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A New Jersey man accused of shooting and killing his African gray parrot with a BB gun because its screeching annoyed him while he was watching a NASCAR race on TV has been indicted on an animal cruelty charge. He's not dead. He's pining for the fiords.
Dennis Zeglin, 67, of Randolph was indicted Tuesday by a Morris County grand jury. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $15,000 fine. He's singing in the invisable choir.
Zeglin allegedly shot the parrot, named "Mikey," three times on June 7. His wife called police when she saw that the bird had been killed. Shoulda nailed him to the perch. Maybe the wife wouldn't notice.
Zeglin's attorney, Stephen Fletcher, said his client was intoxicated at the time and afterward received treatment for alcoholism. He said Zeglin regrets the incident and hopes to be accepted into a pretrial intervention program. Guns and alcohol don't mix.
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The discussion of family issues prevented a Saudi Arabian from fulfilling the duties of hospitality in the Al-Sharqiya governorate last week. A Saudi Arabian citizen who picked up his relative from the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam later shot him in the foot in the Airport's car-park after an argument broke out between the two. The host was picking up his relative in order to take him home when during the walk to the car an argument broke out between the two.
And so instead of providing a hearty meal to his guest, the host shot his guest in the foot, forcing his relative to be taken to hospital in order to receive medical attention. local police said that the victim was in a stable condition.
General Yusuf al-Qahtani, the media spokesman for the al-Sharqiya police force, said that the security authorities had arrested a 37-year old man in possession of a licensed fire-arm at the King Fahd International Airport car-park.
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"it's an old Palestinian family custom of greeting"
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INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — An Oakland County man was injured when a sledding stunt went wrong. Sheriff's deputies said the man held a sledding party at his home on Townview Drive in Independence Township last Saturday night.
Investigators said they were told by witnesses that the 62-year-old man had been drinking when he fashioned a device using a motorcycle muffler, a piece of pipe, gunpowder, match heads and gasoline. Normally you only see this kind of behavior in drunken teenagers...
Witnesses said the man strapped the device on his back, donned a makeshift helmet and got on a sled, asking someone to light a wick attached to the device. "...Oh, and hold my beer."
Part of the way down the hill, the device exploded, resulting in second-degree burns to the victim's face. One of his eyes was damaged. He is currently getting treatment at a local hospital.
Sheriff's deputies continue to investigate the incident pending possible criminal charges.
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He strapped this contraption to his *back*? I used to have neighbor kids who did this sort of thing - mounted on cinderblocks on the other side of a mound of dirt, with a long fuse just in case!
Even then, both of them were missing bits and pieces by the time they hit college.
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Braedon Flynn got the text Friday from his friend Ryan Lawlor: Jumbo squid had invaded the waters off Newport Beach.
Flynn, a Newport Beach native who had been around fishing all his life, had never encountered the oversized creatures. Lawlor, who'd tangled with them a few years ago off San Diego, promised to call Flynn if the squid ever made it to Newport Beach.
So Flynn and Lawlor grabbed fishing rods Saturday night and jumped on a private boat with a third buddy, trailing a commercial vessel that was using sonar to locate the squid population.
Flynn said he had one thing in mind: calamari steak. On moonlit waters two miles off the coast, the trio caught six Humboldt squid, each between 4 and 5 feet long. A commercial-market squid is about the size of a human hand.
"It was a good fight," Flynn, 28, said of his ink-stained prizes, now sitting chopped up in a freezer. "They're really heavy, they're going against you -- your rods are practically bent to the water."
The invasion of the jumbo squid in Orange County -- not to be confused with the exceedingly rare and much larger giant squid -- has prompted fishing-boat operators to add nighttime voyages.
The operators have reported that since Thursday evening, anglers have landed more than 1,000 of the squid.
"That is a very, very small sample of the amount of squid that is out there now," said Eddie Kisfaludy, a marine biology collector at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The creatures have been hanging around San Diego shores for more than a month.
Researchers say the squid inhabit the eastern Pacific Ocean, making appearances from Chile to as far north as Alaska. But their stops along the coastline have been much more common over the last decade, said William Gilly, professor of biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute first spotted the squid during the El Niño storms of the late 1980s.
