House Democrat Offers "Assault Weapons" Ban

The Washington Examiner is hazy on the DOA House assault weapons ban but here we go:

House Democrats introduce bill prohibiting sale of semi-automatic weapons

Misleading - the bill prohibits the sale of some cosmetically-enhanced SA weapons.

The bill prohibits the “sale, transfer, production, and importation” of semi-automatic rifles and pistols that can hold a detachable magazine, as well as semi-automatic rifles with a magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds. Additionally, the legislation bans the sale, transfer, production, and importation of semi-automatic shotguns with features such as a pistol grip or detachable stock, and ammunition feeding devices that can hold more than 10 rounds.

Again, misleading. It would be honest and clarifying if the Dems would just try to ban SA rifles and pistols. It would surely lead to staggering Dem losses across rural Blue New England and doubtless elsewhere and we could all see where the nation stands.

So yeah, but no - the actual text of the bill revives the 2013 Feinstein effort, which emphasized detachable magazines and at least one "military" feature. By way of contrast, the 1994 bill disallowed more than two features, and specifically cited bayonet mounts, which may not have been PR genius.

In any case, here is the House, 2018:

And Sen. Feinstein from 2013:

 

This has been hashed and rehashed but for what might be the last time - can some of the experts jog my memory and explain to me the possible enhanced lethality contributed by any of these cosmetic features?

I get limiting magazine capacity as a real safety issue. Obviously, one wonders about enforceability since there are plenty in circulation and a decent machinist could make more.

Let's also note that plenty of mass shootings would not have had a different outcome. For example at Va Tech (IIRC and I bet I do) the shooter used handguns with ten and fifteen round magazines; the commission concluded a magazine limit of ten would not have saved lives.

I can see where a folding or collapsible stock might aid concealment, although I can't recall a shooting where concealment was emphasized as a factor. I also read in some hunting magazine (NOT the kind of magazine we are limiting here!) that the collapsible/adjustable stock makes a rifle easy to share amongst family members of differing sizes - dad and child, hubby and wife., whatever. Or as a weapon of war!

I feel confident that banning grenade launcher mounts won't be saving lives, but do correct me as appropriate.

As to the barrel shrouds and forward grips my guess as to the added danger is that a shooter won't need to worry about grabbing a hot barrel and can re-aim the gun in a very Rambo, shoot-from-the hip fashion (Avoidance of burned hands get mentioned in the 1994 bill).

Is that a plausible thought process, or do those barrel shrouds just look too much like something from a Schwarzenegger film or Miami Vice? Couldn't a shooter who has taken the time to get a gas mask, tactical vest and multiple magazines remember to pick up a glove for his non-shooting hand? Or would that make re-loading magazines too cumbersome?

Last thought - damn, the phone rang and now I'm hoping that last thought was no big deal. Huh...

Comments

[David, Deplorable Internet Russian Dreamer Bot]

Forward grips make the gun an NFA item (National Firearms Act) and those are already regulated as machine guns, require a $200 tax to transfer, and require registering with BATFE and getting a special license, assuming they are legal at all (they aren't in CA).

More stupidity.

David

[Sue]

The last assault weapons ban prevented Columbine. Said no one ever.

[Sue]

I have a 9mm that shoots 15 rounds. It is semi-automatic. The left is after my gun, period. You merely need to read their twitter posts, facebook posts, etc. They are not looking for a compromise. They want a full repeal of the 2nd amendment.

[narciso]

carrying over from the last thread, I see the dossier as a revenge play by a Russian oligarch or two, against manafort, using their contacts, on capital hill and the media, they fed the right reporters just enough crumbs to make them bite but not enough to really investigate the claims, so waldman, is certainly one of the sources, and steele gave his identity to warner,

[Corn fed Conservative]

"I get limiting magazine capacity"

How about unlimited capacity machetes?

Poison gas?

18 wheelers?

They utilize tools available..box cutter?

[Captain Hate]

Gun grabbing is a loser issue no matter how many attention seeking bratty punks like Hogg join the conga line.

[narciso]

were they really concerned about the shooter's well being?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/27602/breaking-broward-county-deputies-were-told-not-ryan-saavedra

[Neo]

Broward County sheriff’s department are telling us that the deputies who arrived at the scene of the shooting were told not to enter the school unless their body cameras were turned on, and then we found out that the deputies did not have body cameras so they did not enter the building or engage the shooter

[Corn fed Conservative]

Yes. The new body camera excuse.

