tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743938043276625722024-03-05T16:46:36.508-08:00WSR News & OpinionsJust my opinion and occasionally with strong language.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.comBlogger351125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-7541664854804657272015-04-16T06:39:00.001-07:002015-04-16T06:44:43.255-07:00Update<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvVIS8SStoRwyboEk63eiihwxl5mjDlHlgSisXghoksGzW1SA21sjpJoMwfezqUV4QoF03AMsG3Bio1U1OwFjtSwTCWuYhYzofigFGtBQd30DqZvKOisZdCUXxATQ9i-dHr2T9tzFK1Y8/s1600-h/catnhat.white.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvVIS8SStoRwyboEk63eiihwxl5mjDlHlgSisXghoksGzW1SA21sjpJoMwfezqUV4QoF03AMsG3Bio1U1OwFjtSwTCWuYhYzofigFGtBQd30DqZvKOisZdCUXxATQ9i-dHr2T9tzFK1Y8/s400/catnhat.white.gif" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256383581805706034" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="117" /></a><br />
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If you haven't noticed, this individual blog hasn't been used much, nothing in nearly two years. This is because I've moved a lot of my short rants or vents on life and politics to my <a href="http://wsrphoto.tumblr.com/">Tumblr account</a> where I can post all sorts of random thoughts and stuff.<br />
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The point is I won't delete this blog but simply continue to pretty much ignore it as lengthier posts will be on my normal <a href="http://wsrphoto.blogspot.com/">photography blog</a> with a bunch of other stuff about computers, etc. So good luck in life and remember to get away from the computer now and then.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-83350848678673050222013-08-23T14:42:00.001-07:002013-08-23T14:42:16.850-07:00Mens Warehouse adsTo the Men's Warehouse ads which says, "We make you look good.", I can only say, "An asshole in a good looking suit is still an asshole."WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-38420517522077437042013-07-22T17:30:00.002-07:002013-07-22T17:30:23.692-07:00Paying TaxesDespite what you think about illegal immigrants, they pay taxes. In fact they pay almost all of the same taxes we pay, including social security, medicare taxes, unemployment taxes, property taxes (often through their landlord), local and state taxes, gasoline taxes, and most of all, sales taxes.<br />
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The only tax they don't often pay is income tax because they don't have a social security number for the IRS to file a tax return, but their employer(s) often deducts federal, state and local taxes from their pay check. Only those being paid under the table don't pay these taxes, but still pay other taxes.<br />
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So don't say they don't pay taxes, they do.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-13271237968790975292013-07-22T17:22:00.000-07:002013-07-22T17:22:02.578-07:00Government SpyingIf the government is spying on every citizen without a warrant, why aren't they spying on corporations for their criminal activities? Oh wait, I forgot, the corporations own our government.<br />
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Not that's it our government, bought and paid for with our taxes, which the government uses against us and gives to corporations in tax breaks, subsidies, grants and contracts.<br />
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Maybe "we the people" should become a corporation and buy back our government. Oh wait, that would be a crime, hence why they're spying on us. They don't trust us and think we're the enemy.<br />
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Oh wait, we are.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-68334828513837381882013-07-22T17:20:00.001-07:002013-07-22T17:20:20.925-07:00WhyWhy do Republicans think a white man openly carrying a loaded handgun is a citizen expressing their Second Amendment rights, but a black man openly carrying a loaded handgun is a suspected criminal, a latino man a suspected gang member, and a Middle-Eastern a suspected terrorist?<br />
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I thought the Second Amendment was color blind, except in the eyes of Republicans.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-13327206382874912252013-07-15T18:33:00.002-07:002013-07-15T18:33:22.226-07:00Hate CrimeThe Department of Justice should indict and prosecute George Zimmerman for a hate crime in his attack, assault and killing of Trayvon Martin, even if they lose in the end. They need to do this because it's the right thing to do for Trayvon, it's the right thing to do for justice, and it's the right thing to do for the American people. Just do it.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-54741015708706674392013-07-15T10:18:00.002-07:002013-07-15T10:20:07.893-07:00House Farm BillThe Republicans in the House of Representatives have passed the Farm Bill which includes subsidies to corporate agriculture and even members of both the House and the Senate in Congress who own farms (actually they're just part owners and not the people who run it), but they exclude the entire Food Stamp Program, citing that will be taken up in another bill, meaning not.<br />
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So while members of Congress line their fat ass pockets with taxpayers' money they're not willing to put basic food on the table of working people and families who need food stamps to survive. They even refused to vote on an amendment banning members of Congress from receiving farm subsidies.<br />
