Saturday - January 12, 2013
Vice President Tacky
classless as ever, and still just as clueless
Vice President Biden said Friday that there was “no silver bullet” to deal with gun violence, explaining that the Obama administration was considering a wide-ranging set of policies in the wake of last month’s school massacre in Connecticut.
Biden’s unusual choice for metaphor came after a White House meeting with video game industry executives, who have come under scrutiny for violent gun-related themes in their products.
The comments marked the last in a series of meetings held this week by Biden’s anti-gun-violence task force, which he said is “shooting for Tuesday” to forward a set of policy recommendations to President Obama.
You know, I bet he thinks he’s being witty. After all, this is a subject to make jokes about, right?
He said the country has a “problem beyond, quote-unquote, massacres” and noted that “there’s 10,000 people a year gunned down in our cities.”
Nope, he’s just classless and tacky. As always.
Posted by Drew458 on 01/12/2013 at 10:53 AM
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Pretty Amazing At This Point
The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly grew in November, a drag on economic growth, although the gap’s widening was driven by a surge in consumer goods imports, which gives a positive signal for consumer spending.
The Commerce Department said on Friday the trade gap increased 16 percent in November to $48.7 billion.
Analysts were expecting the deficit to shrink to $41.3 billion, so the report could lead some economists to trim their forecasts for economic growth in the fourth quarter.
Net imports suck cash out of the economy, subtracting from gross domestic product.
The trade deficit was the widest since April, and its expansion was driven by a 3.8 percent increase in imports, the largest gain in eight months.
Imports of consumer goods rose by $4.6 billion, while imports of petroleum products fell by $870 million. That might point to firmer consumer demand, which is the main engine of the U.S. economy.
“That might point to ... “ I think somebody is trying to gold plate a turd. Gee, I wonder why?
As far as petroleum products are concerned, I think a better indicator would be petroleum products purchased. That way we can see what the economy is actually doing, instead of getting false hopes because the balance between imports and domestic production may have shifted a tiny bit. Still, if domestic production is up some, that is a good sign. But if overall demand is still low, that’s a stronger negative sign.
Let’s cut the carp, m’kay? I’m so tired of these fishy “unexpected” numbers.
Posted by Drew458 on 01/12/2013 at 10:47 AM
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after 50 years, the truth. but too late to mean anything if it ever did and not to libs
He’s an old man these days and not in the greatest health. This bit of news no longer matters to anyone, I wouldn’t suppose. Thing is, he’s praised to the skies by guilty white libs at every opportunity. They sing his praises and act as if every word he has ever uttered is holy writ.
I had forgotten about Nelson Mandela for some time. No reason to even think about him. But I do recall the fuss made over him and how the white world lionised him. Well, at least one part of the white world did.
What brought Mandela back to mind a few years ago, was suddenly seeing him making a speech in which, he excoriated America and President Bush, referring to him as a “war criminal”. This from a man associated with people who made bombs and attacked civilians. More of that below.
I recall also the accusations that he was a Communist, something he denied at the time, and the liberals were accusing those who accused him of simply being, the word begins with an ‘R.’ Sure thing. The old standby. Now it happens that in part it could be true enough, that many took against him simply based on race. It happens.
An article appeared in the Telegraph with a photo, which is curiously not posted to the on line version of this story on Nelson Mandela. The photo showed a very young Mandela with clenched fist and the hammer and sickle flag behind him.
The Prof. Ellis mentioned in the article, is a former Amnesty International researcher who is based at the Free University of Amsterdam
According to his research, Mandela did hold senior rank in the South African Communist Party.
Here’s the headline and some of the story.
Nelson Mandela ‘proven’ to be a member of the Communist Party after decades of denial
By Colin Freeman, and Jane Flanagan in Cape Town
Mr Mandela made his denial of Communist Party membership in the opening statement of his Rivonia trial, when he and nine other ANC leaders were tried for 221 alleged acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the apartheid system. The defendants were also accused of furthering the aims of Communism, a movement that was then illegal in South Africa.
