Pack of angry Chihuahuas attack officer in Fremont Not something out of a bad movie.A pack of angry Chihuahuas attacked a police officer who was escorting a teenager home following a traffic stop, authorities said.Picture stolen shamelessly from Professor Bainbridge.
The officer suffered minor injuries including bites to his ankle on Thursday when the five Chihuahuas escaped the 17-year-old boy's home and rushed the officer in the doorway
AT 5 PM AST...2100Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM ZETA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 25.3 NORTH... LONGITUDE 37.3 WEST OR ABOUT 1065 MILES...1715 KM... SOUTHWEST OF THE AZORES.I can't take it anymore!
Many who care to think about these issues (and many prefer not to) have concluded that Einstein's presumption of locality - the idea that physically separated objects are really separate - is wrong."There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." [h/t Kobayashi Maru]
First, you can unregister the specific DLL that implements the vulnerable code from the system using a command line program. To disable the DLL click Start, then Run, then enter the following command:This will impact some Windows abilities to display thumbnails, but that seems a small price to pay for not being invaded with spyware, and the like.regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dllTo re-enable the same DLL, click Start, then Run, then enter the following command:regsvr32 shimgvw.dll
In addition to specifying that Wyoming residents have no duty to try to escape before using deadly force against an assailant, the bill also would specify that people have a right to assume that anyone breaking into their home poses a deadly threat.The Left of course has got their knickers in a knot over this, and the Rocky Mountain News gets in line with quotes from lefty-professors about how bad this will be. Of course, while they mention that other states have "no retreat laws" they do not talk about the lack of problems these states have. [h/t NRA-ILA]
Watt said he's sponsoring the measure because he believes people have a fundamental right to protect themselves.
Powell wasn't about to become a victim. He knocked the gun out of the teen's hand and ran to his car to get his own gun, police said.Cesar Solorzano, 18, was arrested when he appeared at a local hospital with a gunshot wound in the shoulder. Antoine Sanders, also 18, was arrested as well. They are charged with attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon.
He and the would-be robbers then exchanged gunfire in the apartment complex parking lot, and Powell apparently wounded one of them as they fled, police said.
[Ray] Reed attempted to hold [Myles Edward Petty, 19,] at gunpoint while his wife called 911. Petty lunged at Reed and was shot in the chest with a .38 caliber pistol. During the scuffle the second intruder fled on foot.Petty was airlifted to East Texas Medical Center. David Faught was arrested later.
"Due to the obvious self-defense issues, the clerk is not being charged with any crime," [Lt. Loyd Baker, commander of the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit] said.
Police said Sherry Arnold was in the house in the 9900 block of Sageroyal at Blackhawk Boulevard when she apparently called 911 shortly after 1 a.m. Dispatchers heard a gunshot on the call before the line went dead and sent deputies.Being able to defend herself may not have saved Ms. Arnold, but a call to 911 took more time than she had - then consider the time required for deputies to arrive.
The bar owner was trying to clear the bar when [LaCharles Hester, 27,] pulled out a gun, fired into the ceiling and pointed the gun at the bartender and other people in the bar, [police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz] said. The bartender, 36, who was not identified, drew a gun from his holster and shot Hester in the back of the head, she said.Another man was injured when he tried to take the gun from the bartender. [via KABA]
The swamps, fields and shooting ranges of our great country will be crowded the next few years with pink-cheeked politicians swinging around brand-new shotguns, chafing in new boots and generally trying to appear as if they know which end of the duck call to blow. We beg concerned hunters and shooters to remember: even if something quacks like a duck, it isn't necessarily a duck.Don't believe it. [via NRA-ILA]
It might be a lying weasel.
The Festivus idea came to the show through writer Dan O'Keefe. His father, Daniel O'Keefe, had discovered the Festivus holiday in a book that outlined obscure (mostly European) holidays published in 1966Coincidence, or Cosmic conspiracy?
Changing faces: statue honors fallen heroes Kalat, a sculptor once forced to make images of Saddam, has melted down some of those statues and created a memorial to fallen American military personnel.Kalat ... reshaped the chunks of bronze into a likeness of an American Soldier. A small girl comforts the Soldier as he mourns a fallen comrade.It's no surprise that this is not being reported in the MSM. A google news search turned up exactly 1 story about an artist named Kalat in the Albany Democrat Herald out of Oregon, and that wasn't really an article - it was a letter to the editor. [hat tip Xavier]
“Effective today the third battalion assumes control of the battle zone here in the Mahkmur region,” announced U.S. Army Major Gen. David Rodriguez, commander of the Multinational Force Northwest and Task Force Freedom.The picture painted of the Iraqi commander of the 3rd Battalion, who goes by the name of Hogar, is interesting. Hogar wanted to go home and run his tile factories, but he stepped up to fill the needs of Iraq.
