https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oryAN_e9Lso
I have a young relative who has gone into the military as a person who takes apart bombs. If we had a compelling reason for going into Iraq in the first place, it might have made a difference.
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Monday, June 16, 2014
Go Back IN To Iraq? Read This. Why did we go in the first time? A MUST READ BEFORE WE GO BACK IN!
http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/06/absolutely-nothing.html
But hey, never mind that, Saddam Hussein was threatening us anyway, wasn’t he? Sure he was, in fact, that’s the first time you heard the phrase “Weapons of Mass Destruction” isn’t it? The bastard had nukes and germs and war gas and he was just itching to use them on America, wasn’t he? Heck we even had pictures of “mobile weapons labs” to prove it, isn’t that what Colin Powell told the UN and the world? And by damn Saddam had been buying Yellow Cake uranium from Niger, right? Colin Powell wouldn’t lie to us, would he? He was a hero, a general, he wouldn’t send his comrades into war on a lie now would he?
Except all that turned out to be bullshit too,
Today, John McCain and Mitt Romney and the rest of the conservative war machine are railing against the President.
McCain stirred from the yellow fog of his bamboo cage and proclaimed in his best Old Man Yelling At Clouds voice, “We won Iraq! Obama lost it!”
Really Johnny Walnuts? Tell me, what did we win? And what have we lost? Please be specific, because I’d really like to know.
We no more “won” Iraq than McCain’s own father “won” Vietnam.
McCain claims he “predicted” the sectarian violence now tearing Iraq apart. Really? Where the hell was clairvoyant John McCain back in 2003 when he voted along with the rest of them to send us into war? And later, where was his great predictive ability when Iraq began tearing itself apart? I guess he was at a Dixie Chicks concert, he must have been out in the lobby ordering a plate of Freedom Fries when his pal George W. Bush let Iraq disintegrate into civil war.
And so here we are.
The same old motley cast of characters, the warhawks and the chickenhawks and the billionaires and the simple-minded saber-rattlers and the same old hate-filled pundits, they just can’t wait to jump back into Iraq.
Mitt Romney, John McCain, one who never served and one who damned well ought to know better, men who both wanted to be President of the United States and who both lost to Barack Obama, they just can’t wait to send other people’s kids back into the meat grinder.
Here’s my question.
Why?
What’s the goal? What’s the objective? Is it to end terrorism? Is it to enforce peace at the muzzle of a gun? Is it it to make defense contractors rich? Is it for jobs? Or is it for magic flying bunnies who shoot rainbows and cheap gasoline out of their little assholes to the sound of Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Or, or, is it just because you hate Barack Obama?
That’s it, isn’t it?
It is.
You sons of bitches one and all, you simpering capering madmen, this time at least have the courage to face the cameras, to look into America’s eyes, and tell them that their sons and daughters will be dying because you John McCain, because you Mitt Romney, because you Dick Cheney, because you Donald Rumsfeld, because you George W. Bush you lying bastard, because you conservatives hate Barack Obama and for no other reason. Go on, tell us, go on. Wave your little flags and beat your fleshy chests, roll out the marching bands and tell us just how many more American soldiers should die. Go on, put a number on it. Ten? A hundred? Fifty four thousand? How many of us have to die? How many more bodies will it take to satiate your mindless hunger for blood and revenge? How many more American lives are worth your insane hatred of the president? How many? How much further into debt should we drive our nation, another trillion dollars? Two? Ten? A hundred? Put a price on it you insane sons of bitches, go on, give me a number, write me a check. Tell me how much you’re willing to pay, show me the goddamned money. How many more years? How many? One? Five? Another decade? Fifty? What is it? Don’t wave your hands and make some vague prognostication, give me a number, how many lives, how much money, how many years? You look us in the eye and you fucking tell us.
Sure, let’s go back to Iraq.
Oh, yes, let us do that.
I’ll dig out my uniform and strap on my pistol and gird up my sword and ride into battle yet again.
Just so long as Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, and every single one of those powdered, Botoxed talking heads at Fox News are in the vanguard. That’s right, you cowards, you put on a uniform and you lead the charge this time around. The Koch brothers and Mitt Romney can pay for it, every goddamned penny, we’ll bleed them until they’re dry and then we’ll pull the gold fillings from their teeth to pay for it right along with the rest of their Wall Street cronies. You fuckers got rich off the last one, you can damned well pay for this one. And when you run out of money, we’ll take your blood, fair’s fair.
