of CMP’s supporters,” said California District Judge William Orrick, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Orrick wants Daleiden to release the names in order to find out who was given confidential information about the National Abortion Federation, and has dismissed the argument that First Amendment “freedom of association” rights protects the CMP supporters, who may have been privy to illegal dealings as Daleiden went undercover to expose the health care provider’s practices.
Daleiden’s attorneys have argued that releasing the names would put supporters at risk of “retaliation.”
The action on the lawsuit comes in the wake of a mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs that left three dead on the Friday after Thanksgiving.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@14, In sum, the GOPers right-wing radical insurgency religious nut politicians all across the USA raged against Planned Parenthood because of LIES…Anti-women’s healthcare ACTORS(supporters of Center for Medical Progress) pretending to be employees of Planned Parenthood discussing the “sale of fetal tissue.” on video, this influencing the likes of Robert Dear(and even most @RokDrop like Liz etc…) attacked and killed innocent people including a cop but GOPers still don’t care about anything but its own radical insurgency ❗
You Go GOPers 🙁 😈 😳
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Jeb Backer Now Ready For Hillary
She’s the “lesser of two evils” says billionaire healthcare magnate Mike Fernandez from Florida. At least one Floridian has a head with a brain inside ❗ http://www.drudge.com/news/193812/billionaire-jeb-backer-ready-hillary
“If I have a choice — and you can put it in bold — if I have a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton, I’m choosing Hillary,” Miami healthcare magnate Mike Fernandez told the Miami Herald on Friday. “She’s the lesser of two evils.”
Outraged by Trump’s unimpeded ascent, Fernandez is taking on the GOP frontrunner himself. He purchased a full-page ad in the upcoming Sunday edition of the Herald calling Trump a “narcissistic BULLYionaire with a hunger to be adored.” He also likened him to some of history’s bloodiest demagogues.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Obama’s Speech was GREAT and TRUTHFUL, unlike the LIES GOPers try to spread as fact 😆
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Correction: …unlike the GOPer Radical Insurgency Righ-Wing Wing Nut Religious LIES it continues to try spreading as fact 😆
tbonetylr
8 years ago
‘Accidentally’ Shoots Friend At Gun Show
Media sources and law enforcement deem unintentional shootings to be ‘accidents.’ So, guns don’t kill people, ‘accidents’ with guns do. It gets terribly confusing when they try to label it as anything but what it is: irresponsible. http://www.foxnews.com/
“At the Arizona State Fairgrounds, a man was ‘accidentally’ shot by his friend with a semi-automatic handgun at a gun show.
KPHO reports:
Arizona Department of Public Safety detectives say that just after 11 a.m., there was an accidental discharge of a semi-automatic handgun.
A gun buyer had apparently been inspecting his recently-purchased handgun, when the weapon accidentally discharged, and the man’s companion was shot.
After the weapon discharged, the bullet struck the male victim in the upper left torso and then exited from his upper right torso.
The victim reportedly suffered a non-life-threatening injury and was transported to a local hospital.
The Crossroads of the West gun show held an event at the fairgrounds.
There is no word yet on whether any criminal charges will be filed and authorities said the investigation is ongoing.
The website for the Crossroads of the West gun show touts support for the National Rifle Association and it states the NRA is in ‘the business of freedom.”
That ‘freedom’ bullet had to pack a punch, huh?
With friends like the shooter, you don’t need enemies.
Be sure to give us some ‘like’ on Facebook.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Gun Huggers along with the GOPer Radical Insurgency with the NRA will LOSE in the end 😎 😆
In one-on-one matchups, no Republican beats Hillary Clinton.
A new MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll finds Hillary Clinton leads the Republican presidential field in hypothetical general-election match-ups, with Ben Carson and Marco Rubio running the closest to her.
Clinton’s biggest lead is against current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump: She’s ahead of him by 11 points among all voters, 52% to 41%, and a whopping 42 points among Latino voters, 69% to 27%.
Denny
8 years ago
Dick Cheney Condemns Trump Plan to Ban Muslims From Entering U.S.
A rumor is going around North Korea that a stack of explosives was found hidden inside the Kalma Airport on Oct. 6, allegedly planted to take leader Kim Jong Un’s life, NK News reports.
I like the later part of the article, where it speculates: “If North Korea’s SSD had found out the explosives which Kim Jong Un’s Supreme Guard Command had failed to locate, than the Supreme Guard Command might have been involved in the assassination attempt,” he said. “But, also, it might have been an SSD setup to win Kim Jong Un’s favor by setting up the TNT and pretending that they found it after the Supreme Guard Command had already swept the site.”
K-Dramas that write themselves. What’s not to love?
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On Refugees and Immigration, Thomas Sowell wrote:
“The history of millions of European immigrants who came here in centuries past was fundamentally different from what is happening in our own times.
First of all, those immigrants were stopped at Ellis Island to be checked medically and otherwise, and were allowed to get off that island to go ashore only after they had met whatever legal standards there were. Otherwise, they were sent back where they came from.
More fundamentally, people came here to assimilate into the American society they found, not to become isolated enclaves of aggrieved foreigners, demanding that Americans adjust to their languages, their values and their ways of life.”
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We had our Holiday Party at work and no one killed anyone else, though we did a good job on the catered food…
I checked a little more closely, and didn’t see this one posted. Which means I probably missed it…
Anyways, South Korea thought they were firing warning shots against an encroaching North Korean ship, but ended up firing warning shots against an encroaching Chinese ship.
China has been grabbing so much land lately, it seems inevitable they would try to grab a little slice of the good Korea. A brush back? We don’t do brush backs… Probably won’t go anywhere, but I figured it was news worthy.
29- Setnaffa, good link. This is the part I liked the best:
In reality gun ownership is at an all-time high and violent crime is way down. In a country of three hundred million people we have some mass shootings, but they’re actually very uncommon. However, they get a huge amount of news coverage. I talk about it in great length at the link above, but breathless, panicked, 24/7 media come aparts bestow instant celebrity and infamy, which actually spurs on and motivates one particular type of mass killer.
This just supports what I have always said is that the media coverage helps drive these shootings with these losers and terrorists wanting to get their faces on TV. If their names and faces were not published I am willing to bet there would be less shootings. Legislation preventing the publishing of names and faces would have more effect on stopping mass shootings instead grabbing guns in Nebraska.
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Justice Scalia Condescends and Patronizes Black Americans, some “Justice” RACIST we have on the Supreme Court aye 🙄
Antonin Scalia Says Black Scientists Would Benefit From A ‘Slower’ Academic Track http://dcist.com/2015/12/antonin_scalia_black_scientists.php
@31, “The only way to get rid of gun(sic) in America is through generational social engineering.”
