Superintendent accidentally fires gun during class
There's some deja vue here. Back in the 90s, a Davey Crockett impersonator here in Texas discharged his Kentucky rifle while he was telling tall tales to some first graders. The kids were mightily impressed. The administrators and police were not.
BILLINGS, Mont. -- The superintendent of a rural Montana school district says he was showing students his black powder muzzleloader when he accidentally fired the weapon into a classroom wall during a history lesson. "Firearms accidents were a leading cause of death on the Oregon Trail. That is why---" BOOM!
Dwain Haggard, who used to be a Civil War re-enactor, was showing the gun to five students in Reed Point High School's American history class Friday when it fired. By this time tomorrow, we'll be able to say that he used to be a superintendent too
No one was injured, and Haggard says he can't explain how the weapon was loaded. It's simple Dwain. First you put in a measured amount of this black powder stuff....
He says he usually fires a cap during the demonstration, but this time there was a loud bang and the room filled with smoke.
A student who was in the class said the firing of the gun caught everyone off guard. This isn't LA after all....
"Holy criminy, you just shot the map," the student said.
The ball shot through the "o" in the word "North" on a wall map. A Confederate gun no doubt.
According to Haggard, the gun was never pointed at the students once he inserted the cap. The Superintendent was facing away from the students, pointing the gun toward the ceiling when he pulled the trigger.
One father told Haggard he laughed until he cried after his son explained what happened. No doubt this creep think school bus wrecks are the height of comedy.
Haggard says none of the students' parents was upset with him. Sure. If a school official accidentally fired a gun in my granddaughter's classroom, I would make a point of accidentally butt-stroking him with my AK when I spotted him in the unemployment line.
He described the incident as "bitter irony" because he has tried to increase safety in the school district.
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There are no excuses. It doesn't matter if it's a black powder rifle or a Class III. When you pick up a weapon, you check it. Always. Always. Always. I have NEVER found one of my guns loaded and I can't remember loading it. It doesn't not matter WHAT you are doing, you bloody check the thing.
If you fail to do that, then you are NOT a responsible gun owner.
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Well AC, there's them that has and them that will. Not smart to not check when he had the rifle at home but it's not like he could pull back the bolt and check the chamber. At least it was pointed in a safe direction.
The only way to check a blackpowder rifle is to run a ramrod down the barrel and check the length it goes. Even firing a cap while pointing in a safe direction (in the field) won't work if you have a bad charge.
Looks like he found a way to demonstrate his statement on firearm safety on the Oregon Trail.
If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars. I think the irony of the 1st Amendment rights (isn't he some sort of human rights activist?) is lost on this genius.
First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.
Penn, appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded.
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IT WAS ELIOT NESS and the Untouchables, as played by the Keystone Kops.
More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections. The cops confiscated hundreds of bottles of expensive ales and lagers, now in State Police custody at an undisclosed location.
The alleged offense: Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state Liquor Control Board - a process that requires the brewers or their importers to pay a $75 registration fee for each product they want to sell in Pennsylvania.
Based on a complaint from a competitor someone the State Police refuse to identify, three teams of officers converged last Thursday on the three bars, run by Leigh Maida and her husband, Brendan Hartranft. Checking their inventories against the state's official list of more than 2,800 brands, the cops seized four kegs and 317 bottles, totaling 60.9 gallons of beer, according to police calculations. Wonder who they pissed off?
In fact, according to Maida, more than half the beer removed by the State Police was properly registered - but the cops couldn't find it on their lists because of "clerical errors" or "blatant ineptitude" between the police and the Liquor Control Board, with whom the officers were conferring by telephone. And the coppers are returning the brewskis when?
She estimated the total value of the confiscated stock at $7,200, representing about 20 brands, some of which go by multiple names. Make sure to stop in this weekend to sample their newest brew called Screw The Pennsylvania State Liquor Control Board...
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Millions of faceless bureaucrats can oppress as well as any king.
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So let me see if I got this right: Officials paid over a dozen officers salaries for two or three hours of their time and who knows how much administration fees to nab 60 gallons of beer.
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"We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!" - Governor William J. Le Petomane
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ION SPACEWEATHER/TOPIX > THE MYSTERY OF PHOBOS + PHOBOS MAY BE HOLLOW?
D *** NG IT, AS ANTI-SPACE ROCK/BULLET, PRO-HUMANITY "KEVLAR" SAFE AS JELLO = TOFU = ....@ ETC.
