Monday, January 12, 2015

DUMMITUDE.

The Charlie Hebdo case has given our usual suspects plenty of opportunity to cover themselves in glory. Charles C. W. Cooke finds a roundabout way to a what-France-needs-is-more-guns argument:
Certainly, things might have been different if the events had unfolded in heavily armed states such as Oklahoma or Texas — or, for that matter, if someone in an adjacent office had been possessed of a rifle of his own.
He's also pissed that New York City isn't flooded with Saturday Night Specials like in the old days -- then they'd be really safe! Cooke might like to study up on local history a little.

My favorite, though, is Cooke's colleague Matthew Continetti on the subject (h/t Adam Serwer):
Nor do I recall liberals standing up for the critics of global warming and evolutionary theory, of same-sex marriage and trans rights and women in combat, of riots in Ferguson and of Obama’s decision to amnesty millions of illegal immigrants. On the contrary: To dissent from the politically correct and conventional and fashionable is to invite rebuke, disdain, expulsion from polite society, to court the label of Islamophobe or denier or bigot or cisnormative or misogynist or racist or carrier of privilege and irredeemable micro-aggressor. For the right to offend to have any meaning, however, it cannot be limited to theistic religions. You must have the right to offend secular humanists, too.
These people have not been deprived of their "right to offend" -- they have been offensive, and the people they offended took offense. I don't remember any of these guys getting shot by black-masked liberals. They did get called names, but I'm not finding anything in the Constitution that protects them from that. Well, what can you expect from someone who wrote a whole book about the "persecution" of Sarah Palin by the "elite media," which left her begging for scraps at the side of the road.

I applaud the sentiments of the surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonist and like to think Obama, in skipping (to the harrumphs of dumbbells) the Paris march headed by international free speech celebrities, has provided his own concurrence.

UPDATE. Commentary announces in a pouty headline that because Obama didn't go to Paris, he is "No Longer Leader of the Free World." Guess now it's Bibi Netanyahu, huh? Oh, who am I kidding -- for Commentary it was always Netanyahu.

UPDATE 2. The Crazy Jesus Lady snarls:
The march was, at bottom, a preening and only symbolic show? When has this White House ever shown an aversion to preening and symbolic shows?
Yeah, remember when he marched in Ferguson? Also, where's his flag pin?

UPDATE 3. As you might expect, Fedora of Freedom Roger L. Simon raises the crazy stakes:
Now I admit that was just a supposition. Just because I’ve never heard [Obama] link Islam and terror doesn’t mean in his heart of hearts he doesn’t. Though not a genius, he does have an IQ in triple digits and sees what’s right in front of his nose, I assume. He just interprets it differently. But why? 
Is someone whispering in his ear? 
Senator Dianne Feinstein has just informed us that, yes, there are Islamic terror sleeper cells in our midst in the USA. If that’s true, I wonder why Feinstein wasted so much of her time wounding the CIA during the last weeks of her tenure as Senate Intelligence Committee chair, but never mind. Could there be one of those cells in the White House?
And in case you were charitably disposed to think he's kidding --
I started this post thinking it was kind of funny...
Of course, "bullshitting" is not quite the same thing as kidding.

148 comments:

  1. AGoodQuestion10:59 PM

    More guns for the French? What's the point? They'll only throw them down and surrender, hurr hurr.

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  2. AGoodQuestion11:04 PM

    Sweet Jesus, Matthew Continetti really seems to believe that "persecute", "oppress", and "argue against" are all synonyms. Which explains why he also thinks Sarah Palin died for our sins.

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  3. Socialist Cubone11:25 PM

    Seriously though, how many times has a mass shooting been stopped by an armed civilian out of the hundreds that have happened in America? Like 2?

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  4. huntly11:27 PM

    That just means we need moar gunz!!!!!

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  5. Chairman Pao11:45 PM

    'Could an average group of dispersed concealed carriers have taken on a couple of guys with automatic weapons and rocket launchers? Maybe. Maybe not. Every situation is different.'



    Having proven that he can't really prove his point he goes on to bloviate for 926 MORE WORDS, all because he functions under the delusion that he needs to protect himself from anyone other that than a functional editor.


    Max Perkins wept.

