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February 23rd, 2013
5:07 pm
Stevie Ray:
Yes ……….. they are both equally easy targets but why do you think SNL will not do an equally offensive skit about Mohammed ?
MiltonMan
February 23rd, 2013
5:08 pm
“Who was that Babe that was dancing with Michelle? Sinkwich’s girlfriend? Milton man is jealous!”
I have hit much better.
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February 23rd, 2013
5:09 pm
Oooops ! I think someone out there is becoming jealous again !
Someone who could have put his life on the line and done the same thing for his country but chose not to !
But hey, it’s a free country !
Sheep
Wolves
Sheepdogs
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
5:10 pm
I guess Stevie didn’t know his recent history at the time…
i guess you’ve never read the lyrics to that song.
The song is about social and racial injustice/inequality.
You may now remove feet from mouth!
MiltonMan
February 23rd, 2013
5:10 pm
“Poor Republicans, they must be thinking this is what we libs did to them…”
Keep patting yourself on the back there chief while the Democratic strong-hold DeKalb County suffocates itself in its own fecal material.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
5:12 pm
I see scout holes.
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February 23rd, 2013
5:14 pm
“Do you think Mary Todd Lincoln did it like this?”
SURE SHE DID !
“A history of mood swings, fierce temper, public outbursts throughout Lincoln’s presidency, as well as excessive spending, has led some historians and psychologists to speculate that Mary suffered from bipolar disorder.”
“After she nearly jumped out of a window to escape a non-existent fire, her son determined that she should be institutionalized. On May 20, 1875, he committed her to a private asylum in Batavia, Illinois.”
“Mary Lincoln was released into the custody of her sister in Springfield. In 1876 she was declared competent to manage her own affairs. After the court proceedings, Mary Lincoln was so enraged that she attempted suicide. She went to the hotel pharmacist and ordered enough laudanum to kill herself, but he realized her intent and gave her a placebo.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
5:15 pm
SHEEP !
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:19 pm
PICKLES!
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
5:21 pm
con.
Welcome to the Occupation
February 23rd, 2013
5:24 pm
So the big movie star, Ben Affleck, claimed to a slightly taken aback Bill O’Reilly last year at the realise of his film that “These are extraordinary, honourable people at the CIA” (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e703e1fc-7cee-11e2-adb6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2LjbpZaFn).
Woahh! If Ben Afflect is a well established Hollywood figure and Hollywood is undeniably “liberal”, then surely Afflect must be a liberal, too, right? And if being a “liberal” means you are anti-American, and being anti-American is doing things like being a squish on things like defense and espionage and all the other ‘dark arts’ of empire, harping all day long about the crimes of Murder, Inc. and so forth, then what’s going on here?
Has the world turned completely upside down? Could it be that maybe the “liberals” aren’t really so “left” at all?
Please help a confused comrade who’s head hurts understand, some wise con.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:25 pm
CEVICHE!
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
5:25 pm
MM, glad you enjoyed the Gap Band. Did you get up and dance?
Jesus is OK, but many of the most popular preachers in this country that use him to make millions and millions of dollars sure are dirtbags, huh? (And what does that say about their congregations?)
I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be! ~Jerry Falwell
appleseed
February 23rd, 2013
5:29 pm
Remember what God said about Cain.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
5:30 pm
Better order a double on the “mocking Jesus” feinting couch.
The Vatican on Saturday strongly condemned media coverage of a report that is said to contain information about the influence of a gay network and financial mismanagement within the Vatican, and which may have triggered Pope Benedict’s decision to resign. But in his statement, a spokesman for the Vatican did not deny the report’s existence or dispute the description of its findings.
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica broke the story that the report, which was commissioned by Pope Benedict in the wake of Vatileaks and prepared by a trio of cardinals, concluded that “various lobbies within the Holy See were consistently breaking” the sixth and seventh commandments, “thou shalt not commit adultery” and “thou shalt not steal.”
Grob Hahn
February 23rd, 2013
5:31 pm
Only a racist would assume white people can’t jump, dance or play music. Mozart, Bruce Jenner and Fred Astaire might disagree. It’s time to move beyond these cheap stereotypes. What’s next? Assuming that black people can’t stay out jail.
Grobbbbbbbbbb
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:37 pm
LOBSTER THERMIDOR AUX CREVETTES WITH A MORNAY SAUCE GARNISHED WITH TRUFFLE PATE, BRANDY AND WITH A FRIED EGG ON TOP AND SPAM.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
5:39 pm
Do you have anything without spam?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:39 pm
Adam raised a Cain.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:41 pm
Well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
5:44 pm
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart could slam dunk a basket ball?
