Reagan On Gun Control

 

Long before these school, mall and movie theater massacres and long before proliferation of high capacity magazines President Reagan had a lot of thoughts on gun control.  Reagan along with his press secretary Jim Brady was a victim of gun violence.

 

“This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.”

• Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan, in a May 3, 1994 letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, which was also signed by Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

“I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.”

• Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan, in a speech at his 78th birthday celebration in Los Angeles on February 6, 1989.

“Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.”

• Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan, in an August 28, 1986 signing statement on a bill that banned the production and importation of armor-piercing bullets.

“With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.”

• Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan, speech at George Washington University in a on March 29, 1991.

“Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.”

• Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan, in a March 29, 1991 New York Times op-ed in support of the Brady Bill.

“I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.”

• Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan, in a press conference in Toronto on June 21, 1988, suggesting that prospective gun owners should have to receive training before purchasing a firearm.

“Well, I think there has to be some [gun] control.”

• Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan, during a question-and-answer session with high-school students on November 14, 1988.

Westboro Baptist Church Cult Plans to Protest Connecticut Shooting Funerals

Westboro Baptist Church cult plans to protest Connecticut shooting funerals just two days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults.

According to reports from Human Events and The Gateway Pundit, Westboro Baptist Church cult plans to protest Connecticut shooting funerals days after the tragic event ended the lives of the 26 people that were shot and killed. As the tragic event continues to unfold as new details about the shooter, Adam Lanza, are released, the Westboro Baptist Church cult plans to protest Connecticut shooting funerals as they believe this is “God’s work.”

Westboro Baptist Church Cult Plans to Protest Connecticut Shooting Funerals – Using the Tragedy as a “Sign from God”

Known for their infamous protests of 9/11, in which they displayed picket signs thanking God for the event that killed thousands of Americans, the Westboro Baptist Church cult plans to protest Connecticut shooting funerals as they believe this is another sign of God’s work. Supporter and member Shirley Phelps-Roper tweeted about the expected protest:

Westboro will picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment.
— Shirley Phelps-Roper (@DearShirley) December 15, 2012

Another tweet about how Westboro Baptist Church cult plans to protest Connecticut shooting funerals has hit the mainstream social media as Margie Phelps tweeted:

#Died4Fags2WedMT @voiceofobrien: Westboro “God hates Fags” Baptist Church is planning to picket at Sandy Hook, to praise “God’s judgment.”
— MargiePhelps (@MargieJPhelps) December 15, 2012

Many people have been shocked and outraged by the fact that Westboro Baptist Church cult plans to protest Connecticut shooting funerals. Those same people have taken to twitter to reply back to members of the Westboro Baptist Church to express their disgust. One twitter user wrote to Shirley:

@dearshirley Where in the bible does it tell you to add suffering to suffering? You are no more a person of god than you are a decent human.
— Michele Catalano (@inthefade) December 15, 2012

Westboro Baptist Church Cult Plans to Protest Connecticut Shooting Funerals.

Read more at http://americanlivewire.com/westboro-baptist-church-cult-plans-to-protest-connecticut-shooting-funerals/#82XgbHUswP7brAFQ.99

There is a simple way to shutdown Westboro Baptist Church and that is for the mainstream Christian church to discredit them Biblically but the problem is Westboro Baptist is spot on from a Biblical perspective. The problem is they can't.  Shirley Phelps will chew up and spit out any Christian scholar.

Republican Rules For Business Are Based On The Ferengi Rules Of Acquistion

Once you have their money ... never give it back.
    Never pay more for a vote than you have to.
    Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity.
    A man is only worth the sum of his possessions.
    Keep your ears open.
    Small print leads to large risk.
    Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.
    Greed is eternal.
    Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.
    A deal is a deal ... until a better one comes along.
    A contract is a contract is a contract (but only between other snakes).
    A Republican without Greed is no Republican at all.
    Satisfaction is not guaranteed.


