» Schumer Bill Includes Steps Toward Federal Gun Registration . . . And More
S. 436 proposes that virtually all private transfers, regardless of location, be subject to National Instant Criminal Background Check System checks. The exceptions would be extremely narrow; in many cases, even lending someone a firearm would be subject to federal regulation.
S. 436 would also require the dealer to notify the U.S. Attorney General of the transfer, presumably in the interest of expanding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' dubiously-useful firearm tracing empire. Though the notices would not identify the transferor and transferee, it doesn't take a clairvoyant to envision subsequent calls for the notices to identify them too.
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity". That is obviously true of the White House, whose vagueness grows in proportion to its insincerity.
» The Massacre of Meaning
Why resort to imprecise language over more precise terminology? To avoid offending the people who plant bombs that kill bible translators, while dulling the impact of the event for their reading audience. A terrorist is a terrible person, but a militant is just worked up about something.
"the first such bombing in Jerusalem in seven years", which sounds nice and peaceful. Just terrorists, pardon militants, scratching their seven year homicidal itch. The massacre of students at the Mercaz HaRav school doesn't qualify, that was done with an AK-47, but what about the trash pipe bomb just this month that took off a sanitation worker's hand? Well it wasn't "such" a bombing, was it. One was in the trash, the other at a bus station. Leave enough wriggle room and language can mean anything. If there's a bombing at a fruit stand tomorrow, it will be the first time in seven years too.
Propaganda complicates the simple and simplifies the complicated. Context is brought to material unfavorable to the cause, while being stripped away from already favorable material. A story about a terrorist bombing needs tinkering with, but one about collateral damage in an Israeli strike against terrorists needs none. The choice of context is utterly revealing. It is the difference between reporting and promoting. The way words are used is the way that meaning is created. To massacre meaning, all you need to do is kill the truth.
» Arab Spring: the bloom is off the rose-colored glasses
NO! Why, it…it….it….it just CANNOT BE. Are you telling me that knuckledragging, bigoted Teabagger haters like me were right all along, and the "Arab Spring" that had liberals all weepy with joy and admiration for those brave freedom fighters casting off their fetters at last was nothing but the fast track to a winter of Islamist discontent?
All this "democracy" you blibbering cretins were flapping your jaws about only days ago can only lead to one thing in a Muslim-majority country: rigid, repressive, brutish theocracy, backed by the guns of a military who are to a man devoutly down on their knees with their asses in the air five times a day along with the rest of the yodeling herd — a particularly odious theocracy that supports terrorism, the destruction of Israel, and the eventual subjugation of all people worldwide under sharia, and that will brutalize its subjects far worse than any half-Westernized kleptocrat the West ever tolerated as the least-bad alternative.
Here's Yer Forecast
» 200 arrested as hardcore anarchists fight police long into night in Battle of Trafalgar Square after 500,000 march against the cut
Wanna know what to expect for your future political climate? What ill wind is headed your way?
All you need – to see your future – is to watch the European present.
Or if you prefer … look at America today and see Europe yesterday.
With an exception, of course. There are very few Henry Bowmans in Europe.
» Here's what liberalism looks like when it reaches full flower
The cockroaches with the masks are the result of generations that were never expected to take any responsibility for their own parasitical existences. They are Britain's post-civilization future, bred by the Dole.
Hyperbole, you say?
The Democrat Party is so poisoned, so laced with the traitorous and defective ideology of Marxism, that it must be flushed into the toilet bowl of history. In 2012, you must vote — and you must make sure your family, friends and colleagues vote: every Democrat must go. That, combined with the rejection of RINO candidates in GOP primaries, will — God willing — allow us to expand the beachhead we established in 2010. Our mission is simple to explain: to reestablish our Constitutional Republic.
~~ quote from Doug Ross
It's what happens when Dhimmicrats rule
» Detroit Census Confirms a Desertion Like No Other
The number of people who vanished from Detroit — 237,500 — was bigger than the 140,000 who left New Orleans.
It's as though liberalism is a far more destructive power than the biggest, meanest hurricane in history.
Yes, the city feels empty physically, empty of people, empty of ambition, drive. It feels empty."
At least in most areas of Detroit, the empty areas, the crime rate is down …
On Libya
Calm down peoples. Obama will tell us what the plan is just as soon as it's over.
Kinda like, pass it to find out what's in it …
» FLYING IN THE FACE OF REALITY
Egypt Air has removed Israel from the map–achieving in fantasy what so many in the Arab world desperately desire
What is it that makes them emotionally unable to accept a successful, democratic and non-Muslim state in the middle of all their Muslim dysfunction and failure? In psychological terms, the answer to that question is that they suffer from a malignant and destructive paranoid style, fueled and fanned by Islamic fundamentalism.
Instead of coming to terms with the reason their societies and cultures are so dysfunctional and toxic; instead of facing a series of unpleasant truths about their backwardness and lack of achievement; or questioning the religion that keeps them that way; or the leadership that manipulates them and needs them to remain backward and willing to descend in barbarism on cue; they have allowed their society to regress to a concomitant primitve emotional level where a paranoid world view is all that stands between them and total psychological disintegration .
» Instructions for cleaning up a broken light bulb
» Another Top Klansman Seeks Political Office As a Democrat
» Suddenly, It's Not OK to Call a Commie-Truther-Cop-Killer-Supporter a Commie-Truther-Cop-Killer-Supporter
» VA dentist kept job after NAACP pressure, supervisor says
Between 1992 and July 2010, 535 patients who had invasive dental work by Pemberton may have been exposed to bloodborne pathogens, the VA said. Nine have preliminary positive results for hepatitis B or hepatitis C.
In the early 1990s, "I came very, very close (to) limiting his (Pemberton's) privileges, but at the eleventh hour … the race card was played, and the direction I got from above was that we were going to reverse course and try something different," the supervisor told VA investigators
~~ via Doug Ross
The Environmental Protection Agency is giving funds to charitable organizations to attack GOP members of Congress. Did you know telling the truth about climate change causes childhood asthma?
» Stealth-And-Trade
The American Lung Association … has placed four billboards in Michigan's 6th Congressional District — including one outside the office of Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., who heads the House Energy and Commerce Committee — that feature a sickly looking girl with an oxygen mask and read, "Rep. Fred Upton, protect our kids' health. Don't weaken the Clean Air Act."
But what Upton and the Republican House majority that most voters elected in November are trying to do is restore the Clean Air Act to its true meaning and congressional intent.
…. EPA Director Lisa Jackson herself has acknowledged the Clean Air Act "is not specifically designed to address greenhouse gases."
The EPA, with President Obama's blessing, is clearly trying to get around congressional intent and the will of the American people to implement cap-and-trade through EPA regulation — and paying the ALA to falsely frame it as a public health issue.
The American Lung Association should be well aware of the health effects of poverty and a lower standard of living. EPA regulations will force energy prices to rise and the economy to fall.
It is a fact that wealthier societies are healthier societies, something the ALA forgets when it sold its soul to become a government lobbyist for cap-and-trade by stealth.
March 27th, 2011 under Uncategorized.