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This old man did a better job.

What's weird about it?

What did I say that was crazy? Person shoots person of another race? Check. Politician gets involved and runs his mouth in order to politicize the event? Check. The NRA is blamed for the killing? Check. Of course there's a difference, and this crime is a thousand times worse than the Trayvon Martin incident. Cold-blooded murder with racial undertones, but see how much traction it'll get in the media. They'll concentrate on the anti-gun, anti-NRA aspect of the story while avoiding the race issue and the fact that the African-American community has a huge problem with guns and gun crime an

You can make a few guesses about how the season progresses by looking at the episode names for the remainder of the season. The writers love to attach multiple meanings and hints to the names of the episodes. "Confessions" (Jesse? Hank? Skyler?) "Rabid Dog" (Todd? Walt?) "To'hajiilee" (Site of their first cook and location of the buried money.) "Ozymandias" (Walt's empire and/or family crumbles into dust?) "Granite State" (Walt runs off to New Hampshire and buys an M60 machine gun.) "Felina" (Anagram of 'finale.' Walt uses the machine gun.) The GPS coordinates that Walt took at the locatio

Three teenage boys kill man for the fun of it. How long before Al Sharpton demands justice and President Obama likens the victim to his son? Oh wait ... Add in the fact that a former deputy prime minister of Australia has called for a boycott of the United States by Australian tourists, and that he blames the NRA for the murder, and you have quite a confluence of bull crap. As if the punk kids were future NRA members who would be deterred by laws and regulations ...

A Maryland university is spending $60,000 on small, handheld, bulletproof whiteboards to "protect" its professors and students. What a waste of money. I guarantee you that those things won't stop a rifle round and they're too small to offer much protection from handguns. Security theater at its finest.

And you're a veritable fountain of answers with no history of spewing slime?

It's actually $3 trillion.

Yep. One thing that hasn't gotten much coverage is that the AHA does not require employers to offer insurance to the spouse of an employee. It remains to be seen whether companies will decide to drop spouses. (Or drop all coverage and pay a penalty, reduce employees to fewer than 30 hours per week, etc.)

Not in 2014, but a family with 2 adults who each earn $35,000 per year will hit $1400 in penalties in 2015. In 2016 every couple will hit $1400 (+ $350 per child)

That's a bit of misinformation as well. The minimum is $95 (per adult) but the penalty is actually 1% of family income for most people, so it'll likely cost a few hundred bucks. And the penalties increase over the next few years.

Aw, what the heck. http://www.kvue.com/news/state/218158371.html

I beg to differ. How does one cross hundreds of miles of enemy territory with tens of thousands of troops? On the ground. What protects those ground troops in their light vehicles? Tanks. When your neighbors have thousands of tanks, you need thousands of tanks.

That's not Pentagon money that's being spent. It's the State Department -- complain to John Kerry. It's not as if a thousand tanks are a ridiculously large number -- in the 1973 war Egypt fielded almost 2000 tanks. In the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. and its allies drove 1500 tanks into Iraq when the ground war started. It's easy to get starry eyed when a billion dollars is mentioned, but it's not all that much money in the grand scheme of things. California's high-speed rail project is estimated to cost $100 billion if it ever gets built -- and that's only one state. It would cost trillion

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-crime/

No they couldn't. The NRA advocates the safe and lawful exercising of the rights offered by the Second Amendment. They are not encouraging unlawful gun crime in any way, shape or form. If our elected officials were really serious about reducing gun crime instead of vilifying legal gun owners, they'd address this instead of harping about magazine capacities and so-called "assault" weapons: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/03/22/gun-deaths-shaped-by-race-in-america/

And it's also 100% true - legally owned firearms save lives every day.

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. Those same machines also save lives.

No they don't. I'd like to see the stats on gun crimes committed by NRA members. I suspect that about 99% of gun crimes are committed by people who are not NRA members.

Not even remotely similar.

If I counted correctly at setlist.fm, the band played 115 different songs during the tour. That's pretty remarkable.

What a fun show! The weather was perfect for lounging around on the lawn with my kids, my best friend and their significant others. I got some much-needed exercise climbing the hill between our blanket and the Firestone-Walker beer stand. Nancy Sinatra's appearance surprised me, even though she did the sam thing several years back when she sang the national anthem before an Angels game back when I lived in Orange County. There are plenty of videos posted to YouTube. P.S. I think Happy Birthday was for soundman Stan Doty.

What makes you say that?

These collaborations and guest appearances have me excited for the show in Irvine. Los Angeles is awash with great musicians, so I'm hoping we'll be surprised by a few musical cameos. Tom Petty has a history of working with Dylan, so he's a possibility. Or maybe Lemmy?

Absolutely untrue. "All workers in America have a legal right to safe, clean working conditions. And they have the right to get paid the full wages they are owed. This means no less than $7.25 an hour — the federal minimum wage." -- Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, upon the signing of the Migrant Workers Rights Agreement The same goes for anyone who won't acknowledge that the push for immigration reform is a push to add ten million new voters to the Democratic Party.