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The answer: "21 days, 19 hours and 7 minutes."
The question: "How long was I without a dishwasher?"
Now, if you're lounging at the beach or luxuriating on a cruise, that amount of time stretches your enjoyment. But days still pass all too quickly. However, if you're a woman who has hardly ever been without a dishwasher for more than 50 years, that same span is counted slow-second-by-slow-second. Especially if dishwashing isn't one of your favorite domestic opportunities – and – if the machine broke down just before you're having 14 for dinner.
I'd done a lot of cooking that morning and loaded the dishwasher about midday, so I could empty it before the party and have it ready and waiting to wash 14 more of everything. I put in detergent and it started. Trouble is, that's all it did. When I saw the flashing green start light come on I went about my other pre-party preparations. I didn't notice until much too late that the green light was still flashing, but nothing else had happened. Fortunately it was my daughter's birthday and I'm blessed with relatives who step right up and pitch right in. We spent the evening blowing out candles, exchanging gifts and washing two huge loads of dishes. We left them all to dry on counters in pyramids of plates.
I remember my mom's first dishwasher – after me. It was portable, on wheels and you rolled it over to the sink and attached it to the faucet with a black hose. It had a glass top and I blush to tell you how often the Lynch siblings lingered around that appliance, fascinated to follow the cycle. After it was completed the lid was lifted and the dishes air dried automatically – eventually. In the days when I hand washed the dishes mother insisted I hand dry them and put them immediately away. I protested – unsuccessfully-- that a dish drainer, which we possessed – was aptly named. Apparently draining them dry in that modern dishwasher was completely acceptable and I was informed, "much more sanitary."
During the few times when we moved into military quarters without a dishwasher, I delighted in air drying. Much more sanitary, I told myself gleefully. With this latest debacle I not only air dried them, but when our small drainer was full I recreated those plate pyramids. I couldn't believe how many dishes two people could use. I also couldn't believe how long it took to get that dishwasher fixed.
First the repair man came, diagnosed the problem and said a part had to be ordered, but would be in "shortly" A couple of more days passed and he called and said the part was on back order but again, would be here "shortly." After a few more days he returned with the part, which didn't fix the problem and he left to do some more research. "Shortly" thereafter Jim called the office and requested – none too charmingly – that they send another repair man. He came, said it was a different problem and another part would have to be ordered. Fortunately, we had worked with this fellow before and he had our confidence. The correct part came in, was correctly installed and all is copacetic once more.
My pyramids – like their name sakes, are now a thing of the past – at least for the moment.
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The threat workedSeptember 13,2013For all you innumerable skeptics of President Barack Obamas calls for military strikes on Syria, consider this:
For decades, Syria has refused to confirm that it has chemical weapons. Now, facing a limited strike, its position abruptly changed to: Oh! We do have them after all! And we want to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention! We want to show them to United Nations inspectors.
In short, the mere flexing of military power worked initially and tentatively. And while it seems that neither Congress nor the public has any appetite for cruise missile strikes on Syria, it will be critical to keep the military option alive in the coming weeks or Russia and Syria will play us like a yo-yo.
Frankly, Im skeptical that a deal can be worked out in which Syria hands over its chemical weaponry, and Obama may have exchanged a losing struggle with Congress with a Sisyphean struggle with Russia. But its not impossible. And even if Syria cheated and stalled and eventually handed over only half of its chemical arsenal and none of its biological arsenal, that would still be a huge win for global security.
So heres a three-track strategy for Syria going forward:
n Negotiate with Moscow on removal of Syrian chemical weapons and insist on conditions to ensure were not being played, including immediate disclosure to the United Nations of chemical weapons stockpiles, a binding Security Council resolution confirming the deal, a reference in the resolution to serious consequences for noncompliance, and immediate installation of camera monitors on at least a few locations.
n Groundwork in Congress to authorize a limited missile strike if Syria does not comply, partly to retain leverage with Moscow.
n Expansion of efforts to arm and support moderate Syrian rebels, accompanied by covert cyberwarfare on the Syrian regime, to try to change the momentum on the ground.
Ultimately, thats the best hope to coerce President Bashar Assad to step down so that all sides can try to reach a cease-fire and power-sharing agreement. Yet if were going to sustain the pressure, we have to address these fundamental questions: Can we really promote peace with military force? Is it possible to help a country by bombing it?
