Josh Lyman posted:

I'm not sure where to ask this, but considering the inaction in the wake of Sandy Hook, will we only get gun reform if someone kills Wayne LaPierre and/or his wife/daughter at an NRA meeting?

Josh Lyman posted:

I'm not sure where to ask this, but considering the inaction in the wake of Sandy Hook, will we only get gun reform if someone kills Wayne LaPierre and/or his wife/daughter at an NRA meeting?

Tender Bender posted:

Yeah, certain people literally think "Freedom of religion" means "Everyone has to follow my religion". Everything that happens that doesn't further solidify the United States as a zealous branch of the Catholic Church is perceived as infringing on Christian rights. I was nearly thrown out of my mother's house on Easter for saying I didn't think it was a "slap in the face" that Google didn't put a picture of Jesus Christ on their homepage (look up this "controversy" if you missed it, it's pretty amazing).

CarterUSM posted:

Sir Tonk posted:

Everyone in America is free to be a Christian!

Generic American posted:

The answer is more guns. Always more guns. Even if you didn't ask the question, the answer is still more guns. If Wayne LaPierre suddenly swapped sides on the issue due to a personal tragedy, the people who liked him before would stop liking him and the people who didn't like him would probably only mention him in passing as a footnote.

CarterUSM posted:

CarterUSM posted:

During the whole "employer-provided health care contraception" kerfluffle, one of the local Catholic hospitals had a bunch of employees sporting that "RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: PROTECT IT" bumper sticker showing the Statue of Liberty holding a cross instead of a torch.

I wonder if they had the faintest idea how that symbolism probably looked to the Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, etc. with which they worked.

Edit: the bumper sticker in question:

SedanChair posted:

She looks like she's about to whack somebody with that cross. "Somebody"

Onion A/V Club posted:

Atlas Shrugged producers turn to Kickstarter for help warning others against moochers

In an effort to further Ayn Rand’s message critiquing altruism and promoting the virtue of selfishness, rejecting all moochers who would dare claim your money by tears, the producers of the third Atlas Shrugged movie have launched a Kickstarter campaign asking for donations, predicated on reminding supporters of the critics who have hurt it. As reported earlier this year, despite the free market repeatedly determining it would rather not have any Atlas Shrugged movies, producers Harmon Kaslow and John Aglialoro boldly refused to relinquish their rational self-interests to a world that would dare take their ideas from them, chiefly by not paying to see them. And because of their indefatigable commitment to film Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? by the fall—and thus propagate its titular character’s manifesto to “never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine”—Kaslow and Aglialoro have turned to asking other men to give them $250,000.

Of course—using the same foresight that’s convinced them it’s the third Atlas Shrugged movie that will finally reach the masses, despite the first two earning less than $8 million combined—both have already anticipated that certain people may find something ironic about their asking others to give, all to create a movie that’s little more than one long speech decrying the act of asking others to give. “Isn’t asking for charity antithetical to Ayn Rand’s philosophy?” reads the FAQ, to which the answer is an obvious no, because Rand’s philosophy just had a problem with being forced to give through some absolute moral authority, which Kickstarter definitely isn’t (yet).

In fact, as with the world-stopping action that you’re being asked to pay to hear John Galt talk smugly about for an hour, their call to arms is less about the “value” of money or even entertainment than it is the value of pure spite. “The movie is actually already fully funded,” the FAQ says right up front, adding that the whole, give-$250,000-to-a-movie-about-self-reliance campaign is really just a marketing technique aimed at wringing negative publicity out of those who would mock it, apparently by giving them all the ammo they would ever need.

“We know from our experience with the first two films that there is an incredible amount of vitriol out there and, we have every intention of capitalizing on it this time around,” they write. “As we launch the Kickstarter campaign, those haters are going to come ALIVE. They're going to come after us in droves attacking us everywhere online. To them, we say thank you. Thank you for helping us spread the word.” Gratitude, after all, is what is owed to those industrious few who produce.

Internet Webguy posted:

Everyone's favorite right-wing film trilogy is having a little trouble with funding and is asking for help in the most ironic way possible.


First time I've seen a puppet master strategy deployed to advertise a movie, but it's hilariously ironic that this is the one that is doing it.

Source.

Internet Webguy posted:

Everyone's favorite right-wing film trilogy is having a little trouble with funding and is asking for help in the most ironic way possible.


First time I've seen a puppet master strategy deployed to advertise a movie, but it's hilariously ironic that this is the one that is doing it.

Source.

Josh Lyman posted:

I'm not sure where to ask this, but considering the inaction in the wake of Sandy Hook, will we only get gun reform if someone kills Wayne LaPierre and/or his wife/daughter at an NRA meeting?

