This lady is an Idiot UPDATED - Updated again - and Again

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"My hands are shaking; my adrenaline is surging.

No, it’s not from the latte I just inhaled or because this is the first time in two years I’ve been in a Starbucks since declaring a boycott on its open-carry gun policy.

What’s got me jittery this morning is the 9mm Glock that’s holstered on my hip. Me, lead gun policy protester at the 2010 Starbuck’s shareholder meeting. Me, a board member of the Brady Campaign. Me, the author of a book about the impact of gun violence, Beyond the Bullet."

My Comment on the story is below.  Let's see if they approve it.

Mark says:
June 17, 2013 at 2:29 pm

Your comment is awaiting moderation.

Ms. Yewman,

I am going to be impolite, so I ask your forgiveness beforehand.

You are an Idiot.

You do not purchase an implement that has the ability to cause severe bodily harm or death without getting at least minimal training. To do so is stupid, selfish and highly irresponsible. Can you just buy a firearm and carry it on your hip in an open carry state? Yes. Should you? No. If you don’t know what you are doing do not do it. your first writing on this is a bright example of that reasoning.

You don’t know a thing about firearms and yet you are willing to go out and about carrying one on your person. For that you are both an idiot and a fool.

And I hope you are aware that you can be held both civilly and criminally liable if you have a AD/ND or someone manages to take your firearm away from you and uses it in a criminal act. You are liable in addition to them.

Please if you are going to carry a firearm, get proper training. And please get a better holster that emphasizes proper weapons retention if you intend on carrying.

We shall see if they #1 approve my comment and #2see if what I wrote makes any difference in her next article.

And as of 6 hours after I posted that it STILL has not been approved by a moderator.  I think that when the posting starting getting multiple comments about how the writer of the article (Ms. Yewman) is being an idiot the just started circular filing comments unless they are in line with the beliefs of Ms. Magazine and Ms. Yewman.

It's now TWELVE HOURS and my comment STILL hasn't been approved.  It makes me think that maybe Ms.Magazine doesn't like it when knowledgeable people call out one of their writers for  stupidity and idiocy.

I think it's time to contact the editor to ask why differing opinions are not being published.

If you are interested in contacting them yourself here is the e-mail address of of the Senior Editor Michele Kort:

mkort@msmagazine.com

The content of my e-mail to Ms. Kort;

To: mkort@msmagazine.com

Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original

Ms. Kort Is there any particular reason why comments are not being approved on Ms. Yewman's article? I know many people who have written comments that have not been approved as of the time of this e-mail.  I am including my comment below so you may see that I was in anyway being derogatory or confrontational, however after 12 hours since I wrote it, it still has not been approved. "Mark says: June 17, 2013 at 2:29 pm Your comment is awaiting moderation. Ms. Yewman, I am going to be impolite, so I ask your forgiveness beforehand. You are an Idiot. You do not purchase an implement that has the ability to cause severe bodily harm or death without getting at least minimal training. To do so is stupid, selfish and highly irresponsible. Can you just buy a firearm and carry it on your hip in an open carry state? Yes. Should you? No. If you don’t know what you are doing do not do it. your first writing on this is a bright example of that reasoning. You don’t know a thing about firearms and yet you are willing to go out and about carrying one on your person. For that you are both an idiot and a fool. And I hope you are aware that you can be held both civilly and criminally liable if you have a AD/ND or someone manages to take your firearm away from you and uses it in a criminal act. You are liable in addition to them. Please if you are going to carry a firearm, get proper training. And please get a better holster that emphasizes proper weapons retention if you intend on carrying." I await your answer which will be posted on my blog as an addition to the post I have written on this subject.  And the title of my posting is an accurate assessment of Ms. Yewman's current actions as the relate to firearms and firearms safety. http://txfellowship.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-lady-is-idiot.html I await your reply. Mark Anderson Well it's 7:30 pm CDT Tuesday June 18th. I am still waiting for Michele Kort from Ms. Magazine to return my e-mail about why dozens of comment on the original story haven't been published, and are still in "Moderation" I sent the e-mail at 3:03 am this morning. So that she has had more than than 27 hours to approve the comment I had left and it still hasn't been approved, and my e-mail hasn't been replied to when I specifically asked for a reply and gave them a link to my blog posting. And here is a new link About Ms. Yewman's posting. Ms. Magazine‘s ‘My Month with a Gun’ Story Shooting Blanks? So what is it Ms. Yewman and Ms. Kort?  Update as of 6/19/2013 @2:16 PM CDT I have not as yet received a reply to my first e-mail to Ms. Kort.  So I sent a Second.  The text of which is below. To: mkort@msmagazine.com Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original As per my previous e-mail of June 18th at 3:03 am. I see that my comment still has not been approved for publication I see that one further comment has been approved, however I know of at least 12 other comments not including my own that have not been published as of 2:00 pm CDT. So it has been over 34 hours since my previous e-mail to you about this and almost 48 hours since my original posting. I have a few questions for you as the Senior Editor of Ms. Magazine. When will my and others', comments be approved for publishing? What are the criteria you are using for approving or denying the publication of comments? Who is/are the person/s responsible for the moderation of comments for this article? Who directed/conceived the basis or the content of the article by Ms. Yewman? Is Ms. Yewman a Staff writer or a Stringer? I am enclosing the text of my previous e-mail to you for your information just in case my previous message was inadvertently deleted or over looked. "Ms. Kort Is there any particular reason why comments are not being approved on Ms. Yewman's article? I know many people who have written comments that have not been approved as of the time of this e-mail. I am including my comment below so you may see that I was in anyway being derogatory or confrontational, however after 12 hours since I wrote it, it still has not been approved. "Mark says: June 17, 2013 at 2:29 pm Your comment is awaiting moderation. Ms. Yewman, I am going to be impolite, so I ask your forgiveness beforehand. You are an Idiot. You do not purchase an implement that has the ability to cause severe bodily harm or death without getting at least minimal training. To do so is stupid, selfish and highly irresponsible. Can you just buy a firearm and carry it on your hip in an open carry state? Yes. Should you? No. If you don’t know what you are doing do not do it. your first writing on this is a bright example of that reasoning. You don’t know a thing about firearms and yet you are willing to go out and about carrying one on your person. For that you are both an idiot and a fool. And I hope you are aware that you can be held both civilly and criminally liable if you have a AD/ND or someone manages to take your firearm away from you and uses it in a criminal act. You are liable in addition to them. Please if you are going to carry a firearm, get proper training. And please get a better holster that emphasizes proper weapons retention if you intend on carrying." I await your answer which will be posted on my blog as an addition to the post I have written on this subject. And the title of my posting is an accurate assessment of Ms. Yewman's current actions as the relate to firearms and firearms safety. http://txfellowship.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-lady-is-idiot.html I await your reply. Mark Anderson" I will be updating my posting about this situation to reflect the lack of clarity your non response is bringing to the discussion. I await your reply Mark Anderson