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These humboldt squid, also known as "red devils", are real nasty fellas and not to be trifled with. They are relatively large (100+ pounds is not uncommon at all), very aggressive with a ravenous appetite (known to turn on their own when one of them is hooked), and remarkably intelligent for non-mammals (some scientists think they hunt in packs much like wolves and communicate with each other by changing the patters of color on their skin).
I've read elsewhere that their population seems to be increasing dramatically along with their geographic footprint and reach.
NAIROBI, Kenya - The European Union Naval Force says Somali pirates have hijacked a North Korean cargo ship with an unknown number of crew onboard.
Cmdr. Anders Kallin says the MV Rim was seized Wednesday morning in the Gulf of Aden. The 4,800-ton ship is carrying an unknown cargo and is owned by White Sea Shipping of Libya. Hmmmmm...be careful opening them holds up, boys.
An American warship and helicopter in the vicinity confirmed the seizure of the ship to the European Union. The MV Rim was outside the internationally recommended transit corridor patrolled by the anti-piracy naval coalition and has not had any communication with maritime authorities.
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#6 Mullah Richard,
Just testing my new Google translator, so how's this:
Order your materials here (from Korean to English)
Thank you. It was my pleasure (from Arabic to English)
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What if the pirates were paid to take this particular ship out of circulation? Exposed and seized without overt government involvment. Seems too pat for Nork ship to be seized by pirates. How convenient, no?
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Then again Somalia may now be a nuclear power...
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I dunno--I'd bet delivery. Bout has been caught red-handed and everyone is on alert for sanction breaking shipments, with the Norks pretty desperate for $$$. AQ, al Shebab, Yemen, lots of rebels including the pirates would want arms.
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I dunno--I'd bet delivery. Bout has been caught red-handed and everyone is on alert for sanction breaking shipments, with the Norks pretty desperate for $$$. AQ, al Shebab, Yemen, lots of rebels including the pirates would want arms.
[Maghrebia] Moroccan and French police worked together to dismantle a drug trafficking network and arrest some 6 suspects Sunday in Paris, MAP reported on Monday (February 1st). As part of the operation, French police seized some 7 tonnes of cannabis hidden inside a truck of tomatoes.
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Hooonniiee, just WHAT did you put on this Tomato sandwich, it tastes odd.
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That would be a BLTHC sandwich.
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In a statement published in local newspapers, the group says that after 11 years in power Mr Chavez has lost his legitimacy. The group includes former foreign minister Luis Alfonso Davila, former defence minister Raul Isaias Baduel, Hermann Escarra - one of the main drafters of the new Chavez-era constitution - and two men who were at Chavez's side during the failed 1992 military coup; Yoel Acosta and Jesus Urdaneta.
They accuse the president of an "autocratic, totalitarian and self-centered way of governing" and point to his "utterly careless use of language ... which lays bare a soul that is intolerant, petty, hateful and resentful."
In the past months, Venezuela has seen an increasing number of anti-Chavez demonstrations. The president says the protesters want to destabilise the government.
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"after 11 years in power Mr Chavez has lost his legitimacy"
gee, I thought he never had any to begin with.
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Any figure who *introduces* himself to the body politic with a failed coup attempt is pretty much an open book. If you're only realizing *now* that he's an autocratic caudillo ratfucker, then your powers of observation are less than world-class.
They're just pissed that he isn't delivering the juice anymore.
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He's starting to run out of other people's money.
A father threatened to disown his daughter over religious differences just months before she fatally stabbed her mother and tried to kill him, a court has been told.
Kaihana Tahseen Hussain, now 20, has pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to the murder of her mother, 41-year-old Shaheda Hussain, and the attempted murder of her father, Dr Muhammad Hussain, now 52, at Southport on the evening of October 9, 2006. It's alleged she attacked them because they wouldn't let her move to Sydney to be with her boyfriend or allow her to convert from Islam to Christianity.
On the second day of her trial, the court was told Hussain first told her father she wanted to convert from Islam to Christianity in June 2006. Giving evidence in court on Wednesday, Dr Hussain said she told him that it was because she wanted to move to Sydney to be with her Christian boyfriend, 20-year-old Ben Brady.
