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A Hero's Welcome to Heaven

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Died Shielding School Children From Gunfire See a stunning collection of political cartoons from this transplanted American artist. Go to "Google Images" and search ' Pia Guerra cartoons .'

Ever Wonder How This Could Happen?

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     Right Now... It is LEGAL (buying and owning a .50 caliber rifle and military ammo) right up to the moment you pull the trigger. That's how the 2nd Amendment is currently enforced. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? BOOM! For $10,000 (almost) anybody can buy a 50 cal. rifle with armor-piercing  incendiary  rounds to shoot an airport fuel storage tank or an airplane  just taking off. BANG! NEVER MIND :   " A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,..." . .. the important thing is to allow gun manufacturers to sell any gun that's not a "machine gun" to practically everybody. And it's still legal to buy a bump stock and  turn your semi- into a full-automatic; i.e. a machine gun.  SO SAYETH THE NRA and Congress.  Warning!  Political Statement!! Republicans stole the Second Amendment. Over the course of 30 years, the right waged a war on political, legal, and academic

GUN TALK

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All the Rage These Days (For a few days "until this one blows over") A friend of mine wrote a column about Occam's Razor. In it he "simplified" the liberal/progressive gun regulation position like this: - - - - - - - - "Since this shooting (Parkland), I've once again heard from non-gun owning friends of mine that have proposed that the first and best solution is for America to rid itself of all of its 300 million plus guns . They say that by doing so we will eliminate any future shootings of any kind." We live in Gunland    * I whupped up a response. Here 'tis, for your dining and dancing pleasure: You say some of your “non-gun owning friends” think: "  the first and best solution is for America to rid itself  of all of its 300 million plus guns . ”  What wildly radical friends you have. Australians? I don ’ t want to be tarred with that brush. It sounds suspiciously like the  “ they ’ re coming to get your guns ”  

DELIVER THE COUP DE GRACE!

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Lay Out the Proof , Profs It's obviously true. Prove it! Hillary... Pizza shop... I don't get it. Hey incontrovertible academic researchers, QUICK interview several thousand consistent Democrat voters ...   ...who stayed home and did not vote in 2016, ask them why.  Then run correlations between what they say and the lies the Russian trolls were telling  about Hillary. Prove - at the incontrovertible level that... ... THE ELECTION WAS TIPPED TO TRUMP BY THE RUSSIANS.   You owe it to America to prove this point.

SOPHISTICATED RUSSIAN TROLL EXAMPLES

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These Examples from the L.A. Times, an Important Target for the Russians                                                                                                                            SUPER       LIES                           Well written, Big Lie posts in "Comments" sections These from the story about the testimony today that Russians are continuing their propaganda invasion of America.  Testimony from America's top Intelligence Directors. Tues Feb 13, 2018 - Senate Intelligence Committee: These are our top guys, saying the Russians are doing exactly what you see below! BIG LIE/COUNTER ATTACK TECHNIQUE: Flat denial. Accusations against our truth tellers. Full counter-attack on the U.S.:  "We aren't guilty, YOU are guilty." (Note, this is the same general technique President Trump uses when he doesn't like some commentary on him.) indigenarojo 6:15 AM, Feb. 14, 2018 Pure propaganda. The only eviden

How Stupid Did You Say?

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Publications Compete To Call Trump's "Infrastructure Plan" Stupid  How Disappointed Can a Nation Be? You kidding?    Trump's infrastructure plan isn't a plan. It's a fantasy   Trump Infrastructure Plan Would Pay For A Fraction Of Investment     Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Great Unless You Want an Actually  functioning  Infrastructure And from way back in 2016 :  President Trump's Backassward Infrastructure Idea Why in holy heck can't we just do this right? I'm too smart for THAT!

I SENSE A LURKING, SCARY PROBLEM

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I Put This on a Disqus "Discussion" (sort of like a sub-Reddit) Autonomous Weapons Cybersphere Data Breaches Frankenstein Skynet Cyber Reality Getting Ahead of Cyber Sci-Fi? 16 Comments  Edit seniorjunior (scooter duff)   @seniorjunior  a day ago "Taming the Monsters of Tomorrow"  Isn't that a great title? It's in 12 January edition of Science Magazine as one of their pieces memorializing the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelly's 1818 blockbuster  Frankenstein. . We (readers of this "Sci-Fi Channel" on disqus) know a lot about the 'monsters of tomorrow' because that's how we roll. We savored Hal. Skynet is burned into our consciousness. We hear Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warning of rogue AI super intelligences deciding humans are superfluous. We grok the Bladerunners. We hear from most sentient people about the dangers of autonomous weapons. Futures from the world's sci-fi ge

THE BOT LIST

CLICK 'EM AND WEEP "Like Bots" - the newest weapon Whole 'Nother Bot Thang I f They Can Do This to Twitter The Russians Really Like My Blog 50,000 Twitter Bots and Counting The Russians are (still) here! The Russians are (still) here! Rebuttal (to some rudenecks) Cluster Trolls Obsession Cured (not!) Obsessed? Who Me? Classic NASTYBOT Examples NASTYBOTS Olde Scooter Predicts My New Passion - Reconciliation They Are Whuppin' Our Butts In the Propaganda War Looking for Bots in All The Wrong Places Bot Spotting - Seriously How to Spot a Bot+

THOSE OLYMPIC COOPERATORS

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I've Been Telling You and Telling You... Russia, Iran, China, North Korea and a bunch of others are all over the Net They are in your Twitter feed, your Facebook pages, your Instagrams and favorite sub-Reddits. They write many of the comments in the "Comments" sections of your favorite news and opinion sites. they sell you things on Amazon and the auction sites. They traffic in your financial data stolen from Equifax.   You know all that, of course.  Here's a fine piece of journalism from a credible source about the strange variation on the cyber wars as practiced by North Korea. Even their highest class hackers are the slaves of the regime. NONE of us has Kim Jong-un's haircut! There are no strong borders in the cybersphere. Mostly no borders at all. Darn Fern'ers are swarming around us like mosquitoes at Texas summer sundown. The more we educate ourselves about this, the more we can watch our (and each other's) back. MY PASSION, AS PE