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THE DAY THE GUNS CAME OUT IN GEORGIA

As seen on America The Not So Beautiful

July 4, 2014

By Mike Caccioppoli

On this Independence Day they are celebrating the right to carry a gun anywhere they want in Georgia. Notice I don’t put the words “great state” in front of Georgia. That’s because it isn’t. Never really was.

Yes you can open carry your gun anywhere. Into churches, restaurants, schools, movie theaters and of course bars. As the rest of the civilized world works to bring down gun violence by instituting stricter gun laws the good ole US of A goes backwards in time. Back before the O.K. Corral. Which happened because some insane cowboys decided they didn’t want to hand in their weapons to Wyatt Earp while they were in Tombstone.

The insane cowboys don’t have to worry about that anymore because now they don’t have to hand in their weapons before they enter town. In fact they can get drunk and carry at the same time. Great country America! No not really!

But you have to wonder, I mean just think for a minute. Why now? Why weren’t these open carry laws passed by state legislatures before? Like…I dunno…when Bill Clinton was President? Or when George W. Bush was President? I mean what could the difference be now? I can’t quite put my finger on it….

Oh wait! Barack Obama, the black guy, is President! You know, the black dude who will take your guns away and give them to the Black Panthers. Am I dating myself? Oh OK..the Bloods and the Crips. Actually when those people carry weapons they are called criminals and thugs. Happy open carriers are no longer so happy. But when Billy Bob Joe Buck Billy Joe Bobby Bubba Joe carry their weapons into a Target (hopefully not anymore) or a Home Depot..well that is just them exercising their Second Amendment rights ain’t it?

Well there have already been problems of course. You see according to the new law, citizens OR police are NOT allowed to ask someone carrying a weapon to show their gun permit.

Let’s look closer at that. As of less than a year ago a police officer could stop a black person on the streets of NYC and frisk them with no questions asked. However in Georgia if someone is carrying a deadly weapon they cannot be asked to show their license to carry that weapon by a police officer. This is your America folks.

I have a question. How does someone know if the person carrying that gun is a good guy with a gun or a bad guy with a gun? Can anyone answer that? Wayne LaPierre maybe?

I guess you just have to wait until someone takes their gun out and shoots up a store or a church or a school. Then the good guys with the guns can shoot back, maybe killing a few innocent people after the bad guy has already had time to kill a few as well. So the bad guys with the guns have to be allowed to shoot first? Is that the way this works Georgia?

The law is called “guns everywhere.” It’s a response to the paranoia around a black President taking the guns away from white folk. That and the threat of him sending in drones and the military to kill them and in the process take away their freedoms!

Of course he hasn’t taken one gun away and there have been no laws to take guns away just laws to allow more guns.

None of this matters to the gun nuts. They are insane. They are certifiable in their anti black President paranoia fantasy land.

Here is a fantasy of mine. It would be like if we were in a real life Tarantino movie. All of the gun nuts are standing in a circle, they all take their guns out, point them at one another and systematically blow each other away. This happens around the state of Georgia and anywhere else there are “guns everywhere” laws.

That is my solution. There seems to be no other.

Mike.Caccioppoli@yahoo.com

@CaccioppoliMike

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Body of Missing Blanca Tanner Found – Boyfriend Charged with Murder

According to the Charlotte Observer, a body thought to be that of Bianca Tanner, the missing mother and teacher who disappeared on June 7, has been found in a wooded area in southwest Charlotte.

Police shared this information during a news conference early this morning. The body has been taken to the medical examiner’s office and police said that a positive identification will be made, as the body matches the description of the missing 31-year-old. Tanner’s boyfriend, whom she shared a home with after moving from Greensboro to Charlotte, was arrested this morning and charged with first-degree murder.

As we have shared with you before, Tanner was reported as last being seen on June 7. Her boyfriend, Angelo Smith, said that they had an argument and an intoxicated Tanner left their shared home with a bag. He reported her missing on June 8. However, Tanner’s 3-year-old son said that the night his mother disappeared, Smith physically abused her.

“Mommy got a spanking with a belt.”

“Angelo kicked mommy’s butt and made her cry.”

“Angelo is mean to mommy and hurt mommy in the face.” 

Smith cooperated early in the search for Tanner, but family said that he eventually refused to talk to police without a lawyer. Feeling the heat, Smith actually left Charlotte without telling anyone, heading for his uncle’s home in Glenwood, Illinois, and leaving Tanner’s 3-year-old son behind by himself. Smith was arrested by U.S. Marshals and extradited back to Charlotte for the neglect and abuse of the 3-year-old (a charge of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor”), but he’s now facing a murder charge. When he was taken into custody again this morning, according to News-Record, Smith told reporters “I’m sorry” three times. He is being held without bail.

Relatives of Tanner’s have been informed of the discovery of the body, and the 3-year-old who provided the police with the information they needed to pinpoint the individual who could be responsible for Tanner’s disappearance is now staying with his actual father. The father does not reside in Charlotte.

