I use the word "pro-life" because that's what our culture has decided upon but I describe my position as "pro-innocent life".
I'm not opposed to capital punishment, in principle but in practice I think that's it's not properly applied and the last thing I want is to execute an innocent person. So, I'm in favor of juries having the option to sentence a defendant to death but I also support moratoriums on carrying out executions until all doubts have been removed regarding any claims of innocence.
I'm not debating my beliefs with you. Basically, you don't get a vote in deciding what's important to me.
I put it in quotes because it's a neologism. Like I said, I don't really care about gay "marriage" but the people who support me on my issues care about it, so I lend my support to them in return. Do you think I care about what marginal tax rate someone making 200k/year pays? Nope, not at all but those guys tend to assist me when something that I care about it up for public debate, so I return the favor when it's time to discuss taxes. It's a part of being a political coalition.
Indeed, I'm right at home in the GOP but 25 years ago, I would have probably been more at home in the Democratic party.
Ah yes, the nutjobs slander. Have you ever considered the possibility that the people who believe differently than you have put as much thought as or more thought than you into the issues and simply come to a different conclusion?
You need to buy the whole package: Low tax, guns for all, no abortion, no gay marriage, climate change is a liberal hoax, wave the flag and God Bless America.
What you fail to realize, either intentionally or not, is that you're complaining about political coalitions.
To boil it down to my main issues, I'm pro-life and pro second amendment.
Low taxes are something that I regard as a "nice to have" but not a requirement. I don't care much about gay "marriage" or flag waving. I don't think that reducing particulate emissions would be the worst thing in the world.
I support the people who care about those issues because they support me with mine.
It's not just my side, both sides do it.You don't really think that the upper-middle class white feminists give half a damn about some poor black kid's police brutality claim, do you?
Before 1992, I would have probably been a Democrat. I wasn't fond of Reagan or Reaganomics. George Bush Sr. was a filthy liar. No new taxes indeed. But in those days, the Democrats made it clear that pro-life, pro second amendment people were not welcome in their party while the Republicans opened their arms and welcomed us in.
Want to change things? Offer something more substantive than scorn and ridicule. Otherwise, a lot of people like me will have no choice but to vote for whichever John McCain clone gets the GOP nomination in 2016.
But, but, the NRA seems to be saying that you can easily build a gun registry simply using the phone metadata. If what you say is true, then not all people that call the NRA have a gun !!! Next thing you know, you'll tell me some people have guns and never call the NRA.
Then you don't understand the argument.
It's not just the NRA, it's gun stores, gun clubs, gun ranges and other gun owners. If you were to take a look at everyone who called a gun store, gun club, target range and known gun collectors over the past 5 years, you'd have a pretty good idea of who owns guns in the country. That's the creation of a backdoor registry and since creation of a registry is already forbidden under federal law, the NRA's point is a salient one.
The NSA can retain metadata until the political winds shift enough to allow the creation of such a registry.
That doesn't make a difference. They're mine and no matter what the justification for wanting to take them away, you can't then claim that no one is after our guns. They and you clearly are.
Yeah, you sure can edit those to hide the context of those to pretend it's about all guns. Nice use of the ellipsis there, and with no link back to an original source.
That cop is not your friend, no matter which side of the law you are on.
This (you!) is what's wrong with our country. The police are doing their job to enforce the law. You don't like laws being enforced? Then maybe you should move to africa. I hear they've got no police, and it's going great over there.
When you say "our country", I certainly hope that you don't mean the USA. What's wrong with the USA is that we have far too many cop groupies and Stockholm-syndrome types. The police are not there to enforce the law. The police are there to enforce order. The police are there to keep the poor, the politically unimportant and the people who are feared by the politically connected in line.
Law abiding citizens that work to help the community have nothing to fear from Uncle Leo.
You, sir, are either dangerously naive or simply an upper-middle class white guy with no perspective. Law abiding citizens of color or lower economic status have plenty to fear from law enforcement.
It's also really hard to get assault guns, so gangs tend to be massively outgunned by the authorities.
