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philip964 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:35 am
Far as I know this is Brandon’s pick for spent nuclear fuel.

Sure hope he/she/they/it is good at their job as a dirty bomb in the US would be catastrophic.

You have to touch the picture to see their shoes.

mayor wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:06 am It's a week old but it's still funny.

mayor wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 5:55 pm What was the helmet for? there's nothing to protect.

Biden, 79, and first lady Jill Biden were wrapping up a morning ride [Saturday at Cape Henlopen State Park near his beach home in Delaware] when the president decided to pedal over to a crowd of well-wishers standing by the bike trail. Biden, who was wearing a helmet, tumbled when he tried to dismount....

"I'm good," he told reporters after U.S. Secret Service Agents quickly helped him up. "I got my foot caught."

Senator Joe Biden, July 9, 1985 wrote: I give credit to Senator Hatch and the National Rifle Association for their willingness to compromise and develop a revised bill that would strike a fair balance between unnecessary restrictions and regulations on lawful ownership of rifles and handguns and the legitimate interests of law enforcement in carrying out their responsibilities. I believe the compromises that are now a part of this bill have resulted in a balanced piece of legislation that protects the rights of private gun owners while not infringing on law enforcement's ability to deal with those who misuse guns or violate laws.

During my 12 1/2 years as a Member of this body, I have never believed that additional gun control or Federal registration of guns would reduce crime. I am convinced that a criminal who wants a firearm can get one through illegal, nontraceable, unregistered sources, with or without gun control. In my opinion a national register or ban of handguns would be impossible to carry out and may not result in reductions in crime.

There will be several amendments offered today that warrant close attention and I will listen to the authors' argument very carefully before deciding how I will vote. However, on the whole, I am satisfied with the revisions to the bill made in committee, and I believe this bill makes improvements to existing law.

Senator Jesse Helms wrote: Mr. President, the right to keep and bear arms has a long and honorable history in the United States. It is, of course, enshrined in the Second Amendment to the Constitution and was reckoned as fundamental by our Founding Fathers--both Federalist and anti-Federalist.

It is important that we who serve in the Senate in 1985 pause to remember why the founders of our country viewed the right to own guns as fundamental. Of course, they knew the importance of firearms for hunting--not just for sport but for supplying food for the family. They also knew that, in a largely frontier society, guns were vital for self-defense against common criminals who were a constant threat to the safety and survival of innocent law-abiding citizens.

Today, these same arguments are presented in support of preserving the rights of gun ownership, and properly so because they are valid arguments.

However, for the Founding Fathers, neither of these arguments was the overriding reason in favor of an armed citizenry. For them, the most important reason for gun ownership was political--that is, armed citizens constituted an effective hedge against tyrants. Fresh from their victory over the British, they had indelibly impressed on their minds the political importance of citizens who owned and knew how to use guns.

Mr. President, many in Washington today do not want to be reminded of this political function of gun ownership. After saddling the American people with nearly $2 trillion in Federal debt, failing to act effectively to stop the spread of Communist tyranny around the world, and presiding over the destruction of fundamental American values such as innocent human life in the womb, religious liberty, the institution of the family, the neighborhood school, and public morality in general, it is small wonder that the Washington establishment would prefer to ignore the political reasons for the right to bear arms.

But we should not ignore these reasons, and we especially should not ignore them at a time when the Government seems incapable of protecting its citizens against international terrorism. Surely it takes no great wisdom to see that American citizens--with the full freedom to buy, sell, and own firearms--will be safer in their persons and possessions against terrorism than citizens without such freedom.

• From Venezuela: 75 hours x 60,000 = 187,500 gallons of fuel
• From Saudi around South Africa: 548 hours x 60,000 = 1,370,000 gallons of fuel
• From Saudi through the Mediterranean: 312 hours x 60,000 = 780,000 gallons of fuel

Joe Biden on March 1, 2022 wrote: And I will keep doing everything in my power to crack down on gun trafficking and ghost guns you can buy online and make at home—they have no serial numbers and can’t be traced.

And I ask Congress to pass proven measures to reduce gun violence. Pass universal background checks. Why should anyone on a terrorist list be able to purchase a weapon?

Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Repeal the liability shield that makes gun manufacturers the only industry in America that can’t be sued.

These laws don’t infringe on the Second Amendment. They save lives.

"I’m proud to announce that I am nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court," Biden wrote in a Friday morning tweet confirming his pick. "Currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and will be an exceptional Justice."

We need a justice on the court who understands that there is no daylight between the right to bear arms and laws that protect Americans from the threat of gun violence and a justice who understands that the effects of our laws fall on Americans differently. While we look forward to hearing from her and those who know her in the confirmation hearings, it appears that Judge Brown Jackson is such a jurist.