[Old Lurker]

Is there no failing for which the Left does not have an excuse?

[Corn fed Conservative]

Underreporting right-wringers with bombs and sh’t.

Ironically, while Islamist and extreme rightwing ideologies may appear to be at opposing ends of the argument it is evident that they both have a great deal in common,” he said.

Rowley said both groups have a common goal of “increasing tensions and divisions in communities”. He said both reach into communities through sophisticated propaganda, as well as create intolerance and isolation by exploiting grievances. He added both also reinforce a sense of isolation by generating distrust of the state and offer “warped parallel alternatives” that undermine values of tolerance and diversity.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/26/four-far-right-plots-thwarted-last-year-says-counter-terrorism-chief-mark-rowley

[sbwaters]

As far as gun-grabbing, besides joining the NRA, invite some gun-skittish friends to the range for some fun. Familiarity helps overcome unreasonable fear.

[Neo]

Apparently, Broward County was worried about being sued by the families of any collateral damage created by the Broward County sheriff’s department.

Did anybody in the Sheriff's department expect they would have time to retrieve them from the station in the case of an event that might require them ? It certainly didn't happen in this case. You have to wonder if they ever use them .. or merely keep them for dog-and-pony shows with the County commissioners.

[narciso]

I wonder if Rowley, is the twit that censored Katie Hopkins between westminister and manchesters, he's a graduate of handsworth public school, no particular expertise in counter terror,

[Jim Eagle]

The left's position and arguments give more reason to resist any changes to current gun control measures already in place. They are using incremental change over a period of time. Like boiling the frog.

[Extraneus]

I think that's right, SB. I used to let my son and his friends shoot targets from the back porch. They learned about pistols vs. revolvers, hearing and eye protection, how to load and change magazines, etc.

They're college age now, and I'd bet they're not falling for the drama queens or gun grabbers.

[Rocco]

I think we should all chip in and buy Washington Governor Jay Inslee a lifetime membership to the NRA.

[narciso]

they are following that same script from the colin ferguson incident, 25 years ago, it's all they have,

[lurkersusie]

Obama and the Florida School superintendent

South Florida Schools Join White House School Discipline Summit | WLRN

http://wlrn.org/post/south-florida-schools-join-white-house-school-discipline-summit

[maryrose]

Let Jay Inslee pass laws in his own state that cease to protect the people who live there

Doesn’t he realize that his 1 minute soundbite with President Trump sets up his state as a soft target.
What a dope,

[narciso]

the only thing harder than vibranium is Inslee's skull,

[Porchlight]

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[Porchlight]

Apparently, Broward County was worried about being sued by the families of any collateral damage created by the Broward County sheriff’s department.

Well, now they have a whole lot more to worry about.

[Buford Gooch]

Great pic, Porch. I snorted.

[Old Lurker]

Did somebody say last week that school shootings in the US on a per capita basis are lower than other countries?

Anybody have a link to that?

[Corn fed Conservative]

Opioid deaths versus gunz..

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/national/opioid-overdoses-kill-people-u-s-car-accidents-article-1.3713354

I tell you it's shocking!

[Old Lurker]

Is it true that Clarice is selling her place on Longboat Key in FL??

https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/89277-a-renaissance-style-mansion-in-an-exclusive-spot-in-florida

[Man Tran]

Wow, I’m so old that SA meant Single Action. All my wheel guns are (the old) SA, except my Dan Wesson .357 which has the action reworked to the point that it will misfire if I try to shoot it DA.

[Corn fed Conservative]

Now if some bright nutcase shotshelled Fentanyl....

[Neo]

My daughter just texted to say that her old boss, who went home with a cough a couple of weeks ago, has died.
Damn.

[Account Deleted]

Fight border control, turn major metros in some states into "sanctuary" hells, and take away arms from law-abiding citizens.

That'd be my recipe if I wanted to legislate creation of slaughter pens. What's to stop "them" from doing it?

"They" are already slaughtering and selling the parts of humans--- justified by re-defining what is human.

