Sounds very much like sour grapes to me!
Ann Coulter? Cal Thomas? Novak, the slasher?
We don't award Pulitzer prizes to people who think that extreme criticism and trodding down of unfortunate and ignorant people is the way to correct them!

Remain logged in, go back to your post, click edit, and remove the a and double dollar sign. That will get you ejected from the game. Trust me on this.

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When you respond directly to a blog post here you lock the post above you permanently from editing (except the very first post in the blog). You locked out Emmyjune!

She'll probably be banned now but she can always do what the Man Without Honor™ RetiredArmyMajorRetired did and immediately re-register.
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If you are logged on, when you go to your own post, it will have an "Edit" at the bottom. Click that and you can rewrite in the lower box. I use this all the time because I say some stupid stuff.

Kevin "Hack" King

For whatever reason, the "edit" option has disappeared from my postings. I guess I'm screwed. I can't change it. Don't know why...?

on any of my own comments... It just reads "reply" at the bottom of all of mine. Any other ideas? Is that really considered profanity around here? I didn't know that! Thought the symbols were good substitutions...

This is the same Bill Oreally that said AMERICANS slaughtered GERMANS at Malmaday in WWII. This is the same Bill OReally that said the 11 year old kidnap and rape victim in Missouri was "having too much fun" to want to go home. This is the Bill Oreally that tried to explain military operations in Abu Graib to the Colonel that worked...... AT ABU Graib. This is the guy who settled his sexual harrassment law suit out of court. This is the guy who was uninvited to speak at a child advocacy fundraiser because of his lack of comprehension of Stockholm syndrome. This is the guy that claimed he got a Peabody Award for a show that never got a Peabody award at a time he wasn't even there (A Current Affair). But if he serves your purpose, feel free to use him.Kevin "Hack" King

Would hate you to be sued for libel ~

I thought all news COMMENTATORS (vs. reporters) give their opinions on news stories.

O'Reilly doesn't claim to be a reporter.

His statements should be evaluated, but so should Cynthia Tucker's.

As editorial page editor, doesn't CT have the power to censor opinions?

She is "responsible for guiding the development of the [paper's] opinion policies on everything."

PBS's Cynthia Tucker Bio

Just wondering . . . .

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You can judge for yourself by reading some of her opinions HERE.

Sat Apr 7, 7:56 PM ET

AMERICA'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH GUNS BREEDS BLOODY RESULTS

"Gun assaults are rising" -- I'll have to check crime statistics about that one.

"Republicans, of course, are wholly owned by the National Rifle Association, which advocates a howitzer in every home."

"a perplexing cultural ethos that worships individual gun ownership"

"unchecked personal gun ownership"

"the cult of gun ownership"

"No other country on the planet shares our fascination with guns -- not Japan, not Great Britain or France. Not India or China or Malaysia."

-- Don't think that they have our history of personal liberty either.

"[They] are not burdened with our staggering rate of casual violence."

"a rise in violence -- fueled by the gun" -- Guns are the cause of crime rather than criminals???

-- Law-abiding citizens are equivalent to criminals in her mind.

"Police attribute the increase to several factors, including an epidemic of methamphetamine, a casual acceptance of violence among a subset of aimless young men and a flood of illegal guns."

Why doesn't CT read her own column?

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Just trying to be "fair & balanced"!

Note the language about guns that CT uses:

- The NRA "advocates a howitzer in every home."

- "The suicide bomb of domestic politics"

- "The cult of gun ownership"

- "So this folly will continue, fueled by a perplexing cultural ethos [mentality] that worships individual gun ownership."

- "A surfeit [a condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate; glut] of guns"

- Anachronism like "cannibalism and the sacrifice of virgins"

- "Irrational gun lobby"

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It seems that statistics reported by the Bureau of Justice (as in U.S. Dept. of Justice) don't completely agree with Cynthia Tucker's claim, "Gun assaults are rising."

"Firearm-related crime has plummeted since 1993, then slightly increased in 2005."

"After 1996, less than 10% of nonfatal violent crimes (rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault) involved a firearm."

"Incidents involving a firearm represented 9% of the 4.7 million violent crimes of rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault in 2005."

"After peaking in 1993, the number of gun crimes reported to police declined and then stabilized at levels last seen in 1988."

Nonfatal Firearm Incidents

(1993) 1,054,820

(2004) 280,890

(2005) 419,640

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"Gun homicides by adults 25 and older reflect a general downward trend, although they increased slightly in recent years."

"Gun homicides by persons 18-24 years old declined after the peak in 1993 but have not returned to the levels seen prior to the mid 1980's."

Homicides by Weapon Type: Handgun --

(1976) 8,651

(1993) 13,981

(2000) 7,985

(2003) 8,830

(2004) 8,299

Guns are not the problem; criminals are. To quote Cynthia Tucker,

"Police attribute the increase to several factors, including an epidemic of methamphetamine, a casual acceptance of violence among a subset of aimless young men and a flood of illegal guns."

Seems that the problem is not LEGAL guns or "gun safety," is it?

It's easier to confiscate or severely restrict legal guns than to work on solutions to a culture of "a casual acceptance of violence among a subset of aimless young men" and the meth epidemic.

Wonder if CT will look for any solutions to the real problems? Then she might deserve that Pulitzer.

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"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms . . . . The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

And your point, sir? I never said I agree with O'Reilly on everything. In fact, I don't. I simply pointed out that the AJC is a leftest paper and is acknowledged to be by a major TV news show. I noticed you neatly side-stepped the issue and instead of saying why the AJC isn't a liberal paper, you instead attacked "the messenger" O'Reilly (which I agree has inconsistent opinions/views).

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Using Bill Oreally as evidence the AJC is slanted is like using Kim Jiong Ill as evidence North Korea is a just society. It's the whole credibility thing. Is he at all an objective opinion on this????

Kevin "Hack" King

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.
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"Fear leads to anger."

Looking in the mirror when that thought came to you?

Cartoon 2

Basmati replies to Denise.

Avoid Silver Surfer, though. See Cars.

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Out! Out! You demons of stupidity!

clip cracked me up. Thanks for the free smile.

"Hack"

Ahh RQ, you forget that Master Yoda was quite handy with a lightsaber and wasn't afraid of a good fight against evil.

But how is quoting someone a sign of "fear"?

Besides, I always love quoting Bill O'Reilly and Neal Boortz to my liberal friends since it always drives them crazy! "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you MAD!" Feel free to prove me wrong though!

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Check my post out again. I am not mad in the least. I am glad you quote Mr. drown the govt in the toilet and the luffa guy. It makes my side of the discussion much, much easier. Now, if you were to sight Pat Buchanan, I'd have a bit more work to do. I suppose the alcoholic Glenn Beck will be your next ace.

Cheers,

Kevin "Hack" King

My, my, you sure don't seem to like libertarian/conservative media people do you? Again, instead of logically explaining why you disagree with them you make cheap personal attacks ("alcoholic Glenn Beck") against them. Last time I checked we ALL have made mistakes. Honestly Mr. King, I know you're better than that! Let's have a debate on the issues and leave out the personal attacks. (Of course, pointing out someone's flaws when they have a direct effect on the views expressed by the person is valid -- i.e. if Beck was saying that getting drunk was wrong and then did it.)

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