A good romance.
You! With the pitchforks and torches! DROP THEM! She did not make him a sandwich! She PURCHASED IT!
I’m glad we can have these chats.
So it seems Feinstein is back at her old shenanigans. Although I’m a moderate Liberal, I do view Feinstein as a fucking lich, an over-the-hill demon whose time has come and gone. She’s a horrible thing, a creature that should have been banished from this plane long ago. Oh goody, another AWB. This shows, once again, that Feinstein has no connection to the voting populace. She’s a reactionary idiot who tries to prop up her ancient, diseased political soapbox by reacting to the worst things that are happening right now.
The gun bloggernets are SCREAMING about this, but I say (as usual) sit the fuck down and have a Coke.
– A new AWB will garner NO support politically from any politician who doesn’t want to commit instant career suicide. Guns are popular in the USA right now. As I just explained to a family member, the screaming meemies of the east and west coasts of the USA DO NOT represent the center of it.
– The death of this bill will possibly shove Feinstein back into her crypt, where she will slumber for a thousand years, fitfully, before she rises again.
This is not to say people should sit back. Please DO write your politicians and let them know that the original AWB was stupid, and this bill is stupid. The problem is not “assault weapons” – the problem is mental health care in the USA. The problem is that bad shit will always happen, and you can’t 100% legislate it out of existence.
MOLON LABE, motherfuckers.
Pastrami on rye with Swiss?
That is just wrong! Hot pastrami (preferably a lot of it) goes on rye with mustard, that’s it. No veggies, no mayo, and no damn cheese.
Not much gets under my skin anymore, but messing with the perfection of a hot pastrami sandwich is one of them.
Oh, bitch, you did not just diss my Reuben.
Yeah, I did. Pastrami on rye is pastrami on rye. If you meant a Reuben you should called it such. A Reuben is technically a different sammy altogether. Being a pastrami purist is a horrible thing. It ends friendships and causes family drama.
My Sister added bacon & provolone to hers once just to get a rise out of me. We didn’t talk for a few weeks.
When the Stage Deli in NYC closed, I was actually bummed out for a while.
My Sister added bacon & provolone to hers once just to get a rise out of me.
Oh my god that sounds delicious.
I have been struck with inspiration… Off to the deli for some pastrami, a new bottle of Dijon, some sauerkraut, and precooked bacon. I’ve already got swiss. Time for a BacoReuben!
THANK f’ing GOD I’ve got a TooJay’s within walking distance!
I’m not sure describing the ingredients of something counts as some sacred unalterable recipe.
…My jimmies have officially been rustled.
I usually take pastrami or salami on a piece of bread with butter and cheese, and enjoy it with a glass of
milk.
Dammit! All this talk of sammichs makes me want to order a beef on weck.
For you non Western New York state types; A beef on weck is thin sliced rare roast beef with horseradish on a kummmelweck (basically a kaiser roll with kosher salt and caraway on the top instead of the sesame seeds you’d find on some hamburger rolls) roll which has had the underside of the top half dipped in au jus.
Forget chicken wings. This sandwich is what makes Buffalo great.
Man, I’m glad I was eating when I got to this thread (catching up after three weeks away). Otherwise I’d be really really hungry right now. As it is, I now want a sandwich to go with my burger. >.>
I don’t think the current wording has a chance of passing, it’ll get boiled down to just about what it was in ’94. But I don’t think we’re going to get out without an AWB, and it’s not like the republicans are going to stand up to them. You know, like Boehner did with taxes…
“The problem is not ‘assault weapons’ – the problem is mental health care in the USA.”
Although this might be an unwelcome comment, focusing on the small number of people with mental illness who are violent just serves to make us feel safer by displacing and limiting the threat of violence to a small, well-defined group. But the sad truth is that the vast majority of homicides are carried out by outwardly normal people in the grip of all-too-ordinary human aggression. While it may be a truism that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, if someone is in the grip of a killing rage, what’s the weapon they typically use?
The vast majority of homicides are carried out by criminals, with a long list of prior convictions. In other words, people who already can’t legally own a gun. For that matter, a rather large majority of homicide VICTIMS are, themselves, criminals.
You’re asking the wrong question. The right question would be, what weapon won’t they use? Because they’ll use anything if it’s a real uncontrollable rage.
I wish I had uncontrollable rage. it would be such a great excuse, both personally and socially. There is so much pain and anguish in intense controllable rage. Stopping yourself and realizing the potential consequences* of your potential actions gives you a choice. Making the ‘right’ choice, against all your judgements and desires, however much you may not actually want to be a murderer; it’s not something I can even describe. But it’s not pleasant. Especially given that anger might as well be an addictive narcotic. Perhaps some kind of emotional training in schools would help people moderate their lives and better fulfill their potential, I don’t know.
I live in a country with gun control (licenses, registration, restrictions and various classes and qualifications). We still get the occasional instance of gun violence here. There is still plenty of violence, muggings, assaults, etc; but I can only imagine how many of those would be murders if we deregulated guns. As much as I think sometimes I’d like to shoot someone I could still get a basic firearms license, so long as I didn’t tell many people I wanted to shoot someone. I couldn’t own a pistol or have pistol grips on my shotguns or rifles, semi-auto only and 10 round mags only, but I don’t see that mattering much. Heck I think you can legally buy higher cap mags, your just not allowed to attach them to your weapon without the right licensing conditions, how silly is that?
Anyway, as for rage killing here is an example that stands out in my mind from my country, I can’t pick a specific link but this search will serve just fine: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=stab+a+tagger
*(to yourself and loved ones, not the victims. Those you want dead or injured.)
Crime usually rises when guns are strongly regulated, see britain their handgun crime has doubled since they made handguns ilegal 10 years ago, and they also are talking about banning knives over a certain lenght.
That last pane must be dfwmustangs.net lol
Nah, I like those guys.
A hot pastrami sandwich without the Swiss is Kosher – but it doesn’t taste as good. I want my Swiss cheese, and horseradish mustard on my sandwich! Serve the kraut and dill pickles on the side though…
And by all means, keep the thousand island dressing off of my Reuben!
Preach it, Brother! NO DRESSING!
J, I’ve put together a little something for when people are feeling Socratic in talking with antis. It’s a bit of a short gun quiz. That’s the printable PDF. If you don’t want to crick your neck, the landscape pic is at http://www.3fgburner.net/gunquiz.jpg.
President Obama on Sunday said he would make gun control a priority in his new term, pledging to put his “full weight” behind passing new restrictions on firearms in 2013.
“I’m going to be putting forward a package and I’m going to be putting my full weight behind it,” said Obama in an interview aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/274881-obama-hopes-to-enact-new-gun-control-measures-in-2013
…but hey. It’s not like he isn’t a lying bitch, right?
I’m a little confused. Are you saying Obama is terribly effective at what he wants to get done?
Yeah, well, Feinstein was the one who was first to the bodies of Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone, so seeing one of your colleagues die with 5 bullet holes in him probably colours your worldview a bit.
Shot, ironically, by an ex-cop with his service revolver.
No excuses. I have baggage and problems from my own experience as a victim of violent crime, but I’m not attempting to legislate anything based on that baggage because…*dramatic pause* it’s mine. My problem, not yours. Or anyone else’s, for that matter.
I think that’s a debate error called I Am The World, isn’t it?