Party philosophies
Recent events have revealed the underlying philosophical approaches to economic prosperity between the Democratic and Republican parties in glaring clarity.
The Republicans believe prosperity occurs when the job creators, the wealthy elite in their view, have access to the nation's resources so they can innovate and fund businesses. The economy will grow as they hire workers who then fuel the economy, leading to more jobs, etc. Thus, they will tend to cut spending on social-network programs while keeping taxes low for investors.
Democrats believe prosperity occurs when resources are provided to the middle and lower economic groups, who spend the money very quickly. Demand for goods and services spurs economic activity that causes the job creators to create businesses to supply the demand. Thus, they will tend to expand the social network while moving the tax burden toward the wealthy.
People will choose between these philosophies in November, as Mitt Romney personifies the Republican philosophy while President Obama pretty closely personifies the Democratic philosophy. The choice should be on how we think our government should approach our long-term economic and social prosperity.
This choice may be even more important in local and congressional candidates. Let us vote in November less for the personalities and more upon how their attitude toward governing will affect our personal and corporate prosperity.
PAUL S. KENNEDY
Winston-Salem
Grave concern
Recently I expressed to a friend my grave concern for our country if Barack Obama is re-elected. He replied that who the president is makes little difference. I was shocked!
The stagnant state of the U.S. economy spawned by Obama's policies of stimulus, over-regulation and blatant encouragement of class warfare is frightening.
Obama is a rank amateur, foundering to govern effectively and disdaining small business and American exceptionalism in the process. Mitt Romney with his wealth of leadership experience (pun intended) has the knowledge and the will to restore health to our economy, enabling job creation and making us proud again.
It is a sad day when America's president encourages more entitlement spending, favors governance by executive order and scorns profit as a dirty word. Let us pray the electorate has sense enough to correct the costly mistake we made in 2008.
MARY LOU WILSON
Winston-Salem
Sum It Up
The Sum It Up question from Sunday was: Do you think U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts might eventually run for president?
No. I think that he would have to resign his position as a member of the Supreme Court, which is a lifetime position, to run for elective office. Why should he swap that for a possible four-year term as president?
CATHERINE W. PITTS
I hope Chief Justice John Roberts does not ever run for president because he has demonstrated his skill and judicial prowess in his role in the Supreme Court.
SUZANNE CARROLL
Probably not. He has a very cushy job now.
WILLIAM SAMS
No. Why would he do that? He can keep his current "job" for decades, without threat of popular rejection.
Furthermore, if he ever had any ideas of running for president prior to his recent "Obamatax" court ruling, any such possibility is gone now. He has alienated too many people on both sides of the aisle ... and in the middle of the aisle, too.
President John Roberts? It'll never happen.
WES PATTERSON
The SCOTUS, in acting out the roles of the other two branches of government, should have ruled on their law as written; Roberts, the deciding opinion, should not have made law by changing "mandate" to "tax" — that's not the court's job! As for Roberts running for POTUS, I rule "D.O.A."
LLOYD V. EVANS II
I hope not.
MONA POTTS
Wow, two days in a row. Wes must be beside himself. Is Obamatax the new catchword? I notice Deb used it too.
ReplyDeleteStab, here is a good article:
ReplyDeleteSteven Rattner: GM Had "Stunningly Poor Management"
"Everyone knew Detroit's reputation for insular, slow-moving cultures. Even by that low standard, I was shocked by the stunningly poor management that we found, particularly at GM, where we encountered, among other things, perhaps the weakest finance operation any of us had ever seen in a major company." Steve Rattner
Accusations about GM and Chrysler too are correct. But to claim presidential heroics re GM is a bit of ends justifying the means. The claim that Obama saved GM is fraudulent. What he did was use political muscle to intervene in a bankruptcy process in order to ensure a settlement on terms favorable to his supporters, the United Auto Workers union, at the expense of taxpayers (or “freeloaders,” in the president’s parlance) and bondholders. It would be more accurately characterized as an act of larceny than salvation. When he wiped out the bondholders, he set decades of contract law on its ear. Stock holders get wiped out but bond holders are treated differently. Whether tax payers are made whole is in serious doubt.
