The Hall of Fire

For one brief shining moment it looked like the war in Syria was coming to a close. Assad had confined the rebels to one town, had cut the town into three parts, was driving them out of the town, and on the way to being the ruler of all of Syria once again. ISIS was no longer a power in Syria. This ...

For one day. Then as the facts started rolling out the story was very very quickly forgotten.

"OMG another shooter" fits the narrative. "And these are the details of the shooter" doesn't fit the narrative.

The only "evidence" of unusual activities in Moscow is ... well ... nothing but a rumor. It is believed because people like believing salacious details about the opposition.

The thing that puzzles me is how anything having to do with Stormy Daniels is related to anything having to do with Russia.

Kind of like how the relationship between Paula Jones and Whitewater was ever explained to me fully.

Do you think that if there was a mass shooter who was a member of the NRA, that would not be in every single headline about the shooting?

It would be proclaimed as loudly as the Youtube shooter story is buried.

The youtube case, it sure is getting little coverage. Female Ethnic Immigrant from a country "on the list" Vegan Muslim Member of Peta In a state with very strict gun control laws In a gun free zone With a handgun Hard to blame the cis white christian male with an AR-15 acquired thanks to ...

It is as if money is fungible. It's funny how that works. I've pointed it out to people who say "but none of the government money Planned Parenthood gets goes to abortions, it only goes to other activities." propagandists working ... to sell human misery and death Who claimed they were a p...

It was a hypothetical, not a rhetorical. Imagine. At the state convention the Democratic Party leadership splits over some very contentious issue. They wind up into two factions, each claiming to have elected the chair and each endorsing a slate of candidates up to and including House of Representat...

And none of that information (all covered in the article I linked to, incidentally) changes the fact that 20,000 Republicans felt that Mr. Nazi was a better choice than a Democrat, a third party candidate, or staying home. In the absolute best case, because they just blindly checked the "R&quo...

20,000 Illinois Republicans just nominated the former head of the American Nazi Party as their candidate for state Congress. He ran unopposed, with no support from the party, in a district that will never elect a Republican anyway and the Republican Party had chosen to ignore. In a lopsided distric...

Just that it was violence that stopped the original Nazis. One can't use that as justification to get violent with neo-Nazis because the circumstances are totally different, but I don't think it's correct to say that violence never stopped an idea. That was a war. That is more than a little differe...

What do people imagine the outcome of this investigation to be? In terms of outcome? I expect nothing. Nothing will happen, nothing will change. Really? Actually I expect the same. But I see some on the far left expecting this to result in Trump being impeached ... and some on the far right expecti...

Gun-Trained Teacher Accidentally Shoots Gun in California High School Classroom https://www.kqed.org/news/11655804/gun-trained-teacher-accidentally-shoots-gun-in-california-high-school-classroom "A high school teacher — a reserve police officer " One of the people that gun control advocat...

Very eloquent Griffy, but I don't agree with it. You needed to mix a lot of contexts to ultimately get to the conclusion of "words are violence too, so responding with violence is acceptable." The first context is that of abusers hurting their victims in ways other than violence. This mean...

What do people imagine the outcome of this investigation to be?

Much like South Africa.

The South Africans that Dutton wants to let in are currently undergoing a genocide (as the victims in case that needs to be clarified), so letting them in isn't exactly backwards.

There's nothing backwards about opposing the view that peasants aren't allowed to be armed.

Been there, done that. This country has already had one president for life, and a constitutional amendment was passed to prevent it happening a second time.

Strangely enough, people who should know better still consider the last president for life to be one of the great presidents.

Oh of course the means matter. But I see the focus on the means as a way of avoiding the discussion of the goal. If we discuss the goal, a lot of people who seriously dislike Trump will be forced to say they agree with him on something. I rather get the feeling that there are some who would much rat...

Okay, we are continuing to focus on the means and not the goal. It must be really hard for a Democrat to admit to being in agreement with Trump. Just look at this video of Senator Feinstein. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) appeared to erupt with glee after President Trump suggested an assault weapons b...