Ghost of Electricity

can you go get me that thing over there?

i dunno

finished my first week at a new job.

Is a question defined by puncuation or syntax.

One is more important?

oops sorry. carry on.

facts schmacts.  it wasn't meant to be a friggin' documentary

in title or the bulk of the lyrics.

i think there's a need

Are you lonesome tonight, 
Do you miss me tonight? 
Are you sorry we drifted apart? 
Does your memory stray to a brighter summer day 
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart? 
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare? 
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there? 
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again? 
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight? 

Aren't we allowed to ask questions that have been previously asked in songs?

i never hear of boiled peanuts before.  i don't have a crockpot.

I've always said the best thing for a Belgian with a gun is a Samoan (if not a Uruguayan) with a gun.  Saving lives man, saving lives.

wait, what?

see, that's the defence he would use in court, and for the sake of this exercise i was willing to go along with that. And that's what he may have even believed i was doing.  But honestly, i was just distributing a simple booklet.

what about Rockwell?  in light of recent events, shouldn't there be a Rockwell revival?

actually i wasn't breaking in.  I was walking around his neighborhood distributing communist literature door to door and when i knocked on his, it opened of it's own accord and there he stood aiming.

If I broke into Hixter's house and he shot me dead knowing that it was me, while pulling the trigger would he feel in his heart of hearts something more akin to glee or remorse? 

hmmm. it's not like they were victims of the most successful genocide in the history of humankind or anything, having  their social structures torn asunder and their land taken from under their feet while looking sown the barrel of the white man's (wait for it)...gun.

But I digress.

hey, I'm Radiant Witch Face!

are you sure?

That chart is unclear, or I'm missing something.  is the rate 1.4 deaths among 100k white people or of 100k people of all color there are 1.4 white deaths?  If the latter is the case then the statistic for Native American/Alaskan populations is by far the most disturbing.

I'm not disagreeing that those issues should be addressed, they should be.  But well and truly addressing them means addressing other issues like education, unemployment, and distribution of wealth.  Yes, let's do that too.

you are unfortunately correct

Immortal Beloved.  Tom Hulce, of Animal House fame, played Mozart. More importantly, Amadeus was directed by Milos Forman.  Are you done with law school yet?

are we boring the non-gear heads here?

You titled this thread "NRA scorecard" and said "3 points for the NRA", as if they and their members are somehow responsible for some nut shooting up a town meeting.

 

 

If the families of everyone killed in gun violence got together and filed a class action suit against the NRA and weapons manufacturers, they could be legally responsible for them, or at least a portion of them.  Much the same way that tobacco companies are held responsible for the high rates of lung cancer and emphysema (did i spell that right?)

Wasn't this a line in "Amadeus"?

well, there it is.

 

 

Those same machines also save lives.

this is uncomfortably similar to the argument used by Alfred Nobel when he was inventing dynamite, and during the cold war to justify the nuclear arms race.