TV director for a golf tournament in which Tiger Woods is playing.
Cut one: Tiger is hitting. Put Tiger on!
Cut two: Tiger is waiting to hit. Put Tiger on!
Cut three: Tiger is waiting to putt. Put Tiger on, and talk about Tiger.
Cut four: Put up interview of another player; ask about Tiger.
Cut five: There’s a lull in the action. Cut to Lindsey Vonn with Tiger!
If Tiger Woods is leading, take those five rules and square them.
Oh, you mean this Trans-Pacific Partnership? The long-standing, widely-reported trade negotiations that have been going on for years? Ah.
It’s true. It had not occurred to me that the participants in another round of neo-liberal trade negotiations were the group that is NOW in global control of everything everywhere all the time, taking the place of such predecessors as:
—International Terrorism;
—the Trilateral Commission;
—the ZOG (Zionist-Occupied Government);
—International Communism and its global acolytes;
—the International Jewish Conspiracy as described in the fantasy-but-evil book, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion;
—and, of course, the Jewish Bankers.
(as an aside, is anyone else struck by the fact that Jewish people — if they really run the world as conspiracy wackadoos seem to so often think they do — have sure gotten abused and brutalized a lot if they’re really in charge of everything?)
And by the way, it’s a pretty terrible secret conspiracy to control everything everywhere all the time when it has, you know, web sites both for and against it that can be accessed easily, and has been reported on for many, many years.
tag76 asked: Do you not know about everything Obama has been doing? Seriously, he has done and signed plenty without any votes from congress.
Namely? That’s enforceable? And, you know, real?
So you know jack squat about international treaties, then?
1. Even if this treaty existed, it would have to be approved by 2/3 of the US Senate. Which is, how shall we say, unlikely.
2. All — by which I mean ALL — international treaties require nation-states to enforce them. No international organization, whether the UN or the “trans-pacific partnership”, has independent enforcement authority. So who, exactly, would enforce this fantastical treaty against the actual citizens of the actual United States on the actual planet Earth?
3. What the bleeding bejesselus is the “trans-pacific partnership”? (It’s “Pacific” by the way: proper nouns require capitalization.)
Please don’t call me a liar when you are a moron.
kjrodgers asked: Where do you get your facts? All the murders that took place? Were these murders done with legally registered firearms or does it matter? How about the 4 people killed in Benghazi. What are the gun laws in Libya? Let's compare the US and Mexico?
Presuming that you are complaining about these two posts, let me answer thus:
—each article cites its source for each item. Surely you noticed.
—if you can tell me the precise difference between being murdered or shot with a registered versus an unregistered firearm, I would appreciate the clarification.
—almost 4000 Americans have been killed with a firearm since the school shooting at Newtown, CT last December. What in the left corner of hell the tragedy and possible political shenanigans of Benghazi has to do with 4000 dead Americans here at home is utterly beyond me.
Huh? Gun laws in Libya? How about Somalia? Clear role models for the US in both cases. And on what variables would you like to compare the US and Mexico? Why? To what end?
It turns out that one can shout “look over there” all you want, but that doesn’t mean I have to do it.
This time alleging President Obama is involved in a secret treaty that would compel the government to confiscate all American guns, etc.
In a fundraiser (perhaps unsurprisingly).
BTW: No such treaty EXISTS.
ht: Ezra Klein
From Joe Nocera, New York Times
A 3-year-old girl was shot in S.E. Washington, D.C., Thursday evening. The child, who was shot while on a balcony, was breathing when she was taken to the hospital. Police believe she was hit by a stray bullet. They have a description of the suspect.
D.C. police are investigating a triple shooting on Eastern Avenue Thursday evening. The shootings happened just before 7 p.m. and the victims included an adult male and two younger men. A police cruiser collided with another vehicle while responding to the incident, sending two officers to the hospital.
—WTOP
Police in Newburgh, N.Y., are investigating a double shooting Thursday, less than a week after a fatal triple shooting. Two men were injured after they were shot inside a house where a marijuana distribution center was discovered.
Two men who were fatally shot in Monroe County, Ga., Wednesday were likely killed during a robbery. 36-year-old Russell Jacobs and 40-year-old Pittman Woods were found dead at their house by Woods’s father. Police have not yet identified any suspects.
Two people were injured Thursday morning after a fight escalated to a shooting at an apartment complex in Phoenix, Ariz. A group of people got into a fight at the apartment and shots were fired. The shooter fled before police arrived. The victims are expected to survive.
A 23-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot several times in West Philadelphia’s Belmont Section early Thursday evening. Police found the victim sitting in the driver’s seat of a Chevy Impala that had crashed into a set of concrete steps in front of a row house. He was bleeding from at least three gunshot wounds to the upper torso and shoulder. He is in critical condition.
39-year-old Felix DeJesus was shot inside his car and killed in Hartford, Conn., Thursday. The victim was apparently in the capital city to sell electronics to someone he met online. Officers are looking into information from members of the victim’s family.