But hey, never mind that, Saddam Hussein was threatening us anyway, wasn’t he? Sure he was, in fact, that’s the first time you heard the phrase “Weapons of Mass Destruction” isn’t it? The bastard had nukes and germs and war gas and he was just itching to use them on America, wasn’t he? Heck we even had pictures of “mobile weapons labs” to prove it, isn’t that what Colin Powell told the UN and the world? And by damn Saddam had been buying Yellow Cake uranium from Niger, right? Colin Powell wouldn’t lie to us, would he? He was a hero, a general, he wouldn’t send his comrades into war on a lie now would he?
Except all that turned out to be bullshit too,
Today, John McCain and Mitt Romney and the rest of the conservative war machine are railing against the President.
McCain stirred from the yellow fog of his bamboo cage and proclaimed in his best Old Man Yelling At Clouds voice, “We won Iraq! Obama lost it!”
Really Johnny Walnuts? Tell me, what did we win? And what have we lost? Please be specific, because I’d really like to know.
We no more “won” Iraq than McCain’s own father “won” Vietnam.
McCain claims he “predicted” the sectarian violence now tearing Iraq apart. Really? Where the hell was clairvoyant John McCain back in 2003 when he voted along with the rest of them to send us into war? And later, where was his great predictive ability when Iraq began tearing itself apart? I guess he was at a Dixie Chicks concert, he must have been out in the lobby ordering a plate of Freedom Fries when his pal George W. Bush let Iraq disintegrate into civil war.
And so here we are.
The same old motley cast of characters, the warhawks and the chickenhawks and the billionaires and the simple-minded saber-rattlers and the same old hate-filled pundits, they just can’t wait to jump back into Iraq.
Mitt Romney, John McCain, one who never served and one who damned well ought to know better, men who both wanted to be President of the United States and who both lost to Barack Obama, they just can’t wait to send other people’s kids back into the meat grinder.
Here’s my question.
Why?
What’s the goal? What’s the objective? Is it to end terrorism? Is it to enforce peace at the muzzle of a gun? Is it it to make defense contractors rich? Is it for jobs? Or is it for magic flying bunnies who shoot rainbows and cheap gasoline out of their little assholes to the sound of Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Or, or, is it just because you hate Barack Obama?
That’s it, isn’t it?
It is.
You sons of bitches one and all, you simpering capering madmen, this time at least have the courage to face the cameras, to look into America’s eyes, and tell them that their sons and daughters will be dying because you John McCain, because you Mitt Romney, because you Dick Cheney, because you Donald Rumsfeld, because you George W. Bush you lying bastard, because you conservatives hate Barack Obama and for no other reason. Go on, tell us, go on. Wave your little flags and beat your fleshy chests, roll out the marching bands and tell us just how many more American soldiers should die. Go on, put a number on it. Ten? A hundred? Fifty four thousand? How many of us have to die? How many more bodies will it take to satiate your mindless hunger for blood and revenge? How many more American lives are worth your insane hatred of the president? How many? How much further into debt should we drive our nation, another trillion dollars? Two? Ten? A hundred? Put a price on it you insane sons of bitches, go on, give me a number, write me a check. Tell me how much you’re willing to pay, show me the goddamned money. How many more years? How many? One? Five? Another decade? Fifty? What is it? Don’t wave your hands and make some vague prognostication, give me a number, how many lives, how much money, how many years? You look us in the eye and you fucking tell us.
Sure, let’s go back to Iraq.
Oh, yes, let us do that.
I’ll dig out my uniform and strap on my pistol and gird up my sword and ride into battle yet again.
Just so long as Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, and every single one of those powdered, Botoxed talking heads at Fox News are in the vanguard. That’s right, you cowards, you put on a uniform and you lead the charge this time around. The Koch brothers and Mitt Romney can pay for it, every goddamned penny, we’ll bleed them until they’re dry and then we’ll pull the gold fillings from their teeth to pay for it right along with the rest of their Wall Street cronies. You fuckers got rich off the last one, you can damned well pay for this one. And when you run out of money, we’ll take your blood, fair’s fair.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
MONSANTO is going into Schools of 12 Year olds.
http://www.nationofchange.org/monsanto-visits-local-school-47-minute-propaganda-presentation-1402843006
As if the mis-education of our youth wasn’t already a huge issue, guess what your tax dollars are now paying for? Monsanto is visiting local schools to tell twelve year olds all about the ‘good’ they are doing in the world as an ‘agricultural leader.’
As if the mis-education of our youth wasn’t already a huge issue, guess what your tax dollars are now paying for? Monsanto is visiting local schools to tell twelve year olds all about the ‘good’ they are doing in the world as an ‘agricultural leader.’
