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NEW YORK ( Stockpickr) -- Roughly 20 years ago, investors started focusing on the " Dogs of the Dow ." These are the 10 highest-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and their above-average yield is often a sign of recent distress for the company involved. In theory, these high-yielders have been oversold (as the share price falls, the dividend yield goes up) and are most likely to outperform the rest of the Dow stocks in the next 12 months.
A clear pattern is emerging. The Dogs of the Dow outperformed the market in the first half of the 1990s and the first half of the last decade as well. Yet it underperformed in the second half of each decade. As we move through a fresh decade, that trend is intact.
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The Dogs of the Dow have returned about 10% thus far in 2011 (as measured by the 10 Dow stocks that offered the highest yield at the end of 2010), compared with flat results for the broader DJIA. McDonald's (MCD - Get Report), Intel (INTC - Get Report) and Pfizer (PFE - Get Report) have led the way, with each rising more than 15% thus far in 2011.
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Salem: Host Adhiyamaan Engineering College (Hosur) defeated Sona College of Technology (Salem) 4-3 via tiebreaker and emerged champion of the Anna University zonal-level football tournament for men here on Wednesday. The teams were locked 2-2 at the end of the regulation period.
Earlier, Annai Mathammal Sheela College of Engineering scored a hard fought 3-1 win (via tiebreaker) over V.S.B. Engineering (Karur) and wrested the third spot.
The results: Final: Adhiyamaan CE (Hosur) bt Sona Tech 4-3 (2-2) via tiebreaker. Third place: Annai Mathammal Sheela CE (Namakkal) bt V.S.B EC (Karur) 3-1 (via tiebreaker). Semifinals: Adhiyamaan EC 4 (David 2, Sathish 7, Sivanathan 13, Francis 14) bt Annai Mathammal Sheela 0; Sona Tech 2 (Cosmas 5, Kenchu 9) bt V.S.B 0. Quarterfinals: Annai Mathammal Sheela 2 (Md. Shafan 9, Fairoos 15) bt Nandha 0; Adhiyamaan 2 bt Bannari Amman (Sathy) 1; Sona Tech 2 (Cosmas 5, Kencha 9) bt GCE (Salem) 0; V.S.B 2 bt Varuvan Vadivelan 1.
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At Coimbatore, Sree Narayana Guru College of Arts and Science (SNGC) scored a thrilling two-run win over Kongunadu College of Arts and Science in a preliminary match of the SNR Ever Rolling Trophy inter-collegiate cricket tournament at the SNR Sons grounds on Wednesday.
The scores:
Karpagam 141 for seven in 18 overs (Gnanaprakash three for 25) bt Angappa CAS 78 for eight in 18 overs (Sharath three for 11, Kiruba three for 13).
SNGC 126 for eight in 18 overs (Vinod Kumar 48, Rahul 45) bt Kongunadu CAS 124 for nine in 18 overs (Rajith three for 25).
Prasanna, Arun hit centuries
At Udhagamandalam, a fine unbeaten 139 by Prasanna and an equally brilliant 121 by Arun K. Nair enabled Yankees Cricket Club post a 169-run win over Wonder XI Cricket Club in the Canara Bank-NDCA first division cricket league for the K-Lite Trophy recently.
In another match, M. Dharamveer Singh (145 not out & three for 24) and R. Magesh (121 not out) made merry as NCC defeated CFA by 157 runs.
The scores:
Yankees CC 338 for four in 35 overs (Prasanna 139 not out, Arun K. Nair 121) bt Wonder XI 169 (Nanda Kumar 33, Ishwar three for 29).
NCC 304 for two (R. Magesh 121 not out, M. Dharamveer Singh 145 not out) bt CFA 147 (Saravanan 30, Dharamveer Singh three for 24).
All Stars CC 158 (Mehaboob Khan 45, Sandeep three for 22) lost to Colts CC 160 for eight (Ashutosh 61).

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All in the Family…Or Not
Growing up in the African American church, I'm used to hearing people in a congregation being referred as Brother or Sister So and So. I remember the women who sit in the front of the church usually in dressed in white and they have always been called "The Mothers Board." I've been used to hearing "family talk" in the church and the while it might have never been spoken, the church was basically thought of as a big family.
In my years as a Mainline Protestant, I've been fascinated how we don't like to use that concept of family. I can understand that it is a loaded term, one that can bring good memories as much as bad ones. Maybe because of all that baggage, we don't like to talk about churches as families.
Anthony Robinson writes on the blog for the Center for Progressive Renewal, that we need to quit referring to our churches as families. He gives many reasons for doing so, including a belief that the family concept is part of the reason for Mainline decline:
This may be stiff but necessary medicine for many stuck or declining congregations. The purpose of the church is to change lives. That's the "business" we are in. While some families certainly do that, forming and sustaining faithful and courageous people, the use of the "family" concept in congregations often seems to mean something else.
Many of the congregations that claim "We're a family," lose sight of larger transformative purposes and settle, instead, for the comfort and satisfaction of their members. The core purpose of a congregation — growing people of faith and helping people and communities move from despair to hope — gives way to lesser and even contrary purposes like keeping people happy. While it may not be a necessary outcome of the use of the family image, many congregations that gravitate towards it seem to make member comfort and satisfaction their de facto purpose.
That may be because "family" suggests to people something like, "We're all loving and nice here." That in turn often means no hard questions are asked and no honest challenges are allowed. It wouldn't be nice.
I can think of other reasons to be cautious about "family" as our image for church. Families sometimes keep secrets that shouldn't be kept in order to keep from bringing shame on the family name. And families aren't typically that easy to join. Two of our sons were married in recent years. Turns out that putting families together is a fairly complex dance.
One last issue. The use of the term "family," may communicate to people who are not married or to the married without children that they don't quite fit. "Our church is a family," morphs into "our church is for families."
Of course, there is some truth to his arguments. But it seems like Robinson is only sharing part of the story, the more negative aspects of family. He ignores the more positive ones such as loyalty. Scot McKnight, talking about a book by Joseph Hellerman about the church as family shares the positives in a blog post from 2009:
…the preeminent social model that defined the Christian church was the strong-group Mediterranean family. God was the Father of the community. Christians were brothers and sisters. The group came first over the aspirations and desires of the individual. Family values — ranging from intense emotional attachment to the sharing of material goods to uncompromising family loyalty — determined the relational ethos of Christian behavior" (119)…Three critical observations:1. In the NT (New Testament) world the group took priority over the individual.2. In the NT world a person's most important group was his blood family.3. IN the NT world the closest family bond was not the bond of marriage. It was the bond between siblings.
Perhaps other biblical images like "People of God," "Creation of the Holy Spirit," or "Body of Christ" are better ecclesiological images? It's not that these images don't also have potential pitfalls. It is the case, however, that unlike "family" they are uncommon enough that people seldom have their own set ideas about what they mean. In some congregations, I hear leaders address the congregation simply as "church." That too seems promising, reminding the gathered community that they are the Church of Jesus Christ (and the building is not).
