Today at the Capitol, U.S. democracy in action
Some 200 to 250 Americans assembled peacefully on the grounds of the state Capitol this morning to petition their government and rally in support of their interpretation of the Second Amendment. The vast majority were openly carrying weapons; roughly a third were carrying semi-automatic long guns of the variety known by some as assault weapons.
One speaker, former gubernatorial candidate Ray McBerry, warned the crowd that “the foreign-born Marxist in the White House and his Marxist attorney general” were using “staged crisis events — yes, I said staged crisis events” to justify confiscation of their weapons. That got a loud cheer and applause.
According to McBerry, the Obama administration is using these “staged crisis events” in exactly the same way that Adolph Hitler used the Reichstag fire, as an excuse to impose complete tyranny on the American people. The national socialist government in Washington is following the blueprint to power that the national socialist government in Germany followed, he said, reeling off a string of comparisons that would be uncanny if true.
That too drew strong applause.
“Which federal gun laws are constitutional?” McBerry asked.
“NONE!” the crowd roared back.
“You know the answer,” he said smiling.
(Just as an aside, earlier this week McBerry issued a press release announcing his endorsement of U.S. Rep. Paul Broun for U.S. Senate.)
Security at the event was heavy, watchful but not intrusive. State troopers armed with M-6 carbines, a version of the AR-15, stood nearby. The GBI’s bomb-disposal truck was parked on an adjacent street, just in case. An armed officer stood on a church roof across the street.
McBerry was followed by Bill Looman, who told the crowd that he would be self-editing his own comments about Obama, and might not be saying all the things he really thought. It seems that Looman’s past comments about the president on Facebook and other forums, as well as his ties to the North Georgia militia, made the Secret Service nervous and convinced them that it was necessary to visit Looman in person. Just to talk things over, all friendly like.
Like McBerry, Looman talked of the necessity of firearms to fend off what he believes to be impending tyranny. He also mentioned his work with Oathkeepers, an organization of former and current members of the military, law enforcement and other agencies who have sworn never to follow government orders to force Americans into concentration camps, or to go house to house to confiscate firearms, or to blockade entire American cities, as the British did to Boston.
You know, just in case such orders should ever be issued.
One enterprising young man even used the symbol of his Second Amendment rights, his firearm, to exercise his First Amendment rights as well:
He could use some work on his spelling, but it’s the thought that matters, right?
UPDATE: As commenters below have pointed out, the line “This machine kills fascists” appeared on legendary folksinger Woody Guthrie’s guitar, and Guthrie in turn reportedly borrowed it from a slogan painted on airplanes used by the anti-fascist Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
– Jay Bookman
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Joe Hussein Mama
February 8th, 2013
3:23 pm
S. Ray — “Funny how now everyone is an expert on the second amendment……”
I don’t claim to be an “expert.” However, I taught Con Law at the university level, so not everything I’m saying is opinion.
Simple Truths
February 8th, 2013
3:24 pm
Jay,
An assault weapon is a semi-auto long rifle.
A semi-auto long gun is not necessarily an assault weapon.
In your article, you are claiming that a semi-auto long gun is an assault weapon. Go re-read your post.
Jay
February 8th, 2013
3:24 pm
Thank you, Escaped.
Truth-o-meter
February 8th, 2013
3:24 pm
Indigo@1:14
Well said.
The national chair of the RNC should have stuck around for this show then he would have the answer to how to attrack more people under their tent: get rid of the conspiracy theorists and those who are paranoid about everything. Then they will have room under their tent for the sane people!
Christian Conservative
February 8th, 2013
3:25 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
Oy vey, CC, you lie. No point in discussing your clownishness further.
That’s what libs always say when they can’t win an argument. I think maybe you fruits are stuck in a time warp….
Stevie Ray
February 8th, 2013
3:25 pm
Mr Right, the FOXBOT
February 8th, 2013
3:19 pm
Yeah that was one of many sophomoric blizzard of words to escape BO’s lips….I guess by this time, BO is clearly making the most of that interpretation…I don’t like the interpretation…or should I say lack of clarifying legislation, but he was way out of line calling out the SCOTUS like a kid calling for his mom.