Who knew?
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
5:44 pm
The First lady? Yeah, she’s great. Classy, engaged and smart.
And I love that the GOPers, like the repulsive Lynn Westmoreland, are tormented by her very presence.
“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Senator Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity.” When the reporter asked if “uppity” was really the word he wished to use, Westmoreland said: “Uppity, yeah.”
Last year, Westmoreland was one of only two members of Congress (422-2) to vote against a bill named after the slain 14-year-old African-American boy, Emmett Till, which would provide funds to the FBI to investigate killings during the civil rights era.
You’re connies are doing a heckuva job here in the Georgia White Power Party…
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
5:47 pm
Love the Python references.
Here we have a bunch of Jay’s cons who’ve cornered moochelle…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
5:54 pm
“Only a racist would assume white people can’t jump, dance or play music”
Wrong. A bigot might assume that, but it is not racism
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
5:57 pm
Seems that 3 of the top 10 high schools in the state of GA are located in DeKalb County.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/georgia
FarTrain
February 23rd, 2013
6:00 pm
“DoggoneGA”, but if a white person says black men can’t swim, it’s racist right? Yep, double standard as usual. BTW, the headline could have said “FIRST MOM STRUTS HER SNUFF” and it would have been more accurate. Every time I see her it looks like she has a dip in her bottom lip.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
6:05 pm
I think I saw the Pope once slammed a basketball while doing the Harlem shake. Oh nooooo….. wait, now I am confused.
Am I a racist when I watch that movie “White Men Can’t Jump?”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
6:14 pm
A San Diego couple is suing the area’s school district for allegedly violating their children’s religious freedom by offering yoga classes for physical education
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
6:18 pm
“I will sue you” trump.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:24 pm
““DoggoneGA”, but if a white person says black men can’t swim, it’s racist right?”
No, it isn’t. It’s bigoted, not racist.
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February 23rd, 2013
6:32 pm
Doggone:
We disagree on a lot of things but thankgoodness you know the definition of racist !
td
February 23rd, 2013
6:33 pm
Looks like I might soon have better weapons then Bro.
A growing number of firearm and firearm-related companies have stated they will no longer sell items to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens’ rights to own them.
According to The Police Loophole, 34 companies have joined in publicly stating that governments who seek to restrict 2nd Amendment rights will themselves be restricted from purchasing the items they seek to limit or ban.
Extreme Firepower Inc., located in Inwood, WV has had a longstanding policy that states:
“The Federal Government and several states have enacted gun control laws that restrict the public from owning and possessing certain types of firearms…If a product that we manufacture is not legal for a private citizen to own in a jurisdiction, we will not sell that product to a law-enforcement agency in that jurisdiction.”
York Arms, located in Buxton, ME released a statement following new legislation in New York:
“Based on the recent legislation in New York, we are prohibited from selling rifles and receivers to residents of New York. We have chosen to extend that prohibition to all governmental agencies associated with or located within New York.”
Quality Arms, located in Rigby, ID writes on their website, “elected officials have their own agenda to circumnavigate the truth and destroy the constitution of the United States.”
The site states: “Quality Arms Idaho will not supply and firearm or product, manufactured by us, or any other company nor will we warranty, repair, alter, or modify and firearm owned by any State, County or Municipality who infringes on the right of its citizens to bear arms under the 2nd Amendment.”
Bravo Company USA states:
“The people at Bravo Company USA and BCM support responsible private individuals having access to the same tools of civilian Law Enforcement to affect the same ends…As such Bravo Company’s policy is that law enforcement officials and departments will be restricted to the same type of products available to responsible private individuals of that same city or state.”
http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/firearms-companies-restricting-sales-government-agencies-areas
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:34 pm
“We disagree on a lot of things but thankgoodness you know the definition of racist !”
I wish more people did. It’s like over-using “Nazi” – it takes away it’snastiness to use it when what is mean is bigoted
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
6:36 pm
Bigotry, hatred and intolerance?
AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh’s charioteers … AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. ~Jerry Falwell channeling Fred Phelps
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
6:36 pm
Firearm Co’s REFUSING Sales to Gov’t Agencies…
Twice posted drudgey spam.
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
6:37 pm
Like this, Doggone?