Addressing the court, Mr Mandela declared that he had “never been a member of the Communist Party,” and that he disagreed with the movement’s contempt for Western-style parliamentary democracy.
He added: “The suggestion made by the State that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did, both as an individual and as a leader of my people, because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.”Mr Mandela looked for help from the Communists, with whom he already had close contacts due to their shared opposition to apartheid.
“He knew and trusted many Communist activists anyway, so it appears he was co-opted straight to the central committee with no probation required,” said Prof Ellis. “But it’s fair to say he wasn’t a real convert, it was just an opportunist thing.”Communist party members secretly visited Beijing and Moscow, where they got assurances of support for their own guerrilla campaign. In conjunction with a number of leading ANC members, they set up a new, nominally independent military organisation, known as Umkhonto we Sizwe or Spear of the Nation. With Mr Mandela as its commander, Umkhonto we Sizwe launched its first attacks on 16 December 1961.
Its campaign of “sabotage” and bombings over the subsequent three decades claimed the lives of dozens of civilians, and led to the organisation being classed as a terrorist group by the US.In his book, Professor Ellis, who also authored a publication on the Liberian civil war, elaborates on other murky aspects of the ANC’s past.
One is that bomb-making experts from the IRA trained the ANC at a secret base in Angola in the late 1970s, a link disclosed last year in the posthumous memoirs of Kader Asmal, a South African politician of Indian extraction who was exiled in Ireland. He was a member of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, which, Prof Mr Ellis says, in turn had close links to the British and South African Communist parties.
The IRA tutoring, which was allegedly brokered partly through Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, led to the ANC fighters improving their bombing skills considerably, thanks to the expertise of what Mr Ellis describes as “the world’s most sophisticated urban guerrilla force”.
Angola was also the base for “Quatro”, a notorious ANC detention centre, where dozens of the movement’s own supporters were tortured and sometimes killed as suspected spies by agents from their internal security service, some of whom were “barely teenagers”. East German trainers taught the internal security agents that anyone who challenged official ANC dogma should be viewed as a potential spy or traitor.
On Friday night, a spokesman for the Nelson Mandela Foundation said: “We do not believe that there is proof that Madiba (Mandela’s clan name) was a Party member ... The evidence that has been identified is comparatively weak in relation to the evidence against, not least Madiba’s consistent denial of the fact over nearly 50 years. It is conceivable that Madiba might indulge in legalistic casuistry, but not that he would make an entirely false statement.
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Friday - January 11, 2013
A Little Light Reading From The DOJ
Twenty Two Pages Of Statistical Analysis From The Federal Government: download it or read it online; it’s lots of graphs and tables and a few paragraphs.
(CNSNews.com) - A new Justice Department study looking at violent crimes committed against “youth”—defined as Americans from 12 to 17 years of age—discovered that the rate of “serious violent crime” committed against youth by a perpetrator using a firearm dropped 95 percent from 1994 to 2010.
The study—“Violent Crime Against Youth, 1994-2010”--also discovered that American youth who were victims of a serious violent crime in 2010 were six times more likely to have been attacked by a perpetrator wielding a knife than one wielding a gun.
Serious violent crimes against youth perpetrated at schools dropped 62 percent from 1994 to 2010, said the study, and students were less likely to become victims of a serious violent crime at school than they were away from school. In 2010, 6.6 out of every 1,000 youth became victims of a serious violent crime at school while 7.4 of every 1,000 became victims of a serious violent crime away from school.
The study, released Dec. 20, also discovered that an American youth was 3.8 times more likely to become the victim of a serious violent crime if he or she lived in a home where the householder was unmarried than if he or she lived with married parents.
Plenty more to read at the link and in the DOJ document. Sounds like these kinds of crimes are dropping just as fast as those other kinds of crime we read about in that FBI UCS report the other day. And don’t forget, this is the period where concealed carry really opened up across the country, even though the left and the MSM went rabid proclaiming it was going to be the Wild West everywhere. And gun sales have been going through the roof the whole time, but especially since late 2008. And now we find that crime is down significantly even amongst the group too young to be owning them. Hmmm.