Jay
February 8th, 2013
3:25 pm
Yeah, I know, Simple. I was using shorthand to avoid a long, laborious description. So shoot me … figuratively speaking, that is.
Uh Huh....Gun "Nuts" who strain out gnats, yet gulp down a camel.
February 8th, 2013
3:26 pm
@indigo
February 8th, 2013
3:14 pm
Simple Truths – 3:08
Of course, the real reason you nuts are so in love with guns has NOTHING to do with the 2nd ammendment, does it?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
They know it DOES NOT have anything to do with the 2nd Amendment.
“We” know the real deal.
We didn’t just fall off of the watermelon truck.
What they don’t know is that they are not the ONLY people
who OWNS guns.
Other people just don’t parade around showing off their guns.
The only people who should know you have a gun is the one
you use it on to protect yourself and your family.
TBS
February 8th, 2013
3:27 pm
godless
I agree with you that some of the characterizations are surely over the top. However I am fairly confident that you have read posts from every political stripe on this blog where the broad brushes come out and words are used to demean.
Stevie Ray
February 8th, 2013
3:27 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
February 8th, 2013
3:23 pm
I had a cagey professor in grad school. He used to say “if I say it, it is opinion, it’s not until you say it, it becomes gospel..”
Joe Hussein Mama
February 8th, 2013
3:27 pm
S. Ray — “I was looking at a youtube of Robert Johnson’s Terrapin Blues”
That’s Terraplane Blues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraplane_Blues
Joe Hussein Mama
February 8th, 2013
3:29 pm
S. Ray — “I had a cagey professor in grad school”
Man, I hated those kinds of profs in grad school; still playing mind games on their post-graduate students.
Come on, Prof. If we were nitwits, you wouldn’t be sitting on our thesis committee.
Jay
February 8th, 2013
3:30 pm
and then there are always the lovely responses like this guy:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2012/04/so-when-will-hilarity-ensue.html
Stevie Ray
February 8th, 2013
3:31 pm
Simple Truths
February 8th, 2013
3:24 pm
Geez, all this talk about long guns and semi long guns are getting me a bit turned on…
JOE
Thanks….guess I got it confused with Terrapin Station…
Morality?
February 8th, 2013
3:31 pm
“Speech control law”……..we already have it – it’s called “Hate Crimes.” Why should someone murdering an innocent victim in the act of robbery get a lesser punishment than someone murdering an innocent victim because of their ethnic background or whatever? If you believe in EQUALITY they BOTH should get a swift fair sentence and the NEEDLE. Case closed.
Simple Truths
February 8th, 2013
3:31 pm
Jay,
You can’t be slack in your writing, then start throwing around comments about your credibility and professionalism. The fix would not have been much longer.
If you wrote “roughly a third were carrying semi-automatic long guns, including some/several/many assault weapons” you would be clear.
If you wrote “roughly a third were carrying semi-automatic long guns that people have labeled assault weapons” you would be clear.
You called all semi-autos assault weapons. Own it.
barking frog
February 8th, 2013
3:31 pm
The same people who want unfettered rights to weapons
advocate that the right to keep and bear arms should be
infringed for anyone possessing more than 1 oz of Marijuana.
Jay
February 8th, 2013
3:32 pm
Fair enough, Simple,
Uh Huh....Gun "Nuts" who strain out gnats, yet gulp down a camel.
February 8th, 2013
3:32 pm
@godless heathen – owner of many things he does not need
February 8th, 2013
3:23 pm
PS: Don’t need a photo to tell the mentally deranged. Their words and cheers for “NONE” as to what federal gun laws are constitutional tells you a great deal about their mental facilities. Or do you agree with their conclusion.
I don’t agree with that conclusion. But I don’t agree with lots of ideas that might be a little kooky. I don’t refer to those that hold different ideas as deranged, or call them cowards, or diagnose them as schizophrenic.
