Happy Turkey Day!
What with the lateness of the hour (and the fact that nobody's going to read much of anything tomorrow), I am hereby officially punting on writing today's column. We'll be relaxing for the rest of the week, in fact, as we celebrate the great American feast of Thanksgiving as well as all the other tangential holiday festivities (leftovers, the Macy's parade, watching the Lions lose a football game, etc.).
I heartily wish you and yours the happiest of Turkey Days, and have one piece of advice for liberal travelers back to the old homestead: if you have one of those "drunk uncle" types at the table who blathers on in fluent politically-incorrectese, this year he might actually be worth listening to. How else are we to understand the staying power of Donald Trump, after all? Remember (a scary thought) -- there are a lot of guys and gals out there just like him, and they all might just nominate Trump for president this time around.
With that cheerful thought, I once again wish all and sundry a very happy Thanksgiving! See you all back here Monday, when regular columns will resume.
-- Chris Weigant
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Gobble Gobble... :D
If ya'all catch ONE movie this holiday weekend??
FREE BIRDS
It will blow your mind... :D
Michale
I'll be reading stuff tomorrow.
:-)
Apparently, so will I.. :D
Michale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
A little Thanksgiving cheer.. :D
Michale
Russia Cuts All Military Ties With Turkey
http://sputniknews.com/military/20151126/1030815285/russia-turkey-military-ties.html
Looks like things are escalating... :^(
I wonder if the Doomsday Clock is going to move..
Michale
Given Putin's natural belligerence and the fact that Turkey needs Russia a LOT more than Russia needs Turkey, Edrogan is stuck between a rock and a hard case...
Michale
Oh goodie...
"WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE EASY ACCESSIBILITY OF WEAPONS OF WAR ON OUR STREETS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO BUSINESS WIELDING THEM"
-President Obama
Another tragedy that Obama can politicize...
Of course, he doesn't say dick about the cop who was killed...
:^/
Michale
What I wouldn't give for Obama (or any of the Left Wingery, for that matter) to put forth a law that would prevent the crowd-based mass shootings that they always politicize..
Just one....
But they can't come up with any laws, so they just whine and bloviate and use the deaths to push an unpopular agenda...
Michale
Of course, he doesn't say dick about the cop who was killed...
Really?
"What we do know is that he killed a cop in the line of duty, along with two of the citizens that police officer was trying to protect. We know that law enforcement saved lives, as so many of them do every day, all across America," he said. "And we know that more Americans and their families had fear forced upon them."
"May God bless Officer Garrett Swasey and the Americans he tried to save -- and may He grant the rest of us the courage to do the same thing," the president added."
-President Obama
Is it political if you refuse to read the entire statement?
Of course, he doesn't say dick about the cop who was killed...
FALSE. Please, at the very least, read the statement before you make nonsense comments about it.
Michale, you really must stop making false statements. This is really not the place for your fabrications. Rather you should take nonsense like this to one of your other favourite sites and spare us the headache.
You really must think that you are dealing with a bunch of idiots here because that is precisely how you treat us, most of the time.
Bashi,
I'm thinking that President Obama's statement was just not good enough for Michale. Ahem.
Michale,
What I wouldn't give for Obama (or any of the Left Wingery, for that matter) to put forth a law that would prevent the crowd-based mass shootings that they always politicize..
So, are you saying that you believe there are no laws which could be passed that may help to prevent mass shootings in the US or that you know what could be done but you don't want to say?
What do you think your country should do, if anything, to address this problem?
I stand corrected..
I missed that..
Thank you for pointing that out..
In my defense, Obama usually ignores the cops or calls them "stupid" and concentrates on and lionizes the perps...
Martin, Brown, Gates, etc etc...
So, are you saying that you believe there are no laws which could be passed that may help to prevent mass shootings in the US or that you know what could be done but you don't want to say?
There are plenty of laws..
Can be passed??
Not with the 2nd Amendment in place..
What do you think your country should do, if anything, to address this problem?
It's NOT a "problem" in the statistical sense...
More people are killed by cars and drugs than by guns....
Guns are as much a "problem" as cars and drugs are...
You want to put a dent in crowd-based mass shootings??
Increase mental-health screening and monitoring and domestic surveillance...
But the Left Wingery won't do that...
Michale
I stand corrected..
I missed that..
Thank you for pointing that out..
In my defense, Obama usually ignores the cops or calls them "stupid" and concentrates on and lionizes the perps...
Martin, Brown, Gates, etc etc...
So, are you saying that you believe there are no laws which could be passed that may help to prevent mass shootings in the US or that you know what could be done but you don't want to say?
There are plenty of laws..
Can be passed??
Not with the 2nd Amendment in place..
What do you think your country should do, if anything, to address this problem?
It's NOT a "problem" in the statistical sense...
More people are killed by cars and drugs than by guns....
Guns are as much a "problem" as cars and drugs are...
You want to put a dent in crowd-based mass shootings??
Increase mental-health screening and monitoring and domestic surveillance...
But the Left Wingery won't do that...
Michale
It's NOT a "problem" in the statistical sense...
More people are killed by cars and drugs than by guns....
Guns are as much a "problem" as cars and drugs are...
And tens of THOUSANDS more people are killed by cars and drugs than are killed in crowd-based mass shootings..
Speaking statistically, CBMSs aren't even a blip...
Michale
I see.
And we have Obama saying.. "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" AGAIN... :^/
Reminds me of Jim Carrey from LIAR LIAR...
"....so what I am going to do is piss and moan like an impotent jerk, and then bend over and take it up the tailpipe!"
But hay.. I am a fair guy...