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  6. Chairman Pao11:48 PM

    Also, am I correct in saying that such intellectual equivocation is known as "going the full Goldberg"?

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  7. SqueakyRat11:54 PM

    Along with "assassinate."

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  8. Aw, he's so cute. He's discovered how to whine that disagreement is the same thing as oppression.

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  9. i wholly sympathize with continetti; i know my first thoughts when i heard about the charlie hebdo attacks were about me and my friends' feelings.

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  10. Gromet12:30 AM

    Pretty great to hear how all liberals are now hypocrites for supporting Charlie Hebdo because just last year Condi Rice personally decided not to speak at a university when she learned not every student was a fan.

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  11. AGoodQuestion12:37 AM

    He must mistake it for "aassholinate".

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  12. DocAmazing12:45 AM

    Mr. Continetti is in a prime position to demonstrate his support for the right to offend by publishing Charlie Hebdo's "Holy Trinity three-way cartoon". Meanwhile, Cooke has proposed something that I would have thought guys like him might not be enthusiastic about: armed blasphemers.

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  13. Certainly, things might have been different if the events had unfolded in heavily armed states such as Oklahoma or Texas — or, for that matter, if someone in an adjacent office had been possessed of a rifle of his own.

    Yeah, the death toll would have been much higher due to the resultant crossfire.

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  14. grishaxxx1:47 AM

    I am beginning to think that these guys will only be truly, truly satisfied if they, themselves, are attacked, in their offices, on camera, and get to pull out the heat and go down in their own blaze of righteousness. "We died with our slippers on..." might be their epitaph. And what for? Endless and intolerable whining, a social tinnitus that no one could live with any longer.

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  15. grishaxxx2:19 AM

    Wisecracks...the most lethal weapon in the terrorists' arsenal!

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  16. ken_lov3:01 AM

    Cooke must hover constantly over the news feed, looking for any excuse to re-post his tediously verbose NRA propaganda. Usually they begin "No doubt the same discredited arguments for more gun control will be aired following [insert name of latest gruesome shooting]" so he would have been excited to have a new excuse to hang his shop-worn points on.

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  17. Continetti seems to be arguing for the right to laugh and point at folks who believe the world is round.

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  18. Jaime Oria4:58 AM

    Teach the controversy!

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  19. Jaime Oria5:00 AM

    Uh, Roy? That stuff isn't glory !!!

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  20. Jaime Oria5:04 AM

    Here ya go -

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  21. smut clyde5:16 AM

    Wear the t-shirt!

    http://controversy.amorphia-apparel.com/imgproduct/flatearth.jpg

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  22. Mad Monk5:50 AM

    Man, I wish Continetti's first names were something like Irving Nimrod, just so we could use the initials at every mention.

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  23. So I wonder what the response will be if some "lone wolf" ISIS idolizer buys his arsenal at a gun show (no background check!) and his 300-round magazines off the internet (you can't regulate that!) and his crates of ammo wholesale from his local gun shop (no restrictions on bulk ammo!!!). Probably just be a push to mandate that every man, woman, and child must be armed at all times.

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  24. ...no "probably" about it. That's exactly what they want, and they say it plainly every time it happens.

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  25. 'Could an average group of dispersed concealed carriers have taken on a couple of guys with automatic weapons and rocket launchers?

    No.

    It's dolts like this who think they're going to "defend their rights against the government." Sure ya will, Sparky. I'll spot you any weapon short of a tactical nuke for you to use against a fully functional platoon of average Army infantry at your front door. Good luck!

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  26. 'Could an average group of dispersed concealed carriers have taken on a couple of guys with automatic weapons and rocket launchers? Maybe. Maybe not. Every situation is different.'



    ...that's why we need to allow concealed automatic rocket launchers into our schools and playgrounds. Every situation is different, and the Fully Protected Man knows to be prepared.

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  27. Or, maybe Abed Whetter.

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  28. Wrangler6:30 AM

    So if I understand this correctly: because fundamentalist lunatics killed an asshole cartoonist and people think that's wrong, Mark Steyn should have licence to commit libel?



    Every time logic and principle try to sneak into the NatReview crib, these guys strangle them to death like baby Heracles.

