December 31, 2012

Transcript from my show, how to move the needle on Gun Control

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lesersense/2012/12/31/making-sense-with-steve-leser--week-in-review

Typing the word “shooting” in a google news search today yields stories of nine separate shootings in the last 24 hours just on the first page of that search.

This is part of what we need to consider in the wake of Sandy Hook. There is a massive level of gun violence in this country to which we have become so desensitized we just gloss right over most reports of it in the news. That’s one of the big problems.

Folks, stop being desensitized to everyday gun violence. That is the first thing we have to do to start changing things. As horrific as it was, I am telling you now as I have on my last couple of shows, Sandy Hook is not going to be enough to force any kind of meaningful change. It’s going to take more. It’s going to take a constant reminding people of all of the carnage that happens on a daily basis in this country.
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That is why I say that meaningful gun control is going to take a lot of awareness raising and unfortunately a lot more carnage before it happens. This is something that is frustrating for people in the inner cities, particularly people of color in the inner cities because they have been experiencing this first hand for decades and desperately trying to raise awareness about it.

Take the important step, and this is for everyone who hears this show, take the step at least a couple of days a week and go to Google, click on the News menu tab at the top and then in the search field type the word “shooting” and click the little blue magnifying glass button and check out the results. Do this a couple of times a week and post at least one or two of the shooting articles of the last 24 hours on your facebook or twitter page or mail it to your friends. Get as many other people that you know to do the same.

I did it for the first time today. If enough of us just do this simple thing, I promise you, we will be on the short road to meaningful gun control in this country.

December 31, 2012

Link to archive of my show from last night (Includes segment on Gun Control)

http://tobtr.com/s/4200737

Making Sense with Steve Leser

1. A special message from me on Republican Strategy and whether the GOP is up to something
2. An update on the economy and the Fiscal Cliff
3. The Gun Argument continues

That and our trademark Hall of Fame and Shame on tonight’s show

December 30, 2012

I'm broadcasting live on the air now re: Fiscal Cliff, Gun Control and more! Listen in at...

http://tobtr.com/s/4200737

December 30, 2012

Missiongathering Christian Church Billboard...

December 28, 2012

Christian denominations supportive of LGBTIQ equality

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominational_positions_on_homosexuality

Lutheran (Evangelical Lutheran Church)
Mennonite
Metropolitan Community Church
Moravian Church
New Apostolic Church
Old Catholic Church (not to be confused with the Roman catholic church)
More Light Presbyterians (A Presbyterian denomination supportive of LGBTIQ rights)
Friends General Conference (A Quaker denomination supportive of LGBTIQ rights)
Swedenborgian Church of North America
United Church of Canada
United Church of Christ (Nationally supportive, most local churches are, need to check individually)
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I felt a need to research and post this after learning of the pope's recent statements.

December 24, 2012

Even Israel Is Fact-Checking the NRA Now

Source: The Atlantic Wire

On Sunday morning, Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, told the world that armed guards stopped school shootings in Israel. Israel begs to differ. "Israel had a whole lot of school shootings until they did one thing," LaPierre said sitting calmly on Meet the Press. "They said, 'We're going to stop it,' and they put armed security in every school, and they have not had a problem since then."

Well Mr. Pierre, that would awesome if it were true. But according to Yigal Palmor, spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, it's not. More specifically, the two situations are "fundamentally different," and Israel's actually tightened its gun control laws in recent years. "We didn't have a series of school shootings, and they had nothing to do with the issue at hand in the United States. We had to deal with terrorism," Palmor told the New York Daily News. "What removed the danger was not the armed guards but an overall anti-terror policy and anti-terror operations which brought street terrorism down to nearly zero over a number of years."


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/even-israel-fact-checking-nra-now-044709533.html

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Big surprise, the Republican Party supported NRA is making stuff up.

December 23, 2012

Tonight's Making Sense with Steve Leser at 7pm EST will cover the following topics Update URL

1. New Developments in the aftermath of the Connecticut shooting including the NRAs response and the negative backlash it created.

2. We will have an update on the fiscal cliff.

3. and then did the Iowa Supreme Court just issue a blatantly sexist ruling?

Listen in at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lesersense/2012/12/24/making-sense-with-steve-leser--week-in-review

December 23, 2012

I am an ally

Happy Holidays to my friends in the LGBT Group!

December 19, 2012

When it comes to the Cave, remember they have no traffic there except for us. Don't go there.

"Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

CC's Alexa rating is 1/100th of DUs, they have no traffic. Don't mention them and don't go there.

Let them talk about us. In turn, we will talk about Liberal/Progressive ideas.

December 17, 2012

Archive of tonight's radio show regarding the Connecticut tragedy and the actions of Michigan's GOP

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lesersense/2012/12/17/making-sense-with-steve-leser--week-in-review

This episode concentrated on two issues:

1. The tragedy in Connecticut and the right to keep and bear arms.
2. The actions of the Michigan governor and state legislature and the surrounding issues of proportional representation and the war on women and unions.