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Are the Serbs you refer to civilians or paramilitary groups?
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Thursday, 20th October 2011:
In Yagnyenica (Jagnjenica), KFOR troops were partially removed the barricades, early in the morning. KFOR removed one of the three trucks with which the Serbs block the passage to Brnyak (Brnjak) and used the tear gas to force the crowd to disperse. Dozens of people requested medical help because of that.
Serbs were sitting on the road, with turned back to KFOR, ignoring their warning to leave the KFOR Security Zone, willing to use the force (live ammo like last time). Serbs told that they are not afraid by their threats and required that those convoys must return to their bases.
Throughout the night and early this morning, in Zubin Potok, on several occasions it could be possible to hear the alarm siren, which invited people to the barricades.
Strong KFOR forces began, at midnight, to regroup in their bases, followed by at least two convoys, headed for the crossing Brnjak. A convoy of dozens of KFOR vehicles, including dozers, came in from the direction of Kosovska Mitrovica and Pristina, were stationed near the village of Zupche in the municipality of Zubin Potok. Second convoy was positioned near the village Jagnjenica where the KFOR removed a part of the barricade. The road in Zupca was blocked with trucks, and near Jagnjenica with woods and soil.
02:45 - The people of the municipality of Zubin Potok gathered on the barricades.
03:57 - KFOR convoy reached the barricades zupce (Zupche) and Jagnjenica.
07.30 - barricade at the crossing Brnjak occupied by the French KFOR troops, so they expand the security zone around the base of the crossing. The Jarinje calm.
09:35 - Serbs reinforce the barricade Jagnjenica putting the trucks loaded with logs.
10:48 - KFOR urged Serbs in Jagnjenica to disperse and warned that he would use force. Again used tear gas.
12:37 - EULEX has announced that detained and then released several Serbs in transition Brnjak.
12:57 - German KFOR soldiers were stretched after 12 hours behind the barbed wire barricades that are set in the village of Zubin Potok Jagnjenica.
One Serbian was killed and two were injured when one Albanian citizen, armed with automatic rifle, shot on them, near the town of Peć (Petj). He was buried yesterday. He is the 1001 victim of Albanian hostility.
Another one Albanian citizen, driving the dozer, attempted to move from the southern to the northern part of Mitrovica and remove barricades, set on the side of the bridge.
Serbs distributed leaflets to KFOR where is written:
Russian brothers had donate some valuable supplies to our people on the barricades:
Flour: 3250 kilograms in the value of 1040 euros;
Sugar: 130 packages of 5kg in the value of 585 euros;
Raincoats: 100 pieces in the value of 600 euros;
Food and stove for members at the HQ of Serbian National Movement "SNP 1389" in value of 255 euros;
Winter clothes and clothes for rain for members of "SNP 1385" in value of 140 euros;
KFOR ON THE BARRICADES 25th October 2011:
That's all for now. The situation is really critical. Our politicians obeying the commands from the West, ignoring the call in help from the Serbs on Kosovo. The president of Republic Serbia, Boris Tadic are calling on peace and restraint while his people is getting killed in ambushes, choking by the tear gas, living in pain because of the gun-wounds, etc.
Tha't all... For now...
Are the Serbs you refer to civilians or paramilitary groups?
Well In this case Paramilitary groups but the Serb civilians are a part of this considering it talks about them being shot at.
So Serbs at roadblocks= Paramilitary Groups
Unarmed Serbs=Serbians being shot at by KFOR
Oh ok, it's all clear now. I hope this situation ends well soon.
It seems that most Serbians see NATO as an evil, wrong-doing force. I'd like to comment that this is not the case. For example some secondary members belong to it for protection and self-defence (like building anti-missile stations or military aid in case of invasion). The problem is some of the leading nations (we all know who they are) that take decisions in their own interest and force the others to get involved. No offense intended with this commentary :) That doesn't mean we all agree with what's happening over there: my country does NOT recognise Kosovo's independency from Serbia and never will, in fact, Spain is one of the very few NATO countries to support Serbia (also we don't take part in KFOR anymore). We still want to be part of NATO because it's good for us, but remember it's the leading nations the wrong-doers. What I mean is that there's also "good guys" in NATO.
Well I hope no one got ****** off by what I just commented on :) It's understandable that NATO as a whole can cause adverse reactions to any Serbian, but there's always another side of the coin and as a "NATO citizen" I agree that the leading nations are supporting the wrong side.
Anyway I'm aware that you appreciate our support. This picture was taken on a 2008 demonstration in Belgrade (I've got more, should I upload them to my profile?) Estaticos02.cache.el-mundo.net That means a lot! There were also two pro-Serbian demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona.
Greetings from your friends :D Kosovo je Srbija!
Well, of course we see it as an "evil corporation". One country was attacked by more than 13 European countries and killing civilians around isn't good thing, is it?
The main question is: against who are you defending? The main purpose of NATO is not defending, it's attacking (all actions were aggressive, not even one were defensive).
Yep, that's right, the leading nations are guilty for those, but ask yourself does USA have so much power to convince everyone to obey? Well, USA doesn't, but money has that power.
I know: "In every bad, there is something good, in every good, there is something bad". I understand. Not all people are good nor all people are evil, no matter what nationality they are or where they live, etc.
No, I like your comment, you are right, you have your opinion. Well, it just one of the reason why we hate NATO, EU and USA: En.wikipedia.org Check the allied side. We cant be like:" Hi, my American friend" to man who bombed our country or anyone. It's against the principles, moral and rest.
Oh, yes, I know about that. Wherever our friends/brothers protest against the evil, we will be surely there to support them.
Saludos desde Serbia! (I was watching some Spanish and Latino series so I remembered this :D)
I see your point and agree with it. Nato is being aggresive towards Serbia, but what I meant by defence was a different thing. For example EU and NATO are building a nuke-intercepting station in Spain, which is good for us; on the other hand it's supporting the wrong side in the Balkan's conflict. It's not that I hate NATO, it's more that I think it should have different foreign policies and not just being another extension of USA's will. If we leave NATO, we loose the anti-missile station, military help in case of invation, and there's a couple of USA bases around where I live that would be a real danger (they gained those bases because they extorted my country's Government about 5-6 decades ago, when we were still recovering from our Civil War, and were in a weak situation). NATO and EU also help Spain with some sovereignty issues, like Portugal claming a Spanish city or Morocco two Spanish cities (if it weren't because of NATO, we would have lost them already. A decade ago Moroccan marines invaded a Spanish island and NATO helped us to get it back). Don't get me wrong, I don't like USA, we also had wars with them in the past and the wounds are still open: they stole the Philippines and Cuba from us, they sunk our ships, and made us sign humilliating treaties. To make it easier for you: it's USAs fault and NATO should be helping Serbia!
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Those Serbs I mentioned are civilians. Serbs aren't forming any of those paramilitary groups, because:
1. NATO bombing from 1999 could happen again, because NATO just wait for us to make a wrong move (defending ourselves, attacking "poor" Albanians) and drop everything on us;
2. There are no weapons for the Serbs that could make some aggressive movement and it is not what we aim for. We are proving to the world that we are not aggressive people and that the Albanians wants to ethnically clean Kosovo from Serbs, which we proving that the stories about Serbian war crimes on Kosovo are false (anyway, those stories of Albanian suffering and their innocence are false, but most of the people on the west aren't believe in it, because they are bombarded by NATO propaganda).
