Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/19/2013 03:53 PM Report

Chocolate bullets:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/files/2013/05/Chocolate_Bullets-Vice_President_im age_982w.jpg

Brilliance of an eight year old.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/17/2013 04:00 PM Report

Check out the pills this wounded warrior is taking:

http://youtu.be/qtwgrM2f22A?t=10m39s

Now check out what he is doing with a gun (several scenes like this):

http://youtu.be/qtwgrM2f22A?t=38m7s

Perhaps heavy narcotics and guns do not mix--sort of like driving?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/29/2013 01:45 AM Report

Huntin':

http://www.dailyrepublic.com/files/2013/01/cbr011113dAPR-1024x768.jpg

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/08/2013 05:04 PM Report

Charlie's old boss:

On Democracy

NRA’s Vision: A Nation Packing Heat

January 4, 2013

by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

http://billmoyers.com/2013/01/04/nra%E2%80%99s-vision-a-nation-packing-heat/

According to Slate.com and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths, at this writing, in just those few weeks since the Newtown slaughter of the innocent, more than 400 have died from guns in America.

Have you seen the reports in both the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and The Washington Post of how, 16 years ago, the NRA managed to get Congress to pull funding on gun violence studies at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?

Since then, JAMA reports, “… at least 427,000 people have died of gunshot wounds in the United States, including more than 165,000 who were victims of homicide. To put these numbers in context, during the same time period, 4586 Americans lost their lives in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

There’s even a section that was snuck into President Obama’s Affordable Care Act that prevents doctors from collecting information on their patients’ gun use.

finalfantasytown  12/20/2012 01:04 AM Report

This town is fascinating. Does it have a name? Could you please consider this town as Deer town?

Razor  12/19/2012 10:55 AM Report

What is so wrong with banning assault weapons?

The US supreme court already said individuals have a right to possess guns (as did the Constitution).

What will citizens lose? The buzz of firing off rounds per second at the shooting range?

Self-defense can't be the answer because these weapons kill MANY more than they would ever save.

If you think these weapons of war belong in private citizens hands, why not legalize hand grenades?

This is insane!

Sugarland  12/19/2012 03:30 AM Report

A major portion of the US population is addicted to violence. The US military annual outlay ($650 B+) is more than that of all other nations, friends as well as foes, combined. We have perfected the science of ripping other human beings to pieces. This is implemented by an All-Volunteer Force. Their work is glorified in movies, TV (…all media) and political speeches. A continual ad campaign glamorizing war activities is sponsored by the “military-industry complex”.

Why are we surprised when a delusional person acts out a violent scene using military equipment….and likely has heroic movie music playing in his head as he kills.

We need to heed Eisenhower’s advice and decrease the influence of the military-industrial complex in our society. The mid East wars have shown that “shock and awe” accomplishes very little while winning “hearts and minds” is everything.

Our society should not live by the sword.

NeilMacCallister  12/19/2012 03:16 AM Report

Did this shooter ever have a JOB???

Did he EVER have to be at work at 6:30 a.m to open the doors? ..or at 11:30 p.m. to clean the fryer and put the chairs up ontop the tabvles??

Obama's "America" is an unemployed CESSPOOL, ..and these deaths are the stench!

wakeupandsmellthetyranny  12/19/2012 01:18 AM Report

Hello? How about addressing the 2,000-lb. gorilla in the room? I'm talking about the DRUGS the shooters from Columbine to Fort Hood to Aurora to Afghanistan to, yes, Sandy Hook (based on assailant Adam Lanza's reported psychiatric treatment). When are we going to have a real discussion about the fact that psychotropic drugs (usually anti-depressants) are a lethal medication, and the far darker reality that everyone from Harris and Klebold at Columbine to Major Hassan at Fort Hood to James Holmes at Aurora to Robert Bales, the soldier who begged to be discharged and killed 17 Afghans, 9 of them children, were given or took these types of drugs. The only exception may have been Jared Lee Loughner, Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords' would-be assailant, who was reportedly obsessed with mind control and obviously mentally disturbed already.

Blaming guns for all gun violence is like blaming the fork for some people being fat. The reality is that national statistics prove mass shootings have decreased in recent years, but Rose's featured shills like Mayor of New York City (where handguns are banned) Bloomberg and Jeffrey Lieberman, the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, are so desperate to divert away from the "legal" psychotropic drug connection (read: big pharma) they are screaming for the only solution they can see, which is complete disarmament. Why not? It worked for Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and countless others. We really need to just bow down to these un-Americans and give up our guns. Look at how peaceful Mexico is, with just the government military, police, drug lords and their henchmen able to possess guns--they're not shooting any innocent disarmed bystanders in their battles, right?

Let's stop trying to collectivize crime to take away guns from law-abiding American citizens, and start realizing that schools, in particular, advertise they are perfect havens for criminals looking for a slaughter. Here's a more realistic solution: it's been suggested that people in schools (like teachers or even retired military folks wishing to serve in another way) be deputized by the local sheriffs to be permitted to be armed for just these types of situations. The former military folks can be employed as janitors or other school personnel ready to take charge when would-be assailants try to attack our children.

Tell me something. Would you feel safer with your child in a classroom where his or her teacher was able to have a concealed weapon if an attack comes, or with your child in a classroom where the teacher is unarmed?