A woman was shot inside a car and wounded in Bessemer, Ala., Thursday morning. Police say two suspects followed the victim’s car from a gas station after gunfire between the cars was exchanged. The driver of the victim’s vehicle and a small child inside were not injured in the shooting. The victim was taken to a hospital.
Jerrick Jackson, 46, was gunned down at his northwest Atlanta, Ga., home Tuesday, after a robbery. Thieves took a wallet and a purse but wanted more. When Jackson told them not to go upstairs because his fiancé’s daughter was there, he was shot in front of his fiancé several times. Newly released surveillance video shows men using the victim’s fiancé’s stolen debit card after the shooting.
A San Diego, Calif., resident opened fire on a man vandalizing a market, injuring him and leading to his own arrest on criminal charges. Antonio Barragan heard the commotion outside the Cloverleaf Market, grabbed his semi-automatic FN-57 and left his home to investigate. Norson Obet, 30, was injured, and Barragan was arrested. He faces an assault with a deadly weapon charge.
A 23-year-old East Chicago, Ind., man was shot late Wednesday night and died shortly thereafter in a local emergency room. Carlos Velez III, was shot multiple times. Detectives are following up on leads in the case.
Springfield, Ill., police are investigating the city’s second shooting in as many days. A man reported that he and several friends were standing in the front yard of a home about 2:20 a.m. Thursday when they heard gunshots being fired from down the street. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the left wrist, and the same bullet struck him in the chest. Police are still investigating whether Thursday’s shooting is connected to a drive-by shooting shortly before 5 a.m. Wednesday on the same block.
Ricky Robertson was riding his bike in Chicago’s Washington Heights neighborhood on Wednesday night when someone in a passing car opened fire and shot the 47-year-old man dead. Robertson’s body was still in the street as family gathered on a nearby lawn to pray. Nine others were shot across the city Wednesday night.
A Lincoln County, Ky., teen allegedly shot by her grandfather in a domestic dispute early Thursday morning has been released from the hospital. Monique Brummett, 18, was shot in the upper leg. Her grandfather, Danny Brummett, 66, was found near the home and had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Markquett Nunn, 30, was shot in the head and killed in the Normandy area of St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday. Nunn’s body was found between two houses. Police are looking for information about a gray Dodge Durango with dark tinted windows.
A homeowner shot and killed an acquaintance Thursday evening in Vancouver, Wash. Several neighbors say they heard three to four gunshots, and told police that they often hear screaming and arguing between a man and a woman at the house.
—oh, and it’s legal for convicted sex offenders to acquire guns in Iowa. Because? Freedom.
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Norman Ornstein, one of the best analysts of American politics, takes apart the “if only Obama would lead!” myth.
—oh, and the answer to Ornstein’s question is: no.
about--forever asked: Hello!I have just read your article about the weapon possession in the US and i totally agree with the spirit. At the other hand, iam not sure that the"disarming"process will be an easy task, especially in certain States.I think that the weapons are attached with the American community and a fact like this is difficult to change even if there where no other interests. Although, i acknowledge the efforts of the President. I would like to know your opinion ! Thanks in advance !
I have never called for getting rid of guns. I am not naive about either the politics or the practicalities of such a goal.
But I have called for meaningful regulations on ownership, storage and use. Universal background checks are an obvious one since, as the gun lobby says, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. So let’s check the backgrounds of the people buying the gun! Likewise, mandatory use of gun safes, trigger locks, and regular certification on use, cleaning and appropriate storage and transportation of guns seems a minimum standard. It’s no less than what police and military forces do around the world.
brazenwussy asked: I would love to read your thoughts on the Pew study that just came out about gun violence. Its findings that gun violence decreased dramatically over the last few decades seem sharply at odds with the feeling that many of us have that our country has become ever more violent, weaponized, and Gadsden flag-y in the last, say, 10 years. Do you see any methodological flaws in the Pew study? Should it have included gun accidents? Are there other ready explanations for this apparent disconnect?
People’s fear of lots of things — guns, crime, germs — are in many cases disconnected from their empirical, statistical probabilities. (Crime in America is also way down over the last 40 years.)
Right now, we live in a society that promotes extremism as a form of attention-getting. The profusion of media outlets through which one can promote one’s message has also created a cacophony of noise through which you have to try to be heard. So everything is the most important thing ever; everything is an existential threat; everything has to be addressed NOW or the universe will implode in a fireball.
None of which changes my core point. Just because there may be fewer gun murders in the US, we shouldn’t stop worrying or addressing gun violence. We have fewer deaths by car accidents today than we used to but we’re not taking safety devices out of our cars or getting rid of DUI laws, are we? Nor are we ceasing all research into vehicle safety.
There’s no reason the same thing can’t be true about guns. Guns and gun ownership can be made safer. It can be harder for criminals to get them, whether in open purchase or thefts from homes. It can be harder for suicidal people to get access to them, and for maniacs to acquire them. This is true whether the absolute numbers of gun deaths are going down or not.
Or whether the screaming ninnies in the gun lobby claim that such efforts will destroy American freedom … which they will, given the way our world works these days.
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