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Kara Root says :
I've heard the reasons not to use "family" language, but my heart responded to the description above about the early church. Just because we have unhealthy applications of a term, or experiences that have shaped an idea a certain way, doesn't mean we give it up. We're always redefining. We need to be intentional. I like the idea that, just like family, we are connected – even if we disagree, there is something stronger that binds us together and we can live in love and generosity despite differences. It means we'll be there for you – with support, prayer, meals, a listening ear, and we know these people will be for us when we need it too. It means we have a common identity as the people of God, and a language that we share that helps us understand ourselves as such – both in relation to and apart from the larger culture. That's church family to me. Hard and fast rules about things like God as "Father" or Church as "Family", I think, are not helpful. It opens up a great conversation within a congregation to talk about experiences of family, the good, the bad, and how church is like family – in good and bad ways. No metaphor is perfect, but I still think family is a pretty good one.
Erik D. says :
I would suggest we use several images. And I would bet that most places DO use several images. Yes, we use "family"; that's because Jesus referred to the first person of the Trinity as "Abba" and "Father", and spoke of himself as the Son. And then spoke of his disciples and followers as his mother and brothers (and, by extension, sisters). There's a definite "family" aspect in the way Jesus understood the life of faith, so I don't think it's bad for us to hold that same image. "Creation of the Holy Spirit," and "Body of Christ" are good too. "In Christ" is a way the Apostle Paul spoke of the faithful. "Beloved" is another way Paul addressed groups. And we can speak of one another as salt and yeast and light, right? Don't put your light under a bushel. . . so maybe a congregation is a candelabra glowing in a dark room?
I do see the downside to "family." But I think sometimes family is exactly *where* the tough stuff gets dealt with. I say, keep the metaphor, and also be conscious of using it wisely.


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Athletes love the free swag at ESPYS
Originally Published: July 14, 2010By Chris Palmer | ESPN The Magazine
The first thing you notice is the air-conditioning. When you step off the elevator on the second floor of the spanking new W Hotel in Hollywood, it rushes at you like a defensive end in a contract year. Welcome to the ESPYS swag suite. This is ground zero for free stuff. And if you don't have a purple AND a white wristband, guess who doesn't get in?
On the eve of the ESPYS, the long corridor is teeming with athletes and plenty of energy. Free stuff is the name of the game and the ...
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On Saturday, November 6th, Greece Assembly of God held its 11th Annual Veterans Day Breakfast. Senator Robach provided remarks prior to the breakfast, which was attended by 250 people.
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PluralEyes gains multicam support
Native Instruments has launched DARK PRESSURE, a new MASCHINE Expansion that has been created in association with DJ and producer Steve Lawler. The package includes 42 kits with more than 200 pre-programmed patterns and 64 pre-sliced percussion loops for instant remixing. Every sound and patch has been processed with both analog equipment and MASCHINE's internal effects, and can be instantly integrated with any existing sound library. DARK PRESSURE is available in the NI Online Shop for $60, while a mobile version can be purchased within the iMASCHINE iOS app for $1.
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PluralEyes, a FCP X plug-in that can accurately sync video and audio clips for dual-system audio and multi-camera productions, has been updated with support for multicam editing. By analyzing audio information, the software is able to sync audio and video clips automatically, without the need for timecode, clappers, or other special preparation. Existing PluralEyes customers can upgrade to the latest release at no additional cost, while individual license sell for $150.


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The Campus Common Read for the 2014-15 Academic Year.
What Should We Be Worried About?
Edited by John Brockman
Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.
What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for scientific reasons, worries them—particularly scenarios that aren't on the popular radar yet. Encompassing neuroscience, economics, philosophy, physics, psychology, biology, and more—here are 150 ideas that will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
Steven Pinker uncovers the real risk factors for war * Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi peers into the coming virtual abyss * Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek laments our squandered opportunities to prevent global catastrophe * Seth Lloyd calculates the threat of a financial black hole * Alison Gopnik on the loss of childhood * Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains why firefighters understand risk far better than economic "experts" * Matt Ridley on the alarming re-emergence of superstition * Daniel C. Dennett and george dyson ponder the impact of a major breakdown of the Internet * Jennifer Jacquet fears human-induced damage to the planet due to "the Anthropocebo Effect" * Douglas Rushkoff fears humanity is losing its soul * Nicholas Carr on the "patience deficit" * Tim O'Reilly foresees a coming new Dark Age * Scott Atran on the homogenization of human experience * Sherry Turkle explores what's lost when kids are constantly connected * Kevin Kelly outlines the looming "underpopulation bomb" * Helen Fisher on the fate of men * Lawrence Krauss dreads what we don't know about the universe * Susan Blackmore on the loss of manual skills * Kate Jeffery on the death of death * plus J. Craig Venter, Daniel Goleman, Virginia Heffernan, Sam Harris, Brian Eno, Martin Rees, and more.
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Spring Event: Wednesday, February 11, 12:30 p.m.
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"Is the World Going to Hell?"
The Common Read Committee is sponsoring Dr. Stephen Cimbala, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, discussing the "new normal".
Political, economic, social and cultural turbulence seem to be the "new normal" in the world of the twenty-first century. The post-Cold War optimism of the 1990s has been replaced by expectations of continuing terrorist attacks, failed states, economic and social inequality, human rights violations, and troubled police-community relations. This discussion will consider some of these and other issues within the context of the capacity of the U.S. and other governments to preserve national security, promote economic growth and provide for social welfare, given the challenges posed by the new world order and by their own domestic politics.
Fall Events
Mamie Dukuray (reading essay), (Panelists from left to right) Pamela Main,
Robin Stokes, Nina Clemens, Evan Bradley
Kickoff: Thursday, September 11, 11:30 a.m.
Vairo Amphitheatre
"What Is Brandywine Worried About?" Panel Discussion
Five panelists from the Brandywine faculty, staff, and student community will discuss a topic that concerns each of them, something that they are worried about in today's world.
Fall Main Event: Thursday, October 16, 11:30 a.m.
"Brandywine Is Worried About ... Sustainability"
Sustainable Garden area
The Common Read Committee will feature the Honors Program and Organic Gardening Club's Sustainable Garden. These organizations will host a tour and engage the audience in interactive presentations regarding sustainability. Mary Fran McLaughlin will also demonstrate the basics and importance of beekeeping.
National Day on Writing: Monday, October 20, 2014
The Writing Studio and Library will use the Common Read theme as the jumping off point for subject matter for the National Day on Writing. Tables will be set up at various locations on campus for the campus community to compose essays regarding "What I Am Worried About ...."


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Oct. 15, 2013 declared a holiday
MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III has declared Oct. 15, 2013 as a regular holiday throughout the country in observance of the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice or Eid'l Adha.
Mr. Aquino signed Proclamation No. 658 on Oct. 3 but it was made public only Friday.
The President based the proclamation on Republic Act No. 9849, which provides that Eid'l Adha shall be celebrated as a regular holiday.
Eid'l Adha is one of the two greatest feasts of Islam, but the date of the festival is based on the declaration made by Saudi Arabia's highest religious body.
The other, Eid'l Fitr or the Feast of Breaking the Fast, is celebrated by all Muslims worldwide to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Eid'l Adha is the 10th day in the month of Hajj, or Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, wherein Muslims pay homage to Abraham's supreme act of sacrifice that signifies mankind's obedience to God.