A handful of transfers like these have taken place in southern and central Iraq, but this is the first Iraqi battalion to assume command of battle space in the northern region.
Galileo: Europe's Biggest Infrastructure Project | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 28.12.2005 And it's about time.This happened, for instance, during the war in Kosovo when the U.S. restricted European use of the GPS. That lack of reliability has made GPS unfeasible for applications where a slight inaccuracy could result in deaths, like air traffic control.Also, it turns out that "global" is a bit of misnomer where GPS in concerned. GPS coverage is limited to what the US military considers important.
In northern Norway, for example, where there is no possibility of accessing global navigation systems because the current satellite network does not cover the region, a combination of Galileo and special mobile phones will enable people to determine their exact position, down to the very meter, free of charge.More accuracy will be available for a fee (about a 3 inch radius of error).
As a recreational sailor, I care about this. I use GPS regularly, but I am trying not to lose my coastal navigation skills. (Tampa Bay has highly accurate GPS - augmented by land-based transmitters - due to the amount of shipping that takes place from the Port of Tampa, and the Port of Manatee.) Once you get outside of the US, charts can become a bit less accurate. It does me no good to know my position to within 3 inches, if the charts I am using are only accurate to within a mile. Many Caribbean Charts were essentially produced by the British, using sextants, and have not been updated.People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" -- and self-esteem to boot.”
There is no war on Christmas. There is a war on every non-Christian Winter Solstice celebration. It is a war that has been waged for centuries.A DUTCH businessman was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday for helping Saddam Hussein to acquire the chemical weapons that he used to kill thousands of Kurdish civilians in the Iran-Iraq war.Call me crazy, but if this guy was guilty of supplying Saddam with WMD, doesn't that mean that Saddam had WMD? [h/t Capt'n Ed]
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The court found Frans van Anraat guilty of multiple counts of war crimes, violating the laws and customs of war and causing death and serious bodily harm to the whole or entire Kurdish population, but not guilty of genocide.
SAN JOSE, Calif. A veteran Santa Clara County prosecutor faces a misdemeanor charge for marijuana possession, but remains on the job.Glad to see that the people on the front lines of the War on Drugs have their priorities straight.
San Jose police found less than an ounce of marijuana at the home of Deputy District Attorney Ed Fernandez after an anonymous caller reported that a front door had been left open.
Hanukkah Dreidels Menorahs, Chanukah Plastic Dreidels, Chocolate Gelt: Chanuka.com In case you are needing a fix of Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song, Part 1 and Part 2 - both live versions - well here you go.
What McBrien and some area butchers have started is a collection of donated venison that will be shipped to the Bay St. Louis/Waveland area in Mississippi. Their goal is to collect a minimum of 2,000 pounds of donated venison from area hunters and have it shipped to cold storage facilities in Hancock County and distributed to needy families ravaged by the hurricane.AP Wire | 12/22/2005 | Hunters donate 18,000 pounds of venison to help feed Georgia's poor
- Georgia hunters have donated 733 deer this year to a program that provides thousands of pounds of venison to the Atlanta Community Food Bank for distribution to needy families throughout the stateNewsAdvance.com | Venison donations needed to reach goal
This year [Hunters for the Hungry] has already provided nearly 180,000 pounds of deer meat to organizations and food banks in the Lynchburg area.
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The group’s goal this year is to process and distribute at least 350,000 pounds said Newell-Furniss, which would surpass last year’s record of 333,536 pounds.
When police arrived at the Home Federal Bank, two citizens were holding the suspect at gunpoint.A handgun and what appears to be an explosive device were recovered. [via KABA]
The town of Bastogne is strategically located at the center of the road network of the Ardennes. The Germans referred to it as a "road octopus" since the majority of roads in that region of the Ardennes pass through the town. The town's strategic location made it vitally important to the outcome of the offensive. The Allies realized its importance and General Eisenhower dispatched the 101st Airborne Division to hold the town at all costs.The Germans delivered a surrender ultimatum on December 22.
