| Official Ballot Number & Title | Vote Count |
| AMENDMENT #1 State Planning and Budget Process Effective Date: Task Force must be appointed no later than January 2007 | APPROVED YES for Approval |
| AMENDMENT #3 Requiring Broader Public Support Effective Date: January 2, 2007 | APPROVED YES for Approval
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| AMENDMENT #4 Protect People, Especially Youth From Addiction, Disease, and Other Health Hazards of Using Tobacco Effective Date: Immediately | APPROVED YES for Approval NO for Rejection |
| AMENDMENT #6 Increased Homestead Exemption Effective Date: January 1, 2007 | APPROVED YES for Approval NO for Rejection |
| AMENDMENT #7 Permanently Disabled Veterans’ Discount on Homestead Ad Valorem Tax Effective Date: December 7, 2006 | APPROVED |
| AMENDMENT #8 Eminent Domain Effective Date: January 2, 2007 |
Friday, November 10, 2006
Florida's Constitutional Ballot Initiatives...
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Science In The News...Dolphin With "Legs"
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Beheaded girls were Ramadan 'trophies'
Trophies. Human heads. Sounds like something out of a bad, Rama, King of the Jungle, offering from the 1950's. Headhunters targeting young women. Or maybe a Stephen King novel. But no, these are the folks the new Democratic majority would defend from interrogation. The new animals of the 21st Century, spawned by a centuries-old religious cult of incredible barbarism and cruelty.
I give you...Islam.
"THREE Christian high school girls were beheaded as a Ramadan "trophy" by Indonesian militants who conceived the idea after a visit to Philippines jihadists, a court heard yesterday.
The girls' severed heads were dumped in plastic bags in their village in Indonesia's strife-torn Central Sulawesi province, along with a handwritten note threatening more such attacks.
The note read: "Wanted: 100 more Christian heads, teenaged or adult, male or female; blood shall be answered with blood, soul with soul, head with head."
Javanese trader Hasanuddin appeared in Jakarta Central Court yesterday charged with planning and directing the murders in October last year. He faces a death sentence if found guilty under anti-terrorism legislation.
Hasanuddin allegedly returned from a visit to members of Philippines Islamist group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front with tales of how that organisation regularly staged bombings to coincide with Lebaran, the festival that ends the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He later spoke with a preacher in Poso, Central Sulawesi, about whether such a plan could work in Indonesia, but expressed doubt about whether it was appropriate.
However, after further discussion with friends, he decided that beheading Christians could qualify as an act of Muslim charity.
Conscripting several accomplices at a local pesantren, or Islamic school, he directed one of them, Lilik Purnomo, to seek out "the head of a Christian", prosecutors alleged.
"It would be a great Lebaran trophy if we got a Christian. Go search for the best place for us to find one," Hasanuddin allegedly ordered his companion.
Lilik returned to say he had found an "excellent" target - a group of schoolgirls who travelled to and from class by foot in the Central Sulawesi village of Gebong Rejo. The village is in the district of Poso, where hundreds of people have died in sectarian violence in recent years.
Many observers worry that Central Sulawesi has become the latest battleground in a deadly jihad.
Three Christian men were executed there last month for their role in a massacre of Muslims in 2000 and there have been a series of deadly attacks in the province in recent months.
Prosecutors yesterday detailed how Hasanuddin, Lilik and co-accused Irwanto Irano planned the schoolgirl beheadings with six other men. They prepared six machetes and black plastic bags for carrying off the severed heads and spent several days surveying the area where the students regularly passed by.
The operation was called off on one occasion, when a woman spotted the attackers hiding by the roadside, waiting for their victims. On the night before the attack, Lilik told Hasanuddin: "I hope you are ready to receive your Lebaran gift."
The attack was launched the following morning, but only four of the six targeted girls appeared.
Lilik, directing the attack from a nearby hill, told his accomplices to act quickly so that the remaining two girls could still be killed should they appear behind their friends.
The attackers cleanly beheaded three of the students but a fourth, Noviana Malewa, escaped after a struggle and ran away screaming. Her attackers gave chase but were unable to catch her.
The bodies, dressed in school uniform, were left by the roadside near the execution site, but the heads were carried in a backpack to Hasanuddin."Moxie Has Something For Nancyboy Fans
And a lot more, as is her want. Moxie, I mean, Nancy has but one want and that is for something to come about and coax along something akin to a facial expression. Something other than the gleam in a cat's eye as he spies a mouse.
Hate Monger Wants Cheney's Office
No more election coverage or aftermath weepings after this. We lost, and now the DINO's have to get to work rather than lying to THEIR electorate about all of the meaningful changes they're about to make. And racist, bigot, hate-mongering, blissninny, Charlie Rangel gets the last chortle as he tries to evict a sitting Vice President from his office.
Way to go, Charlie. Lots of class.
"Harlem's newly powerful Rep. Charles Rangel wants to stick it to his White House nemesis Vice President Cheney - by taking over his spacious House office.
At the same time, the veteran congressman offered a limp olive branch to the vice president yesterday, saying he regretted publicly calling him an SOB last week.
"I take back saying that publicly. I should have reserved that for him when we were together privately," said Rangel. "Believe me, he would have understood."
Rangel (D-Harlem), poised to become the next chairman of the important House Ways and Means Committee, spoke of the need for bipartisanship with the Republicans, even as he continued his feud with Cheney.
"Mr. Cheney enjoys an office on the second floor on the House of Representatives that historically has been designated as the Ways and Means chairman," Rangel mused. "And, I've talked with [future Speaker of the House] Nancy Pelosi ... and I'm trying to find some way to be gentle as I restore the dignity of that office to the chair."
The White House declined to comment.
In the past, Rangel has branded the vice president a "draft dodger" and Cheney has predicted that Rangel would destroy the economy as head of the Ways and Means Committee.
Rangel, 76, will soon head the committee, which controls tax legislation and changes to Social Security and Medicaid.He shot down rumors that Democrats plan to raise taxes in 2010, when Republican-approved tax cuts will expire if they are not extended by Congress, and said that the country needs a bipartisan approach
"The American people have given the Democrats a great opportunity to provide leadership. I'm not certain they are in love with us, but one thing is certain is that they were not satisfied with the Republicans' leadership," said Rangel. "The only thing that is clear is that the way we can resolve these problems [the issues] is by working with the Republicans."
Pictured: The shorter fat, ugly guy is Rangel. The taller fat ugly guy is some Indie wannabe named Moore.Dwight Gooden Gets Out Of Jail
I was stopped at a road construction site and fiddling with a stumpy cigar that wouldn't stay lit when I happened to glance to my right and see a familiar face. Who IS this guy, I wondered, dressed in prison orange and working a push-broom, why is he so familiar. Traffic inched forward before coming to a halt once again, and that's when it hit me. I rolled down the passenger side window and shouted, hey Dwight, sign a ball for me? He started laughing and put a finger to his lips as if to shush my booming request, and I nodded back. Wouldn't do. Wouldn't do at all to have every other occupant of the long line throw their vehicles into park and rush over with pad and pen in hand. Then again, the soccer-mom's driving their 4-ton behemoths with a cell phone glued to one ear probably wouldn't have known Dwight from anyone not named Beckman, but I waved, he waved back and I went on my way. So it is with some sense of certainty that I am able to report that yes, Doc served his time with "hard-labor" thrown in for good measure.
