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"Right-handed people are left-brain dominant, meaning that left-handed people are the only ones in their right minds.This follows through with the eyes as well, but the eye on your dominant side isn’t necessarily your dominant eye. ...Bring your index fingers and thumbs together at arm’s length making an “o,” focusing on an object beyond that distance. Bring your hands, still in this position, back to your face. The eye that looks through the “o” is your dominant eye." |
The Penn is Mightier Than the Rest of Us
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"Every Californian should appeal to their so-called leaders to close this 'loophole' in the law that allows people like Sean Penn to carry a firearm while subjecting the majority of citizens to just bend over and take it. We all deserve equal protection under the law, and no one is entitled to be placed above the law…especially people like Sean Penn. This kind of vile hypocrisy must end." |
Congress is profiteering on the war by funding special interests
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"The bill funding the war in Iraq has become jam- packed with so many special-interest favors -- such as a $250 million grant for Southern catfish farmers -- that Congress should be ashamed to vote for it, the Libertarian Party says."
" 'Unfortunately, wartime looting isn't confined to Iraq,' said Geoffrey Neale, the party's national chairman. 'Politicians in Washington, DC, are using the fog of late-night legislating to cover their tracks as they funnel money to their political supporters.' " |
Australia: Collectors up in arms
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"Owners of antique pistols will be forced to undergo safety training, fingerprinting and required to install monitored alarms under guns laws before State Parliament."
"Collectors of historical and heritage pistols are calling on federal and state governments to reverse a decision to impose the new licence and registration rules as part of the national hand gun ban to begin on July 1." |
Australia: Stabbing death, two shootings
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"A man was murdered in a gang attack, police shot a man and a youth was gunned down outside his home in a spate of incidents in Sydney last night."
"A police officer shot and critically wounded a man in the stomach after the man lunged at a female constable with a 30cm butcher's knife."
"It is believed the man was threatening to harm a woman sitting in her parked car with friends at a reserve in George St, Parramatta. She escaped unharmed and alerted police." |
MO: Probe Continues into How Loaded Gun Made it Onto Plane
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"Investigators spent Saturday trying to determine how a loaded gun made it onto an airplane in checked luggage that belonged to a woman now in custody in Kansas City."
"The FBI doesn't think the woman under arrest -- 50-year-old Brenda Rhae-Lasne of Key West, Fla. -- meant any harm." |
Iraq: Armed militias form in Mosul
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"Fearful of marauding gangs of looters, thieves and arsonists, Arab residents in Iraq's third-largest city formed armed militias on Sunday in a desperate attempt to protect their homes, shops and families." ...
" 'These people setting up their own private militias and checkpoints are childish and stupid,' said Sheikh Badr Al-Hilali... 'Most of them don't even know how to use a gun. They are performing a stage-play that's a mockery of law and order. The allies have to stop this.' "
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Typical tyrant wannabes. Advocating disarmament of people whose desire is to take personal responsibility for their safety and their livelihoods. |
In wartime, civil liberties can be limited in U.S.
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"The courts have long said the government’s authority to limit civil liberties is greater in war than in peacetime. Typically, restrictions are imposed under the premise of national security or prohibiting actions that could interfere with war."
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NV: Lawsuit Aims to Ban Anti-Tax Book
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"The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada filed a brief in Schiff's case in which it distanced itself from Schiff's tax position but defended his right to publish them."
"The government agrees that most of the book is 'political diatribe,' and says Schiff is free to publish that part if he excises the chapter on how to avoid paying income taxes." |
Iraq: Iraqis blame looting, lawlessness on U.S.
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"U.S. forces say they are doing the best they can under chaotic conditions - chaos, many Iraqis point out, that the United States itself created. Few praised Saddam. But at least, they said, he offered stability." ...
"Residents, fearing looting would move on to private homes, set up neighborhood patrols to prevent it. One family put a girder across the street at the end of their block and stood by it with guns." |
Life of a teen-age taxpayer
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"Lastly, I am 14 years old. Memo to government: That's a whole four years under 18. What happens when you turn 18? Hopefully you register to vote, but primarily, you have the right to vote at that age. So, what exactly does that mean? It means that I am a minor, too young to vote, and I must pay federal and state income taxes to a government that does not represent me."
"A few hundred years ago, some angry men had a party of some sorts and threw tea into the Boston Harbor. Those patriots called it 'taxation without representation.' "
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NV: Just Pay Your Taxes, and Shut Up; Book Banning Remains in Effect
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"That's right - We're banning books in the Land of the Brave, and Home of the Free."
"But 'freedom is not free', as we are told. Hence, we have to pay for it. So when Irwin Schiff, one of the most well-known un-jailed tax protesters to date, promotes his book, 'The Federal Mafia: How It Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes,' action must be taken to protect 'our freedom.' "
"Enter the federal government - defenders of freedom." |
Total Information Awareness Project Undergoes First Test
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"Lt. Col. Doug Dyer, a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), said at an IBM-sponsored conference on data privacy in Almaden, Calif., this week that Americans must trade some privacy for security. 'Three thousand people died on 9/11. When you consider the potential effect of a terrorist attack against the privacy of an entire population, there has to be some trade-off,' Dyer says." |
Jihad Las Vegas: True Homeland Insecurity
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"And so now, we're 'surprised' there was a possibility of a terrorist attack in Las Vegas, which happens to be home to the second largest hotel in the world, and where (as we were told) the 9/11 hijackers had fun and frivolities before turning the World Trade Center into a salvage yard?" ...
