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[QUOTE=Tendrin;3470716]For WBE's 2018 update of Claudia Tenney:
[url]https://thinkprogress.org/claudia-tenney-parkland-shooting-democrats-6f721d645299/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a8e5fe604d3015f11ed176f&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter[/url]
That's what scares her most? /Not/ the children coming home from school in a body bag? Go screw yourself, lady.[/QUOTE]
I guess in some people's minds any dead child that doesn't grow up to vote Democrat is a good dead child.
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Dunno if this has been reported in the thread earlier. Might've missed it if so!
[QUOTE]A New York congressman this week proposed a bill to allow the federal government to revoke the citizenship of naturalized U.S. citizens within ten years if they are involved in gang activity.
The bill, “Protecting our Communities from Gang Violence Act of 2018,” would strip citizenship from people affiliated with a criminal gang either ten years before or within ten years of becoming a U.S. citizen, the Washington Examiner reported. The proposal would bar immigrants who do not “exhibit good moral character” because of gang membership, association, affiliation, or provision of material support from becoming citizens. According to the proposal, “good moral character” is based on “relevant information or evidence, including classified, law enforcement sensitive, or national security information and shall be binding upon any court regardless of the applicable standard of review.’’[/QUOTE]
Given the sheer racism involved in 'gang ties' allegations quite often, I'm sure that this plan could NEVER be used in racist ways, let alone inaccurately! :P
[url]https://thinkprogress.org/bill-citizenship-revocation-gang-e68035b3596e/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a8e66ee04d301710671d346&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter[/url]
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[QUOTE=Tendrin;3470762]Dunno if this has been reported in the thread earlier. Might've missed it if so![/QUOTE]
This sort of reminds me, Carmen Julin Cruz was a guest on [B][I]Democracy Now![/I][/B] earlier on this week(well, I heard it earlier this week). Most of the discussion revolved around where things are now.
If it has been mentioned, I didn't notice it.
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[QUOTE=InformationGeek;3470253]CNN is hosting a Town Hall with Marco Rubio and my god, they are eating him alive. I'll be surprised if there's anything left of the guy by the time it is over. Looks like Senator Bill Nelson is gonna leave him wrecked. [URL="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/966494905097998336"]Here's a fun play by play on Twitter, with video clips![/URL]
Two highlights in particular:
Also during this time, he refused to stop taking money from the NRA. Oooof, that's gonna hurt in the future hopefully.
WBE, you got plenty of stuff to work with for Rubio when his profile is due.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I caught that part with him being pressed into refusing NRA money. He really tap danced around that one and it didn't work and the booing got pretty loud during his appearance.
I briefly switched to Hannity on Fox during a commerical break and he had a pathetic little in studio thing with a small audience....and he was bringing up the Uranium thing, like that really matters.
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On this date in [URL="http://republicinsanity.tumblr.com/post/111893114733/kevin-lundberg"]2015[/URL], [URL="http://republicinsanity.tumblr.com/post/139804389443/kevin-lundberg-2016-update"]2016[/URL], as well as [URL="https://republicinsanity.tumblr.com/post/157565086348/kevin-lundberg-2017-update"]2017[/URL], “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Colorado State Senator [SIZE=4]Kevin Lundberg[/SIZE], a Colorado State Senator and former candidate for U.S. Congress who has defended archaic laws on the books in Colorado that criminalize adultery, goes to the hilt to fight against a proposed law to defend domestic abusers' continued right to own firearms (as if they wouldn't use them against their significant others as "good guys with guns"), and framed the Aurora movie theatre mass shooting as a "[I]right to life[/I]" issue, rather than a gun issue. Of course, he comes off as an absolute hypocrite on that issue (and many others), because for being so proud of being "pro-life", Lundberg is also opposed to public schools having mandatory vaccinations for students, and supports the death penalty. Lundberg's record on voting rights is downright appalling, as he not only supports totally unnecessary strict Voter ID laws, he has argued against creating laws to prevent "caging" schemes where perpetrators can make robo-calls or send out fliers to voters with fraudulent information that gives out false voting dates or polling places to misinform voters from the opposing party to help steal an election by keeping the other side at home. His rhetoric has also had him weigh in on birth control by saying that IUDs "[I]stop a small child from implanting[/I]", and an insistence that Democrats are coming any day now to pry his guns from his "[I]cold dead hands[/I]". Lundberg has voiced his support for Kentucky clerk Kim Davis refusing to do her job and sign same sex marriage certificates, as well as threw fuel on the fire as relates to Planned Parenthood, launching a series of witch hunt investigations to prove that the Center for Medical Progress’ videos were true, pro-life extremists were polarized enough against the organization that defunding it wasn't simply enough for some. Even after a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs was shot up by a pro-life terrorist all of the investigations that debunked the practices that the video purported to have uncovered, and the fact that a judge had indicted the two heads of the Center for Medical Progress for their deceitful actions... Lundberg continued to waste taxpayer dollars to launch investigations into Planned Parenthood. Y'know, until a result is reached that agrees with his version of reality about what's going on.