This year, Malacañang said that the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos had recommended that the observance of Eid'l Adha be held on Oct. 15, "and the Eid'l Adha prayer be performed on the final declaration of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." Michael Lim Ubac
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Had a wonderful day with Blake as our guide - he was fantastic and really made the tour very enjoyable. He paid attention to each and every member of our group - myself and my 15 year old son absolutely loved it. A must do on your trip to San Francisco - a truly memorable way to see the sights.
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The bike ride was fantastic - especially riding over the Golden Gate Bridge - although it was a little scary at times - with bike riders and people all trying to weave in and out of each other. Whilst the tour was great - and Sausalito absolutely beautiful - I thought our guide went a little too fast - and didn't really allow for as many photo ops as he could have. He said he had been on the desk for a while so maybe he was a little out of practice. Still a great tour though.
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August 22nd, 2014Show Biz and the Divine Dramaby Kevin O'Brien | http://www.thewordinc.org
Mark Shea has written a third installment in his series on the connection between Drama and Religion, which you can find at Catholic World Report. Since I've written about this topic myself (mostly from the point of view of actors, or the analogy between Acting and the Faith), I thought I'd add a few things to the very insightful points that Mark makes.
- Shea's first installment discusses the history of drama and its relation to religion, and also tackles the overall philosophical connection between Drama and Worship.
I find it interesting that many of the commenters on that installment entirely miss Mark's point. They seem to think he's saying that our Faith is merely a kind of Divine Drama, and that the Catholic Mass is a kind of show that simply represents something for our spiritual amusement. I am often astounded at the lack of imagination that literalists (either Catholic or Protestant or Atheist) bring to bear, especially when analogy is involved.
- In his second installment, Mark Shea examines the relation between Acting and Religion.
And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind ... (Rom. 12:2)
For the great challenge of life in the Faith is Getting in Character as a Christian. Actors understand this analogy deeply. The hard part about acting is "getting it", finding the integrity or inner consistency of the character you're portraying. Once you do that, the role becomes natural: your gestures, your words, your voice and movement - everything about you conforms to the character, once you've found the character's soul or center.
So much of our frustrations as Bad Christians comes from not yet Getting in Character for our roles. When the mask is simply something separate from us, simply something extrinsic that we aspire to, we often find ourselves becoming obsessed with the minutiae, focused on various virtues or sins rather than the big picture; or worse, we start to rationalize away all sorts of acts that show that we're still "conformed to this world" and not "transformed" by the renewing of our minds.
But this inner transformation is beyond us. It cannot happen without sacramental grace. It also cannot happen without our conscious and deliberate cooperation with that grace. Conforming ourselves to the Costume that we put on at our Baptisms is a mystery - one that requires both our own efforts and also the cessation of our efforts. It is both an acquiescence to something greater, and also a striving toward something greater.
This is the paradox of living the Faith that acting in a drama perfectly mimics. As an actor, if you don't do a certain amount of conscious work, such as learning your lines, studying the play, meditating upon your character, planning certain bits, rehearsing - you'll get nowhere. But by the same token, if you don't abandon all of that work and preparation in the moment of performance, your acting will be stilted, contrived, awkward. When the curtain goes up and the lights shine down, you must (in a sense) lose your life to save it (see Mat. 10:39) and abandon your work to the Holy Spirit, to the inspiration of the moment. I think musicians, athletes and soldiers all understand what I'm saying.
The paradox of the stage actor is the paradox of the Christian actor - we must put forth effort to be conformed to our roles (both on stage and in life); but the true conformation happens at a level that is a gift from God and that is beyond our human control. Effort and abandon, like Faith and Works, always paradoxically go together.
- In his most recent installment, Shea examines the phenomenon of the Actor as Celebrity.
"Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them." - (Acts 14:15)
That is our role as actors, to point our audiences to the God "who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them". It is a priestly function. It bridges the gap between the audience and God, by bringing written words to life, by continuing God's work of making the Word become flesh.
The applause, therefore, is never about us. And if we're booed, it's because we assert our own identities into the material - the audience sees behind the mask to the actor who is giving a listless performance, or cannot become engaged in the liturgy because the priest is asserting his own identity by making stuff up, or become distracted because the musicians are turning themselves into the center of attention, rather than the God the Divine Drama points to.
So, to paraphrase Shakespeare, "The play's the thing wherein we'll catch a glimpse of the King of Kings."


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Schools face cliff as education money dries up
As lawmakers around the country debate their states' budgets, they're staring over the edge of a massive fiscal cliff - the point where about $100 billion in federal stimulus money for education will run out.
The end of that money will compound states' severe budget woes and likely lead to thousands of layoffs and the elimination of popular school programs around the country.
The bulk of the money, part of $814 billion provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in 2009, went to save the jobs of teachers and other school employees, as state and local revenue dried up during the prolonged economic downturn. Lawmakers in many states drew criticism for making deep cuts in state education spending and replacing the money with stimulus dollars, thus avoiding cuts elsewhere in their budgets.
States are required to have spent most of their education stimulus money by September, and most will burn through it by the end of the current academic year, budget officials say.
And while state economies are showing signs of life, tax revenue is not increasing fast enough to make up the loss.
"It's not like that money was the icing on the cake," said Michael Griffith, a senior policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States, in Denver. "It was the cake."
Officials in some states saw the cliff coming from the start and encouraged districts to use stimulus money in ways that would not produce ongoing costs they could not cover when the emergency aid ran out, such as temporary tutors or improvements to buildings to make them more accessible for students with disabilities.
"There was a lot of caution about people employing folks, because when that money is gone, it's gone," said Ray Lankford, Missouri's Deputy Commissioner of Education. "A lot of them did program improvements and short-term employment to address specific issues."
While Congress tried to cushion the blow for states through its approval last year of a $10 billion Education Jobs Fund, state officials say that money is not enough to replace the lost stimulus dollars.
The situation is compounded by a reluctance to raise taxes in many states.
In Florida, freshman Republican Gov. Rick Scott's budget for fiscal 2011-12 would cut state K-12 spending from $17.3 billion to $16.5 billion, a decrease of about 5 percent. The end of $872 million in stimulus money would boost that cut to roughly 10 percent compared with the current year.
The combined weight of those state and federal cuts would force Florida's Volusia County school district to cut an estimated 900 employees, said Margaret A. Smith, the system's superintendent. The 62,000-student district has cut 1,500 positions and $75 million from its budget in the past two years.
Further cuts will hit programs in art, music, and physical education, as well as extracurricular and sports programs, she said.
In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich has proposed increasing state aid for schools by 1 percent to 2 percent for each of the next two years. The evaporation of federal stimulus money will mean a net decrease of 5 percent to 6 percent below current levels, said David Varda, the executive director of the Ohio Association of School Business Officials.


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Youku and Partners See Success with Sponsored Original Content
BEIJING, Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Youku.com, Inc., (NYSE: YOKU) China's leading Internet television company ("Youku" or the "Company"), concluded the first season of its original animated serial drama "Miss Puff" on July 29. "Miss Puff" continued Youku Original's tradition of successful new media productions by ranking as one of the most popular programs on Youku Index, the Company's new media performance tracking and analysis system.
