Cutting off Conservative Friends:RANT

[lukethedrifter]

I had some Liberal friends once, but they all committed suicide.

The burden of white guilt can do that to a man.

Very true. Fortunately DWGS only causes you to want to shoot a mother [expletive].

[Radbird]

Received a mass email today. People really think this is humorous?

Email subject: "Just in time for Christmas" (even though it's 2 days late)

The latest toy has hit the shops...a talking Muslim doll. Nobody knows what the hell it says, because no one has the balls to pull the cord.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I don't talk about politics to anyone. I made that decision about ten years ago and am loving it. I go in the booth and vote. That's it.

Smart. What do conversations like that ever accomplish?

Well, if you can talk to someone with a different perspective in a positive, respectful way then both of you have a chance to learn something and refine your views. Politics in America used to be a passion - people went to hours-long speeches like we go to sporting events. Covered in papers that make Fox News look truly fair and balanced but all sides had their broadsheets. Read a book about pre-Civil War American politics. It didn't used to be a topic to be avoided.

[stlouie_lipp]

I don't talk about politics to anyone. I made that decision about ten years ago and am loving it. I go in the booth and vote. That's it.

Smart. What do conversations like that ever accomplish?

Well, if you can talk to someone with a different perspective in a positive, respectful way then both of you have a chance to learn something and refine your views. Politics in America used to be a passion - people went to hours-long speeches like we go to sporting events. Covered in papers that make Fox News look truly fair and balanced but all sides had their broadsheets. Read a book about pre-Civil War American politics. It didn't used to be a topic to be avoided.

You're right. It is a shame it has devolved to a point where I try to avoid it - I used to love talking politics.

[sighyoung]

I was raised to avoid talking about politics or religion in public. I don't know if it was my mother's small-town upbringing (where everyone in town would try to know your business), or because someone once stuck a gun in her cousin's mouth at a bar and pulled the trigger (he survived, miraculously). But she was insistent that certain things remain private--as in paranoid.

[Radbird]

Received email this morning with the following message:

"send this to your liberal friends"

Spoilered for length

[SHOW]

Thank goodness for Texas' "Castle Law"! A 3 1/2" #4 buckshot shell contains 54, that's right 54 22 caliber rounds. 22 caliber is the same as a M-16 and it's a real crowd pleaser. Shotguns will be right behind "assault weapons".

Here ya go:
You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows. One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside. As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble. In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless. Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died. They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm. When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter. "What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask. "Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing, "behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper. Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys. Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them. Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times. But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die." The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters. As the days wear on, the story takes wings. The national media picks it up, then the international media. The surviving burglar has become a folk hero. Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win. The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects. After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time. The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you. Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man. It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term.

How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.

This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license. The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns. Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.

Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw. When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead. The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland, Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school. For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals. Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns. The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearms still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism. Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun. Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released. Indeed, afterthe Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying, "We cannot have people take the law into their own hands." All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities. Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply. Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns had been registered and licensed. Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

"...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams

If you think this is important, please forward to everyone you know.

You had better wake up, because Obama is doing this very same thing, over here, if he can get it done.

And there are stupid people in congress and on the street that will go right along with him.

[JL21]

Received a mass email today. People really think this is humorous?

Email subject: "Just in time for Christmas" (even though it's 2 days late)

The latest toy has hit the shops...a talking Muslim doll. Nobody knows what the hell it says, because no one has the balls to pull the cord.

I don't wince at much, but I winced at that. Jesus. [expletive] whoever sent that, and I'm sorry if it's your friend or relative.

[Radbird]

College roommate, who was a friend until he became rich. Which he did by marrying into money. Why didn't I think of that??

[Radbird]

Another gem received today...

Teaching Methodolgy: Years of Math 1950 - 2013
Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The counter girl took my $ 2 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register.

I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters , but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried.

Why do I tell you this? Because of the evolution in teaching math since the 1950s:

1. Teaching Math In 1950s -
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ?

2. Teaching Math In 1960s -
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?

3. Teaching Math In 1970s -
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?

4. Teaching Math In 1980s -
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

5. Teaching Math In 1990s -
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20.. What do you think of this way of making a living?

Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it's ok. )

6. Teaching Math In 2009 -
Un hachero vende una carretada de maderapara $100. El costo de la producciones es $80. Cuanto dinero ha hecho?

7. Teaching Math In 2013 -
Who cares, just steal the lumber from your rich neighbor's property. He won't have a gun to stop you, and the President says it's OK anyway cuz it's redistributing the wealth.

Damn education liberals. And environmentalists. And immigrants. And gun contol advocating socialists.

One simple email touches them all. With a little extra effort, surely they could've squeezed health care in there somewhere.

[Freed Roger]

Another gem received today...

The best part is the dumb [expletive] paid $1.86 for a horsemeat sandwich a la pubes.