You’ve now shown yourself again as a no nothing/no common sense EGGHEAD ❗ All the gun control issue needs is common sense rather than politics. EGGHEAD often lectures about how politics is bad, yet he totally selects politics rather that life & safety for his NRA lovers…”GO KILL EM WHITE MAN ET ALL IN MORE, MORE, MORE, MASS SHOOTINGS WHICH WHITE MAN LEADS BIG TIME IN AMERICA.” KILL, KILL, KILL, PICK UP YOUR GUNS AND KILL via MORE WHITE MANKILL WITH YOUR GUNS in MASS SHOOTINGS for the NRA ect… IN FACT, GO KILL MORE 0-11 YEAR OLD’s(whom die more than white cops each year, yet white cops complain/whine about how they’re scared for their lives on the job 😆 ). Preschoolers have more courage than white whiny cops ❗
setnaffa
8 years ago
Have any of you used the free Zimbra Desktop?
Also, do any of you know a more modern app that will read Address Book Plus 3.0 “.ab3” files correctly?
Just having fun trying to modernize…
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@35, Yeah Stick it Up Your AzzHole and pretend it’s EGGHEAD’s Vagina 😎
tbonetylr
8 years ago
GOP Sadness or is this their happiness ❓ What I’ll show you in a moment is riveting 😎
“…a new poll among likely GOP primary voters, almost two-thirds said they support a ban on Muslim immigrants. A third of those respondents said Trump’s call makes them feel more compelled to vote for him. The poll, conducted by Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies PulsePoll, found half of the likely voters, regardless of their political affiliation, oppose Trump’s statements on Muslim immigrants, but 37 percent are in favor of such a ban.
“We believe these numbers are made up of some people who are truly expressing religious bigotry and others who are fearful about terrorism and are willing to do anything they think might make us safer,” Doug Usher, who runs polling for Washington-based Purple Strategies, told Bloomberg of the findings.”
Jerusalem (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold has been exported from Israel to North Korea despite a UN ban, an Israeli parliamentary committee said Thursday.
The Knesset’s economics committee said it would tighten restrictions on trade with the authoritarian state after learning that $400,000 of gold was exported after a 2006 UN ban.
$400 Large isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things, but it’s nothing to sneeze at either. The article was very thin on details. Has anybody here ever heard anything? And if you’re sending gold, what are you getting in return? Meth, weapons and herbal remedies, as well as water these days. Sounds more like a medium to large bribe than anything else.
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@39, Because they have the love and support of the GOP)except Trump). Remember how the GOP was attacking Obama on his treatment of Israel/Netanyahoo and how the GOP went behind Obama’s back to invite the Israeli leader(Netanyahoo) to address congress. And remember how Israel paid Tom Cotton(GOPer young Senator) 1 million $$$ to block the Iran Nuclear Peace Treaty because GOPers love War not Peace.
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Military Cadet Suspension For KKK-Like Hoods
A South Carolina military college suspended cadets for photos in KKK-like hoods.
Thus, the U.S. military is stocked with racists ❗
http://www.mediaite.com/online/singing-military-cadets-face-suspension-for-wearing-kkk-like-ghost-hoods/
“Citadel President and Lt. General John Rosa said he received complaints about a group of students and an instructor who were wearing the hoods and “singing Christmas carols as part of a ‘Ghosts of Christmas Past’ skit.”
…School administrators and officers are currently looking into the situation, though reports suggest the skit and hoods are part of an underclassmen hazing ritual. The Citadel has also acknowledged the incident on Facebook.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Dad Wants Principal Fired For rejecting Son’s Gun-Toting Yearbook Photo
The father thought his son posing with a military assault rifle was very appropriate.
Dad’s mental health should be checked. Correction: He’s obviously a lunatic in the head or should I say EGGHEAD so he should be immediately placed into an institution after his guns are taken away IMMEDIATELY. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/dad-wants-principal-fired-after-sons-gun-toting-yearbook-photo-rejected-so-begins-the-fight-for-freedom/
“Charlie Renville, of Fargo, complained on Facebook that the photo — which shows his son Josh with his finger ready at the trigger of his “favorite” rifle — was rejected because school officials believe it “it promotes violence and breaks federal and state law.”
The elder Renville lamented on “the state of freedom today” as he demanded the Fargo North High School principal, Andy Dahlen, fired for rejecting the photo.
“I see a kid that loves his nation, loves free speech and loves the 2nd Amendment,” Renville said. “The rifle is a rifle he built and it is his favorite rifle. Dahlen just doesn’t like rifles, he doesn’t believe in or support the second Amendment. He is a far left progressive who is using his position to promote his political agenda and push it on our children.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
End Of New York’s Stop And Frisk Means Less Violence
The decline of stop and frisk has led to the decline in shootings and murders in New York.
Wasn’t it the GOP mayor/leadership that started this stupid “Stop and Frisk?” Thank goodness for the reform-minded Democratic mayor Bill de Blasio
http://gawker.com/as-stop-and-frisks-have-gone-down-in-nyc-so-have-shoot-1747345497
“The idea that New York City is in the throes of a historically or even notably dangerous and criminal era is a myth fabricated largely by the knuckleheads at the New York Post. More evidence to the contrary: In the years since stop-and-frisk began its great decline, murders and shootings in the city have gone down too, not up, according to new NYCLU analysis.
The gist of the data is this: between 2011 and 2014, the frequency of stop-and-frisks dropped by 93% in the city, thanks to public outcry, a federal lawsuit, and the election of reform-minded mayor Bill de Blasio. Over that same time period, murders and shootings dropped precipitously as well. As the NYCLU notes, that last part is especially important, because according to stop-and-frisk supporters, the seizure of guns and subsequent reduction in gun violence was the whole point of the program…”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Second Amendment Scholar: No Individual Right To Bear Arms
Fordham Professor Saul Cornell says our founders never intended the Second Amendment to give a green light for individual gun ownership.
All anyone has to do is read it and they’ll see(if they understand English) the Fordham Professor is CORRECT 😎
http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/12/09/cornell-people-having-a-personal-arsenal-of-guns-is-crazy/
Cornell: People Having A Personal Arsenal Of Guns Is Crazy
The Second Amendment has changed because American government has evolved since it was drafted, why the Second Amendment actually means there should more, not less, government restrictions on guns, and why it’s “crazy” for Americans to have a private stockpile of weapons.
ChickenHead
8 years ago
“Anybody want to fill me in? Why would Israel export $400,000 in gold to North Korea?”
I never swung that way… but for a tight-body athlete like you, I will take you up on your offer and give it a try. Just don’t make it awkward by talking or making eye contact over your shoulder. As for the gold, no idea.
setnaffa
8 years ago
@39, it might be people who either want to buy weapons to kill Joos or people who want to have Kim NOT sell those weapons… Remember that the French and Russians violated UN sanctions against Iraq… And it’s not as though Israel gets much love from the UN anyway…
Liz
8 years ago
From the article: “Jerusalem (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold has been exported from Israel to North Korea despite a UN ban, an Israeli parliamentary committee said Thursday.
The Knesset’s economics committee said it would tighten restrictions on trade with the authoritarian state after learning that $400,000 of gold was exported after a 2006 UN ban.
