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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History Was Not in Orlando
The horrific massacre of innocents in an Orlando nightclub is a tragedy of national and international proportions. The senseless, methodical killing of people just like us, in a place where they’ve come to relax, is an affront to our humanity and civilization.

It has immediately been dubbed "the worst mass shooting in American history" by many media organizations (and our President), looking to single out this event from the almost weekly incidents of gun violence that plague the U.S.

But this kind of categorization is very debatable and has been called out for "whitewashing" history. If we mean murder perpetrated by guns, the worst "mass shooting" in American history was the "Wounded Knee Massacre" in South Dakota, when 150-300 Native Americans were gunned down by the U.S. army in South Dakota.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2016 03:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jeepers! And the did it without AR-15 Gatling Guns?
Posted by: Bobby || 06/20/2016 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  That was government sponsored. What government gun grabbing actually looks like.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2016 8:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Must have been defensive, otherwise they would have used "Assault" Gatling guns.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 06/20/2016 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4  How many died at Pearl Harbor? I'd bet that number beats Wounded Knee.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/20/2016 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, and 911 beats Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/20/2016 11:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Why It's Time to Repeal the Second Amendment
[RollingStone] I teach the Constitution for a living. I revere the document when it is used to further social justice and make our country a more inclusive one. I admire the Founders for establishing a representative democracy that has survived for over two centuries.

As much as we have a culture of reverence for the founding generation, it's important to understand that they got it wrong — and got it wrong often. Unfortunately, in many instances, they enshrined those faults in the Constitution. For instance, most people don't know it now, but under the original document, Mitt Romney would be serving as President Obama's vice president right now because he was the runner-up in the last presidential election. That part of the Constitution was fixed by the Twelfth Amendment, which set up the system we currently have of the president and vice president running for office together.

Much more profoundly, the Framers and the Constitution were wildly wrong on race. They enshrined slavery into the Constitution in multiple ways, including taking the extreme step of prohibiting the Constitution from being amended to stop the slave trade in the country's first 20 years. They also blatantly wrote racism into the Constitution by counting slaves as only 3/5 of a person for purposes of Congressional representation. It took a bloody civil war to fix these constitutional flaws (and then another 150 years, and counting, to try to fix the societal consequences of them).

There are others flaws that have been fixed (such as about voting and Presidential succession), and still other flaws that have not yet been fixed (such as about equal rights for women and land-based representation in the Senate), but the point is the same — there is absolutely nothing permanently sacrosanct about the Founders and the Constitution. They were deeply flawed people, it was and is a flawed document, and when we think about how to make our country a more perfect union, we must operate with those principles in mind.

In the face of yet another mass shooting, now is the time to acknowledge a profound but obvious truth – the Second Amendment is wrong for this country and needs to be jettisoned. We can do that through a Constitutional amendment. It's been done before (when the Twenty-First Amendment repealed prohibition in the Eighteenth), and it must be done now.

The Second Amendment needs to be repealed because it is outdated, a threat to liberty and a suicide pact. When the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791, there were no weapons remotely like the AR-15 assault rifle and many of the advances of modern weaponry were long from being invented or popularized.
And yet, the basics remain the same: Propelling by fire a metallic projectile from a tube in order to poke a target.
Sure, the Founders knew that the world evolved and that technology changed, but the weapons of today that are easily accessible are vastly different than anything that existed in 1791. When the Second Amendment was written, the Founders didn't have to weigh the risks of one man killing 49 and injuring 53 all by himself. Now we do, and the risk-benefit analysis of 1791 is flatly irrelevant to the risk-benefit analysis of today.
Sez you.
Didn't private communities and some individuals own cannons in those days, cannon which could be loaded with grapeshot or chains to clear entire streets of rabble, Indian raiders or, nearly a century later, Civil War armies?
Gun-rights advocates like to make this all about liberty, insisting that their freedom to bear arms is of utmost importance and that restricting their freedom would be a violation of basic rights.

