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Paul Allen donate$ big buck$ to gun control initiative

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Dave Workman

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Another billionaire for gun control, another initiative to expand it

Late yesterday, the Public Disclosure Commission’s website revealed a $500,000 contribution by Seattle billionaire Paul Allen to the Initiative 594 campaign, and the Seattle Times – which still imposes an apparent new blackout on law enforcement’s opposition to the 18-page gun control measure – quickly reported the development, which bodes ill for gun owners across the country.

http://www.examiner.com/article/another-billionaire-for-gun-control-another-initiative-to-expand-it



No wonder I like the Macintosh platform!
 
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Dave Workman said:
Another billionaire for gun control, another initiative to expand it

Late yesterday, the Public Disclosure Commission’s website revealed a $500,000 contribution by Seattle billionaire Paul Allen to the Initiative 594 campaign, and the Seattle Times – which still imposes an apparent new blackout on law enforcement’s opposition to the 18-page gun control measure – quickly reported the development, which bodes ill for gun owners across the country.

http://www.examiner.com/article/another-billionaire-for-gun-control-another-initiative-to-expand-it



No wonder I like the Macintosh platform!
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Why do you like Macintosh?

Allen has become the latest billionaire to throw money at restricting other people’s rights, activists suggest. He joins other Microsoft elites Steve Ballmer – the subject of a rather unflattering report in Sunday’s Seattle Times regarding his support of the Lakeside High School basketball program – and Bill Gates, along with investment capitalist Nick Hanauer and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; all big money people whose fortunes are now being used as weapons in the political battle over firearms.

Bloomberg’s $50 million Everytown for Gun Safety has yet to be a major presence, but his Mayors Against Illegal Guns donated $30,000 to the I-594 campaign. But all the money flowing into the I-594 campaign from Seattle-area elites has effectively put the lie to claims that they are up against a well-financed “gun lobby.”
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Why do you like Macintosh?
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It's a more user-friendly platform for what I do. Magazine articles, newspaper stuff, books.

It's the standard in the publishing business.

Thanks for reading! Now try this on for size:


Could Kent murder case be wake-up call on gun control measure?

The Seattle Times this morning is reporting new information on a double slaying in Kent this week that raises new questions about a gun control initiative, and why efforts to restrict firearms rights across the country are turning more people against the gun prohibition lobby.

http://www.examiner.com/article/could-kent-murder-case-be-wake-up-call-on-gun-control-measure



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Operating systems are like an IQ test:

Linux = Mensa
Microsoft = average
Mac = for dummies

Now about Paul Allen. I support his Right to undertake political activity, which disagree with my personal position. Which puts Paul in the same box as Dave Workman on a lot of issues.
 
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Dave_pro2a said:
Operating systems are like an IQ test:

Linux = Mensa
Microsoft = average
Mac = for dummies

Now about Paul Allen. I support his Right to undertake political activity, which disagree with my personal position. Which puts Paul in the same box as Dave Workman on a lot of issues.
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Just couldn't resist an insult, eh? Knock yourself out.

Just remember to vote in November, please.



Gates’ $1M donation to gun control fires up the grassroots

Yesterday’s announcement in the Seattle Times and Seattle P-I.com about the $1 million contribution from Bill and Melinda Gates to the Initiative 594 campaign appears to have ignited a grassroots backlash among people who will not go quietly into the night, and what they lack in dollars, they make up for in numbers and votes.

http://www.examiner.com/article/gates-1m-donation-to-gun-control-fires-up-the-grassroots
 
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Did I read.....

I-594 wrong, or does it ban me going shooting with my friends up at Index and I can't let them shoot my guns or me shoot theirs?

What does this have to do with background checks?
 
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Just couldn't resist an insult, eh? Knock yourself out.
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Remember that one time when you threatened to sue me because I fair use quoted your articles.

Not quite the Streisand effect, but becuase of that I'll parse it for truth any shameless self-promotional post you make. Especially if you post utter crap (which is the norm imho).
 
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