The clock radio woke me to this treasure...
http://bb.jeffnet.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=41&sid=72df8b005ce1865f96bd221092a79546
BUSH, GUNS, BOOKS & MISSILE DEFENSE
ANNCR: The sniper incident in the Washington area has prompted calls for a national database containing the "ballistic fingerprints" of all weapons sold in the U.S. The NRA and the Bush White House are opposed. Commentator Les AuCoin and columnist Arianna Huffington think NRA and Administration arguments are inconsistent, at best...
Before Arianna Huffington was a national liberal columnist, she was the fiercely supportive spouse of a rich conservative who tried to buy a U.S. Senate in California.
When her marriage ended in divorce after Michael Huffington lost to Dianne Feinstein, Arianna began writing professionally. No one
knows what happened on her journey from conservatism to liberalism- and it's probably none of our business anyway.
What we do know is that Arianna's laser analysis of political events has won her a large national audience.
Which brings me to her comments on the Washington area sniper, the call for a national ballistics database, the thug tactics of the National Rifle Association and the inconsistencies of the NRA's wholly owned subsidiary, the Bush Administration. (emphasis added-Huck Phinn)
Every gun and rifle leaves distinctive marks on the bullets they fire. That's how police established that the rifle found in the car of the suspected sniper had brought down the thirteen victims.
The technology that detects these bullet "fingerprints" is so promising that many experts advocate using it to create a national database-something that just might have saved lives by shortening the search for the Washington area sniper.
But the toughs over at the NRA have trained their political guns on this proposal. This shouldn't surprise anyone: the NRA has never been willing to make the slightest concession to public safety.
According to Arianna Huffington, the NRA says it's concerned about the potential invasion of privacy of innocent, law-abiding citizens. The Bush White House is espousing the same line. And that's ironic, Huffington points out, because the Bush Administration's so-called USA Patriot Act authorizes the government to secretly check the book borrowing habits of innocent, law-abiding citizens who use public libraries.
As pressure grows to adopt a national database, President Bush has not directly attacked the idea. Instead, Huffington writes, he has consigned it to the political graveyard called "for further study."
Huffington says its funny how the president turns oddly studious when technology proposals run counter to his political aims-and those of his supporters. She says she'll remind him of that the next time he seeks another seven billion dollars for his pie-in-the-sky missile defense shield.
"Mixed results" there haven't given him any qualms at all.
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This guy and the radio network soak up a lot of tax money.
And my liberal friends ask why I haven't "pledged."
http://bb.jeffnet.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=41&sid=72df8b005ce1865f96bd221092a79546
BUSH, GUNS, BOOKS & MISSILE DEFENSE
ANNCR: The sniper incident in the Washington area has prompted calls for a national database containing the "ballistic fingerprints" of all weapons sold in the U.S. The NRA and the Bush White House are opposed. Commentator Les AuCoin and columnist Arianna Huffington think NRA and Administration arguments are inconsistent, at best...
Before Arianna Huffington was a national liberal columnist, she was the fiercely supportive spouse of a rich conservative who tried to buy a U.S. Senate in California.
When her marriage ended in divorce after Michael Huffington lost to Dianne Feinstein, Arianna began writing professionally. No one
knows what happened on her journey from conservatism to liberalism- and it's probably none of our business anyway.
What we do know is that Arianna's laser analysis of political events has won her a large national audience.
Which brings me to her comments on the Washington area sniper, the call for a national ballistics database, the thug tactics of the National Rifle Association and the inconsistencies of the NRA's wholly owned subsidiary, the Bush Administration. (emphasis added-Huck Phinn)
Every gun and rifle leaves distinctive marks on the bullets they fire. That's how police established that the rifle found in the car of the suspected sniper had brought down the thirteen victims.
The technology that detects these bullet "fingerprints" is so promising that many experts advocate using it to create a national database-something that just might have saved lives by shortening the search for the Washington area sniper.
But the toughs over at the NRA have trained their political guns on this proposal. This shouldn't surprise anyone: the NRA has never been willing to make the slightest concession to public safety.
According to Arianna Huffington, the NRA says it's concerned about the potential invasion of privacy of innocent, law-abiding citizens. The Bush White House is espousing the same line. And that's ironic, Huffington points out, because the Bush Administration's so-called USA Patriot Act authorizes the government to secretly check the book borrowing habits of innocent, law-abiding citizens who use public libraries.
As pressure grows to adopt a national database, President Bush has not directly attacked the idea. Instead, Huffington writes, he has consigned it to the political graveyard called "for further study."
Huffington says its funny how the president turns oddly studious when technology proposals run counter to his political aims-and those of his supporters. She says she'll remind him of that the next time he seeks another seven billion dollars for his pie-in-the-sky missile defense shield.
"Mixed results" there haven't given him any qualms at all.
****************************************************
This guy and the radio network soak up a lot of tax money.
And my liberal friends ask why I haven't "pledged."
