I’m Voting Republican
I think the actual target of this ad will miss the sarcasm and just say “Heck Yeah!”
#WritingFromIsolationWard
Horn told the dispatcher that he doesn’t know the neighbors well, unlike those living on the other side of his home. “I can assure you if it had been their house, I would have already done something, because I know them very well,” he said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/17/national/main3517564.shtml?source=mostpop_story
It looks like Old Joe Horn had shooting someone on his mind long before he called 911. The guy walked out into the street and shot two guys that were robbing his neighbour.
The author of the law that allows Texans to kill in order to protect themselves had some comments on Joe’s actions:
But the legislator who authored the “castle doctrine” bill told the Chronicle it was never intended to apply to a neighbor’s property, to prompt a “‘Law West of the Pecos’ mentality or action,” said Republican Sen. Jeff Wentworth. “You’re supposed to be able to defend your own home, your own family, in your house, your place of business or your motor vehicle.”
This throws a spanner into the works for Joe. He’s a murderer at this point; never mind that. Some folks love a good “honor killin'”
“Finally, someone who has the guts to do the right thing and protect himself. It appears the bad guys approached the wrong fellow and paid with their life”
“The dispatcher stated to Mr. Horn that no property is worth the life of another. True enough and somebody should have said the same to the two burglars.”
“Cry me a river… the criminals were exterminated. Don”t steel other peoples property and you might live another day.you dare to call it Vigilante… its called Justis Thank the framers of the Constitution for the 2nd ammendment and thank the Texas legislature for correct laws that protect law abiding citizens against the scum of the earth. Death to common criminal!”
(spelling and punctuation preserved)
I wasn’t there and I don’t have a gun on hand most days. Sure, I’ve been unnerved by folks, unnerved enough to kill? I don’t know. I’ve certainly shooed away my share of dumpster-diving meth-heads from my back yard, all without waving a gun. During a robbery, when the cops are already on the way? Take some pictures of the guys as they escape then get out of sight. That’s what insurance is for.
If there was a threat of physical violence on me and mine, I have no idea what would happen. One would hope that they would be level-headed enough to threaten the guys into submission or wound them into cowing.
Good old Joe has some hard days ahead. I wish his neighbor well, and hope that Joe never mistakes him for a robber.
According to the May 1, 2008 CCC inventory
report there are only 24.1 million bushels of wheat in inventory, so
after this sale there will be only 2.7 million bushels of wheat left
the entire CCC inventory,†warned Matlack. “Our concern is not that we
are using the remainder of our strategic grain reserves for
humanitarian relief. AAM fully supports the action and all humanitarian
food relief. Our concern is that the U.S. has nothing else in our
emergency food pantry. There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk
powder, no grains or anything else left in reserve. The only thing
left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat
which is about enough wheat to make 1â„2 of a loaf of bread for each of
the 300 million people in America.â€
source: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/wid2a.pdf
source of quote: http://www.standeyo.com/NEWS/08_Food_Water/080606.no.grain.reserves.html
Things look dire in this article, but they may not be as bad as all that. The source article certainly makes it sound more dire than I hope it is. I don’t trust the source implicitly.
Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports
Where are the threats? Where are the terrorists? Where is the danger? Is there ANYONE on /. that knows where the proven irrefutable answers are?
These scanners are not necessary in any other country. Not even those that have actual terrorist living there (according to bushco). What is the real reason for these scanners?
I’m betting that it is to acclimatize the populace to intrusive searches for ‘security’ reasons.
I had the distinct fortune to fly on a private plane recently. It was not large, but it was just for me and Jen.
I didn’t even have to produce ID.
Now, I wasn’t crossing any borders, but I also didn’t have to go through any form of security or get asked any questions about my bags either. I *WAS* going on a plane that *COULD* be used for terrorism, but no one cared to even perform the basic anti-terrorism or security checks that we are forced to endure when we board a large passenger plane.
I flew out of Person International, before anyone thinks I was flying from some out of the way airfield run by Scorpio and Co.
So, what do I think was going on? Put simply, security checks are for the poor and the “masses”.