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  29. Pope Zebbidie XIII6:38 AM

    For the Lord so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son to have harsh words twittered against him.

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  30. Pope Zebbidie XIII6:41 AM

    Minefields. Only solution. In our schools, in our streets and in our offices. Try and come at us now Mahomet!

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  31. Say what you want about No Man's Land...at least it kept those fucking kids off our lawns!

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  32. Pope Zebbidie XIII6:43 AM

    Why is that guy with a beard orbiting gently off the port side?

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  33. I'm from out of town. How much for a half Goldberg?

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  34. That must be the Prof hisownself. I'm wondering about the 3 little orbs suspended over the roulette wheel. Are they lights?

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  35. Pope Zebbidie XIII6:47 AM

    First they came for the kicky high-heel leather boots, and I said nothing, for I was not Condi Rice...

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  36. And here I thought it was turtles all the way down.

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  37. smut clyde6:50 AM

    cover themselves in glory

    Is that what the kids are calling it?

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  38. . . . the same discredited arguments . . .

    And by "discredited" he means "the arguments to which we gun nuts have no coherent or rational response beyond hand waving or threatening to kill those who disagree with us."

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  39. Bizarro Mike7:21 AM

    Yes, exactly. But not noticing this is an important part of being an NRA water carrier. Just like not noticing that "an armed society is a polite society" is crazy and wrong.

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  40. Friendly bullets don't add to the official count. duh.


    It's NRA (and USA) rules.

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  41. I want to plant a nice border of perennials around this comment.

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  42. redoubtagain7:58 AM

    "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the bitter tears of wingnuts."

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  43. mortimer20007:58 AM

    A rather touchy climate scientist named Michael Mann — subtly parodied in Interstellar — has sued National Review and Mark Steyn for disagreeing with him.
    If by disagreeing with him you mean "for comparing him to Jerry Sandusky" and calling him a fraud. I'm not big on libel suits generally, but I'm not too big on lying about them either. Wingers lack the chops to argue and they seem to confuse whining with rhetoric, but why do they have such difficulty telling the truth?

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  44. why do they have such difficulty telling the truth?

    Truth is a construct for liberals.

    Besides, telling the truth in the Mann case would mean admitting they libeled the guy. Even their liberal lawyers would tell them it's not a good idea to confess in print when you're fighting in court.

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  45. What is truth?
    Is truth unchanging law?
    We both have truths
    Are mine the same as Yours?

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  46. Lurking Canadian8:18 AM

    This was born the RTKBNukes movement.

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  47. Lurking Canadian8:23 AM

    I have thought for years that if I were in charge of al Qaeda, I'd gather up a couple dozen guys, each armed with an AR-15 and lots of extra rounds, and send them, one each, to a Walmart at about 4am the day after Thanksgiving.

    And the fascinating thing is, until they actually started shooting, we would not have committed any crimes.

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  48. I think this might be a case of over-watering leading to root rot.

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  49. Well, as Continetti would point out, if you've ever expressed outrage over misogyny or racism, then that's a sure sign that your secular humanist hypocrisy is showing. After all, everyone knows that there's no such thing as a theist who's a feminist, an ecologist, a supporter of gay rights or an advocate of immigration reform ("What you do for the least of these?" Yeah right, comrade). If you think you're any kind of believer and yet you hold any of these positions, then clearly you're not a real believer-in-whatever-you-think-you-believe-in.

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  50. As long as the shooters looked like average open-carry White folks, they'd probably have the police helping them get into position at any WalMart in Texas.

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  51. an advocate of immigration reform ("What you do for the least of these?" . . .)

    Attention Bible Bangers! Those of you so fond of quoting Leviticus might stop skipping over the verses that state, "Thou shalt not oppress the stranger in your land."

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  52. Thanks to Facebook comments and blogs, We Are All Solzhenitsyn.

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  53. coozledad8:36 AM

    if the events had unfolded in heavily armed states such as Oklahoma
    See Federal building, Murrah.

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  54. Chairman Pao8:38 AM

    Five will get you ten.

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  55. Chairman Pao8:47 AM

    Or subscribe to Skynet. Act now and you get three free months of SkynetGo.


    What could possibly go wrong?

