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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

What a wanker Beck is "The freedom of all mankind, make no mistake........is at stake" does the muppet believe this drivel, because I doubt the rest of the world does.

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First I am a supporter of the second amendment, agree to better back ground checks, and oppose any ban or restriction on any kind or style of firearm.

Now Glen Beck has opened his mouth, and stuck both feet into it up to his ass.

First of all, I disagree with NYC's soda ban, salt ban, and all the other bans put in place by mayor Bloomberg. No government official or agency can tell me how much of what food products, junk food or healthy food I can ingest. So in that respect, Mayor Bloomberg is a power mad idiot.

He is also Jewish.

Why does his religion or ethnic origin matter? Simple, Glen Beck unveiled a wonderful ad for NYC showing Mayor Bloomberg presenting what appears to be a Nazi salute wearing an armband, which could be considered Nazi symbolism.

Full story and video here.

Now I am sure that Glen Beck fans are going to say we who see the similarities are merely imagining things, just like those beer drinking and liquor conservative rednecks and the pot smoking over sexed drug using liberals who see UFO's and claim to be abducted by aliens.

All I say is look at the damn picture.

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I mean real Absinthe is banned in the US because of a compound called thujone, which is only in the spirit in trace amounts, and is considered an hallucinogenic.

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I mean real Absinthe is banned in the US because of a compound called thujone, which is only in the spirit in trace amounts, and is considered an hallucinogenic.

Absinthe has been legal in the US since 2007.

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Although does bring up a larger issue, Beck's speech above was at the NRA convention. Other speakers were Rick Santorum, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin. If the NRA isn't on the far right fringe of American society why did its convention feature the leading figures on the far right?

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Although does bring up a larger issue, Beck's speech above was at the NRA convention. Other speakers were Rick Santorum, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin. If the NRA isn't on the far right fringe of American society why did its convention feature the leading figures on the far right?

Good point. USA today profiled the convention --- it was guns, guns, guns and more guns.

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Although does bring up a larger issue, Beck's speech above was at the NRA convention. Other speakers were Rick Santorum, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin. If the NRA isn't on the far right fringe of American society why did its convention feature the leading figures on the far right?

Good point. USA today profiled the convention --- it was guns, guns, guns and more guns.

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Although does bring up a larger issue, Beck's speech above was at the NRA convention. Other speakers were Rick Santorum, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin. If the NRA isn't on the far right fringe of American society why did its convention feature the leading figures on the far right?

Good point. USA today profiled the convention --- it was guns, guns, guns and more guns.

It was a gun convention. The speakers should have been people like Kim Rhode who has won a medal in skeet shooting, 3 gold, in 5 consecutive olympics not loons like Palin who in her reality show proved she has no clue what she is doing with a gun in her hands.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
First I am a supporter of the second amendment, agree to better back ground checks, and oppose any ban or restriction on any kind or style of firearm.
Now Glen Beck has opened his mouth, and stuck both feet into it up to his ass.
First of all, I disagree with NYC's soda ban, salt ban, and all the other bans put in place by mayor Bloomberg. No government official or agency can tell me how much of what food products, junk food or healthy food I can ingest. So in that respect, Mayor Bloomberg is a power mad idiot.
He is also Jewish.
Why does his religion or ethnic origin matter? Simple, Glen Beck unveiled a wonderful ad for NYC showing Mayor Bloomberg presenting what appears to be a Nazi salute wearing an armband, which could be considered Nazi symbolism.
Full story and video here.
Now I am sure that Glen Beck fans are going to say we who see the similarities are merely imagining things, just like those beer drinking and liquor conservative rednecks and the pot smoking over sexed drug using liberals who see UFO's and claim to be abducted by aliens.
All I say is look at the damn picture.

