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A Short History of the Kentucky Long Rifle
Post Date: 2013-10-01 12:48:48 by X-15
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The great Kentucky flintlock-hunting rifle was more accurate than any known previous firearm and soon became famous. The history of Tennessee, Kentucky, and certainly the history of the United States, are each very much connected with the history of the Kentucky Long Rifle. This rifle is also known as the Kentucky, the hog rifle, or the long rifle. It was designed to be light, slender and graceful, and was the first truly American firearm. Created in the 1730s in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by skillful immigrant craftsmen from Germany and Switzerland, the Kentucky rifle was the supreme implement created as a state of the art, ultimately for over a century, until the coming of the "cap and ...
It Won't Stay in Vegas: The Metro PD's Homeland Security Theater
Post Date: 2013-09-30 08:54:02 by Ada
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The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has an acute public relations problem: Officers in its employ routinely murder and mutilate innocent people. The established review procedure for police killings is at least as predictable as a Zimbabwean presidential election. Former Nevada District Court Judge Don Chairez, has described the Clark County Coroner’s inquest process as “a search for justification of an officer’s actions.” Since the procedure was introduced in 1969, hundreds of lethal force incidents have been reviewed by a seven-member jury. Between 1976 and 2012, only one police shooting was ruled “negligent” – and that decision was overturned ...
The Fighter Mafia
Post Date: 2013-09-30 08:44:57 by Ada
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Of Oodle-oops and Error I recently found in The American Conservative a piece called Forty Years of the Fighter Mafia, this mafia being a subset of the “Military Reformers,” who have insisted for many years that weaponry used by the Pentagon “doesn´t work” because it is too complex. They additionally were the people who brought you the imaginary $600 toilet seat, $17 bolt (if memory serves) and the $5000 coffee pot (or some such amount). I had the dismal duty of covering them in the Eighties in Washington. It was an eye-opening display of how easy it is to manipulate a gullible press. Their song was, and is, that America needed simple, robust, reliable weaponry ...
Was an American security team inside Kenya massacre mall?
Post Date: 2013-09-25 08:36:34 by Ada
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Harvard graduate claims she was rescued by 'Americans' after she saw man sat next to her shot dead Harvard educated, World Bank lawyer Bendita Malakia was rescued on Saturday by an 'American security team' The South Carolina resident was eating with a friend when the terror attack began at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya They were rescued after spending five hours hiding in a staff room at one of the stores in the upmarket mall Escaped with 15 others and her American rescuers under a hail of bullets Another survivor, Pennsylvania-born Nick Handler was at a cafe with his daughter, Julia, when the siege began Saturday and they had a harrowing escape Rescued By ...
The Pine Bluff PD: From Merely Dysfnctional to Downright Deadly
Post Date: 2013-09-12 04:21:02 by Ada
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No tactical genius is necessary to bring about a bloodless end to a standoff involving a 107-year-old man armed with a handgun and surrounded by police officers inside an otherwise vacant house. All that is necessary is a willingness on the part of the officers to accept a minimal amount of risk, and a time horizon longer than a half hour. In fact, only someone with a perverse appetite for gratuitous bloodshed could arrange to end that confrontation with the violent death of the centenarian suspect. As it happens, the valiant men of the Pine Bluff, Arkansas Police Department’s SWAT team were equal to that task. That’s why 107-year-old Monroe Isadore was killed in a torrent of ...
Killing Without Consequences: "Counter-Insurgency" Warfare in Greenfield, California
Post Date: 2013-08-24 08:27:55 by Ada
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After eluding the police for more than a week, Alejandro Gonzalez surrendered in San Jose on January 10, 2011. The 22-year-old was the suspect in a non-fatal shooting that had taken place on New Year’s Day at a local bar called the Mucky Duck. As should be expected, the police had done nothing useful to solve that crime. Their only contribution to the case was to stage a lethal SWAT raid against a man who had been nowhere near the bar when the shooting took place, and had nothing to do with it. Four days after the Mucky Duck shooting – in which three people suffered non- life-threatening injuries — a multi-agency SWAT team invaded the home of 31- year-old Rogelio Serrato, ...
Woman sues Patriots, NFL for $10 million in husband's wrongful death
Post Date: 2013-08-22 12:51:33 by Katniss
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Woman sues Patriots, NFL for $10 million in husband's wrongful death Kimberly Chartier of Chicopee, Mass., has filed a civil suit against the New England Patriots and the NFL for the wrongful death of her husband during a 2010 Patriots game at Gillette Stadium, according to the Springfield Republican. Chartier, who is suing on behalf of her son, Tedy, is seeking at least $10 million in damages. The suit alleges that the Patriots and the NFL are responsible for 40-year-old Jeffrey Chartier dying from cardiac arrest in front of Tedy, who was 6 years old at the time There were reports that Chartier's death had been immediately preceded by an altercation with a stadium security ...
