One of those, I laughed so hard until I cried.:)
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
NC: AUTHORIZE .NET ABANDONS GUN SELLERS
GRNC has just learned that the shopping-cart-gateway provider, Authorize.Net (a subsidiary of CyberSource), is refusing to continue providing services to Hyatt Guns,
a large North Carolina-based gun shop that also has a sizable online
presence. In late August, management at Hyatt Guns was disappointed and
perplexed to receive a notice explaining that the store was in violation
of Authorize.Net’s “acceptable use” policy. What was their offending
violation? They sell firearms. In Authorize.Net’s own words:
Dear Hyatt Gun Shop Inc,
Authorize.Net LLC ("Authorize.Net") has determined that the nature of your business constitutes a violation of Section 2.xiv of the Authorize.Net Acceptable Use Guidelines and Sections 3.3 and 11.3 of the Authorize.Net Service Agreement (the "Agreement"). These sections include, but are not limited to, the sale of firearms or any similar product. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 4 of the Acceptable Use Guidelines, your ability to access and use the Authorize.Net Services will be terminated on September 30, 2013.
Authorize.Net LLC ("Authorize.Net") has determined that the nature of your business constitutes a violation of Section 2.xiv of the Authorize.Net Acceptable Use Guidelines and Sections 3.3 and 11.3 of the Authorize.Net Service Agreement (the "Agreement"). These sections include, but are not limited to, the sale of firearms or any similar product. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 4 of the Acceptable Use Guidelines, your ability to access and use the Authorize.Net Services will be terminated on September 30, 2013.
You
read that right. Authorize.Net is terminating the gun store’s access to
its services simply because they sell guns. Based on their policy
statement above, one can only conclude that this discriminatory policy
is being applied to gun sellers nationwide. It looks like the small but
noisy anti-gun crowd has gotten to what must be a jelly-spined PR
department at CyberSource and Authorize.Net. Either that, or leadership
at these companies have simply become anti-gun all on their own.
Whatever the cause, Authorize.Net is making it clear that businesses
lawfully selling firearms are undesirable, and need not apply.
Authorize.Net’s unexpected abandonment has left Hyatt Guns, and presumably others, with very little time to find a new provider for online transactions. The scramble to set up a new system in a short period of time is disruptive and quite costly. If this is how upstanding business people are going to be treated by CyberSource and Authorize.Net, it’s time that we all “de-authorize” them from our online experience.
GRNC
is recommending that you keep a close eye out for the Authorize.Net and
CyberSource names and logos when shopping online, and avoid making
purchases from companies that use their services. When you run across
one of these logos, take a moment and let the online shop know why
you’ve decided to take your business elsewhere. Below you’ll see the
identifying logos for CyberSource and Authorize.Net, which you may see
when checking out at an online store. Please take a good look, and put
them on your “don’t buy” list.
GRNC also asks that you contact CyberSource and make it clear that you’re on to them, that you refuse to buy from companies that use their services, and that you intend to convey this message to online merchants. They need to know that singling out upstanding businessmen and women, and needlessly making it more difficult for them to conduct lawful and ethical commerce, will not be tolerated. Tell them that making such an unjust practice part of their business model will not only adversely affect their reputation, but it will hit them where it hurts most—the bottom line. Below, you will find contact information and suggested text for a message to CyberSource regarding Authorize.Net’s prejudice. Please contact them, and let them know that treating gun sellers like second class merchants is an affront to gun owners, and to all freedom-loving people for that matter.
Goodies from Ol' Remus
Circles are recession bottoms for the last five decades
An extremist Muslim wants to kill you. A moderate Muslim wants extremist Muslims to kill you.
Jack Arnold, comment at pjmedia.com/tatler (h/t: Colonel Bunney at igst.blogspot.com)
Jack Arnold, comment at pjmedia.com/tatler (h/t: Colonel Bunney at igst.blogspot.com)
What is ObamaCare if not an attempt to get doctors
and patients to conduct one of life’s most private activities, medical
treatment, along the lines of government dictates? What is Common
Core, the proposal to create national educational standards, if not an
attempt to snuff out competing views on what children need to learn
to become fully intellectually formed? The reach of government even goes
so far as dictating the offerings and calorie content of school
lunches under First Lady Michelle Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids
Act.
