Comments for Alicia Menendez

Comment on The GOP’s Lady Problems by lary9

lary9 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:56:23 +0000

BTW…lest my intentions be misunderstood…I completely support the push-back on Republicans for their obvious medieval meddling with women’s rights and consider myself a vigorous advocate of gender liberation all around.

Comment on The GOP’s Lady Problems by lary9

lary9 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:51:10 +0000

That’s all true enough and we’ll surely capitalize on it in the run-up to November but what about the over-reach by progressive Democrats? Don’t we also have a habit of adopting every de rigueur cause that knocks at the door like some orphan on our doorsteps? What can we do about that? In the numbers game, IMHO, we repel as many voters as we attract.
Want some particulars? How about “gay marriage”? I’m personally supportive of “gay civil rights” but is a reconfiguration of the institution of marriage really an important Democratic initiative? Additionally, progressives are as libertarian in their philosophical approach to abortion rights as the G.O.P. is about laissez faire 2nd amendment rights.
All I’m saying is that every new social change movement does not need to be adopted politically. Sometimes a movement can remain predominately social and prosper even more.

Comment on The GOP’s Lady Problems by Milo Lowe

Milo Lowe — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:49:37 +0000

The offensive garbage list of what the republicans have said just this year is large. “Planned Parenthood, we’re going to get rid of that” Romney will not get elected with his ultra conservative and Mormon beliefs. So terribly backwards.

Comment on The GOP’s Lady Problems by marianpo

marianpo — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:48:23 +0000

A conservative columnist in my home town newspaper argued that the health care dispute is largely rooted in sex, noting: “It has to do with how much contraception is used.” So, you can use just a little contraception? Was he echoing Rush Limbaugh’s outrageous suggestion that a woman who spends a lot on contraception must be having a lot of sex? If so, we definitely need more sex ed in our schools.

Comment on Why is no one talking about gun control? by lary9

lary9 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:42:37 +0000

I am certainly a Liberal and have been for almost 50 years, so your ad hominem attacks suggesting we lack “solid experience” and are burdened by our naiveté are fallow. Besides…you don’t even know Alicia Menendez. I can assure you she is an ethical, responsible, well-educated, and thoughtful adult observer of the world-at-large. It’s a world which she and I and her esteemed father have all inherited from the equivalent of asylum lunatics…from a wounded nation that has squandered its reputation and claims to exceptionalism through 50 years of self-destructive foreign and domestic policies. Her concerns are important and I share them. No matter. Just so you know,…I’m very serious about all this and to me, it’s no parlor game in politics.
Our inability to grapple with the issue of gun violence (in any way other than arming more and more citizens) is a national disgrace. It reminds me of the Cold War’s MAD policies… “mutually assured destruction”. Or hadn’t you heard of that? (Did you know there are enough registered guns in America already for every man, woman and child to be armed…with enough left over for a militia.)

So…what do you think? Does government have any vested interest in regulating firearms or not? Is it government’s proper role?
And pray tell, (assuming you’ve given any thought to the connection between guns and the escalating numbers of gun deaths in America), have you come up with any solution other than a nation-wide, family-style shoot-our at the O.K. corral? Is that really your best idea? You may be unaware that statistics show that an armed citizenry invariably does not foil felons with guns nor do they deter or stop crimes in-progress. In fact, they often contribute to the deaths of themselves and innocent bystanders.

Whatever…just give me an inkling of a solution…how do we eliminate gun deaths in America…
{BTW: the numbers for 2010 (last statistcs): 31,000 deaths by firearms (includes suicides)…the highest in the world…IN THE WORLD!)
So what’s your answer?

Comment on Why is no one talking about gun control? by sweetsorrow1

sweetsorrow1 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:06:02 +0000

Alicia got to Harvard on Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and her father’s coattails. So I am not sure after hearing her on TV and reading some of the blathering comments made by her that she is that intelligent and knowledgeable. She is a far left liberal who just sticks to an agenda no matter what the facts state. In the first place, Alicia has not lived long enough to overcome her ignorance from naiveté through solid experience. I bet that if she became the victim of a stalker, she would be the first to go get a gun, learn how to use it and be ready to use it to protect her own life. As would all those who advocate gun control. And it is obvious that Marian and lary9 have not either or they are incapable of sound and factual logical reasoning. Victim insurance, are you kidding me, Marian? Did you not know that the USA passed Amendment XXI Repealing Prohibition? You cannot legislate morality. It is bad behavior in all the instances, which Alicia would cite that is the cause. The parents, who ignore their child’s descent into a psychotic murdering rage, is just the beginning to correct incidents like in Arizona and Columbine plus all the others. The gun cannot get up and act on its own. You might as well establish victim insurance for automobiles, knives, hammers, cultured rocks and anything, which can be used in killing a person. There is more good done by persons who posses their own guns. Just read the stories from real life incidents from the NRA. It there is ever a slaughter in progress like in Arizona and Columbine both Alicia and Marian and lary9 would be praying there was one good armed citizen with the mind set to stop it before they got to you. Why did we ever pass the 19th Amendment?

Comment on Why is no one talking about gun control? by lary9

lary9 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:54:42 +0000

The libertarian advocacy of non-restrictive gun ownership is specious and the “proofs” you offer are refutable by logic and good sense. Stronger legislation would strengthen any serious interdiction efforts to control the free flow of firearms…not to mention, reduce the production of them in the U.S.
If you think government has no valid role in regulating firearms then you belong in Tuscon, AZ in 1888. Bottom line is, gun control is best handled as a state and local matter but the new activist conservative Court has begun treating it like a flatly nuanced federal responsibility. The ball is in your court, so-to-speak…what are you going to do about our nation’s growing body count? It’s causally linked to your gun fancies.

Comment on Why is no one talking about gun control? by lary9

lary9 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:31:11 +0000

Alicia~
Have you been reading my Tweets at @Lary9? It’s filled with calls for a public discourse to resolve our national disgrace…vis–à–vis the matter of irresponsible gun control. Whenever there’s a new horrific shooting spree, I also post to my Facebook wall links to the stories with my own comments. Next to getting money out of politics,(which is indirectly connected to the gun problem through the NRA lobby) it’s my biggest personal crusade.

Comment on Why is no one talking about gun control? by Cyberquill

Cyberquill — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:30:21 +0000

One of the arguments in favor of legalizing drugs is that people will always get them anyway, legal or not, but legalizing them would at least pull the rug out from under the drug cartels and drive the whole drug trade out of the shadows. Suddenly applying the reverse logic, those who advocate drug legalization then turn around and favor stricter gun controls, apparently believing that people who want guns somehow would be less likely to get them if they were illegal or "officially" harder to acquire, and that, via some unknown mechanism, the tightening of gun control laws would NOT automatically result in a burgeoning black market for guns and a greater number of illegal firearms flooding across the very borders, which, incidentally, those who advocate tighter gun controls do NOT want secured as badly as those who are against tighter gun controls and against legalizing drugs. So if tightening drug laws don't seem to work in terms of reducing drug availability, why would tighter gun laws reduce firearm availability?

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