"... apparently, the matter was deferred to the FBI - no one wanted to hear about it. Bad for business, as they say. In this author's opinion, the most classic case of butt covering we've ever seen." ... |
The "Patriot" Act II: Terrorizing the American people
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"A couple of threshold observations:
First: Three thousand people died on 9/11. While this is a tragedy of immense proportions, it is important to remember that perhaps as many as 100,000,000 people were killed during the 20th century by despotic governments given totalitarian powers. Americans who believe 'it can't happen here' should consider how federalizing police powers resulted in tragic consequences in places like Ruby Ridge, Idaho and Waco, Texas." |
CA: Sean Penn's car recovered; guns missing
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"Sean Penn's stolen 1987 Buick Grand National has been recovered by police, but two guns that were inside the car remain missing."
"The car was found Saturday in Richmond, about nine miles from the Berkeley street where it was stolen Tuesday."
"A loaded 9mm Glock handgun and a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver that were left inside the car haven't been found, Richmond police Sgt. Enos Johnson said." |
AL: Ex-police officer's murder trial starts Monday
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"A former Pelham police officer will go on trial Monday on charges he helped his wife kill her ex-husband and his new wife."
"Jeff McCord, 33, is charged with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Alan and Terra Bates. Prosecutors contend the McCords shot and torched the Bateses amid a protracted visitation battle between Jessica McCord and Alan Bates, who shared two daughters." |
NV: POLICE POLICY: Off-duty chase spurs call for change
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"A series of about a dozen incidents in which Sanchez was pursued and yelled at by a driver whom he did not know was a police officer escalated in October into a dangerous high-speed chase near Eldorado High School."
"The incident landed Sanchez in the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center and Las Vegas police officer Ed Shoemaker under investigation by both Internal Affairs and the Citizen Review Board, the civilian panel that independently investigates police misconduct allegations." |
CA: Swarm of state fees proposed
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"Confronted with a historic budget deficit, state lawmakers and Gov. Gray Davis are preparing to literally nickel and dime Californians, with scattershot fees and tax hikes."
"New surcharges could be imposed on lightbulbs, beer, diapers, bullets, airplanes, bottled water, guns, dry cleaning, cigarettes, medical licenses, earthquake insurance, oil, hunting and fishing licenses, marriage counselors, nursing homes, imported electricity, public colleges, mercury lamps, cell phones, satellite TVs, library books, landscaping, court documents, lumber and delinted cottonseed." |
TN: Officer indicted for arresting four who wouldn't board bus
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"A Murfreesboro police lieutenant who arrested four people for refusing to board the school bus he was driving was indicted last week on 11 criminal charges." ...
"Randolph has been charged with four counts of false imprisonment, a misdemeanor; and with felony charges that include four counts of official oppression, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, according to records obtained from the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department." ... |
Mexico: Food for guns offered in Mexico
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... "Students at Matamoros high schools and middle schools said guns and switchblades are prevalent on campuses there."
"Some said they carry weapons for protection. Others simply said the weapons make them feel ‘cool.’ "
"In order to reduce the presence of illegal guns in Matamoros, Mexico’s National Defense Department (SEDENA) and the Matamoros police department reintroduced a now-annual campaign encouraging residents to exchange their firearms for food coupons." |
Australia: Collectors fear looming gun law
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"Australia's military heritage is disappearing into private overseas collections as collectors of antique guns shed their pistols ahead of a national crackdown, arms collectors said last week."
"The Arms Collectors Guild of Tasmania said that rare pistols worth tens of thousands of dollars had already come up for sale in the UK in the past few weeks as owners tried to cash in their collections before firearm registration slashed their value." |
WA: Guns Stolen from Show
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" 'Very well orchestrated,' is how Spokane County Sheriffs' detectives describe the theft of more than a dozen semi-automatic handguns at a recent gun show."
"Fourteen semi-automatic handguns were taken from three vendors at the Spokane County Fairgrounds last weekend. Two security guards on duty that night saw nothing, and News4 has learned there was no sign of forced entry. Captain Cal Walker says he is not ruling out the possibility of an inside job." |
Australia: Police seek national crossbow ban
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"NSW Police Minister John Watkins will seek a national ban on all crossbows following an attack which seriously injured two schoolgirls near Port Stephens, north of Newcastle."
"A 16-year-old boy was charged with attempted murder over the April 3 incident at Salamander Bay's Tomaree High School, in which 16-year-old Tamara Sharp was shot through the chest with a crossbow bolt."
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MT: Teen who was shot after alleged car break-in dies
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"Samuel Alan Yates, 43, appeared in Justice Court on Friday on a charge of attempted murder and is being held in the Missoula County jail on $100,000 bail."
