Jim Carrey’s anti-gun song on Funny or Die has caused conservatives on Fox News to lose their minds. Video of the song. Reaction mashup created by TYT. After Rand Paul’s filibuster to discuss drones, he is threatening a new filibuster to oppose the gun control bill that includes background checks. This time, he plans to conduct the cowardly silent filibuster instead of the real one he conducted a couple of weeks ago. Rand Paul’s position on pot is actually spot on, though. After the back and forth between agreeing with and disagreeing with Paul, Cenk figures that he’d rather have him in office, with only 20% that he agrees with, rather than a corporatist Democrat that does nothing in office.
Story of a man that accidentally shot and killed his son while he was cleaning his gun. 501(c)(4) are popping up more, which allows political groups to be formed and funded at large amounts without tracing where the money is being spent politically. This “Dark Money” is now being investigated in California and several groups have been exposed in this illegal activity. One of the groups involved is a Koch Brothers group formed to defeat ObamaCare.
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The policy of regarding all military age males in a certain area as the enemy reminds me of the policy the Nazis had early in the war re: Einsatzgruppen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen).
Before they expanded their killing to women and children, especially in the Soviet Union, they targeted military age males (15-45) :
“The following conclusions may he drawn from all these individual cases and examples about the way orders were given to the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions. Almost all Einsatzkommandos and Sonderkomnuandos, and a number of police battalions, can be shown to have carried out mass shootings of Jewish men of military age at the end of June or in July, a total of thousands of individuals. These shootings were generally carried out under the pretext of ‘reprisals’, as punishments for ‘looting’ or as a means of dealing with ‘partisans’.
This manner of proceeding corresponded to the orders that the Einsatzgruppen had received at the beginning of the campaign. Some of the Einsatzgruppe commanders even referred explicitly to these orders, as we have seen. The conduct of the Einsatzgruppen followed a single pattern hut was not wholly uniform. The upper age limit for the victims differed between Einsatzgruppen: whilst in some towns almost the entire male population in the relevant age-range was shot, executions in other places affected varying proportions of the male population. The different unit commanders therefore had a certain amount of room for manoeuvre, which was toot completely precise, as has been shown, but left some latitude for initiative. This manner of ‘indirectly’ issuing orders that relied on the intuition and initiative of subordinates was highly characteristic of the National Socialist system. It was deployed in cases svhere procedures were being demanded of subordinates that clearly contravened a valid law. The Party Supreme Court of the NSDAP neatly encapsulated this ‘indirect’ form of giving orders when it dealt with the question of whether Party members who had participated in the November 1938 pogrom should be punished for committing a serious crime. The Party Supreme Court explained at the time, that ‘it was obvious to any active National Socialist from the period of struggle’—i.e. pre-1933—’that operations where the Party does not wish to appear as the instigator will not be regulated with complete clarity and in full detail. As a consequence, therefore, more is to be read into orders of that kind than the words literally state, and on the part of those issuing such orders, in the interests of the Party, the practice of not saying everything but hinting what an order is intended to convey has now become widespread, especially when these orders concern illegal political rallies. This technique of issuing orders was deployed in 1941 for the mass murder of Soviet Jews. […]”
Peter Longerich: Holocaust; The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews p. 204-205 (Oxford University Press 2010, ISBN 9780192804365)
If only Republicans would defend the poor with the same passion and zeal that they defend their scaly penises with.
#ReptileRage
Also, Kay Hagan today. :)
Regarding Jim Carey’s anti-gun nut video: Bob Beckle saying that foreigners shouldn’t intrude on American politics… When did we annex Australia? Or did Rupert Murdoch actually carry out that ridiculous accent after being born and raised in real ‘Merica?
To Cenk’s comment on Rand Paul, I’m starting to think I’d rather be mad at a Republican than disappointed with a Democrat.
Can’t agree with you more about the two Paul segments, but I would have to have a lot more evidence to convince me he’d make a good leader, with all his “EPA- unconstitutional, civil rights- unconstitutional, stop signs- unconstitutional” (Kidding on that last one, but I wouldn’t be surprised. And that he’d adopt hardcore conservative fiscal policies, and no one can threaten government shutdown, because he probably wouldn’t mind that anyways.
Like I said, willing to listen, but I think saying he’d make a good leader goes waaay too far.
It’s amazing that one of the Koch brothers is a cancer survivor. One would think that that would make him more empathetic towards other people, yet he fights for the right to pollute the environment and works to sabotage any attempts at expanding health coverage for others. Classic sociopath.
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