Jon Stewart on the Oregon School Shooting.
http://egbertowillies.com/2014/06/14/jon-stewart-traditional-media/
Jon Stewart in the clip above shows the lack of proportionality by a traditional media gone awry. They hyperventilated about the Eric Cantor loss as if it would mark some epic change in American life. Yet they shrugged off the shooting at the high school. While they covered it to some extent, the coverage was nowhere near the gravity of the situation.
School shootings and mass shootings in America are on the rise. The media treats each of these shootings as spectators to a rating boost. Jon Stewart shows a media out of step with reality in graphic terms.
Jon Stewart in the clip above shows the lack of proportionality by a traditional media gone awry. They hyperventilated about the Eric Cantor loss as if it would mark some epic change in American life. Yet they shrugged off the shooting at the high school. While they covered it to some extent, the coverage was nowhere near the gravity of the situation.
School shootings and mass shootings in America are on the rise. The media treats each of these shootings as spectators to a rating boost. Jon Stewart shows a media out of step with reality in graphic terms.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
NRA Silent on OR HS Schooting and the Santa Barbara Shooting as well - WHY?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/school-shooter-portland-ore-ar-15-report-article-1.1825533
The NRA set the policy which got us to shootings at schools almost weekly - Why the silence now?
Wayne LaPierre should be proud of his success and millions he has made pushing more and more guns.
The NRA set the policy which got us to shootings at schools almost weekly - Why the silence now?
Wayne LaPierre should be proud of his success and millions he has made pushing more and more guns.
Gun Lobby - Redefining School Shooting to Not Include a lot of dead students
http://www.alternet.org/gun-lobbys-new-tactic-redefining-school-shootings-so-they-dont-count?akid=11917.294211.itcYZ3&rd=1&src=newsletter1002736&t=21
Johnson takes it upon himself to debunk the claim, made by the gun reform group Everytown for Gun Safety, backed by Michael Bloomberg, that there have been 74 school shootings since Adam Lanza killed 20 children, six adults and himself at Sandy Hook elementary School 18 months ago. In fact, Johnson concludes, there have only been seven. How does he manage this feat of mathematical magic? Simple: by narrowing the definition of “school shooting” so far that almost none of them count.
Johnson takes it upon himself to debunk the claim, made by the gun reform group Everytown for Gun Safety, backed by Michael Bloomberg, that there have been 74 school shootings since Adam Lanza killed 20 children, six adults and himself at Sandy Hook elementary School 18 months ago. In fact, Johnson concludes, there have only been seven. How does he manage this feat of mathematical magic? Simple: by narrowing the definition of “school shooting” so far that almost none of them count.
Friday, June 13, 2014
McCain livid about Iraq falling apart WHEN THAT WAR SHOULD NEVER HAD BEEN STARTED and McCain voted for.
http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/06/john-mccain-livid-over-iraqi-turmoil-he-helped-create/
Following Sen. John McCain's tirade this Thursday, where he blamed the Obama administration for the deteriorating situation in Iraq, and demanded that Obama’s entire national security team resign, The Young Turks Cenk Uygur gave him the treatment he deserved.
Following Sen. John McCain's tirade this Thursday, where he blamed the Obama administration for the deteriorating situation in Iraq, and demanded that Obama’s entire national security team resign, The Young Turks Cenk Uygur gave him the treatment he deserved.
Bill Maher on Eric Cantor losing his seat.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/14/bill-maher-eric-cantor-was-taken-down-by-voters-afraid-of-obama-and-his-negro-army/
Richard Clarke, who served as national coordinator for U.S. security, infrastructure protection, and counter-terrorism during Bill Clinton’s administration, compared Cantor’s upset loss to Tea Party activist Dave Brat to the story of Frankenstein’s monster.
“In the movie, Dr. Frankenstein creates the monster, and it kills him,” Clarke said. “Eric Cantor helped create the Tea Party. And it killed him.”
Richard Clarke, who served as national coordinator for U.S. security, infrastructure protection, and counter-terrorism during Bill Clinton’s administration, compared Cantor’s upset loss to Tea Party activist Dave Brat to the story of Frankenstein’s monster.
“In the movie, Dr. Frankenstein creates the monster, and it kills him,” Clarke said. “Eric Cantor helped create the Tea Party. And it killed him.”
DEFECTIVE GUNS: The Government is NOT ALLOWED to RECALL Defective Guns!! Crazy but true.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/13/1306868/-Did-you-know-that-the-government-can-t-order-recall-of-guns?detail=facebook
Cars and most other unsafe products can be recalled but not guns. THE NRA AT WORK.
According to Dallas attorney Jeffrey Hightower, who has tried several lawsuits against Remington related to the 700, guns hold a special place in American law. That special place is critical to gun-rights advocates, who claim that giving the government power to recall guns would amount to an infringement on the Second Amendment.
