Omnium And Gatherum March 21 2016

Quicken Arena, Cleveland

1)
The Hypocrisy of Gun Carry Laws, etc.

It seems that most politicians that support open-carry laws in theory oppose those laws when it comes to venues and meetings where they themselves are going to be in a crowd of just good old folks.
I believe this phenomenon is what Aunt Sally was referring to when she said that the "proof is in the pudding".

Down With Tyranny
Gun Fight At Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena In July? Maybe Not
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2016/02/gun-fight-at-clevelands-quicken-loans.html

...Sure, sure, we all know the NRA-shilling GOP claims everyone is safer if people carry guns everywhere (except in Congress). But... apparently, despite Ohio's concealed carry law-- yes you can brings guns into a bar-- Republican delegates will not be allowed to bring guns into the July convention...

2)
The Brainwashing of America
...GOP continues to unravel, in both its Presidential nomination process and its increasingly untenable stand against even holding a hearing for Obama's US Supreme Court nominee.
Brad Friedman 18:38 18.03.2016
http://sputniknews.com/radio_the_bradcast/20160318/1036514584/america-brainwashing.html

... I'm joined by documentary filmmaker Jen Senko to discuss her new film, The Brainwashing of My Dad. The documentary details both the rise of the Rightwing media in the US over the past several decades and her own father's disturbing transition from a peaceful, loving Democrat into a hostile, angry 'conservative' after becoming addicted and, yes, brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh, Fox "News" and the rest of the "vast Rightwing conspiracy" machine that has torn apart so many families like her own.

While the film's tagline is "The truth behind the right-wing media machine that changed a father…and divided the nation," an alternative version for so many who will recognize, within their own families, the story of what happened to Senko's father, might have been: "You are not alone!" "When I started the Kickstarter campaign" for the film, she tells me, "people just started writing me every day, with these heartbreaking stories about so-and-so in their family wouldn't speak to them anymore, or they couldn't talk about anything without them getting angry. It was really shocking. That's when I realized what a phenomenon it was." ...

Interesting.
Again a reference to a "house divided", just as in the first item above.
Interesting.

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