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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. —J R R Tolkien

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

—J R R Tolkien

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timesfreepress | Clay Bennett | Shame of the NRA

timesfreepress | Clay Bennett | Shame of the NRA

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huffingtonpost | “That picture was taken during the Sikh day parade. He was one of the first people I photographed. He’s a computer IT specialist. He travels a lot. Sikhs at the time were being randomly selected for security. I wish people would just say “you have that thing on your hand and we aren’t sure what it is” instead telling someone they are randomly selected. One time he wore the shirt through security and the guard chuckled. It’s a way of loading off steam at the reality that people have to face.” | Photographing Sikhs With Fiona Aboud

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“That picture was taken during the Sikh day parade. He was one of the first people I photographed. He’s a computer IT specialist. He travels a lot. Sikhs at the time were being randomly selected for security. I wish people would just say “you have that thing on your hand and we aren’t sure what it is” instead telling someone they are randomly selected. One time he wore the shirt through security and the guard chuckled. It’s a way of loading off steam at the reality that people have to face.”

| Photographing Sikhs With Fiona Aboud

Those poor Sikhs. They just wanted to be Americans in the worst way! | Maybe you should rephrase that.

Those poor Sikhs. They just wanted to be Americans in the worst way! | Maybe you should rephrase that.

Bartlet's Third State of the Union (2.13)

  • Shallick: This White House uses the First Amendment to protect flag burning, to protect pornography, to ban school prayer. Why, when the Second Amendment clearly says that the government will not infringe upon a citizens right to bear arms--
  • Toby: It doesn't say that.
  • Shallick: Toby--
  • Toby: In fact it doesn't say that at all. It only says that if you remove some words from it. It says "A well-regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the government shall not infringe." The words "regulated" and "militia" are in the first sentence. I don't think the framers were thinking of three guys and a Dodge Durango.
  • Shallick: You don't really know what the framers were thinking, do you?
  • Toby: No. But I do know that if you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, you'll get a population roughly the size of the United States. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year; they had 112. You think it's because Americans are more homicidal by nature? Or do you think it's because those guys have gun control laws?

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