Kolek planning to go pro
This is why I said their is not a profilaterion of weapons.
Agree, but if we are going to tear down statues in this country, then there are some people that have been lionized that need a reexamination as well.Was it washed over, or was it left out and not covered on purpose? Media protecting their own? How many stories do we in the general public never get to read about because the media chooses not to report it? Their power is unfettered and they can pick and choose who to lay waste to.The Lion of the Senate, the great Ted Kennedy. He was built up as a Mt. Rushmore of the left, but this is the kind of stuff that he was doing and dismissed as boys being boys. The Waitress Sandwich with Chris Dodd, published in GQ because the normal mainstream media didn't want to bother with it.: Brasserie I: In December 1985, just before he announced he would run for president in 1988, Kennedy allegedly manhandled a pretty young woman employed as a Brasserie waitress. The woman, Carla Gaviglio, declined to be quoted in this article, but says the following account, a similar version of which first appeared in Penthouse last year, is full and accurate:It is after midnight and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant's annex. They are drunk. Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom. (The dates are drunk too. "They'd always get their girls very, very drunk," says a former Brasserie waitress.) Betty Loh, who served the foursome, also leaves the room. Raymond Campet, the co-owner of La Brasserie, tells Gaviglio the senators want to see her.As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd's lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room. Kennedy, Dodd and their dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over the check.Eyewitness Betty Loh told me that Kennedy had "three or four" cocktails in his first half hour at the restaurant and wine with dinner. When she walked into the room after Gaviglio had gone in, she says, "what I saw was Senator Kennedy on top of Carla, who was on top of Senator Dodd's lap, and the tablecloth was sort of slid off the table 'cause the table was knocked over—not completely, but just on Senator Dodd's lap a little bit, and of course the glasses and the candlesticks were totally spilled and everything. And right when I walked in, Senator Kennedy jumped off…and he leaped up, composed himself and got up. And Carla jumped up and ran out of the room."From all available evidence, God created our elected officials to drink and screw around.According to Loh, Kennedy "was sort of leaning" on Gaviglio, "not really straddling but sort of off-balance so it was like he might have accidentally fallen…He was partially on and off…pushing himself off her to get up." Dodd, she adds, "said 'It's not my fault.' " Kennedy said something similar and added, jokingly, "Makes you wonder about the leaders of this country."Giving Kennedy the benefit of the doubt, it's quite possible he did not intend an assault but meant to be funny, in a repulsive, boozehead way. Drunks are notoriously poor judges of distance, including the distance between fun and assault.Brasserie II: On September 25, 1987, Kennedy and a young blonde woman—identified by several sources as a congressional lobbyist—allegedly got carried away at a wine-fueled lunch in a private room upstairs and succumbed to the temptations of the carpet, where they were surprised in a state of semi-undress and wholehearted passion by waitress Frauke Morgan. The room, located next to the restrooms, is secured only by a flimsy accordion door, which could not be fully closed. Morgan declined to be interviewed for this story or to comment on or refute the accounts of other sources.However, waitress Virginia Hurt, who says Morgan described the scene to her shortly after witnessing it, recalls, "He was on the floor with his pants down on top of the woman, and he saw her and she just kind of backed away and closed the door. The girl didn't see Frauke. So Frauke went downstairs and told the manager and [another waitress] overheard."A waitress to whom Morgan spoke just after the incident says, "She told me…she went up to offer them coffee and when she opened the door…there they were on the floor." Morgan said explicitly, the other waitress goes on, that Kennedy had his pants down and his date "had her dress up," and the two " 'were screwing on the floor.' "Says another waitress to whom Morgan immediately related the episode, "She said she had walked in to ask them if they needed anything else before she gave them the check, and she just sort of found Senator Kennedy on top of this [woman] on the floor and they were sort of half under the table and half out."A copy of La Brasserie's reservation list for that day shows that a luncheon table for two in the back room was reserved for Kennedy. A copy of the check, signed "Edward M. Kennedy," shows he was billed for two bottles of Chardonnay.