The fortune of war is changing. This time the U.S.A. forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. More German armored units have crossed the river Our near Ortheuville, have taken Marche and reached St. Hubert by passing through Hompre-Sibret-Tillet. Libramont is in German hands.The demand went on to say a lot of things including that one German Artillery Corps, and six anti-aircraft batteries were prepared to "annihilate the U.S.A. troops in and near Bastogne" if the Americans did not surrender.
If you don't know what 'Nuts' means, in plain English it is the same as 'Go to Hell'. And I'll tell you something else, if you continue to attack we will kill every goddam German that tries to break into this city.The Allies began a counter-offensive on the 23rd, and were able to air-drop supplies to 101st - thanks to improved weather. A team of surgeons even flew in by glider to operate on the wounded.
View From The Porch: Politics: School's in Session.. Tam slaps down S. P. Fjestad, of The Blue Book of Gun Values over some simple issues of supply and demand.Joe Blow bids up a 90% Remington Rand to $925 in an auction, he's not "paying more than it's worth", he's paying exactly what it's worth... to him. Everyone else can look at that auction, note where the other bidders dropped out, and adjust the price tags on their 90% Remington Rands accordingly, and if this upsets the old boys who've been passing them back and forth for decades at $500, then tough. That's how the free market works. Buy a helmet.And the same applies to everyone who was complaining about the recent surge in gas prices.
When you stick the fuel nozzle in your Lincoln Landmass and punch the "Pay Outside" button at $5/gal, you have just announced to the world that that is how much that gasoline is worth to you; you have helped set the price.When people decided to drive less when the price was 3 bucks (less demand), the supply went up and the price went down. Funny how that works.
"You don't have to put yourself at risk. You don't have to say, 'Oh, by the way, I'm here,' and give (the burglar) the first shot. You don't have to give the burglar the first shot," [Indiana University law professor Henry] Karlson said.This is all being highlighted by the shooting of burglar by an off-duty state police trooper. [via KABA]
As the man turned to look at the other employee, the one behind the register grabbed a gun and shot the intruder, who stumbled out into the parking lot before collapsing.His name has not been released. He died in hospital as result of gunshot wounds.
Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers. That's what this is about: Millions of Kurds, Shia and Sunnis beaming as they emerge from polling stations and hold up their purple fingers after the freest, fairest election ever held in the Arab world. "Liberal" in the American sense is a dirty word because it's come to stand for a shriveled parochial obsolescent irrelevance, of which ''Good Night, and Good Luck,'' Clooney's dreary little retread of the McCarthy years, is merely the latest example. (Clooney says he wants more journalists to "speak truth to power," which is why I'm insulting his movie.)Or
The best way to reclaim "liberal" for the angels is to get on the right side of history -- the side the Iraqi people are on. The word "liberal" has no meaning if those who wear the label refuse to celebrate the birth of a new democracy after 40 years of tyranny.Go read the whole thing. [via Attila Girl]
A homeowner on Clubview Drive said he found two of the teens in his home and confronted them, before firing at least one shot.The Brady Bunch of Gun Grabbers will count this as "a child shot." Forget that police expect to prosecute them as adults. Forget that they were breaking the law, and he was shot in self-defense. Those are mere details that don't interest the Brady Bunch.
Police said all four teens could be charged as adults.
35-year-old Timothy Darby died Saturday during an attempted break-in.Police don't expect to press charges against the shooter.
Investigators say Darby was trying to break-in to a vehicle at Livingston Towing when the owner shot him in the shoulder.
Here's a little known but dismaying fact about the slaying of NYPD Officer Daniel Enchautegui: The accused triggerman, Steven Armento, should have been sitting in jail instead of stalking the streets of Pelham Bay with a loaded .357.New York needs to get tough on crime, specifically it needs to send repeat offenders away for as long as possible, if it wants to reduce crime. Recycling offenders onto the street reinforces the idea that there are no penalties. This is not an isolated case. New York's Criminal Justice System refuses to hold people accountable. The result is a crime problem. [h/t NRA-ILA]
Armento had pleaded guilty to assault and animal cruelty charges only a few months before, admitting that he had sicced his pit bull on a Yonkers neighbor's dog, then punched the neighbor for trying to pull the dogs apart.
The British government banned handguns in January 1997 but recently reported that gun crime in England and Wales nearly doubled in the seven years from 1996 to 2003. Since '96, the rate of serious violent crime has soared by 88 percent: armed robberies by 101 percent, rapes by 105 percent and homicide by 24 percent.Australia has had a similar experience.
