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A politician who plays fast and loose with the facts? Stop the presses!

And there is the shortwave numbers station recording from the Conet Project. Yankee. Hotel. Foxtrot.

It's Julian. Former mayor of San Antonio. I live just outside of the city limits, but I'd hate to have him back in my life. His replacement has been much better, so far.

I'm seriously considering it. 5.1 mixes and restored 4K videos are very tempting. They did a great job on this video; it almost looks like it was filmed yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblYSKz_VnI

They will be eligible in 2020.

Yep. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_High_School#Jeremy_Delle_suicide

Technically, this happened last night, so sue me: I met some friends for drinks and during the course of the conversation I sang a few seconds of Pearl Jam's Jeremy. (I'm not one to randomly quote Pearl Jam songs; it was germane to the conversation.) Anyway, a friend of a friend looked me in the eye and said, "I was there that day." It turns out that he sat next to the kid in class and he described the event in graphic detail. It's a small world. ^ A much more cheerful song.

But the vast majority of them are feeble and frail -- and those are the ones who even made it to 90. It was a wisecrack about a politician who is past his prime, not a definitive proclamation about the merits of our senior citizens.

You didn't ask me a hypothetical, nor did you speculate. You told me what I would do. And yes, my biggest concern about John McCain was his age. I don't think we need an octogenarian as president.

I guess Back to the Future Day is a good time to make statements based upon alternate realities and mind reading.

They're so far away that I haven't given it much thought, but Rubio seems to be pretty sharp. Jeb would probably make a good president, but I'm tired of Bushes and Clintons. Whoever gets the nod, I hope he/she picks Ted Cruz to fill Joe Biden's shoes as the VP who says crazy things but is essentially powerless. In addition to the comedic value, it has a secondary benefit -- sort of an insurance policy -- for the president, because no assassin in their right mind would want them to ascend to the presidency.

But there's still a chance to elect Hillary as the second-oldest president in history.

Darn, there goes our chance to elect the oldest president in history.

Is Larry Flynt in the band now?

It's very easy, actually. The first is a hypothetical creation of the anti-gun lobby, while the second is a cold, hard fact: mass shootings end when the perpetrator is confronted by someone carrying a gun. The majority of the time that person is a cop, but he/she is still "a good guy with a gun." Those are all discussed frequently, but quite often they are denounced to varying degrees, including "hunting is murder" and accusations of gun fetishes. Self-defense is one of the most important purposes of a firearm. Guns literally save lives every single day in this country. As far as statist

An exceedingly lame article. Their "tactical experts" include a soldier who spent less than a year as an artillery forward observer in Iraq. That doesn't make him an expert any more than it makes my many friends who served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan experts, and not one of them would argue for tighter gun control. I think the "expert's" self-described activities as an activist and Obama campaign worker are what qualified him to be quoted in the story. The article's main focus is "the NRA’s Heroic Gunslinger Fantasy" but I maintain that said fantasy exists only in the minds of gun cont

http://www.avclub.com/article/stream-out-there-new-record-nels-cline-and-white-o-226615

Most of his points are reasonable and similar to what I've been saying all along. Unfortunately, he falls back on the "can't we at least try to do something" mentality that our lawmakers display when trying to pass asinine gun control laws after every high-profile shooting. He doesn't explain how criminals are going to suddenly take tests, get registered and take background checks when they already ignore those existing laws ... the simple fact is that they won't. He also seems to think that criminals are getting their guns from strangers via the so-called gun show loophole, when that has been

Someone here doesn't understand the meaning of 'fetish.'

That article admits that (in a study of 5 cities) 30% of the homicides were gang-related, so it's not exactly a trifling number. The study even leads off with this sentence: "Gang homicides account for a substantial proportion of homicides among youths in some U.S. cities." I've yet to see anyone exhibit even the slightest sign of a gun fetish on this forum. He was on record as being in favor of banning all handguns, all semiautomatic firearms, all so-called "assault weapons" and was in favor of a number of measures that would greatly inhibit gun ownership, so although he wasn't in favor

Or just play it as the last song of the night. Or the last song before an encore break.

No, but they could do a good job getting them and their guns off the streets, and that's fine with me. Again, if we want to dramatically lower our murder rate, slapping new restrictions on magazine capacity, ammunition types, so-called "assault rifles" etc. is not the way to go about it.

Ok, build enough prisons to hold the 1 million gang members in the United States. There are 150,000 in Chicago alone. That'll be a good start. It would also be helpful to close our nation's border with Mexico to stop the flow of Central American gang members into the country.

That article portrays her as an intelligent, caring mother who was concerned about gun safety. It raises the slightest of red flags with the revelation of her own Asperger's, but I have no idea about her medical history and her legal status pertaining to the ownership of guns.

It would be interesting to see some gun control advocates' solutions tested in the real world -- perhaps for a 5-year period? A left-leaning state with a serious gun crime problem (NY or CA?) could ban all guns, offer a buyback program and then go house-to-house to collect them from those who refuse to turn in their firearms. The sticking point would be that police, security guards and bodyguards who protect politicians and the wealthy would also have to be disarmed. They could keep some firearms locked away for emergencies, but I'd want to see how "the UK solution" would work on the streets o