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A domestic dispute that boiled over at a business led to a woman being arrested for disorderly conduct after she used her son as a shield against being Tasered.Oh, this one gets better - she was confronting her boyfriend over a $5 bag of marijuana while at his place of employment... Great thinking, dolt - get him fired over a nickel bag. Stop wasting my oxygen, please.
An Ivy League-bound teen who wanted a new car, pistol-whipped her mother and pointed a gun at her head when she refused to buy the ride, authorities said.This story is so full of FAIL that you couldn't get any more FAIL in if you had an electrified FAILing machine. The girl has got to have some significant mental defects if she thinks forcing her mother to co-sign a car loan - on a $50,000 car for a high schooler - at gunpoint is a good idea. Again, please stop wasting my precious oxygen.
It's a great idea, but IMHO a tough habit to get out of - we're hard-wired to grab for something that falls out of our grasp. Unc's got a great point - when you're reaching for a falling firearm, you can't control where the muzzle points (Rule 3) and you might just get your finger on the trigger (Rule 2) which can lead to putting holes in things you don't want holes in. Like yourself. Yes, that expensive Blastomatic2000 might get a couple scratches and scuffs when it meets the ground courtesy of our old nemesis gravity, but scratches buff out and scuffs build character.
Having a couple blemishes on your heater beats the holy hell out of getting shot - or shooting someone else - accidentally...
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The animal rights loons are ranting again. These people are simply terrorists, as you can see in this quote from their odious website.Basically, one of the anti-animal testing groups is off their meds again. I won't link there - I refuse to give them the traffic - but I took a quick read last night. These people are the ideological twins to the "we hate abortion because it's murder so let's kill some doctors" fruitcakes. They want to stop animal testing - because it's mean to animals - and they're willing to maim and possibly kill researchers to do it.Every time a vivisector's car or home — and, eventually, the abuser him/herself — blows up, flames of liberation light up the sky.
They're quite proud of taking the unconscionably violent position. And now, just to show how low they can sink, they have announced a new target: our students.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Investigators say they now know what caused a small hole in a US Airways plane that traveled from Philadelphia to Charlotte Monday.Waitaminute. I thought that planes fell out of the sky in dramatic fashion when hit by bullets? Didn't they ban .50 caliber rifles in California because of the danger posed to aircraft? Something about people using them to shoot down airplanes? Surely the media and anti-gun forces (but I repeat myself) haven't been lying out their sphincters to me, have they?Sources say a stray bullet struck the rear of the Boeing 737-400 as it was landing in Charlotte.
It's essentially a giant slingshot that flings machetes blade-first. I see no way this could possibly go wrong. I do have to admit, I really like the inventor's raison-d'etre: “What is it good for? Nothing except attracting people’s attention on YouTube.”
Well, that and for raining machetes down on zombies - bet it'd be great for that!
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Hat tip to Unc for the link!
There's nothing like your first 1911. I inherited mine, a WWI-military issue honest-to-goodness M1911, from my grandfather, and have added several more to the G. armory in the intervening years. Something tells me that this won't be the first 1911 Borepatch gets - and living in Free America like he does, his options are significantly more open than your humble host...
Enjoy, Borepatch, enjoy.
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Salem, N.H.Official Charged With Kidnapping, Sexual Assault
BROCKTON (CBS) — A Salem, N.H. planning board member is under arrest after police say he held a woman against her will in his apartment for three days. Jeffrey Gray surrendered to authorities in Brockton Tuesday, and waived extradition to New Hampshire to face charges of kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault.
Going to meet someone you only know from a blurb on Craigslist is a chancy proposition at the very least. Taking basic precautions - like bringing a friend and meeting in a public place - can save a world of trouble and hurt. There's only one person that can keep you safe - and that's the face that shows in the mirror every morning. Being aware and cautious in situations where parts are out of your control isn't paranoid - it's prudent.
Besides, far better to be thought a little paranoid than to wind up stuffed in a trunk somewhere...
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Somerville man killed by alleged drunk driver in Springfield A Somerville man struck by a car Friday night as he stood on a West Springfield street has died, according to a local media report. David Laduzenski, 29, suffered severe head injuries, and succumbed to his wounds Sunday, according to a report published today in the Springfield Republican. Police believe Laduzenski was standing off of Dewey Street about 10:20 p.m. when he was struck a vehicle driven by Daniel Leary, 35, of Southwick, Springfield Police Traffic Sergeant Hubert R. Reef said in the report.
