Glenn Beck says there's something unusual about the plunge in gold prices, according to Buzzfeed.
Beck first expresses skepticism toward the recent plunge in prices.
"The only thing I have to fear is the government, quite frankly," he said. "The government lying to you, the media not telling the truth. I mean, gold is the original gold standard, and something doesn't smell right. Such a currency of last resort that it's so unstable that the central banks are buying it up."
He continued:
"Let's say this turns out to be a terrorist operation with multiple bombs around the city. The stock market tanking, things going awry — wouldn't this exactly be like how it would happen?"
Pat Robertson recently attempted to explain why more miracles seem to happen for "simple, humble" foreigners than for Americans, and he said it has to do with evolution.
A Michigan judge whose smartphonedisrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction.
Judge Raymond Voet has a posted policy at Ionia County 64A District Court stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions will result in the owner being cited with contempt, the Sentinel-Standard of Ionia and MLive.com reported.
On Friday afternoon, during a prosecutor's closing argument as part of a jury trial, Voet's new smartphone began to emit sounds requesting phone voice commands. Voet said he thinks he bumped the phone, and the embarrassment likely left his face red.
"I'm guessing I bumped it. It started talking really loud, saying 'I can't understand you. Say something like Mom,'" he said.
The aggressive voices of the right-wing are famous for their fervent beliefs, and for their hatred of anything liberal. They're quick to quip, fast to fight,...
Thanks largely to the U.S. Federal Reserve, Jeffrey Nelson was able to put up a shotgun as down payment on a car.
Money was tight last year for the school-bus driver and neighborhood constable in Jasper, Alabama, a beaten-down town of 14,000 people. One car had already been repossessed. Medical bills were piling up.
And still, though Nelson's credit history was an unhappy one, local car dealer Maloy Chrysler Dodge Jeep had no problem arranging a $10,294 loan from Wall Street-backed subprime lender Exeter Finance Corp so Nelson and his wife could buy a charcoal gray 2007 Suzuki Grand Vitara.
All the Nelsons had to do was cover the $1,000 down payment. For most of that amount, Maloy accepted Jeffrey's 12-gauge Mossberg & Sons shotgun, valued at about $700 online.
Can 147 people perpetuate economic injustice – and make it even worse? Can they subvert the workings of democracy, both abroad and here in the United States? Can 147 people hijack the global economy, plunder the environment, build a world for themselves that serves the few and deprives the many?
Some unnamed sources who might have said something like this at one time or another (depending on the integrity and thoroughness of the journalist possibly involved) today revealed the super-secret, ultra-special anti-Obama checklists used to plan everything on Fox News Channel every single day, over and over again.
The checklists work like this: Staffers are instructed to find images and quotes from anything Obama said or did the day before. Quotes are examined for words where meaning might effectively be distorted, and images for infinitesimal irrelevancies that might drive twenty-minute Obama-bashing segments. One unnamed Fox staffer probably remarked that “It’s gotten pretty easy, really. Sometimes we can plan three or four days at a time, especially if he uses words like ‘Israel,’ or ‘Middle Class.’"
Another unnamed source suggested that sometimes things can get a bit boring and repetitive, however. “We tend to overuse the whole ‘war on' something metaphor too much,” she said. “But don’t tell Gretchen Carlson. Then I’d have to explain to her what a metaphor is, and I just don’t have that kind of time in my day.”
Here at An Incredibly Minor Public Figure we’ve been fortunate enough to get a peek at the leak, and are now able to share part of it with you. This first section, shown below, is a checklist for how to spin pictures of Obama.....
Big in all things, Texas leads the nation in failing to provide health insurance. About one in four Texans are uninsured, the highest percentage in any state. That’s some 6 million people, the total population of Missouri.
Yet Gov. Rick Perry, back from his stumbles in the 2012 GOP presidential race, has insisted that Texas will not accept the federal money provided by President Obama’s health care law to expand Medicaid coverage. As Republican governors from Arizona to New Jersey have joined the program, Perry has amplified his opposition. In a bristling speech to conservatives last week, he said governors who accepted the money had “folded in the face of federal bribery.”