The Pussyhats seem all too willing to redefine "what is human" outside the womb using their own FULL COMMIE standards as the "model for humanity."

The echoes of antebellum slave owners (1 in 7 Americans was "owned" by another American back then)?

In what ways are we being set up to be owned by the "State".... think about it: each of us in debt to the USG to the tune of $150,000 to $177,000 as of *TODAY*, right now.

Can indentured servitude be far off? Disarmed and indentured in service to the "State" (the Party?).

Sure lots has changed. And we aren't going back to plantation style chattel laws. I'm not suggesting anything of the sort.

Yet, in addition to there being amendments abolishing slavery per se there is coming a sea of regulatory restrictions on this intractable problem of "safety in our schools" (who cares if minds are being raped--- it's the NRA we need to be scared of!).

There are more laws and regs coming. Yesterday someone (hat tip deserved) quoted Cicero--- more laws, less justice.

This gun debate is all about regulatory minutiae that the Left will dip in garlic to use against us to further erode the Bill of Rights for a select "class" of Americans they have created.

More concerns over the "protected" use of their digits and genitalia, than equal protection of ALL of our rights under the Constitution---- this has a distinct possibility of not ending well.

Slaughtering each other for a cause is something we are all steeped in as Americans. The faux panache and hyper-violent rhetoric against a sitting President haven't been equaled since Lincoln.

Weird scenes inside the gold mine.

MAGA!

[DebinGA]

lol, Porch

"Arm the teachers" is an anti-gun dog whistle to prevent any trained teachers being armed on school grounds, as many people remember the day a wasp found its way into the classroom of an unstable teacher.

[Clarice Feldman]

No, OL--though I'd like to and it;s hardly a mansion--

[Jane]

OL,

Clarice's place is much nicer.

[Account Deleted]

"One of the things I find interesting is the promulgation of these things in the last 20 years. They used to just surround major events (JFK assassination, moon landings) but now they seem to permeate every news event."

A local parson was tea-totaling with me in a dive mini-mart here in South Berkeley. We were discussing Biblical interpretation--- and how narrow and literal most "uninformed" individuals are (his referent).

Re the conspiracy theories Parson referred to the passage in the Bible where "war and *rumors of war*."

Parson continued by saying "This much-feared 'end of the world' is really a *possible* final stage where critical numbers of human beings, gifted with reason, logic, affect, and Love--- become disconnected from such faculties, thereby losing their capacities to "create a World" in which they can prosper in the Spirit."

+++++++
My tea finished, following a deep breath, I spoke my piece:

"I see over half this country embracing rumors of war, alleging they're being destroyed by enemies who don't think how they themselves do."

"It's no accident that most, if not all, of the politically active have cut themselves off from their own humanity--- to the point of slaughtering the unborn, with the same presumed 'inalienable right' to do so as southern planters claimed as their right to own their nigras."

" Godlessness or feigned dogmatic compliance makes that not only possible; it reifies such 'belief' into their reality *ON EARTH*; to pass down to the young as 'normal' *AND* a 'right'."

"And now we hear commonly stated 'desires' to secede from the Republic, or to take up arms to stop the godless.... we're still adrift on that 'sea of blood' Lee spoke of at Gettysburg, believing that one more fight would end the carnage."

"Maybe the condemnation and shame over the myth that this country was 'built on slavery' has my enemies stuck there, reinventing it in the name of rights they have to exert their killing hands over other human beings who have yet to exit the womb."

"Parson, did you know that when the Civil War broke out in 1861:

1. For every 7 Americans, 1 was owned by another?

2. That same year, legislation passed and was implemented before the war ended to measure every acre of land in the "new country"-- especially in the 'territories' so that euthanizing and sterilization of alleged sub-humans could be carried out?

3. The killing toll of unborn Americans is, by some estimates, over 80 million now?"

4. And who knows how many of those slaughtered innocents are sold like property--- in units which can be priced according to the "quality" of their limbs and internal organs.

5. Have we come very far from the fates of so many down south in places like "Congo Square" in New Orleans? (NOLA is 'home' for the Parson)."

Parson placed his hand on my shoulder and asked me to follow him outside.

He recited the Lords Prayer under an elm tree at the corner of MLK and 59th.

I could, in that moment, only weep for my countrymen.

"...on Earth as it is in Heaven...."

