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Not so sure about that #41,
"The White House announced its eighth batch of judicial nominees on Thursday, including four excellent choices for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. They include a pair of Texans: Don Willett, who is now on the Texas Supreme Court and is well known for his witty Twitter feed; and James Ho, a Gibson, Dunn partner in Dallas who clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas and was Texas solicitor general. The other two Fifth Circuit nominees have notable legal achievements to their credit. Stuart Duncan was solicitor general of Louisiana and general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He was counsel of record in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, the landmark 2014 decision allowing closely held companies to be exempt from regulations they object to on religious grounds. Kurt Engelhardt is chief judge for the federal district court for eastern Louisiana. In 2013 he wrote a withering 129-page opinion documenting misconduct by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney in prosecuting New Orleans police.
The speed of the nominations and the quality of the nominees is a result of the close ties between White House judicial vetters and the Federalist Society that is a national clearinghouse for conservative legal talent. Judicial nominations are arguably the most successful part of the Trump Presidency. By our count—and we may have missed a name or two—Mr. Trump has made 18 nominations to appellate courts, 39 to district courts and three to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims."
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/10/03/meanwhile-trump-keeps...
Please do not miss reading the full article! After reading Thom's post I failed to see the "Read more here" link.
Nope! Not great again this week either!
Fox News is not a "well regulated militia." The KKK is not a "well regulated militia." Breitbart is not a "well regulated militia." Where is this "well regulated militia" referred to in the Second Amendment that these gun-nuts keep holding up as their right to go completely gun crazy?
If now's not the time to talk about gun laws then at least set a specific time and place right now. Give us an exact time when you are ready to talk about gun laws. If not now, then when?
I'm guessing that these greedy, murdering, bigoted Republicans are never ready to talk about gun legislation. Therefore, it is time for them to go! Actually, it was time for them to go about 50 years ago.
Thom's most annoying guest Julio miss quoted when he suggested that the sales of automatic machine guns were outlawed by the federal government in 1986. The gov. Stopped the manufacturing of new machine guns. These weapons of war can still be legally transferred to a new owner on approval from the ATF. Here is the # of automatic machine guns registered by the ATF. The number of these guns registered as of 2006 was 391.532. All these facts can be found at Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence. smartgunlaws.org.
After the carnage, the forbidden, politically incorrect discussion (for Republicans and corp Dems anyway) ...the best one so far:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-gun-lobby-is-down-to-its-last-unconvincing-excuse-w506851
Linked videos in article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kRTsQXfn2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgKQTtLTbsg
Seems that all of the Republicans have gotten the memo to say that now is an emotional time, and we should discuss it later. That or go underground and hide.
Great show as always.
Re the discussion of gun issues with NRA fans:
The question is not logic - more laws, insurance, background checks.
The REAL question is "What would do / how would you feel if you had been a victum of this crime / event?"
That would probably shut down all of their arguments and change the subject from an objective discussion to a subjective discussion.
Thank you!
#29: You're right; that was admittedly a cheap shot and quite indefensible. I apologize for the apparent levity; although, that was certainly not my intention. A trite marketing expression does not and cannot match the gravity of yet another senseless mass murder on the streets of the American war zone (which is beginning to resemble those in the Middle East -- "The war comes home.") Nevertheless, let us not lose sight of the deadly serious (no pun intended) point behind the, forever inadequate, words:
You watch; once the hue and cry wears out its welcome on corporate media, and our news cycle once again returns to "normal" programming -- all things Trump 24/7 ad nauseam, ad infinitum -- the NRA will crawl out of its Fux hole and return fire with the usual barrage of heavy-artillery lies. And the main weapon in their arsenal of spin is always, "This is an isolated incident attributable to every excuse on Earth that right-wing "think" tanks and gun lobbyists can dream up" -- obscuring the actual reason: The primary business model of the gun industry is to put as many weapons as possible into the hands of as many people as possible; damn the consequences!
It's a simple formula: Corporate greed + Republican lapdogs + lax gun laws = 59 dead; 527 wounded (fatalities predicted to rise) ...but hey, huge profits!
May God have mercy on the victims and punish the enablers.
It is a mental health issue. Also an availability of semi auto weapons. Also the ability to convert semi auto to auto. Mental hospitals were ended by Reagan. Semi auto ban ended by Bush. The ban was enacted by Reagan after he was shot by a semi auto gun. No Republicans will have solutions today, tomorrow or next year. My solutions are first ban semi auto guns. Require the MMPI (you can Google it) for all gun purchases with and evaluation of pass or fail. Limit guns sales (this guy had 43). Limit and control ammunition sales.
