Thursday, McClatchy ran a pretty eye-popping piece by Peter Stone and Greg Gordon, FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump. The jist of it was that Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank-- a Putin crony-- was illegally funneling cash to the Trump campaign via the NRA.
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — The National Rifle Association (NRA), which fancies itself a champion of the Second Amendment and gun rights, is nowhere to be found as state governments are moving to confiscate firearms from medical marijuana patients.
Ready for more gun mayhem-- even if you live in a state with rational gun laws? Yesterday afternoon, Congress took a procedural vote providing for consideration of H.R. 38, Richard Hudson's Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which happens to be the NRA's #1 priority for the current session of Congress.
-by NoahWe've had other presidents with mental health issues. Some, like Nixon, were more than a little paranoid. Some say Reagan suffered from dementia, but, really, was it he who suffered? LBJ seems to have been barely able to keep his ego in check, and Bill Clinton's OCD need to be loved extended way too far. But Señor Trumpanzee? Well, Americans have always looked at the headcases that have run other countries from time to time and wondered what would happen if a completely, utterly insane person, a person completely untethered to reality, made it to the oval office.
-by NoahBehold! And, lo, offering nothing but "thoughts and prayers" begat another church shooting. Yea, though the irony will still be missed due to pieces of silver being stuffed into the pockets of politicians.As of Sunday's shooting in Texas, there have been 307 mass shootings in America this year; not in history, this year! 26 more people are needlessly dead and Washington shrugs.
The truth is that leaders of the gun-control syndicate are not really concerned about people getting killed with guns. It's just that they want to be the only ones allowed to have them so they can rule, unopposed, with an iron hand. [...]
-by NoahSurely, this meme expresses an idea whose time has come. Think of it, since Republicans long to always "put women in their place" and tell them exactly what they can and can't do with their lives, their health and even their bodies, suppose every American woman tried to take advantage of our nation's lax gun laws and armed themselves, ideally to the teeth. What would all those angry, fearful white men do?
In the aftermath of the horrific attack in Las Vegas, during which 64-year-old Stephen Paddock rained bullets on concert-goers from inside his hotel room, the gun violence epidemic in the U.S. has come back into focus.
-by NoahOnce in a while, I come across a clip that is so fine and does such a good job addressing an issue of our time, that I just have to substitute it for the usual graphic style of a meme. Call this a meme of the day or a clip of the day. It doesn't matter.
It is ironic that her response to the killing of 59 people by a man who is not connected to the NRA in any way is to kill millions of people who are members. [...]
