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Posted by Goldy on Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM
Ho-hum, another victory. The Seattle Seahawks clinched a playoff spot by crushing the San Francisco 49ers 42-13 on Sunday Night Football.
Maybe we're running out? The number of immigrants deported from the Pacific Northwest dropped 11 percent in 2012 over the year before. Nationally, deportations were up 3 percent.
Well, that's something Mitt Romney and voters had in common. Mitt Romney's son, Tagg, says that's okay, his father didn't really want to be president anyway: "He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life."
Somebody needs to reread Doctrine and Covenants 89:5. US Senator Michael Crapo (R-Idaho) was arrested and charged with driving under the influence early Sunday morning, after running a red light in Alexandria, Virginia. Senator Crapo reportedly registered a blood alcohol level of 0.11 percent—more than a third above the .08 percent Virginia state limit, and 100 percent above the limit set by the Mormon Church in which Senator Crapo is a bishop.
No Christmas for Microsoft? If you're looking for a last minute Christmas gift, but don't want to brave long lines at the mall, just stop by your local Microsoft Store, where Windows 8 sales apparently aren't packing them in.
A huge step forwarded for women's rights in Afghanistan: A US military advisor is dead after being shot by an Afghan policewoman in Kabul. It is believed to be the first such "insider attack" committed by a female member of Afghanistan's security services.
If only we were all armed with guns, this tragedy could have been averted. A 24-year-old Auburn man was taken into custody after allegedly stabbing a childhood friend to death during an argument.
If only we were all armed with guns, this tragedy could have been averted. Tacoma police shot and killed a 22-year-old woman who allegedly pointed a gun at them. Police had been called to the house by the woman's mother because she thought her daughter had killed herself.
If only we were all armed with guns, this tragedy could have been averted. At least two firefighters have been killed and two others wounded, after being shot at the scene of a fire in upstate New York.
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Nothing about Aloha Obama?
Working on his tan while the economy careens toward the Cliff?
You Democraps do realize that your President is a really shitty piss-ass excuse for a politician, don't you?
Shiftless, Lazy, Arrogant and Prickly to boot....
Someone should give him a biography of LBJ for Christmas.
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Their last game is at home, against the hapless Kansas City Chiefs... worst team in the league. I wonder if the Broncos will keep Manning in?
As patsy Cline said, "Stop the world and let me off!"
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What's next? Bargaining? Anger? I forget.
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Article comes out showing decline in sales for Microsoft.
Pundits leap into action decrying the death of the PC and monolithic "software empires".
Quarterly report then comes out and shows record revenues.
Everyone crawls off to look for another ambulance to chase.
Win win.
Win....win.
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1. The man who murdered and wounded firefighters in New York spent 17 years in prison for killing his grandmother. As a convicted felon, it was illegal for him to own any firearm, or for anyone to transfer a firearm to him.
2. The young woman killed by Tacoma Police after pointing a handgun at them had been arrested and charged in Pierce County Superior Court with several felonies. The county prosecutor conditionally dismissed the charges in September 2012 in exchange for the woman participating in a diversion probation program -- which should have included a prohibition on the woman possessing any firearms.
3. Unclear what happened in Auburn, but knives are very effective murder weapons as well. Knives in Mexico kill more people per capita than guns in the USA. In fact, despite very stringent gun control in Mexico (including absolute ban on assault weapons in private hands), firearms in Mexico also kill more people per capita than firearms in the USA.
The first two scenarios in today's tragic news simply show that we do a piss-poor job of enforcing existing firearms laws -- which very stringently prohibit criminals from possessing firearms.
As for the bar murder in Bellevue, Washington state law makes bars "gun free" zones. It is illegal to carry a firearm in a bar, even with a CWP. This law makes a lot of sense, and I definitely think it should stay on the books. But it won't stop a determined killer.
Hey, I'm just saving everyone the trouble of wondering when the stupid overused meme would get trotted out...
There's also the implication that Tagg Romney is surrounded by people who want to be president. So either he's lying (duh), or all the Romneys and their friends and acquaintances are megalomaniacs, which actually wouldn't surprise me.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and speculate that most illegal immigrants in Washington state are from Canada and therefore are white. The U.S. isn't concerned with deporting white people. It's only the brown ones that rile up American anti-immigrant feelings.
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