There is a disconnect when it comes to guns in America

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.
~Michael Bloomberg

Thanks to Adam Lanza, 20, of New Jersey who went on a murderous rampage in an elementary school in Newtown Connecticut killing children and teachers, the NRA ranks will again swell and gun stores will have a bumper crop in gun sales.  Following the movie theater shooting in Colorado there was an up surge in gun sales and I am sure we will see it again following the elementary school shooting in Connecticut.  The NRA defends the right of every red blooded American to own guns, no matter how irrational that is.  The bigger the caliber the better. Every American has a right according to the NRA to own as many guns as he can afford.
There is a disconnect when it comes to guns in America, and we need a new national dialogue on gun ownership.  Who really needs guns?  Of course we recognize that law enforcement and military need them.  After that if no one else had guns maybe and just maybe these senseless mass killings wouldn't happen,  Oops, forgot if you take away guns from HONEST CITIZENS then only the criminals will have guns.  NO, that is an old argument that is full of crap.  If we eliminate guns in society the criminal's guns will dry up also.  Most criminals don't march into a school, movie theater or a diner and open fire on everybody in there.  It is the seething, law abiding, citizen who finally goes nuts at some perceived bullshit that does this.  It is the guy who's second amendment right's are protected by the NRA that does it. 
Think of all the people you know or are related too who have never had a criminal past and could go out and buy guns.  Do you think they are all stable.  Would you like to see them all with guns.  We need to rethink the second amendment and it's interpretation.  Maybe the phrase " a well regulated militia..." means the military, not Joe crazy next door.





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Romney Gets It Backward

Romney Gets It Backward
Whats new?  Does he ever get it right? This guy is a jerk.  

The GOP platform

“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy”

~Theodore Roosevelt

I AM TRYING TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND ON THE ELECTION CHOICES.  BUT, I JUST CAN NOT FIND ANYTHING ATTRACTIVE ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN POSITIONS.  THIS MORNING I WATCHED CONDOLEEZZA RICE SPEAKING RE:  WHAT DIFFERENCE ROMNEY WILL HAVE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON CBS.  IT WAS ALL GENERALIZATIONS,SUCH AS "LEADERSHIP" AND "RESPECT".  THE COMMENTATORS REPEATEDLY ASKED WHAT ROMNEY WOULD DO VS. OBAMA.  NO ANSWER. SO, WHAT ARE THE "SOLUTIONS" OFFERED BY THE GOP.

1) I'M NOT ATTRACTED TO-ANTI UNION RHETORIC.  WE ALL KNOW WHY UNIONS EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE, ABUSIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTI UNION RIGHTS TO BARGAIN;

2) SHIFTING BLAME TO OBAMA FOR THE DEFICIT & the cost of 2 wars; REFUSING TO MENTION THE "MANAGEMENT CLASS" PLUNGING THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM INTO

CHAOS THROUGH FRAUDULENT SECURITIZED MORTGAGE INSTRUMENTS & CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS, FORCING GUYS LIKE US TO BAIL OUT THE SYSTEM & INCUR DEFICITS; CONTINUAL UNPUNISHED RISKY BEHAVIORS & ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES OF THE "BEST & BRIGHTEST MANAGEMENT CLASS" (I.E. CORZINE, LEHMAN BROS., ETC.); INHERITING THE BUSH DEFICITS

3) THREATEN ENTITLEMENTS WITHOUT SPECIFICS ON REFORM

4) ROMNEY'S REFUSAL TO DISCLOSE MUCH PERSONAL TAX INFO

5) ANTI-ABORTION

6) CAMPAIGN MENTION OF BRINGING BACK THE DRAFT

7) ABSOLUTE REFUSAL TO MAKE ANY DEALS RE: CLOSING THE BUDGET GAP (I WANT PEOPLE WHO WILL MAKE DEALS.)