DeleteI don't give the president credit, I give it to the American people.
DeleteParty philosophies. Seems our president set out the core of the matter pretty well in Roanoke the other day. It is the divide between left and right. A sound bite didn't condemn him, but the entire statement in full was damning. It is a long over due full on fight between the individual vs the collective....Howard Roark vs the all knowing Central Planner.
ReplyDeleteGrave concern. In a way your friend was right. Certain financial and monetary events are going to happen fairly soon no matter who is perched on the throne at 1600 Pa Ave. Our president is driven by a vengeful mental defect based on his "social justice" notion that the right type of governmental coersion will level all past injustices. No amount of crippling national debt will dissuade him. When these financial and monetary events happen, it will matter a great deal who is president because how he reacts will determine if we are to continue to be America as our Founders designed it or just a mass of people struggling under the slavery of collective "equality".
ReplyDeleteExactly, with the internet and computers, international capitalism can call the shots. If a country doesn't give them what they want, they can go elsewhere in seconds now.
DeleteCapitalism is something we should give a try when we get finished with what we are living with now.
DeleteIn all honesty, WW, you know I am not a Marxist although I have studied him and read his works. I don't agree with his conclusions about socialism and communism, but I think he nailed Capitalism.
DeleteLTE #2... Grave Concern
ReplyDeleteMary Lou at it again I see. It's never a sad day when a government tries to look after the general welfare of all it's citizens. "The stagnant state of the U.S. economy spawned by Obama's policies of stimulus," it worked (econometric):
Feyrer and Sacerdote.
Chodorow-Reich, Feiveson, Liscow, and Woolston.
Wilson.
It worked (modeling):
Congressional Budget Office.
Council of Economic Advisors.
Zandi and Blinder.
It worked a little bit (modeling):
Oh and Reis.
It didn’t work (econometric):
Conley and Dupor.
Taylor.
Over regulation? With less regulation we got the Savings and Loan Scandal of the 80's (a Bush, Neil, was caught up in that), Enron, The crash of Wall Street, and now, LIBOR (I call the top feeders, Lie-borgs, resistance is futile). Class warfare? The US has created it's own Boyar class. Is that what we want, 17th Century Russia? "disdaining small business and American exceptionalism in the process....scorns profit as a dirty word." Nonsense, citations? I have to agree with your friend because governing takes a President and the Congress.
My brother-in-law was on the team that prosecuted the case against Bush. When it comes to Constitutional law, I have an expert I go to for answers.
DeleteI take it you are thrilled with the new whiz kid Ezra Klein? A young Krugman sans facial hair.
DeleteHe is well spoken. I do prefer MSNBC just because it does have a younger crowd, even S.E. Cupp the conservative atheist. They have a lot more years at stake in the world than we in the older crowd.
DeleteYour last sentence is solid gold.
Deletebut I think George Bernard Shaw said it best: “If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
DeleteMSNBC's morning weekend shows are leagues ahead of the competition. UP and MHP are two of my favorite programs now.
DeleteKrugman without facial hair? That's very high praise in my book.
My concern is that the world is now in a state of hazardous consumption and has been since the industrial revolution.
ReplyDeleteI think the old 80's mantra of "he who dies with the most toys, wins" is immoral.
DeleteYeah, those toys never seem to be carried in an armoured car behind a hearse.
DeleteI just turned on my TV. Guns, fucking, guns. There are no guns in nature.
ReplyDeletea 24 yo with an assault rifle, two handguns, a bullet proof vest, and tear gas.
DeleteThe Garden of Eden is gone, Bob. Wake up with a gun under your pillow, and smell the roses each day.
DeleteObama ain't going to be there when it hits the fan, trust me. He's like Rush, he doesn't have a clue.
hell, if guns were a part of nature, Adam would have shot Eve.
