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TECHNOLOGY
WANT TO KNOW WHY GANGSTERS HOLD GUNS SIDEWAYS? THIS MARINE MAY HAVE THE ANSWER
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 2:45pm by Liz Klimas Print »Email »
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In nearly all movies involving “gangsters” with guns, you’re bound to see the firearm cocked sideways.
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The technique for proper shooting that Davis recommends is called “building a castle.“ He writes on the site that the castel is built by ”lining up the three ‘turrets’” –that is the turrets on the top of the gun — with the intended target, making sure they are level and evenly paced.
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Because the uneducated and unpeacticed have no clue what they are doing. Some range time would quickly show them that the proper technique taught for a hundred years is correct.
If you want to hit your target, rather than “look kool”!
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Two very gracious people!
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Rory McIlroy’s mistake as Europe steal Ryder Cup after tee-time error
Late scare for Ulsterman but Europeans pull off Miracle at Medinah
By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Staff Writer
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Rory McIlroy was brought to Medinah in a police car – as Europe stole the Ryder Cup from under American noses!
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Television coverage listed his start time at 12:25pm but that referred to Eastern Standard Time (EST), which is 11:25am Central Time (CT).
He said: “I was just casually strolling out of my hotel room when I got a phone call saying you have 25 minutes.
“I have never been so worried driving to the course. Luckily there was a State Trooper outside who gave me the escort, if not I would not have made it on time.”
Officials confirmed that if McIlroy was two minutes late he would have forfeited the opening hole while five minutes late, he faced disqualification.
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Now bear in mind, I give not a about “golf”, Riders Cup, or any holed up competition between Europe and the USA.
I will correlate the taxpayer’s sad state in Chicago with having “centurions” standing around to provide “escorts”.
Mach nix to me.
But maybe I am just enough of grump to ask why this was provided?
If I’m late to a business meeting does any of the privileged class of our masters give a …
Well you get the idea.
I think there should be an investigation into this. Obviously, the “Statie” fails to understand his duty.
Argh!
I sit here just shaking me head.
Argh!
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http://cafehayek.com/2012/10/spare-us.html
Spare Us
by Don Boudreaux on October 3, 2012
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Where, for example, was Mr. Obama’s empathy and sense of fairness in 2009 for Chrysler’s senior creditors – people he bullied into accepting fewer cents on the dollar than they were entitled to receive under long-established tenets of bankruptcy law? Mr. Obama’s “empathy” for the UAW – junior creditors (and political supporters) who gained what was stripped from the senior creditors – hardly excuses his lack of empathy for the senior creditors (and, by the way, also U.S. taxpayers) victimized by his political opportunism.
Much worse: where is Mr. Obama’s “empathy” for the hundreds of innocent Pakistanis killed – and the thousands daily terrorized – by the drone strikes that he authorizes? As The Atlantic‘s Conor Friedersdorf now-famously explained, “Women cower in their homes. Children are kept out of school. The stress they endure gives them psychiatric disorders. Men are driven crazy by an inability to sleep as drones buzz overhead 24 hours a day, a deadly strike possible at any moment. At worst, this policy creates more terrorists than it kills; at best, America is ruining the lives of thousands of innocent people and killing hundreds of innocents for a small increase in safety from terrorists. It is a cowardly, immoral, and illegal policy, deliberately cloaked in opportunistic secrecy.”*
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Obama “screwed” my wife. Yup, she had GM Bonds in her retirement portfolio. She got NOTHING for them. Was it everything she had? Of course not, she was too smart to put more than one egg in any basket. But, it hurt her. Reminded her of childhood poverty. Apolitical all her life, she was torqued.
For me, as I became more anti-war as I got older and wiser, the war and killing of innocents was most objectionable. Candidate Obama hammered Bush43 on water boarding. Seems like murder is worse to me.
Argh!
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http://lewrockwell.com/woods/woods201.html
I Was Fooled by the War-Makers
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn’t know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian.
Like most people, I was unaware that any alternative to those two choices existed, or that in some ways they were two sides of a common statist coin. In particular, I embraced a neoconservative foreign policy with gusto. The way to show you weren’t a commie was by supporting the U.S. military as it doled out summary justice to bad guys all over the world. And frankly, it was exciting to watch it all unfold on TV.
I never gave the human cost of war a second thought and became impatient with anyone who did. War was like a video game I could enjoy from the comfort of my home. Devastation and human suffering were quite beside the point: the righteous U.S. government was dispensing justice to the wicked, and that was that. What are you, a liberal?
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Mothers and fathers were crying themselves to exhaustion over children they had lost, or who, worse still, were dying agonizing deaths before their very eyes. There is no worse anguish for parents than to watch their children suffer and to be helpless to do anything about it.
