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Sandy Hook massacre: GOA’s Larry Pratt obliterates Piers Morgan
GUN Owner’s of America Larry Pratt shows CNN’s Piers Morgan how to win an argument. Morgan fails to hit his target. Pratt is on the left right of your screen:
Posted: 19th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (10)
Cows crash a van and are much, much harder than you
THINK you’re hard do you? Chances are, if you’ve been in a carcrash, the first thing you did was to make sure you were alive and then hold your wickle neck in-case you had whiplash. Then you pretended you had whiplash so someone would give you some money.
You big, tough swine you.
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Every day in America heroes and ‘Good Samaritans’ use guns
IF there is to be a debate over guns, stories like this should be included in it. In one Flagstaff branch of the Arizona Central Credit Union, three men stopped a bank robbery. The Arizona Sun reports.
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Posted: 19th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Jimmy Savile inquiry: Newsnight and BBC wonks carry on as usual
SO. Newsnight carries on. Editor Peter Rippon has left his post but should get another one at the BBC; Stephen Mitchell, the deputy head of BBC News will step aside in 2013 – full pension for him; Helen Boaden, director of BBC News, returns to her job as head of news; George Entwistle, who resigned as director-general last month, gets a massive pay off and full pension; Adrian Van Klaveren, head of Radio 5, carries the can for Lord McAlpine being wrongly labelled a paedophile – but keeps his job.
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Posted: 19th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Plebgate: The Sun and the police used Andrew Mitchell to escape Hillsborough
IS Andrew Mitchell innocent? Mitchell lost his job as the Tory Party’s Chief Whip. A police constable with the Diplomatic Protection Group has been arrested over the Andrew Mitchell “plebgate” scandal. It’s alleged that the copper pretended to be a member of the public when making a complaint to his MP, John Randall.
Randall was Mitchell’s deputy in the Conservative Party’s whips’ office.
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Posted: 19th, December 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Sandy Hook: The NRA statement in full
FOLLOWING the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary school the National Rifle Association America has released the following statement:
“The National Rifle Association of America is made up of 4 million moms and dads, sons and daughters – and we were shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders in Newtown.
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How gun law changed Australia and could make the USA safer
AFTER the Sandy Hook massacre, a look at Australia and guns:
A 2006 paper that appeared in Injury Prevention analyzed the possible results of the 1996 gun law reforms in Australia:
Results: In the 18 years before the gun law reforms, there were 13 mass shootings in Australia, and none in the 10.5 years afterwards. Declines in firearm-related deaths before the law reforms accelerated after the reforms for total firearm deaths (p = 0.04), firearm suicides (p = 0.007) and firearm homicides (p = 0.15), but not for the smallest category of unintentional firearm deaths, which increased. No evidence of substitution effect for suicides or homicides was observed. The rates per 100 000 of total firearm deaths, firearm homicides and firearm suicides all at least doubled their existing rates of decline after the revised gun laws.
Conclusions: Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings, and accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides. Total homicide rates followed the same pattern. Removing large numbers of rapid-firing firearms from civilians may be an effective way of reducing mass shootings, firearm homicides and firearm suicides.
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Australia’s version of The Guardian shapes up well
WILL they live blog the demise?
The Globe & Mail is failing:
Troubled online journalism venture The Global Mail has taken a meat axe to its own staff — telling six employees they are redundant just days before Christmas — as funder Graeme Wood looks to spend millions on an Australian version of The Guardian.
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Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
What your Afro moustache says about you
FLASHBACK brings you this look at what your Afro says about you. The moustaches make all the difference:
Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Sandy Hook Massacre: Irrefutable proof the Jews did it
THE Jews are behind the Sandy Hook massacre. Iran’s Press TV has news:
Israeli death squads involved in Sandy Hook bloodbath: Intelligence analyst
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Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
The Daily Express’s salutes its laughable weather reporting, with Nathan Rao
NATHAN Rao is the Daily Express’s man on the weather beat. On November 14, 2012, he sat on a horse and blew his own trumpet:
DAILY EXPRESS A SURE BET, COME RAIN OR SHINE
As he writes:
WITH a firm reputation for leading the way when it comes to the weather…
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Retro advert: ‘Introduce Me to 10 Ladies And I Pay You Cash’
RETRO advert of the day: “Famous genius” C.W. Van Der Mark – has an offer: “Introduce Me to 10 Ladies and I Pay You Cash For Your Time.”