Kevin Lundberg is facing term limits in Colorado in 2018. As we predicted, he’s seeking other statewide office, specifically, [URL="https://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/31/kevin-lundberg-colorado-treasurer-primary/"]he wants to be Colorado State Treasurer[/URL]. There are three other Republicans vying for that position in the primary, so it’s hardly a cake walk he has ahead of him. What Lundberg probably should have taken more care not to do in order to win, though? He should have avoided [URL="http://www.westword.com/news/colorado-senator-kevin-lundberg-on-photo-with-neo-nazi-9560299"]taking photos with noted Neo-Nazis at the state capitol[/URL], like he did in October of 2017. And before you ask how Kevin Lundberg could have known the man was a Neo-Nazi, you should save it, because he was literally wearing a Daily Stormer T-shirt at the time, and that’s a pretty big tip-off. We’re hoping by the time 2019 rolls around, we can retire his profile.
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[QUOTE=numberthirty;3470667]One other thing...
President or not... Once Trump went into that "If A Teacher Had Been Armed..." noise, how did that not end in him being heckled?
I can see "Respect For The Office", but that was just "Cole, you stupid."[/QUOTE]
Heckling? In the White House? Wasn't going to happen, despite the incredibly asinine thing Trump said. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if the crowd had been warned by the Secret Service before the meeting to be civil and respect the office or else. Meanwhile....
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[URL="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeffrey-toobin-donald-trump-arming-teachers_us_5a8e2612e4b0617d4639cd00"]CNN Analyst Has A Reality Check For Trump Over ‘Insane’ Plan To Arm Teachers[/URL]
“Does anybody remember their teachers?”
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[URL="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/florida-shooting-town-hall_us_5a8e44dfe4b0617d4639dce5"]Florida Shooting Survivors Face Down The NRA And Politicians, Vow To Keep Fighting[/URL]
“Our kids have started a revolution,” one teacher says at emotional town hall. Can you imagine Emma Gonzalez at that White House meeting? She would've eaten Trump alive!
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[URL="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/texas-gun-protest-suspension_us_5a8dd638e4b077f5bfea8c70"]Texas District Says Students Protesting Gun Violence Will Get Suspended[/URL]
“A disruption of the school will not be tolerated,” says the head of the Needville Independent School District. Pathetic, utter freaking pathetic!
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[URL="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scott-israel-florida-sheriff-nra-dana-loesch-cnn_us_5a8e50f4e4b0617d4639e009"]Florida Sheriff Rebukes NRA Spokeswoman Who Claims She’s ‘Fighting’ For Shooting Survivors[/URL]
At a CNN-hosted town hall on Wednesday, NRA’s Dana Loesch was roundly criticized by gun violence survivors and others for her remarks on gun control.
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[URL="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-daily-news-donald-trump-nra-gag_us_5a8e6feae4b0161d43188f26"]New York Daily News Reveals Who Really Silences Trump[/URL]
The tabloid ripped Trump for failing to mention “a word about the 300 million guns flooding our streets.”