Posted by Drew458 on 01/11/2013 at 06:36 PM
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:Eyeroll:
Give us this day, our daily stupid ...
Larry Ward, chairman of Gun Appreciation Day, told CNN that if blacks had been given the “right to keep and bear arms” since the country’s inception, “perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.”
“The truth is – I think Martin Luther King would agree with me if he were alive today – that if African-Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history, and I believe wholeheartedly that it’s essential to our liberty,” Ward said.
Ok, it’s good that he’s all pro-2A and all.
But holy flamiin shitbal CRIVENS!! some folks really need to think things out just a tiny bit before opening their mouths.
This was on CNN, in a bit of a debate segment. So naturally the anti-gun woman handed him his ass in a bucket. No kidding. Makes me wonder though ... did CNN bring him in precisely because he is this stupid?
Just pondering things.
Oh, and maybe I’m getting senile a couple decades ahead of time, but ... I’ve never heard of Gun Appreciation Day before this year. I remember National Ammo Day and National Buy A Gun Day (April 15th IIRC) both of which I think were started by Kim Dutoit and his minions (any number of which are members here too). And I know the government has more damn useless “Day” days to appreciate everything from ‘57 Chevys to hernia trusses ... but Gun Day somehow slipped under my radar. And they’ve already got a national chairman? Says who???
10 seconds of research: Yes, it is new. And probably poorly named ... diliberately? ... and thus perhaps a bit of astroturfing?? Anyone halfway intelligent would have called it Second Amendment Appreciation Day.
Posted by Drew458 on 01/11/2013 at 06:09 PM
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More of that “conversation”
Stolen from Theo’s ... a map showing the number of murders in Chicago over the past 12 years, and the primary demographic where those murders occurred.
If it wasn’t so cold out today, I’d swear I could hear crickets chirping when I look at the picture ...
Don’t ever forget: Chicago (murder capital of the nation, IIRC) has such “sensible” gun laws that firearms of all types are pretty much completely illegal there, Supreme Court decision notwithstanding.
Oh, and Obama’s puppet Rahm Emanuel, mayor of this Windy City, just announced more controls he wants to put in play (but without too much detail ... and no surprise, his words are almost a perfect echo of Joe Biden’s. It’s like they all have a script to read from!)
The mayor refused Friday to give out details of what he’s planning to propose, but he did touch on the assault weapons ban, a limit on the size of ammunition clips and instituting background checks “on all sales, wherever they take place, wherever the location may be.”
He said he refuses to stay idle — “waiting is not a strong suit” — until state legislators take up gun control following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut.
“It will compliment our activities of putting more police on the street, having after-school programs … It will complement our gun seizures,” the mayor said Thursday in the Budlong Woods Library.
Chicago ended 2012 with a bang — an astonishing 516 gun-related deaths in one year.
In the first week of 2013, Chicago had already outpaced 2012’s gun deaths with 12 homicides.
Posted by Drew458 on 01/11/2013 at 04:44 PM
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In My Inbox
Not the smartest idea
Johnstown, PA (GlossyNews) – Local and state police scoured the hills outside rural Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after reports of three animal rights activists going missing after attempting to protest the wearing of leather at a large motorcycle gang rally this weekend. Two others, previously reported missing, were discovered by fast food workers “duct taped inside fast food restaurant dumpsters,” according to police officials.
“Something just went wrong,” said a still visibly shaken organizer of the protest. “Something just went horribly, horribly, wrong.”
The organizer said a group of concerned animal rights activists, “growing tired of throwing fake blood and shouting profanities at older women wearing leather or fur coats,” decided to protest the annual motorcycle club event “in a hope to show them our outrage at their wanton use of leather in their clothing and motor bike seats.”
“In fact,” said the organizer, “motorcycle gangs are one of the biggest abusers of wearing leather, and we decided it was high time that we let them know that we disagree with them using it, ergo, they should stop.”