David Houri, an Israeli tax official, told a committee hearing Wednesday the gold was traded in the years after the ban was introduced, Israeli media reported.”
It doesn’t sound to me like “Israel exported gold”, as the title would imply.
It sounds like individuals living in Israel did it, and the tax official caught it.
Liz
8 years ago
“And if you’re sending gold, what are you getting in return? Meth, weapons and herbal remedies, as well as water these days. Sounds more like a medium to large bribe than anything else.”
Well, the DPRK supports the Palestinians and there are all sorts of people living in Israel.
Denny
8 years ago
Benjamin Netanyahu ‘rejects’ Donald Trump’s comments about Muslims
“Benjamin Netanyahu has joined a long list of international leaders to reject Donald Trump’s comments about Muslims,”
Can anybody clearly explain what Trump said that was so bad?
Difficulty: No explanation will be meaningful unless it is preceded by the exact quote it refers to… as incorrectly summarizing and attacking the non-existing concepts as the media and world leaders are doing is not connected to reality.
MTB Rider
8 years ago
The TSA, saving America from K-Pop, by assuming they were sex workers:
In a written statement late Monday afternoon, the Trump campaign said the Republican frontrunner wanted a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” As backing, Trump cited a controversial six-month-old survey from the right-wing Center for Security Policy finding that one-quarter of U.S. Muslim respondents believed that violence against Americans was justified as part of global jihad and that a slim majority “agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to Shariah.”
All Trump said was we should halt the import of a particular classification of immigrants, visa holders, and refugees until we learn how to vet them properly. He said it rather gormlessly; but he was not, strictly-speaking, unAmerican in his approach. There is a law on the books since 1952 that might apply. And Jimmy Carter did roughly the same thing in 1980.
The jackwagons who immediately rose in opposition to Trump (and the vile epithets, intentionally dishonest misquotes, misinformation about the actual laws involved, and death threats from the ACLU) are of a sort that I’m beginning to soften my opposition to the Hairpiece.
Dang it!
JoeC
8 years ago
If vetting means we are going to expect immigration and intelligence agencies to sign off with absolute certainty about an immigrant’s complete background and intentions then that will make immigration impossible.
We may also be diverting resources from where they are really needed. Radicals don’t have to immigrate when Americans citizens that don’t fit a profile can become radicalized.
johnnyboy
8 years ago
If one immigrant class is known to be much more dangerous than others, then why not restrict immigration from the parts of the world where they are a majority of the population?
It probably wouldn’t divert resources from other more important areas if we weren’t spending any money on administering immigration services to those countries. I would think that would save money.
People are presenting a false argument on Trump’s proposal violating freedom of religion. Freedom of religion applies to U.S. citizens and immigrants already in the U.S.
I can’t see how America has any obligation to uphold constitutional rights of those who don’t have constitutional rights.
ChickenHead
8 years ago
As i recall, Constitution protections don’t apply to non-citizens in America… e.g. they cannot buy a gun… but they have a right to due process… e.g. deportation hearings.
Non-citizens have no constitutional protection outside of America and have no right to due process… e.g. courts have upheld arbitrary visa denial.
The first thing to understand… America has absolutely no real obligation to take non-citizen refugees… and even less obligation to take refugees who strive to maintain a lifestyle and values counter to America’s traditions, common cultures, and intetests.
A mistake that is (intentionally) being made is that Islam is a political ideology as much as a religion.
A proposal to “ban Muslims”… non-citizens with no rights to begin with… is not “discrimination based on religion” as it is being misrepresented… but protection against an openly hostile ideology no different than what has been successfully implimented against anarchists, Nazis, communists, gangster affiliates, and narcos throughout American history.
There are truly needy refugees from around the world who would embrace American opportunity and lifestyle and move the country foreward. Even Christians from these regions, who are unquestionably persecuted, would make a better choice than Islamisists which appear to frequently pass on their dangerous and violent political views to their first native-born generation.
It is hard to understand how anyone can argue with this.
ChickenHead
8 years ago
Jeb Bush just came out with his plan to deal with refugees…
“We should have a temporary ban on refugees coming here until it’s clear that there aren’t any terrorists embedded.”
I am still waiting for someone who wants all these Syrian refugees to come to the US to explain to me why Saudi Arabia, UAE, and all the other Arab nations that these refugees share common language, religion and culture with are not taking them in, but we should?
Liz
8 years ago
Some Arab nations (or at least, nations with a Muslim majority) have taken in refugees. The UAE has taken in about a quarter of a million of them (for a nation with a total population under 6 million, that is a lot…100,000 more than Germany, though I’m not saying they belong in Germany if we’re going for accuracy here it should be mentioned).
Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan have all taken in over a million refugees.
Saudi is on the brink now. They are in a very very precarious position and have been for a while now.
Remember at the beginning of the year ISIS killed the Saudi General in charge of the multi-billion dollar Saudi effort to secure the northern border against ISIS. That was a pretty significant target, and the attackers knew exactly when the general was going to be at the outpost so it’s likely that the Saudi military is rife with ISIS sympathisers and/or members.
If so, the Saudi military may melt away when facing jihadis (or switch sides).
Liz
8 years ago
“Well, Jeb’s brother created ISIS.”
Guess when they change their name again it will be on the next guy.
Liz, I can understand Jordan not wanting any more due to only having a population of 8 million people and not being an oil rich nation. However, Saudi Arabia has a population of 30 million people, is oil rich and has a huge country. They could build refugee camps for these people to live in if they wanted to. As far as them being concerned about ISIS infiltrators, isn’t that same problem we would have? I think by making these countries take these refugees it forces their hand to do something about Syria because it is these countries that used Syria to wage a proxy war with Iran in the first place that got out of hand. By exporting the problem to the US and Europe this lessens the incentive to do anything.
Liz
8 years ago
“As far as them being concerned about ISIS infiltrators, isn’t that same problem we would have? “
Most definitely. I don’t think we should take them either.
setnaffa
8 years ago
“Well, Jeb’s brother created ISIS.”
Ummm… no. They were created by al Qaeda. Who kicked them out for being to brutal to Muslims. Next.
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
— Ronald Reagan
In June of 1876, George Custer’s command suffered 52 percent casualties (most killed) because he made unwarranted assumptions about his opponents actions versus preparing against their capabilities. He rejected reinforcements including additional cavalry and light artillery.
In January 2014, President Obama infamously proclaimed that ISIS was the JV team, nothing to worry about… And then they took over much of Syria and Iraq.
This year, just the day before a couple (who were apparently quite clear online about their extremist beliefs and yet were never interviewed even once during either the Fiancee Visa or Temporary Greencard process) shot up the husband’s innocent coworkers at an office Holiday Party, the President assured us ISIS was “contained.” We later learned, of course, the wife had sworn allegiance to ISIS.
And of course the President belittles anyone who dares to claim the healthy males of military age might not really be helpless refugees intent on assimilation into our culture… In spite of all the evidence to the contrary here and in Europe.
