Jimmy Carter… shut up already. This op-ed proves you know nothing of this subject. Go back to your peanut farm!
Carters conjecture on why none of us want to own an assault weapons is quite a leap in logic. It is the equivalent to: “None of us want to eat peanuts, because we don’t want to dig them out of our turds.” This kind of absurdity gets the ignorant masses wound up.
But none of us wants to own an assault weapon, because we have no desire to kill policemen or go to a school or workplace to see how many victims we can accumulate before we are finally shot or take our own lives. That’s why the White House and Congress must not give up on trying to reinstate a ban on assault weapons, even if it may be politically difficult.
An overwhelming majority of Americans, including me and my hunting companions, believe in the right to own weapons, but surveys show that they also support modest restraints like background checks, mandatory registration and brief waiting periods before purchase.
via Op-Ed Contributor – What Happened to the Ban on Assault Weapons? – NYTimes.com.
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I have a one word comment for this: ASININE!
The city of Fort Worth is shutting down its school system for 10 days in an effort to stop the spread of swine flu, even as top U.S. leaders warn parents not to take children whose schools are closed to daycare or their workplaces since doing so would offer the same potential for the virus to spread.
via Fort Worth Shutters All Schools; WHO Warns of Likely Pandemic – washingtonpost.com.
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This could also be titled way to go dumb-ass. I think Obama is worse about staging photo ops than Clinton.
By ULA ILNYTZKY and SARA KUGLER – 1 hour ago
NEW YORK AP — It was supposed to be a photo op that captured images of an Air Force One plane with a majestic Statue of Liberty in the background. Instead, it turned into a public relations nightmare that led to recriminations from the president and mayor and prompted thousands other to ask, “What were they thinking?”
Just before the workday began on Monday, an airliner and supersonic fighter jet zoomed past the lower Manhattan skyline. Within minutes, startled financial workers streamed out of their offices, fearing a nightmarish replay of Sept. 11.
For a half-hour, the Boeing 747 and F-16 jet circled the Statue of Liberty and the Financial District near the World Trade Center site. Offices evacuated. Dispatchers were inundated with calls. Witnesses thought the planes were flying dangerously low.
But the flyover was nothing but a photo op, apparently one of a series of flights to get pictures of the plane in front of national landmarks.
It was carried out by the Defense Department with little warning, infuriating New York officials and putting the White House on the defense. Even Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t know about it, and he later called it “insensitive” to fly so near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
via The Associated Press: Recriminations fly after NYC jet flyover photo op.
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“The purpose of all wars, is peace.” — St. Augustine
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