Hixter
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On one thread you see no problem with big government having a massive surveillance programs aimed at its citizens
It wasn't.
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OH MY GOD, LOOK AT ALL THE GUNS THAT HAVE BEEN SEIZED!
seriously, don't people bother w/ rational thought these days?
It's an entirely rational concern when a gun that is legal in one state would now earn you a felony in another state. I could walk across the California border with a piece of plastic and a spring (typical AR-15 magazine) and become a felon who would no longer be allowed to own firearms of any kind. Or vote, for that matter.
When President Obama and other politicians point to Australia as an example of how gun control "works" they conveniently leave out the fact that a million firearms were seized. They leave that fact out, but they fully understand that it happened.
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more terrorists, more gun sales fueled by fear.
Gun sales aren't fueled by fear of terrorists, they're fueled by fear of the government and what it might do concerning guns in the future. That's it in a nutshell.
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The NRA is the voice of gun manufacturers as much, if not more, as it is of gun owners. Profit is driving the NRA as much as any political point of view.
I sincerely doubt that American terrorism market is big enough to persuade the NRA and/or gun manufacturers to court their business.
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Of all the articles I've read in the past 5 days, this might make me the angriest. I don't care about your general views on gun control, you cannot claim to be strong on terror and turn a blind eye to the NRA's actions here.
Nobody wants terrorists to buy guns, so I assume the NRA's problem is with the wording of the bill and the generally poor performance of the no-fly list (lots of false positives, etc.).
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does this get a little blurry w/ Judaism?
No. Judaism isn't a race, either. I suppose being anti-semitic is racist, but that technically includes a bunch of non-Jews. I think the term's meaning has changed over the last few decades.
Let's just affix -phobic onto it like we do to everyone else that we don't approve of.
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well I am glad we got that figured out then.
Happy to help.
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A religious litmus test (which is something you disagree with) by its very definition is racist.
A religion is not a race.
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Of course you'd like to see Snowden and Greenwald executed. It's because you're a fascist.
Oh, that's rich. Or maybe I'm someone who held a security clearance for many years and took my oath and my nation's security seriously. But none of that matters because espionage and treason are legally punishable by death. Just ask the Rosenburgs.
I guess I'm just very conservative when it comes to accepting the claims of any government as true simply because they came out of an official's mouth. That's the conservative position.
President Obama, Secretaries of State Clinton and Kerry, current and former heads of intelligence agencies, top military officers and our allies have all said that Snowden's actions have caused grave damage to our nation's security, but go ahead and believe the words of a single man if you'd like -- a single man who knowingly and purposefully violated an oath, illegally accessed classified information and then ran away to two of our nation's biggest adversaries.
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I'd recommend reading the article. It offers clear evidence that the terrorists have been aware of an our spying capabilities for a very long time. Snowden's revelations were no surprise to them.
I read it carefully and still stand by my statement. Terrorists have had a vague, unfounded idea of our spying capabilities for a long time, but now they have definitive proof and know about our billion-dollar operations in exquisite detail. It's ridiculous to suggest that terrorists already knew everything that Snowden leaked. If they had, it wouldn't have been worth leaking.
Snowden ran the biggest, most damaging espionage operation in our nation's history. He severely damaged the security of our nation and many of our allied nations. He and anyone who helped him to distribute untold thousands of Top Secret documents to anyone -- including our enemies -- should be tried and sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in prison. Personally, I'd be quite pleased to see them executed for the grave damage they've done to our nation. Their actions have caused, and will continue to cause, great loss of life.
"Top Secret" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
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It most certainly is true.Regarding what you said about Snowden, it's just not true:
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I don't know how you can watch those videos...
It was on live TV on one of the news channels. I only caught a few minutes of the broadcast between drinking beer with the fellas.
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I don't think there is any tactics that will shut this down or even help. If the new policy for these murders is to drive up to what ever place they choose armed to the teeth, what can be done to stop it? Even armed security is no match for the surprise of this type.