The success of "Miss Puff" did not come as a total surprise. Viewers were first introduced to the animated character in "Miss Puff's Goldfish Bowl," one of ten short films produced by Youku in partnership with General Motors (NYSE: GM) for last year's "11 Degrees" New Media Film Project, the all-time Youku Index movie record holder by total video views (79 million), total comments (126,000), upvotes (1 million thumbs-up), and social media retweets (more than 24 million). The project also gave birth to the hit short film "Old Boys," which made stars of its makers, whose follow-up "The Ultimate Winner" set the record for single-day video views (1.99 million) upon its exclusive Youku debut this spring.
"When GM was looking for new media partners, Youku's experience and vast audience made it the obvious choice," said Joan Ren, General Director of Chevrolet Sales & Marketing Department, Shanghai GM. "With '11 Degrees', Youku's professional production quality and passion for storytelling enable us to reach — and engage — an audience we never would have otherwise."
Youku Original has released 15 productions, 13 of which were placed in the monthly Top 20 most viewed rankings and 11 in the monthly Top 10 most viewed rankings on Youku Index at least once during the period in which they were aired. "Miss Puff," for instance, ranked the ninth most viewed serial drama on Youku Index in July 2011. As of the latest episode, the show gained a steadily growing audience throughout its first season. Users also fell for Miss Puff outside Youku, with over 32,000 SINA Weibo microbloggers following the in-character microblog account. Award-winning director Jia Zhangke was among the followers, and recommended the program to readers of his microblog.
"Miss Puff," produced in partnership with GM, Sony Ericsson, and Lenovo, is only one of Youku Original's major projects for 2011. "One Step Away," a Youku Original series of six short films produced in partnership with Philips, will be aired starting late August and present Chinese opinion leaders' thoughts on the meaning of happiness in today's China.
As China's internet users become more sophisticated consumers of media, established brands such as GM, Philips, Sony and Lenovo have found sponsored original content to be an effective way of reaching target audiences. Unlike traditional "hard-sell" product placement strategies, sponsored original programming allows advertisers to more subtly establish a rapport with viewers.
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Youku Original is a key part of Youku's content strategy, which pursues a combination of licensed professionally produced content, in-house productions from Youku Original, and user-generated content.
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Why do guys spend so much money at the strip clubs?
Why do guys spend so much money at the strip clubs?
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The Anonymous answer below is stupid. We go to strip clubs because men are visual creatures, and we're also lazy. We can give a stripper $5, and she'll shove her boobs in our face. Maybe a guy has a brunette girlfriend, but he gets really turned on my blondes, so he can go to a strip club, spend some money, and see some hot blondes naked. It's better than dumping his girl and going looking for a blonde.
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The girls will rub their tight asses in the guys face for a little extra. And in some places will even give some oral stimulation. Plus it's much like any relationship, the guy wants the booty and shells out all his money for or to the girl. This just speeds up the process and can be casual.
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Hahahaha. Hell yeah those who spend money in strip clubs are not only dumb asses but also loser according to me. Hahahaha
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LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 24: UFC fighter Cain Velasquez (top) battles with UFC fighter Ben Rothwell (bottom) during their Heavyweight bout at UFC 104: Machida vs. Shogun at Staples Center on October 24, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)
"UFC 155: Dos Santos vs. Velasquez II" will be jumping off Saturday inside MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Facebook kicks off tonight's festivities by streaming three preliminary bouts at approximately 6:35PM ET/3:35PM PT. Fans simply have to "Like" the UFC's Facebook page in order to watch the scraps live. FX will then broadcast the remaining four prelims starting at 8PM ET/5PM PT. Unfortunately the UFC's generosity ends there, as fans will have to pay for the goods when the pay-per-view begins at 10PM ET/7PM PT. A heavyweight rematch between reigning champion Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez headlines the show. Lightweights Joe Lauzon and Jim Miller serve as the co-featured attraction. Here are the official results and play-by-play from tonight's action: Preliminary Card: (Facebook 6:35PM ET/3:35PM PT) John Moraga vs. Chris Cariaso 1stRound: 2ndRound: 3rdRound: Leonard Garcia vs. Max Holloway Phil DeFries vs. Todd Duffee (FX 8PM ET/5PM PT) Myles Jury vs. Michael Johnson Jamie Varner vs. Melvin Guillard Erik Perez vs. Byron Bloodworth Brad Pickett vs. Eddie Wineland Main Card: (Pay-Per-View 10PM ET/7PM PT) Chris Leben vs. Derek Brunson Alan Belcher vs. Yushin Okami Tim Boetsch vs. Constantinos Philippou Joe Lauzon vs. Jim Miller Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos (UFC heavyweight champion)
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Ben Carson STILL Trying to 'Clarify' His Stance on Guns
April 11, 2015 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Ben Carson, Conservatives, Constitution, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Liberals, President, Republicans, Rights, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
One of possible GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson's problems is his mixed message on the Second Amendment. In some discussions he seems to be for restrictions and in others says he is 100 percent supporting of the right to bear arms. And this weekend at the NRA convention Carson is again trying to "clarify" his stance on guns.
Over the past year, neurosurgeon Carson has said things that brought criticism from gun rights advocates and caused some to even wonder if he knows how guns even work.
Only a few weeks ago, for instance, Carson told Glenn Beck that he felt that guns should be restricted in urban areas but not rural areas. He also felt that Americans have no right to semi-automatic weapons.
"It depends on where you live," Carson told Beck. "I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I'm afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it."
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It's 'Elementary': Another TV Show Reveals Anti-Gun Ignorance
February 22, 2015 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, CBS, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Hollywood, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Progressives, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
During last Thursday's broadcast of the CBS mystery series Elementary, a modernized take on Sherlock Holmes, we got yet another woeful example of the anti-gun foolishness we see on network TV. In the case of this show we not only got another I hate guns speech from the star of the show, we also got a whole lot of bull crap presented as gun "facts."
Now, in this series the main character played by English actor Johnny Lee Miller, presented as a genius, is chasing down a murderer who used a gun to kill several people. As the plot trudged onward to the final chapter, Sherlock Holmes noted that they found out about the gun used in the crime. At one point, Holmes says he had "traced back to a private trader at a gun show in Virginia."
But before he continued about this purported "tracing," Holmes snarked about how monstrous America was because you could buy a gun from a gun dealer at a gun show and skip all that darned ol' background checking and paperwork.
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Vivek Murthy: Obama's New Anti-Gun Surgeon General
December 17, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Health, Liberals, Policy, President, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
On Monday, the Senate has approved Vivek Murthy to be the next U.S. surgeon general. Murthy is many things, of course, he is a far, far left-wing activist, and a stolid liberal, but one thing he definitely is, is a major anti-gun nut, a man who hates the US Constitution.
Murthy has said that banning guns is part of "medicine" calling guns in America a "public health crisis." He is the president and co-founder of Doctors for America, a group that pushes hard for massive gun confiscation laws.
Early this year the National Rifle Association warned the nation against allowing this hater of the US Constitution from being made America's Surgeon General.
