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According to Overlawyered.com, the court costs are relatively minor, and do not include the defendants legal costs. Also, Judge Pearson is planning to appeal. After all, what does he have to lose (other than his dignity)? If the dry cleaner firm settles for only one percent of the $54 million, he still gets $500K.
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this asshat is a judge!! these east coasters who sue over the sniffles or whatever they feel is offending them at the time has got to stop, throw the guy in the slammer for 2 yeaRS AND LET HIM MULL THE PROSPECT OF RUINING SOMEONES LIFE WITH AN unwarrented lawsuit while he stews in jail.
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If that moron expects laughable awards, we have to believe that he doles out laughable awards. I have no confidence in his ability to act either impartially or produce objective work product. He should be sacked.
The gunfire heard on the bluffs was from Custer's fight. His force of 208 was engaged by the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne approximately 3.5 miles (6 km) to the north. Having driven Reno's force away from the encampment and isolated it, many warriors were free to pursue Custer. . . . . . . prompting him to exclaim, "Where'd all these damned Indians come from?" . . . Within roughly three hours, Custer's force was completely annihilated. Only two men from the 7th Cavalry later claimed to have seen Custer engage the Indians—a young Crow whose name translated as Curley, and a trooper named Peter Thompson, who had fallen behind Custer's column, and most accounts of the last moments of Custer's forces are conjecture. Lakota accounts assert that Crazy Horse personally led one of the large groups of Lakota who overwhelmed the cavalrymen. While exact numbers are difficult to determine, it is commonly estimated that the Northern Cheyenne and Lakota outnumbered the 7th Cavalry by approximately 3:1, a ratio which was extended to 5:1 during the fragmented parts of the battle. In addition, some of the Indians were armed with repeating Spencer and Winchester rifles, while the 7th Cavalry carried single-shot Springfield carbines, which had a slow rate of fire, tended to jam when overheated, and were impossible to reload on horseback. The opposing warriors carried a large variety of weapons, from bows and arrows to Henry rifles.
The terrain of the battlefield gave Lakota and Cheyenne bows an advantage, since Custer's troops were pinned in a depression on higher ground from which they could not use direct fire at the Indians in defilade. On the other hand, the Lakota and Cheyenne were able to shoot their arrows into the depression by launching them on a high arching indirect fire, with the volume of arrows ensuring severe casualties. U.S. small arms might have been more accurate over open distances, but the fighting on this occasion was close combat where rate of fire and reliability of a weapon were more important attributes.
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Col. Sturgis, the commander of the 7th Cav, on detached duty at the St. Louis Remount Depot, stared into the bottom of his glass of whiskey and thought, "Shoo ... and Nathan Forrest only kicked my ass."
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Saddler Michael P. Madden gulped brandy before an Army surgeon amputated his right leg during the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
The sawbones gave the Irish-born Kentucky enlistee another snort afterwards. "Supposedly, Madden was so appreciative of the second drink that he told the surgeon, Doctor, cut off me other leg,"
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and were impossible to reload on horseback. Horsepooky! I gots one and it's very easy to reload on horseback. It's a brass cartridge breach-loader. It's a common misconception that Cavalry fought on horseback. They very seldom did. Three men would dismount while the 4th held their horses. Forensic evidence at the battlesite proved Custer's men were dismounted and strung out in a skirmish line. Major Miles Keogh was killed there but his horse, Comanche, survived. Miles was an Irish National who fought for the Union in the Civil War and led a Cavalry raid through Boone, North Carolina.
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a young Crow whose name translated as Curley
Notice how people never ask why the Crow where so often scouts for the US Army? Maybe because it leads to the point that the peaceful, in harmony with nature, just innocent lambs Lakota had been hammering the Crow for many generations before the white man showed up. But, let's not look into the warts of other people's record.
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It's a common misconception that Cavalry fought on horseback. They very seldom did.
At the end of teh Middle Ages it was found that tight lines of pikemen could keep cavalry at bay. So cavalrymen began carryng pistols and instead of charging trotted to the tight phalanx and discharge their weapons just before reaching the pikes. But more and more infantry got firearms, bayonet was invented and this led to the demise of the pike. At the same time infantry formations loosened so cavalry fire became basically ineffective while cavalrymen became very vulnearble to infnatry fire while they slowly trotted towrds the enemy.