Seems legit.
Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Lord McAlpine, a huge poo and his court statement against the BBC
LORD McAlpine is the innocent Tory peer libelled a paedophile by many on Twitter, the BBC and ITV.
The BBC (£185,000) and ITV (£125,000) have paid damages and legal costs. Lord McAlpine wants £50,000 libel damages from Sally Bercow, the Commons speaker’s wife, for her tweet. That poo on his desk is in the post:
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Evel Knievel is here to talk about Bicycle Safety
BECAUSE if ther is one man who knew about bike safety it was …Evel Knievel:
Sun says ‘fantastic’ Call of Duty drove Adam Lanza to kill
COME “inside the dark, lonely world of maniac Adam Lanza”.
He’s the killer everyone knew.
Lanza is the killer who “lived in [a] windowless lair playing violent video games”.
Lair? Lanza had no criminal record. He had never shot anyone before he murdered so many at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Surrounded by posters of weapons, he plotted massacre
Did he? Was it a plot? Or was it more spontaneous? The guns were his mothers. All were legal.
Peter Samson has more:
SCHOOL massacre maniac Adam Lanza fuelled his violent fantasies while hidden away in a windowless bunker plastered with posters of guns and tanks.
Young man has posted of tanks and guns. And was it a bunker or a basement?
bunker: a protective embankment or dugout; especially : a fortified chamber mostly below ground often built of reinforced concrete and provided with embrasures
basement: the part of a building that is wholly or partly below ground level
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Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
The Sandy Hook Massacre: Adam Lanza played at being a little god
BRENDAN O’Neill on The Sandy Hook Massacre:
..look at the photo of Adam Lanza. Or better still watch the videos and manifestos made by the Columbine killers or the Virginia Tech shooter and other recent school shooters. Do you really see Southern-style gun culture in these videos and words and images, or do you see a different, more modern culture at work? I see youngsters raised to consider themselves little gods, who see their self-esteem as king and who believe their angst must always be taken seriously. I see youth brought up in a world where we are increasingly encouraged to cultivate a persona, preferably a dangerous, edgy one, through media like YouTube and Twitter. I see young people so imbued with the narcissistic creed of the politics of identity, where how you feel and what you want must take precedence over any social or communal considerations, that they have been absolutely wrenched from both their own communities and from even basic moral codes.
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School children making project with umbrella threatened by armed police
TO Pennsylvania, where a school is in lock down. Some children were working on a project about the immune system. Naturally, this involves play fighting with an umbrella. A security guard says the children were acting in a “suspicious” manner.
Oh, brave new world:
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Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Irish Jesus lynched in Bethlehem
ON the Israel Embassy, Ireland (Facebook) page, a message about Jesus and Mary in Bethlehem “being lynched in Bethlehem by hostile Palestinians”.
“A thought for Christmas…If Jesus and mother Mary were alive today, they would, as Jews without security, probably end up being lynched in Bethlehem by hostile Palestinians.”
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Charlie Brooker writes the worst article on the Sandy Hook massacre
CHARLIE Brooker wants to talk about guns in America and the Sandy Hook massacre. The headline assures us:
The Newtown shooting makes us feel helpless. We don’t need to be
We? Who are ‘We’? Humanity? British? Columnists? The Brookers? The voyeurs? Who is meant to benefit for this internationalised trauma?
I was a country boy. When I was growing up, there was a shotgun in the house. Dad shot clay pigeons for sport. I fired it once myself, with his assistance. Had to wear ear protectors. When you pull the trigger, a shotgun punches you hard in the shoulder. It almost knocked me over.
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Posted: 17th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (6)
The Sandy Hook massacre: guns kill liberty
THE Sandy Hook massacre: Guns kill liberty. Guns make life less risky:
Firman Debrander in the New York Times:
Guns pose a monumental challenge to freedom, and particular, the liberty that is the hallmark of any democracy worthy of the name — that is, freedom of speech. Guns do communicate, after all, but in a way that is contrary to free speech aspirations: for, guns chasten speech.
This becomes clear if only you pry a little more deeply into the N.R.A.’s logic behind an armed society. An armed society is polite, by their thinking, precisely because guns would compel everyone to tamp down eccentric behavior, and refrain from actions that might seem threatening. The suggestion is that guns liberally interspersed throughout society would cause us all to walk gingerly — not make any sudden, unexpected moves — and watch what we say, how we act, whom we might offend.