I agree with the Texan Castro brothers at the end of the show, at least as far as the fact that the police cannot protect you from everything. Cops, themselves, have admitted, and the courts have backed up the fact that the POLICE HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO PROTECT YOU. Don't believe me? You've got the internet--look it up yourself. Police don't prevent crime; they investigate it. Your responsibility is to protect yourself and your loved ones. Grow a spine if you think otherwise.

Gelles  12/18/2012 11:32 PM Report

Sharks sends a recommendation:

..... "Take Action:

..... "More than 300,000 Americans have united to demand that President Obama announce a concrete plan to reduce gun violence in America.

..... "We need supporters to speak up to make sure that he hears our urgent message. Because every day, 34 more Americans will be murdered with guns – until our leaders take action to keep illegal guns out of dangerous hands."

REMant advises:

..... "I dare say our efforts to save humanity from itself - our wars on terror, on drugs, on alcohol, on slavery, child labor and Communism, and even on poverty - have done more harm than all the world's murderers put together..."

REMant is often first to comment. His comments are all of a piece. He speaks for view that all the world's murderers are less effective at doing evil than the American nation or people or imputed ideology. Why would anyone think or say such silliness? No one would -- unlss they were more stupid than words can express.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/18/2012 09:16 PM Report

So have we reached the highest level of stupidity yet?

Is the next level a room of babies in a hospital with automatic weapons?

Here is the Demand a Plan:

http://www.demandaplan.org/take-action

mikosan  12/18/2012 06:31 PM Report

Great program ! thanks to Bloomberg for speaking out so forcefully , the other were equally insightful.

And fun to get to know a bit more about the Castro twins.

M. Riley, seattle

REMant  12/18/2012 12:22 PM Report

I suppose the president has no choice to go to places like Newtown to offer consolation, tho we can argue about just how much he would prefer not to, but I think the press in these situations prove themselves far worse than the malefactors. And the public as sickened by them. "Your child as just been murdered, how do you feel?"

Even when they overcome bias and self-serving behavior, they mysteriously get all the facts wrong. It was first reported the principal let the boy in, that the mother taught there, then later that he blasted his way in, and she didn't. Can that be merely bad reporting?

We are told we need to control such serial killers and the sale of assault weapons, when the mother of the boy is reported to have bought the pistols used, and now also the AR-15, initially said to have been left in the car's trunk. Rather, it would seem we need better parents.

The mother, recently divorced, lived in an upscale home and her former husband is/was an accounting executive at GE in Stamford. Not exactly the president's embittered gun and Bible-clinging blue-collar types. Indeed, Newtown's picture-perfecteness, due in large measure to the fact they are not.

Nor was this the case in Colorado, or Blacksburg or Tucson. This young man was reported by a fellow student to be one of the "Goths," as were those at Columbine. They all showed signs of trouble, some had seen psychologists, and yet were ignored or coddled. But we are being told there was nothing wrong with the mother, nor ever parenting, no one could have believed they would do such a thing, etc. So perhaps we need better psychologists, too.

And there's no essential difference between a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle and a semi-automatic Glock pistol except that the rifle is more accurate at long range, and may carry more ammunition. After the decade-long ban on assault weapons expired in 2006, The Urban Institute found it had made no difference. And in every instance where law-abiding citizens have been prompted to turn in their guns, gun-related deaths have risen, not diminished.

In China Friday, 22 school children were stabbed, guns being as non-existent as their rights (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248054/China-stabbing-22-children-elderly-woman-stabbed-out side-primary-school-Chinese-knifeman.html) and it is not the only such incident there. They didn't die, but is that a reason to exchange our situation with theirs?

The Constitution guarantees freedom of belief, communication and organization, and the physical means to back them up in its first two amendments and, given the kind of behavior we're seeing from many, including our own president, well it might. We already have unconstitutional laws in this area on the books.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," the 2nd Amendment reads, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." There may be some question about to whom that is directed or its extent, but it is completely clear as to owning and carrying weaponry, of any type, regardless.

It doesn't say "Hunting being necessary to sustenance, the right to keep hunting rifles shall not be infringed," or "Police being necessary to prevent crime, they shall have the exclusive right to bear arms." It is aimed at the preservation of life, liberty and property from those who might very well take them away under the guise of benevolence, and tax us for the privilege.

Plus, it has often been argued by these same folk, albeit in circumstances more to their liking, that the Declaration of Independence is not diminished by the Constitution.

While the states may or may not consider themselves similarly bound, tho most, if not all, do, the Federal govt is certainly prohibited from interfering in this regard, for the Constitution is clearly a contract, which in no way, no matter how agreed, may its makers' rights be alienated. When Morris penned the words "We, the People," he ensured that, no matter what else he may have thought or done, and he acknowledged it in his letters. And it won't do to argue, like Lincoln, that there are justifiable ends of govt, which abrogate what is intended to be preserved.

Nor can freedom be legislated. Franklin is alleged in 1787 to have remarked we have a republic, if we can keep it, and I don't suppose he could have meant it in any other way than by our own virtue. I sincerely hope this was the meaning of that Newtown prelate's counsel, when he suggested God works to bring good from evil.

I dare say our efforts to save humanity from itself - our wars on terror, on drugs, on alcohol, on slavery, child labor and Communism, and even on poverty - have done more harm than all the world's murderers put together. It's typical for an American to talk about American lives, and forget about all the foreign lives taken or forever altered in the crusades for these inestimable ideals. And don't tell me they were just wars, because the evidence hardly supports it.

The mayor really should know better, tho that hasn't stopped him before, and IMHO he's damned lucky these people aren't all that rational.