In no state does the decision to expand present such profound political and policy issues as in Texas. Whatever Perry decides, many Texans will benefit from the subsidies in the 2010 law that help the uninsured in lower-to-middle-income families purchase private insurance on health care exchanges. Perry has also refused to establish such an exchange, but the law allows Washington to step in, and Texans who qualify will receive those dollars. Rice University demographers Steve Murdock and Michael Cline recently projected those exchanges will cover up to 1.7 million of the state’s uninsured...
What’s the worst that could happen? That’s what people ought to be asking Congress, in particular those senators who are holding up federal action on gun safety.
Whoa there, Party Recon. Maybe a "prescription" would help you to calm down. Laugh. It's a joke. Until I can pop in to the local 7-11 and... oh, forget it. We're a long way away from that, I fear. As for guns, I'm not suggesting a ban on all semi-automatics, and I care a great deal about everyone killed by a gun. I proudly count myself among those deeply touched and troubled by the senseless killing of anyone, but especially little children. As the parent of two grown children I cannot being to fathom the depth of grief and sorrow those families must be feeling and will feel for the rest of their lives. As for the CA gun crime stat, I'll take your word for it. I don't, however, think we ought to hold the actions of criminals up as the benchmark for our behavior or the bar to which we aspire. Criminals do all kinds of things that are illegal. It's what makes them criminals. We have laws against robbing banks and yet some people still do it. I doubt you'd want to repeal those laws, so why must we hold gun laws up to a standard of perfection. There's an excellent article on that very topic, "The Gun Lobby's Dumbest Argument", which you'll find here on my Scoop.it page. While I support making assault rifles and high-capacity magazines illegal starting now, how about this as a compromise? How about we make new sales of them to the public illegal and if you own one made before April 18, 2013, you can keep it? Or, pick another date 3 months, 6 months, a year out. Whatever. I suspect everyone who cares to have one probably does by now, and whatever rush banning them would create would be a little economic bump to the gun makers. Everyone gets what they want, right? I'm willing to consider any rational suggestions for how to at least minimize the chances of another Columbine, Aurora, or Sandy Hook so long as it doesn't involve more guns in the hands of more people. That's just gasoline on a fire, audio replays of survivors of Texas diner shootings from 1991 notwithstanding.
Oh boy, this is a mouthful: OK, let's start with this: I am a father as well, but I don't think that is a prerequisite for advocating for children. I am also touched by the killing of children. In fact, I am angered greatly by anyone doing anything to mess with children -- or women for that matter. As a martial arts instructor, I have taught countless free self-defense seminars to children, especially young teenaged girls who are the primary targets of non-family member abductions. I also have taught seminars for abused women. So I certainly believe my moral compass is pointing in the right direction.
Next: You said, "I don't, however, think we ought to hold the actions of criminals up as the benchmark for our behavior or the bar to which we aspire." Umm. That is the entire point of making laws Greg. Many people mistakenly think that laws govern the conduct of civilized societies. That could not be farther from the truth. It is the agreed-to Social Contract that is the glue of any community. When people violate the social contract, laws are needed to punish them. So IHMO, it is exactly the actions of criminals that drive the lawmaking process. The sheer number of laws, both criminal and civil, expand in direct proportion to number of times jerks figure out new ways to game the system. Good laws are aimed at modifying behavior. Laws whose focus is on the objects used in committing the crimes are a temporary band aide at best. Timothy McVeigh is proof positive of that. We highly regulate commercial explosives, the wacko figures out he can get the same result using fertilizer. The necessity created by the law became the mother of the destructive invention. So here’s a question: “If the fear of life in prison or, worse yet, lethal injection doesn’t scare you, how is the threat of spending a few years in jail on an illegal firearms possession charge going to act as an effective deterrent?”
