North Carolina - Republicans Gone Wild

[DuffMan]

I like it!!!!!

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

I think this is most appropriate here. Carrying guns, and concealed weapons in bars, what would possibly go wrong?!

How is this even remotely a good idea?!

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/20...s-carry-bars-/

Because there are people in bars and restaurants acting suspiciously, You never know when you're going to have to take down a punk...

who is on top of you grounding and pounding you MMA style

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

Because there are people in bars and restaurants acting suspiciously, You never know when you're going to have to take down a punk...

who is on top of you grounding and pounding you MMA style

The article says people are allowed to pack heat, unless the owner objects.

"You can't bring that gun in here sir, we are non-violent establishment."

"The HELL I CAN'T!""

POW!!!

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

The article says people are allowed to pack heat, unless the owner objects.

"You can't bring that gun in here sir, we are non-violent establishment."

"The HELL I CAN'T!""

POW!!!

I'd totally dress like Clint Eastwood, the poncho/blanket, cigar in my mouth, sit at a table, deliberately take my pistols out and point them towards the door, and then order a bottle of Whiskey.

[ranchlandsselling]

I was hoping for a "girls gone wild" like story but in the government, dissapointed!

[You Need a Thneed]

It's time for party politics to be made illegal.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

I was hoping for a "girls gone wild" like story but in the government, dissapointed!

And now I can't get the image of Chris Christie writhing around in a white mumu while being hosed down on a stage out of my head.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Is Alaska really a hot bed for Jesus love? I'm sure the native populations just loved having Christianity imposed on them

The elected Sarah Palin as governor. That should tell you all you need to know about Alaska.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by SebC

The elected Sarah Palin as governor. That should tell you all you need to know about Alaska.

Quoted for truth. I forgot about that often-confused-for succubus.

[Red Ice Player]

This smacks of racism. However, that's the GOP playbook, and its nothing new. The Democrats are coming at this all wrong however. They have done a good job getting out the vote every four years for President, but they stay home in droves for the mid term elections, allowing the GOP to forever dominate Congress, thus prolonging the gridlock.
Its all well and fine to cry foul when the GOP steals elections and passes anti minority legistlation, but what the Dems have to do is embark on a voter registration stategy ala the sixties. It must be hammered home that you must show up and vote every two years, not four. The strategy of waiting for the redneck base of the GOP to die off will not get it done.

[Tinordi]

As the strangle hold on policy, politics and society is quickly slipping through the hands of old white men, they'll respond by lashing back out stronger. This is a desperate attempt by those on top of the heap to keep it that way, and while it may work in relatively homogenous communities and jurisdictions, the broad trends and leaving them behind.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/...d-bluer-world/

But the cultural gulf has rarely been as deep or as wide. My view on this is that our division is not really about politics or even ideology. Ideology is an often ill-fitting misnomer for something much more powerful – deep cultural alienation between the two parts of America. That alienation, in my view, is at its core the same alienation we are seeing in countries as diverse as Turkey and Egypt and Iran and Israel. It’s about the response to modernity – a choice between fear/rejection and relish/adoption. It’s between a red world and a blue world. Or rather an increasingly blue world in deadly conflict between an increasingly red one.

David Brooks reviewed Charles Taylor’s masterpiece, “The Secular Age”, today. Money quote:

Taylor’s investigation begins with this question: “Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say 1500, in our Western society, while in 2000 many of us find this not only easy but even inescapable?” That is, how did we move from the all encompassing sacred cosmos, to our current world in which faith is a choice, in which some people believe, others don’t and a lot are in the middle?
The real question, however, is how societies can retain their coherence and unity when they are caught between the reassuring certainties of fundamentalism and the exhilarating disorientation of modernity. The worldviews are from such different places – and are now penetrating cultures which, before the globalization of information, were able to keep them at bay. And so a mutilated woman in Saudi Arabia can see unfathomable sexual pornography with a click of a mouse. And young, hip Tehran youth look on in disbelief as the crudest forms of religious frenzy guide an economy toward the rocks. If you go from the central cities of these countries and venture further and further into the rural heartlands, you will find not only that the blue parts of these countries are getting bluer, but that, in response, many of the red parts are getting redder. Soon, both parties create a different set of facts, as well as beliefs, about their world. Until they are barely able to communicate with each other at all.

The places where these forces are not as strong are in Western Europe and China – where traditionalist religion has either died or was killed by decades of brutalizing communist atheism. But in those countries where fundamentalism has not lost its power, and where ISRAEL-RELIGION-JUDAISM-WOMENmodernity has not lost its seductive appeal, the conflict is deepening. I thought Barack Obama could somehow transcend this, and help move us forward. He has in many ways, but he is not engaging in an argument with his opponents, because in a religious and cultural war, arguments are just less potent than symbolism, resentment, identity and a divine claim to absolute truth. My fear is that these two forces are intensifying the strength of the other. Egyptians now have their own set of facts about yesterday’s massacre – but we in America have FNC and MSNBC. And the more the fundamentalist forces recoil from a multi-racial, multi-cultural, sexually free society, the more secularists are tempted to move from condescension to outright hostility. Before long, we have atheism in its most unadulterated form banishing people of faith from any role in public discourse – and vice-versa (think of climate denialism among those declaring God in control of the weather).