Dr Hussain, a devout Muslim who was the president of an Islamic association in South Australia at the time, said he threatened to disown her if she carried out her plan. "I asked her later about him and she told me that he's a Christian ... and at the end she told me if necessary she would convert to Christianity," Dr Hussain said. "I told her that if you convert then you would not find me as your father." Dr Hussain said he was "very angry" at the time, but his daughter later apologised and they made up.
The court was told she ran away to Sydney to see Mr Brady less than a fortnight later. Dr Hussain said the family tracked her down and convinced her to return to Adelaide, where they were living at the time. He said his daughter and wife then travelled to their native Bangladesh for a wedding, and that he packed up their home and moved to the Gold Coast for a fresh start. He told the court he collected them from the airport on October 7, and they spent a pleasant day exploring the Gold Coast and visiting schools and universities.
Two days later, on October 9, Hussain's mother bled to death on the loungeroom floor of their rented unit after being stabbed once in the abdomen. The crown alleges Hussain viciously attacked both her parents, but the defence is claiming Dr Hussain was responsible for the attack. Blood and footprints found in the kitchen were identified in court on Wednesday as belonging to Dr Hussain.
Forensics expert Sergeant Wayne Rasmussen said a bloody handprint, located on the outside of a kitchen cupboard, where the murder weapon was later found, could have been placed there by Dr Hussain or by someone heavily stained with his blood.
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they wouldn't let her move to Sydney to be with her boyfriend or allow her to convert from Islam to Christianity.
Judges Gavel goes BANG, case dismissed.
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Being asshole parents shouldn't be a death sentence, Jim. Still, it's very much a "man bites dog" case, and sounds like the defense, at least, thinks it's a more typical honor-killing with a frame garnish. Offhand, I'm more likely to buy the defense's case than that of the prosecution, but I suppose it depends on the evidence.
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CBSNEWS anchorwoman and 60 MINUTES contributor Katie Couric faces a dramatic pay cut at the network, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
CBS boss Les Moonves is determined to save money and trim expenses — from top to bottom — at the former crown jewel of broadcasting.
Couric, the highest paid TV news personality in history, commands over $14 million a year, plus bumps for non-EVENING NEWS appearances.
But her salary is now in the direct line of fire, network insiders explain, and a populist backlash against Couric's cash is said to be forming inside the newsroom.
"She makes enough to pay 200 news reporters $75,000 a year!" demands a veteran producer. "It's complete insanity."
The angry source continues: "We report with great enthusiasm how much bankers are making, how it is out of step with reality during a recession. Well, look at Katie!"
Couric's $300,000 a week paycheck has become the obsession of disgruntled CBS staff, just as deep layoffs rock the fishbowl
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Dozens of employees — including staff members in D.C., San Francisco, Miami, London,
Los Angeles and Moscow — are being let go, the NEW YORK OBSERVER reports.
Couric's current CBS contract expires next year.
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Since she became the newsreader/interpreter on CBS I have never watched her.
I understand there are some excellent videos of her colon ( which she shows everynight ).
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I am waiting for populist rage to hit the salaries of the hollywood elite.
You know you could hire 50 pretty good actors for the salary Charley Sheen gets.
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CBS should end their evening NEWS and stick with 60 Minutes and local affaliate news. They should dump Couric altogether as she has been slipping and sliding in the ratings from day one. Nobody trusts her, nobody cares. Her hiring as an anchor was a stunt anyway.
I thought they should have outsourced it to Univision. At least we'd get news from South of the Border which on most major news organizations is Terra Incognita.
WASHINGTONThe White House has decided that President Barack Obama will not attend what has been an annual summit with the European Union this spring, as Mr. Obama scales back from his record-setting foreign travel last year. No one left to bow to?
White House officials said Sunday that the subdued travel schedule was always planned. But it comes as the president's domestic agenda is faltering and he is focusing on economic and political troubles at home. His State of the Union speech last week concentrated heavily on economic and domestic issues, with just a small section on foreign policy.
The decision to skip the EU summit will likely disappoint many Europeans, especially in Spain, current holder of the rotating EU presidency, which expected to host the summit in Madrid in May. It may also feed fears that Mr. Obama views the EU as irrelevant. Most Americans, though, are unfamiliar with the meeting. They should have arranged for him to receive some kind of award.
A spokesman for the Spanish foreign ministry had no comment.