  
Never place friendship above profit.
    A wise man can hear profit in the wind.
    Nothing is more important than your health--except for your money.
    There's nothing more dangerous than an honest businessman.
    Never make fun of a Republican's mother ... insult something he cares about instead.
    It never hurts to suck up to the boss.
    War is good for business.
    Peace is bad for business.
    She can touch your dick but never your money.
    Profit is its own reward.
    Never confuse wisdom with luck.
    Expand, or die.
    Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own.
    The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.
    Females and finance don't mix.
    Never ask when you can take.
    Good customers are as rare as platinum -- treasure them.
    There is no substitute for success.
    Free advice is seldom cheap.
    Keep your lies consistent.
    The riskier the road, the greater the profit.
    Win or lose, there's always coke.
    Home is where the heart is ... but the stars are made of money.
    Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
    Beware of the Science's greed for knowledge.
    The flimsier the product, the higher the price.
    Never let the competition know what you're thinking.
  

Gov Rick Scott and former CEO of HCA

Ask not what your profits can do for you, but what you   can do for your profits.
    Ethics and finances don't mix.
   
Enough ... is never enough.
  
 
 Every man has his price.
    Trust is the biggest liability of all.
    Nature decays, but platinum lasts forever.
    Sleep can interfere with profit.
   
Faith moves mountains ... of inventory.
    There is no honour in poverty.
    Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.
    Treat people in your debt like family ... exploit them.
    Never have sex with the boss's sister.
    Always have sex with the boss.
    You can't free a fish from water.
    Everything is for sale, even friendship.
    Even a blind man can recognize the glow of latinum.
    You can't make a deal if you're dead.
    Wives serve, brothers inherit.
    Only fools pay retail.
   
There's nothing wrong with charity ... as long as it winds up in your pocket.
  
    Even in the worst of times someone turns a profit.
 
    Know your enemies ... but do business with them always.
    Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit.
    Let others keep their reputation. You keep their money.
    Hear all, trust nothing.
   
Never cheat a the government ... unless you're sure you can get away with it.
  
It's always good business to know about new customers before they walk in the door.
   
**The justification for profit is profit.**
  
New customers are like razortoothed grubworms. They can be succulent, but sometimes they can bite back.

Sometimes the only thing more dangerous than a question is an answer.
 


 **Employees are rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.**
  

Never begin a negotiation on an empty stomach.
  
You can't free a fish from water.
    Always know what you're buying.
    Beware the man who doesn't make time for oo-mox.
    Money lasts longer than lust.
    You can't buy fate.
  
 
 **Never be afraid to mislabel a product.**
    More is good ... all is better.
    A wife is a luxury ... a smart lawyer is a necessity.
  

**A wealthy man can afford anything except a conscience.**
  

**Never allow doubt to tarnish your love of money.**
  

When in doubt, lie.
  
Deep down everyone's a Republican.

EAT THE RICH!

Jackie Mason & Michael Savage: Ban Guns From Those on Psycho Meds

Jackie Mason Nailed It Long Ago

Michael Savage Hits The Nail On The Head Too!



The common thread in nearly all these school shootings are psych meds.

 

The Newton School Shooting

I can't say much and I won't say much. I found out when someone near and dear to me tearfully told me about this horrific event. I was numb for an hour.



The talking heads are running their mouths and the journalists I respect, Rachel Maddow and Ed Shultz have disapointed me as has the rest of the media. One common thread that the media will not report is the prescription drug connection in almost all these shooting.

I will provide some links with data regarding the role prescription drugs play in these acts of violence. The media's knee jerk reaction to blame guns while ignoring the role drugs play makes me want to vomit.

Switzerland has more guns and they have very little gun violence.


Contact your elected officials and mention the drug connection. Get informed and please leave comment with information about SSRIs and violence.

I will update this story with links to data on antidepressants and violence.

Rachel and Ed are right about one thing... we do need stricter gun laws but I would oppose banning semi auto guns no matter how scary they look.

