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CASABLANCA, Morocco -- Tommy Robredo of Spain will aim for his 11th career title against second-seeded Kevin Anderson in the Grand Prix Hassan II final after they both came from a set down to win their semifinals on Saturday.
Robredo beat top-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 to reach his first final since winning on outdoor clay in Santiago, Chile, two years ago.
"Stan was playing very well and fast during the first set," Robredo said. "I continued fighting and it went better during the second set as well as in the third. I'm very happy to be in the final again here, 12 years after my first appearance in Casablanca."
Anderson followed up with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 win against third-seeded Martin Klizan of Slovakia and will aim for his third career title -- and first on clay -- in Sunday's decider.
"Tommy's been around for so long. I was watching him on TV growing up," Anderson said. "He's obviously a very experienced clay-court player and has had some terrific wins. I'm going to have to play very well."
They have never played each other before, which was not the case for Robredo and Wawrinka.
In their first meeting since 2008, Robredo improved to 5-1 overall against Wawrinka, having won all three of their matches on clay.
Wawrinka broke Robredo's serve twice and did not face a single break point in the first set. But Robredo broke Wawrinka twice in the second to open up a 5-3 lead and closed out the set on serve after saving a break point.
They swapped breaks at the start of the third set, before Robredo won the next four games to take a commanding lead.
Wawrinka, the 2010 champion, finally held serve, but Robredo sealed victory on serve in the next game.
Anderson had to battle hard after losing the first set, saving five break points in the second. He opened up a 4-0 lead in the third set, before closing out the match on serve.
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We spoke to Avonte Oquendo's mother at the headquarters where volunteers are trying to find Avonte. With Christmas a week away, Vanessa Fontaine still has hope her son will be home to celebrate.
Every day, volunteers help out at the headquarters in Astoria, Queens, set up December 9 to find Avonte. Donations through social media sites, including a Facebook page, help pay for supplies and the stacks of fliers, many in different languages.
Avonte, who has autistic and does not speak, was last seen running away from his Long Island City School October 4. While there have been numerous tips about him, nothing has stuck. He simply vanished. But his mother continues to pray for that Christmas miracle.


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Mac D' Weekend Movie Guide for 12/23/2010
Welcome to another weekend movie guide. Christmas is upon us. This means, for the most part, the end of the award movie season and Christmas movie season. But we are going out with a bang, this week another Jeff Bridges movie, Jack Black may make me want to punch him in the face, and Rallo Tubbs is Nien Nunb
These are the movies that were released on Wednesday December 12, 2010
Little Fockers Rated PG-13
Ben Stiller's Greg can't live up to his Father in Law's (Robert De Niro) expectations. Its the same conflict that we have seen in the last two Meet the Parents movies. While I do think Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro will make it work I do not think adding kids to the mix is not going to make this amazing or anything. Plus original director Jay Roach isn't at the helm.
VERDICT - It maybe the only new comedy for the adults this Christmas, but it still looks like the same thing I have put up with for two movies now.
True Grit Rated PG-13
Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) kills the father of Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld). She gets upset and convinces US Marshall Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to track him down. This is the first movie of its kind, as it has the stones to attempt to remake a John Wayne film. Wayne did play Cogburn, so hats off to Jeff Bridges for even attempting this. Written and Directed by the Coen Brothers. This is supposed to be more like the book then the John Wayne film. The trailer looks like a good old school western. This will appease a ton of different people and I think it will be the #1 movie in America.
The verdict – this movie has already been officially announced as the Mac D Family movie for this Christmas.
These Movies will be released on December 25, 2010
Gulliver's Travels Rated PG
Yes just like the book but updated for today and staring Jack Black. Regularly I really hate making things updated. But that usually comes from trying to update something from the 60's to today. The only thing that scares me is Jack Black trying to do children's comedy because it comes off more as annoying goofy then funny. But then again I had major reservations about School of Rock and that worked out for the best.
Verdict – Perhaps I will see this in its third week of release but I am making no promises.
The King's Speech Rated R
Colin Firth is the King of England but he has to rid him self of a speech impediment to help England through WW2. Luckly he knows Geoffrey Rush. This is a true story and has good supporting cast including Helena Bonham Carter and Guy Pearce. Films about the monarch in the 20th century are always good and very fascinating. And there has to be a reason why this movie is getting a ton of award buzz.