The force field of my usual sarcastic protective shell dropped. The exhaustion from maintaining it was palpable to the point of feeling weak at the knees.

My short ride back home was quiet.

At times Parson doesn't seem like a "real" human being stuck in a shell. Perhaps he refuses and that's why he prayed as that torrent of "facts" began to grow while I spoke.

That's my desire for this Nation--- abandon our shells, and get our minds right--- as a Nation.

The rest is just rewinding the cycle of vengeance on each other.

Kevlar "Altar Boy" Kid

[Account Deleted]

Can David Hogg and the Pussyhats recite this bedrock *WARNING* written by a man who was more highly ridiculed, castigated, dehumanized, and threatened more than DJT?

Hogg Boy was born in the 90s and doesn't know shite.

""Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.

We are met on a great battle-field of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -I hope you know who wrote and spoke these words, when-where-and why. ;)

[henry]

Corker not running. https://t.co/mzSvHiT7sz

[Enjoying Obama's economy? You're welcome!]

WARNING DUDA POST****

Why the hell is Claire Macaskil shocked that Drumpm is doing absolutely nothing to combat Russian attacks on the United States of America? THE'RE THE ONES THAT GOT HIM FUCKIN ELECTED IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The intel community has reported that they plan to try and get him elected again in 2020 so yeah,Claire,The President won't be taking any action against Putin and his Russian hackers because he's a bought and paid for Russian asset.

[Corn fed Conservative]

Gawd, you are full of Wheatena Kevlar.

FDR wishes he had ranted like a pea-picker in a wheelchair.

[maryrose]

OL:
We actually drove past Longboat Key clubs and resorts when we were in Florida.
Beautiful area.

[Jim Eagle]

OL,

Very pedestrian. No tennis court.

[henry]

memeorandum‏ @memeorandum

Mueller moves to dismiss charges against Gates (@ssavitsky / Axios)

[Catsmeat]

Daddy, from last night--thank you for the dino poop and Buckland's musings--he was a very interesting person, a model for Darwin's eating his way through the animal kingdom. He'd eat anything, and Ruskin remembers visiting him and being given lizards on toast. Buckland said the only things he wouldn't eat again were owl and mole, presumably hideous tastes.

[Porchlight]

I thought we already knew Corker wasn't running?

This is from September:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/26/sen-bob-corker-not-run-re-election-2018/705451001/

Maybe today he's making it officially official.

[Buckeye]

KK

Now that is some serious food for thought.

[henry]

On Mueller / Gates. A link.

https://www.axios.com/mueller-dismiss-charges-rick-gates-manafort-943f1e3c-9ab7-4064-b7eb-84f6bf3fcb8b.html

Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his legal team has moved to drop charges that were brought last week in an expansive superseding indictment against Rick Gates.

new indictment is at the link. Axios thinks it means Gates is "cooperating" with Mueller.

[DebinGA]

Refugee/migrant resettlement news .. I hope there's some mechanism in place to close the pipeline of illegals arriving in sanctuary state CA and then resettled in a backdoor way to intentionally turn red states purple or purple states blue. No way lavishly funded NGOs receiving $Bs of public funds a year will go quietly.

[BlueOx]

The bill prohibits the “sale, transfer, production, and importation” of semi-automatic rifles and pistols that can hold a detachable magazine

That describes my Remington .30-06

I use it to hunt deer. In any given year, there are 500,000 others in my state who use the same gun or similar.

Good luck with that.

[jimmyk]

On the last thread, not sure if I saw this mentioned here, but some Althouse commenters remind us that back in 1991 Trump got out of his limo and confronted some thug who was beating up someone with a baseball bat. Not the same as running into a hale of gunfire, but certainly more indication that Trump would "answer the bell," then Zippy:

[henry]

Now dietary fiber causes constipation. Must be the pistol grips on the fibers.

https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/968364029575081985?s=12

[Extraneus]

I thought we already knew Corker wasn't running?

He started making noise about maybe getting back in to save the Republicans from a Marsha Blackburn defeat.

[Davod]

The Democrat weapons bill is an ambit claim. So much included that some of it surely should be o
Now, the ROPe will be going through the list to see what they can get away with banning - but we cut xyz from the list.