3. Forming paramilitary groups are against the principles of war, as I heard.
Anyway, our passivity encourage Albanians to make ambushes for Serbian civilians, so we have the first victims. And guess what, no one is responsible for it. Kosovo Police are catching the Serbs and imprison them, while Albanians were released for anything they do. Serbian government expects that they will use dialogues and make Albanians to return the Kosovo to Serbs. Anyway, that's how it sounds in our ears, but they are just listening to their bosses on the west, leaving our citizens to die and not caring about it. So what we Serbs expect is to overthrow this treacherous government, mobilize and defend our land, no matter what. But, unfortunately, this is not going to happen...at least not for now.
Thanks for posting, always good to hear about whats happening over there (not that any of it is actually good of course).
Remember the riots in London? Police were getting all sorts of violence thrown their way, rocks, petrol bombs, metal objects etc and we do nothing to push them back (because the police aren't allowed to..). In Kosovo unarmed peaceful protestors, who are not attacking anyone are getting teargassed and shot at by forces just so they can enforce a "border" on their occupied state. Wrong... so wrong on many levels.
Btw.. you probably knew this already, but there is a complete media blackout about this situation on American networks... I checked the CNN, NBC websites and there is nothing about this at all...
At least the BBC have shown what's going on and remained quite neutral about it...
I like the leaflets idea and their content.
About time someone uses their own weapon aganist them.
I also think it shouldn't have intervenned in Lybia, and what's worse is that my country sent four F18s to secure the air space in order to allow French and British bombers to shell the loyalist positions. But then again, it's the current Government which I don't like, they screwed up Spain. Can you believe they allowed a Basque terrorist organisation -that has killed a 1000 innocent people in 35 years- to form a political party and go to elections? They wan't independence for the Basque Region by killing people and the Government allows them to get involved in politics! Fortunately, General Elections are very close (November 20th 2011, less than a month) and hopefully we will get rid of these incompetents, at least polls show so.
Other than that wish you best luck. Believe me, sooner or later, Kosovo will be part of Serbia again. It's 100 countries that we support you, but only 60 that support Kosovo!
PS: You told me once that you like to promote the Serbian Army by adding pictures, in order to break all prejudices about your country. Don't you think probably Serbians have also prejudices against NATO? I mean, because of the hard situation you're going through you probably don't see the whole "thing". Not attacking you with my question :) just wanted to make you think about this.
NATO was and it is still aggressive. Unfortunately, the joke that everyone hates us, is true.
Yeah, I know, without USA support, you would be "defenselessness". Well, but did you asked yourself, from who you are defending? From your or USA enemies? Only threat to Spain are "few Islamistic groups", like one of the analysts told before, but who would launch a nuke on you? We both know how terroristic actions are performing. Unfortunately, USA are using NATO as some kind of "live shield" against potential "Russian invasion" or some other enemy like Iran, North Korea, China... And that's what is bad about that organization. Lust for money and power and ideas of expansionism and colonization still exists. One more thing, they are not there to protect you from invasion, but their bases and facilities.
Now, we Serbians and prejudices against NATO:
First, if Yugoslavia would exist now, we would be surely be a part of it. But, that state is no longer exist, but, the idea of joining the NATO forces still exist. While our politicians are forcing the Serbia to EU, NATO and rest, our people don't want to serve the same states who, well, killed their (our) loving ones. And, like I said, it's not only because of that. In some case of WW3 or something, we don't want to attack our friends such as Russia, China,... or eventually, fight 5000+ kilometers far from home. We don't want to fight because of someones interests.
Anyway, Serbia is a part of the Partnership for Peace, we have our "Blue Helmets" and they are on the missions in some African states and Cyprus.
About prejudices against NATO: Well, we don't have. We know it is some serious organization, but we also know that some of our, more or less, brother/friend countries are there. We know it's a good idea to stand united and fight (Yugoslavia has idea about Croats, Bosnians, Slovenians and Serbs fight under one flag in one state) against any economic, military, etc. troubles. But we already proved that it is impossible. Everyone is looking for its own interest, unless some force gather them and blackmail to fight for it's interest.
One more thing: Serbia weren't deceived by members of NATO just one/two times... And, the situation like that will go forever. I don't know do you see what EU is doing to Serbia. It blackmail Serbia, inventing new reasons to keep us as long as possible. Most of the Serbs (more than 70%) don't want to join anymore, both NATO and EU.
That's right, everything you said, but if you excuse me I'll answer your question: "Well, but did you asked yourself, from who you are defending? From your or USA enemies? Only threat to Spain are 'few Islamistic groups', like one of the analysts told before, but who would launch a nuke on you?"
Actually there's a few threats to my country:
-Morocco has attempted to invade several Spanish islands and two cities.
-Gadafi said he would conquer Spain for Islam after he defeated the rebels (I think this threat is no more, but you never know, he might still be alive).
-Al Quaeda said they would kill all Spaniards and return the Iberian Peninsula to Islam.
-North Korea and Iran have threatened all NATO countries with nuclear attacks (hence the anti-missile network across Europe).
None of these would be a problem for our Armed Forces really, but it's always good to have somebody covering your back. Probably, there are no other dangers because we belong to NATO, UN, EU, etc. So it's like someone would think it twice before attacking.
Anyway lets put it this other way: Don't you think it's good to have allies within NATO and EU to influence their decisions? It'd be a long-term process, but eventually these organizations could embrace Serbia and establish friendly diplomatic relations. If that happens, then it'd benefit you and perhaps even force Kosovo back into Serbia. We all know though, that is impossible as long as USA is in the leading position. It's more NATO than EU. Why? Exactly, because USA is part of NATO but not EU. Therefore European countries don't see Serbia as enemies, I know for a fact that Spain doesn't or United Kingdom doesn't (I live in England). USA, as always, forces Europe to their will and then criticise us.
The ideal thing, in my opinion, would be to form some sort of European Union with all European countries that would help each other militarily and economically, with neutral relations to what happens outside the continent. It's the same concept you talked about Yugoslavia but including all of Europe. That way we might see the Serbian and Spanish armies on a joint training excercise ;)
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The impetus for Winkler's befuddled argument is Sunday's Super Bowl ad in which New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston mayor Thomas Menino, the leaders of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), state that they "both support the Second Amendment and believe America must do more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals."
In the past, Winkler has been criticized for "tr[ying] too hard ... to present himself as one of the few rational voices" in the debate while improperly implying that the gun violence prevention movement is "defined by extremists." But while Winkler calls gun violence "a serious issue that deserves our leaders' attention," he never actually engages with the solutions that Bloomberg and Menino have brought to the table. At least not in this piece; in a previous op-ed for the Beast, he wrote:
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's organization, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has proposed a viable and worthwhile set of reforms that would provide more funds to states to help cover the costs of record-keeping; stiffening penalties for states that don't submit records to the federal government; and clarifying the current gun laws' definition of mental illness.
So Winkler agrees that gun violence is a "serious issue," and largely approves of how the group would deal with that problem. And yet, he opposes the group actually trying to enact the legislation he supports. When or how this "serious issue" could receive "our leaders' attention" without anyone pushing for it goes unmentioned.
