Posts by Ana Simkiss
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Hard News: Friday Music: Laneway 2013,…,
It looked like this! And sounded like "wompwompwompwomp"
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Hard News: Friday Music: Laneway 2013,…,
Aaand for those who missed the majestic bailterspace at Laneway (like me) they are at the Kings Arms on 5 February.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Laneway 2013,…,
I'm first? sweet I'd love to go!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Laneway 2013,…,
ooooh it's Etta James in the sample right?
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Hard News: Merry Christmas, you all, in reply to DeepRed,
I've switched from haaaating Matinee Idle to just loving it. Means summer... Merry belated Christmas to you all, perhaps we can share our Hogmanay plans next?
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Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Love the Waitresses & that song in particular, which I found on this rather neat little Christmas album when it was re-issued a few years ago: http://www.discogs.com/Various-ZE-Christmas-Album/release/365452
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Hard News: Cultures and violence,
Can I just say this. This is an intense and serious and emotional discussion, carried on with respect and aroha by you PA peeps. Keep it up & well done you lot.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Russell Brown,
that a significant number of the perpetrators of rampage killings, especially in schools, look like victims of those “hyper-gendered cultural pressures”.
Well said Russell. Privilege is not the issue to focus on.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to David Hood,
Yes, based on Heller the historical access to arms matters to what freedom is protected by the second amendment. My point is that it is not something that gets defined by legislation. It is up to the courts, ultimately the Supreme Court.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Congress et al could enact a gun control law that excluded semi automatic weapons from 2nd amendment protection.
If you are suggesting that any legislature in the USA can simply define certain types of weapons out of the constitutional protection of the second amendment, then I agree with Graeme. That is plain wrong.
An illustration. Can a state define certain things as not being "speech" therefore not protected by the first amendment? well yes, but the Supreme Court may well disagree with the definition and strike the law down.
