FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Doesn't Petty have the trademark on tool?

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

There are so many lily white states with desolate acreage. Why does Idaho get all the out of state crazies? Do they look at a map and think the panhandle is really the state giving The Man the finger?

 

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That's a damn good question, and — as a resident of said panhandle region — I wish I had a good answer.

I can tell you this, though ... there's enough ex-hippies, religious freaks, old union guys and tree huggers mixed in with the Tea Partiers to make this place really interesting politically.

And as Bob Cook noted, the real freedom-loving, gun-tottin' libertarians don't need to move into a compound with a bunch of rules. Just buy your own 40-acres, stock up on ammo and elk meat, and keep a low profile and you're as free as you want to be.

 

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I long for the day LaPierre isn't with the NRA.

Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) reminded LaPierre that the NRA once supported checks with “no loopholes anywhere, for anyone.” So does the NRA favor closing the “gun-show loophole” that allows people to avoid background checks?

“We do not,” LaPierre replied.

His reasoning, as always, is that existing gun laws aren’t being enforced — but he seems to have pulled the evidence out of his gun barrel. “Out of more than 76,000 firearms purchases supposedly denied by the federal instant check system, only 62 were referred for prosecution,” LaPierre declared in his opening statement.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) looked up the actual statistic. “In 2012 more than 11,700 defendants were charged with federal gun crimes,” Whitehouse said, “a lot more than 62.”

LaPierre had been caught. “So those — the 62, senator, statistic, was for Chicago alone,” he clarified, a salient fact omitted from his original testimony.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-at-hill-hearing-wayne-lapierre-tries-to-manhandle-facts-and-logic/2013/01/30/e31a305e-6b2e-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_story.html?hpid=z2

 

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Why would this not be a racist statement? Are there really "white" states?

 

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There are some states with 97-99 percent white population. So saying "white state" for shorthand would seem fine.

 

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come on, dog. i'm guessing dixie is white.

i'm irish/english and one of my favorite jokes is to tell people my ethnic background and say: "yeah, i struggle every morning when i get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror cause i have this overwhelming desire to punch myself in the face."

is that a racist statement?

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Newspapers must be racist for pointing out racial demographics in the Intermountain West.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

It's racist if a conservative says it to a liberal.
A liberal saying it to a liberal is no more harmful than, say, if a black calls a black the "n" word. Or so we're told.

 

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The 4 whitest states in the US are in the East, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia and New Hampshire.

 

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Idaho's pretty white. 93.9% quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/16000.html

Maine's pretty white. 95.4% quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/23000.html

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Nobody ever considers the plight of oppressed Christian conservatives.