Was it really right that we Americans should meanwhile be celebrating with a Bob Hope special, and – on cue – flattered by the ceaseless reminders that ours was the awesomest country ever?
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How can anyone be for war?
How can anyone support BHO44’s “drone war”?
How do we explain the deaths of 2,000 American youths?
Sorry, but I too was once fooled by the welfare / warfare state!
This scale of killing was never envisioned by the Constitution. The political class doesn’t even follow these supposed limits. How was war in Libya declared? By Presidential fiat!
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Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Allston gets a personal gift from Taylor Swift
Boston.com
The local public school made national news in August when internet trolls on 4chan and Reddit began nominating Horace Mann to win a Papa John’s and Chegg-sponsored contest that would send pop singer Taylor Swift to perform at the school with the …
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You have to admit that the inet trolls have a sense of humor!
That’s “my” girl. She’ to savvy. (Or her marketing team is?) To let this “challenge” go unanswered.
I’d still suggest that she do the concert. What better way to insure she’s “america’s sweetheart”.
I wouldn’t make a big deal of it. Maybe a “surprise one” like the one at Auburn.
And it’s is close to Conor?
LOL!
(What do you want from a fat old white guy injineer with no life?)
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remember Pete;s grandson went to the hospital for blood coming out from where it wasn’t supposed to be coming out.
good news, it’s a virus from his parakeet. doing tests to confirm but he’s doing much better.
too bad for the bird. squab anyone?
don’t comment, the child’s parents are arranging a suitable adoption.
… for the bird; not the child.
I, of course, recommend a long list of politicians and bureaucrats to send the “typhoid bird” to.
Of course, there are always hungry gators who love “chicken”.
sigh, it’s good that it’s not serious. been that route too many times.
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http://www.therumble2012.com/index.html
Bill O’Reilly. Jon Stewart. 2 podiums. 1 Air-Conditioned Auditorium. “O’Reilly v Stewart 2012: The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium” will be streamed live, Saturday, October 6th at 8pm ET from Lisner Auditorium at The George Washington University. O’Reilly and Stewart will take an entertaining and comedic approach to today’s pressing political issues in an attempt to find the best direction for America. “The Rumble 2012” will surely be a must-see event! If you pre-order by October 1st, you can suggest a question that Jon and Bill may answer during the debate. Pre-Order Now to be a part of the action!
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MY question:
How can we get the girls and boys home from AfPak and Iraq? Only Ron Paul gave us a choice to get them out. With him out and basically BHO43 and Mitt have the same non-policy. The “anti-war” movement has been shown to be astroturf for the democrats. But the Taft wing of the R’s was definitely an anti war tradition. Given the blood and treasure wasted, how do “we” get out? Viet Nam, Republic of taught “We, The Sheeple” nothing!
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Praying for her safe return! This should be a region-wide priority!
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NIC #: M480980789
Last Name: Vasquez
First Name: Lizbeth
Age: 10
Gender: Female
Height: 4’1″
Weight: 120-130 Pounds
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Complexion: Light
Race: Hispanic
Date of birth: 06/05/2002
Date of last contact: 10/03/2012 1530HRS
********Lizbeth was last seen on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 1530 HRS leaving the Anastasia
School at 95 Seventh Avenue in Long Branch, NJ (Monmouth County).*********
********She was last seen wearing a grey sweatshirt, a green polo shirt with a patch of the Anastasia
school logo, tan pants, and grey Jordan sneakers. She also has a black back pack in her
possession.**********
THE PHOTO ABOVE IS OVER 2 YEARS OLD BUT LIZBETH DOES CURRENTLY LOOK THE
SAME
ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT LONG BRANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT AT
#732-222-1000 OR NJSP MISSING PERSONS UNIT AT #800-709-7090.
THIS CHILD CAN ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE STATE WEBSITE AT:
WWW.NJSP.ORG (under the MP icon).
LONG BRANCH PD #732-222-1000
NJSP MPU #800-709-7090
Instructions:
ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT LONG BRANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT AT #732-222-1000 OR NJSP MISSING PERSONS UNIT AT #800-709-7090.
For full details, view this message on the web.
