The late Republican Senator Strom Thurmond was the Presidential candidate of the Dixiecrat Party in 1948. The Dixiecrat platform included white supremacy, segregation and states rights as to the 1940's federal ban on lynching and poll taxes. Thurmond once said "all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches
If you thought there was any sanity present in 'the opposition' in Syria, forget it. The Syrian opposition is now taunting Assad for not starting a war with Israel over the bombing of some of Assad's weaponry, which Assad has, of course, used to kill Syrian rebels and civilians.
Lilburn police detectives...investigate a Saturday shooting on Hillcrest Road...the city's first homicide since 2005....In the incident, 22-year-old Rodrigo Diaz, of Duluth, was shot in the driveway....the GPS directed the friends to the wrong house. And, then Sailors started shooting; as Diaz accelerated out of the driveway, he was shot in the head, Valencia said.
Why? A gathering of 2nd Amendment unregulated gun nuts with loaded weapons should be the safest place on the planet, shouldn't it? A gun is as good or as bad as the person who has it, and these are good, Sarah Palin admiring Real Americans aren't they?Crossroads of the West Gun Shows regulations TAKE AWAY DOOMSDAY TYRANNY PREVENTING AMMUNITION and SECURES ALL GUNS!
CARNESVILLE, Ga. — Keith Ratliff loved guns. He built his own rifles. He kept bullets in his car’s cup holder. And on the rear window he slapped a sticker of the Starbucks Coffee mermaid firing two pistols......last week, the authorities said, Mr. Ratliff, 32, ended up on the wrong end of a gun. The police in northeast Georgia found him dead at his office on Jan. 3, shot once in the head. He was surrounded by several guns, but not the one that killed him. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is treating it as a homicide...
The National Sports Shooting Association located in Newtown Conn., 3 miles from the Newtown Elementary School where Adam Lanza used a Bushmaster to massacre 20 1st graders and 6 staff, is fighting a rule on reporting multiple sales of the gun used in Newtown to the Feds, if sold to the same individual the same week, in 4 border states. There will be no similar reporting of assault weapons sales in Connecticut or any other state. The rule is meant to reduce the trade of US weapons to Mexico.
Highly recommended lecture (3 million+ views) on the US processed & fast food industries, politics (should excite Daggers), obesity, and the toxicity and damage done by the last 30 years of putting more and more high fructose corn syrup in almost every processed food.
Over an hour long (can you tear yourself away from Dagblogging for that long?).
WEBSTER, N.Y. - Two firefighters are dead and two more injured after being shot while battling a blaze in upstate New York on Monday morning, reports CBS affiliate WROC.
Police Chief Gerald Pickering says "one or more shooters" fired at the firefighters when they arrived at the scene of the blaze near the Lake Ontario shore just east of Rochester at around 6 a.m.
Police have surrounded the neighborhood and are searching for the shooter....
American exceptionalism, the wisdom of an entrepreneurial free market, and job creation wrapped into one. The marketplace, not the government or the law, is always ready and able with a solution for any problem, for a price, so that a given American can 'save' themselves while others.....well for others, who aren't packin' and whose kids don't have $300 armored backpacks.....things may not turn out too good.
YUMA, Ariz., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Smugglers used cannons to lob dozens of canisters of marijuana from Mexico into the United States, the U.S. Border Patrol said.Agents said the canisters, each weighing about 2 pounds, were launched over a border fence by cannon, KTVK-TV, Phoenix, reported Tuesday.Officials estimate the 33 containers of marijuana found near Yuma Friday were worth more than $40,000.....
....Earlier on Friday, Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the UN vote was "negative political theatre" that would "hurt peace".
The General Assembly voted by 138-9 to recognise the Palestinians as a non-member observer state, with 41 states abstaining....
Giving stateless non-Jews on the West Bank more representation at the UN "hurts peace", building thousands more Jewish only settler homes on occupied lands doesn't.....of course.
Just when you thought you had heard it all, life in the homeland, from an overseas source, BBC.
A Florida man choked to death in October after eating dozens of live cockroaches in a contest to win a python, an autopsy has found.
The body of Edward Archbold, 32, tested negative for drugs and Broward County medical examiner ruled the death was an accident caused by "asphyxia"....
No more trips to Europe on the taxpayers wallet for Republican Governor Nikki Haley.
The state (South Carolina-first in rebellion) announced late last month that an international hacker had stolen 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers....
October 17, 2012: In the how-Washington-really-works department, we have the case of the compounding pharmacy industry, and specifically of New England Compounding Center, the Framingham company believed responsible for the deaths of at least 15 people due to fungal infections.......WCVB has reported that NECC president Greg Conigliaro hosted a fundraiser for Sen. Scott Brown at his Southborough mansion, raking up $37,000 for the Brown campaign.
...Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion.....It all starts with Delphi Automotive, a former General Motors subsidiary whose auto parts remain essential to GM’s production lines....Third Point’s Daniel Loeb, whose net worth of $1.3 billion owes much to his share in the Delphi windfall, told his fund’s backers this past July that Delphi remains an excellent investment because
Etch a sketched a bit on this, so what, it's campaign season. Pentagon Space Command was not involved, apparently. Maybe next time. BBC reports Egyptian police killed a Benghazi embassy attack suspect in a shootout in Cairo. Count the minutes before Fox News complains that now that the guy is dead we can't water board him 180 times.
Bill LuMaye, host, WTPF: “What is it like for you to hear the president of the United States call your dad a liar? How do you react to that?” Tagg Romney: “Well, jump out of your seat and you want to rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him. But you know you can’t do that because, well, first there’s a lot of secret service agents between you and him…”
First off, just as we all should be innocent until proven guilty, so should be the Oakland police. Just because of past action of some of the Oakland police force, the officers involved in this incident should not be immediately characterized as thugs.Another Trope