At this point a such Frederic II of Prussia noticed that infantry was again vulnerable to the good old charge of yore, so he equipped his cavalry with lances and sabres, made them not trot but gallop towards the enemy and shredded the much more numerous Austrian Army
After that, at least in Europe, cavalry either fought dismounted or on horseback but with lances or sabres and never engaged on firefights while on horseback either with infantry or with opposing cavalry.
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Correcct me if I am wrong but I thought that Union cavalry had been equipped with repatiung carbines during second half of Civil War and that they were a factor in the battle of Yelow Tavern where Jeb Stuart was killed at the hands of Sheridan's men.
Why was the 7th equipped with weapons who were older than those used in Civil War?
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The Horse Calvary Detachment of the 1st Calvary Division, US Army.
61st Calvary Regiment of the Indian Army
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During the Iraq War, the 3rd Squadron of the 7th Cavalry engaged with the enemy earlier or more often in the war than any other unit....
CNN Transcript
AMANPOUR: Walter, what is going on where you are now, Walter? You moved into Iraq.
RODGERS: What you're seeing now are exclusive CNN pictures of the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry. Bradley Fighting Vehicles and behind them M1A1 Abrams Tanks rolling across the Iraqi desert. They have been rolling across this desert unopposed for nearly two hours now.
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These folks went to the Little Bighorn last summer, and have some nice pictures of the battlefield. I like the first one, especially.
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JFM the Union Cavalry during the Civil War was mostly equipped with muzzle loaders. Some units were equipped with Spencer Repeating Rifles, some with Henry Repeating Rifles, and some with Burnside Repeating Rifles most of which were bought by the individual soldiers. The War Department considered them a waste of ammunition. The Springfield Trapdoor Carbine with which the 7th Cavalry was equipped was developed after the war ( 1870) and fired a brass cartridge that was loaded into the breech. It was called a trapdoor because it opened from the top and was hinged on the back so it opened like a trap door. The cartridge was inserted into the breach, the hammer cocked, and then fired. If a cartridge was not ejected, which happened a lot with black powder, the ramrod had to be pulled and the cartridge rammed out. It was a very slow-firing rifle. Here again the War Department was more concerned with saving ammunition than saving soldiers' lives. This rifle fired a .45 caliber round with 70 grains of powder. A very heavy round. The Henry's and Spencer's fired .44 or .54 caliber rounds but without as much powder. The Springfield was good as long as you were fighting from long range and had cover. It was really designed to counteer the massed infantry attacks that had proved so costly during the Civil War.
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...By all means get hold of Evan McConnell's Son Of The Morning Star, probably the last word on the battle - and a riveting, almost novel-like read you won't be able to put down. If I can only have ten books on a desert island, it'd be one of them.
Also, keep an eye on History Channel for their special where they did a new examination of the battlefield. They made a strong argument that there was no 'last stand' as we've traditionally known it, but rather Custer was trying to get his troops into a defensive formation and they were overrun while still moving.
Mike
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Why was the 7th equipped with weapons who were older than those used in Civil War?
After the Civil war, our last war ever, the US Army was downsized and the weaponry sold off. The newer weapons got a better price, so that was what the very corrupt men handling the transactions sold. And the country was so grateful to be at peace that nobody protested, nor did anyone outside the War Department care about the needs of the rump army in the west fighting the Indians...nor give it much thought beyond an exciting background for the penny novels.
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In addition, some of the Indians were armed with repeating Spencer and Winchester rifles, while the 7th Cavalry carried single-shot Springfield carbines, which had a slow rate of fire, tended to jam when overheated, and were impossible to reload on horseback.
So the CIA has been arming both sides for some time now.....wonder who really won the bet, when all the money would have been on Custer?
Yah, weaponry was sold off after the Civil War; many weapons went (illegally) to the Indians, in exchange for animal pelts. Arrows and tomahawks weren't the only weapons used by the natives at Little Big Horn.
Collapsed houses and severed electrical cables killed at least 228 people and injured 200 after heavy rains and thunderstorms lashed Karachi, Sindh Health Minister Sardar Ahmed said on Sunday.