[henry]

Yes Davod. The "compromise." Always ratchets away from freedom.

[Appalled]

Something interesting from a lefty site (so anti-Trump snark and endless throat clearing preamble) here:

https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/02/27/andy-finds-an-acorn-the-searches-of-carter-pages-devices/

Here's the nub, if a blogger calling your beliefs stupid raises your blood pressure:

The Schiff memo reveals, for the first time, that DOJ obtained a FISA order covering both electronic surveillance and “physical search.” Not many people understand this, but DOJ uses physical search orders not just to authorize FBI agents to search through a person’s home, but also to search through that person’s electronic devices (and cloud providers’ cloud storage). As I explained in my post on FISA and the Space-Time Continuum, using a physical search order allows the government to search far back in time.

"Domestically, there are two kinds of collection: 1805, which is the collection of data in motion — an old fashioned wiretap, and 1824, which is called a “physical search” order. The government likes to hide the fact that the collection of data at rest is accomplished with an 1824 physical search order, not 1805. So an 1824 order might be used to search a closet, or it might be used to image someone’s hard drive. Most often, 1805 and 1824 get combined, but not always (the FISC released a breakdown for these last year).

Of course (as the Gartenlaub case will show), if you image someone’s hard drive, you’re going to get data from well before the time they’ve been under a FISA order, quite possibly even from before you’ve owned your computer."

In Keith Gartenlaub’s case, a physical search order was used to conduct a black bag search of his home, during which the FBI imaged and subsequently searched the saved hard drives from the last three computers Gartenlaub had used, going back a decade, which is how FBI found child porn that hadn’t been accessed in a decade."

And, as McCarthy notes (though without explaining the electronic/physical distinction), in the case of Carter Page, depending on what minimization procedures the FISC imposed, a physical search order approved on October 21, 2016 might allow FBI to search his devices for communications he had between March and September 2016, when he was a member of the Trump campaign.

[narciso]

Gates features in that foer piece I mentioned, about how manafort was eager for clients

[Account Deleted]

Buckeye---- Thank-you. Kev

[Porchlight]

Ah, thanks, Extraneus.

If Gates is "working with" Mueller, wouldn't those arrangements typically solidify BEFORE charges are brought?

[Porchlight]

No way lavishly funded NGOs receiving $Bs of public funds a year will go quietly.

Also the Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans etc. profit from those resettlement commissions.

[DebinGA]

Helpful news for Marsha Blackburn: Dem Nashville Mayor still refusing to resign as evidence of her fiscal and moral misdeeds skyrocket.

[Enjoying Obama's economy? You're welcome!]

WARNING DUDA POST*****

So some commentator on some internet thread heard from someone who heard from someone else that Trump broke up a mugging with a baseball bat 30 years ago?

Yeah,run with that.

How in the hell is Trump gonna run into a building and face a shooter when he can't even enact his own parties lame sanctions on Russia for ATTACKING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA for fucks sake.

He's terrified of the Russians.He literally pisses himself every time their mentioned.He gave them state secrets in the Oval office without them even asking.

And Barry.....that's the President who killed the most dangerous terrorist in the history of the world.You're welcome.

????"On the last thread, not sure if I saw this mentioned here, but some Althouse commenters remind us that back in 1991 Trump got out of his limo and confronted some thug who was beating up someone with a baseball bat. Not the same as running into a hale of gunfire, but certainly more indication that Trump would "answer the bell,"

[Jim Eagle]

For all the bibliophiles at JOM, including prominent professors of English, take this test from The Times of London:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/times2/the-25-best-first-lines-ever-6pbvx2gdv

I got 18 out of the 25. There are some tricky ones there that are not as obvious as may think they are. Good luck!

[narciso]

And what did they find in that year of trawling, the rosneft deal was four years in the past, page got none of it, of course they handed the issue to Glencore the Qatari investment (who represents them?) And bank santipaolo, Craig p has the grewsomr details.

[henry]

Porch, maybe some of the charges were dropped due to lack of FISA warrant (or fruit of the poisoned dossier)? Tough to tell.

[Enjoying Obama's economy? You're welcome!]

