Palin to be honored by NRA with special M4-like assault rifle »

Posted By rodflintstone 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News

With Mother’s Day right around the corner, nothing quite says “I love you” like a military-styled assault weapon.

Luckily for Sarah Palin’s family, they won’t have to spend that type of money for such a gift. They can just get Alaska’s First Mom some wimpy flowers or something. The NRA is taking care of the rest.

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    gamahuche6 months, 3 weeks ago

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    Excellent story, sir! Welcome aboard.
    It perfectly encapsulates one layer of America which as a social phenomenon makes my hair stand on end.
    OTOH I have spent sufficient time in some of the more extreme states to have experienced some people with hearts of gold whose lives are deeply embedded in the culture of lethal weapons.
    One indeed gave me a cabin to live in, in MT, where the only onerous price that I had to pay was having him visit periodically and immediately set up his machine gun and try to blow the top off Emigrant Peak, which resisted magnificently.
    After that came the real penance - consuming some abysmal generic weak beerwhose name I'm quitye pleased to have forgotten but its motto still lurks somewhere in my weary brain: "Its in the water!".
    I'd have described it as "the water is in it" but I guess they had already rejected that..

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    alakazam6 months, 3 weeks ago

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    Hiya rodflinstone, Welcome to Propeller!

    A good story...even though I am a bit torn by it.

    I am sorta pro-gun/anti-Palin...believe me, it makes sense to me...even if no one else.

    Anyways...it's good to have you here, I hope you enjoy the madness of these pages.

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      hyperbola6 months, 3 weeks ago

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      Given that she is accepting gifts from an organization with a political agenda, I presume that Palin will now neither vote on or approve/veto anything having to do with the NRA.

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      Spadecaller6 months, 3 weeks ago

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      Welcome rodflinstone! Thanks for posting this excellent article. I am more concerned about who handles guns than I am about the guns.

      But like an alcoholic who does not drink, we are all safest when they stay out of the lion's den and off the roads. And, so I see the issue of guns in a similar fashion. The laws that determine what kind of guns and who should have license to them need to be addressed with greater scrutiny, in my honest opinion.

      As for Palin, she needs therapy.

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      simonsez6 months, 3 weeks ago

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      Nice gift.

      So the NRA is giving Sarah Palin a gun that looks great, packs a big punch on a small frame, and is totally useless? Sounds about right.

      Better than an ipod .... I wonder if the Queen has had time to listen to all the speeches by now.

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      Will13136 months, 3 weeks ago

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      A picture..

      http://www.oneangryman.com/ken/tag/the-alaskan-hun...

      she's not going to fire that often.. it's a .50cal.. it would knock her on her ass.. and you're not going to shoot anything you want to eat with that.. there wouldn't be a lot left..

      so what's the point..

      that being said

      I WANT ONE... wife's gonna be pi$$ed..

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        Charlson6 months, 3 weeks ago

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        She's also being awarded the Silver Stirrups Saddle award by the anti-abortion and unwed mothers organizations.

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        decipher6 months, 3 weeks ago

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        wonder what size batteries she keeps in her night stand for that baby?

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          sonita1320036 months, 3 weeks ago

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          I can't believe people are willing to elect this cave woman. She kills innocent animals and thinks women should be blamed for being RAPED. How backward can you get??? It's appauling you call yourselves conservatives and Christians, yet endorse such violence and ignorance.

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          Jeboba6 months, 3 weeks ago

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          As if this woman wasn't dangerous enough already! Jeeez!

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            THOMNH626 months, 3 weeks ago

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            whats the big deal, everyone should put their panties back on. Who cares what the NRA gives her, she has no chance of being a viable GOP candidate anytime soon and I am a gun toting redneck from New England. As a member of the NRA if this is true it is for sure a stupid move. If the wanted to prop her up as a representative of the right then this is just stupid. It is things like this that have hurt the R.

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              Radiofreeeuropa6 months, 3 weeks ago

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              Welcome aboard rodflintstone, a fine post. Remarkable to me any semiconscious sentient life form would entertain the idea of allowing anyone as vapid and clueless as Palin to dog catcher, let alone any other office. Yet there is ample proof that perhaps simply for entertainment purposes alone, such a contingent exists...the same knuckledraggers who were mesmerized by Joe (not Joe) the plumber (not a plumber). The idea of embarrassingly dim nitwits making decisions at high levels of power scares me, but there are those who would rather see incompetent imbeciles hold office because they think they are "like them".

              In general guns are not responsible for violence, any more than a bottle of Jack Daniels is responsible for alcaholics.
              It is the individual, and frankly anyone willing to use a gun to commit a crime, would not hesitate to get that gun illegally.
              The gun "nuts" are something else, the 2nd amendment does not claim guns need to be easily obtained by psychopaths, sadists, or children. The operative word here is nuts, if they weren't gun nuts they'd be pyromaniacs or some other manifestation of craziness. Sportsmen and hunters are one thing, gun nuts are something quite else.

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                tanglang6 months, 3 weeks ago

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                I dropped the story because it has nothing to do with any "assault weapon".

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                CarinEising6 months, 3 weeks ago

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                And yet another reason I'm happy to be Canadian!

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                Natureboy6 months, 3 weeks ago

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                It's the reactionary right's new tactic - preemptive self-satirization. You see it everywhere, these days.

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                  corydig6 months, 2 weeks ago

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                  She is cool!

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