Blood
Money
 According
to a story by, of all people, the Washington Post, with
help from the Sunlight Foundation, we know who the
NRA
gives its lobbyist dough to. And how much. It should come
as no surprise that, by a whopping huge margin, it's the
Republican Party that receives
the greatest
benefit of NRA largesse. Check the chart below for the
take in the Senate and click the "whores" link
to see how the NRA spreads its bribes throughout the House.
Though Mr. Alexander received the tidy sum of $10,000 from
the NRA (that we know about) in 2012 to soothe his fevered
conscience it's even more sobering to know that most GOP
Senators received far less. In some cases reducing your
child's life to less than fifty cents.
Addendum: For some more eye-popping stats and facts on
gun deaths and injuries in this country please read David
Nelson's
outstanding
article "In
It For the Money: Running the Gun Numbers."
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 You
enjoyed the movie Die Hard, right? And you liked
the movie Taken, right? Well, how about a movie
that's sort of like Die Hard meets Taken? Sounds interesting,
no?
It's a smart 2012 French film called Sleepless Night
(see
the trailer) and it's not just interesting, it's terrific!
A drug heist gone bad results in a police officer's son
being
kidnapped,
and the ransom is the missing goods. He finds himself alone
fighting hoods, drug lords, various psychos, honest cops
and crooked cops... not to mention half the disco-crazed
horndogs of Paris.
It's available now
on Netflix or for .99 cents on Amazon Instant Video. The
film is in French with English subtitles. I personally
enjoy subtitled foreign films but I know that fact alone
will
turn
many
of you
off, but I guarantee you it's worth the effort.
BTW, if it seems hypocritical to enjoy a film full of hot
gun action but protest guns in general it's because one's
a fiction and the other is real live kids dying. If the
movies was the only place to see people shoot one another
I'd be a happy guy.
=Lefty=
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