Before the law, armed robberies had fallen by 50 percent from 1993 to 1997 — but as soon as handguns were banned, the robbery rate shot back up, almost back to 1993 levels. The crooks still had guns, but not their victims.
Australia's 1996 gun-control regulations banned many types of guns and the immediate aftermath was similar. Crime rates averaged 32 percent higher in the six years after the law was passed (from 1997 to 2002) than in 1995. The same comparisons for armed robbery rates showed an increase of 74 percent, reversing a previous decline.Yet NY thinks it can do what islands cannot. Or is it that they really don't care about crime - see my post on NYC attitude toward gun crime - and that they are really just interested in controlling the general public? [via NRA-ILA]
It was early afternoon with temperatures reaching 113 degrees fahrenheit. During his first five months in Iraq, Longstaff had participated in more than 150 convoys into Baghdad. This particular mission had proceeded as normal, but while driving through a shopping district along the route back to camp, he spotted a burning Humvee in the center medium.He was able to lay down covering fire, get the vehicles in his convoy to provide security, and generally assist the ambushed soldiers to get out of the area.
New York Post Online Edition: GUN-SHY JUSTICE. [The original article has been archived.]A thug who is busted for wielding a loaded handgun in New York City has an astonishing 77 percent chance of ducking jail, a Post analysis of state arrest stats revealed.Look at those stats more closely. 92% of criminals busted for using a gun during a crime will spend either no time in jail or less than one year in jail. Would it surprise anyone to learn that NYC has a gun crime problem?
And even if the gunslinger does go to the slammer, he's not likely to stay long.
Of those who got jail time last year, more than two-thirds went away for a year or less, despite facing up to 15 years in prison, as state laws allow, the stats show.
As anger grows over the spread of guns into the city, critics claim the stats are an embarrassment to prosecutors, who often accept plea deals on weapons charges and let suspects go with probation, a fine or conditional discharge.But who do they want to blame? Not the criminals and not the criminal "justice" system, but the guns. (There are many statistics in this article - almost too many for me. Certainly there are too many to summarize, and wholesale quoting is a violation of the fair use doctrine of copyright law. In other words, go read the whole thing.)
Dear Editor: Many ordinary citizens know CPR, first aid, or how to use a fire extinguisher. Their actions during the first moments of a crisis are often the difference between life and death.read the whole thing. [h/t KABA]
The same holds true for concealed weapons permit holders. As a police officer, I know we simply cannot be everywhere, nor would the public want us to be. The training individuals will receive to obtain a concealed weapons permit under the concealed carry bill will make them qualified first responders. Like those certified in first aid, we won't expect them to perform major surgery, but it will be adequate for stabilizing a bad situation until the professionals arrive.
Telegraph | News | First gay newlyweds face protestors The first same-sex civil-partnership ceremony has taken place in the UK. Belfast has a shorter waiting time. Ceremonies will start to take place in England on the 21st.Shannon Sickles and Grainne Close stepped out of a black taxi in the back courtyard of Belfast City Hall into the full glare of the waiting media.Protesters were there of course, but they did not disrupt the three ceremonies that took place. 700 more will take place in England and Wales on the 21st.
The People of the State of Texas for welcoming with open arms 100,000 refugees (whoops! I used that awful word! I mean to say “evacuees”) into their state and integrating them into their economy, so successfully that most of them don’t want to go home (The ingrates!).But how can any of these (or his more serious examples) compete with the choices of Time?
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Howard Dean for consistently and repeatedly reminding us of how important the role of chemical anti-depressants are in the daily regimen of the marginally insane.
[Liberals] hang out with like-minded politically correct dogmatists, rarely bumping against anyone who doesn't look and sound just like themselves.Go take a look.
The deputies fired two less-lethal rounds that hit Tindoll in the torso, but he still did not drop the shotgun, [Lt. Jack Pike, spokesman for the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office,] said. Instead, he allegedly fired one shotgun blast, hitting both deputies with pellets. Bell returned fire, hitting Tindoll in the side.The police officers are fine - no life-threatening injuries. Mr. Sides will not face any charges for defending himself.
Tindoll turned and started down the hall toward Weber's bedroom. Sides, who was in the bedroom, fired one shot from his own gun, hitting Tindoll in the chest, Pike said.
countries with a total ban on weapons - for example Holland and the Philippines - have higher handgun death rates than Canada.Doing the same thing and expecting to see different results is one definition of insanity.
