tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post2433334368772881962..comments2024-03-28T00:23:01.632-04:00Comments on Lem's Levity: Peeling Back The Layers Of StupidityTrooper Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-28351947910035737312014-05-29T00:10:57.373-04:002014-05-29T00:10:57.373-04:00As long as they didn't take it literally. ;-)As long as they didn't take it literally. ;-)Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-25348610665998099342014-05-29T00:08:50.195-04:002014-05-29T00:08:50.195-04:00Make mine a whatever then. And clearly the people ...Make mine a whatever then. And clearly the people cheering the "satire" took it quite seriously. chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-28382098196979537922014-05-29T00:02:56.098-04:002014-05-29T00:02:56.098-04:00Guns are not a "motive", dilweed. They&#...Guns are not a "motive", dilweed. They're a "means". If you're going to discuss murder details, you need to get these things right.<br /><br />Also, were you aware that <i>The Onion</i> is <i>satire?</i> Apparently other right-wingers (and the government of Iran and other tyrannies) have failed to grasp this at times in the past. Satire may make a salient social point, but to treat it in such a way as to require the accuracy of normal journalism is ludicrous.<br /><br />Talk about misdirection. <br /><br />You can talk about whatever you want on your blog and in your posts, obviously. But when you want to go to the lengths you do to ignore what really concerns a great many more people at large, you might want to explain why. <br /><br />Or not. Whatever. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-63987036861143636322014-05-28T23:47:53.144-04:002014-05-28T23:47:53.144-04:00The Onion doesn't explain its layers of decept...The Onion doesn't explain its layers of deception, but they could start by explaining how guns motivated the carnage and mayhem expressed in the killer's video. If guns weren't the motive, The Onion could explain how guns enabled Rodger's killing of his initial victims (and, btw, explain what was the motive for that initial phase which didn't seem to involve guns). That's where it started (motive and tools) so that's where the discussion should start if we want to get somewhere.<br />____________<br /><br />I'm just not going to fall for your misdirection, Ritmo. chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-24318571224203885912014-05-28T23:42:11.688-04:002014-05-28T23:42:11.688-04:00Piers Morgan didn't do anything wrong. I don&#...Piers Morgan didn't do anything wrong. I don't understand the distraction of raising him, either, though. But I don't see what it is about him being crazy that you want to discuss or argue about. <br /><br />It's the point of "what are you going to do to keep guns from the freedom takers?" <br /><br />I certainly don't see their retention in the hands of the "freedom-givers" going anywhere to keep us safe from the NSA, the DEA, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the IRS, the Imperial Pentagon budget or any other government over-reach.<br /><br />But I do see a lot of unnecessary collateral damage to the "freedom-givers'" clamor when it comes to getting these things within easy reach of murderous violators. <br /><br />You seem to be avoiding this point. <br /><br />How many "bad guys" do you want to give guns to before you can say that they did any good in the hands of the "good guys"?<br /><br />Remember, the people you defend what to think this is keeping us safe from both government tyranny and crime. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-4473588505783945422014-05-28T23:33:35.226-04:002014-05-28T23:33:35.226-04:00The "beemer screed" is the video he made...The "beemer screed" is the video he made before he carried any of this out. Sorry for the obfuscation. <br /><br />Proceed. Just stay out of Piers Morgan territory. (Does that need a clarification too?)chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-34290211812086776022014-05-28T23:21:17.165-04:002014-05-28T23:21:17.165-04:00I have no idea what a "sunlight Beemer screed...I have no idea what a "sunlight Beemer screed and" whatever else means but after all it is a typical strategy of yours to try for obscurity whenever others are focused on the bleeding obvious. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-77397261399621654732014-05-28T23:20:04.425-04:002014-05-28T23:20:04.425-04:00Rhythm and Balls said...
Chew on that.