Possibly some of their paranoia is a result of the way they are characterized by people such as are posting here today.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
“A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh So Is He
Abrazos
February 8th, 2013
3:33 pm
“Ask any of them to recit the 2nd amendment and most of them would say ‘ummmmmm?’ ”
Au contraire. The official litany is:
“DOT, DOT, DOT, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.
Escaped from Email Purgatory
February 8th, 2013
3:33 pm
No, Bookman. Thank you.
If it wasn’t for commenting on your blogs, I’d have no social contact whatsoever.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 8th, 2013
3:33 pm
Why do people get permits to carry concealed weapons? Is it because they like walking in unsafe areas?
I have one, but only carry on rare occasions. I got one because I went to buy a shotgun to go turkey hunting one day and was denied due to a snafu in the background check system. As soon as I got that straightened out, I went and got my CWP. Now heathen don’t wait on no background check if he wants to buy a gun.
It also allows the carry of a wicked ass knife concealed without wading through the confusing regulations about what one is allowed to carry.
Do they have something some dangerous criminal wants?
You don’t?
And it makes liberals uncomfortable to see us gun owners packing in the open. Less problem for all to just conceal it when in public.
One picky point
February 8th, 2013
3:34 pm
Jay – Thank you. I’ll walk quietly to the nearest exit now . . .
Christian Conservative
February 8th, 2013
3:34 pm
Has anyone heard if they’ve caught the obama loving loon in California??
Paul
February 8th, 2013
3:35 pm
godless
“Their words and cheers for “NONE” as to what federal gun laws are constitutional tells you a great deal about their mental facilities. Or do you agree with their conclusion.
I don’t agree with that conclusion. But I don’t agree with lots of ideas that might be a little kooky. I don’t refer to those that hold different ideas”
That’s not a subject open to varying opinions or conclusions. It’s a matter of settled law. Then again, maybe these people view our Constitution, the establishment of the judiciary and the Supreme Court with the decisions of law provided by the Supreme Court to be null, void, and an exercise in tyranny.
If that’s the case, we’re drifting past ignorance and back to a mental description.
Morality?
February 8th, 2013
3:36 pm
I thought that carrying a weapon on to gub’ment grounds was illegal unless you are law enforcement? Why the high security? Who are we protecting from who? Are we protecting the so call gun nuts from the armed anti gun nuts like Rosie O’Donnell?
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 8th, 2013
3:36 pm
However I am fairly confident that you have read posts from every political stripe on this blog where the broad brushes come out and words are used to demean.
Not here, surely. Where is that fainting couch, Shirley?
Stevie Ray
February 8th, 2013
3:36 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
February 8th, 2013
3:29 pm
I liked this guy. The class was a very obscure math theory crap and his point is that I can pen numbers all I want but until they start to mimic my words, they remain unsold. He had another saying…..”you don’t have to go out and get run over by a car to know it hurts..” Too bad I didn’t listen to that one..
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
February 8th, 2013
3:37 pm
They didn’t invite me. I guess they don’t want those of us with land mines, grenades, and bazookas taking all the glory.
stands for decibels
February 8th, 2013
3:38 pm
“That would be like yelling “Fire!” in a very crowded theater.”
FWIW, it’s perfectly legal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater… if there actually is a fire.
That part is almost never mentioned.
true enough–just fyi and to be a bit nitpicky:
“Shouting fire in a crowded theater” is a popular metaphor and frequent paraphrasing of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919. The paraphrasing does not generally include the word falsely, which was originally used and highlights that speech which is dangerous and false, which can be distinguished from that which is truthful but also dangerous.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
February 8th, 2013
3:38 pm
and was denied due to a snafu in the background check system.
umm, that wasn’t a snafu, godless. They are on to you!
Mike
February 8th, 2013
3:38 pm
These guys are a little over dramatic but this gives them something to do today. Not to worry, they aren’t the ones who will kill you with their guns. But they are not far from the area in downtown where you could get shot.
Just watch the news every night. You will see who is killin who. It’s not these goofy white guy from Roswell.
Stevie Ray
February 8th, 2013
3:39 pm
godless heathen – owner of many things he does not need
February 8th, 2013
3:33 pm
Why is a concealed gun necessary? What good can come out of packing heat?
