Notes from the Resistance...
One report said a grandmother complained that the topless woman became "loud and disorderly" after she told the woman to cover up. Another camper told authorities the woman became belligerent when confronted.So where did she pin her badge...?
In both instances, the topless woman said she was a law officer, according to the reports.
Council officials have written to the chamber of trade saying the trees are a potential hazard because their sharp leaves could cause injuries to eyes or faces.And we all know free-willed sovereign individuals are just too stupid and inept to coexist with trees without government edicts to guide them.
Gun law triggers at least 13 shootingsThat's one hell of a claim. Too bad not one of their anecdotes substantiates the inflammatory charge that Florida's new "stand your ground" law had anything to do with the decision by the people involved to discharge their weapons.
Michael Brady didn't think about his rights when he shot and killed a stranger in his front yard. He says he was just scared.That sounds about right.
On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress selects Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence.
For at least the past two years, 100 military surplus M-16 rifles have been gathering dust in the Dallas County Sheriff's Department armory.Leave it to "The Only Ones" to squander their loot--that is, "taxpayer money"--on something they say they desperately need and then not only don't use but forget about. For years.
A motorcyclist-riding gunman twice eluded police in North Hollywood remained at large.But don't worry--"The Only Ones" will protect you from him--once they catch him.
The prosecutors said the man had given a patchy account of events, acknowledging that he may have "administered" a Bockwurst to the woman.Just unbelievable. People find ways to kill each other with sausage!
IT WAS the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union that motivated Mikhail Kalashnikov to design the assault rifle that bears his name. But, six decades later, he laments its transformation into the worldwide weapon of choice for terrorists and gangsters.Don't fret, Mr. Kalashnikov. If you think about it, only Nazis blame you.
The roommate of an unarmed trespassing suspect who was shot to death in a dark attic by two San Francisco police officers said Friday he had told the officers the man didn't have a gun...Yep--these are the only ones San Franciscans think ought to have guns. By 58% to 42%.
Police originally reported that Sullivan had fired on officers through the attic floor and that his gun had been found at the scene. They later said neither was the case. Investigators now think Keesor fired first, grazing his partner's ear and prompting her to shoot as well.
"We don't shy away from the fact that the real problems lay with the Caribbean blacks," says Sutherland, who was inspired to get into filmmaking after writing and performing in a play at his high school. "Growing up, it wasn't guns. We had butterfly knives. It wasn't crazy like this. There are now so many guns on the street, it's ridiculous. We had no access to guns. There were no big pipelines [of guns] coming up [from the U.S.]."Sorry, Sutherland. It's not guns and it's not Caribbean blacks.
On this day in 1775, John Adams proposes to Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, that the men laying siege to Boston should be considered a Continental Army led by a general.
Or could it be because too many gun owners are discovering that building their own firearms is simple, anonymous, and LEGAL...?Looks like this Republican administration is doing everything in its power to alienate its core constituency.
Ronnie Webber was playing with a gun while he acted out a rap song, and when the song said shoot he did. Webber, 27, told officers the gun in his hand discharged, fatally wounding Johnathan Beasley, 23, Thursday afternoon."The gun in his hand discharged."
"I don't like squirt guns," said Mendez, 45, of the Northside. "I think toy guns send the wrong message, because what's next? I don't even like my daughter to touch them."Good grief.
Julianna Thibodeaux, 40, who lives in Meridian-Kessler, doesn't like squirt guns, either.
"We're so saturated with violence as it is in the media and in our culture," she said. "Anything we can do to mitigate that is good. Besides, there are so many other water toys to play with, like bubbles or water balloons. It doesn't have to be a gun."
The state's highest court ruled Thursday that an insurance company must defend a Clarksville man in a wrongful-death suit brought by the estate of a man he killed in self-defense.I don't know enough about the subject to do more than speculate, but if this precedent stands, I can see insurance companies charging extra premiums or refusing to provide coverage altogether if you have a gun in the home.
Lauer says he does appreciate all the media attention the mayor's tirade has brought him. His Dura Coat sales doubled for two days after the media reports.The mayor got face time and Lauer sold a few more cans of paint. Sounds like a win-win.
As for his New York business, Lauer says he has records of only one sale to someone who uses it to protect bicycles. There are two other orders which Lauer presumes are from the aide who purchased the product for the mayor's news conference.
Canada's former top accountant says the senior bureaucrat overseeing the controversial gun registry didn't want to ask Parliament for more money to cover cost overruns for fear it would affect the upcoming 2004 federal election.So much for doing something because you believe in it and it's right.
On this day in 1772, colonists, angered by the British Parliament’s passing of the Townshend Acts restricting colonial trade, blacken their faces and board the HMS Gaspee, an armed British customs schooner that had run aground off the coast of Rhode Island. They then wounded the ship’s commander and set it aflame.
