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discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 02:11 PM Jan 2012

Her name was... uh, uh, Miss uh, oh yeah, Miss Information!

Check how many errors, lies, exaggerations and such you can find.

To get you started:
Across America guns have become easier to purchase, Mr Krisberg said, evident by the record number of sales over Christmas.
Anyone care to venture a definition of the term "easier"?

I know of no civilised country that would put up with the kind of unregulated gun licensing that is currently in the US.
Wouldn't that qualify as an oxymoron?
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Her name was... uh, uh, Miss uh, oh yeah, Miss Information! (Original Post) discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2012 OP
It didn't take very long at all friendly_iconoclast Jan 2012 #1
What about: discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2012 #3
The writer is 100% NRA. Remmah2 Jan 2012 #2
Do you have a NRA meter or detector? E6-B Jan 2012 #4
Plain and simple. Remmah2 Jan 2012 #6
He's probably got... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2012 #7
I was recently questioned about my putting "liberal" in the third person... SteveW Jan 2012 #5
Quite so. discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2012 #8
Sounds a little like passage out of Doctorow's Billy Bathgate... SteveW Jan 2012 #11
I haven't seen/read Billy Bathgate. discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2012 #12
Sure. I still think Welcome to Hard Times was his best (and first?)... SteveW Jan 2012 #13
About the usual level of accuracy for the Torygraph Euromutt Jan 2012 #9
I just chalk it up to... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2012 #10
Ha! Follow the money trail on that. nt SteveW Jan 2012 #14
 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
1. It didn't take very long at all
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 02:28 PM
Jan 2012
As Americans rushed to arm themselves over the festive period, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report showed how 8,775 people had been killed in shooting incidents in 2010.

That number is expected to increase for 2011, according to Barry Krisberg, a criminologist at Berkley School of Law, University of California.

“Overall violent crime rates in the US are going down but comparatively, shootings and homicides are going up a little bit,” he said. “Last year we had both an increase in police officers shot and killed and also an uptake in citizens being shot and killed.”


http://www.democraticunderground.com/11728168

Murder not a top cause of death, a first in 45 yrs


ATLANTA (AP) - For the first time in 45 years, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top causes of death.

U.S. Health officials say the murder rate fell enough in 2010 to drop it out of the top 15 causes. Criminologists have not reached a consensus about what's been driving murder rates down in recent years...

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
3. What about:
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 03:46 PM
Jan 2012
"Almost every single Republican candidate for the presidency is supporting virtually unlimited gun sales..."


I need to look up English slang for "virtually".


or

"Barack Obama had been considered tightening gun laws in 2009 but no legislation has ever materialised."


I thought Obama was President and no longer a Congressman. What do I know?

SteveW

(754 posts)
5. I was recently questioned about my putting "liberal" in the third person...
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 04:20 PM
Jan 2012

From the article:

"the immediate result has been a more liberal view on allowing citizens to bear arms."

Sounds like a proper use of the term to me.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
8. Quite so.
Fri Jan 13, 2012, 12:39 AM
Jan 2012

I did notice that.

There's a line from a movie:
"If there was a car crash ten blocks away, that window washer up there could probably see it. Now, that doesn't mean he's God, or even smarter than we are. But from where he's sitting, he can see a little further down the road." (Alan Bates)

Sometimes to see, you need to be in the right place.

Here's to all of us on both sides of the debate being in the right place.

SteveW

(754 posts)
11. Sounds a little like passage out of Doctorow's Billy Bathgate...
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 08:16 PM
Jan 2012

Where the window washer could see a long way. Until he suddenly plunged to his death; mob dispute.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
12. I haven't seen/read Billy Bathgate.
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 08:47 PM
Jan 2012

My quote was from The Mothman Prophecies.
Will Patton did a good job as Gordon Smallwood.

I'll have to see Billy Bathgate. Thanks for the idea.

SteveW

(754 posts)
13. Sure. I still think Welcome to Hard Times was his best (and first?)...
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 04:11 PM
Jan 2012

That wrote the script for a thousand "modern," bleak westerns: Bad Man from Bodie, or Tolstoy's stranger comes to town.

Euromutt

(6,506 posts)
9. About the usual level of accuracy for the Torygraph
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:08 AM
Jan 2012

They're still not over the US reading the UK the riot act over the Suez crisis, and the poor dears have to have something to feel superior about, after all, if they have to make half of it up.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
10. I just chalk it up to...
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 02:32 AM
Jan 2012

...the unknowing writing about the unfamiliar to the uninvolved financed by the unerring.

Have a nice day.

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