Laduzenski was friends with my brothers- and sisters-in-law, having worked at some of the same companies. Word on the street - and I checked several different news reports and came up empty - was that this was not the drunk driver's first offense. Not only that, but Laduzenski was standing on the lawn in front of the house when he was struck - this guy was significantly impaired. He was also in possession of a "class B" substance (MJ I assume), so it's not out of the realm of possibility that there was additional impairment involved (link here).
29 years old. Newly engaged. Working three jobs to put money aside for his future. And some asshole who had no business being on the road takes that all away from him in an instant. Maybe the grapevine got it wrong, and this really is the guy's first offense - stranger things have happened. It still doesn't change the fact that his actions have irrevocably changed the lives of many other people - including his own, with a wife and children that now have to live with the burden of what his carelessness has caused.
If the person responsible spends more than a month in jail I'll be shocked - I mean, he only drove under the influence and killed someone. It's not like he had a new 12 round magazine or something.
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Proto-Blogger G.
Baby Girl G. is playing "Webkinz" with one of her friends from school. They're both logged on at the same time and are taking turns exploring each others virtual pets' rooms. TheBoy is composing a letter to Jigsaw's Miss9, having both mutually decided that having intercontinental pen pals would be kinda neat. Dinner's cooking on the stove, backpacks are filled for the school week ahead, the weekly shopping has been finished. One child is conversing through the internet with a friend who lives across town; the other is writing a letter to a girl some 10,000 miles away that he knows because his dad and her mom read each others' blogs and participate in the same gun forum.
Y'know, even though I don't have a flying car, I like living in the future...
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Stealth hackerama: Just how big is it?
This is a guy who heads an agency responsible for millions of federal dollars a year supposedly going to combat poverty. His office was in the same building as recently re-elected Congress critter Niki Tsongas - apparently she had no idea that a six-figure no-show was right in her building. Imagine that. Obviously the complete and utter lack of anything resembling work doesn't phase our US representatives...And so farewell, Philip F. Laverriere Sr., out of his $145,000 anti-poverty hack job at the age of 85 after the Lawrence newspaper caught him lounging away his afternoons at the local Elks Club, playing video poker and smoking cigars.
The Eagle Tribune said the Navy veteran of World War II told them he’d been spending his afternoons at the Elks for three years.
It's really hard to decide which is worse: That this guy spent years working half-days at $145 large a year, or that there are six figure jobs in MA that apparently don't even need to be done...
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When Mrs. G. called Comcast to start the process, the technician on the other end of the line asked if she could call back later - because the Comcast server was down...
We've had issues with Comcast as detailed before. Mrs. G.'s folks have had intermittent issues with Comcast phone service. My poor brother-in-law, the sports fanatic, had Comcast cable go out during the Superbowl. SCI-FI has battled with them off and on for a while now over cable and internet. This is just my close friends and family here, folks. This is not the way to instill confidence in one's product and/or capabilities here...
We're still going to go ahead with the switch - the introductory rate, good for the first year, saves us $70 a month right off the bat, and will continue to save us money even after the offer expires. The home phone is the only thing that will be different, and as I said before, we don't really use it all that much anyways, opting for the cell phone in most cases. I've noted a sea change in my phone habits in that I used to give my cell number when I thought it might result in unwanted calls (sales calls) so as to not clutter up the landline - that is completely reversed now.
Just thought the irony was too delicious not to share...
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100 years of service and still going strong - and good for 100 more!
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If you can read this, you're either a pharmacist or fell off your bike without a helmet one too many times...
(sorry about the lousy cellphone pic...)When driving down U.S. Highway 93 through Hamilton, there's no need to do a double-take when you see the sign hanging above the Radio Shack Super Store. You read it right. Customers who buy Dish Network will be rewarded with a firearm.
Now, they're giving away a Hi-Point 380 and an unnamed 20 gauge (NEF single shot I'd wager), but even at that, how freakin' expensive is the Dish network that a $100-$150 giveaway helps Radio Shack break even? I mean, I suppose it's no different than the furniture stores that give away a flat screen TV with a $1200 living room set, but still...
And I'll refrain from commenting on the Radio Shack/Hi-Point correlation...
