I am a little bit confused, the first few articles about the CT massacre mentioned that the looney used a Glock and a Sig Sauer handguns, now they are saying he used a "Military style assault rifle", and the first few articles they wrote that his mom had a gun collection of 4 handguns (no one mentioned an assault rifle, and I hate to say it, but 4 handguns isn't considered a "collection")... so where is that assault rifle all of a sudden showed up? is it just the media going against assault rifles and hoping nobody fact check or I missed something?
- Itamar Gelbman, former Israeli Defense Force special operations soldier
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Got a Christmas card from some folks who done gone Galt on the world. Thought I'd go see about them and talk about the good times headed our way - The Legendary
Some
counter calls for gun bans with new bank regs
Peter Lanza had a hell of surprise when
he pulled into his driveway Friday afternoon, only to be confronted
by a local newswoman who informed him his son Adam had killed his
ex-wife, then 20 very young children at an elementary school, along
with 6 adult teachers.
The latest news regarding the law of
guns prior to young Mr. Lanza's tragic behavior? The United States
7th Circuit Court of Appeals declared Illinois law
unconstitutional in its uncategorical ban on concealed weapons and
gave the Legislature 180 days to craft new law that will permit
qualified applicants to carry concealed handguns in public –
outside their homes. Illinois was the last state left in the nation
with such a law banning concealed carriage of handguns by qualified
applicants for permits.
According to News World Wide,(click) “The father of Newtown Connecticut school
shooter Adam Lanza is Peter Lanza who is a VP and Tax Director at GE
Financial.
The father of Aurora Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes is
Robert
Holmes,
the lead scientist for the credit score company FICO.
Both men were to testify before the US Sentate in the ongoing LIBOR
scandal. The London
Interbank Offered Rate,
known as Libor, is the average interest rate at which banks can
borrow from each other. 16 international banks have been implicated
in this ongoing scandal, accused of rigging contracts worth trillions
of dollars. HSBC has already been fined $1.9 billion and three of
their low level traders arrested.
Mr. Lanza is a tax specialist, but he is also part of the audit team that helped define the dimensions of the scandal, and the various methods used by the bankers to scam their investors.
The
resulting litigation includes RICO civil suits initiated by
municipalities and states hard hit by the scam. Baltimore, Maryland,
was the first to file under the provisions of the Racketeer
Influenced Corrupt Organizations statute.
“You'd
better come on into my kitchen, because it's going to be raining
outdoors...” - Robert Johnson
General
semantics formulates a new experimental branch of natural science,
underlying an empirical theory of human evaluations and orientations
and involving a definite neurological mechanism, present in all
humans. It discovers direct neurological methods for the stimulation
of the activities of the human cerebral cortex and the direct
introduction of beneficial neurological 'inhibition'... - Alfred
Korzybski, founder of General Semantics
“...We
stole it fair and square...” S.I. Hayakawa, general semanticist
Waco
– A preponderance of McLennan County constitutional offices are
filled by appointment, according to elections records.
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The trend has resulted in five of seven justice courts filled with magistrates who were appointed to their first term of office, among others. In
the latest go-round, Sgt. Pete Peterson of the DPS filled the
unexpired term of the Honorable Billy Martin, Justice of the Peace in
Precinct 1, Place 2.
Sgt.
Peterson lost an election bid to unseat the incumbent Precinct 1, Place1 Magistrate, The Honorable Judge Kristi
DeCluitt.
A
Commissioners Court chaired by interim County Judge Scott Felton, who
served as Sgt. Peterson's campaign treasurer in the elections of
2012, selected him from a short list of 8 candidates winnowed from a
starting lineup of 21 who submitted resumés, many of them licensed
attorneys. Judge Felton is a former chief of the Wells Fargo Bank and a honcho in the Waco Economic Development Corporation.
Santo Martin de Porres, patron saint of persons of mixed racial heritage
Why
the sudden vacancy? Consider the fact that Kathryn Casey, a true
crime writer from Houston, just published a definitive work on the
Matt Baker case, in which Judge Martin failed to order an autopsy
after Hewitt Police found a suicide note beside her lifeless body. The oversight eventually led to an exhumation of Mrs. Casey's body, a murder trial, and the conviction of her husband Matt, a Baptist pastor.
People
who run multinationals such as M and M Mars, Caterpillar, and
Sherwin-Williams are involved in a joint venture between the City of
Waco and the County of McLennan, both of which local government
entities tap general tax revenues to help support the attraction and
service of corporate accounts to the Waco area – at taxpayer
expense.
One
could speculate as to the same reasons why Judge Jim Lewis suddenly
decided to terminate his tenure through resignation. The county's
budget included a 250 percent override on outside care of inmates at
$45.50 per day by CEC, Inc., at the Jack Harwell Detention Center.
Judge Lewis, along with two other members of the Court, is now
history following his strong advocacy of the for-profit jail. The
resulting need to shut a perfectly good jail at the Courthouse Annex
led to a murky understanding as to why that was done. Members of the
Court were led to believe, apparently, that the Texas Commission on
Jail Standards forced the closure, but it was not really the case.
The old structure was in need of remodeling and refurbishment.