DeleteYou should read Exit from Eden, Bucky, by Anne Rampling aka Anne Rice. It's right up your alley, so to speak.
DeleteBucky, I do get to smell the roses everyday. They are 3, 2, and 1.
DeleteI must say our militia are not well regulated.
DeleteMea Culpa, that would Exit to Eden.
DeleteSuspect in the shooting didn't have a concealed carry permit, or a hunting license. He was just some nut, like Rush, that went on a rampage.
Deleteirrelevant. His guns weren't concealed. No one cares whether or not he had permits. He had an assualt rifle, hand guns, tear gas, gas mask, bullet proof vest,and all probably purchased at some gun show. And I think you owe O.T. an apology for that one, comparing him to a blood thirsty murderer.
DeleteToo bad that 71 year old geezer from Florida wasn't there with his concealed weapons permit, or even Zimmerman. They know how to fight back.
DeleteI won't hold my breath.
DeleteNo, I owe Rush nothing. Especially after he wished that I would kill myself in a recent post.
DeleteHe's a disturbed man, or thing. I'm not quite sure what at this point.
Zimmerman is toast. If he had been smart enough to keep his mouth shut, he might have had a slim chance of exoneration, but now what he said on TV WILL be held against his earlier statements which are contradictory.
DeleteHe is very much like Romney, may be innocent but does everything within his power to look guilty.
DeleteZimmerman lied to a judge. Don't you think he was going to have problems anyway?
DeleteAll politicians are liars. Obama included.
DeleteBucky, all people are liars. I think Mark Twain said it best: “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar”
DeleteI've lied before, what about you?
DeleteI've lied. I just try not to routinely lie, like Rush does.
DeleteUntil and unless we get big money out of politics, we the people Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, et al will be ruled and governed by our boyar class which includes Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, et al.
ReplyDeleteAnd Bucky, I AM testy today. So if you want to take on the combination of testy and smart, you do so at your own risk. I assure you, I can type a lot faster than you can think.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I'm also getting a good laugh at myself too.
DeleteWell I'm off to smell the roses and water some plants.
ReplyDeleteLouie Gohmert: Aurora Shootings Result Of 'Ongoing Attacks On Judeo-Christian Beliefs'
ReplyDeleteWow, that is so out of control, I really don't know what to say or think.
Well, Gohmert is clearly insane.
DeleteHe also decried the fact that no one in the audience shot back.
Yeah, that would be a great idea, two crazy shooters in a crowded theater. Gun nuts are just that...nuts.
Just another day in the good ol' USA where mass murder has long been proven to be an acceptable consequence for ensuring every American (sane or insane) has the right to bear arms(assault or otherwise). There isn't a thing that can be done about it.
DeleteI've got no problem with additional restrictions in the form of psychological testing for gun owners. Maybe it would help keep guns out the hands of people like Rush.
DeleteHe wouldn't use one if he had one anyway. He'd running like a little girl at the first shot.
DeleteBucky...you knoweth not of what you speak.
DeleteWhere have you been hiding Arthur? Writing your book I suppose?
DeleteYou'll be writing a revised version in about twenty years, reporting how the Obama Administration's policies and overall agenda led to the collapse of the U.S. as a economic world power.
bucky, that's just part of a capitalist world market with instant communication and ability to transfers funds anywhere at anytime. One would expect an economic homeostasis in which the richer nations get a bit poorer and the poorer nations rise as capital will go, regardless of any nationalism, to where it gets the best return.
DeleteSpoken like a true liberal. Already rationalizing the downfall of the U.S. even before the end of Obama's presidency.
DeleteI suppose I really shouldn't overwhelm you with complex economic theory.
DeleteI tried to keep it simple, but homeostasis unfortunately has more than two syllables.
DeleteIt's usually used in biology Bob, so I ignored your use of the word.
DeleteA lot times you and Rush just start babbling and your posts become incogruent to the point that I just ignore a good portion of the content.
So excuse me for not giving much of a damn about it.
No, you will give a damn about my posts, like it or not.