The Philippines leads that category with 42 deaths per 100,000 people, with the Netherlands around 9.5 and Canada at 5.5 per 100,000.
In the United Kingdom, studies estimate the criminal use of firearms has increased by 40 per cent since the British government enacted a firearms ban in 1997.
But it’s always fun to see kids and many women point and sometimes smile when they see me. Women are not allowed in the Iraqi Army and keep a fairly low profile. Seeing me hoofing it along side U.S. soldiers is an unusual [sight].Iraq is changing and will continue to change.
We could start by making it illegal to shoot people.If you make something more expensive, you get less of it. Drive the cost down, you get more of it. The cost of crime in Canada is fairly low, given that Canadians are kept from defending themselves - being denied effective means of defense is the same as denying defense - and the criminals are not punished even when caught. The result is a crime problem.
What the heck - since I'm being silly today, let's make it illegal to injure people in general.
A bold and edgy proposal, I know. But, when the penalty for killing or maiming another human being with malice and forethought can be as low as a period of house arrest, when repeat violent offenders are recycled into society with the frequency of beer bottles, when "youth" offenders who confess to hundreds of property crimes serve not so much as an hour in punitive custody - the kind of human trash that commits murder in the name of gang colours and territory, that includes "deadly force" in his list of weekend entertainment choices, isn't likely to give pause because his weapon of preference isn't stamped with the justice minister's seal of approval.
"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."And even this
"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said co‑author Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar.
The news pages of The Wall Street Journal scored a little to the left of the average American Democrat [lawmaker]Only 2 news organizations scored to the right of the average voter - Fox News' "Special Report with Brit Hume" and the Washington Times. And the Fox News show was the "fourth most centrist" news outlet. About as biased as the ABC's "World News Tonight" and NBC's "Nightly News." (They were of course to the left.) [via Tapscott's Copy Desk]
The 11-month Operation Double Trouble dragnet led to the arrest of 16 thugs — many of whom are members of the notorious Bloods street gang — and prompted the seizure of some 50 weapons, which the gangsters planned to sell on the streets, authorities said.What's more, solid work by local law enforcement and federal agents were able to break this ring with existing gun laws. No additional gun control was required.
Pupils at the school said two armed men arrived by motorcycle. "They dragged the teacher from the classroom and shot him at the school gate," said Abdul Rahman Sabir, Helmand's police chief.What will the Left say about this? Will they claim this is just "a cultural difference," and we should not judge? Islamic-fascists are as evil as any other type.
The information that reaches City Hall and the public is often vague or out-of-date. For example, much has been said by police of late about the flow of weapons from New Hampshire gun dealers to criminals in Boston. But police now believe that home burglaries of licensed weapons may be responsible for the flood of guns.So while the politicians look to blame everyone but themselves, and call for the restriction of rights, the real problem originates in their own back yard.
Mayor Menino told Boston business leaders that the city's budget could not absorb an increase in the police patrol force from the current 1,300 officers to the 1,500 on duty five years ago.It would be interesting to see a breakdown of Boston's budget and what percent gets spent on police, and how much the Mayor's office spends. The mayor does of course mention that taxes might have to be raised. Cutting spedning in another part of the budget is clearly impossible.
Former prisoners who return to old haunts are often cited as the drivers of the new crime wave. But now the blame shifts to young men with little or no time served who reach for weapons at the slightest provocation. There are endless statistical compilations by police of hot spots of violent crime. But no similar effort is underway to prevent the violence.It is much easier to point his finger across the state line, than admit his own city is at fault. But then that wouldn't permit him to rant about gun control and see his name in national papers. [via KABA]
Angellow Ortiz, 37, was walking to his car Tuesday afternoon at the Marriott Fairfield Inn on Vineland Road near Universal [Orlando]. Suddenly, two men with guns tried to rob him.Police caught the 2 nearby.
Ortiz quickly pulled out his own handgun and fired to scare them off
[Peter Zornes] apparently escorted [Louissa A. Thompson] to her home after they finished their shifts at a ShopKo store because she was frightened of [Trevor] Saunders, her former boyfriend, Oakesdale Mayor Russell Rickett said Monday.Fear is a good thing, but by itself it won't keep you safe.
“Unfortunately, it looks like he was playing the good Samaritan role and was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Rickett told the Lewiston Tribune.