John Wallace at libertynewsonline.com
John Wallace at libertynewsonline.com
DC Navy Yard - The Navy is approximately 20% African American. Washington DC
demographics are 50.1% African American. The media video in/around
the Navy Yard show a very large African American Naval Yard employee
representation. But almost every victim was WHITE.
Sundance at theconservativetreehouse.com
Sundance at theconservativetreehouse.com
The nation is now daring to make that transition between a Western style
freedom loving nation to a police state and the worse possible
problem, a state of denial, has engulfed the masses. In the end as the
economy collapses, freedom contracts, and our society evolves into a
Ceaușescu Romanian style wet dream state, the sheep will arise only to
realize it is too late. The U-Turn
of our society is complete and the only chapter left to be written is
the saddest and bloodiest in American history since the Civil War.
John Galt at johngaltfla.com
John Galt at johngaltfla.com
(Interesting. BT)
The GOP should pass a CR
that includes a provision mandating that the Affordable Care Act be
implemented as passed. Remove all the delays, waivers and exemptions
Obama has spent years granting. We passed it and we know what's in it,
implement the law as written, voted on and signed. No delay in the
employer mandate, no carve out for unions, no pass for congressional
staffers.
DrewM at ace.mu.nu
DrewM at ace.mu.nu
Give the cops a .38 revolver and a bad clip-on
tie and they seem able to handle situations without having to shoot
people. You give them tactical gear and an armored vehicle, and suddenly
the casings are bouncing off the sidewalk... Now that they can just
shoot folks, they don't really have to worry about getting hurt, and
thus don't really make much of an effort to defuse a situation.
Orwellian Dilemma, comment at spokesman.com (Washington State)
Orwellian Dilemma, comment at spokesman.com (Washington State)
The percentage of Neanderthal DNA among the world's six billion or so nonblacks usually ranges from 1-4%. When the 2010 DNA
study was published, white-hating hominids gleefully announced that
only "African peoples are 100 percent human." That's all very cute,
except for the fact that the places where people are "100 percent human"
tend to fall far behind the cavemen's ancestral homelands when it comes
to trifles such as longevity, technology, written languages, and living
standards, says Jim Goad in this article, In Defense of Neanderthals, at Taki's Magazine.I carry a tomahawk of 12-ounce head. The handle is just a foot long. Its grip is wound with waxed twine to give a good hold when one’s hand is wet. This little tool has been my mainstay on several bitter nights when I was lost in the forest, or in a canebrake, and without it I would have fared badly.
Kephart, 1906, via Alan Halcon at dirttime.com
Doctors compared the effects of raw, unheated honey to numerous antibiotics on 28 different strains of pathogenic, multi–drug resistant bacteria associated with burns. Only three of the strains were inhibited at all by any of the 11 antibiotics used in the study; every single one of the 28 strains was inhibited by a 25-percent concentration of honey. Plain, simple, raw honey worked.
David Williams at drdavidwilliams.com
Monstrous though it is, the violence of inter-government warfare has not been their most lethal activity. They have, throughout history, actually killed more of their "own" people who were NOT in uniform, than those who fought for or against them in military service.
Jim Davies at theanarchistalternative.info
We're carrying some very unnatural equilibriums right now, as you and I both know. Where is the energy to maintain that levitation coming from? I believe it's coming from burning the middle class to provide the fuel. When the middle class is gone, this insane engine stops running and we end up..... where? The modern version of the dark ages, perhaps?
NoDebt, comment at zerohedge.com
The NSA missed the Boston Marathon bombers, even though the suspects left a really sloppy Internet trail and the older brother was on the terrorist watch list. With all the NSA is doing eavesdropping on the world, you would think the least it could manage would be keeping track of people on the terrorist watch list. Apparently not. I don't know how the CIA measures its success, but it failed to predict the end of the Cold War.
Bruce Schneier at schneier.com
NC: GRNC Campus Carry
Letter received today.
