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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Can We Talk About Guns?

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The Daily Show July 23, 2012
I'm just sayin' that if these terrible... not un-gun related stories create like sinus pressure in your head, and you would like to get yourself some Sudafed to ease that sinus pain, that's really hard to do to get Sudafed. To get that good Sudafed, you need ID, and there's a background check, and you gotta sign shit. 'Cause Sudafed, I think we can all agree, is some dangerous shit. But, so while we also talk about societal factors and moral factors, you know, we should also talk about how more and more powerful destructive weaponry....

7/22/2012:
JON SCOTT: Too early to be talking about more gun control laws?
MARK STEYN: Absolutely!


Look, ten years after 9/11, I can't still fly with a full container of fucking shampoo! So you're telling me it's too soon to even have a conversation about it?? 
You're telling me that to discuss the epidemic of gun violence in this country, for that, there is a waiting period. Yeah, I guess you'd hate to go into a conversation about gun all hotheaded, and say something impulsively you'll never be able to take back. Look, this is the time to talk about all of it. Everything should be on the table. Anything that could possibly help mitigate these terrible events. I'm not even saying gun control would do it. I'm just saying it's gotta be part of the conversation.

Is there anything we can talk about that shows this country's problem-solving mechanism is not irrevocably damaged?

Fox News Voice-Over: Should Batman costumes be banned from movie theaters?

I stand corrected. Problem solved.

Excerpt from a Long Tweet by actor Jason Alexander of Seinfeld (more at link)
I have been reading on and off as advocates for these weapons make their excuses all day long. Guns don't kill - people do. Well if that's correct, I go with @BrooklynAvi, let them kill with tomatoes. Let them bring baseball bats, knives, even machetes --- a mob can deal with that.

There is no excuse for the propagation of these weapons. They are not guaranteed or protected by our constitution. If they were, then we could all run out and purchase a tank, a grenade launcher, a bazooka, a SCUD missile and a nuclear warhead. We could stockpile napalm and chemical weapons and bomb-making materials in our cellars under our guise of being a militia.

These weapons are military weapons. They belong in accountable hands, controlled hands and trained hands. They should not be in the hands of private citizens to be used against police, neighborhood intruders or people who don't agree with you. These are the weapons that maniacs acquire to wreak murder and mayhem on innocents. They are not the same as handguns to help homeowners protect themselves from intruders. They are not the same as hunting rifles or sporting rifles. These weapons are designed for harm and death on big scales.

SO WHY DO YOU CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THEM? WHY DO YOU NOT, AT LEAST, AGREE TO SIT WITH REASONABLE PEOPLE FROM BOTH SIDES AND ASK HARD QUESTIONS AND LOOK AT HARD STATISTICS AND POSSIBLY MAKE SOME COMPROMISES FOR THE GREATER GOOD? SO THAT MOTHERS AND FATHERS AND CHILDREN ARE NOT SLAUGHTERED QUITE SO EASILY BY THESE MONSTERS? HOW CAN IT HURT TO STOP DEFENDING THESE THINGS AND AT LEAST CONSIDER HOW WE CAN ALL WORK TO TRY TO PREVENT ANOTHER DAY LIKE YESTERDAY?

We will not prevent every tragedy. We cannot stop every maniac. But we certainly have done ourselves no good by allowing these particular weapons to be acquired freely by just about anyone.

I'll say it plainly - if someone wants these weapons, they intend to use them. And if they are willing to force others to "pry it from my cold, dead hand", then they are probably planning on using them on people.

So, sorry those of you who tell me I'm an actor, or a has-been or an idiot or a commie or a liberal and that I should shut up. You can not watch my stuff, you can unfollow and you can call me all the names you like. I may even share some of them with my global audience so everyone can get a little taste of who you are.

But this is not the time for reasonable people, on both sides of this issue, to be silent. We owe it to the people whose lives were ended and ruined yesterday to insist on a real discussion and hopefully on some real action.



































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Monday, July 23, 2012

Republican Nut Fest Over Colorado Shooting

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Well it does make me wonder, you know with all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying that could’ve stopped this guy more quickly? I mean in Tyler, Texas, we had–my hometown–we had a shooter come in over a domestic matter, and just start shooting people. And it was a guy with a concealed carry–he got killed, but his shooting at this guy caused him to run and no doubt saved a lot of lives. He was a real hero.
I know that before we ever had concealed carry in Texas, there was a, just a senseless shooting years ago in Killeen, Texas, in a restaurant, and, you know, if we had had concealed carry permits at the time, there was a woman who had to leave her gun in her car, and if we’d had concealed carry the guy would’ve been stopped before he could’ve killed so many people.
. . . What really gets me as a Christian is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and then some senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place
~ Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), on a Heritage Foundation radio show