The Lakota and Cheyenne killed Custer and then suffered for it. There was a lot of blood and death and ill-will that has survived all of the original decision-makers and their children.
President Obama’s missteps will result in a lot of blood and death and ill-will that will survive all of the decision-makers and their children.
End Gun Epidemic in America ~ Page 1 NYT
Be sure to read this historic piece…
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/opinion/end-the-gun-epidemic-in-america.html?referer=https://www.google.com/
“All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are searching for motivations, including the vital question of how the murderers might have been connected to international terrorism. That is right and proper.
But motives do not matter to the dead in California, nor did they in Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut and far too many other places. The attention and anger of Americans should also be directed at the elected leaders whose job is to keep us safe but who place a higher premium on the money and political power of an industry dedicated to profiting from the unfettered spread of ever more powerful firearms.
It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency. These are weapons of war, barely modified and deliberately marketed as tools of macho vigilantism and even insurrection. America’s elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing, as they did on Thursday. They distract us with arguments about the word terrorism. Let’s be clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of terrorism…”
Any weapon that wasn’t designed to kill with speed and efficiency wouldn’t be worth owning. Why else would anyone buy a weapon?
For Gun Epidemic – 1 (johnnyboy)
Against Gun Epidemic – 2 (Hillary, tbonetylr)
http://www.pollingreport.com/guns.htm
Stupid Democrat Tricks for the 21st Century
They demand all honest folks give up their guns or more Democrats (or illegal aliens or lunatics or gang members) will shoot unarmed people…
Apparently, self-awareness isn’t what they do.
http://tvtropes.org/…/pmwiki…/Main/PutDownYourGunAndStepAway
Hillary Clinton: ‘If you are too dangerous to fly…you are too dangerous to buy a gun’
MADAM CLINTON ~ 45TH PRESIDENT of USA & Julian Castro Vice President! Clinton & Castro – Rings a Bell Doesn’t it – The 2016 winning presidential ticket!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9K8riFYBUQ
December 4, 2015 – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton decried the reluctance of the U.S. Congress to pas new gun control measures saying, “if you are too dangerous to fly in American, you are too dangerous to buy a gun in American, in my opinion.” (Reuters)
This weekend, Clinton will be on ABC’s The Week on Sunday morning. For all the latest, follow our Scheduled Events page and follow Clinton on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Watch the 23rd minute or in full…
http://hillaryspeeches.com/2015/12/04/clinton-brings-infrastructure-plan-to-iowa/
“On Friday, Hillary Clinton held an event in Sioux City, Iowa in which she focused on her infrastructure plans. Speaking at the Carpenters Local 948 Training Center, Clinton said her plan would focus on airports, sea ports, broadband internet, and highways and would create thousands pf jobs across the country. Of our current infrastructure, she said, “The infrastructure is old, it is broken down. My image is, it is held together with duct tape.”
I wonder what Constitutional rights the so-called “Gun Control” folks think are important enough to protect?
How IGNORANT must anyone be to salute the anniversary of Pearl Harbor? 😈 F****** war mongerers ❗
“How IGNORANT must anyone be to salute the anniversary of Pearl Harbor? F****** war mongerers ”
I somehow always presumed any salute of the anniversary of Pearl Harbor was done to honor those who defended America and its way of life against a surprise attack by a nation known for its brutality against those it conquered.
I’m not sure defending against a surprise attack is “war mongering”… but maybe Tbone was talking about the Japanese. Do they celebrate Pearl Harbor?
How do people so disconnected from reality function in society?
Oh. That’s right. They don’t, really.
Next question, then.
How do they get an internet connection?
Tbone has outlived his usefulness in stirring up topics to comment on. He has now passed into topics that are so dillusional that they need no comment.
Time to ignore him until he goes away.
195 Nations Agree On Climate Change
That’s 195 nations vs. one American political party, the imploding Republicans. And do you know why they agree…for the good of their own nation’s economy! You see, the GOP doesn’t care about the American economy DUUUH! The GOP only cares about war, killing, hating everyone/everything other than special white men and little/young boys they can rape!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/05/world/global-climate-change-draft-agreement/
“Negotiators from 195 countries agreed Saturday on a blueprint deal aimed at reducing global carbon emissions and limiting global warming, a significant but far from conclusive step in the multinational effort to keep climate change in check.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) posted on its website a copy of the draft agreement, which officials have been working on intensively for some time.
The document addresses deforestation, food security, poverty and a host of other issues, with chunks of the document focused on what developed countries can do to reduce carbon dioxide missions by a yet to be determined level by 2050.”
@6, “Constitutional rights”
Don’t tell me you mean the 2nd amendment? Too bad the GOP doesn’t care about other amendments aye 🙄 If only you could understand English so that you could understand the constitution as meant to be EGGHEAD #2 😈
Second Amendment Wasn’t Meant To Protect Individual Right To Own Guns
The 2008 Heller decision changed our founders’ intent.
How the Supreme Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-the-roberts-court-undermined-sensible-gun-control/
“Heller’s 5–4 majority decision, written by Justice Antonin Scalia and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, was less in sync with the founding generation than with the top priority of a powerful interest group closely aligned with the Republican right…
To grasp the audacity of what Scalia & Co. pulled off, turn to the Second Amendment’s text: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” To find in that wording an individual right to possess a firearm untethered to any militia purpose, the majority performed an epic feat of jurisprudential magic: It made the pesky initial clause about the necessity of a “well regulated Militia” disappear…
“The Second Amendment was a response to concerns raised during the ratification of the Constitution that the power of Congress to disarm the state militias and create a national standing army posed an intolerable threat to the sovereignty of the several states,” then-Justice John Paul Stevens correctly noted in his minority opinion, joined by Justices David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer. “Neither the text of the Amendment nor the arguments advanced by its proponents evidenced the slightest interest in limiting any legislature’s authority to regulate private civilian uses of firearms.”
GOPers Love Bombs Too ❗
Hey Marco Rubio, We Could Have Had ‘Bomb Control’ But NRA Opposed It – Video of idiot blabbing on FoxNOTnews…
“the left” never talks about “bomb control.”
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/liberals-soft-bomb-control-are-you-sure
“When this first came out, without knowing anything about the case, the first thing they started talking about was gun control, and gun control, ” the junior senator from Florida said. “I don’t hear anybody talking about bomb control. They put bombs, they left bombs behind on the scene of attack, intending to kill even more people than they did with the guns.”
I’d like to take Young Marco back to the mid-1990s, when a number of terrifying incidents — the first attack on the World Trade Center, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Olympic park bombing in Atlanta — led to calls by President Bill Clinton and other Democrats for a requirement that traceable “taggants” be included in explosives. The NRA was having none of it, and therefore neither was the GOP:
President Clinton’s attempt to pass an anti-terrorism bill … ran into the brick wall of National Rifle Association opposition. The most desirable item in Mr. Clinton’s proposal was a plan to make it easier to trace explosives by adding chemical markers known as taggants to black powder and gunpowder during their manufacture. The President, in deference to the powerful gun lobby, had already watered down his idea before it hit the House of Representatives. Then Republicans substituted a meaningless non-government study on the already exhaustively studied taggant issue.
