monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all!

So you thought that me feeling the need to call out someone's bad behaviour was... bad behaviour... which you felt the need to call me out on.

I'll send you your EU passport in the mail then? :-)

the admins here are all leftist/Marxists. Factual talking points that they disagree with are labeled "abusive" or "name calling" because they don't jive with the leftist/feminist dogma. Just like how the big tech companies silence people like James Damore who state scientific fact like how women and men are different.

Anything and everything is equivocated to "name calling" if liberals don't like it. Yet they can "name call" all they want! Deplorables anyone?

If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all!

They suspended me for YEARS oralloy. And not years total from separate bannings, over two years in one solitary ban! Don't you think that's a bit much?

Who else have they done that to?

Just found it amusing that Oralloy was earnestly reassuring this person that tag abuse was solved now, when a quick click showed they were among the worst abusers themselves.

Yet people like izzy are allowed to "call names" all they want and nothing happens.

The world's biggest investment management firm is stepping up pressure on companies that make and sell guns after the Florida school shooting.

BlackRock Inc is considering offering investors the chance not to invest in gun firms, and is asking those firms how they monitor safe use of weapons.

The US corporation said the Florida shooting on 14 February, in which 17 people died, required a response.

It is the largest shareholder in two of the biggest US gun manufacturers.

"As it has for many people, the recent tragedy in Florida has driven home for BlackRock the terrible toll from gun violence in America," the corporation said on its website.

"We believe that this event requires response and action from a wide range of entities across both the public and private sectors."

BlackRock Inc is the world's largest fund manager.

BlackRock manages more than £4 trillion ($5 trillion) worth of investments and pension funds worldwide and is often consulted by governments.

The company is the largest shareholder in leading gun makers Sturm, Ruger & Co and American Outdoor Brands (formerly Smith & Wesson).

BlackRock is also a large shareholder in firms such as Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods which sell guns.

But these shares represent a tiny fraction of its total assets.

On top of a protest movement started by Florida shooting survivors, a growing number of companies have cut ties with America's main gun lobby, the National Rifle Association (NRA).

These include:

United and Delta airlines and rental giants Hertz and Enterprise, which have stopped offering discounts to NRA members.

The family-owned First National Bank of Omaha said it would not renew NRA-branded credit cards, citing "customer feedback."

Insurance firm Chubb said it had stopped underwriting an NRA-branded insurance policy three months ago.

Insurer MetLife Inc also cut ties.

Two major retailers have also announced new restrictions on gun sales.

Dick's Sporting Goods, which has more than 600 shops, said it would no longer sell assault-style rifles, and backed "common sense gun reform".

American Outdoor Brands, meanwhile, reported a 33% year-on-year decline in quarterly sales on Thursday.

Walmart said it was raising the minimum age for anyone buying guns or ammunition to 21 years.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump stunned lawmakers from both parties by accusing them of being "petrified" of the NRA during a meeting at the White House.

But the following day he described a meeting with a top NRA lobbyist as "great".

Since the 14 February attack on the Florida school the NRA has become a target of a heated campaign for tougher gun laws.

But it has not shown any sign of bending to the pressure.

Dana Loesch, a spokeswoman for the group, told ABC News that "the NRA doesn't back any ban" on guns.

She said the massacres like that in Florida were not caused by the NRA.

The group defended itself on Twitter, saying people upset about the shooting should focus on lapses by law enforcement.

NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre has said "opportunists" are using the Florida tragedy to expand gun control and abolish US gun rights.

Administration officials and outsiders with windows into decision-making describe a growing sense of despair within Trump’s ranks, driven by the mounting realization that the president’s brand of politics guided by intuition and improvisation is incompatible with a competently functioning executive branch.

Most alarming, by these lights, is mounting evidence that Trump lacks an attribute possessed by most previous presidents and certainly by all the most successful ones: a capacity for self-critique and self-correction.

self-critique and self-correction

Why does it matter which cosmetics are used?

Any gun that can accept a detachable magazine, can have a high capacity magazine built that will fit it.

Hard to see why that matters, but true.

Which is why you were wrong to pretend that such guns are somehow more dangerous.

Breaking a rifle in half lets it be carried in a much shorter container.