Is this in the same vein as a dog and his scrotum?
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 8th, 2013
3:39 pm
Why do people get permits to carry concealed weapons? Is it because they like walking in unsafe areas?
And a cop is too heavy.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 8th, 2013
3:39 pm
Has anyone heard if they’ve caught the obama loving loon in California??
Whatsamatta? Your Google broken?
Buzz Belle
February 8th, 2013
3:39 pm
“Here you have 250 “heavily” armed citizens that the government could have dispatched with one drone. So much for that show of force.”
Wow – that was four pages ago – I always catch these when the bloggers have all exhausted the good stuff. But… to the above quote, I think this goes straight to the whole “militia” issue. You could have 20,000 of these people, all with their rifles, and it takes maybe a couple of F-16’s to wipe ‘em out. All the southern states can arm their whole population, and it will take less then a week for the Federal governemnt with it’s firepower, to stop it. Soooo, I guess my whole point is tyranny is the excuse that alot of these gunowners are using to scare the bejeezus out of simple minded people.
Morality?
February 8th, 2013
3:40 pm
BF 3:31 – Try to rephrase what you said as you make NO sense. Cut back on your weed consumption before writing – thank you.
Morality?
February 8th, 2013
3:41 pm
Is it just me or does Jay have a strange resemblance to a stoned Bob Dylan in his photo?
TBS
February 8th, 2013
3:41 pm
Shirley?
Don’t know her.
Matti
February 8th, 2013
3:41 pm
Why do you need a gun to grow a pair?
Excellent question. Like, how does carrying an assault weapon make a man more of a man? If a lil’ ol’ gal like me can pick one up and do the same thing that a man wearing a “don’t tread on me” t-shirt does with it, does that make ME a man? Or does that make him a big ol’ p-ans-y for needing an assault weapon in order to feel like a man? Just curious.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 8th, 2013
3:42 pm
Is it just me or does Jay have a strange resemblance to a stoned Bob Dylan in his photo?
It’s just you.
Everything is always about just you.
Regnad Kcin
February 8th, 2013
3:42 pm
Regnad @ 3:13
Here you go!
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2013/01/11/lets-limit-guns-to-sane-responsible-gun-owners/
==========================
Simple, this quote jumped out at me:
“No serious gun law proposal in the wake of the Connecticut tragedy — and certainly no gun law that I would ever support — would attempt to disarm Herman or deny her the right to protect herself and her loved ones. That is simply not at issue.”
Was that the quote you were referring to?
Jay
February 8th, 2013
3:43 pm
Mike, that’s true.
On the other hand, I’m not comfortable with the idea that these guys claim the constitutional right to start shooting people the moment THEY decide that the Constitution is not being followed. The fact that they seem to believe that said moment is very close at hand doesn’t help matters any.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 8th, 2013
3:44 pm
S. Ray — “The class was a very obscure math theory crap”
Oh, that’s right. I had forgotten that you were an actuary or something similar.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 8th, 2013
3:44 pm
I don’t refer to those that hold different ideas as deranged, or call them cowards, or diagnose them as schizophrenic
Well sure… I see you apply that test to the other posters calling OWS people names.
but hey, seeing “things” that are not there and seeing “conspiracies” that do not exist is not “deranged”. how about claiming that you were “abducted by aliens” and that “aliens are out to kill you and take your guns away”? That’s just a different belief or idea, right?
Morality?
February 8th, 2013
3:45 pm
HAVE A GOOD DAY and stay away from dark alleys…. (smiley face patent applied for)
Mike
February 8th, 2013
3:45 pm
Buzz Belle, your assuming the armed forces would do that. Most military guys are a lot like these guys. Many of our soldiers come from the same places these guys do.
Jay
February 8th, 2013
3:45 pm
“Is it just me or does Jay have a strange resemblance to a stoned Bob Dylan in his photo?
How would you know? Have you ever seen Dylan stoned?
barking frog
February 8th, 2013
3:46 pm
Morality?
Conviction for possession of more than 1 ounce of
marijuana is a felony and will cost you your gun rights.