According to witnesses, protesters arrived at the event in a vintage 1960′s era Volkswagen van and began to pelt the gang members with balloons filled with red colored water, simulating blood, and shouting “you’re murderers” to passersby. This, evidently, is when the brouhaha began.
“They peed on me!!!” charged one activist. “They grabbed me, said I looked like I was French, started calling me ‘La Trene’ and duct taped me to a tree so they could pee on me all day!”
Still others claimed they were forced to eat hamburgers and hot dogs under duress. Those who resisted were allegedly held down while several bikers “farted on their heads.”
Police officials declined comments on any leads or arrests due to the ongoing nature of the investigation; however, organizers for the motorcycle club rally expressed “surprise” at the allegations.
“That’s preposterous,”said one high-ranking member of the biker organizing committee. “We were having a party, and these people showed up and were very rude to us. They threw things at us, called us names, and tried to ruin the entire event. So, what did we do? We invited them to the party!
What could be more friendly than that? You know, just because we are all members of motorcycle clubs does not mean we do not care about inclusiveness. Personally, I think it shows a lack of character for them to be saying such nasty things about us after we bent over backwards to make them feel welcome.”
When confronted with the allegations of force-feeding the activist’s meat, using them as ad hoc latrines, leaving them incapacitated in fast food restaurant dumpsters, and ‘farting on their heads,’ the organizer declined to comment in detail.
“That’s just our secret hand shake,” assured the organizer.
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a day on the street, not so pretty.
I’ll never understand why the papers here and most especially the Daily Mail, insist on writing headlines and or captions that ALWAYS just must tell us that a subject is ; a grandad, a veteran, an ‘A’ level student, a mother, a grandmother, a father and the list can grow. They do this even when what they are has no relation to the story. Or is not important to the story. For example, a headline might read, War veteran mugged for a dollar. Ok, it’s true he was a veteran. In 1943. So what? I can see where perhaps a headline in a serious crime might read, mother of three attacked in park. Or killed or whatever awful thing can happen. But often they’ll just write, mother beaten by thug in street. ?? Don’t know why it bothers me, I guess cos it just reads so clumsy to my eyes.
None of which has anything to do with the following story except for the ID that students were ‘A’ level, as if it matters.
This is something that is becoming common in some parts of the country. Imagine what these little verminous bastards will be like at 18. They’re 8 to 12 here.
Someone needs to track down these monsters and break some bones is such a manner that they will never ever be in any shape to attack anyone ever again. Set the examples and the streets become safer.
So then .... to our current story which is:
The feral kids who terrorise our streets: A-level students filming skating video are ‘jumped’ by foul-mouthed gang of eight-year-old thieves
Pint-sized yobs caught on camera as they hurl abuse at skating teenagers
One boy tells victims ‘I’m eight you f****** t***’
Children grabbed A-level students and tried to steal from them
By Lucy CrossleyA shocking video showing the moment a gang of foul-mouthed children aged just eight
threaten and chase two teenagers through a shopping precinct has emerged.The distressing footage shows the students being sworn at, chased, pushed, punched and kicked at by the gang of little tearaways.
One of the pint-sized yobs can be heard to say: ‘Stop pointing it (the camera) at me or I will smash it. We’ll follow you.
When one of the A-level students then asks them how old they are, one boy replies: ‘I’m eight you f****** t***.’
The clip, filmed by the two 16-year-old boys in Yeovil town centre, Somerset, was posted on YouTube and attracted more than 100,000 hits in less than a week.
The short film starts with the teenagers performing rollerskating tricks before the gang of around seven small children confront them in the street.
Charles Turner, 16, was one of the two teenagers targeted by the gang last Saturday.
He said: ‘We were just filming some tricks and these kids walked up to us and were immediately abusive.
‘At one point they started shouting at an elderly woman who was just walking past.
‘There were about six or seven of them ranging in age from about eight to 12.