[Michelle Romprey,] the victim, had a temporary restraining order against [Maurice] Hunt, [a former boyfriend] who had lived with Romprey for four years. Romprey, a single mother, had gone to court again last week to obtain a three-year restraining order against HuntAfter shooting Romprey, Hunt shot himself.
"She put her faith in the law," [the victim's sister] said. "Metro came and Metro left, and my sister is dead."The system cannot protect you.
Reporting from Iraq : The view from on the ground. This is an amazing post, and I hope it turns into an amazing blog, by Fairbanks, Alaska News-Miner reporter Margaret Friedenauer. She is embedded with 172nd Stryker Brigade in Iraq. I think maybe she gets it.I’ve listened to the soldiers and [Lt. Col. Gregg] Parrish about the missing pieces of the puzzles that don’t reach home. My selfish, journalistic drive immediately thinks “Perfect. A story that hasn’t been told. Let me at it.”A reporter who gets that "only reporting the bad news from Iraq" is certainly biased.
But I have a slight hesitation; I need to keep balanced. I can’t be a cheerleader, even if I have a soft spot for the hometown troops, especially after the welcome they’ve shown me. I still need to be truthful and walk the centerline and report the good or bad.
But then I realize it’s not a conflict of interest. If I am truly unbiased, then I need to get used to this one simple fact; that the untold story, might in fact, be a positive one.
FOUR churches in Sydney's southwest have been attacked in 24 hours as the city's riots spread from race to religion.
The homeowner reportedly heard a loud noise early this morning and found that two men had knocked down his front door.San Francisco residents thinks this guy should have been the victim - in the truest sense of the word - of this crime.
That's when he shot at them -- hitting one.
Does the Netherlands have such a weak fighting force that they cannot deploy without having someone else do the firing for them when challenged? Apparently they do -- but that doesn't keep them from telling us how to wage war, it seems.Tell me again why we need "international" military support. If we have to provide security for the armed forces of a NATO country - yes, I understand we did this for the entire cold war - why don't we execute the mission they were going to do while we're there?
Police gearing up for the "casualties of Christmas violence" say money pressures and alcohol can wreck the spirit of the season for many families.Happy Holidays
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Christmas was the busiest time of year for agencies dealing with the casualties of domestic violence.
Assistant State Attorney Harmon Massey said Tuesday he has reviewed the case, and it does not warrant criminal prosecution.As it should be. Self-defense is a human right.
"It's an unfortunate taking of someone else's life but justifiable under the circumstances," Massey said.
The report shows that many campus police departments are so understaffed and underfunded they don't have the equipment needed to protect the students. That's just one of the problems.And of course while students and staff are barred from having weapons, the criminals are free to do as they please.
At least four students at Old Dominion University have been mugged in the last couple of weeks, on and off campus. One of the victims was pistol whipped.We have to stop disarming the victims. It does not protect anyone except the criminals.
Crime against students is not exclusive to ODU. The College of William and Mary has been rocked by a string of rapes and sexual assaults.
Captain's Quarters: A Prosecutor's Rebuttal. This post, basically penned by a CQ reader in the Criminal Justice system, may make me rethink my opposition to the death penalty. I haven't said anything about the Tookie Williams case because it is impossible to hear anything over the circus this case has become. Michelle Malkin called it a Freak Show, and that is probably the best description one could hope for. "It's a zoo outside San Quentin prison."If the celebrities want to do something about the death penalty, I'd suggest trying to convince Californians that [Life Without Parole] means no release, ever, under any circumstances except innocence. They could start by ending their peculiar practice of promoting the murderers as heroes and ignoring their victims. Once the public no longer has to listen to ridiculous arguments about the brilliance and courage of people who shoot helpless victims in the back and can focus on the issues of the death penalty itself, then perhaps we can convince people that we can live without executions and all the lunacy they entail.But as long as high profile cases are treated like circus, no real debate will be possible. The idea that housing Tookie for the rest of his life (statring immediately after his conviction) is more expensive than 20 or 25 years of legal disputes is not realistic. (Minus the "Club Fed" treatment of course.)
First the NYTimes runs a mostly positive story about guns, and I thought I had seen everything. Now the SF Chronicle runs a COMPLETELY positive story about guns (and the Gunsite training academy in Arizona). Her smile could melt steel, yet New, a petite 5-foot-4, with a miniature handgun in her palm, can pop two shots in three seconds at 100 yards into an 8-inch pie plate -- or your head.The description of Gunsite is equally glowing.
