During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
If that was another Obama dog whistle we just heard, then we should contemplate what it was whistling. It’s not as though we don’t know who the target audience might be.
In the meantime, I do hope Huckabee doesn’t try the "they took it out of context" defense. The video above includes the larger context of Huckabee’s remarks, which were all about how those libruls are a bunch of worthless elitists who hate Real Americans.
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Bunch of Sickos.
Hi Dave!!
Does this constitute a veiled threat by a Christian?
I hope the Secret Service visits Huckleberry.
Well, there just went Huckabee’s VP slot prospects.
Probably enhanced it.
Who will rid me of this troublesome candidate?
Jeez – how sick are these people? I’ve been very concerned that some one will take a shot at Sen Obama and security, from reports, has been pretty slack at his events. We do not need The Huckster giving some whacko the sense that God is commanding it.
Where’s you get that about the security at his events?
I came into Bloomington Indiana on April 30. The airport shuttle dropped me at the Hampton Inn, and as it happened the shuttle driver unloaded an extra bag by mistake which I took in to the desk clerk. Now on April 30 Barack was speaking in Bloomington, and the desk clerk joked that it was good that I brought the bag in before one of the 75 Secret Service agents staying there saw it, as it would have held up getting the bag returned to its rightful owner.
My point is that Barack does have a pretty massive security detail at this point.
This is the kind of fucking bullshit we really need to strike back against. These smirking assholes got away with the bandaids mocking Kerry at their pig lovefest and it made dems look weak to just take it. No more.
All week the MSM has been saying Obama will be the nominee…”unless something catastrophic happens”..when referring to Obama. It has to be a “talker”. How despicable!!!
They haven’t ever said that before…not about any candidate that I can ever remember.
My understanding is that they genuinely like him, even shoot the hoop with him.
I remember the year two of the most charismatic Americans ever (MLK & RFK) were shot. 1968. Any encouragement of any crazies to re-enact that horror should be firmly addressed by the Secret Service. Good ol’ boydom is no excuse or defense.
There was an incident in Texas … hm, where have I heard that phrase before?
How bout he’s just a swarmy stupid fucker.
No shit! It still makes me sick, thinking of those smirking assholes. They’re big supporters of the military, except when they’re not.
Absolutely revolting.
This sick party has been able to get away with anything on every media. Radio, teevee, and with the written press. There have been no limits, and Americans are sick to death of it.
Stupid, is the only explanation in May of 2008. Really, really stupid. They’re behaving like they think Americans are as stupid as they are. ***Wrong***
And now I’ve heard that the Secret Service isn’t quite the color-blind service we would hope for.
Link dead but I’ll take you word for it. Here’s the deal, we all know that if someone wants to badly enough they probably can. They only have to be lucky once. You gotta drive on and not let it turn you around, Barak knows the score.
The NRA membership includes many different people.
Suggest that FDL not write off all of them.
Some would be 90-95% in agreement here.
NOW. where ya been?
yea sure
Dave!
Texas Ellen!
(((((QuakerGirl)))))
Firepups!
Missed all y’all today while the server was having indigestion. I got stuff done, but I feel like I’m having a mini-withdrawal from my political fix.
FunnyDiva
I’m really sick of these backdrops by the way. I don’t remember Obama using them.
I just heard it recently. Scares me.
Kiddo or Lahoma, if you are out there please call home!
1,844 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Neiwert and the Firedog Freedom Fighters:
This old, broken down Scandinavian American has been cryin’ in the wilderness for years about the growin’ fascist metastatic cancer in our body politic. I have warned folks for several months that if the Kennedy boys could be hit way back when most folks were pretty naive about the lethal capabilities of the rulin’ power structure when threatened, then what do ya think the chances are for a consensus black candidate comin’ through unscathed in today’s poisonous atmosphere.
I think Obama has gotta get the entire Democratic Party establishment behind ‘im in the next few weeks and choose a VERY heavy hitter (like Al Gore) as VP to provide cover.
The fascists are goin’ “scorched earth”…this is gunna be a real dangerous period for everyone in this country.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THIS FIGHT HAS JEST STARTED!!
Raven,
Jane Fonda, for example, is (or has been) an NRA member.
NRA membership is not synonymous with right-wing ideology.
you mean the one in the video? Looks like it’s a convention thing. I’ve seen Senator Clinton in front of similar ones. I’d have to go back thru YouTube to see if Obama’s spoken at any such events.
But, yeah, the “backdrop” of BO’s speech/TownHall in SD today is a pretty stark contrast.