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  56. coozledad8:48 AM

    Continetti can't figure out how to square rural anti secular forces with his idea of humanist oppression so he just takes a big word shit.


    He's cut out of the same cloth as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. His party has been one of the primary economic funders and enablers of anti modernists everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if there are pictures of Matthew's father in law shaking hands with Gulbuddin, or some of his Pakistani bag men.

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  57. coozledad8:53 AM

    Getting down on the floor and trying to find pores in the concrete to squeeze your ass into is a strong reflex. It's hard to find your handgun when you're trying to crawl into the bottom drawer of your desk.

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  58. Chairman Pao8:55 AM

    I'd like the ghost of Sam Peckinpah to direct this comment.

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  59. RT @nrocontinetti "Forgive Them Lord For They Know Not.." bitly.ffg.u70

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  60. glennisw8:58 AM

    Certainly, things might have been different if the events had unfolded in heavily armed states such as Oklahoma or Texas — or, for that matter, if someone in an adjacent office had been possessed of a rifle of his own.



    Sure, cause we've never had cases of workplace shooters in the US, have we now?

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  61. Helmut Monotreme9:00 AM

    Well, never at the NRA headquarters, which proves his point.

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  62. glennisw9:00 AM

    Sarah Palin drank a Big Gulp for our sins.

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  63. coozledad9:00 AM

    Mayan astronomers called him Cattarrhhuaxal.

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  64. Helmut Monotreme9:02 AM

    Given the truth does not support their predetermined conclusions, they have no use for it.

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  65. coozledad9:06 AM

    And she gave one of her begotten daughters to Dance With the Stars.

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  66. coozledad9:21 AM

    Mama take this bag off of me
    I can't eat them anymore
    It's getting dark, too dark to see
    I feel I'm knockin' on Buckley's door.

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  67. Brother Yam9:22 AM

    To dissent from the politically correct and conventional and fashionable
    is to invite rebuke, disdain, expulsion from polite society.

    What do these people know of polite society?

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  68. glennisw9:24 AM

    I've often thought this about the "racial profiling by the TSA" comments. Why doesn't Al Quaeda use little old white ladies or blonde bimbos like Ann Coulter as suicide bombers?

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  69. Brother Yam9:29 AM

    Where' A'Tuin?

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  70. BigHank539:32 AM

    "To tell you the truth," said the proprietor, "Nobody's ever finished a whole Goldberg."

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  71. Brother Yam9:36 AM

    Is it free if you finish it in an hour? Do you get a t-shirt?

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  72. coozledad9:39 AM

    Al Quaeda? Jamie Lynne Spears on line two:

    http://defamer.gawker.com/security-video-jamie-lynn-spears-pulls-huge-knife-at-p-1679186968/1679190761/+maxread

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  73. RogerAiles9:41 AM

    Wolverines, bitches!

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  74. BigHank539:43 AM

    Steyn's lawyers have stopped representing him since he won't keep his big mouth shut about the case. Personally, I think he's playing to lose, since as a Canadian citizen he can always just have the National Review mail his checks to him. If he refuses to pay the judgement against him (it's hard to imagine any circumstance in which he wins the case) and somehow gets barred from the US (unlikely) he'd just crank the whining up to 11 and watch the idiot wingnut checks roll in.

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  75. satch9:43 AM

    You kids today are all soft! . Back in MY day, to be a martyr, you had to actually die!

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  76. DerBrunoStroszek9:47 AM

    Oh god, they think "Dr. Mann" in Interstellar was a shout-out to them. That's adorable.

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  77. That might work for him, but NR is still on the hook.

    I'm not a lawyer, so I have no idea what the enforceability of civil judgments might be outside the country. Do we have any agreements with Canada about that?

    Also, too: Does "The Human Steyn" own any property here in the US?

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  78. satch9:50 AM

    Well yeah... that's why we CALL it "polite society"...

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  79. BigHank539:52 AM

    613 laws in the Old Testament, and the only one they're enthusiastic about is "No homos."

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  80. Halloween_Jack9:57 AM

    He can always hang out with Kathy Shaidle and Adam Yoshida. They deserve each other.

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  81. Halloween_Jack9:58 AM

    Misbegotten, surely?