Unless they run out of ammo or are rushed by a group of civilians, armed security and police are really the only way to bring an attack to an end. Once an attack begins it's not a matter of saving every life, but rather saving as many lives as possible. It's difficult to watch live video from the scene that shows armed police milling around outside while hearing gunshots continue to ring out in the building.
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When I heard that the siege at Le Bataclan had lasted hours, I knew that cops were using the wrong tactics. Islamist terrorists wearing suicide vests can't be negotiated with, as all they want to do is kill as many people as possible before achieving martyrdom. The longer police wait to attack, the more civilian lives will be lost.
I just read this; it looks like the UK came to the same conclusion that I did.
Britain's special forces have been given orders to shoot to kill if jihadi gunmen launch a Paris-style attack in the UK. Armed police have been ordered by Whitehall to 'take swift action to neutralise terrorists, rather than to cordon and negotiate' with them in a major strategy switch.
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I wonder what the impact will be on shopping malls over the holiday season?
It wouldn't be the first time that a mall was targeted by a coordinated attack.
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Show your work.
“There’s no doubt that the disclosures overall created a situation in which we lost coverage of terrorists,” Olsen said at a Yahoo News sponsored conference, Digital Democracy, this week, on the day before the Paris attacks. “Specifically, we saw people that we were targeting with NSA surveillance stop using communications at all. We saw them go to different service providers. We saw them go to uses of encryption — different ways they were reacting to what they were seeing. It shouldn’t be any surprise — these guys are sophisticated . ... They’re reading the newspapers and seeing what we can do.”
In the months after the Snowden disclosures, U.S. officials tell Yahoo News, some terror suspects — including those associated with IS in Iraq and Syria — were even overheard by U.S. intelligence making comments along the lines of “let’s not use that anymore,” one former official said.
The terror suspects also increasingly began avoiding U.S. Internet providers, such as Google and Yahoo, and switching instead to foreign Internet providers, such as those in Russia.
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Terrorists looking to maximize body counts will always be able to find a soft target. The list is long: churches, schools, airports (pre-security checkpoint), public transit, etc. Metal detectors wouldn't stop an attack like we saw in Paris; the only thing that would be of any use would be large numbers of heavily armed police officers and that's too expensive for most venues.
And now is a good time to remember that Edward Snowden's disclosures have made it much more difficult for intelligence agencies to prevent coordinated attacks.
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I was there that night. When I saw the news reports I got that same sickening feeling that I had on 7/7/2005 as I watched bombing victims from Edgware Road station being triaged in the lobby of the hotel my daughter and I had stayed in the previous year.Immediately was reminded of being at Le Bataclan in 2007. Bbop was there too.
Cities always bounce back from these horrific attacks and that almost makes things worse because all the blood is shed for essentially nothing.
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Terrible news out of Paris. I saw Wilco at Le Bataclan in 2007. I hope they can rescue the hostages.
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Starting today we are all celebrating wife's birthday in Austin. Landed this morning, never been.
Maybe you'll bump into Jay Farrar. He's in town tonight.
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Anyone know if Nels played live with Wilco before the warm up shows for the Ghost is Born tour in Spring 2004? I saw a mention that he sat in on a show in 2003, but have been unable to confirm and or find it.
I think I remember Scarnella (Nels and Carla Bozulich) opening a show or two around then and joining them on stage for a song or two.
EDIT: I guess it was Carla's Red Headed Stranger band, not Scarnella.
This page has a link to Handshake Drugs with Nels:
http://popheadwound.blogspot.com/2009/05/bootleg-wilco-chicago-illinois-91903.html
Jeff's comment at the end of the song: "I think that might be the best guitar player in the world."
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I've seen a few online discussions in recent weeks and everyone seems fairly happy with the one you mentioned.
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A friend of mine ordered the 18 disc version. With shipping to Australia he paid just over AUD $1000.
I just stumbled across a 320k MP3 version of the 18-disc set online, so determined pirates can get it at a substantially reduced price.
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No fast and loose with actual verified history.
Like when Hillary Clinton lied about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire?
Politics 2015
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Nope. Not true.