The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.” ~Jerry Falwell
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
6:38 pm
It was # 32 that left his engine in the fence:
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1006142/thumbs/r-DAYTONA-CRASH-huge.jpg
td
February 23rd, 2013
6:38 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
6:36 pm
Firearm Co’s REFUSING Sales to Gov’t Agencies…
Twice posted drudgey spam.
You are just mad because it is a story that the Lame stream media is refusing to cover because it makes Obama look bad.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:41 pm
“Firearm Co’s REFUSING Sales to Gov’t Agencies…”
And their loss is another company’s gain
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
6:42 pm
Mad?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I’m laughing at your embarrassment of drudgey.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:43 pm
Jamvet…yep, just like that
td
February 23rd, 2013
6:45 pm
WASHINGTON — Hollywood actor and political activist Danny Glover, star of the “Lethal Weapon” films with Mel Gibson, told The Daily Caller that Congress should “abolish guns” in the U.S.
“I don’t own a gun and definitely not only Gun Control, we should abolish guns, the personal guns. That’s how far I’m willing to go,” Glover told TheDC at a TransAfrica Forum benefit event on Wednesday night.
“There are many people in this country who do not have guns, who don’t own guns and are still under the same, are still susceptible to being burglarized or anything, but that doesn’t mean that we should willingly accept the fact that we need guns. We have to find some sort of way in which we live together, some sort of way in which we move on, for the human species to move on without guns.”
Glover said if Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, “he would be out there advocating for the end of guns as a prelude to the end of violence as well.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/21/lethal-weapon-star-danny-glover-says-us-should-abolish-guns/#ixzz2LljtAbX2
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:45 pm
“You are just mad because it is a story that the Lame stream media is refusing to cover because it makes Obama look bad.”
Nope, it would just make the company look as stupid as they are
JamVet
February 23rd, 2013
6:47 pm
Colin Powell Calls Out The GOP’s Racism Problem: There Is ‘A Dark Vein Of Intolerance’
There’s also a dark — a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? I mean by that that they still sort of look down on minorities. How can I evidence that?
When I see a former governor say that the President is “shuckin’ and jivin’,” that’s a racial era slave term. When I see another former governor after the president’s first debate where he didn’t do very well, says that the president was lazy. He didn’t say he was slow. He was tired. He didn’t do well. He said he was lazy. Now, it may not mean anything to most Americans, but to those of us who are African Americans, the second word is shiftless and then there’s a third word that goes along with that. The birther, the whole birther movement. Why do senior Republican leaders tolerate this kind of discussion within the party?
Powell added that the Republican Party is “having an identity problem,” noting that its significant shift to the right has produced “two losing presidential campaigns.” “I think what the Republican Party needs to do now is a very hard look at itself and understand that the country is changed,” he said. “If the Republican Party does not change along with that demographic, they are going to be in trouble.
And because they have no intentions whatsoever of dealing with their racial demons, here is to protracted and big trouble for the identity problem gang…
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February 23rd, 2013
6:50 pm
Assorted Bumper Stickers:
“You can’t scare me, I have children”
“Marriage is like a deck of cards. You start with two hearts
and a diamond and end up with a club and a spade”
“Rise if I must. Shine? Nope!”
“Rolling out of bed is easy. Getting up is what’s hard”
“A wise man once said, ‘Ask a woman’ !”
“How can a man hit a deer at 200 yards but miss a toilet?”
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
6:54 pm
My favorite bumper sticker:
“Always wear your seatbelt. It keep the aliens fro sucking you out of your car”
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
6:54 pm
I see scout thinks he’s a valued Hessian.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
6:55 pm
“Civil-rights activists, even those committed to nonviolent resistance, had long appreciated the value of guns for self-protection. Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a permit to carry a concealed firearm in 1956, after his house was bombed. His application was denied, but from then on, armed supporters guarded his home. One adviser, Glenn Smiley, described the King home as “an arsenal.” William Worthy, a black reporter who covered the civil-rights movement, almost sat on a loaded gun in a living-room armchair during a visit to King’s parsonage.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
6:57 pm
“Martin Luther King, Jr., known for peaceful resistance, at the same time recognized the importance of gun ownership for self-defense. King understood the risks involved in being an outspoken civil rights leader, living in Jim Crow era Alabama, and took measures to protect himself, his family and others around him.