‘They have obviously been brought up to believe they can just act like this, which is quite sad.
‘There were a lot of people about and you could see how shocked some of them were.’
The video shows the teenage boys trying to move away from the escalating situation by skating away.
However, the children run after them before attempting to grab and kick the older boys.
After one of the children grabs the skater holding the video camera the little yobs can be seen to begin to push him.
The video ends just as the teenage boys reach the safety of a nearby cinema.
‘They followed us into the cinema and tried to steal my friend’s wallet by pinching it from his pocket and one of the girls tried to punch him in the face,’ said Charles.
The video has attracted almost 500 comments on YouTube, with many praising the teenagers for their restraint when dealing with the pint-sized gang.
Jon Gleeson, a Yeovil town councillor, said: ‘I am horrified by the footage.
‘I am amazed children this young appeared to be allowed to be left unaccompanied in a busy town centre.
‘Where on earth were the parents?
‘I’m sure the majority of parents who watch this video will be stunned by the language and the complete lack of respect that seems to be shown for other people.’
The two teenagers did not make a complaint to the police about the abusive behaviour of the children.
Posted by peiper on 01/11/2013 at 02:29 PM
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Jindal Makes His Move
Will it work? I don’t know. But at least he’s willing to give it a try. If it goes in, and LA starts creating jobs all over the place, then we’ll know it’s a hit. And somebody has to have the balls to actually try and do some real tax reform in this country.
Gov. Bobby Jindal is proposing to eliminate Louisiana’s income and corporate taxes and pay for those cuts with increased sales taxes, the governor’s office confirmed Thursday. The governor’s office has not yet provided the details of the plan.
“The bottom line is that for too long, Louisiana’s workers and small businesses have suffered from having a state tax structure that is too complex and that holds back economic prosperity,” Jindal said in a statement released by his office. “It’s time to change that so people can keep more of their own money and foster an environment where businesses want to invest and create good-paying jobs.”
Jindal said the plan would be revenue-neutral and that the goal would be to keep sales taxes “as low and flat as possible.”
“Eliminating personal income taxes will put more money back into the pockets of Louisiana families and will change a complex tax code into a more simple system that will make Louisiana more attractive to companies who want to invest here and create jobs.
“The bottom line is that for too long, Louisiana’s workers and small businesses have suffered from having a state tax structure that is too complex and that holds back economic prosperity. It’s time to change that so people can keep more of their own money and foster an environment where businesses want to invest and create good-paying jobs.”
You go, Bobby. Go go go!
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22 offences including sexual assault, released without sentence due to low iq
Now here’s a load of rubbish. This is how the system protects the citizen.
It doesn’t. Not in this case. And I question that the retard doesn’t know right from wrong. Even if he doesn’t, he should still be deleted. He is of no possible value to anyone. He will cost the state more than he can ever be worth, and when he grows older and stronger,
WHAT THEN ?
Schoolboy, 12, who admitted 22 offences including sexual assault, theft and criminal damage is released without sentence because he has an IQ of just 58
· Because schoolboy has such a low IQ, he cannot understand implications of his actions
· Judge had to allow him to enter new, non guilty pleas under common law
· As child was not convicted, court could not carry out doctor’s recommendations to give him a hospital order
· Judge describes it as ‘perfect storm’
A boy of 12 who carried out more than 20 criminal acts was released without charge - because the courts have no legal way to deal with him.
A judge heard the child’s behaviour has ‘deteriorated beyond control’ but his low IQ means that he cannot properly understand the court process.
The judge described the situation as the ‘perfect storm’ as there is no way that the court could accept a guilty plea from him, as he cannot understand the implications of his acts, and they could not follow doctor’s recommendations, as the boy had not been convicted.
The boy initally entered 22 guilty pleas in July for offences including sexual assault, racially aggravated assault, theft, common assault and criminal damage.
The case has since been back before the courts 15 times in a bid to find a way to deal with the boy, who is originally from Portsmouth, Hampshire.