Verdict – Take your mom to it. She will love you for it
Box Office Top 5 Movies In The Country
#1 - TRON Legacy Rated PG
#2 - Yogi Bear Rated PG
#3 - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Rated PG
#4 - The Fighter Rated R
#5 - Tangled Rated PG
TRON taking #1 is not shocking what so ever. I wonder what the good word of mouth will do for TRON when it goes up against stiff compeition this week. I thought Yogi Bear would bomb but coming in a 2 is a mild win for the movie. Hopefuly this will lead to a live action Laugh-o-lympics. If Dawn Treader sinks fast I wonder if any new Narnia movies will be made.
Still In theatres
Black Swan Rated R, Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows: Part 1 Rated PG-13
How Do You Know Rated PG-13, Love and Other Drugs Rated R,
The Social Network Rated PG-13, The Tourist Rated PG-13, Unstoppable Rated PG-13
These DVD's were released on December 21, 2010
Salt Rated PG-13
Angelina Jolie in an action film always holds my attention. Her as a possible Russian KGB makes it even sweeter. There is already Sequel talk so it should be good
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Rated PG-13
Greed is good again but is this movie? You will have to see for your self because every one has a different opinion. It did garner Michael Douglas another Golden Globe nomination so it can't be that bad.
Family Guy does Return of the Jedi. I have seen this episdoe and think It is the best Family Guy Star Wars parody. Specifically the stuff with the Emperor.
FUTURAMA IS BACK!. While this season started out good, I think it started to get weak as the season went on. That being said a bad Futurama episode is 10 times better then any other TV show on TV.
Thats it for this week. Next week we take a long hard break and begin drinking. That and George Cloney acts like a bad ass . . again.
Merry Christmas every one


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2 to Buy & 1 to Sell After Earnings on Monday
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Monday was a somewhat slow day in terms of companies reporting earnings; however like all days during earnings season, opportunity still presented itself. Earnings season is a period where retail investors can either capitalize on great opportunity or can be suckered by what looks like value. In this piece, I am looking at both, one stock that should be avoided, and two stocks to buy.
Speculation and Modest Growth is Not Worth this Stock's Price
Shares of the tech company Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) traded higher by 7.1% on Monday after the company reported earnings. The company met expectations on the top line with non-GAAP revenue of $96.4 million and beat bottom line expectations by $0.02 with an EPS of $0.40. Stratasys was one of the best performing stocks of last year but has seen a slow start to the year. Now, investors believe this quarter may jump-start the 3D printing space.
When you consider Stratasys' revenue over the last 12 months was just $359 million, you can see that its market cap of $2.64 billion is very expensive. The stock trades with a price/sales of more than 7.0 yet has top line growth of less than 25%. This supposedly is a high-growth company, one the CEO said is "rapidly growing."
Although it is growing, much of its upside is tied to the belief that the 3D printing space will grow into the tens of billions in a consumer-driven market. While I don't know how this story ends in terms of growth within the next five years, I do think that Stratasys' P/E ratio over 80 is way too expensive for a company that is guiding for growth of 24% in 2013. Therefore, I'd sell and take profits.
An Underperforming Healthcare Stock that Keeps Getting Fundamentally Cheaper
Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ: MYGN) fell 2.83% on Monday after reporting earnings that largely exceeded expectations. The company grew by 21% over last year and increased full-year guidance above The Street's expectations. Myriad has traded flat over the last year and is currently near the bottom of its range.
Therefore, it's hard to determine why the stock might have fallen. One possible reason could be fears that Medicare will reduce its pricing for the company's products. Myriad gets 10% of its revenue from Medicare and this fear, especially after Medicare reduced pricing on Nordion's product, might have been responsible for the loss.
The good thing about the Medicare concern is that it doesn't really matter if they reduce pricing; 10% is a small percentage and it's not as if Medicare would refuse to cover the products, but might reduce pricing by a percentage. This is a very stable company with great margins that is priced very cheap. Remember, Stratasys trades with a P/E ratio over 80 and a price/sales over 7.0. Myriad has very similar growth yet trades with a price/sales of 3.6 and a P/E ratio of 16.5 in a healthcare space that usually boats hefty valuations due to margin strength. To me, this is value, and I'd buy a stock that has much fewer questions compared to the overvalued SSYS.
Regardless of Performance this Stock is a "Must-Buy!"
In after-hours trading, shares of Santarus (NASDAQ: SNTS) are trading higher by 8.84% on volume of 240.1k. This large pop came after the biotechnology company reported earnings that crushed Wall Street's consensus. The Street was expecting revenue of $62 million, but the company reported $70.2 million, and then with its EPS of $0.08 it also beat expectations by $0.07 (take a minute to think about that). Therefore, this was one of the more impressive quarters of the earnings season.
