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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts 
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I think that's maybe just a semantic difference. To my mind, if you say, "I know that a certain number of people will die under this framework, but this is the framework I want; these are my ideal gun laws," then you're accepting it. My prediction isn't much of a prediction. Per CNN, we know that there are already a fair number of people who want to ban private ownership of guns altogether. To deny my "prediction" is to suggest that nobody favors unreasonable gun laws, which doesn't seem plausible.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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What are you doing here, anyway? Shouldn't you be watching the Seahawks beat the Packers?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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tomsk192 Inner circle 3894 Posts
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Surely the point is, that if one elects a complete tit locally, who runs on gun freedom, then it's awfully difficult to get that particular tit to sit down and negotiate nationally? It's really up to your political parties to align themselves with sensible debate. At the moment, one side seems remarkably stupid, bordering on insane.
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts
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To accept that "there are already a fair number of people who want to ban private ownership of guns altogether" would mean that Bob would no longer be able to call that a straw man argument. I'm not sure he's willing to do that.
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts
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On Sep 4, 2014, tomsk192 wrote: I would never suggest that Democrats are bordering on insane but I will give you the remarkably stupid part. |
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R.S. Regular user CT one day I'll have 196 Posts
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On Sep 4, 2014, rockwall wrote: Gotta hand it to Rockwall - this did make me laugh. 
(and I don't mean that sarcastically - it was actually a good line) Ron
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12587 Posts
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On Sep 4, 2014, LobowolfXXX wrote: I am! I am watching as I type! |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12587 Posts
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On Sep 4, 2014, LobowolfXXX wrote: That small number of people is more than balanced out by those who would prefer no gun controls at all. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On Sep 4, 2014, mastermindreader wrote: It depends what you mean by "balanced out." Per the middle-of-road CNN, the "no guns at all" faction is bigger.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5195 Posts
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On Sep 4, 2014, R.S. wrote: He will be remembered by many as the man who had the opportunity to change the course of the country from the preceding psychopaths and then went back on every promise made to the people who voted for him. Kind of like those mystery thrillers where the serial killer turns out to be the detective.
Click here to get Gerald Deutsch's Perverse Magic: The First Sixteen Years
All proceeds to Open Heart Magic charity. |
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tomsk192 Inner circle 3894 Posts
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He will be remembered as the bloke who started to spread the sh*t. Clever bloke.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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He'll be remembered as a skilled politician in a non-complimentary sense of the word. A guy with almost no political experience who was elected because he could give a great speech, then took office and found out the job was a lot harder than it looked. And as Landmark (is there a more liberal poster here in NVMS?) points out, one who "went back on every promise made to the people voted for him."
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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tomsk192 Inner circle 3894 Posts
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My analysis differs from yours, but he wasn't my Prez.
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12587 Posts
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Except he didn't.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazin......page=all And all that, and more, with a GOP that vowed on his first inauguration night that their primary goal was to obstruct everything and to insure that he'd be a one term president. He will certainly go down in history as one of our better presidents. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On Sep 4, 2014, mastermindreader wrote: Wow! I'll take the "under" on that one. He will almost certainly go down in history as a subpar president, and lucky if he escapes with a C-.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12587 Posts
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I'll take that bet.
Please provide a comparable list of GWB's fifty greatest accomplishments. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On Sep 4, 2014, mastermindreader wrote: lol Yup...the best thing his supporters will say is, "Well, at least he was better than Bush." Unfortunately for his legacy, those supporters won't even contend that such a comparison gets him out of the bottom 10%.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On Sep 4, 2014, mastermindreader wrote: You could probably do a "top 50 broken promises" without changing the topic from the ACA. But here's a nice talking point from the very first of the "top 50": "It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014" How's that working out? #4 "Ended the War in Iraq." The promise was (how soon we forget) that that would happen in one year. Right after comprehensive immigration reform.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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#5 "Began drawdown of troops from Afghanistan"
"From a peak of 101,000 troops in June 2011..." So he created the 101,000-troop peak then gets credit for reducing HIS maximum. I'm reminded of Kurt Russell in Tequila Sunrise. "I don't plant weeds in my back yard so I can pull them!" There's always 35% or so who support every president, 35% or so who oppose every president, and 30% or so in the middle - the ones who decide legacies and elections. There are more than enough soundbites for the diehard Obama fans; the approval ratings, however, show what the middle third thinks.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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In the interest of not getting myself banned, I'll refrain from reading #s 6-50. Vegans shouldn't shoot fish in barrels anyway.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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