Yikes.....wrong way round

WARNING DUDA POST*****

"On the last thread, not sure if I saw this mentioned here, but some Althouse commenters remind us that back in 1991 Trump got out of his limo and confronted some thug who was beating up someone with a baseball bat. Not the same as running into a hale of gunfire, but certainly more indication that Trump would "answer the bell"

So some commentator on some internet thread heard from someone who heard from someone else that Trump broke up a mugging with a baseball bat 30 years ago?

Yeah,run with that.

How in the hell is Trump gonna run into a building and face a shooter when he can't even enact his own parties lame sanctions on Russia for ATTACKING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA for fucks sake.

He's terrified of the Russians.He literally pisses himself every time their mentioned.He gave them state secrets in the Oval office without them even asking.

And Barry.....that's the President who killed the most dangerous terrorist in the history of the world.You're welcome.

[Corn fed Conservative]

Since no one will ask...

What's your point Appalled?

[narciso]

This isn't the first time Mueller has blown smoke, ask Dr. Hatfill.

[Davod]

"Broward schools superintendent Robert Runcie says the district received “No warning, no hints, no tips” about Nikolas Cruz before the shooting. @WPLGLocal10"

Why did Broward have to import someone from Chicago to fill the superintendents position.

http://michellemalkin.com/2018/02/26/broward-county-superintendents-solution-to-systemic-failure-mo-money/

[Porchlight]

henry, the weird part is that the charges were brought only five days ago, on the 22nd. Now they're already being withdrawn.

[Corn fed Conservative]

Daily Twatter

"The incident wasn’t reported to the police, and one witness disputed Trump’s account. “A lot of people were surprised that he got out to see what was happening,” Kathleen Romeo, a student at the time, told The Daily News. She claims the man with the bat ran away just before Trump got there. Trump then “just looked around and went back into his limo,” Romeo said."

Moar Trump Legends please...lol

[Porchlight]

Why did Broward have to import someone from Chicago to fill the superintendents position.

Look up his brother, James Runcie.

[Captain Hate]

Like shooting fish in a barrel:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=374050

[Account Deleted]

"No way lavishly funded NGOs receiving $Bs of public funds a year will go quietly."

Federal Government and like-minded deep pockets need to deluge the "NGOs" with lawsuits for violation of legitimate federal statutes and conspiracies to aid and abet felons in commission of crimes.

Prosecute private foundation *BOARD* members for violation of the same and sedition laws.... individuals not "groups."

Squeeze em. Foundations like to fund "good works" not lawsuits.

[BlueOx]

There are no functional differences between an AR-15 and my .30-06. The only thing that separates them (besides my gun being much more powerful) are cosmetic add ons.

Is it really any wonder why a deranged person would gravitate towards the one that is constantly described as a "weapon of war", "mass killing machine", "deadly assault rifle", etc.?

[Beasts of England]

lol, Porchlight!! :)

[Account Deleted]

Ingesting "fiber" without drinking adequate water leads to mixing concrete in the gut. Duh. Even cows drink water copiously to survive their high fiber diets.

[Corn fed Conservative]

What? Acers now dislike Dana Loesch?

Maybe they heard me say she was brilliant on Sunday's THIS WEEK.

Can't even agree to agree..heh.

[Corn fed Conservative]

30/06 on a carbine?

Ridiculous.

[Porchlight]

No wonder at all, BlueOx.

[James D.]

JiB @ 1:09

Only got 12.

[Account Deleted]

Just for you, CH. ;)

"Like trying to put mascara on a mackerel".

[Porchlight]

Sick of winning yet?

US to overtake Russia as world's top oil producer by end of 2018

We beat Saudi Arabia in 2017.

[BlueOx]

Porch,

Apparently, we could eliminate gang violence by banning Timberland boots, gold chains, and the colors red and blue.

[Extraneus]

We knew that, Appalled. Since it's likely that Page wasn't really suspected of being a criminal spy, and it's obvious that he wasn't one, it's also likely that the whole point of the FISA warrant was to find a way to cover for their prior spying and unmasking. The physical search authority was therefore necessary.

[Captain Hate]

MeAgain used to be attractive until Trump turned her into a somewhat less masculine Patterico.

[Corn fed Conservative]

Put a 412 Hemi w/supercharger on go-cart..add Nitro...hold ZERO. HEH.