You cannot, for example, drive onto campus and then secure your firearm in the trunk. To do so, would be a Class 1 Felony as you cannot take your weapon out of a "closed compartement" for any reason.*
* I believe this is incorrect, as I understand that you can retrieve your gun from your car in case of a situation that would require its use.
Source: Senator Jim Inhofe to file TREASON charges against John Kerry
Via LH
An anonymous source has told PPSIMMONS News and Ministry that he has called the office of Senator Jim Inhofe who has confirmed that he will be filing charges of treason against John Kerry if he signs the United Nations Arms Treaty on Wednesday this week.
The Associated Press is reporting that Secretary of State John Kerry will sign the United Nations Arms Treaty on Wednesday this week.
An anonymous source has told PPSIMMONS News and Ministry that he has called the office of Senator Jim Inhofe who has confirmed that he will be filing charges of treason against John Kerry if he signs the United Nations Arms Treaty on Wednesday this week.
The reliable source told PPSIMMONS:
"I just called Senator Jim Inhofes office and found out he is filing charges of treason on Kerry for this. Call his office and lend your voice. Senator Jim Inhofe DC office: (202) 224-4721"
It is feared and predicted by many gun rights groups and advocates that
the treaty, if ratified, could open up the US gun market to
international regulation. (More)
The following press release can be found on the Senator's website:
More @ PPSimmons
A response to ‘Cork Graham is a CIA-faker’ (Part 3)
Another book worth mentioning is “Victory in Vietnam,” a translation by Merle Pribbenow, who states in his foreword that he “left Saigon aboard a Marine CH-46 helicopter, dazed and confused at the rapid collapse of the largest and most expensive US Military effort since World War II.” Other than finding the comment partly the title of a humorous film about stoners in the 1970s, I’m surprised that Pribbenow was dazed and confused.
How could it have been any clearer that Saigon was going to fall immediately after the North got the go ahead by Congress refusing to back South Vietnam in 1975?
(Congress cut the funds way back in '74 for FY '75 and the operating budget I received for the whole Vietnamese Air Force was $700K. BT) 105's, Just In From The States
They were fulfilling a campaign that General Moore and his men had originally stopped, what was well-described in “We Were Soldiers,” and to which I refer in my new novel “The Panmunjom Protocol.”
.......here’s a bit of history, a little secret I’ve kept for a very long time, that’s sure to get Vietnam into a heated chat with Secretary of State John F. Kerry: I was an ID card carrying member of the US Navy when I was taken prisoner by the Vietnamese on the island on Hon Tre Lon at 2000 hours on June 16, 1983. When I reported to the Pentagon in 1984, a few weeks after my release on May 17, 1984, not even the investigators at the POW/MIA resolution office, the Joint Casualty Resolve Center, knew I was in the Navy until they debriefed me.
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[Third in a three part series, Part 2 here, where Cork Graham responds to critics and discusses his combat experience in Central America in the 1980s.--editor]
Selling Books
But, El Salvador’s FMLN and Nicaragua’s President Ortega were legally voted in, and it is their country and their mess—and most importantly they’re no longer a communist military threat to the US, having shot their last wad during Tet II San Salvador that was orchestrated by Sandinista President Daniel Ortega, Cuba’s Raul Castro and Vietnam’s General Giap, and unlike Vietnam, there was no longer a Soviet Union to rearm them.
El Salvador, like Nicaragua, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Russia, before them is learning that the charade of politics might change, but the same people remain in power.
More @ Human Events
Unbelievable moment a golden eagle is pictured swooping on a DEER and trying to fly off with it in its talons 'in first ever photographed case of its kind'
Via WiscoDave
It is a rare - and brutal - example of nature at work.
A powerful golden eagle swoops on an unsuspecting Sika deer, digs in its claws in and tries to drag its prey away.
These images, captured by zoologists in a nature reserve the remote Lazovsky region of southeast Russia, show a particularly audacious attack which sees the eagle fell an animal several times its own size.
It is a rare - and brutal - example of nature at work.