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NIC #: M480980789
Last Name: Vasquez
First Name: Lizbeth
Age: 10
Gender: Female
Height: 4’1″
Weight: 120-130 Pounds
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Complexion: Light
Race: Hispanic
Date of birth: 06/05/2002
Date of last contact: 10/03/2012 1530HRS
********Lizbeth was last seen on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 1530 HRS leaving the Anastasia
School at 95 Seventh Avenue in Long Branch, NJ (Monmouth County).*********
********She was last seen wearing a grey sweatshirt, a green polo shirt with a patch of the Anastasia
school logo, tan pants, and grey Jordan sneakers. She also has a black back pack in her
possession.**********
THE PHOTO ABOVE IS OVER 2 YEARS OLD BUT LIZBETH DOES CURRENTLY LOOK THE
SAME
ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT LONG BRANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT AT
#732-222-1000 OR NJSP MISSING PERSONS UNIT AT #800-709-7090.
THIS CHILD CAN ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE STATE WEBSITE AT:
WWW.NJSP.ORG (under the MP icon).
LONG BRANCH PD #732-222-1000
NJSP MPU #800-709-7090
Instructions:
ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT LONG BRANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT AT #732-222-1000 OR NJSP MISSING PERSONS UNIT AT #800-709-7090.
For full details, view this message on the web.
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http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/10/bamboozled_red_light_camera_er.html
Bamboozled: Red-light camera error leads to road of exasperation in Edison
Published: Monday, October 01, 2012, 9:16 AM Updated: Monday, October 01, 2012, 9:43 AM
Karin Price Mueller/The Star-Ledger By Karin Price Mueller/The Star-Ledger
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In March 2010, Lauren Morosoff packed her stuff into her 2008 Scion TC and moved from Kendall Park to Colorado for a job opportunity.
Unsure of how long she’d stay in Colorado, the 27-year-old kept her New Jersey driver’s license and license plates.
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But a few days later, the Morosoffs had a change of heart — not because they felt they were wrong — but because of pure economics.
The cost to file an appeal is $75, plus transcription fees, and they’d have added costs to send the documents “certified mail.”
“It seems like Lauren might have to appear in court and with the cost of airfare over $400 and the time she’d have to miss from work, it’s not financially feasible,” Morosoff said. “I suppose she could hire a lawyer to represent her, but I can’t imagine what his fees would be.”
Simply paying the fines would be far less costly, unless an attorney would take her case pro bono.
“This really eliminates any faith I had in our judicial system,” Terri Morosoff said.
“We cannot even trust our own state to do the right thing. I feel very sorry for all New Jersey and non-New Jersey drivers out there,” she said.
“Who knows how many others have received bogus tickets and were forced to pay them?”
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BANKING
Is It Stupid to Save? 5 Alternatives
With low interest rates here to stay, we look at options that can beat putting money in the bank.
http://www.smartmoney.com/plan/banking/is-it-stupid-to-save-5-alternatives-1348525179055/?cid=djem_sm_WeekontheStreet_t
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I find it amusing when articles give financial advice without any context. No that I’m a financial guru. But at least I’d stratified my advice into some tiers:
dirt poor — you should be focusing on burn rate and “months of cushion”
poor — you should be focused on pyramid and how you establish a basis going forward
young family man — should be thinking insurance and home ownership
youngsters — save your nickels and develop 10 part time jobs
… … before you start worrying about savings rates!!!
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http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/26/1621200/california-legalizes-self-driving-cars
California Legalizes Self Driving Cars
Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday September 26, @12:36PM
from the third-place-leaders-of-the-free-world dept.
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Hugh Pickens writes writes “The Seattle PI reports that California has become the third state to explicitly legalize driverless vehicles, setting the stage for computers to take the wheel along the state’s highways and roads … ‘Today we’re looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow’s reality,’ said Gov. Brown. ‘This self-driving car is another step forward in this long, march of California pioneering the future and leading not just the country, but the whole world.’ The law immediately allows for testing of the vehicles on public roadways, so long as properly licensed drivers are seated at the wheel and able to take over. It also lays out a roadmap for manufacturers to seek permits from the DMV to build and sell driverless cars to consumers. Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Automotive Research points to a statistical basis for safety that the DMV might consider as it begins to develop standards: ‘Google’s cars would need to drive themselves (by themselves) more than 725,000 representative miles without incident for us to say with 99 percent confidence that they crash less frequently than conventional cars. If we look only at fatal crashes, this minimum skyrockets to 300 million miles. To my knowledge, Google has yet to reach these milestones.'”
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I’d buy one of those if they are available for sale here!
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http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/taylor-swift-love-life-17371914
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/taylor-swift-glamours-cover-girl-17371916
A fun experience was interrupted by the garish “commercials” pro-Obama anti-Romney 47%.
This brought an interesting thought: is ABC’s website providing propaganda support?
How is that accounted for to its stockholders?
Reported to the FEC?
Just seems odd to me. Revisited the site at random and got the same ad. Considering that the underlying story is “youth oriented” maybe this is an another “thumb on the scale” attempt.
