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Guns are dangerous,
but people are more so

Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele Original Article

Posted By: davesenior- 12/30/2012 12:55:30 AM Post Reply

I don’t know anything about guns. I have no fascination with them, and no particular interest in them.Perhaps that stems from an incident when I was 12 years old and shot my best friend Stephen Folster in the base of the skull with a CO2 pellet gun that we were using to hunt sparrows in the now vanished woods on Filors Lane near Annie’s Snack Shack in Stony Point, N.Y. [SNIP]Guns, in other words, were not the problem; I was the problem.Which brings us forward 45 years to the raging debate about gun control that has ensued

Trotter cites legal trouble
in ending US House run

Associated Press, by Jason Keyser Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/30/2012 12:40:32 AM Post Reply

CHICAGO — An Illinois state lawmaker who was considered a front-runner to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. in Congress ended his candidacy Saturday, saying he did not want the felony gun charges he is facing to detract from the important issues in the district. Democratic State Sen. Donne Trotter was arrested Dec. 5 when security screeners at Chicago´s O´Hare International Airport found an unloaded .25-caliber Beretta handgun and ammunition in his garment bag. He told officers the gun is for a job he has with a security firm and that he had forgotten it was in his bag.

Obama deploys troops to
Africa to defend U.S. Embassy

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/30/2012 12:36:38 AM Post Reply

With rebels advancing on the capital city of the Central African Republic, the U.S. has deployed about 50 combat troops to neighboring Chad to support the evacuation of U.S. Embassy personnel and American private citizens, President Obama notified Congress in a letter Saturday. Mr. Obama said he took the action "due to the deteriorating security situation in the Central African Republic and the potential threat to U.S. citizens." The evacuation of Americans from Bangui, Central African Republic, began on Thursday. The president said the troops, although equipped for combat, were deployed as a stand-by

With no ‘fiscal cliff’ deal
in sight, sequestration
seems all but certain

Washington Post, by Rosalind S. Helderman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/30/2012 12:32:40 AM Post Reply

It was designed to be the budget cut so painful, so indiscriminate, so downright mindless that even a gridlocked Congress wouldn’t allow it to happen. Now, it looks like it’s going to happen. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) spent Saturday working on a last-ditch deal to spare the vast majority of Americans a dramatic tax increase on Jan. 1. But even if they reach a stripped-down agreement, aides in both parties have said it would be unlikely to address

Feinstein: More Power, More Money
to ATF to Register All Guns

Breitbart´s Big Government, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/29/2012 11:46:45 PM Post Reply

As the day on which Sen. Dianne Feinstein´s (D-CA) "assault weapon" ban will be introduced draws closer, another troubling aspect of it has come to light – namely, that it will give new funding and expanded powers to the ATF for the purpose of registering all guns and gun owners in the country. In other words, in addition to banning "assault weapons" and handguns like Glocks, Sig Sauers, Smith & Wesson M&Ps, and H&Ks, the legislation will also empower the ATF to be sure every gun is placed on a government registry. The version of the legislation

Deport me? If America won´t
change its crazy gun laws...*

Daily Mail [UK], by Piers Morgan Original Article

Posted By: thetaxi- 12/29/2012 11:17:39 PM Post Reply

I have fired guns only once in my life, on a stag party to the Czech capital Prague a few years ago when part of the itinerary included a trip to an indoor shooting range. For three hours, our group were let loose on everything from Magnum 45 handguns and Glock pistols, to high-powered ‘sniper’ rifles and pump-action shotguns. It was controlled, legal, safe and undeniably exciting. But it also showed me, quite demonstrably, that guns are killing machines. Rarely has the hideous effect of a gun been more acutely laid bare than at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut,

Bolivia expropriates
Spanish energy subsidiaries

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 12/29/2012 10:33:15 PM Post Reply

La Paz, Bolivia — President Evo Morales nationalized the Bolivian electricity distribution subsidiaries of the Spanish energy company Iberdrola in a public ceremony Saturday. Morales issued a decree allowing the takeover of shares in Empresa de Electricidad de La Paz (Electropaz) and Empresa de Luz y Fuerza de Oruro (Elfeo), which supply energy in this Andean nation. Soldiers guarded the installations of the electricity distribution companies, marked with signs reading: "Nationalized." In the ceremony at Bolivia´s government palace, Morales also announced the expropriation of an investment management company and a service provider belonging to the Spanish energy giant.

Six Charged With Murder
in India as Rape Victim Dies

New York Times, by Heather Timmons* Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 12/29/2012 9:49:36 PM Post Reply

NEW DELHI — As protests grew in India on Saturday over the death of a young woman who was raped in New Delhi this month by several men in a moving bus, the police said six men accused of attacking her had been charged with murder. A police spokesman, Rajan Bhagat, said that if convicted of murder, the men could face the death penalty in the Dec. 16 attack, which shocked India because of its savagery, led to violent protests and prompted demands for improved protection for women as well as calls for the death penalty in rape cases.

