Valin Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Title shamelessly stolen from Best Of The Web So Guns Do Kill People NDEPENDENCE, Ore. (AP) — A burglar died when a rifle he'd just stolen was jostled and fired during a ride down a bumpy farm road, Polk County authorities say. Detective John Williams says investigators found a shotgun and the rifle Sunday morning, side by side on the passenger-side floorboard of a stolen farm truck, barrels pointed at the driver. Williams says it appears that a lever on the shotgun got into the trigger guard of the rifle and fired it. (Snip) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Title shamelessly stolen from Best Of The Web So Guns Do Kill People NDEPENDENCE, Ore. (AP) — A burglar died when a rifle he'd just stolen was jostled and fired during a ride down a bumpy farm road, Polk County authorities say. Detective John Williams says investigators found a shotgun and the rifle Sunday morning, side by side on the passenger-side floorboard of a stolen farm truck, barrels pointed at the driver. Williams says it appears that a lever on the shotgun got into the trigger guard of the rifle and fired it. (Snip) So guns do kill people.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Title shamelessly stolen from Best Of The Web So Guns Do Kill People NDEPENDENCE, Ore. (AP) — A burglar died when a rifle he'd just stolen was jostled and fired during a ride down a bumpy farm road, Polk County authorities say. Detective John Williams says investigators found a shotgun and the rifle Sunday morning, side by side on the passenger-side floorboard of a stolen farm truck, barrels pointed at the driver. Williams says it appears that a lever on the shotgun got into the trigger guard of the rifle and fired it. (Snip) So guns do kill people.... Evidently they sometimes do. Maybe we need a law making it illegal to steal guns, then this wouldn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Chief White House Calligrapher Gets Paid $96,725 Per Year I'm sorry (well not really) This doesn't work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Halligan stopped Paul Mirengoff 3/6/13 I’ve just been informed that the nomination of Caitlin Halligan has been stopped by the Senate. Halligan is President Obama’s left-liberal nominee for a life-time slot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Title shamelessly stolen from Best Of The Web So Guns Do Kill People NDEPENDENCE, Ore. (AP) — A burglar died when a rifle he'd just stolen was jostled and fired during a ride down a bumpy farm road, Polk County authorities say. Detective John Williams says investigators found a shotgun and the rifle Sunday morning, side by side on the passenger-side floorboard of a stolen farm truck, barrels pointed at the driver. Williams says it appears that a lever on the shotgun got into the trigger guard of the rifle and fired it. (Snip) So guns do kill people.... Evidently they sometimes do. Maybe we need a law making it illegal to steal guns, then this wouldn't happen. I think that's a really good idea. How about adding in stealing farm trucks, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 The Fix’s best state-based political blogs list is here! Chris Cillizza March 5, 2013 (Snip) The list is sorted alphabetically by state below. In many states we got so many nominations that we had to name more than one blog as best. In three states — Alaska, Hawaii and West Virginia — we got NO nominations. But we didn’t want to hold the whole process up simply because those three states couldn’t keep up. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/cvplive/cvpstream4&hpt=hp_t2#/video/cvplive/cvpstream3 CNN is streaming Senate North Korean policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/cvplive/cvpstream4&hpt=hp_t2#/video/cvplive/cvpstream3 CNN is streaming Senate North Korean policy. US Applauds UN North Korea Sanctions Michael Bowman March 07, 2013 CAPITOL HILL — The approval of new U.N. sanctions is being welcomed by the Obama administration’s point man on North Korea, Glyn Davies. The State Department special representative for North Korea policy testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Glyn Davies applauded the tightening of international sanctions against North Korea, saying Pyongyang’s belligerence cannot be ignored. He said “the DPRK leadership must choose between provocation or peace, isolation or integration." (Snip) Earlier, North Korea threatened a nuclear strike against the United States, something that did not go unnoticed by the committee’s chairman, Democratic *Senator Robert Menendez. (Snip) * I could make a comment about hookers....but that would be wrong.....so I'll just leave it up to your imagination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 International Women's Day Google Doodle - and tweeting for equality Today is International Women's Day.... Maybe I missed it, but is/was International Men's Day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 International Women's Day Google Doodle - and tweeting for equality Today is International Women's Day.... Maybe I missed it, but is/was International Men's Day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Learn Something New Everyday..... Researchers: