Archive for the ‘Nasty Jack’ Category
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
“Reckless parents endanger children by not vaccinating,” when this whole fiasco started about parents who adamantly decline to have their children inoculated properly. It all started over a study done by a doctor in Great Britain that was proved to be wrong. But families persisted in their refusal to vaccinate and now some pediatricians who have lost patience with this attitude are “firing” them from their practice. Good riddance!
Child with measles As a result of...
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Tags: Measles, Mumps, Pediatricians, Unvaccinated children, Whooping cough
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Why the NRA gets its way
In talking about the “Fast and Furious” fiasco, Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said, “anyone can walk in and buy anything,” referring to firearms. F&F occurred in Arizona, which just happens to have the loosest gun laws in the USA, perhaps in the world. The Senator’s home state has more stringent weapons laws such as a ban against assault weapons compared to Arizona that allows their sale.
The National Rifle Assn. (NRA) filed...
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Tags: gun control, Institute for Legislative Action, National Rifle Assn., State gun laws, Wayne LaPierre
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Monday, February 20th, 2012
TPers still have their influence but it is waning, evidenced by recent GOP conciliations on the payroll tax cut.
Arlen Grossman,
writing in OpEdNews, talks of how the President was willing to make all kinds of deals with the GOP on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the taxing of the rich back in early to mid-2011. And then the Occupy Movement began to do their number in September and the American public suddenly realized there were several inequities in the system that needed to be f...
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Tags: Barack Obama, Black Americans, Hispanics, minorities, Occupy movement, Tea Party
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
If you are a Starbuck’s fan, and I am, and if you are an advocate of sane gun control, which I am, you might be looking for a place other than your local Starbuck’s store to get your daily coffee fix. And I might just do that too if the gun bubbas attempt to bully their way around where my wife and I migrate to at least three or four times a week for our favorite brews.
So far I have not seen one open-carried weapon where we frequent—we are in Arizona and that’s not normal—s...
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Tags: Brady Campaign, Howard Schultz, National Gun Victim's Action Council (NGVA), National Rifle Assn., Open gun carry laws, Starbucks
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Ladd Everitt Director of Communications for the
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has written an article on racism as a concept to explain gun control. You might laugh at the thought that the gun nuts would come up with this ridiculous hypothesis,
but in his piece, Ladd quotes author Adam Winkler, who is a UCLA Law Professor, as declaring that “gun control is racist” in his new book,
Gunfight.
According to Everitt, Winkler implies that gun control is defined by extremists who want to...
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Tags: Adam Winkler, Clayton E. Cramer, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, gun control, Gunfight, Ku Klux Klan, Ladd Everitt, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, racism
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
The GOP stonewallThe Republican merry band of stonewalling bunglers started out the new year with their same tactics of
saying no to anything President Obama presents. On January 18, the GOP Congress voted to block Obama’s request for $1.2 trillion in additional borrowing authority, indicating the same Republican reaction to “anything Barack Obama” would continue throughout 2012. Oh, that’s right, it’s an election year.
Tea Party flake, Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican r...
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Tags: Barack Obama, GOP block Obama bills, Jeff Flake, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, payroll tax deductions and unemployment compensation
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Richard Florida, who is a Senior Editor with
Atlantic magazine and Director of Martin Prosperity Institute of the University of Toronto,
has done a study that determines the circumstances that run parallel with firearms deaths at the state level. He recounts all the accusations that might have caused Jared Loughner’s massacre in Tucson, Arizona, just over a year ago, some blaming politics others the shooter’s mental state. Florida says we must look deeper for the answers.
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Tags: Atlantic magazine, Dr. Richard Florida, Martin Prosperity Institute of the University of Toronto, Pew Research Center
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
Thou shalt not not conceive
If the
Catholic Church outburst over President Obama’s healthcare bill order for religious companies to provide birth control protection, joined now by evangelicals across the country, is any indication of the level of their impact on 2012 voting, it would appear that the White House and Democrats have a fight on their hands. Add to this the fact that Rick Santorum is not only a Catholic but also an evangelical.
The question remains just how much reacti...
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Tags: Catholic Church contraception, Christian Coalition, Faith and Freedom Coalition, Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, Rick Santorum, Rick Warren
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
I have heard before that there is a cycle between unions and corporate management where one prevails in power for a few years, then the other takes over. It is clear that big business has been in control for several years now thanks to the support of the GOP. Labor unions have been diluted by the right to work laws, the latter which seem reasonable if unions are allowed to continue to organize and encourage membership.
Enter the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), headed up ...
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Tags: American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), AZ Gov. Jan Brewer, Jan Brewer recall, Limiting union labor bargaining, Scott Walker
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
ARIZONA: Where else to start but here. Back in November of 2011, a Surprise, AZ 4-year-old boy was injured in the face while playing with a gun. In the headline of this story it said “only in Arizona.” The article also stated that over the years there have been “scores of scientific studies documenting the fact that guns in homes tend to decrease, not increase, the safety of the occupants of such homes.” What kind of idiot parent allows a 4-year-old to play with a...