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Go. Read. Congratulate Maura on joining the tribe of the People of the Gun.
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One suspect is dead, one is in custody and a third remains at large after an aggravated robbery in La Feria, Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said. The victim of the crime, Louis Earl Dixon, shot Francisco Antonio Moreno Thursday evening after a struggle ensued when Moreno and two other men attempted to force Dixon to let them into his home, Lucio said Friday. Dixon lives in the 27000 block of Rabb RoadThree guys jumped Dixon and his son as they were entering their home. They were forced to kneel at gunpoint when Dixon wrestled the gun away from the goblin and shot him. Now, I don't know about anyone else, but when I hear about goblins making their victims kneel, it usually means they're about to kill them... Sounds like the elder Dixon took action to prevent such an eventuality, and proved the antis right - if you use a gun, it will be taken away and used against you.
Something tells me they don't mean this advice for a goblin, though.
Dead Goblin Count: 142
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Now, this being Texas, the homeowner won't be charged - and rightfully so, IMHO. For those that make the claim that "your stuff isn't worth killing someone over", well, while on a very superficial level that is true, on the larger scale it most certainly is not. Being unwilling to protect that which you have worked hard to earn rightfully sends the unmistakable message to crooks that they can take whatever they want at no consequence to themselves. As we've seen time and time again with the "justice" system, quite often all your average B&E crook is likely to get is a slap on the wrist and a stern warning not to do it again.HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Deputies are seaching for the man who broke into a home overnight in north Harris County. The suspect got away, but made a run for it with a gunshot wound.
"Don't move" is what Gerald Garrett says his neighbor yelled after waking up around 1am to a noise, grabbing his gun and finding a burglar running through his north Harris County home.
When the man -- believed to be in his late teens or early 20s -- ran toward the window Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies say he broke into, the property owner said he fired, hitting the suspect in the buttocksI guess you could say he took it in the end...
So nearly half of the tables reserved at the job fair were not actual employers, either? Ouch. How's that Massachusetts Miracle working out for you, Duval? Maybe you ought to take another overseas junket, you know, do some more traveling to promoteTAUNTON -- A Massachusetts employment organization has canceled its annual job fair because not enough companies have come forward to offer jobs.
Richard Shafer, chairman of the Taunton Employment Task Force, says 20 to 25 employers are needed for the fair scheduled for April 6, but just 10 tables had been reserved. One table was reserved by a nonprofit that offers human services to job seekers, and three by temporary employment agencies.
Now, this is all well and good - it'll be interesting to see how many crimes they're actually sentenced for versus how many are plea-bargained away, mind you - it sounds like they might be facing some serious time (I mean, if they were in another state that took dealing with violent criminals seriously). This is exactly what we on the pro-rights side have been saying - enforce the existing laws rather than pass new laws to combat this sort of gun crime. Put these SOBs in jail for 40 years - and keep them there - and it sends a clear message to the criminal community that breaking into someone's home to steal their firearms will get you put away for the rest of your life.LOWELL -- Two men have been indicted in connection with the theft of approximately 40 guns reported stolen from a residence on Dublin Street in Lowell's Acre neighborhood on Jan. 3, according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone.
George Rodriquez, 31, of Lowell was indicted by a Middlesex County Grand Jury on charges of breaking and entering in the nighttime to commit a felony, breaking into a depository, larceny of a firearm, possession of a firearm (7 counts), possession of a large capacity feeding device, trafficking in firearms, trafficking of a large capacity feeding device, possession of a firearm, subsequent offense (7 counts), and being an armed career criminal (7 counts), according to a press release from Leone's office issued Thursday afternoon.
Miguel Rivera-Otero, 20, of Lowell, was indicted on charges of breaking and entering in the nighttime to commit a felony, larceny of a firearm, possession of a firearm (4 counts), possession of a large capacity feeding device, trafficking in firearms, trafficking of a large capacity feeding device.
MMmmmmm. Meeeeaaaat...
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go fire up my grill...
