lost highway

Let's face it. This is going to go in circles because no one ever changes their mind: rub people, sauce people, they're just quoting their chosen media outlets.

Still. Probably some white Christian dude.

I know that if I get shot down by a whacko, there's a better chance he'll be a white guy.... possibly an NRA member.

WTF man? How is that a Muslim issue? It doesn't seem to be working with some insecure red necks in the south, or some judgemental WASPS in Long Island. It hasn't really worked for some militant Israelis, or a tiny minority of face-smackingly stupid German white supremacists. We've got Hutus killing Tutsis, Tamal Tigers, or the South Thailand insurgency. What do most examples of terrorism have in common, just like the nut job who shot up Planned Parenthood an hour away from my neighborhood? Disenfranchised, poor people, who've been fluffed up with bad information, in a group where the d

I think it's important for isolated Americans to get more exposure to the varieties of people that could be part of one group. My all-time favorite liquor store guy has a store by where my band practices in East Denver. He's a Muslim North African and easily the nicest person I interact with on a given week. I also had a Muslim student in my class for two years, her family came here from Bosnia. It's trivial, but perhaps necessary to note, that her mom was a 6'3" tall woman with fair skin, hazel eyes and could probably be a model. The point is, Muslims come in many different shapes, size

If anyone is saying that they're wrong. The intellectual center of the anti-gun movement is not a moral indictment of gun owners. It's a moral obligation to legislate. It's systemic, demographic, data.... a move to improve things statistically. It is an attempt to exchange my personal right to own a gun for the decreased probability of someone I've never met being shot. I can safely drive 80 miles an hour on a 55 mile an hour highway. I feel that way (in fact I've probably demonstrated it in a moment of unlawfulness). The exchange is that I won't have the right because the highway is s

They should make an app called "Freudagram".

I hear you. I guess that's what I'm getting at. There's a pattern to when these things happen. I'm imaging a new kind of shitty here at home. Something Nixonian, or like the McCarthy trials, or Japanese internment camps- another brand of shame.

The more I look at the events, the rhetoric and the social psychology with this stuff, the more I realize Americans , as a whole group of well-meaning people, need to be very careful. We have a real, but nebulous threat to the wellbeing of our citizens. We have a heightened perception of that threat. Our military is inextricably immersed in multiple foreign quagmires. Perhaps worst of all, we have a growing sentiment of xenophobia and bigotry amongst a growing contingent of our population. These could be the ingredients to set the stage for what history could regard as a catastrophic fuc

Jihadism is not a country. It is not a fixed number. You can not conquer that country and then pretend that everything is cool. A war against ideas can not be won with suppressive fire- it has a mushrooming effect. It would behoove all of us, most importantly those in the defense departments of the G8 to imagine the life of someone living under the Assad regime. All kinds of ideological perversities can thrive in violent and unstable places. Bombing may destabilize the radical force du' jour, but for the same reasons it does not create a stable country for peaceful plenitude to flourish

Yeah, the NRA has gotten some bad press recently for lobbying to keep guns in the hands of people on the terrorist watch list. They helped kill a bill that the majority of gun owners supported. The NRA are corporate shills who prey on ignorance fueled by fear.

Whoa, there's some crazy stuff in there. I wonder why they're cleaning out the loft?

Romney is looking pretty moderate these days, even with his "self deportation" and x% of the people will vote for Obama so they can get handouts comments. He was no Carson or Trump, I'll give him that.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing it.

I talk to Hixter because he clearly disagrees with many of my beliefs (microbreweries are not one of them) and it challenges me. It would probably challenge me more for the left wing majority on here (including myself) to get nuanced enough on policy that we can actually disagree. Let me see if I can tee that up, My Opinion on Potentially Controversial Issues: Raise the minimum wage nationally: Yes, with a cautious roll out. Key stone pipeline: Doesn't actually matter environmentally, but it is pretty bad for property rights. Small businesses:

The federal removal of this weapon would create some consistency to avoid confusion. You would then need to find something else to shoot with. You can shoot skeet, elk, targets and the rare home invader using other models.

Terrorists are mentally ill.

Yeah the last one's great! Pretty tough tie between the last 3 records for me and they tower over her earlier work.

Better late than never. I think Cruz got ahead of his competitors there.

So a domestic terrorist shoots up a Planned Parenthood in CO springs, kills a cop and the GOP candidates say NOTHING. Interesting.

Yeah!

You're half right here. It is an intellectual exercise because you're theorizing what you would hypothetically do in the worst imaginable situation which luckily has not happened. Where you're right is when you say you have an evolutionary impulse to protect your family. Fact is, we can all stay up late imagining some situation where some bastard is a threat to our loved ones. Hell, play the fear game long enough and I can worry about someone raping my wife and making a hat out of my dog. These thoughts don't come from my normal workaday consciousness. I'm of the opinion that they aren't my

Yeah, I can just let 97 of my fellow Americans get shot down so the other 3 assholes go down in a legally defensible manner. Quite a lottery!

That's easier to say than to live with. Good news is you won't have to. This terrible story about intruders and your loved children is exactly the same one gun advocates keep imagining over and over.

Oh shit you're right. Ha! So 3% sounding pretty good? Still getting kicked off of my baseball team.