November 8, 2006 -- GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Dwight Gooden is set to be released from prison tomorrow after finishing a sentence for violating his probation by using cocaine.
With gain time and credit for 93 days already served in the Hillsborough County Jail and in a secure drug treatment facility, Gooden's total prison time will be about seven months. He had been sentenced to a year and a day.
The Department of Corrections refused to give a time for when Gooden, 41, would be released from Gainesville Correctional Institution, DOC spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said. Gooden has had numerous legal problems, most related to drug problems.
Last April, Gooden chose to accept prison time instead of an offer of probation. If he had violated probation, he would have faced the prospect of five years in prison.
Gooden was serving three years probation for speeding away from police during a drunken-driving traffic stop last year when he failed a drug test and acknowledged to a probation officer that he had used cocaine.
Gooden was the 1984 NL Rookie of the Year and 1985 NL Cy Young Award winner while with the Mets. He went 194-112 with a 3.51 ERA before retiring in 2001. He also pitched for the Yankees, Indians, Astros and Devil Rays.
In 1994, while with the Mets, Gooden was suspended for 60 days for testing positive for cocaine. He tested positive for cocaine again while on suspension and was sidelined for the 1995 season.
Darryl Strawberry, another Mets and Yankees star, was released from the same prison on April 8, 2003, after serving 11 months of an 18-month prison sentence for violating probation on cocaine-possession charges.
Fast Forward...
Hillary Clinton as she campaigns for the 2008 election.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
We Get Letters...
First off, most are carbines. Shorter-barreled rifles. The purpose is to shoot modern ammunition from a longer barrel, thereby creating more velocity. More velocity means better stopping power.
A CorBon or Double Tap 135 grain hollowpoint will do maybe 1300 fps from a three and a half inch barrel. The same round will crank out of a 16-18 inch carbine at around 2000 fps. Handloaders are daily exceeding the terminal ballistics of what an AK-47 has to offer, and again, with ammo designed to stop people, not game animals.
Double your pleasure as your 40 caliber round impacts at over 2000 fps to an 80 caliber one. Get a Hi-Point if money is in short supply. Spend $200 out the door for a 40 caliber carbine that will...at close range and this means for defensive purposes...out-do anything short of a .308. The downside is the fact that most pistol caliber carbines don't have full capacity magazines, so 10-15 rounds will have to do ya should the Mongol Horde invade the neighborhood.
And, for spelling CALIBER the European way, drop and give me 20. The American way. Chest to the dirt on each and every rep and no stopping to catch your widdle breath.
Back In Business Here...
I might switch. Can't be any worse.
Rummy Says Goodbye
"Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon, Republican officials said Wednesday.
Officials said Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld.
The development occurred one day after congressional elections that cost Republicans control of the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate as well. Surveys of voters at polling places said opposition to the war was a significant contributor to the Democratic Party’s victory.
President George W. Bush was expected to announce Rumsfeld’s departure and Gates’ nomination at a news conference. Administration officials notified congressional officials in advance."
Someone had to fall on the sword, and hard. From the President's press conference today it was obvious that he wasn't "getting-it", and this is probably the first major blunder of the Carl Rove era. A great many Americans were disenchanted despite low unemployment and thriving economic numbers, and people become so for several reasons, but most of all because Rumsfeld was portrayed as the failed architect of Iraq and tell me something now...
When did you hear from the Administration what EVERY Conservative blog was forever talking about? When did you hear about the good things coming from Iraq, the positive economic news, the real story about illegal immigration, or how most entitlements were simply wrong and turning the country into a liberal paradise. A lot of people have been blaming the media and certainly the liberal television and print outlets were forever pouncing upon every last nuance possible to portray the country as heading in the wrong direction, but the White House sat blithely by and didn't give Conservatives much to hang their hat on.
The George W. Bush that we elected was not the George W. Bush who let spending run amock and lost the ability to speak to his constituency. He became, or always was, a moderate Republican and moderates are fence-sitters who don't appeal very much to what makes America tick. When he needed to be strong he was content with hoping aboard the entitlement bandwagon and trying to look pretty to everyone, and that wasn't possible. Republicans don't like pretty, we like forceful. The dems do pretty to a fair-thee-well and it isn't possible to beat someone at their own game, so this time around we lost.
Yesterday, and into day I heard a common thread being woven by the people I spoke with. They didn't think the country was really at war, were confused about Social Security reform, and a surprising number of them wanted Rumsfeld's head. The VAST majority of military people have been on Rummy's side, but the Administration took this for granted and let the opposition make the rules.
Sure the liberal media have been calling for his ouster. That's what liberals do best. Focus upon a personality over an issue. But when did anyone connected with the Oval Office take up the cause with anywhere NEAR the decibel level of the left?
They out-shouted us. They whined and complained, then took a deep breath and whined and complained some more, while the Administration sat on it's laurels and hoped for the best.
The too-little, too-late, message from the White House was, hey, America is in great shape but where was this message all along? Funny thing is, America IS in great shape but when the angry left was screaming otherwise neither the President nor Republican politicians were paying much attention and guess what...
The ONLY message the public was accustomed to hearing was how BAD a shape we were in. We remain supporters of Israel, hate illegal immigration with a passion, want to win the war on terror, but Rumsfeld seemed arrogant and the news from the front seemed ugly, so off with his head.
It's funny and not a little weird. Here in Florida. Every virtue I've espoused is something Floridians as a whole agree with. They elected a Conservative Republican as Governor, abhor gun-control, and want a strong and vibrant and FREE America.
But they tired of the same episode of George Does Washington, and wanted a change. "Things need changing." I heard that over and over again. Sure, we bore easily and let's face it, Republicans didn't make themselves appear to be much different than Democrats, so the Dems just went out and acted like better Dems while the Republicans tried to hop aboard the entitlement pony and ride IT to victory.
It's been some time since I've been this disappointed. But all along I knew what the REAL deal was, and was shocked to learn that most of my fellow Americans did not. Because I was paying attention I thought that everyone else was as well.
But you know what this opens the door to?
REAL Republicans making their case to the electorate. Come 2008, the dems will have screwed the economy, surrendered to the invading hordes of illegals, and pretty much tried to mess with all that is GOOD about America.
Goodbye Hillary. You're out of the closet and for the next 2 years we'll get to see the Wreck of The Hespiris as told by the lunatic left.