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That's the message they sent to the people of America. They're in it for themselves and only themselves. And you still think the Republicans represent the American people?WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-87254121086258288992013-06-18T18:47:00.002-07:002013-06-18T18:47:43.868-07:00Lesson LearnedI learned a lesson about Tumblr when you post a statement stating the term "Native American" only applies to American Indians since they were the first humans in North America about 12,000 years and were here before Europeans by all but the last 500-plus years of their time here.<br />
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I stated that people of European ancestry are not native in the sense of the ancestry, and that draws the conservatives on Tumblr out of the Internet to post comments. I posted it because I get tired of white people who claim their native not just by birth but by ancestry assuming the arrival of the Pilgrims were the first "real" people in North America.<br />
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I won't argue people can call themselves native by their birth, but they can't by the ancestry, but the truth is we're all immigrants from somewhere else, it's just depends on how far back you go in time and place.<br />
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Even Europeans are a hodgepodge of ancestries but many lived in relative isolation for many generations before integration by other people. American Indians crossed on the land bridge between Alaska and Russia between the ice ages.<br />
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From there they migrated down into Central America and Mexico by about 12,000 years BP. It's understood that native South Americans migrated from the South Pacific and then up to Central America from their arrival in the southern areas of South America.<br />
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Europeans didn't arrive until the late 15th century but really a century or two later with the conquests in South America and the settlements in North America. That doesn't make them native is the same sense as the American Indians who were already here.<br />
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And that was my point, being native is relative to time and place.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-28736098227811389842013-05-07T06:52:00.002-07:002013-05-07T06:52:50.451-07:00The NRAWhy do I get the impression the NRA is now what the FBI would classify as a "domestic terrorist organization" when they openly and publically advocate citizens to take up arms against the government?<br />
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That's what the newly elected president of the NRA said at the recent annual meeting in Houston, Texas when he said members should be armed and ready to fight the tyranny of the government and members should train themselves in the use of military style weapons to fight.<br />
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That isn't sugar coating their hate for the government, which is their and our government. It's outright treason to advocate violence and the overthrow of the government. These are the very people who benefit from the government and the freedom to buy as many guns and ammunition they want.<br />
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What's interesting is the FBI has said the top ten terrorist organization are domestic white supremacist groups and militias. To that now they can put the NRA at the top of the list. They are by far now the most dangerous group to the US government advocating the political and violent overthrow of the government.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-11396911780926238112013-02-25T14:54:00.000-08:002013-02-25T14:54:20.254-08:00Seattle TimesThis week I read the announcement by the senior editor of the Seattle Times, <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020414873_boardmancolumnxml.html">available here</a> to switch to subscription for their digital format (Website) newspaper. Ok, it's not only the trend but fair and good business. I couldn't agree more with this decision.<br />
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If folks don't know many newspapers now charge for Web access to their full digital format newspapers, started by the Wall Street Journal and picked up shortly afterward by other major newspapers and many smaller ones.<br />
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I subscribe to the New York Times digital service but not for their Website, for the Time Reader service which is different. It uses Adobe Air to deliver you the current daily newspaper with additional features over the print version along with a previous week of newspapers.<br />
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This is far better than any Website access because it's a separate reader and doesn't require continuous Internet connection except for the links in the articles. You download it and you're ready to read. You only download additional days if you want to read them. The whole paper is there in the Reader application.<br />
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This is what other newspapers should do as it's digital delivery than the reader has to access the Website, log into it, and then browser through the Web pages, which as anyone knows who read on-line newspapers, they suck.<br />