A powerful golden eagle swoops on an unsuspecting Sika deer, digs in its claws in and tries to drag its prey away.
These images, captured by zoologists in a nature reserve the remote Lazovsky region of southeast Russia, show a particularly audacious attack which sees the eagle fell an animal several times its own size.
More with pictures @ Daily Mail
Beautiful Woodworking
The 3 pictures were sent to me by a III that was unable to attend my PATCON.
His work is of a craftsmanship rarely seen these days.
--WiscoDave
3 out of 3: Off-duty sheriff's deputy shoots 3 alleged muggers in Forest Park, kills one
Via Equal Force
Police say an off-duty 16-year veteran of the St. Charles County Sheriff's Deputy fired shots at three men who were attempting to rob him late Monday night in Forest Park. One of the men died from his injuries.
The 36-year-old officer and a 23-year-old female acquaintance were jogging in the park past-curfew hours Monday, when they stopped at the corner of the Grand Basin. They told investigators that a man slowly walked past the pair. The officer said he became suspicious and, fearing for their safety, put his gun at his side.
As they turned the corner, three men in their late teens to early 20s, who were dressed in hoodies, dark clothing and armed with a gun, announced a robbery, according to a news release.
The off-duty officer fired his gun, hitting one of the suspects three times in the lower abdomen.
He was pronounced dead on the scene. Police identified him as Antonio Nash, 18, of the 2700 block of N. Kingshighway.
The second suspect was shot in the buttocks, and was taken to the hospital, where officials say he is in stable condition. The third suspect, who was shot in the neck, was also taken to the hospital, where he is listed in stable condition.
Police say an off-duty 16-year veteran of the St. Charles County Sheriff's Deputy fired shots at three men who were attempting to rob him late Monday night in Forest Park. One of the men died from his injuries.
The 36-year-old officer and a 23-year-old female acquaintance were jogging in the park past-curfew hours Monday, when they stopped at the corner of the Grand Basin. They told investigators that a man slowly walked past the pair. The officer said he became suspicious and, fearing for their safety, put his gun at his side.
As they turned the corner, three men in their late teens to early 20s, who were dressed in hoodies, dark clothing and armed with a gun, announced a robbery, according to a news release.
The off-duty officer fired his gun, hitting one of the suspects three times in the lower abdomen.
He was pronounced dead on the scene. Police identified him as Antonio Nash, 18, of the 2700 block of N. Kingshighway.
The second suspect was shot in the buttocks, and was taken to the hospital, where officials say he is in stable condition. The third suspect, who was shot in the neck, was also taken to the hospital, where he is listed in stable condition.
More @ KSDK
Homeowner kills suspected car thief in Maple Valley
Via Equal Force
The owner of a truck that was broken into early Tuesday in Maple Valley is an ex-Marine with a concealed weapons permit.
The King County Sheriff's Office says he was armed when he took his dog for a walk and discovered two people in his pickup.
He found a man and woman, in their 20's, in the truck.
"Guns were drawn," King County Deputy Charlie Akers said. "The bad guy had a gun with him. The property owner had a gun. About a dozen shots were fired."
Akers tells KIRO Radio's Dori Monson that the homeowner apparently fired in an attempt to disable the suspects' getaway vehicle, which he says was a stolen vehicle from Kent.
"As the truck owner fired some rounds at the vehicle to disable it, the individual who was running apparently started shooting at him, at which time he adjusted his fire and he was able to shoot the suspect, who died at the scene."
The owner of a truck that was broken into early Tuesday in Maple Valley is an ex-Marine with a concealed weapons permit.
The King County Sheriff's Office says he was armed when he took his dog for a walk and discovered two people in his pickup.
He found a man and woman, in their 20's, in the truck.
"Guns were drawn," King County Deputy Charlie Akers said. "The bad guy had a gun with him. The property owner had a gun. About a dozen shots were fired."
Akers tells KIRO Radio's Dori Monson that the homeowner apparently fired in an attempt to disable the suspects' getaway vehicle, which he says was a stolen vehicle from Kent.
