I am all for guns, but. . .

I am all for guns. In the hands of trained professionals who work for me, the taxpayer. I don't want a nut case to pull out a gun and shoot, nor do I want YooHoo the Christian End Times Believing Foster Mom to have a 22 in her handbag while at the store with the kids. It Takes Training and constant retraining to be up to speed on a weapon, and most Americans just leave them lying around and pull them out in emotional states. Idiocracy the movie is coming true centuries earlier than the film joke predicted.  

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These guys do not know how to handle a gun, you can see they are undisciplined ignoramuses, this is not what the Second Amendment stands for, WTF is happening? How would you feel if you saw Gomer here galumping along with a rifle in his hands on the city street? JEEEZZZZ

Texas Tribune

Gun advocates take up — and make — arms at Texas Capitol

Morgan Smith reports: http://trib.it/1y5xfEk

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  E Kay, as long as he doesn't yes Allah Akbar, I'm OK with it...if he does, then well lets see

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  F Bunch of limp little dicked losers making up for their short commings with big, bad guns. Bunch of fucking punks....how about you twisted scum put those guns down and meet me in a ring...man to man, fist to fist, and see who is badder?

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  Kay Ebeling To me there's no difference between hollering Ala Akbar or God Save the USA if you are randomly killing people you are a mass murderer.

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  Kay Ebeling if you are carrying a loaded weapon in public you are a nuisance and causing me to be in danger.

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  F These damn open carry psychos.

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  Kay Ebeling take your fucking gun rights into the backwoods where they belong

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• E   What are they trying to prove ..they are as stupid as the taliban kill everything not like ya syndrome..who are these guys afraid of ..if 6 blacks indians mexicans done this they be shoot first ask questions later ..what is this telling the rest of us .are we supposed to follow this ..o my the world is getting worse run by mad men carrying guns and holybooks scary

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  Kay Ebeling Exactly, imagine if guys from the 'hood picked up rifles to walk around in Watts.

My Foray into the CIA, almost

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In 1979 I was “considered” for a job at a PR firm in Houston.  I soon realized they were doing a lot more than the press kits and brochure design I had learned in PR class in journalism school. 

They only let me know what I "needed to know" but I was up for a job, not as a reporter / editor as I thought, but in a new profession that disseminated fake news. They used real journalists to distribute fake stories on several levels, including fake newspapers they created. The fake stories then ran in so many places that the news did not look created, it looked real. I would not be writing press releases, I'd write real fake news. Their clients were politicians and governments, American and international, it didn't matter.  They created whatever news was needed to benefit their clients, even if it meant changing the politics of a foreign country. 

A colleague later told me they never called for a second interview because I was as opposite a personality as they wanted for work in subterfuge. I don't know what I said to make them feel that way, but the idea of creating fake newspapers shocked and outraged me, and I probably said so.  I went through life a little disappointed in myself, after that, for not having what it took to be a spy, until recently.  

Back in the 1970s, techniques they were using to manipulate the news were innovative and still in development.  I can only imagine how advanced and sophisticated those techniques have gotten in forty years.

So today I believe it is possible there is a foreign enemy behind the misinformation that permeates American media, right down to the creation of whole new news outlets to publish the misinformation, making it appear real. 

Misinformation has dominated our lives in the U.S. since the early two thousands, around the time Matt Drudge went from blogging in Bermuda shorts in an East Hollywood studio to appearing in designer togs as a network TV pundit.  Around the time long time trusted anchors got bounced, such as Dan Rather, and whole new media outlets appeared, highly financed, paying six figure salaries to recent graduates, and wielding remarkable sudden influence, sites such as The Daily Caller and Newsmax and, yes, Fox News.

At this point none of us here in the Antelope Valley or anywhere else on Main Street America really know who owns these media outlets.  When you do research to find out, you land on conglomerates that show up owning every industry in the world. 

What have we allowed to happen to us while we were distracted, and who distracted us?

-kay ebelingIn 1979 I was “considered” for a job at a PR firm in Houston.  I soon realized they were doing a lot more than the press kits and brochure design I learned in PR class in journalism school. 

They only let me know what I "needed to know" but I was up for a job editing something they created to put out stories, not as a reporter / editor as I thought, but in a new profession that disseminated fake news. They used real journalists to distribute fake stories on so many levels, including creating fake newspapers, that the news did not look created, it looked real. Not press releases, real fake news. Their clients were politicians and governments, American and international, it didn't matter.  They created whatever news was needed to benefit their clients, even if it meant changing the politics of a foreign nation. 

A colleague later said they never called me for a second interview because I was as opposite a personality as they wanted for work in subterfuge. I don't know what I said to make them feel that way, but the idea of creating fake newspapers shocked and outraged me, and I probably said so.  Still, I went through life a little disappointed, after that, as I didn't have what it took to be a spy, until recently.  

Back in the 1970s, techniques they were using to manipulate the news were innovative and still in development.  I can only imagine how advanced and sophisticated those techniques have gotten in forty years.

So today I believe it is possible there is a foreign enemy behind the misinformation that permeates American media, right down to the creation of whole new news outlets to publish the misinformation, making it appear real. 

Misinformation has dominated our lives in the U.S. since the early two thousands, around the time Matt Drudge went from blogging in Bermuda shorts in an East Hollywood studio to appearing in designer togs as a network TV pundit.  Around the time long time trusted anchors got bounced, such as Dan Rather, and whole new media outlets appeared, highly financed, paying six figure salaries to recent graduates, and wielding remarkable sudden influence, sites such as The Daily Caller and Newsmax and, yes, Fox News.

At this point none of us here in the Antelope Valley or anywhere else on Main Street America really know who owns these media outlets.  When you do research to find out, you land on conglomerates that show up owning every industry in the world. 

What have we allowed to happen to us while we were distracted, and who distracted us?

Kay Ebeling, Lancaster

If you say all Muslims are terrorists, it stands to reason then that all Catholics are pedophiles.

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Now that the extreme right says it's okay for the U.S. to conduct torture because our enemies do it, when do we start beheading guys on YouTube?

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  Michael David Banks I think we should start with George W and Dickhead Chenney.

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American media just let Dick Cheney say anal rape with objects was done on Iraqi prisoners for “medical reasons” without asking him any follow-up questions to explain how that could be true.

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How does a Christian nation torture? Water into wine boarding.

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George Orwell and Me continued

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When I'm not writing, I read, absorb what I can and try to find fun too. Today it's french phrases from Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London" and in process of translating and saving, I am also laughing out loud often. PS: After reading this book, I discover Orwell was a pioneer in Gonzo journalism. He lived in the middle of it and wrote about it, in 1931, undone before, I think...https://www.goodreads.com/…/393199.Down_and_Out_in_Paris_an…

Down and Out in Paris and London

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penn...

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  Kay Ebeling comment epouser un soldat, moi qui l'aime tout le regiment - how will I marry a soldier, I who love the whole regiment (Oh my god, that line is perfect for me)

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  Kay Ebeling French pawnshops in 1931 all had signs outside saying “Liberte Egalite Fraternite” hmm

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  Kay Ebeling working conditions he describes in this book as he is a "plongeur" at a luxury hotel 18 hours a day, make me never able to complain about my job again.

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  Kay Ebeling less than a hundred years ago people worked under these conditions, we all need to keep things in perspective.

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