I think they're satirizing Media Matters and their obsession with Fox News, by the way.

George Bush doesn't care about weather people

/

Damn, I hate those Whopper commercials when I'm on a diet

I knew it!
It's not just a winter wonderland. It's propaganda!

"Knights Doppler" LOL. Brilliant.

On a serious note, the incessant "global warming" agenda is a bit annoying. Dr. Heidi Cullen needs to get laid or something.

Hey, maybe she and Algore can hook up!

The woman has a point. I have never seen the Weather Channel when they did not at some point work in weather. Oh they try to be subtle, but I am on to them.

There are those ads that the left is freaking over.

Burger King should know better than to show Europe and the third world is their true form: Actual peasants who in 2008 need to carry effen sticks on their heads to feed the fires to they can cook.

Not quite the socialist paradise.

The Knights Doppler? /lmao

its about time someone spoke up about this!

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Thanks, Charles! :-)

/Unrelenting pro-weather bias.

B-b-b-but it's not weather!

It's climate change!

/moonbat mode off

cheers

eon

We need the fairness doctrine.
End weather bias!

BIG WEATHER IS RIPPING US OFF!

Whopper Virgins?! "She's got a taste for flame-broiled beef." I'm blushing here...

It's Ed's fault.

"Cloud Elders" LOL. I think I saw about about their protocols...

re: #16 Ben Hur

It's Ed's fault.

ROFL!
*in really big really red type*

Just once I would like them to say something like, "...and tomorrow we can expect weather," instead of all of the propoganda about fronts & tropical depressions & stuff.

re: #16 Ben Hur

It's Ed's fault.

best laugh I had all week

I blame George Bush and Karl Rove for orchestrating this blatant bias!

I'm shocked! Next thing you know, they'll be attacking ESPN for its pro-sports bias.

They hope to weather the controversy by fogging over the issue until it blows over.

re: #15 scottishbuzzsaw

Whopper Virgins?! "She's got a taste for flame-broiled beef." I'm blushing here...

I could make a joke about hot & juicy meat, but I won't.

. Nighttime temperatures are consistently reported as being lower than daytime readings.

re: #24 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

I could make a joke about hot & juicy meat, but I won't.

You just did. ;-p

re: #23 DaddyG

They hope to weather the controversy by fogging over the issue until it blows over.

Dont they know when it rains, it pours?

re: #6 Thom

"Knights Doppler" LOL. Brilliant.

On a serious note, the incessant "global warming" agenda is a bit annoying. Dr. Heidi Cullen needs to get laid or something.

Hey, maybe she and Algore can hook up!

Do you really think Dr. Cullen wants to get in Tipper's way?!

Cloud Elders?

That's wicked!

re: #25 Tumulus11

. Nighttime temperatures are consistently reported as being lower than daytime readings.

Another sign of global warming, dontcha know?

re: #27 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Dont they know when it rains, it pours?

Yes but they are slicker than that. They know that they can put up a united front and snow the public long enough to ride out the storm.

Don't ya think that the whole thing is a scam by Big Mittens?
You know, convince you that it's goinmg to be cold to get you to run out and by mittens!

re: #1 Charles

I think they're satirizing Media Matters and their obsession with Fox News, by the way.

Amazing how Fox News gets so much attention from the rest of the media and the Left in general. They sure want a wide range of viewpoints expressed, as long as it is theirs.

re: #17 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

"Cloud Elders" LOL. I think I saw about about their protocols...

Sitting in their secret underground headquarters under Lake Titicaca, as they have done since the time of the Olmecs, plotting to rule the world by forcing us all to carry an umbrella at all times to act as reception antennae for their mind control emanations.

If you're wondering, I watched Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull for the first time the other night, on DVD. Except for the villains being Soviet Communists instead of German Nazis, it was pretty much Tinfoil Hat City from start to finish.

/decent popcorn movie, though

cheers

eon

re: #6 Thom

BEHEAD THOSE WHO PUT ALGORE AND HOOK UP IN THE SAME POST

On an even more serious note, there's concern amongst dairy farmers that the government will start taxing cow farts.

To the tune of $175 a head (or ass, whatever).

IN the name of global warming of course.

re: #31 DaddyG

Yes but they are slicker than that. They know that they can put up a united front and snow the public long enough to ride out the storm.

That would be hitting a new low, but perhaps they can weather it.

I loved the scroll at the bottom:

"Archaeologists in Turkey uncover primitive Blog chipped in to cave wall. Etchings complain about the cold weather and mundanities of Mammoth hunting."

re: #35 WriterMom

BEHEAD THOSE WHO PUT ALGORE AND HOOK UP IN THE SAME POST

I wouldn't go quite that far, though it does rather boggle the mind.

Or make one think, "Splat like a pike!"

re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I'm shocked! Next thing you know, they'll be attacking ESPN for its pro-sports bias.

I already do; I'm not by any stretch of the imagination an athletic supporter. ;)

"Knights Doppler," ha. Funny stuff.

re: #6 Thom

"Knights Doppler" LOL. Brilliant.

On a serious note, the incessant "global warming" agenda is a bit annoying. Dr. Heidi Cullen needs to get laid or something.

Hey, maybe she and Algore can hook up!

Ouch. There is an image I absolutely did not need.

Brain bleach, please. Make it a double.

cheers

eon

re: #26 DaddyG

You just did. ;-p

Just be glad I didn't go there with the "special sauce" joke.

re: #40 FurryOldGuyJeans

I already do; I'm not by any stretch of the imagination an athletic supporter. ;)

So you are not also known as FurryOldGuyJockStrap?

/

re: #36 Thom

On an even more serious note, there's concern amongst dairy farmers that the government will start taxing cow farts.

To the tune of $175 a head (or ass, whatever).

IN the name of global warming of course.

Once again an unregulated regulatory agency steps far outside the bounds of their charter to legislate something without a vote.

Watch out for the insidious agendas about umbrellas and sunscreen...
LMAO...
Fox.com will love this one!

re: #19 opnion

Myself, I'm currently in an arctic depression, and I don't even watch TV, much less the weather.

re: #36 Thom

On an even more serious note, there's concern amongst dairy farmers that the government will start taxing cow farts.

To the tune of $175 a head (or ass, whatever).

IN the name of global warming of course.

This won't cause dairy prices to go up one penny.

//

Oh, no, they've found us. The Cloud Elders, The Knights Doppler...our secret agenda is to be revealed.

Now you will know how you have been controlled; from the not-so-subtle introduction of fashion rubber boots, to cornering of the snow shovel market, to the rebellion of the scarf makers.

We have been behind it all. Muwahahaha!

///

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

Why is the left "freaking" over these ads? Is Burger King destroying pristine indigenous cultures by inflicting the cruel hegemony of Western beefburgers?

