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But (at the federal level) he wants to define life as beginning at conception. And I think one of the implications of this would be that abortion would then be defined as murder, so would that still be up to the states? Too much doubletalk from Thompson to believe his states rights notions. Double talk? You might wanna back that up with some facts. I am of the belief you are dead wrong

In one of those states the dead are allowed to vote in the Democratic Primaries... hmmmm I wonder which one that is?

or vice versa? Philip Martin received a probational sentence. Many of the Klinton supporters were current criminals, and some were on the lamb. Quite a few received pardons, in fact the Klinton pardoned his own ner do well drug dealing brother. Iran Contra had ties to Mena AR, and yet the Klintons had no idea it was going on while they were in the Govenors Mansion? hmmmmmm Yes it is relavant considering Hitlery is running for the presidency. I sincerely hope that the 3,000,000 pages of documents the klintons had sealed under a presidential directive are unsealed and the truth becomes known.

You are preaching to a choir of around five individuals. Other than that the rest of the weasels will never believe you that JFK was not our saviour. He was a POS

I agree Max, I find it quite amusing that most people seem to think that JFK was some kind of superhero, in fact it was quite the opposite, he just did not live long enough to reap the whirlwind. (or maybe he did) The fact is he probably played right into the USSRs plans and in fact lengthened the cold war. Can anyone say Viet Nam? Bay of Pigs? Assassination of a recognized foreign leader? Illicit drug use? Election Rigging? (multiple instances) Halsey was right to insist on keel hauling the derilect. He was a horrible skipper and yet his father saw to it that he was proclaimed a hero.

I learn about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the scarier it is for what almost happened, but the more impressive it is for how the JFK administration handled it. But again, I get the impression Robert Kennedy was the guiding influence behind John Kennedy.Quote Yep removing the missiles from Turkey as a concession to Kruschev was an amazing feat.

Not entirely true, there are a few roads where chains are mandatory, studded tires will not be accepted.

Eisenhower? maybe Kennedy (depending on if you're not partisan). Kennedy was a horrible president, he died sparing him the close scrutiny he deserved and was annointed a saint by many who did not know what he had been doing.

Slugs are commonly made of all copper or copper jacket over a tin core.

Why in the hell do they ban shotgun slugs? Have they been watching too much CSI?

The secret that really matters, that people should be asking about, is Obama's membership in the Council on Foreign Relations (along with all other mainstream candidates from both parties). Not to mention the fact that Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the founders of the Trilateral Commission, has endorsed his candidacy. To me that's pretty telling of where he's coming from, and that he does not have the interest of the people of the US in mind. While it would probably be interesting to read your views on those relationships, does your post have anything to do with the content of the OP? You're right. I probably should have made a post about zonkeys, axolotls and rock hyraxes. Ah the Hyrax, the smallest packiderm in the world. Get one and you can proclaim you have an elephant in your living room.

You would be better served by using a shotgun firing sabot slugs. That is what is used to dispatch bears, and of course a dart filled with nicotene, is even faster.

The military is exempt

One of the key things that will alow chains to work best is proper tire inflation, run the pressure at the upper limits stated on the tire. Fit is everything if you want the chains to bite.

Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally By MATT RICHTEL SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 — One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was “blabbing away” into her phone. “She was using the word ‘like’ all the time. She sounded like a Valley Girl,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal. Andrew reached into his shirt pocket and pushed a button on a black device the size of a cigarette pack. It sent out a powerful radio signal that cut off the chatterer’s cellphone transmission — and any others in a 30-foot radius. “She kept talking into her phone for about 30 seconds before she realized there was no one listening on the other end,” he said. His reaction when he first discovered he could wield such power? “Oh, holy moly! Deliverance.” As cellphone use has skyrocketed, making it hard to avoid hearing half a conversation in many public places, a small but growing band of rebels is turning to a blunt countermeasure: the cellphone jammer, a gadget that renders nearby mobile devices impotent. The technology is not new, but overseas exporters of jammers say demand is rising and they are sending hundreds of them a month into the United States — prompting scrutiny from federal regulators and new concern last week from the cellphone industry. The buyers include owners of cafes and hair salons, hoteliers, public speakers, theater operators, bus drivers and, increasingly, commuters on public transportation. The development is creating a battle for control of the airspace within earshot. And the damage is collateral. Insensitive talkers impose their racket on the defenseless, while jammers punish not just the offender, but also more discreet chatterers. “If anything characterizes the 21st century, it’s our inability to restrain ourselves for the benefit of other people,” said James Katz, director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University. “The cellphone talker thinks his rights go above that of people around him, and the jammer thinks his are the more important rights.” The jamming technology works by sending out a radio signal so powerful that phones are overwhelmed and cannot communicate with cell towers. The range varies from several feet to several yards, and the devices cost from $50 to several hundred dollars. Larger models can be left on to create a no-call zone. Using the jammers is illegal in the United States. The radio frequencies used by cellphone carriers are protected, just like those used by television and radio broadcasters. The Federal Communication Commission says people who use cellphone jammers could be fined up to $11,000 for a first offense. Its enforcement bureau has prosecuted a handful of American companies for distributing the gadgets — and it also pursues their users. Investigators from the F.C.C. and Verizon Wireless visited an upscale restaurant in Maryland over the last year, the restaurant owner said. The owner, who declined to be named, said he bought a powerful jammer for $1,000 because he was tired of his employees focusing on their phones rather than customers. “I told them: put away your phones, put away your phones, put away your phones,” he said. They ignored him. The owner said the F.C.C. investigator hung around for a week, using special equipment designed to detect jammers. But the owner had turned his off. The Verizon investigator was similarly unsuccessful. “He went to everyone in town and gave them his number and said if they were having trouble, they should call him right away,” the owner said. He said he has since stopped using the jammer. Of course, it would be harder to detect the use of smaller battery-operated jammers like those used by disgruntled commuters. An F.C.C. spokesman, Clyde Ensslin, declined to comment on the issue or the case in Maryland. Cellphone carriers pay tens of billions of dollars to lease frequencies from the government with an understanding that others will not interfere with their signals. And there are other costs on top of that. Verizon Wireless, for example, spends $6.5 billion a year to build and maintain its network. “It’s counterintuitive that when the demand is clear and strong from wireless consumers for improved cell coverage, that these kinds of devices are finding a market,” said Jeffrey Nelson, a Verizon spokesman. The carriers also raise a public safety issue: jammers could be used by criminals to stop people from communicating in an emergency. In evidence of the intensifying debate over the devices, CTIA, the main cellular phone industry association, asked the F.C.C. on Friday to maintain the illegality of jamming and to continue to pursue violators. It said the move was a response to requests by two companies for permission to use jammers in specific situations, like in jails. Individuals using jammers express some guilt about their sabotage, but some clearly have a prankster side, along with some mean-spirited cellphone schadenfreude. “Just watching those dumb teens at the mall get their calls dropped is worth it. Can you hear me now? NO! Good,” the purchaser of a jammer wrote last month in a review on a Web site called DealExtreme. Gary, a therapist in Ohio who also declined to give his last name, citing the illegality of the devices, says jamming is necessary to do his job effectively. He runs group therapy sessions for sufferers of eating disorders. In one session, a woman’s confession was rudely interrupted. “She was talking about sexual abuse,” Gary said. “Someone’s cellphone went off and they carried on a conversation.” “There’s no etiquette,” he said. “It’s a pandemic.” Gary said phone calls interrupted therapy all the time, despite a no-phones policy. Four months ago, he paid $200 for a jammer, which he placed surreptitiously on one side of the room. He tells patients that if they are expecting an emergency call, they should give out the front desk’s number. He has not told them about the jammer. Gary bought his jammer from a Web site based in London called PhoneJammer.com. Victor McCormack, the site’s operator, says he ships roughly 400 jammers a month into the United States, up from 300 a year ago. Orders for holiday gifts, he said, have exceeded 2,000. Kumaar Thakkar, who lives in Mumbai, India, and sells jammers online, said he exported 20 a month to the United States, twice as many as a year ago. Clients, he said, include owners of cafes and hair salons, and a New York school bus driver named Dan. “The kids think they are sneaky by hiding low in the seats and using their phones,” Dan wrote in an e-mail message to Mr. Thakkar thanking him for selling the jammer. “Now the kids can’t figure out why their phones don’t work, but can’t ask because they will get in trouble! It’s fun to watch them try to get a signal.” Andrew, the San Francisco-area architect, said using his jammer was initially fun, and then became a practical way to get some quiet on the train. Now he uses it more judiciously. “At this point, just knowing I have the power to cut somebody off is satisfaction enough,” he said.