We'll see if if I get an answer to my e-mails, and the questions I ask.

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Environmentalists - Never thought about it that way

but it makes sense.

Environmentalists are the 1 percent

Many years ago in my fathers law office, there was a very nice female attorney.  On her walls were pictures and posters and thank you stuff from various environmental groups and several anti gun groups.  You know a typical Liberal "I Love Me." wall.  Now this lady wasn't a member of my fathers firm, she just rented an office and paid for secretarial and switchboard services. 

I walked in to the offices one day after a 16 hour shift at the housing authority, I had been awake for about 32 hours and technically "On duty" that entire time but had only just gotten off a post.  I smelled rank, wearing body armor in 98 degree heat with a heat index of 112 does that to you, add in fully duty belt that with my pistol weighed about 25 pounds, combat boots and heavy uniform pants that were supposed to be fireproof after the molotov cocktail incident in the Wellston Projects, where we lost a patrol car and two guys got badly burnt by their polyester pants and shirts.

Anyway I smelled bad and probably looked worse.  This lady lawyer had just moved finished moving in to her office and was setting it up.  She came out of the office and almost walked into me.  She looked me up and down scrutinizing my badge and told me that I didn't have any authority to be in the offices carrying a firearm.  I gave her my "Are you kidding me" look and started to say something to her when my dad came out of his office then and said "good you're here." and then introduced the lady to me.

Her face turned various shades of differing colors, it sorta looked green for a second, but that might have been the light.  I just shook her hand and said  pleasetameetcha then went on back to my dads office to move the file cabinet he had asked me to stop by and do on my way home.

Over the next two years she was in my dad's office she saw me in uniform, in jeans, shorts and suits.  Her attitude toward me changed greatly from our very first meeting.  She was very expansive on how she enjoyed doing work for the Sierra Club, Handgun Control Inc (Which is what the Brady Campaign used to be called), and other assorted groups.  When I asked her why the Sierra Club was against something Ducks Unlimited was doing she gave me a big spiel about how DU was only concerned with hunting the birds and the birds needed to be protected yadda yadda yadda.  I tried to explain to her about the good DU does and hunters as well, she wasn't having any of it.

So, it took me awhile but I found the tax revenue numbers from the tax on firearms, ammunition, hunting and fishing licenses and the programs that money goes to.  I also found, how much the Sierra Club had spent on wildlife management.  It was a 7 to 1 difference.  DU spending plus all that tax money from hunters, fisherman and anyone purchasing ammo generated 7 times as much money for wildlife habitat management and conservation that the Sierra Club spent.  Most of SC's funds were spent on salaries, advertising, lawyers and lawsuits.

I showed her all of this information that had taken me several months to get, (This was pre-internet and WWW), her response?  She moved out of my dad's offices telling him that "I" had made working there a hostile workplace.

Now this is a lawyer, if there was a "Hostile" workplace she would have acted like any other lawyer and sued.

Did she?

No.

Why?

Probably because her harping about how the Sierra Club is the best and hunters and anglers and anyone who owns a firearm are bad evil people.

She did this in front of the Secretaries, the Paralegals, the Clients of other Attorneys, many of whom were middle and lower class, blue collar people.  Some of whom were my co-workers who also carried badges and pistols.

If anyone had created a hostile environment, she did.

My dad was only sad to see her go because he was in the middle of trail and couldn't take time to vet any new lawyer to rent the office she left.  Even he was tired of her.  And I know this may sound hokey or something, but my dad got along with almost anyone and everyone, if he didn't like you, you weren't likable to others.  And he didn't really like her because of her constant complaints about all the, well I'll say it, she didn't like how most of my dad's clients were poor black people.  90% of my dad's clients were blacks trying to get a leg up and were working their butts off to try to succeed.  A lot of my co-workers went to my dad, their family members went to my dad.  My dad when he died had over $500,000.00 dollars outstanding invoices from clients who just couldn't pay their bills, but my dad still worked to try to help them.

But according to this lady lawyer, "I" had created a hostile environment because I brought her cold hard incontrovertible facts about how her biases were wrong.

So that article link from Borepatch I posted above?  Yes, Environmentalists ARE the 1%

And they refuse to see the facts, even when you rub their noses in them.

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