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Offline Surculus

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Re: The LA Times Misinterprets DC v Heller: Incompetence or Corruption?
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2013, 01:50:10 AM »
Lets move on please...

Yes, seriously. What did you expect of the L.A.Times? When the cold war was still going on, it was called "Pravda West" by anyone w/ a clue. The only reason to subscribe was to line birdcages and because they had exclusive regional distribution contracts w/ the best comic strips, so you couldn't get _Dilbert_, _Calvin & Hobbes_, or any of the best comics unless you took the Times. W/ the advent of the internet, that's no longer the case, so unless you've got a lot of birds as pets, there's really no reason to take the L.A.Times any more.

The L.A.Times is still a successful newspaper, which in these times rules out incompetence. It would only be corruption if they were paid to tell the truth. So a conspiracy? Sure. Corruption? No...
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Re: The LA Times Misinterprets DC v Heller: Incompetence or Corruption?
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2013, 02:08:41 AM »
Personally, it's hard to really discuss anything here when it's unclear what is "misrepresented" or "corrupt" about this op-ed piece, and the author of the blog entry isn't involved in this thread, but rather his post is simply copy/pasted onto this forum.  Bob questioned whether this blog or the op-ed has anything to do with corruption, and was met with insults for his time.  Providing a copy/paste of the dictionary definition of corruption was nice I suppose, but it really doesn't do much to clarify what the point of this post is, other than making us aware of someone else's blog post.    At the end of the day, is there really a distinction between copy/pasting someone else's blog and providing a bare link to the blog?

My thoughts as well.

Here is the L.A. Times article:

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/08/opinion/la-oe-ellis-gun-control-nullification-20130908

All the L.A. Times author is saying is that he disagrees with the majority on the court, and he is lamenting that the minority on the court did not prevail, because he himself believes the minority is more correct.

Then in closing, he mentions Scalia's concession about x-felons, mentally ill, schools, government buildings, and commercial sales regulation.

A lame article.

I'm actually surprised this article came out of The Land Down Under (Southern Cal) because they tend to vote right wing GOP down there.  Nobody down there would have appreciated this article.

Anyway, much ado about nothing.