What with all the non-scandals still flapping around like bats in the GOP belfry, and the inevitable clunky launch of the ACA website and services, it seems like Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS) has reached epidemic levels amongst the low info electorate.
ODS, like some hyperactive strain of Ebola, now seems to just be infecting anything and everything the POTUS does, says or is in the vicinity of, be it the roll out of his landmark achievement as embattled president, or just some poor pregnant lass who when asked to stand through a pretty average to poor public appearance has a bit of lightheadedness (which according to the Jonesite death cultists is obviously a false flag).
But when there is a barrel whose bottom needs scraping through to the last splinters you can ALWAYS count on some cordite addicted psycho from the gun lobby to dig deep and let their full ODS spasms take hold. Sure as the sun coming up in the morning and going down at night, you can count on every time someone from the Obama administration mentioning in any way guns and gun violence, the RTKBA clown parade will find its voice and cry foul, finding some way to cough up gouts of ODS infected blood and bile on us the rational.
Follow me across the orange barbed wire fence of no mans land to read the latest as, like Hercules before us, we will try to find the stable neath the sh*t.
"Have Barack Obama and Eric Holder Caused an Increase in Mass Murder?" barks the big type bold face headline of the latest insane clown posse screed by John Hinderaker over at the Powerline blog. (http://www.powerlineblog.com/...). Take a read and stand well back lest the ODS viral spit and splutter infects your brain.
Hoods up, wellies on, breather masks affixed and fire hoses on max. Lets get down to giving the article a much needed enema.
So Holder is telling us that since he took over as AG, mass shooting incidents have tripled. Normally that might be considered an admission against interest, inasmuch as he is the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. But of course Holder didn’t take any responsibility for the trend he described. As far as I can tell, Democrats are interested in crime only when it serves as an excuse for gun control; never as a reason to consider more effective law enforcement measures, or to step up prosecution and punishment of criminals.
Cause and effect is always an issue with right wingers eh? Pumping massive amounts of pollutants into the sky doth not cause any real change in their books. Increased amounts of extreme weather and disasters is just Gods way of pointing out that America should pray more and beg forgiveness for .... erm.... taking gawd out of schools and Darwin and stuff. Oh, and Teh Gayz. In a similar vein, having more frickin guns per head of population than any other country in the world and making it so even blind and mad people have little or no trouble obtaining one without any form of sane or reasonable control or restriction has nothing at all to do with the yearly mass slaughter by firearms that happens. And of course the responsibility for that is all the fault of the people who try to get reasonable gun control measures implemented cos..... Obama!
One wonders, though: why is Holder obsessed with “active shooters?” Such individuals, almost always deranged, are extraordinarily rare. Is it statistically meaningful for 12 such incidents to occur in a population of 315 million, as opposed to four or five? I doubt it.
Hmmmmm..... possibly because when other countries experienced similar outbreaks of mass shootings they were closely followed by draconian gun restrictions being applied. UK and Australia are two examples. One or two bad incidents and thats it - no more bang sticks for you Billy Bob. And despite what the NRA and any amount of twisty interpretation of crime stats and false equivalencies between crimes seems to indicate, the truth is less guns equals less gun crime. See further that most shining example - Japan. And so its becoming ever more apparent that the USA is so addicted to its guns its willing to sacrifice classrooms full of kids, malls full of shoppers or theaters full of cinema goers once every month or so just so the death fetishists can keep their little deadly toys. And no matter how brass balled you are, the sneers and sniggers from the other developed nations tend to get embarrassing after a while.
The homicide rate has dropped even though–or because–handgun carry laws have been liberalized, more guns than ever have been sold, millions of “assault rifles” are in private hands, and Americans have taken more and more responsibility for their own defense. One would think that this happy development would merit more attention than a handful of incidents involving crazed, would-be mass murderers.
Sorry.... I just seem to be one of those people that think that, even though every single mass shooting incident is horrific and Aurora really did set what seemed like a high tide mark in horror, the mass murder of a class full of wee toddlers really was the straw across the already paraplegic camels back. Sandy Hook truly beggared belief. Mine anyway, and many of my American chums as well apparently. Just not the foaming at the brain ODS raddled gun nut brigade you poor sods have to live with. The ones who see those murder victims as martyrs to the cause who died so the gun lobby can continue buying military grade weapons in a school gym from Bubba, then go home and order an arsenal full of ammo off the interwebby without filling in one single scrap of paperwork all day.
After all, even at the elevated Obama-Holder rate, you are at least four times as likely to be struck by lightning as hit by an “active shooter.”
You are also more likely to be struck by a meteor than to die from taking Extacy, and its almost physically impossible to OD on weed, but I don't see the right wing goobers decrying the phony war on drugs..... If I can't go to a shop and buy a joint, why the hell can you go to another and buy an assault rifle? In fact....why the hell can I legally make and sell guns especially designed for kids to use, but I cant sell them weed? I know which one is more deadly, and it aint the green stuff. Im not reading news articles on a weekly basis about how 6 year old Johnny killed his sister after finding his dad's bong and stash left unattended.
Still, Holder evidently thinks the increase of the last three years is significant. So one wonders: why has the Obama/Holder administration seen a tripling in attempted mass murders, even as the overall homicide rate has continued to decline? It might be coincidence.
Let me guess. Obama?
But it also may be that the hysterical publicity given to each such incident has encouraged others. During the last few years, the Democratic Party news media have enthusiastically promoted stories about “shooters,” hoping to aid the Obama administration in its gun control initiatives.
Yep. Thought so. Obama! The evil rats of the liberal mainstream Democratic Party controlled mass media. Y'know..... that pinko commie lefty mass media that is so predominant....and to anyone
outside the US is almost invisible amongst the sea of right leaning rage machines like Faux and CNN and almost every single newspaper. Cos obviously, when a shooting occurs Faux and CNN do not spend every single second of every hour fetishising about it and running round like headless-chickens-of-disinformative-mass-delusion blarting out any and all brain farts and mouth belches they can. No..... not Faux.
Perhaps next time Eric Holder gives a speech about the anomalous increase in incidents of attempted mass murder, he should look in the mirror.
Especially if he has first stuck a picture of Wayne LaPierre on there beforehand and just happens to have Ted Nugent on the radio at the same time.
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So, there we are. Consider the already splinter thin barrel of NRA RTKBA ODS crazyness well and truly scraped through.
Me, I'm off for a delousing chemical shower of Carbolic and Swarfega to wash off the manure stink and bile splatter.
Chippy doo chappies, and like the Sarge used to say up on Hill Street
"Let's Be Careful Out There"