King was a gun owner.”
http://www.redstate.com/candicelanier/2013/01/17/mlks-arsenal-the-racist-roots-of-gun-control-in-the-u-s/
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
6:58 pm
Easy enough; if they refuse to sell their federally licensed firearms to any government, pull their Federal license.
http://www.atf.gov/publications/download/p/atf-p-5320-8/atf-p-5320-8-chapter-7.pdf
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
6:59 pm
“Glover said if Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, “he would be out there advocating for the end of guns as a prelude to the end of violence as well.”
Like most liberals, Glover needs to review his history.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
6:59 pm
Former Secret Service agent and Senate candidate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R8WLXhahw_A
JohnnyReb
February 23rd, 2013
7:00 pm
Kamie – OK, I was wrong. re, the reply I would give you after November. I have to modify it. Here it is -
I underestimated how many politically lost people would vote for Obama. He, and in effect, you guys won.
There it is. I was wrong, at least on the election. On the rest of it, not so much.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
7:02 pm
“Easy enough; if they refuse to sell their federally licensed firearms to any government, pull their Federal license.”
Why would there be any need to do that? Whoever they are, they’re not the only gun manufacturer…just give the business to a better company.
JohnnyReb
February 23rd, 2013
7:03 pm
As to the politically lost Obama voters, I can find no other quote more fitting than –
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:03 pm
NORTH KOREA WARNS US: ‘MISERABLE DESTRUCTION!’
That little “twerp” is at it again !
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/23/us-korea-north-idUSBRE91M05220130223
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:04 pm
Hear me out before you call me a basher. It’s just fact, intelligent, open minded people who can think analytically do not generally join the armed forced,and if they do, they do not last long. One thing all military types have in common is the mental flaw to accept what they are told without question, whether it be from upbringing, peers…they do not have the ability to learn new ideas and concepts or think for themselves. Most come from low class families…who in this country is type of people who cling to religion and quote it as proven science…just like the republicans who pander to them.
USA Patriot
February 23rd, 2013
7:04 pm
Jackie 5:57 “Seems that 3 of the top 10 high schools in the state of GA are located in DeKalb County.”
Interesting, 2 of the 3 are charter schools.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:05 pm
JohnnyReb:
“politically lost people”
The correct term is “low information voter”.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:06 pm
What I’ve always felt intriguing was the fact that, these christian republicans are not Christians, they cheat, lie, steal…they only claim to be Christians for the “dumb vote” that is the vote of the white trash trailer park dwellers, or in this case…active duty military folks. Republicans hate you, they love the wealthy. They are against every military core belief, they are pro rich, pro white power.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:06 pm
There is more crap in a Senior Digits post than on the decks of a Carnival Cruise ship.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:08 pm
No one …………. REPEAT NO ONE …………. should even reply to TaxPayer.
He is not worthy of a response.
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
7:10 pm
@DoggoneGA
If they refuse to sell their product to all customers, via the Commerce Clause Section 3, “The Congress shall have Power *** To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”, they can not operate.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
7:10 pm
I underestimated how many politically lost people would vote for Obama.
In the four years leading up to this past election, several people here repeated the meme that even Elmer Fudd could defeat Obama, and no one here on the right even attempted to blunt that outrageous claim.
Underestimated?
Understatement.
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
7:12 pm
@USA
Still controlled by the DeKalb County school board.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:12 pm
“AR-15-owning woman who got Biden’s shotgun advice says idea sounded a ‘little sexist’ ”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/23/ar-15-owning-woman-who-got-biden-shotgun-advice-says-idea-sounded-little-sexist/#ixzz2LlqvZ6dm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 23rd, 2013
7:13 pm
Melt-down.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
7:13 pm
“If they refuse to sell their product to all customers”
And yet there are also laws that PREVENT them from selling to ALL customers. Government purchases are not the same as over the counter sales. There’s no law that requires them to big on a government contract. Big deal.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
He is not worthy of a response. — Claims the poster of so much stupidity and buffoonery.
Taxpayer, I’d have to think that the broad brush holds about as much validity as much of the broad brush claims of stupidity posted by Senior Digits and the Ftroop brigade.
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
“bid” not “big”
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
Without having information about the “47% percent” and other easily proven misstatements of fact, so-called low-information voters would have voted for Mitt Romney.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
“Underestimated?
Understatement.”
No …………. “low information voters” !
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
Poor scout. All I did was cut-n-paste and he wants to shoot the messenger. Awww. Poor thing.
The GOV
February 23rd, 2013
7:15 pm
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw”
Shaw thought Stalin was the best leader in the world. Shaw was a communist. Are you sure you want to use him?