jlf-
While I have my problems with bans on things like that, Bloomberg can make a counter argument, and it is not entirely as fascist as it seems. The reason he is doing this is because the people most affected by salty fast food, the sugary drinks and such, are the poorer citizens of NYC, and in those communities obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, you name it, is rampant. Those same people tend to depend on city hospitals and medicaid for their medical treatments, and it is expensive as hell and is paid for in large part by city taxes (unlike many places in this country, especially the red states, Uncle Sam doesn't pick up the bulk of the costs, the city and state does). It is like the libertarians who fight things like helmet laws when riding motorcycles, but totally ignore the cost of that in serious brain trauma, when someone ends up costing millions that insurance companies and the state end up picking the tab up for.
There are no easy answers for this and I am not saying Bloomberg is necessarily right, but banning trans fats and lowering salt counts and trying to keep people from guzzling high fructose laden soda had a real reason behind it.
It is why I believe there have to be reasonable restrictions on gun sales, to prevent joe billy bob from filling up his trunk with guns in georgia, drive to DC or NYC and sell them in the black market, and have no accountability. If guns are registered and owners are responsible for them, they can't play what one ATF agent called "redneck liars poker", when guns get traced back to the 'legitimate' owners who sold them in the black market, they say "don't know nothing, boss, must of lost it or had it stolen"......right now there is no effective ways to monitor this, and guns in many states have less responsibility associated with them than owning cars. A car registered to you used in a crime you didn't report stolen, and you are in deep shit, for example. The 2nd amendment says you cannot outright ban all gun sales, but it doesn't say that you cannot restrict the type or how you get them, as long as the state can show an overriding need to do that. Gun registration, background checks, limiting sales of certain things (like teflon bullets and other armor piercing rounds, that civilians have absolutely no need for, because they are designed to cut through body armor, period or fully automatic weapons) is in the public good, but you have to prove it, too, you can't willy nilly ban things and have it stand up. Assault weapons bans the way they worded them are idiotic, who gives a crap the way the gun looks, but limiting magazine size, mandating that magazines cannot be changed rapidly and limiting firing rates could be and should be considered IMO, by doing so it limits the damage someone can do.

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Beck represents the worst of this country, he represents the ill educated, older and most rural white people who are upset that small town american is dying and that what they saw as the natural order of things, the mythology of the 1950's as a Golden age when everyone went to church, no one had premarital sex, gays were people to be beaten up and the like, they fear and hate change, they fear a world that isn't simple to understand, so a moron like Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh, who is as stupid as they are, works great.

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It is not just the poorer income people that are fat in this country, it is a large percentage of the entire population of the United States, with childhood obesity leading the way.
It is not the government's job to regulate caloric intake, unless it is a time of war and food is being rationed. In my opinion banning food is an over step of authority except maybe in the case of puffer fish, which if you dont know how to prepare it, the meat will kill you.
I mean real Absinthe is banned in the US because of a compound called thujone, which is only in the spirit in trace amounts, and is considered an hallucinogenic.
The truth of the matter is that opinion is over a hundred years old and no one has, to my knowledge, actually tried to find out if it is.
Bottom line, it is the right of the people of any country to make the decision to be healthy, unhealthy, and just a plain over zealous glutton. I feel into the category of lazy old fart who only did the bare minimum exercise to make the physical therapists happy after my accident, and due to the fact that I identified with the job and skill that I had, and not in myself as anything else, turned to food, cigarettes, food and just being an idiot, and gained weight.
The reason I started on my diet is simple, I hit a whopping 360, and a friend of mine 10 years younger, 20 pounds heavier, and a much heavier smoker, had a massive heart attack, went through triple bypass on his heart, then they found blockages in the arteries of his legs, so they operated to correct that problem, and after being in the hospital a month, and on the day he was released, had another heart attack in the hospital parking lot and died before they got him to the ER.
I have not had the heart attack, I did have the femtib bypass in my leg due to a large blood clot that would not break up with drugs, and lost over 120 pounds.
Basically I made the choice to get back in shape, stop eating junk, so that I could spend my great great great grandkids inheritance from my estate.

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All I say is look at the damn picture.

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All I say is look at the damn picture.

i dunno coz nazi salutes have tha arm stretched out rigidly & tha thumb aint ever stretched apart like that.

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I love how anything in opposition to the progressive agenda has become "extremist"... The left sure does love their catchphrases and talking points.

The NRA are no more extreme than Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, or PBS.