But liberty is not a one way street. It also includes the liberty to enjoy a night out with friends, loving who you want to love, dancing how you want to dance, in a club that has historically provided a refuge from the hate and fear that surrounds you. It also includes the liberty to go to and send your kids to kindergarten and first grade so that they can begin to be infused with a love of learning. It includes the liberty to go to a movie, to your religious house of worship, to college, to work, to an abortion clinic, go to a hair salon, to a community center, to the supermarket, to go anywhere and feel that you are free to do to so without having to weigh the risk of being gunned down by someone wielding a weapon that can easily kill you and countless others.
It also includes the Liberty to be able to secure those blessings from a growing and increasingly hostile government. The only way -- the only way -- to do that is to bear firearms.
The liberty of some to own guns cannot take precedence over the liberty of everyone to live their lives free from the risk of being easily murdered. It has for too long, and we must now say no more.
It does take precedence and it will continue to do so. Don't like it? Afraid of being shot? Get a gun!
Finally, if we take the gun-rights lobby at their word, the Second Amendment is a suicide pact. As they say over and over, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. In other words, please the gun manufacturers by arming even the vast majority of Americans who do not own a gun.
You lost me with that last sentence. Gun manufacturers don't drive gun sales. Fear of the further eroding of basic liberties does, such as proposing to repeal the 2nd Amendment. Using one or two amendments to destroy the others. That's what drives the fear that drives gun sales.
Just think of what would have happened in the Orlando night-club Saturday night if there had been many others armed. In a crowded, dark, loud dance club, after the shooter began firing, imagine if others took out their guns and started firing back. Yes, maybe they would have killed the shooter, but how would anyone else have known what exactly was going on? How would it not have devolved into mass confusion and fear followed by a large-scale shootout without anyone knowing who was the good guy with a gun, who was the bad guy with a gun, and who was just caught in the middle? The death toll could have been much higher if more people were armed.
It would have been a mess to be sure, but it is a mess now with unarmed people. The bad luck of the victims of the nightclub was that they were shot by a government agent who had training in firearms, and who had jumped through all the legally required hoops to obtain a firearm. How this redounds to me and other private citizens who keep and bear their arms without shooting innocents can't be explained because it is a construct without any logic.
The gun-rights lobby's mantra that more people need guns will lead to an obvious result — more people will be killed. We'd be walking down a road in which blood baths are a common occurrence, all because the Second Amendment allows them to be.
No question that more guns in the hands of more people will lead to more shootings. But there is also no question that more bloodbaths are coming for reasons that have zero to do with the number of firearms available. In case you haven't noticed, there is a war going on which pit people who want to be left alone against people who want to pit their very government against them, all for no other reason than political payback. Those who want to be left alone need and should have firearms and all the ammunition they can possibly acquire. The other side, in which this "Constitutional Professor" resides, needs government to disarm those people, all for the purposes of political payback for being conservative, or whatever intellectual construct that "empowers" them to set a government against fellow citizens.
At this point, bickering about the niceties of textual interpretation, whether the history of the amendment supports this view or that, and how legislators can solve this problem within the confines of the constitution is useless drivel that will lead to more of the same. We need a mass movement of those who are fed up with the long-dead Founders' view of the world ruling current day politics. A mass movement of those who will stand up and say that our founding document was wrong and needs to be changed. A mass movement of those who will thumb their nose at the NRA, an organization that is nothing more than the political wing of the country's gun manufacturers, and say enough is enough.
Good luck with amassing a political movement that can never be more than something funded by those who love government and those who hate people who just want to be left to their very lives.
The Second Amendment must be repealed, and it is the essence of American democracy to say so.
And gun owners, those who own ARs and AKs and .308s, will get the final say-so.
Posted by: badanov || 06/20/2016 00:17 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry. Not happening. You punks tried to repeal the first amendment last year. No one listened to you then either.
Posted by: rammer || 06/20/2016 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  I think you should quit your job.

The Constitution does not give you YOUR rights,

They are GOD Given.

No one can take these Rights, that is the point.
Posted by: newc || 06/20/2016 2:24 Comments || Top||

#3  I teach the Constitution for a living.
I could stop reading right there. Thanks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/20/2016 4:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Because Americans have all these guns but not actually using them to defend their liberties? :-)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/20/2016 6:24 Comments || Top||

#5  This person is so tone deaf I don't know how he's employed.
Posted by: Charles || 06/20/2016 7:07 Comments || Top||

#6 
...the essence of American democracy...