IOW, yet anuther reason why any desired future OWG-NWO must be certain = "perfect" AMAP AS PER 2029/30-2036 COMET APOPHIS ANALYSES + KLAKULATIONS = 2030 GUAM/EARTH-VISIBLE MOON EXPLOSIONS.
A "APOPHIS" PERT(S) CALCULATOR SCREWUP CAN EASILY HAVE TRULY DISASTROUS "GLOBAL" CONSEQUENCES
Read, AMERICA = AMERIKA'S PATRIOT PAC-III'S + "SUPER-AEGIS" GMD-TMD WON'T BE ENUFF AGZ ANGRY MOON BABE-GODDESS DIANA.
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FREEREPUBLIC > BRRRRRRRR ANTARCTICA IS COOLING AND SEA ICE IS INCREASING.
On a NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED NOTE, OLD DREAM/VISION [again] > LONDON-STYLE "ICE/ICY FOG" surrounding Guam's Apra Harbor, Agana, etc. including vessels. Sub-includes future now present Shipyard Floating Drydock.
* NEWS KERALA > SQUIRRELS LOVE/GO NUTZ OVER COCONUTS.
D *** NG IT, TODAY SQUIRRELS, TOMORROW LONDON + MOSCOW [OWG-NWO Paula "Love-Me-Becuz-I-Kick-Mangos" Abdul notwithstanding]!
[Al Arabiya Latest] A powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey on Monday buried villagers as they slept in mud-brick houses, killing at least 57 and injuring dozens more, officials said. The quake, which measured 6.0 on the Richter scale, struck at 4:32 am (0232 GMT) at a depth of five kilometres, with an epicentre near the Karakocan town in Elazig province, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said.
Rescuers struggled to dig survivors from the rubble after the tremor tore down mud-brick houses in several mountainous villages in the mainly Kurdish area, killing whole families in their sleep.
In nearby villages, locals lit fires to keep warm on the streets after rushing out of their houses in panic before dawn as the quake struck.
A Red Crescent team has reached the quake zone and set up a crisis center, meanwhile rescuers worked to search for survivors still trapped under rubble.
The quake toppled the minarets of three mosques in villages in the area, said Elazig governor Muammer Erol.
"The number of people injured is not clear. Ambulances keep on going back and forth. Rescue work is continuing. Our gendarmerie and civil defense teams are at work," he said.
More than a dozen smaller aftershocks followed the main quake, Kandilli said.
Panicked residents rushed out of their houses onto the streets when the quake hit and many stayed outside fearing aftershocks in the town of Tunceli, some 40 miles (64 km) from the epicenter of the quake.
Turkey is criss-crossed with faultlines and frequently suffers earthquakes. A large earthquake measuring 7.4 killed some 18,000 people in August 1999.
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6.0 is not powerful. It's just that there was so much corruption in the construction industry at the time these buildings were built that they fall down at the slightest nudge. More heads need to roll.
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So-called RISING EURABIA, LONDINISTAN, etc. = IN TIME, IRELAND STAND ALONE agz ADOLF/JOZEF AHMED, ala 1940 BATTLE OF BRITAIN REDUX.
HMMMMM, HMMMMM, wehell, iff MAHA-RUSHIAN
"HISTOIRE'" is any measure, after the BATTLE OF BRITAIN comes OPERATION BARBAROSSA [invasion of Russia], ETC. + of course PEARL HARBOR???
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Unfortunately for the future 1940 = 2040? BATTLE OF IRELAND, the GREAT DEPRESSION for the USA was BEFORE PEARL HARBOR, NOT AFTER, + America was NOT OWG-NWO Amerika???
[Iran Press TV Latest] Brazil has subjected a number of US goods to higher tariffs to retaliate against Washington's move to unlawfully pay subsidies to the US cotton producers. And after we gave them money to drill their off-shore region for oil. That's gratitude for you ...
The World Trade Organization has authorized the South American country to impose levies as high as 14 and 100 percent on US imported goods. The higher tariffs on US products including cosmetics, home and kitchen appliances, cars and boats would worth USD 591 million annually, AFP reported.
Brazil may apply another USD 238 million penalty in sectors like intellectual property and services.
According the US Embassy in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, the US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will visit the South American nation on Tuesday in a bid to settle disagreements.
"There is time for us to resolve this in a peaceful and productive way without any further action," the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a visit to Brazil last week.