Longtime readers know that I adamantly opposed the Iraq war and Afghan surge, oppose strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and tend to think we overinvest in military tools and underinvest in diplomatic ones. So many readers were stunned that Ive endorsed missile strikes on Syria and Im hearing screams of betrayal.
You cant kill people to show that its wrong to kill people, Christine protested on my Facebook page.
When has violence, killing and aggression helped anything, demanded Jan, also on Facebook.
The answer is: Sierra Leone, Mali, Ivory Coast, Bosnia and Kosovo. In each of those countries, an outside military force intervened at minimal cost and saved large numbers of lives. In several (as Clausewitz would have predicted), war buttressed diplomacy and helped achieve peace agreements.
We think of warfare in binary terms, as if our options are invasions or nothing at all, but thats misleading. All-out wars have a poor record, but modest interventions of the kind Obama is talking about in Syria have a more successful (though still mixed) history.
Thats even true in Iraq, although I hate to mention the word because it sends a shudder up every readers spine. While the war that began in 2003 was a disaster, two limited interventions succeeded in Iraq. One was President Bill Clintons 1998 bombing of Iraqi military sites for a few days (maybe the closest parallel to Obamas plan for Syria); it may have convinced Saddam Hussein to abandon WMD programs. The other is the no-fly zone over Iraqs Kurdish areas in the 1990s to prevent a genocide there. They were limited uses of force that proceeded so smoothly that they are hardly remembered.
War is obviously terrible, but its not the ultimate evil, notes Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. Some things are worse, and one is the deliberate slaughter of civilians.
Human Rights Watch doesnt take a position on a strike on Syria, and Roth notes that military intervention isnt the first tool to reach for to prevent mass atrocities. Sometimes armed intervention hurts. Sometimes it helps. Were left to decide on a case-by-case basis.
In Syria, for two and a half years, weve given the regime a green light, and the killing has escalated from 5,000 a year to 5,000 a month and, last month, to a poison gas attack that was perhaps the biggest massacre in the war. Now Obamas threat of military strikes has turned the light yellow, Syria is scrambling to adjust, and there is some hope of a diplomatic solution. Lets not allow the light to go green again.
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Facebook announces Social Graph Search, here's hoping iOS 7 adds it to Siri
Facebook held their special media event today, and while everything from Facebook Messenger for iPad to a Facebook phone was rumored, what we got instead was Social Graph Search. Unlike Google, which indexes websites and web content, Facebook is indexing everything your connections do and like, and providing a natural language, textual way to query it. Here's what Facebook has to say about it:
search for something, that search not only determines the set of results you get, but also serves as a title for the page. You can edit the title – and in doing so create your own custom view of the content you and your friends have shared on Facebook.
"Which restaurants do my friends in San Francisco enjoy?" is one example of the kind of question you can ask. "Show me photos of uncle Phil from before 2007 is another. If that sounds a lot like how you talk to Siri, but for social, that's because it is. And given that, since iOS 6, Apple has integrated with Facebook for sharing and limited data, like contact information, it teases the question -- will Facebook and Apple work out a deal that lets Siri access Social Graph Search?
Being able to hold down the Home button and ask a question would be much faster than unlocking a device, launching an app, and typing in one. And it certainly would be cool. But as much as I'd enjoy that as a tech demo, there are some other things to consider.
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I'm the same way. I don't check in on Facebook. I don't tell Facebook which places or movies I like. I don't post photos to Facebook. I do my best to give them as little personal data about myself as I can. And that means I add little to no value to Social Graph Search.
Since Facebook's business is our data, I'm a lousy user. Maybe they're hoping the coolness of Social Graph Search, or the peer pressure from my social circle wanting to use it and know this stuff, encourages me to share more. Maybe the new prompts to share information that they're rolling out ahead of Social Search actually work in getting more people to share more things.
However, that and challenging Google for our attention with Social Graph Search the way Google challenged Facebook for our attention with Google+ are about the only reasons I can see Facebook investing the time, talent, and money necessary to bring this service to market.
