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June 18, 2015 11:32 AM UTC
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Prayers for the victims in Charleston. Please don't politicize this tragedy, President Obama.
How's the cognitive dissonance working out for you?
The response is the same as it was after Newtown: prayers now, but we have to talk about this…
President Obama has now given 14 unhappily similar speeches following violent atttacks. When do we acknowledge that we as a nation have a problem and that it isn't being solved by more guns?
On the other hand, I've already had an "if the pastor had only had a gun, this could have been prevented" meme show up in my FB feed. Nevermind that the perp had been sitting among the victims for an hour prior to his attack; that he had already killed two people before anyone understood what was going on; that at no point was it apparently possible to disarm the shooter despite his having to reload 5 times; that the church had a history of supporting non-violence and church members would not likely have been armed regardless of gun policies…
I am paraphrasing but the Governor of South Carolina said if people go to a church to pray, then we have more praying to do. I hate to burst her bubble but more praying isn't going to take the guns of a nut's hands.
Haley's response to the shooting seems reasonable:
But you're right in that Haley will never vote for anything to limit who gets their hands on guns, including clearly mentally ill violent people like Roof.
The script for climate change deniers was developed by the tobacco companies years ago.
1} It isn't happening. {It snowed in my back yard this winter}.
2} It's not my fault. (Plants like CO2).
3} We can't do anything about it anyway. {If your island is sinking or drought is forcing you to move, f*ck 'em, they're brown}.
The only real addition to the script is:
JESUS IS COMING!
It doesn't matter if we screw things up. It'll all be gone anyway.
That's not new. Anyone remember James Watt?
Yes, I do. Pine trees cause smog and all. I don't think climate change was much of a subject back then. Of course, before Regan some Republicans actually cared about the environment and our impact on it. There used to be an attitude of "we're all in this together". There could be disagreement about methods, now it's just "I got mine". Could you even imagine how Brown v Board of Education would go down in today's court?
Anyway, with the end times coming from gay marriage, Obamacare, etc. etc. How is it that God's Own Party is against these things?
Don't have time right now to look up Watt's exact logic, but as I recall it had to do with mankind having some sort of moral responsibility to not let any natural resources go to waste by not using them up before the end times. Sorry if I'm way off, but that's the gist of what I remember.
But you are right that climate change was not an issue. Were we still discussing “nuclear winter” then?
Whatever happened to him? I remember him saying something to extent that we don't know how many more generations there will be so we need to use up all our resources.
Wow! He's still alive. From Wiki:
In 1995, Watt was indicted on 25 counts of felony perjury and obstruction of justice by a federal grand jury, accused of making false statements before the grand jury investigating influence peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which he had lobbied in the 1980s.[25] On January 2, 1996, Watt pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor of withholding documents from the grand jury. On March 12, 1996, he was sentenced to five years' probation, and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 and perform 500 hours of community service.[26]
In a 2001 interview, Watt applauded the energy policy of the Bush administration, stating that its preference of oil drilling and coal mining to conservation was just what he recommended in the early 1980s.[27] "Everything Cheney's saying, everything the president's saying – they're saying exactly what we were saying 20 years ago, precisely … Twenty years later, it sounds like they've just dusted off the old work."
I’m sure his long life is due to all the fracking fluid he drinks. A nasty piece of work.
The Interfaith Alliance of Colorado is holding a prayer vigil tonight (6/18) for the victims of Emanuel AME in Charleston, S.C. at Shorter AME church from 9 p.m. – 12 a.m. Shorter is at the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Randy Corporon's piece in the Statesman: As the House Turns. From his commentary:
Finally, a statement from the right wing that is slightly more informative than, "Oooh, House did something awful, but I can't tell you what . He should resign before it all comes out."
Although Corporon is still asking House to resign – not a surprise, considering that Corporon was one of the first to post Mizel's announcement of House's resignation. Corporon is a KLZ talk show radio host, frequent contributor to Complete Colorado, chairman of the Arapahoe County Tea Party, and a member of the "Liberty Movement" in Colorado. The "Liberty People" are often credited with pushing House out, on Facebook pages I've seen lately. As far as I can tell as an outsider, the "Liberty Movement" are hard-right Tea Party / libertarian folks who want more charter schools, fewer gun restrictions, etc. They call themselves "Constitutional Conservatives". Some of their posts and affiliated sites border on secessionist.
To answer Frank's question about which legislators were calling for House to resign, we would have to know which legislators are allied with this "Liberty Movement". The 2013 legislative scorecard (pdf file) of Richard Bratten's "Principles of Liberty" page lists State Senators having scores greater than 75%: Lundberg, Cadman, Lambert, Marble, and Renfroe. In the House, Everett, Saine, Holbert, Humphrey, and Buck took the honors.
And then there is Jack Stansberry's piece The Godfather: Part Deaux, also in The Statesman, also about what I call "ChairGate". Stansberry seems to be supporting House, and encouraging him to stay on as Chair.
There's undoubtedly a Neville, or three, among that ilk!?!
Tim Neville was out of the Senate when this Principles of Liberty scorecard was compiled in 2013.
He probably has a pretty high score on their "Principles of Liberty", but I'm not seeing an updated scorecard. The "Liberty Activist" page run by Ogreexposed, also lists Laura Woods (of course), as one of the "Liberty legislators" to be supported.
The Ogreexposed people are not necessarily the RMGO people. Turf war.
http://ogreexposed.org/
Dio, the Principles of Liberty site has updated 2015 legislative scorecards for the House and the Senate. Both Nevilles are in the top 5.