AR-15 found in the shooter's car

A 9mm Sig Sauer was used in the shooting

A Glock 9mm was used in the shooting

This Colt semi-automatic hammerless pistol was produced between 1903 and 1945. It operates similarly to the Glock and the Sig Sauer. The point is, these style of hand guns have been around for over 100 years.

Astounding increase in antidepressant use by Americans

Posted October 20, 2011, 12:46 pm

Peter Wehrwein, Editor, Harvard Health

Remember when the best-selling book Listening to Prozac came out almost 20 years ago?
Now Americans aren’t just reading about Prozac. They are taking it and other antidepressants (Celexa, Effexor, Paxil, Zoloft, to name just a few) in astounding numbers.

According to a report released yesterday by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the rate of antidepressant use in this country among teens and adults (people ages 12 and older) increased by almost 400% between 1988–1994 and 2005–2008.

The federal government’s health statisticians figure that about one in every 10 Americans takes an antidepressant. And by their reckoning, antidepressants were the third most common prescription medication taken by Americans in 2005–2008, the latest period during which the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) collected data on prescription drug use.

Here are a few other stand-out statistics from the report on antidepressants:

• 23% of women in their 40s and 50s take antidepressants, a higher percentage than any other group (by age or sex)
• Women are 2½ times more likely to be taking an antidepressant than men (click here to read a May 2011 article in the Harvard Mental Health Letter about women and depression)
• 14% of non-Hispanic white people take antidepressants compared with just 4% of non-Hispanic blacks and 3% of Mexican Americans
• Less than a third of Americans who are taking a single antidepressants (as opposed to two or more) have seen a mental health professional in the past year
• Antidepressant use does not vary by income status.

So is it a good thing that so many more Americans are taking antidepressants? Many (perhaps most) mental health professionals would say, yes, because depression has been undertreated and because antidepressants are effective.

But there are also plenty of critics, as shown by this review in the New York Review of Books, who say the benefits have been overstated and that pharmaceutical company marketing is responsible for the surge in prescriptions.

Of course there’s a middle ground that combines—some might say muddles—these two points of view: depression was neglected and sometimes antidepressants are the remedy, but there is some overuse and has been a major factor in the 400% increase.

What do you think? Has an antidepressant worked for you? Have the benefits been exaggerated and the side effects downplayed?

Kate Harding Dead?

Old Fat Girls Never Die They Just Smell That Way

After the demise of NAAFA the Fatosphere exploded in a flabbalache of angry fat girl fat acceptance blogs. The most famous and the angriest belonged to Kate Harding. When cornered with logic or reality Kate would angrily oink the term douche canoe at her detractors where as those of us in the new Man Friendly Fat Acceptance Movement would just oink.

In 2010  fat acceptances' philosopher queen Kate Harding vanished like a fart in the wind only to leave the fatosphere more splintered and even more chaotic. It seems that Kate has paddled her douche canoe into unknown waters leaving another vacuum in the already vacuous and leaderless old fat acceptance movement.

Rumors continue to swirl. Is it true that Kate went on a diet and is not the dreaded and much maligned size 4 that she was famous in condemning? Is she now merely a butter face? Sid she go the Carnie Wilson route and have weight loss surgery.

Like so many fat girls Kate was unable to admit that your can't have obesity without gluttony. If fat girls like Kate Harding were truly fat accepting then they would be gluttony accepting.

Kate's defection to the other side... 

Lean and Elegant Me Me Roth

Unwilling to accept and embrace gluttony Kate has joined forces with her arch nemesis Me Me Roth. Is Kate now working with the Queen of Lean? Are the rumors true. Has Kate's fat girl jealousy finally made her run to Fatopolis and seek out Me Me as her mother confessor?



Let's be honest, Me Me is one of those women that men want to see and fat girls want to be. She's everything a fat girl is never going to be and while the strident and sputtering Kate Harding continued to rail against the so called fat hating society signs of her defection were emerging.

