White House Executive Branch Page Shows Obama As President 1/30/17

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Monday January 30, 2017 · 10:19 AM PST

2017/01/30 · 10:19

It might seem a small thing but it’s just another pointer at the level of general competence lacking in this executive team. Earlier, they dropped out the Judicial Branch and had to return it from a backup — note they forgot a picture for a few hours. But more hilariously, as of 1pm, they are still naming Obama as pres and Biden as vice-pres on the Executive page. And no one seems to have taken much notice or care. Lols or un-friggen-believable incompetence — you decide.

Obama gunning to lose in 2008.

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Monday August 06, 2007 · 9:27 AM PDT

2007/08/06 · 09:27

Nobody said that winning the Congress with a BlueDog approach would make for an easy honeymoon -- just witness the party's rage over this week's vote (myself included) -- but no-one can challenge that our win in 2006 has begun the change that this nation sorely needed. But as if right on time to scuttle our success, news comes out that Obama has finally begun to talk about firearms and gun control and frankly, the position he is taking will only mean the loss of BlueDog, rural, libertarian leaning, and gun owning Democrats...

More beyond the fold.

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Thursday August 02, 2007 · 10:25 PM PDT

2007/08/02 · 22:25

Welcome to another creeping slide towards the big brother state. On August 2, 2007 over two dozen agents of the TSA setup two checkpoints at bus stops in Indianapolis Indiana and searched passengers who wanted to ride on city buses. Federal agents, including Air Marshals were present and patted people down, looked in bags, and performed "behavior" tests for the stated purpose of finding weapons and people who were a threat to public safety.

Before you think I am joking, let me refer to both the Indianapolis Star report TSA checks IndyGo bus passengers as well as posted first person reports of what happened yesterday and why it effects us all.

UPDATE: Thanks to DailyKos readers, this has been found to be a part of an 18 month old Federal Operation, read more below!

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Sunday April 22, 2007 · 1:57 PM PDT

2007/04/22 · 13:57

Much has been made in the last week after VA, and weeks following the Utah Mall shooting, about the dangers and/or benefits of gun ownership and the use of firearms for self-preservation. Much more has been made of people saying they would do this or that, or would legislate this or that; much emotion, much volume. Skipping over the utopian futures that we all harbor, be them ones where all guns have ceased to exist, or where sufficient people are armed that attackers stand little chance of success, let's talk about today and now.

What is your plan for self protection and preservation?

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Thursday February 15, 2007 · 7:20 AM PST

2007/02/15 · 07:20

I have avoided writing on this subject as have many others here because of the sadness and pain of the attack at the Utah mall this week. I would have continued that avoidance but for this brazen attempt by a fellow Democrat to use this criminal even for her own means and ends in her war on firearm ownership in the US. Despite the fact that the mall was a gun free zone, despite the fact that an armed citizen averted greater tragedy, despite the fact that legal concealed carry permit holders were barred from self protection, despite the fact that no "assault weapon" was used, despite the fact that criminals do criminal things despite laws, Rep. McCarthy wants to use this event to make more law that will be ignored.

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Friday January 26, 2007 · 10:14 AM PST

2007/01/26 · 10:14

Four newly offered pieces of gun legislation in the house offer the democratic party a chance to gain nothing and lose a great deal. From silly laws on toy guns to increasing the FBI's ability to look into every American's medical and personal records, these laws solve nothing except to (1) distract us from real business, (2) increase the power of the same government that so very out of control, (3) drive away friends and (4) prove the other side that they were right all along.

Let's look at these bad ideas together, shall we?

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Tuesday January 02, 2007 · 7:13 AM PST

2007/01/02 · 07:13

Welcome to our new Congress and our new majority!

May this new year bring accountability, sound judgement, oversight, and a lame duck Presidency. It will take hard work, and unusual amount of unity among Dems. Here are my top 10 suggestions for how this new Congress can turn around this country and return us to whom we once were:

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Monday January 01, 2007 · 3:41 PM PST

2007/01/01 · 15:41

Much talk has been made here on understanding Rural voters and how bridges can be made to help shore up the purple states to keep them from returning to their red color. One of the most divisive, and emotional, elements of this conversation is firearm ownership. Usually it is put as a basic urban "bugaboo" and a rural "golden calf". Let me make a different case, one that emphasizes how a progressive could own firearms and do it out of classic progressive motives...

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