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Congressman John Lewis – The Civil Rights Act Would Not Get a Vote in Today’s Congress

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On its 50th anniversary, everyone’s praising the Civil Rights Act that passed a bipartisan Congress back in 1964. Even Rand Paul had some good things to say about it. But if today’s Congress was given that opportunity to do something big, as big as voting on that bill, what would be the outcome?

Congressman John Lewis, a man who has carried the scars of a life-long struggle for civil rights, used this 50th anniversary of the law to share some unbelievable truths –  that the Congress of 2014 is so partisan, so divided, that something as important as the Civil Rights Act would not even be brought to the floor for a vote.

In a tweet, Congressman Lewis said this;

And the congressman is absolutely correct. Today’s Congress – specifically the Republicans – is presently on pace to be the least effective Congress in the history of this country. They have said and demonstrated time and again, that making the president fail is more important than making the country succeed. They have lied, called him childish names with ugly racial undertones, multiple threats of impeachment and now a threat to sue the president by the Republican House Speaker, John Boehner.

These so called leaders have failed time and again to take up any of the president’s proposal, failed to agree on a single jobs bill and even failed to keep the government open, a basic requirement and part of their job description as laid out in the constitution.

If these people couldn’t agree to keep the lights on in Washington, passing a major bill like the civil rights act of 1964 is way above their qualifications.

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Laura Ingraham – The Republican Party is “not standing up for the American worker”

The showdown happened on Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, and it featured host Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham.

Ingraham presented her idea that the way to deal with the immigration problem is to have mass deportation, “not by the hundreds, not by the dozens, by the thousands.” “That,” she said, “means entire families, not just the father or mother, but we keep families unified by deporting all people who are here illegally.”

O’Reilly pointed out the insanity of her statement, calling it “draconian,” and he informed the conservative talk show host that if the Republican party followed her advice, they would be doomed for years to come.

“I do believe that if you do mass deportations … that the Republican Party would become obsolete, that it would ensure Hillary Clinton’s election in 2016 because demographics don’t add up… “If you do that kind of a draconian action … mass deportation would be draconian, it would be,” O’Reilly said.

Ingham accused O’Reilly of peddling the argument of the left, and used the example of Mureitta California, where dozens of people stood in the roads blocking three buses filled with immigrant mothers and children from preceeding to processing centers.

“I think what you saw in Murietta, California, was not something that we should say should not happen in the United States,” she said. “No one wants people to spit on each other, I don’t agree with that, but the people saying ‘Oh no, you won’t do this to our community, you won’t do this to our wages, you won’t do this to our public schools,’ where do the people get satisfaction? Where do they go?”

O’Reilly maintained that if Republicans took such actions, the party would be destroyed. Then Laura chimed in with this gem.

“The Republican Party has done a good job at destroying itself by not standing up for the American worker. They’re not standing up for the regular people.”

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Unemployment Rate Falls to 6.1% – 288,000 Jobs Created in June

The recovery continues as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 288,000 non-farm jobs were added to the economy in June, lowering the unemployment rate to 6.1%

The report states the jobs growth was widespread, especially in professional and business
services, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and health care.

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Sports

President Obama Congratulates Tim Howard and TEAM USA – Video

President Obama called and congratulated the US Soccer team on their performance in this year’s World Cup. He spoke to team captain Clint Dempsey and goal keeper Tim Howard.

“I just wanted to call and say you guys did us proud,” Obama told the players. “To see the way you guys captured the hearts and imaginations of the whole country is unbelievable.”

“Clint, you were fantastic. And Tim, I don’t how you’re gonna survive the mobs when you come back home, man,” he joked. “You’re gonna have to shave your beard so they don’t know who you are.”

The USA Team lost to Belgium with a score of 2 goals to 1. In the defeat, goalie Tim Howard set a new world cup record with 16 saves.

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Caught on Camera – Woman Plows Into Two Men at Gas Station

Words were exchanged when the female driver tried to back her car into an open spot at the gas station. According to one of the victim, Marcus Chukuwuu, the words ‘Don’t kill me,” were said to the woman. She replied, ‘If I wanted to kill you I’d shoot you, I won’t run you over.”

On the video, Marcus is seen going into the gas station’s store and when he returned, the woman plowed into him and the other victim. As the two men laid on the ground suffering from their injuries, the woman casually exited the gas station and disappeared.

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Man With 2 AR-15 Assault Rifles Arrested in New York

The man wanted to commit a mass killing on the streets on New York. When he was arrested, he had a suicide note saying he wanted to “die in combat.”

In Texas, thanks to their Open Carry laws, this man would have been allowed to walk the streets with his assault rifles in full view, but New York is not the wild, wild west, and a potential mass carnage was avoided.

Victor Greer, 46, of Reading, Pa., was pulled over about 1:15 a.m. while driving the wrong way down a one-way street — he was headed north on Seventh Ave. near Grove St., police said.

Inside his vehicle, cops found a .9-mm pistol, a pump-action shotgun and a box of ammo in addition to the AR-15 rifles — a high-powered killing machine that has been used in some of America’s recent mass killings.

