Via Insty,
And that is exactly the issue. You cannot “have a conversation” or Compromise” or “come to an agreement” when the other side cannot respect, if not agree with the other side’s point of view.
But really, no matter what we agree to, they’ll just move the goalposts and try again.
’cause statistically, they are the most likely to use ’em for nefarious purposes…….
But I bet that they waste countless man hours checking NRA members and such.
ATF offers $5k reward for information.…..
Wonder how big a pressure cooker you need for all that?
Although, now, even to a Democrat who knows,
He isn’t so bad, and didn’t do that bad of a job. And this from CNN….I guess that it is time for the meme to die, as it has no use anymore for the opposition.
Now if the rest of the media could only apologize for being tools of the DNC machine, that’d be good.
And someone needs to find that asshole, Kayne West and kick him in the nuts.
SO the global warmists/climate change believers/total whackjobs are saying that the rate of increas in the sea level is accelerating.
Maybe it is.
But two things: First of all, the method of measurement has changed. This is a bigger deal than you might think, because the new measurements do not correlate with ACTUAL DATA from the continuing older methods.
and, secondarily, one would wonder what other causes there might be….
If (and it is a very big IF) the rate of sea level rise has actually increased in the past 70+ years or so, one would wonder if there is correlation to the rate of building that has taken place….and perhaps farming…both of which cause significant erosion of soil.
Erosion likely accounts for a significant amount of the real sea level rise…The slow wearing away of the earths surface. (eventually the earth will be a giant salt water swamp, with all the mountains worn away and the dry land washed into the sea).
Estimates are that the total amount of sediment washed into the ocean by rivers alone is 60-80 BILLION tons per year. Add in coastal erosion and you have a significant amount of sediment ending up in the ocean every year. Increased construction in nearly all countries, mining and farming…….
Add in the fact that many of our rivers (and rivers in nearly all semi industrialized countries) have been straightened and otherwise controlled, leading to faster flows and less natural deposition of sediment, and you have a significant amount of sediment that is deposited in the oceans that wasn’t going there before.
Is it enough to explain the change in rate rise in sea level? Maybe. Enough to explain the (supposed) rate of change? I dunno. I had a hard enough time finding the facts that I did.
Smarter people than me can do the math and tell me what percentage of the (supposed) rise is caused by increased erosion.
But I haven’t seen his addressed by the climate change folks either…all they do is pint to the current estimates from satellite measurements (which don’t correlate with older measurement methods) and cry “catastrophe!”
“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)”
RAH
Everyone seems to be asking why (and how) the people of Boston (Watertown) could let the police do what they did in the search for the mad “Bomber # 2”? Allow police to search their houses without a warrant…..Let their Constitutional rights be trampled?
Really, what choice did they have? To lock their doors and wait for the gunfire? Wait for the battering ram to break the door down and the Tac Team to come in shooting?
Who did they have as support? 30 or 40 cops surrounding your house, each cop liberally supplied with weapons and tactical gear….Who did the homeowners have for support? Their neighbors? Not likely.
Unless they (the people, not the cops) were well supplied with weapons and gear, they really didn’t have much choice.
If they wanted to live, they had no choice but to submit. And that is the issue.
Kids in the home? Wife? Girlfriend? Elderly parent(s)? All in the line of fire and all potential victims, even if the man/woman leader of the house wanted to resist….wanted to say “no!”
You gonna get in a firefight with 30-40-50 cops in your neighborhood, with more on call only a block away? Take the chance that they will be reasonable and allow your family to leave before they killed you in a hail of bullets? When tensions are already high? You’ll lose. Life ain’t TV.
I might have resisted, but then again, I am not a normal person. Definitely not an east coast liberal, and I have no kids in my home. My girlfriend would likely support my resistance. I have the tools to resist as well. And I try very hard not to be a sheep. I have less to lose. Very little in fact. I might well stand on principle. And in Indiana I have the right to resist illegal entry…Even from police.
Fairly certain those folks in Boston do not have that right. Likely few had the means to resist, even if they had the will to do so.
But ultimately, I, by myself, would lose. Maybe pay the Ferryman’s Fee, maybe not… It is how the folks in Waco
got beaten, and how Randy Weaver was taken. No one else there to support
them. They were islands. Alone against overwhelming odds.
And I doubt that the INDIVIDUAL Bostonians had any other support. No like minded neighbors, no friends that they could call, no support at all. No one to harass the rear of the cops, no one to draw fire, no one to help resist. No one to help in any way.
So to resist was to die for nothing. Maybe have loved ones in harm’s way as well. Being sheep-like didn’t even enter into the equation (although many (most) were). Vulnerabilities played a factor. Being surrounded and outnumbered did as well. Having a losing battle for no gain….very likely.
Think about that before you condemn them for acquiescing.
Despite being surrounded by neighbors, they were unarmed (for the most part) islands in a sea of people….against really overwhelming force.
And therefore vulnerable.
Islands.
Think.
Short of Nuking the entire NRA building, is there any way to get them to stop sending emails two or three times a day?
I have unsubscribed to over a hundred emails.
I have called the headquarters and asked to be removed
These steps have reduced the emails to approximately 10 a week. Which is an improvement from 50+ .
I have marked many as SPAM, but there are a huge number of email
addresses they use. Add they come to my phone at all hours of the day.
Short of getting a new email and abandoning the one I have, is there any way to get the NRA and affiliates to stop with the incredibly irritating email marketing?I have reached the point that I will no longer buy anything marketed via the NRA.
Were my range not having membership as a requirement, I’d cancel my membership in protest.
Anyone know anyone at the NRA?
Or perhaps Wayne LaPierres cell phone or something so I can call him and ask him to make it stop?
Anyone got another suggestion?
Yeah, I got nuthin’. Too much happening for me to make a coherent post.
No free ice cream today either. Maybe later.
Read the folks on the left side.
and Ideologies
INteresting, innit?