Kend is right. This is a mental health issue. Republicans are fucking crazy. This rightwing Second Amendment argument is the epitome of deranged Republicans creating their own insane definitions to validate and justify their selfish, greedy and bigoted, paranoid thinking…abetted by Fox News, Breitbart and all these other Fake News rightwing so called news sources.
This man may or may not have been a Republican, but he was armed by Republicans. And all this blood is on their hands.
Do away with the 2nd amendment? Hell no!!! I have defended myself and family against intruders to my home on several occasions.
Having a gun is an ego thing? Fuck you!!! It is a life saving thing, dickhead.
I agree no one needs a full automatic weapon. I have used a semi-auto shotgun and a semi-auto, 9 mm to defend against those that want to harm me and my family.
The crazed, evil peice of shit that killed and wonded people at random with a full automatic rifle must be stopped from owning it.
#21 you didn't go there. OMG you did. "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.".
Which Church was he attending???!!! All alert, what church did he attend. News flash. Was he leaving a ??? church recently before he went nuts? End the bigotry.
In reference to #3, speaking of enslaving people..... looks like some had a lot of experience in doing just that back then. thanks for your concern of those who were not enslaved back in 1788.
What's changed? Many years ago anyone who wanted a gun could still get one, legally or otherwise. What was missing from society was the term "mass shootings." Back then, that phrase was not in our vocabulary. Corporations have changed the face of America into what it is today. It's the only big wheel that's been turning all this time. Call it collateral damage. All this is just conjecture, but I can't help but think they might be part of the problem.
After seeing his brothers press release (whack job in big house) it is by no stretch of the imagination that he is as nuts as his wealthy investor right wing wack job gun nut8 brother. apparently the shooter barely knew how to use guns and spent most of time helping the girlscouts sell cookies and was so fortunate to be able to send ginormous cookie boxes from fabulous location throughout the world to his mother as a millionaire.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Murders in US very concentrated: 54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% of counties have 51% of the murders
https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2...
Vegas Shooter Passed All Federal Background Checks, Had Ingredients For BOMB In His Vehicle
Local news now reports that ammonia nitrate, the ingredients for a fertilizer bomb, was found in Paddock’s vehicles as well.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/21843/vegas-shooter-passed-all-federal-bac...
Wondering how many phyc drugs this guy was on....as were so many other mass shooters.
The NRA's new motto: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas."
Maybe if we had just as strong of a right to bear votes as we do arms, our representatives would feel more emboldened to honor the People over the gun industry. When polled specifically on the issue, without the color of partisan politics tainting the question, the majority of citizens by wide margins (including sober Republicans not caught up in the right-wing frenzy) want more sensible and effective gun-control laws, especially when it comes to weapons of war flooding our streets, which are designed to murder as many people as possible as quickly as possible.
Clearly the laws on the books aren't worth the ink. When some deluded psychopathic bastard can secretly amass 40-some weapons at home and then smuggle 23, many of them semi-automatic with scopes (some illegally converted to rock 'n roll) into a hotel room near the top of a building in the vicinity of a heavily populated venue, without so much as raising a single alarm anywhere in the system, isn't it time for a serious change of attitude in the Republican Congress?
The nation always has this same stupid debate after every mass shooting, without ever finding any sensible solutions before the next shiny object grabs the headlines. But c'mon -- at least 59 dead and over 500 hundred injured by one guy and one trigger finger in a matter of minutes? In the infantry, we called that "suppressing fire." Why is it happening in our neighborhoods?
Abolishing the Second Amendment in this political climate is obviously a bridge too far; surely though, there are plenty of other concrete measures available short of that, on which reasonable people can agree. What is more important, protecting the lives of citizens or protecting the careers of politicians placating their looney-tune base?
Guns & murder are illegal now in Chicago....hows that working for you?
God help mericuh!
You sure cursed already...
Dianereynolds still thinks we're in the late 18th century ....farmer/militias with flintlocks. The Foxaganda talking point that having citizens armed will protect us from a government that would enslave us is obviously bull. Good luck taking out the 21st century United States military machine with your modified assault weapons Diane. BTW: I don't see any sign of armed insurrection.....what are you waiting for, could our government get any worse than it is now? 47th in freedom of the press.....hell, we're right there with Russia.
What disturbs me more than the kochpublican 2nd amendment crap is their lack of respect for our first amendment...can't kneel in protest..really? The 2nd amendement obsession has been created by the NRA , the lobby for gun manufacturers, it's all about the god almighty dollar. They use fools like the Alabama nut running for senate...God and Guns...yes er reee.