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30 against one? Better bring more than 30 if that one is a Gurkha. Especially when, as the story tells us, the Gurkha motto is "Better to die than be a coward." Not only did this dude keep his cool against overwhelming odds, he was good on the fly, grabbing the tripod from his machine gun as an improvised weapon in close quarters battle. Badass!It took him 400 rounds, 17 grenades, and a machine gun tripod used as a weapon, but one British Gurkha soldier single-handedly beat back an attack by 30 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last summer. And now he‘s getting one of his military’s highest honors:
Sergeant Dipprasad Pun, a 31-year-old from Bima in western Nepa and part of the Gurkha regiment serving the British Military, is receiving the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for bravery. It’s well deserved. According to his superiors, Pun’s fearsom fighting is responsible for saving the lives of at least three other soldiers.
Om nom nom
There's only one problem with this - it makes me hungry...
It seems that it's a bureaucratic snafu compounded by the longevity of the person in question - basically, his parents were born before birth certificates were kept, so there was no technical proof that his parents were American citizens. Since he was born on foreign soil, he's technically a Canadian citizen. As far as the claims that he was threatened with deportation, I certainly hope that's someone's idea of a joke (along the lines of, "Oh, you better be careful, Lee, or they're gonna deport you to Canada!").Ninety-five-year-old Leeland Davidson discovered recently that he's not considered a U.S. citizen, despite living nearly 100 years in the country and serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII.
Davidson, from Centralia, Washington, told KOMO News that he discovered he wasn't a U.S. citizen when he was turned down for an enhanced driver's license he needed for a trip to Canada to visit relatives.
A store manager in Pearl likely will face no charges from fatally shooting one man and critically wounding another during an attempted armed robbery Tuesday afternoon, according to Rankin County District Attorney Michael Guest.Yup. Committing the crimes Americans won't commit. And getting their illegal asses shot dead for it. We are allowed to keep and bear arms here, guys. It's not the same as back home, where the biggest, baddest, and strongest rule. Here in America, the paunchy, middle-aged store manager might just have a .45 to even the score. They walked into the store and started shooting - and fortunately, our hero had better aim...
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Pearl police identified Alex Vivas and Arnoldo Villafuerte as the two men who allegedly planned to rob Gold & Silver Extravaganza III at 3040 U.S. 80E. Both were in the country illegally.
Rimfire Smith
That's a Smith & Wesson 22A-1 .22LR semi-automatic pistol. It's Smith & Wesson's entry level rimfire pistol, an affordable cousin to the esteemed model 41, Smith's premiere .22LR semi-automatic handgun. The 22A line of handguns are modestly priced, with even the most expensive versions available at an MSRP of less than $320. This particular 22A, on loan for the Guns, Holsters, and Gear review, has the 5½" bull barrel, target grips, and an integral Weaver rail; accuracy far better than your humble host's meager efforts comes standard.
NASHUA, N.H. (CBS) – New Hampshire’s state medical examiner took the stand Thursday in the trial of Christopher Gribble, who has admitted to killing a mother and maiming her daughter during a 2009 home invasion in Mont Vernon.
Dr. Jenny Duval, the state’s medical examiner and final witness, described the autopsy of Kimberly Cates. The testimony was so graphic, Kimberly’s husband David, along with his family and friends, stood up and walked out of the courtroom. Until that point, Cates had sat in the front row through all of the testimony.
If jurors find Gribble sane at the time of the crime, he will be sentenced on all of the charges. First-degree murder convictions bring an automatic life sentence in New Hampshire.
If they find he is insane, he would likely be sent to the state hospital with a chance for a hearing to be free in five years.
Washington (CNN) -- Two planes landed safely early Wednesday morning at Washington's Reagan National Airport after they were unable to reach anyone at the airport's air traffic control tower, according to the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board.
The FAA would not comment on a media report that the airport controller had fallen asleep. NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said, "All we know is the controller was unresponsive and we want to know why."
Just dropping a note asking that you update any links to my site, as the site has been totally re-designed. The only thing left hanging is a custom 404 page, but that should be fixed within the next week or so, along with redirects from my old pages to the new pages (my old site was all .htm, the new is .php ) If you've linked to a specific page on he old site, its going to return an error. Simply point it to the root URLGo take a look - the redesign looks fantastic (and no, I'm not just saying that because your humble host has a couple of quotes or two...). The different holster styles all have their own sections in clearly defined areas, there's a scrolling header that shows everything off without slowing things down; it just looks amazing.
now, and it'll all be good.
