You know, my wife honestly feels (and is worried) that there is a very good chance there will be a legitimate, and maybe even successful, assassination attempt on Obama during his second term.
The pedant in me wants to know; what would differentiate a legitimate assassination attempt from an illegitimate one?
You know, my wife honestly feels (and is worried) that there is a very good chance there will be a legitimate, and maybe even successful, assassination attempt on Obama during his second term.
While I don't doubt that there may be an attempt on his life, you do not want to fuck with the Secret Service. Seriously, they take EVERY threat (that they know about) against the president very seriously.
Ted Nugent has been investigated. A lot.
Definitely. I'm not saying that I don't take the Secret Service seriously, and neither is she. However, no organization is perfect. JFK was assassinated. Reagan was nearly assassinated. Admittedly, I'd be shocked if the Secret Service didn't beef up their protocols as a result of both those events and any other threats that may have come up since then. However, if you have enough wackjobs who are crazy enough to try to assassinate the President out there, the odds that one of them may be lucky enough to actually pull it off does go up.
The pedant in me wants to know; what would differentiate a legitimate assassination attempt from an illegitimate one?
A "legitimate" assassination attempt is one where someone is serious about doing the deed and actually puts enough effort and skill into it to be a competent threat. I suppose a "competent" attempt would've been a better word to describe it. Obviously, an "illegitimate" attempt is one that is not competent.
Nit to mention if someone DID accomplish that there wouldn't be a safe place in America. It'd be Lee Harvey Oswald all over again.
Nobody is completely safe, ever. Or what do you mean by this?
He means that it'd be a witchhunt for the killers. If they were found by someone other than the police, someone would kill them in the street ala Jack Ruby.
Oh, I never assumed an assassin wouldn't already have committed to throwing his life away over it. If you're killing kings, you're either planning to become king yourself or you're throwing the weight of your corpse behind it.
Nit to mention if someone DID accomplish that there wouldn't be a safe place in America. It'd be Lee Harvey Oswald all over again.
Nobody is completely safe, ever. Or what do you mean by this?
There would be lunch mobs after the Poor fool. They couldn't go anywhere without the threat of people trying to shoot them. Any place holding them would have to be locked down in case someone tries to blow it up to take the assassin out. Not even any jail would be safe for them.
There would be lunch mobs after the Poor fool. They couldn't go anywhere without the threat of people trying to shoot them. Any place holding them would have to be locked down in case someone tries to blow it up to take the assassin out. Not even any jail would be safe for them.
I think you mean lynch mobs.
Personally, I think if the guy manages to escape getting caught/shot/etc., for long enough, I can see a Branch Davidian/Waco, TX style situation where he meets up with a bunch of other wackos who wanted to see the President assassinated and barricades himself in some sort of makeshift fort along with his heavily armed fellow wackos.
There would be lunch mobs after the Poor fool. They couldn't go anywhere without the threat of people trying to shoot them. Any place holding them would have to be locked down in case someone tries to blow it up to take the assassin out. Not even any jail would be safe for them.
I think you mean lynch mobs.
Personally, I think if the guy manages to escape getting caught/shot/etc., for long enough, I can see a Branch Davidian/Waco, TX style situation where he meets up with a bunch of other wackos who wanted to see the President assassinated and barricades himself in some sort of makeshift fort along with his heavily armed fellow wackos.
That problem could be solved with two words: Cluster munitions.
Cluster munitions have the problem that they don't go off reliably enough to use on home soil. No, the solution is a thermobaric bomb. If the blast, flames and lack of oxygen doesn't get them, the structure will then fall onto their heads.
Guys, can we form a lunch mob? That sounds infinitely up my alley.
I would love to form a lunch mob. It sounds neat. I recommend 5 guys they have good burgers.
Meh, I was never wild about Five Guys.
Now a Cheddar or Southwest style burger from Cook Out is something I can get behind. Cook Out style is also pretty good.
I think in a proper lunch mob everyone makes food and brings it. Or some people bring grills and everyone brings a whole shitload of meat and vegetables.
Guys, can we form a lunch mob? That sounds infinitely up my alley.
I would love to form a lunch mob. It sounds neat. I recommend 5 guys they have good burgers.
Meh, I was never wild about Five Guys.
Now a Cheddar or Southwest style burger from Cook Out is something I can get behind. Cook Out style is also pretty good.
I think in a proper lunch mob everyone makes food and brings it. Or some people bring grills and everyone brings a whole shitload of meat and vegetables.
Instead of torches and pitchforks we have grills and tongs? I'm okay with this.
Meh, I was never wild about Five Guys.
You go out of your way to be unAmerican.