George Zimmerman Stopped for Speeding, Has Gun
Post Date: 2013-08-01 13:53:58 by Jethro Tull
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George Zimmerman Stopped for Speeding, Has Gun By SENI TIENABESO (twitter.com/seniABC" target="_blank">@seniABC) , MATT GUTMAN (twitter.com/mattgutmanABC" target="_blank">@mattgutmanABC) and AARON KATERSKY (twitter.com/aaronkatersky" target="_blank">@aaronkatersky) July 31, 2013 videoPhotoCaption = ''; border="0" width="640" height="360" alt="VIDEO: Florida man acquitted of murder tells cops he's headed "nowhere in particular", let go with warning." /> (ABCNEWS.com) Police in Texas have pulled over George Zimmerman for speeding and then the man acquitted in ...
Rate of Shattered Baseball Bats 50 Percent Less, Thanks to Major League Baseball and the U.S. Forest Service
Post Date: 2013-07-28 13:52:12 by X-15
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WASHINGTON - As the 2013 Major League Baseball (MLB) season slides past the All-Star break, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the results of innovative research by the U.S. Forest Service, and funded by MLB, that will result in significantly fewer shattered baseball bats. "This innovative research by the U.S. Forest Service will make baseball games safer for players and fans across the nation," said Secretary Vilsack. "The U.S. Forest Products Laboratory has once again demonstrated that we can improve uses for wood products across our nation in practical ways – making advancements that can improve quality of life and grow our economy." ...
Long before the meltdown, one woman tried to warn about a threat to the financial system. THE WARNING
Post Date: 2013-07-17 15:08:27 by Itistoolate
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The Warning Watch The Warning on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
Antiviral Enzyme Contributes to Several Forms of Cancer
Post Date: 2013-07-15 05:17:59 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered that a human antiviral enzyme causes DNA mutations that lead to several forms of cancer. The discovery, reported in the July 14 issue of Nature Genetics, follows the team's earlier finding that the enzyme, called APOBEC3B, is responsible for more than half of breast cancer cases. The previous study was published in Nature in February. APOBEC3B is part of a family of antiviral proteins that Harris has studied for more than a decade. His effort to understand how these proteins work has led to these surprising discoveries that APOBEC3B is a broadly important cancer mutagen. "We are very excited about this ...
Danny MacAskill's Imaginate
Post Date: 2013-06-23 12:54:43 by X-15
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Three Navy football players to be charged with rape
Post Date: 2013-06-18 19:09:49 by Katniss
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An alleged sexual assault last year will leave the playing careers — and freedom — of two Navy football players very much up in the air. In a statement Monday afternoon, the U.S. Naval Academy announced that three unnamed Navy current and former football players will be charged with rape. The military academy’s superintendent, Michael Miller, “has chosen to send the case to Article 32 proceedings” wrote Military.com. An official charge sheet has yet to be completed, which is why the names of the three suspects have not been released. Two of the suspects are current Navy football players, while the third was set to graduate in May but was denied the opportunity ...
Walt Arfons Dies At Age 96
Post Date: 2013-06-04 21:00:28 by X-15
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Walt Arfons, the creator of the jet funny car, a world land speed record holder, pioneer in drag racing both piston and thrust powered vehicles, mechanical genius, and half brother of Art Arfons has passed away at the age of 96 years in Ohio. Arfons was born in 1916 and through the joining of two families gained a younger (by 10 years) brother who shared his interest, passion, and talent with mechanical things. As the two grew up working at the family grain and feed mill, they became ever more curious about machines, tractors, and anything else that made noise and operated under its own power. In the early 1950s the guys were working together on all kinds of interesting stuff like home ...
Texas Triggers - 1000yd SHOT standing w/ .50 cal
Post Date: 2013-06-01 10:30:54 by X-15
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Some Encouraging Contrasts
Post Date: 2013-05-02 10:51:07 by Ada
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One of my daughters has a very nice photograph of a tiny flower growing in the crack of a large slab of lifeless, stifling asphalt. The image of life seeking and finding even the most limited setting in which to flourish, should foster a sense of optimism as to the future. Political systems resort to the most savage forms of violence because their adversary is not "terrorism" or some other contrived bogeyman, but life itself. Life expresses itself in individualized, spontaneous, self-directed behavior. By contrast, political systems – all of which are grounded in collectivism – demand the uniform, standardized, lockstep conduct of fungible men and women; what the ...
