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Has Obama Taken Away Our Guns Yet?
Category: Wasting your time
Posted on: November 17, 2008 12:50 AM, by Chris H
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That would be a decent site if it had an RSS feed like the site for whether the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the world yet.
Posted by: Ben_Wraith | November 17, 2008 2:07 AM
Why is it addressed only to people named Moran?
Posted by: RSG | November 17, 2008 2:15 AM
Dang, dem morans is stuipd!
Posted by: yogi-one | November 17, 2008 3:17 AM
@1: It does, it's that little orange button at the bottom.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 17, 2008 9:16 AM
Why is it addressed only to people named Moran?
Posted by: RSG
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-morans.htm
Posted by: T. Bruce McNeely | November 17, 2008 9:47 AM
Forget the guns. The important question is Has Obama taken our cryptography yet?
Posted by: Dianne | November 17, 2008 10:39 AM
No, the big question is:
Has the Obama/Hillary/Gore trifecta taken all your monies and your freedoms, using Obama's brownshirts!
Posted by: Donald | November 17, 2008 11:31 AM
There is some site for online text games where you vote for the best one. Haven't played in a while, but I do keep voting. But, one of the "ads" that shows up first, saying, "Consider visiting our sponsor", is a banner that says, "Did Obama buy the election." Umm, WTF? Well, personally, I have not gotten a dime, and if I had, I would have voted for the other person on principle. But, I suppose he used all that oil sto... Oh, wait wrong candidate. lol But seriously. How the hell does the question even make sense to anyone that doesn't have their head up their ass?
Posted by: Kagehi | November 17, 2008 1:34 PM
The "get a brain morans" is from the pic posted in the link by TBM.
There are a lot of nuts who really think Obama is going to take away their guns and establish a dictatorship.
Check out some of the threads here:
http://forum.gon.com/forumdisplay.php?f=9
They haven't just drank the cool-aid. They've fallen in the punch bowl.
Posted by: Deepsix | November 17, 2008 2:37 PM
Well, the good news for me is that there is a gun show in San Francisco right before inauguration!
http://www.crossroadsgunshows.com/gunsched.htm
Posted by: Chris H. | November 17, 2008 9:33 PM
Why do people always obsess about the first two amendments? I wanna know if he's quartered any soldiers in anybody's home during times of peace!
Posted by: Lab Lemming | November 17, 2008 10:37 PM
Likewise, can we keep a look out for the impending dictatorship and fascism I've been promised about Bush? (If he's still President on January 21, I'll need them guns!)
Posted by: Ren | November 18, 2008 7:55 AM
Is there anyplace you can look at the mail they've received? It's always interesting to see how the "morans" are doing with their keyboarding skills.
Posted by: padraig | November 18, 2008 10:11 AM