Since 2008, the gun lobby and right-wing media have been pushing various theories suggesting Barack Obama was secretly plotting against the Second Amendment. The National Rifle Association set up www.gunbanobama.com as Glenn Beck warned Obama was working to "take away your gun." Three years after Obama's election the purported plans to enact sweeping gun bans and confiscation haven't materialized, but according to gun lobby chief Larry Keane, Rupert Murdoch's media empire is now engaging in "corporate gun control."
Last week online reports indicated that FOX Sports Media Group had told the Ultimate Fighting Championship's parent company that gun-related sponsorships would no longer be permitted for their events. Fox and the Ultimate Fighting Championship recently signed a 7-year broadcast agreement. On Wednesday the gun lobby trade association National Shooting Sports Foundation announced they had confirmed the sponsorship ban.
Speaking on the NSSF's blog and in the Daily Caller's gun lobby propaganda aggregator Guns and Gear NSSF head Keane called out Fox:
FOX's decision to ban advertisements for lawful products owned by more than 80 million Americans is nothing more than corporate gun control. We expect better from FOX. So should you.
The Gun Store and ammotogo.com are among the UFC sponsors who would be affected by this ban. If no sponsorships in a single sport doesn't sound like a big deal to you, then you probably aren't working to contrive controversies in a gun lobby press shop.
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The treaty in question seeks to regulate international arms deals to prevent weapons trafficking to human rights violators; the U.N. General Assembly's resolution on the treaty makes clear that countries will "exclusively" maintain the authority within their borders to "regulate internal transfers of arms and national ownership." The goal of U.S. negotiators is get other countries to agree to follow import and export rules that the U.S. already has already instituted.
The Daily Caller promises to "share the poll results with major media outlets across the country," but it's unlikely that such outlets would be interested with the results of an unscientific online poll that features a flagrantly inaccurate description of the proposed treaty. The more likely purpose of the exercise is likely to allow the Caller to harvest its readers' email addresses, the submission of which is required to see the poll's results.
In a press release announcing the launch of its Guns and Gear section, Caller publisher and CEO Neil Patel criticized the media as "hopelessly out of touch with American values and interests" for not providing news coverage to "[t]he millions of Americans who own and are interested in guns." But now it appears that the publication is happy to treat those millions as rubes, playing to their fears pushing gun lobby nonsense in order to get their email addresses.
Long discredited gun researcher John Lott recently took to FoxNews.com to push for weakened restrictions on carrying concealed guns. Not surprisingly Lott again uses distorted anecdotes to support the gun lobby favored National Right-To-Carry Reciprocity Act. In fact, the same examples Lott cites to suggest gun laws are unreasonably punitive and inflexible actually show that even in states where gun charges can lead to stiff penalties, prosecutors have used discretion to avoid excessive punishments.
The legislation in question would force any state that issues its residents permits to carry concealed guns to accept the concealed-carry permits of all the other states -- no matter how weak the standards for getting a permit in those states. Several law enforcement associations have spoken out against the National Right-To-Carry Reciprocity Act suggesting it would "endanger" police officers and "compromise public safety."
Lott focuses on two prominent cases where travelers to New York were arrested on gun charges. In both cases the individuals had concealed carry permits from their home states that were not valid in New York, and were voluntarily seeking to check their guns with authorities. Standards to carry concealed guns vary among states and states like New York with stronger restrictions sometimes don't accept permits from other states with less stringent restrictions. Lott's inaccurate description of these cases largely serves to falsely create the appearance that without concealed carry reciprocity, New York guns laws result in long jail terms for accidental offenders without consideration of possible mitigating factors.
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Just a few days before Christmas, Meredith Graves made a mistake that could end her medical career and send her to prison for at least 3 ½ years. The 39-year-old fourth-year medical student was carrying a permitted concealed handgun when she saw the sign at the 9/11 Memorial saying "No guns allowed." She did the responsible thing and asked a security guard where she could check her weapon. Unfortunately, while her Tennessee concealed carry license is recognized in 40 states, New York isn't one of them. Meredith was arrested.
Just a week earlier, Californian Mark Meckler told LaGuardia Airport officials that he had licensed handgun in a locked safe in checked baggage. At virtually any other airport in the country, checking a gun locked in a box wouldn't be a problem. Meckler was arrested and charged with second-degree possession of an illegal weapons. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
But New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the local District Attorneys don't seem interested in showing mercy. They take a zero tolerance approach towards these mistakes.
However, four days before Lott's opinion piece was published, Meckler reached a plea agreement allowing him to pay a $250 fine for disorderly conduct with the gun charge conditionally dropped if Meckler stays out of trouble for a year.
A spokesman for the New York Port Authority police also challenged the suggestion that Meckler's violation was exclusively related to bringing the gun to the airport saying, "It's not a case that Mr. Meckler was in transit. He was in New York for several days having that weapon illegally. The bottom line is he violated the law."
The details of Graves' case doesn't support Lott's depiction of New York prosecutors taking a zero tolerance approach to honest mistakes either.
While her case hasn't been resolved yet, six days before Lott's piece was published The New York Post reported that Manhattan prosecutors were trying to work out a plea deal with Graves that according to sources cited by the paper could include no jail time. New York prosecutors also showed discretion in the case of a Maryland man accused of illegal gun possession, working out a deal in exchange for a misdemeanor plea involving no jail time earlier this month.
These cases show that when concealed carry permit holders from other states violate New York's laws unintentionally, there are already mechanisms in place to shield them from serious punitive action, without the passage of dramatic new national legislation.
During a recent interview with National Rifle Association (NRA) executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre, Glenn Beck wondered if the NRA would be able to raise the money to effectively launch political attacks against President Obama in 2012. Not surprisingly, LaPierre was confident the NRA would be able to fund a 2012 campaign blitz. Depicting unions as a political counter weight to the gun lobby, Beck asked LaPierre how the NRA could hope to match campaign spending by unions:
BECK: You have to go out and drum up the money, the unions just take it. They just have it. They just take it out of everybody's paycheck.
LAPIERRE: We raise it all through 5, 10, 15, 20 dollar contributions that Americans are willing to preserve freedom. And they're willing to support it. But, you know, that's what NRA is about. I mean, I always say we're about our membership and we're about giving voice to our membership.
There's no doubt that as in previous election cycles, the NRA will be able to funnel tens of millions of dollars towards their favored candidates, but LaPierre's claim that the NRA's fundraising is based exclusively on small dollar donations is false. The reality is that under LaPierre's leadership, the NRA has built extensive financial ties to the gun industry and other corporations. These arrangements have netted the NRA tens of millions dollars according to a recent Bloomberg News account and the gun companies funneling cash into the NRA's coffers have greatly benefited from the NRA's lobbying efforts. One former president of the NRA credited NRA-backed legislation that limited the legal liability of gun makers with saving "the American gun industry from bankruptcy."
The NRA pitches itself as a low-dollar, grassroots organization -- an annual membership currently costs $35 -- and maintains it is "not affiliated with any firearm or ammunition manufacturers or with any businesses that deal in guns and ammunition." However, the NRA has formally established many lucrative arrangements with "corporate partners."