This is advocated by most gun rights advocates.
Gun rights advocates want to possess any weapon
they choose. I put the one into numerals so you
could understand.
Hmmmmmmm
February 8th, 2013
3:46 pm
@Fin McCool….. LOL…. It’s very sad that people take their rights so lightly…. These are the same people that scream the loudest after all their rights are suddenly gone! Thank goodness that some of us still care…
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 8th, 2013
3:46 pm
If that’s the case, we’re drifting past ignorance and back to a mental description.
Paul, Lots of people in this country don’t understand the law (Example: “Innocent until proven guilty.” “You have to have a driver’s license to buy a car.”) That doesn’t make them nuts.
Hmmmmmmm
February 8th, 2013
3:47 pm
here is a fathers testimony about the recent school shootings…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dhXPlCjr0Vw
Mike
February 8th, 2013
3:47 pm
Agreed sir
getalife
February 8th, 2013
3:47 pm
I have an old wild west belt and holster to hold my Python.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 8th, 2013
3:47 pm
S. Ray — “Is this in the same vein as a dog and his scrotum?”
With apologies to I don’t know how many different Suthun comedians:
Bobby Joe and his brother Tommy come up on a old huntin’ dog, lickin’ himself out front of the Pic-N-Pay. Bobby Joe says “boy, I wisht I could do that” and Tommy says “Bobby Joe, you know that dog would bite you.”
Joe Hussein Mama
February 8th, 2013
3:48 pm
Jay — “How would you know? Have you ever seen Dylan stoned?”
Dude, PLEASE.
Redcoat
February 8th, 2013
3:48 pm
Just a quick off the subject remark……..
Dr. Benjamin Carson……….have they skewered him yet? He’ll be labeled shortly………..Jay’s next Healthcare article should clarify it all……..Doesn’t this guy know you just don’t do that to Obama?
weetamoe
February 8th, 2013
3:48 pm
To the person who heard about the rogue cop Obama supporter on ?Rush?—–You are a day late. The story has been in the news since yesterday. To those who claim seriously and on these pages that the police are part of today’s militia, you see why individuals insist on having the means to keep said militia *well regulated.* During the first months of TEA Party demonstrations–when they opposed both Bush’s and Obama’s bailout and stimulus spending — a black TEA party demonstrator, fully armed, appeared at several demonstrations. News media altered the photo to conceal the man’s race. Fellow TEA party demonstrators showed the full true photo on many sites.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 8th, 2013
3:48 pm
Well sure… I see you apply that test to the other posters calling OWS people names.
I leave that up to you guys. It would just be piling on for me to add another opinion.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
February 8th, 2013
3:49 pm
Maybe you’ve just never seen Bob Dylan not stoned?
getalife
February 8th, 2013
3:50 pm
red,
The President laughed at that con.
Morality?
February 8th, 2013
3:50 pm
It’s all about ME >>>>>>>>>>>> I Q CHART: Brain Surgeon, Rocket Scientist, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Congress >>>>>>>>>>> those that keep reelecting the same CROOKS in Congress!
getalife
February 8th, 2013
3:51 pm
Looks like no moral’s meds just kicked in.
stands for decibels
February 8th, 2013
3:51 pm
How would you know? Have you ever seen Dylan stoned?
Overheard during one of the Blonde on Blonde sessions, apparently, from one straight-arrow Nashville type, to Dylan’s producer:
“What is that guy ON?”
“Why, he’s on Columbia Records and Tapes.”
Regnad Kcin
February 8th, 2013
3:52 pm
“Bobby Joe and his brother Tommy come up on a old huntin’ dog, lickin’ himself out front of the Pic-N-Pay. Bobby Joe says “boy, I wisht I could do that” and Tommy says “Bobby Joe, you know that dog would bite you.”
When I was moving out from California, this joke was told to me by a store clerk in Oklahoma, upon hearing where I was moving to. Only he told it about some dog named “UGA” and some college kids, or something like that? (it was a long time ago).
Morality?
February 8th, 2013
3:53 pm
3:46 BF – thank you for that kind and understandable but completely irrelevant explanation.