The requirement never passed, and the NRA/GOP taggant blockade still hasn’t been broken, as we were reminded after the Boston Marathon bombing:
…As David Cay Johnston noted shortly after the Marathon attack:
But for the NRA-backed policy of not putting identifiers known as taggants in gunpowder, law enforcement could have quickly identified the explosives used to make the bombs, tracking them from manufacture to retail sale. That could well have saved the life of Sean Collier, the 26-year-old MIT police officer who was gunned down Thursday night by the fleeing bomb suspects.
If Marco Rubio is suddenly concerned about bombs, perhaps he’d like to announce his support for taggant legislation right now.
But that isn’t going to happen, is it?”
Hillary: I Don’t Say ‘Radical Islam.’ It ‘Doesn’t Do Justice’ To Good Muslims
Hillary Clinton explained why she won’t say “radical Islam.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hillary-clinton-i-dont-say-radical-islam-because-it-doesnt-do-justice-to-good-muslims/
This Week host George Stephanopoulos called out the former U.S. Secretary of State for not using the phrase during a discussion of the San Bernardino shooting and ISIS.
“Isn’t it a mistake not to say it plain? That the violence is being pushed by radical elements in their faith?”
“Well that’s another thing,” said Clinton. “‘Radical elements who use a dangerous and distorted view of Islam to promote their jihadist ambitions.’ I’m fine with that. I say it all the time.”
Hey Marco, We Could Have Had ‘Bomb Control’ But NRA Opposed It – Video of idiot blabbing on FoxNOTnews
“the left” never talks about “bomb control.”
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/liberals-soft-bomb-control-are-you-sure
“When this first came out, without knowing anything about the case, the first thing they started talking about was gun control, and gun control, ” the junior senator from Florida said. “I don’t hear anybody talking about bomb control. They put bombs, they left bombs behind on the scene of attack, intending to kill even more people than they did with the guns.”
I’d like to take Young Marco back to the mid-1990s, when a number of terrifying incidents — the first attack on the World Trade Center, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Olympic park bombing in Atlanta — led to calls by President Bill Clinton and other Democrats for a requirement that traceable “taggants” be included in explosives.
The NRA was having none of it, and therefore neither was the GOP:
President Clinton’s attempt to pass an anti-terrorism bill … ran into the brick wall of National Rifle Association opposition. The most desirable item in Mr. Clinton’s proposal was a plan to make it easier to trace explosives by adding chemical markers known as taggants to black powder and gunpowder during their manufacture. The President, in deference to the powerful gun lobby, had already watered down his idea before it hit the House of Representatives. Then Republicans substituted a meaningless non-government study on the already exhaustively studied taggant issue.
The requirement never passed, and the NRA/GOP taggant blockade still hasn’t been broken, as we were reminded after the Boston Marathon bombing:
…As David Cay Johnston noted shortly after the Marathon attack:
But for the NRA-backed policy of not putting identifiers known as taggants in gunpowder, law enforcement could have quickly identified the explosives used to make the bombs, tracking them from manufacture to retail sale. That could well have saved the life of Sean Collier, the 26-year-old MIT police officer who was gunned down Thursday night by the fleeing bomb suspects.
If Marco Rubio is suddenly concerned about bombs, perhaps he’d like to announce his support for taggant legislation right now. But that isn’t going to happen, is it?”
Supreme Court Deals Blow To Group Behind Planned Parenthood Videos
David Daleiden is not “pro-life” he is pro-birth and non-life just like most pro-birthers. So, Cecile Richards can be trusted after all aye Liz
http://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-videos-401597
“The Supreme Court just dealt a blow to the Center for Medical Progress, a California-based anti-abortion group that released a series of videos in which Planned Parenthood employees appear to discuss the sale of fetal tissue.
David Daleiden, the pro-life auteur behind the videos, asked Justice Anthony Kennedy to block an order from a district judge to hand over the names of his organization’s supporters and donors. Kennedy denied the request, and Daleiden will have to provide the information to a California district court.
The National Abortion Federation has sued the Center for Medical Progress on the grounds that Daleiden’s allies infiltrated its meetings by lying about their identities; in the videos, CMP members posed as Planned Parenthood employees. Although the content of the videos shocked and offended many politicians, prompting a national outcry, the countercharge that the whole thing was a sting operation to discredit Planned Parenthood has gained momentum among pro-abortion activists and politicians.
“It’s time to end this shell game…. The key issue here is the disclosure of the identities of CMP’s supporters,” said California District Judge William Orrick, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Orrick wants Daleiden to release the names in order to find out who was given confidential information about the National Abortion Federation, and has dismissed the argument that First Amendment “freedom of association” rights protects the CMP supporters, who may have been privy to illegal dealings as Daleiden went undercover to expose the health care provider’s practices.
Daleiden’s attorneys have argued that releasing the names would put supporters at risk of “retaliation.”
The action on the lawsuit comes in the wake of a mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs that left three dead on the Friday after Thanksgiving.”
@14, In sum, the GOPers right-wing radical insurgency religious nut politicians all across the USA raged against Planned Parenthood because of LIES…Anti-women’s healthcare ACTORS(supporters of Center for Medical Progress) pretending to be employees of Planned Parenthood discussing the “sale of fetal tissue.” on video, this influencing the likes of Robert Dear(and even most @RokDrop like Liz etc…) attacked and killed innocent people including a cop but GOPers still don’t care about anything but its own radical insurgency ❗
You Go GOPers 🙁 😈 😳
Jeb Backer Now Ready For Hillary
She’s the “lesser of two evils” says billionaire healthcare magnate Mike Fernandez from Florida. At least one Floridian has a head with a brain inside ❗
http://www.drudge.com/news/193812/billionaire-jeb-backer-ready-hillary
“If I have a choice — and you can put it in bold — if I have a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton, I’m choosing Hillary,” Miami healthcare magnate Mike Fernandez told the Miami Herald on Friday. “She’s the lesser of two evils.”
Outraged by Trump’s unimpeded ascent, Fernandez is taking on the GOP frontrunner himself. He purchased a full-page ad in the upcoming Sunday edition of the Herald calling Trump a “narcissistic BULLYionaire with a hunger to be adored.” He also likened him to some of history’s bloodiest demagogues.”
Obama’s Speech was GREAT and TRUTHFUL, unlike the LIES GOPers try to spread as fact 😆
Correction: …unlike the GOPer Radical Insurgency Righ-Wing Wing Nut Religious LIES it continues to try spreading as fact 😆
‘Accidentally’ Shoots Friend At Gun Show
Media sources and law enforcement deem unintentional shootings to be ‘accidents.’ So, guns don’t kill people, ‘accidents’ with guns do. It gets terribly confusing when they try to label it as anything but what it is: irresponsible.
http://www.foxnews.com/
“At the Arizona State Fairgrounds, a man was ‘accidentally’ shot by his friend with a semi-automatic handgun at a gun show.