Remember PETA's motto; Meat is Murder!

/Anthropophagy among primitive tribes is approved, however, as it is part of their "nobly savage" non-Western culture.

/// (sort of)

cheers

eon

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

Why is the left "freaking" over these ads? Is Burger King destroying pristine indigenous cultures by inflicting the cruel hegemony of Western beefburgers?

Yes, how dare Burger King feed hungry people delicious flame-broiled burgers

Everyone -- every well-informed one, at least -- knows how much these quaint people enjoy subsisting on taro and bags of rice kicked out the hatch of UN plane.

Ah, authenticity. Is there no more romance in the world?

Sorry OT:

Real interesting spin off link up there.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

re: #35 WriterMom

BEHEAD THOSE WHO PUT ALGORE AND HOOK UP IN THE SAME POST

Sorry. The reference should have been to Roseanne Barr

My word. I really took a hatchet to that last post, didn't I?

Hack, hack, hack.

re: #57 buzzsawmonkey

Me, I'm sick of neo-Rousseauian leftists beefing about things all the time.

They really do milk the issue.

Wonder if this much an effect on the weather predictions?

Magnetic Field Hole Could Cripple Communications

Scientists have found two large leaks in Earth's magnetosphere, the region around our planet that shields us from severe solar storms.

/So much for the holes in the Ozone layers.

re: #59 Cognito

Udder nonsense.

re: #52 Iron Fist

I was just thinking about how pissed he probably is right now. We're having a weather thread, and he can't PRESIPITATE(participate). Betcha he winds up whining about it on one of the anti-LGF sites, too.

Correction
; )

I expected more involvement with the weather puns, Lizards not feeling hail and hearty today?

re: #34 eon

Sitting in their secret underground headquarters under Lake Titicaca, as they have done since the time of the Olmecs, plotting to rule the world by forcing us all to carry an umbrella at all times to act as reception antennae for their mind control emanations.

If you're wondering, I watched Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull for the first time the other night, on DVD. Except for the villains being Soviet Communists instead of German Nazis, it was pretty much Tinfoil Hat City from start to finish.

/decent popcorn movie, though

cheers

eon

3 years ago I was doing an explorers unit with my kids and I needed a picture of the Mayan headdress for my kids to make a copy of with brown paper and feathers. I found a picture on a website to look at.

Dude.

It was fine, at first, with pictures of the headdress, as well, oddly, of the double crown of the Egyptians. I was reading down the page, they were noting the similarities of the two headdresses, kept reading...

"Thus we see that both the Egyptians and the Mayan rulers were really aliens from outer space."

I hadn't had a laugh that good for a long time. Click.

It was Indiana Jones territory. The headdress was to hide the skull.

re: #63 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I expected more involvement with the weather puns, Lizards not feeling hail and hearty today?

tired of being snowed ;-)>

re: #63 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I expected more involvement with the weather puns, Lizards not feeling hail and hearty today?

It's a flurry of activity here getting ready for the holidays...

re: #60 Bubblehead II

Wonder if this WILL HAVE much an effect on the weather predictions?

*pimf!*

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

Why is the left "freaking" over these ads? Is Burger King destroying pristine indigenous cultures by inflicting the cruel hegemony of Western beefburgers?

I'm surprised that any culture that has raised cattle hasn't at some point chopped up the meat & grilled it. Maybe the bun matrix is what's thrown them.

re: #63 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I expected more involvement with the weather puns, Lizards not feeling hail and hearty today?

and these puns are going to send us all straight to hail in a handbasket.

re: #36 Thom

There is a job for Obama's youth army, spend your weekends counting cow farts.

re: #36 Thom

On an even more serious note, there's concern amongst dairy farmers that the government will start taxing cow farts.

To the tune of $175 a head (or ass, whatever).

IN the name of global warming of course.

How many times do I have to tell you all.
The cow fart problem has been solved by technology.

seeing how things are a little slow, listen to this
I thought it was pretty good.

re: #49 Cap'n DOC

Myself, I'm currently in an arctic depression, and I don't even watch TV, much less the weather.

Climate Change! Gore is right, the climate in July is radically different than February!

re: #63 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I expected more involvement with the weather puns, Lizards not feeling hail and hearty today?

They're probably on different THREADs.

re: #74 opnion

Climate Change! Gore is right, the climate in July is radically different than February!

not only that, but we are warm here in Georgia and they are freezing up in Minnesota. Got to be something there.

Just in time for the New Year's Eve celebrations...

Hangover Helpers from around the world:

[Link: ngm.nationalgeographic.com...]

Going to skip the Romania cure for sure.

re: #63 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I expected more involvement with the weather puns, Lizards not feeling hail and hearty today?

I'm feeling a little under the weather, puns require a clear mind, with chance of sarcasm, and short bursts of hilarity. So while my mind is foggy, I'll have pass on the puns.

re: #73 Outrider

seeing how things are a little slow, listen to this
I thought it was pretty good.

Thanks for posting that. Fantastic!

re: #63 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I expected more involvement with the weather puns, Lizards not feeling hail and hearty today?

They are just south of us hitting the Iraqi coup thread pretty hard but it looks as if they are pushing their way north and should hit us sometime in the late afternoon.

re: #60 Bubblehead II

Wonder if this much an effect on the weather predictions?

Magnetic Field Hole Could Cripple Communications

Scientists have found two large leaks in Earth's magnetosphere, the region around our planet that shields us from severe solar storms.

/So much for the holes in the Ozone layers.

There have always been two very big holes in the ozone layer, over the north and south polar regions. This is because the Earth's magnetic field is not really spherical; it's actually a torus (like a thick glazed doughnut). The "doughnut holes" are over the poles. When solar wind activity increases, ionized particles hit those holes, and the ozone underneath (which is ionized to begin with) is accelerated in what's called "mean free path velocity" (how far and how fast it can go before hitting another molecule of air). The result is that a lot of ozone escapes into space (literally- the molecules are going fast enough that they more-or-less acheive orbital velocity). As a result, less ozone=bigger ozone holes at the poles. When the sun quiets down again, the rate of escape falls below the rate of replacement (from air being ionized at high altitudes, which is where ozone comes from to begin with) and the holes get smaller again.

The panic over CFCs and the ozone layer was set off in the Seventies (a high solar activity period) by research based on readings taken in the Antarctic. The scientists who took the readings observed the phenomenon correctly enough- the "ecologists" just drew an entirely wrong conclusion about why it was happening.

But in my experience, ecologists are some of the most scientifically ignorant people around. They base their conclusions on what they believe, rather than actual facts.

I can't wait to hear what they'll blame for this.

cheers

eon

re: #76 Outrider

not only that, but we are warm here in Georgia and they are freezing up in Minnesota. Got to be something there.