8) THREATENING TO REMOVE BEN BERNANKE.  (THE MAN HAS SAVED US VIA POSTPONING DISASTER, GIVING US TIME TO GET OUR HOUSE IN ORDER.) THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO BRING BACK "DEREGULATION", THE POLICY POPULARIZED BY BUSH I & BUSH II,...THE POLICY THAT BROUGHT US THE EVER POPULAR KEATING BANKING LOAN SCANDALS & THE PRIME LENDING MORTGAGE SECURITY SCANDALS RESPECTIVELY. YES, LET'S "UNSHACKLE" THE "BEST & THE BRIGHTEST"("WORST & CROOKEDEST") SO THAT THEY CAN ENRICH THEMSELVES FURTHER AT THE EXPENSE OF THE "CORPORATION BAILOUT TAXPAYERS".

9) THE BIG BUCKS CONSERVATIVE SUPPORTERS OF ROMNEY HAVE STUCK HIM WITH RADICAL "ENTITLEMENT BUDGET BUTCHER" PAUL RYAN, MUCH AS THEY STUCK McCAIN WITH "LOCK & LOAD" SARAH PALIN.

10) PLANNING TO REDUCE CORPORATE TAXES, WHILE MAINTAINING ALL OF THEIR TAX LOOPHOLES MAKING OUR CORPORATIONS THE LEAST TAXED IN THE WORLD ALSO, THE CLIMATE CREATED BY FRINGE CONSERVATIVES HAVE ENCOURAGED RIGHT WING RADIO SHOW HOSTS TO MAKE OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS, I.E. "OBAMA HAS PROCLAIMED HIMSELF AS EMPEROR & HAS TAKEN AWAY THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE".  THUS APPEALING TO GUN WIELDING DISTURBED MALCONTENTS WHO COMMIT VIOLENT ACTS WITH ASSAULT WEAPONS.

READ BETWEEN THE LIES,

YOUR FELLOW AMERICAN

MEMBER OF THE COFFEE PARTY






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Lies, lies and more lies

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
~Adolf Hitler

Here is a list of five lies that Paul Ryan told when he gave his speech at the Republican National Convention last night. Every single news outlet should report on these lies.
1. Lie: President Obama is the "greatest threat" to Medicare.
Truth: Obama didn't make any cuts to Medicare benefits; he made cuts to provider reimbursements, to improve cost efficiency and extend the fiscal security of Medicare by eight years. According to the Medicare actuary, "[Obama's] Affordable Care Act makes important changes to the Medicare program and substantially improves its financial outlook."
But Ryan actually does want to cut benefits. He proposed dismantling Medicare and replacing it with a voucher system, leaving millions of seniors to come up with more money to pay for care out of pocket.
2. Lie: President Obama didn't save a General Motors plant in Wisconsin.
Truth: First, Obama wasn't even in office when the GM plant closed. Second, Obama never made a promise to save it.
3. Lie: President Obama ignored recommendations of a bipartisan debt commission.
Truth: Paul Ryan actually sat on that commission. And he led Republicans in voting down the commission's own recommendation. So the commission never gave a report to Obama, because Ryan himself voted to kill the report before it could.
4. Lie: President Obama is responsible for the downgrading of the U.S. Credit Rating
Truth: House Republicans, including Paul Ryan, held the full faith and credit of the United States hostage to try to ransom it for trillions of dollars in cuts to social programs without increasing taxes on the wealthy one dime. Standard & Poors said specifically, "We have changed our assumption on [revenue] because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues." That's why our nation's credit rating was downgraded.
5. Lie: Ryan wants to protect the "weak."
Truth: Ryan's biggest feat in his political career was proposing a budget with dramatic cuts to programs benefiting the poor. He'd cut Medicaid by one third, take away health care insurance from 30 million Americans, and cut Pell Grants for 1 million students. All so that he could give more tax breaks to the rich.
Brenda Witt  moveon.org




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Colorado Republican Blasts Romney on Wind: Romney Blows Iowa and Colorado

Romney plans on fucking fellow Republicans and has plans to lay of thousands off workers in rural states.  What an asshole.

Colorado Republican Blasts Romney on Wind: Romney Blows Iowa and Colorado

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