DeleteObama is a rank amateur, foundering to govern effectively and disdaining small business and American exceptionalism in the process. Mitt Romney with his wealth of leadership experience (pun intended) has the knowledge and the will to restore health to our economy, enabling job creation and making us proud again.
ReplyDeleteMary Lou Wilson
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Well stated Ms. Wilson
Bucky July 20, 2012 9:33 AM
ReplyDeleteThe Garden of Eden is gone, Bob. Wake up with a gun under your pillow, and smell the roses each day.
As always, classic stupidity.
People sleeping with guns under their pillows have accidentally killed themselves, their spouses and others.
The most recent victims, within the last few weeks, have been a Manila police officer and a 4-year-old child in Philadelphia.
There's no accounting for a dunce.
You left off a portion of my post:
DeleteObama ain't going to be there when it hits the fan, trust me. He's like Rush, he doesn't have a clue.
Good afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: Mr. Kennedy does a decent job at laying out a fundamental problem in current day politics. We have one party that is essentially devoted to the supply side of the equation with the other party is essentially devoted to the demand side of the equation, when the economy operates based on the interaction between both sides of the equation. Starting up a business requires capital, in some cses a lot of capital. To sustain that business requires a sufficient demand for that company's goods/services to meet expenses at the minimum. Expanding a business requires capital, but it also dependent on having an increase in demand in order to justify the tied up capital as well as the extra expenses involved. People should not have to choose between the two. In fact, both philosophies need to be chosen since both are needed to make this economy work. The fact that we are having to choose is a major problem and why both parties suck.
LTE 2: Ms. Wilson's friend is indeed correct. Obama came into office on "hope and change", but after the saw the reality of the situation he was facing, he wound up basically continuing GWB's policies. If Romney wins in Nov, it is highly likely that he will resume right where Obama left off once he sees the reality of the situation. Plus, any POTUS is at the mercy of Congress to get any new policy enacted. To think that Romney by merely getting elected can "restore health to our economy, enabling job creation and making us proud again" is either laughably naivite or utter BS.
Sum it up: Now, why on earth would someone give up Chief Justice of the f'ing Supreme Court to run for POTUS? I do not always agree with Roberts, but the guy is clearly no fool.
Hey dotnet!? Why don't you put some spaces in between your paragraphs, your gibberish would be a lot easier to read.
DeleteYour posts are like the Sunday funny papers. I always enjoy a good chuckle. That's the only reason it matters to me.
Perhaps you could lend him the spaces between your teeth. Stop smiling, you look like a picket fence that needs white washing. Where is that Sawyer boy when you need him?
DeleteI'll lend him one of my boots that I usually have stuck up Rush's keyboard, how's that?
DeleteBoots are not spaces.
DeletePretty informative discussion today, minus the trolling. However, I wish the ad hominems would diminish. Likening Cuz Rush to the Aurora fiend was a bit much, and I discern no lying from him either. He and Bob are both diligent fact checkers.
ReplyDeleteThe Dark Knight Rises
Deletehttp://movies.yahoo.com/movie/the-dark-knight-rises/trailers/
I'll bet AG Holder hopes none of the guns used in the Colorado shooting get traced to 'Fast and Furious'.
DeleteHere's a CNN headline:
Delete'Like hunting season'
Think they don't want to destroy gun ownership for everybody?
CNN......, the most liberal name in news.
In light of earlier comments about sleeping with a gun under your pillow:
ReplyDeleteBarbara Stager's husband Russ slept with a gun under his pillow. Early in the morning of February 1, 1988, Barbara called Durham police and reported that her husband was dead. She told them that she must have touched the gun in her sleep and that it accidentally fired.
Just as with Killer Zimmerman's initial story, the cops bought it. But other people knew things, and Barbara was eventually tried for murder. The prosecution said that she had taken the gun from beneath the pillow and deliberately shot her husband. They were not allowed to present evidence that she had done exactly the same thing to her first husband and told the same story and gotten away with it.