There's the problem. We're not a democracy, we're a republic. Our rights are not subject to the whims of popular sentiment.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/20/2016 7:16 Comments || Top||

#7  As someone who teaches the Constitution for a living, he must not be very good - he implies the 3/5ths compromise was bad because it counted slaves as only 3/5ths of a person for representation, but to have counted them as whole persons would have increased the Congressional strength of the slave states.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/20/2016 7:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Ditto Glenmore. And the slave states pushed hard for counting the slaves as full people.

It was a compromise that allowed the convention to go forward. This is a loser who is a fascist that wants to dictate his beliefs to everyone else.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/20/2016 8:37 Comments || Top||

#9  I revere the document when it is used to further social justice

Ah, but otherwise it sucks, right?

#5 This person is so tone deaf I don't know how he's employed.

Actually, that is how he's employed.
Posted by: charger || 06/20/2016 8:51 Comments || Top||

#10  What I find amusing is that these "Constitutional scholars" overlook that the language is mostly negative. That the government will not do this or that Congress shall not do that. Must be inconvenient for these nanny-staters.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/20/2016 8:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Darth -don't go there.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/20/2016 9:05 Comments || Top||

#12  Our rights are granted by God.

The Constitution lays down the laws that protect our rights from infringement by a grasping, power-mad government.

The Second Amendment guarantees that we have the tools to protect all our other rights.

Remember: while not all gun-grabbers are fascists, all fascists are gun-grabbers.


Posted by: regular joe || 06/20/2016 9:24 Comments || Top||

#13  The editorialist, who teaches at Drexel University's law school (now on its third name), writes frequently for the Rolling Stone on legal issues. Rolling Stone, like most of the legacy media, does not have the sales numbers it once did. In similar straits, Drexel's law school only opened for business in 2006, and its ranking and the caliber of its students reflects that.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/20/2016 10:44 Comments || Top||

#14  What I find amusing is that these "Constitutional scholars" overlook that the language is mostly negative.

That's because the Constitution does not grant any 'rights'. It simply acknowledges that the rights exist naturally (or are granted by God) and cannot be taken away. You can attempt to prevent those rights from being exercised (like the Gun-grabbers are now attempting to do) or restrict the exercise of those rights (Felons, etc...) but you cannot remove them.

Something any Constitutional Scholar should know.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/20/2016 11:01 Comments || Top||

#15  The real argument that these fascists have is that rights can't be God given as there is no God.

In my studies many years ago I read a definitive repudiation of this argument vis a vis natural rights but I can't recall the author.

I like to phrase it that all of your rights exist even if you are all alone on an island. You have no rights to anything of anyone else be it material or labor.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/20/2016 11:42 Comments || Top||

#16  To them Government is God, so Rights are Government-given, and can be Government-taken.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/20/2016 11:55 Comments || Top||

#17  In 1776 the history of the world up to that time was dominated by evil institutions and individuals and a subservient populace unable to defend itself from their depredations.
Although our governments have hardly been the quintessence of good, we remain a free people because we are armed and dangerous to those would enslave us.
Posted by: Ulusoque Speaking for Boskone3139 || 06/20/2016 12:45 Comments || Top||

#18  OK, everybody calm down. It's the Rolling Stone and nobody takes it seriously. There is a legal mechanism for changing the Constitution if this twerp thinks he can exercise it. But he won't.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/20/2016 13:01 Comments || Top||

#19  There were off duty armed cops AT the gun free zone night club. How well did THAT combination workout.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 06/20/2016 19:31 Comments || Top||

#20  You're assuming, then, that the average CCW individual can effectively return fire in a packed public venue?

Posted by: Pappy || 06/20/2016 19:43 Comments || Top||

#21  No need to assume. Statistical data shows CCW holders fire less, hit more and more often kill their targets then police officers. They also hit less innocent bystanders.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/20/2016 20:05 Comments || Top||

#22  I would bet that even with CCW holders firing and possibly hitting bystanders, the total body count would have been far less than what there was without them.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/20/2016 22:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Why Liberals Support Muslims
h/t Instapundit
At first glance, the liberal approach to Islam makes no sense whatsoever.