KPHO reports:
Arizona Department of Public Safety detectives say that just after 11 a.m., there was an accidental discharge of a semi-automatic handgun.
A gun buyer had apparently been inspecting his recently-purchased handgun, when the weapon accidentally discharged, and the man’s companion was shot.
After the weapon discharged, the bullet struck the male victim in the upper left torso and then exited from his upper right torso.
The victim reportedly suffered a non-life-threatening injury and was transported to a local hospital.
The Crossroads of the West gun show held an event at the fairgrounds.
There is no word yet on whether any criminal charges will be filed and authorities said the investigation is ongoing.
The website for the Crossroads of the West gun show touts support for the National Rifle Association and it states the NRA is in ‘the business of freedom.”
That ‘freedom’ bullet had to pack a punch, huh?
With friends like the shooter, you don’t need enemies.
Be sure to give us some ‘like’ on Facebook.”
Gun Huggers along with the GOPer Radical Insurgency with the NRA will LOSE in the end 😎 😆
Clinton Leads All Republicans In Match-Ups
https://politicalwire.com/2015/12/07/clinton-leads-all-republicans-in-2016-match-ups/
In one-on-one matchups, no Republican beats Hillary Clinton.
A new MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll finds Hillary Clinton leads the Republican presidential field in hypothetical general-election match-ups, with Ben Carson and Marco Rubio running the closest to her.
Clinton’s biggest lead is against current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump: She’s ahead of him by 11 points among all voters, 52% to 41%, and a whopping 42 points among Latino voters, 69% to 27%.
Dick Cheney Condemns Trump Plan to Ban Muslims From Entering U.S.
http://time.com/4139998/dick-cheney-trump-muslims/
Sorry but I don’t listen to anti-gun lectures from people who think it’s OK to kill a baby.
A Hit Attempt Against Kim Jong Un? Maybe!
http://theweek.com/speedreads/592712/north-korea-atwitter-over-alleged-assassination-attempt-kim-jong-un
A rumor is going around North Korea that a stack of explosives was found hidden inside the Kalma Airport on Oct. 6, allegedly planted to take leader Kim Jong Un’s life, NK News reports.
I like the later part of the article, where it speculates: “If North Korea’s SSD had found out the explosives which Kim Jong Un’s Supreme Guard Command had failed to locate, than the Supreme Guard Command might have been involved in the assassination attempt,” he said. “But, also, it might have been an SSD setup to win Kim Jong Un’s favor by setting up the TNT and pretending that they found it after the Supreme Guard Command had already swept the site.”
K-Dramas that write themselves. What’s not to love?
@24: This story has been spreading the past few days:
https://www.rokdrop.net/2015/12/was-assassination-attempt-launch-against-kim-jong-un-at-wonsan-airport/
Like I said in my prior posting when it comes to anonymous sources within North Korea it is best to be skeptical.
CH might approve of Sarah Hoyt: http://accordingtohoyt.com/2015/12/06/a-blast-from-the-future/
Sarah Hoyt is awesome.
I especially liked the Architecture of Fear:
http://accordingtohoyt.com/2015/04/12/the-architecture-of-fear/
Liz, you are correct! I had forgotten that one!!
Sad Puppies Rule!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies
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On Refugees and Immigration, Thomas Sowell wrote:
“The history of millions of European immigrants who came here in centuries past was fundamentally different from what is happening in our own times.
First of all, those immigrants were stopped at Ellis Island to be checked medically and otherwise, and were allowed to get off that island to go ashore only after they had met whatever legal standards there were. Otherwise, they were sent back where they came from.
More fundamentally, people came here to assimilate into the American society they found, not to become isolated enclaves of aggrieved foreigners, demanding that Americans adjust to their languages, their values and their ways of life.”
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We had our Holiday Party at work and no one killed anyone else, though we did a good job on the catered food…
“I hate to break it to you but no matter how many restrictions you put on gun ownership in Nebraska, people in Chicago are still going to get shot.” – Larry Correia (http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/12/03/guns-and-vultures/)
“I hate to break it to you but no matter how many restrictions you put on gun ownership in Nebraska, people in Chicago are still going to get shot.”
Sorry, Setnaffa.
It is the racist Republican white male gun culture of Nebraska that fuels violence in disadvantaged minority neighborhoods of Chicago.
…or something.
The only way to get rid of gun in America is through generational social engineering.
Considering every time Obama opens his mouth with obvious nonsense a record number of guns are sold, it appears they are doing it wrong.
I checked a little more closely, and didn’t see this one posted. Which means I probably missed it…
Anyways, South Korea thought they were firing warning shots against an encroaching North Korean ship, but ended up firing warning shots against an encroaching Chinese ship.
http://news.yahoo.com/china-seeks-south-korean-safety-guarantees-warning-shots-085436771.html
China has been grabbing so much land lately, it seems inevitable they would try to grab a little slice of the good Korea. A brush back? We don’t do brush backs… Probably won’t go anywhere, but I figured it was news worthy.
29- Setnaffa, good link. This is the part I liked the best:
This just supports what I have always said is that the media coverage helps drive these shootings with these losers and terrorists wanting to get their faces on TV. If their names and faces were not published I am willing to bet there would be less shootings. Legislation preventing the publishing of names and faces would have more effect on stopping mass shootings instead grabbing guns in Nebraska.
Justice Scalia Condescends and Patronizes Black Americans, some “Justice” RACIST we have on the Supreme Court aye 🙄
Antonin Scalia Says Black Scientists Would Benefit From A ‘Slower’ Academic Track
http://dcist.com/2015/12/antonin_scalia_black_scientists.php
Prior to…
Justice Scalia Doesn’t Understand Why Black People Feel “Entitled” to Rights
Zerlina Maxwell says the supreme court justice’s controversial opinion reveals a deep disregard for history
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/justice-scalia-doesnt-understand-340#axzz3ts6K41sJ
@31, “The only way to get rid of gun(sic) in America is through generational social engineering.”
You’ve now shown yourself again as a no nothing/no common sense EGGHEAD ❗ All the gun control issue needs is common sense rather than politics. EGGHEAD often lectures about how politics is bad, yet he totally selects politics rather that life & safety for his NRA lovers…”GO KILL EM WHITE MAN ET ALL IN MORE, MORE, MORE, MASS SHOOTINGS WHICH WHITE MAN LEADS BIG TIME IN AMERICA.” KILL, KILL, KILL, PICK UP YOUR GUNS AND KILL via MORE WHITE MANKILL WITH YOUR GUNS in MASS SHOOTINGS for the NRA ect… IN FACT, GO KILL MORE 0-11 YEAR OLD’s(whom die more than white cops each year, yet white cops complain/whine about how they’re scared for their lives on the job 😆 ). Preschoolers have more courage than white whiny cops ❗
Have any of you used the free Zimbra Desktop?