"As the truck owner fired some rounds at the vehicle to disable it, the individual who was running apparently started shooting at him, at which time he adjusted his fire and he was able to shoot the suspect, who died at the scene."
More @ My Northwest
Minn. Somali Community Reacts To Kenyan Mall Attack
Via Michael
Two days after Al-Shabaab militants stormed and unleashed chaos in a shopping center in Nairobi, Kenya, the group has released the names of the people responsible.
On Twitter Sunday, Al-Shabaab said some of the militants are from the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
The Al-Shabaab Twitter account has since been suspended, but this is a terror group Minnesotans have become familiar with.
For local Somali community leaders, the chaos in Nairobi is a reminder of the dangers of Al-Shabaab being able to recruit young Somali-Americans for their attacks.
“It’s very sad those kids are getting caught in the middle of this,” said Omar Jamal, who works for the United Nations. “If anything, it shows Al-Shabaab is as deadly and dangerous as it can ever be.”
A leader within the Somali community told WCCO two of the attackers are from the Twin Cities, but he has not yet spoken with their families.
Al-Shabaab has a history of recruiting young Somali-Americans from the Twin Cities. The FBI says several dozen have been lured to terror training camps overseas.
Two days after Al-Shabaab militants stormed and unleashed chaos in a shopping center in Nairobi, Kenya, the group has released the names of the people responsible.
On Twitter Sunday, Al-Shabaab said some of the militants are from the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
The Al-Shabaab Twitter account has since been suspended, but this is a terror group Minnesotans have become familiar with.
For local Somali community leaders, the chaos in Nairobi is a reminder of the dangers of Al-Shabaab being able to recruit young Somali-Americans for their attacks.
“It’s very sad those kids are getting caught in the middle of this,” said Omar Jamal, who works for the United Nations. “If anything, it shows Al-Shabaab is as deadly and dangerous as it can ever be.”
A leader within the Somali community told WCCO two of the attackers are from the Twin Cities, but he has not yet spoken with their families.
Al-Shabaab has a history of recruiting young Somali-Americans from the Twin Cities. The FBI says several dozen have been lured to terror training camps overseas.
More @ CBS
Cops seek black cyclists who assaulted physician and professor in hate crime
He even lives in Harlem.
So when Dr. Prabhjot Singh decided he would stroll through his neighborhood last Saturday night, he figured he was safe.
Then four blocks from Malcolm X Boulevard, Dr. Singh met up with 20 black people on bikes. According to the NBC affiliate in New York:
“I heard ‘Get Osama’ and then ‘terrorists,’ and then the next thing I felt was someone moving past me, ripping at my beard and then hitting me in the chin.”He ran. They chased him and knocked him down and beat him some more.
Singh said he thought he could have died if passersby hadn’t intervened to help fight off the more than dozen young men who jumped him.
They broke his jaw. Kicked out a few of his teeth. And all that.
More @ White Girl Bleed A Lot
'I rise in opposition to Obamacare' Ted Cruz seizes Senate floor, vows to speak 'until I can no longer stand'
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is speaking on the Senate floor and says he plans to go on until he can no longer stand, in his fight to defund Obamacare.
It’s not exactly a filibuster, because he would be allowed to speak only until noon tomorrow, but the speech may go on for a long time.
His message is aimed at Republicans as well as Democrats.
“No more fake fights,” he said. “No more hiding your votes. We need to make D.C. listen.”
He is trying to stop establishment Republicans from pushing a plan that would allow them to make merely a symbolic vote against Obamacare, while allowing it to remain funded.
Cruz took to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon to make a passionate plea to stop Obamacare.
He is taking turns speaking, and holding the Senate floor, with colleague Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who has also been leading the fight to defund Obamacare.
More @ WND
Craig James—terminated Fox Sports TV analyst—hires Liberty Institute
I'm writing to let you know that well-known college football analyst Craig James has hired Liberty Institute to represent him after Fox Sports made national headlines by terminating him because of his personal religious beliefs.
Attorneys for Liberty Institute have contacted Fox Sports Southwest. We are demanding that they reinstate Craig to his position as on-air college football analyst and stop discriminating against him. View the Demand Letter here.