I don't know of any other major industry that is essentially allowed to set its own safety regulations. We would never stand for, say, the automobile industry being allowed to police itself. Why should guns be any different?
Cars and most other unsafe products can be recalled but not guns. THE NRA AT WORK.
According to Dallas attorney Jeffrey Hightower, who has tried several lawsuits against Remington related to the 700, guns hold a special place in American law. That special place is critical to gun-rights advocates, who claim that giving the government power to recall guns would amount to an infringement on the Second Amendment.
I don't know of any other major industry that is essentially allowed to set its own safety regulations. We would never stand for, say, the automobile industry being allowed to police itself. Why should guns be any different?
5 Ways to stop Mass Shootings in the USA
http://www.nationofchange.org/five-ways-stop-mass-shootings-america-1402668914
Number 1 requires funding. Schools have been cut back so much that they cannot provide the help needed for kids in need.
Will we prevent every mass shooting from happening in the future? No. Is it reasonable to knock on the doors of gun owners and demand they turn their weapons over to the government? Of course not. But with some simple reforms addressing our culture of violence, we can significantly reduce the occurrence of mass
Number 1 requires funding. Schools have been cut back so much that they cannot provide the help needed for kids in need.
Will we prevent every mass shooting from happening in the future? No. Is it reasonable to knock on the doors of gun owners and demand they turn their weapons over to the government? Of course not. But with some simple reforms addressing our culture of violence, we can significantly reduce the occurrence of mass
900% increase in pay for CEO's but 2% wage increase for workers: 8 REASONS for the inequality.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/8-reasons-some-ceos-make-331-times-much-their-employees?akid=11909.294211.Dzczto&rd=1&src=newsletter1002388&t=2
At this point, massive income inequality is not new, we all know about it. Yet there are still conservative myths floating around about why it is and what we can do. Conservatives say the poor are poor because of their own choices, but recent evidence shows that “social mobility” – the economic opportunity ladder – has largely disappeared. America’s rich only get richer and the poor don’t have much chance to do anything about it.
The truth is, there are so many ways the system is rigged against regular, working people. Here are just a few of the reasons the average CEO has a massive paycheck while many ordinary Americans languish economically.
At this point, massive income inequality is not new, we all know about it. Yet there are still conservative myths floating around about why it is and what we can do. Conservatives say the poor are poor because of their own choices, but recent evidence shows that “social mobility” – the economic opportunity ladder – has largely disappeared. America’s rich only get richer and the poor don’t have much chance to do anything about it.
The truth is, there are so many ways the system is rigged against regular, working people. Here are just a few of the reasons the average CEO has a massive paycheck while many ordinary Americans languish economically.
NRA appeased by CNN - CNN cuts the 74 shootings to 15. Kids being shot - not a big deal, evidentally.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/13/cnn-cuts-school-shootings-since-newtown-from-74-to-15-to-appease-gun-advocates/
The Power of the Gun Nuts is Showing. Killing kids - explained away by CNN - So sad.
The news network CNN reportedly bowed to pressure from gun advocates when it redefined what constitutes a “school shooting” and lowered its estimate of the number of attacks since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut from 74 to 15.
The Power of the Gun Nuts is Showing. Killing kids - explained away by CNN - So sad.
The news network CNN reportedly bowed to pressure from gun advocates when it redefined what constitutes a “school shooting” and lowered its estimate of the number of attacks since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut from 74 to 15.
The Science Of Global Warming Explained
http://billmoyers.com/2014/06/12/six-things-michael-mann-wants-you-to-know-about-the-science-of-global-warming/
Too often we allow the forces of anti-science, the forces of denialism, or contrarianism, to somehow frame their position as one of skepticism. But denying mainstream, well-established science based on arguments that don’t stand up scrutiny, that’s not skepticism. That’s pseudo-skepticism.
Real scientists embrace skepticism because that’s what moves science forward. That’s the self-correcting machinery, to use the language of Carl Sagan, which keeps science on this inexorable course toward a better understanding of the way the world works. If your ideas are wrong, if your theories are wrong, if they don’t hold up, if the data don’t support them, if other studies don’t come to the same conclusion, then science moves on, and it searches for a better answer. Scientists are always trying to find holes in each other’s proposed ideas, or in their own proposed ideas.
Too often we allow the forces of anti-science, the forces of denialism, or contrarianism, to somehow frame their position as one of skepticism. But denying mainstream, well-established science based on arguments that don’t stand up scrutiny, that’s not skepticism. That’s pseudo-skepticism.
