The anti defamation
league has criticized Dr Ben Carson’s assertion that if the Jews under Nazi
Germany had had guns that the holocaust would not have happened. I”ll defer to the ADL because they are in a
better position to judge than I am. To
be frank I have wondered about that issue myself. But in general it’s not realistic to suppose
that if the American people were armed that they could stand off a whole
Federal government with tanks and missiles and bombs. I think we learned that from the Branch
Davidians, who tried to do just that and found they were hopelessly out gunned
and out numbered. I find Ben Carson to
be a completely insane person when he says “I’ve never seen gun injuries as bad
as knowledge that the Obama Administration is coming to take our guns away if
we don’t stand firm for our second amendment rights. And I heard Carson speak saying to a CBS
reporter “Well perhaps now these dark scenarios of mine have no immediate
danger of happening, but the second amendment is designed to prevent scenarios
from happening in the future”. The
whole climate on guns is so sick. I can’t
fathom that Obama would be booed as he visits Roseburg Oregon and there are
protests out there telling him not to come and they don’t want him. It’s so bad even the victim and father of one
of the parties claims that Obama is politicizing this tragedy. There are all of these myths about gun free
zones. That’s about as warped of
thinking as a nudist saying “Well if there were more nude zones then there
would be fewer rapes” to something.
Maybe that’s a bad analogy. I
listened to Stephanie Miller this morning.
I had her on a little after six (following - - ) and then it was the
Rude Pundit and then Eric Bolder (or Bowler) on. Stephanie is correct in her assertions about
Hillary Clinton. Now I learn on her
program for the first time that one guy with a military background was kicked
off the Bengazi hearings committee because he refused to go after Hillary hard
enough. This isn’t a game “changer” but
a game ender. Combined with the Mc
Carthy remarks there can be no doubt the entire committee was and is entirely
political and it’s credibility right now is “circling the drain” and needs to
be flushed immediately. Stephanie says that during his Sixty Minutes
interview- - President Obama was grilled on Bengazi, and yet he wasn’t asked
one question on gun violence. The
reporter pushed Obama hard on Syria and ending this training program we have
for rebel fighting forces in Syria. It
might as well have been Sean Hannity asking the questions. I think it’s true that “We learn stuff we
didn’t know and we try things and they don’t work out, so we move on”. Sean Hannity calls the cancelation of this
program the “Backing down of President Obama before Putin’s advances”. The President was put in the awkward position
of saying that Putin’s advances in Syria were “an act of weakness”. OK I have trouble following that logic
myself and with the President had phrased that a little more tastefully and
tactfully. Stephanie also mentioned the
Hillary coverage and how there is this never ending chorus (mostly on NBC) of
how Hillary is not allowed to change her position on an issue when she gets
more information. It all goes back to
this almost theistic philosophy of Republicans that “All knowledge that ever
existed at all we are aware of right now and it’s blasphemy to think we would
ever learn anything new”. When Bernie
Sanders was leading in Iowa it was front page news. Now that Hillary is back on top in Iowa
nobody covers it because it “doesn’t fit with the scenario” or story line they
want advanced. They want Joe Biden
Running even though he doesn’t want to- - for the specific reason that it will
cut into Hillary’s numbers badly, but even so- - - Hillary still wins easily in
any head to head contest against either Biden or Sanders. So tomorrow’s debate will be
interesting. It will be refreshing to
just listen to a sane conversation on the issues and let the public know that
there is another side- - a sane side- - to all the issues they’ve heard from
the Republicans. Bernie Sanders may be
changing his positions on suing gun manufacturers for injuries incurred. I agree with Sanders’ old position on suing
manufacturers, when he was against suing them.
Unlike cars- - if you use a gun the way it was intended to do what it
was designed to do, then you kill people.
That’s what guns do. If the gun
blows up in your hand or something- - then we have another issue- - just like
you would with cars if you had an exploding gas tank or something.
I am still pondering
with the fact that I might be clinically depressed, because “Things I once
enjoyed and looked forward to doing, I don’t do any more”. I have become lazy and lethargic and I can’t
explain it except that my brain chemicals are on the fritz. In terms of news on the cats- - they are all
three still out there in the cages- - the mother cat and the two kittens and
Joe says that he and Wally want to contact the Humane Society rather than the
OC Pound, which is probably not open today because it’s Columbus Day. On the other hand maybe they do extra
business today BECAUSE it is a holiday and people have off. We know the beaches will be packed when it’s
like 92 degrees at certain beaches- - and the LA International Airport right by
the ocean. Beach temperatures have been
strangely high. But the mama cat has
been in that cage since Thursday and that is just plain inhumane treatment,
especially if they run out of water in this heat wave. More often than not, you hear the most
meowing at night. I looked through the
fence slats and the tone of the meowing god a little more hopeful for a
moment.
Turkey shot down a
Russian bomber today. This could trigger
an international incident. Washington’s
blog continues in the vein of the US being hypocrites for saying they are against
war crimes when they are one of the chief committers of it. I take strong issue with Washington's blog when they attack Amnesty International however. Washington's Blog is SO political that they will sacrifice humanity and ethics to advance their political position that Assad is a good guy and can't be touched. Assad is a menace and we need to get him eventually. I just think we need to concentrate on one issue at a time and I think ISIS has the higher priority. I think we need negotiations with Vladimir Putin to prevent World War III. I hope we can achieve that before something really bad happens.
Chris
Matthews isn’t accepting the fact that Hillary has “flip flopped” on the trans
Pacific deal. Matthews is doing everything
he can to trash Hillary’s motives and to remind her that Joe Biden is still all
for the TPP deal. She is “firming up her
position for the debate” but Matthews claims “I highly doubt Hillary is against
the agreement in principle”. At least
the Hillary news is forcing Matthews to even bring up the forbidden TPP issue
on the PMSNBC network. OK now Chris
Matthews is admitting that Donald Trump is the “probable” winner of the
Republican nomination. Hillary of course
had never had any problem in the polls at all.
All that has been well constructed myth making on the part of Sean
Hannity and Dr Levy “Meet the Press” is almost entirely political
now with little talk on international or other national news, which used to
dominate the thing. It was another case
of NBC trashing Hillary Clinton for her flip flop on the TPP. Last night even the Mc Laughlin group was
disparaging Hillary for her change in position.
I guess the complaint is that she was such a strident proponent of the
trans Pacific Partnership for the administration on literally dozens of
occasions.
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