“Ben Arredondo violated the public trust to enhance his personal wealth and image in excess of the legal and moral limits. There are few lower than him in society, maybe only child molesters. Now his buddies, Democrats, act like he is a persecuted choir boy.”
“As a conservative residing in CD-9, I believe that all conservatives are being taxed without representation. How can I consider Sinema an avowed leftist as representing me or my values!”
“To say an AR-15, a Bushmaster or an AK-47 is not a military style assault rifle is asinine. It depends how you use it. If you put bomb racks, air to air missiles, and guns on a Boeing 747 is it still a passenger plane because it still has all of the seats?”
“The NRA says background checks wouldn’t do any good. So if Charles Manson were paroled today, tomorrow he could buy a Bushmaster anywhere a background check isn’t required. I think there are those high up at the NRA who should at least be on a mental watch list, even if they were it would still be possible for them to buy an assault rifle at a gun show.”
“According to the complete morons, I mean gun control nuts, there was no crime or murders until guns came along.”
“The problem with speaking truth to power is that power often doesn’t want to hear the truth.”
For those amigos looking for the path to citizenship I suggest the following: Drive south on I-10 until you reach Tucson. Bear right and merge on to I-19 and drive 70 miles to Nogales. Continue south till you reach Hermosillo — about 171 miles. Find the U.S. Consulate and get in line.”
“In response to the venter regarding pro-lifers becoming foster home and adoptive parents, I answer YES to both. We have been a foster home since 2007 and adopted the very first child we took in 2011. We have taken in six children in this time and while not all were easy, we would do it again. I hope this answers your question.”
“We are going to give de facto citizenship to millions of hispanics, mostly from Mexico. Yet we sent a Haitian back if they manage to get into the country. With Cubans we have the wet foot / dry foot rule. Our employers demand cheap labor so I propose that we sent ships to China and Africa and Haiti to bring 30 million of them here too. It’s only fair, otherwise we are discriminating in favor of hispanics. So let’s bring another 30 million cheap workers here to be abused by employers and paid below the minimum wage. Something tells me that if a lawmaker proposed, that the hispanics and La Raza would be burning the American Flag — again.”
truth posted at 2:20 pm on Sun, Feb 3, 2013.
“ Being American is bad for your health,” that's the sobering conclusion of an exhaustive new report comparing our health with that of people in 16 other advance countries. We rank at or near the bottom, from life expectancy at birth to frequency of death before age 50, and it's only the partly fault of our health-care system. The freedom and autonomy that are intrinsic to our culture leads us to make choices that are distinctly unhealthy-and even fatal. Among males under 50, there are comparatively “more homicides ( often gun related ), car accidents ( often alcohol-related), and others accidents ( often drug related).” Bad diets-don't tell me what to eat!-fuel high rates of diabetes and heart disease.
truth posted at 2:22 pm on Sun, Feb 3, 2013.
American girls age 15 to 19 get pregnant at 3.5 times the average rate of other advanced countries, producing children doomed to poverty and poor health care. even the well-to- do suffer from stress-related diseases that's a byproduct of the national's relentlessly competitive spirit. Blinded by optimism, Americans assume we're healthier than everyone in the world. “We think we're No. 1, even if we aren't.” The Washington Post
truth posted at 2:40 pm on Sun, Feb 3, 2013.
Fifty-five million kids went to school on the day that 20 were massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn, so the chanses of a child's dieing in a school shooting are remote. Seventy mass shootings have occurred in the U.S. Since 1982, leaving 543 dead. These crimes were horrific, but 564,452 other homicides took place in the U.S. During the same period. Mass shootings scarcely represent 0.1% of all murders. In the vast majority of murders committed with firearms-even most mass killings the weapon used is a hand gun. In fact the Supreme Court recently rules, twice (in 2008 and 2010), that banning handguns would be unconstitutional.
truth posted at 2:43 pm on Sun, Feb 3, 2013.
I support some reforms that gun-control advocates are calling for-universal background checks, better mental health screening, limited capacity magazine, checks against the terrorist watch list, etc.- but they will do very little to prevent the next Newtown.
mikedurham posted at 7:52 am on Mon, Feb 4, 2013.
To the editor: Why do I love reading the Vent? It indexes conservative rant topics. Why do I love the contributors to the Vent? They slash and burn down to what they believe are the core issues using any method and logic available. Keep this feature on line. I'm not kidding.