Think its a little odd that the antis are noting that society has gone in such a way that nobody, even law abiding upstanding citizens can be trusted with a gun…but Governments have gone such a way that we never need to fear tyrannical governments like The Third Reich, The USSR, China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, the British Raj, The Sudanese Genocide, among many others.
I mean if society is going to pot, then why isn’t the rulers? If we can say “Never again will government slaughter of citizens occur on US Soil!” then why can’t we just say “Never Again” to mass shootings in the same glib fashion?
Of course the real answer lives in between. People are good, and governments as a whole don’t have desire for mass graves or sprawling prison camps. But bad people, and leaders happen from time-to-time, and either monster is afraid of armed resistance.
Three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton says she coped with depression and a troubled marriage by turning to a life of prostitution.
In a series of posts to her Twitter account, Favor Hamilton acknowledged working as an escort following a report Thursday on The Smoking Gun website about her double life.
“I do not expect people to understand,” Favor Hamilton tweeted. “But the reasons for doing this made sense to me at the time and were very much related to depression.”
The Smoking Gun said the 44-year-old athlete has been working for the last year for a Las Vegas escort service that booked her for dates there, as well as in Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago. The website said she charged $600 an hour for her services.
They’re still talking about the Maine Zumba Prostitute as well.
Seems strange that these woman could sleep with all these men, and its totally fine…but when they negotiate a price suddenly we should be shocked an horrified?
A lawyer and a senior citizen are sitting next to each other on a long flight.
The lawyer is thinking that seniors are so dumb that he could get one over on
them easily.
So, the lawyer asks if the senior would like to play a fun game.
The senior is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and
tries to catch a few winks.
The lawyer persists, saying that the game is a lot of fun… “I ask you a
question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me only $5.00. Then you ask
me one, and if I don’t know the answer, I will pay you $500.00,” he says.
This catches the senior’s attention and, to keep the lawyer quiet, he agrees to
play the game.
The lawyer asks the first question. “What’s the distance from the Earth to the
Moon?”
The senior doesn’t say a word, but reaches into his pocket, pulls out a
five-dollar bill, and hands it to the lawyer.
Now, it’s the senior’s turn. He asks the lawyer, “What goes up a hill with three
legs, and comes down with four?”
The lawyer uses his laptop to search all references he can find on the Net.
He sends E-mails to all the smart friends he knows; all to no avail. After an
hour of searching, he finally gives up.
He wakes the senior and hands him $500.00. The senior pockets the $500.00 and
goes right back to sleep.
The lawyer is going nuts not knowing the answer. He wakes the senior up and
asks, “Well, so what goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?”
The senior reaches into his pocket, hands the lawyer $5.00, and goes back to
sleep.
Emanuel said the group, many of whom recently joined the nationwide Mayors Against Illegal Guns in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre, was united in demanding new legislation banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and calling for mandatory background checks on all gun purchases.
Emanuel wants clip counts capped at 10, and background checks to prevent what he called “straw purchases not from gun shops, but from the trunks of cars.”
There’s plenty of rebuttals against so-called “Assault Weapons” legislation, both here and everywhere else. I’ll hold my water for now on that one. Not only is “Assault Weapon” a slanderous made-up term, but it has become increasingly nebulous since the repeal of the ’94 ban, when it was a legally binding term. Right now “Assault Weapon” means “Any gun that we don’t like”, so I’ll wait for them to define their terms…either way it’ll be easy to rebut.
Of course we have “clip counts”…LOL, you mean when I bring my SKS to the range I can’t bring any more than 10 clips? But seriously, we’ve had 10-round magazine bans before. It didn’t work, and even if you remove grandfathered magazines, eliminating the massive stockpile we now have, we still need to note the reality that Virginia Tech was perpetrated with 10-round magazines, as were the mass shootings in Canada. Also while the facts aren’t out yet, it sounds like much of the shooting in Aurora was done with an 8-shot shotgun, but I could be wrong on that.
Also magazine capacity arguments are demanding trump-status to spree shooters, while ignoring the majority of all “Gun Death” in America, which is gang-on-gang violence, and is generally one or two individuals shot. I suspect some nice racist sensibilities are in this one, given that the people who are calling for crazy gun bans live in the suburbs, and generally can avoid the gangs and drug trade if they so wish…but spree shooters in “Gun Free Zones”, well those attacks effect rich white people!!
And of course the one that actually has the best chance of being fielded, private sales. Rahm makes my argument with his silly statement: “straw purchases not from gun shops, but from the trunks of cars.” Rahm of course isn’t saying that two lawful citizens selling a gun at the local gun club, or over a kitchen table is the big problem, he’s talking about the gangs in Chicago. Do they buy guns out of car trunks? Probably. They also sell drugs, and prostitutes. And they use the guns to murder.
Do you think gangs are LESS likely to illegally sell guns to fellow criminals here in Massachusetts where there is an extra penalty tacked on?
Further this system can be shut down at any time, and remember, your local gun shop has their FFL at the pleasure of the government.
Maybe background checks won’t be a big deal to you now…but what if your local shop or shops get their permits pulled for whatever reason the ATF decides?