21 Pakistani security officers
believed shot to death by Taliban

CNN, by Nasir Habib Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 12/29/2012 9:47:27 PM Post Reply

Islamabad, Pakistan -- The bodies of 21 Pakistani tribal police officers were found Saturday night, two days after they were abducted during a raid linked to the Taliban, a senior government official said. Militants killed two security forces and captured 23 officers during an assault on two military posts Thursday, said Naveed Akbar, the official in Peshawar. The 21 victims, shot to death, were found in a mountainous area known as Kohi Hassakhel, Akbar told CNN. An injured soldier managed to escape, while another was missing. More than 200 people suspected to be members of the Pakistan Taliban

Building An Empire:
Debating The Future Worth Of RGIII

CBS News [Washington, DC], by Candice Leigh Helfand Original Article

Posted By: Howard Adams- 12/29/2012 9:44:11 PM Post Reply

Robert Griffin III is not only taking the National Football League by storm, but the Washington Redskins rookie quarterback is already building himself a brand in the mold of Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Peyton Manning. To say Griffin’s play has been superb to date is selling him short. {Skip} “One advantage I believe he does have is the great education he received … and his military background and really strict upbringing,” he told CBSDC. “All of those things will really benefit him in the long run – [he is marketable] on and off the field.”

Talk radio’s not dead, just
moonbats’ radio

Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article

Posted By: John c- 12/29/2012 8:25:40 PM Post Reply

WTKK wouldn’t be turning off the lights next week if I could have just gotten over there back in 2007. No brag, just fact. And by the way, I’m still damn sorry I didn’t make good my escape from the AM band. But here in Massachusetts, in the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. And you wonder why I dismember so many state judges. Payback is a b****, you hacks. Still, WTKK’s failure is not the end of talk radio in Boston. Nature abhors a vacuum, and having no talk station on FM is a gaping hole.

Does Everyone Want
to Go over Cliff?

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 12/29/2012 7:22:50 PM Post Reply

In today´s chapter of "The Fiscal Cliff," Senate Leaders Reid and McConnell are working behind the scenes to craft a deal to meet Monday´s midnight deadline. Yesterday, President Obama met with congressional leaders, for the first time in six weeks, and urged the Senate to reach a deal over the weekend. If they failed to reach a deal, Obama warned, he would press them to put his original proposal before the Congress for an up or down vote. Obama´s original offer called for around $1.6 Trillion in new taxes, directed most of the new revenue to new spending

Dave Barry’s Year in Review

Miami Herald (FL), by Dave Barry Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 12/29/2012 6:56:42 PM Post Reply

It was a cruel, cruel year — a year that kept raising our hopes, only to squash them flatter than a dead possum on the interstate. Example: This year the “reality” show Jersey Shore, which for six hideous seasons has been a compelling argument in favor of a major earth-asteroid collision, finally got canceled, and we dared to wonder if maybe, just maybe, we, as a society, were becoming slightly less stupid. But then, WHAP, we were slapped in our national face by the cold hard frozen mackerel of reality in the form of the hugely popular

NY Paper to Publish Additional
Gun Owners´ Names, Addresses

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/29/2012 6:55:49 PM Post Reply

The New York newspaper that drew criticism for publishing the names and addresses of hundreds of legal gun permit holders is doubling down by publishing the personal information of even more law-abiding gun owners. To great criticism, the Journal News published an interactive map showing the names and addresses of the legal gun owners in Westchester and Rockland counties just before Christmas. Now the paper has announced it will next publish the names and addresses of permit-holders in Putnam County with an eye toward eventually politicizing the names and addresses of every gun owner in the state.

Records identify staffer who
invited Jill Kelley to the White House

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/29/2012 6:40:56 PM Post Reply

The mystery staffer who invited Tampa socialite Jill Kelley to visit the White House is a special assistant to President Obama and an associate counsel focusing on national security issues. Mike Gottlieb, who has been with the administration since Obama took office, twice had breakfast with Kelley and her sister in the White House dining hall. White House officials confirmed last month that Kelley had visited a "mid-level staffer" but declined to name the staffer. Visitor log records released Friday identify Gottlieb. It´s unclear how Gottlieb met Kelley,

Woman charged with murder as hate crime
after shoving man in front of subway

New York Post, by LARRY CELONA, JAMIE SCHRAM Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 12/29/2012 5:58:02 PM Post Reply

A Muslim-hating woman was charged with murder as a hate crime for senselessly shoving a Queens man to his death in front of the 7 train, officials said today.Erika Menendez, 31, was hit with a second-degree murder charge after confessing to killing Sundano Sen, 46, following her arrest this morning. She is accused of committing a subway commuter’s worst nightmare,"Queens DA Richard Brown said. "(He was) suddenly and senselessly pushed into the path of an oncoming train, shoved from behind with no chance to defend himself.

Finishing strong

New York Post, by Linda Stasi Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/29/2012 5:06:34 PM Post Reply

When “Dallas” returns for a second season later next month, at least five of the episodes will feature J.R. Ewing, also known (well, in real life) as Larry Hagman. I was curious to see how they’d handle the last days of J.R., since Hagman died Nov. 23 at the age of 81. Turns out they didn’t — handle it, I mean. J.R. Ewing returns as explosive, as mean, as scheming and as downright despicable as ever. Don’t expect a death scene with a fading old soldier.

