Posted on 02/26/2015 9:14:31 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather
It’s started.
As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is putting the ban on 5.56mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.
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Dude, apparently you have been partaking of that newly legalized substance. A third party, which would be a conservative third party, would split the vote with the GOP establishment candidate and the RAT wins. 26-34 seats? A very nice thought but dreaming. The average cost of a Congressional seat is about 1.7 mil. Presuming the RAT will always get in the range of 40% out the gate, let’s do the math. How does any 3rd party candidate take away maybe 90% from the establishment GOP establishment candidate? That is Common Core math.
What I’m saying is that those 24-36 seats would primarily come from places where the 3rd party candidate would take mainly rat votes, or votes from uber RINO’s, or votes from people staying home on our side who are dispirited (losers of course).
The 3rd party candidate that ran in my district could have gotten it with meager effort. That was a bona fide example in one of the last places you’d expect. The so called Libertarian who ran spent nothing. A TEA partier or true Libertarian could have walked away with it for little effort. The WAS NO REPUBLICAN RUNNING.
The Libertarians blow tons of money on a national race that does, as you say, split off more R votes than D’s, but WE’RE NOT TALKING PRESIDENCY.
It costs next to nothing to get on a ticket, or free here w/ I think ~2-3K signatures. If I could afford to not work, I could TALK to enough people to win an election around here over a cycles period. 2 of the 4 districts near me had less than 20,000 people turn out for a congressional election.
BTW, you’re approaching “douche” status by constantly referring to me smoking weed or being in fantasy land. Lighten up on it DIU...
Too funny. Constantly referring to you as smoking weed? Where did you get that? You mentioned weed in your post and it was the first time I ever referenced it relative to you. I do, however, believe it is fantasy to think a 3rd party could actually capture 24-36 seats as a no-brainer proposition. The RATS have a lock on their dependent voters. The votes for a 3rd party would come from the GOP.
“Too Funny”
“Amazingly Naïve”
“Partaking of that newly legalized substance”
You may think it’s a fantasy, but if you actually looked at some of the districts, turnouts, and demographics, and then actually rubbed two brain cells together over it, you’d see it.
I’m not talking about the dependent voters, I’m talking about the ~5-15% in any given area that tack either way, and also a certain quantity of the sit-outs.
You still have yet to come up with anything remotely resembling a rebuttal other than GOPe type hyperbole.
I came up with an actual do-able example. Of all the house seats the Republicans picked up in the last cycle, they sure as hell didn’t get them all by suddenly having a few million couch sitting registered R’s up and decide they were going to vote this time.
Out of 435 seats, 24-36 isn’t much. Besides, who needs the 3rd party to be big? I just want those seats to provide sand that seizes the gears of government up. If they all sat their and picked their noses for the whole session, we’d be 1000X better off.
Hell, how about this option, we just crowd fund paying them to NOT DO ANYTHING. Kind of like idiot/criminal protection money. “Pay up America, or they’ll find something that needs legislating”...
The One is sittin’ on a powder keg and playing with a Zippo, then.
Find the districts in which you can actually get over 50% and go do it. My rebuttal was made clear, but if you choose not to accept it as a rebuttal, that is your choice. 3rd party votes will come mostly from the GOP side and split the votes. Find the key to getting over 50% in 24-36 seats and you will be recognized as the political genius of the early 21st Century. Go become that genius.
What happened on the Ferris Wheel? Did you throw up? I have not been on one in a very long time and I never will go on one again. I’ve developed a fear of heights so any of those tall rides are off limits. Tall bridges scare me now too. My mother doesn’t do well on them either.
I actually spazzed out on the kiddie coaster because of the sharp turns that made it feel as though the cars were going to fall off the track.
When you are an adult and you flipped out on a freaking kiddie coaster you know you’re a wimp. :(
I can find Martinsville with GoogleEarth®
Proactive!
The ONLY way is UP!
Do not, repeat, NOT! ride the HULK at Universal!
It was my first ride of the day and darn near my last one!
My eyes kept telling me one thing and my inertial computer in my inner ears another!
I avoid those rides like the plague. Steep drops knock the wind out of me.
So how do you get the nomination-buyers to give up their predilection for too-cool-for-school frat boys (yes, I recognize the oxymoron) who won't engage, won't fight, and won't talk about anything but capital formation and lower taxes for the coupon-clipping widows of Fifth Avenue?