Just repeal the 2nd Amendment, gut the 4th and 5th Amendments and totally trample on the 1st Amendment..
THEN ya'all can have yer gun-free "utopia"...
Lemme know how that works out for ya'all...
Michale
Liz,
But, if you want to address a REAL problem....
Let's take black on black shootings in Chicago from Jan thru Oct..
Shot & Killed: 405
Shot & Wounded: 2323
Total Shot: 2728
Total Homicides: 457
You see, this is why I can't get all excited about Obama and Democrats getting all bent out of shape over a crowd-based mass shooting..
Because if they were REALLY interested in combating the problem, they would clean their OWN house first...
They would address the issue even if it DOESN'T help their partisan agenda...
Until such time as they want to address the TOTALITY of the issue and not just the part that serves their partisan agenda...???
They are talking to the wind as far as I am concerned..
Michale
I agree, Michale, that the real issue is gun violence in America, regardless of who is killing who.
Perhaps if this issue is approached more comprehensively, in the most general terms, then the individual parts of the problem may be better addressed.
Michale,
Using your very own logic, the Syrian refugee problem doesn't exist, statistically, when you compare the level of violence perpetrated by American citizens upon their own countrymen.
So, I hope your leaders at the state and local levels will come to their senses and start welcoming the idea of settling refugees from a war-torn part of the world that America is largely responsible for in the first place.
Hey, Michale!
Have you heard about the Afghan imprisoned by the US at Gitmo who was released and went back to the battlefield in Afghanistan?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/world/asia/once-inguantanamo-afghan-now-leads-war-against-taliban-and-isis.html?hpw&rref=world&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
Using your very own logic, the Syrian refugee problem doesn't exist, statistically, when you compare the level of violence perpetrated by American citizens upon their own countrymen.
Ahhhhh, but the threat is not the same...
Crowd-based shootings, on the average, kill 9 people.. 3 people if there is a Conceal Carry person present...
A terrorist in the midst of refugees has the potential to kill dozens, if not hundreds...
So the threat potential puts them in far different categories...
But, don't get me wrong..
I am ON YOUR SIDE when it comes to gun violence...
But the problem, as I point out is that Democrats ONLY want to examine "fixes" that don't interfere with their political agenda...
Zero Tolerance for gun crimes was a good start.. Until ACLU-type Democrats started making the scumbag gun-wielder into the victim...
You see the point??
There are DOZENS of things that can be done to curb gun violence that has NOTHING to do with guns..
But Democrats don't care about those possibilities.. GUNS are the problem and that is that... They don't care about ANY other aspect or possibility..
That makes them unworthy to listen to..
Michale
So, I hope your leaders at the state and local levels will come to their senses and start welcoming the idea of settling refugees from a war-torn part of the world that America is largely responsible for in the first place.
There is no logical or rational reason to take in Syrian refugees..
The ONLY "logical" reason to take in Syrian refugees is to mint fresh new Democrat voters...
Michale
Have you heard about the Afghan imprisoned by the US at Gitmo who was released and went back to the battlefield in Afghanistan?
I did read that...
I am suspicious...
Once a terrorist, always a terrorist...
But that's just me, I 'spose... :D
Michale
If ya'all want to REALLY "do something" about guns, here is a primer for ya'all..
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423183/rant-second-amendment-repeal
Lemme know how I can help... :D
Michale
If ya'all want to REALLY "do something" about guns, here is a primer for ya'all..
http://tinyurl.com/nruuxap
Lemme know how I can help... :D
Michale
I don't make the above comment superfluously or lightly...
Well, not much anyways.. :D
But my point is simple..
What laws ARE possible HAVE been implemented....
It's not as if this is a new issue and people are scrambling to establish law to address it...
Any law that can be put out there that doesn't violate the 2nd Amendment HAS been put out there...
The Gun Control groups are victims of their own success. They have gone as far as they can within the confines of the 2nd Amendment..
This being the case, the path forward is clear....
Either start the repeal process for the 2nd Amendment or concede that Gun Control has gone as far as it can...
Michale
Another thing to keep in mind..
Obama can issue all the anti-gun executive orders he wants...
If the LEO officials refuse to enforce them...
What is Obama going to do??
Michale
It's a good thing that local LEOs had an armored vehicle they could use to evacuate the innocent civilians and the wounded...
And Obama has issued orders for Law Enforcement agencies across the country to return these vehicles to the Federal Government..
Who knows how many lives that is going to cost..
Michale
The ONLY "logical" reason to take in Syrian refugees is to mint fresh new Democrat voters...
Are there any logical reasons to take in refugees, in general, or do you feel the same about all those seeking asylum in the United States?
Are there any logical reasons to take in refugees, in general, or do you feel the same about all those seeking asylum in the United States?
I don't have a problem with refugees in general..
But when there is ironclad proof-positive evidence that a certain group of refugees has a terrorist element, a Wolf In The Fold, if you will, then I don't see the logic in bringing them to the US..
It's not as if their lives are in any danger where they are right now.. They are already out of harm's way..
There is no reason to bring them to the US except for the reason cited above...
Michale
“This year, in Paris, has to be the year that the world finally reaches an agreement to protect the one planet that we’ve got while we still can”
-President Obama
“There is no Plan B — nothing to follow. This is not just ongoing UN discussions. Paris is final.”
-Miguel Cañete, EU’s Chief Negotiator
OK Great...
So, THAT means that, when Paris goes the way of Copenhagen, the fanatics of the Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Disruption/Next Big Gimmick religion will FINALLY shut up about it!!
Right???
Yea, when monkees fly outta my arse... :^/
Michale