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Bloomberg on his liberal advocacy: ‘I’ve earned my place in heaven — it’s not even close’
The Daily Caller ^ | 4-15-2014 | Jamie Weinstein

Posted on 04/16/2014 4:05:42 AM PDT by servo1969

Say what you will about former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but don’t you dare accuse of him of being modest.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Bloomberg plans to spend $50 million of his estimated $31 billion fortune this year to combat the National Rifle Association. Speaking of his advocacy of liberal causes like gun-control and preventing New Yorkers from enjoying “Big Gulp” sodas, Bloomberg told the Times, reportedly with a grin, “I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed.”

“I am heading straight in,” he went on. “I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”

In pursuing his self-professed heavenly mission to fight gun rights, Bloomberg says he plans to be ruthless in opposing politicians who refuse to fall in line on the issue.

“They say, ‘We don’t care. We’re going to go after you,’ ” he told the Times, speaking of the NRA. “ ‘If you don’t vote with us we’re going to go after your kids and your grandkids and your great-grandkids. And we’re never going to stop.”

“We’ve got to make them afraid of us,” he reasoned.

But as the Times notes, “Mr. Bloomberg has already spent millions of dollars trying to persuade members of Congress to support enhanced background check laws with virtually nothing to show for it.”

The $50 million dollar commitment, however, takes his anti-gun advocacy to the next level. As a comparison, the Times reports that the NRA spent less than half as much on its gun rights advocacy last year.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/15/bloomberg-on-his-liberal-advocacy-ive-earned-my-place-in-heaven-its-not-even-close/#ixzz2z2vokBC7


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; bloomberg; guncontrol; nra
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To: servo1969

The foolishness runs deep. No surprise there.


21 posted on 04/16/2014 4:43:49 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: servo1969

Luke 14:11: “For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”


22 posted on 04/16/2014 4:44:39 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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“I am heading straight in,” he went on. “I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”

Despite this display of ignorance and arrogance, the God of creation still loves Doomberg...

Romans 5:8

Amplified Bible (AMP)

But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

23 posted on 04/16/2014 4:46:47 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: servo1969

Something about “pride” and “fall” comes to mind.


24 posted on 04/16/2014 4:51:18 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: fortheDeclaration

I’m thinking he’s going to have a stroke.


25 posted on 04/16/2014 4:55:26 AM PDT by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

John 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

But being Jewish, he does not recognize this simple fact.


26 posted on 04/16/2014 4:55:54 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: servo1969

Bloomy thinks he’s better than St. Paul:

In 1 Corinthians 9:27, Paul says the following about the possibility of even himself losing his salvation:
“but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”
In 1 Corinthians 10:12, Paul warns us all about smug overconfidence regarding our salvation:
“Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.”


27 posted on 04/16/2014 4:58:13 AM PDT by G Larry (There's the Beef!)
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To: Biggirl

Newsmax
Bloomberg Organizes New Gun-Control Group, Will Spend $50 Million
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 06:16 AM

By: Elliot Jager

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is willing to spend $50 million this year to foster a grassroots movement to take on the gun lobby, The New York Times reported.

Everytown for Gun Safety, a new umbrella group, will amalgamate Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. The idea is to apply some of the same single-minded, single-issue zeal used by the National Rifle Association to make the pro-gun control case.

Bloomberg said gun opponents need to be willing to target Democrats who are soft on gun control.

The Bloomberg-funded group, modeled partly after Mothers Against Drunk Driving, wants to turn women into a political force against guns.

“Right now, women, when they go to the polls, they vote on abortion, they vote on jobs, they vote on healthcare,” Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, told the Times. “We want one of those things to be gun violence prevention.”


28 posted on 04/16/2014 4:59:35 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: servo1969

This mutt actually believes he deserves heaven because he’s amassed billions. I t doesn’t work that way.


29 posted on 04/16/2014 5:00:28 AM PDT by kenmcg
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To: servo1969

God will have the last word, and unless Bloomy’s attitude changes completely, those words will be “Depart from Me. I never knew you.”


30 posted on 04/16/2014 5:04:44 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: servo1969
“I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed.”

Wow, this idiot thinks he's going to tell the Almighty what to do when he gets up there! One day God will judge us all, there's no escaping this, but of course I totally expect facts like that to escape morons like Bloomberg.

31 posted on 04/16/2014 5:05:20 AM PDT by erod
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To: servo1969
“They say, ‘We don’t care. We’re going to go after you,’ ” he told the Times, speaking of the NRA. “ ‘If you don’t vote with us we’re going to go after your kids and your grandkids and your great-grandkids. And we’re never going to stop.”

That's a scary quite right there, I'm going to have to make sure my kids avoid public school aka liberal indoctrination centers.

32 posted on 04/16/2014 5:09:07 AM PDT by erod
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To: servo1969

Reminds me of that graphic:

“God is dead.”
- Nietzsche, 1883

“Nietzsche is dead.”
- God, 1900

http://www.lifeposters.org/shop/god-is-dead-nietzsche-is-dead/


33 posted on 04/16/2014 5:11:16 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Prov1322

Be careful about turning such passages of God’s love into universal statements of God’s love. We must read them in context. Romans 5:8 has reference to the elect of God, those with peace with God who were justified by faith (see verse 1), not all mankind.


34 posted on 04/16/2014 5:23:32 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: servo1969

He’ll have to pass by Joseph Smith first and his passport better be in order.

(it’s a joke....er...sort of)


35 posted on 04/16/2014 5:24:30 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Proverbs 16:4 or 5 also seem applicable.


36 posted on 04/16/2014 5:26:08 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

He’s Hebrew.

They don’t really read that second book.


37 posted on 04/16/2014 5:26:33 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: erod

Look for any future gun control laws to land right back to the fed courts, going all the way to the USSC court.


38 posted on 04/16/2014 5:27:00 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: servo1969

The moral superiority syndrome on full display in Mr. Bloomberg explains a great deal of the political energy behind the left. It is self-righteousness raised to the level of religious fervor:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/09/the_democrat_moral_superiority_complex.html

Which is why I’ve found moral arguments more persuasive (than pragmatic argument) with leftists I’ve argued with. They don’t see that one coming.


39 posted on 04/16/2014 5:28:19 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: servo1969
“I am heading straight in,” he went on. “I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”

You'd be hard pressed to come up with a more definitive expression of self-righteousness.

40 posted on 04/16/2014 5:28:33 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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