FunnyD
Nahant, where are ya, man? Need a diggy-linky!
Some would be 90-95% in agreement here.
And I’m father flannigan from boys town.
Sponsored by the KKK chapter of the Bush/Huckabee Republican Party. I am George W., ahhh, I mean John Sidney McCain, III, and I approve this message.
Seconded…but…:(
I so agree with you.
Yoo hoo!
And this is going to change what or how you are going to live exactly how?
Huckabee is done…finished.
You mean it didn’t used to be! Most rational people blew them off years ago for their ever increasing involvement in Rightwing politics. If they had remained a second amendment advocacy organization, fine, but I think the roster of speakers at today’s event illustrates my point quite nicely.
That’s a really weird clip. It’s almost like he was ready for the noise so he could deliver his line.
Why would Barack be on a chair anyway? I don’t get it.
It’s so 2000-2006. Boring.
It was a fucking setup.
Get fat, Huckabee. Enjoy life.
Sorry, I’m not sure where your question is coming from…I’m agreeing with Norske that we are in a very dangerous period right now.
Speaking of sickos and the Rethugs/Maladministration… Drink, Anyone…? (warning explicit video!)
I don’t either. David it right. This is dogwhistle material.
The high level Goopers seem to be all about the unacceptable comment these days; George W. compares Obama and other Democrats to Chamberlain…McNobrain jumps in and agrees. Now, it’s Huckabee making murderous jokes at Obama’s expense. This is unacceptable. I think the Secret Service needs to pay him a call and I also think we need to hear some even stronger statements out of senior Democrats.
He and I have been through this before. Anyone with half a brain knows it’s possible. Everyday you are alive is dangerous. So what are you going to do?
Oh, BTW
WTF was Hucksterbee’s point anyway? I see weapons come out, brandished by people who look like they have bad intentions, I’d dive for the floor, too. Does that make me a coward? Raven and other vets, what’s recommended if one is unarmed but potentially under fire?
FunnyD
David, don’t forget Huckabee shot over the heads of members of the press in Iowa.. One should lose their hunting license for stunts like that, imo.
Maybe Obama needs a different “secret service”…
Unass the area or, as Woody Allen said, flee. Actually the best thing is to take cover!
fuk Huckabee
Be nice if he cared for the rest of our rights.
Same on the NRA for giving this twit a platform to speak on.
i am gonna send this all over the damn place till huckabee has to hide his angry head……….
to christian mailing lists.
to nra mailing lists.
to libertarians/
to constitutionalists.
i’m in on all the loops.
you name them, his ass is gonna be attached to anything that may ever happen from his comments.
yep.
my grandfather was a proud card carrying nra member and a proud democrat, never saw a contradiction in it, and neither do i……..
i;m gonna call this in to the local radio show tomorrow, see what happens.
and by the way, i got into the diane rehm show today about chevron funding the burma junta and john mccain’s top three lobbyists backing dictatorships…….h/t to whomever posted the threads about it, i passed it on. they sent an email that they had addressed john mccain’s lobby guy, craig shipley, i pointed out that they left out the real deal, the other three…….and they did it……..good on them. bout time, recently it’s been otherwise, which i pointed out in other emails…….
plenty of other things to stay on-toll free capitol switchboard–although a local rep told me it’s often better to call your local office too cuz the washington people are interns, so, i call both…….you can get the local office from the toll free office.
1-800-450-8293
p.s. duncan hunter mentioned the ’nazi’ comments two years ago, and romney did it in florida in january, is a tactic, don’t let it work. call it out for what it is……i sent letters all over this week to nip it and say what it is.a tactic.
No, it’s so 1935 – 1944. Remember the pictures of all the trappings and regalia at the Nuremberg rallies? This is the digital age, no need for banners on poles and such. Same effect.
If ya can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bullshit. Hitler did both, these clowns have to stick with the latter.
Huckabee would piss and shit his britches while diving for the floor.
Let’s say you want to own a gun.
For whatever reason.
NRA says you should be able to do so.
Now if you don’t want to own a gun, that’s fine too.
Depends on what you want.
Some hate, loathe, and fear guns. I’d say, stay away.
Some don’t like guns but want to have them. I’d say, make your own choice.
Some feel comfortable with guns. I’d say, if you’re not a criminal or underage, the Second Amendment is on your side.