Last April, the Violence Policy Center issued a report, titled Blood Money: How the Gun Industry Bank Rolls the NRA, which details these intimate ties between the gun industry and the NRA. From Blood Money:
Since 2005, corporations--gun related and other--have contributed between $19.8 million and $52.6 million to the NRA as detailed in its Ring of Freedom corporate giving program. In a promotional brochure for the program, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre promises that the "National Rifle Association's newly expanded Corporate Partners Program is an opportunity for corporations to partner with the NRA....This program is geared toward your company's corporate interests."
Last week, teenage mother Sarah McKinley used a shotgun to shoot and kill a home intruder in defense of her infant son. The case made national news after the media obtained the audio of her call to 911, in which she asked the operator for permission to fire.
It didn't take long for the National Rifle Association supporters in the right-wing media to deploy her harrowing experience as a cudgel against their political foes. Here'sNational Review editor Rich Lowry in his latest column:
Instances of self-defense are the anecdotes that gun controllers never want to hear. The NRA keeps a running list of them on its website: attempted armed robberies, home invasions, and other attacks rebuffed every month by the would-be victims. Surely, Sarah McKinley's assailants thought the young, slender, widowed mother was an easy mark. Her shotgun meant they were wrong. Who would have it any other way? Otherwise, the intruder has the knife and she has nothing except a cellphone and the wan hope that someone armed with a gun makes it to her in time.
Lowry's question is revealing, largely because he doesn't bother to attempt to name any of the "gun controllers" who wouldn't want McKinley to be able to defend herself.
Major gun violence prevention groups are upfront about their support for law-abiding citizens to be able to keep firearms for their own protection. Here's what the website of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says:
We believe that law-abiding citizens should be able to buy and keep firearms. And we believe there are sensible gun laws that we can and should insist upon when it comes to gun ownership.
And here's Mayors Against Illegal Guns:
We support the Second Amendment and the rights of citizens to own guns. We recognize that the vast majority of gun dealers and gun owners carefully follow the law. And we know that a policy that is appropriate for a small town in one region of the country is not necessarily appropriate for a big city in another region of the country.
The NRA's "running list" of self-defense anecdotes to which Lowry refers exists simply to push the myth that "gun controllers" don't want law-abiding citizens to be able to defend themselves.
Back in September, National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre drew ridicule after claiming the existence of a "massive Obama conspiracy" to take no action on gun control in his first term, get reelected, and then "erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights."
What the "Obama not coming after your guns is really evidence of his desire to come after your guns" thesis lacks in accuracy or logic it makes up for in convenience. The NRA's "massive Obama conspiracy" justifies the need to help them raise contributions and encourage people to buy more guns.
It's no surprise the NRA's election year message is starting to spread to their faithful allies at Fox.
During a segment last night on Fox Business' Follow the Money, guests Bo Dietl and Lars Larson agreed that the reason gun sales have supposedly seen a "dramatic increase" is because of this fear that if Obama is re-elected "they're going to go after your guns." Of course, since gun manufacturers heavily contribute to the NRA, this fear helps the organization as well.
Former National Rifle Association (NRA) chief Ray Arnet once said, "You keep any special interest group alive by nurturing the crisis atmosphere." The organization has long taken this sentiment to heart. For years, the NRA has warned that nationwide gun bans and confiscation were right around the corner. These threats made up in hysterical rhetoric for what they lacked in credibility.
Arnet's comments demonstrate why the organization has adopted such a dishonest strategy. To sustain its $200-million-plus annual budget, the organization relies upon donations from both its members and the gun industry; constant fearmongering boosts donations from both. By working their members into a frenzy, they can better convince them to financially support the NRA and thus stave off that dark future.
The effort also encourages existing gun owners to purchase more firearms in case such laws are actually passed; new sales to current gun owners are essential to the gun industry given that the number of households owning a gun is in long term decline. Terrifying gun owners bolsters gun sales, which in turn keeps the gun industry profitable enough to direct more funds back to the NRA.
But sometimes, your run-of-the-mill fearmongering just isn't enough. In 2011 the NRA repeatedly turned to one of their favorite weapons to keep alive this crisis atmosphere justifying their extremist political agenda and their own existence: conspiracy theories. Below, Media Matters documents a few of our favorites of the year.
Charlie Savage's New York Times profile of Attorney General Eric Holder and how he has become a "lightning rod" for partisan criticism must have seemed like an early Christmas present to The Daily Caller's Matthew Boyle: It lets him accuse The New York Times of bias and attack Holder in one fell swoop.
It was clearly so exciting that he didn't bother to put together even a minimal arrangement of facts before suggesting the Times should issue a retraction.
Boyle suggests that Savage inaccurately reported that neither testimony nor documents have contradicted Holder's statements that he didn't know about the controversial 'gunwalking' tactic used in Operation Fast and Furious. In fact, just as Savage reported, there has not been any documents or testimony that suggest Holder knew about those tactics.
"Mr. Holder has denounced the tactics used in the operation, known as 'gunwalking,' but said he did not know about them or sanction their use," Savage wrote. "No documents or testimony have shown otherwise, but Republicans have pummeled him at oversight hearings and in news media appearances."
Savage made these statements without attribution.
Despite those assertions, Holder's office was provided with multiple briefings and memos about Operation Fast and Furious by top Justice Department officials. The memos contained intimate details of how Holder's DOJ allowed guns to walk.
The claim is specific: neither documents or testimony have shown that Holder himself knew about gunwalking tactics.
It seems that this year's effort to wage war against Christmas will be better armed than usual.
The National Rifle Association's website is currently featuring a "Happy Holidays" message from NRA radio hosts Cam Edwards and Ginny Simone and "the entire NRA News team."
This follows an email fundraising missive from NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox, who offered his "best wishes to you and your family for the holiday season" before asking for donations to stop "four more years of President Barack Obama imposing his anti-freedom values on the American people."
An organization that constantly highlights its culturally conservative mores wishing people "Happy Holidays" is simply the latest evidence that the war on Christmas is a fraud.
When National Rifle Association (NRA) executive vice president Wayne LaPierre isn't pontificating about the purported "massive Obama conspiracy," there's a decent chance he's hurling personal insults and employing other types of overheated rhetoric in pursuit of his political agenda. Some of LaPierre's greatest hits:
LaPierre is free to say whatever he wants, but do the media really have to cover his comments? According to the Media Research Center (MRC), the answer yes, even when the NRA doesn't bother to the return its calls.
This morning, the MRC blog NewsBusters posted a critique of Reuters' coverage of a recent investigation of online guns sales by New York City that showed that many private sellers were willing to sell guns to people who identified themselves as unable to pass a background check.
MRC complained there was insufficient gun lobby criticism of Bloomberg in the article:
The next big misstep in this article is its one-sentence dismissal of Bloomberg critics. "The National Rifle Association, the powerful U.S. gun lobby, was not immediately available for comment on the study."
MRC's message to the media: Print overheated NRA talking points whether or not the NRA gets around to giving you a comment before your deadline.
What should Reuters have done according MRC? Dig through the NRA's website and find the most recently available blog posts written about Bloomberg's efforts with Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The blog posts the MRC identifies as appropriate representations of the NRA's views were written before the online gun sale investigation was announced, so naturally, they weren't responsive to the topic of the article.