Not All Of It Was Bad
Republican Charlie Crist beat Democrat Jim Davis to replace Jeb Bush as Florida's next governor. Considering south Florida's hispanic, meaning of course liberal, bent, and a great many retired seniors voting for Davis so that they might get free pony rides every other Tuesday, with of course all the ice cream they could eat as well as protection from all of those evil handguns that would have went the way of the Dodo, this is a good sign. Bush leaves office with a 60% approval rating and would have thoroughly trounced Davis, but Charlie did okay.
Florida at least will remain a bastion of 2nd Amendment freedom, and I'll take all of the good news I can get this day.
Quite frankly, a great many of the Republicans who lost weren't men and women I'd have voted for except for the fact that they were calling themselves Conservatives.
Two years of a Democrat controlled House and we'll be more than ready to fix things in '08, as well as send RodHam down to a resounding defeat.
Jeb Bush in 2008?
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Late Night Update
Still and all, since I'm a half-full type of guy, it's not the overwhelming victory they were predicting. Nancy Pelosi with more power DOES make me want to cough up a lung, but we'll let the night play out before spilling any more bile.
America DID disappoint me, though. Hard to grasp that more people were dumber than I would have imagined. Times like this, you lick your wounds, and if you can honestly say that you did all you could, then re-group and continue the good fight another day.
Electile Dysfunction...
Exit polls are showing that Democrats will not only gain control of the House and Senate, but will come away with so overwhelming a victory as to assure enough votes to force Rove to commit hari-kari with Rumsfeld as his second and Bush fleeing the country in shame.
Where have we heard all this before...
Kicking Back
We bore easily, at times fool easily, but ain't that dumb.
ACTRESS SUICIDE WAS COVERUP FOR MURDER...
November 7, 2006 -- "In a stunning turnaround, a construction worker yesterday confessed to killing indie actress Adrienne Shelly, whose death in a Greenwich Village apartment last week was first thought to be suicide, cops said.
"I was having a bad day," illegal immigrant Diego Pillco, 19, allegedly told cops. "I didn't mean to kill her. But I did kill her."
Pillco told detectives that he punched Shelly, 40, last Wednesday afternoon outside the Abingdon Square apartment she was using as an office after she yelled at him about the noise he was making while working in a vacant apartment below.
The suspect's stunned boss, contractor Louis Hernandez, called his employee "a good kid."
Tragic. But they live in a world of their own creation. A world where one can get in the face of a minority member without fear because, after all, no one would EVER harm THEM. What's just AS tragic is the fact that the scumdog who hired this illegal son of a bitch can go back to business as usual. There are thousands of contruction workers looking for jobs each and every day in the greater NY area, and to employ an illegal alien to save a few bucks makes this contractor as guilty as the killer he hired.Wasn't all that long ago when Mr. Hernandez himself would be brought up on charges, but not today, and certainly not in NYC.
An Inconvenient Truth
November 7, 2006 -- "THE DVD for Al Gore's global warming jeremiad, "An Inconvenient Truth," is being sent out in a disgusting-looking piece of ragged, speckled cardboard that seems like it recently passed through the entire digestive system of a large animal. "I didn't want to touch it without tweezers," said one critic, "but, curious, I opened up the package to find this note: 'Don't Throw This Mailer Away . . . Plant It and Grow Basil!
The mailer you are holding is handmade from natural, recycled and biodegradable materials. The seeds inside the paper will grow into Italian Flat Leafed Basil when planted. Tear the mailer into smaller pieces and soak the pieces in water for about 1/2 an hour. Cover the pieces with 1/4 inch of fine soil, indoors in a pot. Keep the soil warm and moist until the seeds germinate in approximately 3 weeks. The paper will recycle into the soil as the seeds burst into tasty Basil!' " "Now we know what eco-liberalism is really about," laughed our source. "More basil for their salads!"
Since, as a flaming liberal, it is Al Gore's mission in life to establish carbon dioxide factories across the entire US of A...enclaves of unproductive "citizens" whose only job is to procreate so that more of them become available to vote for Mr. Gore and his party of blissninnies... I find it ironic that he would then champion any cause that would limit emissions of harmful gases.
BUT...it's clear now that the container for his video was designed to make amends. Sure, the contents are full of shit, but you can plant the packaging!
Monday, November 06, 2006
We're Doing Just Great, Thank You...BUT
| ...Polls showing Dems headed for big win |
| Talking tough but sounding less certain, Republicans insisted yesterday they'd turn back a Democratic wave tomorrow, even as polls suggested their control of Congress is doomed. |
This is but a tidbit of what the yellowstream media is force-feeding their customers in order to dissuade Conservatives from voting tomorrow. From coast to coast, the word is out that Republicans are doomed, the times they are a chaingin', and hell, why even HAVE the election in the first place because everyone knows it's a mere formality.
The economy is going great guns, we haven't been attacked by Islamic terrorists in years, gas prices are way down, unemployment is miniscule, profits are up, and oh yeah...
The guy in the picture has a meeting with the gallows in his day-planner. If Gore were in charge the past 6 years, he'd not only still be killing his own kind, but by now would have nuked the Jews.
Somehow, the Bad Noose For Saddam headline alongside Polls Showing Dems Heading For Big Win don't seem to add up, but that's the Daily News for you.
Is it just me, or have enough people turned coat and gone over to the darkside?
SWEAR BY IT
I'm glad someone made a motion picture about the F-word. Fuck, someone had to. It's guttural, slang to the nines, lowbrow, and stands alongside the N-word as being the most impossible form of speech to use on broadcast television, or radio. "Fucking nigger", say's you're ready to be disemboweled in Harlem, and if the "fucking niggers" don't get you, the cops will, because that, my friend is a hate crime. In the land of the free and the home of the brave, saying one of the combo will raise eyebrows but both will cause even the most liberal of jurists to deny bail.
Why are we so itchy about those words, Fuck, in particular? Click the headline then go see the movie. Maybe that'll explain because I sure fucking can't.
The movie's title?
What else.
F--k.
60 Million Chinese Are Obese
1,306,313,812.
That's how many Chinese there were when I awoke this morning. I'd personally give a great deal to see a mere 1 out of 5 American waddlers sloshing their suet through town, but I guess the Western lifestyle is slowly but certainly pulling a Rosie on the yellow peril, and that's good news for everyone but the fat ass Chinese.
Asia has never had anything close to decent health care. Chinese "medicine" was historically worse than what even the Japanese offered before science proved to them that sticking needles in someone's eye to stop the pain from a stubbed big toe wasn't quite what the Dr. ordered. None of the Asian races were vivisectionists, preferring to focus upon the spirit instead of having a peek inside. Fatter and fatter Chinese means more money for the drug manufacturer's and doctors and nurses and the ubiquitous health care providers.
So we import health. Then of course the lawyers follow. In 20 years, tops, China's obesity problems quadruple because being healthy really only matters to old people, and by then our McDonalds and Systers R Us will have such a strong hold on the Chinese way of life that it's all we can do to keep up with the demands for more and more pills and doctors and nurses and even health care providers.
Then the lawyers sue everyone for everything. The demand kickstarts admissions to law school faster than The Paper Chase.