On September 2, a Fox Sports spokesperson confirmed that Fox Sports terminated Craig James because of his religious beliefs. This shocking action came only a few days after Fox Sports Southwest hailed Craig James as a "tremendous asset" when it hired Craig to be host on the network.
More @ Liberty Institute
Ministry of Defence has refused a new "Kalashnikov"
The famous brand of gun "Kalashnikov", it seems, is leaving the Russian army. Defense did not allow the state to test new product group "Izhmash" - "Kalashnikov" - an AK-12, designed as part of a new generation of military equipment, "Warrior."
- Automatic AK-12 and other products based on it have not passed the preliminary tests and state tests are not stated at all.
Instead, for the state tests as a battle of the complex equipment,
"Warrior" is selected machine factory Degtyarev, - the "News" in the
headquarters of the Army.
More @ News Rambler
Exclusive: Rand Paul wants Chief Justice Roberts, all federal workers, to enroll in Obamacare
Arguing federal workers should not get special treatment, Rand Paul says he does not want taxpayers subsidizing the personal health-care plans of any federal employee — including Chief Justice John Roberts — anymore.
With some in Congress arguing lawmakers and their staff should not get subsidies to cover their health insurance as President Obama’s health-care law goes into effect, the Republican senator from Kentucky told The Daily Caller on Sunday that he’s going to start pushing a constitutional amendment that goes even further.
Paul’s proposal — outlawing any special exemptions for government employees — would mean all federal workers would have to purchase health insurance on the new Obamacare exchanges instead of getting taxpayer-funded subsidies. Some critics say those subsidies amount to special treatment. The Obamacare health insurance exchange opens Oct 1.
More @ The Daily Caller
Exclusive–Source: McConnell, Cornyn Whipping Votes Against Ted Cruz
A source in Congress tells Breitbart News that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn are using their leadership positions to pressure other Republicans to oppose Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his campaign to defund Obamacare.
"Right now in the Senate, Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn are actively whipping Senators to shut down debate on the House continuing resolution so that Harry Reid can gut it with just 51 votes,” a senior congressional staffer with intimate knowledge of the situation said in an email to Breitbart News. “Unbelievably, they actually are leading the fight to fully fund Obamacare.”McConnell and Cornyn stated earlier Monday that they oppose a possible filibuster from Cruz to keep Reid from adding language funding the Affordable Care Act to the continuing resolution passed by the House of Representatives.
As Breitbart News reported on Saturday, McConnell and Cornyn could help Cruz win:
More @ Breitbart
U.N. sarin investigation 'amateurish' Analysts: Raises more questions than answers
The United Nations investigation into the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in Damascus officially wasn’t designed to assign blame, but even so, the results are “amateurish” and it raises more questions than it answers, according to sources.
Experts who have analyzed the 41-page U.N. investigative report say that it is incomplete, “amateurish” according to one source, and from the report, it is impossible to construct any accurate details about sites investigated.
There also is conflicting information on the samples taken from the various sites to determine whether chemical weapons were used, analysts of the report say. In some cases, no chemical weapons residue was found in samples taken at the sites.
More @ WND
Obama: ‘World is more stable now than it was five years ago’
He has obviously lost his mind.
“Just as we reviewed how we deploy our extraordinary military capabilities in a way that lives up to our ideals, we’ve begun to review the way that we gather intelligence so that we properly balance the legitimate security concerns of our citizens and allies with the privacy concerns that all people share,” he said.
“As a result of this work and cooperation with allies and partners, the world is more stable than it was five years ago,” he added.
More @ The Daily Caller
Free Fax & Ask Your U.S. Rep. to Oppose Votes on Immigration Legislation
This new fax request has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey.
You can find this fax request by proceeding to https://www.numbersusa.com/
The House Judiciary Committee has already passed four immigration bills this Congress and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the committee's chairman, says work is going on behind the scenes to write bills addressing other immigration topics. Rep. Goodlatte also said that he hopes the House will start to vote on immigration bills in October.
