WTF CNN's British Accented "Expert" Richard Quest???

I loathe him, they call him and aviation expert but I think they call him a different kind of expert with each passing week.

I guess it's the accent that gives him such a tone of authority.

So I Googled him, couldn't get past this story from a couple years back, "a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals":

Richard Quest, CNN Reporter, Arrested On Drug Charges



CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot, law-enforcement sources said.[...]

Quest was initially busted for loitering, the source said. Aside from the oddly configured rope, the search also turned up a sex toy inside of his boot, and a small bag of methamphetamine in his left jacket pocket.

It wasn't immediately clear what the rope was for.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/richard-quest-cnn-reporte_n_97466.html

Oh, Wait, There's even more Fail! "Men, Married, Southerners Most Likely to Be Gun Owners"

Here we go again. A flaccid attempt to smear a demographic by association with gun ownership. What bigoted tripe.

What the hell is the significance of this? There are studies that show any number of things, but is being a Gun Owner and a Married Man in the South some kind of fucking epiphany inducing revelation?

“There are as many as 300 million guns in circulation today (the majority owned legally, but many not) and [div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]more than 4 million new guns come onto the market each year.

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About 1,500 state gun bills have been introduced since the Newtown massacre and 109 have become law.



New York Times: “In the 12 months since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., almost every state has enacted at least one new gun law. Nearly two-thirds of the new laws ease restrictions and expand the rights of gun owners.

Fuck the Olympics... Fuck the Committee and fuck the Russian organization of this fucked up event.

The Olympics has always pissed me off for it's commercial corporate bullshit, it doesn't really celebrate the common man or woman- one largely has to come from an entitled family or be in a favorable position to participate.

And it seems to get worse every year and here we have a year where we could stand on principal and boycott, we aren't. Too much money at stake.

This year just fuck it all. Let it be a commercial failure and let them all learn a lesson. In fact, if the Olympics dies off altogether I don't think I'll miss them.

There's a better organization:

There's a hell of a lot more good will and humanity in the Special Olympics.





The next Special Olympics World Summer Games are coming to Los Angeles, California.
The 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games will feature world-class competitions in aquatics, gymnastics, track and field, basketball, football (soccer) and many other summer sports.

Find and support a Local Special Olympics Event Near You!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Olympics

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Fuck, I'll kick this one... nt

3 faces: Joe: "You're Killing Me!"; Barack: "I love my job"; Boehner: "I need a drink"

I agree with you, and I'm not particularly proud of our culture or our behavior at home or abroad.

With a few exceptions, our country more than most accepts crass, loud, vulgar, and often violent behavior embarrassingly easily.

There are two DU groups that discuss guns exclusively:

The Gun Control & RKBA group here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1172

and the Gun Control Reform Activism group here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1262

Both are reasonably good places to post your perspective for discussion, though I would say that there's more freedom to express individual points of view in the first group, Gun Control & RKBA.

Welcome to DU!

Reading the reviews led me to some articles of interest...

One worth bookmarking is from the Nation, The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights

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I think we should have this discussion honestly. If the latter is your position, say it. If you want to eliminate the Second Amendment right, mount a forthright political campaign to do so. Do not pussy-foot around with “I am not against the Second Amendment. I do not want to take your hunting rifles and your shotguns, and your antique muskets,” when you really don’t like the Second Amendment at all, would love to see it repealed, and wouldn’t mind if everybody was forced to turn in every weapon that they owned.

‘Cause, guess what: You’re not fooling anybody. When your discourse reeks with intellectual and moral disdain for gun-rights and gun-rights advocates, when it never endorses, and indeed at best studiously avoids, the issue of gun ownership as a fundamental political right, it shows. And it certainly shows when you say outright that you’d love to confiscate all guns, no matter how you try to waffle on that later. Despite what’s implied in the ever-present disdain, gun rights advocates are not, ipso facto, stupid (or violent, or crazy), and certainly not too stupid to see where you’re heading. So let’s stop gaslighting gun-rights supporters as paranoid when they state what they see:

Dianne Feinstein, who had a concealed carry permit when she felt a ”sense of helplessness,” saying: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them…. Mr. and Mrs. American turn ‘em all in. I would have done it.”

Not to mention Andrew Cuomo’s more recent: “Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option.”

Of course, you could counter that nobody should believe a word of anything these politicians say, anyway. How persuasive is this performance by pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hands Joe?

(end snip)

The entire piece is here: http://www.thepolemicist.net/2013/01/the-rifle-on-wall-left-argument-for-gun.html

"I’m certainly against one of Senator Obama’s ideas, which is to lift the cap on the payroll tax"

Life is short, motherfuckers. Enjoy it. Leave a Mark. Be kind. Make people smile.

That's all there is too it.

Thanks to Kali, we have a little background on this man: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018553145

Thanks, Kali.

I love you, Middlefingermom.