Trust me. Poor people PLUS fast food means big trouble in big China.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Gaza Strip: Women act as human shields
Gaza Strip town under siege for five days now as part of Operation Autumn Clouds. All access roads blocked. Men leaving city accompanied by women who act as their 'human shields.' Residents report severe humanitarian crisis. UNRWA: IDF not allowing food and water into Gaza Strip. IDF denies reports Ali Waked, Gaza Published: 11.05.06, 22:53
A group of men and youth make their way out of Beit Hanoun. About ten women and young girls accompany the men.
The men were released a few minutes prior from the yard of the agricultural college. The IDF gathers all the boys and men of the town in the college. There, they are investigated and then either released or sent to jail in Israel for further investigation."
Remember this the next time a liberal or some other dirty person talks about the Israeli's killing women and children.The Clash Of Civilization Versus The Stone Age Continues...
"Thousands of school children and students in Tehran have marked the anniversary of the hostage-taking at the American embassy in 1979.
The speaker of the Iranian parliament compared the event to the current nuclear row, saying America always wanted to put Iran under pressure.
It was a rowdy celebration of student power, with boys and girls segregated outside the former American embassy.
A huge red flag saying "Death to America" was burned.
Many people carried banners with the same slogan and even puppets of Uncle Sam."
As their forefathers did when wishing to destroy the very roots of civilization, modern day Iran sinks ever so lower on the evolutionary scale in it's attempt to lay waste to the 21st Century. Islam is militant. Moslems enjoy killing. There's hope if the world understands these simple premises.
SAVING WAL-MART
"The nation's No. 1 retailer, closing out a miserable five-year stretch last week, reported an embarrassingly anemic 0.5 percent rise in same-store sales for October and said November may be worse.
Its stock, which used to lead the retail sector, has been flat for the last five years after quadrupling over the previous five.
Desperate to get its sputtering sales engine humming again, Wal-Mart dumped its longtime ad agencies and awarded its $580 million account to a largely unheralded Chicago firm, DraftFCB, headed by rising star Howard Draft.
The move shocked professionals both inside and outside the ad game as Draft made his mark not in the 30-second TV spot world of traditional ad agencies but in the decades-old discipline of direct marketing - long looked down upon and equated with late-night infomercials, junk mail, and bad hair."
The stores are filthy, over-crowded, and staffed by those who would not appear out of character in a remake of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Other, cleaner, fresher, newer, big box stores have, by the droves, taken customers away and Wal-Mart isn't getting them back anytime soon. When given the choice of spending an average $3 per the average $40 spent, many shoppers will gladly shell out the extra cash to frequent establishments that at least make the appearance of seeming somewhat upscale as compared to the slums of Wally World. By simple mathmatics, Wal-Mart remains a giant but a topped-out one.
Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Necktie Party...
Saddam, Co-Defendants Sentenced to Hang
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- "An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced Saddam Hussein to the gallows for crimes against humanity, convicting the former dictator and six subordinates for one nearly quarter-century-old case of violent suppression in this land of long memories, deep grudges and sectarian slaughter."
Hanging it far too good for this monster, but it'll do. I'd have preferred a firing squad by blind men who must consistantly reload until they hear the grunts stop, but what the hell. Let's be civilized .
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Teen Points BB Pistol at the Wrong Car
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A teenager pointed his BB pistol at the wrong car. The car stopped and the two men inside pulled out their real .40-caliber Glock handguns. They were undercover police driving an unmarked car. The officers ordered Ryon Shelton, 15, to drop his gun, police said. "They
were undercover police driving an unmarked car.
The officers ordered Ryon Shelton, 15, to drop his gun, police said.
"They thought it was a real gun," police Lt. Kenneth Washburn said. "He dropped the gun and attempted to run and was apprehended."
Shelton told officers he was "just playing around" and trying to scare people during the Halloween night incident, police said.
He was cited for assault while displaying a dangerous weapon and released to relatives, police said."
Every last cop alive looks at this story and say's yeah, sure. Young Ryon was just joshin'. If it hadn't have been the cops he stopped, some poor schmuck minding his own business would have been robbed of every last cent when Ryon got through with him.
Breaking The First Rule Of CCW...Concealed Means CONCEALED...
Naked Man Arrested for Concealed Weapon
EL CERRITO, Calif. (AP) - A man was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon after police found him outdoors - naked - and he told them he had a tool in his rectum, authorities said. The man was lying on a tree stump, masturbating beside a nature path, near a Bay Area Rapid Transit station Thursday.
John Sheehan, 33, of Pittsburg, was initially arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure. But when asked whether he was carrying anything police should know about, Sheehan mentioned the tool, said El Cerrito Detective Cpl. Don Horgan.
"You can't get much more concealed than that," Horgan said.
Officers drew their weapons and firefighters were called to the scene. Sheehan removed a 6-inch metal awl wrapped in black electrical tape without incident.
Sheehan, who was paroled from state prison last week, was then booked into jail on suspicion of parole violations, indecent exposure and one felony count of possessing a concealed weapon.
"When you're talking about an awl or an ice pick and you're dealing with somebody who's fresh out of prison, it's a weapon. That's a stabbing instrument," Horgan said."
Guess the poor simply bastard dare not furnish his kitchen with any steaks knives. The man belongs in a loony bin for shoving an awl up his butt, not a jail cell for possessing a concealed weapon fer chrissake.
Looking Back...
...When Billy and Al, at long last got to meet their mentor. Clinton looks bored and Al, Al looks like he always did when absolutely puzzled as to why anyone would have him tag along.
Busy Day
So very much to do this day. Nothing important, of course. Play stuff. But since I haven't missed a day of blogging even when felled by a desperate heart, this is merely a heya in case I'm having too much fun and don't make it back.
And why not do what a certain gun-grabber does when HE has nothing else to say?
Bicycle seat. And the pretty girl who was on it was wow.
No. How rude of you to suggest I need a scratch and sniff.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Female Cop Loses Gun...Good Samaritan Rushes In...
Again; she got lucky. Wouldn't plan on it happening all the time. Ditch this affirmative action bullshit and send them to less strenuous tasks, but even that sucks because senior workers traditionally get their pick of the cushy jobs, so some guy who paid his dues is going to get fucked no matter how you look at it.
Saddam Was Close To Nukes...
Must have hit them like a bolt of lightning, the fact that one of the worlds most cruelest of dictators was on the verge of possessing the most destructive weapons known to man, but instead of praising Bush, they try to make a case that these old files contained something along the lines of instructions for creating a Philosopher's Stone, so they should have been kept hidden so that the liberal press could continue to complain about them being hidden.
I think.
These idiots are beyond understanding. Liberals fight for power and not righteousness, so sorting out such clueless behavior is daunting. They want your money, my money, and Uncle Earnie and Aunt Sadie's money, to give away to the minorities who vote for them.
Don't be a willing participant in the downfall of America. Fight these crooks every step of the way, and vote for the Conservative of your choice on November 8. No, the latest crop of Republicans aren't anything to write home about, but when heroes are hard to find it's sometimes best to live with the lesser of two evils until true patriots make it back into politics.