It took the jury 44 minutes to convict her. The next day, they sentenced her to die for her crime.
Due to a technicality, she was later resentenced to life in prison. She was denied parole at her first hearing in 2009. She was denied parole again in March of this year.
Jerry Bledsoe wrote a book about her: Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder
If Barbara's sentence had not been changed, she would be one of five women on NC's death row. The four who are still there are a nice bunch of ladies:
Patricia Jennings beat and tortured her elderly husband to death.
Blanche Moore poisoned to death or attempted to poison two husbands, one or more lovers, her pastor, her father and her mother-in-law. Four people were disinterred before her trial. Arsenic for all.
Carlette Parker was a 34 year old RNA who had been caring for an elderly woman named Alice Covington. She later kidnapped Alice, forced her to withdraw money from her bank, then drowned her in a bathtub.
Christina Walters was a member of a gang known as the Crips near Fort Bragg. During a gang crime spree directed by her, two women were killed execution style and a third woman, Debra Cheeseborough, was shot 7 times and left for dead. Debra survived to testify against them.
Christina was found guilty on two counts each of first degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and robbery with a dangerous weapon; one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon. In a second indictment, Walters was additionally charged with and found guilty of attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, first-degree kidnapping, and robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but all four have found Jesus in prison…bet you didn't know that that is where Jesus hangs out. Hey, Killer Zimmerman met him there too. Bet you didn't know that it was god's will that Killer killed Trayvon Martin. Jesus told him so.
Would you be happier if Martin would have cracked Zimmerman's head open on the concrete? Or maybe happier if Martin would have gotten Zimmerman's gun as he tried to do, and shot and killed Zimmerman?
DeleteHad Martin been white, we wouldn't be having this discussion. This all about race, at this point, and nothing to do with self defense.
As soon as people take off their racial blinders, maybe they'll be able to analyze and see the facts, as they are, and not like they want them to be.
What makes you think that anyone is happy about the situation?
DeleteBecause he's happy about the situation...Dunce loves death and gore and human failure in all it's forms.
Delete"George, there's a dangerous Neegrow coming this way. Go and stop him." So George did.
DeleteRush
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Thanks Rush. You always end up making my point for me.
Sometimes Dunce has a problem replying to the comment that he meant to reply to...that's god's will too.
Delete"George, there's a dangerous Neegrow coming this way. Go and stop him." So George did.
DeleteRush
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Thanks Rush. You always end up making my point for me.
One my friends knew Stager's first husband, was interviewed by Bledsoe. Larry was nice guy, not the brightest fellow. Like Russ Stager, he was afraid of his wife toward the end.
DeleteWith good reason. Shows you how sleeping with a gun under your pillow can make you safer.
DeleteMen can be pretty awful, but you really haven't lived until you get involved with a woman gone bad.
I've known Bledsoe for many years. He was always one of the better reporters around in his Greensboro Daily News years, but he found his calling with his book about the Newsome murders, Bitter Blood, which peripherally involved my friend from the library.
My favorite book of his is Blood Games about a group of brilliant kids who originally met at the NC School of Math & Science in Durham and who, while students at N.C. State, planned and executed a murder in tiny Washington, NC, the first American place to be named for our 1st President.
The story has connections to the now extinct Camel City Laundry chain in Winston-Salem, and, in fact, the principal perp and his mother, who was also supposed to be killed, now live here.
We certainly live in a bizarre, and very small, world.
I remember your library friend being mentioned in the book. I knew a number of other folks mentioned, as you do also. I also met an SBI officer was involved in the final shoot out and car chase, and a deputy who was also in that chase.
DeleteYes, that finale was a total screwup. The FC deputies and SBI people went into Greensboro & Guilford County without notifying the locals.
DeleteAt the time, GSO police had one of the best SWAT units in the country and could have taken Fritz Klenner out with no further harm to anyone. Instead, the FC/SBI fools, wanting credit for the arrest, informed no one.