Gores a genius! He should get an award of some kind. Just kidding, he wouldn't get some kind of award for this crap, right?

re: #77 scottishbuzzsaw

Just in time for the New Year's Eve celebrations...

Hangover Helpers from around the world:

[Link: ngm.nationalgeographic.com...]

Going to skip the Romania cure for sure.

The Dutch cure will just keep you from feeling that hangover for a few more days. ;-)

re: #73 Outrider

seeing how things are a little slow, listen to this
I thought it was pretty good.

THX Outrider! That was Nawlins own Grandpa Elliot ! I dropped a few bills into their tip bucket!
Great rendition of Stand By Me...

"smooth jazz to distract viewers.."

hahahahaha

re: #82 opnion

Gores a genius! He should get an award of some kind. Just kidding, he wouldn't get some kind of award for this crap, right?

He deserves a major award.

re: #86 Honorary Yooper

He deserves a major award.

I know where to put that...

re: #86 Honorary Yooper

He deserves a major award.

'Fragile, must be Italian"

re: #70 bulwrk

There is a job for Obama's youth army, spend your weekends counting cow farts.

Alpha! Omega!
The cattles' wind will break-a!

re: #89 Occasional Reader

Alpha! Omega!
The cattles' wind will break-a!

Wow..

You win.

re: #73 Outrider

seeing how things are a little slow, listen to this
I thought it was pretty good.

Wow. Thanks.

Why, in a world with people like this, is the music on the (American Top 40) radio so lacking?

/I suspect a conspiracy. It's the Knights Doppler. ;)

Looks like the fun n' games are far from over in Greece.

ATHENS, Greece – Masked youths set up burning barricades and threw fire bombs and chunks of marble at riot police Thursday, after a protest march erupted into new fighting that sent Christmas shoppers and panicked parents fleeing to safety.

Mothers snatched children from a carousel in the main square. Waiters stumbled from cafes choking on tear gas fired by police at rioters trying to burn the capital's Christmas tree, replaced just days ago after another tree was torched.

re: #71 buzzsawmonkey

Some cultures are more into the lamburger than the hamburger. Variants of terrain, and all.

Not to mention that some isolated populations may yet be unfamiliar with such things as mustard, ketchup, sweet pickles, orange cheese slices, special sauce, and the like.

How could such backward cultures ever hope to ketchup to the West? Even if we mustard vast foreign aid resources on their behalf?

re: #92 Occasional Reader

It looks like the Greeks do want the freaks.

re: #3 Shug

Damn, I hate those Whopper commercials when I'm on a diet

Well then you'd really dislike this burger smelling cologne.

re: #91 EmmmieG

Wow. Thanks.

Why, in a world with people like this, is the music on the (American Top 40) radio so lacking?

/I suspect a conspiracy. It's the Knights Doppler. ;)

EmmmieG ...you are so right on the Top 40 crap ... I go to writer's nights all the time in Nashville and it really makes me wonder how the songs that are recorded and played on the radio are chosen ...some of the unknown writer's have such great work ...I guess it is really who you know most of the time ...

re: #93 Occasional Reader

How could such backward cultures ever hope to ketchup to the West? Even if we mustard vast foreign aid resources on their behalf?

That was lamb.

Weather alert: Strange cold, white material falls from sky, blankets hills.

re: #93 Occasional Reader

How could such backward cultures ever hope to ketchup to the West? Even if we mustard vast foreign aid resources on their behalf?

I do relish the puns around here.

re: #97 jcm

That was lamb.

Lettuce settle this like civilized people.

The Real Bias at The weather channel

Hurricane = Global Warming
Blizzard in Las Vegas = Global Warming

re: #93 Occasional Reader

How could such backward cultures ever hope to ketchup to the West? Even if we mustard vast foreign aid resources on their behalf?

Its quite a pickle

re: #70 bulwrk

Phffft, theres one .Phffft, there's another, the army on a counting mission.

Woman Says Church Threatening To Make Sins Public

Sometimes even reality outdoes the Onion for absurdity.

Being a farmer, we live and die by the weather ...we NEVER depend on the weather from television ...we use radar and that is it ...not that there is anything we can do about it ...but sometimes we delay planting or harvesting and of course use it to determine how we use our labor ...

re: #77 scottishbuzzsaw

Just in time for the New Year's Eve celebrations...

Hangover Helpers from around the world:

[Link: ngm.nationalgeographic.com...]

Going to skip the Romania cure for sure.

Unfortunately, that Romanian soup sounded better than some of the soups in Eastern Europe: Pork skin-fat soup that is at least 90% lard. The other 10% is pig skin, chunks of fat, water and seasonings. I've eaten it. I've been told it is better than Nepali yak butter tea. I'm unconvinced.

re: #48 buzzsawmonkey

From the other day, a little seasonal cheer:

Al Gore waving his Nobel
Decried global warming
Heedless of the icy hell
That from cold fronts was forming
In his resolve to save Earth
Although it seemed cruel
He ensured there'd be a dearth
Of cheap fossil fuel

--with apologies to Good King Wenceslaus

New NZ government puts money where the mouth is and overturns legislation banning use of coal and gas for generation of electricity. Common sense beginning to prevail.

re: #100 buzzsawmonkey

Counting cow flatulence would be a waste of time. We already know that cow flatulence releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere globally than the emissions of all vehicles that use petroleum engines.

That means that eating steak, and thereby reducing the cow population, is a great way to combat global warming! ;-)

re: #105 FurryOldGuyJeans

Woman Says Church Threatening To Make Sins Public

Sometimes even reality outdoes the Onion for absurdity.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A divorced Jacksonville woman said her former church has threatened to "go public with her sins" and tell the congregation about her sexual relationship with her new boyfriend.

THREAT FAIL

Franken will take the lead over Coleman sometime within the next hour.

Watch history being made by live feed.

/and DRINK . . . HEAVILY!

And another thing ...of all the farmers I know ...none believe in global warming ...

re: #110 Ben Hur

I'll bet church will be packed that Sunday! ;-)

Snippets from Fox News (on the LGF sidebar, for those who want to look):

Muntadhar al-Zeidi has asked the Iraqi president for a pardon ...

When he threw the shoes, he shouted at Bush in Arabic, "... This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."

We have widows and orphans too, asshole.

/not thinking of a shoe

re: #115 buzzsawmonkey

I want to see battalions of Boy Scouts detailed to lighting and burning off the cow farts, so that the vast herds of beef cattle which adorn our great plains will be lit up at night like the refineries in Gary, Indiana.

They could use the outgassing to BBQ all them thar cattle.

OT, but hilarious:

My male took one of the cars in for service today. Our friend Charlie followed him over. This was a good thing, as my male managed to leave the house keys - and the key to my truck - at home.