First responders ´at risk of electro-
cution from hybrid and electric
cars after serious accidents´

Daily Mail [UK], by Beth Stebner Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/29/2012 4:58:22 PM Post Reply

Firefighters and other first responders are putting themselves at a serious risk for injury or even death when responding to hybrid and electric car crashes, an industry panel revealed this week. The danger comes with the increased size of those vehicles’ battery packs and becomes potentially deadly for those dealing with wrecked vehicles. Members of SAE International, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers, said in a report that hybrid electric cars must be installed with industry-wide safety measures and warnings so rescue workers know ahead of time what they’re dealing with. Todd Mackintosh, the chairman of the SAE

Europe, wind, warming... we´re
slowly waking up to reality

Telegraph [UK], by Christopher Booker Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 12/29/2012 4:45:41 PM Post Reply

It was the year when many long-dominant belief systems began to collapse. There could be few more apt epitaphs for the year now ending than a recollection of the headlines in April that greeted a stark warning from the Environment Agency. Fuelled by the predictions of the climate-change-obsessed Met Office (and the the official policy, since 2007, of the similarly fixated EU) that we will have “hotter, drier summers” for decades to come, the agency foretold that the drought conditions of the early spring were likely to last “until Christmas and perhaps beyond”. The prophecy was swiftly followed by

Alabama fan-lawyer gets wish:
Jan. 7 trial delayed for his BCS
National Championship game trip

AL.com [Birmingham, AL], by Kent Faulk Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 12/29/2012 4:20:01 PM Post Reply

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Birmingham lawyer Marcus Jones III got the miracle he was looking for this afternoon _ the delay of a trial so he could go to the BCS National Championship game in Miami on Jan. 7. His attendance at the game had looked doubtful earlier today. A judge had denied his first attempt earlier this month to have the trial delayed. Jones has been a self-described "fanatic" of University of Alabama football since his father took him to football games in the early 1960s as a young boy.

Caught! Police detain woman
who ´pushed hardworking
business owner from India
to his death under NY
subway train´

Daily Mail (UK), by Helen Pow & Snejana Farberov Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/29/2012 4:11:57 PM Post Reply

Police have detained a woman Saturday suspected of pushing an Indian immigrant to his death onto the subway tracks in New York City. According to the New York Post, investigators took the 31-year-old homeless woman into custody wearing the same jacket seen in surveillance video that showed her fleeing from the 40th Street-Lowery train station in Queens on the night of the attack. The woman, who has not been charged yet, was picked up at at around 5am at the corner of Empire Boulevard and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, the sources told The Post.

George HW Bush moved
out of intensive care unit

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/29/2012 4:07:59 PM Post Reply

Former President George H.W. Bush has been moved out of the intensive care unit and into a regular patient room at Methodist Hospital in Houston. "President Bush´s condition has improved, so he has been moved today from the intensive care unit to a regular patient room at The Methodist Hospital to continue his recovery. The Bushes thank everyone for their prayers and good wishes," a family spokesman said Saturday. "The president is alert, and as always, in good spirits," Jim McGrath said on Friday. He was reportedly singing with the medical staff.

Anticipation, mystery surround
redesigned Corvette

Houston Chronicle, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/29/2012 4:05:07 PM Post Reply

The 2014 Corvette promises to be one of the most anticipated redesigns of the iconic American sports car, and Chevrolet is laying it on thick as it builds toward a Jan. 13 reveal date. The new car will be unveiled next month at the Detroit Auto Show and GM has released several videos and other material to promote the date, including the conception trailer below: (video) GM has also been using social media to build interest in the release, particularly with the use of a Twitter hashtag, #one13thirteen, where countless links claim to show leaked drawings,

Send your get-well wishes to
President George H.W. Bush

Washington Times [DC], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/29/2012 3:34:59 PM Post Reply

The Washington Times is preparing a digital get-well card for former President George H.W. Bush, celebrating the many highlights in his career. The former president remains in guarded condition in the intensive-care unit at Houston’s Methodist Hospital. Well-wishers are encouraged to send their favorite memories and comments to Maria Stainer, editor of the Continuous News Desk, at: mstainer@washingtontimes.com.–Dear Mr. President, I have heard personal accounts of your heroic actions in WWII. I admire you for your actions and feel grateful that America has men like you to defend our country.

Phila. police tie construction-
site arson to union sabotage

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Inga Saffron Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/29/2012 3:26:19 PM Post Reply

The site where Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting is building a new meetinghouse was damaged by arsonists during Christmas week, and police are now "absolutely" sure the attack was the result of a dispute between members of a Philadelphia construction union and the project´s nonunion contractor. Although no suspects have been identified in the Dec. 21 incident, Lt. George McClay of Northwest Detectives said Friday that he was certain the small Quaker building on East Mermaid Lane was targeted because it is being built with nonunion labor. "I absolutely think it is a union issue," McClay said.

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