He was speaking of people that matter, not what you say.

North Braddock investigates Taser complaint Thursday, September 13, 2007 By Karamagi Rujumba, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/07256/816957-56.stm John Bacharach's office has been flooded with phone calls since Shawn Hicks started telling his story in public -- how two North Braddock police officers, alerted by a silent security alarm, entered his home in the wee hours of July 28 and Tasered him out of a deep sleep. "All my calls have been about this," Mr. Bacharach, North Braddock's solicitor, said on Tuesday. There is an ongoing investigation into the matter, he added, saying that the borough has asked the Allegheny County District Attorney's office to look into it. "The officer who used the Taser has been put on desk duty and appropriate action will be taken, depending on the outcome of the investigation," Mr. Bacharach said. What seems to be unravelling as a public relations nightmare for Mr. Bacharach and North Braddock officials, started as more than a nightmare for Mr. Hicks, 29, deep in a Friday night slumber after "a night out with my friends." A Point Park University student and an office manager at the African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania, Mr. Hicks is still grappling with what transpired in the early hours of that Saturday morning. The disbelief of it all, he said, lingers: Two officers standing over him in his living room, shocking him with punishing rounds of Taser shots; sounds of boots and voices stomping through his four-story house yelling, "clear,"; him yelling at them to check his ID, which they did; more Taser shots; being handcuffed in front of his mother, daughter, and niece; and then dragged off to a jail cell for about three hours. "If I didn't go through it," he said, "I wouldn't believe it." A father of two girls, Kishawna, 11, and Shawnte, 7, both of whom live with him in the two-bedroom house he has lived in for six years, Mr. Hicks said on Monday that in addition to an apology from the officers who confronted him, he would like North Braddock to "take care of my hospital bills and compensate me for the pain and suffering I went through." So far, none of that has happened. In fact, he and his family, he said, have received no response to a complaint letter he sent to North Braddock's mayor, solicitor, and police chief. North Braddock police officers directed all media inquiries to the borough solicitor. Mayor Raymond McDonough did not return repeated calls for comment. But for Arlene Hicks, it will take more than an apology and payment of the more than $300 her son incurred in treatment costs for his back wounds to overcome "the pain of it all." "What do I tell our granddaughters? How do I explain to them that their father has been arrested for nothing," said Mrs. Hicks, 55, a North Braddock native who moved with her husband, Nathaniel, 34 years ago to Penn Hills, where they raised five children. She recalled that she arrived at the scene that Saturday morning in much the same way as the police because her son's security alarm company called her about the alarm going off at his Stokes Avenue house. On that night, Mr. Hicks' daughter, Kishawna, was with her grandmother. Shawnte was spending that night at her mother's house. And so Mrs. Hicks, Kishawna, and another granddaughter, Arianna, 10, drove to check on the two-bedroom house at 528 Stokes Ave. "When we got there, we found at least six police cars and then I saw my son seated on the porch. My heart felt lighter because I could see he was OK. But when we got closer, I saw that he was in handcuffs and I wanted to know what was going on." Mindful that her son's history with Braddock police, and other police departments in the area, Mrs. Hicks said she was unnerved by the response she got from the officers. "They told me they were taking him to North Braddock police station, and then Braddock, and then they told me that because he was an adult, they didn't have to tell me anything," she said. On that July morning, Mrs. Hicks, confused and angry, said she felt enraged by the same "small mentality" of North Braddock police officers, whom she and her husband first confronted 13 years ago. "They followed [Shawn Hicks] through three stop sign intersections as he was driving from Penn Hills to North Braddock and gave him a ticket. They told him to never come back to North Braddock. We went to court on that and won," she said. But Mr. Hicks also has a police record that dates back to 1996, when Rankin Police charged him with carrying a gun without a license, receiving stolen property, furnishing alcohol to minors and possession of marijuana. All charges in that case were dismissed except for the marijuana possession. In addition, Mr. Hicks pleaded guilty to assault and possession of marijuana charges in Penn Hills, once in May and again in June of 1997; guilty on a 2003 DUI charge in North Braddock, and guilty on a 2005 DUI charge in Swissvale when he was found with a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit. Notwithstanding his police record, Mr. Hicks insisted that he had no interaction with North Braddock police officers on that July morning after a night when he had "a few drinks with some friends," until he felt the Taser shock. "I came home and locked the door and went to sleep on the couch. [North Braddock police officers] woke me up with their Tasers," said Mr. Hicks, who contends the police forced their way into his home. A respiratory therapist at Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Mrs. Hicks said she was especially angered when her son told her and her husband that he had been shot several times by a Taser. "It angers me," she said. "It really angers me that they Tasered him. They had no way of knowing what was going on with him when he was asleep or why they couldn't wake him. And then they continued to shoot him with that thing even after they knew who he was. I know what electricity can do to a beating heart. They could have killed him." And that, Mrs. Hicks said, is why her family will not settle for anything less than "North Braddock realizing that they need to train their officers better. They have to have some sensitivity training on how to handle people. I had to explain to my granddaughters that night that not all police officers behave like that." The Hicks family, her son said, is meeting with an attorney this week "to consider our options here." On that point, however, there are no gray areas for Mrs. Hicks. "My feeling is that we should sue them. Whether we win doesn't matter," she said. "Money or no money is not the point. It's the principle. They need to understand that police officers ought to behave better than this." First published on September 13, 2007 at 5:29 am