Gunsite Academy is north of Prescott, Ariz., set on a ranch-like property that covers 2,000 acres of desert and foothills at an elevation of 4,900 feet, sprinkled with juniper, pinon pine and sagebrush. Some 25 classes are taught there, including pistol defense, precision rifle, and for military or law enforcement personnel, anti-terrorist defense.This article describes how New, a San Francisco Native, got involved with hunting and self-defense. The clientèle of Gunsite is described in terms that make them sound like ordinary people.
Her students include a housewife, engineer, investment executive, helicopter test pilot, accountant, and rancher, among others.They actually get a quote from the housewife.
Nanovirus: The war on Winter Solstice. When I was a kid, Christmas celebrations started after Thanksgiving. Not that long ago it was traditional to put up Christmas trees on Christmas Eve after the kids had gone to bed. For example, while it remained customary for one Christian to say Merry Christmas to another, to a stranger it was considered more thoughtful to say "Season's Greetings," or "Happy Holidays." Such was the beauty of tolerance: all faiths were able to be true to their origins while respecting their fellow humans' right to do the same.Do you doubt there is a war on non-Christian holidays? The war is long-standing. Consider the date.
The Romans honored Saturn, the ancient god of agriculture, each year beginning on December 17 in a festival called the Saturnalia. This festival lasted for seven days and included the winter solstice, which at that time fell on December 25 (today, following calendar reform, it falls on December 21).Was the Roman census taken in the winter? Doubtful. It was easier to usurp the going holiday than it was to suppress it. Trees that do not die decorated to celebrate the return of the sun, switched so that they are used in celebrations by a group of people who await the the return of "the Son."
HometownAnnapolis.com, Top Stories - Man to get 25 year term for raping his estranged wife. Once again we see the recommended course of action fails to prevent a woman from being kidnapped and raped. (The names are withheld to protect her anonymity.)The man's wife had gotten a protective order against him just a week before the attack.Get a restraining order. Call 911 in an emergency. Neither of these strategies kept this woman from harm.
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"She tried to call 911 on her cell phone, but the defendant took the phone away from her," [Assistant State's Attorney Laura] Kiessling said.
I'm the same pro-choice feminist I always was. So why were some who knew me so ready to presume I had been abducted by aliens and transformed into the dreaded conservative?
December 21st will mark the anniversary of Sherman's conquest of Savanah. This marked the end of Sherman's March to the sea. If the question was asked, "Who was and still is the most hated and despised man in the history of Georgia" the response would be William Tecumseh Sherman.Sherman waged total war.
Sherman's advance through Georgia and the Carolinas was characterized by widespread destruction of civilian supplies and infrastructure, and sometimes accompanied by looting; although officially forbidden, historians disagree as to how well enforced this position was. This was, indeed, the point—to destroy the will and ability of the South to make war.He didn't level every town, but he did destroy buildings whenever his forces met resistance.
He practiced psychological warfare; he believed that by marching an army across the state he would demonstrate to the world that the Union had a power the Confederacy could not resist.His position is summed up nicely in the following quote. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.I often think of this quote when I read the MSM "accounts" of what is happening with the war on terror. In 150 years, nothing has changed.
By comparison, the lowest estimate for the number of people who were killed on political grounds in the last seven years of Stalin's life is five million, and the camps of the gulag - which only a fraud or a fool would liken to American prisons today - kept on killing long after his death. In their new biography, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday reckon Mao was responsible for anything up to 70 million deaths in China. The number of people killed or starved by the North Korean regime may be in the region of 1.6 million. The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia killed between 1.5 and 2 million people.One of the reasons I am convinced that American public schools no longer teach history - and instead teach a watered-down subject known as Civics - is that history is VERY inconvenient for the Left. The Communists killed millions in the Ukraine before Hitler got started on the Holocaust in Germany, but the news reports from the Soviet Union to the West were mostly sanitized.
Journalists were warned they would be shut out of the trial [of six British engineers working in the Soviet Union who were arrested and charged with sabotage, espionage and bribery] completely if they wrote news stories about the famine. Most of the foreign press corp yielded to the Soviet demand and either didn't cover the famine or wrote stories sympathetic to the official Soviet propaganda line that it didn't exist.So much for the duty of a free press to inform the public.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office twice rejected the group's application on the grounds the term "dyke" was offensive and derogatory. The office reversed itself after the group's lawyers appealed, submitting hundreds of pages of additional material that they said showed the slang word does not disparage lesbians.Just for clarification, this is not a new organization.