His suicide note read: “I want to die in combat, so I can go to heaven and meet God,” according to police.

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CNN Puts Hobby Lobby and Their Contraception Hypocrisy on Full Blast

When you’re so against providing contraceptive to your female employees that you take your case all the way to the Supreme Court, you better make sure your business dealings and squeaky clean and represent those strong beliefs. Hobby Lobby’s business dealings are not squeaky clean.

Claiming religious beliefs, Hobby Lobby took issues with the Obamacare provision requiring contraception be part of an employee’s health care package. They took their case all the way to the Supreme Court and earlier this week the Supreme Court agreed that, base on Hobby’s religious beliefs, the company did not have to provide contraception to its employees. But when Mother Jones did some digging a few months ago, they found out that Hobby Lobby is making millions of dollars from… get this… contraception!

Mother Jones found that  Hobby Lobby’s retirement plan had more than $73 million invested in companies that produced emergency contraception pills. It was that same type of birth control that Hobby Lobby said it had an objection to when it took its case to the Supreme Court. CNN needed some answers and put Hobby Lobby and their hypocrisy on full blast!

Enter CNN host Ashleigh Banfield.

“The critics are calling Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) investments hypocrisy at its finest,” Banfield emphasized on Wednesday, adding that CNN had not gotten an explanation from the company after giving it “plenty of time” to respond.

“I don’t even know where to begin on this one,” the CNN host remarked. “I kept thinking to myself, this had to be an accident. But then I thought, it’s no accident when you are in the middle of the biggest political storm — all the way to the Supreme Court — and, yet, your guys aren’t aware of what your investments are in your very, very large 401(k)?”

CNN Business Correspondent Alison Kosik said that it was possible that Hobby Lobby’s investments in contraception makers could have initially been an oversight, but she noted that the company could ask its mutual fund manager to forbid investments in certain companies.

“It would mean that Hobby Lobby employees would most likely have higher fees,” Kosik pointed out. “But if you ask me, my thought is, if they’re that fervent about upholding their biblical principles, maybe that should include their investments to.”

“That’s putting their money where their mouth is,” she concluded.

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White House Petition to Rename an Airport After Goal Keeper Tim Howard

After his record breaking performance at the World Cup yesterday, where Tim Howard saved the USA Team even more embarrassment with his 16 saves, there is now a petition to rename an airport after him.

I’m all for it, because the airport they want to rename is the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

From the petition.

“Whereas Tim Howard has shown himself to be a national treasure, Minister of Defense, Friend of [Vice President] Joe Biden, and the holder for the record of most saves in a World Cup match; Therefore, we politely request that we rename the airport to recognize his accomplishments, and meritorious service to the United States of America.”

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Technology

Songza Is Now Part of Google

I am a dedicated user of Songza. There seems to be a song on the app for every occasion, so on my weekdays, weekends and travels, Songza is usually providing my background music.

I hope this does not change now that Songza has joined Google.

From their Press Release…

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re becoming part of Google. We can’t think of a better company to join in our quest to provide the perfect soundtrack for everything you do. No immediate changes to Songza are planned, other than making it faster, smarter, and even more fun to use.

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Sheriff Caused Car Accident, Then Handcuffed Driver in Damaged Car

The insanity!

A Phoenix man is suing a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy after he says the deputy collided with his truck and then handcuffed the plaintiff when he tried to write down the deputy’s license-plate number.

Detective Steve Chervenak’s denies the allegations of assault, false imprisonment and civil-rights violations, and instead claims the driver was combative, forcing Chervenak to detain him for safety concerns. The case is making its way through federal court.
Thomas Kasper said he was driving northbound on Seventh Street approaching Adams Street on May 1, 2013, when construction barricades funneled traffic into one lane.

Kasper says an unmarked Chevrolet Blazer — later determined to be driven by Chervenak — attempted to cut in the merging line but no cars were allowing him to do so.
Kasper followed the lead of the cars in front of him, but said Chervenak made his move anyway and hit the rear of Kasper’s truck.

Kasper got out to exchange information and write down the Blazer’s license-plate number, but was met with an angry, plainclothes detective, the suit says. It says Chervenak began yelling at Kasper and ordered him back to his vehicle.
Chervenak claimed to be a deputy but produced no badge, the lawsuit says.

“I said, ‘How do I know that?’ And he didn’t say anything,” Kasper said in an interview.

When Kasper failed to comply with his demands, Chervenak retrieved a pair of handcuffs, pushed Kasper against the vehicle and clamped the cuffs over his wrists, the suit says.
Kasper, still uncertain if he was being detained by a real deputy, said he started yelling at passers-by to call 911 and get uniformed officers on the scene.

“It was kind of surreal that I would have to do that,” he said. “I was angry, but I had to stay calm, because if I did anything, it was just going to get worse.”

Phoenix police officers arrived, Kasper said, as well as uniformed deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Kasper said he remained in handcuffs for about an hour until another Sheriff’s Office deputy arrived with a key.

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