Path: ...!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:35:55 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban References: <17d91fbd5fad865f$338100$533214$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> <17d9412e82a8a311$8843$3053472$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> <17d97111755ab6ae$133791$675878$4ed50460@news.newsdemon.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:33:04 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 45 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-PIcea0YIOXAXWyt2W2RxztAaBfOtkDkE+d03pOWT8dU/37KpZsfYJMQ++2NQUQwesPx7xyvWxiIzXOf!L/vOiIDfeiL9FBtSuh8GYZ0H3qeLb7kuO2qpZakgxHZCtvSTjIGV5KqHud7yQzi70luwoDUzXydK!v48= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3511 In article , moviePig wrote: > On 6/18/2024 9:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > > In article , > > moviePig wrote: > > > >> On 6/18/2024 5:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > >>> In article , FPP > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Maybe if we all chipped in a few bucks, Clarenzabell and Sammy Flagflyer > >>>> would change their votes. > >>> > >>> Weird how Alito's flag also has flown over San Francisco's city hall for > >>> more than half a century. Hardly a bastion of conservatism, San > >>> Francisco. Yet when SF prog pols fly it, it's no big deal. > >>> > >>> https://ibb.co/S6wFxDy > >>> > >>> It was also used prominently by BLM during their 'mostly peaceful' > >>> Summer of Love. > >>> > >>> https://ibb.co/Z8kvvMc > >>> > >>> So to recap: a flag when flown by leftist pols and far-left violent > >>> communist protest groups is totes cool, but the moment a conservative > >>> raises it on his private property, he should be impeached and removed > >>> from office. > >> > >> Yes, we hold a Supreme Court Justice to a stricter standard of > >> impartiality than we do an organization like BLM. Life's unfair... > > > > Government officials are government officials. If it's not a problem for > > the ones in San Francisco to fly it, it's not a problem for any official > > to fly it. > > When I say "we hold a Supreme Court Justice to a stricter standard", I > am, of course, speaking of a time when such fantasy seemed within reach. Now it's "we hold Supreme Court justices to a double standard". Just look at the faux-rage over Clarence Thomas's "perks"-- which I acknowledge are unseemly-- but there's no similar outrage from the pearl-clutchers on the Left over Kagan's and Sotomayor's indulgences.