Doubts abound that it reaches altitude, but the assault weapons ban made it out of committee today in the Senate on a party line vote: The Senate Judiciary Committee’s 10 Democrats voted for the bill, while its eight Republicans were opposed.
Once again Republicans line up for special interests confident that most voters won’t care. Let the midterm Congressional elections next year settle it.
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Methinks Republicans are demonstrating stupidness even more so after the election than before it.
oh yeah…. Woo ChooChoo!
but keep your eye on the bouncing bullet and follow the money
I agree with Dianne Feinstein less and less as we both age
but I have to give her props for staying in this fight.
As for the fake third world pope — be sure to listen to Democracy Now’s interview with journo from Argentina --the bike riding, luxury eschewing pope was complicit with the military during the dirty wars
The goopers are stupid for $$$$$$$
I hope that is not enough to change people’s minds when the
midterms roll around.
The current Republican assault on both the Affordable Care Act and Medicare is the most ridiculous and dangerous path the goopers could take.
More and more people are beginning to realize we do not have a health care system but a chronic disease enabling system. It’s not just how we pay for health care but what we are paying for that is important. The Affordable Health Care Act requires the medicare cover some preventative health care — like the silly idea of an annual visit and certain tests. Apparently the goops see health care as the same as which restaurant you choose.
I really really hate them. They are so stupid and shortsighted. They have sold their ideology to the likes of the Koch Bros who among many to pick from are the worst human beings on the planet. I believe if they thought they could get away with it -- they would kill people
have been enjoying cbs’ coverage of the holy sea gull
vis a vis st. francis and el nuevo papa
sorry about the viagra commercial. but then, how ironic
Eddie Fisher tells it like it is--1954 style
“Charm offensive” Where is the Republican charm offensive
why is this all on the president. The Republicans do not represent the majority opinion in this country on any of the issues they are trying to compromise. Obama should tell them they are big ass losers and figure one thing they can have as a favor but otherwise let us at least move into the 20th (the 21st would be better but hey) century and stop all these “mulligans” on issues that are settled.
This morning I lay in bed wondering what the headlines would be in this morning’s Local Rag. I figured sports would trump the pope. I was right.
But, I wasn’t prepared for the banner reading,”Study sees treasure in nuclear trash Managing nation’s nuclear waste would mean jobs for state, report says” The State, pg A1, 14 Mar 2013
How much could the state make $$$? $12M in taxes and 1,700 jobs.
Damn the torpedoes!!
Patd @ 11:56 : “members of the House and Senate appropriations committees have quietly made permanent four formerly temporary gun-rights provisions largely favored by Republicans.”
Fortunately, in a stroke of strategic genius of a rumdumbsfeld magnitude, the rip up lickans institutionalized the Line Item Veto. HAHAHAHAHA
Flatus,
What a wonderful solution to our nuclear waste troubles. We’ll just send it all to your house. Thank you very much. You are a true friend.
Seriously, exel energy, nee nsp, stores its nuclear turds in steel casks at the Prairie Island Indian Reservation on the banks of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi floods annually, sometimes in a spectacular fashion. People from Iowa to Louisiana to Vera Cruz, Miami, and Trinidad, have been extremely fortunate that the floods haven’t reached and breached the casks. So far.
Just don’t ever let rumsfeld take over the storage of nuclear waste, because he’ll look for and find a cheaper way to do it.
From Ms KGC@ noon: “I agree with Dianne Feinstein less and less as we both age but I have to give her props for staying in this fight.”
I agree with the first clause. Feinstein’s fight will be bloody and somewhat compromised before it passes and gets the Presidential signature. Within seconds, Scalia will fast track the lawsuit and the Gang of Five will toss it in the trash can.
Better to invoke the militia clause, get those guns into safe storage, and get the gun nuts showing up for bivouac and boring monthly feats of maneuver. I like the idea of guys carrying all of their own weapons simultaneously on the sixty mile forced march. Lugging 200 lbs of firearms could cool the ardor of even the most squirrely gunnutter.
“I believe if they thought they could get away with it — they would kill people”
kgc…I believe, in so many ways, they already do kill people. They stop short of walking up with a gun and blowing them away in an overt manner, but they pollute the planet and put so much crap in our food (and alter its composition to squeeze just a smidge more profit out of it) that food has also become part of the killing mechanism. Tragic, really….
Actually, XR, the facility will be in Aiken, on the high-ground above Augusta. That makes sense, because much of the land there is a golf course. It is, though, on the other side of that river that flows down to Savannah and the Atlantic, and the Gulf Stream which means the waters warming Britain’s southwestern coast could be “hotter” than desired.
Feinstein means well, but I am convinced the ban is a DOA in the making.
‘Course, so was Obummer Care. How was I to know roberts is an merely an illiterate & dyslexic uppercrust prettyboy with an IQ below 80?
Anywhat, after the way his polo club pals treated him over the OCare vote, I’m sure roberts won’t make the same mistake this time.
XR
In my mind an historical, and current, well regulated “militia” can be as small as the group of houses in an exurban cul-de-sac.
A couple of hundred years ago, I fancy that the main household weapon would be a loaded musket kept above the hearth, Daniel Boone style, or some other place out of reach of the little kids.
Flatus,
A Gulf Stream that glows. Wow, think of the potential as a tourist attraction !