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Yes, they suck. They're bloated with the whole show up front you have to sort through to find the sections and articles you want to read than designed as a newspaper people like to read, eg. NY Times Reader.<br />
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While some of them offer the fascimile of today's newspaper, eg. Washington Post, it's hard to find what's new today and to browse sections like a print newspapers. I do read the Washington Post Website version but now only go to individual sections for what appears to be the latest.<br />
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That's because like all the major newspapers Websites, even the Washington Post is cluttered, distracting and confusing to readers. Why haven't they learned to make them easier to browse, find and read? I don't know but they're missing a customer base.<br />
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Anyway, for now I'll stick with the Sunday print edition of the Tacoma News Tribune and Seattle Times. Now if they had a reader service with the Website, then I'll be interested in them as I would if the Washington Post did likewise.<br />
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That said, it's their loss.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-82149467328082642322013-02-13T17:26:00.001-08:002013-02-13T17:26:26.497-08:00The New RepublicansNew! The new Republicans. Macro Rubio. The old republican values and message in new, young, minority republican. What's different? Nothing. It's just the same old political ingredients with a new label. Nothing's changed, just the messenger, just a younger version of the old white guys running the Republican party.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-7721739078462031242013-02-13T16:20:00.001-08:002013-02-13T16:20:30.455-08:00Fox NewsThe definition of Fox News: <span style="color: #000066;"><i>A political television network which trashes good people for profit and tells lies about anything for money, all in the name of and for the Republican party. A political television network where the people have no morals, no values, and no sense of human decency. A political televsion network which doesn't care about America, Americans and our democratic republic. A political televison network which spouts nothing but hate. All for money and profit for the Republican party.</i></span>WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-50969136887966417272013-02-12T17:30:00.003-08:002013-02-12T17:30:44.284-08:00Dear MSNBCTo MSNBC and your near constant reporting of the Dorner manhunt in Big Bear Lake area in California. STOP already. You keep showing the same news footage and repeating the same story, over and over and over again. I finally turned of the sound and went about my work.<br />
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The only things that matters now is when there is real news of about the manhunt and then I'll listen, maybe, but likely not since I'm full of this guy you're turning into a cult hero for those who hate the police and government. That's all you're doing, not informing, just helping the wrong people.<br />
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Your editorial frequently criticize the media for harping on the wrong stories and helping the wrong people, and you're doing exactly what you criticize, so why don't you see it and stop doing and get on with the other news. You can cut back when there's something new or different with the manhunt, preferably Mr. Dorner is dead.<br />
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I'm waiting for the State of the Union address, not your continual telling the same story about this manhunt. I'll turn the sound back on when you get to the President's speech.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-6939189667787711152013-01-24T13:44:00.002-08:002013-01-24T13:44:30.731-08:00Filibuster Rules IIWell Senator Reid, you failed. Miserably, but not completely miserably. You’ve been in the Senate too long and are too conventional, too traditional, and you’re simply too rigid to gamble on the rules, so you caved to minority leader McConnell not to change anything but a few provisions.<br />
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What you did was to change the interior upholstry and call it a new car. It drives the same, handles the same and works the same. Any bets the Republicans already have plans to subvert and work around the new rules to still stymie legislation?<br />
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You had the chance to make real change and you were conned into a cosmetic changes. And you expect us to think that’s good and you’re worth being a leader? If it works, you’re right, but if it doesn’t we’ll have you to blame this time, not the Republicans.<br />
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You missed in January 2011 and again now. Any bets on the old adage about three strikes?WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-82024918408987614992013-01-23T13:30:00.000-08:002013-01-24T13:43:12.763-08:00Filibuster RulesSenator Reid, if you don’t change the filibuster rules to make it better for the Senate to debate and vote on bills in the Senate you will have shown the American people that you don’t have the balls to support the people and either you fear the Republicans or are in cahoots with the Republicans not to help the American people.<br />
