Has there been some format change? The options bar ("Home," "Frontier," etc.,) that used to be at the top of my phone screen seems to have banished.
buzzsawmonkey
5/26/2022 6:44:21 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 3:
That's "vanished." Damn auto-correct.
Kosh's Shadow
5/26/2022 6:45:40 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 3:
Is there a menu icon in the top right (3 horizontal lines stacked)?
Also try horizontal scroll as the bar depends on the size of the image
buzzsawmonkey
5/26/2022 7:10:59 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 5:
Found it. It appears slightly differently on the phone screen---which has been giving me problems lately.
Occasional Reader
5/26/2022 7:12:28 AM
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In #2 Kosh's Shadow said: Obama shows how big an asshole he is
Hey, it's a step up from his usually making everything about himself.
JCM
5/26/2022 7:21:12 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1:
Bunch of thoughts rattling around in my head and can't make them settle out.
1) Precautionary Principle, safety is "paramount" and single cases means the subject is unsafe and should be banned. Apply to guns.
2) Critical Theory, the above applied to public policy and history, a single negative example and the entire body of work is corrupted.
3) Selective application of said theories in culture and politics. Guns can be used for evil, therefore ban guns. Gun laws were racist in the early days but that won't work. The 2nd Amend was written by racists, so the that is corrupted and antiquated.
4) Repressive Tolerance, support the 2nd Amend in the face of a mass shooting and you have blood on your hands accusations made by the same ones who support unlimited abortion.
5) Use of all these techniques in the culture / political war.
Acknowledging up front that correlation is not causation. People stay the same. Gun laws have become generally more restrictive. What has changed? Toleration for mental health illness as "normal", toleration for boys misbehaviors, labeling of active boys as ADD / ADHD etc. Encouraging of unhealthy mental attitudes toward sex and gender. Cultural decay, schools telling kinds to resist parental authority.
Given all this what the hell do we expect? The leftist expect a utopia, I've always like the line from the movie Serenity, "...they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people...better." Josh Whedon had it backwards, he was applying it to the right. However the right knows we can't make people better, as Paul in Romans said, "wretched man that I am", we know the structure of society guides people. It is the left who "makes" people better. The whole structure of the Soviet Union, the organization of society was to produce the New Soviet Man.
But in Whedon's world of Firefly, the result of molding people to be better produced the Reavers.
How is a the Texas school shooting not the act of Reaver.... one produced by in many ways by left? Don't get me wrong, the shooter is 100% responsible.
But which Vision (Sowell's) a Reaver more likely?
/Rant off, need more coffee.
Occasional Reader
5/26/2022 7:26:40 AM
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In #8 JCM said: Gun laws have become generally more restrictive.
I don't think that's true. Far more states are "shall issue", compared to 40 years ago.
buzzsawmonkey
5/26/2022 7:38:47 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 9:
But we're not at the point of being able to buy rifles by mail, as Lee Harvey Oswald could---nor back to where there were shooting clubs in junior high and high schools, as was still the case back in the '60s. For that matter, I remember that there were ads in "Boys' Life" back when I was a Scout for genuine rifles as well as for Daisy BB guns.
buzzsawmonkey
5/26/2022 7:53:43 AM
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Apropos of nothing in particular, while walking in the neighborhood yesterday I came upon a walking stick someone had put out in front of their house for any interested passerby to take. It's Italian-made, with a sterling-silver top in the shape of a bird's head; a short online search revealed that similar items sell for between $150 and $250. The things people throw away!
buzzsawmonkey
5/26/2022 7:56:12 AM
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Reply to JCM in 8:
I wish I was familiar with the "Reavers" reference.
Occasional Reader
5/26/2022 8:36:24 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10:
I would say that I’m a hole, legally acquiring and/or carrying a firearm in this country is more difficult than it was 60 years ago, less difficult than it was 40 years ago.
Occasional Reader
5/26/2022 8:37:22 AM
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In #12 buzzsawmonkey said:
It’s from the television series “firefly“. Easy enough to look up.
vxbush
5/26/2022 8:42:35 AM
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In #8 JCM said: Bunch of thoughts rattling around in my head and can't make them settle out.
Oh, I have that, all the time. I'm only posting about 2% of what I actually end up thinking about a topic.
In #8 JCM said: But in Whedon's world of Firefly, the result of molding people to be better produced the Reavers.
To this point: the left is insistent on removing every limitation that might exist on man's behavior, options, and acceptance, without stopping to connect how these choices might result in negative behavior.
No one except the author of this article (that I am aware of in recent history, given my limited reading time) has posted anything related to how drugs could influence the amount of crazy behavior such as these school shootings. This is the point I want to draw out. Yes, I know, correlation isn't causation, but he does quote a study showing that pot negatively influences mood and behavior to the point that such behavior happens. He cites multiple people behind the mass shootings that were heavily into pot. He cites one paper making this evident. I want more and I want to put these studies in the hands of every politician I can.
