[WASHINGTONTIMES] Conservative political commentator and former Florida Congressman Allen West has made his gun rights stance permanent with a new tattoo.
Aces High Tattoo shop posted the evidence on Instagram, with Mr. West showing off a "Molon Lab" tattoo on his right forearm, the Daily Caller reported Friday.
The Greek phrase is popular among second amendment supporters for its expression of defiance. It is believed that when the Persian King Xerxes demanded Sparta's King Leonidas and his army to lay down their weapons at the battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas replied, "Molon Labe," which translates "Come and take [them]."
The phrase was also popular motto during the Texas revolution and is now touted on t-shirts for gun rights activists.
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He's a patriot and great American, but this in my opinion is a bit unhinged. Today's human bumper stickers trouble me.
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Simple rule of thumb. Will you still be proud to display it ten years from now. My father had a small, crudely done USMC 'tat' done in 1946. After Guadalcanal, Guam and Iwo he was always proud to have it. Of course, it also wasn't on his forehead or the back of his knuckles. O mores, O tempore.
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Had a brother-in-law (Korean War Marine vet who has passed on) who thought about getting a tattoo late in life. Asked why he wanted to get a tattoo so late in life, he said: "If I don't like it, I don't have to live with it that long."
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He's putting his money (and body) where his mouth is.
I don't do tattoos, but if he wants to do that, I won't respect him less for it. I kinda doubt he's a candidate for "Miami Ink." Remember, in most of his public appearances, he's wearing a suit and tie.
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At a family reunion I attended a few years ago, one of the in-laws had the entire 2nd amendment tattooed on his left arm. It was kind of impressive.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
I do see the interpretation. It could be argued that he is not imprinting for the dead as in self-flaggellation during procession or even a looser interpretaion, wake. I am not a tattoo person. Somewhere around 50/50 I get the tattoo.
From what I understand, this is not about memorializing the dead, but against advertising for the dead; not getting a tattoo but why one would get a tattoo.
Perhaps those who know would know how it all translates out.
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From what I understand, this is not about memorializing the dead, but against advertising for the dead; not getting a tattoo but why one would get a tattoo.
swksvolFF, the law means do not cut yourself as a way of mourning those who died, nor ever get a tattoo. The ide being not to permanently mar the body God gave you... though piercing for jewelry was never forbidden. In the other hand, some of the odder current piercings clearly never occurred ti the ancient priests who wrote Leviticus.
I think humans have been piercing and coloring themselves or otherwise since time. What I don't personally understand is why in Judgement a person with a tattoo of a lost comrade or family member is on the same scale plate at the tramp stamp and gang tat?
And I understand getting a tat of a lost child is a totally different approach to a tat of a lost boyfriend. And given modern technology perhaps back when a person didn't just get a tattoo/piercing, but survived a tattoo/piercing.
Is it a decadence of culture deal? Is it what Magritte would call This is Not a Pipe unreality as reality; idol worshiping?
If I put myself as, at worst, an interested non-believer, I find the Bible as not only a social contract but also as a set of lessons on how societies fail.
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“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Genesis 1:31
"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27
For believers who choose to be an extension of Gods kingdom, it has to do with setting themselves apart from the world, live a pure and clean life, a.k.a. Holy life. Not permanently change appearance His creation of you. Some of the cuttings of the body at that time were a bit extreme, also, when it came to using the body as a bill board of emotions.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... , a self-described socialist, called for a progressive estate tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires during a speech on Saturday.
"A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much while so many have so little," Mr. Sanders said at the Vermont AFL-CIO annual convention.
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Thou shall covet
Key tenet of socialism, followed by - Thou shall steal.
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Make no mistake, progressives have eyed the hundreds of billions residing in IRA's and thrifty saver's portfolios for years. The feckless beltway thieves cannot responsibly execute the existing budget. Why give them a farthing more ?
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#6 ... or a 'progressive' tax on campaign contributions by individuals, organizations, and pacs running from 5 percent to 200 percent based on the amount 'given'.
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Back when jokes were funny, and it was OK to laugh:
Recently attempted to de facto ban artisan cheese
Booze will disqualify you from health care
milk/sugar is double bad and banned
Its like the Tom Hanksathon last night; can't show Bachelor Party anymore.
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There's a reason many have taken to calling the GOP "The Stupid Party". Beltway big-government establishment GOP types have stolen election and hate the grass roots - and the grass roots are starting to wake up and realize that Boehner, McConnel, Rove, et al. are not out for anyone except their own power by way of government control and control of the government largesse. In that respect, there isnt a dimes worth of difference between them and Pelosi, Reid and Obama. The main thing that differs is who gets the money and power.
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"The main thing that differs is who gets the money and power." Politics is about who takes orders & who gives the prders, whether it's a republican form of government or a brutal dictatorship. Maybe it's just altruism &/or a willingness to share & consult with the public that makes the difference.
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So what? Really, then what? The Senate and Congress can send every bill they ever dreamed of to include Unicorn protection and civil rights for Buffalo's. What will happen? Obama will veto them and the stalemate will continue. Nothing will get passed and DC will continue to spend like crazy agreeing only in pork. What we need is a lesson in compromise, by both sides in order to come to agreement on issues that are driving this once great nation into the ranks of the third world. Can we get enough votes to over ride him? Hell no, the Senate is full of cowards in both parties who are so afraid to go on any recorded vote in fear of the next election. Bad mouth the tea party, at least they are willing to stand up and be counted.
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[NATIONALJOURNAL] There are still two months until Election Day in November--but, today, ballots are already on their way to voters in North Carolina.
For voters in many key battleground states, Election Day can come far sooner than the first Tuesday in November, a fact that scrambles the calculus for candidates and has both parties investing heavily in turnout operations. More than a third of the 2014 electorate is expected to cast ballots early this year, and they're starting to do it very soon.
Democrats have enjoyed a ground-game advantage in past elections, and have put $60 million behind their field efforts in 10 key Senate states--two facts they're counting on help tip the scales toward them in a year when the electorate will be whiter and more conservative than in presidential years. But Republicans aren't ceding the ground game, and they have made significant investments--including an additional $8 million last week--of their own to help with early-vote turnout and field operations.
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[THEHILL] The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday said new allegations that U.S. commandos were ordered to "stand down" during the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, aren't supported by findings from House and Senate Sherlocks. "Da witnesses are all dead!"
Five commandos who survived the Benghazi attack, which claimed the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, made the allegation in a new book, accusing the CIA station chief of delaying a rescue mission.
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said politicians never came across evidence indicating the station chief had told his team to "stand down" and abort a rescue mission.
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Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said politicians never came across evidence indicating the station chief had told his team to "stand down" and abort a rescue mission.
He didn't say it didn't happen, but rather "politicians never came across any evidence." ..... at least until three eye witnesses turned up.
A witness statement is a formal document containing your own account of the facts relating to issues arising in a dispute. Comments made in the statement should be limited to fact, and comments based on opinion should be kept to a minimum.
The purpose of the witness statement is to provide written evidence to support a party's case that will, if necessary, be used as evidence in court. The statement is a crucial part of the case, designed to show it in its strongest light. It is important, therefore, to ensure that the statement is accurate and comprehensive.
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Apparently the Intel Dem is simply attempting to mislead the public by saying this is not evidence, when witness statements are indeed evidence.
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As intended, this latest revelation, a carefully crafted DCI Klington deflection, leads directly to the State Department, it's former head and presidential hopeful. More competition for the lagging sales of Beest's new garage sale standard, "Hard Choices."
Fauxichantis and ValJar must be clasping hands and smiling.
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