http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/
video-gauss-gp-219-silent-electromagnetic-pistol
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The Gauss GP-219 is an electromagnetic pistol that boasts a “PIC microcontroller, dual coils with “precision pulsing” to fire steel projectiles, twin infrared sensors to assist in positioning, and even a laser sight to keep your enemies pegged.”
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Guess the gun grabbers will have to write some new “laws”!
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Boy, 15, Charged With Driving Stolen Bus
Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:21 AM EST
Associated Press
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FERN PARK, FLA. — A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to four years in a juvenile treatment program after deputies stopped him driving a stolen bus along a public transit route, picking up passengers and collecting fares.
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Let’s get this right. He drove the bus safely. Safer than some cops, politicians, and driving instructors. But society will jail. And, the reason is? Wouldn’t a better “punishment” be to give him a job?
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance100.html
They Won’t Be Home for Christmas
by Laurence M. Vance
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The war in Iraq is lost. Although the president won’t admit that we are losing, he did recently acknowledge: “We’re not winning.” But the war has been lost for some time now. Even many who supported the initial invasion would agree with those of us who opposed the war from the very beginning that the point has long since passed the place where the United States could claim “victory” in Iraq. That point can now be measured in years. Wasn’t it in 2003 that Bush made the claim, in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner, that “the United States and our allies have prevailed”? Although the death of every American soldier in Iraq has been a tragic waste of human life, every day that this senseless war continues makes the deaths of U.S. servicemen even more of a heartrending tragedy.
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Get the boys and girls home now! It’s a mess. But, it’s now the Iraqis’ mess.
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Argh! When you click on a menu like File or Tool, I have to run the mouse pointer down the menu to see all the choices. They are their buy just invisible. Once the pointer passes over them, they stay visible. A new for of microsoft security? I’ll reboot when I have time, but that’s a hassle. And, every once and awhile, I get a worse problem. Argh!
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This is passing along the “gun nut” groups:
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The Surfing The Apocalypse Network
THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE
Posted By: pjbuk
Date: Saturday, 23 December 2006, 4:49 p.m.
The Christmas Truce – 1914
On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World
War I, German, British, and French soldiers
disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with “the
enemy” along two-thirds of the Western Front. German
troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches
with signs, “Merry Christmas.” “You no shoot, we no
shoot.”
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Which is most interesting. Do you suppose we can have peace among men of good will by just doing it?
I also liked this snip:
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My name is Francis Tolliver, in Liverpool I dwell
Each Christmas come since World War I, I’ve learned its lessons well
That the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lame
And on each end of the rifle we’re the same
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Ain’t that the truth? The politicians that decide our fates live high on the hog for selling us down the river.
Where are the George Washingtons, the Jeffersons, and the dollar a year men?
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http://reason.com/blog/show/117494.html
Man Arrested for Allergies
Radley Balko | December 24, 2006, 9:06am
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Those stupid over-the-counter meth laws claim an early innocent victim
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If this wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.
It makes no sense. Makes criminals out of good people. Kills children through “ad drugs” and collateral damage. AND, it takes away all our rights.
Let’s let the drug dealers compete with WalMart. Let everyone worry about their own problems. Get the gooferment out of our medicine chests. Prohibition of Alcohol didn’t work! It only took less than a decade for the people to recognize it.
End the “Drug War” now! It’s a bad joke.
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VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: A mission for further economic ruin
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How do we know the dollar supply is going up at 10 percent a year? We can’t be positive — Mr. Bernanke’s gang decided last February that we peasants no longer need to see this number, known as the “M-3 monetary aggregate.” But 10 percent is a reasonable extrapolation from other numbers still reported, and from what the Fed was doing 10 months ago — with even more furious printing activity likely to follow, as the proud authors of the Washington Fiscal Death Spiral seek to inflate their way out of the actuarial bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security.
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Of the three things we need — honest money, private schools, and ending the dole — this article address the dishonest money we are currently using. At 10% inflation, we can’t keep anything. No wonder that real estate, stocks, collectibles, and commodities are off the chart!
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http://wikisummaries.org/Main_Page
WikiSummaries
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Free book summaries from WikiSummaries, that anyone can edit! WikiSummaries.org provides free summaries of books, plays and other written documents. This complements Wikipedia, which is already an excellent source of information on authors and brief book summaries. Where Wikipedia leaves off, WikiSummaries will continue with character profiles, detailed chapter summaries, study questions, important quotes, analysis of metaphor and symbolism, etc.
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Neat idea. Only 37 titles to start but … look at wikopedia!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.legacy.com/TimesDispatch/GB/GuestbookEntry
http://obit.edwardsanddowdle.com/
Hey morbid topic, but technology is where you find it!
I do my “alumni news”. Part of doing that is reporting obits.
(Side note: Some folks have accomplished great things. Some have pages written about them. Some sadly have nothing. Don’t you wonder what yours will be? That’s a ghoulish idea for a biz!?!)
In doing this duty, I usually put in a small note as a fellow alum. (many times it’s the only one!), and I notice that Legacy is the big player. By my eye and unstatistically, they have 80% of what I see. They’ve even figured some different ways to monetize the biz. Extra charge to post a photo. Extra charge to keep it up for a year. Extra charge to keep it up forever. I’ve wondered what they charge. Just out of curiosity.
But today, I found a Funeral Home that has essentially duplicated the function. SO it was cheaper for them to pay to do their own then to pay Legacy.
Interesting?
Was to me.
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http://www.elpasotimes.com/election/ci_4887745
Pelosi says no to C-SPAN request on floor proceedings
Associated Press
Article Launched: 12/22/2006 04:38:28 PM MST
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WASHINGTON — Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi cited the need to preserve the ”dignity and decorum” of the House as she rejected a request Friday that C-SPAN operate its own cameras in covering the chamber.
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Yea, we wouldn’t want to see the bozos oggling the young girls and boys. Or, sell themselves like the whores they are. And, that is really insulting all the whores out there. No politicians make used car salesmen look like the paragons of honesty.
This is a joke!
The serfs have no right to see their “elected” representatives in action!
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FJohn Reinke
Consultant at Technology Legacies LLC
Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
JJ Positraction JJ Endnotes Downsize DC
Philosophy of Liberty
I have NOT received any gagged governmental information requests
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