Also, do any of you know a more modern app that will read Address Book Plus 3.0 “.ab3” files correctly?
Just having fun trying to modernize…
@35, Yeah Stick it Up Your AzzHole and pretend it’s EGGHEAD’s Vagina 😎
GOP Sadness or is this their happiness ❓ What I’ll show you in a moment is riveting 😎
“…a new poll among likely GOP primary voters, almost two-thirds said they support a ban on Muslim immigrants. A third of those respondents said Trump’s call makes them feel more compelled to vote for him. The poll, conducted by Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies PulsePoll, found half of the likely voters, regardless of their political affiliation, oppose Trump’s statements on Muslim immigrants, but 37 percent are in favor of such a ban.
“We believe these numbers are made up of some people who are truly expressing religious bigotry and others who are fearful about terrorism and are willing to do anything they think might make us safer,” Doug Usher, who runs polling for Washington-based Purple Strategies, told Bloomberg of the findings.”
Another of the wonderful things Barak hath wrought… http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/ex-guantanamo-detainee-now-an-al-qaeda-leader-in-yemen.php
Anybody want to fill me in? Why would Israel export $400,000 in gold to North Korea?
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-exported-gold-north-korea-154440382.html
Jerusalem (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold has been exported from Israel to North Korea despite a UN ban, an Israeli parliamentary committee said Thursday.
The Knesset’s economics committee said it would tighten restrictions on trade with the authoritarian state after learning that $400,000 of gold was exported after a 2006 UN ban.
$400 Large isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things, but it’s nothing to sneeze at either. The article was very thin on details. Has anybody here ever heard anything? And if you’re sending gold, what are you getting in return? Meth, weapons and herbal remedies, as well as water these days. Sounds more like a medium to large bribe than anything else.
@39, Because they have the love and support of the GOP)except Trump). Remember how the GOP was attacking Obama on his treatment of Israel/Netanyahoo and how the GOP went behind Obama’s back to invite the Israeli leader(Netanyahoo) to address congress. And remember how Israel paid Tom Cotton(GOPer young Senator) 1 million $$$ to block the Iran Nuclear Peace Treaty because GOPers love War not Peace.
Military Cadet Suspension For KKK-Like Hoods
A South Carolina military college suspended cadets for photos in KKK-like hoods.
Thus, the U.S. military is stocked with racists ❗
http://www.mediaite.com/online/singing-military-cadets-face-suspension-for-wearing-kkk-like-ghost-hoods/
“Citadel President and Lt. General John Rosa said he received complaints about a group of students and an instructor who were wearing the hoods and “singing Christmas carols as part of a ‘Ghosts of Christmas Past’ skit.”
…School administrators and officers are currently looking into the situation, though reports suggest the skit and hoods are part of an underclassmen hazing ritual. The Citadel has also acknowledged the incident on Facebook.”
Dad Wants Principal Fired For rejecting Son’s Gun-Toting Yearbook Photo
The father thought his son posing with a military assault rifle was very appropriate.
Dad’s mental health should be checked. Correction: He’s obviously a lunatic in the head or should I say EGGHEAD so he should be immediately placed into an institution after his guns are taken away IMMEDIATELY.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/dad-wants-principal-fired-after-sons-gun-toting-yearbook-photo-rejected-so-begins-the-fight-for-freedom/
“Charlie Renville, of Fargo, complained on Facebook that the photo — which shows his son Josh with his finger ready at the trigger of his “favorite” rifle — was rejected because school officials believe it “it promotes violence and breaks federal and state law.”
The elder Renville lamented on “the state of freedom today” as he demanded the Fargo North High School principal, Andy Dahlen, fired for rejecting the photo.
“I see a kid that loves his nation, loves free speech and loves the 2nd Amendment,” Renville said. “The rifle is a rifle he built and it is his favorite rifle. Dahlen just doesn’t like rifles, he doesn’t believe in or support the second Amendment. He is a far left progressive who is using his position to promote his political agenda and push it on our children.”
End Of New York’s Stop And Frisk Means Less Violence
The decline of stop and frisk has led to the decline in shootings and murders in New York.
Wasn’t it the GOP mayor/leadership that started this stupid “Stop and Frisk?” Thank goodness for the reform-minded Democratic mayor Bill de Blasio
http://gawker.com/as-stop-and-frisks-have-gone-down-in-nyc-so-have-shoot-1747345497
“The idea that New York City is in the throes of a historically or even notably dangerous and criminal era is a myth fabricated largely by the knuckleheads at the New York Post. More evidence to the contrary: In the years since stop-and-frisk began its great decline, murders and shootings in the city have gone down too, not up, according to new NYCLU analysis.
The gist of the data is this: between 2011 and 2014, the frequency of stop-and-frisks dropped by 93% in the city, thanks to public outcry, a federal lawsuit, and the election of reform-minded mayor Bill de Blasio. Over that same time period, murders and shootings dropped precipitously as well. As the NYCLU notes, that last part is especially important, because according to stop-and-frisk supporters, the seizure of guns and subsequent reduction in gun violence was the whole point of the program…”
Second Amendment Scholar: No Individual Right To Bear Arms
Fordham Professor Saul Cornell says our founders never intended the Second Amendment to give a green light for individual gun ownership.
All anyone has to do is read it and they’ll see(if they understand English) the Fordham Professor is CORRECT 😎
http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/12/09/cornell-people-having-a-personal-arsenal-of-guns-is-crazy/
Cornell: People Having A Personal Arsenal Of Guns Is Crazy
The Second Amendment has changed because American government has evolved since it was drafted, why the Second Amendment actually means there should more, not less, government restrictions on guns, and why it’s “crazy” for Americans to have a private stockpile of weapons.
“Anybody want to fill me in? Why would Israel export $400,000 in gold to North Korea?”
I never swung that way… but for a tight-body athlete like you, I will take you up on your offer and give it a try. Just don’t make it awkward by talking or making eye contact over your shoulder. As for the gold, no idea.
@39, it might be people who either want to buy weapons to kill Joos or people who want to have Kim NOT sell those weapons… Remember that the French and Russians violated UN sanctions against Iraq… And it’s not as though Israel gets much love from the UN anyway…
From the article: “Jerusalem (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold has been exported from Israel to North Korea despite a UN ban, an Israeli parliamentary committee said Thursday.
The Knesset’s economics committee said it would tighten restrictions on trade with the authoritarian state after learning that $400,000 of gold was exported after a 2006 UN ban.
David Houri, an Israeli tax official, told a committee hearing Wednesday the gold was traded in the years after the ban was introduced, Israeli media reported.”
It doesn’t sound to me like “Israel exported gold”, as the title would imply.
It sounds like individuals living in Israel did it, and the tax official caught it.
“And if you’re sending gold, what are you getting in return? Meth, weapons and herbal remedies, as well as water these days. Sounds more like a medium to large bribe than anything else.”
