Smith & Wessen .44 Magnum. You are old school. Fat
Sheriff Deputies fancy you. Reliable but not
too practical.
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FOXNews.com - Views: "The Detroit City Council wants to implement an economic development plan that rails against immigrants and non-black minorities and sets aside city money for an exclusively African-American business district, reports the Detroit Free Press.
Members of the council want to adopt a plan dubbed 'Powernomics' that advocates spending taxpayers' money on a business district dubbed African Town. The plan explicitly blames the plight of Detroit's black residents on immigrants from Mexico, Asia and the Middle East.
In voting to implement the Powernomics plan, the council also passed a resolution that designates blacks, who make up 83 percent of Detroit's population, as the 'majority minority' group and another that creates a development corporation that would operate as a loan fund exclusively for black entrepreneurs."
Members of the council want to adopt a plan dubbed 'Powernomics' that advocates spending taxpayers' money on a business district dubbed African Town. The plan explicitly blames the plight of Detroit's black residents on immigrants from Mexico, Asia and the Middle East.
In voting to implement the Powernomics plan, the council also passed a resolution that designates blacks, who make up 83 percent of Detroit's population, as the 'majority minority' group and another that creates a development corporation that would operate as a loan fund exclusively for black entrepreneurs."
Did you know that the Beastie Boys will be playing the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA, on Oct 8?
I didn't. We won't be able to go. But you should!
I didn't. We won't be able to go. But you should!
"Dear Father, I recently graduated from a Catholic university where I studied theology. Scripture was treated merely as a set of historical documents at the university. It was taken to pieces, much of the New Testament attributed to later redactors, and much of it considered made up. Scholars like Bultmann and Hicks were greatly revered.
Having left the college I now find it very difficult to practice the faith, because, if I am honest with myself, I see little reason to remain Christian. "
Having left the college I now find it very difficult to practice the faith, because, if I am honest with myself, I see little reason to remain Christian. "
Welcome to Scripture Catholic - Providing Scriptural Evidence for the Teachings of the Catholic Faith: "Scripture Catholic.com provides over 2,000 Scripture citations from the Old and New Testament that explain and defend the teachings of the Catholic Church. Each citation is followed by a brief exegesis of a point of Catholic teaching and assumes the reader has some understanding of the Protestant position. The site is intended to function as a quick Scriptural reference guide, and must of course be accompanied by further study of the Scriptures, the early Church Fathers and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Hopefully, this easy format serves as a useful tool for the Catholic apologist and others who are interested in the Scriptural basis for the teachings of the Catholic faith. "
My Way - News: "LONDON (Reuters) - The creator of one of the world's most famous guns, the AK-47 assault rifle, launched another weapon in Britain Monday -- Kalashnikov vodka.
Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov, who invented the AK-47 after being shot by German soldiers during World War II, said he wanted to continue "the good name" of his gun.
"I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things," he told Reuters Television.
"So we decided to create a vodka under my name. And we wanted that vodka to be better than anything made, up until now, in both Russia and England."
Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov, who invented the AK-47 after being shot by German soldiers during World War II, said he wanted to continue "the good name" of his gun.
"I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things," he told Reuters Television.
"So we decided to create a vodka under my name. And we wanted that vodka to be better than anything made, up until now, in both Russia and England."
Catholic Online - Featured Today - The Arian Heresy Revisited: "The great danger of the present denial of the sacredness of human life is that it not only demeans the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, it renders meaningless the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. If human life was not made sacred by his Incarnation, why should He have died for it? And having died for it, what was the point if it is now not sacred? "
O.O. says, "Dude, I have Donkey Kong. Come see."
Zorak, seeing the emulator on O.O.'s screen: "That doesn't look like Donkey Kong."
O.O. says, "Yeah, this is a really cheap knock-off. It's Poverty Kong."
Next we turn to Dig Dug.
O.O. says, "I played hours and hours of Dig Dug when I was a kid."