That
put bunk space in the struggling project that McLennan County built
at a cost of nearly $50 million – with a debt service of about $100
million – at a premium, where before it was only a surplus.
Obviously,
the corporate types know how to retain pollsters who take the pulse
and temperature of the voters, rich and poor, male and female,
professional and wage earners – and they get a very accurate
picture of who can win.
So,
it's now a process of filling vacancies through the time-honored
process of personnel management. Sort through the resumés, draw down
the short list, weigh the qualifications against the ability to
devote the maximum amount of time to the job, and hire the best bet.
For
instance, there is the new law that allows only licensed attorneys in
magistrate positions to sign an order for a blood draw in DWI cases.
No
problem. They've already got that covered. When Judge Raymond Britton
left office, the Court replaced him with Judge Virgil Bain, a Jail Magistrate who is a
licensed attorney - yet another new requirement of the latest legislative
session.
Consider
the difference in the way the Court filled a 2009 vacancy of the
Precinct 5 Justice Court at McGregor.
Judge
Lewis asked then Precinct 4 Commissioner Ray Meadows who he wanted in
the job, and he chose Pat Richardson. End of story. They hired him.
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In
pursuit of the field of general semantics, one would discern a
classic progression of the use of language – in thought and action
– resulting a complete subversion of the Texas Constitution to fill
the offices of Counties with elected officials.
It's
a time-honored system of benevolent anarchy that is giving way to the
buttoned-down methods of corporate management in which the bottom
line is the bottom line.
One
need only consider the number of appointed officials in the election
cycle of 2008:
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And what do these judges do? For one thing, they sign off on affidavits of probable cause and charge persons arrested by police officers on evidence obtained through search and seizure based on reasonable suspicion aroused by "probable cause." Consider this video by a once very aggressive narcotics task force officer from the east Texas communities Gladewater and Big Sandy, a veteran officer who became a drug interdiction specialist in Ector County's Midland-Odessa area of I-20. He now works as a consultant, training people how to keep from getting busted. He teaches the tricks of the trade, and it's an eye-opener, to say the least:
The Cadillac Bar sat at the end of the trail to Monterrey on the high ground just the other side of the border.
In the major arcana of the ancient book, The Fool teeters on the edge of a cliff, his card worth exactly zero. Y'alll ought to be used to it by now.
Why was it there? Because this cat from New Orleans moved his saloon there to commemorate the historical passage of the Volsted Act - federal prohibition against sales and manufacturing of an illicit drug, beverage alcohol.
What could you do there besides drink drinks and eat steaks? Well, you could bet a horse, change dollars to pesos, or pesos to dollars, or wire your gains to your banker in the islands, for starters. Or, that's what they explain to me. Before my time, but I'm the son and grandson of wheel men from the old school. I came by it honest.
You'll get over it. I know I have, even though I have to drive around Waco. Sigh. Cough. My point is? Well, there's a rumor going around that most of the sons and brothers of Hiram from my branch of the family will not drive anything but a Cadillac? Why? Well, you know, Henry had this thing with the Nazis, but that's another story. Like I said, get over it. By the way, none of the girls I go with have ever seen Galveston looking so good since way back in the fifties when we were all just a bunch of little kids. What's with giving up all the action to them red dirt bloody bones in Shreveport and them there web-footed folks over in Mississippi? - The Legendary (click here for a rockin' good time, y'all)
Nearly
7 out of 10 Americans polled think the nation is very divided in their opinions about
the core issues that hold society together.
Of
these, about 8 out of 10 Republicans agree that the nation is
polarized about core issues, though all political persuasions are
represented in the view.
BULLETIN: LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS HAVE RAISED THE DEATH TOLL TO 28...
The gunman, who committed suicide following his deadly attack on helpless children and unarmed adults, is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His name is Adam Lanza, 20. His mother, who was a teacher at the school, is also dead, killed in the attack. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ordered all U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff until Tuesday. He wept at a White House news conference as he discussed this tragedy. Asked about the President's campaign promises on gun control, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, "Today is not the day to talk about that."
What shall we talk about, then? Should we talk about what it must have been like to watch the cops lead the little kids out of the crime scene where so many lay dead, telling them "Keep your eyes closed." Should we talk about that? I guess we'll have to make an appointment. Until then, it might be wise to keep that shooting iron handy, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment. Those who are old enough to have been in the presence of old-timers who lived during times when men went openly armed will tell you how completely polite they were. The Civil War was over, right, man. Veterans of that debacle walked the mountains and prairies of the frontier, homeless and crazy as hell, and everyone said things like "Do tell," and "Beg pardon" - or, perhaps, "All due respect, but..." I find people in Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho - and other places where open carry is the law and people follow it, to be much the same. They are extremely polite - about everything. It doesn't cost a dime, you know. On the other hand, centerfire cartridges are much more expensive. - The Legendary
Updated
at 1:30 p.m. ET: Twenty-six people,
including 18 children, were killed when a gunman opened fire in a
Connecticut elementary school Friday morning, a law enforcement
official said.
The
gunman, who is dead, was a 20-year-old from Connecticut, an official
said. He was wearing all black and was carrying two 9mm handguns.
Another person who walked into the school at the same time as the
gunman was being held by police and questioned, an official said.