The company's 65% top-line growth is remarkable, and furthermore is its bottom line growth of 180% and its full-year EPS guidance between $0.92 and $1.00. This compares favorably to The Street's expectations of just $0.70 and shows a continued strength in margin growth. As a result, this is a must-buy in biotechnology, a stock that is growing as fast as possible with a one-year return of 200%.
Even though the company is growing by more than 60% year-over-year, this is a stock that is trading with a price/sales of just 4.0 and a forward P/E ratio near 10.0 (after updated guidance). With that being said, I have no idea how the stock will trade on Tuesday. It is possible that it will open and trade flat or even lower, as stocks tend to trade illogical following earnings.
However, this is a stock that can't appreciate fast enough to keep up with its fundamental growth, and was trading with after-hour gains of almost 9%. Even if the gains hold, I still think this is a "buy" and if it ticks lower I will buy on every dip, because this is a stock that is worth every bit of $20 and then some.
In my book, Taking Charge With Value Investing (McGraw-Hill), I examine human behavior and the psychological effects that take place in the minds of investors when a stock shoots higher or falls drastically lower (think roulette at a casino), with one scenario being earnings. For many investors, chasing these trends is common, even addicting, and very few are capable of realizing their losses because of their occasional gain.
Investors need to avoid this behavior after earnings, and look not at the performance of the stock but rather the performance of the quarter. By doing so, you will be able to find the inconsistencies and a distinction between performance and fundamentals, which creates value and allows for large returns.
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CHATSWORTH, Ga. (WRCB) -- It started as a shared interest between a few Woodlawn Elementary School parents.
Will Lingenfelter and a few friends had always loved to bow hunt, but there have never really been many outlets for archery as a competitive sport.
The group decided to form a team for the elementary school, joining the ranks of less than two dozen programs in the state.
"At that time, it was just something we enjoyed and we wanted to do it for the kids to see if they did, too," Lingenfelter said. "There were lots of things we didn't know."
Among them, how much interest there was in the little-known sport.
Brad Bates was able to recruit a few kids through his physical education classes to join the initial team in 2009. The rest were found through flyers and hallway conversation.
"I heard about it when I was in first grade. I wanted to do it because it was new and I wanted to try it," said Shelby Goodrich, who is now in seventh grade.
Brannon Nuckolls was also intrigued, yet intimidated.
"I just thought it was different and I wanted to give it a try, but it looked like it was so hard to do," he recalled.
For some it was.
Goodrich recalled shooting a score in the 70's during her early days. Now she averages better than 270 points in a 30-arrow competition.
However, the sport came a bit easier to a few others, including sixth-grader Christian Baldridge. He scored eight points on the first arrow he ever shot, then followed with a nine-pointer with his second (max is 10).
Still, he wasn't satisfied.
"I should have scored nine on the first one," he said with a smirk.
Four years after its inception, the program is a powerhouse.
Overwhelming numbers now turn out each year to try out for the 24-member team, so recruitment is no longer stressful. This year's roster ranges between grades three and seven with a good balance between boys and girls.
And they're all better than their coaches.
"When we first started the program, we could beat most of the kids when we shot. Now when we come in and shoot, it's not even close," Lingenfelter said humbly. "We realized the kids were coming every day to actually practice, while we just showed up to watch them and help them.
"Now the kids beat us every single time."
Baldridge can attest.
"When I beat Mr. Lingenfelter I always say, 'Better luck next time.'"
Turns out, Baldridge and his teammates say that to pretty much everyone.
In five years the group already owns four state championships (2010-13), two U.S. national titles (2011, 2013) and one world championship (2010).
The latest U.S. crown came last month in Louisville at the National Archery in the Schools (NASP) competition, where the Timberwolves set a new world record for the elementary age group with a team score of 3,300.
This weekend they will compete in St. Louis for their second world championship, where a win would mark the first time the program has completed the four-for-four sweep of region, state, national and world championships in the same year.
Woodlawn placed third at the nationals in 2010 before going on to finish first in the world.
"If we win another one, we'll be the first archery team in history to win so many, so we need to win one more," said fourth-grader Luke Headrick.
But even without that win, the program has certainly hit its target by offering an athletic alternative and authentic team experience to enthusiastic kids who are not as drawn to so-called "mainstream" sports.
"The kids have absolutely flourished in this program," Lingenfelter said. "You can see it in the titles that we've won, but this has also helped in their academic performance and attendance in school.
"All of those things have been better for all these kids with the help of this archery program."
"It's helped their academic performance and their attendance. All of those things have been better because of our archery program. They have flourished in it."
