I imagine I’ll be straining to remember this word early tomorrow morning.
hypnopompic \hip-nuh-POM-pik\ , adjective:
Of or pertaining to the semiconscious state prior to complete wakefulness.
Advice to gun-lovers: calm down
I lived through Nixon and Spiro the Angry Crook. I lived through Raygun and Bush the First. I lived through Bush the Idiot and the Dark Lord. During DUHbya’s Reign of Error, I was told “Get over it!” Way back in ‘68, the conservative line was “America: Love it or Leave it!” I’ll be a touch nicer to you than you were to me: don’t go if you can just calm down a bit. Otherwise, “Get over it!”
During all those dark, miserable years, I never thought America was actually doomed by the idiots in charge or the goons they commanded. You are welcome to despise Obama and the majority that elected him. You are not welcome to incite panic and bloodshed. Calm down. Get over it.
“This isn’t a free country anymore,” says a guy who makes money off of fear and panic #furg
Turns out, it’s OK for gunsellers to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater. Such confidence in America! peace, mjh
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“This isn’t a free country anymore,” [opined Charlie Domenici, owner, Charlie’s Sporting Goods – open late today, come on in for our Loss of Freedom Sale!]
The NRA dictates to Congress
We need lobbyist-control and money-control.
Obama Urges Senate to Confirm Todd Jones as A.T.F. Director – NYTimes.com
Until 2006, the president had the power to install a director of the firearms bureau without Congressional approval. But under pressure from gun lobbyists, Congress changed the law that year to require Senate confirmation. Since then, the Senate has failed to confirm any nominee by either President George W. Bush or Mr. Obama as senators who support gun rights have used their powers to delay nomination votes.
Obama Urges Senate to Confirm Todd Jones as A.T.F. Director – NYTimes.com
If you can’t win, steal the election one state at a time. #2016
“Reince Priebus”? Isn’t he the pasty kid in Slytherin? The most important outcome of 2010 was setting up Republicans to stack the deck in as many states as they can.
Pennsylvania House Republicans Introduce Bill To Rig The 2016 Presidential Election | ThinkProgress
Earlier this week, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus endorsed a Republican plan to rig the next presidential election to make it nearly impossible for the Democratic candidate to win the White House, no matter who the American people vote for. The election-rigging plan, which would allocate electoral votes by congressional district rather than by states as a whole in a handful of states that consistently vote for Democratic presidential candidates, would have allowed Mitt Romney to narrowly win the Electoral College last November despite losing the popular vote by nearly four points.
On Monday, seven Pennsylvania Republican state representatives introduced a bill to make this vote-rigging scheme a reality in their state. Under their bill, the winner of Pennsylvania as a whole will receive only 2 of the state’s 20 electoral votes, while “[e]ach of the remaining presidential electors shall be elected in the presidential elector’s congressional district.”
Pennsylvania is a blue state that voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every single presidential race for the last two decades, so implementing the GOP election-rigging plan in Pennsylvania would make it much harder for a Democrat to be elected to the White House.
Pennsylvania House Republicans Introduce Bill To Rig The 2016 Presidential Election | ThinkProgress
A majority of Americans favor Obama’s gun control proposals #furg
E.J. Dionne: Obama takes on extremism on guns – The Washington Post
Obama’s proposals are moderation incarnate. By international standards, they are very cautious. The president did not call for registering all guns or confiscating assault weapons. He strongly endorsed the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment right to bear arms. He is operating within a broad consensus about what is possible and what can work.
An assault-weapons ban received 38 Republican votes in the House in 1994 and is backed by 58 percent of Americans, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. Were those Republicans outside the mainstream? And what about that 58 percent of Americans? The poll also found that 65 percent favored a ban on high-capacity magazines, another part of the Obama plan, and 86 percent favored closing the gun-show loophole, part of the effort to make sure there are background checks for all gun purchases. …
“Enough,” Obama declared, insisting that change would come only “if the American people demand it.”
Will we?
E.J. Dionne: Obama takes on extremism on guns – The Washington Post
Obama calls on Americans to stand up to those who “gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves” #furg
Obama Calls On Each And Every American To Stand Up To The NRA | ThinkProgress
“There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists, publicly warning of a tyrannical all-out assault on liberty” to “gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves.” Obama said that Americans have a responsibility to fight back against such smear campaigns…
“The only way we will be able to change is if their audience, their constituents, their membership says, this time must be different, that this time we must do something to protect our communities and our kids.” — President Obama
Obama Calls On Each And Every American To Stand Up To The NRA | ThinkProgress