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Why Gun Control Can’t Be Solved in the USA
Dilbert Blog ^ | 2016-06-22 | Scott Adams

Posted on 06/27/2016 8:32:30 AM PDT by justlurking

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To: Elsie
Who ya gonna believe - me, or your lying eyes?

In any event, he doesn’t depend on the good graces of any newspaper editors, apparently.

61 posted on 06/27/2016 3:46:10 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: JusPasenThru

I don’t think so. His writings are far too subtle for your average “journalist” to understand fully.

CC


62 posted on 06/27/2016 10:27:21 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: TigersEye

Lucky you!


63 posted on 06/28/2016 6:49:01 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rlmorel
I was quite disillusioned with him in much the same way as I was with Roger Waters (of Pink Flo

Most every Flo I've seen has been white...


64 posted on 06/28/2016 6:55:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie; sparklite2

LOL, I must have been interrupted in that post. I meant to say Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, who was an entertainer I had no idea was a raging liberal moonbat, and I had gone to see him in concert with 10 of my friends. I know I should have had some idea, and that was on me, but boy, I was steaming the whole time, because he was using this concert as an anti-war/anti-Bush/anti-capitalism/anti-American platform, and it wasn’t like I could listen to the music and ignore that stuff, he had slideshows and movies in the background making sure you couldn’t ignore it. Since that time, I have been completely unwilling to listen to anything he had a hand in creating, it was that disturbing. Think the psychological engineering in “A Clockwork Orange”.

Possibly, that is why I was so angry years ago when a Freeper posted a thread sometime between 2006-2012, and I was completely caught off guard by the nature of the subject of that thread which was something Scott Adams had written. I know what I saw and who posted it.

I didn’t believe the veracity of it, as Scott Adams was one of my favorite cartoonists, ranking right up there with Gary Larson, but the Freeper posted a link to Scott Adams’ blog, which sure enough, had the text. You can’t find that entry on his new blog, and looking through his archived blog, which looked like the same one I recalled looking through years ago, I went year by year and couldn’t find it, but I suspect one of two things: either I didn’t look closely enough, or he removed that blog post. Honestly, reading through his entries, there is no indication other than a leaning towards libertarianism in general, and general humor that would resonate more with conservatives than liberals, so I am inclined to think he removed it.

But I know what I saw at the time was enough for me to vow not to listen to another word he said, either in comic form or blog form. I don’t do things like that lightly, and I recall it was a bitter, acid, denunciation of something that I took quite seriously at the time, possibly the war in Iraq. (During those years I had been driving to DC to stand with the DC Chapter of FR counter-protesting the Code Pinkos and Moveon.org types who set up their despicable camps outside Walter Reed, so I might have been susceptible to the kind of language he used.

I don’t generally take lightly that kind of action I did to cut something out of my life, but I will say this: I can hope it was a bad day for him whenever he posted that, which I can understand. And for this reason going forward, I am going to assume as much.

That said, my reason for posting was not to disparage a supporter of Trump.

One more thing: That woman completely and totally creeps me out, which I feel certain, is the point of those commercials...


65 posted on 06/28/2016 8:06:45 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Elsie

It was choice not luck.


66 posted on 06/28/2016 8:26:25 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: rlmorel
That woman completely and totally creeps me out, which I feel certain, is the point of those commercials...

well; she DOES work for PROGRESSIVE!


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67 posted on 06/28/2016 11:55:01 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: justlurking
...gun control can’t be solved because Democrats are using guns to kill each other – and want it to stop – whereas Republicans are using guns to defend against Democrats. Psychologically, those are different risk profiles. And you can’t reconcile those interests... But Democrats are unlikely to talk Republicans out of gun ownership because it comes off as “Put down your gun so I can shoot you.”

Simple: disarm all Democrats. Problem solved.

68 posted on 06/29/2016 12:17:48 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. –Donald Trump)
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