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Entries Tagged as 'Absurd'

MARTA Takes Aim At GA Gun Owners

June 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

From GeorgiaCarry.Org:

Please use caution on MARTA!
Those of you who live in the Atlanta area know that MARTA is the local mass transit agency. It operates both buses and trains. GeorgiaCarry.Org previously informed you in a GCO Update that it was working in conjunction with MARTA (at MARTA’s invitation) to develop an agreed policy [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Georgia · Government · Guns

When Does ‘Semiautomatic’ Mean ‘Machine Gun’?

June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From The Violence Policy Center, one of the most effective anti-gun hysteria brokers in Washington:

The [Supreme] Court’s ruling today [on DC v Heller] does not appear to affect the District’s [of Columbia] ban on “machine guns,” which under DC law includes any gun “which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted or [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Government · Guns

And Congress Gets Their Money From Where?

June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From TaxingTennessee:

Here’s the question — “Should Congress quit funding for Public Television and NPR, Public Radio?”
Richard Guess of Charleston says, “Congress should continue paying for it because if they don’t, the taxpayers will end up paying for it.”

Some people in the US are simply too stupid to vote.

Richard GuessSpread The Word:

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Tags: Absurd · Government · Money

Public Service Announcement: Georgia, MARTA, And Guns

June 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Those of you in Georgia probably realize that on July 1 House Bill 89 takes effect, allowing the legal carry of firearm by a licensed individual on public transportation, including MARTA.
You may also remember reading that:

Meeting at MARTA headquarters at Lindbergh Station, the board also heard a presentation from MARTA police on how they intend [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Georgia · Government · Guns

Evolution From Rugged Individual To Sheep

June 24th, 2008 · Comments Off

From the San Jose Mercury News:

Investigators struggled Tuesday to explain why a 27-year-old man with no criminal record and no apparent signs of mental illness savagely beat his toddler son to death on a dark country road.
Sergio Casian Aguiar, who worked at a supermarket in Turlock, was fatally shot by police Saturday night after he [...]

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Tags: Absurd · California · Crime/Law · The Left

Is Obama An Enlightened Being?

June 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

By Mark Morford, San Francisco Gate columnist and stark raving Moonbat:

I find I’m having this discussion, this weird little debate, more and more, with colleagues, with readers, with liberals and moderates and miserable, deeply depressed Republicans and spiritually amped persons of all shapes and stripes and I’m having it in particular with those who seem [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Election · The Left · The US

Random Thoughts On Gasoline Prices

June 16th, 2008 · Comments Off

ANWR is larger than the combined areas of five states (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware) and drilling along its coastal plain would be confined to a space one-sixth the size of Washington’s Dulles Airport. Why aren’t we already drilling there?
39 Democrat Senators, including Barack Obama, and 33 Republican Senators, including John McCain, [...]