Well, if Shucksabee wants to be in the spotlight again, maybe we can get him explain what happened with his son.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/72503/
Another “family values” champion who seems to have failed at raising a family.
lol :)
Hey Dragon, you are pinned down, no ammo, what do ya do? (no radio for extraction or fire mission)
I guess that was to me..or maybe not, anyways… I don’t know what Obama can do, but I think maybe he should not use the “regular” secret service…not after the latest racist news about them. I’m sure many of them are really, really noble, but it looks like they have some really bad apples in there. Just saying..
Rachel in for Keith!
You are picking one hell of a day to be spoutin that shit here.
Y’know, fine.
But I would advocate a One-Strike policy. You as much as brandish a firearm in menace at another person, you are done. Life without parole.
Given that. yeah, let everyone constitutionally pack heat.
Hunker down and pray…! ;-)
And you are suggesting who, Huey Newton?
Huckaduck would stand there and stare.
I’m all for the 2nd amendment to protect me from Bushco types. I don’t have a gun though..
If only there was some catastrophic and catalyzing event, such as a terrorist attack! All the cool people think it would solve Amurica’s problems. Plus, the Internet Patriot Act could be passed, to get rid of David Duke Hate sites such as Kos.
It is important to shape the circumstances, you know, neo-cons create reality, then they create another reality. Kagan knows what he is talking about.
That’s what I thought. I just figured I’d stay as close to the ground as possible while finding me some cover.
FunnyD
see ya later, I’m gettin all aggravated.
Are you pickin’ on me???? ;>
and norske i am still a little perturbed at you misinterpreting what i said the other day immensely and fraggin’ my ass and not coming back to explain why you did it……..
don’t get it and wanna scrag ya cuz of it. or until you explain it.
Dayam, Rachel is looking good today…! 8-)
We jest need a NtA; National t00bz Association.
Scratch out the deepest fuckin’ hole I can, make myself low to the ground like a mud puddle, keep still and quiet. Sure as shit ain’t tryin’ to hide behind trees an’ shit.
And a few months ago, Huckabees son was arrested for carrying a gun in the Little Rock airport.. (released from jail and never tried within hours)
dayum norske, u got sum ear box’n come’n!
Me too apparently…put up yer dukes!!! (ducking and hiding in the nearest lowest location)…
So much of the republican machine has been based on what Hitler did…
I don’t remember the backdrops from those days, but it makes perfect sense.
A little bit about David Huckabee, son of Mike, history from that link:
Let’s hear some jokes, funny man. Great job raising yer boy.
Basically, the same thing I said at 61…! ;-)
lol! :)
Actually, I have to say that I figured the incident with Huckabee was just what you find with nearly all of these politicians who like to indulge the “manly sports” — they don’t know their asses from their hands. I used to see this all the time in Idaho — guys who only ever donned hunting vests for the photo ops (because they were nearly always lawyers).
In other words, Huckabee did not out of maliciousness but because he is a dumbass who doesn’t know the first rules of gun safety. Believe me, keeping the gun pointed in the opposite direction of any fellow humans is about Rule No. 1. (Cheney failed that one too.) In other words, he obviously never even took (or flunked) your basic NRA Gun Safety Class.
Even tho’ you’ve stepped away, may I please tell you there are days I just want to reach thru’ the toobz and give you a whoppin’ big hug.
See ya later, Raven. Have a tall, cool one or somethin’. Pet the pooches for me.
FunnyD
They didn’t have backdrops but they had all those flags and stuff hanging from poles like the Romans had. That’s where they got the idea. The colour pictures are amazing in their pageantry. Rethugs doing the same thing, different props.
Oh, my!
did my duty with Spotlight in print and tv. I want KO to do a special comment about this one for sure.
The irony of it is that many of the politicians who suckle at the NRA’s teat have never served… A bunch of chickenhawks trying to make up for their apparent ‘inadequencies’… ‘All hat and no cattle’… ;-)
Hey, SouthernD.
I sorta figured that was the SOP for Raven’s scenario. Though I guess if I had a big tree real handy, I’d consider being a mud puddle pretty close to it.
FunnyD
Precisely sir. Avid AR hunter here.. Most folks I know would be tarred feathered and kicked out of the hunting club for handling a gun like that.
They’re rehashing this thing? That was all over the blogs, what, 6-7 months ago? Or more?
My God, I had never heard that story before. What is wrong with these people???
First place to look for somebody is around standing cover. Great way to get lit up.