You don't understand the issue. It's not an AK-47 or an M4 that you hunt an elephant or a rhino with. Those bullets are far too small and have too little kinetic energy to reliably take down the animal. You get something BIG and because you don't want to get too close, you get something accurate at a reasonable range. I can't speak from personal experience, because I have only hunted North American land game but I'm thinking.338 or bigger. You're not going to find that in an assault rifle.
I have no idea what Australia's gun laws are like, but I can only assume that there are some hunting arms allowed. That's what a poacher would use.
Look at it this way, high blood pressure and arthritis runs in my family. Though I may pwn you with regards to caffeine, eventually it'll catch up to me.
I met a friend of a friend of a friend a couple of years ago who was a serious caffeine junkie. She drank coffee constantly, as well as keeping a stash of caffeinated candy in her purse and used the caffeinated soap.
I'm not buying it either. I drink 2-4 cups of coffee every work day. I don't have a single cup on the weekends. I'm just finishing up a 7 day vacation and in that time I have had precisely one cup. No headaches, no jitters, nothing.
The 386 is a 32 bit processor. Yes, even the 386 sx is a 32 bit chip.
If they've dropped i386 support, they should name their packages differently. For example, Mandrake is the first distro that I ever used that required a Pentium or better and their packages were "i586" to indicate that.
It's a problem when both people do it. There are better examples of bad rhetoric by democrats.
The democrats are not "MY GUY"- I'm an independent and voted for Republicans, Democrats and even Libertarians last election.
Not having a party affiliation doesn't make you independent, it makes you indecisive.
"Bring a knife to a gunfight" is not a violent phrase at all however. It's a idiomatic cliche that expresses a certain concept of entering a negotiation grossly weaker than your opponents.
And you are a hypocrite. The crosshairs weren't a suggestion to go out and shoot people, they were to indicate that those areas were to be targeted for a campaign push. Whip up the votes and defeat the opposition at the polls. If you understand that Obama wasn't *REALLY* talking about bringing a gun, why can't you understand that you can target someone for defeat in an election without targeting them for termination?
They're blaming nutbag teatards like you because of things like GIffords being threatened for voting for the so-called "Obamacare" bill (Palin even went so far as to post a map with gun targets over her and other congresscritters who voted for it). And give up on the whole "ACORN" thing. It was a fucking bunch of community organizers, not some brownshirts. It's amazing how two corporate run and controlled parties can jockey for support by forcing wedge issues into the forefront while still steadily increasing the income and wage disparity to epic new levels.... your stupid teabagger "movement", as contrived and astroturfed by morons like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (and even that Rand Paul asshole), is just another way of shoring up more money for the wealthy. Societies are still judged by how they treat their least fortunate, and in that way, we fail. Epically.
Yeah that's it. You hypocritical cocksmoking faggot. Why is it not an issue when one of your brethren at the daily kooks puts a bullseye on her district? Like this...
But never waste a crisis. Never pass on an opportunity to act like all of the world's problems are caused by your opposition. Do it enough times and it'll almost seem reasonable when you propose a...final solution to the problem.
If PayPal were a regulated bank of any sort, they'd be just as small and insignificant as any other provider in the field, and we'd have *nothing* instead of PayPal. No thanks, we're better off with PayPal than with no PayPal
No. Fuck PayPal, we don't need them. They are no longer the only game in town. There is GunPal, which was clearly started to fill in a void that PayPal was intentionally leaving in the marketplace. I say, everytime PayPal pulls this kind of Bullshit, people should switch to the alternative.
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If that's true, prove it. Abandon your positions on those issues and focus on what *really* important.
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You used that word but I do not think it means what you think it means.
Wrong analogy... Should you be able to walk into someone's house and rummage around simply because they left the door unlocked???
I think of it more like watching your neighbor's TV because they set it up near a window and left the curtains open.
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Bingo.
I use the word "pro-life" because that's what our culture has decided upon but I describe my position as "pro-innocent life".
I'm not opposed to capital punishment, in principle but in practice I think that's it's not properly applied and the last thing I want is to execute an innocent person. So, I'm in favor of juries having the option to sentence a defendant to death but I also support moratoriums on carrying out executions until all doubts have been removed regarding any claims of innocence.
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Just like Democrats of 70 years ago might not have wanted black people actually living in the same neighborhoods despite civil rights lip service.