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You are the majority leader of the Senate and the Democratic party in the Senate. What don’t you understand to get change in the filibuster rules and not cave to the Republicans? We don’t want you to be a friend to minority leader Senator McConnell. We want you to be a Democrat and a leader.<br />
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Do that! Change the fucking filibuster rules!WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-83361240275457952532013-01-17T06:31:00.002-08:002013-01-17T06:31:33.244-08:00Guns & AustraliaThis is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/opinion/australia-banned-assault-weapons-america-can-too.html?ref=opinion&_r=0">the link</a> to the letter to the editor of the New York Times today (1/17/2013) about the gun laws in Australia after a 1996 mass shooting of 35 people in Tasmania. His points are both relevant and salient to the discussion we're having now.<br />
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And remember John Howard, leader of Australia 1996-2007, was a conservative as was and are many of the people of Australia then and was the individual state and national governments then too. If they could and did regulate guns, then we can too.<br />
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It is time for America to bring the violence and guns themselves under control, as he says, "<span style="color: #000066;">The fundamental problem was the ready availability of high-powered weapons, which enabled people to convert their murderous impulses into mass killing. Certainly, shortcomings in treating mental illness and the harmful influence of violent video games and movies may have played a role. <b>But nothing trumps easy access to a gun.</b> It is easier to kill 10 people with a gun than with a knife.</span>"<br />
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The editorial says it all doesn't it? Guns kill people because anyone can get one in the US. It is about people, access to guns and guns themselves. President Obama has it right, now it's time Congress do it right.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-9799309424821488512013-01-15T20:04:00.003-08:002013-01-15T20:04:35.038-08:00Not really on hiatusI would appear from the lack of recent posts I've been on hiatus for the Christmas and New Year's holidays and the new year. Not really. I've been posting on my original blog at <a href="http://wsrphoto.blogspot.com/">wsrphoto</a> and on my new <a href="http://wsrphoto.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> accounts. Still the same outrage at the world and stupid politicians, just different places.<br />
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I'll be back here now and then since I use this blog for the more outragous thoughts, views, rants and vents. It's that sometimes you have to try new places to see how it works and Tumblr is full of young people to see a different world and perspective. It's better than TV.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-70757602292010528802012-12-19T07:23:00.002-08:002012-12-19T07:23:41.209-08:00Independent InquiryThe independent panel investigating the Benghazi, Libya security breach by well planned and armed insurgent militia which lead to the death of four people, including the US Ambassador to Libya concluded the obvious, failures of US security people and State Department officials.<br />
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While their conclusion are valid and correct, they're basically said in hindsight when at the time no one could have or would have foreseen the events of the attack and the militia. And while they put the blame squarely on the State Department they neglected to include Congress.<br />
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And that's the failure of the panel itself. It looked at the failures within the State Department and not in the context of the larger political arena which includes the appropriations provided to the State Department for embassy and other diplomatic facilities or compounds.<br />
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And that we know is the real fault. For the last few years Congress has reduced the requested appropriations for security at overseas locations where the State Department had to make hard choices for less US security in some countries and rely on foreign security forces.<br />
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And this is what failed. Not just the State Department, but Congress. And they failed big time. They share the blood on their hands the panel doesn't mention because they didn't look at the larger context of the events in Libya, just those by the State Department in the country.<br />
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It's easy to point at these failures by the State Department, that's the obvious, but it's harder to point at the failures of relative events over years, like Congress and appropriations, because it's political, and this panel wanted concrete results. But I have a question for the panel.<br />
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Exactly where does the State Department get the money they don't have to add security at overseas locations? They can't just spend money they don't have, only Congress can do that, and Congress hasn't done that.<br />
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Answer that and then you can call your conclusions conclusive than just focused.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-70107521533595723682012-12-16T09:15:00.002-08:002012-12-20T05:52:30.362-08:00Sorry Gun Activists, NoSorry all you gun activists, you can't dismiss this shooting like the others this year, last year and in 2010 with the Tucson shooting by saying it was done by a "deranged" shooter, or mentally abnormal young man.<br />
