The NRA wants open carry in schools, churches and playgrounds … but for their own National convention?
“All guns on the convention floor will be nonoperational, with the firing pins removed, and any guns purchased during the NRA convention will have to be picked up at a Federal Firearms License dealer, near where the purchaser lives, and will require a legal identification.”
Hypocrites. 😦
You run a storefront business. Should you have the right not to sell to women? To visible minorities? To Norwegians?
I don’t think so.
What’s the difference between this woman …
… and this guy?
I believe in freedom. But not freedom to discriminate.
Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana should stay closed. Instead of selling pizza only to heterosexuals, owners can live off donations from the homophobes. (Over $800,000 donated, so far. This stunt turned out to be very profitable, even if the owners are in hiding.)
details – Anti-equality Indiana pizza joint gets seriously trolled, shuts up shop
Ten Republicans have joined House Democrats in narrowly defeating a proposal to permit concealed weapons on college campuses.
The Montana House failed Senate Bill 143 on a vote of 49-51 Tuesday. …
Opponents say only seven states allow concealed carry on campuses …
Republican Rep. Jeffrey Welborn said he voted against the proposal at the request of the parents of a Montana Tech student who was shot and killed by another student in 1982.
The House could reconsider the measure Wednesday.
Allowing guns on campus would be more dangerous than not. Firearm accidents and stupidity would far exceed those incidents where some student stops a crime.
Kleck and Gertz were wrong.
The issue of Gay marriage is actually not very important to me. (Marriage is not important to me.)
But I do like to watch bigoted Tea Party types squirm. Love to see racists called out. Love it when regular voters want to ask Ted Cruz – “Do you hate Gays?” 🙂
Gallup polling confirms that the number of Americans who believe homosexuality is “morally acceptable” is at an all-time high at just under 60 percent, up from around 40 in the early 2000s. This support is even more pronounced among millennials.
Mike Pence just lobbed a grenade into the Republican presidential field.
The Indiana governor’s religious freedom law has ignited yet another controversial culture war debate that has Republican contenders juggling awkward questions about issues they would just as soon not touch.
This time around, the policy issue isn’t same-sex marriage — it’s about nondiscrimination laws and whether they should accompany Religious Freedom Restoration Acts like the one just passed in Indiana.
But regardless, Republicans are getting pummeled over gay rights issues of all sorts — and face the familiar dilemma of whether a conservative stance that makes for good politics in a GOP primary will hurt them in a general election. …
It will hurt the GOP long term. This is a losing issue. Jeb Bush, at least, should have backtracked already.
To Joan Crockatt, my current Member of Parliament:
Hello Joan,
I will be actively campaigning in your riding against the Conservative Party in the upcoming election.
Born in Calgary, a fiscal conservative, still I cannot support your military mission in Iraq. It’s a waste of money. And will likely backfire, making Canada a more prominent target for any Canadian extremist or kook. It’s making me and my family less safe, not more.
Scholars Pape and Feldman:
… more than 2,100 documented cases of suicide bombings from 1980 to 2009 and concluded that most of the perpetrators were acting in response to U.S. intervention in the Middle East. …
The Canadian military should be Peace Keepers.
My other main issue is online privacy. I’m almost certainly going to be strongly against the coming omnibus public safety bill (Bill C-51). The NSA has proven that method doesn’t work. It’s not at all the best way to find terrorists in Canada.
Rick McCharles
Sarcee Meadows, GlamorganP.S.
I do like your work for women’s rights, by the way. But not enough to offset my disgust with your Party bombing and shooting innocent women and children in the Middle East.
Joan Crockatt did not reply. Not even a form letter.
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So I bought a $10 Liberal Party membership.
Justin Trudeau:
We will not be supporting the government’s efforts to deepen this combat mission and expand it into Syria.
I’m hoping the Liberal candidate will be my Mayor’s chief of staff, Chima Nkemdirim.
I’ve written the NDP Party, as well, asking why I should vote for them instead of the Liberals.
Mulcair says NDP would pull Canadian troops from Iraq mission
I can’t support this guy. He’s far, far too right wing for me.
Let’s Be Serious About Ted Cruz From The Start: He’s Too Extreme And Too Disliked To Win
He’s totally against same sex marriage. Extremely against a woman’s right to choose abortion.
FREEDOM for Cruz does not include those freedoms. I’m always astonished how politicians who speak most about “liberty” are so intolerant of anyone who’s not exactly like them.
He’s 100% for the NRA. His base is the Christian Right.
His main platform is to “kill Obamacare” (with no details on what would replace it) though he announced he may have to sign up for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act. A hypocrite.
He’s not all bad.
• born in Calgary, Canada
• first Hispanic or Cuban American to serve as a U.S. Senator from Texas
• he’s a Constitutional expert
• very familiar with American Law. Believes in the rule of law.
• he’s outspoken, willing to speak against the Republican Party line. I admire that. No doubt his corporate paymasters consider him too much a loose cannon.
Why is that?
Many of the rich (Cheap-Labor Conservatives) like “cheap labour”.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Though former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich overstates a bit, his key points are true.
Click PLAY or watch a trailer for Robert Reich’s documentary on YouTube. Inequality for All.
I can’t see why any poor or under-employed person should vote for the Republican Party. The American Tea Party hates the poor. Despises any program that gives one dollar to the poor. Yet wants to waste hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in the Middle East.
I’m still trying to find a national American politician who’s a true fiscal conservative.
Films for Action – The Cheap-Labor Conservatives’ “Dirty Secret”: They Don’t Really Like Prosperity
FOX National News is the worst.
They care only for ratings. If you don’t like FOX News (unfair and unbalanced), boycott.
Selma is a 2014 American historical drama film …
It is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches …
Selma has received universal acclaim from film critics. Praise has gone particularly to the film’s acting, cinematography, screenplay, and direction. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently holds a rating of 98% …
Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.
It’s an important movie. A good history lesson.
Martin Luther King Jr. emulated my personal hero Gandhi. Non-violent resistance. The best way for an oppressed minority to challenge a privileged majority.
It worked.
But as a film I found Selma average. Too preachy. The dialogue often not believable. The good guys too good, the bad guys too evil.
It might have been better as a documentary.
Instead it’s a Hollywood fiction based on a true story. I know not all the facts are exactly right. But John Lewis, being bludgeoned in this photo March 7, 1965, feels the film gets enough right. To him the film is true to the story.
Alabama Governor George Wallace was a prototype segregationist. During his final years, Wallace recanted his racist views and asked for forgiveness from African Americans.
I visited Alabama for the first time last year. Surprised and pleased to see no outward signs of overt racism.
Sooner or later the echos of American slavery will be entirely forgotten.
In the meantime, Selma is a reminder of how far we’ve come. And how far we have not come.
related – Neil Young – Southern Man
I bought a Liberal Party of Canada membership. And will be actively campaigning for … anyone-but-Harper.
I guess I’ll be voting for the politician most likely to beat Harper.
There are many reasons why Harper has to go. But the last straw for me was when he sent a few planes and a few dozen men to bomb people. It’s a pitifully symbolic gesture. One that will accomplish nothing aside from inspiring terrorists to retaliate against Canadians.
The best thing Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien ever did was to refuse George Bush’s “Coalition of the Willing”, a group of 49 countries that the U.S. said supported the mission despite the lack of authorization by the U.N. Security Council.
Let’s hope Trudeau is half as good as Chrétien. One quarter as good as his father.
Rick McCharles 