Jay
February 8th, 2013
3:54 pm
JHM, I mean, how would you know? Same with Willie N.
As Toby Keith puts it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDQANmQO2g0
barking frog
February 8th, 2013
3:54 pm
Morality 3:50
Try to rephrase what you said as you make NO sense. Cut back on your weed consumption before writing – thank you.
getalife
February 8th, 2013
3:55 pm
weet,
Then the same cons joined the gop to fight regulations for Wall Street.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 8th, 2013
3:55 pm
I wonder if any SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS! were there protesting.
Jay
February 8th, 2013
3:56 pm
Kam, I think the odds of that were pretty high.
Why do you ask? :>)
DannyX
February 8th, 2013
3:56 pm
“staged crisis events” in exactly the same way that Adolph Hitler used the Reichstag fire, as an excuse to impose complete tyranny on the American people. The national socialist government in Washington is following exactly the same blueprint to power that the national socialist government in Germany followed, he said, reeling off a string of comparisons that would be uncanny if true.”
———————-
Well lets go there. If all of these things are happening shouldn’t the Barney Fife Militia spring into action and take that bullet out of their pockets and take action?
Hitler, socialists, foreign born Marxist, staged event that kills children, fascists, Germany…With all of these things going on what exactly are they waiting for?
getalife
February 8th, 2013
3:56 pm
frog,
That is not weed.
That is prescribed meds for anxiety .
Steve-USA (I don't have all the answer's, I don't even know all the questions)
February 8th, 2013
3:57 pm
Jay-
Some of these posters have been in full rant all week. They must be ranted out by now. Please post a music video so they can start relaxing and enjoy their weekend.
Thanks – Steve
Regnad Kcin
February 8th, 2013
3:57 pm
“Kam, I think the odds of that were pretty high.
Why do you ask? :>)”
LOL!!
barking frog
February 8th, 2013
3:57 pm
Morality ? 3:53
Thanks. I do what I can whether effective or not.
Christian Conservative
February 8th, 2013
3:58 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
Has anyone heard if they’ve caught the obama loving loon in California??
Whatsamatta? Your Google broken?
I know . I know…. It’s gotta hurt not being able to blame FOX News or the Tea Party… Just like libs Loughner and Holmes they don’t wanna talk about it when they realize it’s their own kind…..
Matti
February 8th, 2013
3:59 pm
Mike @ 3:38,
Those goofy white guys from Roswell can be pretty vicious, and it doesn’t take much to set them off. Seriously. They’re all “see you in Church” and “family values” and “come over for some barbeque” until you suggest that jeepers, maybe a system that excludes lower-wage working folks or family members of disabled people from access to affordable basic medical care isn’t really working, or some other such radical idea they’re not comfortable discussing. Then nasty within them erupts alarmingly fast.
barking frog
February 8th, 2013
3:59 pm
getalife
just a cut and paste of a post by morality?.
Matt321
February 8th, 2013
3:59 pm
The Woody Guthrie quote misuse is pretty hilarious. Anyway, I like the Pete Seeger version, which he puts on all his banjos, better: “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.”
josef
February 8th, 2013
3:59 pm
I’m sure this has probably been asked already, but why is this of any interest…? So, only 250
“at the Capitol, U.S. democracy in action”
Redcoat
February 8th, 2013
3:59 pm
getalife…..He’s laughing at all of us…..
David Shivers
February 8th, 2013
4:00 pm
It’s not the man in the White House who’s the would-be tyrant. It’s people like Paul Broun and Ray McBerry, if allowed to have their way, because in their infinite “wisdom” they know what’s best for the country.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 8th, 2013
4:00 pm
Jay — “JHM, I mean, how would you know? Same with Willie N.”
My wife, she of the West Coast Hippie College educational background, has much more finely-tuned drugdar than I do (the only drugs I’m on are prescription), so I defer to her judgment.
She’s pretty sure Bob Dylan’s stoned all the time. I’ll ask her what she thinks about Willie Nelson.