LS, SD is right, that is old news…! ;-)
i just wrote at letter to fdl about why i have a conscience and wanting someone to write a post about how people found theirs……
here is part of a letter i sent to fdl——–and the friend was out-of-state-that heard my letter….and others.
today, one of my friends called me and said i heard you on diane rehm today……..good for you…….that is the first that has happened, i stay anonymous in my maneuvers, they are local and national, but noone knows who the hell i am.
today, that got out. she is a gossip. got me thinkin’.
came home and watched one of the movies that got me thinking about governments–
blue thunder.
the others are romero, the killing fields, uncommon valour, missing.
i have heard many on fdl lately harking to others about their leanings and how they are affected by different experiences.
it got me to thinking that i would like to someday, after i can control my mouth towards norske and the obama pile-on hyenas, ( : ) )like to do/see a post about what caused people to have a conscience and tenderness toward others in the world?
i would name the movies i listed above.
i would like to do a post on what affected people to think about others…….i can name them in my life, i am curious about what has affected others in this way.
i wonder at how many can actually name how/shy they were affected and am very curious which ones would be able to do that………very……
meanwhile, i’ll keep writin’ my letters. and doin’ what i do.
but i hafta say, fdl, you have changed the-hate the word-dynamic, here, the local radio show dialogue has changed because of the things/information i am able to offer because of what i learn here……….they also were hiring, and all three of the applicants were people i recommended……..change happens at home first, and knowledge is a fine thing.
thanks from the bottom of my keyboard.
Another graduate of the George W. Bush Animal Welfare College.
While I agree that the ‘thugs are co-opting all kinds of nationalistic/patriotic symbols, I’m not sure I’d go as far as accusing them of aping Hitler. To me it looks like the business-as-usual corporate sponsorship/branding thing. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen those type of backdrops on vids of Microsoft conferences, etc. Certainly the “celeb photo walls” at all the awards shows look alot like that–sponsor names/logos plastered all over.
FunnyD
Just your basic Rethug.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
Kinda different….just noticed a new “headline” on Obama’s site. They credit TPM with the Hans Spankinoffsky story and add this:
Usually the frontpage just has campaign PR, but this stood out to me since it seems more like a news item, and it’s great to see Hans getting more scrutiny (they use it to promote Barack at least).
Some here are comfortable with guns.
I had a bad Vietnam dream last night, locked my door, checked my gun and ammunition, went back to sleep, had a good dream.
Some here hate guns.
Let’s understand that guns are not the issue. Bad politicians are.
I don’t hunt but grew up around hunters and have a lot of friends and family who do hunt.
New York State has a two tier deer hunting season with rifle in the Northern Tier (basically north of the NY Thruway) and shotgun in southern tier. One of my co-workers refused to go hunting during the Southern Tier season. He called it the Amateur Hour because it was mainly all the great hunters out of the city who had no clue what they were doing.
I have the same suit Rachel is wearing!
Was Hickabee’s joke met with Rapturous applause?
lol, spring must be in the air ;)
good question.
Too true, dakine…too true.
Now that Applebee’s is flapping his lips again, it doesn’t hurt to remind those who already know, and inform those that might not have have heard back then. Probably about 5% of the electorate knows that story I bet…
With shotguns too, shit… I wouldn’t venture into the woods then either…!
I’d not heard this before. Just got it from Bonkers. (((Bonkers!)))
propaganda, marketing, has become fairly rote.
Fortunately, he was a good enough hunter that I usually got some venison burgers or something most every year I was up there as he’d get his deer during Northern Tier and then stay home. :})
They’re not aping Hitler, they’re aping the Romans. Hitler made the Romans’ displays more sophisticated and the Rethugs have updated that sophistication into the digital age. It’s PR whether Augustus did it, Hitler did it, or the Rethugs do it. The Bolsheviks did the same thing. Lots of flags, banners, all that stuff. Gets the crowds all a-tither. We just do it differently, slicker.
Like the good Rev Dr Wright said, “…it’s different, not deficient.”
You can hear some reserved laughter, and mostly murmurs. As has been pointed out in this thread, many NRAers are extremely responsible and recognized the ridiculousness of Applebee’s joke.
Hopefully he just ended any of the rumours of a McKeating/Applebee’s ticket.
what’s fabulous about this story is that the wires are picking it up rather quickly. Saw it on Reuters and Boston Globe. My guess is that it’s going everywhere because it was on CNN.
We usually don’t get this kind of quick response against a wingnut.