Then, just as he was leaving the house, his phone rings from the place he's contracting at. They were having a fire drill today, and somehow or other, managed to trigger the entire fire suppression system. And nuke his servers in the process. And he can't get into the building because of the fire suppression system...

I've been laughing helplessly, as Charlie relays all of this to me, as a run up to letting me know that he's my chauffeur this evening.

And meanwhile, to the south; Latin America "summit" produces some retread yanqui-bashing, little else.

Nice way to spend millions during an economic downturn.

re: #115 buzzsawmonkey

Gives new meaning to the term "steak flambee"! ;-)

re: #116 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Snippets from Fox News (on the LGF sidebar, for those who want to look):

We have widows and orphans too, asshole.

/not thinking of a shoe

The concentration on widows, and orphans is very Quranic, btw. Interesting that that phrase, and concentration would be what he picked.

re: #81 eon

The usual suspects of course, Bush, The evil Jooosss and if they can't pin it on them, the always present military industrial complex and chemtrails.

///

re: #101 Occasional Reader

Lettuce settle this like civilized people.

Beets me how we could do that.
The cloves come off!
It's a fight to the endive!

re: #64 EmmmieG

3 years ago I was doing an explorers unit with my kids and I needed a picture of the Mayan headdress for my kids to make a copy of with brown paper and feathers. I found a picture on a website to look at.

Dude.

It was fine, at first, with pictures of the headdress, as well, oddly, of the double crown of the Egyptians. I was reading down the page, they were noting the similarities of the two headdresses, kept reading...

"Thus we see that both the Egyptians and the Mayan rulers were really aliens from outer space."

I hadn't had a laugh that good for a long time. Click.

It was Indiana Jones territory. The headdress was to hide the skull.

I've had endless fun with the Ancient Astronauts crowd literally for decades. They never cease to come up with the most convoluted "explanations" for simple things.

I'm familiar with the headdresses you mentioned. I might note they also resemble the British Havelock sun shade worn by soldiers in Her Majesty's service in the tropics in the 19th Century. The French Legion Etrangere' adopted it as well. probably for the same reason the Egyptians and Mayans used it- to avoid sunstroke. (Building pyramids is hot work.)

Speaking of pyramids, I've seen that used as "evidence" of ET influence on both cultures. Not to mention the ziggurats of the ancient Sumerians. Of course, if any of the "cryptoarcheologists" would bother to spend five minutes with an architect or stonemason, they'd find out that if you want to build a really tall structure out of stone, it had better be both (a) mostly solid and (b) basically conical in shape with a fairly shallow slope. Otherwise, it'll collapse under its own weight almost before you're finished building it.

I remember one time watching a show about the "alien" influences on the pyramid-builders in Egypt and the Americas. The host was going on about how the "pyramid design suddenly appears out of nowhere in both cultures". I thought, "Yes, unless you count the Egyptian mastabas, the Mayan hill tombs, and the half-built pyramids in both areas that are still sitting there, incomplete, because their outer walls were at too steep an angle and they fell apart before they could be finished." That's an awful lot of "trial and error" for anyone being assisted by an advanced alien culture capable of interstellar travel. I assume the advanced aliens, who supposedly came here to establish bases, would have brought at least one architect or mechanical engineer familiar with the structural strength and building characteristics of the material they'd most likely be working with- stone.

/OK, maybe they were really dumb Hollywood-style aliens, like in Plan 9 From Outer Space. Which begs the question of how they got here without killing themselves by sheer stupidity en route.

cheers

eon

re: #16 Ben Hur

It's Ed's fault.

The dopeler effect.

A renewed Fairness Doctrine will change The Weather Channel's bias.
Remember all of those times growing up when you were told everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it?
Well, garshdarnit, The Big O & Big Al will change that perception. Just give them four years, 20 trillion dollars and there will be a great cooling over the planet as a dark cloud will envelop everything.

Wrath, calling WrathofG-d, you are being paged at the Hamas thread... please pick up the white courtesy phone...

re: #115 buzzsawmonkey

I want to see battalions of Boy Scouts detailed to lighting and burning off the cow farts, so that the vast herds of beef cattle which adorn our great plains will be lit up at night like the refineries in Gary, Indiana.

The associated Merit Badge will require some thought, in order to keep the design reasonably tasteful.

re: #119 Occasional Reader

COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil – Latin American and Caribbean leaders called for the creation of a regional union that would exclude the U.S. and oppose outside interference on Wednesday at a summit hailed as a historic expression of independence.

I think it's great.

May they feel independent from our $.

re: #121 WrathofG-d

The concentration on widows, and orphans is very Quranic, btw. Interesting that that phrase, and concentration would be what he picked.

Yes, it is.

I'm not commenting past my "slash".
I like being a registered Lizard.

re: #115 buzzsawmonkey

I want to see battalions of Boy Scouts detailed to lighting and burning off the cow farts, so that the vast herds of beef cattle which adorn our great plains will be lit up at night like the refineries in Gary, Indiana.

You know the Boy Scouts are on the hunt for a prime piece of land where they can hold the Jamboree and not have to fight the ACLU, etc. to use public land (they're having to spend $$millions and have decided it would be better spent to buy land). So if anybody knows a good area, let the BSA know!

re: #123 jcm

A glance up-thread ... noticed that you're under the weather.
Sorry to hear that.

Good Afternoon Lizard Nation!

What did I miss all day?

re: #124 eon

I remember one time watching a show about the "alien" influences on the pyramid-builders in Egypt and the Americas. The host was going on about how the "pyramid design suddenly appears out of nowhere in both cultures"

In Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, one conspiracy-obsessed character asks his much more rational girlfriend "well, why do you think pyramids were built independently both in Egypt and Mexico?!" She wearily replies, "because sand dunes form into shapes that look like a pyramid, not like the Parthenon".

Warning: Do not attempt to do this at home, or in fact, anywhere, ever.

[Link: www.geeksaresexy.net...]

After watching the video I have to agree with them on the bias...all negative reporting on the weather, clear and sunny didn't even make the list.

re: #134 loppyd

Good Afternoon Lizard Nation!

What did I miss all day?

All threads seem to be dead presently.

Also from the LGF sidebar;
A new Darwin award winner, maybe that will teach them to bring guns to a Weddings!
[Link: israelmatzav.blogspot.com...]

Became very cold here in Phoenix, I was tempted to fire up the furnace, but that thought passed.

I demand some equal anti-weather time on TWC. I'm against weather and others need to be informed.

The first one who can work arugula into a vegetable pun will get a ton of updings

re: #107 David IV of Georgia

Unfortunately, that Romanian soup sounded better than some of the soups in Eastern Europe: Pork skin-fat soup that is at least 90% lard. The other 10% is pig skin, chunks of fat, water and seasonings. I've eaten it. I've been told it is better than Nepali yak butter tea. I'm unconvinced.