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The Grant County Youth Wrestling is in its second season and was originally started by Curt and Sandy Messerly. The team recently competed at the Kentucky State Tournament in Lexinton. There were over 40 teams from across Kentucky. The Braves Youth Wrestling placed second place overall.
By winning the District 32 championship for the first time in more than a decade, the 2014 Grant County Braves raised the bar for future teams. And that's fine with Coach Brandon Grammer, who believes what the Braves accomplished this season is only the beginning of what the program is capable of.
After pulling off a miracle comeback to win the district championship game, the Grant County Braves found themselves in a similar situation in first round action of the Region 8 Tournament on March 6.
But this time Lady Luck failed the Braves, in their 65-57 loss to Collins High School at Henry County High School.
Winners of nine of their last 12 games, including five straight, the Grant County Braves enter Region 8 Tournament play with momentum on their side. And they'll need it with Collins High School waiting for them in opening round action, which is set to tip off tonight at Henry County High School.
The wait is nearly over for the much anticipated groundbreaking for the Ark Encounter project coming to Williamstown.
Ken Ham, president and CEO of Answers in Genesis, announced during a Feb. 27 live web conference that enough money had been raised for the Ark Encounter bond offering to allow the release of the funds to start construction of the Ark.
While they didn't bring home the gold, the Grant County High School wrestling team was well represented at the state championship meet held two weeks ago at the All Tech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.
Seniors Brady Fryman, Austin Gripshover and Joey Roundtree put together impressive displays at the state meet. Fryman won his first match before being defeated, while Gripshover and Roundtree more than held their own before falling.
In the end, the competition was just too experienced for the Braves, who are only in their fourth year of existence.
Logan Cummins saved the best for last.
After more than a decade spent filling the role of district runner up on a regular basis, including each of the last two years, the Grant County Braves know all too well the feeling that goes with watching the opposition cut down the nets at their expense.
The third time is not always the charm. Just ask the Williamstown Lady Demons.
Facing regional power Simon Kenton for the third time this season, Williamstown was hoping the old adage of 'the third times the charm' would hold true. But it was anything but a charm with Simon Kenton knocking Williamstown out of the girls' District 32 Tournament by a score of 63-28 in action Feb. 24, at Walton-Verona.
Winners of three in a row and seven of their last 10, the Grant County Braves have momentum on their side as they head into post-season play.
And they'll need it with a first-round matchup against cross-town rival Williamstown on tap in first-round action of the District 32 Tournament scheduled for this week at Walton-Verona High School.
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It is always an affront to intelligence to see those who think the Constitution gives them an unlimited right to own firearms misquote the Second Amendment in much the same way that religious fanatics misquote the Bible to justify any and all acts, including murder.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution, as in most amendments from that period of American history, dealt with what the framers of the document saw as a potential need to protect certain rights in times of threat to sovereignty of the nation.
That amendment, adopted in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, was created in a time when the founders envisioned an America controlled solely by white male landowners. Blacks were still slaves, women had no rights and the right to bear arms was considered necessary for allow citizens to raise arms in defense of a nation — nothing more.
The forefathers never envisioned an Americans where blacks were free, women had the right to vote or hold office and certainly never saw an America where mega industries got rich peddling dangerous weapons to racial hate groups, psychotics or those who would use such devices to kill loved ones.
America's founders never saw a country where mercenary wannabes would fill gun safes with assault style weapons and employ loopholes to own and use automatic weapons to rob, main and kill.
Our forefathers never saw a nation where hate-mongering groups like the National Rifle Association would unleash a tidal wave of lying propaganda to misquote and misuse the Second Amendment to further the profit-grubbing motives of a gun industry that thrives on hate and violence in America.
Thankfully, much of America has changed since the original Constitution and Bill of Rights promoted slavery and other intolerance. Many of those denied rights by those original documents now have those freedoms rightfully restored.
Yet the ancient rhetoric of the Second Amendment stays in place, even in the light of a number of Supreme Court decisions that limits the applications of that often-misquoted amendment.
Even those who penned the Second Amendment saw it as a provision for self-defense of a nation, not an unlimited license to arm the population. Based on English Common Law, the drafters of the Second Amendment declared it to be "an auxiliary right, supporting the natural rights of self-defense, resistance to oppression, and the civic duty to act in concert in defense of the state."
In 1875, the Supreme Court ruled that "the right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence."
In 1939, the Supreme Court ruled the amendment protects arms that had a reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia." Nothing more.
As recently as 2008, the Supreme ruled that "the right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." The Court also found that many longstanding prohibitions and restrictions on firearms possession are consistent with the Second Amendment.