[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWmgOkgV4AArIrU.jpg[/IMG]
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A brief word about the guns flooding our streets. The Chicago Police Dept reported yesterday that they [URL="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/02/21/chicago-police-seize-1000th-illegal-gun-so-far-this-year/"]seized 1,000 illegal guns so far this year.[/URL] And that's probably just the tip of the iceberg. Who knows how many are out there?
When I was watching the Town Hall last night on CNN and there many gun manufacturers in the state of Florida. [URL="https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2016/08/20/florida-small-gun-manufacturers-a-growing-force/89001454/"]It's only second to Texas[/URL] and it has quadrupled since 2009. A lot of AR-15s are manufactured right in Florida like [URL="https://www.spikestactical.com/"]Spikes Tactical,[/URL] who claim to make the finest AR's on the planet, American Outdoors (formerly Smith & Wesson). Taking these guns out of circulation would be a huge task.
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[QUOTE=Iron Maiden;3470906]A brief word about the guns flooding our streets. The Chicago Police Dept reported yesterday that they [URL="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/02/21/chicago-police-seize-1000th-illegal-gun-so-far-this-year/"]seized 1,000 illegal guns so far this year.[/URL] And that's probably just the tip of the iceberg. Who knows how many are out there?[/QUOTE]
I heard about that. This isn't even counting the ghost guns, and the legal ones that were lost or stolen at some point in time, and either were not reported or haven't been located yet. Plus you have the fun situation of just recently the officer that was shot while off duty, which brings up the point of the body armor issue that seems to be a thing as well. I love my city but man there is a lot of issues in regard to the gun problems. Even with the metal detectors, there are ways to get guns into a school.
What surprises me is that no one's bringing up the fact that Columbine is going to be twenty next year. A decade of this, and we still haven't fixed the problem and it's only getting worse. A person I know at work was saying to day that a buddy of her's on Facebook was saying that it shouldn't be teacher's that are armed, but the kids. They should bring in mini muff guns to the classroom to protect themself.
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[QUOTE=Iron Maiden;3470906]A brief word about the guns flooding our streets. The Chicago Police Dept reported yesterday that they [URL="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/02/21/chicago-police-seize-1000th-illegal-gun-so-far-this-year/"]seized 1,000 illegal guns so far this year.[/URL] And that's probably just the tip of the iceberg. Who knows how many are out there?[/QUOTE]
Just like with the so-called "War on Drugs", law enforcement only manages to seize a pitiful fraction of the weapons out on the streets. What I regularly wonder about is, how many of those guns were stolen from homes and/or businesses and the owners either failed to report the theft or, for whatever reason, chose not to. Even more maddening is that [URL="https://www.thetrace.org/2017/11/stolen-guns-reporting-requirements/"][B]only 11 states require owners to report stolen guns[/B][/URL]. That's madness! There should be a full 50 state initiative requiring owners report lost or stolen weapons to police.
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[QUOTE=Darkspellmaster;3470912]I heard about that. This isn't even counting the ghost guns, and the legal ones that were lost or stolen at some point in time, and either were not reported or haven't been located yet. Plus you have the fun situation of just recently the officer that was shot while off duty, which brings up the point of the body armor issue that seems to be a thing as well. I love my city but man there is a lot of issues in regard to the gun problems. Even with the metal detectors, there are ways to get guns into a school.
What surprises me is that no one's bringing up the fact that Columbine is going to be twenty next year. A decade of this, and we still haven't fixed the problem and it's only getting worse. A person I know at work was saying to day that a buddy of her's on Facebook was saying that it shouldn't be teacher's that are armed, but the kids. They should bring in mini muff guns to the classroom to protect themself.[/QUOTE]
that's right. We get all of the Chicago News here in my corner of Indiana because we're much closer to it than Indianapolis. The police commander that was killed was off duty when he answered the call for a suspect on the loose. It's not illegal for you to buy body armor but I think if you've been convicted of a felony it is.