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Bias Du Jour: The Media Dubs Sydney Terrorist a 'Self-Styled Cleric' to Distance Him From Islam
December 15, 2014 | Filed Under Australia, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Journalism, Koran, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, PCism, Progressives, Religion, Society/Culture, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
As the dust is still settling around the hostage taking incident in Sydney, Australia, several things are already known. We know that the hostage taker is a Muslim terrorist. But in an effort to absolve Islam, the media is employing some rather interesting rhetoric. In order to distance this terrorist from Islam, the media is calling him a "self-styled cleric."
On Sunday (Monday Sydney time) a gunman stormed a cafe in Sydney, one of the nation's biggest cities in the state of New South Wales. At one point during the standoff that developed with police, the terrorist forced some of the people in the cafe to hold a black ISIS flag against the window, thereby fully describing his cause as terrorism.
The man has been identified as a Muslim named Haron Monis, a man who came to Australia from Iran for political asylum. He has a record of terrorist-like activities having been arrested in the past for harassing families of fallen Australian soldiers. Monis is a suspect in several murders in cases separate from the hostage-taking incident and he has a record of sexual assault and petty theft.
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WI Police Chief Demands Citizens Allow Cops to Roam Through Homes Looking for Guns
December 9, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, 4th Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston, Wisconsin | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Hear that pounding at your door? It is the Beloit, Wisconsin, police chief demanding that you allow him and his jackbooted thug officers to roam through your house looking for guns. Seriously. That is what Chief Norm Jacobs wants citizens of his town to allow.
This has to be one of the most un-American ideas imaginable. To allow government thugs to freely roam through your home looking for something that under the Constitution you are allowed to have in the first place is a bad, bad idea.
But not only is Chief Jacobs a promulgator of anti-American policies, he is also a screeching purveyor of hyperbole. In his address to the city, he said guns were *just like* Ebola.
"Gun violence is as serious as the Ebola virus is being represented in the media, and we should fight it using the tools that we've learned from our health providers," the chief said last week.
Hear that, America? Chief Jacobs thinks your Second Amendment rights is like a virus. If that isn't a perfect example of the way leftists think there is no better example.
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Stormtrooper Austin Police Chief Wants Citizens to Inform On 'Gun Enthusiasts'
December 6, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Progressives, Texas, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
The police Chief of Austin, the most left-wing city in Texas, is demanding that citizens tell police if they have a friend, neighbor or family member who loves guns. You read that right. Just like in Soviet times when the KGB demanded that people inform on each other, this officer of the law is demanding that citizens snitch on anyone that owns a gun so police can create some sort of hit list of gun owners in the city.
In a December 1 press conference, Acevedo said that it was his job to "vet" people who own guns. Apparently, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo thinks it is his job to go door to door to assess whether citizens should be allowed to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
During the presser, the chief said the following:
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Arkansas Shooting Range Owner Declares Business 'Muslim-Free Zone'
October 3, 2014 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Arkansas, Business, Capitalism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Government Corruption, Guns, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Liberals, Progressives, Religion, Security/Safety, Sharia, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
The owner of an Arkansas gun range has announced that no Muslims are welcome at her shooting range because Islam "demands" that Muslims kill non-believers.
Jan Morgan, the owner of the Hot Springs, Arkansas-based Gun Cave Indoor Shooting Range has said in a long post that she sees no reason why she has to open her business to people that want to kill her.
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County Officials in Florida Sidestep Law to Intimidate Gun Dealers
September 29, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Florida, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Liberals, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
In Florida only the state is allowed to make laws, rules, or regulations that affect gun dealers. So, county officials are trying to intimidate gun shops into toeing their arbitrary "rules" even though the locals have no power at all to make such rules.
In an effort to sidestep state laws, county officials are urging gun dealers who sell ammunition and weapons to police to "voluntarily" follow new rules created by officials–rules that have no force of law.
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Oklahoma Beheading Shows Authorities Are Putting Us In Danger
September 27, 2014 | Filed Under 9/11, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Koran, Liberals, Oklahoma, President, Progressives, Security/Safety, Sharia, Society/Culture, Syria, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
After a Muslim convert in Oklahoma murdered a fellow co-worker at a food processing plant by beheading her, authorities there rushed to TV to claim that it was *just* workplace violence and that the Muslim murderer is not a terrorist. Since then we've seen every example of how this monster was a committed radical Islamist which makes him a terrorist whether he's connected to a particular group or not yet our leaders are burying their heads in the sand and refusing to admit the truth.
On September 26, a man whom the police keep calling Alton Nolan entered Vaughn Foods, his place of employment, and beheaded Colleen Hufford, 54, a woman that works there, a woman he knew. He also tried to kill another employee, Traci Johnson, 43.
As soon as the incident hit the media authorities in Oklahoma rushed to the TV to insist that Nolan was not a terrorist, that he had no ties to any terror group, and that the attack was only a run-of-the-mill, average, boring ol' case of "workplace anger."
This is all a pack of lies.
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NY School Bans National Guard T-Shirt Because: GUNS!
September 26, 2014 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Army, Children, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Military, Nanny State, National Guard, New York, Progressives, Public School, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston, Zero Tolerance | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
A New York school took quick action to ban t-shirts being handed out by a New York National Guard recruiter because the shirt "promoted violence" since it had an drawing of a U.S. soldier in battledress on it. And, *gasp*, the drawing of the soldier was holding an evil, evil GUN!
Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School in Ravena, New York, said that the Guard recruiter's t-shirts were "inappropriate" and violated the school's dress code because of the gun image.
"They're not allowed to wear anything that would have a weapon on it," district Interim Superintendent Alan McCartney told the Times Union. "Our main purpose is education. Wearing pictures of weapons brings to mind those things in our society that are not pertinent to education."
So, even mentioning America's fighting forces is "not pertinent to education"? This man is an idiot who should be fired just because he is plainly too stupid to be in "education."
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Panera Restaurants Asks Patrons to Leave Guns Behind
September 10, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Bill of Rights, Business, Capitalism, Concealed Carry, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Law, Liberals, President, Progressives, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
The most recent national restaurant chain to demand that customers refrain from carrying their legal firearms into their establishments is Panera Bread, a restaurant with 1,818 locations in 45 states. But is Panera ready to take responsibility for the murders its policy might cause?
The stores known for bread baked fresh daily and gourmet sandwiches has bowed to the liberal, anti-gun group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America after it had "months of discussion" with the chain.
In a statement Monday the chain claimed that it was only trying to make all customers "feel comfortable and welcome."
"To this end, we ask that guns not be brought into this environment unless carried by an authorized law enforcement officer," the statement read. "Panera respects the rights of gun owners, but asks our customers to help preserve the environment we are working to create for our guests and associates."
In an interview with CNBC, Panera CEO Ron Shaich insisted, "we recognize everyone's rights, but we also recognize that we are building communities in our cafes and are where people come to catch a breath."
While Shaich said he is "respectfully requesting" that holders of legal concealed carry permits refrain from carrying inside his stores, he also claimed he would still follow all state and local laws on the matter.
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Pentagon Has 'Everything Must Go Sale'–We Want YOUR Town to have a FREE TANK!
August 28, 2014 | Filed Under Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Free Speech, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Homeland Security, Humor, Liberals, Liberty, Police State, Progressives, Security/Safety, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
If your town has a Strawberry Festival… YOU NEED A TANK!