"Yates told police he heard noises outside his house at about midnight Thursday, and looked out the window to see the young man in his vehicle, court documents said. Yates confronted the young man -- who apparently turned to run away -- then fired once with a .357 Magnum revolver, hitting him in the back of the head from a distance of about three feet."
"The 5-foot-6, 120-pound teen was unarmed, but Yates' attorney said his client felt threatened and was trying to protect himself and his two children, ages 10 and 16." |
Firearms and the Fortune 500
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"Something about the Fortune list particularly interesting to me was the fact that it includes no gun makers. Not that I expected any. It could be the Fortune 1000 or maybe even 2000, and there wouldn't be any gun makers on it."
"But if there had been a Fortune 500 in the 1880s and '90s, names like Winchester, Remington, Marlin, Smith & Wesson and Colt would've been near the top of it. Most Americans were so poor in those days that the $15 to $20 price tag on a quality rifle or handgun represented a huge expenditure."
"In fact, hardly anything the average family bought in those days required as large a lump-sum outlay as a firearm. Yet rare was the home that didn't hold at least one gun, and most were repositories for multiple weapons. As a result, gun makers were among the most profitable of enterprises and were practically unequaled in name recognition and consumer respect." |
MO: FBI Takes Woman Into Custody at KCI
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"A gun inside a bag accidentally discharged at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Friday, injuring an American Airlines employee, officials said."
"The worker was shot in the foot when the gun discharged at a ramp area in Terminal C about 11:30 a.m., an airport spokeswoman said. The worker was treated at a Grapevine hospital and later released." |
UK: Gun haul not to be rifled with
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"Sixty-six of the weapons were .22 Rim-Fire rifles, says Insp. Davies. Though elderly, they are still classified as 'section one' firearms by cops."
"Insp. Davies said: 'I think they were often used by aristocracy, out of hunting season, on city ranges.' "
" 'They're in safe hands now!' "
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Japan: Young couple forced at gunpoint into 10-hour joyride
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"A runaway youth has been arrested for threatening a young couple with an air gun and forcing them to drive around Miyagi Prefecture for 10 hours, police said Sunday."
"The 19-year-old youth, whose name is being withheld, was arrested Saturday morning when he fell asleep on the backseat of the confined couple's car, allowing them to raise the alarm." |
In surprise move, Bush backs renewing ban on assault weapons
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"The Bush administration is bucking the National Rifle Association and supporting a renewal of the assault-weapons ban, set to expire just before the presidential election." ...
"Tossing out the ban on semiautomatic weapons is a top priority for the NRA. President Bush said during his presidential campaign that he supported the current ban, but it was less clear whether he would support an extension." |
Maybe we should ask if men should go into combat
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"Parris Island was a hellhole, but we didn't mind. We were going to graduate and become, by God, Marines. Most of our platoon of 80 endured the classes, grueling physical training, drills, food, utter lack of privacy and homesickness, just as the men did. Most of us suffered through the gas chamber, the battery of inoculations and the creative abuses of our drill instructors, just as the men did." ...
"And there the equality of the sexes ended. Our boot camp was weeks shorter than the men's, because they had to qualify with firearms. We women were shown an M-16 rifle, but the Marine Corps had no intention of letting us fire one, much less issuing M-16s for possible engagement with an enemy. The extent of our hand-to-hand combat training was not structured with threats to the United States in mind."
"On the contrary, we were taught how to defend our virtue from fellow Marines in the event of sexual assault." ...
"To those second-guessing pseudo-feminists who would cast doubts upon the appropriateness of having the 'weaker sex' take active roles in combat, I suggest you stand firm in your passivity and butt out. Uncle Sam neither wants nor needs you. Or to put it anachronistically: Ladies, don't worry your pretty little heads about it." |
What the hell is wrong with women?
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"These supposed women’s groups don’t care about you. They don’t care about your capabilities, your strengths or your will to live. They care about prostrating you at the altar of self-destruction. They care about enslaving you and using your own ignorance as chains to bind you. They claim to work for the equality of the genders, and yet shun the great equalizer – armed self-defense. They assert that the only way to truly protect you is to take away the most effective means of protection available to you. They claim you are just as intelligent, capable and independent as men, but they work to prove you otherwise. In other words: THEY LIE. Remember that next time you support their obscene cause." |
NE: State trooper abuse case goes to trial
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"Trial in a lawsuit filed by the ex-wife of a state trooper who was accused of domestic abuse began Tuesday in Lincoln County District Court."
"Rhonda Keller filed a lawsuit against the state and the Nebraska State Patrol. She claims her ex-husband, Steve Hauser, physically abused her during their marriage from 1992 to 1999 and that the State Patrol knew it and did not do enough to protect her."
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TX: Off-duty officer opens fire on robbery suspect in NW Houston
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FULL STORY BELOW:
An off-duty Houston police officer shot a man who he says pulled a gun on him overnight.
The deputy was working security at the time in a strip center on Antoine near West Tidwell. A woman who had just been robbed ran up to him and asked for help.
The deputy says when he caught up to the suspect, the man pulled out a gun. The deputy fired his weapon twice, hitting the suspect once.
The suspected robber was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he was in fair condition. |
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