Earlier this month, Brazil set a 30-day deadline for Washington to reach a mutual deal to avoid higher levies.
"We want a comprehensive solution to this issue; so far we have not received a concrete response," said Carlos Marcio Cozendey, head of the economics division at the Brazilian foreign affairs ministry.
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..Washington's move to unlawfully pay subsidies to the US cotton producers.
Yep. Whether its Washington, Paris, Brussels, or Tokyo, we all subsidize and protect our farmers. Well, the Agribusiness interests. Farming Congresscritters is very profitable.
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Send the million plus Brazilians home. There's enough unemployed in the US.
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BTW, the real reason:
US-Brazil trade balance
2005: -9.0B
2006: -$7.5B
2007: -$1.7B
2008: +$1.8B
2009: +$6.1B
The trade balance was pulling into US favor.
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The 2 Billion we gave Petrobras was for George Soros.He had increased his position to 49% before the loan. Stock went up,he sold to get his cash back, and still has a 22% holding.
A Democratic aide says a new provision in the health care bill will require businesses to count part-time workers when calculating penalties for failing to provide coverage.
The bill originally passed by the Senate only penalized businesses for full-time workers who weren't covered. The Senate bill is being used as the basis for a final package President Barack Obama wants Congress to pass in the next few weeks.
The inclusion of part-time workers is part of a package of final changes that is nearing completion, according to the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it's not been made public.
Democrats feared that businesses would avoid penalties by hiring more part-time workers. But business groups oppose the change as overly burdensome.
American International Group will sell an overseas unit to rival MetLife in a $15.5 billion deal which will help AIG pay back part of a government bailout. MetLife will take over American Life Insurance Company (ALICO) for $6.8 billion in cash and $8.7 billion in MetLife stock, the two firms said in separate statements on Monday.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the deal would leave AIG owning about 20 percent of MetLife.
The announcement comes a week after the sale of AIG's Asian unit AIA to UK group Prudential in a $35.5 billion deal. Harvey Golub, chairman of the AIG board of directors, said the two deals would generate about $50.7 billion which will be used to repay the government bailout funds.
AIG plans to use $31.5 billion in cash to repay the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which helped bail out the company during the global financial crisis. The insurer was provided a loan of $85 billion in September 2008 which was subsequently raised to some $180 billion.
MetLife chief executive Robert Henrikson said in a statement that the deal will expand the business of America's largest life insurer in Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, and central and Eastern Europe.
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Now all we need is someone to buy the General Motors golf course.
The Senate's official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com "are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate," according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee.
In the very body sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, an e-mail is circulating warning U.S. Senate staffers not to view one of the most popular news sites on the Web, claiming it could spread computer viruses.
The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, the chamber's official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a news aggregator, and whitepages.com, a telephone directory site, "are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate," according to an e-mail from the Environment and Public Works Committee obtained by FoxNews.com.
Another e-mail from a separate office warned that staffers who had visited the Drudge Report or White Pages had experienced viruses on their PCs.
"Please avoid using these sites until the Senate resolves this issue," the e-mail read. "The Senate has been swamped the last couples (sic) days with this issue."
But the Drudge Report suggested that politics might be behind the warning, noting in an original story that the e-mail came as the "health care drama in the Capitol reaches a grand finale."
The Drudge Report noted that it served more than 29 million pages Monday without an e-mail complaint about "'pop ups,' or the site serving 'viruses.'"
"The site was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 times at house.gov. [10,825 visits from the White House, eop.gov]" the Drudge Report wrote. "The Systems Administrator may want to continue taking her antibiotic until the prescription runs out."
A spokesman for the Environment and Public Works Committee said the Senate Help Desk cited the Drudge Report and whitepages.com only as possible examples of Web sites generating pop-up ads that might be causing a recent increase in the number of virus infections.
"Our non-partisan systems administrator notified both Majority and Minority staff that this issue had been brought to her attention," the spokesman said in a written statement. "It is still not exactly clear where the increase in viruses is coming from, and staff have been advised to be cautious with outside Web sites at all times."
A GOP aide to the Environment and Public Works Committee told FoxNews.com that there has been "a flurry of activity in the last couple of days" and that a couple of people on the staff had had "computer problems."
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Powerful speech, good presentation, appreciate the poster for bring this forward.
Let us do the right thing. No Obamacare.
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Just sent the clip to Sen. Boxer asking her to reflect on her socialized medicine position. Not expecting her to do so but what else can one do (In the short run) in CA where one's conservative vote is negated by ACORN or an illegal? In the long run, vote with your feet.