The Day the Music Died for Good
Post Date: 2013-04-23 08:28:21 by Ada
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As an ambulance took the seriously wounded Dzhokar Tsarnaev to a hospital, people in Watertown, Massachusetts, realized that the police hunt was over and they cheered. And cheered. Some in the crowd began to chant, "USA! USA! USA!" as though an American team had won an Olympic competition. To the relieved residents who finally could go back to something normal after effectively living a day under martial law, Gov. Deval Patrick issuing a "shelter-in-place" order, the police had been heroes, protecting them from two mad bombers who already had struck the venerable Boston Marathon and were promising more mayhem and murder: "Every time a police car passed by, the ...
NFL Hits, Hurts, Sucks
Post Date: 2013-04-09 19:03:17 by Lod
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Lisa McHale wishes her husband had lived long enough to learn more about the links between concussions and long-term brain injuries. Her husband Tom, an All-Ivy athlete who played in 87 NFL games from 1987 to 1995, died of an overdose in 2008 after battling depression and a painkiller addiction. An autopsy later showed he suffered from traumatic brain injuries. But she said it helps that more players now go public with their neurological problems, including some of the thousands now suing the NFL over concussions. "To know it wasn't his fault, that there was something going on neurologically, it helps," McHale said in Philadelphia on Tuesday, where lawyers for the NFL and ...
ORACLE TEAM USA - Fun on Foils
Post Date: 2013-04-08 00:15:25 by X-15
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Hear from the ORACLE TEAM USA crew what it's like to fly their AC72 "17" on foils, sometimes at speeds of over 40 knots, and experience the sensational acceleration from onboard
Feds Swarm Metra Train After Detecting Nuclear Radition Patient
Post Date: 2013-03-17 08:04:14 by titorite
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Tyranny in action folks. This is here is a propaganda fluff piece that really did mess with many peoples day. Thank Goodness someone from CBS was there to film/sarc On with the article: (CBS) — It was stunning for those who watched Thursday night as federal agents investigated a possible nuclear threat at Chicago’s Ogilvie Transportation Center. CBS 2′s photojournalist Lana Hinshaw-Klann happened to be at the scene and used a cell-phone camera to record agents in action. Reporter Dave Savini looks into what agents were looking for and what they found. Sources say the agents were members of the elite TSA VIPR team on the 5:04pm Union Pacific West line. They were carrying ...
Racer Tia Norfleet accused of lying about NASCAR career
Post Date: 2013-03-12 12:27:08 by James Deffenbach
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Nearly two years ago, Tia Norfleet told Sporting News that she was working toward becoming the first female African-American driver in NASCAR and hoping to pave the way for other African-American drivers to enter the sport. Since then, she’s been promoting herself as an accomplished driver working her way through the NASCAR ranks and claims that she plans to race in the NASCAR Nationwide Series this year. But, according to a report in The New York Times, much of what Norfleet has been promoting is not true. According to a March 6 story in The New York Times, Norfleet is not licensed to compete in NASCAR and has drawn the ire of NASCAR officials for the way she has been promoting ...
'No More Hesitation'
Post Date: 2013-02-22 08:33:09 by Ada
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You know the score… You’re not a cop, you’re little people! LAPD Captain Harry Bryant to retired "Blade Runner" Rick Deckard, who was reluctant to resume his career as a state-licensed killer. No more hesitation – Little boy with real gun Barack Obama’s advertised purpose in visiting Minneapolis on February 4 was to combat the scourge of gun violence. The substantive purpose of his visit was to promote a state monopoly on gun violence, exercised by people who are trained and authorized to kill pregnant women, children, and the elderly. It would take about fifteen minutes – assuming that the traffic is favorable – to drive from the Special ...
'Gun Violence': The 'National Conversation' We Won't Have
Post Date: 2013-02-02 10:03:09 by Ada
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Gabrielle Giffords, the "surprise witness" at the January 30 Senate hearing on gun violence, was among thirteen people attacked by a deranged gunman in the parking lot of a Safeway in Tucson two years ago. Vanessa Guerena, another Tucson resident whose husband was murdered in an act of gun-related criminal violence in their living room about four months later, was not given an opportunity to address the Senate panel. That’s because her husband’s killers – who remain at large – committed that crime under the color of state "authority." Guerena, a former Marine and Iraq combat veteran, was gunned down by a Pima County SWAT team who committed an ...
Is this the reason he was killed?
Post Date: 2013-01-31 21:00:50 by Itistoolate
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Is this the reason he was killed?Aaron Swartz discovered Counseling Web Site predated Sandy Hookby Peter(henrymakow.com) The events at Sandy Hook likely attracted Aaron Swartz's attention. He would then start researching on the Internet to find the truth, using the needed tools, which he was intimately familiar with.RSS feeds, the standards of which he helped put in place, allow search engines to report news items created on the Internet, about important events, almost instantly. Being an expert on how RSS feeds function, and where the records that such feeds create are stored, he then likely started to search through those records to see what he could find.Aaron likely discovered ...
Interesting site - Dead Spin
Post Date: 2013-01-20 20:55:33 by Lod
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Check it out.
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