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  82. When John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were terrorizing the D.C./Northern Va area in 2002, I was afraid of just that, especially since, thanks to the NRA, people on the Terrorist Watch List can't have their Second Amendment rights infringed.

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  83. Halloween_Jack10:04 AM

    Of course she was persecuted by the "lamestream media"; it certainly wasn't because she continues her general trends of incoherence and vindictiveness; apparently, even Billy Kristol isn't returning her calls these days.

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  84. Is somebody calling hypocrisy?

    https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/555006896906575872
    ~

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  85. And, as I noted below, with the nationwide push to allow open carry everywhere, today's terrorists could strap on all their weapons and ammo and stroll unmolested into any shopping mall. I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Georgia's "GUNS EVERYWHERE!!!" law allowed for people to bring loaded AR-15s into the stadium for Atlanta Braves games.

    Imagine the carnage when the bad buys start shooting, and then every yahoo in the stadium pulls out a short-barrel handgun and starts blasting away in the general direction of the bad guys.

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  86. "The Crazy Jesus Lady snarls:
    The march was, at bottom, a preening and only symbolic show? When has
    this White House ever shown an aversion to preening and symbolic shows?"


    So Peggers... speaking of preening, symbolic shows, will we be seeing you at this year's March For Life Rally? Get your tickets now...
    http://marchforlife.org/details/

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  87. Mr. Wonderful10:18 AM

    OT (sort of) but I read a Tweet recently that said, "'Dancing with the stars' is the gay version of 'sleeping with the fishes.'"

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  88. Greetings from Atlanta!

    Fortunately for those attending Atlanta Braves' games, there is indeed a strict "no weapons" policy at Turner Field stadium.
    http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/atl/ballpark/information/index.jsp?content=security

    Metal detectors are used at all entry points into the stadium.

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  89. Excellent! Thanks!

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  90. Mr. Wonderful10:37 AM

    "Certainly, things might have been different if the events had unfolded
    in heavily armed states such as Oklahoma or Texas — or, for that matter,
    if someone in an adjacent office had been possessed of a rifle of his
    own."


    "Consider, too, how differently the event might have played out if Batman had been conveniently visiting the Hebdo office--rather than, as is essential to this hypothetical, having been aborted (at state expense) thirty years earlier."


    Yes, made-up bullshit rendered in rich, beautiful prose. ("had been possessed of") F u cn rite ths u cn b Chrls Ck 2!

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  91. If that’s true, I wonder why Feinstein wasted so much of her time wounding the CIA during the last weeks of her tenure . . .

    Because if it's one thing we need, it's the CIA engaged in domestic espionage and "handling" perceived threats within the United States.

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  92. Dr. Hunky Jimpjorps10:41 AM

    They want to be martyred, but then come back to deliver their own eulogies.

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  93. BigHank5311:24 AM

    The Chrls Ck we already have is one too many,

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  94. Nor do I recall liberals standing up for the critics of global warming
    and evolutionary theory, of same-sex marriage and trans rights and women
    in combat, of riots in Ferguson and of Obama’s decision to amnesty
    millions of illegal immigrants.


    Waaaaah! What about my pity parade??


    They don't mind people taking offense at their offensiveness. What they hate is the fact that the people they offend now have enough power and security to tell them to shut up.



    Oh, for the good old days when you could make gay jokes for hours on end and no one would say anything for fear of being beat up and/or institutionalized.

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  95. I thought that last bit was "No Homers" like in the "Stonecutters" episode of the Simpsons.

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  96. BG, professional humbug11:50 AM

    Certainly, things might have been different if the events had unfolded in heavily armed states such as Oklahoma or Texas — or, for that matter, if someone in an adjacent office had been possessed of a rifle of his own.



    Oh yes --- because having guns would have really helped when Little Timmy McVeigh decided to blow up a building IN OKLAHOMA.

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  97. Giant Monster Gamera12:03 PM

    If only they'd armed that pre-school that was located just above where McVeigh parked the truck. Those toddlers could have taken him out with a few well-placed snipers.