Thanks for...Rhythm and Balls said...<br /><i>Chew on that.</i><br /><br />Thanks for the effort, R&B but that fails my "first-things-first analysis." I want to know how guns enabled the sunlight Beemer screed and the bludgeoning deaths.chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-69257355984770775382014-05-28T23:17:49.296-04:002014-05-28T23:17:49.296-04:00I don't look down on rural people, BTW, just S...I don't look down on rural people, BTW, just Southerners, really. Red staters outside the Dixie-ocracy can become an aggravation but much less so. It's the Dixiecrats who hold the country back. Let them secede in some way. I love rural areas (do you have any chicken coops or livestock, BTW? My family does) - and homesteading but the way the Dixie-sucking nutters arouse everyone is the problem. They can leave their ideas of society to Scarlett O'Hara and let the rest of us be. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-84523416343394057122014-05-28T23:13:07.010-04:002014-05-28T23:13:07.010-04:00What's with the need for all these complex soc...What's with the need for all these complex social explanations? My dad put it best. If you violate someone (murder would be included as a violation), then you're a sociopath by definition. So this guy wasn't off the charts crazy, but obviously crazy enough that most of the pundits seem to agree that better knowledge of his state would have/should have put him on a "do not buy" list. <br /><br />That said, I don't see putting mental patients on a "do not buy" list as a panacea. Many still will get through. You think gun purchasers have rights? Let me tell you, patients have a hell of a lot of rights, too. It's called HIPPA. <br /><br />So we'll continue this standstill with gun-lovers never ceding an inch on acquisition and everyone else saying that easy access will always be a problem for as long as the gun-lovers love guns more than they love potential crime victims. Every other measure is sure to be half-ass if that and everyone knows it. <br /><br />Your last two taunts are there just to amuse yourself but as long as you mention NRA you should accept that 90% of even their own membership believe they've gone off the deep end extreme with their stances. <br /><br />The reaction is the only psychology worth looking at any more. Gun-nuts should just admit the pursuit of responsibility doesn't interest them as much as does the paranoia of fictional tyrannies. The real-life tyranny of 4th amendment and police abuse doesn't concern them so much - it's so much less <i>exciting!</i> Fictional tyrannies however, do. You can always arouse more emotion with what the imagination can come up with than with the real-life quotidian government abuses that bore the gun-nuts who obviously failed to protect the country from them. <br /><br />Chew on that. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-41831021374769882862014-05-28T22:30:11.343-04:002014-05-28T22:30:11.343-04:00Come R&B, you're as good an armchair psych...Come R&B, you're as good an armchair psychiatrist as the next. Give us your reasons for the roommate bludgeoning and the whole filmed tirade. <br /><br />NRA made him do it?<br /><br />I'll give you an easy out: I know how much you loathed "The Hunger Games" but I always figured it was because you loved the 1% in Panem City. <br /><br />You also have a <i>very</i> long written record of despising rural people and siding with the urban, H.I.P. positive America. <br /><br />Give your best!chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-89317861737989971292014-05-28T21:46:26.715-04:002014-05-28T21:46:26.715-04:00That is what a gun is, really, a tool. You can cut...<i>That is what a gun is, really, a tool. You can cut trees and make firewood…</i><br /><br />No wonder your views are so nutty. You think guns are to be used to cut trees and make firewood. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-3577053771279816812014-05-28T21:34:44.088-04:002014-05-28T21:34:44.088-04:00More vengeance to people would be helpful.
OTOH, ...More vengeance to people would be helpful.<br /><br />OTOH, let's show some love for the guns. They've been doing a great job of keeping us free from police brutality, 4th amendment shortcuts, trillions wasted on empire. They really don't get the love they need at crucial moments like this when peskily innocent humans get in the way. What a drag. <br /><br />Stand up and show our guns some love. They are, after all, more important than people. And our government agents obviously never abuse our rights, <i>so the guns must be doing something right.</i>Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-56361912453715910572014-05-28T20:11:14.234-04:002014-05-28T20:11:14.234-04:00Thank you, Lydia.Thank you, Lydia.chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-73445399908865463392014-05-28T19:59:37.811-04:002014-05-28T19:59:37.811-04:00The Wikipedia entry on the Norwegian monster says ...The Wikipedia entry on the Norwegian monster says he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, which is the maximum penalty in Norway, and his incarceration can be extended for as long as he is deemed a danger to society. The entry also says he will likely remain in prison for the rest of his life.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380908751421386368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-68953034067777365132014-05-28T19:28:53.419-04:002014-05-28T19:28:53.419-04:00I betcha Norway hasn't done much wallowing in ...<i>I betcha Norway hasn't done much wallowing in their national sin and communal guilt.</i><br /><br />Well, they did give the guy a 17 & 1/2 year sentence. You gotta ask what a guy would have to do there to get a life sentence. chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-69924493985277983192014-05-28T19:16:24.786-04:002014-05-28T19:16:24.786-04:00I betcha Norway hasn't done much wallowing in ...I betcha Norway hasn't done much wallowing in their national sin and communal guilt.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-51548717462921316332014-05-28T19:12:40.051-04:002014-05-28T19:12:40.051-04:00"Do you know what the ‘Hunger Games’ movies a...<a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/189397/" rel="nofollow">"Do you know what the ‘Hunger Games’ movies are about?… It’s teenagers killing other teenagers.'</a><br /><br />The killer was the son of one of the producers of the Hunger Games? Right? ...a movie about teenagers killing other teenagers - and the NRA is to blame? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959421437685249408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-6098976178869349212014-05-28T18:13:11.708-04:002014-05-28T18:13:11.708-04:00Lydia said...
