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The NRA Updates “Yosemite Sam”
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“Yosemite Sam” USED to be funny,
silly-ly flashing his moods irate, -
- and frustrated by an insouciant “Bugs Bunny”
who put him into an impotent state.
But NOW:
The N R A is the cartoonish {character} char’cter:
Their “Yosemite Sam” is THE main detractor
from “common sense’s” being a factor
in reducing the threat of mayhem by guns.
O, that we had some effective “Bugs Buns”.
. . . .
http://www.boorp.com/sfondi_gratis_desktop_pc/sfondi_gratis/sfondi_fumetti_cartoni_animati/bugs_bunny_sam_yosemite.jpg
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God help me, I'm about to agree with Kend. Actually, you do make a good point. The only people who will be affected by this are people who already neither have a driver's license or an ID card. You cannot open a bank account, sign a rental agreement, or even apply for food stamps without proper identification. You even need an ID to get arrested. If you don't have one, they'll figure out who you are in short time. The only people this might affect are kids turning 18 for the first time, or the homeless. Everyone else should have some kind of an ID. Amongst those, I imagine, only a small percentage will actually bother to vote anyway.
Nevertheless, it is still a nasty dirty trick for the GOP legislators to try and pull. We can only hope that - like with most of their dirty tricks - it backfires right in their faces and brings far more truly pissed off people to the poles. If that happens, it was worth it!
I asked (via Facebook) both my representative (Mike Coffman) and the nearest House Democrat (Diana DeGette) to call for an ethics investigation of McCarthy.
1867 (Das Kapital) minus 1776 (The Wealth of Nations) equals 91. Capitalism is so bad it took only 91 years for someone to get as sick of it as Karl Marx did.
I've had my disagreement with Thom on judicial review, but we can agree on this (though for different reasons).
U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 4: "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."
There are no conditions on this power. Therefore, there is absolutely no basis for the Supreme Court to void any Congressional regulation of states' election laws.
And as a guest on some show said, SCOTUS struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act without being shown that anyone was harmed by it. How could a state have standing to be a plaintiff against that section? The only "harm" is that it can't discriminate against voters, and that's not a right, or even something beneficial to the state.
Bernie 2016"
I checked and there is a lot of different ID's you can get to vote in Alabama and they have years to get them. I must be missing something. We have to do the same up here in Canada to vote. It's no big deal.
"Kend, what you're observing is the first uncorrupted and genuinely Christian pope in a long time. There's nothing wrong with being the world's largest nonprofit corporation - if it truly stays that way and remains true to its mission. You are too greedy."
i am too greedy. All the gold and their followers are starving. I would give up everything before my family went without food. But I hope you are right about this pope. I think the corruption is too deep and goes back way too far.
Nice ce arguing again with you though.
Isn't Alabama one of the states covered by the provision of the Voting Rights Act that was struck down? How can this voter ID stuff not have been considered evidence of its still being needed?
Kend, Dr. Econ, look at the "The Pope Says Greed is not Good" post, I have replies to youse there. I been away for a while.
The Pope would never admit he wants socialism but I think there's little doubt that the socialiism of the monastery or truly Christian community is what he would most like - and I think he'd, no doubt, like a government with more economic democracy or a democratic socialism, socialism that doesn't dispense with democracy or a Western European, not Eastern European, socialism.
Greed drives an economy but not one that's good for everyone.
As for Adam Smith "knowing that regulations rarely work", why do some people think that current American pop culture is universal? What the main issues of Smith's time were were the doing away with feudalism by capitalist, bourgeois revolutions which were, in fact, a great liberation for human society - although there's no reason to stay stuck in that period and resist progress toward socialism.
I don't know but I doubt Adam Smith thought about government regulation in any way similar to how an American amateur economist of 2015 would. "Socialism", as we think of the term, wasn't to even be conceived of for another two hundred years. The only socialist movements back then were of the Christian churches.
Kend, what you're observing is the first uncorrupted and genuinely Christian pope in a long time. There's nothing wrong with being the world's largest nonprofit corporation - if it truly stays that way and remains true to its mission.
You are too greedy.
I'm surprised that Repugnicans haven't tried to cancel elections because "the election process is too expensive". But, I'll bet my last dollar they're thinking about it.