Obviously they believe it has a shot. I'm not convinced yet. What do you think? Would you use Social Graph Search? And more importantly, would you share enough of your location, like, and photo data to make it valuable to your friends, knowing Facebook's business is based on that data?
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Facebook announces Social Graph Search, here's hoping iOS 7 adds it to Siri
Not much of a facebook user, so nope, I would not use Social Graph search, and nope, I would not be likely to put enough data in it for my friends to find valuable.
Bringing it back to Apple, I would hate to see Apple make this any sort of priority for their top talent -- Siri has enough more pressing issues to address.
I think f/b and siri integration would be a good move, as there are many f/b mobile users, and thats why apple has made f/b tight integration in iOS6.
Now coming back to Rene point for f/b graph, its in initial stage where it search on your friends to give result, but later they can improve it to search on like minded profile, its tough but f/b can do it,as they have all user info. And it can give better personalised results than google search in many specific areas such as movies, books, games, food ....


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YouTube doesn't innovate too much and many of the features introduced lately have already been available elsewhere. Unlike other video sharing websites, YouTube is entering the mainstream and a big audience means a lot of pressure and responsibility.
CNet reports that YouTube intends to offer higher-quality video streams in the near future. "Although YouTube's goal, [Steve Chen] said, is to make the site's vast library of content available to everyone, and that requires a fairly low-bitrate stream, the service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer's Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if they want it." Steve Chen said that the high-quality streams will be available in the next months, but only for some of the videos. This is probably the reason why YouTube's bulk uploader increased the size limit for a video from 100 MB to 1 GB.
According to Wikipedia, "YouTube's video playback technology is based on Macromedia's Flash Player 7 and uses the Sorenson Spark H.263 video codec. (...) [The video] has pixel dimensions of 320 by 240 and runs at 25 frames per second. The maximum data rate is 300kbit/s." Flash Player 8 introduced a better codec: On2 TrueMotion VP6, which is used by blip.tv.
YouTube recommends to use these settings when you upload videos: MPEG4 format, 640x480 resolution, MP3 audio and 30 frames per second.
Other video sites already offer high-quality videos. Stage6 from DivX shows high resolution videos, but it requires a special plug-in. Vimeo has a channel for high definition videos: the maximum resolution is 1280 x 720, 12 times higher than the one available at YouTube.
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December 31, 2002 09:16PM
Be right back!
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Re: SN Bag Tag Challenge
December 31, 2002 09:38PM
Sorry about that, but I wanted to check something before I started.
18 Numbers are left from the first 100.
1, 5, 43, 49, 50, 83, 86, 87 are the one's I have
30, 35, 41, 48, 56, 61, 63, 79, 80, 94 are the one's that Jim O have
Some of the second 100 have already gone out. 10 to Bud Hill, and I took 35 of them home to BR
I will allow people that order from me a blind pull out of the last 7 I have of the first 100, to get #1 out there.
Besides it making the "bragging rights" that much more fun, we are really helping me raise money for the SNDG championships.
Ya'll Rock,
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January 01, 2003 10:28AM
It is good to see the bag tag idea develop within the SN Series. It seems like such an excellent annual method of helping a TD to establish an event budget for the SN FINALS.
Sponsorships will likely never be an easy thing for TD's to obtain, and an annual SN tag challenge will assure the SN TD that hosts the SNFINALS each year has "built in" help...
There are many other tag challenges around the country, but the SN BTC is the first (i think) that involves multiple states (from the start) ... most of the other BTCs are for one course-- or a local club...
After a few years a regional multi state bag tag challenge-- (the SNBTC) will become HUGE, it seems....
(bag tag sponsor. just an idea-- but what about a business sponsor for future bag tags.... a logo on one side of the tag and the tag# on the other side [or the # on the lower portion of the tag under the logo] just an idea to further develop $ for TD's each season...)
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As an expression of the unified light of the Buddha's awakening, the Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts can be considered to be like colors that appear through the facets of a prism. In this class, which is being offered especially for those not currently living in residence at Green Dragon Temple, we will discuss and practice how these precepts might impact not only our own daily life, but the lives of the people around us. This class is intended both for those continuing their study of the precepts in the fall with Fu and those interested in joining at this time.
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I know quite a few photographers out there that are always complaining about the managing their images for social media.
