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April 2, 2013, 02:12 PM | #1 | |
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A disconcerting email from The White House
I just got an email purporting to be from The White House itself. The return address even ends in "whitehouse.gov." The text of the email is as follows:
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April 2, 2013, 02:30 PM | #2 |
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Did you ever participate in that Ruger thing where they sent emails on your behalf to representitives? I believe that sent an email to the White House. If not, well, it looks like the White House has hacked the Matrix, and we're all doomed!
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April 2, 2013, 02:34 PM | #3 |
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*facepalm* I'll bet that's it.
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Yeah, I got one of those, too.
I did, however, email the whitehouse, more than once. If, like many, a person uses either Ruger's or S&W's quick communicate options then they've emailed the White House, I think. Oops, scooped while I was on the phone . W
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April 2, 2013, 02:49 PM | #5 |
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Well, I guess this can turn into a "Make fun of Silly ol' Spats" thread for a bit. I deserve it. #unwraptinfoilfromhead
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April 2, 2013, 04:30 PM | #8 |
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Popvox allows me to put a widget on my site that presents a bill and allows users to fill out the form and send it right then. I figure that's why I've gotten numerous odd responses, including the one you did.
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April 2, 2013, 04:36 PM | #10 |
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Dagnabbit, Tom! At least you could have photographed my good side.
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At least I'm not quoting Canadian Libertarian song lyrics! What gets me about the email is this: Quote:
That's not an utterance of someone who's not as in control of an issue as he'd once assumed.
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Yeah, I'll show you my good side . . . grumble, grumble . . .
You raise a good point, Tom. Quote:
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Do you fella's think it's 'punt time' for this administration and the anti's?
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I dont think they will punt... they are true believers in disarming the masses... Rights or no rights..
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I got the letter also, it was next to the CDNN hi-cap mag ad in my list.
Decisions, decisions.
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Let's not forget the sheer arrogance with which they addressed the gun culture at the beginning of the year. We need to show that to voters in 2014 to hammer the point home.
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One of the adds claimed that 83% of Ohioans are for these new proposals. Think I'll go out on a limb and call BS on that figure. And further go out on a limb and say that the 83% figure is a blatant lie to the public with the intent of nothing more then to try and sway the unknowing. Last edited by Evan Thomas; April 3, 2013 at 12:54 PM. Reason: invective. |
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The problem gun supporters face, always has been that when you try to stay with factual arguments and logical thought, but you are up against emotional people who regularly utilize unconstrained exaggeration, misrepresentation and outright lying as the basis for their position, you can't win unless the 3rd party listener is able to discern the truth from the lies. The masses are apparently grossly incapable of same. An old friend used to say even the first liar doesn't stand a chance.
And the anti's don't care how unconstitutional some of these new sweeping ban laws turn out to be. Get enough of them on the books, and they will have to be challenged one at a time, picked apart with limited decisions as it always happens, and in one six month blitz they could give us decades of undoing and expense just to return to where we were on January 1, 2013.
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I am not really sure how well my analogy applies but i have often wondered if they were worried about the sheep, wouldn't you allow more sheep dogs to get bigger teeth to protect the sheep from the wolves, rather than passing a new muzzle law that affect the sheepdogs to stop the wolves from feeding on the sheep?
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Not if "they" are the wolves.
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