As our Constitution provides, however, liberty entails precisely the freedom to be reckless, within limits, also the freedom to insult and offend as the case may be…
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Posted: 17th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
The Sandy Hook massacre: The Mishnah and the reasons for evil
THE Sandy Hook massacre: Ben Domenech writes at The Transom:
It is a natural tendency on the part of most human beings, when confronted with great evil, to want to do something about it. We want to stop the horror of death and violence and disease. It speaks to what is good within us that we desire this—it speaks to a recognition on our part, innate and abiding, that there is something terribly broken in this world—a great mistake which has been made along the way, a gear missed in the works, a gaping hole where something should be. The feeling is all the stronger when we face the destruction of innocent life—the life of a child. The Mishnah tells us that the act of murder destroys a whole world—the world as it would’ve been with that person in it. When the worlds wiped out are so young, the shock of it all echoes and rebounds throughout the lives of others for generations. And the only part that can be played by those left behind is one of charity.
This is a frustrating limitation, and so those who are more naturally given to see problems of law or culture as the reason for evil look at the horror of Newtown as something that can be prevented, if only we do this or that thing, pass this or that law. Something must be done, they say. But their somethings all have this in common: none of their proposals, on guns or mental health or any other factor, would have prevented this awful crime. In the real world, there is no law that can make the murderously insane sane, or remove all weapons from their grasp. The tweaks that have been attempted in the past in our nation and others have proven insufficient time and again. And no step which disarms the law-abiding will help…
The guns used by the madman were purchased legally by his mother and kept safely in her home – as with most guns used in criminal acts, they were stolen. His own attempt to purchase a weapon ran into the legally required waiting period. There are just only so many steps you can take to prevent evil of this nature and still have a free society. After all, what really happens when you pass gun bans is that effectively, they work as permanent authorizations for police to stop and frisk urban minorities. Consider the case of Chicago, where Rahm Emanuel is talking about more restrictions in the wake of Newtown. What does he have in mind? There were 192 shootings in Chicago last month. On Friday alone there were 10 people shot in his city. Whatever Emanuel’s new law is, it would not prevent these crimes. In Mexico, there is one legal gun store to serve the entire nation. It is, according to the Washington Post, “not very busy.” In America, there are roughly 300 million privately owned firearms – and while some may dream of putting these firearms in a pile and melting them down, most Americans understand that the result of giving the government a monopoly on force would be awful for the very innocents such policies are intended to protect…
In the end, the options for what the law can do or society can do are largely limited. They will not prevent this sort of evil from happening again. This is infuriating, of course. All we can do, on an individual level, is prepare ourselves to do whatever it takes if we are put in the position of those who stand between the marauder and the innocent…
To say nothing of God…
Employer pays compensation to woman injured during sex on business trip
THE Australian Federal Court says the woman who injured herself during sex on a business trip is entitled to compensation. Because she was away from home, and thus on work time, when the accident occurred the injury was down to her employer’s neglect.
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Six year old girl survived Sandy Hook massacre by playing dead for God
DOES the media corrupt the story? The look-at-me ABC TV news woman speaks to Pastor Jim Solomon who knows that a six-year-old girl survived Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School by playing dead. She stayed quiet. She may have been too petrified to move or speak. Play dead. It’s human instinct.
“She ran out of the school building covered from head to toe with blood and the first thing she said to her mom was, ‘Mommy, I’m OK but all my friends are dead.”
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Posted: 17th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
Chasing Ice baptises climate chance sceptics to the new religion
CAN Climate Change sceptics – those who seek for evidence that global warming is man made and happening – be converted? Will a new film called Chasing Ice baptise?
Electrocuted dog used wee to detect Liverpool cannabis factory
TO Liverpool, where a dog taking a leak has been electrocuted on a live metal shutter. The Jack Russell was outside the former Oluyole restaurant in Prescot Road, Fairfield. The emergency services were called. Firemen cut their way into the premises. Inside they found 55 cannabis plants in an upstairs flat. Live wires dangled from the flat, conducted along the metal shutter.
It’s a tragic event.
Merseyside police detective inspector Julie Milburn then wades in:
“This incident shows the dangers of cannabis farms and highlights the misconception that cannabis and the growth of the drug is harmless.”
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Posted: 17th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