Well, the DPRK supports the Palestinians and there are all sorts of people living in Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu ‘rejects’ Donald Trump’s comments about Muslims
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/benjamin-netanyahu-rejects-donald-trumps-comments-on-muslims-and-says-israel-respects-all-citizens-a6767026.html
“Benjamin Netanyahu has joined a long list of international leaders to reject Donald Trump’s comments about Muslims,”
Can anybody clearly explain what Trump said that was so bad?
Difficulty: No explanation will be meaningful unless it is preceded by the exact quote it refers to… as incorrectly summarizing and attacking the non-existing concepts as the media and world leaders are doing is not connected to reality.
The TSA, saving America from K-Pop, by assuming they were sex workers:
http://www.koreaobserver.com/oh-my-girl-members-misidentified-as-sex-workers-detained-at-u-s-airport-61195/
Do you feel safer? I know I do! Waiting for the inevitable lawsuit…
K-pop girls, Korean actresses, etc… often serve whoever their bosses tell them to, you obviously don’t read the newspapers 🙄
@50: In a nutshell this is what he said:
As controversial as the comment has been it has actually increased his poll numbers:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/donald-trump-polling-muslim-ban-republican-support-new-hampshire
Donald Trump is America’s Rorschach test.
The TSA profiles? I’m shocked. 🙄
All Trump said was we should halt the import of a particular classification of immigrants, visa holders, and refugees until we learn how to vet them properly. He said it rather gormlessly; but he was not, strictly-speaking, unAmerican in his approach. There is a law on the books since 1952 that might apply. And Jimmy Carter did roughly the same thing in 1980.
The jackwagons who immediately rose in opposition to Trump (and the vile epithets, intentionally dishonest misquotes, misinformation about the actual laws involved, and death threats from the ACLU) are of a sort that I’m beginning to soften my opposition to the Hairpiece.
Dang it!
If vetting means we are going to expect immigration and intelligence agencies to sign off with absolute certainty about an immigrant’s complete background and intentions then that will make immigration impossible.
We may also be diverting resources from where they are really needed. Radicals don’t have to immigrate when Americans citizens that don’t fit a profile can become radicalized.
If one immigrant class is known to be much more dangerous than others, then why not restrict immigration from the parts of the world where they are a majority of the population?
It probably wouldn’t divert resources from other more important areas if we weren’t spending any money on administering immigration services to those countries. I would think that would save money.
People are presenting a false argument on Trump’s proposal violating freedom of religion. Freedom of religion applies to U.S. citizens and immigrants already in the U.S.
I can’t see how America has any obligation to uphold constitutional rights of those who don’t have constitutional rights.
As i recall, Constitution protections don’t apply to non-citizens in America… e.g. they cannot buy a gun… but they have a right to due process… e.g. deportation hearings.
Non-citizens have no constitutional protection outside of America and have no right to due process… e.g. courts have upheld arbitrary visa denial.
The first thing to understand… America has absolutely no real obligation to take non-citizen refugees… and even less obligation to take refugees who strive to maintain a lifestyle and values counter to America’s traditions, common cultures, and intetests.
A mistake that is (intentionally) being made is that Islam is a political ideology as much as a religion.
A proposal to “ban Muslims”… non-citizens with no rights to begin with… is not “discrimination based on religion” as it is being misrepresented… but protection against an openly hostile ideology no different than what has been successfully implimented against anarchists, Nazis, communists, gangster affiliates, and narcos throughout American history.
There are truly needy refugees from around the world who would embrace American opportunity and lifestyle and move the country foreward. Even Christians from these regions, who are unquestionably persecuted, would make a better choice than Islamisists which appear to frequently pass on their dangerous and violent political views to their first native-born generation.
It is hard to understand how anyone can argue with this.
Jeb Bush just came out with his plan to deal with refugees…
“We should have a temporary ban on refugees coming here until it’s clear that there aren’t any terrorists embedded.”
Too late, Jeb. Nice idea, though.
Well, Jeb’s brother created ISIS.
I am still waiting for someone who wants all these Syrian refugees to come to the US to explain to me why Saudi Arabia, UAE, and all the other Arab nations that these refugees share common language, religion and culture with are not taking them in, but we should?
Some Arab nations (or at least, nations with a Muslim majority) have taken in refugees. The UAE has taken in about a quarter of a million of them (for a nation with a total population under 6 million, that is a lot…100,000 more than Germany, though I’m not saying they belong in Germany if we’re going for accuracy here it should be mentioned).
Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan have all taken in over a million refugees.
Saudi is on the brink now. They are in a very very precarious position and have been for a while now.
Remember at the beginning of the year ISIS killed the Saudi General in charge of the multi-billion dollar Saudi effort to secure the northern border against ISIS. That was a pretty significant target, and the attackers knew exactly when the general was going to be at the outpost so it’s likely that the Saudi military is rife with ISIS sympathisers and/or members.
If so, the Saudi military may melt away when facing jihadis (or switch sides).
“Well, Jeb’s brother created ISIS.”
Guess when they change their name again it will be on the next guy.
Liz, I can understand Jordan not wanting any more due to only having a population of 8 million people and not being an oil rich nation. However, Saudi Arabia has a population of 30 million people, is oil rich and has a huge country. They could build refugee camps for these people to live in if they wanted to. As far as them being concerned about ISIS infiltrators, isn’t that same problem we would have? I think by making these countries take these refugees it forces their hand to do something about Syria because it is these countries that used Syria to wage a proxy war with Iran in the first place that got out of hand. By exporting the problem to the US and Europe this lessens the incentive to do anything.
“As far as them being concerned about ISIS infiltrators, isn’t that same problem we would have? “
Most definitely. I don’t think we should take them either.
“Well, Jeb’s brother created ISIS.”
Ummm… no. They were created by al Qaeda. Who kicked them out for being to brutal to Muslims. Next.
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
— Ronald Reagan
The Swiss are over in Trump’s corner. http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21676703-fear-immigrations-swings-switzerland-even-farther-right-switzerland-scarcely-touched-europes-new
In June of 1876, George Custer’s command suffered 52 percent casualties (most killed) because he made unwarranted assumptions about his opponents actions versus preparing against their capabilities. He rejected reinforcements including additional cavalry and light artillery.
In January 2014, President Obama infamously proclaimed that ISIS was the JV team, nothing to worry about… And then they took over much of Syria and Iraq.
This year, just the day before a couple (who were apparently quite clear online about their extremist beliefs and yet were never interviewed even once during either the Fiancee Visa or Temporary Greencard process) shot up the husband’s innocent coworkers at an office Holiday Party, the President assured us ISIS was “contained.” We later learned, of course, the wife had sworn allegiance to ISIS.
And of course the President belittles anyone who dares to claim the healthy males of military age might not really be helpless refugees intent on assimilation into our culture… In spite of all the evidence to the contrary here and in Europe.
The Lakota and Cheyenne killed Custer and then suffered for it. There was a lot of blood and death and ill-will that has survived all of the original decision-makers and their children.
President Obama’s missteps will result in a lot of blood and death and ill-will that will survive all of the decision-makers and their children.
And none of it had to be.