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"You would, by your peculiarly perverted argument, equate that with an advance in technology which now allows the firing of bullets at a faster rate, thereby killing a large number of people, rather than the very limited damage that a single-shot …
With respect to that First Amendment freedom which you specifically wish to restrict, the amazing advance in technology does not change the end effect of the mechanism, which is simply to allow communication with a large number of people.
With …
I understand just fine Dex,
Avoid questions much?
Who wrote "Now *that*'s also funny." and what relavance does it have.
But, please, answer the 'false equivalency' question first. We all want to read your explanation. This should be good.
Now you have every state, every local jurisdiction with its own sales tax rules.
A VAT does not change state taxes, state income taxes or national income taxes. It is in addition to all that.
Your false equivalency is both obvious and laughable.
Saying it; does not make it so. But, we both know you can not refute it.
And that you laugh only shows you do not or can not understand what was written - not laughable but sad.
Another really, really ugly day in the junk corporate market. My worry is a credit crisis in this market could spread to the junk muni market if only because of guilt by association. Also, oil weakness could also impact the muni credits of some are…
They obviously attempt to transform the Second Amendment technology of a single-shot musket to equate with high powered rapid-repeating weapons of mass destruction, and their entire series of arguments fails without that premise.
Obviously that…
When VAT is implimented it usually starts low 3-5% and then gets raised from there. Gov't like that because it is easy to do.
The USA will get one in about 5-10 years.
It's fascinating to observe the mental contortions required to conclude that the framers of our Constitution clearly anticipated the development of high powered rapid-repeating weapons of mass destruction, and approved, 200 years in advance, the ide…
He addresses terrorism while satirizing General George Patton in the famous scene created by George C. Scott. Here is the Link:
Politics aside, this is terrific satire.
I'm not sure why you are calling this satire. He just used the Patton…
Sorry Dex - I edited out the lines you quote. I thought my initial point about We the people making law says it all. Sorry. Hope you're having a good day.
Apology accepted - thank you.
BTW Dex - I won't respond in insults as you would like me to do ... but please reread
Where did I do that?
Edmond's commentary re Jefferson and the right of the people to overthrow tyrannical governments. That's where the Declaration of Ind…
>> I do not demean posters.
Now *that*'s also funny.
I was quoting Conrad, and Kurtz certainly seems a Shakespearean character.
I've never demeaned you, I only pointed out your weaknesses e.g. lack of knowledge of macro economics.
Now ... Jefferson was a great writer. His 1776 Declaration of Independence led to the establishment of an independent nation for which we're thankful.
OMG! You are trying to school us!? The second amendment is in the Bill of Rights written by…
Not sure I've ever heard so much BS in a while, especially from you Dex who I think just loves to argue - and win.
Let's try to keep this discussion on a courteous level. I do not demean posters. As to loving to argue - no, I love the truth. …
At last the wheels have come off --- 'exterminate all the brutes !'
I'm OK as long as he doesn't start quoting that stupid Shakespeare stuff in support! :)
I hope he doesn't do it also.
"Yet, Shakespeare uses the threat of Turkish terrorism and …
Yea, Dex, In fact I've been talking to my husband about all this male violence. I contend that the world would be better off without men. I am starting a campaign to arm every woman in America in order to kill off the men thus saving the country fro…
I just want to point out that the terrorists are winning and will continue to win.
Bin Laden’s war against the U.S. economy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/bin-ladens-war-against-the-us-economy/2011/04/27/AFDOPjfF_blog.html
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Cover of this week's The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine
Notice it is the woman picking up the gun? Also notice in news reports that it was the wife in San Berdalino that is thought to radicalized the husband ...mmm... maybe women or…
@MSF: "Just remember, Jesus saves, but George [Baby Face] Nelson withdraws! :https://youtube.com/watch?v=akvj7IraD3s
If only everyone had a tommy gun like George Baby Face Nelson, the world would be a much safer happier place. In fact, given the red…
>> light the light and hold up the mirror so you can see who you are.
Now *that* is amusing.
It is a continuum and some are stupidly arguing absolutes. Of course there will be knives, duh. No one is handwaving about ending aggression. The po…
In reality, they aren't winning. Not by any stretch of the imagination, or any measurement. Your rhetoric is one of fear and loathing, one we have become all too familiar with recently. And actually, THAT is something we need to also confront and …
As I said earlier to you...You cannot be serious. The terrorists "hate us for our freedoms" so we fight them by casting the tenets of our Constitution in the trash can? I was hoping that the Patriot Act would have been finally recognized as a surren…
Yes. Good definition of a strawman argument.
So what does your suggestion of an abridgement and restriction on communication along with additional suspensions of civil liberties have to do with regulation of assault weapons?
"The people using the…
What does abridgement and restrictions on communication and additional suspension of civil liberties have to do with regulation of assault weapons?
Sounds like a strawman.
Not to me.
A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fal…
That is why we need limitations on free speech and restrictions on the means of communication of such improper speech e.g. social media. That is why we also need suspension of some civil liberties for those people. You can not do one without the ot…
Hi little5bee , "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." Stop the sale of these weapons now and every year after there will be fewer of these mass murder tools available. Allow the sale of mass murder weapons as they are today and …
We've come a long way from the Fund Alarm days. Please - climate change is a serious threat, the Second Amendment was never intended to allow normal persons to have assault weapons, and sensible gun control is essential. These are not controversia…
@heezsafe, Last I heard James Madison was the author of the Second Amendment and he is considered a founding father. Nor did he intend for the amendment to apply to assault rifles and hand guns for every lone gunman:
Supreme Court ruled on this aw…
@Dex, It's funny how when the Supreme court rules in favor of an issue people support they see the issue as settled and in accordance with the visions of the Founding Fathers. But when the Supreme Court rules in favor of an issue people don't suppor…
Most of the founders did sign a little document which states, among other things: "...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Governmen…
@heezsafe, Last I heard James Madison was the author of the Second Amendment and he is considered a founding father. Nor did he intend for the amendment to apply to assault rifles and hand guns for every lone gunman:
Supreme Court ruled on this awh…
