A number of companies have associated themselves with the NRA. Now they’ve changed their minds about that.
You might want to contact the ones that haven’t dropped out yet. Full details here.
Update: Oh, and we need an open thread, so here it is!
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A number of companies have associated themselves with the NRA. Now they’ve changed their minds about that.
You might want to contact the ones that haven’t dropped out yet. Full details here.
Update: Oh, and we need an open thread, so here it is!
Comments are closed.
rikyrah
GOOD GOOD GOOD
FREE MARKET, MUTHAPHUCKAS!
rikyrah
FYI:
This NOT A DRILL. The former FLOTUS is coming to Oakland. Here’s how to snag tickets before anyone else. https://t.co/ERzBufBs0S
— KQED (@KQED) February 23, 2018
Get excited! Former first lady @MichelleObama to moderate conversation a the @OracleArena on March 28. https://t.co/6yXo31mO7y
— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) February 23, 2018
rikyrah
Note Mueller is getting Gates to plead guilty to lying to the FBI *JUST THREE WEEKS AGO* on February 1st, 2018.
What were they talking about that day? Was it the ‘Queen for a Day’ proffer session?
Either way, Mueller shows again he will go to the mat if anyone lies to the FBI.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) February 23, 2018
Corner Stone
As JPL and I mentioned in previous thread, Mueller nailing Manafort’s balls to the wall with another superseding indictment for bribing politicians.
r€nato
I am a cardholder of two credit cards from First National Bank of Omaha, the bank that just dropped its NRA affinity credit card. I made sure to send them multiple messages of support via email, Facebook, etc. They’ll even get a written letter from me.
If you’re looking for a new credit card, show your support and seek one of theirs. They offer good promo APR rates. Or at least show support on their Facebook page, etc, they’re getting a lot of ugly messages from the knuckle-dragging gun-humping fascists.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: Linky?
Cheryl Rofer
Cheryl Rofer
oatler.
I notice the conservative Ricochet site has been silent on the Gates news. I imagine it has to be ruminated through the Koch and AEI stomachs before it produces a story.
Major Major Major Major
Open thread? Slate has a good read on how toxic online fandom has even started affecting RuPaul’s Drag Race for the worse.
Yarrow
@Cheryl Rofer: Busy day! Tick tock, motherfuckers.
Love how the tables have turned on the NRA. They are death-peddlers and deserve every bit of scorn and monetary loss they get.
Fair Economist
Damn Mueller is fast!
I wanna know who the European politicians are. This is going to be interesting!
rikyrah
@Cheryl Rofer:
UH HUH
UH HUH
zhena gogolia
LifeLine Screening is such a scam operation.
Cheryl Rofer
Roger Moore
@rikyrah:
And guess what he lied to the FBI about. It was about a meeting with Dana Rohrbacher; the lie was apparently a denial they had been talking about Ukraine. My followup question is whether there’s enough dirt to drag Rohrbacher into the investigation and/or if they’re going to try to get him to sing.
Cheryl Rofer
@Fair Economist: I do too, as do many of the people I’m following on Twitter. I’ll post as soon as I’ve got them.
I think that the Ukrainian government has been helping Mueller. They have no reason to love Manafort and Gates.
Loch in kop
Called Amazon customer service today about NRATV. I wasn’t the first one, it seems.
JPL
@Gin & Tonic:
John Harwood has this
per NBC’s Tom Winter/Kenzi Abou-Sabe, new Mueller indictment says Manafort “secretly retained former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in US. In 2012-13, MANAFORT used at least four offshore accounts to wire >$2-M euros”
Brachiator
About damn time!
Roger Moore
@Cheryl Rofer:
I wonder if Gates’s plea deal includes a no extradition clause. It won’t do him much good to avoid big jail time in the US if he gets shipped off to trial in Ukraine the moment he gets out.
JPL
Here’s the indictment, and I haven’t read it yet.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/967154633021018119
Gin & Tonic
@Cheryl Rofer:
There is no doubt of this.
craigie
Associated with them how?
Edit: Ah, I see. Nevermind!
Calouste
@Fair Economist: Nigel Farage is one of them I’m sure.
NotMax
Open thread?
FYI. Iceland’s proposed circumcision ban sparks a bigger fight over rights
Cheryl Rofer
Gerhard Schroeder is a fave among my tweeps for the head of the Habsburg Group. Unnamed Austrian politicians also likely.
eemom
This is SO. WONDERFUL. Don’t think I’ve felt this hopeful since 2008.