Yeah, about that. 70 years ago, the Democrats were unabashedly opposed to any kind of civil rights for Black people.
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I'm not debating my beliefs with you. Basically, you don't get a vote in deciding what's important to me.
I put it in quotes because it's a neologism. Like I said, I don't really care about gay "marriage" but the people who support me on my issues care about it, so I lend my support to them in return. Do you think I care about what marginal tax rate someone making 200k/year pays? Nope, not at all but those guys tend to assist me when something that I care about it up for public debate, so I return the favor when it's time to discuss taxes. It's a part of being a political coalition.
Indeed, I'm right at home in the GOP but 25 years ago, I would have probably been more at home in the Democratic party.
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Ah yes, the nutjobs slander. Have you ever considered the possibility that the people who believe differently than you have put as much thought as or more thought than you into the issues and simply come to a different conclusion?
You need to buy the whole package: Low tax, guns for all, no abortion, no gay marriage, climate change is a liberal hoax, wave the flag and God Bless America.
What you fail to realize, either intentionally or not, is that you're complaining about political coalitions.
To boil it down to my main issues, I'm pro-life and pro second amendment.
Low taxes are something that I regard as a "nice to have" but not a requirement. I don't care much about gay "marriage" or flag waving. I don't think that reducing particulate emissions would be the worst thing in the world.
I support the people who care about those issues because they support me with mine.
It's not just my side, both sides do it.You don't really think that the upper-middle class white feminists give half a damn about some poor black kid's police brutality claim, do you?
Before 1992, I would have probably been a Democrat. I wasn't fond of Reagan or Reaganomics. George Bush Sr. was a filthy liar. No new taxes indeed. But in those days, the Democrats made it clear that pro-life, pro second amendment people were not welcome in their party while the Republicans opened their arms and welcomed us in.
Want to change things? Offer something more substantive than scorn and ridicule. Otherwise, a lot of people like me will have no choice but to vote for whichever John McCain clone gets the GOP nomination in 2016.
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But, but, the NRA seems to be saying that you can easily build a gun registry simply using the phone metadata. If what you say is true, then not all people that call the NRA have a gun !!! Next thing you know, you'll tell me some people have guns and never call the NRA.
Then you don't understand the argument.
It's not just the NRA, it's gun stores, gun clubs, gun ranges and other gun owners. If you were to take a look at everyone who called a gun store, gun club, target range and known gun collectors over the past 5 years, you'd have a pretty good idea of who owns guns in the country. That's the creation of a backdoor registry and since creation of a registry is already forbidden under federal law, the NRA's point is a salient one.
The NSA can retain metadata until the political winds shift enough to allow the creation of such a registry.
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They're about a specific class of gun
That doesn't make a difference. They're mine and no matter what the justification for wanting to take them away, you can't then claim that no one is after our guns. They and you clearly are.
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Yeah, you sure can edit those to hide the context of those to pretend it's about all guns. Nice use of the ellipsis there, and with no link back to an original source.
A+ for effort!
How about video?
She said it.
SHE is after our guns. SHE admitted. WE know it. YOU are either lying or ignorant.
And Here's a source for Cuomo's statement.
Yes. He was looking at confiscation or forced sale, which is just compensated confiscation.
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That cop is not your friend, no matter which side of the law you are on.
This (you!) is what's wrong with our country. The police are doing their job to enforce the law. You don't like laws being enforced? Then maybe you should move to africa. I hear they've got no police, and it's going great over there.
When you say "our country", I certainly hope that you don't mean the USA. What's wrong with the USA is that we have far too many cop groupies and Stockholm-syndrome types. The police are not there to enforce the law. The police are there to enforce order. The police are there to keep the poor, the politically unimportant and the people who are feared by the politically connected in line.
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Law abiding citizens that work to help the community have nothing to fear from Uncle Leo.
You, sir, are either dangerously naive or simply an upper-middle class white guy with no perspective. Law abiding citizens of color or lower economic status have plenty to fear from law enforcement.
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It's also really hard to get assault guns, so gangs tend to be massively outgunned by the authorities.