Zorak: "Does our kid get to play hours and hours of Dig Dug?"
O.O.: "Yes, otherwise he won't know anything about Western Civilization. It's about inflating garden animals and sometimes throwing potatoes at them."
Zorak, seeing the emulator on O.O.'s screen: "That doesn't look like Donkey Kong."
O.O. says, "Yeah, this is a really cheap knock-off. It's Poverty Kong."
Next we turn to Dig Dug.
O.O. says, "I played hours and hours of Dig Dug when I was a kid."
Zorak: "Does our kid get to play hours and hours of Dig Dug?"
O.O.: "Yes, otherwise he won't know anything about Western Civilization. It's about inflating garden animals and sometimes throwing potatoes at them."
BBC NEWS | Pill propelled into abortion debate: By Jill McGivering
BBC correspondent in Washington
The birth control pill revolutionised women's health - and grew to become one of the most popular forms of family planning. But it is now under attack from pro-life groups in the US.
A growing number of doctors and pharmacists are now refusing to dispense it, on the grounds that it is actually a form of abortion.
Pro-choice groups fear this new moral objection to the Pill could lead to more unplanned pregnancies, even more abortions.
A woman taking the Pill does not usually release eggs. But occasionally she might - and it is possible that egg could be fertilised.
The hormonal conditions created by the Pill mean, if that happened, the fertilised egg would not be implanted or survive.
Mainstream medicine does not define that as a pregnancy. But some of those strictly against abortion do.
Dr Cynthia Jones-Nosacek - a family doctor in Milwaukee - now refuses to prescribe the Pill. She opposes it on moral grounds, arguing it is a form of abortion.
'The contraceptive pill doesn't always prevent ovulation. As often as 30% of the time, ovulation may occur and if that happens, fertilisation may occur,' Dr Jones-Nosacek says.
'Then there are other mechanisms that can prevent that being from surviving. It's called a chemical abortion.' "
BBC correspondent in Washington
The birth control pill revolutionised women's health - and grew to become one of the most popular forms of family planning. But it is now under attack from pro-life groups in the US.
A growing number of doctors and pharmacists are now refusing to dispense it, on the grounds that it is actually a form of abortion.
Pro-choice groups fear this new moral objection to the Pill could lead to more unplanned pregnancies, even more abortions.
A woman taking the Pill does not usually release eggs. But occasionally she might - and it is possible that egg could be fertilised.
The hormonal conditions created by the Pill mean, if that happened, the fertilised egg would not be implanted or survive.
Mainstream medicine does not define that as a pregnancy. But some of those strictly against abortion do.
Dr Cynthia Jones-Nosacek - a family doctor in Milwaukee - now refuses to prescribe the Pill. She opposes it on moral grounds, arguing it is a form of abortion.
'The contraceptive pill doesn't always prevent ovulation. As often as 30% of the time, ovulation may occur and if that happens, fertilisation may occur,' Dr Jones-Nosacek says.
'Then there are other mechanisms that can prevent that being from surviving. It's called a chemical abortion.' "
What You Need to Know About the Minimum Wage: "Data from the most recent census, however, reveal that those who are officially classified as 'poor' by the United States government possess a surprising amount of wealth. The official 'poor' are not that poor after all. For example, for those persons classified as 'poor,' 46% own their own home and 76% have air conditioning. More than 66% of the 'poor' have more than two rooms of living space per person. In fact, the average 'poor' United States citizen has more living space that the average citizen (not 'poor' citizen) living in Austria, Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom; 97% of the official American 'poor' own a color television and over half own more than one; 62% of the 'poor' have either cable or satellite television. Far from being undernourished, the 'poor' have a greater obesity problem than the rest of the population. The most common hardship that most poor people face is making late rent and utility payments."