A European foreign minister said he was told that the U.S. might reschedule the session for this fall, when Mr. Obama plans to travel to Portugal for a NATO summit. Another possibility is to invite Europeans to Washington for a session this spring. U.S. officials didn't say what, if anything, they are planning in place of the summit.
Last year, Mr. Obama went to Europe six times. He had a total of 10 foreign trips to 21 nations, more than any previous president in his first year, according to statistics kept by Mark Knoller of CBS News, who tracks presidential travel. In the coming year, the president will travel to places he hasn't visited and consolidate as much of the travel as possible, a senior administration official said.
In his first year, Mr. Obama needed to amaze with his awsomeness establish relationships with world leaders, the official said. Now those relationships are in place, he said, "so the demands are somewhat different."
The president has been expected to travel to Asia this spring, to South Africa this summer and to Portugal for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in the fall. Officials have said he might go to Europe again to sign a nuclear disarmament treaty if an agreement is reached. Foreign policy requires work. It involves a lot more than showing up once and bedazzling leaders. Obama has demonstrated how ill-prepared he is for such a role.
Keith Olbermann was already a renowned sportscaster when he rose to prominence as a political commentator. This was during the Bush Administration, when the left was badly in need of a forceful voice to rally around. Such was his popularity that MSNBC reoriented its entire primetime lineup around it.
But now the Democrats control Congress and the White House, and there are creeping indications that the world may not have quite as much need of -- or patience for -- Olbermann and his shtick as it once did.
Ratings for Olbermann's Countdown have been soft recently, and the 8 p.m. shows on CNN and HLN have narrowed the gap. In the important demographic of adults 25 to 54 -- the group advertisers are looking to reach -- Countdown was down 44% year-over-year in January. It averaged 268,000 viewers in that demo, only 3,000 more than Nancy Grace's show on HLN, and 12,000 more than CNN's Campbell Brown. Fox News's O'Reilly Factor dominated the hour with 964,000 viewers age 25 to 54, and was the only cable news show in the time period to increase its audience, by 55%.
But there are also more subjective signs that Olbermann's stridency and lack of proportion are alienating some of his natural allies. Quite a few eyebrows elevated last week when Jon Stewart, in a parody of one of Olbermann's "Special Comment" segments, called out the newsman for going way over the top in his denunciations of Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts. The criticism was all the more remarkable, given that Stewart and Olbermann usually take the same side on most issues, especially when it comes to Fox News and the Republicans.
Olbermann's overheated rhetoric also drew a sharp response from Joe Scarborough, MSNBC's house conservative, who called his fellow host's attack on Brown "reckless" and "sad." The exchange (and a few earlier, similar incidents) inspired network president Phil Griffin to issue a stern memo admonishing his charges: "We do not publicly criticize our colleagues. This kind of behavior is unprofessional and will not be tolerated."
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Olbermann's trademark style (lots of alliteration, highbrow phrasing, Monty Python wanabee smartassery) actually is kind of amusing when he's doing NFL highlights on Football Night in America. (Well, I think so, anyway.) When deployed in support of a moonbat-Left worldview in a debate on something more than entertainment, it gets real old real fast.
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I'm not sure, but I think it would be refreshing if UOlbermann added a high goose stepping march and a few enthusiastic seig heils during his show. At least it would be closer to the truth.
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A Point-Counterpoint with Glenn Beck would be amusing.
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I have never given more than 2 minutes to anyone who invites me to a party then trashes me for showing up; this guy is a piss ant, even during his prime as its called when he was only a sports common tator...and if ya saw the Stewart clip, were those funny flashing glasses an upside down 2010?
WASHINGTON -- The Joint Strike Fighter was supposed to be the program that broke the mold, proof that the Pentagon could build something affordable, dependable and without much drama. But rather than being the Chevrolet of the skies, as it was once billed, the fighter plane, also called the F-35, has turned into the Pentagon's biggest budget-buster. And with worries growing that the rise in costs could overwhelm other programs, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates fired the general in charge this week and said he would withhold $614 million in fees from the prime contractor, Lockheed Martin. That's ok, we always have the F-22 to fall back on.....Ooops.
The decision was an embarrassment for Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest military contractor, which could eventually draw at least a quarter of its sales from the F-35. But Pentagon officials said they wanted to make sure they avoided the kind of death spiral that had caused so many other weapons programs to collapse.