You don't understand the issue. It's not an AK-47 or an M4 that you hunt an elephant or a rhino with. Those bullets are far too small and have too little kinetic energy to reliably take down the animal. You get something BIG and because you don't want to get too close, you get something accurate at a reasonable range. I can't speak from personal experience, because I have only hunted North American land game but I'm thinking .338 or bigger. You're not going to find that in an assault rifle.
I have no idea what Australia's gun laws are like, but I can only assume that there are some hunting arms allowed. That's what a poacher would use.
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Look at it this way, high blood pressure and arthritis runs in my family. Though I may pwn you with regards to caffeine, eventually it'll catch up to me.
I met a friend of a friend of a friend a couple of years ago who was a serious caffeine junkie. She drank coffee constantly, as well as keeping a stash of caffeinated candy in her purse and used the caffeinated soap.
By the way, what is BC powder?
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I'm not buying it either. I drink 2-4 cups of coffee every work day. I don't have a single cup on the weekends. I'm just finishing up a 7 day vacation and in that time I have had precisely one cup. No headaches, no jitters, nothing.
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No need. The point remains. I still have CDs from 14 years ago that will install Red Hat onto a 386 with no problems at all.
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The 386 is a 32 bit processor. Yes, even the 386 sx is a 32 bit chip.
If they've dropped i386 support, they should name their packages differently. For example, Mandrake is the first distro that I ever used that required a Pentium or better and their packages were "i586" to indicate that.
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I get pushed more and more into being "the old geek".
I still have Red Hat 4.2 CDs that were intended to run on 386 and up... Why is this noteworthy?
Seriously.
Haven't you people ever seen an RPM? Do you know what that "i386" in the filename means?
I'm not impressed.
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It's a problem when both people do it. There are better examples of bad rhetoric by democrats.
The democrats are not "MY GUY"- I'm an independent and voted for Republicans, Democrats and even Libertarians last election.
Not having a party affiliation doesn't make you independent, it makes you indecisive.
"Bring a knife to a gunfight" is not a violent phrase at all however. It's a idiomatic cliche that expresses a certain concept of entering a negotiation grossly weaker than your opponents.
And you are a hypocrite. The crosshairs weren't a suggestion to go out and shoot people, they were to indicate that those areas were to be targeted for a campaign push. Whip up the votes and defeat the opposition at the polls. If you understand that Obama wasn't *REALLY* talking about bringing a gun, why can't you understand that you can target someone for defeat in an election without targeting them for termination?
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It's really not the time for Fox and the right wing republicans to be making jokes about shooting people.
Is it time for Obama to talk about bringing a gun to a knife fight?
Like this?
No, of course it's OK when it's your guy using colorful rhetoric, it's only a problem when the opposition does it.
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They're blaming nutbag teatards like you because of things like GIffords being threatened for voting for the so-called "Obamacare" bill (Palin even went so far as to post a map with gun targets over her and other congresscritters who voted for it). And give up on the whole "ACORN" thing. It was a fucking bunch of community organizers, not some brownshirts. It's amazing how two corporate run and controlled parties can jockey for support by forcing wedge issues into the forefront while still steadily increasing the income and wage disparity to epic new levels.... your stupid teabagger "movement", as contrived and astroturfed by morons like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (and even that Rand Paul asshole), is just another way of shoring up more money for the wealthy. Societies are still judged by how they treat their least fortunate, and in that way, we fail. Epically.
Yeah that's it. You hypocritical cocksmoking faggot. Why is it not an issue when one of your brethren at the daily kooks puts a bullseye on her district? Like this...
But never waste a crisis. Never pass on an opportunity to act like all of the world's problems are caused by your opposition. Do it enough times and it'll almost seem reasonable when you propose a...final solution to the problem.
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Their only reason is to kill people. Just ban guns already.
I hope that you're the one they send to confiscate mine.
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If PayPal were a regulated bank of any sort, they'd be just as small and insignificant as any other provider in the field, and we'd have *nothing* instead of PayPal. No thanks, we're better off with PayPal than with no PayPal
No. Fuck PayPal, we don't need them. They are no longer the only game in town. There is GunPal, which was clearly started to fill in a void that PayPal was intentionally leaving in the marketplace. I say, everytime PayPal pulls this kind of Bullshit, people should switch to the alternative.
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Child molesters? Zing!
Wow. This guy was a visionary!
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