Real scientists embrace skepticism because that’s what moves science forward. That’s the self-correcting machinery, to use the language of Carl Sagan, which keeps science on this inexorable course toward a better understanding of the way the world works. If your ideas are wrong, if your theories are wrong, if they don’t hold up, if the data don’t support them, if other studies don’t come to the same conclusion, then science moves on, and it searches for a better answer. Scientists are always trying to find holes in each other’s proposed ideas, or in their own proposed ideas.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
A MOM TO CNN - My Son died by Guns on the way to school - You say it does not count. WRONG.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annette-holt/cnn-school-shooting-stats_b_5489805.html
This mom says her dead son mattered and should be factored into the killings happening at school because it was to or from school
Students Die daily from gun shots and this mom misses her dead son dearly. He mattered.
This mom says her dead son mattered and should be factored into the killings happening at school because it was to or from school
Students Die daily from gun shots and this mom misses her dead son dearly. He mattered.
2 Good Guys with Guns got mad and shot each other - Both Died
http://aattp.org/two-proud-gun-nuts-second-amendment-death-road-rage-incident/
Will we ever learn? With the NRA in charge - probably not.
Will we ever learn? With the NRA in charge - probably not.
Why does the Right Wing embrace and encourage Stupidity?
http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-does-right-embrace-ignorance-virtue?akid=11907.294211.1gq1vG&rd=1&src=newsletter1001980&t=7
Spouting off about stuff you know nothing about is
traditionally considered unwise. But as the Republican war on science
intensifies, ignorance has started to become not only less of a
handicap, but a point of pride. In the face of expertise and facts,
being belligerently ignorant—and offended that anyone dare suggest
ignorance is less desirable than knowledge—has become the go-to position
for many conservative politicians and pundits. Sadly, it’s a strategy
that’s working
VA Scandal: Jon Stewart looks at the outdated scheduling system
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/11/1306084/-Jon-Stewart-looks-at-VA-s-outdated-nbsp-technology?detail=facebook
We know about the VA backlog, and how President Obama promised to fix it back there in whaddaya call it there, '08. And how before that, George Bush had promised to fix it, and before that, well, I guess it's been summed up by Harry S. Truman. Harry S. Truman, who said in 1945 — this is true — five weeks after he took over for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had died of a brain hemorrhage when he tried to wrap his mind around the VA. FDR. Polio? No problem. Depression? No problem. Hitler, Tojo? No problem. VA? (brain explodes)
We know about the VA backlog, and how President Obama promised to fix it back there in whaddaya call it there, '08. And how before that, George Bush had promised to fix it, and before that, well, I guess it's been summed up by Harry S. Truman. Harry S. Truman, who said in 1945 — this is true — five weeks after he took over for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had died of a brain hemorrhage when he tried to wrap his mind around the VA. FDR. Polio? No problem. Depression? No problem. Hitler, Tojo? No problem. VA? (brain explodes)
Dang: I FORGOT I was carrying an INSTANT DEATH Machine, GunFail
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/12/1303892/-Whoops-I-plum-forgot-I-was-carrying-a-hand-held-instant-death-machine-892-times-GunFAIL-LXXII?detail=facebook
LOTS more of our fellow travelers are packing for the airport, so to speak. So far this year (as of the end of last week), the Transportation Security Administration has found 892 guns in passengers’ carry-on bags at security checkpoints. That’s a 19 percent increase from the comparable period of last year, when the total was 750 guns.
The 2013 gun-tote tally was a record, at 1,813 firearms found, incidentally. As this year’s gun haul keeps rolling along, a one-day record was set just last Wednesday, when screeners found 18 guns, which beat the previous one-day record of 13 guns on May 20, 2013. About 80 percent of all guns found are loaded.
LOTS more of our fellow travelers are packing for the airport, so to speak. So far this year (as of the end of last week), the Transportation Security Administration has found 892 guns in passengers’ carry-on bags at security checkpoints. That’s a 19 percent increase from the comparable period of last year, when the total was 750 guns.
The 2013 gun-tote tally was a record, at 1,813 firearms found, incidentally. As this year’s gun haul keeps rolling along, a one-day record was set just last Wednesday, when screeners found 18 guns, which beat the previous one-day record of 13 guns on May 20, 2013. About 80 percent of all guns found are loaded.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Good Guy with a Gun is NOT WORKING!
http://gawker.com/its-really-hard-to-be-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-1588660306
At a time
when the nature of our mass-shooting problem urges more circumspection,
more responsibility on the part of gun owners, the law has barreled in
the other direction: Concealed carry is easier than ever, in more places
than ever; open carry is supplanting it in many states. My worries
about carrying in courthouses and arenas seems quaint as states expand carry laws to cover virtually every space,
even schools. (As a university instructor, I could only imagine the
reaction from my students were I to strain to erase a note on a
whiteboard and let a glimpse of my .357 pop up beneath my shirt.)