Karl Rove won't talk about anything but "The Price Is Right" strategery, "I'm one notch less Leninist than him." He hates us more than he does the Democrats because our office is on the same side of the building as his, so he spends all his time in the boss's office, brown nosing and telling the boss that the last two election busts were our fault... Which is assuming he didn't sell the boss the idea of strategically dumping the last two elections so that Obama/Hillary could gut employee healthcare and take the blame for that, and for the Great Recession.
Thanks, Karl.
Yes, I was on the ferris wheel with my dad for the first time, and the slow way it moved and the way the cars rotated with the movement of the wheel gave me terrible motion sickness. So as a general rule I avoid circular motion rides.
When I was a kid, I was at Pontchatrain beach with my mom. We had just ridden the Galaxy roller coaster, which was an older, steel coaster that preceded the Rajun Cajun.
We exited the ride and walked across the street get in the haunted house line, and after a few minutes we heard a racket behind us. We turned around to see that the very next run of the Galaxy and left the lead three cars hanging off the coaster at the highest part just before the first drop started.
Everyone was able to be rescued, and no one was seriously hurt that I know of, but that was the end of the Galaxy at that amusement park. Really glad we were not on that run.
This is a structural and constitutional weakness of republics, or even of any representative government. You can't fix it; the Romans tried to with the constitutional dictatorship (fixed term nonrenewable), and in the end it ate them, when it was revived for Caesar after he'd overreached and killed most of the nobiles after Pharsalus.
During the Hannibalic War the dictatorship failed them repeatedly in practice, and the Republic nearly failed after Cannae. Rome sent out two consuls and two consular armies, reinforced, and Hannibal killed one of the consuls and all but a corporal's guard of his army, and slaughtered every manjack of the rest.
The Senate was lost in feral politicking over leadership; there were two great factions at the time, that of the Fulvii, led by their godfather Fulvius Flaccus (four times consul), and the Fabii, led by Fabius Maximus "the Delayer", whose great lieutenant, Claudius Marcellus, had just died on the field in the middle of his fifth consulship.
Nothing moving while Hannibal marched, finally the clan of the Aemelii suggested a compromise. As their compromise candidate they put up the brilliant Cornelius Scipio, and Rome was saved. Scipio, surnamed Africanus, finally defeated Hannibal at Zama, in northern Africa, fourteen years later.
It would be a lot harder to fight the titular leader of your party in the White House, than to fight an obvious ogre like Obama in the White Hut, on an issue of principle like gun control. RiNO's do want a ban, a broad ban, on "little people" .... They're just playing coy about it; Pew Associates smelled them out back in 1999 by simply polling them and finding lots of kitten-weak support for gun rights among the "business"/"economic" conservatives, who love a good year-end bonus better than they love their rights IMHO.
Stated categorically, bosses and brokers DO NOT want their underlings and "untermenschen" to own firearms. They would support a property qualification, in fact, for just about every right you can name, but that's a big one.
Imagine asking a congressman to support 2A in the face of a ringing call by President Romney for "sensible" gun control.
Better the enemy keep to his own camp -- it almost forces the Boehners and McCains to oppose a _Resident whose bestest friend wears Che Guevara teeshirts with huge red stars on them.
Madison pointed out in The Federalist that the Greek League was doomed the moment Philip of Macedon, their natural enemy, was allowed to sit in their councils. That's a point worth remembering on several scores, like immigration and "diversity".
My life is so hum drum these days even my stalker would wander off in boredom after a short while...
The proper way to explain it to a non-smoker is that Obama is specifying this, this, and this (implying that he is being, um, "selective" and "commonsensical" - - lie, lie), when in fact he's going after all ammunition of every type.
This is the beginning of primary season, and we're supposed to shoot at RiNO' and guys like Krispy Kreme (taking to heart what our FRiend noted above, that Krispy's not really a Republican anyway).
No, this is the time for thrashing out differences (and settling scores) and fighting over platforms and whether they mean anything in an age when cynical instrumentalism is the "gold" standard.
Alan Greenspan used to be a gold bug until he got close to the Money Power. I'd love to see an x-ray of his brain; I'll bet it's just a mass of gallium-arsenide circuitry with a port on the back.
They get you out at a 45° angle where your butt says you're straight and your eyes says you're not.
Super vertigo city!
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