to those who like to dump on TV’s Frink: how about you create your own threads inviting feedback and see how you like it? seems only fair to me.
_ender, you have a habit of acting holier than thou at times.
I think he’s a little confused.
Me?
No.
I think he’s a little confused.
I wouldn’t think that Handman is prejudiced against machines.
Also, Frink, your text formatting for quoted posts could use some work.
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It’s not my fault I forgot that I was on the one forum on the internet that uses this stupid format.
I like it.
chyron | ˈkīrän |
noun trademark
an electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or movie screen.Oh. Okay then.
How’d you choose your username?
chyron | ˈkīrän |
noun trademark
an electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or movie screen.
Chyron on CNN: “Trump blames video games, movies for violence by youth.”
The important question is, now that you’ve seen him on CNN, does he look like he’s 39?
He he.
Chyron on CNN: “Trump blames video games, movies for violence by youth.”
Maybe we shouldn’t make our schools like prisons? Just maybe?
February 22, 2018, 1:11 pm EST to 1:12 pm EST
RIP
Such a full and wonderful life.
I’m in high school. I have many wonderful teachers. I don’t think any of them should be armed. Some of my teachers, and again, I love them, can hardly even operate a DVD player. I do not want any of them to be given firearms.
What about police officers that are extremely well trained and especially for a school environment and whom had been extremely background checked?
https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/964157761427787777
Every time another one of these mass shootings happen - right when the Republicans start telling us that the answer is more guns, guns for everyone, guns for teachers, guns for students - I think about Chris Kyle.
https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/964157915056803840
Chris Kyle was the American Sniper guy - a highly decorated Navy Seal sniper with 150 confirmed kills in the Iraq War. Whatever else is true about him, he definitely was very good at shooting guns and used to being in combat environments.
https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/964158367697723392
Kyle knew that the man he was with was dangerous. He knew he was armed - he armed him! To the degree that anyone could be forewarned and prepared for a situation, Kyle was. And yet the other guy shot two armed and trained men dead, got in a car and drove away.
https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/964158835043774470
Today a bunch of men are going to go to a gun store and they’re going to buy their third or 10th or 25th gun, because this scares them, and they think the gun is going to keep them safe.
I’m gonna quote some more because he said it better than I could.
This world-weary prediction of inaction is pernicious. It demoralizes those who are actually motivated to fight against gun violence. And it lets off the hook those who are opposed to reform.
By declaring any new effort doomed to fail, defeatist liberals spare their opponents from even having to go on record in their opposition, from having to actually make the arguments for protecting the gun lobby.
Meanwhile, one of the purple-state Republicans who voted no, NH’s Kelly Ayotte, lost in 2016 in a race in which the pro-reform groups went after her for her vote against background checks. No longer is voting with the NRA the obvious safe tack for a self-interested politician.
Or look at Virginia, the home of the NRA. In recent years, Northam, McAuliffe and Kaine have all won statewide elections despite their NRA F-ratings and outspoken calls for stronger gun laws.
But now a new generation may be showing a different way. The burgeoning outrage of so many students post-Parkland is, among other things, a rebuke to liberals who had given up the fight.
It won’t be an easy fight. But the worst odds of all lie in declaring any effort hopeless.If an effort is in fact hopeless, I see no wrong in declaring it so.
Doing allows you to focus on an effort that might not be hopeless and might save lives, like putting police in schools.
It is not the preferred solution, but, if it is what can get passed and can save lives . . .
Focus on what you can do.
It’s not hopeless.
Ok.
How did we get civil rights legislation?
By Frink refusing to give up.
You got me there.
It’s like that thing everybody says about voting. Sure, one individual vote doesn’t count, but if a lot of people thought that, it does count! It’s trite but it’s true.
Ok.
How did we get civil rights legislation?
In other news:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/966660169194229761
…If a potential “sicko shooter” knows that a school has a large number of very weapons talented teachers (and others) who will be instantly shooting, the sicko will NEVER attack that school. Cowards won’t go there…problem solved. Must be offensive, defense alone won’t work!
Anybody who says they don’t listen to music is lying.
Look on the bright side. This shooting has stayed in the news for more than a week now. There are protests planned all over the next month. Something is different this time. Any other shooting and this would have been a two-day story.
Sheesh.
I’m gonna quote some more because he said it better than I could.
This world-weary prediction of inaction is pernicious. It demoralizes those who are actually motivated to fight against gun violence. And it lets off the hook those who are opposed to reform.
By declaring any new effort doomed to fail, defeatist liberals spare their opponents from even having to go on record in their opposition, from having to actually make the arguments for protecting the gun lobby.
Meanwhile, one of the purple-state Republicans who voted no, NH’s Kelly Ayotte, lost in 2016 in a race in which the pro-reform groups went after her for her vote against background checks. No longer is voting with the NRA the obvious safe tack for a self-interested politician.
Or look at Virginia, the home of the NRA. In recent years, Northam, McAuliffe and Kaine have all won statewide elections despite their NRA F-ratings and outspoken calls for stronger gun laws.
But now a new generation may be showing a different way. The burgeoning outrage of so many students post-Parkland is, among other things, a rebuke to liberals who had given up the fight.
It won’t be an easy fight. But the worst odds of all lie in declaring any effort hopeless.
https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/964984555655573510
Most importantly, liberal fatalism on gun control overstates the strength of the opposition. The NRA’s influence depends heavily on the PERCEPTION of its power. By building up the gun lobby as an indomitable force, pessimistic liberals are playing directly into its hands.
iTall
What if we had it all?