Man Beats Gun Charge With Joe Biden Defense
August 22, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Courts, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Freedom, Government Corruption, Guns, Law, Liberals, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston, Washington | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
For the first time our clownish vice president, Joey Biden, was finally useful to someone in this nation when a Washington State man used the "Joe Biden" defense to get himself out of a gun charge.
Clark County, Washington prosecutors are now dropping a gun charge against a Vancouver man who fired his shotgun in the air to scare off three punks who were trying to break into his car outside his home.
The man, Jeffrey C. Barton, 53, invoked our idiot vice president when charged with a violation of the city's "no-shooting zone" in July of 2013.
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Dept. of Homeland Security Report: Patriotic Americans A Danger
August 4, 2014 | Filed Under al Qaeda, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Constitution, Courts, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DHS, DOJ, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Homeland Security, Islamofascism, Liberals, Liberty, Nanny State, Police State, President, Progressives, Security/Safety, Terrorism, The Law, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Once again we get left-wingers advising government officials that fanatical Islamists and other foreign terrorists are just as bad as patriotic Americans.
A new report titled, "Understanding Law Enforcement Intelligence Processes," was penned by a cadre of professors at the University of Maryland advising the Department of Homeland Security that foreign threats are just as bad as people who love the Constitution, people who want to observe their Second Amendment rights, and people who love the flag and think America is a great nation.
Yes, these so-called educators are paid with your tax dollars to spread alarm and hate for our own citizens.
The report is a guide for "law enforcement" officials on how to create new intelligence practices.
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Hey, Chicago: Detroit Police Chief Says More Guns is Good
July 18, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Chicago, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Detroit, Ethics, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Illinois, Liberals, Liberty, Michigan, Police State, Policy, President, Progressives, Regulation, Rights, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Chicago, Illinois is losing at least 3 to 4 citizens every weekend to violence with upwards to 25 shot. EVERY weekend. Chicago pols, the city's police superintendent, and state Democrats say we need to ban guns to "fix" the problem. But the Detroit Chief of Police says an armed citizenry is making HIS city safer. Chicago could learn a lesson, here.
According to the Detroit News, Chief James Craig credited the fall in crime in the Motor City to the fact that more citizens are armed these days.
Detroit has experienced 37 percent fewer robberies in 2014 than during the same period last year, 22 percent fewer break-ins of businesses and homes, and 30 percent fewer carjackings. Craig attributed the drop to better police work and criminals being reluctant to prey on citizens who may be carrying guns.
"Criminals are getting the message that good Detroiters are armed and will use that weapon," said Craig, who has repeatedly said he believes armed citizens deter crime. "I don't want to take away from the good work our investigators are doing, but I think part of the drop in crime, and robberies in particular, is because criminals are thinking twice that citizens could be armed."
Here is the Single Dumbest Anti-Gun Article Evah!
July 16, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government Corruption, Guns, History, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
So, imagine an article that claims to list the "top five" most "dangerous guns in America" that essentially lists every gun ever made then stuffs its descriptions full of factually incorrect statements about gun history and simple reality and you'll have the dumbest list yet to appear on the extremist left-wing Rolling Stone website.
The piece written by hack writer Kristen Gwynne and posted on July 14 purports to list "The 5 Most Dangerous Guns in America," and promises to inform readers of the firearms "causing the most harm."
Now, this description and title would make one think that Rolling Stone might about to be listing which particular models are dangerous. like, maybe a the AR-15, or the… well, a particular model, anyway.
Firstly we must point out the obvious, logical point: NO firearm is dangerous unless someone picks it up and fires it.
But let's start on page one. The number one "most dangerous gun" is listed as "pistols."
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At Last: A Congressman Looking to Disarm All Those Federal Agencies
June 30, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, FBI, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Homeland Security, Liberals, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
We already have a military. We already have a foreign service. We already have a national domestic police agency. We've had these things for over a hundred years. So, why does every last federal department need its own automatic machine guns and SWAT teams? Well, they don't and one Congressman is finally speaking out and looking to disarm all these federal agencies that have unnecessary private armies.
Did you know that the Food & Drug Administration has machine guns and a SWAT team? Did you know even the Department of Education has that, too? We already know that the Bureau of Land Management does. So do the IRS, the USDA, and practically every other piddling, unnecessary federal department.
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Cops Murdered: 'The Beginning of the Revolution'
June 10, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Las Vegas, Liberals, Nevada, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Saying "this is the beginning of the revolution," a couple gunned down two Las Vegas police officers as they ate lunch last weekend. The pair killed themselves in a WalMart not long afterward. As this incident was reported, it occurred to me that I have been warning of this horrible state of affairs, and I am afraid this is not going to be a one-off incident.
As we learn more of the pair of shooters we find that they have a history of seeing government as an enemy to the people. But they aren't alone.
In the after math as police talked to the media about the shootings, Sheriff Doug Gillespie told the media, "What precipitated this event, we do not know. My officers were simply having lunch."
But is the sheriff right? Is this incident really such a surprise?
The shootings that ended inside a Las Vegas WalMart with a pair of murderers insisting that they were killing "law enforcement" officers as a means to start a revolution is exactly the sort of thing I have warned about many times.
Firstly, we need to realize this is not a "gun" problem. This is a government problem.
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Hey, Criminals, Didja Know Sonic, Chipotle, & Chilli's Won't Allow Guns? So, Open Season, Right?
May 31, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Business, Capitalism, Concealed Carry, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
It's all the rage, all of a sudden, for national restaurant chains to start posting little, powerless stickers on their doors in the attempt to tell law-abiding, legal gun owners that their business is not welcome there. But it is also a new rage for criminals to repeatedly rob those same stores because they now know that no one inside will be armed. Imagine that.
Lately several restaurants have made news by claiming to have banned guns inside their stories. Buffalo Wild Wings, Chipotle, Sonic, Chilli's and Starbucks are all claiming they have banned legal gun owners form doing business with them.
Take the Sonic fast food chain, for instance. This month the Sonic corporate heads got their tiny little minds together and announced that all Sonic customers will henceforth be unarmed. Consequently, the very day the company made this grand announcement, one of its locations was robbed.
The attack happened in Topeka, Kansas, only a few hours after Sonic made its cute little announcement that firearms were banned within and around their restaurants.
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Why CC Holders Should Ignore Anti-Gun Signs Posted in Stores
May 23, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Bill of Rights, Concealed Carry, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Liberals, Liberty, Progressives, Regulation, Rights, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
They are popping up all across the country, little stickers on the front doors of businesses, restaurants and retail outlets informing concealed carry holders that they are not welcome to carry their legal firearm inside. But if you are a concealed carry holder you should ignore these attempts to curtail your rights. If you are legally armed, feel absolutely free to enter and patronize those stores with your firearm no matter what these anti-Constitution store owners want.
First of all, these stores have no right whatever to tell you that you aren't allowed to observe your Second Amendment rights inside their establishments. No mere shop owner has the capability or the right to prevent Americans from enjoying their Constitutionally guaranteed rights.
