Posted on 05/24/2005 7:59:07 AM PDT by holymoly
How #$*%@#($%* stupid are these people??!?!?!?!?"
Pretty amazing, isn't it?
Actually, though, the people who scare me aren't the officials like Eddington, it's the people who elect the Eddingtons.
I can think of quite a few good reasons.
Snipe the Mexican border. Watch illegal crossings drop precipitously.
The only thing dumber than these elected officials are the people who elect them.
I live in a congressional district that keeps electing the most corrupt politicians you can imagine. Out current congress-critter, "The Reverend," Emmanuel Cleaver... Well, where to start here? Time and time again, he backed major boondoggles that we're long on promises, and short on delivery, but either way, his buddies got rich, and the tax payers got soaked. His wife was hired as a consultant to the KCMO school district, where she made an obscene amount of money. Cleaver got caught not paying taxes on a business... It just goes on and on and on...
Mark
The most obscent part of it is that had there been a single, armed, law abiding citizen on that train, he could have dropped Collin Fergeson like a stone, saving a great number of lives.
It's amazing how different people are...
This woman loses her husband and has her son crippled, and blames guns, saying that we need to keep the good guys from being able to protect themselves... And that's actually the platform she ran on, while milking the sympathy vote. And the morons in suburban long island bout it.
On the other hand, in the aftermath of the Luby's massacre in Waco, TX, Dr. Huff, who saw her parents murdered by a man calmly walking from one person to the next, executing them, deciced to run for the Texas state legislature, and decided that her first priority was to pass a concealed carry law.
Where would you rather live, or at least, where would you feel safer living? New York, or Texas?
Mark
Every time I hear about SJL, I think about her statement about the US landing men on Mars. And that makes me think about something else I read.
Back in the days of the Viking Lander (I believe), some of the first photos shown displayed a US flag on the lander.
The Soviets objected, saying that if this was to be a "real" scientific and exploratory mission, then politics had no business in it.
The response back was, "if the USSR is so offended by the sight of an American Flag on the lander, then they (the USSR) are welcome to remove it from the lander, any time they like.
Mark
Perhaps that's why it's civil. What there's no need in society for is liberals. They're the worst of the worst.
I had to read this several times until I realized what it was that bothered me. It finally hit me, that it's the implication that conservatives don't care about the 1st Amendment that was all wrong. Liberals don't have a lock on the 1st, or any subsequent entries of the BOR. Conservatives, American conservatives respect and gaurd them all.
>>On the other hand, The .50 cal has an essentially flat trajectory for a mile <<
(from memory)The drop for 1000 yards is 295 inches (24 feet)with a 647 grain bullet.
or abridging the freedom of speech
The antics of the anti-American liberal left press (ala Newreek) are really pushing the bounderies here. If they can't responsibly self-regulate, there may be an awfully good case for wartime regulation of the press. IMO.
Can't argue with physics: Y=1/2 gt squared where Y= vertical drop....g= 32 ft/sec...and t= time.....ergo in the first second the drop is 16 ft, all, of course dependent on muzzle velocity as the key factor in drop.
Nonetheless, here is the marine's assessment of the high velocity .50 calibre bullet:......
"In addition, the .50 cal. cartridge has found a new application with tactical rifles such as the Barrett M82A1, long-range sniper rifles used to interdict OPFOR personnel and destroy light equipment at ranges in excess of 1500 meters."
Have a great day!
so is she opposed to the civilian Hummer SUV as well? To follow this twisted logic only Police and Military (and government agencies that enforce certain regulations) will be allowed to have useful vehicles and the rest of us will be stuck with a Briggs and Stratton lawnmower motor on a skateboard.
She's got a brain like a BB in a bucket.
I've been thinking of building a bolt action .50 as a project gun.
The hill across from me is .5 - .75 miles away. I can sit in my living room with the spotting scope and when a nice buck or the ocassional bull elk wanders by I could take it with a head shot from my couch. :-)
Side note to the Author:
The second amendment is not about hunting.
Wow, I sure didn't know that you could shoot a deer and cook it all at one time. Would you mind trying this sometime and let me know the results. I like my venison medium well done if possible.
AMEN!!!
A working definition of a police state is when those entrusted to enact and enforce the laws themselves break those laws with impunity.
And a police state that nannies it's citizens subjects from cradle to grave is exactly what these scum are after.
Excellent rant. ....and I'm with ya, test the lot of 'em.
The worst part is that some guy in your neighborhood works hard every day, he comes home, he smokes a joint after he mows his lawn, and it stays in his system for 6-10 weeks. The guy on the other end of the block comes home from work, blows a Hollywood-sized rail of cocaine and it's out of his system in 36 hours.
I'm all for PRIVATE drug testing for bus drivers, airplane pilots, etc. But publicly mandated drug testing? Please, cut the sh!t.
We should make all elected politicians and school administrators piss in a cup and see how the hell they like it.
Seriously, who cares if Barry Bonds wants to shrink his nuts to the size of raisins with anabolic steroids? That's between him and the baseball commission.
Sorry ya missed my point .......
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