At the last minute, they did notify the GSO police...that resulted in a young officer who had no idea what was going on being severely wounded...career ending...by Klenner's M-10 at close range.
The result was four more people and two dogs dead, bringing the total of human dead to nine.
My old friend Jerry Lynch ended up losing his mother, his sister, his former wife and both his sons, from which he has never really recovered.
Incompetence from top to bottom.
Bledsoe did a great job on the book, because the screwup sheriffs deputies were not allowed to talk to him, yet the lead detective made a lot of money afterward making speeches all over the country about how he "solved" the case.
It was god's will, Dunce. God directed the whole thing from start to finish.
ReplyDeleteOne day god said to George "Y'know, George, your dick's too small; you better get you a gun to make up for it." So George got him a gun. After that his wife was a happy woman.
One day god was bored. He said "Trayvon, I want you to go to the store and get some Skittles and iced tea." So Trayvon went.
George was sitting at home, watching "Public Enemy" for the thousandth time. God said "George, there's a dangerous Neegrow coming this way. Go and stop him." So George did.
It is probably god's will that you are as stupid as Killer. I certainly can't think of any other reason.
Hey, cuz, I don't mind if Dunce compares me to the devil himself...it's not as if anyone takes anything he says seriously. He's just a sad caricature.
ReplyDeleteBesides, most of us are only a few bad decisions away from perpetrating something awful ourselves.
Dr. David Buss of the University of Texas led the largest homicidal fantasy study ever conducted, using 5,000 people, 375 who were actual murderers.
The study looked into why people have homicidal fantasies and the specific circumstances in which they contemplate killing. The research team discovered how homicidal fantasies are used to build and work through scenarios of killing, how they help channel murderous intentions into other means of seeking redress, how they can also be used to simulate and rehearse carrying out murder and how particular passions come into play in evaluating whether or not to turn fantasy into reality.
Buss’s homicidal fantasy research revealed that 91 percent of men and 84 percent of women have had at least one vivid fantasy—often intense and astonishingly detailed—of committing murder.
“As with most instances of homicidal fantasies, few thoughts are translated into deeds,” Buss said. “Most people work through cost-benefit calculations, figure out alternative means of solving the problem and decide that the costs of killing are too high.”
One indication of how infuriated both sexes feel when romantically rejected comes from an analysis of whether torture was part of the fantasy. The response to getting rejected and discovering a partner’s sexual infidelity proved to be about equal for women and men, with 57 percent of the victims of each experiencing torture fantasies.
There is a fascinating article about the study here:
The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill
Here's a CNN headline:
Delete'Like hunting season'
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Nobody 'hunts' in such a manner. That is just another sick, liberal suggestion that legal hunting is bad, and any gun ownership is equally as bad.
Only a liberal with mentally perverted views on gun ownership, and use, would allege such a comparison.
I'm sure CNN probably has many people like Rush on staff.
Only Dunce, who has never been hunting in his life...the sound and recoil from a real weapon would make him wet his little panties...would say such a thing.
DeleteHunting was at one time a way to supplement the farmer's table. There is hardly any place left in the US where that is true.
Hunting today is about the power of killing some defenseless animal to make some low esteem loser feel like his dick is bigger than it really is.
Give bears and deer and birds firearms to shoot back with and see how many little dick hunters venture into the field.
I'm laughing all the way.
yep, of all the creatures on earth, man is the lowest, the only species that enjoys and gets a thrill out of killing another living creature for sport.
DeleteActually, Phargo, I am very much in favor of hunting as sport.
DeleteSport is defined as a competition. In all sports other than "hunting" we have a complex series of rules to assure fairness. Don't believe me, look at the NFL Rulebook, which is approaching dictionary thickness for a simple child's game, which as children we had a complete grasp of...if our football games got out of hand scorewise, we stopped, swapped some players around and continued until the scores evened out. It is no fun for players on either team to have a lop-sided score.
Or look at NASCAR, which has a phony rule book designed to eliminate creative thinking in favor of close races, which is how they fill their bank accounts. That began way back when, I think, Fireball Roberts won a race by something like 27 laps because he had an idea that no one had thought of.