The Myth of Voluntary Unions: "Not every single union is involved in violence, but the vast majority have apparently been. They found six unions in their sample for which there was no record of violence: four government employee unions, a musicians' union, and the 'Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees.' The most violence-prone unions in their sample were the Teamsters, Mine Workers, Steelworkers, Auto Workers, State, County and Municipal Employees, Machinists, Food and Commercial Workers, and the National Education Association."
yaledailynews.com: "We dare not choose a president the way we do a breakfast drink."
I think this is called arguing against a straw man, hmm?
I think this is called arguing against a straw man, hmm?
Alissa Thinks About Guns: "Whether or not Congress should renew the Assault Weapons Ban is not a question of gun control or of gun rights. ...Americans recognize that a ban on semi-automatic weapons is a non-political issue that both gun control activists and gun enthusiasts can agree on."
Mouse Words on the Old Oligarch: "Anyone who would turn her nose up to a long and joyful life waiting on this man hand and foot and having his children cannot have a brain cell in her head."
My sentiments exactly. I know for a fact that my domestic skills were one of the primary things he found attractive in me.
On a side note, I fried something for the first time last week. It was very exciting.
My sentiments exactly. I know for a fact that my domestic skills were one of the primary things he found attractive in me.
On a side note, I fried something for the first time last week. It was very exciting.
From the sidebar headlines of The Onion, 18 August 2004: "Homosexual Tearfully Admits To Being Governor Of New Jersey."
Emil McGloin.com -
Emil and I went to high school together, and I occasionally google him because he is one of the few people in high school whose name is unusual enough for me to remember. This time it looks like he is having some musical success! He sounds pretty good. Check out his site.
Emil and I went to high school together, and I occasionally google him because he is one of the few people in high school whose name is unusual enough for me to remember. This time it looks like he is having some musical success! He sounds pretty good. Check out his site.
Stabbing Victim Had Filed for Protection
In Sheila Taina Menefee's request for a protective order against her boyfriend, filed in a Montgomery County court eight hours before she was stabbed to death Sunday, she described Ruben Antonio Diaz as abusive and said he had made her feel "unsafe."
Diaz, 20, was a foot taller and almost twice as heavy as Menefee, 21, who stood 4-foot-11 and weighed 110 pounds. About 1:30 p.m. Sunday, she told authorities, Diaz attacked her.
"As I was leaving for church, he followed me outside [because] I didn't say goodbye, and then he threatened me," she wrote in the court petition at 5:50 p.m. Sunday. "I was putting the baby in the car seat, and he tried taking my keys."
She said, "that's when I ... kicked him, and he choked me and shoved me up against the car. He shoved me ... on top of the baby and enclosed my mouth and nose with his hand. I opened the door and honked the horn while I yelled for help."
When police arrived, Menefee did what domestic violence experts usually advise in such situations: She filed an assault charge against Diaz, then obtained a civil protective order, requiring him to stay away. But later that night, after being released on bail, Diaz allegedly showed up at Menefee's apartment in the White Oak section and stabbed her so many times that police had trouble counting the wounds.
Folks, this is why you need to BUY A GUN. If someone is bent on harming you, the police will not be there 24 hours a day.
I used an example just like this case in an argument with a liberal anti-gun type over 10 years ago, assuming that the person's concern for "protecting women's bodies" would override the general concern about gun safety. Nope. "Just wait for the police," was all that person could offer. Of course, this was a person who was so safe and privileged that she couldn't even imagine the realities of this type of situation. (I was safe and somewhat privileged too, but I had an active imagination.)
In Sheila Taina Menefee's request for a protective order against her boyfriend, filed in a Montgomery County court eight hours before she was stabbed to death Sunday, she described Ruben Antonio Diaz as abusive and said he had made her feel "unsafe."
Diaz, 20, was a foot taller and almost twice as heavy as Menefee, 21, who stood 4-foot-11 and weighed 110 pounds. About 1:30 p.m. Sunday, she told authorities, Diaz attacked her.
"As I was leaving for church, he followed me outside [because] I didn't say goodbye, and then he threatened me," she wrote in the court petition at 5:50 p.m. Sunday. "I was putting the baby in the car seat, and he tried taking my keys."