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I don't care what or who the young man was to commit this horrible crime, he wouldn't have committed it without the guns his mother bought and kept in the house, including the assault rifle he used to kill all the people from his mother at home to the rest at the school.<br />
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There are a lot of people who have mild to moderate mental conditions who aren't dangerous, and this young man was not considered dangerous until he committed the act. You can't blame mental health on this shooting. To put it simply.<br />
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People, normal or not, can not shoot and kill people without guns. That's the simple fact and reality. And all the talk of mental conditions doesn't change the deaths of those children and the adults. A gun in the hands of a person did that.<br />
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So, any talk about the mental health or condition of the young man, while relevant to the state of his mind, is irrelevant to his actions of killing people. A gun did that. And that can't be denied or spun.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-77851650401912853672012-12-15T09:06:00.000-08:002012-12-15T09:06:45.772-08:00Speaker BoehnerDo you really think the House of Representatives with House Speak Boehner trying to keep his job with the extreme right Tea Party Republicans and the NRA will bring up any gun control legislation, let alone any meaningful legislation, next year?<br />
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If you do, then I'm sure someone has offered you, and you actually considered buying, a bridge in New York City or you took some from Nigeria up on their offer of their relative's hidden assest fund worth millions of dollars they're willing to share with you.<br />
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It will be interesting to watch the political and verbal dance Speaker Boehner will contort from his mouth as to why any gun legislation would be a violation of the Second Amendment rights of the American people to own guns.<br />
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I'm sure he'll find the words to make gun control advocates the cause of the mass shooting of late, the theater in Aurora, Colorado, the shopping mall in Clackamas, Oregon and now the elementary school in Connecticut.<br />
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Any bets we'll see any congressional action beyond our the Representatives and Senators standing in front of TV cameras touting how much they care about those killed and how we need to some laws but not ones which compromise legal, lawful gun owners' rights?<br />
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I'd love to see the Vegas odds. Well Mr. Boehner? As they say, the balls, or in this case the guns and bullets, are in your court.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-4859254614976419282012-12-11T17:57:00.000-08:002012-12-11T17:57:19.890-08:00What IfIf one shooter can wreck so much havoc in one shopping mall (Clackamas Mall in Portland, Oregon) and attract so many law enforcement officers and so much media attention, what would we do if a gang attacked a mall or several malls simultaneously?<br />
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What if a gang orchestrated an multiple point attack in one city? What would happen? We know there are enough guns, ammunition, body armor, etc. to pull it off, so what would we do and how would our law enforcement agency respond and the media present?<br />
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If one can do this much, what if several people had there, or others in other malls?<br />
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Consider what all the guns in the country could do in the hands of angry men, violent gangs or private militias who want to do something like this. Consider the consequences of what we have done to ourselves and this nation with guns.<br />
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What if...WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-69314124277072708152012-12-10T18:16:00.003-08:002012-12-10T18:16:56.075-08:00Expressing a viewListening to the news about the right to work bill that was passed by the Michigan legislature today, it makes me wonder if the extreme left should take a page from the extreme right view on expressing their view on being angry with politicians.<br />
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Really? Yes, really? And what, pray tell is that? Simple. They should express their view with their Second Amendment rights with those they disagree with about any particular bill or law. Yes, what's good for wingnuts is good for progressives.<br />
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So, maybe? Remember not just Republicans own guns and know how to use them. The difference is simply what or who is at the other end of the scope they're looking through. But yes, it's not smart and it's definitely illegal to actually do anything this way.<br />