Liberalism is generally hostile to Christianity and it particularly seems to dislike anyone who has strong religious convictions that conflict with liberalism. This describes every devout Muslim on the planet.

...Liberals go on and on endlessly about a war on women and Islam treats women like garbage.

...Libs obsess endlessly about gun violence and constantly trash our troops when they accidentally kill civilians. In a large minority of the Islamic world (and a majority in many more fundamentalist countries), innocent women and children are considered fair game

...The Left has gone so insane over imaginary violations of "gay rights" that liberals are in favor of driving Christians out of any profession that caters to weddings and they insist that women have to use the bathroom with men because the less than .2% of men who "feel like" women would be uncomfortable using the men's bathroom. Meanwhile, Islam goes with homophobia the way peanut butter goes with jelly. There are a number of Islamic countries where being gay is a crime with jail or even DEATH as the penalty.

So, how can liberals continue to turn a blind eye to all of this?

As my friend Evan Sayet has explained, it has to do with the liberal emphasis on "indiscriminateness."

...There is no explanation for success if nothing is better than anything else and the greater the success the greater the injustice. Conversely and for the same reason, failure is de facto proof of victimization and the greater the failure, the greater the proof of the victim is, or the greater the victimization.
And there is no bigger failure than Islamic Civilization
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/20/2016 11:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I used to think it had to do with a common hatred of America. Recently it occurs to me that their common ground is far broader. What they both hate is modernity.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/20/2016 13:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Personally, I think liberals would view it as a huge vindication to their "cause" (whatever that is) if they could import a bunch of savages and show that they could be integrated into their version of Utopia.
Posted by: gorb || 06/20/2016 13:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Because they have sniffed each other's asses and know the islamists would wipe the floor with them?

When it comes to violence with no regard for consequences:

How many Pajama Boys = 1 Islamic Rage Boy?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/20/2016 15:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Why Liberals Support Muslims

- cause they both want to topple Western Civilization.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2016 15:35 Comments || Top||

#5  What they both hate is individual success.

There can be no greater insult to a liberal or Muslim than the notion that individuals succeed on their own merit.

YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT!!
Posted by: AlanC || 06/20/2016 15:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Simple, both have renounced humanity and have no souls. I see no difference between them as they have same goals in mind. Destruction of all humanity.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/20/2016 17:19 Comments || Top||


Government
CBO study shows that 'the rich' don't just pay a 'fair share' of federal taxes, they pay almost everybody's share
[AEI] This is an updated and revised version of a CD post from last year that generated nearly 300 comments because of the controversial nature of the topic ‐ whether "the rich" pay their "fair share" of taxes or not ‐ so I expect another lively discussion this year!

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its annual report titled "The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2013." In that publication, the CBO provides detailed data on American households for each income quintile in 2013 for: a) average household "market income" (includes labor income, business income, income from capital gains, and retirement/pension income), b) average household transfer payments (payments and benefits from federal, state and local governments including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)), and c) average federal taxes paid by households (including income, payroll, corporate, and excise taxes). Some of the key findings of the CBO analysis are displayed in the table above, with the data organized by household income quintiles. The data in the first four rows above appear in the CBO report (from Tables 1 and 3), and rows 5-8 above have been calculated separately based on data from the first four rows in the table.

Scott Greenberg and John Olsen of The Tax Foundation recently summarized some of the key findings of the CBO report in their post "Are the Rich Paying Their Fair Share Yet?", here are their main conclusions:
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2016 07:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But that doesn't include the state and local taxes - sales tax, property tax, personal property tax, excise tax, license taxes, mandatory health insurance. I bet the More Free Stuff folks would be surprised at just how much tax they pay.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/20/2016 7:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't fit the narrative. Infringes upon the 'Thou Shall Covet' plank of the socialists and their game of 'Thou Shall Bear False Witness' program to support their 'Thou Shall Steal' game.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2016 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Personally, I think a flat tax is the only fair tax, whether you make one dollar or a trillion. Otherwise, the folks at the lower end of the income spectrum gang up against the folks at the upper end of the income spectrum and have them pay for all kinds of crazy stuff. Seems unconstitutional to me.
Posted by: gorb || 06/20/2016 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Otherwise, the folks at the lower end of the income spectrum gang up against the folks at the upper end of the income spectrum and have them pay for all kinds of crazy stuff.

