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Re:Asinine.
You may not, but the problem is that too many of the politicians you vote for do. HRC is on record many times this campaign saying she wants to see the "Australian model" implemented in the US. That means forced confiscation of all personally owned firearms under the guise of "buybacks." The buybacks are mandatory, and you go to prison is you don't comply.
Here's a list of politicians talking about confiscating guns, just from a short period in 2013:
Hawaii legislature proposes gun confiscation
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/...New York Assemblyman asks colleague not to mention that original proposed SAFE Act included confiscation
http://www.breitbart.com/Breit...Missouri Democrats introduce legislation to confiscate guns
http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-...VA has veterans who cannot manage their own financial affairs declared prohibited persons unable to own firearms
http://www.humanevents.com/201...NJ State Senator "We needed a bill that was going to confiscate confiscate confiscate."
http://www.politickernj.com/ba...Oregon Legislator calls fears of gun confiscation a "paranoid delusion" and then states he is in favor of gun confiscation
http://www.examiner.com/articl...Governor Cuomo says, "confiscation could be an option."
http://www.nationalreview.com/...Feinstein suggests "compulsory buyback."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/...CA assembly proposes confiscating 166,000 legally registered guns.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bre...And the classic from 1995:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...Do you notice any common political party among the people calling for confiscation?
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Re:Port facilities + cheap land
Yea, don't think that is going to work out: http://www.hawaiireporter.com/...
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Re: uhuh sure
All the WMD went through the port of Rotterdam as scrap just ahead of or concurrent with the invasion.
Saddam didn't want to get caught with them.http://archives.hawaiireporter.com/iraqi-wmd-components-found-in-rotterdam-scrapyard/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/10/20040610-103512-5542r/
http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/000080.html
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=3857The reports weren't wrong, the invasion was just too slow. Your mainstream press at work again ignoring the facts so they wouldn't have to retrace their Bush Lied campaign in the middle of an election.
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Re:I still see a market ....
Both of the numbers we listed are correct: about half from membership dues, and 3.2% from corporate donations. The NRA also gets money from advertisements in its publications, payouts from its endowments, donations from members, donations from state-level gun-rights groups, etc. The point I'm trying to make is that there simply isn't a logical case to be made that gun companies control the NRA when they don't provide even close to half of its funding, while gun-owning members provide more than half.
Indeed, that would be inefficient when they can get members to do their dirty work for them.
You're literally saying that people acting in what they've each determined to be their own best interest, is in fact a giant behavioral control conspiracy. If the NRA's policies really were so out of line with the membership's desires, we wouldn't see the membership continue to increase. Your whole argument relies on the pretentious fallacy that people don't know what is best for themselves, but you do.
The judicious use of outright lies, such as the "they're coming to get your guns" narrative, also helps.
All but the last one of these is from THIS YEAR.
Hawaii legislature proposes gun confiscation
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/its-hawaiis-proposed-guns-laws-that-are-criminal/123New York Assemblyman asks colleague not to mention that original proposed SAFE Act included confiscation
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/01/20/NY-Assemblyman-exposes-gun-confiscation-agenda-of-DemocratsMissouri Democrats introduce legislation to confiscate guns
http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-control/2013/02/14/missouri-democrats-introduce-legislation-confiscate-firearms-gives-gun-owners-90-days-turn-weaponsVA has veterans who cannot manage their own financial affairs declared prohibited persons unable to own firearms
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/04/15/va-targeting-veterans-for-gun-confiscation/NJ State Senator "We needed a bill that was going to confiscate confiscate confiscate."
http://www.politickernj.com/back_room/confiscate-confiscate-confiscate#Oregon Legislator calls fears of gun confiscation a "paranoid delusion" and then states he is in favor of gun confiscation
http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-grabber-has-meltdown-flees-public-affairs-forum-angerGovernor Cuomo says, "confiscation could be an option."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/336373/cuomo-confiscation-could-be-option-eliana-johnsonFeinstein suggests "compulsory buyback."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/sen.-feinstein-suggests-national-buyback-of-guns/article/2516648CA assembly proposes confiscating 166,000 legally registered guns.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22544460/californias-state-senate-democrats-roll-out-big-gunAnd the classic from 1995:
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Basic premis wrong = Pointless Post
There is no evidence that CO2 is warming the planet.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?1ad63198-0a1f-4b5b-8fb8-96df07d70d41
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Re:Evolution stymied?