Gin & Tonic
I am reading the indictment now. I always thought his FARA reports would catch up with him.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Roger Moore:
That would be absolutely fantastic.
Alain the site fixer
If anyone had a bad reload, it was me. I updated some plugins because I know Adam couldn’t resist another night of temptation of upgrading one. Better to have to solve an issue at 5 on Friday as opposed to 11, I always say!
Yarrow
@Cheryl Rofer: Schroeder has really shown himself to be a real piece of work. I don’t know if he was always that bad. He was Chancellor of Germany – was he this awful then?
ruemara
@Major Major Major Major: I’ve noticed that people are insanely threatened by folks liking something other than what they like. It’s bizarre.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: Cool, we need a TBogg unit about something unrelated.
Alain the site fixer
@zhena gogolia: so is LifeLock.
Cheryl Rofer
Possibly Nigel Farage.
Cheryl Rofer
Mary G
@eemom: I know! I had written off gun reform as banging my head against the wall. I was wrong to do it, and am I glad I was wrong.
Yarrow
@Cheryl Rofer: I’m sure that photo op in front of the Ecuadorian embassy in London with Rage Furby means nothing. Nothing at all.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
And (dare I say it?) cutting edge.
;)
Corner Stone
I don’t vouch for the source but found this linked on Malcolm Nance’s twit feed:
Australia and UK must combat Chinese and Russian interference says Tory MP
“Things will soon worsen for the US president: watch this space. The battle to save his presidency will become all-consuming.”
Cheryl Rofer
@Yarrow: I don’t know. He was pretty friendly about a Russian pipeline, then got put on the board for that company after he was chancellor.
Yarrow
@Mary G: The kids are really amazing. No one told them they couldn’t do anything about the guns, so they went ahead and starting doing things. Just amazing to watch it happen. So inspiring.
efgoldman
@Yarrow:
Good to see you back. Didn’t feel right tick tocking on tour behalf
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: @Gin & Tonic: @Cheryl Rofer: Mueller is just going to pummel Manafort till he gets what he wants from him. At the rate he’s going, next week he’s going to charge him with filling the courtesy water cup they give you at the movie theater with soda.
Mike J
@Loch in kop: I know you don’t need it, but for others:
Amazon Customer Service
1 (888) 280-4331
Roger Moore
@Mary G:
I wonder how much of the apparent breakthrough on gun control is from the kids being good as the public face of the movement and how much is pent-up anger and frustration at Trump seeing this as a place to act.
Yarrow
@efgoldman: Thanks. Been kind of a busy time for me irl. Also, after a particularly upsetting exchange here I couldn’t comment for awhile. Shortly after that my life got a bit crazy again. Having a hard time keeping up with everything.
Fair Economist
@Roger Moore:
I’m thinking that if this actually unravels the Russian interference in Ukraine the Ukrainians will be *very* forgiving of anybody who was key to the process, deal or no deal.
Cheryl Rofer
Love these kids!
trollhattan
Grab’m by the
pussywallet.germy
I saw Black Panther for a second time. This showing, the theater was packed (a matinee) All ages. Some old women, young kids, middle-aged. Everyone. I enjoyed it even more the second time.
Adam L Silverman
@Roger Moore: Rohrbacher is in significant jeopardy.
Adam L Silverman
@JPL:
WaterGirl
@Mike J: What is NRATV and what does it have to do with Amazon?
Gin & Tonic
@Fair Economist: Curious what you believe there is left to “unravel”. It’s all been as plain as the nose on your face.
Mary G
The kids are all right:
While I seriously doubt that Pam Bondi and Rick Scott will actually cooperate, I believe in throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks.
Fair Economist
@Cheryl Rofer: Nigel is definitely in on this conspiracy, but he wasn’t a former politician at the time, so I don’t think Mueller was referring to him.
Also, I think Nigel was already in on this and not recruited by Manafort.
Mary G
@Roger Moore: Porque no los dos? (Somebody needs to explain to me how to get special marks on letters in comments, if you would be so kind.)
@Yarrow: Happy to see you here again.
JGabriel
FedEx has a discount program with the NRA.
Think about that for a moment.
For when you absolutely, positively, need an AR-15 overnight?
Jeepers.
Fair Economist
@Gin & Tonic: There is limited solid proof of Russian involvement, and they don’t have many names. The game becomes very different if Mueller can show financial payments going back and forth for this. Plus, once they have names, they can subpoena other records from those participating, which will reveal other people involved, and, most likely, the networks driving interference in other Western politics.