It was the same old Alien abduction thing, I can't help it I look like one of their extraterrestrial travelers. I keep telling them, hey I can prove I was born here!!! Well that and "No, that is not a PEZ dispenser!"

Just remember, head shots will result in team member holding the offender by the arms while the person who was shot in the head fires one into the offenders groin

I once banged the hell out of a really hot girl in Germany, her boyfirends name was Klaus.

Hey all I did was post a news story. Then I have people telling me what I intended

I posted a relavant news story, you have chosen to imply I did it in order to ellicit a one line reply. Wow not only are you rude, but you are omnipotent now huh?

If text were bandwidth intensive I would be concerned. If text were bandwidth intensive then maybe you should have not responded. Hey you are a lawyer with lots of money and quite liberal, why not redistribute your wealth and give Willem a couple of thousand?

www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123074539 11/3/2007 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Air Force grounded it's entire fleet of F-15 aircraft on Nov. 3 following the crash of a Missouri Air National Guard F-15C aircraft Nov. 2. The cause of that accident is still under investigation, however, preliminary findings indicate that a structural failure of the aircraft may have occurred. The grounding of the fleet is a precautionary safety measure. The Air Force will ensure mission requirements are met for worldwide operations normally accomplished by the F-15. Current F-15 flying locations include bases in the continental United States, Alaska, England, Hawaii, Japan and the Middle East. Combat requirements in Iraq or Afghanistan will be met by other aircraft during the interim such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon, A-10 Thunderbolt II and B-1B Lancer. There are more than 700 F-15s in the Air Force inventory. The F-15 reached initial operational capability for the Air Force in September 1975. The Missouri Air National Guard F-15 that crashed on Friday was built in 1980. The F-15 Eagle is an all-weather, extremely maneuverable, tactical fighter designed to permit the Air Force to gain and maintain air supremacy over the battlefield. The Eagle's air superiority is achieved through a mixture of maneuverability and acceleration, range, weapons and avionics. The F-15C, D and E models were deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1991 in support of Operation Desert Storm where they proved their superior combat capability. F-15C fighters accounted for 34 of the 37 Air Force air-to-air victories. The F-15E's were operated mainly at night, hunting SCUD missile launchers and artillery sites using the LANTIRN system. They have since been deployed for air expeditionary force deployments and Operations Southern Watch -- the no-fly zone in Southern Iraq, Provide Comfort in Turkey, Allied Force in Bosnia, Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Iraqi Freedom in Iraq

Actually no it isn't.