The first of the two blog posts MRC suggests could have been represented in the Reuters report includes LaPierre's suggestion that Bloomberg could aptly be viewed as a "petty tyrant." The MRC:
In the first post, which deals with an earlier anti-gun address Bloomberg gave to students at MIT, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre made the observation that "Bloomberg should also remember that a 'ruler' (which is what he seems to think he is) that denies the people of their Right to Keep and Bear Arms while maintaining a large 'army' (the NYPD) is apt to be viewed as a petty tyrant, not a benevolent and wise leader."
The second post highlighted by the MRC suggested that by opposing the NRA's favored legislation, Mayors Against Illegal Guns was engaging in a "shameful attack on the individual liberties of law-abiding Americans".
LaPierre's history of demonizing those who disagree with him might well deserve more media attention than it gets, but it's hardly essential context for a news report documenting the ease with which criminals can get guns online.
Daily Caller "reporter" Matthew Boyle's emerging second career as a gun lobby lackey is clearly on the fast track, judging from his recent coverage of Attorney General Eric Holder's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. Having used his platform to amplify seemingly every Republican line of questioning asked to Holder about the failed ATF operation Fast and Furious, Boyle found time on NRA Radio to attack Rep. Hank Johnson's (D-GA) questioning at the hearing.
Not surprisingly given his embarrassing disregard for the facts, Boyle completely ignored the well-established factual basis of Rep. Johnson's questioning and even went so far as to smear Rep. Johnson with the false suggestion that he "played the race card".
Before asking about the gun lobby's role in blocking a permanent director of the ATF, Rep. Johnson asked Holder about the 'gun show loophole' and how many guns from gun shows had fallen into the hands of dangerous people (from Nexis):
JOHNSON: It's about 2,000 [guns trafficked through Fast and Furious]? Now, how many firearms are sold to Al Qaida terrorists, to other convicted felons, to domestic violence perpetrators, to convicted felons, to white supremacists?
Do you think the NRA and other Second Amendment rights radicals have -- have confidence that the U.S. will not have a competent ATF head if the Senate continues to deny a leader for that organization, thus rendering it rudderless? Is that -- is politics causing that, do you think?
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) later seized on the Johnson's use of the term "radicals" to suggest he was attacking the NRA's entire membership. Boyle dutifully wrote up an article uncritically echoing Issa's complaints. Speaking during the latest of what appear to be daily appearances with NRA News, Boyle bizarrely threw out the suggestion that Johnson's comments represented playing the "race card":
Yesterday the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) put out the message that hunting with firearms is really, really, really safe. As you can see in their handy table, the gun-lobby group proclaims hunting with firearms is safer than golfing, bowling, or jogging. From the NSSF blog:
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: Hunting with firearms is safe; in fact, hunting with firearms is one of the safest recreational activities in America.
Look just a little deeper and you can see that the NSSF's methodology is almost laughably shoddy. Safety analysis, according to the NSSF, need not include a relative measure of chance of death. Nor does it use a single source to form its estimated number of accidents, but rather mashes together two different data sources to make up for the lack of statistics about hunting in their primary data source.
The NSSF's blog post and its safety activity chart don't mention fatal hunting accidents at all. Perhaps sensing the obvious question coming from the reporters it hopes will write up its findings, the NSSF includes this factoid in the middle of a press release on the hunting safety report:
Though recent accurate figures on fatalities related to hunting are not available, statistics from 2002 show 99 fatal hunting accidents.
The NSSF makes no effort to evaluate the lethality or seriousness of different types of injuries in each activity it claims is less safe than hunting with firearms. A bullet to the chest and a sprained ankle are both counted as one injury in their statistics, and that's the basis of their claim that hunting with guns is safer then all but the least strenuous activities. According to a 2004 Good Morning America report, the International Hunter Education Association (IHEA) estimated that hunters were accidentally shooting more than 1,000 people a year in the United States and Canada.
Additionally, the methodology used to determine the number of injuries for every other activity is different than the methodology used to determine the safety of hunting. For every other activity, the NSSF relies on the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) 2010 data, but for hunting, it's data from CPSC combined with IHEA data to fill in the gaps. The NSSF never says if it has any reason to think that the IHEA collects data in a comparable way to the CPSC. It doesn't even say if it's using data from the same year, which it's also probably in the dark on, given that it apparently doesn't know the number of hunting related fatal accidents in 2010.
The media regularly go to NSSF for comment on articles related to gun statistics. The NSSF also publishes data on background checks that it claims are adjusted to properly reflect the number of gun sales made in the United States. The NSSF's shoddy hunting safety research casts serious doubts about the credibility of the organization as a source of accurate information.
Within a day of publication, the NSSF's hunter safety report was featured on the popular Truth About Guns blog under the title of "NSSF: Hunting Safer then Sex" and on the blog Shall Not Be Questioned under the title "Cheerleading More Dangerous Than Hunting With Guns." Outdoor-themed news sites have also picked up the story.


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Rolf Harris has maintained his silence after being charged with 13 child sex offences in the UK including the indecent assault of two teenage girls in the 1980s.
The entertainer faces six counts of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 1980 and 1981 and three charges of indecent assault on a girl aged 14 in 1986.
Harris is also charged with four counts of making indecent images of a child in the first half of 2012.
Downloading or printing indecent images from the internet can amount to "making" the image in Britain.
"We have determined there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest," London's chief prosecutor Alison Saunders said in a statement.
Harris, 83, was charged when he visited a police station on Thursday to answer bail.
He's due to appear at a London court on September 23.
The singer and artist has refused to comment on the allegations since he was first named in the press in April. He is sticking to that strategy.
Reporters gathered outside his Berkshire home west of London on Thursday afternoon but there was no answer when AAP rang the intercom.
Harris's agent has not returned calls or emails.
The Australian's neighbours were happy to talk, however.
They are continuing to support Harris with one telling AAP: "It's awful, the poor chap."
"When you are in your 80s I hope the sins you committed in your youth don't come back to haunt you," she said.
Another added: "We don't believe it."
A third described Thursday's news as sad, stating: "The only thing I'll say is he's a very good neighbour."
Friend and fellow singer Vince Hill was lost for words over the scale of the charges.
"This just isn't the Rolf I know," Hill told British tabloid The Daily Mail.
"But whatever happens to him - and everyone is innocent until proven guilty - I'll always be his friend. He knows that."
Harris was first questioned over allegations of sexual assault in November 2012.
He was arrested in late March 2013 by officers from Operation Yewtree, which was established following the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
At the beginning of August he was re-arrested following further allegations.
A police file of evidence was then passed to prosecutors just over a fortnight ago.
Harris has made two public appearances since being named.
He performed at Bristol in mid-May and the Wickham Festival in early August.
At the most recent gig a clearly emotional Harris stumbled over his words when thanking the cheering crowd of 2500 festival-goers.
"Just before I go any further I would just like to thank you all for my support ... for your support," he said.
Harris was awarded an MBE in 1968, an OBE in 1977 and a CBE in 2006.
He painted a portrait of the Queen in 2005 and performed at her Diamond Jubilee concert in 2012.
But in recent months the entertainer has been dropped as the face of British Paints and replaced as the host of the hit TV show Animal Clinic.
Operation Yewtree was established after a TV documentary aired allegations that former BBC presenter Savile, who died in 2011 aged 84, sexually abused countless children.
So far 14 people have been arrested under Operation Yewtree. Of those four - including Harris - have been charged.
Police say the Australian isn't linked to Savile other than that he "was in the public spotlight at around that time".