The thief who stole a Macbook Air from hyper-entrepreneur, threewords.me creator and weekend New Yorker Mark Bao has turned the machine in to the police and sent Mr. Bao a note asking for forgiveness.I have just about zero tolerance for thieves. I have less than zero tolerance for stupid thieves. What's almost as funny as this dirtbag getting pwned by remote control is that fact that he obviously knows nothing about the internet. Sure, the rightful owner of the laptop could take the video down, but that ain't gonna stop it from showing up. Don't want your sad-assed video showing up on YouTube? Don't steal the laptop of someone who knows his way around a keyboard, chump.
The impetus is likely this video of the thief attempting to pop-and-lock to“Rubber Band Man”Tyga’s “Make It Rain” recorded on the stolen Macbook Air, retrieved by remote access and posted to YouTube, Vimeo and Reddit. “Can you please put down the videos you put of me,” the thief wrote in a note posted by The Next Web’s Courtney Boyd Myers.
Okay, now I know that charges ≠ convictions, but still, what's the likelihood that all 100 charges were dropped? And even if they were, he's out on bail for a drug trafficking charge. He's prohibited from owning firearms, period - yet he had a loaded gun in his possession. All the licensing, "Assault Weapons" bans, magazine restrictions, and "Approved Firearms Rosters" were meaningless because he's a criminal who breaks the laws.ASHLAND — Police pulled 8 pounds of marijuana, $13,000 in cash, a .38 caliber revolver and DVD counterfeiting equipment out of a home on Captain Eames Circle in Ashland on Monday.Police were searching for 29-year-old Kareem J. Taylor, of 439 Captain Eames Circle, after he sped away from a Hopkinton officer on Friday. The officer had stopped Taylor, who has faced more than 100 criminal charges, after recognizing his gray Acura and knowing Taylor had a suspended license, according to a police report.
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - One man is dead and another is on the run following an home invasion in Fulton County. It happened around 1 a.m. Wednesday in the 3000 block of Creel Lane.
Police say two masked men burst into the home and demanded money from a 24-year-old man inside. The suspects opened fire and the 24-year-old's father fired back. Police say he shot and killed one of the home invaders but the second got away. Neither the father nor his son were hurt.
I thought of Newton’s waffling yesterday as the new census results showed Massachusetts continuing to lag far behind many other states in population growth, a gap that will soon cost us a congressional seat and precious federal funding.
I asked Harvard economics professor Edward Glaeser what high-growth states like Washington, Utah and Georgia have to offer that we don’t, and he said the key element is new housing.
Go ahead and rearrange those deck chairs pretend its our zoning laws - we'd rather states like UT and GA get the extra congressional representation anyways...
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Terisa Acevedo was crying tears of joy. Nearly a month after her dog Lola disappeared in a fire that destroyed her home, she found the pet alive Monday among the ashes of her burned-out and boarded-up house in Hyde Park.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw her after all that time,’’ said Acevedo, standing outside the blackened house on River Street. “I hugged Lola in my arms, and I cried and cried. I cried more than I did when I was standing in front of my house watching it burn down.’’
What can we learn from this?MARCH 22--After being denied a kiss yesterday by a neighbor 39 years her junior, a 92-year-old Florida woman allegedly returned to her home, retrieved a .380 semi-automatic handgun, and fired several shots into the man’s residence.
Aged pistolero Helen Staudinger was arrested last night and charged with aggravated assault and firing into an occupied dwelling, according to a Marion County Sheriff’s Office report. Staudinger is pictured in the mug shot at right.
Of the 49 officers killed so far this year, less than half were killed with a firearm. I'll go out on a limb and guess that of the 23 killings, exactly none were the result of a law-abiding gun owner. I'll go out on another limb and say that we're in for a rough time, given that:Washington (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder announced a Law Enforcement Safety Initiative Tuesday, calling the number of law enforcement officers killed in the United States so far this year "simply unacceptable."
Holder's comments came as he met with a group of police chiefs and the heads of several federal law enforcement agencies to talk about the problem. He said the initiative will involve all U.S. attorneys around the country meeting with their local police and others to discuss the issue and to try to find solutions.
When asked if the Obama administration would call for new legislation -- possibly including a ban on extended ammunition clips like those allegedly used by suspect Jared Loughner in the January shootings in Arizona that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- Holder said nothing is "off the table," but he said he wants to look at how existing laws are carried out first."Nothing is off the table". Folks - and I mean all freedom-loving Americans here - if that doesn't make your blood run cold, then I don't want to know you. How many law enforcement officials were killed in the Tucson shooting? Oh, that's right, none - yet it's used as justification for looking at new laws - where nothing is off the table.