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DEUTSCHE BANK: Western Economies Are Screwed, And Investors Face A ‘Disturbing Paradox’
Matthew Boesler | Sep. 20, 2012, 12:54 PM
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In a new report entitled Gold: Adjusting For Zero, Deutsche Bank analysts Daniel Brebner and Xiao Fu paint an incredibly dark picture of the bind the global economy is in right now.
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Regardless of who wins the US elections, we are faced with a situation of Japan in the 80’s. It will take two generations to unwind the excesses of the past half decade.
At some point in time, “We, The Sheeple” will recognize that they are being killed; not merely shorn.
That’s when the merry go round stops.
Gold, or nickels, is your best bet to survive.
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Posted by reinkefj
Couple sues Fox game show after losing $580,000 ‘despite answering question correctly’
By Hugo Gye
PUBLISHED: 00:44 EST, 25 September 2012 | UPDATED: 05:31 EST, 25 September 2012
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A couple who appeared on a short-lived Fox game show are suing the producers two years later, claiming that they were denied more than half a million dollars despite answering a crucial question correctly.
Andrew and Patricia Murray, who are both airline pilots, were contestants on Million Dollar Money Drop in December 2010.
They now claim the question which lost them the chance to win $580,000 was incorrect and was ultimately a ‘trick question’, according to TMZ.
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Entertaining when they blow it.
Interesting if they recover.
Is there an insurance company behind the lawsuit?
Did they have a hand in the staging of questions that would keep the payoffs low?
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Sep 30, 11:43 AM EDT
US and Afghan forces clash, leaving 5 dead
By HEIDI VOGT and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A firefight broke out between U.S. forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing two Americans and three Afghan soldiers and pushing the number of U.S. troops killed in the long-running war 2,000.
The fighting started Saturday when what is believed to have been a mortar fired by insurgents struck a checkpoint set up by U.S. forces in Wardak province, said Shahidullah Shahid, a provincial government spokesman. He said the Americans thought they were under attack from a nearby Afghan army checkpoint and fired on it, prompting the Afghan soldiers to return fire.
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Sorry, but are our girls and boys doing in AfPak!
Ron Paul had it right. We can just march out. And, be quick about it.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A firefight broke out between U.S. forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing two Americans and three Afghan soldiers and pushing the number of U.S. troops killed in the long-running war 2,000. The fighting started Saturday when what is believed to have been a mortar fired by insurgents struck a checkpoint set up by U.S. forces in Wardak province, said Shahidullah Shahid, a provincial government spokesman. He said the Americans thought they were under attack from a nearby Afghan army checkpoint and fired on it, prompting the Afghan soldiers to return fire. |
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Posted by reinkefj
From: john
To: Luddite
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:33 PM
Subject: TheBlaze.com – Houston Police Officer Fatally Shoots Unarmed Double Amputee in a Wheelchair
I thought you would like this story from TheBlaze.com
care to comment about your “friends” in blue?
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On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Luddite wrote:
After looking at another one of these, I think where we differ is that you tend to look only at the victim, rather than the circumstances surrounding? Have I summed it up correctly?
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No, I am “shocked” — as in “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — at the result. And, the pattern that keeps repeating over and over and over. The “King” and the “Sheriff’s men” keep abusing the poor Saxon serfs. Where’s our “Robin Hood”? Where is our “George Washington”? Where is our “Zorro”? Unfortunately, we each have to become our own.
I think Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and others have demonstrated the path. Peaceful non-cooperation.
Take a small example, “speed limits”! On every road every day in the USA, the drivers demonstrate a complete disregard for the diktats of the “King”. Tax law is another; the underground economy is huge. Drugs is another.
Us old stuffed shirts have to join “The Resistance”. Maybe we don’t have to blow up bridges and trains like the French did to the Nazis.
Maybe we just refuse to cooperate?
Peacefully, firmly, and, of course, picking our battles.
But all the while, burning with a “revolutionary” fire.
Remember Churchill and Solzhenitsyn
“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Posted by reinkefj
why isn’t the loyalty card app on the ipad?
seems strange to me.
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Crime
63-Year-Old Cancer Patient Armed With a Shotgun Holds Off Home Intruders
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 12:46pm
by Madeleine Morgenstern Madeleine Morgenstern
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Smith said police believe the two picked the front door lock with a credit card and that they found a chair in the woods outside used for staking out the home.
“It’s not a fun experience,” Smith told WOOD. “You don‘t really know what’s really going on and it’s not, it’s not what you might think. It’s not like the movies, you know it‘s pretty serious when you’re holding a gun on somebody.”
