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oralloy
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 07:02 am
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:
That's plain nutty. And oralloy who maintaions he only reports fact, has just again gone completely off the rails.

If the motivation for trying to ban pistol grips on rifles is anything other than the joy that leftists get from violating people's civil liberties, what is that alternative motivation?
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hightor
 
  3  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 08:06 am
I mentioned Alex Jones earlier. This American Life ran an interesting story about him recently.
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Olivier5
 
  2  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 08:37 am
@oralloy,
You mean, them "leftist UN" idea of fun is NOT to slaughter American children or to make excuses for those doing so? The nerve!

What these darn sentimental leftists from abroad should know by now, is that American children exist for one reason only: to be regularly sacrificed to the gods of money, Moloch-style.
McGentrix
 
  -1  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 08:57 am
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

Quote:
There is no lack of justification for banning them.

Each homeowner or individual, to be truly safe, must maintain the right to possess and carry personal-sized iNukes.


Why the extreme? You seem to understand what a gun is and how it is used. Why try to comapare a gun with an "iNuke"?

It's the equivalent to calling abortion doctors butchering murderers that kill babies.
blatham
 
  4  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 10:18 am
@McGentrix,
Quote:
Why the extreme? You seem to understand what a gun is and how it is used. Why try to comapare a gun with an "iNuke"?
It's a good question.

One can understand the rationale for the Second Amendment if one considers the time and situations that existed when it was written.

One also understands that an organized militia (bearing muskets and flintlock pistols that could fire 3 rounds a minute if the bearer was highly expert) would be facing potential adversaries with the same crude weapons.

None of that applies today. No armies are threatening and no militia could stand, even briefly, against modern armies' arsenals (including nukes). Thus my post pointing to the absurdity of any claim that there is a need for the weaponry you can buy off the shelf including automatic assault weapons to protect yourself in a manner that made sense in 1790.

BillW
 
  4  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 10:20 am
@hightor,
hightor wrote:

Who Do Jared and Ivanka Think They Are?



Things I have always realized but when put together in writing like this article brings everything together in one ugly basket. Thanks!
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glitterbag
 
  7  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 11:03 am
I know it’s tempting to respond to posters who present themselves as moronic simpletons....but all that really happens is the moronic simpleton revels in the attention. Why shouldn’t they, either they are true simpletons who think they are on an equal footing (with the nonsense facts and pre adolescent style) or its a clever albeit aggravating method of disrupting and redirecting. I don’t know what kind of gratification a person gets pretending to be so removed from reality they’ve created an alternate reality in a sort of opposite-world...but that’s just another way of disrupting and redirecting. I get annoyed with myself when I participate online with intentional or unintentional jerks. I’m going to try harder to ignore such things even when the posts are so laughably stupid it’s stunning.
hightor
 
  3  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 11:42 am
@glitterbag,
You're right, of course. I've taken to limiting myself to a few responses. I have most of the trolls on "ignore" but I'll make an occasional reply to comments directed at posts I've made. I do this not so much for the troll's edification but to bolster points I've already made for my own satisfaction and in case some other like-minded person might be following the thread.
izzythepush
 
  2  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:02 pm
Quote:
Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has led the country since independence from the Soviet Union, has resigned.

In a televised address, he said the decision was "not easy" but he wanted to help "a new generation of leaders".

Mr Nazarbayev, 78, has been largely unchallenged since he became leader of the oil-rich nation in 1989.

He will retain much of his influence as head of the of the ruling party and of the influential security council.

He will also hold the formal title Leader of the Nation.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47628854
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farmerman
 
  2  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:13 pm
@blatham,
automatic assault weapons are already controlled, its the next level down that enjoins the fight .
blatham
 
  2  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:39 pm
@farmerman,
I thought there was a sunset clause on the ban that came into effect under Clinton and that has now expired. But I might have this wrong.
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coldjoint
 
  -3  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:40 pm
@glitterbag,
Quote:
. I’m going to try harder to ignore such things even when the posts are so laughably stupid it’s stunning.