Heisey, I said mass shootings are not new to the last 5 years but dramatically increased in the last five years. And if you think 1.5 mass shootings a year is not a problem, that's a problem. I don't know how many guns is appropriate. But since we are number one in guns per capita and our number is nearly double the country in second it's probably less than we currently have.
Holy crap.I literally just said do the right thing on both sides and throw them all out.Holy unnatural carnal knowledge. I can't believe I had to repeat it.This equivalency stuff is so outrageous.
I've said this for a long time too, but is seems some people don't get it. Throw them all out. If they broke the law, through them all in jail. It seems a lot of people aren't actually concerned with the crimes, and assaults these people commit, they are more worried about if they can personally benefit from person X being in office.
Al Franken sighting....on a milk carton.
Agree, but if we are going to tear down statues in this country, then there are some people that have been lionized that need a reexamination as well.
Serious question.Why is it important to you to keep statues of traitors to the US? They definitely have their place in museums and Nat'l Parks such as Gettysburg and others where they are marking history. But why do favor having them in other places?Also do you know when the majority of these statues were erected?
Do you want to go down this road? Whatever emotional reaction we have this week decides who stays and who goes?Becuase NYC is thinking about tearing down Columbus Circle. Jefferson is also at risk.How about Che Guevara in Central Park? Can we tear him down too? How about the Stephen Douglass tomb/memorial on Chicago's Southside? When Feminist start objecting to the Picasso in Daley Plaza, will that go too?Point is once you go down this road, over time different people will have different "visions of history" and they will all come down.Otherwise, tell me the standard by which some go (Confederate soldiers) and some stay (Columbus)? Or, do you want all the above to go?
I figured a serious question would get a silly response.
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-what-are-our-representatives-supposed-do
Your whole diatribe (typical mostly cut and paste) is fatally flawed. It assumes that those voting right or left are doing so because of the constituents and not because they are voting their free independent mind. People like Moore have plenty of character. Bad character. He has consistently been vocal about race and sex issues, and voted consistently with his personal beliefs. His actions indicate he believes in how he voted on race and sex issues. People are voting for him, because his character for the most part matches theirs. They also believe the same things he has spoken out about race and sex issues. They then excuse away these allegations (wholly consistent with his character), as attacks from their vile opposition.People vote in people with plenty of character, bad character, and they then vote for their own self-interest (not their constituents). It reminds me of a colleague of mine, who just yesterday said he didn't believe any of these allegations against Moore (or similarly Trump), and that women are lying because it doesn't happen that often. He said he knows this because of his three daughters only his oldest ever had anything happen to her, when a construction worker smacked her on the ass when she was wearing short shorts. He explained, that when she told them, they properly told her she just can't go around wearing shorts like that...they blamed her. He then explained that she never, nor her sisters ever had any problems, cause they would tell him everything.Well, no they wouldn't, not when they were blamed when it happened to them. This is the problem.
Ah, the old slippery slope argument.If we get rid of the statues of traitors who killed scores of Americans just so they could keep enslaving an entire race of humans ... then that will open the floodgates to statues of Jefferson and Washington being removed.You know what, Smuggles? It's a risk I'm willing to take.Let's deal with one issue at a time. Let's take the statues of traitors - and there is no other word for them - to museums where they belong and then we can deal with other issues on a case-by-case basis.I have a feeling that if we do that, we won't be getting rid of Jefferson and Washington statues. But maybe we will; we'll see.And for those who really get pissed off if statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson get taken down and sent to museums ... I send them my thoughts and prayers.
This is a partisan response. as this read as Moore and Trump are terrible people but not Franken, both Clintons and Bob Mendedez.
First, you say we cannot stop all of them, then you call 1.5/year to many and demand more gun restrictions.
The only way they are going to zero is a total ban. But you don't want that.Make up your mind.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Heisy has gotten absolutely off his rocker with the logical fallacies and misrepresenting what people say. It's comical at this point. Impossible to have any sort of discussion with him, that's for sure.