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Tags: gun control, Gun violence
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Typical squirrely NRA member
The National Rifle Assn. (NRA) must be stopped and whoever accomplishes this feat will be a hero, at least in my book. They have ramrodded a new law through the House,
HR 822, that would allow anyone in a state with loose concealed carry laws (like Arizona) to carry their handgun in any other state in the country, no matter what the laws of that state are. This is the first piece of legislation this inept Congress has come up with since the Giffords sho...
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Tags: FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, Gabby Giffords, gun control, HR 822 Concealed Carry Law, Jared Loughner, National Rifle Assn., Seung Hui Cho
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Some in the four border-states with Mexico may not like it but Latinos are encouraged by the fact that President Obama plans to concentrate on law-breaking undocumented immigrants for deportation. But also because he has now proposed that
those illegal immigrants closely related to U.S. citizens do not have to leave the country to attempt to get their legal status. This would reduce time measurably in the actual separation of family members.
Critics cry that it is just another way for...
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Tags: Barack Obama immigration policy, immigration reform, Pew Research Hispanic reports
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
An important NCCI finding which has not been played up by the media is the fact that 80 percent of workplace homicides were caused by guns, compared to 10 percent by stabbings. This report was released just two days before the Tucson massacre where a mentally ill gunman injured U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, also injuring 14 others and killing six. No particular connection to the workplace but an example of loose gun laws that allow a deranged gunman to buy a weapon.
The National Rifl...
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Tags: Glock 19, Gun assassinations, gun control, National Rifle Assn., Rep. Gabby Giffords shooting, workplace violence
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Animal abusers are the bottom of the barrel just like sex offenders. Both take advantage of the innocent who trust us to love them and provide a secure place for them to live. Not take advantage of them, in some cases actually causing harm, even death.
Maryland may well be the first state to launch such a registry, if State Senator Ron Young has anything to do with it. Young plans to introduce a bill that would require convicted animal abusers in Maryland to submit their ...
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Tags: Animal abuse, Animal Humane Assn., Maryland animal abuser law, Pet abuse, Puppy mills, The Human Society
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Wall Street Journal Letter to the Editor, Richard Reay of Riverdale, NY, made his point by using the
2010 FBI Violent Crime Statistics report.
NY Mayor Bloomberg for gun control As an example, there are 408.1 violent crimes and 6.4 murders/manslaughters in Arizona per 100,000 population compared to 392.1 and 4.5 in New York. In the same comparison, Texas is 450.3 and 5.0. Reay’s letter was reacting to the typical inaccuracy of a gun freak who spews out whatever garbage the Na...
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Tags: Concealed carry, Gabby Giffords, gun control, Gun laws, The Brady Campaign, Tucson gun massacre, Virginia Tech gun massacre
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Russell Pearce recall Former state senator Russell Pearce, who is a Mormon and the first Arizona legislator ever recalled (last November), has been elected to the top Arizona GOP Party post of 1st Vice Chairman. In the face of those folks who unanimously voted to oust Pearce from office, state Republicans decided he was fit to be in the party’s No. 2 leadership role, according to spokesman Shane Wikfors. On Saturday, Wikfors commented, "I will tell you that the two biggest g...
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Tags: Andrei Cherny, Dept. of Justice, Harry Hughes, Joe Arpaio, JT Ready, National Socialist Movement, Phoenix Human Relations Committee, Russell Pearce, The Snake Pit
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
GOP Hate and FearDaily Kos posted a piece recently,
“Why Does The GOP Hate (everything sane)?” that is the best I’ve seen for putting Republican hate-mongering in perspective with its biggest supporter, the Tea Party. It said, “The GOP has such an easy task when it comes to adapting people's minds to vote for them; Spread hate and they will be yours…” Sounds like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the master, Karl Rove. Also reminds me of George Orwell’s
1984 but more ...
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Tags: 1984 Two Minutes Hate, Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, Norman Lear, People for the American Way, Republican hate politics, Rush Limbaugh
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Jan Brewer, Pres. Obama I’m convinced, and probably most of the rest of the country as well, that Arizona’s laughable governor should register in the class of double-digit IQs. This, after her recent
finger-pointing incident at President Obama on the Mesa, AZ airport tarmac. It’s like when this state turns Brewer loose on the public there is a guarantee that it will bring on another round of ridicule of a state that is already considered by most of the U.S. as preposterous, ...
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Schieffer, Jan Brewer, Jesse Jackson, Keith Olbermann, Mesa airport tarmac
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Geo. Orwell at typewriterI was prompted to write this post because of another of those privacy naysayers who claims that, although identity theft, which results in the exposure of your most personal data, and which is the number one consumer problem for the Federal Trade Commission, we only have ourselves to blame for its loss. Pete Cashmore,
writing on CNN, says the fact that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was dumped proved George Orwell’s
1984 “woefully incorrect.” He coul...
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Tags: 1984, Big Brother, George Orwell
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
James Carville, Mary MatalinJames Carville is the political genius that got Bill Clinton elected President in 1992 and has
hung around for years now advising other Democratic candidates. I think he has an edge being married to expert Republican consultant, Mary Matalin. Nothing like bouncing ideas off your opponent. Carville recently said to the GOP re. its primary candidates: “You have a disaster on your hands.” It was actually sent to the Republican establishment na...
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Tags: Ari Fleischer, David Frum, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Newt Gingrich
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