In other words, the Second Amendment has limits and those limits can, at any time, be broadened by law.
Which is the way it should be and it doesn't matter what the gun-toting cowards who misquote the Second Amendment thing or say in their rabid and often misuse of the amendment to try and support a right that does not exist.
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"Thankfully, much of America has changed [since the narrow-minded, intolerant ravings of those who penned the original Constitutions and so-called Bill of Rights.] Many of those denied rights by those original documents now have those rights rightfully restored."…extract from article my brackets
I'm somewhat stunned to say the least by this seeming 'hatred' of our founding documents and those who penned them;Re:… "narrow-minded, intolerant ravings" of these men…!?
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." …George Washington
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." …Thomas Jefferson
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." …Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Seemingly the author of this article is more than satisfied with anti/unconstitutional rulings that might issue from the high court which is supposed to interpret the law and not legislate from the bench as they now do in these seeming end times for the Republic.
I'll stick with the Constitution as it's written along with the above referenced admonitions from the founding fathers concerning the dangers of tyrannical government vs. a free citizenry.
Every day in every way our Congress is incrementally troweling in the bricks of their New World Order prison for "We the People"…believe it! : |
Carl Nemo **==
Carl–All three of your quotes are fakes.
For Washington's, the real quote is from Washington's first State of the Union address, and goes like this:
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."
The Jefferson quote doesn't have any basis as far as the people running Monticello can find:
The third one was originally attributed to Benjamin Franklin in the 1820s with no known source, and most times still is attributed to him rather than Jefferson.
Here's an actual quote from Washington about government, from his Farewell Address:
"This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government."
I must say I've become mostly amused, but somewhat concerned with the general divergence from proper grammar you've come to display lately, Doug. Meds got you confused?
"a potential need for protect certain rights"
"necessary for allow citizens to raise arms"
"never envisioned an Americans where"
"never saw an America mercenary wannabes"
" lying propaganda to misquote the misuse the Second Amendment"
The general gist of all those errant phrases is clear, but I've also wondered is that you? Not much like the old Doug…
Even a fundamental right can be regulated and gun ownership should be no different. It is so astonishingly clear that the Second Amendment is a relic of the founding era now two centuries old and its purpose is long past. The Second Amendment right was predicated on the 18th century assumption that there would be no other way to provide for the common defense. That certainly is not the case in the 21st century.
This site is becoming more and mopre like HuffPo every day. Wow!
Democrat president and Senate and it's full-time Republican bashing on a daily basis.
Bill since all of the items in the Bill of Rights were written at the same time are they not all relics of a long gone time of the founding of this great country. Should freedom of speech be restricted because communication technology has changed far beyond what the writers could envision and only applies to the technology of their day? One could say that citizens of the day used the same advanced arms the organized military used and thus we should have our arms technology advance to a similar degree.
AP whom Doug uses here, got it in the shorts today by Eric Holder and company. How's it feel AP? Oh AP you are so establishment leaning. Hows it feel guys?
Seems like the First Amendment isn't safe. How about that one Doug?
"an auxiliary right, supporting the natural rights of self-defense, resistance to oppression, and the civic duty to act in concert in defense of the state."
As I understand, one has no right of self defense in Canada. It is your duty as a subject to the crown to lay down and die should you be attacked in Canada. To attempt to defend oneself there is to infringe on the rights of the attacker. Only the government is empowered to defend you in Canada.
In the United States, we understand that a free people have the ability to defend themselves from attack. This means defending your home, defending your person, defending your family. This defense may include the use of modern firearms of equal or greater strength of your attackers.
There seems to be a disconnect in the article about what a natural right (some times referred to as "God given or granted") to defend oneself actually entails.
The government has deemed it necessary to prohibit certain weapons from civilian use, aka mortars, rockets, tanks, etc. However, the government does use these items in it's own defense. All these politicians demanding gun control hide behind guards with semi and fully automatic firearms. How can these things be good to protect the privileged few of the "inner party" and ungood for the rest of us?
Are armed capitol guards really so much smarter and more trustworthy than the rest of us?
Why do these people hiding behind their armed guards believe they know how best we should defense ourselves?
They don't. Only we know how to best defend ourselves. Maybe we are black belts in the martial arts and need no firearms. But I believe most of us are fat and lazy, and without a firearm wouldn't stand a chance against an armed attacker. And I believe more people realize this everyday while picking up the pieces of the lives after being brutalized, robbed, and left to die only to be told by the police that there is nothing they could do.
Hi Woody188…
Truly a brilliant rebuttal to this skewed, everso foul article concerning our "RIGHT" not privilege to bear arms for self protection, but that of our very freedom itself.
