Sadly one of my senators is listed but I didn't vote for her and worked to get her opponent elected. She still won in a land slide (basically 65% to 35%) but I doubt that her opponent would feel differently on this issue but probably wouldn't have been one of the senators drafting the legislation.
Well one of the Dems is one of my senators. Amy Klobuchar is generally a senator who doesn't like to make waves or get noticed. She is fairly liberal in her voting record but unlike Bachmann isn't very outspoken and seems to do a fairly good job of staying out of the media's attention. Senator Klobuchar tends to very much in the nanny state camp and her most notable piece of legislation was a national standard for pool drains. She also supported the overly broad lead in toys act (the one that got passed after kids swallowed all sorts of lead tainted crap from China a few years back) which caused all sorts of problems in our state because of the lead terminals on the lead acid batteries that are part of youth model dirt bikes and ATVs which fell under purview of that act. I was a bit confused for a short while wondering why she was supporting this and then realized 2 things that made it clear. 1. She just won re-election by a wide margin so everyone has 6 years to forget about this. 2. She probably needs to pay some dues to some of the large technology companies in Minnesota as she really screwed them with the Affordable Care Act and the medical device tax that is levied against device manufactures.
I don't at least when I go to his country as most countries restrict the number of people they allow in to work. You can say I am jingoistic but as an American I would say we should put other Americans ahead of foreigners.
What they should be required to do is offer the new worker the same pay as the highest paid job in the company (including benefits, bonuses). If they are unable to find a worker that will work for that, they should be required to offer the same deal to an H-1B candidate. After all, if his skills are in such short supply he must be worth at least as much as a CEO.
Totally agree. If companies needs are so great that they can't hire and/or train someone who is already in this country to meet that need then whoever they import should be the highest compensated person in the company. If they did that I would say we could even ditch the whole caps on H1-B visas.
I tried but my old high school econ and American government teacher lost in a land slide. Although given Klobuchar's opponent's stance on things he probably would have supported this as well.
I am a bit surprised by Klobuchar's name being attached to this bill given how much technology is in this state even though I probably shouldn't be given that it isn't the workers but the companies who she is helping out. I guess it is time to let her know that I will be actively campaigning for who ever her opponent is and also letting the Minnesota DFL know as well (I am probably already on their shit list but who cares).
Hell to the idiots at the TSA a metal bodied SLR film camera with some lenses is an anomaly. Every time I bring that through, case open out of the bag, I get pulled aside for extra screening for explosives. They really get confused by the bulb cable, external flash, and ND filters.
I am sure that in a few minutes I can think of at least 15 places where people can be successfully killed in large numbers that could have ripples through the economy.
My favorite of these would be the giant trash can for drink bottles in the security line at the air port. Just toss in a 2 liter with a timer in it surrounded by liquid explosives. Bonus points because you could have multiple people with similar devices drop them in over the course of several hours for a bigger effect and no one would be the wiser. I am also fond of the roller bag packed with gun powder and ball bearings or nails detonated in the the middle of the security line.
There is a difference between want and need in this case, or at least with my 4 year old. He never wants a nap and most of the time he doesn't need one but some days he actually needs it. On those days he still refuses even though he starts tripping over him self and will eventually fall a sleep at dinner since he isn't running around. We even have a picture of him sleeping with his face in his spaghetti. Of course those are now the days when we are out doing high activity things for most of the day when even I am beat.
The difference is that in the situations you mentioned everyone knew it was advertising where in this case it was advertising passed off as news. Billboards and TV commercials are not news, and neither is a kiosk setup in the mall for "stress testing".
Sounds similar to the how and why of how I got my SKS. Mine also sits locked up in the fireproof gun safe. I was just out of college at the time and didn't have much money and didn't know much about different firearms but a cop buddy of mine was selling his Russian SKS for $200. It seemed reasonable at the time and has been a good gun. The M91/30 that I got a few years back was because I saw it on sale at Fleet Farm for $89 and it caught my attention as I wondered if it was a real gun and not some goofy looking BB gun given the price. I did my research and found out what to look for on them and went picking through the lot that they had until I found one that was sniper rifle with a clean barrel (no pits, sharp lands). I didn't plan on finding an ex-sniper one but wanted to get a good shooter which it has proven to be. Those M91/30s are dirt cheap and can be very accurate with a typical price range of about $90 to about $120 depending on where you buy it.