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It's not our democracy, but neither were the republicans and the govenor who shot the workers' rights in Michigan. It only seems right now to fight against this, preferably through legal means if not political means, but the wingnuts don't seem to think extreme measures are inappropriate.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-21208934837549292262012-12-07T11:27:00.002-08:002012-12-07T11:27:33.411-08:00False ArgumentPeople who argue there is both good and bad "fracking", the process to release natural gas deep in Shale deposits, forget to admit the flaw in their argument, all fracking is bad.<br />
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There is no "good" fracking as the chemicals they use are toxic to the enviroment and human health, the process causes geologic problems in the shale formations, such as spontaneous and frequent minor earthquakes, and the process to seal the wells from aquifers isn't guarranteed or permanent.<br />
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In short, any fracking is bad, and arguing there is good fracking only means it's good for the short period of the drilling and removal of the natual gas, but not for decades during and thereafter. And there's no assurances the chemical and gas won't leak into domestic aquifers as has already been proven.<br />
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So when someone, usually from the energy industry or someone getting checks from the energy industry talks about "good" fracking, stop listening after the word good, because there is no "good" in fracking except the profits by the energy companies and dividends to shareholders.<br />
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And if that's good, well, I have some property you can drill on, like your backyard. Ask them if it's so good, would they put a fracking operation in their backyard, or their childrens' backyard?WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-90364520161057185162012-12-03T17:29:00.001-08:002012-12-07T04:52:26.427-08:00Bob Costas<span style="color: #000066;">Updated 12/7/12.--After reading the stories and watching the video of his statement, it's clear the media didn't get it. They didn't get it because he wasn't saying his words as quoting someone who said those words. As typical with stupid pundits they misidentified the source of the words, as they seem to do to make a point which isn't true, just dumb. But it doesn't change my view (below).</span><br />
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Original Post.--To the far right who are verbally attacking Bob Costas, a short reply.<br />
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<b>Don't fuck with Bob Costas!</b></div>
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Too many people, like me, like and respect him, respect his intelligence, his perspective and his words. We all occasionally don't make ourself clear with our words because our intent and meaning are far more complex than what we say.<br />
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So give him the time and space to clarify his thoughts and words. Otherwise, my response to you is simple.<br />
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<b>Go Fuck Yourself!</b></div>
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Is that clear enough for you?</div>
WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274393804327662572.post-82404676165272513072012-12-01T07:46:00.001-08:002012-12-01T07:46:35.481-08:00A Start for PalestiniansThe UN vote to allow Palestine to be a nonmember observer in the UN is a start. It's not what the US and Israel likes but it's what's most of the rest of the UN like with 130 votes for and 50 votes against or abstaining.<br />
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It's a start, not a big one and probably not that significant in time since President Abbas is not allowed in Gaza which is part of the territories the Palestinians occupy. Clearly it's more symbolic than real, for now.<br />
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The key is what happens in the future and where this will be important for the Palenstinians to gain statehood and become a nation. It will be a long road but now they have something to hang their international diplomatic hat on and present their case before the UN, again.<br />
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It's a start. Nothing more, and now it's up to them. And maybe a shift in the negotiations for the US between the Palestinians and the Israelis. That will take changes in the Palestinian leadership to coalesce around one government.<br />
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But more so it will take change in the leadership of Israel to forgive over 60 years of anger toward the Palestinian people and look to a peaceful two-state solution. The US will also have to change the overwhelming political, economic and military support we give Israel.<br />
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The political leaders and politicians here will have to change to moderate their unabashed political support for Israel and balance the common goals of all the nations in the Middle East, including the Palestinians.<br />
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That will have to be real support for the other nations and people in the Middle East than the political lip service we have long given them in the complete defense of Israel, even in the face of the 65 violations of UN resolutions by Israel.<br />
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But it's a start. The future rang, now the question is who will respond and what will happen.WSR Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578476190552952347noreply@blogger.com0