[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;3470915]Just like with the so-called "War on Drugs", law enforcement only manages to seize a pitiful fraction of the weapons out on the streets. What I regularly wonder about is, how many of those guns were stolen from homes and/or businesses and the owners either failed to report the theft or, for whatever reason, chose not to. Even more maddening is that [URL="https://www.thetrace.org/2017/11/stolen-guns-reporting-requirements/"][B]only 11 states require owners to report stolen guns[/B][/URL]. That's madness! There should be a full 50 state initiative requiring owners report lost or stolen weapons to police.[/QUOTE]
I haven't seen any lately because it's winter but there's always reports in the crime round up section of the paper where someone has a gun stolen out of their car parked on the street or a driveway...and sometimes the doors aren't even locked. Gun owners around here are pretty careless at times. Someone is suing their baby sitter because they had a gun in the home and [URL="http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police--year-old-boy-shoots-self-after-finding-a/article_49c67d1a-14f1-524d-84e8-84e23751c1b5.html"]the 4 year boy found a gun in the babysitter's home. He died of the gunshot wound. Also in NW Indiana, [URL="http://wgntv.com/2017/06/13/father-charged-in-accidental-fatal-shooting-of-daughter-during-gun-safety-talk/"]there was the father who claimed he was teaching gun safety and then shot his own 9 year old daughter[/URL] thinking the gun was empty. I don't know about that one, it sounded a bit strange that the father was showing the gun to his sons, then the daughter enters the room and he points it at her and she gets shot in the head. He claimed he thought the gun was empty. What sane father would even point an empty gun at his daughter's head? I can't find it online but IIRC one of the sons said the dad did empty the gun but then put a bullet in the chamber during his lesson.
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[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;3470897][URL="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeffrey-toobin-donald-trump-arming-teachers_us_5a8e2612e4b0617d4639cd00"]CNN Analyst Has A Reality Check For Trump Over ‘Insane’ Plan To Arm Teachers[/URL]
“Does anybody remember their teachers?”
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It gets worse. Most school shootings are carried out by students or former students. Any shooter an armed teacher will be asked to take out will have passed through their classroom at some point. I don't think most teachers will be able to kill one of their students for any reason, even if they did I wonder if they could cope. Worse than that, they would have to be prepared to kill any student in their class at any time if the worst were to happen. You want to talk about mental illness, imagine living with that.
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[QUOTE=JCAll;3470983]It gets worse. Most school shootings are carried out by students or former students. Any shooter an armed teacher will be asked to take out will have passed through their classroom at some point. I don't think most teachers will be able to kill one of their students for any reason, even if they did [B][COLOR="#0000FF"]I wonder if they could cope.[/COLOR][/B] Worse than that, they would have to be prepared to kill any student in their class at any time if the worst were to happen. You want to talk about mental illness, imagine living with that.[/QUOTE]
On that...
Even a good number of the folks America's military try to make into someone who can do that don't wind up being able to cope. Knowing that, what you come up with is that a teacher should be able to no problem?
It's past simply being an idiotic idea.
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Armed teachers....
I swear, it has to be the stupidest, most ridiculous, insane idea possible to solve that problem.
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[QUOTE=numberthirty;3470988]On that...
Even a good number of the folks America's military try to make into someone who can do that don't wind up being able to cope. Knowing that, what you come up with is that a teacher should be able to no problem?
It's past simply being an idiotic idea.[/QUOTE]
It really is the kind of idea that gets worse the more you think about it.
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[QUOTE=Starter Set;3470994]Armed teachers....
I swear, it has to be the stupidest, most ridiculous, insane idea possible to solve that problem.[/QUOTE]
Well, that came from the mouths of Trump and Republicans, so it was expected. I seriously doubt either of them considered for even a nanosecond, the godawful ramifications of such a horrible idea, they just blurted out what the NRA and the gun lobby told them to say like the loyal lapdogs they are.