Please do. Your insults from on high do not impress anyone.
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glitterbag
 
  2  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:42 pm
@hightor,
I've done the same thing more often than I'd like to admit. You can only wave away so many mosquitoes before you slap down a few....only instead of putting a stop to the irritant....the simpletons get excited...hey they noticed me...somebody noticed me.

Something tells me even Mother Theresa would bark out "shut the hell up" after being pestered none stop day after day. Hey, we're only human......well most of us anyway. Cheers hightor
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coldjoint
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:48 pm
@hightor,
Quote:
I have most of the trolls on "ignore"

Do they disagree with you? I bet they do. End of story.
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blatham
 
  3  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:49 pm
@glitterbag,
I don't engage with the folks we're talking about and there are very few exceptions and for the most part I wish other folks wouldn't engage them as well. But I sympathize with those cases where a person will engage now and again where there is value in working out how to think about some important subject at hand. That's actually a key reason I write as, for me, the writing process is my best analytic tool.

Edit: Having those particular folks on ignore is necessary for me or I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to engage.
coldjoint
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:54 pm
Quote:
Twitter Admits Shadowbanning Lisa Page Tweet By Federalist Co-Founder "To Keep People Safe"

Who are they to decide what is safe and what is not? If they will not give sides equal access they should be shut down.
Quote:
Following his March 12 tweet, Davis wondered if Twitter was experimenting with "shadow bans" - as he could only see his tweet if he was logged in, meaning nobody else could see it.

That is total bullshit and an exercise in the authoritarian garbage they accuse Trump of.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-18/twitter-admits-shadowbanning-lisa-page-tweet-federalist-co-founder-keep-people-safe
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coldjoint
 
  -2  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:56 pm
@blatham,
Quote:
Edit: Having those particular folks on ignore is necessary for me or I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to engage.

Nothing like a comment from someone who said they were not posting on this thread again. Not to credible, nothing is from a known liar.
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hightor
 
  3  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 12:58 pm
He just can't leave it alone...

Trump Again Attacks a Dead Senator: ‘I Never Will Be’ a Fan of John McCain

Quote:
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that he was “never a fan” of the late Senator John McCain, “and I never will be.”

The president’s blunt remarks came in response to a reporter’s question about his recent attacks on the Republican war hero who represented Arizona, and who died last year of brain cancer.

On Tuesday, the focus of Mr. Trump’s ire was Mr. McCain’s historic vote on health care in 2017, when he went against his own party and opposed a Republican measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

“He campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare for years, and then he got to a vote and he said thumbs down,” Mr. Trump said on Tuesday after taking reporters’ questions alongside the president of Brazil, who was at the White House for an official visit. “Our country would have saved a trillion dollars and we would have had great health care.”

Over the weekend, however, Mr. Trump’s attacks on Mr. McCain largely focused on the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump derided Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee for president in 2008, for sharing with the F.B.I. a copy of a salacious and uncorroborated dossier on the Trump campaign’s dealings with Russia, though Mr. Trump falsely claimed Mr. McCain had shared it with the agency before the election. Mr. Trump also falsely said Mr. McCain was last in his class at the Naval Academy. In fact, Mr. McCain was fifth from the bottom and often mocked himself for it.

Mr. McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, hit back at Mr. Trump on Saturday and said in a Twitter post, “No one will ever love you the way they loved my father.”

nyt
coldjoint
 
  -4  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 01:00 pm
@hightor,
Quote:
He just can't leave it alone...

Why should he? He has every right to give his opinion on McCain.
Quote:
Mr. McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, hit back at Mr. Trump on Saturday and said in a Twitter post, “No one will ever love you the way they loved my father.”

She will not be writing history and she has no idea the legacy Trump will leave. She is as conceited as her father thinking her opinion outweighs everyone else. Of course, the NYT will take the time to pound up her ass and demean Trump at the same time.
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glitterbag
 
  4  
Tue 19 Mar, 2019 01:20 pm
@blatham,
It's a little like click-bait.....you notice it....and it never measures up

 

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