That's what the Goths and Huns did to Rome, and we're witnessing in Venezuela. BTW, that's why the rich buy politicians to create byzantine tax codes to protect what they got.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2016 15:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Dear Gays: The Left betrayed you to support Islam [video]
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2016 07:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why not just embed the video on this site?
Posted by: Elmavish Panda1401 || 06/20/2016 11:38 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump: 'US should consider profiling against crime....look at Israel'
[BBC] The presumptive Republican candidate in the US presidential election, Donald Trump, has suggested the country should consider using profiling to combat crime.

Mr Trump made the remarks when asked if he supported more profiling of Muslims in the US, in the context of last week's shooting at an Orlando gay club.

Profiling uses ethnicity, race and religion to determine whether a person has or is likely to commit crimes.

Critics say it could alienate Muslims.

In an interview with CBS, Mr Trump said other countries had "successfully" adopted the measure.

"You look at Israel and you look at others, and they do it and they do it successfully," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2016 06:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Profiling uses ethnicity, race and religion to determine whether a person has or is likely to commit crimes.

Employers and their Medical Insurers do it every day.
Pick: Age, Race, affliction
active 60 y/o, white dude, tonsillitis
Actuarial diagnosis: statistically likely throat cancer
Recommendation: RIF(disability)
Result: No Death, Hospitalization, Long or Short Term disability liability payouts required.

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/20/2016 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Critics say it could alienate Muslims.

And they are assimilating into their host countries so nicely too....

(/sarc)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/20/2016 10:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Loretta Lynch said she wants to thoroughly profile the dead Omar Mateen. Why not profile these jihadi boneheads before they commit some horrific act?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/20/2016 15:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
'Satanic Temple' Joins Planned Parenthood in Pro-Abortion Crusade
[Breitbart] In the face of growing pressure on Planned Parenthood after revelations that it was selling human body parts, the Satanic Temple has launched a pro-abortion crusade to come to the aid of America’s largest abortion provider.

The Satanic Temple, an organization that combats Christian influence in American society, has staged a series of counter-protests at pro-life rallies and filed a lawsuit against the state of Missouri on behalf of one of its members who had to wait 72 hours to get an abortion due to Missouri state law.

According to reports, legislators have passed nearly 300 abortion restrictions in the past five years, resulting in the closing of "hundreds of clinics."

In what free speech advocates are calling a victory for freedom of the press, David Daleiden, the intrepid investigative reporter who unearthed Planned Parenthood's misdeeds, has been exonerated from the charges brought by the abortion giant.

Dems vote to end investigation into baby body parts sales.
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#1  Have they endorsed Hillary yet?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/20/2016 12:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Talk about your duplication of effort.
Posted by: charger || 06/20/2016 16:47 Comments || Top||


Government
Loretta Lynch: 'islam,' '€˜ISIS' to be Scrubbed from Orlando 911 Tapes
[Breitbart] U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch revealed Sunday that the government will release the transcripts of the 911 calls made by the Orlando terrorist during the attack last Sunday -- scrubbed of any references to Islam or the Islamic State (ISIS).

She told Chuck Todd on NBC News’ Meet the Press that the "FBI is releasing a partial [printed] transcript of the killer’s calls with law enforcement, from inside the club," but added: "What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda."

Todd responded, incredulously: "We’re not going to hear him talk about those things?"

Lynch added: "We will hear him talk about some of those things, but we are not going to hear him make his assertions of allegiance and that."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2016 01:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Barack Hussein Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." Page 261 The Audacity of Hope
Posted by: Percy McCoy7690 || 06/20/2016 3:58 Comments || Top||

#2 
(i) But who stands with their victims?
(ii) Just how many Muslims you've killed via drones (never mind 1/4 million Syrians and unknown number of Iraqi)?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/20/2016 6:27 Comments || Top||

#3  The DoJ scrubbing and redacting team must be working overtime. Do the Clinton emails enjoy priority ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2016 6:31 Comments || Top||

#4  No credibility, and actively working for injustice to Americans
Posted by: Frank G || 06/20/2016 7:21 Comments || Top||

#5  They apparently don't believe his motivations were what he said they were, and are just 'correcting' the record.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/20/2016 8:02 Comments || Top||

#6  1984 was suppose to be a warning not a users manual.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2016 8:07 Comments || Top||

#7  If anybody needs any more proof that our "leaders" are muslim.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/20/2016 9:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Funny how quickly they threw the gays down the stair in favor of these bitter clingers to their religion and gun.

