Respectfully Submitted by Lawrence Rafferty (rafflaw)-Guest Blogger
When it comes to the Second Amendment and guns, it seems that President Obama can’t make anyone happy. Ever since Obama announced his candidacy for the Presidency, the NRA has screamed that Obama will be taking away the guns. This scare tactic continued when Obama defeated John McCain for the Presidency. Just what has Barack Obama done to make the NRA and gun owners frightened for their guns? The simple answer to this question is nothing. The head of the National Rifle Association, Mr. Wayne LaPierre actually admitted recently that Obama has done nothing to attack gun owner’s rights to bear arms, but claims Obama’s inaction against guns is actually a conspiracy to take away guns!! ‘ “[The Obama campaign] will say gun owners — they’ll say they left them alone,” LaPierre told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday. “In public, he’ll remind us that he’s put off calls from his party to renew the Clinton [assault weapons] ban, he hasn’t pushed for new gun control laws… The president will offer the Second Amendment lip service and hit the campaign trail saying he’s actually been good for the Second Amendment.” “But it’s a big fat stinking lie!” the NRA leader exclaimed. “It’s all part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and destroy the Second Amendment in our country.” ‘ Raw Story
Now, before anyone thinks I am making this stuff up, the linked site includes a video clip wherein Mr. LaPierre verbalizes this alleged reverse conspiracy. Mr. LaPierre makes a point of throwing in the necessary names of alleged liberal co-conspirators to rev up his base. ‘ “Sotomayor, Kagan, Fast & Furious, the United Nations, executive orders. Those are the facts we face today… President Obama and his cohorts, yeah, they’re going to deny their conspiracy to fool gun owners. Some in the liberal media, they are already probably blogging about it. But we don’t care because the lying, conniving Obama crowd can kiss our Constitution!” ‘
The lying, conniving Obama crowd as Mr. LaPierre labels them has not done anything to harm the Second Amendment rights that the NRA claims to be at risk. I was interested in the last few words of LaPierre’s quotation above. The phrase “kiss our Constitution” appears to lay claim that the NRA and its followers own the Constitution and its protections. I could have sworn that my law school Constitutional professors taught me that the Constitution protects all citizens, but maybe I heard them wrong. But, I digress.
As the Raw Story article suggests, President Obama has actually taken heat from his own supporters over his alleged conspiracy to not take away the guns. NPR Does Mr. LaPierre provide any evidence of this bizarre claim? None that I could find. Maybe you will have better luck than me in finding evidence of presidential actions to hide President Obama’s intentions and/or actions of stealing legal guns from their owners.
I have to admit that if you read the comments section of the NPR article that details how the Left is disappointed with Obama’s inaction on gun control, you will read almost nothing except gun owners claiming that Obama’s words of inaction are actually code words that the End is Near and the Sky is Falling for gun owners! Just what will it take gun owners to ask Mr. LaPierre for evidence of his wild claims? I, for one would love to hear his answer to that question. I understand that candidate and President Obama may have stayed away from the 2nd Amendment issues for political reasons, but where is the evidence of this alleged conspiracy? I would think Fox News would be sending Bill O’Reilly’s reporters all over the country to uncover such a heinous conspiracy.
If Mr. Obama has not written any executive orders or supported additional legislative steps to control or take away guns since he has become President, just what is the basis for these wild claims? I realize that the NRA has a financial interest in getting gun owners scared into buying more guns, but are there other, underlying reasons why the gun owners are frightened so easily, when the facts do not support the NRA’s claims?
Respectfully submitted by Lawrence Rafferty (rafflaw)- Guest Blogger
Additional sources: Gun Owners of America; NRA-ILA; Pajamas Media;
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1, September 28, 2011 at 5:01 am
Otteray Scribe,
Godspeed North Carolina Mountain Scribe. Seminole myself, with a lot of Highlanders mixed in for temperament!
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OMG … since I am all Highlander with one small touch of Lowlander, well … temperament has always been an issue …
“Am measg nan cbmh-strithean guineach nach b’ ainneamh aig olanna Ghaidheal, is iomadh Hatha fuileach agus deannal cruaidh a chuireadh air fraoch-bheanna gonna nan Garbh-chrioch, air nach ‘eil iomradh no ainm aig lluchdseanachais san llinn so. (Among the sharp conflicts which were not infrequent among the Highland clans, there was many a bloody day and fierce encounter on the purple hills of the
Wilftg that are not recorded nor even mentioned by the historians of our time.)”
Bron,
Gene is absolutely wrong on this. He admits his knowledge is 20 years old. And that knowledge is wrong.
As I said, google hosts files and google domain name system.
His post at 2:50 pm is technobabble trolling.
For instance, UDP has absolutely nothing to do with TCP. it certainly does not “interact with the local link layer through the TCP/IP layer using the DNS servers as the guide to IPs connecting the local link layers to the Internet.”
http://www.skullbox.net/tcpudp.php
TCP is meant to send streams of data reliably, guaranteeing delivery of the data. Doing that means it is somewhat slow.
UDP is meant to send short blocks of data very fast, even if they never get to the end point.
You request a web page using TCP so it gets to you in one piece.
You might listen to a realtime stream of audio data with UDP so it gets to you fast, knowing that if a piece of audio data drops out, that’s okay, it will cause a momentary glitch, but it’s more important to keep up with the real time nature.
UDP/IP is an alternative to TCP/IP, and does not interact through the TCP/IP using DNS servers as the guide. That is just Gene’s trolling or ignorance shining.
Bron, I must be a very bad one, given that at this point, both you and Mike (and Kevin) have to ask.
Gene H:
I hate to admit it but you actually sound like you know about computers. But then so does anon.
Could you both be right?
Bron, sadly, yes.