The Air Force, the Navy and the Marines are planning to buy more than 2,400 of the planes. But any delays could force them to spend billions of dollars on less advanced fighters to avoid a shortfall. That, in turn, would reduce their orders for the F-35, driving up the price for each plane and forcing them to cut orders further.
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If you're going to take all the electronics out of it and put in your own, you might as well stick with F-16's anyway rather than trying it with a plane where most of the cost is electronics you won't use to begin with and all the R&D cost is integrating the electronics into the airframe without screwing up the RCS.
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...Some folks who are in a position to suspect the worst are telling me the Air National Guard - which was going to get a good number of the -35s - is quietly looking for a way to cut the numbers or get out of it entirely. It's bad enough that some ANG staff are flat out denying that a couple of units that have been publicly ID'd as getting the -35 will ever see the airplane.
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Hundreds of Bosnian police have conducted a raid on a rural Muslim village in the country's north, arresting seven people.
The operation on Gornja Maoca on Tuesday targeted people connected to those accused of threatening the country's stability, authorities said. Police also seized a large cache of weapons, ammunition, CDs and DVDs during the raid, said Boris Grubesic, a state prosecution spokesman.
"The goal of this operation ... is to identify people accused of endangering the territorial integrity of Bosnia-Hercegovia, threatening the constitutional order and promoting national, racial and religious hatred," he said.
Grubesic added that those arrested included Nusret Imamovic, a local community leader, and one foreign national.
Around 600 security forces and intelligence agents were involved in the raid, the largest of its kind since the country's 1992-5 war. Prosecutors said that a group had bought and possessed weapons and explosives and had video recordings of people being trained in the use of arms and combat activities to carry out an attack.
A foreign diplomat in Bosnia said the raid was a follow-up to a Bosnian court indictment in December of a group of Muslims on charges of "terrorism" and arms trafficking. "The primary concern was the connection to these alleged terrorists who were arrested a couple of months ago," the diplomat told the Reuters news agency.
About 20 families of the remote mountainous village live in accordance with sharia law and their children attend an Arabic-language school which operates outside the official education system.
The village is home to followers of the Wahhabi branch of Islam, which insists on a literal interpretation of the Koran.
During the 1992-95 war, which pitted Bosnian Muslims against Bosnian Serbs and Croats, large numbers of foreign Islamists flocked to the country to take up arms. Most have since left the Balkan country, but many young Bosnian Muslims have in recent years adhered to the Sunni Wahhabi branch under the influence of foreign Muslims.
Fox News had its best January in the history of the network, and was the only cable news network to grow year-to-year.
FNC also had the top 13 programs on cable news in total viewers for the fifth month in a row, and the top 13 programs in the A25-54 demographic for the first time in more than five years.
FNC grew in double digits in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic from January 2009. In prime time, it was up 22% in total viewers and 51% in the demo. CNN was down 34% and 37% and MSNBC down 26% and 38%. In total day, FNC was up 16% and 28%. CNN was down 34% and 41% and MSNBC down 28% and 39%. Last January all networks performed while with the Inauguration coverage. This month, the big political event was Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, which FNC dominated in the ratings.
Special Report with Bret Baier/Brit Hume was #1 for the 100th consecutive month.
Fox Report #1 for 100th consecutive month.
Sean Hannity had his best month ever (since it launched as Hannity).
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The most interesting part about all of the success and legitimacy that FNC has attained is that even the "professional" Democrats (i.e. supposedly well-informed) cannot bear to admit that FNC is simply more "fair and balanced" than any other news outfit, and that's despite it's obvious conservative tilt. As one of my Democrat lobbyist friends told me when I pointed out that the most recent polling shows FNC to be the "most trusted" news outlet, her response was that being popular doesn't necessarily mean better. I took no small pleasure in pointing out that while I agree with her statement (see: 2008 election), she was really missing the point as the poll did not ask which was most the popular but rather which was the most trusted and there is a difference there, however slight. She didn't have much of a response to that.
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It would be interesting to see that if FOX regular broadcast network, started a half hour 'Nightly News' program, would draw away from ABC, CBS, NBC nightly news'. (?)