It appears to show parents outside the school, hearing the gunfire, desperate to get into the school (since the police do not appear to be doing so)... and getting arrested.
JCM
5/26/2022 9:56:54 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 19:
I understand having a controlled perimeter. We don't want cops blundering into a parent with a gun in the hall.
I get that.
But also if cops were NOT going in that is a problem. We've learned with school shooters the best tactic is fast and hard, no delay, no perimeter, minimal assessment. Hard and fast.
In #22 Kosh's Shadow said: Posted from my phone, so trying now from my computer - this link
Yes, that one worked. Thanks--although the story is more evidence of Schumer as a lying hack. Do we need more evidence? Probably.
vxbush
5/26/2022 10:53:44 AM
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In #21 Occasional Reader said: WaPo senior editor declares that the AR-15 was "invented for Nazi infantrymen".
Kudos to Harsanyi and the others who give actual, you know, citations.
buzzsawmonkey
5/26/2022 10:56:36 AM
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Given the new round of anti-gun agitation, I guess it's time to dust off this little ditty from a few years back:
I’m NRA You Hate, I Am —apologies to Herman’s Hermits, and “I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am”
I’m NRA you hate, I am NRA you hate, I am, I am I own guns and I want to buy more You keep asking what I need ‘em for But thanks to the Second Amendment (Amendment!) It’s none of your business what I need (Indeed!) Whether for sport or personal defendment NRA you hate I a-a-a-a-am NRA you hate I am
Second verse, same as the first! A little bit louder, and a little bit worse!
I’m NRA you hate, I am NRA you hate, I am, I am I own guns and I want to buy more You keep asking what I need ‘em for But thanks to the Second Amendment (Amendment!) It’s none of your business what I need (Indeed!) Whether for sport or personal defendment NRA you hate I a-a-a-a-am NRA you hate I am
Kosh's Shadow
5/26/2022 11:00:13 AM
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In #21 Occasional Reader said: WaPo senior editor declares that the AR-15 was "invented for Nazi infantrymen".
WaPoo
The most respected "news"papers in this country are the least deserving.
At least the rag where I went to college that had the headline "New Seal Born at Science Center" got that correct.
Well Mannlicher is credited with the first semi-auto mechanism... and he was in German... but that was in 1885.
buzzsawmonkey
5/26/2022 11:58:18 AM
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In #29 JCM said: Mannlicher
You'd think that with a name like "Man-licker," they'd be working to market firearms to the homosexual community.
Kosh's Shadow
5/26/2022 12:37:51 PM
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In #12 buzzsawmonkey said: I wish I was familiar with the "Reavers" reference.
In the TV series Firefly (and the movie sequel, Serenity), the Reavers are people who have become very violent.
"If they catch us, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."
In the movie, we find out how that happened to people.
Kosh's Shadow
5/26/2022 12:44:56 PM
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As for Firefly's creator, Joss Whedon, he is too blinded to realize the oppressive government the main characters are fighting is the kind of government the Democrats and elites are trying to force on us, including various medical experimentation.
vxbush
5/26/2022 12:46:30 PM
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In #31 Kosh's Shadow said: "If they catch us, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."
You have to admit, that was a very good line to indicate just how bad they were.
vxbush
5/26/2022 12:49:57 PM
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In #32 Kosh's Shadow said: As for Firefly's creator, Joss Whedon, he is too blinded to realize the oppressive government the main characters are fighting is the kind of government the Democrats and elites are trying to force on us, including various medical experimentation.
You have to wonder why that is, but then you realize that it's this default setting of "Dems good, anyone else bad."
Getting people beyond this is very hard work, when it shouldn't be hard considering how bad the Dems have been.
Occasional Reader
5/26/2022 12:50:50 PM
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In #30 buzzsawmonkey said: You'd think that with a name like "Man-licker," they'd be working to market firearms to the homosexual community.
Way back in the Swamp days, in one relatively open-topic thread, someone launched the idea of 'if you were a firearm, which one would you be?". I suggested certain options for certain posters; among them, "Throbert McGee" (who you may or not remember as being very, very openly gay), who I suggested would be a "Mannlicher". He was delighted with the suggestion.
The current rush to legalize/normalize marijuana use is going to be a social disaster.
Occasional Reader
5/26/2022 1:17:51 PM
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In #37 buzzsawmonkey said: The current rush to legalize/normalize marijuana use is going to be a social disaster.
On the lighter side of that; I was at an Italian restaurant last night, at which some of the wait staff were wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan: LEGALIZE MARINARA
Kosh's Shadow
5/26/2022 1:30:26 PM
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In #38 Occasional Reader said: LEGALIZE MARINARA
Were some of them saucy wenches?
Kosh's Shadow
5/26/2022 1:33:44 PM
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In #33 vxbush said: You have to admit, that was a very good line to indicate just how bad they were.
JCM
5/21/2022 7:04:20 PM
Kosh's Shadow
5/26/2022 6:28:55 AM