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I got the impression the petition was actually started by a bunch
of democrat gadflies. But the joke is a pretty good one. Whenever I
encounter someone being irrationally optimistic about the politeness
and peacemaking properties of guns I suggest that this is why we
ought to arm prisoners.<br>
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Still, we ought to get away from the dreaded g*ns topic (we had a
ban on it on this list for many years, given the fierce positions
some people took). A better question is: how would we construct
respectful, intelligent foras for discussing policy and how to
stabilie them? I am not asking how to make current systems work,
just what it takes to make a forum work well. Once we know that we
might conspire to make them common. <br>
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carry firearms when they meet in Cleveland in July
for their convention to nominate Donald Trump as
their presidential candidate. Thousands of
irrational people who hate each others guts jammed
into one small hot auditorium each armed with a 44
Magnum revolver strapped to his waist and claiming
to have a larger dick and a better looking wife than
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John, this seems to me to be totally normal behavior for
the current slate of Repubs. Do you think this is
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Cowboys are all Repubs, aren't they? Or at least the
wannabes. Highly predictable, I'd say. Scream at the
top of your voice and carry the biggest stick, ride in a
Humvee. Will Trump be the first comb-over president?
Combing over not just his bald spots but his earlier
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personally experienced Earl Long and George Wallace
(early rabble rousers and demagogues for those of you
overseas). (Earl won the entertainment value contest
hams down - showed up on a flat bed truck, wearing one
of those old man T shirts, sweating and drinking from a
pint bottle and giving away hams and tubs of lard "Give
a ham to the nigger lady in the back" while a country
music band played. And he won. Easily. For US Rep
central LA. Died two weeks later - heart.) Democrats
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