What can I say? I'm just one of those dirty pinko Nazi commie educated elitist liberals who thinks that everyone should be in a gay marriage with either a child or an animal who can't consent. Is that REALLY so wrong?
Or, you know, regular police and our criminal justice system.
But then how would we sate our regressive bloodlust?! Lord knows I ain't happy until I've set down all semblance of decency and progress in order to pick up my pitchfork and torch!
Or, you know, regular police and our criminal justice system.
Not enough explosives. We should place claymoore mines in random positions inside the courtroom and connect the detonator to a random number generator.
This is also my suggestion for baseball, golf, C-SPAN and cubical offices.
Five Guys is good for what it is: an inexpensive fast food burger that's a notch above McDonald's/Burger King/Wendy's/etc. Compared to those, it is indeed wonderful. The only other place I've been that I'd consider to be in the same class would be In and Out Burger, but I've only been there once, it was several years ago, and I therefore can't fairly compare the two (though I hear from people that have gone to both on numerous occasions that In and Out is better than Five Guys).
Personally, my favorite burger place is the Met Burger Bar, but it's one of those really fancy, high-end, and expensive burger places (though their burgers are still significantly less expensive than the steaks and other dishes on their menu as it's actually part of a fancy steak house). Still, their egg, truffle, and brie burger is something amazing to partake of.
The one burger place I've been to that I would put between Five Guys and the Met Burger Bar would probably be Bartley's Burgers in Harvard Square. Those are some damned good burgers, I tell you.
Yeah I meant lynch mob. I was on my phone at the time and either missed the Y or it autocorrected. But a lunch mob sounds like a cool idea, maybe make it an offshoot of the FRC?
Yeah I meant lynch mob. I was on my phone at the time and either missed the Y or it autocorrected. But a lunch mob sounds like a cool idea, maybe make it an offshoot of the FRC?
Copypasta from what I posted on G+ when I saw the Glenn Beck vid earlier:
"Guyz, they're going to come with little guillotines and take your thumbs in the middle of the night. They're going to force-feed you tofu. They're going to make you give up your Dolly Parton collectible plate collection. I have many more predictions because I have another three hours of air to fill, and your memories are too short to hold me accountable for anything I say." - Glenn Beck
This is interesting. Apparently Colorado turned out to be the tipping point in this election, yet Obama won Colorado by 4.7% as opposed to his 2.5% margin in the popular vote - which means that the Republicans got kinda fucked over by the Electoral College.
This might result in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact getting passed, as it currently has 132 votes and all of those are Democratic bastions. All it would take would be a bunch of Republican states signing up for it, and it would take effect.
It's not as obvious an outcome as would have happened if, say, Obama won overall but lost the popular vote by 1%, but if the Republicans are willing to look at the data for once (as opposed to putting their fingers in their ears and going la la la *cough* unskewed polls *cough*) it might end up going through.
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Poor fool. They couldn't go anywhere without the threat of people trying to shoot them. Any place holding them would have to be locked down in case someone tries to blow it up to take the assassin out. Not even any jail would be safe for them.
Personally, I think if the guy manages to escape getting caught/shot/etc., for long enough, I can see a Branch Davidian/Waco, TX style situation where he meets up with a bunch of other wackos who wanted to see the President assassinated and barricades himself in some sort of makeshift fort along with his heavily armed fellow wackos.
Now a Cheddar or Southwest style burger from Cook Out is something I can get behind. Cook Out style is also pretty good.
This is also my suggestion for baseball, golf, C-SPAN and cubical offices.
Personally, my favorite burger place is the Met Burger Bar, but it's one of those really fancy, high-end, and expensive burger places (though their burgers are still significantly less expensive than the steaks and other dishes on their menu as it's actually part of a fancy steak house). Still, their egg, truffle, and brie burger is something amazing to partake of.
The one burger place I've been to that I would put between Five Guys and the Met Burger Bar would probably be Bartley's Burgers in Harvard Square. Those are some damned good burgers, I tell you.
"Guyz, they're going to come with little guillotines and take your thumbs in the middle of the night. They're going to force-feed you tofu. They're going to make you give up your Dolly Parton collectible plate collection. I have many more predictions because I have another three hours of air to fill, and your memories are too short to hold me accountable for anything I say."
- Glenn Beck
This might result in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact getting passed, as it currently has 132 votes and all of those are Democratic bastions. All it would take would be a bunch of Republican states signing up for it, and it would take effect.
It's not as obvious an outcome as would have happened if, say, Obama won overall but lost the popular vote by 1%, but if the Republicans are willing to look at the data for once (as opposed to putting their fingers in their ears and going la la la *cough* unskewed polls *cough*) it might end up going through.