Social media tools out there are focused on marketing people and not on people who have a lot of media, images, video and so on.
Clearly we have tools to manage our images on our computers, but promoting them on social media and the web is another story.
Mav Social: A New Social Media Tool For Images
Not too many weeks ago I read a review of a fairly new social media management tool called Mav Social. The great thing about this tool is that it helps you manage your images on social media.
Most of the social media tools out there are great for posting, or scheduling posts, or even campaigns and metrics, but none do the image management part.
So it was very refreshing to find this tool which can help us photographers manage our social media.
Mav Social Features I love
Now I have to say this up front, I am not getting any money from promoting this tool on my blog. I just use it in my daily live to do my social media so I wanted to share that with you all.
As a photographer there are quite a few features that I really enjoy, that I wanted to point out so you know what you are getting.
Image, Video and Audio Management
The main thing that we care about is the online media management that Mav Social provides. (They call it a digital asset management solution)
This is basically a repository of all of your media that you can leverage for all of your social media posts.
Some of the key parts of this repository include:
- Images in various formats (jpg, png, gif)
- Audio files in various formats (mp3, mov, wav)
- And videos (mov, mp4, m4v)
And probably not relevant to us, but if you have many people doing your social media, they can all access this one repository.
You can also add lots of meta data to your uploads so they are easy to find and reuse later.
Image Editing
As a photographer most of my images will be uploading in a ready to use state, but sometimes you want to quickly alter something or add text.
Mav Social also has a built-in editor that allows you to do this in the tool without having to fire up Photoshop.
Very handy for a quick manipulation or resizing for a post on Twitter instead of Facebook (yes we all know the sizes and allowed number of words varies and is a pain).
So although your image might be perfect to begin with, Social Media demands that we make things unique to each platform and this tool helps.
Stock Photos
And you might also be working on a project or with a client and need an image asap. An image of something that you do not have, but you have to make that social media post now.
That is where Mav Social's built in stock photo libraries really help.
You just have to do a quick search and find the kind of image you need, might a small payment, and you are good to go.
So although as photographers it is not something we need very often, it can be handy for those times when our image is just not what we need!
Parting Thoughts
So if you are using various channels on social media a lot, and have to manage a lot of different images or photos, then this tool might just be what you are looking for.
It is certainly not the best for everything (eg. Buffer rocks for sharing content) but for a combination of social media and images, I don't think it can be beat.


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BlogPress Lite is the free version of a blogging app for iPhone that supports Blogger, WordPress, TypePad and other platforms. The free version only works for Blogger blogs and it's the only free Blogger app available in the App Store.
The setup is awkward: after entering your Google credentials, the application asks you to enter your Picasa credentials. This is unnecessary since Blogger and Picasa Web Albums are two services connected to the same Google account. Instead of adding the photos to the same album used by Blogger, the application lets you choose one of your albums.
BlogPress Lite lists all the blogs from your account, has a landscape mode with a wider virtual keyboard and an option to label your posts.
Despite promising to offer a rich-text editor, the application only lets you add plain text and upload photos. BlogPress Lite resizes the photos before uploading them, but the resizing algorithm is pretty poor and resulting images are very small.
After writing your post, BlogPress Lite provides two options: publish the post or save it as a draft. Unfortunately, saving the post as a draft doesn't upload it to Blogger, it only saves the post locally. To upload the post the post as a draft, you need to click on the arrow next to the title and disable publishing.
To sum app, BlogPress Lite has a poor interface, doesn't include a rich-text editor, but it's a better way to edit posts on a mobile phone than using Blogger's web interface and it's the only free blogging app from the App Store that supports Blogger. The application has been developed by InfoThinker, with Google's support.
How to find the application? Search for BlogPressLite in the App Store or use this link. BlogPress Lite requires iPhone OS 3.0 or a later version.
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HOUSTON -- A Texas judge has decided to continue allowing, for now, a Southeast Texas high school's cheerleaders to use run-through banners with biblical verses at football games.
State District Judge Steve Thomas said Thursday at the end of a day of testimony that he needs more time to issue a final ruling. He extended a temporary order granted last month to allow the banners. A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 18.
Kountze High School cheerleaders have used run-throughs at football games with scripture verses, such as "I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me."