FWIW, she’s also pretty sure that Mika Brzezinski often has a drink or two before the Shut Up, Mika Show airs each day. But NEVER when her dad’s a guest on the show.
Watch it for a couple of weeks; see if you can puzzle out when she’s had a few and when she’s stone cold sober.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 8th, 2013
4:00 pm
Just like libs Loughner and Holmes they don’t wanna talk about it when they realize it’s their own kind…..
Eric Robert Rudolph says, “What?”
Buzz Belle
February 8th, 2013
4:00 pm
Mike – that is a good point. But if you are army and see 20,000 citizens, all with rifles and mags holding 30 rounds dragging behind them off their belt, heading for, oh say, the office of the govenor. The President tells that army to keep civil rest, aren’t you bound to do just that? Isn’t the President the commander in chief? I just don’t know where we are going with all these weapons. I do think what is happeneing in Calif with the crazy well armed, well trained idiot is another good example as to why there must be background checks every 3 – 5 years for anybody who wants to own a weapon.
Morality?
February 8th, 2013
4:01 pm
Jay – I can’t say for sure. Dylan appeared to be feeling REAL good when I saw him in concert back in ‘72 – and he was smoking something wrapped up in one of those roll your own papers. Great song writer but his voice – not so great.
Buzz Belle
February 8th, 2013
4:01 pm
I’m ready to head home, get a drink, and listen to FNM! Peace all!
getalife
February 8th, 2013
4:01 pm
The cop dominated corporate media yesterday but extreme weather is today’s corporate media focus.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 8th, 2013
4:02 pm
Just like libs Loughner and Holmes they don’t wanna talk about it when they realize it’s their own kind…..
Timothy McVeigh says, “What?”
Jay
February 8th, 2013
4:02 pm
“Some of these posters have been in full rant all week. They must be ranted out by now.
Oh Steve. You very much underestimate your colleagues….
Nonetheless, MUSIC SHEETS!
Erwin's cat
February 8th, 2013
4:03 pm
well trained idiot is another good example as to why there must be background checks every 3 – 5 years for anybody who wants to own a weapon.
what makes you think he would’ve have failed the bg check…it’s not a test for mental stability
getalife
February 8th, 2013
4:03 pm
red,
No, he is laughing at all his critics like you.
Paul
February 8th, 2013
4:03 pm
godless
“Paul, Lots of people in this country don’t understand the law (Example: “Innocent until proven guilty.” “You have to have a driver’s license to buy a car.”) That doesn’t make them nuts.”
True, too. But in this case, where there’s been applicable law settled five years ago, directly bearing on this issue of gun control, it is either gross ignorance or manipulative deceit for the leaders and speakers to keep repeating false information on the most basic of issues (the government wants to take your guns, there is no constitutional limit on gun ownership, etc).
The stuff about Obama – tyrant I just chalk up to weirdness. But the other – it’s like saying ‘the Constitution established four branches of government and Obama’s suppressing the fourth” or “government cannot interfere with any way a person wants to practice religion because we have freedom of religion’ or ‘newspapers and magazines can print whatever they want and any law to restrict that is unconstitutional!”
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 8th, 2013
4:03 pm
Just like libs Loughner and Holmes they don’t wanna talk about it when they realize it’s their own kind…..
Jim David Adkisson says, “What?”
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 8th, 2013
4:05 pm
Nonetheless, MUSIC SHEETS!
Where?
Stevie Ray
February 8th, 2013
4:05 pm
Appropos of nothing…the news is not good…
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/07/cbo_is_increasingly_skeptical_about_obamacare_116951.html
Steve-USA (I don't have all the answer's, I don't even know all the questions)
February 8th, 2013
4:07 pm
“Nonetheless, MUSIC SHEETS! Where?”
I don’t see it either.
DannyX
February 8th, 2013
4:08 pm
If that lone Black Panther Fox News loves so much was seen carrying a weapon at the rally they would have carried it live. Hannity would be going crazy. Fox and Friends would have 1 million old folks too scared to come out from under their beds.
Redcoat
February 8th, 2013
4:10 pm
getalife……What do you think of the Doctor’s suggestion?…..funny?…..serious thought?