Flatus,
Yes absolutely. However, there is nothing in the Bill of Rights to prevent the Federal Government from mandating militias, establishing a few regulations for their operation, and enforcing those regulations.
I’ve got to run. ‘Bye for now.
clip from a recent new yorker book review:
sorry forgot to link the article the clip was from.
it’s 5 pages long, packed full of odd tidbits, and worth the read.
What can I say when you are right you are right since profit is the religion --squeeze every last drop.
Dear MainSpringer Mouija,
I don’t see how his failure to embrace liberation theology makes Jorge Bergoglio culpable in the kidnapping and torture of 2 Jesuit students, especially when one victim claims the Archbishop came to their rescue. Most of the charges merely seem to say that because Francis was in Argentina at the time, he was in on it. That’s fox-style journalism.
I don’t buy it. Show me a smoking gun, the print of a bloody finger bearing the Episcopal ring, or the Archbishop’s handwriting on a death order, or keep your mad, but marketable, visions to yourself.
Harborwoman,
Don’t forget the kochs can kill you with their nose wipes, toilet paper (don’t be fooled by the pix of pretty little girls), and paper towels (they don’t call them Brainy). Their plywood emits poison gas, and it took a Federal law to stop them from impregnating the lumber for junior’s play house with arsenic.
Off again. I prolly won’t be back until Monday. Take care of each other.
Hey before you run off
I got my info on the dirty pope from Amy Goodman and not that I don’t love you X-R I gotta go with Amy
I report you decide..oh wait a minute
Craig
Do you know Senator Sessions? I’ve been watching the Budget amendment markups and he has spouted more ignorant lies and or knee jerk brainlessness that I thought possible for one human being. Comes down to unbelievably stupid or unbelievably corrupt and owned by insurance corps?
Who knew there were so many Jorge Bergoglio experts in the world? I just heard of him yesterday.
That “kidnapping” stuff is pretty thin, if that’s what is going to be used to impugn him. I read the entire transcript of DemocracyNow’s Verbitsky interview, and that’s not very damning, either.
Champ… I feel like I have a right to criticize the Catholic Church…. I was born and raised in it. I married a man who went to Catholic schools K-12. But I gotta tell you…. you hit a nerve about the bias in Catholic criticism. If anyone criticized the Jewish faith that much… well… careers would be ended and heads would explode.
People do criticize evangelicals…. but more for their politicking…. for their faith and beliefs… not so much.
Jeff sessions is a blooming idiot. If ignorance is bliss, he may be the happiest guy in the Senate (although there is certainly plenty of competition there).
Anyone notice that the discussion is really centered around guns and religion? Wonder why that is?
He “arranged the kidnappings” isn’t enough?? I don’t want your cookie recipe
“I got my info on the dirty pope from Amy Goodman and not that I don’t love you X-R I gotta go with Amy” -- Ms KGC @ 3:57 Magnum
Of course you love me, and I love you. But, don’t let anyone else know. It’s our little secret.
Btw, I got already to go and the go is now delayed for a bit. Communication mix-up. We are divided by a common tongue.
Ignex,
You very charitably call the accusation thin.
Another word is libel.
I’m not saying Amy or Vernitsky committed libel, but those who make of this story a collaboraton with murderous fascists appear to be making shit up ala rush, oreilly, buchanan, and coulter: smears.
The year was 1976 and no one yet knew that the junta would disappear 30,000 people and bury the adults under soccer stadia.
Beat the guy up over priests marrying, gay marriage, or ordination of women if you like, but until someone comes up with a body of evidence, actual circumstantial and testamentary evidence, he’s not guilty as charged.
Does it make you feel any better is it isn’t just Pope Frank Luntz but the whole Catholic Church of Argentina that remains under a shadow
Certainly there have been other popes with far more blood on their hands then two priests who eventually were freed. And the priests do not exonerate him they actually accuse him
We can talk about his love of the poor. I think it’s like Romney’s love of the poor. I think he likes feeling charitable and I think he likes to be the one making the decision about who is worthy of charity.
When it comes to making changes so that people do not have to rely on charity — not so much
I see what you’re doing.
Headline: “New Pope Kidnapped Two Dudes”
More Accurate Headline: “New Pope Allegedly Didn’t Care That Two Dudes Weren’t Kidnapped, No Sources Say”
Most Accurate Headline
Pope Frank Luntz tells secret police some of his friends have fallen out of favor and need a paid vacation
I want to say something about the dancing Nana
I don’t like it. And I really don’t like most of the comments that come with it. People consider it unusual because of her age. People dancing at any age should never be considered unusual…people who don’t dance should be the odd ones out
And now I bid adieu because Mr Cracker and I are going out for dinner and then dancing
I’m in a silly mood, so I’ll spare you the resulting thought process. There would have been some laughs, some tears, maybe a few hurt feelings, but ultimately a greater understanding of this world, and of each other. Then would we would wake up fresh, and start the new day, without remembering a Goddamned thing about what we learned about the world, and each other. Such is life.
Ooh, also, I have cookies to eat.
(I put pecans and a crushed Ghirardelli bar in them tonight, no secret there)
Iggy
I’m impressed with your culinary adventures and if I weren’t leaving I would make you tell me your thought process nothing would please me more than having a greater understanding of you
Thank you for your kind words, KGC, I am humbled and honored. My secrect cookie recipe is:
Wait a second…
(head spinning)
Noooooooooooooooooo!