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December 31, 2013
https://www.texasfirearmscoalition.com/index.php/editorials/37-straight-talk-about-open-carry
See, the thing is, the nation matured following the insanity of the civil war and decided that, hey, maybe having a bunch of folks wandering the highways and byways of America armed with pistols may not be the best thing for a civilized society. So the powers that be in most states banned the carrying of handguns, except in the case of sworn law enforcement personnel or the aforementioned rare, special use permit holders. Yep, even in Texas, toting around a pistol (except on you own land) was outlawed for more than 100 years:
LOTS MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/31/1266077/-RKBA-Exploding-the-myth-of-gun-toting-in-America
Yep, even in TX, toting around a pistol (except on you own land) was outlawed for more than 100 yrs
Even in gun-crazy Texas, carrying a handgun outside of one's home beyond one's own property was not the law of the land until 1995.https://www.texasfirearmscoalition.com/index.php/editorials/37-straight-talk-about-open-carry
See, the thing is, the nation matured following the insanity of the civil war and decided that, hey, maybe having a bunch of folks wandering the highways and byways of America armed with pistols may not be the best thing for a civilized society. So the powers that be in most states banned the carrying of handguns, except in the case of sworn law enforcement personnel or the aforementioned rare, special use permit holders. Yep, even in Texas, toting around a pistol (except on you own land) was outlawed for more than 100 years:
It will probably be helpful to briefly cover the history of open-carry in Texas before getting into the issues that have arisen in the past and that we can expect to hear again in 2013. Since shortly after the end of the Civil War, it is been illegal for Texans to carry handguns outside your home, except in very limited circumstances https://www.texasfirearmscoalition.com/index.php/editorials/37-straight-talk-about-open-carry
In 1995, the Texas Legislature passed the first concealed handgun statute creating a system whereby Texans and nonresidents could obtain a Concealed Handgun License. The statute requires everyone who carries a handgun under the authority of their Concealed Handgun License to keep their handgun concealed so it will not be seen by the general public.
In 1995, the Texas Legislature passed the first concealed handgun statute creating a system whereby Texans and nonresidents could obtain a Concealed Handgun License. The statute requires everyone who carries a handgun under the authority of their Concealed Handgun License to keep their handgun concealed so it will not be seen by the general public.
LOTS MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/31/1266077/-RKBA-Exploding-the-myth-of-gun-toting-in-America
December 31, 2013
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/conservatism.html
"Conservatism is the antithesis of democracy. This has been true for thousands of years.”
Idolization of the rich.From the pharaohs of ancient Egypt to the self-regarding thugs of ancient Rome to the glorified warlords of medieval and absolutist Europe, in nearly every urbanized society throughout human history, there have been people who have tried to constitute themselves as an aristocracy. These people and their allies are the conservatives.
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“It is crucial to conservatism that the people must literally love the order that dominates them. Of course this notion sounds bizarre to modern ears, but it is perfectly overt in the writings of leading conservative theorists such as Burke. Democracy, for them, is not about the mechanisms of voting and office-holding. In fact conservatives hold a wide variety of opinions about such secondary formal matters. For conservatives, rather, democracy is a psychological condition. People who believe that the aristocracy rightfully dominates society because of its intrinsic superiority are conservatives; democrats, by contrast, believe that they are of equal social worth. Conservatism is the antithesis of democracy. This has been true for thousands of years.”
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/conservatism.html
December 31, 2013
Matthew 19:23-24
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 19:23-24
Matthew 19:23-24
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
December 31, 2013
Killing two birds with one radioactive stone.
And yet, the shame lies only with the victims of homelessness, apparently.
Some of America's biggest jerks libertarians will read this story with their biggest 'free market boners'.
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2013/12/but-it-has-been-such-ethical-operation.html
Prowling For Homeless Men - $100.00 A Head - Killing two birds with one radioactive stone
But it has been such an ethical operation thus far?
You have to credit the Japanese kleptocracy for at least being consistent.
(Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men. He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.
"This is how labor recruiters like me come in every day," Sasa says, as he strides past men sleeping on cardboard and clutching at their coats against the early winter cold. It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-fukushima-workers-idUSBRE9BT00520131230
"This is how labor recruiters like me come in every day," Sasa says, as he strides past men sleeping on cardboard and clutching at their coats against the early winter cold. It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-fukushima-workers-idUSBRE9BT00520131230
Killing two birds with one radioactive stone.
And yet, the shame lies only with the victims of homelessness, apparently.
Some of America's biggest jerks libertarians will read this story with their biggest 'free market boners'.
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2013/12/but-it-has-been-such-ethical-operation.html
December 31, 2013
http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/the_new_years_baby_20131231
Arrival Of New Year Baby
http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/the_new_years_baby_20131231
December 31, 2013
Look. Here’s the story. The story is that the national minimum wage is seven and a quarter an hour. I think most people understand that’s a starvation wage. Individuals can’t live on it. Families can’t live on it. If we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which to my mind doesn’t go as far as it should, that would be a raise for 30 million Americans, vast majority of them are adults. And that’s just not people making seven and a quarter an hour. It’s people making eight bucks an hour, nine dollars an hour.
