Sick.
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How about WeedTV? Too dangerous?
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1970 was before the Russians showed up and when Afghanistan still was a monarchy. Conflict was family against family or clan vs clan and was usually settled via a pick up game of Buzkashi or personal shootings, not army against army. The Taliban did not exist then nor did any sort of global terrorism or anything like al Qaida or ISIS. Kt was relatively safe for me to be a tourist there as there was not endemic hatred of the west or America THEN. I donāt think bin Laden was even born then. If he was he was still in diapers.
edit bin Laden was born in 1957 so he was 13 in 1970
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Just what I need - moar guns!
Why not gun of the month club?
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It was my fault, I read the 70s, not 1970.
I think he was 15? Something like that.
Bin Laden was born in 1957
The afghan troubles began in 1978, 8 years after I was there. And let me say it was extremely painful to me because i had friends I knew well at Kabul University (yes, they had a good university) that I worked with.
They are all dead now. And the University is no more.
Iām sorry, thatās terrible.
I grieve for the loss of historical/educational resources in countries like Afghanistan.
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This sounds like something directly out of a Grand Theft Auto video game. Thank God that sarcastic predictions of our dystopian future are continuing to come true!
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This isnāt news. Davidsonās Gallery of Guns has been doing something like this for years. They have a television show, a website and a network of gun stores. You see the gun you like on TV, go to the website, select the FFL and plunk down your money on your credit card.
The key things to remember are you have to go through a licensed dealer and you have to pass a background check. If your state has a waiting period you have to wait the appropriate period of time.
What this says about America is guns are so popular there is a market for a shopping channel. That is scary.
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Or perhaps gun vending machines?
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Have you heard of the Bamyan Buddahs? They were large cliff statues. Very old. A World Heritage site that the taliban blew to smithereens. They also destroyed a wonderful museum in Kabul, banned any public music, record shops, music stores, movie houses, plays, childrenās kites and balloons. Kites were a national passion when I was there. Soccer was banned. So much else was destroyed as well. ISIS is doing likewise where they are in control.
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Now thereās a thought the NRA would buy into easily.
And here I thought you had to have premium cable or satellite to get porn channels.
Yes, I shed a few tears over that and just felt so frustrated.
Itās terrible. Sometimes we forget the reality of the life these people are living.
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Organize a campaign to flood their phone bank with wrong number calls and orders that get canceled just before completion.
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āThe vast majority of people who own and use guns in this country, whether itās home protection, recreation or hunting, are responsible.ā
In a world where we view all Muslims as terrorists, Iām declaring all gun owners to be mass murderers.
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Actually, if āshall not be infringedā is to be taken literally, then I donāt see why it shouldnāt be legal to sell guns from vending machines.
Anything short of that is tyranny.
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I think about the āhanging chadsā and the gnomes in Florida (+ SCOTUS) who gave the 2000 election to George Wā¦ Bush
[I also remember when, on election night, 2000, I saw New Hampshire go Republican after the analysts had put it in the Democratic column]
I think of what Ralph Nader meant to losing Florida.
Humanity has been lucky.
The Midway Battle was one of Spruance and some luck
The Russians could have folded in Stalingrad
The Cuban Missile Crisis could have gone South. Badly
some other instances can come to mindā¦
But in 2000, we were ārewardedā for all of our inattention and casual treatment of voting by allowing a man who never should have been President to assume Office.
Think what he set into motionā¦
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Canāt wait for the order for 100 AK-47ās with the name Al Qaeda on the credit card and no one does a dam thing about it. Because who would want to interfere with their Second Amendment Rights.
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Like you, I am appalled. Unfortunately the masses of disinterested people who would have to feel the way we do to outvote Republicans will not help us stop Republicans in these Gerrymandered districts.
It would have been easier if we Democratic voters had only voted in 2010, when the GOP took Governorships, State Legislatures and the United States House of Representatives. But we didnāt and now, with this madness, the feeling that these Congressmen cannot be voted out of office is that much more frustrating.
Bagger voters got us to this point
But non-voters helped
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