New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier, Philadelphia Police Chief Charles Ramsey and Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee. Federal law enforcement leaders included FBI Director Robert Mueller, U.S. Marshals Service Director Stacia Hylton, Drug Enforcement Administration chief Michele Leonhart and acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Ken Melson.Hmmm. What common bond do the city-level officials have? They're all in high-crime areas that for the most part go to extreme lengths to prevent the law-abiding from carrying arms. On the federal level, all but the US Marshals have seen events that erode the public's confidence in their ability to discern between actual criminals and easy convictions...
Happy Birthday, William Shatner!
Captain Kirk is 80 years old today. Wow. Live long and prosper, indeed. Worry not, for Mr. Spock turns 80 this coming Saturday, so the Enterprise's store of Depends, prunes, and M1 Garands (to keep the new ensigns of their lawn) will be tested to be sure...Happy Birthday Bill!A very happy birthday goes out to one of our personal favorites, William Shatner, who turns 80 years old today.
When he's not fouling up our television sets with "$#*! My Dad Says," Shatner has been hard at work creating some of the most iconic and nerdy characters in our pop culture history. From "Star Trek" to "Boston Legal" to "Miss Congeniality," the actor not only created a new pattern... of speech, but also wormed his way into our hearts and public consciousness as a man that we just love to love.
FLINT, Michigan — The store owner who shot and killed an alleged robber today also fired at a second man who police believe was acting as a lookout, said Cheryl Joubran, whose son fired the shots.
Joubran owns Jules Market on Lewis Street near Davison Road with her husband and son.The family has owned the business since 1972. For the first time in 10 years, someone tried to rob the market today.
The Boston public schools ousted their longtime director of food and nutrition services yesterday after finding 280 cases of out-of-date food in 40 cafeterias amid allegations from a city councilor of systemic mismanagement and widespread waste.Lovely. Further on in the story we find out that it's possible that school kids may have been fed food that expired in 2008 or 2009. Now, granted, it could have been something as innocuous as frozen hamburger patties that were "use by 12/09" that were thawed and used in 2010 - which I would guess we've all done at some point. But it's rather interesting that the school was paying some $70K+ a year for cold storage while ordering more food of the same type that was already there. It's either gross incompetence or downright malfeasance - neither an appealing option.
School officials said they have set aside 3,049 more cases of food, worth roughly $107,000, in a privately operated supply warehouse in Wilmington because records do not readily show expiration dates or “best-if-used-by’’ dates. Officials are peeling away plastic packaging on the pallets, looking for dates or other clues to how long the food has been in storage.
The food and nutrition director, Helen Mont-Ferguson, was reassigned yesterday within the department as the city launches a national search for her replacement, Goar said.Got that? She was removed as the director, but keeps her job. How much do you want to bet that she winds up somewhere with less responsibility at the same rate of pay? You've got to love a system where someone can screw up on this large of a scale, in a move that will ultimately cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dolllars, and remain gainfully employed.
TIERRA VERDE — Meghan Brown had fired her pink .38-caliber handgun only inside a shooting range. Even there, she said, she wasn't very good.Fortunately for her and her fiancé, she was able to turn a goblin into a dead goblin - using a pink .38 Special snubbie...The 2009 Miss Tierra Verde, 25 and a slender brunet, had trouble pulling back the trigger. When she did manage, she said she almost never hit the target.
(Canon Rebel T3)The Nikon has the greater resolution; the Canon appears simpler to use. A lot will depend on which particular camera feels better; ease of operation as well as accessories will also fit into the decision. I've been talking to folks who own digital SLR cameras (FWIW, Canon outnumbers Nikon about 5 to 1 at this time), and everyone I've talked to has been very pleased with their particular model.
As always, thoughts, comments, and cautions are highly desired.
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The decision in the McDonald case continues to claim lives!!!1111 If only the Chicago gun ban had been allowed to continue, no one could own handguns in Chi-town, and then no one would get shot. Right? I mean, that's what the anti-gun forces would have us believe every time there's a ruling that doesn't go their way.CHICAGO (CBS) – The warmer weather has been a great relief to winter-weary Chicagoans, but it has also carried the byproduct of increased violence on the city’s streets.