I never said they weren't good enough for deer hunting only that they were less accurate than a.30-30, it's not like I was comparing it to some old derringer pistol or saying that an AK had pie pan accuracy. A SKS with it's longer and thicker barrel is more accurate than an AK. A modern.30-30 is even more accurate than the SKS. Part of the problem with the 7.62x39 round is that it is over stabilized as the twist rate is meant so it can shoot tracers and steel core ammo with reasonable accuracy. The lead core soft point or hollow point ammo doesn't need anywhere the amount of twist and the bullets can yaw as they travel which decreased their accuracy. A firearm with 2-3 MOA accuracy is good for close range like in thick brush, but for longer shots a 1-2 MOA firearm is better (especially since so much depends on the shooter) and a sub MOA fire arm is great. A SKS is closer to the 2 MOA than 3 and a nice lever action.30-30 sits around 1 MOA.
The majority are essentially ARs cut down to meet ATF's definition of a pistol
Hence why I said AR platform pistol. I have seen these (as well as the AK platform pistol) and yes they are basically a stock less SBR. I have never investigated them beyond just being aware of them and finding some humor in their existence.
There are revolvers and single shot handguns that will shoot.223 though that are made by Taurus and Thompson. The Taurus one is part of their raging bull line and is a revolver and the Thompson one is like all of their pistols a single shot breach loader. I have never fired any of those guns so I can't speak to their reliability, accuracy, or quality but my point was that they do exist.
You say that the Bill of Rights guarantees your right to a high-capacity magazine.
Actually it does, or at least prevents the the federal government for messing with them. See the 10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Since the constitution is silent on them the feds have no business regulating them unless there is interstate commerce (one of the most abused things in the constitution).
And if I have to give up some freedoms to see that happen, I am more than willing to.
And you are the problem. I but you probably think the TSA scanners are A OK, and though that the warrant-less wire tapping was all and good. I bet you wrote your congress critters telling them how great the PATRIOT Act was and demanded that they pass it.
They do make AR as well as AK platform pistols as well as there being large frame revolvers for the.223. So it is possible to have a handgun and a rifle that take the same cartridge.
To clarify what others have said a fully auto weapon isn't illegal but requires all sorts of registration, checks, expense, etc to own one legally. Additionally only certian fully auto guns can be owned by a private citizen (based off of date of manufacture). Now to own one illegally requires finding someone who is selling illegal ones or making your own machine gun which is probably much easier that going through the hassle of getting a legal one.
Sadly there are people who really believe that Obama would do such a thing and I don't see how someone could be that paranoid. There are 2 possibly 3 sections of the constitution that protect against that. One is the takings clause which is the questionable one, then there is the whole ex post facto thing so if you already own something the government cant take it (this is why pre-embargo Cuban cigars are legal) , finally there is that whole 2nd amendment thing. Granted the court has been whittling away at our rights but to believe that President Obama is that brazen requires a special kind of crazy.
I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.
Yet in Minnesota it would be a legal hunting rifle, as would a fully auto M14 which the owner of the gun shop I go to has used on occasion just because he could. There were similar discussions after WWII around using M1 Garands as hunting rifles or any other semi automatic rifle for that matter. I have used an SKS for deer hunting and have met some people who use an AR (the bullet seems a bit small and under powered for a deer but to each their own) both of which are legal rifles for big game in Minnesota as they fire a center fire cartridge that is of at least.220 caliber.
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Sadly one of my senators is listed but I didn't vote for her and worked to get her opponent elected. She still won in a land slide (basically 65% to 35%) but I doubt that her opponent would feel differently on this issue but probably wouldn't have been one of the senators drafting the legislation.
Except that these are senators who run in state wide elections, not in strangely drawn congressional districts.