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:17 pm
Scout has the mistaken impression that the GOP gives a crap about military personnel. He can’t handle the truth.
Jackie
February 23rd, 2013
7:17 pm
@DoggoneGA
Can not think of any business that is allowed to discriminate against the sale of their product if the customer has means and methods to purchase that product.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:18 pm
Looks like I might soon have better weapons then Bro.
Looks like you don’t have a clue about the differing missions of different government agencies. My agency doesn’t deal with the 2nd Amendment nowhere near the frequency that we deal with the 4th.
Another td post. Another td fail.
Even if the company decides to not sell to an agency, do you honestly think they’re going to turn down money from a private citizen? Gimme a break…
————–
Scout
Why don’t you finish the story about MLK Jr. and how he got rid of his gun after his house was bombed. I seem to recall that he felt he didn’t need a gun to protect himself as God would do so himself. If a man, as threatened as he was, can forego gun ownership and let God protect him, what does that say about the “God fearing” people who don’t live in such danger nowadays that can’t breathe without their guns?
The GOV
February 23rd, 2013
7:19 pm
Read Gulag Archipelago
DoggoneGA
February 23rd, 2013
7:21 pm
“Can not think of any business that is allowed to discriminate against the sale of their product if the customer has means and methods to purchase that product.”
Think alcohol. Think guns and convicted criminals. Thinks GOVERNMENT CONTRACT BIDS. The government doesn’t just go out and buy. The open up a bidding process and there is NOTHING to force any company to bid on that contract.
A company saying they “won’t sell” to the government? All they are saying is they won’t join in the bidding process. It’s a tempest in a teapot and doesn’t mean anything.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:22 pm
Scout Why don’t you finish the story about MLK Jr. and how he got rid of his gun after his house was bombed.
They did not put the rest of the story in the spam mail?
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:23 pm
In fact, scout cannot even present the truth as evidenced by his MLK “story”. scout should know if he stayed awake in Church that a half-truth is still a lie.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:24 pm
Also, tell the story about how the NRA actively advocated for and pushed gun control measures when the Black Panthers decided to enjoy and express their 2nd Amendment rights…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 23rd, 2013
7:28 pm
Hummmm ………………………
“Given the significant privacy issues, the Department of Homeland Security has only now set up a working group to study the impact of government UAVs on civil liberties, civil rights, legal and other policy issues.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/23/government-plans-for-drastic-expansion-domestic-mini-drones/?test=latestnews#ixzz2LlukwLcE
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:29 pm
http://www.theroot.com/views/fear-black-gun-owner
UCLA law professor Adam Winkler explores this history in his 2011 book, Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America. “Like many young African Americans, Newton and Seale were frustrated with the failed promise of the civil-rights movement,” Winkler writes. In their opinion, “the only tangible outcome of the civil-rights movement had been more violence and oppression, much of it committed by the very entity meant to protect the public: the police.” Winkler goes on to say, “Malcolm X and the Panthers described their right to use guns in self-defense in constitutional terms.” Guns became central to the Panthers’ identity, as they taught their early recruits that “the gun is the only thing that will free us — gain us our liberation.”
The Panthers responded to racial violence by patrolling black neighborhoods brandishing guns — in an effort to police the police. The fear of black people with firearms sent shockwaves across white communities, and conservative lawmakers immediately responded with gun-control legislation.
Then Gov. Ronald Reagan, now lauded as the patron saint of modern conservatism, told reporters in California that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” Reagan claimed that the Mulford Act, as it became known, “would work no hardship on the honest citizen.” The NRA actually helped craft similar legislation in states across the country. Fast-forward to 2013, and it is a white-male dominated NRA, largely made up of Southern conservatives and gun owners from the Midwest and Southwestern states, that argues “do not tread on me” in the gun debate.
getalife
February 23rd, 2013
7:30 pm
Where is the Chamber of Commerce on these gop self inflicted wounds to our economy?
Where are the business leaders?
The silence is deafening.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:35 pm
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2013/01/martin-luther-king-jr.html
Check this out, from The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the chapter titled “The Violence of Desperate Men.” The scene is Montgomery in 1956, shortly after King’s home was bombed:
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After the bombings, many of the officers of my church and other trusted friends urged me to hire a bodyguard and armed watchmen for my house. When my father came to town, he concurred with both of these suggestions. I tried to tell them that I had no fears now and consequently needed no weapons for protection. This they would not hear. They insisted that I protect the house and family, even if I didn’t want to protect myself. In order to satisfy the wishes of these close friends and associates, I decided to consider the question of an armed guard. I went down to the sheriff’s office and applied for a license to carry a gun in the car; but this was refused.