We may have found a fabled sunstone 3/8/13 LONDON (AP) — A rough, whitish block recovered from an Elizabethan shipwreck may be a sunstone, the fabled crystal believed by some to have helped Vikings and other medieval seafarers navigate the high seas, researchers say. In a paper published earlier this week, a Franco-British group argued that the Alderney Crystal — a chunk of Icelandic calcite found amid a 16th century wreck at the bottom of the English Channel — worked as a kind of solar compass, allowing sailors to determine the position of the sun even when it was hidden by heavy cloud, masked by fog, or below the horizon. That's because of a property known as birefringence, which splits light beams in a way that can reveal the direction of their source with a high degree of accuracy. Vikings may not have grasped the physics behind the phenomenon, but that wouldn't present a problem. "You don't have to understand how it works," said Albert Le Floch, of the University in Rennes in western France. "Using it is basically easy." Vikings were expert navigators — using the sun, stars, mountains and even migratory whales to help guide them across the sea — but some have wondered at their ability to travel the long stretches of open water between Greenland, Iceland, and Newfoundland in modern-day Canada. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 International Women's Day Google Doodle - and tweeting for equality Today is International Women's Day.... Maybe I missed it, but is/was International Men's Day? How the Boy Scouts Became the Heroes of the 1913 Parade for Women's Suffrage Rebecca Onion March 4, 2013 (Snip) While the police were at best unprepared and at worst unsympathetic to the protesters’ plight, the unexpected heroes of the march were 1,500 Boy Scouts who had volunteered to help law enforcement during the inauguration. The official Scout magazine, Boys’ Life, featured a four-page article about the Scouts’ actions during the parade in its April 1913 issue. (These pictures, of Boy Scouts battling the crowds and assisting ambulances, are taken from that piece.) The magazine reported that the Scouts were asked to present themselves in full uniform with their staves (part of their official dress). While the police initially told the Scouts to stay behind their lines, Boys’ Life reported, the crowd was soon too much for law enforcement. [Police] were soon begging the scouts to help them and borrowing their staves…[scouts] found the task of keeping the way open for the parade was, in itself, tremendous, but in addition they had to render first aid in hundreds of incidents…There is record that one boy handled sixteen cases of fainting. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 You Are Probably A Child Pornographer John A Steakley 21 February 2013 Much like the Jeff Foxworthy "You Might Be A Redneck If . . ." series, I wish someone would start a "You Might Be A Child Pornographer" series to demonstrate just how far and wide government powers go, to the point that it's difficult to avoid stepping over the line. Read more: Do you have children? When they were young did they ever run around the house naked? Did you ever take a picture or video of it to show your spouse? If so, then you might be a child pornographer. Judge Throws Out Case Against "Child Pornographer" A judge sided with Todd Hoffner, head coach at Minnesota State-Mankato, by throwing out the child porn charges against him last Friday. The judge said the cellphone video was nothing more than children playfully dancing naked after a bath. "I'm just so thankful to be waking up from this nightmare," Hoffner said after the ruling, which came more than three months after the coach was escorted off a practice field and later arrested. (Snip) (Snip) Good job, judge. Now the citizens of that town need to make sure their DA doesn't get re-elected. While this sounds like a happy ending, read between the lines. This guy: was arrested was booked into jail for child pornography had his home searched had his computer searched had his friends interviewed was put on leave from his job had his children interviewed by social workers had to post bail probably couldn't be alone with his kids had to hire a lawyer Sounds like a "nightmare" indeed. (Snip) Stupid Simple question....Before this guy was arrested did anyone do something really wacky like....look at the video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Instapundit THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, FATCATS WOULD GET RICH OFF OF STOCKS WHILE RECORD NUMBERS OF AMERICANS WERE WITHOUT WORK. And they were right!....(Snip) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Guess who Craig Rosebraugh says are Greedy Lying Bastards (Hint its not Algore.