LOL! Yikes...

re: #111 Killian Bundy

Franken will take the lead over Coleman sometime within the next hour.

Watch history being made by live feed.

/and DRINK . . . HEAVILY!

I'm ill just watching this

Sweep them under the arugala?

re: #133 pre-Boomer Marine brat

A glance up-thread ... noticed that you're under the weather.
Sorry to hear that.

Weather puns...
;-)
Then burger puns...
Now vegetable puns...

re: #119 Occasional Reader

And meanwhile, to the south; Latin America "summit" produces some retread yanqui-bashing, little else.

Nice way to spend millions during an economic downturn.

Money quote;

"It would be good to celebrate the 200th anniversary of our independence with a true Latin-American union"

Only a leftist would celebrate independence by giving it up.

I wonder if Alvero Vargas Llosa (author of Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot) will be there as a correspondent?

For him, it would probably provide enough material for at least two more books.

cheers

eon

re: #134 loppyd

Now this is a headline you wouldn't expect to see...

N.H. jury delivers death sentence to cop-killer Michael Addison

State’s first death sentence in 49 years

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A jury today issued New Hampshire’s first death sentence in a half century to Michael Addison, who fatally shot a Manchester police officer two years ago.

Addison, 28, had no reaction as the Hillsborough County Superior Court jury announced its verdict after about 13 hours of deliberation over four days. The defense said it will appeal.

The judge must formally impose the sentence, but cannot change it.

re: #143 bulwrk

The first one who can work arugula into a vegetable pun will get a ton of updings

Argula kidding?

re: #147 buzzsawmonkey

wow that was quick,impressive.

Term limits? We don't need no steenking term limits!

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday began considering a proposal for a referendum on abolishing term limits, which could let President Hugo Chavez run for re-election indefinitely.

re: #143 bulwrk

Arugula gonna eat that or anchovy gonna need to feed you?

re: #151 loppyd

Now this is a headline you wouldn't expect to see...

N.H. jury delivers death sentence to cop-killer Michael Addison

State’s first death sentence in 49 years

If your like WA, he'll die of old age...

Voter intent should never ever ever count.

If you're too stupid to correctly fill out your f&*^#ing ballot your vote shouldn't count.

re: #140 CapeCoddah

Also from the LGF sidebar;
A new Darwin award winner, maybe that will teach them to bring guns to a Weddings!
[Link: israelmatzav.blogspot.com...]

Horrible.

re: #151 loppyd

Hey Loppy, I have been following that one closely. That bastard got exactly what he deserves, hopefully, it actually happens.

re: #150 MandyManners

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

That looks lovely. I will have to wait to play it until after the BF wakes up from his pre-bartending nap, though.

Thank you...

re: #145 Shug

NOOOooo!

I knew mine would suck.

Not very good at this.

Surprisingly.

re: #154 Occasional Reader

Term limits? We don't need no steenking term limits!

Rabbit Bait has already booked his flight to certify the elections as free, fair and open.

re: #147 buzzsawmonkey

After that, can we return to arugula scheduled programming?

You mastaba a beautiful baby...

Precinct 12, ballot 6. the vote is for arugla but the intent was for Franken.

Give it to Franken

re: #156 jcm

If your like WA, he'll die of old age...

I'm not in NH. MA will nevah EVAH have a death penalty...although Mitt tried to bring it back. To no avail, natch.

re: #154 Occasional Reader

Slouching towards dictatorship... again. He wont be satisfied until he's destroyed the Venezuelan economy and imposed his socialist agenda - because maybe this time he'll get it right after purging enough people to make it work.

I feel so inadequate I tried and came up with nothing.

re: #164 Occasional Reader

You mastaba a beautiful baby...

You mastaba a lot?

re: #162 Ben Hur

I knew mine would suck.

Not very good at this.

Surprisingly.

All shall win, and all shall have prizes.

re: #114 quickjustice

I'll bet church will be packed that Sunday! ;-)

According to St. Augustine of Bishop of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus, died August 28, 430), that is the reason that the churches quit having public confession of sins. On the day some notorious sinner was suspected or expected to confess, every busybody and gossip in town would show up for church. So although there is no rule against public confessions, the usual practice in churches that have confessions is that they are private.

re: #166 loppyd

I'm not in NH. MA will nevah EVAH have a death penalty...although Mitt tried to bring it back. To no avail, natch.

We have one, but then again... not really.

re: #164 Occasional Reader

You mastaba a beautiful baby...

He's so quick witted, it just makes me want to radish him.

re: #173 jcm

We have one, but then again... not really.

How is that?

BTW, sorry you're not feeling well.

re: #127 Sunlight

Wrath, calling WrathofG-d, you are being paged at the Hamas thread... please pick up the white courtesy phone...

Done.

re: #159 CapeCoddah

Hey Loppy, I have been following that one closely. That bastard got exactly what he deserves, hopefully, it actually happens.

How hateful of you. Don't you know he had a bad childhood?

/

To say the media is biased is ridiculous.

They are 100% on the side of the enemy.

re: #175 loppyd

How is that?

BTW, sorry you're not feeling well.

I'm not, poorly executed weather pun...

We sentence them to death. Then after 25 years of appeals, they die of old age or the state gives up.

re: #167 lawhawk

Slouching towards dictatorship... again. He wont be satisfied until he's destroyed the Venezuelan economy and imposed his socialist agenda - because maybe this time he'll get it right after purging enough people to make it work.

If he can afford it. Hey, Sr. Presidente Permanente, how's that big, scary, OPEC production cut working out for ya?

re: #160 loppyd

That looks lovely. I will have to wait to play it until after the BF wakes up from his pre-bartending nap, though.

Thank you...

Might wanna' grab some tissues first.

Get out your tiny violens

From the AP - where else?

Killer’s childhood described as horrific

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Convicted cop killer Michael Addison’s family members described a home life that was disrupted by drug abuse and violence.

A jury is considering whether Addision should be eligible for the death penalty for killing police Officer Michael Briggs. Jurors have heard testimony that Addison’s mother, Cheryl Kiser, abused drugs and alcohol, was often violent and seldom was there for Addison as a child.

Addison lived with his grandparents as a child. His uncle Lemont Addison said Michael’s father began drinking and doing drugs, sometimes staying out for days partying. Michael’s grandparents, Lucious and Rosetta Addison, often fought and sometimes came to blows.

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

I'd rather be a cunning linguist than a master debater.

re: #179 jcm

I'm not, poorly executed weather pun...

We sentence them to death. Then after 25 years of appeals, they die of old age or the state gives up.

roger that

re: #177 loppyd

How hateful of you. Don't you know he had a bad childhood?

/

Ha, I dont give a damned if he was raised by rabid wolves.

re: #171 Occasional Reader

All shall win, and all shall have prizes.