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Trip - AVQ - SLOVENIA WHITEWATER, Departure Date - Sunday 23rd August 2009
I expect the trip will be full as there is only one place left.
For those that haven't been on one of these trips and are wondering what to take, though the holiday isn't exactly the same, the Lycian Activity week in the May forum has quite a lot of conversation on it. It covers most things like clothes and shoes for each activity.


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Aug 9, 2013Art Academy: SketchPad is a fun little app, which is essential for Miiverse artists and something to toy around with for others. You must understand, however, that you won't be guided through the experience, so you won't get any help understanding what you need to do. If you can get past that, you will find a fantastic tool to make pictures on the Wii U GamePad.
Aug 12, 2013Beginners may find the current lack of in-game lessons disappointing, but if you're already a budding artist — or just love to create colourful pictures — then there's little reason not to give Art Academy: SketchPad a try.
Aug 26, 2013For less money than an average pencil set you're getting a realistic drawing simulation. Drawing on the GamePad feels as close to real life drawing as you can get. All the different tools feel exactly like you expect they would. Unfortunately it's not possible to quickly erase mistakes and there aren't any layers to play around with. This might improve the realism, but it harms the usability of the simulation.
Sep 16, 2013This feels like an incomplete app, somewhat limited in terms of materials.
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In the 1800s boys were allowed to wear dress right here in America. The dress were just like the girls dresses, some evne came with hair ribbons for the boys. This was available up until the 1930s but had already began to wane. These were available by mail order just as we have on-line shopping today. There are pictures of Presidents F. D. Roosevelt and Gerald Ford in dresses, there are pictures of President Theodore Roosevelt on the White House lawn with his family, his son is wearing a dress for boys from that period. Imagine all these boys here in America wearing these items of apparel. During the change over to pants this is when the Lord Flaunteroy Suits came out, Talk about looking like a sissy!! I'm sure the boys would have preferred to keep the dresses then to be seen in that suit. They even showed BUTCH in the "Little Rascals" wearing one in an episode. They had little velvet shorts, a white shirt, a short velvet jacket, knee socks and buster brown shoes. The jackets had a wide white collar trimmed in lace and the cuffs on the sleeves were like french cuffs also trimmed in lace. Yet all of these boys did not grow up to be gay, probably some did but that is genetic. They grew up, married and had kids of their own.Today there is some movement once again to allow boys to wear dresses but not here in America. We always are a little behind the rest of the world. In parts of Europe, India, Japan, China and various other countries the stores are selling skirts and dresses designed with boys in mind. Although they are not called dresses by the locals, they are an unbifurgated garment. It is the old adage if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck its' a duck, a dress is a dress, a skirt is a skirt. These dresses are not in frilly girlish patterns but in bold colors usually worn by the worlds male populace. Some schools such as in Switzerland allow the boys to wear Jumpers to school, the Japanese a skirt can be worn. In Scotland a kilted garment can be worn to school and similarly in Great Britain. Yet if you bring it up here in America, the parents scream bloody murder that this will turn their sons into a QUEER, a ****** or some other misgotten label. The boys in these countries act just as boys there, they play, ride their bikes, hang out with the friends and other things. Have we forgotten our own past when boys did wear dresses, maybe it is altzheimers of some sort. How did such a progressive country like the United States slip back into the victorian ages. YET WE HAVE !!
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Among Women today there is still the what's called girly girls that still want and wear very feminine clothing and yes there are those women that want no part of it ( I almost Married one). I've overheard many conversations on the subject.
But here's the thing when Women wanted out of the Domestic and dress as they feel like it mood. They openly burned there bras mad ethe statement and stuck to it. Males are afraid to follow suit of Women for the reason as I can see it the big label. Most Women today respect a male that openly makes the statement as long as they are not embarassing Femininty. But enhancing it, I have many women friends more so then male I've openly shown my Femiine side and I'm in certain places and situations where I'm excepted and respected.-
I have found that in general women will and do accept males wearing skirts. They still want the men to behave and act as men. Unfortunately some males put on these false impressions of what is femme and are not taken seriously.
That Melodie is the brain washing of the Religious right. How in the world can an item of clothing make anyone gay? Besides! I have never really heard any powerful arguments as to exactly why "gay" is such a "bad" thing, the only real "proof" seems to be the Bible, a book written entirely by men to serve the political mandates of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
I still contend that it is more women that seek to bury all things "feminine", certainly traditional female clothing regardles of whether it is/was worn by males, i.e.; boys in the 18th and 19th centuries. Feminists are terrified of any push to bring back "feminine" clothing.
Personally, between you and me, I hope to the gods that boys never have to dress like boys were dressed in 1890! Yuck! I want them to dress like little girl's dressed in the 1940's, 50's, 60's even into the lower 70's. Personally! -
The point here is America is in DENIAL. In the home economics classes today they discuss fashions throughout our history yet never is it mentioned that boys used to also wear dresses. Isn't it amazing how we manage to lose 100 years of this history. Even in the illustrated history books it is not shown, except for the Flaunteroy suit. America hides behind it's victorian principals even moreso today. In my questions I have posed here you wouldn't believe some of the stupid answers to a simple question, one idiot actually stated clothing makes you gay, how assinine.
My personal take is that the American male is so weak in his masculinity that he is terrified of any possibility that he might not be male.
Then throw in the holy and sainted Catholic and Christian clergy and their agendas to damn anything and everything that might come even close to being "sexual", i.e.: the possible sexual stimulations caused by slipping on a pair of women's silky panties, or a feminine dress.
It is interesting that many of today's boys feel so secure in the masculinity that they dearly love wearing for example, "boys" SATIN boxers, very shiny, silky "athletic" shorts and shirts, bikini briefs in every color, and the list goes on.
One needs to be reminded that it was WOMEN who dumped their pretty, frilly, dainty clothing to make themselves look like men and boys. Women have long been their own worst enemy! It's women and "butch" mothers who totally destroyed little girls wearing dresses, encouraging them to dress like boys, not males!


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Heartland Payment Systems(R) Launches SmartLink Managed Network Service for Restaurants
CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 05/08/12 -- 2012 National Restaurant Association Show Booth 7813 -- Heartland Payment Systems (HPY), one of the nation's largest payments processors, today announced that it has launched SmartLink for Restaurants. A managed network service that provides secure, high-speed transport of card transaction data and back office information, SmartLink for Restaurants allows restaurateurs to spend less time managing their networks and more time concentrating on the success of their business.
SmartLink for Restaurants is designed to let restaurateurs break free of IT chores and issues so they can focus on customers. By segmenting electronic payment transactions from other network traffic, SmartLink helps ensure PCI compliance while allowing for rapid implementation of other critical applications that require broadband connectivity. Additionally, SmartLink allows for the consolidation of multiple phone and Internet lines, which can often save the operator telecommunications costs by bringing the services under a single Heartland umbrella.
In addition to consolidating multiple communication lines to one high-speed connection, SmartLink for Restaurants provides restaurateurs with secure, monitored network communication for freezer temp monitoring, Voice over IP, back-office systems, digital signs, email and managed Wi-Fi Internet access. It also segments credit/debit/prepaid card transactions from other network traffic to meet Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) requirements.
