jbuist: someonelse: jbuist: Who Dey: Plus, the misspelling absolutely kills me. It's hilarious!

"Muslem?" Is that the mis-spelling?

Muslem is an accepted spelling.

By whom?

"muslem." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 12 Nov. 2008. .

Both of my dictionaries only have "muslim" and "moslem." I didn't know "muslem" was even a variant. But at least I have the capacity to acquire new knowledge, so I'm still gonna point and laugh at him.

hyperspacemonkey: Ms.Maus: I especially liked the sentence that started with 'And' when it should've been part of the preceding sentence.

Personally, I love starting sentences with And.

And so do I.

Powers calls this a bias incedent and says if the HR Commission receives a formal complaint, it will be investigated.

Yeah, poke sticks at an armed crazy person. This should end well.

/Sets up lawn chair across the street

See this is why we need HOAs

relaxitsjustme: See this is why we need HOAs

That would have been spitworthy had I been drinking.

lajimi: Powers calls this a bias incedent and says if the HR Commission receives a formal complaint, it will be investigated.

Yeah, poke sticks at an armed crazy person. This should end well.

/Sets up lawn chair across the street

Behind 1/2 inch of polybarbonate I hope.

Pincy: This is what gives you gun nuts a bad name. Obama is not going to take away your right to own a gun. Your over reaction is making you look like the same paranoid tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists you like to mock so much on the left.

Correct. He isn't going to take away your right to own a gun.

Having said that, this is what he has planned on doing:

1. Reinstating the failed Assault Weapons Ban. You know, the ban that had *NO* effect whatsoever, other than increasing the price of pre-ban firearms.

2. Closing down the non-existent "gun show loophole". In other words, he is going to require that you get government permission to buy from a private citizen. This would *ONLY* apply at gunshows, though, because federal law permits you to sell your private guns without going through NICS. It's a camel's nose, though, with the long range goal of requiring all firearms transfers to have government approval.

3. He wants to make guns "childproof". I don't know why, because any method used to make them child proof wouldn't work in keeping teenagers from using them (ie., heavy springs, complex locks, etc.), and in 2005 there were a mere 59 accident firearms deaths involving kids 12 and under. Some fraction, perhaps even the majority, would involve an ADULT handling the firearm, and the child being killed (ie., the proverbial rare hunting accident). Given the huge supply of guns out there already, and the vanishingly small amount this might help.

Those are just the things he admits to wanting on his website. At least two of those three are a non-starter, and quite possibly unconstitutional.

If he presses for these, or even just signs them into law, he will certainly lose Congress in 2010, and probably lose the White House in 2012 if the renewed AWB doesn't have a sunset provision.

dittybopper: Having said that, this is what he has planned on doing:

1. Reinstating the failed Assault Weapons Ban. You know, the ban that had *NO* effect whatsoever, other than increasing the price of pre-ban firearms.

In a roundabout way, the first AWB may have made it impossible for a second:
a. AWB created huge demand among many who didn't previously care
b. Sales of AR15's etc skyrocketed since ban, putting them "in common use"
c. Heller 2008 specifically forbids banning a general class of weapon that is "in common use."

I love the "private property" sign in his front yard - as if no one could figure that out in a residential zoned area. Right now there's a European Aristocrat commenting on how "this is why you don't give serfs property rights or make them land owners!"

jst3p: Mercutio74: IXI Jim IXI: Evenbiggerknickers: hyperspacemonkey: Ms.Maus: I especially liked the sentence that started with 'And' when it should've been part of the preceding sentence.

Personally, I love starting sentences with And.

And so do I.

And This

And what's the point of all this again?

And who asked you?

Andy.