Between 4 p.m. Wednesday and 1 a.m. Thursday, at least eight people were shot all around the city, and a ninth was beaten so severely that police initially thought he had been shot.
Form...
Well, 21 ounces is significantly less weight to carry around than 35, so the K-frame Flatjack has been seeing a lot more use in the past couple of months. It will start tapering off as the weather improves and cover garments get less bulky, but in the time I've been using it with the 242 it's been phenomenal. The way the holster sits on the belt (and yes, a good belt makes a world of difference) and distributes the weight evenly I can carry the 242 all day long and not even feel it. Positioned at approximately 4 o'clock, it doesn't even poke me in the back when I'm driving, which is a rare event indeed.
When I asked Dennis about making this holster, I had no idea I'd be using it for a daily carry holster. It was intended to be a "BBQ" holster - carry my nicely appointed Model 19 or Model 13 for OC-friendly events like the Northeast Bloggershoot (which we should probably start thinking about soon...) - and I'm quite pleased to report that it is supremely comfortable to wear all day, every day. As long as I can wear something long enough to cover this on my belt, this is my go-to rig:
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Hmmm. I wonder if I can get Michael to make an Executive II for summertime carry?
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It ain't the tools we should be afraid of, its the monsters that walk among us.Amen, brother, amen.
CNN is reporting on Utah's decision to honor local boy made good John Moses Browning (PBUH) by making his 1911 design the official state firearm. That is, quite simply, astonishing. This is the same CNN that ran breathless videos in 2004 claiming that the Assault Weapons Ban expiring that year would result in machine guns flooding the street.(CNN) -- Until this week, Utah had 24 state symbols, from tree (the blue spruce) to insect (the honeybee) to even cooking pot (the Dutch oven).
Now it's added an official state firearm -- the John M. Browning-designed M1911 pistol, becoming the first state in the nation to have one, according to the state legislator who sponsored the law.
Other critics have said the new state symbol implicitly condones gun violence.So an inanimate object "condones [inanimate object] violence"? My good friend Weerd Beard has been maintaining an ongoing collection of stories of people killed by means other than firearms. Folks, we need to say it again, apparently. Let me run pictures:
Some of the most far-out anti-gun laws are found on the left coast, but that could change - for privileged politicians. A California state Senate committee will consider a
bill next week that grants legislators permission to carry concealed firearms. The measure highlights the growing rift between the bureaucratic class and taxpayers who don’t have the luxury of exempting themselves from bad laws.
All I can think of is this:BENNINGTON, Vt. – A Vermont neighborhood is being stalked by a renegade gray squirrel. Several people in Bennington say they've been attacked by a squirrel over the last few weeks.
Kevin McDonald tells the Bennington Banner he was shoveling snow when the squirrel jumped onto him. He says he threw the animal off, but it twice jumped back onto him. A game warden says there have been other reports, too.
Northhampton, for those not familiar with MA, is kinda like MA's version of San Fran. Lots of flakes and nuts, lots of liberal arts colleges, etc. It's not surprising in the least that someone saw this dude walking down the street with a crossbow and soiled themselves before calling the cops.NORTHAMPTON - A report of a man walking downtown with a gun led police to stop a man on King Street and confiscate a loaded crossbow, police said.
The man was not arrested, but the weapon and arrow were taken into police custody, said Lt. Michael Patenaude.
New Look
The Choate stock came with the Model 10, so it was really just a matter of unscrewing the old stock and attaching the new one. Swapped out the Barska for the BSA Cats Eye 3-10X scope, although what ultimately winds up on the rifle will wait until I can get everything to the range. With the target on the 100 yard stand, it'll be a matter of seeing which scope provides the clearer picture, then rough boresighting with the LaserLyte Boresighter. Once she's all dialed in then it will be interesting to see what she can do...
AVON (CBS) – A 75-year-old driver was injured Thursday in a crash involving a Commuter Rail train on the Middleboro/Lakeville line.
The driver’s car was struck at the railroad crossing on East High Street in Avon (Map It).
Governor Deval Patrick, who has been traveling for nearly two weeks on an international trade mission intended to create jobs, said yesterday that he was blindsided by Fidelity’s decision to ship more than 1,000 jobs out of Massachusetts, but that there is nothing he can do to stop it.