Had someone been prepared and armed they could have stopped this "bad" man from most of this tragedy. He was two and three feet away from folks, I understand he had to stop and reload. Where were the men of flight 93???? Someone should have stopped this man. Someone could have stopped this man. Lives were lost because of a bad man, not because he had a weapon, but because noone was prepared to stop it. Had they been prepared to save their lives or lives of others, lives would have been saved.
~ Ex-Arizona Lawmaker Russell Pearce on Facebook (now removed) quoted by Arizona Republic

Radio Host Alex Jones

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I wish it wasn't the case, but all the earmarks, all the evidence points to this being a staged event. . . . You have the U.N. Treaty that they only need a few senators who are on the fence to vote for it, and Obama says he's going to sign in the next week-and-a-half. We have that treaty in trouble, on a razor's edge, then magically this happens and within hours, all the major media, Democrats, they come out and say - the New York Times, Bloomberg - all of them - "it's time to restrict guns" and that's what the U.N. Treaty clearly states. It allows registration, then confiscation. That's what Fast and Furious was about. . . . If they would stage Fast and Furious, if they would ship up to 20,000 guns and hand grenades to Mexico, and the memos came out to CBS News, to blame the 2nd Amendment, would they stage this?
There have been many staged events where you get a patsy, drug them up, usually it's someone in a government or university program, like Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber. (That's actually LA Times/Associated Press, but no one seems to know it) Then you set them up later down the road. And that's exactly what's happening here.
. . . Now what you do is have your black-op operator come in with a mask just like Columbine and other events. They do the killing. Then you either kill or drug a patsy who's waiting, with amnesiacs or other chemicals, who will then take the blame.
~ Radio Talk Host Alex Jones via Outside the Beltway



If a Christian dies early, if a Christian dies young, it seems tragic, but really it is not tragic because they are going to a wonderful place.. on the other hand, if a person doesn’t know Jesus Christ.. if they knowingly rejected Jesus Christ, then, basically, they are going to a terrible place.
~ Evangelical Spokesperson Jerry Newcombe saying any victims who weren't Christians are probably going to hell, quoted by Think Progress

People will talk about unusually lethal weapons, that could be potentially a discussion you could have. But the fact of the matter is there are 30-round magazines that are just common. You simply can’t keep these weapons out of the hands of sick, demented individuals who want to do harm. And when you try to do it, you restrict our freedoms.
~ Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) telling us that demented people need the freedom to buy more guns

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Bain vs. Bane Conspiracy Theory

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Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is. That's right, Dark Knight Rises. Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane. The villain in The Dark Knight Rises is named Bane, B-a-n-e. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran and around which there's now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time. The release date's been known, summer 2012 for a long time. Do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious fire breathing four eyed whatever it is villain in this movie is named Bane?
. . . A lot of people are gonna see the movie, and it's a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd, and they're gonna hear Bane in the movie and they're gonna associate Bain. The thought is that when they start paying attention to the campaign later in the year, and Obama and the Democrats keep talking about Bain, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie, "Oh, yeah, I know who that is." (laughing) There are some people who think it'll work. Others think you're really underestimating the American people to think that will work.
~ Rush Limbaugh

I wouldn't usually say I agree with Rush Limbaugh, but if the Bain attack becomes a Bane caricature in a cartoon, in a popular movie, the Obama campaign couldn't be happier."
~ Democratic strategist Michael Meehan

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found on comicscavern.com


It has been observed that movies can reflect the national mood. Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being (put) out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: A highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.
~ former Clinton Adviser Chris Lehane

Overgrasping Dems? Hey, if it gets Obama supporters into theaters. Maybe they'll buy thousands of Bane toys to throw at Romney. It all adds to MY Bane capital. I wonder if the Romney campaign will contact me?
~ Chuck Dixon, who created "Bane" for DC Comics

bane/bān/
Noun:
1. A cause of great distress or annoyance.
2. Something, typically poison, that causes death.
Example sentence: Romney's record at Bain Capital is proving to be the BANE of his candidacy for president.
~ comment by Grady Hepworth on USA Today

The hot political story of the moment is Mitt Romney's old venture capital company (Bain Capital), which happens to bear the same name as the most frightening, and current Batman villain.
~ John Stewart on The Daily Show



The label inside Rush's hatband: Reynolds Aluminum
~ comment by Slinging Stones on Huff Post

knight"...they use the word knight that sounds like night. Romney sometimes goes out at night! When it's "dark"! It's a conspiracy
~ comment by see-ellen2001 on Huff Post

I am sure the creator of the Bane character had in mind Romney's campaign back in 1993 when the character made its first appearance.
~ comment by odra on Huffington Post

See, the villains in Batman were named decades in advance in anticipation of the 2012 Presidential Election in which one of the candidates would have a contested affiliation with a company named "Bain." That's why they named that villain "Bane" . . . The conspiracy is deep, and it has a lot of foresight. Decades of foresight.
~ Rachel Maddow on MSNBC

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