Meanwhile I reconsidered. How could I serve as one of the leaders of a nonviolent movement and at the same time use weapons of violence for my personal protection? Coretta and I talked the matter over for several days and finally agreed that arms were no solution. We decided then to get rid of the one weapon we owned. We tried to satisfy our friends by having floodlights mounted around the house, and hiring unarmed watchmen around the clock. I also promised that I would not travel around the city alone.
I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.
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February 23rd, 2013
7:36 pm
Brosephus:
1) If MLK, Jr. changed his mind that’s fine. He had the right to do that. But I bet he wore a seat belt in his car even though “God could protect him” ………. Hummmmm ………………..
Remember Carl Rowan? He changed his mind too !!!
“In a 1981 column, he advocated “a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail—period.”
“Rowan gained public notoriety on June 14, 1988, when he shot an unarmed teenage trespasser, Neil Smith, who was on his property illegally. “The interloper was a near-naked teenager who had been skinny-dipping with friends in Rowan’s pool, and the columnist’s weapon was an unregistered, and thus very illegal, .22 caliber pistol.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rowan
Tsk, tsk !
2) “Also, tell the story about how the NRA actively advocated for and pushed gun control measures when the Black Panthers decided to enjoy and express their 2nd Amendment rights.”
If the NRA advocated that back then they would have been wrong ………… and would be wrong if they advocated that now. Kind of like a lot of Democrat Senators (i.e., Gore Sr. !) who fought against the Voting Rights Act ………….. now most Democrats have changed their minds …………….
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3) This young black lady very eloquently explains why blacks need guns just like everyone else !
http://www.youtube.com/embed/vn7bkncf1_E
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February 23rd, 2013
7:39 pm
Brosephus:
Check this out !
“The acceptable year of the Lord is that year when every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess the name of Jesus. And everywhere men will cry out, “Hallelujah, hallelujah! The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”
“Hallelujah, hallelujah!”
MLK, Jr. (1966)
http://sowhatfaith.com/2011/01/17/the-acceptable-year-of-the-lord-rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/
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February 23rd, 2013
7:49 pm
Drudgery !
“FEDERAL SPENDING UP $822.90 PER PERSON SINCE OBAMA”
td
February 23rd, 2013
7:49 pm
It is funny how all these actors are for gun control but will play in a movie (make money) in a heartbeat where they have to to use guns violently over and over again.
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February 23rd, 2013
7:50 pm
td:
…………… and pay big time for private security/armed guards when they need them.
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February 23rd, 2013
7:51 pm
td:
They basically have the “Carl Rowan” syndrome.
TaxPayer
February 23rd, 2013
7:51 pm
Military men are “dumb, stupid animals to be used” as pawns for foreign policy. – Henry Kissinger, Republican and proud of it.
USA Patriot
February 23rd, 2013
7:52 pm
“Where are the business leaders?”
Ridin’ the storm out…..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCeGCSvueM8
Oscar
February 23rd, 2013
7:54 pm
MLKJ didn’t rely on God to protect him. He accepted the fact that he could not be a leaderof non-violence and use a gun, and that if that decesion meant his death, he accepted that.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:55 pm
If the NRA advocated that back then they would have been wrong
Thereis no if. They did, and even Reagan himself signed such legislation.
This young black lady very eloquently explains why blacks need guns just like everyone else!
And??? Her OPINION is just that, hers. She doesn’t speak for me. She actually sounds like she’s reading NRA/GOP cue cards as that very argument about slavery has been making the rounds lately. Nice attempted deflection from the half story on MLK though. Nowhere have you heard me advocate or even mention Blacks needing guns.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:57 pm
A bipartisan group of senators is on the verge of a deal that would expand background checks to all private firearms sales with limited exemptions, but significant disagreements remain on the issue of keeping records of private gun sales, according to aides familiar with the talks.
A game of inches but moving toward the goal.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:58 pm
MLKJ didn’t rely on God to protect him.
Well, I don’t recall him having a huge security detail, but I do personally know people who prayed with him. Accepting one’s fate does not mean they stull don’t pray for their safety as well as those around them.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
February 23rd, 2013
7:59 pm
*still not stull
td
February 23rd, 2013
8:00 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 23rd, 2013
7:57 pm
“A game of inches but moving toward the goal.”
And what is the goal?