But psychiatric and psychologists’ reports established the youngster - who is now in foster care - has an IQ of just 58.
That puts him in the bottom three per cent for his age and unable to understand the implications of his acts.
Because of the reports, district judge Anthony Callaway allowed new, not guilty pleas to be entered for all the charges under common law powers.
A doctor’s report recommended giving the youth a hospital order under the Mental Health Act.
But they could not do this because he was not convicted.
The only option was to give the youth absolute discharges on all counts.
David Tongs, from the youth offending team, told Fareham Youth Court the youth’s behaviour had ‘deteriorated beyond control’ in recent weeks.
He said: ‘Since his last appearance, his behaviour has become rather worrying.
‘He’s become abusive, he’s been running away almost on a daily basis, and running away from school almost as soon as he’s taken there.
‘He’s been breaching his curfew. On one occasion he was just standing outside and refusing to come in.
‘We worry that he’s out with other young people who are known to us as criminally active.’
Mr Tongs said the boy had recently tried to stab a teacher with a pen, and has damaged several windows at his school.
He added: ‘His behaviour over the last two to three weeks has been appalling. It’s deteriorated beyond control.
‘We don’t know where he goes when he runs away.’
The boy has been living with the same foster carer since July, and until recently had behaved well.
His foster carer said: ‘It has escalated to a difficult level and I don’t know how to keep him safe.’
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Gee, happy to know the focus is keeping the worthless retard safe. We wouldn’t want to spoil the public or teachers or other school kids, by keeping them safe too.
What total nonsense. The more I read about crap like this, the more convinced I am that the Nazis did not have everything wrong. Or any other system that simply hit ctrl/alt/delete on these sub species. What possible good are they? They cost the earth to maintain, and for what? For the mistaken belief that there’s a chance they are really human after all? Bah. If deleting them seems too much for the kind hearted, then for safety’s sake, toss them in a cage and feed them raw meat once a week and otherwise forget about them. They will only do great harm. And there’s enough of that now with criminals who do have all their wits about them.
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just an observation
Crivens ... is this for real?
Happen to see a small article with ref. to Exec. Action on guns. Not a new story but what caught my eye was the following comment by Joe Biden.
Whatever you think of the man, he’s natural comic. He might not have planned it that way but ... he is quoted as calling for tighter background checks for people buying guns .... AND ..... here’s where the comic comes alive.
“Much tighter restrictions on access to guns for .....
The Mentally Ill.” Huh?
So, does that mean restrictions can be made tighter for them, but they can still buy a gun?
I’m just passing on what I saw.
Meanwhile in other news to piss off the Brits.
I already mentioned that guy whose name I already forgot, who came from DC to tell the Brits not to hold a referendum on the EU.
Well, as you’ll imagine not many Brits are happy with us over that but to make things even worser (giggle) and no offense intended as I’m married to a Brit,
Now the Germans have sent someone here and they too are lecturing the Brits about the advantages and joys of membership in the EU, and cautioning the Brits about leaving.
Brits are definitely not well pleased. Some are desperately searching for another Churchill but alas, the last two generations have not produced a leader of that stature or brilliance, nor the population who might appreciate him.
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shoulda hadda gun
A Washington man was attacked Friday by three coyotes while he took his dog for a walk near an elementary school in the town of Kent, which is south of Seattle
The Seattle station reported that Faron Scarberry suffered bruises on his knuckles and scratches on his left arm in the attack and was forced to receive 26 rabies shots.
Scarberry was walking his dog- a puggle- when he was approached by the pack. One lunged at him and another took hold of his pant leg and started shaking.
Scarberry said the coyotes likely wanted to put his puggle on the menu, but he managed to resist the attack and the coyotes ran back under a fence.
Wildlife experts said this December is the time of year coyotes are out searching for their food. And coyotes eat just about anything.
- A “puggle” is a crossbreed dog, a mix between a beagle and a pug. Crossbreeds are all the rage these days, the puppies selling for designer prices, but just a few years ago they would have been called mutts and been free for the asking. Not they they can’t be great dogs, or cute pets. It’s just a trend thing.