Russel Crowe On Why He's An Asshole
"Oh, hell yeah, absolutely. ... I have a temper. You got to have [a temper]," said Crowe, who became a Hollywood A-list star after playing a hotheaded cop in "L.A. Confidential."
"You know what happens when you don't have one? One day you're walking down the street and you just pop," Crowe said. "You're lying there on the pavement because you've been holding, suppressing all this bullshit."
***Eagle Is Out Of The Building...Look For Energy To Be Called For A New Job***
...**Secret Service Codename...ENERGY**...
"Former and perhaps, future First Daughter Chelsea Clinton is getting a new job - and probably a big raise.
Clinton is taking a post at the Avenue Capital Group, a hedge fund run by supporters of her mother, according to a person familiar with the company's decision.
The 26-year-old Chelsea has been a consultant at McKinsey and Co., and the move to the hottest sector of finance would almost certainly mean a raise.
Annual bonuses for junior hedge fund staffers can exceed the entire salaries of consultants of Clinton's vintage, which run in the $100,000 to $150,000 range.
Her move will also embed the Clintons' family fortunes even deeper in the booming, controversial and lightly regulated hedge fund industry.
The funds, which pool the money of wealthy investors, are battling to maintain freedom from the government scrutiny attached to more pedestrian money managers.
Bill Clinton reportedly stands to make tens of millions of dollars as an adviser to hedge funds managed by Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos.
Avenue Capital claims $12 billion under management. The firm specializes in buying the bonds and stock of troubled companies at a discount and selling them at a profit when the businesses recover.
The fund's founders, Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner, are major Democratic Party donors who have contributed the maximum to Hillary Clinton's reelection campaign."
***Secret Service Codename, Former President William Jefferson Clinton: EAGLE***
Moslem Beaten By Brooklyn Jews
"They hit me in the face with brass knuckles four or five times while somebody held my hands," said the victim, Shahid Amber, 24, a gas station attendant. "Then they all beat and kicked me. They were screaming 'Muslim m-f-r. You m-f-g Muslim terrorists. Go back to your country.' "
Amber, who was eating ice cream outside a Midwood Dunkin' Donuts when the gang attacked on Sunday, needed 15 stitches on his broken nose and reconstructive surgery."
("So what's up with those Hasidim attacking the moslem kid?")
("Fuckin' joke, yeah. Little prick and his gang hang out there and shake down the Jews. They get a kick out of robbing Jewish girls especially, and you know the Hasid's. Enough is enough so they went looking for him...")
Police Blotter. Friday. Joe Friday.
- Two teen muggers beat a stranger on a Flushing street, sources said yesterday.
Tajdid Ajman, 16, and Hassan Mannan, 16, accosted their 20-year-old victim at Kissena Boulevard and Rose Avenue at 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, sources said.
Ajman allegedly shoved the victim, knocking his cellphone to the ground.
Ajman scooped up the phone and tried to run, but the victim grabbed him, cops said.
Mannan then punched the victim in the head before fleeing. The suspects were soon arrested and charged with robbery.
Second Sheriff's Officer Shoots Self In Leg...
Wanna know from whence the ignorant media gets it's information on guns? Law enforcement, and of course, lousy movie writers.
"A mandatory round of firearms training was ordered for all Morris County Sheriff's officers yesterday after a second officer in three days accidentally shot himself in the leg, Sheriff Edward Rochford said.
Veteran Detective Chester Kurdyla, 49, wounded himself late Sunday night at the county jail in Morris Township after transporting a prisoner to the lockup, said Rochford.
Kurdyla stored his gun when he entered the jail. When he completed his duties at 11:50 p.m., he retrieved the gun, a .40 caliber Glock, and was putting it back in his holster when it discharged, sending a bullet into his right thigh.
The officer was taken to Morristown Memorial Hospital, where he was listed yesterday in good condi tion, said a hospital spokeswoman.
On Friday afternoon, 33-year-old Sheriff's Officer Wilman Diaz, also shot himself in the leg. Diaz was in an office adjacent to the front-door security post at the county courthouse in Morristown and was about to turn in his .40 caliber Glock for a bi-annual weapons inspection when it discharged as he removed it from his holster, said authorities.
Diaz remained in Morristown Memorial Hospital yesterday, listed in good condition.
Rochford said the Morris County Prosecutor's Office has been asked to review both shootings, with both weapons to be checked by an independent armorer for possible defects.
"The incidents are of grave concern to the officers and our agency and what has occurred is totally unacceptable," said Rochford. "The investigation will determine if this was a gun malfunction, officer error or training issue. Our agency then will take the appropriate corrective action to protect the safety of our officers and employees."
Rochford also stressed that all officers in his department immediately will meet with firearms instructors to re-emphasize weapons safety training, "specifically taking the weapon out of the holster and returning it to the holster safely."
Kurdyla and Diaz both were qualified marksmen who had passed annual weapons training courses during the summer, said officials. Kurdyla's gun, he said, was last checked and found to be working properly on Aug. 14.
Both officers were military veterans who were well-versed in weapons use, said Mark Chiaro lanza, president of Policemen's Benevolent Association Local 151, which represents sheriff's officers. He said both officers are professionals who are "very embarrassed this happened."
"I don't think we should speculate or point fingers at anyone until we get the final report from the prosecutor," said Chiarolanza, who added his members would welcome any additional training the sheriff might offer."
Nah, we wouldn't EVER want to point fingers until the whitewash is complete, now would we. Rumor has it, that each and every time a cop shoots himself or someone else by mistake, Glock employees drown a kitten in Smyrna, Georgia.
Repeat after me: It is NOT an accident when you fire a gun. As long as the weapon is functioning properly, your actions are the result of NEGLIGENCE. Guns do NOT discharge until the trigger is activated. Only, and I repeat, ONLY, the absolute doltish morons alive, holster a handgun with a finger on the trigger.
You shoot on purpose, or were negligent. Negligent people need not be carrying firearms and a badge at the same time. In the officers defense, it would be helpful to practice more than once or twice a year though, but now will come the clarion call for safeties on Glocks. And as we all known, MAKING A GUN SAFE IS ABJECT STUPIDITY.
Thank heavens that the last time I checked, NJ law enforcement officers were still using fmj's or those horrid Expanding-FMJ's. A Ranger T or Federal HST would have cleared out an awful lot of meat. And not for nothing, but how, in the name of all that is holy, do you squeeze a NY2 trigger...12 pounds...by mistake?
You don't. A great many of these LE-ND's are caused by holster retention straps getting in the way. The officer chitchats or otherwise pays little attention to the task at hand while re-holstering, doesn't realize that the strap has worked it's way inside the trigger guard, pushes with an extra oomph, and pow. Another "It went off by itself!"
Thanks to A Keyboard and a .45 for the links.
And, it sucks that we did just answer a question about Glocks and negligent discharges, but you can read it here.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
A New Threat From The Yellow Peril...