Is that you, Barry?

re: #183 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I'd rather be a cunning linguist than a master debater.

LOL

you dirty poodle!

re: #182 loppyd

Get out your tiny violens

From the AP - where else?

Killer’s childhood described as horrific

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

Lots of people have bad childhoods and dont end up killers.

re: #181 MandyManners

Might wanna' grab some tissues first.

I got that sense...

re: #182 loppyd

The usual liberal idiot think: The victim is the criminal and the criminal is the victim.

re: #188 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Lots of people have bad childhoods and dont end up killers.

Yep. SO sick of this lame excuse.

re: #188 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Lots of people have bad childhoods and dont end up killers.

That was what the prosecutor argued. He shot Officer Briggs point blank in the face. After he said he would kill a cop if he had to. Personally, I think he should be hung slowly.

re: #191 loppyd

Yep. SO sick of this lame excuse.

In their world there is no real evil. Everything evil is caused by something out of the evil doers hands.

re: #190 Whiterasta

The usual liberal idiot think: The victim is the criminal and the criminal is the victim.

The PC, emotional, liberal mind has removed Justice from the system.

re: #180 Occasional Reader

Hey, he's a socialist. He'll figure out the solution. Take from the rich. Give to the poor* (okay, claim to give it to the poor, but really pocket the difference and provide the rest to your cronies).

re: #195 lawhawk

Hey, he's a socialist. He'll figure out the solution.

Ask Obama for a PDVSA bailout?

This is way cool.

US Navy Rolls Out First Terminator-esque Robotic Hunter/Killers

The X-47B project will provide just two demonstrator aircraft, mainly intended to prove that unmanned planes can successfully take off from and land onto US carriers. Catapult launch - and even more so, arrested landings - have traditionally been considered one of the most difficult and stressful piloting feats.
Apart from proving the concept of unmanned carrier aircraft, however, the X-47B will also be able to conduct air-to-air refuelling - giving it almost unlimited endurance. The US Navy hasn't asked for more, but in fact the aircraft would have little difficulty carrying weapons and flying autonomous strike missions, as it is derived from a previous joint programme between the navy and air force intended to produce a plane which could do just that.

The X-47B, in fact, will be one of the first true killer robots, able to conduct a mission using live weapons without needing to communicate with pilots or even supervisors on its mother ship or back in the USA. Current roboplanes are typically handled in combat over satcomms channels from bases in America, and take off and land under the control of pilots in ground stations near the runway.

re: #140 CapeCoddah

Also from the LGF sidebar;
A new Darwin award winner, maybe that will teach them to bring guns to a Weddings!
[Link: israelmatzav.blogspot.com...]

With compassion for the kid, the Darwin Award simply HAS to go to the father. Who th' hell would hand a 2-year-old a loaded gun?

I wish that this was from the Onion...

Michael Steele has been getting a lot of buzz in his race for RNC Chairman.

Unfortunately, Steele has been less than 100% supportive of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. I'm particularly troubled by this interchange:
Q: Should people have access to buy assault weapons or any gun that they want?

Michael Steele: Well, I mean you draw the line. I mean, what do you need an assault weapon for? I mean, if going hunting, I think that's a little overkill or whatever, but the reality of it is, I think it's important for a society, a community to draw the lines as we've drawn in a number of other constitutional areas, but I don't think that that means that you go to a total ban for those who want to use guns for skeet shooting and hobbying and hunting and things like that.
Sad to say, but this same quote could've been spouted by John Kerry, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. It's the LEFTIES, after all, who think the Second Amendment has something to do with "skeet shooting and hunting."

You don't have to be a 'gun guy' (and I'm not) to know that the 2^nd Amendment is not there to guarantee our right to target shoot, or hunt, or collect antique firearms. It was put there because the Founders believed that, sometimes and regrettably, armed rebellion is the only resort.

Michael Steele just doesn't get it, and that means that it is important that he not get the chair of the RNC.

re: #148 jcm

Weather puns...
;-)
Then burger puns...
Now vegetable puns...

Tuber-culosis?

re: #197 loppyd

Pretty cool. I wonder what the pilot's unions will have to say about that?

re: #197 loppyd

This is way cool.

US Navy Rolls Out First Terminator-esque Robotic Hunter/Killers

Skynet!

RUN!

///
Way COOL!

re: #123 jcm

Beets me how we could do that.
The cloves come off!
It's a fight to the endive!

Not fair to hog all the puns...I'm telling on you...
/:0

re: #201 buzzsawmonkey

At least the idiot won't be doing any more breeding.

re: #199 razorbacker

I wish that this was from the Onion...

Michael Steele has been getting a lot of buzz in his race for RNC Chairman.

You don't have to be a 'gun guy' (and I'm not) to know that the 2^nd Amendment is not there to guarantee our right to target shoot, or hunt, or collect antique firearms. It was put there because the Founders believed that, sometimes and regrettably, armed rebellion is the only resort.

Michael Steele just doesn't get it, and that means that it is important that he not get the chair of the RNC.

Some people in government cannot admit the real reason for an armed citizenry. Scares the shit out of many.

re: #151 loppyd

Now this is a headline you wouldn't expect to see...

N.H. jury delivers death sentence to cop-killer Michael Addison

State’s first death sentence in 49 years

I would like to be the one to push the button on this asshole.

re: #203 jcm

Skynet!

RUN!

///
Way COOL!

I thought that would get you jazzed! LOL

re: #199 razorbacker

Ohferpete'ssake... and here I was getting to like Steele.

Are there any real, reasonable conservatives left in politics?

re: #123 jcm

Beets me how we could do that.
The cloves come off!
It's a fight to the endive!

I'll bet you did that just for the halibut

re: #192 CapeCoddah

That was what the prosecutor argued. He shot Officer Briggs point blank in the face. After he said he would kill a cop if he had to. Personally, I think he should be hung slowly.

I still think the movie "Citizen X" showed how this should be done. Regular prison with the death sentence hanging over you head, never knowing what day the guard will escort you to a concrete room with a drain in the center and tells you "Dont turn around" as you hear the pistol come out of the holder.

re: #198 pre-Boomer Marine brat

With compassion for the kid, the Darwin Award simply HAS to go to the father. Who th' hell would hand a 2-year-old a loaded gun?

I believe the Darwin is for the father. In no way is that a 2 year olds fault. They just copy everything they see.

re: #166 loppyd

I'm not in NH. MA will nevah EVAH have a death penalty...although Mitt tried to bring it back. To no avail, natch.

He fled to Mass, after the murder.

re: #202 Whiterasta

Pretty cool. I wonder what the pilot's unions will have to say about that?