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Best thing I've listened to today. Makes me wanna fight.....
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Judge Napolitano is a straight up guy--a strong constitutionalist. I drafted a letter to my Congressmen including this short video. My Congressmen are fairly reasonable; Congressman John Duncan, Senator Corker, and Senator Alexander.
A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, a new poll finds.
The Democracy Corps-Third Way survey released Monday finds that by a 10-point margin -- 51% to 41% -- Americans think the standing of the U.S. dropped during the first 13 months of Mr. Obama's presidency. The two polling groups are on the progressive side of the political divide, so you imagine what reality really is like ...
"This is surprising, given the global acclaim and Nobel peace prize that flowed to the new president after he took office," said pollsters for the liberal-leaning organizations. "surprising" and "unexpected" vie for most-used word in the journalists' dictionary this past year ...
On the national security front, a massive gap has emerged, with 50 percent of likely voters saying Republicans would likely do a better job than Democrats, a 14-point swing since May. Thirty-three percent favored Democrats.
"The erosion since May is especially strong among women, and among independents, who now favor Republicans on this question by a 56 to 20 percent margin," the pollsters said in their findings.
A May 2009 survey by the pollsters found the public saw the Democratic and Republican parties as equally able to handle national security (41% trusted Democrats more, and 43% trusted Republicans more.) On conducting the war on terrorism, the two parties were tied at 41%.
The Democrats' gap on national security has widened on several other fronts:
"Keeping America safe": Democrats now trail by 13 points (34 percent to 47 percent.) The gap was just 5 points in July 2008.
"Ensuring a strong military": Democrats trail by 31 points (27% to 58%.)
"Making America safer from nuclear threats": Democrats trail by 11 points (34% to 45%) "despite the president's strong actions and speeches on steps to reduce nuclear dangers," the pollsters said.
The poll, conducted late last month, found "the administration's response to the Christmas Day terrorist attempt has contributed to the erosion."
"While public polling showed that initial approval of Obama's response was above 50%, two months of Republican criticism have taken a toll. Now a narrow 46 to 42% plurality of likely voters say they feel less confident about the administration's handling of national security because of how it responded to the incident," the pollsters said.
In addition, the detention of terrorist suspects and the Obama proposal to prosecute suspects in civil trials in New York City, which was later abandoned, also have taken a toll on the president's approval ratings.
"Whereas a majority of the public approves of the job President Obama is doing in most aspects of national security, a 51 to 44% majority of likely voters disapproves of his efforts on the prosecution and interrogation of terrorism suspects," the pollsters found.
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There is much going on in the world, and most all of it bad.
As if thine enemy could not discern your king from a straw man in a fan dance.
The Department of Defense already has omnipresent eyes in the sky, underwater and, of course, on the ground. It's only when you start going underground that the surveillance powers of the Pentagon begin to wane at least until now.
Just last month, the Pentagon's risk-taking research arm, DARPA, announced plans for a program called Transparent Earth'. They're spending $4 million this year on preliminary plans for a digital, 3D map that would display the physical, chemical and dynamic properties of the earth down to 5 kilometer depth.'
[Straits Times] MYANMAR'S military government has quietly begun the largest sell-off of state assets in the country's history, including more than 100 government buildings, port facilities and a large stake in the national airline, said diplomats and businessmen here.
The sell-off, analysts said, appears to be part of a political transition as the government introduces elections for the first time in 20 years and a new Constitution under which the military seems likely to perpetuate its rule, though more from behind the scenes.
Diplomats and businessmen said the sales may allow ruling generals to build up campaign coffers for election to the new parliament, where they will hold 25 per cent of seats, or to pay for salary increases for civil servants and other populist measures. It also helps the ruling generals raise cash for their retirement accounts in the more anonymous banks around the world ...
The ruling junta has not announced the actual date for the polls, which it said would be held this year.
Many of the assets are being sold to businessmen allied with the military. But the privatisations could also have the effect of injecting some competition into what is an almost Soviet-style economic system, and some analysts said they may herald a shift in direction.
Reformers in the government, they added, may be hoping to follow a path similar to that of China or Vietnam, where the economies have been liberalised but the ruling party has remained firmly in charge. In charge of both government and the businesses.
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Superintendent accidentally fires gun during class
IT WAS ELIOT NESS and the Untouchables, as played by the Keystone Kops.
A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, a new poll finds.