Cheryl Rofer
We’re starting to see overlap with politicians shilling for Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Brachiator
@germy:
Loved Coogler’s letter to the fans. The movie has crossed the $500 million mark. Attendance by women has been strong. I’m a guy and I love Shuri. Her smarts and her relationship with her brother. All the other women are great and are the heart of the movie, not just window dressing.
I also liked this from a recent Forbes article.
Wakanda Forever!
JPL
@Adam L Silverman: Shouldn’t we wait until the NYTimes tells us what all this means?
Kay
The second part of the indictment is interesting on a whole other level. Because what were these two doing, really?
They were interfering in another country on behalf of one political leader and not another.
If anyone would know how to coordinate between the Trump campaign and another country- say Russia- it would be these two. They make their living at it.
Corner Stone
If this story about RU mercs attacking US troops on acknowledgement from the Kremlin…and Trump does nothing?
JGabriel
@Fair Economist:
I’m not sure who would have recruited Farrage, but I’m pretty sure whoever it was spells their name in Cyrillic.
germy
m.j.
On the drive home today I heard a local radio station (105.7) advertising a gunshow. I feel like emailing the station to tell them I’m deleting them from my presets, but it seems like such a meaningless thing to do.
Adam L Silverman
@Fair Economist: @Gin & Tonic: The Ukrainians do not have the death penalty. I’ve long been of the opinion that they would make an exception, if they could, for Manafort and his minions like Gates.
JPL
@Corner Stone: Pretty sure he said they were helpful today.
smintheus
A FedEx truck driver threatened to smash into me last fall, the company made clear that it was my problem and they weren’t going to do anything about it. I bet they thought I should have been carrying.
FedEx is rotten top to bottom; don’t do business with them.
eemom
@NotMax:
@Gin & Tonic:
I think uncircumcised ones are kind of gross. Discuss.
Betty Cracker
@Mary G: I’ve been wicked busy today, so this may have been covered elsewhere, but Scott proposed some serious reforms today, including raising the legal age to purchase long guns to 21 and taking guns away from people involved in domestic violence incidents. Scott also explicitly rejected Trump’s idiotic armed teachers idea. Now, these reforms don’t go nearly far enough, and some of the stuff he proposed is nonsense, IMO. But it’s a start and a damn sight better than letting Florida’s own special NRA ghoul, Marion Hammer, literally write legislation.
patrick II
@Fair Economist:
Didn’t Farage come to some Trump campaign event? At the time it was said to be at Bannon’s invitation.
I think Bannon may be the cagiest of this group, I think he may be the only one who made any attempt to keep his hands clean. But he had to know what was going on.
Bobby Thomson
@Cheryl Rofer: it would be gravy if this wound up taking down Bush’s poodle, too. Rich, delicious gravy.
David Perlman
Cross off Avis and Budget
Gin & Tonic
@Fair Economist: The Ukrainians know what happened to their country and who did it. You can’t apply US District Court standards of “proof” to Donetsk.
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: What about Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell? How dirty are their hands?
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
I was circumcised at seven — not in the traditional way by the Muslim version of a mohel, but by a doctor in the government hospital where my dad worked. It was painful, for sure, but it did me no lasting harm and caused no emotional trauma that I remember. I’ve never heard of any boy or man being traumatised by their circumcision or by the resulting lack of a foreskin.
Now, mishaps do happen with hospital and traditional circumcisions — one such incident in Malaysia in the 1980s had the family suing the hospital, and wound up being dramatised as a case in an episode of LA Law. But it’s a commonly done, well established procedure that does have some medical benefits. I guess Iceland, having so few Muslim or Jewish people, is not well aware that refusing to have your son circumcised is essentially a dereliction of parental religious duty. I am not convinced that circumcision is harmful enough to boys to deserve banning.
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman:
oh YEAH he is!
Hey Paul Ryan, could we hear a bit more about why you thought Rohrbacher and Trump were the two folks, SPECIFICALLY, you thought “Putin pays”?