Well one of the Dems is one of my senators. Amy Klobuchar is generally a senator who doesn't like to make waves or get noticed. She is fairly liberal in her voting record but unlike Bachmann isn't very outspoken and seems to do a fairly good job of staying out of the media's attention. Senator Klobuchar tends to very much in the nanny state camp and her most notable piece of legislation was a national standard for pool drains. She also supported the overly broad lead in toys act (the one that got passed after kids swallowed all sorts of lead tainted crap from China a few years back) which caused all sorts of problems in our state because of the lead terminals on the lead acid batteries that are part of youth model dirt bikes and ATVs which fell under purview of that act. I was a bit confused for a short while wondering why she was supporting this and then realized 2 things that made it clear.
1. She just won re-election by a wide margin so everyone has 6 years to forget about this.
2. She probably needs to pay some dues to some of the large technology companies in Minnesota as she really screwed them with the Affordable Care Act and the medical device tax that is levied against device manufactures.
I don't at least when I go to his country as most countries restrict the number of people they allow in to work. You can say I am jingoistic but as an American I would say we should put other Americans ahead of foreigners.
What they should be required to do is offer the new worker the same pay as the highest paid job in the company (including benefits, bonuses). If they are unable to find a worker that will work for that, they should be required to offer the same deal to an H-1B candidate. After all, if his skills are in such short supply he must be worth at least as much as a CEO.
Totally agree. If companies needs are so great that they can't hire and/or train someone who is already in this country to meet that need then whoever they import should be the highest compensated person in the company. If they did that I would say we could even ditch the whole caps on H1-B visas.
I'd be all for that.
I tried but my old high school econ and American government teacher lost in a land slide. Although given Klobuchar's opponent's stance on things he probably would have supported this as well.
I am a bit surprised by Klobuchar's name being attached to this bill given how much technology is in this state even though I probably shouldn't be given that it isn't the workers but the companies who she is helping out. I guess it is time to let her know that I will be actively campaigning for who ever her opponent is and also letting the Minnesota DFL know as well (I am probably already on their shit list but who cares).
Sounds like that kid needed a bit of spankanol. This is also why I would be a bad grade school teacher.
That sounds similar to my scheme.
Spanx are an anomaly to the TSA
Hell to the idiots at the TSA a metal bodied SLR film camera with some lenses is an anomaly. Every time I bring that through, case open out of the bag, I get pulled aside for extra screening for explosives. They really get confused by the bulb cable, external flash, and ND filters.
I am sure that in a few minutes I can think of at least 15 places where people can be successfully killed in large numbers that could have ripples through the economy.
My favorite of these would be the giant trash can for drink bottles in the security line at the air port. Just toss in a 2 liter with a timer in it surrounded by liquid explosives. Bonus points because you could have multiple people with similar devices drop them in over the course of several hours for a bigger effect and no one would be the wiser. I am also fond of the roller bag packed with gun powder and ball bearings or nails detonated in the the middle of the security line.
No need to worry they will just reclassify any security problems as "design issues" thus cutting the number of security bugs by up to 90%.
I tell people if they are worried about the wrong candidate winning then I tell them maybe their party should run a better candidate.
There is a difference between want and need in this case, or at least with my 4 year old. He never wants a nap and most of the time he doesn't need one but some days he actually needs it. On those days he still refuses even though he starts tripping over him self and will eventually fall a sleep at dinner since he isn't running around. We even have a picture of him sleeping with his face in his spaghetti. Of course those are now the days when we are out doing high activity things for most of the day when even I am beat.
The difference is that in the situations you mentioned everyone knew it was advertising where in this case it was advertising passed off as news. Billboards and TV commercials are not news, and neither is a kiosk setup in the mall for "stress testing".
Some papers seem to get more successful the shittier their reporting. See tabloids.
Or the USA TODAY that I get free at the hotel when I travel. I have heard that the international version isn't so bad but the domestic one is garbage.
