nra opposing murthy

by pravalika nanda Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:03 pm

crazy nra nuts putting pressure on dems to oppose the nomination of vivek murthy to SG spot. oops, not a tam b.
if the pres has trouble getting his SG nominee in cuz of the nra, one worries about the power of the nra. very strange.
nra chose an Asian face Andrew arulanandam to be their spokesperson. conversion rewards in action.
let's see what happens.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/us/senate-balks-at-obama-pick-for-surgeon-general.html

by pravalika nanda Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:21 pm

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/03/11/meet-president-obamas-antigun-nominee-for-surgeon-general-n1806895

someone was saying in the comments that the SG could have some say re: gun control legislature. is that really true? I mean all this guy said was that guns are a threat to public safety. notice how they stuck in his middle name to make him see even more foreign.

(uppili can relax now knowing that it's a kannda guy and not another Andhra guy making waves.)
I always knew he was kannada of course.

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:20 pm

pravalika nanda wrote:http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/03/11/meet-president-obamas-antigun-nominee-for-surgeon-general-n1806895

someone was saying in the comments that the SG could have some say re: gun control legislature. is that really true? I mean all this guy said was that guns are a threat to public safety. notice how they stuck in his middle name to make him see even more foreign.

(uppili can relax now knowing that it's a kannda guy and not another Andhra guy making waves.)
I always knew he was kannada of course.

Actually his middle name "Hallegere" sounds like some European name. Who does the NRA want? a sugeon general who promotes machine gun and grenade ownership and a bill to open Trauma centers in every village..?

But for his middle name, you would ever have guessed he was a Kannadiga. Nadella may be Gult but he would have toiled in Telengana if he had left the state. Anyway Sri Sri is in US Appeals court on way to the supreme court. I am waiting for another Tamilian darling of mine - Kamala Harris - to make it to the Supreme Court.

by confuzzled dude Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:55 am

"The National Rifle Administration knows the power of fear. After all, its entire business model is based on it. When the organization’s chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, goes before an audience and proclaims, “We know, in the world that surrounds us, there are terrorists and home invaders and drug cartels and car-jackers and knock-out gamers and rapers, haters, campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers, road-rage killers, and killers who scheme to destroy our country with massive storms of violence against our power grids, or vicious waves of chemicals or disease that could collapse the society that sustains us all,” he’s not trying to give a reasoned assessment of contemporary challenges. (In the real world, crime has been steadily declining for two decades.) LaPierre is trying to make his audience as afraid as possible, because fear is great for his business.

The more afraid he can make you, the more likely you are to buy a gun to protect yourself. And when you buy a gun, you can sign up for an NRA membership right at the gun store. And then LaPierre’ll work to make you afraid that, any day now, jackbooted government thugs are going to kick down your door to take away your guns, and acting on that fear, you’ll contribute more to the NRA. It’s a beautiful circle of fear."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/03/18/vivek-murthy-the-nra-and-the-politics-of-fear/?tid=up_next

-> Next time around, he will add missing flight episode to that short list of his; Govt. should disband DHS and let every passenger carry a gun or two which would not only make flight journey a lot safer but also would save the Govt. a ton of $$$$.

by confuzzled dude Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:00 pm

"Murthy has said that his top priority as surgeon general would be the problem of obesity. And the post is one with almost no practical power; it’s not as though the surgeon general can go around taking anybody’s guns away. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is fear, and the NRA has certainly created a good amount of it. Republican senators are afraid, Democratic senators are afraid, the White House is afraid, everyone is afraid. And you wonder why people are cynical about politics and government service."

-> On a rare occasion such as this, Indian politicians look more reasonable than their American counterparts

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