He continued, “You don‘t know if they’re gonna pull a gun out or try to take your gun away from you or get you in a corner when you’re forced to shoot them. And I was trying to keep that from happening.”
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He’d have done them a favor by blowing them away.
Yeah, I know that’s a terrible thing to say. Would they be so charitable to him? Or to his wife if they caught his wife at home alone?
Breaking into a home is very serious.
Note that it took “five minutes” for the police to get there. The gun was there when needed.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-france-budget-idUSBRE88R0AK20120928
France taxes rich and business to slash deficit
By Daniel Flynn and Leigh Thomas
PARIS | Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:49am EDT
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(Reuters) – President Francois Hollande’s Socialist government unveiled sharp tax hikes on business and the rich on Friday in a 2013 budget aimed at showing France has the fiscal rigor to remain at the core of the euro zone.
The package will recoup 30 billion euros ($39 billion) for the public purse with a goal of narrowing the deficit to 3.0 percent of national output next year from 4.5 percent this year – France’s toughest single belt-tightening in 30 years.
But with record unemployment and a barrage of data pointing to economic stagnation, there are fears the deficit target will slip as France falls short of the modest 0.8 percent economic growth rate on which it is banking for next year.
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Here’s a country that’s going be a laboratory for high tax rates.
Better them than us.
The USA has growth rate below 2 and the true unemployment rate (U6) above 15%.
The Gooferment deficit, debt, and spending are spinning out of control; the Senate doesn’t even deign to do a budget.
I’m no fan of either party’s offering. But four more years of European style Gooferment is going to push the economy over the edge.
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http://www.ricedelman.com/cs/pressroom/pressroom_detail?pressrelease.id=3268
Against All Odds
For Immediate Release
September 21, 2012
If you insist on playing the lottery, make sure you know the true risks and downsides.
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When you step outside your home, are you afraid of being struck by lightning? Of course not. You know the chances are remote.
But you were more likely to be hit by lightning twice than you were to win the top prize in the Mega Millions lottery jackpot when it paid a record $640 million recently. Indeed, you were 176 times more likely to be struck and killed by lightning than to win that jackpot, four times more likely to be killed by fireworks and nine times more likely to die from a television falling on your head.
Just so we’re clear, I’m not a big fan of buying lottery tickets. Essentially they are a tax on the stupid. Because of the infinitesimal odds against winning, you’re giving dollars to the government for nothing in return.
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Sadly, those who spend hundreds of dollars annually hoping to become an overnight multimillionaire will never achieve the riches they seek. But if they instead placed that money into the average stock mutual fund every day for 45 years, they would indeed become wealthy.
It’s true: $3 invested every day for 45 years, assuming it grows at the historic 10% annual return that the S&P 500 Stock Index has earned on average since 1926 according to Ibbotson Associates, would be worth nearly $1 million.
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An excellent and perceptive argument against the chronic lottery player.
Some folks are “lucky”. But many “gamblers” I know, even “lucky” ones, avoid the lottery in any form because they are “not lucky at it”.
Most persuasive part of Rick’s indictment is that $3 / day makes you a millionaire in 45 years!
I didn’t realize that. Wish I had 45 years ago.
I do remember some NYC bank had the adage “small leaks sink great ships” embossed on its passbook savings. Maybe it should have been “three bucks a day makes you a millionaire in 45 years”.
Do Americans save ANYTHING any more?
I also noticed today driving through a “poor section” of town that everyone I saw was smoking. Hmmm, a causal relation?
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http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20570219,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
Andy Williams, ‘Moon River’ Singer, Dies at 84
By Stephen M. Silverman
09/26/2012 at 09:30 AM EDT
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My Mom, my Grandmother, and My Mother-In-Law all “loved” him.
Sad!
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“Our long national nightmare is over!. — Bernard McGirk on the Don Imus show about the regular refs coming back to work
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We have so many problems. Serious problems — unemployment, deficit, debt, crime in Chicago, immigration, … … California finances, crony capitalism … …
… … where in this list is “replacement refs”?
Argh!
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Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots
Posted by timothy on Saturday September 22, @10:28AM
from the it’s-the-little-things dept.
doug141 writes “A Colorado county put bar codes on printed ballots in a last minute effort to comply with a rule about eliminating identifying markings. Citizens sued, because the bar codes can still be traced back to individual voters. In a surprise ruling, Denver U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello said the U.S. Constitution did not contain a ‘fundamental right’ to secret ballots, and that the citizens could not show their voting rights had been violated, nor that they might suffer any specific injury from the bar codes.”
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Are you kidding me?
Seems like a fundamental protection is being violated here.
Maybe it’s just me.
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