They've got lots of guns in plac...<i>Lydia said...<br />They've got lots of guns in places like Norway, Finland, and Switzerland but comparatively few mass killings.<br /><br />Amartel said...<br />There was a mass shooting in Norway a few years back, 60-70 people were killed.<br /></i><br /><br />Yes.Beloved Commenter AReasonableManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139261862363663232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-85507815763259411842014-05-28T16:52:56.886-04:002014-05-28T16:52:56.886-04:00There was a mass shooting in Norway a few years ba...There was a mass shooting in Norway a few years back, 60-70 people were killed.Amartelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636450794507517534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-85084533368874403472014-05-28T16:24:20.911-04:002014-05-28T16:24:20.911-04:00What pretty much happens "only in America&quo...What pretty much happens "only in America" is that we wallow in it. We wallow in the crazy shooter. We wallow in our racism. People from other countries look at us and, for some amazing reason, think we're telling the truth.<br /><br />But some crazy goes nuts in Britain and kills a couple of neighbors with a knife and Britain doesn't wallow in it, doesn't have a "national conversation" about the original sin of their policies or culture. And anyone who's been overseas knows that as "racist" goes, America is not. <br /><br />But we wallow in it, and they think we tell the truth.<br /><br />And they dismiss it, mostly, and it doesn't make the news here, and we think that they tell the truth.<br /><br />Everyone has their "triggers" as we know... mine is: "Only in America."<br /><br />It's like saying, "I'm too stupid to think beyond the self-righteousness of hating my country." And that's how I take it, too.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-16212808696417686072014-05-28T15:50:55.745-04:002014-05-28T15:50:55.745-04:00They've got lots of guns in places like Norway...They've got lots of guns in places like Norway, Finland, and Switzerland but comparatively few mass killings. And, of course, in Israel where I'm not sure they've ever had any.<br /><br />I read somewhere that's probably because those countries have a far less individualistic culture than the U.S., and so notice when someone starts to lose it and can intervene before all hell breaks loose.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380908751421386368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-31300158456206707462014-05-28T15:23:42.493-04:002014-05-28T15:23:42.493-04:00Apparently religious zealots and paranoid schizoph...Apparently religious zealots and paranoid schizophrenics can be quite bright and imaginative. It makes sense to keep guns out of their hands, but where there's a will there's a way. Pressure cookers, box cutters, butcher knives. The human body is a frail membrane, and it takes no great skill to mortally damage it.......I read somewhere that not one person of Japanese ancestry has ever been convicted of murder in California. If that's so, our Japanese are actually less violence prone than Japan's Japanese. Jamaica is an island with strict gun control laws. I understand that their murder rate is higher than that of blacks in NYC......Gun ownership does not inspire, cause, or intensify murderous hostility. That comes from other roots.......I think it's a bad thing when a paranoid schizo gets his hands on a gun. There are lots of bad things in the world. Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837540030934495651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-1323176060262233872014-05-28T14:05:34.885-04:002014-05-28T14:05:34.885-04:00"only nation where this happens..."
Uh,..."only nation where this happens..."<br /><br />Uh, no. Inconvenient fact: Brussels Jewish Museum, four dead in a shooting rampage on Saturday. Belgium has very strict gun control as does the rest of Europe. So so much for the standard go-to gun-banner argument that the weapons were imported from nearby areas which do not have strict gun control. (Darn those white people in the suburbs and their meddling guns.)<br /><br />Politicizing other peoples' grief, standard operating progressivism. Other peoples' money and other peoples' grief and other peoples' resentments are just grist for the big government mill.<br /><br />Note: The grieving dad who is sounding off about guns is a criminal defense atty from Cali so he was a gun-banner, no doubt, already. He coopted his son's death to push the progressive agenda. Grist for the mill. It's rather thoughtless, actually, with respect to the parents grieving the loss of children who were "merely" stabbed or run down by the monster in his car.Amartelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636450794507517534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-5804450567320416302014-05-28T14:00:48.582-04:002014-05-28T14:00:48.582-04:00HUTUS unite!
Oh, wait, I mean
TUTSIS unite!
As...HUTUS unite!<br /><br />Oh, wait, I mean<br /><br />TUTSIS unite! <br /><br />As if man needs guns to kill ...Known Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029003649395214104noreply@blogger.com