StrangeSox

Moronghazi update: nuclear holocaust edition The context of tillerson calling Trump a moron was a lengthy, frustrating meeting with Trump, senior administration officials and top Pentagon brass. In this meeting, Trump declared he wanted a ten-fold increase in our nuclear arsenal. Lol @ anyone who was foolish enough to vote for this moron. Destroying American hegemony in less than a year.

Garbage refs the entire game

Rookie QB in his first start trying to make something happen Lol that -9 turnover margin for the bears in the year

That was a bad decision

One thing to keep in mind with any sort of "mental illness treatment means no guns" law is that it will inevitably discourage some people who own guns from seeking mental health services. Guns are really, really important to some people. I don't know where that balance point on that particular issue is, though.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Oct 6, 2017 -> 03:17 PM) I've never understood the people who don't lock up their firearms in the house. Get a safe lock them up. That takes care of most of the issues. Home defense! Some people go so far as to carry constantly even at home. Never know when someone is going to break into your suburban home in a gated community! That was actually what was at the heart of Heller. DC required all handguns to be stored in a secured or inoperable state, e.g. putting a lock on the trigger to prevent the gun from firing. Plaintiffs argued that this severely limited the gun's use for self-defense in the event of a home invasion.

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Really good piece on what people should be taking away from the Breitbart/Milo/White Supremacist expose The Milo Emails: Don't Make The Gamergate Mistake Again

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 6, 2017 -> 01:45 PM) What animal do you hunt with an AR-15? Varmint and other nuisance animals are popular targets. Wild hog hunting.

Roy Moore in 2009: 'Only thing I know that the Islamic faith has done in this country is 9/11' GOP leadership is fully behind this man

FEMA deleted their website tracking recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, so a WaPo reporter made a tool to keep up to date instead. FEMA buried updates on Puerto Rico. Here they are.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Oct 6, 2017 -> 11:26 AM) And as I said to Balta yesterday, the risk is patently obvious - death. Guns are dangerous tools. Guns kill. It's a zero sum game. If you have a gun in your home, there is a risk. You don't need a study to tell you that. If you're trying to make a rational risk assessment, you need data. If I'm trying to decide whether to 1) keep a gun in my home 2) keep that gun readily accessible for defense 3) carry a gun with me in public, knowing what the actual risk factors are could be helpful. At least theoretically, because it's almost definitely a more emotional decision than a beep boop logical one for people.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 6, 2017 -> 11:21 AM) They have basically bought and paid for politicians to not allow the CDC to communicate these effects (via risk rates) including not allowing them to tell parents what additional risk a firearm in the home may cause. They've also made it so that the ATF and FBI can only keep paper records on guns and gun transactions. This makes searching the records to, say, solve a crime extremely tedious and time-consuming. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wdbd9y/t...s-explained-392

I'm not making a moral argument for or against it. I'm just pointing out what Constitutional caselaw says.

Heller codified a right to self-defense via owning readily accessible firearms into the constitution and incorporated it against the states. Any discussion of gun rights that focuses solely on hunting and target shooters ignores that pretty important caveat.

And more deliberate sabotaging of health care markets Trump told HHS to deny request to fix Iowa ObamaCare market: report

Trump Administration Set to Roll Back Birth Control Mandate The requirement that health insurance plans cover birth control is going to be axed today. their argument is just absurd

So much of this too comes down to how much wealth ideological billionaires have to throw around that can completely shape our country. Accumulation of that much wealth by so few gives them enormous power and is hugely detrimental to the country and to democracy. e.g. Breitbart (and other far-right conservative media outlets funded by ideological billionaires) were able to shape the overall media coverage of the 2016 election https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud

Tobacco was also brought down by a bunch of lawsuits holding them financially responsible for the deaths they caused even as they insisted for decades there was zero link (our current VP still believes this!). Gun makers have explicit legal protection from such lawsuits, so that same pathway isn't open to people looking to bring them down.

B>W claimed Breitbart hated Trump around the time one of their writers was pushed around by Lewandowski, which was early 2016 and well after they were clearly in the tank for him. Not the most reliable commentator. To be honest, I thought this line was a better summary of the modern conservative response to the rise of white nationalism and nazism. There's a lot to digest in there, but it does give a look inside how white-washed racism came to win Trump the election and run this country.

Right, that's the original design of it. Lets you track where you're firing---but also lets people track where you're firing from. Generally useful when you're firing lots of rounds at long distances at high rates, which until Sunday, wasn't ever really anything to be concerned about in the civilian world. Just something people use at some ranges because it "looks cool" or whatever. For the vast, vast majority of shootings, even mass shootings, it isn't relevant so at least previously there wasn't good reason to ban it.

They're more of a gimmick than anything really dangerous. Just regular bullets with the same sort of coating that fireworks have so you can see them shoot into the air.

First monthly decline in jobs in 7 years, mainly due to losses in the leisure & hospitality sector probably because of the hurricanes. July and August were also revised downward slightly.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 4, 2017 -> 09:46 AM) Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz. Goes into a lot of details about the history of the case, but basically Trump's family has always been skirting the law and they straight-up bribed a prosecutor to get out of felony charges. This same DA was also bribed by Weinstein's lawyer to drop sexual harassment charges. So corruption of the justice system is a bipartisan issue. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhat...ticle-1.3544121