I have union fatigue syndrome.

re: #211 LGoPs

I'll bet you did that just for the halibut

He never seems to flounder.

re: #198 pre-Boomer Marine brat

With compassion for the kid, the Darwin Award simply HAS to go to the father. Who th' hell would hand a 2-year-old a loaded gun?

That's better the drunk ASSHOLE north of me last month. Drunk on his ass, has his six year old get his .45. Pulls the mag, then to check the chamber pulls the trigger, while it was pointed at his six years head. Chamber was not empty.

At least in wedding case, the correct ASSHOLE caught the round.

re: #198 pre-Boomer Marine brat

With compassion for the kid, the Darwin Award simply HAS to go to the father. Who th' hell would hand a 2-year-old a loaded gun?

Watch the vid, father puts the gun on a chair and turns away, the kid picks it up.

re: #201 buzzsawmonkey

A loaded parent.

Yes.
/refraining from saying what I think of the father's fate
(... *keeping an eye on Stinky*)

re: #214 BBev

He fled to Mass, after the murder.

I know...they picked him up in his old hood.

re: #216 bulwrk

I'll bet you did that just for the halibut

He never seems to flounder.

Has he no sole?

re: #209 loppyd

I thought that would get you jazzed! LOL

F-22 in all likely hood is the last manned fighter / attack plane.
All ROV in the future.

re: #221 MandyManners

thats a whale of a statement

re: #197 loppyd

This is way cool.

US Navy Rolls Out First Terminator-esque Robotic Hunter/Killers

Forget it. Pres. Obama will downsize this program to produce modestly-armed Roombas.

re: #221 MandyManners

Has he no sole?

He likes to have a whale of a good time.

re: #218 CapeCoddah

Watch the vid, father puts the gun on a chair and turns away, the kid picks it up.

Yea that is sooo much more responsible

re: #223 buzzsawmonkey

Oh, come on; the Second Amendment clearly says, "A healthy outdoorsy citizenry being an asset to a free state, the right of the people to skeet shoot, to hunt despite being denigrated as bloodthirsty throwbacks, and to target-shoot at properly regulated ranges shall not be infringed."

Doesn't it?

Hard to answer with my hairy knuckles that are scraped from dragging the ground.

re: #224 bulwrk

thats a whale of a statement

GMTA!

re: #217 jcm

That's better the drunk ASSHOLE north of me last month. Drunk on his ass, has his six year old get his .45. Pulls the mag, then to check the chamber pulls the trigger, while it was pointed at his six years head. Chamber was not empty.

At least in wedding case, the correct ASSHOLE caught the round.

You're NOT kidding, ... ARE you?!

/castration with a ...! *slaps hand over mouth*

re: #207 MandyManners

Some people in government cannot admit the real reason for an armed citizenry. Scares the shit out of many.

I doubt many even know the prime reason for the first amendment.

re: #218 CapeCoddah

Watch the vid, father puts the gun on a chair and turns away, the kid picks it up.

Thanks. Didn't catch that.

re: #225 Occasional Reader

Forget it. Pres. Obama will downsize this program to produce modestly-armed Roombas.

Do not disrespect the Roomba! I want one.

re: #224 bulwrk

thats a whale of a statement

re: #226 loppyd

He likes to have a whale of a good time.

Just 28 seconds.

re: #217 jcm

That's better the drunk ASSHOLE north of me last month. Drunk on his ass, has his six year old get his .45. Pulls the mag, then to check the chamber pulls the trigger, while it was pointed at his six years head. Chamber was not empty.

At least in wedding case, the correct ASSHOLE caught the round.

Oh God, that poor baby. Hope the father never sees the light of day again.

re: #225 Occasional Reader

Forget it. Pres. Obama will downsize this program to produce modestly-armed Roombas.

They already have a new cheaper designObamas killer Robot

re: #231 jcm

I doubt many even know the prime reason for the first amendment.

If they deal with the press regularly, they likely want to abolish it at times.

re: #207 MandyManners

Some people in government cannot admit the real reason for an armed citizenry. Scares the shit out of many.

It may keep the Mumbai crazies away. After Flt 93 (the PA flight?), I think Americans know not to sit quietly the way we were told to do in past hijackings or hostage situations. Re the assault weapons, what they could do is require certain training and licensing to have one. I'd rather my neighbors be trained up anyway if they want one. The "neighborhood watch" is such a fabulous concept. The police are involved with each one and the training, roles and responsibilities, licensing, etc. could be done through them. (So I wouldn't count out Steele on that factor.)

re: #217 jcm

Pulls the mag, then to check the chamber pulls the trigger, while it was pointed at his six years head.

Good lord.

I take it the child did not survive?

re: #166 loppyd

I'm not in NH. MA will nevah EVAH have a death penalty...although Mitt tried to bring it back. To no avail, natch.

Loppy, are you sure Mitt tried to bring it back? Last I remember it was 11 years ago after the Jeffrey Curley murder, we had the votes until the last minute when one senator switched unexpectedly.

re: #148 jcm

Weather puns...
;-)
Then burger puns...
Now vegetable puns...

How 'bout microbe puns...come on...B. Sirius

re: #217 jcm

That's better the drunk ASSHOLE north of me last month. Drunk on his ass, has his six year old get his .45. Pulls the mag, then to check the chamber pulls the trigger, while it was pointed at his six years head. Chamber was not empty.

At least in wedding case, the correct ASSHOLE caught the round.

re: #230 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You're NOT kidding, ... ARE you?!

/castration with a ...! *slaps hand over mouth*

Don't forget this one:

Criminal Charges in Death of Boy Who Shot Himself at Gun Show

A police chief and a Massachusetts gun club have been indicted for involuntary manslaughter in the death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself with a Uzi at an October gun expo in Massachusetts.

re: #210 Occasional Reader

Ohferpete'ssake... and here I was getting to like Steele.

Are there any real, reasonable conservatives left in politics?

Ohio's own J. Kenneth Blackwell is in the running for the RNC Chair post as well. He's a very doctrinaire 2nd Amendment advocate (has in the past said "it's not about hunting", and opposed "assault weapon bans"), which was why the Dems swallowed their pride and ran Ted Strickland (a semi-moderate Dem who at least respects the Amendment) against Blackwell for Governor in 2006 instead of the guy they preferred, the virulently gun-owner-hating Lee Fisher. (Who is Lt. Governor now, and who the DNC expects to succeed Strickland in 2014. Assuming, that is, that they aren't both recalled within a year over the state's financial problems, "Joe the Plumber", etc.)

Furthermore, Blackwell is both conservative and African-American. I voted for him for Governor (after voting for him as Secretary of State twice) and would love to see him as RNC head- both because of his policies, and because of all the moonbat heads that would be exploding as a side-effect.

cheers

eon

re: #230 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You're NOT kidding, ... ARE you?!

/castration with a ...! *slaps hand over mouth*

Not kidding.