The casualty figures from SaturdayÂ’s storms rose after 185 more bodies were counted in the city morgue, he said. The initial number of dead had been reported as 43. Ahmed said an emergency had been declared at all government hospitals and doctors and paramedical staff had any leave cancelled.
An official at the Edhi Foundation, which runs the morgue, said many of the victims came from Gadap Town, a cluster of villages with mud houses and other flimsy structures on KarachiÂ’s eastern outskirts. Over 800 houses collapsed in the town and 22 people were killed, Gadap Town Nazim Ghulam Murtaza Baloch told Daily Times.
Relief camps were set up in Mullah Essa Goth, Dost Muhammad Goth and Ghulam Hussain Solangi Goth to provide food, medicine and shelter to people whose homes were destroyed or damaged there, Baloch said.
Relatives have identified and claimed all 228 bodies, said Anwar Kazmi, a senior Edhi Foundation official. Among the 185 dead were eight children and 15 women while the rest were men, he said. “Forty-three bodies were counted in city hospitals last night and now 185 bodies have been identified in the Edhi Foundation morgue,” he said.
Most of the deaths were caused by collapsing homes but snapped power lines electrocuted many people in separate incidents, Ahmed said. At least 20 people were reported killed in electrocution incidents on Saturday, when the city received 17.2 millimetres of rain within one hour. Intermittent rains continued in Karachi on Sunday and the local met office said that an average of 3mm was reported in the city.
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Bet all of them wish they had those tents that got diverted from their foreign aid shipments. Mebbe they need to go out and lynch a whole bunch of their domestic relief organizers. After that, they can go to work on those imams that warned them against mingling with all of the Western aid providers.
In case it's not obvious, my sympathy meter is reading in the 0.5x10-9 Give-A-Shit range right about now.
A mass brawl between two gangs of youths broke out in the centre of Norsborg, a suburb south of Stockholm, on Sunday evening.
The fighting began at 6.45pm at the subway station in Norsborg and police were forced to prevent trains on the red line from stopping at the station. Many of the youths ran off in different directions and police feared that weapons were involved.
When some ten police units arrived at the scene the fighting stopped - only to begin again a few blocks away shortly afterwards.
After 45 minutes police had the situation under control.
"A number of people have become bloody, but nobody has chosen to speak to us so there are no suspects either," said Pernilla Oscarsson, spokesman at Stockholm police.
"Nothing to see here, citizens. Please move along."
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How many of the youths were named Mohammed? Was it a brawl between a gang of Shia youths and a gang of Sunni youths? Or was one gang real Swedes? And which gang won? What an incomplete news article!
Grid stations had shut down, underground cables were damaged, and feeders tripped as a result of which some city areas had no electricity for 24 hours after the rains. Residents streamed out on to the streets, burnt tires and other materials and blocked roads. Some enraged protesters also burnt a KESC vehicle and pelted local complaint centres with stones.
Riots were reported from Al-Hilal Society, Gulshan-e-Iqbal. The residents of areas along the road that connects Sohrab Goth to Shafeeq Morr, also protested against a 22-hour long power outage. Electricity was cut off for more than 20 hours in Pehlwan Goth and North Karachi, where people rioted on University Road and around the Qalandaria Chowk.
Pak Colony, Bara Board and Old Golimar residents also took to the streets to protest power outage that continued for more than 18 hours. In the following areas, riots took place due to power outage that continued for more than 15 hours: in North Karachi, from Power House Chowrangi to Saleem Centre, Bufferzone to Nagan Chowrangi, and Baradari. From Teen Hatti Chowk to Dakkhana Chowrangi in Liaquatabad. In F. B. Area, areas around Water Pump Chowrangi on Shahrah-e-Pakistan, and from Tahir Villa Chowrangi to Landi Kotal Chowrangi.
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OK, they can either 1) Riot and destroy all the substations and power infrastructure, or 2) somehow either by elections or simple submission put the Taliban in power and I'm sure they will take care of any questions people might have concerning the reliability of the power grid.
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Power Outages? Wait till these take out their power plants..
Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, seated left, talks to officials inside the mobile launcher of the Brahmos cruise missile in New Delhi, India, Thursday, June 21, 2007.