Florida's
required concealed-carry course can now be taken in minutes at a gun
show, revolving-door style. I doubt they even bother with that
black-man-with-the-tire-iron scenario nowadays, since stand your ground
has effectively taken away a gun owner's duty to retreat, to seek any
way out of a nasty situation before turning it into a shootout. A recent expansion of the law
even makes it legal to brandish your gun or pinch off a warning shot,
which would have been unthinkable in the now-halcyon days of concealed
carry's infancy.
Alaska: Repeal the 2 Billion Dollar Oil Company Tax Break in August.
http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/repeal-sb-21-and-stand-up-for-alaska/
Shanon Moore has a great comment about repealing the tax give away which the Oil Companies (and Republicans) insist upon. Repeal SB 21 in August.
Shanon Moore has a great comment about repealing the tax give away which the Oil Companies (and Republicans) insist upon. Repeal SB 21 in August.
HS Shooter was a YOU CAN'T TAKE MY GUN nut! His brother was a former soldier.
http://heavy.com/news/2014/06/jared-michael-padgett-reynolds-high-school-shooter-gunman-family-motive/
His Facebook Likes Include Gun & Body Armor Companies & an Anti-Obama Group
School Shooting - The day after. The information is coming out.
https://news.yahoo.com/police-shooter-oregon-school-had-assault-rifle-183042092.html
TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — A
15-year-old gunman who killed a student at an Oregon high school had an
assault rifle, handgun and several magazines of ammunition hidden in a
guitar case and duffel bag when he rode a school bus to the campus,
police said Wednesday.
The attacker,
Jared Michael Padgett, a freshman at Reynolds High School in Troutdale,
entered a boys locker room on Tuesday at a gymnasium, where he "murdered
a fellow student," police Chief Scott Anderson said.
He also wounded a teacher who managed to make his way to an office and alert officials,
TeaParty beats Cantor. Republicans: The honeymoon and cooperation with President Obama is over
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/06/morning-after-tea-party-win-house-gop-proposes-end-to-social-security-return-to-child-labor.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20%2881%29
When asked about future relations between House Republicans and President Obama, Boehner did not mince words. “If the President thinks he’s going to get the kind of cooperation and flexibility he’s gotten out of us for the past six years, he’s kidding himself,” he said. “The honeymoon is over.”
When asked about future relations between House Republicans and President Obama, Boehner did not mince words. “If the President thinks he’s going to get the kind of cooperation and flexibility he’s gotten out of us for the past six years, he’s kidding himself,” he said. “The honeymoon is over.”
14 Year old Goofball freshman shot and killed yesterday at Reynold's High School: RIP
http://www.news.com.au/world/tributes-for-14yearold-student-emilio-hoffman-killed-in-reynolds-high-school-shooting/story-fndir2ev-1226951320074
victim was identified as freshman Hoffman, who was “loved by all,” said police Chief Scott Anderson. Hoffman was found in the boys’ locker room.
Savannah Venegas, 16, a former girlfriend of Hoffman’s described him as“a good kid” and“down-to-earth guy.”
“He was very caring, he loved to joke around,” said Ms Venegas.
Shot at school...Hoffman had no enemies and was a random victim, his former girlfriend said.
Thank you President Obama for these words:
"No developed nation on earth would put up with mass shootings that happen now once a week and disappear from the news within a day, Mr Obama said — no nation except America. "
victim was identified as freshman Hoffman, who was “loved by all,” said police Chief Scott Anderson. Hoffman was found in the boys’ locker room.
Savannah Venegas, 16, a former girlfriend of Hoffman’s described him as“a good kid” and“down-to-earth guy.”
“He was very caring, he loved to joke around,” said Ms Venegas.
Shot at school...Hoffman had no enemies and was a random victim, his former girlfriend said.
Thank you President Obama for these words:
"No developed nation on earth would put up with mass shootings that happen now once a week and disappear from the news within a day, Mr Obama said — no nation except America. "
Koch Brothers: Everything You Wanted to Know - 2 new books expose their political machine
http://news.yahoo.com/koch-brothers-books-220502018.html
Beyond the confines of
libertarian organizations, sailboat racing clubs, Manhattan socialite
circles and the borders of Kansas, the words “Koch brothers” didn’t mean
much to most Americans before 2010. That was when the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer
revealed to a broad audience how two of the four brothers — Charles and
David Koch — were building a multimillion-dollar shadow campaign
against President Barack Obama’s new administration.
Mayer’s piece, and the
subsequent tsunami of Koch coverage that followed, have thrust Charles
and David Koch into the mainstream political spotlight, turning them
from obscure, private businessmen into poster children for a new era of
big money politics.