And now the site’s goin’ all deja vu on me. I know, I know: Hard reset time! I try not to think of The Matrix at times like these.
huckabee did the same thing anyone does when they’ve been weakened and humiliated, he goes back to those who know him best……….we finally found out where he comes from for sure. without a doubt……let’s pass it on…….let it resonate throughout the land. two-faced preacher without a church…..defrocked. works for me.
i will. first person will be to my brother-in-law…..he has his stone cold beliefs, however he knows how hard i researched and followed my own path, and even though my path led away from his, he knows me to be sincere and true to my word…second call, to the local call in radio show. where evolution is being argued, along with wind farms, commissioners and polar bears.
thanks david. i use what i learn here and pass it on.
Nice to se Rachel sitting in KO’s chair this evening.
Rachel is hot. *sigh* A boy can dream.
Sounds like the Wright quote!
Bread and Circuses
Hans has pulled his name! Hot damn!
Former Justice lawyer pulls name for election post
Published: Today, 8:05 PM
WASHINGTON — Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department lawyer who became a lightning rod for partisan wrangling over an alleged Bush administration voter suppression campaign, pulled his name from consideration for a seat on the Federal Election Commission Friday.
gives a whole new meaning to “take out the trash day.”
Yep. Still works. Can ya believe it? I see it in my county election results every election.
((((quakergirl))))
Good things come to those who wait(and hold out for something and someone better).
Maybe, now we can get a fully functional FEC to investigate McInsane’s illegalities now…! I’m sure his camp isn’t too pleased at that bit of news…!
Sounds like a great theme for summer theater this summer.
BTW, Rachel just reported that Huckabee issued a cursory apology. His “intention” as pertains to the fantasy of someone pointing a gun at Obama and Obama hitting the deck was not disrespect.
It was just funny, see?
Fucktards.
revdeb at 112–don’t forget the power of a letter……..we have as much of a response happening as anything else. if it is written according to facts.
that i have learned to be true.
it’s a fact. write the freakin’ letters when you hear something that matters. just write it. you don’t have to even use caps.
write them all over the place, i do, anytime i hear something that doesn’t match up, i write……..i hear back and even better, i hear better next time the subject is raised….is a wonderful thing…..better than sex. and just as addictive.
Funny that……….but not ha-ha funny. Just today had someone mention a piece of news (can’t even remember now what it was and this is someone who’s on our side of the fence) and my response was, “You just hearin’ about that? I already saw it on-line at least a week ago.” Says it all about the quality of the so-called news media…..less than worthless. :-(
She’s getting married! See Huffpo.
Are you new, Matthew? Haven’t seen you before!
Actually, they don’t need him any more. The SCOTUS has officially approved of the crappy stuff he was doing covertly.
Still. Good to see him long gone.
MOST EXCELLENT!
I grew up in Kentucky where no sales of alcohol during the time when the Polls were open. Officially. Yet there were also the stories about the candidate for County Judge who went into one precinct and bought 34 half pints of whiskey and gave ‘em out. And got 28 votes from that precinct. He lsot the elections fairly handily anyway.
Heh, I’ve been dreaming a long time now…! BTW, welcome to the Lake! I’ve not seen ya around, and I’d like to extend a hearty aloha…! 8-)
I’ll bet ol’ Granny McConnell is just beside himself. Hope he was at some mucky muck function when he heard the news and pissed his pants.
These guys wouldn’t know humor if it put a foot up their ass.
I agree, I was gonna mention Mitch’s displeasure, but…! ;-)
herding cats, i give up.
let’s party.
Ouch!!! Bwahahahaha
I’m which U
Only the voter ID, we shall see about the vote caging shenanigans…!
The drunks marked the wrong box. Hard ta see real good when yer shitfaced and cross-eyed.
New post upstairs
I’m infrequent, and don’t hop on the threads that often, and blog every now and then over at DWT.
Also: Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!
Speaking of which I gotta go pick up the tiger chow. brb
Aw, thanks!
Cheers, dmac. I love your posts, and admire you!
Well, I think there is psychological hardwire from fundamentalism to a glaring lack of a sense of humor. Incapacity to interpret anything beyond face value, and dogmatic conditioning thereof, tends not nurture a capacity to understand irony, which is so intrinsic to comedy in a world gone to shit.
and i don’t like the ’lost in the ozone again’ posts on fdl………i can’t count the times we are in a post, and there is another post, but it’s not another fdl post, it’s behind, and yet it’s a post…….so, you get caught up in the post, but there’s another post on that site………which post is a post. and you can’t find your way out of it unless someone says ’another post’………..find another way to do it or you’ve lost me.
adhd can’t handle it.
in re the guy who doesn’t know about Munich 1938: “try the google!”