I, as others, are fatiqued by this seemingly leftist slanted sophistry on why Americans should be summarily disarmed via incrementalist registration schemes etc.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." …Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Need I say more?
Carl Nemo **==
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Carl I don't know where you come up with all these phony quotes but you should consider finding a more credible source.
That quote widely attributed to Benjamin Franklin sometimes without the second sentence is not found in any of his known writings. The word "lunch" is not known to have appeared anywhere in english literature until the 1820s, decades after his death.
Hi Bill…
Concerning these quotes I use. You've seen the movie "The Highlander" no doubt where in the end there can be only one.
Well all I can say is ol' Ben and I were having what moderns call 'lunch' in the Spring of '59', so I took the liberty of modernizing what he said that day after quaffing several pints of ale.
We had gotten on the subject of area lambs being eaten by wolves along with various methods to curtail the problem; then he quite spontaneously came up with this quote that I use on occasion. He was one very bright chap and I always enjoyed sharing thoughts on his latest experiments etc. particularly experiments in freedom over time and those to come. : )
Carl Nemo **==
Doesn't make a damn who said it or when. The truth of it is unassailable.
Fact is most Americans would welcome stricter gun controls. Though gun sales are soaring and making huge profits for manufacturers, the share of American households with guns has declined over the past four decades. This clearly shows that a minority of Americans are hoarding guns out of some delusional paranoid fear of losing their manhood.
This minority of gun fanatics hoarding nearly 300 million guns have proven themselves to be criminally lousy stewards of our nation's civilian arsenal. It is time that something be done to stop the insane hoarding of guns by this incompetent minority.
I assume from the above that you are first to volunteer to surrender your firearms?
I'm sure Obama would enjoy the pageantry of such a gala event. The first US citizen to voluntarily surrender his firearms without any form of compensation because it's just the right thing to do.
Most Americans believe Iraq attacked us on 9/11, that an omnipotent and immortal "sky father" controls everything, and that a Twinkie has an infinite shelf life. (Twinkie shelf life is actually 25 days.) Doesn't make them right, and their misguided and wrong-headed beliefs shouldn't infringe on my rights. Rights that were laid out based on the factual actions of tyrannical governments through out history.
Likewise, you use absolutes (most, minority) to try to marginalize the number of firearm owners. No one knows how many people actually own firearms, but estimates are between 39% and 50% of US households have at least one firearm. On the high end, that's only 5.5 firearms per household on average. Most things I "collect" I have way more than 5-6 of them. That's practical, not hoarding.
Lastly, I don't know where you get this "stewards of our nation's civilian arsenal" drivel. These firearms are private property. If you don't like them, don't buy them, but leave those of us that do alone!
Funny, Woody, how the post-revolutionary beneficiaries of the great American revolution can find fault with those who keep the flame alive. Much like Chamberlain they would genuflect and choose to appease in the name of social harmony and political correctness, a masquerade for abject fear. Terrorists know it, as do politicians who would turn it to their favor… despots awaiting opportunity… or metaphoric wolves, given the opening.
Just look at the political morass the current administration finds itself in… all done in the name of progressivism… designed to give long-term advantage to those who would function as wolves… and who already have.
Delusional? Only those who would be taken in by the Flim Flam Man. Is that you… or is it the one(s) who have already stolen your money, your medical records, your faith, or your future as a citizen in the (now mythical) land of the free?
Yep, change that must be believed…
…or as Lincoln said: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
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CBS Atlanta News has learned the identity of the SWAT officer wounded during a shootout with Lauren Brown, and spoke to that officer's neighbors who now call him a hero.
We are not naming the officer until Gwinnett County police release his identity to the public out of respect for his family. The veteran police officer is currently recovering in a local hospital after receiving surgery on his wrist.
The officer was shot during the exchange of gunfire with Brown, in turn he shot and killed Brown during the assault.
"I had no idea it was him," Joe Roberts said. Roberts lives a few doors down from the officer. "It makes me feel good, you don't know about every police officer, whether they would have the guts to come to your rescue or not. It just makes me feel good knowing he would have the guts to do that, the bravery."
Brown held five Gwinnett County firefighters hostage for hours on Tuesday. Police said he lured them to his home at 2440 Walnut Grove Way in Suwanee by placing a fake 911 call where he claimed to be having a heart attack.
At some point, one firefighter was released leaving four others still inside when SWAT team members moved in. They used explosives to blow a hole in the side of the home, then used flash-bang grenades to disorient Brown.
