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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (152947)	2/16/2013 8:39:13 AM
From: chartseer	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

Freeze warning in Florida in this year after the warmest year ever. Though it is the warmest freeze warning ever.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (152947)

2/16/2013 12:14:10 PM

From: longnshort

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Occupy LA to Christopher Dorner: 'Rest in Power'

The Democrat-endorsed #Occupy movement has racked up quite an impressive record:

- More than 12 deaths, 6 found dead in tents, Two found dead after several days
- 2 murders (Not counting the protester who strangled his parents and stuffed them in a car)
- Tens of millions of dollars in damages, layoffs, vandalism, law breaking
- Multiple Rapes
- Thousands of arrests
- Public masturbation
- Feces
- Child molestation and baby abuse

Now this…
The #Occupy criminal movement on the left honored cop-killer Chris Dorner this week.
This was posted on the #Occupy LA Facebook page:

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thegatewaypundit.com

breitbart.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (152947)	2/16/2013 4:24:01 PM
From: Woody_Nickels	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

re: The Senate has confirmed far fewer judicial nominees at this point The Senate has also passed far fewer BUDGETS at this point, compared to previous administrations. Obama has installed FAR MORE CZARS than previous administrations. These points bother me more than a few appointments not confirmed. Perhaps Obammy should re-evaluate the kind of people he puts forth to be confirmed. Less radical and more competent, maybe.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (152947)	2/18/2013 11:03:13 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224757

GUN BILL: HOW'S ABOUT POLICE COMING INSIDE, ONCE A YEAR, TO HAVE A LOOK AROUND -- IT'S IN THERE These are not baby steps to totalitarianism. These are leaps. America, increasingly, is unrecognizable. The more liberal a city, town or state, the more in danger to our basic fundamental freedoms. Misstep in gun bill could defeat the effort Seattle Times, February 17, 2013 One of the major gun-control efforts in Olympia this session calls for the sheriff to inspect the homes of assault-weapon owners. The bill’s backers say that was a mistake. Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming inside, once a year, to have a look around? As Orwellian as that sounds, it isn’t hypothetical. The notion of police home inspections was introduced in a bill last week in Olympia. That it’s part of one of the major gun-control efforts pains me. It seemed in recent weeks lawmakers might be headed toward some common-sense regulation of gun sales. But then last week they went too far. By mistake, they claim. But still too far. “They always say, we’ll never go house to house to take your guns away. But then you see this, and you have to wonder.” That’s no gun-rights absolutist talking, but Lance Palmer, a Seattle trial lawyer and self-described liberal who brought the troubling Senate Bill 5737 to my attention. It’s the long-awaited assault-weapons ban, introduced last week by three Seattle Democrats. Responding to the Newtown school massacre, the bill would ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons that use detachable ammunition magazines. Clips that contain more than 10 rounds would be illegal. But then, with respect to the thousands of weapons like that already owned by Washington residents, the bill says this: “In order to continue to possess an assault weapon that was legally possessed on the effective date of this section, the person possessing shall ... safely and securely store the assault weapon. The sheriff of the county may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance with this subsection.” In other words, come into homes without a warrant to poke around. Failure to comply could get you up to a year in jail. “I’m a liberal Democrat — I’ve voted for only one Republican in my life,” Palmer told me. “But now I understand why my right-wing opponents worry about having to fight a government takeover.” He added: “It’s exactly this sort of thing that drives people into the arms of the NRA.” I have been blasting the NRA for its paranoia in the gun-control debate. But Palmer is right — you can’t fully blame them, when cops going door-to-door shows up in legislation. I spoke to two of the sponsors. One, Sen. Adam Kline, D-Seattle, a lawyer who typically is hyper-attuned to civil-liberties issues, said he did not know the bill authorized police searches because he had not read it closely before signing on. “I made a mistake,” Kline said. “I frankly should have vetted this more closely.” That lawmakers sponsor bills they haven’t read is common. Still, it’s disappointing on one of this political magnitude. Not counting a long table, it’s only an eight-page bill. The prime sponsor, Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, also condemned the search provision in his own bill, after I asked him about it. He said Palmer is right that it’s probably unconstitutional. “I have to admit that shouldn’t be in there,” Murray said. He said he came to realize that an assault-weapons ban has little chance of passing this year anyway. So he put in this bill more as “a general statement, as a guiding light of where we need to go.” Without sweating all the details.