EvilMonkey

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 02:40 PM) So I haven't been in this thread in a long, long time. I am curious about the GOP'ers in here, what their thoughts are on two things... 1. Is there anyone here who supports Trump? 2. What candidate(s) for the GOP nomination (there are 17 in the field from what I last read) do you like so far? 1) No 2) Walker and Perry, although I could probably stomach Rubio if I had to, Was hoping Susanna Martinez in NM would run, would like to hear more about her.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 3, 2015 -> 06:24 AM) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/opinion/...col-left-region GOP candidates and gun control... Republican candidates prefer to focus on the mental health of mass shooters as the decisive issue, not easy gun access, as if both issues should not be forcefully pursued by sensible public leaders. -- Well, Democrats don't seem to be too focused on the mental health part, so why don't you go berate them some for that and come back later. In fact, the gun lobby itself has been pushing for NICs reform, including adding all mental health information needed to keep guns from unqualified people. “This is a controversial issue. I am well aware of that. But I think it is the height of irresponsibility not to talk about it.” -- And by talk about it she means shut up while I lecture you about why you are wrong and evil. After the recent shooting deaths at a Louisiana movie theater by a man who obtained his gun out of state, Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican presidential candidate, proudly pointed to his state’s recently joining the federal watch list that attempts to track mentally troubled people who should be denied guns. But his state had ignored the list for years and remains one of the lowest in spending on mental health care. -- But they DID join the list. The fact that they previously had not is moot. While short on sensible gun safety prescriptions,--- I know it is an opinion piece, but what may be sensible to a gun fearing liberal may not be sensible to a 2nd amendment loving gun owner. or those in between. and former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, who signed the reckless Stand Your Ground law that has been used to reduce gun owners’ culpability in shootings. -- it did nothing of the sort. And all but one of the cases in Florida since then, where the media has been screaming 'stand your ground! Stand your ground!' have been self defense, wherre SYG never came into play.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 03:56 PM) I still say you had a beautiful night, a ballpark, fireworks, and there was beer. I saw Rodon get toasted in Pittsburgh and it was still a great night. Yeah, it was a nice night, but would have been better without the 100% premium.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) If you think about it, the Yankees looked like a premium team so you got to see what you paid for........................... Well, I don't pay to go to games based on the opponents the Sox are paying. I am just as happy watching them pummel the Indians as I would be if it were the Yankees.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 1, 2015 -> 09:58 AM) That inning made watching most of the rest of the game worth while. Dat Curve Doh. I was at the game, that inning was the ONLY thing that made the night not a total waste. I still think the Sox owe me back my money for that completely terrible performance. They at least owe me back the f-ing premium you pay because they were playing the Yankmees.

Heading to Jamaica at the end of the month for my 25th wedding anniversary. Sandals Whitehouse European Resort and Spa. First time out of the country (other than a brief 2 hour trek to Tijuana back in the early 90's). Has anyone been there, or to one of the other Sandals properties near there lately? So far the only real bad thing I have heard is some beach erosion at many of the resorts resulting in a smaller beach and in most cases a layer of rocks at the bottom a few feet off the shoreline.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 12:42 PM) BTW, when does the nonpartisan Justice Dept decide to investigate these criminals at Planned Parenthood? I know.......Cold day in Hell.... You and I both know that they will instead worry about what laws, if any, were broken in procuring those tapes instead of any wrongdoing that they show.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 12:33 PM) 1.5 million died from AIDS in the U.S.? A billion birds dead from housecats? And no, that number is US only.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 31, 2015 -> 12:19 PM) Ok, this topic has died down so it's not a total thread derailment if I do this, but my God I'm sick of hearing about the bolded. I biked past 3 or 4 dead birds on the street today, know how they died? Cars and buildings. Birds slamming into buildings, birds slamming into cars, and birds being killed by cats happen at rates of 1000-10,000 times those of wind farms. Power generation that builds smokestacks and cooling towers kills plenty of birds, probably more than those killed by wind farms. Building a giant power plant in the desert away from a city and then running power lines for hundreds of miles across bird migration routes kills more than every wind farm in the country put together. Yet the only time we care about killing birds is when they're killed by windmills. We should be smart about wind development. We shouldn't put a wind farm next to a bald eagle's nest. We should continue working on ways to make those safer using techniques to drive the birds away or keep them from running into the obstructions. But oh my god, 25,000 birds died from wind farms last year, and a billion died from house cats and half a billion died from slamming into buildings. WE MUST STOP THE WIND FARMS. One might think that there's a well-financed industry wanting to use that as an excuse for their real goal. Apologies for the rant that doesn't fit in this thread. But oh my god, 32,000 PEOPLE died from GUNS last year, and a 1.5 million died from HIV and 585,720 died from cancer. WE MUST STOP THE GUNS. One might think that there's a well-financed industry wanting to use that as an excuse for their real goal. Apologies for the rant that doesn't fit in this thread.

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Anyone got any outrage left for the 30,00 other murders in Zimbabwe? Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe’s death squads have reportedly killed at least that many and buried in mass graves, They even had names too, just like the lion...