- Washington State is a “shall issue” CCW state, so this guy could have had a pistol in his pocket if he had wanted to. Well, assuming he wasn’t walking his dog right at the school; Washington has a Gun Free Zone for schools too.
- Coyotes sometimes hunt in packs. The packs can be larger than a dozen.
- Rifle cartridges like the .22-250, .220 Swift, .222 Magnum, or the .223 Remington are perfectly suited to hunting coyotes, from close up out to about 300 yards. If you found yourself attacked by a large pack of coyotes, an AR15 with a 30 round magazine would be about the best defensive firearm you could wish for. What the hell, ‘yotes are smaller than poodles, right?
Claudia Johnson and her kids frequently walk the area near where Scarberry was attacked. She said her cat was attacked last year in the same neighborhood.
“We kept our animals in for quite some time after that,” Johnson said.
Faron Scarberry, who lives next door to a school, wants to get the word out about the frightening attack before the wild animals strike again.
“They were coming around the bush and I guess they were going after my puggle.” Scarberry said.
Scarberry was walking his dog in in Kent near his home when the dogs approached.
“One of them lunged up towards me and I kind of pushed it away with my hand and its front claws scratched my hand and wrist,” Scarberry said. “Then one of the grabbed me by the pant leg and started shaking my leg so I just started kicking and hitting at them to get them off of me and they ran back under the fence.”
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“The elementary school is right at the back of our property and the kids walk here to and from school,” Scarberry said. “I don’t want any of the kids to get hurt.”
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The Legendary Outback Glue Snake Strikes Again
Snake clings to plane wing during 2 hour Australian flight
Stunned Qantas Airways passengers watched out their windows as a large python clung to a plane’s wing during a two-hour flight from Australia’s northeastern city of Cairns to Papua New Guinea.
The 3-meter (10-foot) python fought to stay on the wing, pulling itself forward only to be pushed back by the frigid wind.
Passenger Robert Weber videotaped the struggle and told Australia’s Fairfax Media that the wind whipping the snake against the side of the plane left a bloody smear.
The python managed to hang on until the plane landed in Port Moresby, but a Qantas spokesman said the creature was dead on arrival.
Ok, now somebody tell me how the damn snake got up on the wing in the first place. And how the ground crew managed to miss it during the pre-flight? What, do the Aussies park their airliners under trees or something, or out in the middle of mangrove swamps? Crikey!
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Thursday - January 10, 2013
First A&R Thursday of 2013
Not that this is the first Thursday of the new year. Just that I’m a bit slow with stuff sometimes.
Archeologists in Egypt unearth 3000-year-old tombs
CAIRO—Egypt’s Antiquities Minister says Italian archaeologists have unearthed tombs over 3000 years old in the ancient city of Luxor.
Mohammed Ibrahim says the discovery was made beneath the mortuary temple of King Amenhotep II, seventh Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty who reigned from 1427 to 1401 B.C. The temple is located on the western bank of the Nile.Ibrahim says remains of wooden sarcophaguses and human bones were found inside the tombs.
Mansour Barek, head of Luxor antiquities, says jars used to preserve the liver, lungs, stomach and intestines of the deceased were found. They were decorated with images of the four sons of the god Horus—figures seen as essential by ancient Egyptians to help the soul of the deceased find its way to heaven.
As I’m sure you recall, the jars mentioned here are properly called Canopic Jars. By the middle of the 18th Dynasty (Amenhotep II was King Tut’s great-grandfather, probably possibley) the jars, usually carved from alabaster, had lids carved in the shape of the four sons of Horus: Imsety, Duamutef, Hapi, and Qebehsenuef.
This is Amelia Calley, actress, model, video star. I know I’ve run her before, but if Nefertiti (probably King Tut’s mommy) was a redhead, she would have looked like this. At least in my dreams anyway.
Posted by Drew458 on 01/10/2013 at 12:00 PM
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