Next: You said, ". . . so long as it doesn't involve more guns in the hands of more people. That's just gasoline on a fire." You have provided absolutely no proof of this, while I have provided proof, skinny as it may be, to the contrary. But I do love the comparison of gasoline to guns. After all, gasoline needs a combustion source just as guns need a trigger puller. So if everyone had an ample supply of gasoline, surly everyone would be much more careful when considering whether or not to light a match. I know, you'll never agree with that, but why? The proof is simply not there to support your conclusions. You're only betting on a future outcome that is supported by your own rationality and others that think like you. Again, no progress will ever come from this. You must open your mind to other possibilities and seek common ground.
Conclusion: Of course I don't want laws on the books repealed, but we need to get better at picking our current battles – and this one has horrible side effects. I'm sick of people waging divisive, vitriolic debates where both sides use the emotional appeal of tragedy in an attempt to win people over -- especially with people you know will NEVER change their minds. Those people who proclaim that you're going to have to pry their guns from their cold dead hands are not going to change their minds no matter how many Sandy Hooks they live through. As you pointed out, they spin those to make their convictions even stronger. In the meantime, why not ask the tougher question: "Why do people commit gun crimes"? I'll tell you why the cowards in Washington won't. They do it for one or more of four reasons. It's easy (vs. fixing a broken mental healthcare system or putting people back to work), they don't really care about gun violence, they love guns, or because like me, they have deemed it a lost cause. That is, unless they themselves have been the victim of a gun crime.
Case in point: Before being shot, what was Gabby Giffords voting record on Gun Control?
Nov. 16, 2011, HR 822
Requiring State Reciprocity for Carrying Concealed Firearms
Bill Passed
Giffords’: Did Not Vote
July 28, 2010, HR 5827
Exempting Guns from an Estate for Bankruptcy Purposes (a.k.a. ‘Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2010').
Bill Passed - House
Giffords’ vote: Yea
May 20, 2009, HR 627
Allowing Loaded Guns in National Parks Concurrence
Vote Passed - House
Giffords’ vote: Yea
And my favorite . . .
Sept. 17, 2008, HR 6842
Repealing Portions of the D.C. Firearm Ban
Bill Passed - House
Giffords’ vote: YEA
Bill highlights: Repeals the ban on semiautomatic weapons in Washington, D.C.
Talk about, did you check first? So she votes nothing but pro-gun until 2011, when she quite literally has a come to Jesus moment and now she is all about gun control? Perhaps; but isn't it much more likely that she flip-flopped because the polls say that 90% of American’s are pro-gun control? Isn't she really just the biggest opportunist on the planet?
I really appreciate your passion Greg and your wish to make people's lives safer. As such, I suggest that you start with local action as it is much easier to gain consensus with people that are in the same risk pool as you. That is the primary conclusion of the Transpartisan book I reference. It's a great read and I can probably get you a free eBook if you don't already own it. Just let me know.
@Party Recon, I appreciate your thoughtful reply. Giffords' voting record is interesting. Thank you for sharing it. I'm truly sorry that she had to suffer the horrible tragedy of being shot. I'm thankful for her change of heart. It's what rational people do; come to new conclusions when presented with new evidence and information. That said, I cannot see a time when I'll ever agree with you and consider the need to do something about gun violence to be a lost cause. I hold out too much hope for humanity and too many aspirations for my kids and future generations. That said, I couldn't help but notice you chose not to respond to any of my suggested compromises but, instead, felt obliged to suggest how and where I might find consensus. Ah, well. As for your opinions on laws, they're curious; however, like all opinions, you're entitled to them. Cheers.
Just thought I would pay homage to my two favorite crazy people, Glenn Beck and Ann (What's with the Adam's Apple?) Coulter.
Having escaped from his padded room, Glenn has come up with a new threat to America (since most of his earlier predictions seemed to have fizzled).
Glenn Beck is promoting his idea that President Obama will establish a monarchy in America, and the beheadings will begin.
“I have a feeling we’re headed for a monarchy because we have forgotten the principles of maximum liberty and maximum personal responsibility, which in time, always ends — if you are like Europe — it ends in a French Revolution. But maybe it doesn’t end this way. Maybe this time, maybe Marie-Antoinette and King Louis keep their heads, while all of their subjects lose theirs. One way to make sure that doesn’t happen is to stand up for your Second Amendment rights”.