 

Here is Kate using every fashion and photographic technique in the book trying to look lean and svelte. FAIL! If Kate were really happy with her size she would be wearing polka dots and be much much fatter. Kate is clearly a dieter.

Our internet reporter and fat feminist Rotunda Hindenburg believes that Kate Harding has been booted from the fatosphere for not being fat enough. She believes that jealous fat girls forced Kate out by black mailing her. Rumors suggest that she was seen with Jenny Craig. She has also been seen eating salads and buying SlimFast.

Who will step up and fill the void? Who has the sweep of a Kate Harding? Who else has the verbiage and language skills to slay the fat haters by calling them douche canoes?

Fatty McFatty Fat Fat Fats! aka Marion Kirby from the Rotund opined.

One of the things that bothered me during the Nightline taping was that I got referred to as the leader of the fat acceptance movement. I planned to address it but then MeMe Roth started talking and, well, you know.

So I’m addressing it here, after a week or so of thinking about it. Here’s what I think:
FA doesn’t really have a central leadership body. There’s NAAFA, but NAAFA doesn’t work for everyone, you know? And they do some great work and I’m proud to know the members that I know but….

It isn’t a body to which I look for leadership.

There’s a bunch of us bloggers. But we’re, as much as I love the internet and the powerful community that we build here, still such a new force in the history of FA.

So who are our leaders?

You are.


Got something to say and want to contact Ms Kirby? Contact me Marion Kirby. All hate mail, particularly fat-phobic rants, is subject to mocking.


Ms Kirby is wrong. Every movement needs a central leadership and the FA movement is no exception. NAAFA has been a dismal failure. NAAFA was doing fine until it lost the leadership and vision of founder Bill Fabrey. The movement then degraded into a gluttony denying lean woman hating man hating farce. It remains that way to this day as malingering malcontents, mostly fat girls, oink their foolish sophistries that make all fat people look like liars and idiots.



If the fat girls ever want the Fat Acceptance movement to enjoy an ounce of credibility they need to realize that gluttony is good and that they are gluttons.

  

Christie 2016

That skinny transvestite slut Ann Coulter got it right when she said, "If Chris Christie is not the candidate in 2012 we will lose this election."  Even a crazy bitch like Ann Coulter was able to see the forest for the trees on this one. The fact that Christie is a moderate doesn't seem to bother Ann. Her Adam's apple quivers at the thought of Chris Christie making a waddle for the White House.




I have said many times that the greatest presidents have been the fattest. Bill Clinton was fat while president and Hillary is porking up for the 2016 run/waddle for the president. If the Republicans run another bean pole like Romney they will once again lose the fat vote.

Bill Clinton was not the only president who was a fat chick magnet. Big Bill Taft's famous mustache rides got him the female vote. This guy's face got more ass than a toilet seat.

William Howard Taft was by far and away our greastest President. Not only was he a chair buster he was an even bigger trust buster than Teddy Roosevelt.

So loved was William Howard Taft that scientists of the day bred a special horse just for him and fat guys like him.

Because the T-shirt had not yet been invented, ladies you rode Taft's famous mustache and meat face received a commemorative campaign button

Teddy Roosevelt was also a fat guy and when people thought he was shouting "BULLY!! BULLY!!!" he was really shouting Belly Belly. Christie could learn a thing or two from both Taft and Roosevelt.  First, SIZE matters but more than that Christie can learn and even more valuable lesson from Teddy Roosevelt. When Republicans would not back TR for the third run for the presidency he TR started the Bull Moose party. Christie would be wise to start the Pizza Party. Who wants a smelly bull moose when you can have a hot delicious pizza topped with triple cheese, pepperoni and sausage with some mushrooms for the health nuts?

READ WHY THE FATTEST MEN MAKE THE BEST PRESIDENTS

Teddy Roosevelt and Taft: Men of girth are men of worth!

OINK!