"It was a shock, a surprise," neighbor Steven Harmon said. "But, it makes you feel comfortable living in the neighborhood with the officer across the street. When he gets out of the hospital I'll express my gratitude, and tell him he is a hero."
Brown's home is in foreclosure and his demands were to have the power and utilities turned back on. The firefighters were his leverage to meet those demands. Negotiators tried peacefully to end the situation with no one getting harmed, but in the end felt that no matter what they did the firefighter's lives were in danger.
"To go into a house with a guy like that, you gotta be willing to put your life on the line and know what you are doing when you go into, that's bravery," Roberts said.
The officer is an expert marksman and has held the position of sniper team leader for SWAT.
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Basic requirements – Marijuana plants need water with the right pH level, grow lights, nutrients and suitable air, ventilation and temperature. However you choose to grow weed you should bear these basic requirements in mind and ask yourself at each stage how can I improve what I offer my plants?
Cannabis life cycle – Cannabis is an annual plant. If grown outside it germinates in the spring, lays down a lot of vegetative growth throughout the summer, and then flowers in the fall. Growing marijuana inside you would germinate the marijuana seeds, then place the seedlings under 24 hour lighting (some people use 18 hours on and 6 off) for the vegging stage and when your plant has grown large enough you will want to trick it into flowering (budding) by adjusting the light sequence to 12 hours on and 12 hours off, the plant thinks it is fall.
Approximately 10 – 12 days after the flowering stage begins you will start to notice two small pistils right at the crux of the branch joint, take a note of the sexing marijuana plant pics. To produce the most potent buds it is necessary to remove the male plants as they have very low amounts of THC, CBN and CBD when compared to the females and they will also make the female plants start to seed. Remove the male plants before they pollinate the female plants as once pollinated the females will turn to seed and we don't want that! The flowers are the bud, the thing we're looking for and what you will harvest and smoke.
Without males around the female plant will put all of her energy into creating sticky, THC-laden flowers rather than cannabis seeds. The result is essentially a virgin plant, or sensimillia, which comes from the Spanish 'sin semilla' or 'without seeds'.


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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Around the world, Roman Catholics are expressing disbelief and grief over the resignation of Pope Benedict, the first papal resignation in six centuries.
Some are seeing it as a sign of crisis in the Church.
Others see it as a dramatic act of humility by a pope who found he could no longer handle his duties. Father Luis Rivero of the Archdiocese of Miami says, "There are times that only we know that we have to let go."
And many are expressing hope that a more energetic and charismatic new pope will lead the church into a new era. A parishioner outside the cathedral in the Cuban capital of Havana said, "The church must bring itself up to date with the modern world."
There are also renewed calls for a pope from the developing world. The number of believers is growing in Africa, and half the world's Catholics live in Latin America. The bishop of Fatima in Portugal, Antonio Marto, says there's a "freshness" and an "enthusiasm about living the faith" among Catholics in Africa and Latin America.
In Nigeria -- the nation with the biggest Christian population in Africa -- there are some 20 million practicing Catholics. One man there says there's already a black American president -- and now, he says, he'd like to see a black pope.
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(WMC TV) - Greed is at the heart of this scheme involving a bank employee turned bad.
"She had access to customers' personal information," said U.S. Postal Inspector Dave Anderchak, who would not identify the bank employee in order to protect the integrity of his investigation. "She would identify the folks who had larger account balances - above $80,000 -- and sell (their information)."
Anderchak said the employee was selling customers' personal information to an accomplice. Her partner would then change the customers' account addresses to the addresses of abandoned houses.
The accomplice would stake out the houses and wait for the mail to arrive.
"He would then obtain the check and debit cards and cash checks at area retailers for merchandise," Anderchak said.
Postal inspectors started staking out the homes, too, to see who was picking up the mail.
"We caught up with the suspect via surveillance tapes," said Anderchak.
Now inspectors' focus is on the unidentified bank employee. Fifteen of her customers lost more than $120,000 in her scheme.
Check your bank and credit card statements regularly for inaccuracies. Report bank or mail fraud to postal inspectors at http://postalinspectors.uspis.gov.
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Learn the life-saving skills of CPR at the American Heart Association Healthcare Provider/BLS CPR course offered at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center on Wednesday, February 22, from 6 to 10 p.m. The course is open to employees in the health care field and will cover basic skills in recognizing and treating life-threatening emergencies including cardiac arrest and choking for adult, child and infant victims. Class participants will also learn to recognize the warning signs of heart attack and stroke in adults and breathing difficulties in children.