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 (edited) Why Hugo Chavez Was Bad for Venezuela by Megan McArdle Mar 7, 2013 1:34 PM EST It's no good doing redistribution if you don't have anything to distribute in the first place. I've been a bit befuddled by some of what my colleague Michael Moynihan terms "love letters" to the departed Hugo Chavez (such a sonorous voice rolling out of the television for hours on end! Pity he was insufficiently authoritarian, though). Now, I am sad that Hugo Chavez is dead, because it is always sad when a human being dies, and a universe ends. And I felt no particular urgency, after he died, in writing the obligatory piece pointing out that Hugo Chavez was a strongman with profoundly anti-democratic tendencies, who believed in elections only insofar as they suited him, and also, has left Venezuela's economy in a parlous long-term position. But then people started defending--or minimizing to the point of untruth--the clearly indefensible. Moreover, my Facebook feed lit up with people stating, as a fact, that capitalists just hate Hugo Chavez because he gave stuff to the poor. H/T Instapundit Edited March 9, 2013 by saveliberty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Why Hugo Chavez Was Bad for Venezuela by Megan McArdle Mar 7, 2013 1:34 PM EST It's no good doing redistribution if you don't have anything to distribute in the first place. It ain't that great if you do have do something to distribute either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Is There Christian Persecution in India? March 9, 2013 By Rebecca Hamilton Persecution is an ugly word. According to my online dictionary, it means “hostility or maltreatment, esp because of race or political or religious beliefs.” That sounds simple enough. But, as usual, when you add politics and questions of power to the discussion, simplicity flies away. Political definitions, especially when they are trying to obscure reality, quickly become something too complicated for ordinary mortals to either understand or take action against. Persecution, in the hands of politicians, becomes a tiny target that almost no one except the few that the politicians have decided (usually for reasons other than the persecution itself) they want to help. The reason for this is that slippery words like persecution are problems for politicians who hold the responsibility for nations and organizations in their hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 The Week in Pictures Time for our weekly roundup of the best memes, themes, photos, and cartoon treatments of the madness around us. Let the mockery begin! (Snip) (Snip) (Snip) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Making the Case for the Moral Superiority of Freedom John Hinderaker3/10/13Jeff Sessions, the Senate’s indispensable man, delivered the Republicans’ radio address yesterday. In it, he focused on one of his favorite themes: it is conservative policies, not liberal ones, that are compassionate toward the poor, the disadvantaged, the downtrodden. Sessions argues that conservatives need to push back harder against the smug assurance of liberals that their policies are good for people, even as they keep people dependent, deprive them of opportunities for employment and wage growth, and steal away, on every front, the independence that lends dignity to every human life, no matter how seemingly ordinary. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Papel Experts agree The Next Pope has a Big Job Ahead of Him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Valin Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Today in Geek History: DON’T PANIC! Douglas Adams Was Born Glen Tickle March 11th, 2013 Science fiction wasn’t always the kind of genre that blended well with comedy, at least not on purpose. Some early science fiction was laughable not because of its creator’s sense of humor, but for things like gross inaccuracies, cheesy costumes, and canned plots. One man helped change all that. He was Douglas Adams, and he was born on this day, March 11th in 1952. Adams was most well known for his classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series that turned out to be a story that spanned not only galaxies, but media as well. It started as a radio drama, then grew into a series of books, a television series, an incredibly frustrating but wonderful computer game, and a movie. It even inspired a holiday — May 25th is Towel Day in celebration of Adams. Then again, we here at Geekosystem celebrate Towel Day everyday. Because you never know when one will come in handy. With his work Adams taught young geeks a few important, yet simple lessons. DON’T PANIC. Always have a towel. And never undervalue a good cup of tea — you never know when you’ll get another. http://youtu.be/nwdPxGEeKPo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Boom! #AskFLOTUS hashtag hijack: Michelle Obama asks for questions; Happy warriors deliver https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AskFLOTUS&src=hash Jantel @ jantel11 # AskFLOTUS what gives him authority 2 implement # NDAAwithout Congress ~ Obama tweaks NDAA. - Obama impeachment 29 http:// youtu.be/n2PHPyB7dJ8 Followed by Barracuda Brigade and 86 others View media 2 minsKatie Freedom @ KatieFreedom44 # AskFLOTUS when we cut off ur vacation tab r u gonna spend ur going 2 stay home & open the people's house again? Followed by AppSame and 8 others Expand 2 minsOcean Shores Patriot @ osPatriot # AskFLOTUS: " @ Flotus, is this really you?", "Who really wears the pant in your family?" pic.twitter.com/YCF8e8C35U 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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