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that even the "professional" Democrats (i.e. supposedly well-informed) cannot bear to admit that FNC is simply more "fair and balanced" than any other news outfit
According to Pajamas the night Scott Brown was elected Fox News was the only major network who had guests from both sides of the aisle. All the others had only DFemocrtas and in addition their reporters (ie those who are supposed to report and only that) threw dirt on the people who had voted "incorrectly" and/or specualted about how, _we_ that is the Democrats could rebound.
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But, but, but Barry says "stay away from the Vegas slots and STOP WATCHING FOX!!!!
It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.
A change in leadership at the state Capitol helped open the doors to the gun-related bills and put Tennessee at the forefront of a largely unnoticed trend: In much of the country, it is getting easier to carry guns.
A nationwide review by the Associated Press found that over the last two years, 24 states, mostly in the South and West, have passed 47 new laws loosening gun restrictions.
Among other things, legislatures have allowed firearms to be carried in cars, made it illegal to ask job candidates whether they own a gun, and expanded agreements that make permits to carry handguns in one state valid in another. Article is funny, because these new gun freedom laws are obviously very popular, but the writer is obviously deeply opposed to gun freedom.
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It all started when we caved in to the Gun Sufferage League and gave the Gun the vote. Since then the guns have forced us to buy and carry them everywhere.
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So the people who cross natural self preservation instincts and enter into the system, expect that every time their car plate is run or ID checked it will pop up as a gun carrier, are more unstable than the shady and/or criminal gun owners?
Maybe people should not be discriminated against for owning a gun during their job application. Maybe the total public failure about Ft. Hood has people concerned (nevermind VT, DC Sniper, Mall Shooter, etc etc etc) and they know that a best response time of 5 minutes is still a very, very long time especially considering the goofball already has the initiative.
Horns for the Ram, Rod for the Shepherd, Fangs for the Sheepdog. I may or may not, but I understand.
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My last 4 jobs I was armed and no only did they know it, they didn't care, in fact one of my co-workrs killed a big rat with his pistol and everybody cheered.
He'd been getting into the lunchboxes and vending machines and we had set traps which he avoided.
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The new gun buyers are not criminals but concerned citizens that take the Second Amendment seriously. The gun range has been so packed you can't get in on a weekday. There are also quite a few women and even entire families at target practice. Home defense in a down economy is also a concern.
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"The NRA has a stranglehold on a lot of state legislatures."
This is straight out of the Progressive prohibition handbook. The first step is to steer the focus away from personal responsibility. The next step is to identify a larger entity to assume blame. And finally demonize said entity. Its known in social justice circles as the tobacco strategy.
#8
Prior to the Republicans taking over the House in Tennessee we had a Speaker of the House, Jimmy Naifeh, a Democrat, who buried nearly all gun-related legislation in some committee and it never saw the light of day. You could say the Republicans let the light shine in.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The discussion of family issues prevented a Saudi Arabian from fulfilling the duties of hospitality in the Al-Sharqiya governorate last week. A Saudi Arabian citizen who picked up his relative from the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam later shot him in the foot in the Airport's car-park after an argument broke out between the two. The host was picking up his relative in order to take him home when during the walk to the car an argument broke out between the two.
INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — An Oakland County man was injured when a sledding stunt went wrong. Sheriff's deputies said the man held a sledding party at his home on Townview Drive in Independence Township last Saturday night.
Braedon Flynn got the text Friday from his friend Ryan Lawlor: Jumbo squid had invaded the waters off Newport Beach.
In a statement published in local newspapers, the group says that after 11 years in power Mr Chavez has lost his legitimacy. The group includes former foreign minister Luis Alfonso Davila, former defence minister Raul Isaias Baduel, Hermann Escarra - one of the main drafters of the new Chavez-era constitution - and two men who were at Chavez's side during the failed 1992 military coup; Yoel Acosta and Jesus Urdaneta.
A father threatened to disown his daughter over religious differences just months before she fatally stabbed her mother and tried to kill him, a court has been told.
WASHINGTON -- The Joint Strike Fighter was supposed to be the program that broke the mold, proof that the Pentagon could build something affordable, dependable and without much drama. But rather than being the Chevrolet of the skies, as it was once billed, the fighter plane, also called the F-35, has turned into the Pentagon's biggest budget-buster. And with worries growing that the rise in costs could overwhelm other programs, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates fired the general in charge this week and said he would withhold $614 million in fees from the prime contractor, Lockheed Martin.