Gene H, stop your trolling. You win.
Simply write down:
Dear anon,
YHBT YHL HAND
trollface.jpg
anon:
are you a computer guy?
You must really love the sound of your own voice.
How does the UDP interact with the local link layer?
Through the TCP/IP layer using the DNS servers as the guide to IPs connecting the local link layers to the Internet.
Again, blow your smoke up someone else’s ass.
Blouise, A side of corn with a nice meat pie is good, excellent in fact. 😉
Hmmm, YourstruleyJohnnyDepp turned (link) blue but lottakatz is not. Even his name is *magic*.
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Nice to see you Elaine!
Other than the traffic from it goes to and from an ISP which has its traffic to the rest of the net managed by DNS systems.
The phone book is not the map and not the traffic lights.
DNS systems do not manage anything. They are a phone book.
How does his ISP (or alternate DNS service) know where to send that traffic such as the data from his computer to get it to Yahoo’s mail server? The DNS systems.
Traffic from an ISP out to the rest of the net and back is managed by routers. These routers do not need the DNS system. They have various tables of various sizes using various algorithms that take an address and tell it the next place to pass that packet to.
At its simplest your home router knows two things: what computers are in your home and which are outside your home. When it receives a packet from inside your home that is destined for outside your home, it passes it to your ISP’s router.
Depending on your ISP your packets there probably get shunted around to one or more routers at your ISP, based each time on some mathematical function or table lookup into a routing table telling the router the next router to pass your packet to.
Ah shit Gene, you don’t know how this works. It’s not my job to instruct you. And it’s not fair to me or to others reading this for you to pretend you do.
Google and wiki how the internet works. Ask Kevin. Go onto quora.
It has almost nothing to do with DNS.
Routing works solely on the IP addresses.
DNS only provides at the initial steps the phone book. It does not manage the process.
lotta … aaagh, time for an afternoon latte
Have a good holiday Mike and Maxine.
opps … that last post was addressed to YourstrulyJohnnyDepp who looks a lot like loota
But as Mort Rainey you won my heart
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm27434240/tt0363988
Mike S.
L’Shana Tovah to you as well.
Blouise thank you for your comment and suggestion.
Angerona, an astute and sad question.
Kevin, thank you for writing that on the corrections page. Of course I dispute this bullshit: “This is as far as I’m willing to go in raising the issue to the Professor. Once again, we see that I act in transparency and good faith while you consistently demonstrate the opposite.”
Yes, Kevin, after I painstakingly go through it a dozen times with you suggesting you obtain permission from the Professor, showing you how many others in the rest of the world consider the underlying exploit a privacy leak, and hence your behavior a privacy invasion, After all the denials and attacks from you, you write a post on the corrections page, and this you believe is an indication of my bad faith.
You are a dishonest, unethical, arrogant jackass.
Hi BLOUISE, *waving back, also* my little dove, it’s your own true hearts desire stopped in for a “hello” and some pie.
It’s truly me, my Gavatar proves it; was there ever a more delightful or beautiful Sweeny Todd?
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HE is shooting Dark Shadows. HE is Barnabas Collins. I swoon 🙂
“That’s an IP address of a home computer that has nothing whatsoever to do with DNS.”
Really.
Other than the traffic from it goes to and from an ISP which has its traffic to the rest of the net managed by DNS systems. How does his ISP (or alternate DNS service) know where to send that traffic such as the data from his computer to get it to Yahoo’s mail server? The DNS systems.
Blow your smoke up someone else’s ass.
AY,
Check out these T-shirts:
http://shop.cafepress.com/yankees-suck
Elaine,
Thanks … See, I can do straight man.
To all,
As an Indians’ fan I will bow out with as much grace as possible.
Since everyone else has their own agenda here. and especially on this post. It’s basically been hijacked by a zillion side topics purposefully or otherwise. Everyone is out for herself, and frankly, and this point so am I. MY agenda is to protect my family. My agenda after close to three years of care giving of a very sick husband, of seeing him on the brink of death so many times, to have actually saved his life on more that one occasion, and to finally see him healthier than he has been in 10 years. To finally get a chance to get out of the patient caregiver/caregiver mode and to start living again. I will not allow anyone to destroy that. Do you hear that NL. Do you hear that N*oWay – Do you hear that any of this creeps other alter egos. I know you are one in the same. So does everyone else now. So I will repeat what I posted in the early morning hours for it bears repeating….and NL and N*oWay, and if any of you didn’t get it, I am letting you know that I know for a fact that they are one in the same.
Mike’s (really pissed off wife ) at 3:30am
N0 WAY…..HEY STALKER You are a goddamned fucking liar. You are cyber stalking me and us. How dare you! We also know who you are. What the fuck is wrong with you. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Marting. Briem lexis. DIGG? I’m sure you do even though you obviously short changed in the brains department.
Now go take a hike, you sick prick and get a life.
You don’t scare us. We have been through far worse and pressing issues than to deal with this crap of yours.
Mike’s (really pissed off wife) at 4:01 am
This sound familiar to anyone ? It should
Mbrickman@briem.com How about this NoWay….. Marting@lexis.com
Now that is really deep. Some cover. Now grow up.
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So, deepcover prick……..We know who you are. We know what you do and we know where you are.
We also all know Mike can certainly take care of himself, but somehow I have a vested interest in his welfare, and I will not stand idly by whilst someone with too much testosterone threatens me and my family, whilst someone stalks me on obscure sites they have no business being on, whilst someone makes couched threats or otherwise to us. Whilst some says that Mike took a heart from a person that was still alive. How dare you. How fucking dare you. Whilst someone hacks our computer network. This is not over. As far as I’m concerned the battle has just begun.
The sick fucker NL is banned so should N* Way be banned since they are one in the same.