- No Recommendations yet - go add some!
- Tommy Mottola lives down the road
He lost his lady two months ago
Maybe he'll find her
Maybe he won't....
- The source of every death here IS NOT a child who would otherwise been aborted...and every gun used is not an illegal gun. Handguns are too prevalent in our country. We could cut the carnage in half in a generation by taking a few steps that limit few citizens legal right to 'keep and bear'. We could limit the domestic manufacture, importation, sale and transfer to individuals who are legally permitted to own one AND have passed a gun safety course. We could require liability insurance for the accidental discharge or unintended shootings that occur. And we could require criminal 'accessory' prosecution of the registered owner for gun crimes committed by weapons that they were supposed to have secured.
The NRA could get on board and help to make sure that the individual's gun rights were not broken and their responsibility to protect the rest of us from illegal weapons and unauthorized use of licensed weapons is increased. But they raise more money by scaring their members.
It takes five years of normal membership to become a voting member of the NRA. [You could vote in the next election by becoming a 'lifetime' member but that costs $1,000] Anybody with me in occupying the NRA and changing the board's composition in six or seven years?
- Is a drone strike any less ethical than contracting a hit or sending in a SEAL team? Well, there is usually far more planning on a contract hit or SEAL operation. I would hope that our use of drone strikes is going down. For every non-combatant we kill, we create at least two terrorist with revenge in their hearts.
As regards, DIY or off the shelf drones, it is only a matter of time before we suffer a remote controlled machine gunning or bombing of a sports event made possible by the mis-use of this technology.
- The opening of 'Touch the Sound' in which Evelyn Glennie snare drums her way through 'Prim' under the GCT rotunda!
- @JoeCorrao
"a million cables and she missed the big 1...don't they flag important ones like emails? Id this the first Campaign stop for Hillary's run?"
And what about the House cutting $450M from the State Dept security spending over the previous two years?
- The GOP is mad because the CIA called the attack 'spontaneous' when they could have used a declaration of 'terrorist attack' to try and peel off some votes for Obama in November. Too bad...I'm mad that Dubya did nothing for ten months after the FBI finally tagged Al Qaeda with the USS Cole attack. HRC is right...at this point what difference does the reason for the attack make? What matters, at this point, is our response.
I'll take Obama and his national security team over the GOP and their self-serving, neo-con BS.
- I re-iterate my intention to Occupy the NRA...It takes 5 years of continued membership in order to be eligible to vote in the election of the Board of Directors. (or you can join as a Lifetime member and vote this year but that is $1,000!) About a third of the Board comes up for election each year. In seven years, with the right-thinking membership we can make the NRA responsive to the will of the American people. This is definitely an area where we can 'flood the gate' with voters who vote down each and every candidate who thinks the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms rather than assuring that militiamen may use arms.
- Oil completely from Americans? There's a company that turns cadavers into bio-fuel? Soylent Brown?
- A question for Ms. Rabinow regarding the Barnes Foundation. Matisse was a great fan of Dr. Barnes original location and hang for his collection which has recently been moved (against the Doctor's will and deed of trust that set up the foundation) from Lower Merion PA to the 'Museum Mile' in Philadelphia. The architecture and design of the new museum maintains much of the 'look and feel' of the original building but the setting, of course, cannot be recreated.
Most Americans do not know that this collection of art represents the largest privately held foundation in America - at approx. $40B it is four times larger then the Rockefeller foundation - and Lincoln University had to be pushed out their majority position on the board of directors in order for the collection to be handled and moved as it has been.
Overall, I am filled with tremendous, tremendous ambivalence. I am disgusted at the Pennsylvania government - mostly then Gov. Ed Rendell - for mistreating Lincoln and robbing them of their rightful role as directors for the foundation and I am very made at 'Big Charity' for their role in first ousting Lincoln, neglecting the building and grounds of the Lower Merion location and using that neglectful condition be an excuse for doing such damage to Dr. Barnes original intent.
Is there something I am missing that could help me to be less distrustful of the government and the state of American art curatorship?
- Wayne LaPierre is a propagandist whose very existence depends on his ability to scare people. He needs to push the fallacy that the government wants to take away legally purchased and registered guns. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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