The calculation has been made: there is more Muslim votes and money than the gays.
Posted by: regular joe || 06/20/2016 9:29 Comments || Top||

#9  It was a local 911. A state issue.
By what legal theory does the Federal Government preempt?

Yeah, I know. A phone and a #$&! pen.
Posted by: Black John Smith || 06/20/2016 11:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Tampering with recordings??

Richard Nixon is unavailable for comment.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/20/2016 11:11 Comments || Top||

#11  great material for comedy skit

too bad Fox doesn't really do that
Posted by: lord garth || 06/20/2016 11:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Percy McCoy7690, if you had the patience and perseverance to actually read all that crap my hat's off to you.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/20/2016 13:09 Comments || Top||

#13  regular joe, had the same thought.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/20/2016 13:37 Comments || Top||

#14  Any idiot can see they have pushed too far.

Will the MSM pick up on it?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 06/20/2016 14:56 Comments || Top||

#15  Hmmmmm! They decided to be "...as transparent as they can be."

FBI, DOJ release new, full transcript of Orlando shooter's 911 call
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 06/20/2016 17:05 Comments || Top||

#16  FBI, DOJ release new, full transcript of Orlando shooter's 911 call

Yes, we looked STUPID!
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2016 17:25 Comments || Top||

#17  Not stupid, but rather, a more zealous few showed what we really want to do by controlling what is seen, and the geriatric MSM media almost swallowed, but not quite, and poof, it was all a big effort not to hurt the feelings of the true muzzies and prevent the ISIS extremists from being validated, which they so crave from the West. These are not people you want running your government in any way! They have no sense of duty or morals or honor, only their reverence and greed for power.....just like Hilda.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/20/2016 18:09 Comments || Top||

#18  File under aiding and abetting during wartime.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2016 18:41 Comments || Top||


Scott Baio: Champ Could Be a Muslim Who Wants to 'Totally Eliminate the United States'
[Breitbart] Earlier this week on Fox Business Network, actor Scott Baio said President Barack Obama's reluctance to say "Islamic terror" means "he's dumb, he's Muslim or he's a Muslim sympathizer."

"And I don't think he's dumb," Baio added.

He went on to wonder what the "end game" is.

"Is it to totally eliminate the United States as it was created and founded and the way it is now?" Baio asked. "I'm baffled by the lack of anything happening."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2016 01:51 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Put 'Charles in Charge' of 'the Lame Duck of DC'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/20/2016 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  And I could be a Galactic Overlord. Don't attribute to malice etc..
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/20/2016 6:18 Comments || Top||

#3  How about malice and stupidity?

And I could be a Galactic Overlord

Could I have the Alpha Centauri system for a vacation home?
Posted by: Pappy || 06/20/2016 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Could I have the Alpha Centauri system for a vacation home?

Sorry, but Alpha Centauri - whose sole habitable planet is dominated by a Vegetable Intelligence, is where I exile vegetarian (meat is murder) activists.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/20/2016 11:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Alpha Centauri - whose sole habitable planet is dominated by a Vegetable Intelligence, is where I exile vegetarian (meat is murder) activists.

Get your organic, grass fed, free range meat here!

Fresh and tasty!
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/20/2016 11:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Sorry, but Alpha Centauri - whose sole habitable planet is dominated by a Vegetable Intelligence, is where I exile vegetarian (meat is murder) activists.

Dante would be proud of you.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/20/2016 16:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Krynoids
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2016 18:46 Comments || Top||

#8  I would have thought that Vega would have been the obvious place to send all the Vegans. The grass-fed human market there is yuuuge.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/20/2016 18:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Yeah but the Vega people got tired of the incessant whining and the stench, said that the stink and constant jabbering got on their nerves.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/20/2016 20:31 Comments || Top||



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