This may sound like a contradiction for many conservatives. After all, most conservatives and gun owners are very supportive of rights in general and the right of private property owners to do what they want on their own property is no less important than our Second Amendment rights. So, how can conservatives and gun owners on one hand claim to support private property rights yet on the other feel it perfectly OK to tell the owner of that property that they cannot ban a CC carrier's gun inside?
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Second Gun Shop Reverses, Now Won't Sell Smart Gun
May 2, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, California, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Maryland, Progressives, Smart Guns, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Earlier this year a gun shop in California began to gear up to sell a "smart gun," but gun enthusiasts raised such a stink about the sale that the store backed off and even claimed they never intended to sell the gun. Now a shop in Maryland has had the same experience with similar results.
The gun in question is the Armatrix iP1, a so-called "smart" pistol that cannot be made to fire unless the shooter is also wearing a wrist watch that emits an electronic signal unlocking the gun's firing mechanism.
Pro-Second Amendment advocates are vociferously against this gun. The chief reason is that several state legislatures (California and New Jersey, for instance) have laws that once "smart gun" technology is on the market, all guns but smart guns will be banned.
So, when a California gun shop let slip it was looking to market the iP1, gun fans slammed the shop with attacks on the Internet and in person. The hate for the shop was so high that proprietors quickly claimed that they never intended to sell the smart gun and would not do so in the future.
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Guns And Abortion: States Starting to Rebel Against Federal Control
April 26, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Bill of Rights, Civil Rights, Communism, Concealed Carry, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Courts, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Entitlements, Ethics, Founders, Free Speech, Freedom, GOP, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Liberals, Liberty, Marijuana, President, Progressives, Regulation, Republicans, Revolutionary War, Rights, Socialism, States Rights, Taxes, The Law, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
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As a conservative it is easy to look at Washington and find nothing but despair. Socialism is once again on the march with autocratic Democrats and left leaning "Republicans" all seeking to raise taxes, spend more, destroy the integrity of our borders, eviscerate our military, spy on us all, and impose a one-size-fits-all education scheme. In DC, the Democrats are practically indistinguishable from the Republicans. But a bright spot is seen in those states who are rebelling over this top down control by liberalizing gun laws, restricting abortion, and otherwise beginning to look for ways to assert their long dormant powers.
When the founders created this country they imagined that they had practically eliminated the chance for tyranny by creating a governing plan that featured a segmented system. The founders expected each segment to zealously look to protect their rightful powers.
The founders thought that Senators would fight for their states, Congressmen would fight for that segment of voters who elected them, Presidents would guard their own enumerated powers, states would strenuously reject any expansion of federal powers, counties would reject state interference and cities would vigorously enforce their own authority.
There was a time when states' rights weren't just some false call used to protect slavery!
Unfortunately, this country lost its once proud obstinacy and everyone began to fall to a socialist-styled assumption that the federal government should control everything from Washington D.C.
It is easy to imagine that the founders would have already started shooting at and/or tar and feathering government officials by now, but the tide of this un-American control from the top is starting to show some signs of collapse. A bloodless revolution seems to be forming.
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POLICE STATE: Feds Still Buying Tons of Ammunition
April 16, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Freedom, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Liberals, Liberty, Military, Police, Police State, Progressives, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."–John Basil Barnhill, 1914
If liberals want to get rid of guns in society, apparently the first place they should start is the federal government. For some unexplainable reason, nearly every federal agency has its own armed, para-military police force. From the Post Office, to the Bureau of Land Management, to even the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration they are all armed to the teeth! Why do these agencies need their own police forces? They don't… except for the fact that they want to force their will on the American people and it's easier to do that when you can kill anyone in your way.
You read that right, above. The U.S. Post Office has it's own armed police force (It has for decades, by the way). So does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Seriously. NOAA has a SWAT team that claims it needs 46,000 rounds of ammunition! It is beyond insensible.
Last year the Post Office had announced that it was going to buy thousands of rounds of ammunition and not long ago the Social Security Administration ordered 174,000 rounds of ".357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow-point" bullets.
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Pistol Turned to 'Submachine Gun' By Clueless Media
April 15, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Associated Press, Chicago, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Illinois, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, Progressives, Reuters, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Once again we get proof of how mindless and clueless the media is, how they don't fact check, but just mindlessly pass on each other's bad work ad infinitum. This time it happened with a story about a criminal who used a .22 caliber pistol in a crime but one clueless reporter turned it into a "submachine gun" and hundreds of his mindless colleagues followed suit passing the lie on and on and on.
Clueless reporter Darryl Holliday of DNAinfo Chicago, a website that caters to local news, reported on an incident that was perpetrated by a man from West Garfield Park who began wielding a .22 caliber pistol in a grocery store because he didn't want to pay the 22 cents tax on a bottle of pop he was trying to buy.
Holliday "reported" that the crook "pulled an Intratec submachine gun out of a Gucci satchel," and in the next paragraph again claimed the piece was a "submachine gun" saying, "Officers arrived on the scene shortly after to find Shelton's Gucci bag open on the counter as well as 15 bullets in the blue steel .22-caliber submachine gun–eight live rounds in one magazine, five in another and one in the chamber, according to court documents."
Of course, it is clear that reporter Holliday doesn't have any idea what he's rambling on about. The .22 caliber Intratec pistol is not a "submachine gun. It is a semi-automatic pistol like every other semi-auto pistol.
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'NY Daily News' Article Calls Gun Owner 'Gun Nut,' Misidentifies Guns
March 25, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Gun Control, Guns, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, New York, Newspapers, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
To show the utter, abject bias against the Constitution and our Second Amendment rights in the "news," one need only turn to the New York Daily News to see a prime example. In a recent "news" story on a gun give-away, the paper called the winner a "gun nut," and misidentified the rifle given away as an "assault weapon."
A church in upstate New York made news by hosting a give-away program for an AR-15-styled rifle made by Smith & Wesson. The entrants for the raffle had to sit through the pastor's sermon. The winner also had to pass a background check at a local gun store and wait the requisite period to take possession of the rifle.
In "reporting" the story, though, the paper filled its piece with misleading terminology and name calling to prove its disdain for the Church's give-away as well as its contempt for the Constitution and the Second Amendment not to mention the winner of the rifle.
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Illinois School: Gun Rights Only What Government Allows Them to Be
March 24, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Chicago, Concealed Carry, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Ethics, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Law, Liberals, Liberty, Progressives, Public School, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
The U.S. Constitution says that our Second Amendment rights shall not be infringed. That's pretty straightforward. But a middle school in Illinois has decided that shall not really means that you have no rights unless government says you are allowed to have them.
According to a workbook handout from Grant Middle School in Springfield, Illinois–that happens to be the capital city of the most corrupt state in America–Americans only have Second Amendment rights if they go and "register" with government and if government has decided they are worthy of being allowed those rights. (See image below.)
Here is the full text of that worksheet:
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Another Black Racist Whines About Whites 'Murdering' Blacks
February 21, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Bill of Rights, Children, Concealed Carry, Constitution, Crime, Death Penalty, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Florida, Government, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Liberals, Progressives, Race, Racism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
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As the nation's African American community continues to wallow in an epidemic of black-on-black murder each and every day, we get the likes of "CrunkFeminist" Brittney Cooper claiming that the real problem in the black community is "an onslaught of white murder," a badly formulated phrase for which she offers no evidence but one case.