I think we have the advantage in anything they try to bring to the table, we just need to be ready for it.
So its Thursday, and I happen to be home! So time for another Squirrel Report!
I think you all know, we’ll be talking about guns and the political sphere right now. We don’t want to talk about the cowardly act in Connecticut tonight because the facts still aren’t really out, and we all feel the same way about the event.
What we do want to talk about is the fallout. Proposed gun bans, protests, discussions, and what people are buying in retaliation.
Call in to talk about what you bought, but also talk about the conversations you’ve had about guns and the Second Amendment. Seems everybody is talking about this, which means people who don’t normally talk about guns are now talking about them. You hearing some people turn? You hearing some outrageous anti-rights claims? You changing some minds? Do you sell guns or equipment?
Call in with your stories at 9pm EST, for THE SQUIRREL REPORT!
The TSA’s bizarre new policy where it orders travelers who have already passed security to “freeze” on command has been caught on camera, with the clip illustrating once more how the federal agency has implemented a series of ludicrous policies that seemingly have no other purpose than to act as an obedience test for the traveling public.
I’m not surprised because this is what we’ve been taught in public schools. Don’t be an individual, follow the group! Also the person in authority is always right, and shouldn’t be questioned.
I think I told the story before, but as a child I was sent to woman who ran a small babysitting business outside my school for about an hour every morning when my parents had to go to work. She wasn’t a good person. She didn’t commit any serious abuse, but she was constantly yelling and swearing at us. Her grandson was in the group, and he was a bully, and she looked the other way when he decided to hurt the others for fun. Overall it was a miserable time for me from about age 6-8.
When my folks decided I was old enough to look after myself and to lock up the house and walk to school when it was time, I thanked them profusely, not for the trust and responsibility, but salvation from that bitch and her ugly kids.
My Mom was SHOCKED! She asked why I felt that way, I told her. She asked why I had never told her about any of this before. My answer was “She was a grown-up, and you sent me to stay with her. I didn’t want to be bad.”
That event was one of the shaping moments of my life. I learned that adults can be bad, and adults in authority don’t always deserve it.
It seems so many others haven’t learned that lesson, like I did. But hey, it was practically in the drinking water. Just read this article the other day:
Dungeons & Dragons was a series about six kids who were transported to a dimension filled with wizards and fire-snorting reptiles and cryptic clues and an extremely-evil despot named Venger….The kids were all heroic — all but a semi-heroic member of their troupe named Eric. Eric was a whiner, a complainer, a guy who didn’t like to go along with whatever the others wanted to do. Usually, he would grudgingly agree to participate, and it would always turn out well, and Eric would be glad he joined in. He was the one thing I really didn’t like about the show.
So why, you may wonder, did I leave him in there? Answer: I had to.
As you may know, there are those out there who attempt to influence the content of childrens’ television. We call them “parents groups,” although many are not comprised of parents, or at least not of folks whose primary interest is as parents. Study them and you’ll find a wide array of agendum at work…and I suspect that, in some cases, their stated goals are far from their real goals.
Nevertheless, they all seek to make kidvid more enriching and redeeming, at least by their definitions, and at the time, they had enough clout to cause the networks to yield. Consultants were brought in and we, the folks who were writing cartoons, were ordered to include certain “pro-social” morals in our shows. At the time, the dominant “pro-social” moral was as follows: The group is always right…the complainer is always wrong.
This was the message of way too many eighties’ cartoon shows. If all your friends want to go get pizza and you want a burger, you should bow to the will of the majority and go get pizza with them. There was even a show for one season on CBS called The Get-Along Gang, which was dedicated unabashedly to this principle. Each week, whichever member of the gang didn’t get along with the gang learned the error of his or her ways.
We were forced to insert this “lesson” in D & D, which is why Eric was always saying, “I don’t want to do that” and paying for his social recalcitrance. I thought it was forced and repetitive, but I especially objected to the lesson. I don’t believe you should always go along with the group. What about thinking for yourself? What about developing your own personality and viewpoint? What about doing things because you decide they’re the right thing to do, not because the majority ruled and you got outvoted?
We weren’t allowed to teach any of that. We had to teach kids to join gangs. And then to do whatever the rest of the gang wanted to do.
What a stupid thing to teach children.
Not so stupid when you want them to obey without question, an idiot with a badge, who offers no security at the expense of our liberty, and often out personal property. Do you think the TSA would have survived its first year if Americans had been taught to respectfully question authority?
A freight train slammed into a parade float carrying wounded veterans on Thursday, killing four people and injuring 17 others as the float tried to get through a West Texas railroad crossing on its way to an honorary banquet, authorities said.
The train was sounding its horn and people were jumping off the decorated flatbed truck before the collision around 4:40 p.m. in Midland, according to witnesses and Union Pacific spokesman Tom Lange. A preliminary investigation indicates the crossing gate and lights were working, Lange said, though he didn’t know if the train crew saw the float approaching.
Again, they love trains (tho the jury is out how they actually feel about war vets), so this little smudge can be overlooked! It only makes sense!
