President Obama on the passing of Beau Biden

A Statement From The White House About The Biden Family...

 "Michelle and I are grieving tonight. Beau Biden was a friend of ours. His beloved family – Hallie, Natalie, and Hunter – are friends of ours. And Joe and Jill Biden are as good as friends get.


 Beau took after Joe. He studied the law, like his dad, even choosing the same law school. He chased a life of public service, like his dad, serving in Iraq and as Delaware’s Attorney General. Like his dad, Beau was a good, big-hearted, devoutly Catholic and deeply faithful man, who made a difference in the lives of all he touched – and he lives on in their hearts.
 But for all that Beau Biden achieved in his life, nothing made him prouder; nothing made him happier; nothing claimed a fuller focus of his love and devotion than his family.
 Just like his dad.


 Joe is one of the strongest men we’ve ever known. He’s as strong as they come, and nothing matters to him more than family. It’s one of the things we love about him. And it is a testament to Joe and Jill – to who they are – that Beau lived a life that was full; a life that mattered; a life that reflected their reverence for family.


 The Bidens have more family than they know. In the Delaware they love. In the Senate Joe reveres. Across this country that he has served for more than forty years. And they have a family right here in the White House, where hundreds of hearts ache tonight – for Hallie, Natalie, and Hunter; for Joe and for Jill; for Beau’s brother, Hunter; his sister, Ashley, and for the entire Biden clan.


“I have believed the best of every man,” wrote the poet William Butler Yeats, “And find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.”


Beau Biden believed the best of us all. For him, and for his family, we swing our lanterns higher.


 Michelle and I humbly pray for the good Lord to watch over Beau Biden, and to protect and comfort his family here on Earth." —President Obama on the passing of Beau Biden

Christian Republicans and forced altruism

“Not only is taking care of the poor one of the principle roles of the local church, I believe that a Christian doesn’t have a biblical leg to stand on if they want to argue against public government assistance." Christian Republicans and forced altruism

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death 💀

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for his part in the bombing of the Boston Marathon.


That is all.

Tom Tomorrow: Responses to Baltimore ☀

The Insanity That Is Texas

Let me be blunt, or blunter than I’ve already been: anybody, anybody, who believes President Obama is about to send the United Nations to invade Texas, declare martial law, and herd Texans into FEMA Death Camps Of Death cleverly hidden in a secret network of continent spanning tunnels linking Wal-Marts across the nation, anybody who believes this ridiculous howling bullshit in any way whatsoever should be darted with powerful tranquilizers, netted from black helicopters, pumped full of happy juice before they start eating their own feces, and installed in a dark padded cell where the most dangerous thing they encounter each day is a small plastic cup of institutional butterscotch pudding pushed through a small opening in the bottom of the door with a stick. Jade Helm: The Insanity that Ate Texas ☀

Regarding gun control: in the 1960's

Regarding gun control:


 "A great many men seemed to regard all proposals for righter controls as a challenge to their virility. The powerful National Rifle Association urged it's half million members to write Washington, and it's lobbyists went to work on Congressman with the spacious reasoning that "it's the man that kills, not the rifle".


 They demanded the passage of another (Hicken looper) bill, which would merely prevent the importing of guns bot made by American firms.


 Katzenbach pointed out in vain that the association was not protecting sportsmen's rights, but the profit's of commercial gun dealers.


 "Anti Gun Extremists are at It Again" Field and Stream warned it's readers and Outdoor Life declared that "Gun owners should switch to the offense".


 They did: In Texas they were esp militant.
 Elsewhere in the country courts took a benign view of some 20,000 gun control laws enacted on municipal and state levels.


 In Dallas an ordinance restricting the possession of weapons had been struck down by a local judge in 1962 on the ground that it would have been "an unauthorized invasion of a natural right the citizens of this state have never relinquished to their rulers".
 Presumably, "their rulers" meant the government of the United States and the assassination didn't change the feeling.
 Once his arm had healed, Governor Connolly called upon Texas Congressional delegation to oppose the Dodd bill, and Texas Republicans, meeting in Dallas, passed a resolution opposing any limitation on the right of private individuals to to buy and use guns".


 Death of a President November 1963, author and Historian William Manchester, Epilogue Legend, page 632

Regarding President Kennedy's assassination and gun control

Regarding President Kennedy's assassination and gun control:




 "In the wake of the assassination the pressure for such legislation (small arms control) seemed irresistible: A Gallup poll revealed that 8 out of 10 Americans favored new laws requiring police permits of weapon buyers. Robert Kennedy asked Congress to outlaw the mail order traffic, supportive mail engulfed the Hill, and in the weeks after the funeral Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut introduced a sensible bill to ban mail order sales, bar weapons from.abroad unsuitable for sporting use, forbid sales to people under twenty one, and require all purchasers to identity themselves so police could later trace them.
 The American Bar Association endorsed it and was ignored. The Director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons pointed out "After all, cars have to be registered and drivers licensed" and was unheard.




 Indeed, though 18 such measures were introduced on the Hill , none of the gun laws went off.




 The United States remained the only modern nation in the world without firm regulation of the sale and use of firearms -- Oswald couldn't have assassinated Kennedy in Russia -- and in 1964 some 600,000 cheap firearms were brought into the country."




 Death of a President November 1963, Epilogue Legend, pages 631-632, author William Manchester (1st edition, 1967)