In a hyperbolic piece in Salon, Brittney Cooper desperately tries to make the case that no black person is safe in America today apparently because there are marauding bands of elderly white folks killing blacks by the buckets full–a mythic group in which she casts Hispanic man, George Zimmerman.
What is her proof of this absurd claim that whites are killing blacks? Only a single example. Cooper's ire is directed at the fact that a white man was not convicted of murdering a black teen in Florida. Yes, one white man's crime is enough for Cooper to imagine a nation where no black is safe as she gives only a single example to "prove" her hyperbolic claim.
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NY Teachers/Social Workers Save Class From Evil Lego Gun Wielding Kid
February 20, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Children, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Ethics, Gun Control, Guns, Liberals, New York, Progressives, Public School, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston, Zero Tolerance | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
The geniuses in the State of New York educational establishment have made schools safe from gun wielding crazies once again by persecuting an evil child who waved a gun in class. What kind of super dangerous gun did the boy have? A one-inch-long Lego toy, naturally.
This is, of course, more stupidity sponsored by one of those pointless "zero tolerance" policies that holds that any "weapon" in class is grounds for severe prosecution of the student violating the policy.
In this case, an 8-year-old boy at an upstate New York grade school was persecuted by officials for wielding the tiny piece of plastic shaped like a gun used for characters in the Lego line of toys. Officials claimed the boy threatened to "shoot" his classmates… with a one-inch-long piece of plastic.
The boy's "teacher" called both the school principal and the social worker because of this dangerous, dangerous gun.
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Despite Leftist Handwringing, Bicycles More Dangerous to Kids Than Guns
February 18, 2014 | Filed Under Children, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Ethics, Government Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Liberals, Policy, Progressives, Public School, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
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Liberals are still wailing about the "danger" our kids face in schools due to guns in the classroom and mass shootings. But even as Bloomberg's absurd anti-gun group and others act as if we have some national crisis, the reality of it is that bicycles hurt more kids every year than guns, and not by just a little.
Certainly it is appalling if even one child is hurt in school and outrageous if he is hurt with a gun, but before we get all crazed over the "crisis" of guns in school, we need a bit of perspective.
For instance, left-wing Slate magazine noted just after the crime at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 that 297 kids had been killed in school shooting between 1980 and 2012.
Again, it is horrid that even one child should be killed at school, but let's look at just a few other statistics to which to compare that three decades of school shootings.
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Tens of Thousands of Connecticut Gun Owners Saying 'NO' To Unconstitutional Forced Registration Law
February 13, 2014 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Connecticut, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Policy, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Connecticut politicians apparently thought their people were sheep.
Gun owners lining up to toss away their rights in Connecticut.
A few weeks ago I noted that it seems that tens of thousands of Connecticut's gun owners were refusing to register their suddenly illegal guns and large capacity ammunition magazines. Now the media in the Nutmeg State are finally starting to notice.
At the end of January, I asked the key question, "How did 'millions' of high capacity magazines disappear in Connecticut?," wherein I noted that previous estimates of how many assault weapons and magazines existed in the state was far and above that of those registered by the deadline imposed by the new anti-gun legislation. And I pointed out that it seems that hundreds of thousands of Connecticut's gun owners are simply refusing to obey the new registration laws.
Now the Hartford Courant is noting the same discrepancy I wrote about weeks ago.
The state's biggest paper noted that the nearly 50 thousand new registrations of so-called assault weapons is only 15 percent of the guns estimated by authorities to be in the hands of citizens.
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A pivotal moment in the struggle between France and England.
Feb 22, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 22 • By MARK TOOLEY
With the promise of corralling wagons and provisions in Maryland, Braddock divided his force. Half the army followed what is today, roughly, Route 7 through Virginia's Piedmont from Alexandria up to Winchester, while the other half followed what is today roughly Route 270 from Georgetown to Frederick. (Mostly unnoticed today, the submerged remains of Braddock's Rock, where his force landed after crossing the Potomac, are near the Kennedy Center, marked by a small plaque.) The impact of Braddock's army marching with flags flying and drums beating through the small villages of colonial Maryland and Virginia must have been considerable. Colonial forces wore blue jackets while the British regiments and their colonial recruits wore red. The army must have been biracial, because recruiters were discouraged from signing up blacks who were not "young and strong." Local Catholics, especially the Irish, were also avoided, since their attitude towards the French could not be trusted. British sailors were attached to the army to help transit rivers and assist with ropes and pulleys for dragging wagons and cannon. Dozens of camp followers also marched, mostly soldiers' wives who doubled as washer women. Perhaps doubting that all were "wives," Braddock had physicians "search and see who was clean."
British planners in London, relying on faulty maps, thought the army could paddle up the Potomac, with the rocks of Great Falls north of Georgetown simply blown out of the way. Engineers on site quickly saw otherwise. Maps in London also showed the jump over the Alleghenies from Cumberland to Fort Duquesne as only 15 miles. In fact, it is more than 100 miles.
To his credit, Braddock did not dwell on these mishaps but was more distraught over the failed promise of wagons, provisions, and Indian allies by colonial governors. Benjamin Franklin rescued the expedition when he shrewdly frightened Pennsylvania farmers into renting their wagons to the army rather than risk seizure. Some Indians convened at Cumberland and thrilled to Braddock's display of cannon fire and martial music, responding with their own "horrible noise, dancing all night." But they mostly dispersed, never to reappear.
Historians usually fault Braddock for failing to win more Indian friends; but Crocker writes that intra-tribal rivalries mostly explain the failure, and that Braddock, while no charmer, understood the importance of such alliances against the French. The British were intrigued by the first Indians they encountered, calling them "well made" and "dexterous." One tribal princess trysted with much of Braddock's officer corps before he banned Indian women from camp. An Indian scout who remained later called Braddock, after the disaster, a "bad man" full of "pride and ignorance."
Running low on provisions while in Cumberland, Braddock nearly canceled the march. But he was relieved by "plump" Quakers from Pennsylvania laden with wagons of flour, cheese, and bacon. One officer presciently noted that cheese and bacon are the "baits that draw rats to destruction." Quakers and Benjamin Franklin notwithstanding, Braddock pronounced that his army was victimized by "lies and villainy."
Mythology teaches that Braddock arduously constructed a twelve-foot-wide road through the wilderness to accommodate his carriage. In fact, he abandoned his "chariot" in Cumberland, and for the climb into the mountains and beyond, rode a white charger. Pushing over 2,500 men and camp followers, with nearly 200 wagons, 30 cannon and mortars, and 600 pack horses across the Alleghenies, under constant threat of ambush, and where no wheeled vehicles had ever rolled before, was an engineering marvel.
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Colonial newspapers gushed with confidence: "May the Great God of Hosts Crown their Enterprize [sic] with Success." But an officer described the scene in more prosaic terms: "The knight [Braddock's quartermaster] swearing in the van, the general cursing and bullying in the center, and their whores bringing up the rear." Although Braddock appointed far-flung sentries, Indian and French raiding parties occasionally shot and scalped stragglers, including one woman, also leaving insulting graffiti on trees, including "many insolent expressions."
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