> we are causing global warming,
You just shot down your entire argument right there.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?1ad63198-0a1f-4b5b-8fb8-96df07d70d41 -
Re:Too little too late...
Really? Quote it
The only thing I saw was a vague mention of improving efficiencies, and that if a more efficient source of energy existed, we would move to it. Although the tariffs that the US has on Brazilian ethanol makes that impossible on an economic level, further aggravating the rest of the problems with a food->fuel program. [1]
Where was the mentions of the regulations in the US that have made it cost-prohibitive to construct a nuclear plant [2]
No, the original post did not mention alternatives, it parroted a point that is meaningless. That somehow we need to fund 'research' for something down the road. When the reality is that we HAVE the technologies, we just have dont the legal and market forces setup in this country to allow it to happen.
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Re:Dude, WTF are YOU talking about?I would *love* to see the logic behind that one. I'm sure you have no citation because it doesn't make any sense. http://www.ondcp.gov/publications/price_purity/fig1_38.pdf
From 1981-2003, the general trend has been lower prices and higher purity.
In the interest of full disclosure, price/purity has been recently been trending in the opposite direction. Did the street price of booze go up or down during Prohibition? I'm betting up. Sigh.
Prohibition lasted 13 years and immediately sparked a running battle between police and moonshiners/bootleggers.
The alcohol industry was then quickly taken over by organized crime.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/file.aspx?Guid=cf0541b8-adda-4c54-ab20-f72fe6f9a3aa
Summary: Prices spiked in the aftermath of prohibition and quickly began trending downward.
Alcohol consumption plummeted and quickly began trending upwards.
Cocaine has been illegal since 1914 and the industry was eventually taken over by... organized crime. Prices have gone down, consumption has gone up, and organized crime has taken control. Ditto for heroin, marijuana, amphetamines, ecstasy etc. About the only drug that hasn't followed this pattern is LSD.
It doesn't take a genius to see that spamming and internet fraud has been following the same pattern. Eastern European crime organizations are suspected to have moved in, the cost of purchasing time on a botnet or purchasing custom malware has gone down and the number of infected machines has sky rocketed... Hell, viruses didn't really start spreading until the late 80's and look where we are now.
The internet will arguably be easier to police than meatspace, but to do so will require a fundamental change of the freedom inherent in the architecture. -
Re:Unconstitutional
And Reagan. And Carter.
Article
Since FISA was passed in 1978, that's almost every President since then. A consensus. -
Re:Big Oil
People buy SUVs because they work. You can haul a boat or your entire basketball team. You can't do that in your EV1 or prius.
People buy SUVs because they are convenient. You can refuel in 5-10 minutes almost anywhere and drive 300 miles. Your EV1 is ready to go 100 miles (maybe) in just a few hours using a special charger.
People buy SUVs because they last. You can drive a SUV into the ground, while you need to replace batteries in your EV1 in just a few years.
Electrolosys causes maybe 85% energy loss, you would never generate hydrogen that way.
Batteries are a decent storage medium for electricity (but maybe not due to energy density issues). Hydrogen is a good storage medium for chemical energy (maybe nuclear if they get new high temp hydrogen cycles working).
Gas prices may not be so bad, due to inflation. We are not 2x, just equal to the max value:
http://zfacts.com/p/35.html
And your hybrid may not be the way to go, using a full life cycle analysis:
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?7a1f3b0c- 8232-4e9d-89f6-622a5327b670 -
Re:s/allow/require/
You'd think so, but then we've read about anyone from real terrorists to CIA operatives get nabbed through tracking plain ol' cell phones!
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Re:You watch too much TVSo the Chinese Army did not send in tanks to stop students protesting? So those executions I saw where they had the people kneel and put a bullet in their brain never happened?
So there really is freedom of religion and speech in China?
So the Chinese government does not make huge amounts of money from prison labor?
And the Chinese did not lob missiles over an island full of people to keep them in line?
Just asking if these are all myths that I have seen on TV?Now there's definitely not a 1:1 match on any of those, but it makes you think about the "shades of gray" argument....