The Indian army on Thursday began inducting Brahmos supersonic cruise missiles, produced jointly by India's Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Russia's NPO Mashinostroyenia, the eight-metre-long, three ton BrahMos has a strike range of 290 kilometres and a speed at Mach 3.
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I love the intent look on the glamorous cruise missile consultant on the left. More armed women against islam please!
(Xinhua) -- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Nesom has issued an executive order prohibiting city departments from buying bottled water so as to protect the environment and save cost, it was reported Saturday. The decision would save taxpayer money and combat global warming, the Los Angeles Times reported, quoting Tony Winnicker, spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. More than 40 million gallons of oil are needed to make the plastic water bottles Americans purchase each year, according to data cited by the mayor when he made the decision earlier this week. City offices must rely on tap water, said the mayor, citing environmental concerns and cost.
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There was a miniscandal in NYC a few years back when it was revealed that the water safety board used commercial bottled water in its offices.
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Might seem like, a particullarly stupid, PC. But forcing city workers to drink tap water is the way to go if you want to improve the quality of the later.
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Eau de Hetch Hetchy is arguably the finest municipal water in the world. Why anyone would pay to drink something inferior is an indication of insanity. Fire them for mental deficiency.
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More than 40 million gallons of oil are needed to make the plastic water bottles Americans purchase each year, according to data cited by the mayor
Bullsh$t! We make the plastic here and in several other places (Rotterdam, Singapore, Argentinia, Spain) and most of it is from coal gassification. Sounds to me like just another way to project his power.
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Isnt San Fran the city that bottles its tap for sale?
Religious groups including Christians, Jews and Buddhists led the New York gay pride parade on Sunday, lending gravity to the often outrageous event that celebrates the 1969 Stonewall riots when patrons at a Greenwich Village gay bar fought back against a police raid. "We stand for a progressive religious voice," said Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of New York City's Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. "Those who use religion to advocate an anti-gay agenda I believe are blaspheming God's name."
Kleinbaum, who heads the world's largest predominantly gay synagogue, and the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, were the parade's grand marshals, waving from his-and-hers convertibles.
The march took place days after the New York State Assembly passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, which Governor Eliot Spitzer supports. Although the bill is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled state Senate any time soon, parade-goers said they were cheered by the Assembly's action. "This is one very important step toward full equality for all New Yorkers," Kleinbaum said.
Tens of thousands of people attended the march, including NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Must be something in water.
"Those who use religion to advocate an anti-gay agenda I believe are blaspheming God's name."
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Churches are a business, every single church patron is expected to give money. Gays are known to have the largest portion of disposable income. Churches that court gays may be motivated by more than religious fervor, they may also be a useful political component. They are trying to attract moderate people that find traditional religion too conservative by loosening the rules a little. But I suspect attendance and $$$ are most of it.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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. . . Within roughly three hours, Custer's force was completely annihilated. Only two men from the 7th Cavalry later claimed to have seen Custer engage the Indians—a young Crow whose name translated as Curley, and a trooper named Peter Thompson, who had fallen behind Custer's column, and most accounts of the last moments of Custer's forces are conjecture. Lakota accounts assert that Crazy Horse personally led one of the large groups of Lakota who overwhelmed the cavalrymen. While exact numbers are difficult to determine, it is commonly estimated that the Northern Cheyenne and Lakota outnumbered the 7th Cavalry by approximately 3:1, a ratio which was extended to 5:1 during the fragmented parts of the battle. In addition, some of the Indians were armed with repeating Spencer and Winchester rifles, while the 7th Cavalry carried single-shot Springfield carbines, which had a slow rate of fire, tended to jam when overheated, and were impossible to reload on horseback. The opposing warriors carried a large variety of weapons, from bows and arrows to Henry rifles.
Collapsed houses and severed electrical cables killed at least 228 people and injured 200 after heavy rains and thunderstorms lashed Karachi, Sindh Health Minister Sardar Ahmed said on Sunday.
Religious groups including Christians, Jews and Buddhists led the New York gay pride parade on Sunday, lending gravity to the often outrageous event that celebrates the 1969 Stonewall riots when patrons at a Greenwich Village gay bar fought back against a police raid. "We stand for a progressive religious voice," said Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of New York City's Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. "Those who use religion to advocate an anti-gay agenda I believe are blaspheming God's name." 