I am sure he is scheduling his militia for regularly assembled musters since a well regulated militia is the purpose of that amendment.
Meanwhile his fellow wing nut, Ann, has, once again, taken something out of context with a little twist so she can mislead anyone who actually takes her seriously.
When asking a congressman about gun control, Martin Bashir brought up the typical scenario where something is irrelevant or unimportant until it directly affects someone.
Bashir said, “is that what needs to happen to move these senators to stop threatening a filibuster? Is that really what needs to happen? That you need to have a member of your family killed in order for you to do what the American people want you to do?”.
Anne Coulter's take was, "MSNBC's Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats' gun proposals. (Let's start with Meghan McCain!)".
No. He didn't.
But that is just Ann's habit of misrepresentation.
If it feels like gun violence has gotten worse since the expiration of the assault weapons ban, it has.
This Facebook meme was the topic of some discussion today.
Predictably, there were opinions in support of and in opposition to the proposition that mass killings are up since the assault weapons ban was allowed to expire.
Is there a cause and effect as the meme clearly implies? I don’t know so let’s put that debate aside for the moment and just look at some facts and some data.
I love facts and data. They don’t lie and they have no agenda (except in the hands of those with one).
I don’t deny that I support some pretty significant changes to gun laws as a way to have an effect on gun violence. As for the data, here’s the most extensive analysis I’ve found so far. Most of it comes from Mother Jones. [MORE]
WASHINGTON—In an emotionally charged press conference addressing gun control legislation, NRA vice president Wayne LaPierre delivered a tearful speech Wednesday honoring the thousands of Americans who have tragically fallen victim to background...
A former mayoral candidate is running into heated criticism from Democrats after he launched a program this week to hand out free shotguns in high-crime neighborhoods of Tucson.
BY MARK SHERMAN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court is turning to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits...
Two Alabama high school students and an unlikely team of state legislators want to repeal a 1992 law requiring educators to teach that being gay is a crime and “not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public.” While there is no evidence to suggest that the sex education law is currently being enforced, the students still want to see the misleading (and hateful) language removed.
Currently in Alabama, teachers are required to teach students that being gay is illegal! WHAT!? This article has a video clip attachment of two Alabama high school students, Sarah Noone and Adam Pratt, who are advocating against this law. Even though in some districts the law is not fully enforced, the students still want the law removed altogether. The two State representatives of Alabama have clashing opinions – one wanting schools to not teach sex education at all, and the other wants sex education requirements to be decided by the teacher. I agree with the Democratic Alabama State representative because I feel that teachers should have the power to control what kind of teaching they want to do in the classroom, except there should be set guidelines of what is to be covered in the classroom because some teachers may also want to teach students that being gay is illegal.
The two students in the video declare that the current law promotes “school sponsored bullying” because the school districts aren’t accepting of all kinds of people, and they do not feel that the schools are safe and welcoming environments. I definitely agree with this, and as a future teacher, one of the things I need to strive for is maintaining a safe and accepting environment to all students in the classroom. It’s not fair to make a student feel unwelcome because he or she is different. These two students were brave enough to announce to the public that they have had friends that have been disowned by family members for coming out as gay, and have been sent to conversion therapies because of their sexuality. As a child growing up in very liberal states like California and Maryland, I never had any friends that were disowned by their parents for being gay. It is just heartbreaking to hear that parents will go from loving their children to practically hating their children for being the “wrong” sexuality. I can’t imagine working for a school system where I have to teach the students something that I don’t believe in. Where do teachers draw the line?
The New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association, sportsmen's groups, firearms businesses and individual gun owners on Thursday requested an injunction to stop the state's strict new gun control law enacted in the wake of the Newtown.. MORE
Aaron Jackson, a co-founder of environmental and humanitarian nonprofit Planting Peace, had ambitions to become more active in gay rights advocacy but didn't know the best way to do it. Turns out, real estate was the answer.
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