[Natural Born 54]

Senator Dodd's parting gift.

[Chode]

and America takes another one in the........

[eyedigress]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another reason why we rural dwellers feel so strongly about the Second Amendment.

[stevie_d_64]

VD???

The gift that keeps on giving???

[CitizenM]

Now what? I never heard of this bill, has much been said about it here on FR? Where can I learn more?

[EGPWS]

Can you just imagine the complaints put forth against the neighbors for noise ect.?

It would require more laws and a greater taking of personal freedoms just to maintain the peace.

[JPG]

Senator Dodd might want to construct a bunker in a hidden location. He may someday need it.

[Diogenesis]

AIG chiefs pressed to donate to Dodd
As Democrats prepared to take control of Congress after the 2006 elections,
a top boss at the insurance giant American International Group Inc. told colleagues that Sen. Christopher J. Dodd
was seeking re-election donations and he implored company executives and their spouses to give.
The message in the Nov. 17, 2006, e-mail from Joseph Cassano, AIG Financial Products chief executive, was unmistakable:
Mr. Dodd was "next in line" to be chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which oversees the insurance industry,
and he would "have the opportunity to set the committee's agenda on issues critical to the financial services industry."

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"AIG's Small London Office May Have Lost $500B"
Ground zero for AIG's spectacular implosion, which has soaked up more federal bailout money
than any other entity, appears to have been a small London branch office
that may have lost nearly half a trillion dollars in bad deals."

[Brilliant]

Forcing country folk into the city might not be such a good idea. It’s likely to backfire.

[reg45]

I propose that Senator Dodd be among the first to get a French haircut:

[pepperdog]

Having to Living in a city is an absolute nightmare to some of us!

[PIF]

COSPONSORS(19), ALPHABETICAL
Sen Akaka, Daniel K. [HI] - 8/6/2009
Sen Bennet, Michael F. [CO] - 8/6/2009
Sen Brown, Sherrod [OH] - 8/5/2010
Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] - 6/17/2010
Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] - 8/5/2010
Sen Franken, Al [MN] - 1/28/2010
Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [NY] - 5/24/2010
Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] - 11/6/2009
Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] - 10/27/2009
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] - 6/10/2010
Sen Levin, Carl [MI] - 7/12/2010
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] - 3/16/2010
Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] - 8/6/2009
Sen Merkley, Jeff [OR] - 8/6/2009
Sen Reed, Jack [RI] - 6/8/2010
Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] - 8/6/2009
Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] - 6/17/2010
Sen Warner, Mark R. [VA] - 8/5/2010
Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] - 5/18/2010

S.1619
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d111:1:./temp/~bdJ4Bx:@@@C|/home/LegislativeData.php?n=BSS;c=111|

and

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.1619:

[Regulator]

You can already see the effects of this stupidity in California.

High density developments are erected in existing cities while "green space" areas are set aside, conveniently occupied only by employees of the Trusts that "own" them (they never buy them, the land is basically stolen by manipulation of zoning laws or extortion against the existing owners).

So the "environmentalist" model for livable commoonities is...Manhattan. A tiny sliver of land, hyper populated, people living in rabbit warrens, and outside....blissful wildernesses occupied only by the Chosen Few.

Sound familiar?

The Soviet Union was the same way. Horrifying, deadening concrete apartment houses, soulless prisons, but the Nomenklatura, the bureaucrats, lived in peaceful Dachas in the countryside, away from the prying eyes of the Proles.

All been done before.

[moodyskeptic]

Not this Sh!! again. Clinton/Gore tried to vilify the suburbs and rural America in order to herd us into cities in the nineties. It’s common knowledge that cities exert negative pressure on individualism ( this has been noted since Socrates’ day and is one of mankind’s first universal observations).

God, the liberal mind is cynical and lazy.

[Keflavik76]

... And some people think shutting down the government is a bad thing.

[ColdOne]

They just never stop do they... November and Beyond! (new tag line!)

[LiteKeeper]

Need more info!

[Pox]

If such a bill is passed, it will never be repealed, just like obamacare will never be repealed. The federal government is drunk with power, and the only way the federal government will be put in it’s place will be via the second amendment, IMO.

[tacticalogic]

They left “Start a shooting war” off their list.

[snarkpup]

Looking over the text of the bill, it looks like the usual stuff: 1) Create agencies whose powers (and limitations thereon) are unclear. 2) Dole out money to existing agencies in exchange for their applauding whatever ideas the bill contains.