The reason why I ask is because I don't believe that be posted anything n this thread and was wondering why anyone would make comment about me where I made none...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cattle/Horses
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The reason why I ask is because I don't believe that be posted anything n this thread and was wondering why anyone would make comment about me where I made none...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cattle/Horses
By the way, not that I'm in any way advocating anything at all about it, but there absolutely is an "official manual" on the subject of "civil disobedience". It has gone under various titles but it is now 169 years in print and is best known under a title not supplied by its author... ta-DAH... (are you sure you are ready...) Civil Disobedience. I'm referring of course to an essay written by Henry David Thoreau and first published in 1849.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and THERE ARE RULES FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
However, I'm only talking about Civil Disobedience at all, to make it absolutely abundantly clear that I DID NOT bring that subject up, nor have I ever advocated civil DISobedience... only civil OBEDIENCE.
Without some solid proof, that sounds like some tin-foil hat stuff right there. C/H looks like he did some good research there and that would take the other group right out of the running. Lobbyists are necessary, even if some of them are smarmy at times, and I'm glad we have some really good ones working with the NRA.Quote:
Originally Posted by eraursls1984
Smarmy.
Nice word
I had to Google it.
Thank you.
Well, I'd take the GOA not lobbying over the NRA lobby against the second amendment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cattle/Horses
Wayne LaPierre's salary is more than the total revenue of the GOA. The executive expenses of the GOA are $200,000-300,000. Assuming all of that is Tim's salary alone, it's still only about 15-20% of LaPierre's salary. I wouldn't compare an organization with 2-3 million in total revenue to one with 200-350 million based on those expenses alone. I do think the NRA is kind of fighting for us right now (partly because of the backlash), but only because they are raking in the money. As soon as things die down, they will be pushing for gun control so they can ask for money to fight it. It's all about the money to them, not our rights.
Yes they did. I don't know why so many on the right praise Reagan so much. Sure he was good for the economy (except for expanding the drug war that's cost us billions) but terrible for gun rights.Quote:
Originally Posted by polebarn
If only we could get Republicans that didn't vote like Democrats.
Reagan also took a military worn down from 10 years of war and then decimated by the Carter administration and rebuilt it in to the most powerful military in the world.
He also ended Carter's policy of bended knee diplomacy
The folks on the right who praise Reagan lived through Ford and Carter; that’s why.Quote:
Originally Posted by eraursls1984
^^^^ My student loans of that era were 8% interest, about half of conventional loans of the time (16-20%). OR there abouts
Sub 15% on a 30 year fixed then was a killer deal back then. My first piece of property was 13.5% with 50% down and a cosigner with stellar credit.