An eyesore, really. And don't you dare change it to slant-eye-sore. The new Chinese police revolver. Chambered for a copy of .38 S&W cartridges. Then again pretty much anything they do is a bad copy of the original, but this is so ugly it hurts. Rumor has it that it's constructed of a reasonably high-grade pot metal, and has a predicted shelf life of a thousand rounds or so.
Notice the external safety on a double-action revolver. Their cops must be more accident prone than even our own.
40 Versus 10 mm...
For the hard of learning. You know, the ones who do not understand anything about bullet construction or design, and blindly follow 100 year-old tenets about weight and velocity, without regard for this little thing we call the 21st Century.
The picture is not of my creation. Click to see the difference between a state-of-the-art round versus one that is loaded to higher velocities but does not penetrate nor expand nearly as well.
Almost an inch. From a G-23. Ouch. That's gonna hurt in the morning.
We Get Agita
10...9...8...7...6...
There. Lot's better. Okay, on to business. Concealed carry holsters come in two styles, and two styles only. LOOK HOW PRETTY THIS MAKES MY GUN LOOK, and, hide the gun by using the minimal amount of plastic, nylon, or animal hide as possible.
Holster makers get rich by catering to the first style. They hire big names to wear, use, then brag on the product. Gun magazines then do glossy feature stories about famous holster makers and the famous gunsters who use them, and this is all well and good for the economy. Capitalism at it's best means seperating those with too much disposable income from their disposable income, or people would just be buying what the NEED versus what they WANT. Even cranky old Henry Ford came to understand this, and if he could, anyone can.
Holster makers do not get rich by employing the minimalist approach to holster making. They will look you straight in the eye, and without flinching an inch ask how well your present rig is to RE-HOLSTER your weapon. Forget that it slides out just fine thank you, and tell us if you can re-holster with one hand. If the answer is no, then you NEED a holster that you can say yes to, because all smart warriors are aware of the irrefutable fact that if you cannot do something one-handed, then you are a walking dead man.
I'm certainly not speaking of play-shooting; where one goes to a range and runs through a course designed to test how well you run through a course. These events require an easy to re-holster, holster.
The real world does not.
You may very well join the ranks of the deceased if the gun does not draw well, but you will never set up residence on the brown side of the grass because your weapon does not undraw well. Yes, after the shooting stops you should notify the police, and the gun should NOT remain in your hand, but it shouldn't be in the rig, either. This upsets law enforcement to no end. Place it DOWN and AWAY from you. After, of course, you've determined that the threat to your health and dental record no longer exists.
In summary; Play-shooters need a holster that draws and undraws. If you happen to like such a setup, then by all means indulge yourself. Otherwise, find something that fits well, is easy on the beltline, and covers the trigger of whatever gun you are using. It's okay, REALLY okay to do this. No, you won't be able to lift your shirt and gather as many ooohhh's and aaahhh's by flashing a pretty purse...strike that...holster. You won't make men who drool over acres of shiny leather, wet their chin over a nylon holster with a clip. All you'll do is save a lot of money, but that ain't capitalism and what kind of American ARE you?
Woody Signs Off
I hate when that happens. Absolute unadulterated crapfests like Box O' Truth, Whizbang, and a scazillion others flourish while an upright man feels unappreciated and moves on. You weren't preached to there, nor were attempts made to turn every last scinitilla of "news" into something Christian-like defenders of the faith should rise in angst to thwart lest someone wasn't getting the hint that they were god-fearing enough. That is one of the things that truly bugs me about conservative blogdom. The never ending and blatent bombardment of religious beliefs with no nod given to the retirement true faith calls for in order to return any degree of plausability or integrity. There are many blogs I've stopped frequenting because a deity or deities were shoved down my throat, an embarassment of sermonizing to wade through in search of the meat and potatoes.
I don't care who you kneel to. Nobody should. The world is once again being put to the torch because of nonsensical ravings, and it pisses me off that one of the few places I could venture towards and leave with my bile intact is bygone.
Media Bias?
Romanian Romeo Roundup
A man in Malu Mare, Romania, was left at the altar by his fiance, and proclaimed that he would marry any girl in town who could fit into the wedding dress and ring he had bought for her.
Several hours later, a suitable Cindarella arrived.
She was "the only one of dozens of girls who could fit into the dress perfectly and could wear the ring. It was love at first sight," the beaming groom said.
If It's Thursday, Then It MUST Be Time For NYPD Police Blotter Funnies
"Bronx Gang Squad cops seized a small arsenal after grabbing a suspect on a University Heights street, police sources said yesterday.
The officers were on routine patrol at Fordham Road and Davidson Avenue at 2:50 p.m. Monday when they saw Matthew Crouch, 21, acting suspiciously and confronted him, sources said.
The cops searched Crouch's backpack and found a loaded .22 caliber gun and an unloaded .50 caliber Ruger, sources said."
Ruger is finally making a 50 cal? And sent one to the Bronx for field testing? Damn.
He Didn't Be Gettin What He Be Needed To Be Gettin...
Which of course was the privilege to do as he damned well pleased WHEN he damned well pleased...
"A prominent Harlem minister says he was hassled and humiliated in his neighborhood by a cop who accused him of giving police "attitude" during a dispute over a $115 parking ticket.
The police run-in with the Rev. Calvin Butts drew the attention of Mayor Bloomberg, who apologized, and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who promised to look into the Oct. 21 incident.
Butts said he wanted the cop to come to historic Abyssinian Baptist Church to apologize - not to him, but to "the community."
"This happens to young black men all the time," Butts, 57, fumed. "If you keep letting [cops] get away with it, we'll never get anywhere in terms of police and community relations. We're going backwards instead of forwards."
"We can't allow these officers who think they're God's gifts to the world to mistreat not only black men but black women," Butts said.
The normally mild-mannered minister said he nearly went toe to toe with the cop in front of a crowd of onlookers outside a Lenox Ave. fast-food joint.
Butts said the confrontation came moments after he parked his black Cadillac sedan in front of a bus stop near Jimbo's Hamburger Palace around 6 p.m.
While his wife and granddaughter stayed in the car, the minister went into the restaurant to pick up dinner.
But before he had time to get his food, his wife knocked on the restaurant's window to alert him that cops had just pulled up.
Butts said he raced to his car and jokingly told the two officers - a Hispanic woman and a white man - "You guys didn't even let me pay for my food."
The minister moved the car to a legitimate spot, and thought the incident was over.
But as he left the car, he said he noticed the female officer was writing a ticket.
Butts was flabbergasted. He said he approached the female cop, and asked why he was being given a summons.
"Because you showed attitude," the male officer responded, according to Butts.
"I was insulted and outraged," the pastor said.
Butts said he demanded to know the male officer's name, only to get no answer.
Their words became more heated until the cop whipped out handcuffs, Butts said. Onlookers had to step in to calm the cleric down, he said.
Butts was not cuffed, but he drove away with the $115 parking ticket in hand.