Internet Webguy posted:

Everyone's favorite right-wing film trilogy is having a little trouble with funding and is asking for help in the most ironic way possible.

quote:

"You cannot build a congressional majority, in either party, for any kind of action, unless you are treating your colleagues with some certain amount of respect, and saying, ‘Hey, what do you think of my idea?’” Karl Rove told Wallace, speaking of Cruz and Utah Senator Mike Lee, who are together leading the Don't Fund Obamacare movement. “Instead they have dictated to their colleagues ... and not consulted them about this strategy at all.”

Internet Webguy posted:

Everyone's favorite right-wing film trilogy is having a little trouble with funding and is asking for help in the most ironic way possible.


First time I've seen a puppet master strategy deployed to advertise a movie, but it's hilariously ironic that this is the one that is doing it.

Source.

Infomaniac posted:

And he is addressing "mr. President" all the time but I'm not quite sure if he means Obama or the President of the Senate.

Internet Webguy posted:

Everyone's favorite right-wing film trilogy is having a little trouble with funding and is asking for help in the most ironic way possible.


First time I've seen a puppet master strategy deployed to advertise a movie, but it's hilariously ironic that this is the one that is doing it.

Source.

greatn posted:

The Fox "One Man's Obama Care Nightmare" article is now the top article on Bing for me.

Infomaniac posted:

I just get the feeling that he is totally faking sincerity

Mel Mudkiper posted:

"When someone else fails, it is because they were not strong enough to survive the free market. When I fail, its because someone else held me back." - Every Libertarian Ever

fade5 posted:

I was actually discussing this with my dad, and he and I basically came to the consensus that someone would have to shoot up the NRA headquarters to get the NRA to stop their opposition to gun control/reform.

quote:

Last Wednesday, the great usurper, Barack Hussein Obama, after having been indicted by an Ocala, Florida citizens' grand jury, was convicted by a people's court of defrauding the American people and Floridians by proffering them with a fake birth certificate. See https://www.citizensgrandjury.com. As readers of this column and https://www.wnd.com know too well, Obama is not a natural born citizen eligible to be president of the United States, as he was not born in this country to two American citizen parents. However, to justify his fraud and his elections to the highest office in the land, and after years of inquiry, in 2011 the Obama White House posted on its website a birth certificate purporting to show him having been born in Hawaii. The problem is however, according to forensic experts, the birth certificate is altered and forged.

The day of reckoning has come. Obama, having failed to plead in response to the indictment that was served upon him, waived his right to a jury trial. Thumbing his nose at We the People, as the citizens' prosecutor, I appeared before a citizens' court judge and presented evidence from Cold Case Posse investigator Michael Zullo showing that Obama tricked voters into electing him in 2008 and 2012. As a result, the citizens' judge found him guilty on two counts of falsifying information to federal and state election officials. He was thus sentenced to the maximum prison term for these offenses of 10 years, and ordered to immediately surrender himself into the custody of the citizens of the United States and Florida.

Of course, Obama will not willingly obey the law of the people. He will attempt to hide behind the iron fences of the White House, perhaps cowering under his desk for fear that the people will rise up and demand his ouster.

On November 19, 2013, a day that will hopefully live on in the history of our once great republic, I call upon millions of Americans who have been appalled and disgusted by Obama's criminality – his Muslim, socialist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-white, pro-illegal immigrant, pro-radical gay and lesbian agenda – among other outrages, to descend on Washington, D.C., en masse, and demand that he leave town and resign from office if he does not want to face prison time.

Joementum posted:

Make sure to update your calendars, the coup is now scheduled for November 19th.

Joementum posted:

Make sure to update your calendars, the coup is now scheduled for November 19th.

Infomaniac posted:

Oh, god!! BIBLE bedtime stories from cruz. This is real !!


Green eggs and ham. For real. I'm pretty sure that the message from the book is lost on him, though. Maybe his version has the end missing.

radical meme posted:

No way he beats this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPy2alWEZ-U

Phone posted:

The Youtube description is all sorts of .

quote:

On November 19, 2013, a day that will hopefully live on in the history of our once great republic, I call upon millions of Americans who have been appalled and disgusted by Obama's criminality – his Muslim, socialist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-white, pro-illegal immigrant, pro-radical gay and lesbian agenda – among other outrages, to descend on Washington, D.C., en masse, and demand that he leave town and resign from office if he does not want to face prison time.

quote:

Last Wednesday, the great usurper, Barack Hussein Obama, after having been indicted by an Ocala, Florida citizens' grand jury, was convicted by a people's court of defrauding the American people and Floridians by proffering them with a fake birth certificate. See https://www.citizensgrandjury.com. As readers of this column and https://www.wnd.com know too well, Obama is not a natural born citizen eligible to be president of the United States, as he was not born in this country to two American citizen parents. However, to justify his fraud and his elections to the highest office in the land, and after years of inquiry, in 2011 the Obama White House posted on its website a birth certificate purporting to show him having been born in Hawaii. The problem is however, according to forensic experts, the birth certificate is altered and forged.

