Wednesday: I wonder why conservatives think that the right to own a gun should be unfettered but the right to vote should be restricted to the point of nonexistence?
Give Me Coffee Or Give Me Death: Only 8% Of Americans Are Tea Party Members by Michael Hayne:
How could this be? Is the white part of Obama going to serve in the second term? In any case, Americans’ feelings toward the Tea Party have turned decidedly sour. Read more
Gun Control Ad Featuring Mother Of Slain Child Will Set NRA’s Panties On Fire (VIDEO) by Shannon Barber:
The NRA will have a fit about this. They will accuse this woman of attacking them, gun owners, and the Second Amendment. They will be infuriated, as they always are, when anyone suggests that we need tougher gun laws, fewer guns, or smaller clips of ammunition. Read more
Gun Violence Survivor Gabby Giffords And Spouse Mark Kelly Say ‘Enough,’ Launch Gun Control Initiative by Lorraine Devon Wilke:
After visiting Newtown, CT, last week, meeting with some of the parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School, both Giffords and Kelly were expressing thoughts and perspective based on their shared, and horrific, experience with gun violence. Read more
Pro-Gun Radio Show Host Gets His Crazy On With CNN’s Piers Morgan (VIDEOS) by Cicero:
Jones’ paranoia doesn’t extend just to the U.S. government anymore. Now it’s the entire world out to get him…by convincing Americans that unlimited access to assault weaponry is as dangerous and bad for the country as it appears to be. Read more
Pro-Gun Activists Prepare For Upcoming ‘Gun Appreciation Day’ by Cicero:
According to Larry Ward, speaking on behalf of those with a peculiar piety toward firearms, this January 19th will be a day to exhibit our appreciation for steely weaponry. Read more
Conservative Meme Fact-Checked — Deaths From Guns by Justin Acuff:
6,220 murders with handguns. 356 with shotguns. All told, 8,583 murders with firearms in 2011 — and that’s out of 12,664. In other words, 68% of murders committed in 2011 were committed with firearms. Read more
Climate Change Alert: Australia So Hot, Weather Bureau Adds ‘Deep Purple’ To Heat Index by Elisabeth Parker:
David Jones, head of the Australia Bureau of Meteorology’s climate monitoring and prediction unit declared, “The current heatwave – in terms of its duration, its intensity and its extent – is now unprecedented in our records [and] The air mass over the inland is still heating up — it hasn’t peaked.” Read more
‘World Net Daily’ Birther Encourages Violent Revolt Against Federal Government by Stephen D. Foster Jr.:
Now that President Obama has won a second term to occupy the White House, some conservatives are once again trumpeting a call to arms. Read more
‘We The People’ Saved AIG–AIG Says Thank You On TV Then Considers Suing ‘We The People’ (VIDEO) by Egberto Willies:
AIG is considering suing the government, “we the people,” alleging the terms of the deal were unfair. Ex-CEO Greenberg called the Fed a ‘loan shark.’” Read more
Alabama’s Sex-Ed Curriculum Teaches Kids Being Gay Is ‘Criminal’ by Liberal Lamp Post:
Alabama State Rep. Patricia Todd, the first openly gay person elected to the legislature in the nation’s6th dumbest state, has introduced for the second time a bill to roll back the state’s bigoted and archaic sex-ed curriculum, which requires educators to teach that homosexuality is “not acceptable” and a “criminal offense.” Read more
Pro-Gun Nuts are the best case for Birth Control.