Through their series of
closed-door seminars, in which an elite group of wealthy conservatives
and libertarians have gathered twice a year since 2003 to raise money
for right-wing causes, the Kochs have engineered a fundraising goliath
that spent $400 million against Democrats in the 2012 election alone.
While Vogel does a fine job
showcasing how both the left and the right have benefited from the new
system, no one, it appears, has gamed it better than the Kochs and their
network of donors.
“The Koch operation,” Vogel
writes, “was far more sophisticated than the actual Republican Party. It
was also more secretive, though, and tracing its ever-shifting contours
was an ongoing challenge for me and my colleagues in the press corps.”
Bullet Proof Blankets for Schools: The newest answer to the shooting up of children in schools
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/06/oklahoma-company-is-now-offering.html
I wonder if the company donates money to the NRA. They have a real money maker here, made possible by lots of guns in the hands of whichever pissed off person decides to go out killing.
I wonder if the company donates money to the NRA. They have a real money maker here, made possible by lots of guns in the hands of whichever pissed off person decides to go out killing.
The Ultimate Guide to Anti-Picketty Right Wing Noise Makers
http://www.alternet.org/economy/ultimate-guide-shutting-down-conservative-anti-piketty-hysteria?page=0%2C3&akid=11905.294211.kUj53W&rd=1&src=newsletter1001435&t=15
Thomas Piketty’s wildly popular new book, “ Capital in the 21st Century,” has been subject to more think pieces
than the final episode of “Breaking Bad.” Progressives are celebrating
the book — and its unexpected popularity — as an important turning point
in the fight against global wealth inequality. This, of course, means
that conservatives have gone completely ball
74 School Shootings Since Sandy Hook
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/10/tuesdays-shooting-oregon-74th-school-shooting-america-sandy-hook.html
Another day, another school shooting in America. On Tuesday morning, news hit that a gunman entered a school in Troutdale, OR, a suburb of Portland, and opened fire, killing one student. The gunman was also found dead, per Troutdale police. Information is still pending on the identity of the shooter and whether or not he was killed in a shootout with police. This incident marks the 74th school shooting that has occurred since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. On December 14th, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people at the school, after having killed his mother earlier, before taking his own life.
Another day, another school shooting in America. On Tuesday morning, news hit that a gunman entered a school in Troutdale, OR, a suburb of Portland, and opened fire, killing one student. The gunman was also found dead, per Troutdale police. Information is still pending on the identity of the shooter and whether or not he was killed in a shootout with police. This incident marks the 74th school shooting that has occurred since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. On December 14th, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people at the school, after having killed his mother earlier, before taking his own life.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Latest Information on the Reynold's School Shooting. (Oregon)
http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-high-school-shooting-163529501.html
THIS IS SCHOOL SHOOTING NUMBER 44 SINCE SANDY HOOK!!!
More and More guns is making it WORSE AND WORSE! Will we ever learn??
One teacher grazed, One Student killed, The Shooter Shot. Someone said they heard 6 bullets fired.
I am 4 miles from the shooting and my grandkids go to elementary school 4 miles away. This is scary folks. Background Checks are the least we could do.
THIS IS SCHOOL SHOOTING NUMBER 44 SINCE SANDY HOOK!!!
More and More guns is making it WORSE AND WORSE! Will we ever learn??
One teacher grazed, One Student killed, The Shooter Shot. Someone said they heard 6 bullets fired.
I am 4 miles from the shooting and my grandkids go to elementary school 4 miles away. This is scary folks. Background Checks are the least we could do.
Reynold's High School shooting update, update 2
http://heavy.com/news/2014/06/reynolds-high-school-shooting-troutdale-oregon/
There are injuries. At least: A teacher and two students were shot. (Not a lot of info)
It was a semi-automatic weapon.
We need background checks whenever guns are sold or traded.
JUST GOT A TEXT: Teachers shot, no students, a family friend teaches there, Life FLIGHT is at the scene, no info on how serious the injuries 3 Shooters possibly,
One Student dead and the shooter is dead. Kids are being picked up by adults about 2 miles from the school. Not a lot of information so far.
There are injuries. At least: A teacher and two students were shot. (Not a lot of info)
It was a semi-automatic weapon.
We need background checks whenever guns are sold or traded.
JUST GOT A TEXT: Teachers shot, no students, a family friend teaches there, Life FLIGHT is at the scene, no info on how serious the injuries 3 Shooters possibly,
One Student dead and the shooter is dead. Kids are being picked up by adults about 2 miles from the school. Not a lot of information so far.