So I am in favor of hunting, as long as we arm and train bears, deer, whatever to shoot back. Or just let humans hunt each other. Ha, ha. That will be the end of hunting pretty quick.
Those sissy boy CCW pussies would just wet their little panties under those circumstances.
I'll bet you know a lot about wet panties, don't you big boy?
DeleteRead it, most interesting.
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ReplyDeleteThe CO shooter bought a 100 round clip on the internet for his assault rifle. Just amazing.
ReplyDeleteThis guy didn't seem like much of a 'Joker'. He seems like the real thing-a mass murderer.
DeleteNot really amazing, Phargo. The NRA outspends sane gun control groups 10-1, so Congress is completely bought.
DeleteMitty signed a permanent assault-weapons ban in Massachusetts in 2004, but has shied away from addressing the ban on a national scale. He promised the NRA earlier this year that he would “stand up for the rights of hunters, sportsmen, and those seeking to protect their homes and their families.”
Of course, the NRA has no interest in any of those bullshit matters...their only interest is in helping gun manufacturers to sell more guns.
And they find widespread support among the intrepid redneck hunter gunowners of America. Shoot that squirrel...blast that chipmunk...shoot your own toe off...fools all.
"The Most Dangerous Game" is a short story published by Richard Connell in Collier's Weekly, in 1924.
DeleteIt is about a "big game hunter" from NY who falls overboard in the Caribbean from a ship on his way to hunt jaguars in South America. He washes ashore on an island owned by a "Cossack", who in turn hunts him.
The story had a huge impact when it was published and was anthologized for decades in college textbooks, but under the influence of the NRA has faded into obscurity.
As one who grew up in a hunting family of farmers who hunted for the table, trained early on in gun safety, hunting and tracking skills, I sometimes find myself fantasizing about doing just that…hunting some fool who thinks he is a tough guy just because he has a gun in his hands.
I couldn't really bring myself to kill him, but I'll bet that I could make him mess his pants over and over just by splintering a tree next to his dumbass head.
Today's gun nuts are pussies who have never felt the heat of a shot fired at them in anger.
Yep, Ike was right, beware the military industrial complex.
DeleteYeah, Yeah, Yeah, ...you're a big tough guy with your wetted, silk panties on, aren't you Rush?
DeleteYes, I heard someone say tonight the reason there are no popular votes on gun laws is that it's easier for the NRA to buy 51 out of 100 legislators than it is to buy 51% of the vote.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why gay and lesbians don't try the same tactics?
DeleteWE do.
DeleteThe death of a man shot inside his home, by a sheriff's deputy who went to the wrong apartment looking for a criminal suspect, has sparked protests this week over police procedures in the central Florida city of Leesburg.
ReplyDeleteAndrew "Drew" Scott, 26, a pizza delivery driver, was shot dead at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday when deputies knocked on his apartment door without identifying themselves as law enforcement officers. Scott opened his door holding a gun, according to Lake County Sheriff spokesman Lieutenant John Herrell.
Well then, why did they shoot him?
DeleteThe 2nd Amendment, according to the gun nut lobby, gives every citizen the right to own and brandish a firearm, particularly in his own home, and most particularly in Florida, the ultimate home of "stand your ground".
Did the deputy understand that concept? Ha, ha. The deputy, like most, was a natural born bully...that's why he was a deputy in the first place...and his intelligence level was probably about the same as the Dunce...
Voila...dead pizza delivery guy...being one is obviously a capital offense...disagree with that, watch what happens in the "investigation"...deputy was "justified"...ha, ha.
By the time November rolls around, there may not be any living people in Florida left to to vote.
Based on what you've posted in here recently, about the use of deadly force by citizens and/or the police. Your knowledge on the subject is just about one rock higher than a full box of rocks. So I don't know why you're babbling again.
DeleteSometimes I feel like I'm eating liberal jerky in here.
Deletelol, You just thought it was jerky.
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