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Boring Dad is Boring commented on 10-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Shot Dead by 14-Year-Old Boy.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on 10-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Shot Dead by 14-Year-Old Boy.
Mine are all under control.
May 14
Boring Dad is Boring commented on "If it goes one inch further, I'm going to start killing people!".
Boring Dad is Boring commented on "If it goes one inch further, I'm going to start killing people!".
@10: If it's about Sandy Hook, then why wouldn't you want to take away guns? The guns used passed through a background check, adding additional background checks does zero about the next guy who wants to be famous and is willing to kill his own mother on the way there.
May 13
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Senator's Illness Gives Dems Chance to Seize Back Control of State Senate; Fate of Reproductive Parity and State Dream Acts Hangs in the Balance.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Senator's Illness Gives Dems Chance to Seize Back Control of State Senate; Fate of Reproductive Parity and State Dream Acts Hangs in the Balance.
@18: Republicans are perfectly content with governance so long as what is being governed is the flow of cash to their favored constituencies. I think you draw too fine a distinction between the teams - 97% of what either party is focused on is managing massive transfers of wealth to their (largely identical) backers, and spending 3% of their effort on wedge-y tidbits and issues that will convince 51% of voters to settle for them come election time.
I don't have a better idea, by the way - every alternative that's been tried is worse...
I don't have a better idea, by the way - every alternative that's been tried is worse...
May 13
Boring Dad is Boring commented on This Is What You Get, Liberals: Obama's Surveillance Scandal.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on This Is What You Get, Liberals: Obama's Surveillance Scandal.
I have to wonder if people who got swept up in the Barry O. wave don't regret going with Hillary occasionally. Whatever you think of the Clinton machine, they are political beasts who know how to maneuver and how to chainsaw their way through whatever general obstruction or scandal of the month comes along.
I think at this rate there's a good chance that the Obama stink ends up putting some blah GOP clown in office, even if HRC gets the Team Blue nomination.
I think at this rate there's a good chance that the Obama stink ends up putting some blah GOP clown in office, even if HRC gets the Team Blue nomination.
May 8
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The American Health Care Market.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The American Health Care Market.
@10, I wasn't the one making that comparison, @6 was extolling its virtues (I got my numbering wrong above - AGAIN)
May 8
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The American Health Care Market.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The American Health Care Market.
@7: The magical health and compassion I witnessed in India involved a very large number of maimed and sick people lying in the streets of multiple cities begging for money, food, or even eye contact, none of which was forthcoming.
Any person in this country can walk (or be carried) into any emergency room and receive care, no matter what.
I think I'll stick with our 'Fascism' a couple more years, thanks.
Any person in this country can walk (or be carried) into any emergency room and receive care, no matter what.
I think I'll stick with our 'Fascism' a couple more years, thanks.
Apr 27
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The Saturday Morning News.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The Saturday Morning News.
30: You pretty much make my point. Fuck off.
Apr 27
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The Saturday Morning News.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The Saturday Morning News.
15, 16: Nobody who cares about the gun issue believes for a second that the goal is "background checks." It's about political control and an ultimate longer term push toward disempowering people you don't like.
The first section of this post does a good job providing context as to why people might feel this way, if anyone cares to read it:
http://kontradictions.wordpress.com/2013…
The first section of this post does a good job providing context as to why people might feel this way, if anyone cares to read it:
http://kontradictions.wordpress.com/2013…
Apr 22
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The Federal Way Shooting Was a Domestic Violence Incident, Say Police.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The Federal Way Shooting Was a Domestic Violence Incident, Say Police.
@1 Thousands of daily victims of "gun violence," yes, if you include suicides, and criminals shooting other criminals while committing additional crimes, and then multiply by ten. Or twelve. Or, to be semantic, twenty four-ish if you really want multiple thousands. Math is NUTS.
To get to thousands of daily victims of anything in the US you need to think more about "metabolic violence" or "cancer violence." But there aren't nearly as many political points to score there, so I'll refrain from committing breath-holding violence on myself waiting for the indignant posts.
To be clear - I have no sympathy to any piece of shit who commits domestic violence, and fully support throwing the book at them. Judges in WA have discretion today to enter orders requiring surrender of firearms when "any party presents a serious and imminent threat to public health or safety, or to the health or safety of any individual." Would be interesting to understand why they don't take advantage of the existing laws on the books.
To get to thousands of daily victims of anything in the US you need to think more about "metabolic violence" or "cancer violence." But there aren't nearly as many political points to score there, so I'll refrain from committing breath-holding violence on myself waiting for the indignant posts.
To be clear - I have no sympathy to any piece of shit who commits domestic violence, and fully support throwing the book at them. Judges in WA have discretion today to enter orders requiring surrender of firearms when "any party presents a serious and imminent threat to public health or safety, or to the health or safety of any individual." Would be interesting to understand why they don't take advantage of the existing laws on the books.
Apr 22
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Over 90% of the American People Support Universal Backgrounds Checks.
@100: Yep, you hit the nerve that goes off in the presence of smarmy, self-satisfied assholes who have a worldview that extends precisely as far as the radius of their smarmy group of friends who think and act exactly the same way.
Who else do you feel free to look down upon from your enlightened pedestal, Highness?
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Over 90% of the American People Support Universal Backgrounds Checks.
@100: Yep, you hit the nerve that goes off in the presence of smarmy, self-satisfied assholes who have a worldview that extends precisely as far as the radius of their smarmy group of friends who think and act exactly the same way.
Who else do you feel free to look down upon from your enlightened pedestal, Highness?
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