Dykes On Bikes began in 1976 with a small contingent of women riding in the SF Pride Parade. It was disorganized and delightful. But as the group of women grew and the Pride Parade grew, the need for an organized group became apparent to all those involved in the Parade.So that will be Dykes on Bikes™ to you. [via Boing Boing]
"If I could work my will," said Scrooge, indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boilded with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!" [from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens]Of course if you are going to play Scrooge for the holidays, it helps to know all of the good lines!
Telegraph | News | Muslim Miss England takes on the world. Hammasa Kohistani, an 18-year-old refugee from the Taliban, is the first Muslim to represent the England in the final of the Miss World competition.However, the brunette, currently Miss England, claims her participation in the contest has drawn death threats from Islamic extremists who believe showing off her naked flesh is wrong.But who would expect anything else? And for those who think these contests are silly, remember that anything that tweaks the noses of the fascists can't be all bad.
The Indepundit: A CALL TO ARMS The Left is trying to urge Congress to Cut and Run.THE ENEMY [Moveon.org] is circulating a petition, urging the Congress to withdraw our troops from Iraq. They plan to deliver copies of this petition to Congressional offices across the nation next Wednesday, December 14.There are several things you can do.
The police say Morgan threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend in a series of phone calls Tuesday. That night at about 9:30, Morgan went to Crestwood mobile home park with a handgun, the police said.He missed the car and later turned himself into police.
Morgan first confronted his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend on a road inside the park, the police said.
When the boyfriend realized Morgan was armed, he ran away. Just then, Morgan's ex-girlfriend drove up, with her sixth-month old son in the car.
Morgan, who is the baby's father, walked toward the car, reached out the handgun and fired twice.
TimesDispatch.com | UR student killed by ex-boyfriend Another Ex-Boyfriend who can't recognize when a relationship is over. This one at least did have a history of mental illness to justify his behavior. Unfortunately, his behavior is not all that odd. See the FBI 2004 Crime Report data on murder.[The victim's mother stated] "And all these court orders, protective orders - yes, it's all well and good on paper, but it really doesn't protect you."That weeks of escalating violence lead to death should surprise no one. Did anyone even counsel her about self-defense? North Carolina passed a law mandating that anyone getting a restraining order would also get information on obtaining an emergency concealed carry license. This of course sent the left into hysterics... ask a woman to defend herself? Who else is going to?
Witnesses told police that one of the customers, who had a concealed-weapons permit, fired several rounds when the girl pointed a gun at him. She was struck twice and fled the store.She was eventually taken to a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds, and she is in the jail ward of the hospital. She is being held "on suspicion of armed robbery and four counts of aggravated assault." [h/t KABA]
Figure 13 shows a very strong relationship between owning illegal guns and delinquency and drug use. Seventy-four percent of the illegal gunowners commit street crimes, 24 percent commit gun crimes, and 41 percent use drugs. Boys who own legal firearms, however, have much lower rates of delinquency and drug use and are even slightly less delinquent than nonowners of guns.
Research also consistently finds that illegal firearm use among juveniles is a relatively small and localized problem. For example, as noted recently, “one in four reported murders of juveniles in 1997 occurred in just 5 of the Nation’s more than 3,000 counties” (Snyder and Sickmund, 1999:21). Similarly, research in Boston and other cities suggests that within specific cities or counties, very specific neighborhoods harbor most of the juvenile illegal firearm problem. Furthermore, survey data from the Rochester study show that relatively small percentages of youth within that urban area are responsible for the majority of illegal gun carrying and gun crime.Let's say that again: 25% of juvinile murders occur in just 0.17% of counties, and there is evidence that this really limited to specific neighborhoods and even certain individuals within those neighborhoods.
So, taking Streisand seriously, we must ask: Is she on crack?Like most leftists, Streisand isn't concerned that her "paradigms" won't be streched. She just doesn't want conservative views to sullen the pages of the LASlimes. The Left is not in favor of free and open debate. They will try to label everyone who disagrees with them as a purveyor of "hate speech." Go read the whole thing; it's worth it. [via Vodkapundit]
Robert Scheer may be the greatest writer since homo sapiens first scribbled on cave walls, but no serious person can believe that his views test the elasticity of Streisand's "paradigms." He reinforces them, he ladles concrete on them. Scheer confirms all of her biases and reaffirms all of her ill-considered views. Put aside the fact that both Scheer and Streisand are committed leftists who share almost identical views on most major issues.
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