If one was a terrorist, one could simply use a private jet to perform my nefarious deeds with planes. Considering how wealthy at least one Terrorist is; this doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility.
Look, I’m all for asking people to leave their weapons in locked suitcases, but lets assure people that their cases won’t be opened and ransacked by underpaid unmonitored tsa (or not) employees after they leave the care of the customer.
I’m fine with x-rays and so on, but let’s not get crazy. Airport security has already veered into, totally insane, and the practice of ignoring it in the case of private planes is just insulting to the rest of the world.
What do you think?
How my wife castrated my DVD collection
I know Mark feels. When we moved down to the states, I had to save space so I moved all of my DVDs into big CD wallets and threw out a number of VHS tapes (but put some into storage at my ‘rents).
When we were moving back we decided to sell the DVDs that we weren’t going to watch again and still ended up with three boxes of DVDs.
I don’t think I could part with the cases now though, I like the idea of displaying all of my DVDs on big shelves where we can easily pull them and watch at our leisure. Add to that my 5 disc platter player and you get nice easy viewing of whole DVD sets and so on.
I guess what separates me from Mark is that it was my decision to castrate my collection.
I upgraded to the Zune 2.0 software, which promptly killed all the useful playlists I had set up for playing in my Xbox when I wanted to listen to music.
I used to just drag and drop my playlist contents into Media player 11, but since Zune streams mp4s and I have a buttload of them, I made the transition.
I upgraded to 2.0 and liked the new interface, but the lack of any sort of smart playlists leaves me using Itunes to make playlists and no obvious way to get them into Zune.
I have figured out the steps to make this happen:
If you do not save the file in the default location or simply wish a more manual method, save the playlist in m3u format and drag and drop the new m3u into a waiting playlist in the Zune Software.
Have fun with your new software!
Originally posted on nitemayr.vox.com
Hey There; this post is a technical post about how to test to see if your IP address is on an RBL list.
212.122.234.565
(For those of you not in the know, this IP address can’t exist in the IP v4 numbering system)
565.234.122.212
You should see something like this:
Server: dnsserver.yourdomain.com
Address: xx.xx.xx.xx
*** dnsserver.yourdomain.com can’t find 565.234.122.212.sbl.spamhaus.org: Non-
existent domain
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: 565.234.122.212.sbl.spamhaus.org
Address: 127.0.0.1
It’s a good bet you are on the RBL (in this case SBL) list.
Guardian Unlimited | Life | One side can be wrong
“When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.”
Mt. 25:31-46. “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. And all the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on His left.
Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’
Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You drink? And when did we see You a stranger, and invite you in, or naked, and clothe You? And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’
And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’
Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink; I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’
Then they themselves will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?’
Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
1 Tim. 6:10. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves with many a pang.
Prov. 29:7. The righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such concern.
Luke 16:19-25. “Now there was a certain rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, gaily living in splendor every day. And a certain poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs would come and lick his sores.
Now it came about that the poor man died and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far away, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue; for I am in agony in this flame.’
But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony…’”
Luke 6:24. “But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full.”
Lev. 19:19ff. Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God.
Silverman can No Longer Help
Published by NiteMayr on June 12, 2008Rogers has been steadily building a media empire the likes of Clearchannel or Newscorp in the US. With that growth seems to be the ever-increasing “corporatism” that I noted in my post over on vox (http://nitemayr.vox.com/library/post/what-corporations-sometimes-are-like.html). That is to say the culture becomes very insular and profit focused, forsaking tangible goodwill for monetized good-something.
As if user-generated equals actual parcipitation. I could pull a bunch of youtube video and call it user generated too. CityTV and Much built a great deal of their cache on the backs of the kids and soccer moms that seemed to orbit the Queen and John studio in waxing and waning numbers, it appears that the Rogers folks are looking to turn that culture into a “Good Morning America” type culture where they set the hours for participation from the audience. The death of “Speakers Corner” and “Silverman Helps” seem to be setting that path ahead with increasing clarity.
CityTV under Moses Znaimer was community-focused and accessible. It remains to be seen what the Red and White of Rogers will do to the nigh-institution of City.
Quotes pulled from this article at “The Toronto Star”:
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/441790