Adam L Silverman
@JGabriel: That isn’t why they have it. FedEx is the only shipping company where a private individual can ship their firearm directly to the manufacturer or to a Federal Firearm Licensed (FFL) gun store. So, for instance, if you own a high end revolver because you compete in cowboy action competitions and you need to have something repaired, you can use FedEx to ship it directly to the gunsmith or to the manufacturer. Otherwise you have to go to a FFL gun store, pay a transfer fee, then they ship it because the US Postal Service, UPS, DHL, will only ship a firearm between two FFLs – one sending one receiving. When it comes back, you have to pay another transfer fee. What this does is put firearms on the official BATFE monitored books of gun stores that aren’t actually in the gun store’s inventory. This makes the gun store liable. It also means that the actual owner has to redo all the paperwork – Federal Form 4473 again to get their gun back as if they’d just purchased it. And whatever paperwork their state requires.
Mike in DC
@Corner Stone:
Trump is fortunate that the attack was repulsed. Might have put him in an impossible position otherwise.
Duane
I heard drumpf at CPAC lying about gun free zones. Watch the useless media let him go unchallenged. How sad for our country the gun humpers have to be told not to bring your damned gun into a school.
Gin & Tonic
@eemom:
No, thanks.
JPL
@JPL: Whoops.. He said Russia was not helpful in Syria today.
Jeffro
@patrick II: Nickel bet that Bannon is already telling Mueller everything he knows, in exchange for a parking ticket.
JPL
The Washington Post just put this online.
This probably won’t even be a blip on MSM, because ………….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-justice-dept-official-alerted-white-house-2-weeks-ago-to-ongoing-issues-in-kushners-security-clearance/2018/02/23/aa9b37c8-17f4-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.68137eeb359b
Major Major Major Major
@Duane:
Why?
geg6
@Yarrow:
Good to see you back. And when life comes at ya, we’ll have your back.
GregB
@patrick II:
Farage was also an intermediary with Julian A**ange.
Gravenstone
@JGabriel: Technically, ‘you’ can’t get the AR-15 overnight. It has to go to your licensed gun dealer, first.
schrodingers_cat
@JPL: They have let all his lies about family reunification and diversity lottery green cards go unchallenged. When it is all there on the fucking USCIS website.
Yarrow
@Cheryl Rofer: Ugh. Tony Blair and his earnest smarm make me ill.
Kay
The NRA school “hardening” plan:
You have to get rid of trees, windows, and also parking, unless the parking lot is patrolled by an armed guard. You also have to put up a giant forbidding fence- probably more to keep kids IN these grim horrible schools they envision than to keep shooters out.
These people are insane and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a school. Run, children. Flee the from the NRA loonies before they take the trees and windows and put you in prison.
Yarrow
@patrick II: Pence made the best effort at keeping his hands clean. His name is somehow not on transition emails despite heading up the transition team. I imagine Mueller’s continuing indictments of Manafort are making Pence nervous.
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: Fedex CEO is a hero in RW circles. From his utterances seems more the Randian kind than the theocratic kind of R.
Baud
@Kay: Needs a moat for maximum FREEDOM.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: They want a prison.
r€nato
@Cheryl Rofer: Romano Prodi is a piece of shit, not surprised to see he was bought off to represent Russian interests. In fact, he was a longtime professor at the University of Bologna, a very very red institution in a city and a region that traditionally has been very red – and I don’t mean ‘conservative red’. (He is also the only Italian politician who ever defeated Berlusconi in an election.)
Read up on the Aldo Moro case and his role in it, if you care that is. Your jaw will almost literally hit the floor at the excuse he gave for how he came to know of a tip regarding Moro’s whereabouts.
TL;DR: Prodi either had connections with the Red Brigades kidnappers, or was barely one degree removed from them.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: With crocodiles?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Armed Crocs.
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: “When I take the towel off this jar, take a good look at what is floating inside the liquid. It’s your balls.”
Amir Khalid
@Kay:
Dear God. They wnt to turn schools into bunkers. What would it do to kids, to spend half their waking hours in a freaking bunker?
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Holy shit, that’s awful.
geg6
@Adam L Silverman:
Oh well. At least he doesn’t have a probe shoved up his ass and be forced to listen to a lecture about what you’ve already thought long and hard about doing to YOUR OWN FUCKING BODY!
So sick of these snowflake ammosexuals. Sorry for shouting at you.
Adam L Silverman
@JPL: Sure, sure.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
Had my tonsils out when I was 7 and my hospital roommate was a 7 yr old having a circumcision. He was all hyped on on the concept the night before. We both woke up about the same time after and he was no more delighted with his surgery than I was. Which was to say, not at all. By the time the either had totally worn off he was one hurting dude. At least I got ice cream.
trollhattan
@Kay:
I found an early copy of the NRA 21st century hardened school plans here. They may have flipped the 2 and the 1 at some point.