The father of a 6-year-old Marysville girl who was fatally shot at her home Sunday had been drinking double shots of vodka while he cleaned his guns, according to probable-cause documents.

[snip]

Peters was at home with his wife and three children on Sunday night when he sent Stormy upstairs to fetch a Colt Double Eagle .45-caliber handgun from his nightstand. Snohomish County sheriff's investigators said Peters told them he took out the magazine, pulled the trigger and the gun went off

Correction to the press account.
The gun DID NOT GO OFF, guns do not JUST GO OFF!
A drunk flaming asshole disregarded every rule of gun safety.
The drunk flaming asshole PULLED THE GODDAMN TRIGGER WHILE THE GUN WAS POINTED AT HIS DAUGHTERS HEAD!

*SPIT*

re: #207 MandyManners

re: #210 Occasional Reader

There seems to be someone named Ken Blackwell. Who's he? I didn't know, either. But here's what he's accused of writing...

Ken Blackwell

Here's Ken Blackwell on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms:

Growing up in the Blackwell household in the central city neighborhoods of Cincinnati informed my public policy work as mayor of the Queen City and as an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Families like mine — low income, civically engaged, and responsible — expected access to firearms for safety. Then, as now, criminals were not inclined to break into a house where the owner was armed.

Things were tougher in the South where the Deacons of Defense, most of whom were veterans like my father, chased away KKK riders and thugs. These groups of armed men patrolled their neighborhoods to keep them safe at night. Whether it’s an individual or a family who has to fight against random criminals or organized threats, our lives are evidence that Americans, particularly women and minorities in today’s urban areas, need our Second Amendment rights.

From another column by Blackwell:

From their beginnings, gun control measures have worked to create legal disparities, granting unequal rights to members of various socioeconomic groups.

In fact, restrictive gun laws have long been employed to the benefit of a select elite while circumscribing the liberty of populations less popular or less powerful.

Gun control measures, from the slave gun bans of the 1700s South to the Brady Bill regulations of the 1990s have unfairly targeted black Americans and have worked to curtail a disproportionate number of their constitutional rights. Access to firearms was understood by our founders and many early American jurists as an essential aspect of full US citizenship, and it was for this reason that the Black Codes established after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment -- which constitutionally abolished slavery -- prevented black freemen from owning guns...

Examining both our nation’s constitution and the history of gun rights in America, the right to keep and bear arms has been at the forefront of our nation’s march to liberty and equality. The Second Amendment, which empowers Americans to embrace all of the freedoms and responsibilities their citizenship entails, has been the catalyst of tremendous social progress.

From another of Blackwell's columns:

What kind of “right” do you have, when the government can completely rob you of 100% of the exercise of that right, anytime they decide they have a good reason?

That’s like saying you have the right to worship as you choose, but the government has the power to ban attending church. Or that you have the right to free speech, but that government has the power to stop you from speaking about any subject it wants. Or that you have the right against unreasonable searches and seizures, but that anything the government wants to search at your house is automatically reasonable.

A right that the government can completely take away at any time is no right at all.
So to say that the Second Amendment means you can own guns, but that the city where you live can ban all gun ownership, then you have no Second Amendment rights at all.

I'm not a single issue kind of guy. But I realize that all our rights arise out of the exercise of certain, important rights.

And don't try to take those fundamental (there, I said it) rights away from the citizens and expect to get my vote.

Damn, now I want to watch Citizen X when I get home. That was a really good movie.

re: #244 LGoPs

How 'bout microbe puns...come on...B. Sirius

Coli participate?

re: #223 buzzsawmonkey

Oh, come on; the Second Amendment clearly says, "A healthy outdoorsy citizenry being an asset to a free state, the right of the people to skeet shoot, to hunt despite being denigrated as bloodthirsty throwbacks, and to target-shoot at properly regulated ranges shall not be infringed."

Doesn't it?

Don't forget the right to crawl around on your belly with a shotgun in order to hunt deer.

/John Kerry, war hero

re: #236 buzzsawmonkey

To ensure government bailouts of financially troubled newspapers. Everybody knows that.

PIMF
Second

And you owe me a keyboard!

re: #220 loppyd

I know...they picked him up in his old hood.

I work on a Manchester Police board and I know there are many relieved people here in the city. That asshole was a real menus here in the city with other shootings and robbery's. I know of another the was not brought up in the trial where thank God no one got shot even thou he unloaded his gun into a crowd and missed everyone he was shooting at.

re: #242 CapeCoddah

Loppy, are you sure Mitt tried to bring it back? Last I remember it was 11 years ago after the Jeffrey Curley murder, we had the votes until the last minute when one senator switched unexpectedly.

Romney files death penalty bill

Governor Mitt Romney yesterday filed a long-awaited bill to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts for deadly acts of terrorism, killing sprees, murders involving torture, and the killing of law enforcement authorities.

The bill, which Romney called ''a model for the nation" and the ''gold standard" for capital punishment legislation, draws entirely from the findings of a special commission that set out 10 recommendations last year. That panel sought to design a virtually ''foolproof" death penalty law by relying on verifiable science and tougher legal safeguards.

re: #253 BBev

I work on a Manchester Police board and I know there are many relieved people here in the city. That asshole was a real menus here in the city with other shootings and robbery's. I know of another the was not brought up in the trial where thank God no one got shot even thou he unloaded his gun into a crowd and missed everyone he was shooting at.

Is it true that this very same police officer actually assisted in saving this sumbag's life at one time?

re: #239 Sunlight

It may keep the Mumbai crazies away. After Flt 93 (the PA flight?), I think Americans know not to sit quietly the way we were told to do in past hijackings or hostage situations. Re the assault weapons, what they could do is require certain training and licensing to have one. I'd rather my neighbors be trained up anyway if they want one. The "neighborhood watch" is such a fabulous concept. The police are involved with each one and the training, roles and responsibilities, licensing, etc. could be done through them. (So I wouldn't count out Steele on that factor.)

Why do we need a license to own a firearm? It's not a privilege. It's a right.

re: #216 bulwrk

I'll bet you did that just for the halibut

He never seems to flounder.

Perch'd as he is there, up-thread...

re: #245 loppyd

Yeah, that one too, I still cannot figure out why the people who were charged were charged. Should have been the father, if anyone, for sheer stupidity. WHO puts that kind of firepower into an 8 year olds hands? An ER doc, to boot?

re: #243 buzzsawmonkey

I bet you're clinging bitterly to some projectile-flinging device, too.

Oh, you know it.

re: #257 LGoPs

Perch'd as he is there, up-thread...

Some folks just flounder around for puns.

re: #247 jcm

Peters told them he took out the magazine, pulled the trigger and the gun went off

He pulled the trigger, and the gun "went off"! What are the odds?

/
//feel ill