NRA leaders defend bankruptcy petition in court hearing, saying the move is necessary to protect the gun lobby’s existence

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra-bankruptcy-hearing/2021/04/06/c0947c40-96d3-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html

 

Top NRA officials and their lawyers defended the organization’s decision to seek bankruptcy protection during a contentious, high-stakes federal court hearing in Dallas this week, saying the move is necessary in the face of what they describe as a politically motivated investigation by the state of New York.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) has argued that the gun rights organization is improperly pursuing bankruptcy to avoid a sweeping lawsuit filed last year accusing the group of fiscal mismanagement.

“The process Mr. LaPierre followed to file this bankruptcy case is itself a master class in bad faith and dishonest conduct,” Monica Connell, an assistant New York attorney general, said in court Monday, contending that NRA chief executive Wayne La­Pierre concealed the bankruptcy plan from the NRA board and its general counsel until after it was announced.

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‘Thank God I’m safe’: NRA head Wayne LaPierre sought refuge from public outrage aboard luxury yacht after mass school shootings at Sandy Hook, Parkland, Fla

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-nra-bankruptcy-hearing-glam-squad-20210405-co4tu2oaqjf7xjlj44heloq46q-story.html

 

I cannot imagine how one manages without the 108 foot yacht, it's the only thing protecting me from bad people with a gun.

[TBoneTX 45,918]

A yacht club can be used to bash shooters over the head?

[Steeleballz 7,550]

46 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

A yacht club can be used to bash shooters over the head?

 

  I'd go with a spiked club myself. Or my trusty sledge hammer.

[Ban Hammer 13,486]

4 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  I'd go with a spiked club myself. Or my trusty sledge hammer.

i'm sure that has an initative modifier......

Edited April 7, 2021 by Ban Hammer

[laylalex 7,300]

1 hour ago, CanAm1980 said:

I cannot imagine how one manages without the 108 foot yacht, it's the only thing protecting me from bad people with a gun.

This sounds very familiar to me. Did I used to be married to you?

[TBoneTX 45,918]

25 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Did I used to be married to you?

          During taxi, the crew of a USAir flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose-to-nose with a United 727.  The irate ground controller (female) lashed out at the USAir crew, screaming, "Useless 2771, where are you going?  I told you to turn right onto Charlie taxiway; you turned onto Delta!  Stop right there!  I know it's difficult to tell the difference between Cs and Ds, but get it right!"

          Continuing her lashing of the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting, "God, you've screwed everything up -- it'll take forever to sort this out!  You stay right there and don't move until I tell you to!  You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour, and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you!!!  You got that, Useless 2771?"

          The humbled crew responded: "Yes, ma'am."  Naturally, the ground-control frequency went terribly silent after the verbal bashing of USAir 2771.  No one wanted to engage the irate ground controller in her current state.  Tension in every cockpit at LaGuardia was running high.

          Shortly after the controller finished her admonishment of the USAir crew, an unknown male pilot broke the silence and asked, "LaGuardia ground... wasn't I married to you once?"

[Steeleballz 7,550]

47 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

i'm sure that has an initative modifier......

 

   Just +5 to forearm strength. 

[nykolos 711]

If Democrats respected the Constitution, the NRA wouldn't exist.

 

 

 

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,918]

On 4/6/2021 at 10:46 PM, TBoneTX said:

          During taxi, the crew of a USAir flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose-to-nose with a United 727.  The irate ground controller (female) lashed out at the USAir crew, screaming, "Useless 2771, where are you going?  I told you to turn right onto Charlie taxiway; you turned onto Delta!  Stop right there!  I know it's difficult to tell the difference between Cs and Ds, but get it right!"

          Continuing her lashing of the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting, "God, you've screwed everything up -- it'll take forever to sort this out!  You stay right there and don't move until I tell you to!  You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour, and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you!!!  You got that, Useless 2771?"

          The humbled crew responded: "Yes, ma'am."  Naturally, the ground-control frequency went terribly silent after the verbal bashing of USAir 2771.  No one wanted to engage the irate ground controller in her current state.  Tension in every cockpit at LaGuardia was running high.

          Shortly after the controller finished her admonishment of the USAir crew, an unknown male pilot broke the silence and asked, "LaGuardia ground... wasn't I married to you once?"

Uh, this was quite funny...

[Neonred 3,632]

5 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Uh, this was quite funny...

Yet another recycled joke...

[laylalex 7,300]

8 hours ago, Neonred said:

Yet another recycled joke...

I'm glad TBone is taking environmentalism so seriously. Every recycled joke saves a brain from having to think of a new one. 🙏

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

17 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Uh, this was quite funny...

Yes oddly enough it was funny 

 

My favorite

 

The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.

Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.

Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."

Edited April 8, 2021 by Nature Boy 2.0

[Neonred 3,632]

I see that Biden nominated David Chipman to head "AFT"  LOL

 

[TBoneTX 45,918]

See if we ever tell you another joke.  Hmmmph.