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  98. montag212:17 PM

    It was Scary Sarah who brought this phenomenon to fever pitch when she said, in essence, that disagreeing with her (or worse, laughing at her) was a denial of her free speech. It's not just that they're unclear on the concept, it's that they're sure that we all have to endlessly sit there quietly and take the abuse, the lies, the moronic judgments because it's a right-wing nutjob doing the talking. Part of this is due to their longstanding belief that they're the only adults in the country--and children had better not talk back to the adults--and the remainder is a kind of whiny authoritarianism (along the lines of "just wait until we're completely in charge, muhfuckers").



    We're at the point now that disagreement--even laughing at them--simply doesn't work. It just makes them crazier, spookier, ever more deranged.


    It is time for tactical cream pies.

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  99. BigHank5312:20 PM

    Al-Quaeda hasn't bothered to attempt any attacks in the US because they don't need to. We're cheerfully killing enough innocent people with drones to keep them supplied with recruits, sympathizers, and money. Having three dolts (who brings their ID to a terror strike?) kill some people in Paris is enough to keep half the US deranged.

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  100. Giant Monster Gamera12:22 PM

    The right wing is infested with individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

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  101. Howlin Wolfe12:26 PM

    As if the Lord couldn't have begotten a few million more sons and or daughters if he wanted. Unless, of course, he isn't all-powerful in a certain way.

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  102. Yup. If the events had unfolded in heavily armed states such as Oklahoma, the rootin' tootin' patriots would have been the perpetrators.

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  103. No, he's arguing for the right to laugh and point at folks who believe the world is round, and not be laughed and pointed at in return. Because refuting a reactionary dumbshit is indistinguishable from a murderous assault by masked gunmen.

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  104. "When has this White House ever shown an aversion to preening and symbolic shows?"
    ... she squawked, before going back to masturbating in front of her poster of George W. Bush in a goddamned flight suit.

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  105. Jay B.12:44 PM

    It's ALMOST LIKE THEY DON'T KNOW SHIT or more obviously, they don't care.

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  106. Jay B.12:46 PM

    Certainly, the heavily armed psychopaths at the Branch Davidian compound totally support this comment.

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  107. I think they want to survive an attack. You can't ride the Wingnut Gravy Train if you're in a coffin.

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  108. It sure helped at Ft. Hood.

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  109. Gromet1:01 PM

    I say we let Skynet be a rightwing project. That way, there's no chance it will become self-aware.

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  110. BigHank531:08 PM

    Now I've started wondering if he's ever had an idea that wasn't greeted with mockery and derision.

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  111. Chairman Pao1:10 PM

    Please pick up your winning Internets at the door.

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  112. satch1:16 PM

    "Certainly, things might have been different if the events had unfolded in heavily armed states such as Oklahoma or Texas..."


    Jesus, these people. Of COURSE, things MIGHT have been different... if everyone in the office were armed; if every person carrying a gun actually knew the front from the back, or their ass from a hole in the ground; if this had happened in Tulsa, the Paris of the Plains, instead of the real Paris; if Jean-Claud Van Damme the time cop had travelled from 1994 into the future to take out the shooters before they could kill anyone... What self-respecting wingnut pundit couldn't get at least five posts out of "Things Might Have Been Different If"?

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  113. satch1:18 PM

    I dunno.. how self-aware do you have to be to follow the Wingnut Prime Directive: "Kill anyone who's different"?

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  114. PersonaAuGratin1:34 PM

    Not even a tomahawk?

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  115. Freshly Squeezed Cynic1:34 PM

    This would be the France with 31.2 guns per 100 people, right?

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  116. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person1:51 PM

    Count me among those who note Bill "Always fucking wrong about everything" Kristol's snubbing of La Palin in re: the 2016 TeaOP Klown Kar and are reassured. I mean, a Palin-less campaign--even if only in the Primaries--would be like Larry and Curly without Moe, a tornado without a trailer park, a Thanksgiving dinner without Miracle Whip pizza and a Glock 17 Jello mold. OK, I didn't really mean that last one...

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  117. PersonaAuGratin1:52 PM

    Luckily, I've spent my working life in professional and mostly congenial workplaces, but even so I can think of several instances where everyone around the conference table being armed would have been a very, very bad idea.

    http://youtu.be/958GzzqgWnw

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  118. smut clyde1:55 PM

    Poppies, right? Row on row?