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 03:35 PM) I didn't really want to get into the gun aspect of this case. I'm much more worried about the privacy/property rights issues. If somebody's going to fly one of those things that slowly that close to the ground, I can whack it with a bat (unless I'm Tyler Flowers, then I'd miss). Was waiting to see who would take that low hanging fruit. i thought the same thing, but a different player.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 03:57 PM) I expected all of my liberal friends to be up in arms about a group calling for another human's death by hanging. But the person whose death they called for is not 'one of them'.

The National Gun Victims Council also jumped on it crazy for a few hours until someone pointed out to them that it was a bow hunter. MAIG even had a statement about it on their site for about an hour before they took it down. DOH!

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 03:16 PM) Actually there a lot of innocent owner/innocent bona fide purchaser exceptions in the law. If you bought a used car and were provided authentic looking title docs, you'd have a pretty solid defense to being charged with possessing stolen property. also, for what it's worth, the washington post claims: So yeah, it's possible he just got s***ty, unlicensed guides. He could have also gotten two legal guides that were also morons and didn't know the lion/area they were in. Or two licensed guides trying to do a little something on the side to pocket more cash for themselves...

If there is a law against discharging a weapon where he was at, he should be charged with that only. I would also find something to charge the operator with if possible.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 12:42 PM) Exactly. I've always said that one of our strengths as a country that corrupt politicians are the exception, not the rule. From the local, volunteer, part time, school board member to the POTUS. Unless you are talking Illinois and Chicago city aldermen. Then that would be reversed.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 11:03 AM) Rep Chakah Fattah, D-PA, ranking member on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the Appropriations committee (helps write my budgets) gets a 29 count indictment on fraud, racketeering, etc. From the link..."He will be replaced by Mike Honda, D-Calif., who is currently the subject of an ethics probe."

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 29, 2015 -> 01:27 AM) How is that any different from when the Koch Brothers or Rupert Murdoch pretty overtly funds similar organizations with right-wing agendas that have innocuous sounding names such as Moms Demand Lower Taxes....or pretty much anything associated with the Tea Party these days, if it still exists. You have your MDA (not Muscular Dystrophy Association, that's not the best choice for them), we have our Joe The Plumbers that are beyond idiocy because they don't even realize they're being used. I don't recall Joe the Plumber getting a cushy 6 figure job running what pretends to be a grassroots moms against gun movement that is really ran by a pr exec and bloomberg, BOTH of which have armed sucurity. If I recall Joe didn't try to pretend to be something he wasn't (except when he tried to pretend he could be a candidate for public office, I guess).

QUOTE (juddling @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 01:06 PM) Why you complaining bro??? Now you can tell the boss you have to go to Orlando for the convention. Of course, I don't think my boss will be asking me to go next year..... Yeah, not these new guys. With the old owner I may have been able to swing that. This guy will go himself.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 12:12 PM) I'm curious as to what makes someone a "gun control idiot." I'm also curious whether you think that any of the gun lobby are likewise "idiots." That snark aside, there aren't really any relevant studies that I'm aware of on either end of the spectrum regarding the value or the cost of firearms. I would classify the Moms Demand Action as idiots. You can oppose guns or favor gun control without lying thru the backing of a billionaire hell bent on getting rid of guns while maintaining his own personal police force, armed with guns. And snark aside, if there were any number of those, MDA would be screaming about it with all the might the Bloomberg dollars could muster. You know it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 28, 2015 -> 12:29 AM) And what's the ratio of successful interventions compared to the situations where someone else at the scene is shot by the civilian/good guy shooter? I'm guessing nobody has that useful statistic. I would imagine it is pretty low, because if it happened, you know that MDA and other gun control idiots would be trumpeting it all over the interwebs as loud as they can shout. Strangely you don't hear that very much.

Saved many lives. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/27/cinci...oncealed-carry/

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 04:56 PM) One of my personal favorite anecdotes about this whole discussion is that after Sandy Hook, the NY Times or the Post or someone like that started compiling a list of kids killed in accidental shootings to see if they were being undercounted (note - they were by a factor of 2). They got complaints about how they weren't keeping a list of when guns were used in self defense. Turned out they were, there were just that few, and a majority of those were things like arguments in the home where guns were pulled from both sides or people pulling guns on someone else as a threat and then declaring that they were doing it in self defense. If I recall, they also got busted for counting kids twice, by making the 'kids' category 24 and under, but the adult category 18+. And I trust the NYT to accurately report good gun usage as much as ss trusts any link from breitbart. Which means I don't. Jenks posted a link, go check it out. And those are just the ones that get sent into them.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 04:35 PM) Like I said in reply the last time, when the Israeli army banned their soldiers from taking guns home on the weekends they saw a rapid 40% drop in their suicide rate. Throw that in with the several hundred accidental deaths per year and without even talking about crime one bit, without doing anything about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, you're talking about thousands of deaths that would 100% not have happened had there been no gun present. Maybe it's 10%. Maybe it's 50%. If it's 10%...right away that's 3000 lives per year. That is "thousands of people every year". That's how bad the gun problem in our country really is. The numbers that you threw out add up to costing thousands of lives every year for no reason other than these fantasies about how this time I'll really get to be the hero. 3000 out of 320,760,000 people (as of 4-15-15) is .0000935%. HUGE problem we have there. I am sure it is huge for the 3000 families effected, but as an overall 'epidemic' it is peanuts. You could probably find more than 3000 people who were saved by guns each year to balance that out.