An attorney advised the district to ban the run-throughs as possibly violating U.S. Supreme Court rulings barring prayer in schools.
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basically you middle-click on a windows titlebar and a menu pops-up where there are commands to copy the caption text (and the windows' class as well) into the clipboard. plus another option to modify the titlebar itself, though any change is temporal and lasts while the program is not refreshed or closed.
a bit anti-climatic since Skrommel had already whipped up a script in my absence but here is it anyway.
P.S. Ack: Deozaan came up with the name - 'CopyCap'.


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We have updated with even more photos of the BMW F32 4 Series (435i) coupe in Sport Line, showing even more angles. Enjoy!
Caught during a night time photo shoot is this production F32 4 Series Coupe, which gives us the first ever look at the final (and uncovered) 4 Series!
This 435i coupe still looks unique, sleek and sporty despite its toned down front fascia, rear bumper and side view mirrors designs (compared to the concept model). The unique tail lights from the concept version also have not been carried over from the concept. The headlights seen here are the optional full LED headlights.
This appears to be … CONTINUED
We have added some additional info and pages from the dealer order guide for the BMW 4 Series Coupe, showing samples of the available paint, wheel, upholstery and interior trim.
U.S. BMW dealers have now received order forms for ordering their first demo 435i and 428i coupes (just as they did recently for the 2014 X5), and the forms give us a good general preview of the different lines, options and packages to expect for the 2014 BMW 435i and 428i (U.S. configuration).
Not much surprises on here, but it does show that full LED head lights will be available on the 4 Series (just as we spied up-close yesterday) and it may be equipped … CONTINUED
We bring you the latest sighting of the 2014 BMW 4 Series (F32) Coupe. What we're seeing here is a 435i Coupe showing clearly for the first time LED headlights and large parts of its interior front cabin.
The optional LED headlights feature squared off coronal rings (angel eyes) much like the optional LED headlights seen in other recent BMW models. Sadly however, the optional LED headlights will not feature the special design seen on the BMW 4 Series Concept's LED headlights which featured hexagonal … CONTINUED
As its more hulking brother, the BMW M4 Coupe (F82) drops some camouflage, so too has the 4 Series Coupe (F32).
This group of 4 Series Coupe prototypes are the most revealing we have seen yet, with heavy camouflage now removed from the headlights, C-pillar, and front fender areas. What's revealed is no surprise, but does give us a better preview at the final product.
We can now see the headlights connected to the kidney grilles, the hoffmeister kink in the rear windows, and the opening for … CONTINUED
BMW Insider Scott26 provides a preview of the upcoming F33 4 Series Convertible:
We will shortly be seeing FEP (final evaluation phase) F33 Cabrios very soon as they have arrived for camouflage application at the FIZ , some other new unseen models have arrived in order to begin public testing.
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It's no secret that the upcoming BMW 4 Series Coupe (F32) has its sights set squarely on competing with the Audi A5 coupe, and we've now spotted the F32 being tested directly against the A5.
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While the BMW 4 Series Coupe will not see its debut until this Fall, the concept model (which debuted late 2012) is now being used in promotional material and events to build up anticipation for the production F32 4 Series Coupe.
The F32 4 Series Coupe will begin production this July 2013, to appear in dealers beginning August-September. The F33 4 Series Convertible begins production in November 2013.
The US will get the 428i and 435i coupes, in RWD and xDrive versions. The European model lineup can … CONTINUED
Our crafty F30POST member reveals the potential 2014 BMW 4 Series model lineup by use of a VIN search, which has uncovered either all (or most) of the upcoming 4 Series Coupe (F32) lineup. Of note was that there was no 440i found, and the 435i is listed with the N55 engine (and not a successor engine as speculated).
Here is the list of F32 models found (separated by US and European market):
US 428i manual – F712500
US 428i auto – F710500 (N20) and F718000 (N26)
Wonder how the 3 series coupe has evolved now to the F32 4 Series Coupe? Here's a visual comparison.
We have added a video of the BMW 4 Series Coupe Concept (F32) from the floor of the 2013 NAIAS at Detroit.