The Healthcare Provider/BLS CPR class is offered at the hospital in alteration with the Heartsaver CPR course for community members. The course cost is $50, plus a book fee. For more information and reservations, please call the hospital's Community Outreach department at (704) 660-4859.
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Friday afternoon the Frank Phillips College Plainsmen made the short trip to Clarendon to take on the Clarendon College Bulldogs for the first two games of the four game WJCAC weekend series.
Unfortunately for the Plainsmen, Friday's games went to the Bulldogs as they took both games 11-10 and 19-9.
The Plainsmen return to Borger to take on Midland College this coming Friday and Saturday in two doubleheaders that begin at noon on both days.
The Borger High School Class of 1971 is needing help to locate missing classmates for the 40th Reunion on July 15th & 16th at the Borger Country Club. If you have emails and/or addresses please send an email to email@example.com or contact Patti (Little) Mittelstet at 806-676-6574.
Betty Adams
Russell Adams
Ed Anderson
Jim Anderson
Charles Andress
Steven Androes
Patricia Ashmore
Dee Dee Ault
Vickie Austin
Frank Charles Badeen,Jr
Delores (Arrowsmith) Baker
Kenneth Bates
Charlotte Beadle
Emily Blake
Judiann (Ambrosio) Botkin
Steve Bouldin
Richard Boyer
Barbara J. Vaden, 79, of Borger, passed away, Thursday, April 7, 2011.
Barbara Joan Scroggins Vaden was born Sunday, November 1, 1931 in Tulsa, OK to Herb and Elizabeth (Long) Scroggins. She married Lawrence Vaden on June 25, 1968 in Clayton, NM. She was a homemaker.
She is preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Lawrence Vaden; her son, Herbert Dale Force; and her sister, Shirley Ileen Scroggins.
The Cities of Fritch, Sanford, and Stinnett saw an increase in their sales tax allocations for the month of April 2011, while Borger saw a decrease.
On Friday, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs sent April sales tax allocations of $279.4 million to Texas cities, up 5.2 percent compared to April 2010. Calendar year-to-date, city sales tax allocations are running 6.7 percent higher than last year. Texas counties will receive sales tax payments of $26.6 million, up 11.1 percent compared to one year ago. Calendar year-to-date, county sales tax allocations are 13.2 percent higher than last year.
Last weekend, the Elks Lodge held its Annual Inaugural Ball to honor citizens in the community.
The Elks hold this every year in April to exchange their old officers for the new and to award citizens who make a difference.
This year's Citizen of the Year was Bill Riddle of Riddle's Welding off of Florida St.
The lodge also awarded Bob Tiffany the Elk of the Year award. Terrye Hooks was named the Officer of the year. The Elks also announced that Steve Slaybaugh is the new Exalted Ruler.
On Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m., the West Texas High Comanches will try to end the first half of District 6-1A play on a high note by trying to get a win over the Claude Mustangs. The game will be a match up of two teams with identical 3-1 district marks.
With the Mustangs and Comanches both one game behind Follett in the standings, Comanches Head Coach Steven Coursey understands how big a win tomorrow will be for his team, saying, "I really hope to get a big win and put ourselves in position that when we play Follett again, it will be a game with the district title on the line."
On Thursday the Borger High School Tennis team took advantage of playing on their home courts to win the 1-3A district championship by defeating Pampa, Perryton, and Dalhart. Winning, and finishing the spring season undefeated, was the mixed doubles team of Josh Madden and Abbie Madden.
After receiving a bye and cruising in their second round match 6-0, 6-0, the match between Madden and Madden vs Silva and Gage of Pampa was touted to be a very tough match up, but in the end the strength of the brother-sister duo was too much, with the Maddens winning 6-2,6-4.
Thursday evening Nick Rundell of Challenger Sports British Soccer Camp held a free preview for soccer players in the area to demonstrate some of the skills and exercies the players can learn when the camp comes to Borger in July.
The camp will be open for players ages 3-14 years old.
More information on the soccer camp cn be found at www.challengersports.com or contacting Rundell at firstname.lastname@example.com
A local parish is set to host its annual spaghetti dinner in just two days.
St. John's Catholic Church, at 201 St. John's Road, will hold its 56th annual Italian meatballs and spaghetti dinner from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 10, 2011.
Tickets are currently available for adults and children and will also be available at the door the day of the dinner. Take-outs will be available as well.
Discussion on the consolidation of EMS services in Hutchinson County continued Monday evening during the regular meeting of the Hutchinson County Hospital District Board of Directors.
The proposal that has been discussed for several months now is the possibility of consolidating the EMS services of Borger, Fritch, and Stinnett into a County EMS that would be managed by the HCHD.