Well, That's Just Great

Sorry, GW. I lived through it. You got Americans to support the invasion of Iraq because we believed what you told us about Saddam having weapons of mass destruction and about the UN inspectors not being effective*. Your team’s ham-handed attempts to manipulate the history of those days will fail. And with each choice to do things like this, and not to just say, “I felt it was the right decision at the time but I wish the intelligence had been more accurate and we had made different choices,” it becomes increasingly evident that Iraq wasn’t an honest mistake. We were lied into an unnecessary war.

Ag

*Some people supported it because of their confusion (encouraged by your team) over there being a link between Saddam and the 9/11 attacks. Some had other even less scrupulous reasons to support, but you got most of the reasonable people in this country to support invasion due to the fear of Saddam Hussein launching a chemical or nuclear attack on the U.S. one day.

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Cancer patients not having access to medications they need, not important enough to spur action.

But travel delays? We will not ABIDE that assault!

I am done. So disgusted.

Ag

nursewithtattoos:

thebadgerman619:

How about we also all just pretend and make believe that all gun owners carry “gun insurance” since their guns can pose a danger to us???

I work in a job that provides health care to a population largely on state aid. 2.6% is a laughable number. I would say 50%. I’m IN these homes. So I have a little more insight on this. And yes, I think a urine test for every single check is appropriate. Welfare is not a career.

I am also a gun-owner, a gun-enthusiast. I do not brandish, threaten or menace with my weapon. I don’t have a sticker on my house or car proclaiming it to be “Protected by smith & wesson.” I have no issue with background checks. I had to have one to purchase a weapon. If anyone believes that background check will stop those with “issues” from getting guns, you’re not thinking this through. Person A can get a gun with no issues, he does and privately sells to Person B for cash. Person B is a convicted felon and takes anti-psychotics. Person A&B are brothers, or coworkers, or dating. Person B breaks into Person A’s house and steals the gun while he’s at work, etc…That will happen in some cases. I believe in the 2nd amendment, but I also have common sense. I am happy to see some common-sense laws pass. I welcome them, but this will NOT prevent another Sandy Hook, Columbine, Aurora or any other shootings. The first amendment allows the free-printing of step-by-step directions on how to do everything…including building a bomb like those that just exploded in Boston. You can google ANYTHING and find out how to do it. So why isn’t the first amendment being questioned? Is that knowledge somehow less dangerous? I don’t think it is.

Thank you for respectfully and thoughtfully sharing your perspective. I hear what you’re saying about background checks, but if our standard is we won’t pass any law unless we are 100 percent sure it will stop every gun related crime we really don’t understand the point of laws. I know you aren’t going that far, but many folks are.

And for me, the law I have advocated that will never get passed is that gun owners are held responsible for any crime EVER COMMITTED with their weapon. Your kid takes your gun and shoots up the mall? Guess what? You are held equally accountable for that crime. Someone breaks into your house and steals your gun and then three years later it’s used to kill someone? You go to jail for a long, long time.

Maybe people will take securing their guns a little more seriously now. Let’s call it the Spider-Man law. Yes, you have the right to bear arms. It shall not be infringed. But “With great power comes great responsibility.”

To your other point, the percentage in the graphic comes from data. Actual data from states like my joke-of-a-state Florida that implemented the policy. And guess what we found? The percentage of tested welfare recipients who tested positive for illegal drugs was LOWER than the general population. Anecdotes from people close to a situation have value, but confirmation bias tends to over emphasize anecdotes that reinforce preconceptions.

Respectfully,

Ag

Dear Republican Party,

That’s it. I’m done. I’ve tried to be patient. I’ve told myself that the smart people of conscience in your party will rise up and wrest control from the ignorant, selfish ideologues and hucksters currently dominating your party at every level. But today was the last straw. I have no patience left. You are an embarrassment and since you obviously lack the will or desire to do what’s right for your country or for the long term prospects of any of the philosophies you advocate, you have forced me to accept that you are nothing more than a malignant cancer on this country and since you are not responding to treatment, you must be removed from the body politic.

While I am a registered democrat and a self described left leaning moderate, I have voted for Republicans many times in my life when I have believed that the Republican was the best candidate. Sometimes I didn’t agree with all of the positions of a candidate, but I found something about them that made me believe they would be the best stewards of the responsibilities of government.

Never again. I will never vote for a member of your party again. Ever. Not on the national level, not on the state level, and not on the local level. I won’t be fooled again. You have shown that you cannot be trusted with power. Not even a little. You can’t even be trusted to act responsibly as a minority party.

You need to be wiped off the political map to make way for a real ALTERNATIVE to the Democrats, not just OPPOSITION to the Democrats.

And in case you’re wondering how you got here, here are just a few highlights:

Being on the side of people who, among dozens of insane beliefs, insist that people should be allowed to sell guns to other people without any background check. So if my neighbor fails a background check and can’t purchase a gun because they killed a guy in Texas, it’s okay for me to buy a gun and sell it to him.

Insisting in Arizona that confiscated guns, or guns received through gun buy back programs CANNOT be destroyed, they MUST be sold back to the public. Because…seriously there is no logical element to this but I swear it’s real. Supporting high capacity magazines by arguing that lower capacity magazines would make shooting at shooting ranges less fun. And that’s just today. And just guns. In the past few years you’ve also given us: Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Science, Michelle Bachman, Birtherism, Voter Suppression, Forced Vaginal Ultrasounds, Ted Cruz, Infrastructure Investment Opposition, Rick Scott, Discredited Studies On Austerity (check today’s headlines), “Skewed Polls”, and 47%. Not exactly a record of excellence. So do us a favor and disband. What will follow would almost have to be better. Sincerely, Ag

The intent of terror is to make people afraid; to make people fearful of gathering in community spirit, as they gathered here today at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. But that will not happen. We will have a marathon next year. Other cities will have marathons in the ensuing months. We will go to ball games. We will gather collectively at many events at schools and athletic events because that’s who we are…We are a free people.

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