[Beasts of England]

Go over to Ace and watch the embedded video at the top. An Ohio television station showed a guy shooting a watermelon. The voiceover described the weapon as an AR-15. It was a pump shotgun. I can't stop laughing...

[DebinGA]

Oh no. As Europe closes the door to migrants, they're coming here via South America>Mexico>USA.
"They [all males] had traveled a great distance already: a transatlantic journey by airplane or ship to Brazil; by car, bus, or on foot to Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia; through Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua; on to Honduras, Guatemala, and into Mexico. Again and again, I heard their itinerary repeated in an almost metronomic cadence, each country a link in a daunting, dangerous chain. They’d crossed oceans and continents; slogged through jungles and city slums; braved detention centers and robberies; and they were now, after many months, or even longer, tantalizingly close to their final goal of the United States and refugee status."

[Jim Eagle]

I see from all the trolling going on here that we must be over target again.

Winning.

[Corn fed Conservative]

Uh uh..ex.

It's all about Trump Tower..worlds largest washing machine

Rohrabacher, Duncan Hunter on spin-dry.
Nunes is still on wash cycle.

[Corn fed Conservative]

No. I found a loophole jagov.

[Jane]

DUDU,

Your talking points are wrong. (And you aren't the only one reciting them.) Read this: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-trump-and-obama-whos-really-tougher-on-russia/article/2650104?platform=hootsuite

[Jane]

I called the social security office this morning. It was an hour wait. I set up an appointment to sign up for social security - first available phone appointment - March 30th. First available in person appointment - sometime in April.

How efficient!

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Haven't seen much about Little Cruzito's penchant for playing violent motif video games.

I remember back in the late 90s when oldest son began playing "Duke Nukem" video games (Mrs. Kid 1.0 bought it for him....yikes: "Go play this at your Daddy's house, right now.")

After complaining to an Elder about Sonny's choice of entertainment(s) (was getting into porn--- 16 y.o.) I was asked: "Do you know what he's eating every day?"

Got on that case and extracted some commitments from him to clean up his diet and nutrition habits. He stopped both the violent games and the porn within 6 weeks of eating wholesome, nutritious food.

The sob stories about his isolation etc. never seem to account for his own dietary choices--- of all kinds. Blaming systems for failing...it can only take us so far.

That kid's gene pool was goulash city before he hatched his plan to kill in that school. Healthy genetic tape (can be wrecked by diet) serves as a brake line. His seemed to be cut in 17 different places.

Bad food. Bad thoughts. Twisted emotions. Bad choices. Bad decisions. No moral compunction.

I give the court Chee-cawgo as Exhibit A, inferiorized (f*cked up)violent, young killers.

Can't legislate this dysfunction (e/g food labeling laws and Moochies "let's move" diet).

The cosmetic regulations and "laws" being proposed are a frickin joke.

"You can shoot up a school with these weapons but not those. There. Are we safe yet?"

Idiocy in the 21st Century.

[DebinGA]

killfile for Firefox one click away

[Porchlight]

Beasts:

It never gets old.

[Corn fed Conservative]

Yes, sectoring your brain led you down the Trump hole.

Make it even more so!

[Extraneus]

Sen. Bob Corker Ends Speculation He Created, Says Will Not Seek Re-Election

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) ended two weeks of media speculation he created when he floated the idea that he was having “second thoughts” about not running for re-election when his chief of staff told Politico the frequent critic of President Trump has decided he will not seek a third term in the U.S. Senate. Corker’s decision clears the way for Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) to secure the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee he currently occupies. It also sets up a general election battle between Blackburn and former Gov. Phil Bredesen, who has no opposition in the Democratic primary.

“He’s always believed and served as though he were only going to be in the Senate for two terms,” Corker’s chief of staff Todd Womack told Politico on Tuesday.

“And he was willing to listen to folks but he really believes the decision he made in September was the right one and is going to be leaving the Senate at the end of the year,” Womack added.

What a guy. If only the folks hadn't caused confusion.

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Okay.... note to self... "Don't look at pic posts by Porch when sipping seltzer water!"

BrrrrrtPAH-CHIZZZZZ!!!! all over muh screen aginn.

[henry]

Ext, folks being the Bill Kristol ilk.

[maryrose]

What is the answer to number 1 and 2?
I guessed Animal Farm and A Picture of Dorian Grey.