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  119. TheGuy2:12 PM

    If Charles C W Cooke thinks things would have been different in Oklahoma maybe someone ought to tell him about Timothy McVeigh.

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  120. TheGuy2:16 PM

    *BOOM* WINNER

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  121. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person2:18 PM

    concealed automatic rocket launchers


    Combining the Gyrojet of the '60s with modern "Smart Bullet" technology would give you a weapon both the terrorists and home grown gun nuts would splooge over...

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  122. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person2:19 PM

    Triffids, man...

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  123. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person2:20 PM

    And if it does, we end up with the Derpinator...

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  124. smut clyde3:09 PM

    I started this post thinking it was kind of funny...


    "What does it say about Obama that I have written this conspiracy parody about him and ended up believing it?"

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  125. I never thought of that... I guess an authentic one could pass the metal detectors easily enough.

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  126. Tbone4:36 PM

    Funny, continetti didn't come to my defense when I got banned from the nro for quoting Buckley.

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  127. Could an average group of Anime Cosplay unarmed teenagers have taken on a couple of guys with automatic weapons & rocket launchers?


    Could Abe Lincoln? How about Honest George Washington? Ben Franklin?


    How about Speaker Boner, or Senate leader McTurtle?


    Inquiring minds wonder.

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  128. It IS, it IS! Someone belonging to another religion is religious persecution of you & your religion! Someone claiming to be an atheist is trying to destroy all religion and the morals religion stands for! Someone criticizing YOUR opinion is stifling your Free Speech! Someone in favor of gun control (trigger locks, registration, etc) is trampling on the 2nd Amendment!

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  129. I've never heard of even one.

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  130. The follow the "Fox Doctrine", which is ramp up the hate, ramp up the viciousness, ramp up the insults and slanders and criminal accusations, till practically no one can even hear your "screeeeeeee!", not even dogs! Then be shocked when someone complains.

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  131. Truth is gravity and speed-of-light, and ... oh, wait. Hmm.

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  132. Its the toxins in the tears.

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  133. Tell dead Ronnie Regan that!

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  134. And those are the relatively sane ones.

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  135. You might get explosive diarrhea.

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  136. I'm imagining armed cashiers at Winchell's, where I worked for 18 months.

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  137. Dumbcracks... only weapon in conservative pundits arsenal.

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  138. Bill O'Rielly is writing a book about it right now. Regenery is wetting their pants in anticipation of the profits!

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  139. Aria kidding me? Gee, Major, that's a terrible pun!

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  140. Maybe Tennessee?

    The Unitarian Universalist church hosted a youth performance of Annie Jr. Some 200 people were watching the performance by 25 children when Adkisson ... pulled a Remington Model 48 12-gauge shotgun out of a guitar case and began firing.... (claimed to be motivated by hatred of democrats, liberals, African Americans & Gays.)

    The shooter was stopped when church members John Bohstedt, Robert Birdwell, Arthur Bolds, and Terry Uselton and visitor Jamie Parkey restrained him.

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  141. Gromet5:24 PM

    Buzzfeed cites nine since 1997 -- so one every two years. However, if you actually read, four involved armed off-duty cops; that brings it to one every 3.6 years. And of those, in the Clackamass one, it is not 100% clear (to me) that the shooter even saw the armed civilian (who was definitely brave, and acted 100% professionally); an account I read at the time indicated the shooter retreated because cops arrived. So, there've been 4 or 5 armed-civilian day-savings in 18 years, or possibly one every 4.5 years. That is great. But Adam Lanza's own mother had plenty of guns and that didn't prevent Newtown. http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/10-potential-mass-shootings-that-were-stopped-by-someone-wit#.us7pZJQ1j

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  142. Regnery is wetting their pants?

    Thats not excitement. Given the o'reilly demographic thats just old age.

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  143. StringOnAStick9:51 PM

    Wait, don't tell me; it's going to called "Killing Polite Society", right?

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  144. Halloween_Jack9:53 AM

    Now why on earth did I have to check to see that "Miracle Whip pizza" was a real thing? Dear Bob in Steven, it is.

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  145. Quoting Buckley at NRO is beyond the pale. I got banned for that too.

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  146. What if the B-52s watched "Napoleon Dynamite" in Waterloo, NY?

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