God, I fucking love her.
Beg to differ. Guns may not be the issue; but people with guns are an issue. People and guns make a bad combination. I would not own a gun if one were given to me absolutely free. Guns in the hands of civilians is a symbol of lawlessness and inept or inadequate government. The Hatfields and McCoys shot at each other because law enforcement in their corner of Appalachia was virtually non-existent. When the Lumber companies and Coal companies started moving into that area, they demanded better security and got it. No more feud.
Yes, I do have an intense dislike of guns. YMMV.
I saw the video made for Elvis & Lisa Presley’s version of “The Ghetto.” It was filled of pictures of babies and guns. It made me sick. That’s no way for a baby to grow up.
YMMV.
Bob in HI
Heh. Score one for RevDeb.
Bob in HI
Damn the bad luck! I just hate it when Mr. Chou is displeased.
I agree with that. I’ve never met a fundie with a sense of humor. They’re so busy trying to live up to what some 6000 year old prophet like Isaiah said, which is irrational in this day and age to begin with, that they’re incapable of viewing the world through any other lense. Reinforced by the weekly ravings of Hagee and that ilk they become nosferatu. Except they can’t bite and go all fainty couch at the sight of real blood, particularly their own.
Just to remind folks of what the 2nd Amendment actually says:
I wonder how many gun owners belong to a well regulated militia. I wonder too why in a case like this where the original intent is blazingly clear conservative Supreme Court justices and proponents of “original intent” manage to overlook it here.
I just learned of this. So Huckster is as bad as some people were saying he is. This is incredibly stupid, dangerous shit, as low as it gets.
You just don’t hang out in the right circles. And some of them have a good sense of humor.
Bob in HI
Oh, my fucking GOD, this barelypolitical.com bit with set-director talking back at Orally? is the funniest goddamn thing since like ever.
militias! omg, aren’t those… “domestic terrorists!”
WATCH THIS NOW: um, please: http://www.youtube.com/user/barelypolitical
ima put it on the new thread too.
Isn’t that the crux of the case from DC that’s before the SC? I’d like to read some contemporary material on the discussion of the 2nd amendment.
For the same reason these same strict constructionists believe that the Ninth Amendment is meaningless?
thank you from the bottom of my heart, dmac.
You’re probably right. I’m not talking about folks like Jim Wallis. I’m talking low-info folks. The ones I’ve met were at vigils and demonstrations, where they were calling me everything but a white man.
That is good, isn’t it.
Goin’ upstairs. Oh shit, missed a step. Damn, that smarts.
troglodyte humongous, lol!
Pretty much, they only believe in strict construction when it fits in with their conservative agenda.
Keith O had a body language expert analyze BillO. BIllO has his own body language “experts” on frequently. But Stacey is hilarious and quite snarky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXW9GvIyVlw
thnaks for the love, i was sensing a shift in the way things are, like a hydrometor…….
decided to voice it.
my former’s uncle said i am a weather indicator…..it’s a gift…….
spew on bull snort
that is funny, fork BillO.
Haven’t had a chance to read the comments above, so I may be repeating something someone else has said, but that did not seem like an unexpected noise to me. Huckabee seemed prepared to make that vile statement. I think it was planned. Bastard.
Or: all codpiece, no cod!
Yes, we discussed above. Glad to see others think the same thing, and that I’m not getting all tin foily.
By and large I agree, but States and City’s have long had the right to regulate guns within their boundaries. This has been done since the time of the Original Constitution precisely because it feared organized armed groups in insurrection. Read the sections of the Constitution about the regulation of militias and who does it. It’s not the general public, or a group like the Patriots or the NRA…it’s Congress and the State legislatures. These provisions…including the part in the @nd Amendment about “well-regulated militias” were included precisely because conflicts like the Shay’s and Whiskey Rebellions involved armed men who had to be put down by the militias OF OTHER STATES.
Jefferson’s famous comments about these insurrections have always been misconstrued…he viewed the “tyrants” the ones that had illegally taken over the legislature and courts (Shays and others)…occasionally the “patriots” had to spill a little blood to nurture the new union. In any case, Jefferson was in Paris when all this was occurring. George Washington sent up General Lincoln to handle the mess.
Militia movement types always get Jefferson’s meaning completely reversed.
Last night we discussed Beecher’s Bibles…certain types of rifles were outlawed from Kansas because they were fueling an incipient civil war.