Month: April 2013
To Hell, Harry!
In general, senators are a special breed,
And we expect them to adhere to some creed.
But by voting against gun control
Based on some procedural folderol —
That earns your own circle in hell, Harry Reid.
Gun Company Stocks Nosedive After Its Lobbyists Prevail in Washington
Without the gun industry whipping them into a frenzy by telling them Obama’s going to take their guns away, people are less interested in buying more guns.
Gosh, whodda thunk?
Alliant’s (ATK, Fortune 500) stock price dropped 1.5% Thursday, after seeing its shares surge 38% over the last year. Ammunition maker Olin Corp. (OLN) fell 1.2%, after climbing more than 13% over the last year. Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (SWHC) managed a 1.7% gain Thursday, while Sturm, Ruger (RGR) slipped 1.5%.
The stock price for Cabela’s (CAB), a retailer dependent on gun sales, dropped nearly 5%…
Brian Rafn, a gun industry analyst and director of research at Morgan Dempsey Capital Management, said gun companies are going to have to figure out how to remain profitable now that the “visceral political craziness is removed from the equation.”
Don’t worry, the NRA and Gun Owners of America will come up with new lies tomorrow, and the people they’re counting on to believe them will dump more money on guns and ammo.
Senate Goes Rogue: Votes to Continue Gun Show and Internet Loophole
The next time there’s a mass shooting and they’re asked what they did to prevent it, they’re going to have to say nothing.
Erica Lafferty, the daughter of the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, who was shot and killed along with 20 first-graders and five teachers during five minutes in December of 2012. Lafferty was reacting to news that the Senate failed to pass a bill to close a loophole exempting gun shows and online gun sales from background checks. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) joined three other Democrats and all but four Republicans in voting against the measure, which polls show that 90 percent of Americans favor.
GOP Pulls Support for Mark Sanford in South Carolina House Race after He Was Caught in His Ex-Wife’s Home in Violation of Court Order
One reason that the NRCC and other Sanford supporters may be irked is that the trespassing incident — which Sanford admitted to today — happened in February, well before voting in the primary for the special election, which took place on March 19, but was kept secret until yesterday. According to Politico:
CNN: Suspect Arrested in Boston Bombing – UPDATED
CNN is reporting that a man has been arrested in Monday’s bomb attacks on Boston Marathon. The man was seen in surveillance videos placing one of the bombs that went off near the finish line of the race.
According to CNN, the suspect was described as dark skinned.
UPDATE: NBC is reporting that this is not so, that a suspect has been identified but that he has not been arrested.
UPDATE 2: AP confirms that a suspect has been taken to federal courthouse. CNN says it has separate Boston local law enforcement and federal law enforcement sources confirming that a suspect is in custody.
UPDATE 3: Now CNN is backtracking, saying that no one has been arrested.
UPDATE 4: Lesson learned. Stick with MSNBC.
Terror Always Wins
After the blast yesterday in the heart of Boston,
There was many an act of valor uncommon.
But what we learned
As tears and rage burned,
Is that the war on terror is the endless marathon.
The Rightwing’s Obsession with Obama and Terror
Somewhere aliens are watching us from outer space and scratching their headlike appendages. Because before all the blood had even dried on the sidewalks, the rightwing dropped the subject of what happened at the 2013 Boston Marathon and got back to the subject they seem to care most about: hating Pres. Obama.
This tweet hints at the problem.
Fort Hood? Wait. What? Wasn’t Fort Hood a case of a wacko with a gun shooting up his fellow service members, like James Holmes shooting up fellow Batman fans, and Adam Lanza shooting up his fellow Newtown youth? What distinguishes Fort Hood from the other mass shootings that have become part of the landscape? Could it be that the gunman in Fort Hood was a Muslim? Now we’re getting somewhere, because any time you have a Muslim person involved, it’s de facto terrorism. Right?
But why are we slamming Obama for not labeling all three of those events as terrorism, straight out of the gate? Here, this tweet should clear it right up.
