According to the people in the know, there is simply not enough time or political capital left to get it passed this year.
But make no mistake, this is not a triumph for the Opposition but a defeat for us because it was people on our side of the fight that did whatever they could to kill National Reciprocity.
The Legislative Nazis apparently did not like that the bill was not 99.44% pure (or what they thought purity meant) and sabotaged us every step of the way. Combine that with the sea of Chest-Thumping Morons that never read a bill and much less could comprehend it but have no problem gorging on what the Legislative Nazis scream a top of their lungs and we have a poison pill manufacturing facility of our own making.
Our challenge for early next year is to start culling these groups from the process and basically have them ignored by the legislators. Let me make this very clear: Courts are not the way we want to keep securing the Second Amendment, we need to take control again of the State Legislatures and Congress. Check your group’s history with a clear visions and see what have they actually achieved legislative-wise. If their claim is that they “supported” but cannot produce text they created in the bill, you have been pouring money in the wrong account. And if your group openly worked to sabotage a less than perfect pro-gun bill, you need to sever ties with it. If a lobby group does not understand optics in politics, it should not be doing lobby work.
To quote Dennis Miller “it is time to thin the herd.”
PS: We do need a Bloomberg for our side, specially for Florida where a bunch of Pro Gun activist are in the south and Tallahassee is way up north.
Somehow I got my ear lobe infected. AA bit swollen, hot, pain… you know the symptoms.
I tried the insurance company’s Telemedical consult for the first time as per wife’s instructions (orders). They consult you both via phone or video through the net.
Same as with your doctor’s office, you need to fill all your medical history & form of payment, description of what ails you & after that, you get to wait.
Bad news: The wait is as long as if you were a walk-in at any doctor’s office. The video window closed and I was told I would get a phone call.
Good News: My waiting room was awesome. It was my living room! I was having lunch with the missus, watching TV in my shorts when the call came in. After some explanations and follow-up questions, a prescription was issued and I just need to get the text from the pharmacy to go pick it up.
That the same Liberals that hate the Military and until not very long where screaming “Fuck Da Police!” are the same ones that are freaking out the tax cuts will eliminate police and the military.
The New Statesman says “The Last Jedi is the first properly feminist Star Wars.” It goes on to give this warning “Warning: spoilers and deconstruction of the patriarchy ahead.” Fantastic, that’s exactly what I want to read.
Inverse Entertainment goes on to lecture me about Star Wars feminism with:
“Side note: feminism isn’t just about people who identify as women. The film’s main male characters — Finn, Poe Dameron, Kylo Ren, and Luke Skywalker — were all allowed their own room to grow and change and feel their feelings, which is a subject that more male-focused feminism often looks at. In our world, men are often told time and time again that they’re not allowed to feel emotion; the guys in The Last Jedi were not only allowed to feel emotion but encouraged to, and that’s lovely.”
Ah yes, the “men can’t feel emotion” trope. I guess Rocky was just about punching people and Saving Private Ryan was and action movie.
What I learned from all these articles (and more) is that hooray Social Justice Feminism and if you don’t like the new Star Wars movies, it’s because you are a sexist neck-beard.
Well, from what I saw in The Force Awakens and what I know about The Last Jedi, this movie is completely feminist, in all the worst ways. The movie is totally sexist, and that makes it terrible.
Luke cuts off Vader’s hand, bringing the Anakin limb loss count to five.
Mace Windu loses a hand, and Coun Dooku loses both.
Pretty much getting a limb chopped off is a right of passage for a Jedi.
In The Force Awakens, Rey fights Kylo Ren. Ren is about as bad ass a Sith as we’ve seen so far. He is the grandson of Vader. He defeated Luke Skywalker. He can stop blaster bolts in mid air.
He goes up against Rey, who has had no training and has held a lightsaber once, and he gets slashed in the face and she comes away with all her body parts.
If there is anything to go on from Episodes 1-6, Rey should have come away from that fight in several pieces, to be rebuilt with droid parts in a Rebel ship somewhere.
Instead, because she’s a girl, she doesn’t even get her makeup smeared by Ren.
There will never be any character growth as long as she can defeat any bad guy she comes across because the writers don’t want to take an arm off the pretty girl.
That’s Third Wave Social Justice Feminism in a nutshell. Hooray women! Girl power! Except you can’t hurt the hot chick, because that’s mean…
Insufferable.
P.S. Here is why I don’t like the New Trilogy.
Spoilers ahead, BTW. Oh yeah, and they bred raptors, you’re gonna need a bigger boat, and I’l be your wingman anytime.
They are just giving force powers away at this point. In the Prequel Trilogy, it is established in Episode 1 that nine-year-old Anakin was too old to start training to be a Jedi, and 25 year old Obi Won was still a Padawan. Becoming a Jedi took a lifetime of training. Despite being incredibly powerful, Anakin loses his fight with Obi Won.
In the Original Trilogy, Luke is 18 (old enough to enlist in the Imperial fleet) when he starts training with Obi Won. Luke never fights Vader in A New Hope. He goes to Dagobah to train with Yoda, leaves, gets beaten by Vader, then trains some more before fighting Vader a second time. We don’t know how long that is, but it is long enough to Luke to age visibly between these points and for the second Death Star to get nearly finished, so some time. It two movies for Luke to be able to take on Vader in a lightsaber battle and not die (and I think Vader taking it easy on Luke because he didn’t want to kill his son).
In the New Trilogy, the actress who plays Rey is 25, so Rey is some time around that age. She’s never even heard of the Jedi. She picks up Luke’s lightsaber is some poor man’s Mos Eisley cantina, has a flashback, and BOOM is a super powerful Jedi.
Rey does an amazing force pull and gets a lightsaber away from Ren, slashes him in the face, and beats him in her very first lightsaber battle. No training, no spending years in seclusion, no character development. She just about became a Jedi from a box of Cracker Jacks.
Outward displays of being Jewish (wearing a Yarmulke or other identifiable Jewish religious item) is angering Muslim migrants in German cities and has provoked attacks on German Jews.
And this is why I carry.
I have a Star of David I’ll be happy to display for them.
Extremist groups have become emboldened under Trump ― and although the number of Americans who directly support hardened hate groups remains far lower than in prior decades, a recent report from the SPLC indicates that the number of hate groups in America is rising.
Since the election, the president had multiple opportunities to address concerns over rising anti-Semitism. Until last week, though, he either downplayed or denied the rise. Last week, when a Jewish reporter asked Trump explicitly about the recent spike in bomb threats against JCCs, Trump cut him off and told him to sit down. He also told the reporter his question wasn’t fair and claimed to be the “least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life.”
This had a lot of play in the Media. But what did not have a lot of play is that the case was not only solved and the Evil White Supremacist culprit found, but that he was just sentenced to 5 years in prison.
NEW YORK — A former Chicago journalist who admitted cyber -talking an ex-girlfriend and terrorizing Jewish groups with bomb threats has been sentenced in New York to five years in prison.
Juan Thompson, who’d been charged in early March in connection with at least eight threats against Jewish institutions in the United States and a bomb threat to New York’s Anti-Defamation League. was sentenced Wednesday in Manhattan federal court.
Well, no wonder you were not getting a full press court on this one. Black Journalist threatening to bomb Jewish Community Centers is probably the best example of Fake News mixed with Trump Derangement Syndrome and By Any Means Necessary.
The Left tried and still tries its best to set hundred of racial Reichstag fires, bit so far other than inflaming those with already swollen rectums, people has stopped paying attention to them because they are simply tired of the lies.