Active Shooter in Reynolds High School by Portland, OR
I am in Gresham, OR and just 4 miles away, there is an active shooting taking place.
The WE NEED MORE GUNS crap needs to stop. Background checks for everyone - NOW! Too many crazies have guns. I was talking to a crazy on the ferry from Alaska. He has lots of guns and he has a very short fuse.
The shootings of innocents is only going to increase unless we do something now.
The WE NEED MORE GUNS crap needs to stop. Background checks for everyone - NOW! Too many crazies have guns. I was talking to a crazy on the ferry from Alaska. He has lots of guns and he has a very short fuse.
The shootings of innocents is only going to increase unless we do something now.
Why FOX NEWS is Total Garbage
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/
But
the main difference between MSNBC and Fox News isn’t their bias—like I
said, they’re both biased. The difference is where MSNBC panders news
towards liberals, Fox News will simply make stuff up to create a story.
Not that MSNBC hasn’t pushed this line before as well, but this is
almost a weekly occurrence on Fox.
A few studies have been done looking at the news channel people watch most, and the amount of factual information these individuals actually knew. In these studies Fox News viewers are almost always deemed the “most misinformed” of the respondents polled. Not only are they the most misinformed viewers, they were even more misinformed than those who responded that they don’t watch any news at all.
- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/#sthash.QOopWpfT.dpuf
FOX just makes stuff up and the studies are showing that those who watch FOX are the most misinformed people of anyone who watches the news. Interesting article. A few studies have been done looking at the news channel people watch most, and the amount of factual information these individuals actually knew. In these studies Fox News viewers are almost always deemed the “most misinformed” of the respondents polled. Not only are they the most misinformed viewers, they were even more misinformed than those who responded that they don’t watch any news at all.
- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/#sthash.QOopWpfT.dpuf
But
the main difference between MSNBC and Fox News isn’t their bias—like I
said, they’re both biased. The difference is where MSNBC panders news
towards liberals, Fox News will simply make stuff up to create a story.
Not that MSNBC hasn’t pushed this line before as well, but this is
almost a weekly occurrence on Fox.
A few studies have been done looking at the news channel people watch most, and the amount of factual information these individuals actually knew. In these studies Fox News viewers are almost always deemed the “most misinformed” of the respondents polled. Not only are they the most misinformed viewers, they were even more misinformed than those who responded that they don’t watch any news at all.
- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/#sthash.QOopWpfT.dpufFOX
A few studies have been done looking at the news channel people watch most, and the amount of factual information these individuals actually knew. In these studies Fox News viewers are almost always deemed the “most misinformed” of the respondents polled. Not only are they the most misinformed viewers, they were even more misinformed than those who responded that they don’t watch any news at all.
- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/#sthash.QOopWpfT.dpufFOX
But
the main difference between MSNBC and Fox News isn’t their bias—like I
said, they’re both biased. The difference is where MSNBC panders news
towards liberals, Fox News will simply make stuff up to create a story.
Not that MSNBC hasn’t pushed this line before as well, but this is
almost a weekly occurrence on Fox.
A few studies have been done looking at the news channel people watch most, and the amount of factual information these individuals actually knew. In these studies Fox News viewers are almost always deemed the “most misinformed” of the respondents polled. Not only are they the most misinformed viewers, they were even more misinformed than those who responded that they don’t watch any news at all.
- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/#sthash.QOopWpfT.dpuf
A few studies have been done looking at the news channel people watch most, and the amount of factual information these individuals actually knew. In these studies Fox News viewers are almost always deemed the “most misinformed” of the respondents polled. Not only are they the most misinformed viewers, they were even more misinformed than those who responded that they don’t watch any news at all.
- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/#sthash.QOopWpfT.dpuf
But
the main difference between MSNBC and Fox News isn’t their bias—like I
said, they’re both biased. The difference is where MSNBC panders news
towards liberals, Fox News will simply make stuff up to create a story.
Not that MSNBC hasn’t pushed this line before as well, but this is
almost a weekly occurrence on Fox.
A few studies have been done looking at the news channel people watch most, and the amount of factual information these individuals actually knew. In these studies Fox News viewers are almost always deemed the “most misinformed” of the respondents polled. Not only are they the most misinformed viewers, they were even more misinformed than those who responded that they don’t watch any news at all.
- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/#sthash.QOopWpfT.dpuf
A few studies have been done looking at the news channel people watch most, and the amount of factual information these individuals actually knew. In these studies Fox News viewers are almost always deemed the “most misinformed” of the respondents polled. Not only are they the most misinformed viewers, they were even more misinformed than those who responded that they don’t watch any news at all.
- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-fox-news-is-total-garbage/#sthash.QOopWpfT.dpuf
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