Sounds similar to the how and why of how I got my SKS. Mine also sits locked up in the fireproof gun safe. I was just out of college at the time and didn't have much money and didn't know much about different firearms but a cop buddy of mine was selling his Russian SKS for $200. It seemed reasonable at the time and has been a good gun. The M91/30 that I got a few years back was because I saw it on sale at Fleet Farm for $89 and it caught my attention as I wondered if it was a real gun and not some goofy looking BB gun given the price. I did my research and found out what to look for on them and went picking through the lot that they had until I found one that was sniper rifle with a clean barrel (no pits, sharp lands). I didn't plan on finding an ex-sniper one but wanted to get a good shooter which it has proven to be. Those M91/30s are dirt cheap and can be very accurate with a typical price range of about $90 to about $120 depending on where you buy it.
I never said they weren't good enough for deer hunting only that they were less accurate than a .30-30, it's not like I was comparing it to some old derringer pistol or saying that an AK had pie pan accuracy. A SKS with it's longer and thicker barrel is more accurate than an AK. A modern .30-30 is even more accurate than the SKS. Part of the problem with the 7.62x39 round is that it is over stabilized as the twist rate is meant so it can shoot tracers and steel core ammo with reasonable accuracy. The lead core soft point or hollow point ammo doesn't need anywhere the amount of twist and the bullets can yaw as they travel which decreased their accuracy. A firearm with 2-3 MOA accuracy is good for close range like in thick brush, but for longer shots a 1-2 MOA firearm is better (especially since so much depends on the shooter) and a sub MOA fire arm is great. A SKS is closer to the 2 MOA than 3 and a nice lever action .30-30 sits around 1 MOA.
The majority are essentially ARs cut down to meet ATF's definition of a pistol
Hence why I said AR platform pistol. I have seen these (as well as the AK platform pistol) and yes they are basically a stock less SBR. I have never investigated them beyond just being aware of them and finding some humor in their existence.
.223 though that are made by Taurus and Thompson. The Taurus one is part of their raging bull line and is a revolver and the Thompson one is like all of their pistols a single shot breach loader. I have never fired any of those guns so I can't speak to their reliability, accuracy, or quality but my point was that they do exist.
There are revolvers and single shot handguns that will shoot
You say that the Bill of Rights guarantees your right to a high-capacity magazine.
Actually it does, or at least prevents the the federal government for messing with them. See the 10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Since the constitution is silent on them the feds have no business regulating them unless there is interstate commerce (one of the most abused things in the constitution).
And if I have to give up some freedoms to see that happen, I am more than willing to.
And you are the problem. I but you probably think the TSA scanners are A OK, and though that the warrant-less wire tapping was all and good. I bet you wrote your congress critters telling them how great the PATRIOT Act was and demanded that they pass it.
They do make AR as well as AK platform pistols as well as there being large frame revolvers for the .223. So it is possible to have a handgun and a rifle that take the same cartridge.
To clarify what others have said a fully auto weapon isn't illegal but requires all sorts of registration, checks, expense, etc to own one legally. Additionally only certian fully auto guns can be owned by a private citizen (based off of date of manufacture). Now to own one illegally requires finding someone who is selling illegal ones or making your own machine gun which is probably much easier that going through the hassle of getting a legal one.
Sadly there are people who really believe that Obama would do such a thing and I don't see how someone could be that paranoid. There are 2 possibly 3 sections of the constitution that protect against that. One is the takings clause which is the questionable one, then there is the whole ex post facto thing so if you already own something the government cant take it (this is why pre-embargo Cuban cigars are legal) , finally there is that whole 2nd amendment thing. Granted the court has been whittling away at our rights but to believe that President Obama is that brazen requires a special kind of crazy.
I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.
Yet in Minnesota it would be a legal hunting rifle, as would a fully auto M14 which the owner of the gun shop I go to has used on occasion just because he could. There were similar discussions after WWII around using M1 Garands as hunting rifles or any other semi automatic rifle for that matter. I have used an SKS for deer hunting and have met some people who use an AR (the bullet seems a bit small and under powered for a deer but to each their own) both of which are legal rifles for big game in Minnesota as they fire a center fire cartridge that is of at least .220 caliber.