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Is someone looking for pi in the sky?
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With Holders pi type arguments I just wish he would resign.
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With the current subject under discussion, the type of pi we'd likely get is cow.
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A calculated risk which could end up with pi in the eye.
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How do ya like them apples!
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Gun Control: The premise that a woman found in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is morally superior to allowing that same woman to defend her life with a firearm. "Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." - Jules Henri Poincare "Three thousand people died on Sept. 11 because eight pilots were killed" -- former Northwest Airlines pilot Stephen Luckey |
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The Houston Chronicle has an interview with outgoing SAC Dewey Webb, which is notable for this confusing little tidbit:
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Eric Holder Claims Racism
Unfricking believable..
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Of course, they never note that in 1976 the ATF was responsible for both firearm and ammo 4473's, had no computers or word processing equipment, and had upwards of 200,000 FFLs to monitor. Today the ATF monitors only about 67,000 FFLs (less than a quarter of what it was even in 1994) and has a dozen different labor-saving devices that didn't exist in 1976. Only in government can you lose 75% of your customers, and get billions of dollars in technologically advanced equipment and need more staff to do the job. And if you are going to pretend to ask them hard questions about Fast and Furious, why not ask them how the AUSA managed to indict two Houston-area FFLs that were cooperating with the ATF without knowing about that cooperation? Or how about whether that cooperation was connected to those FFL's names appearing on the list of FFLs connected to Mexican drug cartels that was leaked to the Washington Post? ETA: How ironic is it that the guy playing the race card is playing it to defend a policy that killed hundreds of Mexican citizens and will likely kill hundreds more before it all plays out? Doesn't seem like a smart move to me; but I guess that only applies when you have a hostile press. Last edited by Bartholomew Roberts; December 19, 2011 at 04:25 PM. |
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I never thought I'd live to see the day when the race card finally lost it's steam but I think that day is almost here.
I think so many politicians and professional athletes have gone to the well wih this one oh so - too many times that it really has lost its power with mainstream Americans. It would be easy to derail this thread with the race tangent which I hope doesn't happen. Two of the worst villains in this debacle are Bill Newell and Lanny Breuer, I don't see Issa and Grassley cutting them a break because of their race... The political reality though is that the big fish in all of this is the President, the next biggest fish is the AG. That political reality has nothing to do with the color of their skin and everything to do with what party they belong to. |
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Bart, are you trying to say that in 1976, folks were even filling out the "Form 4473" for anything?
I only remember having to fill out a form after Clinton was well in office... sum-merz 'round 1990-92 iirc... Normally I walked in, plopped down cash, graved my new gun with my sweaty meat hooks and went home... Brent |
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And to add...
I take high offense that he would even attempt the utterance of racism playing any role in this... When I see most folks, I see them as my equal and withhold judgement until their behaviors and decisions lend to my ability to choose an opinion... When I see the ilks of these sorts, kith of the current liberal politicians, I see pure evil... I see pure incompetence, I see a total disregard for legitimacy, I SEE MY ENEMY!!! NUTTIN' TO DO WITH RACE WHATSOEVER!!!! Brent |
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I do not remember filling out any forms but my gun purchasing began around '86 when I turned 18
mea culpa... Brent |
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Steel Talon provided the following:
Eric Holder Claims Racism -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfricking believable.. Eric Holder Claims Racism Responsible for Fast and Furious Criticism Quote: The Weekly Standard.. The Blog comments.. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...sm_613596.html But Mr. Holder contended that many of his other critics — not only elected Republicans but also a broader universe of conservative commentators and bloggers — were instead playing “Washington gotcha” games, portraying them as frequently “conflating things, conveniently leaving some stuff out, construing things to make it seem not quite what it was” to paint him and other department figures in the worst possible light. Of that group of critics, Mr. Holder said he believed that a few — the “more extreme segment” — were motivated by animus against Mr. Obama and that he served as a stand-in for him. “This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” he said, “both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.” The Times Article…Sited A Partisan Lightning Rod Is Undeterred http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/us...ldiers-on.html -------------------- This reader wonders as to whom it might be that is guilty of racism? You have as many guesses as might be necessary, though I suspect that one would prove sufficient. Do thse basketball players really stick together? |
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Having now played his race card, does he have to turn it in?
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I will be calling Issa and Grassley's offices tomorrow to encourage them to finally say it like it is.
"Mr. Holder, this has nothing to do with your race. It has to do with the fact that you are the head of a United States government agency which perpetrated an act of war against a foreign sovereign state, the Republic of Mexico; and you, Sir, are the responsible party unless you can point us to who that party is. Do I make myself clear?" Ah, perchance to dream ...
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Holder can't argue the law. He can't argue the facts. What else is left? The pressure is beginning to tell, I agree. And for the US AG to accuse non-supporters of racism...I guess he knows it's alive and well in some hearts, anyway.
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