She said, "that's when I ... kicked him, and he choked me and shoved me up against the car. He shoved me ... on top of the baby and enclosed my mouth and nose with his hand. I opened the door and honked the horn while I yelled for help."
When police arrived, Menefee did what domestic violence experts usually advise in such situations: She filed an assault charge against Diaz, then obtained a civil protective order, requiring him to stay away. But later that night, after being released on bail, Diaz allegedly showed up at Menefee's apartment in the White Oak section and stabbed her so many times that police had trouble counting the wounds.
Folks, this is why you need to BUY A GUN. If someone is bent on harming you, the police will not be there 24 hours a day.
I used an example just like this case in an argument with a liberal anti-gun type over 10 years ago, assuming that the person's concern for "protecting women's bodies" would override the general concern about gun safety. Nope. "Just wait for the police," was all that person could offer. Of course, this was a person who was so safe and privileged that she couldn't even imagine the realities of this type of situation. (I was safe and somewhat privileged too, but I had an active imagination.)
Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School? (PDF file)
Uban public school teachers are more likely than either urban households or the general public to send their children to private schools. Across the states, 12.2 percent of all families (urban, rural, and suburban) send their children to private schools—a figure that roughly corresponds to perennial and well-known data on the proportion of U.S.children enrolled in private schools. But urban public school teachers send their children to private schools at a rate of 21.5 percent, nearly
double the national rate of private-school attendance. Urban public school teachers are also more likely to send their children to private school than are urban families in general (21.5 vs. 17.5 percent).
Uban public school teachers are more likely than either urban households or the general public to send their children to private schools. Across the states, 12.2 percent of all families (urban, rural, and suburban) send their children to private schools—a figure that roughly corresponds to perennial and well-known data on the proportion of U.S.children enrolled in private schools. But urban public school teachers send their children to private schools at a rate of 21.5 percent, nearly
double the national rate of private-school attendance. Urban public school teachers are also more likely to send their children to private school than are urban families in general (21.5 vs. 17.5 percent).
The American Chesterton Society has a nice site with summaries of Chesterton's views and works, a biography, and quotes.
Russians Storm School; 100 Bodies Found
By MIKE ECKEL
BESLAN, Russia (AP) - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. More than 100 bodies were reportedly found in the gym where hostages had been held.
The extent of the casualties was not immediately known. The militants, who had been demanding independence for nearby Chechnya, had been holding up to 1,500 hostages - mostly women and children - in the sweltering gymnasium for more than two days.
A cameraman for the British network ITN reported seeing around 100 bodies in the gym. The correspondent for Russia's Interfax news agency reported that there were dozens of bodies in the school, including about 100 in the gym, and that some were killed when the building's roof collapsed from an explosion.
Other casualties were reported when militants opened fire on hostages as they fled the building and in fighting that went on for several hours afterward. More than 400 people were wounded, including at least 180 children.
-Oh, and the hostagetakers are Muslim. But that is clearly not important. Besides, if they had been Christian Fundamentalists, the AP would not have found that important either. Right.
By MIKE ECKEL
BESLAN, Russia (AP) - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. More than 100 bodies were reportedly found in the gym where hostages had been held.
The extent of the casualties was not immediately known. The militants, who had been demanding independence for nearby Chechnya, had been holding up to 1,500 hostages - mostly women and children - in the sweltering gymnasium for more than two days.
A cameraman for the British network ITN reported seeing around 100 bodies in the gym. The correspondent for Russia's Interfax news agency reported that there were dozens of bodies in the school, including about 100 in the gym, and that some were killed when the building's roof collapsed from an explosion.
Other casualties were reported when militants opened fire on hostages as they fled the building and in fighting that went on for several hours afterward. More than 400 people were wounded, including at least 180 children.
-Oh, and the hostagetakers are Muslim. But that is clearly not important. Besides, if they had been Christian Fundamentalists, the AP would not have found that important either. Right.
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