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[Defenestration]

Excuse me while I torrent Office, since Microsoft thinks stealing is okay.

[Doom]

Third incident of man carrying firearms and loitering around site where President Obama was speaking.

This is the third report in a week of someone bringing a gun to an event where the President was speaking. Last Tuesday a man was arrested before Obama's New Hampshire health care town hall for carrying an unlicensed loaded gun. Also outside the New Hampshire town hall, a man was seen with a (legal) handgun strapped to his leg, holding a sign referencing the famous Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Madre De Dios.

[The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji]

This'll probably earn a reprimand from SCD, but an armed dude with a sign that basically contains a death threat? I SURE FEEL SAFE NOW.

Man, I hate that quote. May as well read "You can't make an omlette without killing a few people."

[Disposable Ninja]

UPDATE: The Associated Press is now reporting that there were actually about a dozen armed people among the protesters in Phoenix:

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[Royal☭]

After having read about that this morning, I soon realized what tyranny really was.

Obama has done precisely jack and shit about gun control, and these town halls don't even bring it up at all.  The only reason these people are carrying weapons is to intimidate and threaten.  The threat of violence to seize control is tyranny plain and simple.

[Royal☭]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63GiXzpfGhA

This is the first guy reported on at the Phoenix rally.  He is blatantly making anti-democracy claims.  He rejects that the majority vote is not valid, and he thinks that a gun is the way for him to correct this problem.

[The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji]

burp beep durp all taxes r bad guns guns guns...

Man, I really need to find out who was it that compared taxes to rent for living in civilized society.

[Royal☭]

That would be former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Note: This man was a Republican.  On his death, he left his estate to the government.

[Brentai]

Note: This man was a Pre-Nixon Republican.

And supposedly he called Lincoln an idiot for standing up in the middle of a firefight.

[Royal☭]

Hey, that party loves to call Lincoln their own, I'm going to point out how this pro-tax guy is one of them.

I am infatuated with how the Republican party has shortened the slogan form "No taxation with representation" to just a flat "No taxation".  They are, of course, fully prepared to build and maintain their own roads, power their own houses, inspect all their own food, and drop a-bombs on their own foreign enemies.

[Mongrel]

Hey, that party loves to call Lincoln their own, I'm going to point out how this pro-tax guy is one of them.

Yeah, but he was born in the 1840's. He's FULLY ALLOWED to call himself a Lincoln-era Republican, because he WAS ONE.

Further hilarity: he issued several landmark rulings that legitimized Unions organising.

[The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji]

I don't have a link or anything (heard it on Kieth Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, or whatever other librul show my mother-in-law was watching), but it's sounding like Mr. AR-15 from Phoenix has some ties to that Viper Militia. I've never heard of them before, but it sounds like some members were arrested in 1996 for surveying some federal buildings in preparation for a bombing ala Oklahoma City. All in the name of fighting the New World Order or whatever.

Man, thank you, crazy militia dudes. Thanks to you, I can't even look at a bag of fucking fertilizer without some vague sense of dread.

[Defenestration]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1209209/IVF-procedure-using-DNA-THREE-parents-eradicate-incurable-diseases.html

How this is immoral exactly escapes me, assuming they don't grow up misshapen and deformed.

[Doom]

Well you see 3 is a bigger number than 2 so fuck Scientific progress.

[Classic]

I've played Parasite Eve. I know where this is going!

[Romosome]

This technique has already been used years ago in humans to cure infertility, without any knowledge of what the hell it does later down the line.

I'm sure it'll be great when we do this to a bunch of people willy-nilly.  Not to mention commercializing the production of children.

[Misha]

so what was the result romo? if it got used years ago presumably we now HAVE knowledge of what it does down the line.


also, with all the fertility treatments out there child production is already pretty commercialized

[Mongrel]

Personally guys, I could give two shits about people pulling a THE SKY IS FALLING over healthy genetics so long as the really weak link in the chain is retarded parenting and awful socio-economics.

The worst this can do is reinforce society's already-existing class-based discrimination, as long as the costs remain prohibitive.

[Cthulhu-chan]

Since you haven't heard anything, I think it's safe to say "nothing of note."  I wouldn't really expect there to be, anyway.  Mitochondria and animal cells may be joined at the hip, but they still have separate DNA.

[Mongrel]

Mitochondria and animal cells may be joined at the hip, but they still have separate DNA.

This is important - the donor egg is just a shell. We're a long way from bioroids, people.