In the past week, Butts has received calls from both Bloomberg and Kelly. The mayor, whom Butts endorsed last year, apologized.
"The mayor told Rev. Butts that he is sorry it happened, and he is looking into it," said Stu Loeser, a Bloomberg spokesman.
Kelly was courteous, Butts said, and promised to check into the matter.
"This is not an indictment of the New York City Police Department," Butts said. "Most of the officers are good men and women who try to do a great job. But there are a few in the department who are just terrible, and they need to be dealt with."
This is how empowered such minority shamen have come to feel. They can break the law and suffer no consequences because, well, they're minority shamen. Great move, Mr. Butts. Really teaches the kids to be law-abiding citizens. Incessant whiners is more like it. Pay the damned ticket and be done with it. And if you need some help raising the cash, count me in for a sawbuck just for the piece of mind of seeing you shut the fuck up.
Another charlatan condoning the wholesale slaughter of babies just to keep the welfare checks in the mail to his congregation.
Ann Coulter On Kerry, Moslems, Deranged Soccer Moms, And The Truth About Michael J. Fox
"John Kerry is the "botched joke" of American politics. For those of you keeping score at home, John Kerry has now called members of the U.S. military (a) stupid, (b) crazy, (c) murderers, (d) rapists, (e) terrorizers of Iraqi women and children. I wonder what he'll call them tomorrow. Whatever Karl Rove is paying John Kerry to say stupid things, it's worth every penny.
Now, back to the midterm elections ...
Even a dying party has death throes. If Democrats win a slight majority in the House or Senate, Americans will get shrill, insane leadership of the nation in time of war...
Democrats can't not be crazy. They will instantly set to work enacting a national gay marriage law, impeachment hearings, slavery reparations and a series of new federal felonies for abortion clinic protesters. The only way to get Democrats to focus on terrorists would be to convince them that the terrorists are interfering with a woman's right to choose or that commercial jetliners exploding in midair are a threat to America's wetlands...
As millions of lunatic Muslims plot to murder Americans, some Americans — we call them "Soccer Moms" — will cast a vote to save Michael J.* Fox this year. In the process, they will put all Americans at risk by voting for a frivolous, dying party."
Yes. Ann stops by here now and again. And she doesn't understand soccer-moms either.
*The "J" stands for, of all things, Jane. At birth, Michael's penis was so very tiny as to go unseen by the naked eye, doctor's mistook him for a bouncing baby girl, and his parents named him accordingly. Some pundits have come to referring to the J as Jittery, and that is just too low to even comment upon. He may still have a tiny dick, a girl's voice, and stand 5 foot nothing, but isn't that jittery at all.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
9 mm Lovers...Read 'Em And Weep
As for me, I'll take a slow-moving .45 to a gun fight any day. I absolutely despise a 9mm for defensive situations (yes, they will eventually kill but often not quickly enough to prevent the BG from doing you in first)and a .380 as well. These are probably the two calibers I see most often on the autopsy table.
The .357 (magnum) is gloriously effective. It's just that semi-autos are much more common than they used to be, so we see far more 9mm and .380 rounds on the autopsy table than we do the .38 and .357. Particularly among the gangbangers, the 9mm and .380 are the weapons of choice. The .357 is a wonderfully effective round for self-defense from what I've seen, but it's rare that we get them in anymore.
Again, this is from experience that I've made my calls on what works and what doesn't. I have no use for mouse guns like the .32, although it's a lot better to have a mouse gun than nothing at all. Personally, I'll never carry anything smaller than a .40 and prefer the .45. Day in and day out, results from the autopsy table show me that the .45 is the gun to have in a gun fight, provided you can shoot it well. If not, it's better to have something you can shoot well, even if it's a mouse gun, than something you can't."
Moral of the story? Big and slow whenever possible, if you do not have a .357 handy.
As soon as more results arrive from .357 SIG shootings, and remember, this will be from law enforcement discharges and not bad guys versus bad guys or sheeple, I'll be sure to pass it along. In the sandbox, various 40 caliber rounds have been put to use with marvelous results. Winchester Ranger-T's are taking their toll of sand fleas, and the Federal HST has made it there as well.
And, just to confuse you just when you thought you had a handle on things...
The glaring caveat to go along with these results from a coroner's assistant is the fact that boys from da hood aren't what one would call gun-savvy, and that of course extends to the ammunition they employ. It's extremely doubtful that modern, state of the art 9 mm ammo is the fodder of choice for our minority wonder-killers. Still and all, I'd never rely on a 9mm as long as there were other choices.
Back To Mayor Bloomberg And His Insane Hatred Of Guns...
In NYC, the most dangerous occupation is construction worker. 3 to 4 times as many of them die each year as compared to police officers killed in the line of duty. But sure, okay, it's dangerous yet most of the hard hats are killed accidentally. A close second on the list are transportation workers. A great many of them are robbed and killed, lots more so than law enforcement. In fact, more transportation workers are murdered in the greater NY area than police NATIONWIDE. So it cannot simply be the danger level of one's occupation that drives this nutcase to make such ridiculous statements and unreasonable demands.
Civilian deaths? Somewhere along the lines of 500-600 In NYC and even when you eliminate the gang-bangers offing one another, that leaves a hundred or so law abiding citizens knifed or gunned down. Hell, more street-sweepers die at work than law enforcement, and MOST LE deaths are from accidents while directing traffic, so a resounding NO to actual danger versus the right to defend oneself as determined by liberal politicians.
Then there's the hate for cops, the liberal despisement that is sublimated just long enough to try and fool us into believing they really care when the rarity of a cop dying violently in the line of duty goes down. Cops just don't die at work all that much. But let ONE be killed by a gun, and this allows the grabbers to hop atop the casket and preach gun control.
Hell, stricter construction safety standards would save a lot more lives and money far better spent then going after legally armed citizens, and taxi and limosine commisions asking for a tenth the money LE gets for body armor would protect cabbies and limo drivers and bus operators, and mass transit workers, the ones being killed far more frequently.
So it's all one big snowjob, isn't it. Using law enforcement casualties as a means to an end. The end being the confiscation of firearms and the death of the 2nd Amendment.
These are some sick bastards. Disarm the nation, and we'd need 3 or 4 times the amount of police, not to DEFEND, that's not what police do, but to be the avengers that the criminal justice system really is. 40% of all murders go unsolved. Less guns in the hands of citizens means more, LOTS more murders and rapes and robberies and home invasions. The staggering burden this would place on the economy alone is incalculable.
Americans, berift of their right to bear arms and awash in the sea of liberal-created thugs would make Iraq look like a walk in the park. France would be laughing at US.
In Case Any Of You Would Perhaps Wish To Help A Poor CAIR In Distress..
...Then have a gander at this.
"In the October 23rd issue of Maclean’s, a provocative and Islamophobic article by Mark Steyn was printed entitled, “The future belongs to Islam.” The article’s fear mongering tone focuses on the influx of Muslim immigrants into Europe and North America through an analysis that parallels Samuel Hungtion’s infamous book, “The Clash of Civilizations.”