Jeffro
@Kay: This is the thing that – unlike actually arming teachers – I was afraid of. Because it sounds so reasonable to people, and acceptable to public school parents. When it shouldn’t be. When it should be rejected on its face.
Fortunately, I know that things are proceeding quickly and this criminal maladministration will soon be over, before the first school can be “hardened”. But this bad idea might live on if we don’t fight it just like we fight the NRA.
Jeffro
@schrodingers_cat: @Baud: What happened to sharks with laser beams?!?
Yarrow
@Duane:
Isn’t CPAC a gun-free zone? The NRA convention, also a gun-free zone. How about Congress, also a gun-free zone.
Why do they all need their places to be gun-free zones if guns are so great. Are they afraid of guns? Maybe the kids will get on this hypocrisy.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: I do not know. I have suspicions and expect those suspicions will be borne out.
GregB
Trump is a globalist but with the international criminal underworld
geg6
@Jeffro:
That’s fricking laser beams!
Lizzy L
FedEx has discontinued its relationship with the NRA.
Adam L Silverman
@Kay:
Commander Worf was involved. Who knows more about security?
As someone who has actually consulted on this stuff, they have taken the strangest recommendations possible to achieve a hardened site. There are much, much more pleasant or friendly or less forbidding ways of achieving these goals.
Duane
@Major Major Major Major: It was my mistake. I feel better.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: That I didn’t know.
smintheus
@r€nato: Prodi is also accused of having KGB connections.
Frankensteinbeck
I honestly do not think that the brave, eloquent rebellion teenagers are launching now will directly get us gun control. I don’t see them changing Republican base voters’ minds, and it is those voters the elected Republicans are doing the bidding of. Indirectly is another story. We’ve already got one Hell of a lot of pissed liberals. Throw in a wave of new young voters who watched the Republicans refuse and mock them over their first passionate issue, and maybe we’ll get enough Democrats in power to pass laws. Republicans hold a lot of power right now, but it is balanced precariously. If Democrats can take enough power to overcome Republican obstruction, you will see a LOT of gun control. Here’s hoping.
Gravenstone
@Jeffro: I doubt it would continue to sound reasonable once taxpayers get a gander at the cost for these little fortresses. Hell, entirely too many school systems have trouble even getting operating levies through, let alone paying for one of these abominations.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Mohala in Arabic, if memory serves.
Why I should happen to know that I have no idea whatsoever.
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: I think they (unconsciously?) were trying to send a message to those who would work/attend at such schools, but that’s just my (usually correct) inner conspiracy theorist. Anything to reinforce the authoritarian, “WE’RE UNDER SIEGE!”, fear-based mindset.
Jeffro
@Gravenstone: True…but they’d just roll it into the cost of any new schools being build, and go with whatever modifications they could for existing schools. Stressing all the while that the latter weren’t sufficiently solid enough to repel an armor division…
Cheryl Rofer
NBC News is getting into this. This is good.
Gravenstone
@Adam L Silverman: Suspect it might refer to this Michael Dorn. Cop with experience in school security programs.
low-tech cyclist
@David Perlman:
My wife and I almost always rent from Budget when we travel, and I’m glad to hear that they’ve come around. I was ready to lean on them, but now I can send them a message of support.
Adam L Silverman
@Ruckus:
Other than the cold helping to reduce swelling, I’m not sure what the clinical application of ice cream post circumcision would be. I also would expect it would be quite messy and increase the risk of post op infection.
Adam L Silverman
@Gravenstone: Do I have to put sarc tags on everything?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Brachiator:
Don’t forget Bruce Willis. While waiting for Black Panther to start, we saw a trailer for a remake of Death Wish starring Willis. Really? That’s a movie somebody thought should be remade? This is the time for an ammosexual fantasy movie? This is the “good guy with a gun” all those assholes think they automatically become when they buy their unlicensed assault rifle at the gun show.
It’s been crystal clear to me since Trayvon Martin that the ammosexual thing is not about wanting to “defend yourself”, it’s a hope that you can kill somebody. No wonder they like open-carry and stand-your-ground laws: they know damned well their chances are improved if they can wander the streets with their toy and look for strangers to kill.
ETA: Just checked.Death Wish releases March 2.