"From the simplest secure connection at the point-of-sale (POS) to a fully managed solution that supports applications at multiple locations, SmartLink streamlines networked services, maximizes network connectivity, reduces costs and enhances operational efficiency by meeting the network needs of any sized restaurant operation," said Jan Rose, alliance manager of SmartLink restaurant client network solutions for Heartland Payment Systems.
Concurrent with the launch, Heartland has completed the first two SmartLink installations at Dallas-based Maguire's and Maximo restaurants, which are owned and operated by internationally recognized restaurateur Mark Maguire. "As an independent restaurateur, my customers expect me to be on the floor and at the door taking care of business, and that's where I need to be," said Maguire, former president of the Dallas Restaurant Association and past recipient of the Dallas Restaurateur of the Year award. "I would easily waste an hour or two daily with networking and connectivity issues. It's been smooth sailing since SmartLink was installed, as I've done nothing but spend time with my customers. It's completely changed the way I operate."
Michael Youngkin, Heartland's director of client network solutions, concluded, "With more than 12,000 SmartLink installations online in the petro/convenience store market, Heartland is now bringing our managed network solution expertise to the restaurant industry. SmartLink provides a perfect synergy between communications and card processing to make it easier for restaurateurs to run their establishments."
Heartland is one of the largest payments processors in the restaurant industry, with more than 60,000 restaurants using Heartland's comprehensive suite of products and services, including secure card processing, mobile payments, payroll services, loyalty marketing and SmartLink.
About Heartland Payment Systems
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., the sixth largest payments processor in the United States, delivers credit/debit/prepaid card processing, gift marketing and loyalty programs, payroll and related business solutions to more than 250,000 business locations nationwide. A FORTUNE 1000 company, Heartland is the founding supporter of The Merchant Bill of Rights, a public advocacy initiative that educates merchants about fair credit and debit card processing practices. The company is also a leader in the development of end-to-end encryption technology designed to protect cardholder data, rendering it useless to cybercriminals. For more detailed information, visit www.HeartlandPaymentSystems.com or follow the company on Twitter @HeartlandHPY and Facebook at facebook.com/HeartlandHPY.
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The Sea Of Love
WA Delegate: None.
Founder: The United Queendom of Sarong-and-Saright
Embassies: Gay, Commonwealth of Nations, Antifa, Fraternity Islands, The Alternative Left, New Europe, Nudist Dreamland, The Misty Realm, The Ascendancy, Australasian Democratic Union, Leninist Russia, The United San Diego States, Lady Gaga, League of Combined Nations, The Alliance Pocket Universe, Mythical HQ 85, and 25 others.000 Nudist Dreamland, Dutopia, Ponsatomy, The Hill, UCR, Suomi, Francia, Glorious Nations of Iwaku, NationStates Sesquipedalian Countries, The Darwin Allied Republics, Principality of Andorra, The Isles of Collected Shenanigans, Louisiana Alliance x Alliance Louisiane, Awesome Region of Awesomeness, Northfield, United States of America, Meridon, Confederacy of Egalitarian Democracies, Gay Equality, New Northfield, District 311, Sasktelatown, Epigamia, Isles of Socialism, and The Pridelands.
Construction of embassies with Bettie Page vs Jayne Mansfield Catfight has commenced. Completion expected in 2 days 22 hours.
Tags: Independent, Eco-friendly, Liberal, Snarky, Medium, and Casual.
Regional Power: Moderate
The Sea Of Love contains 13 nations, the 957th most in the world.
Activity • History • Administration
Today's World Census Report
The Most Authoritarian in The Sea Of Love
World Census staff loitered innocuously in various public areas and recorded the length of time that passed before they were approached by dark-suited officials.
As a region, The Sea Of Love is ranked 14,012th in the world for Most Authoritarian.
# | Nation | WA Category | Motto |
1. | The Crown Dependency of The Fagland Islands | Mother Knows Best State | "... Oh, for the love of Christ - - just do it!" |
2. | The United Queendom of Sarong-and-Saright | Mother Knows Best State | "... Oh, for the love of Christ - - just do it!" |
3. | The Crown Dependency of Avanam | Compulsory Consumerist State | "... Oh, for the love of Christ - - just do it!" |
4. | The Matriarchy of Merinel | Scandinavian Liberal Paradise | "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" |
5. | The Democratic Republic of Logebakia | Inoffensive Centrist Democracy | "Equality Justice Liberty Opportunity" |
6. | The Kingdom of Skippy Kamakawiwoole | Inoffensive Centrist Democracy | "Ua Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono" |
7. | The Empyreal Queendom of Margrasio | New York Times Democracy | "God Provides" |
8. | The Kingdom of New-Ludington | Left-Leaning College State | "God grants prosperity and peace" |
9. | The Queendom of Washington River City | Civil Rights Lovefest | "The self-righteous take a short walk to destruction" |
10. | The Irradiated Chair of Jefferson Starship | Civil Rights Lovefest | "Carry the Fire" |
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Regional Happenings
- 5 hours ago: The United Queendom of Sarong-and-Saright agreed to construct embassies with Bettie Page vs Jayne Mansfield Catfight.
- 14 hours ago: The Catfight Referee of Boodonia of the region Bettie Page vs Jayne Mansfield Catfight proposed constructing embassies.
- 1 day 1 hour ago: Embassy cancelled between Hotel Quebec and The Sea Of Love.
- 1 day 1 hour ago: Embassy established between The Sea Of Love and The Pridelands.
- 1 day 5 hours ago: The United Queendom of Sarong-and-Saright cancelled the closure of embassies between The Sea Of Love and Awesome Region of Awesomeness.
- 1 day 13 hours ago: Embassy cancelled between Bettie Page vs Jayne Mansfield Catfight and The Sea Of Love.
- 2 days 12 hours ago: The Free Land of Qwertyuioplokjhbv indicated that Awesome Region of Awesomeness did not wish to close embassies.
- 2 days 15 hours ago: The United Queendom of Sarong-and-Saright ordered the closure of embassies between The Sea Of Love and Awesome Region of Awesomeness.
- 3 days 10 hours ago: The Kingdom of Homunculi Father of the region Awesome Region of Awesomeness ordered the closure of its embassy in The Sea Of Love.
- 4 days ago: Embassy cancelled between Sweden and The Sea Of Love.
The Sea Of Love Regional Message Board
God bless The Sea Of Love.
Greetings. I am Skippy Kamakawiwoole, a puppet nation of Israel Kamakawiwoole, who is delegate of Northfield. I plan to stay here to be sort of a diplomat for our region, and give representation to our region.
Thank you, and God bless The Sea Of Love.
We extend a warm welcome to Skippy Kamakawiwoole. Please enjoy the delicious and intoxicating cocktails and the pristine beaches of The Sea Of Love... naked and at the same time, if you choose!
Thank you, thank you! I ❤ the sea of ❤💛💙💜💚💗💓💕💖💞💘
Welcome, Skippy Kamakawiwoole! We're glad you're here!
Yes... welcome, Skippy Kamakawiwoole!
I'm so sad. Northfield (where I came from) was almost raided and we are in the process of an enormous migration to a different region. I was lied to, cheated, and I failed my region as delegate.
We still love you, Skippy Kamakawiwoole, and we're glad you're here!
Welcome, Yakimon, to The Sea Of Love!