An excerpt from the article reads:
“Age + Welfare = Disaster for you;
Youth + Will = Disaster for whoever gets in your way… Islam has Youth and will, Europe has age and welfare.”
In criticising the Maclean’s article, Derrick O’Keefe writes, “Seen within the “War on Terror”... Steyn’s article must be understood as a deliberate, hateful and provocative act.”
ACTION REQUESTED
1. Write a 150 word letter to Maclean’s Magazine for print.
2. Or submit a two to three paragraph letter to the Maclean’s editorial board.
When writing it is critical to keep Maclean’s readership in mind and maintain a style that is calm and convincing, but firm.
TALKING POINTS
1. The article entitled “The Future belongs to Islam” is inflammatory and offensive. It does little to build bridges, it simply divides people.
2. It would be appreciated if such provocative articles are not given space and if Maclean’s maintains a balanced editorial policy.
3. Maclean’s in the past was an authoritative and respectable voice for Canadians; however, today’s Maclean’s is clearly breaking away from this tradition.
4. If Maclean’s Magazine continues to publish such articles, I will consider not renewing my subscription.
WRITE MACLEAN'S AT:
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This presumes that sandfleas can read, then write intelligible English.
What's that?
They've plenty of American loons who'll do it for them?
Good point.
Bloomberg Says NYC Has TOO-MANY Gun Permits...
November 1, 2006 -- ALBANY - "The city should slash the number of people who are allowed to carry concealed weapons, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.
"We've taken a look at it to see whether we couldn't have fewer," Bloomberg said. "I can tell you one thing: We will keep it to as a minimum as we possibly can."
Bloomberg added that he has asked Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to tackle the issue.
"If you want a gun permit, you should have to really show that your life is in danger, and that having a gun will protect you, will improve the chances of you surviving," the mayor said.
He added that he doesn't have a problem with people who own guns to hunt, but said it doesn't make sense for those in densely populated urban areas.
"I do think that having concealed weapons on the streets of major cities is not something that is in the interests of the citizens of those cities in this day and age, and I don't think the founding fathers really thought about that when they drafted the Constitution," Bloomberg said.
The mayor has been on a much-publicized national campaign to crack down on illegal guns and dealers who sell them.
Yesterday, he traveled to the state Capitol to join Gov. Pataki, who signed a law that will strengthen penalties against those who are carrying a loaded, illegal weapon at the time of their arrest, as long as its outside the home or workplace.
Pataki said, though, that he supports the current law regarding the number of permit-holders.
"I think the law we have is a very good law, and right now, you have to have a permit and I think that is appropriate," he said.
Gun-rights supporters blasted Bloomberg for wanting to restrict legal ownership.
"His office has given concealed-carry permits to the Hollywood elite, friends of the mayor, and the financially powerful - whereas the regular Joes and Janes who probably need it more are plain flat out of luck," said National Rifle Association spokesman Andrew Arulanandam.
The Post reported in March that among those with permits to carry concealed weapons in the city are cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, Donald Trump and Seagrams scion Edgar Bronfman Sr.
Also allowed to pack heat are actors Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel; radio personalities Howard Stern and Don Imus; and state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, who doesn't live in the city, but has an office here.
The Post also re ported in March that the number of pistol permits in the city has declined, dropping to 38,544 this year, from 41,173 in 2003.
Last year, 81 percent of those who applied were granted a permit to carry a concealed gun.
Tom King, president of the state Rifle and Pistol Association, said restricting the rights of legal-gun owners has not helped reduce the crime rate in Washington.
"The problem is not with the legal and lawful gun owner. It is with the person who has the unregistered illegal gun or who is using it for crime or in drug deals," King said.
Arulanandam added, "If Mayor Bloomberg had his way, he would unilaterally disregard the Constitution and the amendments and outlaw firearm ownership even by law-abiding citizens."
I've been having the dither of a time getting Blogger to perform today, and this is something to get back to once the gods of google decide all is well. But of course the Mayor doesn't see the need for guns in NYC. Only 5 to 6 hundred of his citizens are killed each year by the animals he coddles, and hey, after all, he travels with a half dozen armed men surrounding him at all times.
Problem? What problem?
Kerry Flap, Part Ducx*
"Frustration over the prolonged Iraq conflict exploded onto the political scene yesterday as Republicans pounced on John Kerry for a botched joke and the Democrat slammed back at President Bush's 'broken policy.'"
FULL STORY
Front page on the NY Daily News. When a democrat gets caught having homosexual encounters with a minor he's lauded for his bravery in coming out of the closet. When a Republican gets caught sending instant messages to a young man, he's proven unfit. When Ann Coulter stings away at the liberal establishment she's a bitch, whore, insert epithet here. When a democrat gets crass it's a "botched joke." Kerry actually went UP a notch in the eyes of such reprobates as the Kos Kids, but the middle-of-the-roaders are tsk-tsk'ing to beat the band.
Real people have always hated the guy, so what's new?
*French, for Two.
Newspaper Circulation...Journalism 101 Wars
The News gives away 14%, the Post about half that many. Look for the next set of numbers to be different as the NY Daily News goes all-out to regain the lead over the Post, and NY'ers love it because that means more freebie papers each and every day.
The Times? Nobody knows for sure. What anyone working around the major fresh seafood markets DOES know, is that each and every morning the NY Times delivery trucks drop off tons of newspapers. For free. They lead the city, indeed the nation, in fish-wrapper circulation, and there isn't anyone close.
NYPD's Famous "Lieutenant Phil" Retires
"...Lt. Panzarella, 62 years old with 41 years on the force, retired yesterday after being everything from street cop to homicide detective to chief of the Queens Cold Case Squad.
"We had . . . a case where the guy was clearly a case of suicide by police," he recalled.
"There was no talking. He came out of an apartment . . . blazing with a shotgun . . . Emergency Service guys couldn't get a clear shot at him because they were shooting over their protective shields."
The cops wounded the psycho, but Phil laughed when he recalled, "Later, he told us, 'If I had known you guys were such bad shots, I would have done the job myself.' "
Like so many cops, he's had his moments when he thought the end was certainly near.
Martin Yamin, former Circuit Court judge from Baltimore, went to the dark side and became a stick-up man.
Panzarella remembers their confrontation:
"At the top of one flight of stairs, this guy appears above us and has a clear shot. He pulls the trigger, nothing. We take him down."
Luckily, the trigger guard jammed - or else we'd have lost one of our best."
Many who attempt suicide-by-cop are similarly unimpressed, and "Please stop shooting me, it hurts," is a fairly common plea. The weapon Martin Yamin used on the day in question was an illegally modified Ruger Mini 14. It did not have a trigger guard. The cartridge hung up and failed to chamber. After 41 years, Phil Panzarella was famous for two things. He could talk the white off of freshly fallen snow, and didn't know a gun from a broomstick. In other words, typical NYPD.