Gravenstone
@Adam L Silverman: I’ve had a day, and am busy working my way to a comatose state via carb overload (shrimp scampi over spaghetti, with a splash of arrabiata sauce tossed in for zing). Yes I fell for an obvious troll job.
Gravenstone
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: To be fair, Death Wish really isn’t the ‘good guy with a gun’ fantasy. It’s pure revenge porn.
NotMax
@Kay
The current main library building at one of the colleges I attended was designed and built during the period of 60s student campus unrest with those happenings front and center in mind. The interior is very commodious and attractive. Outside? Imposing, almost forbidding fortress-like stone walls with only narrow, recessed, tinted slit windows – medieval moderne, we used to call it. Not harmonious with the surrounding architecture.
Adam L Silverman
@Gravenstone: I hope you have a pleasant and relaxing weekend.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Mary G: Trying an experiment here. Is there an accent on this letter: é?
Yep, it worked. So it looks like you can type in the HTML name for special characters and FYWP will recognize them. Google “html code accents” or something along those lines to get a table like this one.
In that table you’ll see that the small e with accent has the name “eacute”, with ampersand before and semicolon after. That’s the format for all HTML special characters.
So for the small e with accent, I typed é
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Then there’s the ultra-ultra-orthodox practice which carries increased risk of infection/transmission of disease. No ice cream either, otherwise wouldn’t be kosher.
NotMax
@Ceci n est pas mon nym
Sí.
Brachiator
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Wow. This version had been bouncing around for a while looking for a release date. I guess it found one. I recall the original was a pretty good action film. But it did rile up critics and sensitive souls. From the Wiki.
But the Simpsons had the best take on it.
Everything old is new again.
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
That makes me so very not sad.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: That’s just weird and creepy. I’m still not sure how they came up with that and it definitely should be sent to the ash heap of history.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mary G:
It depends on the device, I think. I’m commenting from my iPhone, and all you have to do is linger on whatever letter requires a diacritical mark, and you’ll get a pop-up menu and the you just select whichever one you require.
aàáâäæãåāa
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
Yes. Yes, you do.
efgoldman
@Yarrow:
Hell, I’m having a hell of a time keeping up, allegedly retired. My FT job is doctors appointments.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Gravenstone: Well the Willis film does seem to be pure revenge. The Bronson film, as I recall started with him riding the subways looking vulnerable so he could shoot people who tried to take his grocery bags.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
My way’s easier ?
Catherine D.
@NotMax:
Regenstein? with the added benefit of glowing in the dark.
John Fremont
@Yarrow:
I’m a lurker, but I love reading this!
SiubhanDuinne
@m.j.:
Do it. It’s not meaningless. There’s a multiplier effect. Don’t know/remember the numbers, but it’s something like every person who answers a survey represents 4x or 5x who don’t bother to respond. It’s much higher for people like you who actually take the time to call, write, or email — more on the order of 9x or more.
M. Bouffant
@JGabriel: Former Kinkos/FedExOffice wage-slave here. Fred Smith, the C.E.O./founder is a glibertarian fuckstick, crook & shitty driver.
SiubhanDuinnei
fywp
SiubhanDuinne
@John Fremont:
It never, ever, EVER gets old.
Princess Leia
Just called Fed-Ex to put a block on my address so that no Fed-Ex packages can be delivered here. Makes me happier than it should!!!!
laura
@Amir Khalid: condition them for prison.
Fun fact, the percentage of school children in third grade who are deficient in reading is a factor in determining the amount of prison space to adequately house inmates.
Miss Bianca
@Betty Cracker: It’s a start, Betty, you’re right. And it’s a start with Gov. Bat Boy! Whocouldknode he’d end up in the gun legislation vanguard!
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: Adam! What would be the point of a pleasant, inviting “hardened” school site? THe message is: BE AFRAID! Not only of random crazed gunmen, but your classmates and your teachers, too! Why not – they’ll all be packing!
btw, is anyone but me seeing something nauseously phallic about the phrase “hardened”? Every time I see it I think of Wayne LaPierre in a ragegasm, and *that*, dear readers, is a truly revolting thought.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Maybe that’s why he didn’t get any.
m.j.
@SiubhanDuinne: Okay, I sent a missive and got a reply.
I could reply and complain about deaths that occurred long before the booking or the cowardice of hiding behind, “legality,” but I think the point has been made.
It’s just that I can’t get over the feeling that I was the only one to do this.
JGabriel
@Adam L Silverman:
Interesting. Thanks for filling me/us in about that, Adam.