I’ve been an American since birth, but even if I weren’t I know I could be one, after taking the U.S. Citizen Naturalization Test, because I answered all 96 questions correctly. I semi-guessed on only a couple of them.
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Was Wertham right?
I have tickets for a Sunday noon showing of the Batman movie at an IMAX theater. I’m waiting for somebody to say that the horror at last night’s midnight show in Aurora, Colorado was due to the availability of comic books.
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:11:02 -0400
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10:55 AM (5 minutes ago)“Such violence, such evil is senseless,” President Obama said in response to mass shooting at Colorado movie theater.
President Obama should be saying, “It’s time to reinstate the assault weapons ban.”
Dewey defeats Truman again
In this online age, when a headline can be published instantly, how could CNN get it 100%, 180 degrees wrong, about the Supreme Court’s decision on the health care mandate?
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10:09 AM (28 minutes ago)
The Supreme Court has struck down the individual mandate for health care – the legislation that requires all to have health insurance.
The Scotusblog got it right…
10:08 Amy Howe: The individual mandate survives as a tax.
… and it was another ten minutes before CNN corrected itself.
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10:18 AM (18 minutes ago)
Correction: The Supreme Court backs all parts of President Obama?s signature health care law, including the individual mandate that requires all to have health insurance.
The “other” June 6
Denro points out that when the Beatles first walked into the EMI recording studios at Abbey Road, it was the 18th anniversary of another noteworthy date — the Allied Invasion of Europe or, as it’s more commonly called, D-Day. He says…
If you listen to the start of the news reports, they actually say that it may be a hoax by the Germans, as there was no confirmation from Allied Forces. Talk about tight security. The largest Invasion in history – and no leaks. The only reports were from the various German news agencies. Now, there’d be pictures taken by the French on their cellphones, tweets from the front lines, troops updating their facebook pages as they advance, satellite views of the ships at sea and the beaches…
Here are a few edited radio broadcasts from OTR.com, with those qualified announcements that the invasion had begun.
[audio:http://www.otr.com/ra/news/dday_kallen.mp3,http://www.otr.com/ra/news/1st_bulletin_CBS.mp3,http://www.otr.com/ra/news/1st_bulletin_NBC.mp3|titles=WOR radio announcement of D-Day,CBS Radio network announcement of D-Day, NBC Radio network announcement of D-Day]A complete set of radio recordings from June 6, 1944 is at Archive.org.
Gung-ho for guns
Lewisville, Texas is getting an indoor gun range, with an age limit of only eight years old.
In Massachusetts we know better than to put a gun with live ammo in the hands of an 8-year-old. We know because somebody did exactly that, with deadly results.
Zimmy’s birthday
Robert Zimmerman is 71 years old today. And if George Zimmerman had followed Bob’s advice, he would have just watched the parking meters and not the whole neighborhood in Sanford, Florida. My opinion on the Trayvon Martin case hasn’t changed. I still think that if the stand your ground defense applies it favors Martin.