The day of reckoning has come. Obama, having failed to plead in response to the indictment that was served upon him, waived his right to a jury trial. Thumbing his nose at We the People, as the citizens' prosecutor, I appeared before a citizens' court judge and presented evidence from Cold Case Posse investigator Michael Zullo showing that Obama tricked voters into electing him in 2008 and 2012. As a result, the citizens' judge found him guilty on two counts of falsifying information to federal and state election officials. He was thus sentenced to the maximum prison term for these offenses of 10 years, and ordered to immediately surrender himself into the custody of the citizens of the United States and Florida.

Of course, Obama will not willingly obey the law of the people. He will attempt to hide behind the iron fences of the White House, perhaps cowering under his desk for fear that the people will rise up and demand his ouster.

I further propose that we borrow the techniques perfected and used by such epic crusaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, to show Obama and his enablers that the American people are more than fed up and will not take it any more. The millions who are being summoned to our nation's capital should, like Gandhi did in India and South Africa, peacefully shut the city down, by blocking roads and massing in front of the White House chanting for Obama to get out of our nation's capital. In addition, I propose bringing the victims of his reign of terror to a podium across from the White House in Lafayette Park to give their testimony on how he has singularly severely harmed and in some instances even killed their loved ones through his actions.

In the words of Thomas Paine in the days leading up to the first American Revolution, "these are the times that try men's souls." The nation under Obama and even his inert and castrated political opponents, the Republican Party, have driven our country into the bowels of impending doom. The moral and ethical fabric, our economic underpinnings, and our national confidence and prestige are in the tank. Russia has become the leading world power, however evil and compromised under its communist KGB leader Vladimir Putin. The United States is a mere shell of its prior self under real modern leaders like Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, to name just a few.

We must act now. Our Founding Fathers pledged their sacred honor, fortunes, and lives to form a new nation under God. They knew that the odds of defeating the British were not great, save for His Divine grace and intervention. Now, 237 years after they signed the Declaration of Independence in my native city of Philadelphia, the nation has come full circle to the tyranny that has been imposed by a new despot, one far more evil than King George III. King George III may have been a greedy "control freak," but at least he was a Christian. The United States is being run by a Muslim bent on furthering an Islamic caliphate who seeks to destroy our spirituality and the body politic of our Judeo-Christian roots.

Life is not easy. It requires risk and sacrifice. If as a nation we want to restore our freedom, and we are on the verge of being enslaved under Obama's socialist Muslim inclinations, we must take our fight to a new level. Tea partiers, bikers, construction workers, police officers, school teachers, farmers, truckers, clergy, housewives, husbands, students, doctors, lawyers and all elements of our society who see our nation slipping away into the abyss, must now stand tall and descend on the capital, much like the Egyptians recently did in ousting another radical Muslim, their then president Mohammed Morsi. If the Egyptians can seek to rid their country of the poison of the Muslim Brotherhood without any real history of democracy, then we Americans, who know what democracy is and have practiced it prior to the ascension of the great usurper, can and must succeed.

Obama has now been convicted of having defrauded the American people into electing him as president. Even more so than Nixon during Watergate, he has no legitimacy to remain president and must be forced to resign. If We the People do not demand justice and remove him from office, then we will be furthering his fraud and we will have no one but ourselves to blame for the death of the greatest nation ever to have been on this earth.

In the words of one of our great Founding Fathers and an architect of our Constitution, "we must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin walked the walk along with the likes of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Let us now walk in their footsteps and march into to Washington, D.C., this November 19th, and rid the nation of the criminal who lurks in our White House. Let us send a message to the other corrupt government officials of all political persuasions, that this is our nation, not theirs. Let's "Occupy Washington" and restore freedom to our shores!

Paranoid Delusional lunatic posted:

"we must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

quote:

Russia has become the leading world power, however evil and compromised under its communist KGB leader Vladimir Putin.

PrinceRandom posted:

...What?

Russia is barely a coherent state much less a world power. It's proof that just possessing an inordinate amount of resources can sort of propel anything into relevance.