And at a time when almost all new income is going to the top 1%, it is time that working people, lower income workers get a raise, and we have got to do that. Now if the Republicans refuse to go along with that, and I very much hope that they will go along with it. I hope they understand that the overwhelming majority of the American people across the political spectrum understand that we have got to raise the minimum wage, so I hope that we can get this done.
- See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/bernie-sanders-most-people-understand#sthash.a5nRSQkY.dpuf
Bernie Sanders: "$7.25 an hour - Most people understand that’s a Starvation Wage."
Look. Here’s the story. The story is that the national minimum wage is seven and a quarter an hour. I think most people understand that’s a starvation wage. Individuals can’t live on it. Families can’t live on it. If we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which to my mind doesn’t go as far as it should, that would be a raise for 30 million Americans, vast majority of them are adults. And that’s just not people making seven and a quarter an hour. It’s people making eight bucks an hour, nine dollars an hour.
And at a time when almost all new income is going to the top 1%, it is time that working people, lower income workers get a raise, and we have got to do that. Now if the Republicans refuse to go along with that, and I very much hope that they will go along with it. I hope they understand that the overwhelming majority of the American people across the political spectrum understand that we have got to raise the minimum wage, so I hope that we can get this done.
- See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/bernie-sanders-most-people-understand#sthash.a5nRSQkY.dpuf
December 31, 2013
Dolphins are thought of as one of the most intelligent species in the animal kingdom – and experts believe they have put their ingenuity to use in the pursuit of getting “high”.
In extraordinary scenes filmed for a new documentary, young dolphins were seen carefully manipulating a certain kind of puffer fish which, if provoked, releases a nerve toxin.
Though large doses of the toxin can be deadly, in small amounts it is known to produce a narcotic effect, and the dolphins appeared to have worked out how to make the fish release just the right amount.
Carefully chewing on the puffer and passing it between one another, the marine mammals then enter what seems to be a trance-like state.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/dolphins-deliberately-get-high-on-puffer-fish-nerve-toxins-by-carefully-chewing-and-passing-them-around-9030126.html
The More Intelligent The Species … … the more likely they will find a way to get high
Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins by carefully chewing and passing them aroundDolphins are thought of as one of the most intelligent species in the animal kingdom – and experts believe they have put their ingenuity to use in the pursuit of getting “high”.
In extraordinary scenes filmed for a new documentary, young dolphins were seen carefully manipulating a certain kind of puffer fish which, if provoked, releases a nerve toxin.
Though large doses of the toxin can be deadly, in small amounts it is known to produce a narcotic effect, and the dolphins appeared to have worked out how to make the fish release just the right amount.
Carefully chewing on the puffer and passing it between one another, the marine mammals then enter what seems to be a trance-like state.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/dolphins-deliberately-get-high-on-puffer-fish-nerve-toxins-by-carefully-chewing-and-passing-them-around-9030126.html
December 31, 2013
JOSH MARSHALL – DECEMBER 31, 2013, 1:27 AM EST9998
TPM Reader PB thinks I'm being too soft on the GOP's Benghazi lies ...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/going-down-the-romney-benghazi-memory-lane
Please Proceed, Governor
Please Proceed, GovernorJOSH MARSHALL – DECEMBER 31, 2013, 1:27 AM EST9998
TPM Reader PB thinks I'm being too soft on the GOP's Benghazi lies ...
I think your coverage of Benghazi is overlooking the fact that the original GOP attack was designed to muddy the waters and cover up Mitt Romney's disastrous campaign gaffe when he broke his self imposed 9/11 campaigning truce to attack the President while the attack was still going on.
Romney then forgot his own talking points when he walked right into the Benghazi trap that Obama laid for him in the Presidential debate. Obama gave Romney two opportunities to withdraw the claim that he hadn't described the attack as terrorist then mowed his head off when Romney showed himself as to proud to admit a mistake.
Romney then further compounded the disaster by arguing with Cindy Crowley as moderator while she was trying to feed him the Republican talking point he was meant to be using.
Having attacked Clinton, Rice and Obama for 'lying' over Benghazi, the Republicans need to do rather more than show that their version of events could possibly be true. To substantiate their claims they would have to show that there is convincing evidence that the administration version of events is false and that it was known to be false when it was given.
In short, the GOP are demanding that their story be granted the very sort of allowance that they insist the administration version of events be denied.
Romney then forgot his own talking points when he walked right into the Benghazi trap that Obama laid for him in the Presidential debate. Obama gave Romney two opportunities to withdraw the claim that he hadn't described the attack as terrorist then mowed his head off when Romney showed himself as to proud to admit a mistake.
Romney then further compounded the disaster by arguing with Cindy Crowley as moderator while she was trying to feed him the Republican talking point he was meant to be using.
Having attacked Clinton, Rice and Obama for 'lying' over Benghazi, the Republicans need to do rather more than show that their version of events could possibly be true. To substantiate their claims they would have to show that there is convincing evidence that the administration version of events is false and that it was known to be false when it was given.
In short, the GOP are demanding that their story be granted the very sort of allowance that they insist the administration version of events be denied.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/going-down-the-romney-benghazi-memory-lane
December 31, 2013
peace, & happy 2014,
kp
FDR, nuff said:
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." - FDRpeace, & happy 2014,
kp
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