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February 23, 2018

Which is more objectionable

In New Hampshire open carry has been legal for a while but until recently concealed carry required a permit. Now concealed carry is a universal right. Do you object more to one or the other or are both okay?

February 19, 2018

Kirsten Gillibrand is about to have a bad week

Newsweek reveals the Al Franken hit squad was another electronic lynching...

"White nationalist provocateurs, a pair of fake news sites, an army of Twitter bots and other cyber tricks helped derail Democratic Senator Al Franken last year, new research shows."

http://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-trump-franken-mueller-twitter-810355

February 16, 2018

"Wow-they got the whole coven!"

Trump responds to Mueller indicting 13 Russians.

February 15, 2018

A modest suggestion

Want to solve our gun problem-institute a commission at the Capitol and have the names of all the senators and representatives printed on little balls and loaded into a bingo cage. Immediately after every mass shooting a ball should be drawn for every ten citizens killed or wounded and the politicians picked should be rapidly shot to death. We wouldn't even need debates or discussions-a year from now we would have totally effective gun control...

February 13, 2018

Serious question

Sean Hannity loses his shit over a supposed "secret sperm" in the Obama portrait, Can anyone tellme why it would make him angry and what secret agenda it would serve?

February 13, 2018

Posted on Facebook:

The NRA can no longer threaten that Obama is coming for your guns. As a result gun sales are down and Remington is entering bankruptcy. Karma and Irony were last seem giggling and dancing a jig...

February 12, 2018

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,"

"The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

I would expect wretched, homeless, and tempest tossed refuse to need some social services on arrival...I see nothing in the poem that says we should expect to immediately profit from them. We have many congressmen and senators who's parents were immigrants of no particular value to the country.

The first generation survives and the next aspires and sometimes the third soars. But every sojourner is just a start, a root...and what grows from it is what makes America for the better or worse. At best we get an Elon Musk and at worst a Donald Trump but in America few are native sons,

February 2, 2018

A question for republicans

"You have stated, as have many of your republican associates that 90% of the FBI are honest patriots defending our country while a few at the topmost positions are treasonous weasels. Can you tell me why sir the worst people in this otherwise stainless organization have the highest performance reports and most promotions?"...

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