Is anyone besides me ENRAGED over this? As true Americans, how can a majority of us allow these modern-day-acting-plantation-owners to continue this kind of abuse?! This is so UN-American, I personally can't stomach the thought of these counties in Alabama, and other counties in Red States being rewarded for this kind of behavior. Surely there are enouogh decent people left in America to stand up and not only say, "Enough!"... but DO something about this.
It figures. What else can we expect from a make-believe democracy? They keep finding more ways to make it difficult to vote for those least likely to vote Republican.
I agree with Marc. The only way to fight back is to be forewarned and forearmed. The more these fascists want to suppress the vote, the more we should be aware of how important our votes actually are. Were they not, the fascists wouldn't be trying so hard to suppress them. Their efforts should make us ALL more determined than ever to vote.
Suppressing the black voice and committing election fraud is nothing new to the GOP. The appropriate response would be fighting fire with fire and making sure the electorate is prepared well in advance for all of these tactics. We have no excuse not to be. We have ample warning. It will not be easy to win the next election; but, winning it is an imperative. Like Bernie Sanders said, 'The Republicans didn't win the last election, the Democrats lost it.' If we let them get away with this nonsense we really have no one to blame but ourselves.
@mjolnir, I like how Sorensen tells us that just one Rare Earth mine proposed for the USA, would produce enough Thorium, 5000 tonnes each year, as a waste product, to supply the entire World's energy supply, burnt in a LFTR. And they are willing to give that away. And ironically those Rare Earth mines supply essential minerals for Wind & Solar energy, in order for them to supply a tiny fraction of World Energy, currently <1%.
Now you can understand now how the Fossil Fuel Barons and their Bankster Overseers have a seething hatred of Nuclear Power. Interesting, in spite of the incredible promise of LFTR and other MSRs (molten-salt reactors), the US gov't gives precisely zip in funding for their development. Yet it will spend > $50B per year funding nutty scams like Wind & Solar, Hydrogen, Ethanol and Carbon Capture and $trillions on Oil Wars that won't do zip to reduce our dependence on terrorist Oil & Gas or alleviate Climate Change emissions. Just another example of runaway Crony Capitalism.
Now that is a genuine Ad Hominem. So now you can honestly add a new term to your vocabulary.
Once again, offensive, troll. I'm through with this conversation.
I already dealt with your Standford Jacobson schlock studies in links above. BTW Jacobson is not qualified to do energy analysis, he is a civil engineer.
Windy you should learn what Ad Hominem means before you use the word falsely. And it's when you've lost an argument because you really have no rational points to make, so you are sooky and try to get the comment censored - a really chicken shit thing to do.
In fact by all standards of fairness my comment stands. People who claim to be green, and yet could care less about 4000X more dangerous coal power, instead incessantly attack the most safe energy supply on the planet are indeed despicable fanatics. They are putting our entire planet in peril of a global warming and/or energy shortage catastrophe as well as being completely indifferent to the 7 million people killed every year by fossil fuel & biomass burning waste.
Have the 100 or so members of the progressive caucus all sign a request for an ethnics investigation. (We've just got to get organized!)
Shouldn't Rep. Darrell Issa be prosecuted for the Benghazi investigation as well as Reps. Kevin McCarthy and Harold "Trey" Gowdy?
To caller Paul's point, the heat created by burning fossil fuels is ultimately radiated by the Earth as a whole. If we weren't infusing the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, creating heat by itself wouldn't be a problem, because the equilibrium temperature of the Earth would be the same.
Many scientific and technical analyses support a transition to solar, wind, and renewables. For instance, http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/USStatesWWS.pdf
May I add, Instant-RunOff, that ad hominem weakens your argument and is a big turn-off. I have flagged as offensive the post in which you wrote, "So nuclear is merely 4000X safer than our current coal enery supply. Not safe enough for nutball greenies though. Despicable fanatics is what they are."
So sedition it is. Why in hell does no one do anything? With a country full of wimps it is no wonder the mess America is in. Americans had better unite behind Senator Sanders or welcome a fascist state. And as one candidate has said, this is how Hitler got his start. Meaning, as he stated, if no one speaks out against what is going on it will continue to get worse. If Americans don't stand up......violent protests or whatever it takes we must take our country back. Senator Sanders would like to do it the peaceful way but what if that does not work? We all want peace but not to the point of giving everything up. And that is exactly what is going on. Thank you Thom, you spell it out daily. Some are listening, but enough?
A caller was mistaken that no one had invented free trade when John McCain was in his prime. FDR made free trade one of his tenets for rebuilding the post-war world.