As you may have noticed, it has been a long time since I have been on. This is because I am a diplomat puppet nation of the founder of your embassy, New Northfield. If you have any questions or if you need any help, please send a telegram to The Kingdom of Izrael K.
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Comedy, like almost everything else in the world, goes through different phases. Inspired by the success of Curb Your Enthusiasm, there's been an increasing number of improvised comedies being produced or in the pipeline. But after distinctly mixed reviews for Jeff Garlin's Dealin' with Idiots and Christopher Guests Family Tree, is this a sustainable format?
British comedy seems to be at an all time high in popularity across the pond, with shows like The Office, Shameless. However, Brits are known for their rather sarcastic sense of humour and anyone who has visited the US will know that it can be taken the wrong way. So why is it that British comedy is so popular in the US?
Look Back In Anger is a timely reminder that although we may feel overwhelmed by a surge of constant information and that a natural apathy seems to dominate the Noughties generation, now is a righteous time to feel angry and that Jimmy Porters' attacks still feel as fresh and relevant today as they did in 1956.


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For the past three years, there's been a shortfall in the payroll taxes collected for Social Security. And as more baby boomers join the ranks of the 57 million people already receiving benefits, that deficit is bound to keep growing.
At the same time, the overall share of wages being taxed for Social Security is shrinking as the higher wages that are exempt have soared. The Social Security Board of Trustees predicts a nearly $3 trillion trust fund built up over decades will vanish within 20 years.
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Vice President Biden hasn't announced his 2016 presidential plans. It's far too early for that; we haven't even hit the first anniversary of President Obama's second inaugural, after all.
But as Biden traveled this week to Japan, China and South Korea where he met top leaders, he certainly gave the impression of a man doing a full dress rehearsal for the presidency.
Of course, if Hillary Clinton decides to run for president, rehearsing for the presidency may be as close as Biden gets to the Democratic nomination.
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The title character of Inside Llewyn Davis starts and ends the film in a little Greenwich Village folk club in 1961, singing the gloomy traditional tune "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me." The song's world-weary protagonist resigns himself to his impending death, really bothered only by the eternity he'll spend trapped underground in the grave.
Both literally and thematically dark, Out of the Furnace simmers with manliness like a slow-cooking pot of venison chili. This is the sort of movie where character is revealed by what the protagonist decides to hunt and possibly kill.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's new Rosalind, Katy Stephens, points out in the programme that her job is "not to be great" but to tell a love story, "together with everyone involved". To some extent, she succeeds. But an audience's job in this play is to fall in love with Rosalind, and I'm not sure that we do.
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Important Milestone For Billy Hamilton
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Anybody know how good of a bunter he is?
Obviously, he wreaks havoc when he gets on base. For those of you who don't read the minor-league game threads, here are the first and last runs scored in Dayton's walkoff victory Saturday night:
First inning . . .
*Billy Hamilton singles on a ground ball to pitcher Drew Tyson.
*With Ronald Torreyes batting, throwing error by Drew Tyson on the pickoff attempt, Billy Hamilton to 2nd.
*With Ronald Torreyes batting, Billy Hamilton advances to 3rd on a balk.
*With Ronald Torreyes batting, wild pitch by Drew Tyson, Billy Hamilton scores.
Ninth inning . . .
* Billy Hamilton walks.
* With Ronald Torreyes batting, throwing error by Blake Treinen on the pickoff attempt, Billy Hamilton to 2nd.
* Ronald Torreyes hits a sacrifice bunt. Throwing error by first baseman A. J. Kirby-Jones. Billy Hamilton scores. Ronald Torreyes to 1st.
So in two times on base, while the next batter was up, he induced three errors, a balk and a wild pitch. And scored twice without a subsequent hit. In fact, the only ball put in play on those two occasions was a sac bunt. And all of that came
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DiPietro placed on waivers by Islanders
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Oft-injured goalie Rick DiPietro has been placed on waivers by the New York Islanders and will likely be headed to the minors once he clears, as expected.
The Islanders announced the move Friday, one day after they defeated the Canadiens in Montreal. New York will next play at the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday before returning home to face Carolina on Sunday.
The 31-year-old DiPietro has played in only three games this season while serving as the backup to Evgeni Nabokov. He is 0-3 with a 4.09 goals-against average in his appearances.
Because of the 15-year, $67.5 million contract DiPietro signed with the Islanders before the 2006-07 season, the goalie is all but certain to clear waivers. When he does, it is believed he will then be sent down by the Islanders to Bridgeport of the American Hockey League.
There are still eight years at $4.5 million per season remaining on DiPietro's landmark deal -- one that now exceeds the term limits permitted in the collective bargaining agreement the NHL made with the players' association to end this season's lockout.
DiPietro would earn his NHL salary while in the minor leagues and still count against the Islanders' salary cap. New York needs that cap hit along with the $5 million charge it is carrying for suspended goalie Tim Thomas.
The veteran Thomas, who has said he isn't playing this season, was acquired by the Islanders from the Boston Bruins on Feb. 7 for the sole purpose of keeping New York slightly above the required minimum payroll of $44 million. However, Thomas is not being paid while he is sitting out, but still counts against the cap.
The 38-year-old Thomas chose to take this season off following the NHL lockout and was suspended by the Bruins after he didn't report to training camp last month. He is in the final season of a four-year deal.
DiPietro, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2000 NHL draft, earned 32 wins in the first year of his megadeal and 26 the following season. But since then, he has been limited to just 50 NHL games and 14 wins because of various injuries that have plagued him.
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NEW YORK: US stocks edged higher at the open on Friday, with investors reluctant to make big bets in an abbreviated session, though major indexes remained on track for their third straight month of strong gains. Trading will likely be anemic, as it has been all this week, with many US investors out for the Thanksgiving holiday. The stock market will close three hours early at 1 p.m. (1800 GMT), following an all-day closure on Thursday. The light action could amplify market volatility, though there are few obvious trading catalysts with no economic indicators on tap. That may make it difficult for markets to extend their recent rally, though retail stocks will be in focus as the holiday shopping season begins. "There's nothing to trade on today, but the market is in a momentum story and the rally doesn't seem to be running out of steam," said Robert Russell, president ...
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Welcome to the Quinton Heights Elementary School web site. We are located at 2331 SW Topeka Boulevard in Topeka, Kansas. We are one of 21 elementary schools in USD 501, Topeka Public Schools. Quinton Heights is a small school of 150 students whose mission is to develop respectful citizens and responsible lifelong learners in a safe and positive learning environment.


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Jobs in Demand: Cost estimator
Outlook: Employment of cost estimators is expected to increase 25 percent over the 2008-18 decade, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Pay: The 3,430 cost estimators in the Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma area earned a median wage of $63,360 in 2009.
The job: These professionals typically work in construction or manufacturing to collect and analyze data on all factors that can affect costs of a project, such as materials, labor, location, duration of a project and special machinery requirements. The cost estimator then prepares a cost summary of the project and bid proposals. Most work in offices, but visits to construction sites and factory floors are often needed.
Training: Employers prefer candidates to have a bachelor's degree in a field such as construction management or building science, but experienced construction workers can become cost estimators.
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This is hilarious! The expected growth for cost estimators is actually 1% for the next 8 years. What's going to need to be estimated, all the houses that will be built? All the new commercial buildings that will be built? Who wrote this BS? This occupation is in decline as much as anything.
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