The 2013 Detroit autoshow is definitly the most important US autoshow, and BMW gave the enthusiasts a few notable that would appeal to us, namely the new BMW 4 Series Concept, the M6 Gran Coupe, the Z4 LCI and a new 320i. We snapped a few pictures of the 4 Series Coupe and the M6, take a look…
You can of course always find out more information on either of these cars through our official threads
Hussein Al-Attar, the BMW designer in charge of the BMW 4 Series Coupe concept's headlights and taillights chats with Motor Trend about what inspired and challenged him during the design process, which went from idea to reality in just a few months.
"There's so much work that goes into [headlight/taillight design]. I think people don't even recognize that there are designers only working on these details," said Al-Attar, who participated in the 2004 Motor Trend/CIAS International Design Contest. "It's a very complex object. It's a very … CONTINUED
The F32 4 Series Coupe M Sport was recently spied and while it remained under heavy camouflage, here are some renders which previews what the 4 Series M Sport may resemble.
For the renders (by site member kv12), the front bumper look is adopted from the F30 3 Series M Sport and although the 4 Series M Sport bumper may vary, the image shows us how aggressive the 4 Series front end will look with an aggressively styled M Sport front.
We've posted more live views from the BMW Design Night, held a couple of weeks ago to preview the BMW 4 Series Coupe Concept.
There were live demonstrations and workshops to demonstrate the BMW design process – from 3D modeling, to sketching, to clay modeling, and upholstery stitching.
Check out the video inside.
Yesterday, we brought you photos of the 4 Series Coupe M Sport in testing, and to that we now add photos of the 428i prototype in FEP stage of testing.
The 428i Coupe and Convertible will be powered by the same 2.0L twin turbo inline 4 (N20 engine) as the F30. The N20 engine has just been named one of the 10 best engines by the 2013 Ward's 10 Best Engines List.
The F32 4 Series coupe production begins July 2013 for deliveries starting late summer – … CONTINUED


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I'm not a revisionist historian so I know the Civil War wasn't about slavery.
HOWEVER, they make some pretty poignant statements in this vid!
Black Leaders: 'Direct Correlation Between Gun Control and Black People Control' | CNS News
I'm not a revisionist historian so I know the Civil War wasn't about slavery.
HOWEVER, they make some pretty poignant statements in this vid!
Black Leaders: 'Direct Correlation Between Gun Control and Black People Control' | CNS News
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yea an old black man told me that years ago , but it went more like
"ifn N-WORDs had had guns there would not have been no slaves!"
and he is correct on that.
i saw on the news the other day a very shot spot on "blacks against gun control" --they had some blacks folks interviewd that had had family members killed in the biggest citys in the US with the most strict gun control laws.
they said blacks have the lowest gun ownership but are the group most often killed in crime--
i don't think obamma gets the irony of that--
13% do 49% of gun murders. Most of those are black on black an most are by released criminials. Not racist just facts.
Life member NRA..
Louis says yes to guns..
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"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
what i don't get about the anti-gun types is that it is obvious to everyone else that criminals cause crime--
why were having a violent crime epidemic is because there are too many criminals walking around among the citizens.
if murders, rapists, gang-bangers , perverts and what were hung like in the 1800s wouldn't crime drop quick!
but hell no give three life terms make a big deal and get on TV for the trial make it look like the criminals are going away for life--then in a couple years when the press has forgot about the perp --let him out early--
the government don't want to tell you that during the 50s and 60s firearms sales were sort of flat --as crime increased gun sales go up.
crime results in more firearms sells --not the other way around.
They are the ones that usually have the problems and resolve it by shooting one another .... I mean the lower class of the group ..
I can't remember the study I saw but it was making the correlation between violent crime and broken homes. Apparently homes with no fathers breed the most violent criminals. Across the United States 73% of all Black mothers are single parents. I don't think guns are the issue. People will commit violent crime either way.
But they try to lump that in with a crazy ass hole because they can't just target mass shootings because of the extreme infrequency. It wouldn't strike a nerve. So now they mask it behind all violent crime which is a moot point because the amount of violent crime in cities with the most oppressive gun control laws is severely higher than the national average and the average of states with more liberal gun laws.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-
"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Its not a race issue its a culture an envomiroment issuue
This is much deeper than blacks with guns issue.
America also has the highest incarceration rate of almost anywhere in the world.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller


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