While a couple of the bills approved by the Judiciary Committee are helpful, the passage of any of the bills could result in a mass amnesty for illegal aliens. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin have made it very clear that they will use any single-issue House-passed immigration bill as a vehicle to pass their mass amnesty legislation.
Please send a fax to your U.S. Representative and urge him/her to ask Speaker Boehnher not to hold any immigration floor votes until the Senate's "Gang of Eight" bill is truly dead.
The NumbersUSA Action Team
'You’re a very bad man': Astonishing moment British boy, four, confronted Kenyan mall gunman… who gave him Mars bars and begged for forgiveness
Via WiscoDave
A four-year-old British boy caught up in the Kenya mall massacre showed astonishing bravery by confronting a marauding gunman who ended up begging for his forgiveness, it emerged today.
The child told one of the terrorists that he was a 'very bad man' as he protected his mother who had been shot in the leg, and six-year-old sister.
Incredibly, the attacker took pity on the family and bizarrely handed the children Mars bars before telling them: 'Please forgive me, we are not monsters.
A four-year-old British boy caught up in the Kenya mall massacre showed astonishing bravery by confronting a marauding gunman who ended up begging for his forgiveness, it emerged today.
The child told one of the terrorists that he was a 'very bad man' as he protected his mother who had been shot in the leg, and six-year-old sister.
Incredibly, the attacker took pity on the family and bizarrely handed the children Mars bars before telling them: 'Please forgive me, we are not monsters.
More @ Daily Mail
Vatican Chief Justice: Nancy Pelosi Must Be Denied Communion
Cardinal Burke referenced his remarks about Pelosi to Canon Law--the law governing the Catholic Church--and specifically Canon 915, which says those Catholics who obstinately persevere “in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
More @ CNS News
Kenya: Ex Royal Marine with a handgun went back in 12 times and saved 100 people
Militants have reportedly burned their victims’ faces and removed their hands in an attempt to conceal their identities; the bodies were piled against the main door to slow the progress of rescue teams.
Yesterday reports emerged online that an injured woman trapped inside had been sexually abused at gunpoint in front of young hostages.
With a gun tucked into his waistband, he was pictured helping two women from the complex.
His story emerged as sporadic gunfire continued to ring out from inside the mall early today as Kenyan security forces battled Al Qaeda-linked terrorists into a fourth day.
Despite Kenyan police assurances that they had taken control of the building, a security expert with contacts inside the mall said at least 10 hostages were still being held by a band of attackers, possibly as many as 13.
More @ Daily Mail
Analyzing Education Around the World | Infographic
Insane: Student Faces Expulsion For Playing With Toy Gun At Home
Via Michael
In the wake of several high-profile
shootings and a national debate regarding gun control, public schools
have become notoriously hypersensitive about the possession of anything
resembling a firearm on campus. While harsh rules are often enforced
with abandon, children have at least been able to play with traditional
toy guns while away from school property.
Unfortunately, school administrators
now consider such harmless behavior at home to be sufficient basis for
draconian punishment.
A 12-year-old in Virginia Beach, Va., recently learned how serious — and delusional – the response to
playing in his front yard can be. He and a friend were playing with a
pellet gun at his home one morning when the school bus arrived. Khalid
Caraballo and his friend were promptly disciplined and both face
suspension for the incident. Carabello could be kept out of school for
the remainder of the school year as a result of his off-campus playtime.
Wisconsin PATCON AAR
Via WiscoDave
I
would consider the recent PatCon that was held on my farm to be a
success. It was meant to be a simple meet, greet and eat affair and that
was accomplished.
Faces have been put to commenter names. Email addresses have been exchanged and hopefully the relationships formed will continue to grow.
Nic and his family arrived Friday evening and set up camp. I picked Catfish up from the train station and got him settled in the house.
Saturday Catfish worked on the CD3WD project while Nic and I set up tables, chairs and gathered firewood. Nic's daughters learned the patient art of stalking and capturing barn kittens.
III started arriving at 1230 and pretty much were all there by 130. Chairs around the fire pit allowed for conversation. I will admit that I was not able to talk and listen as much as I would have liked because I was moving back and forth between the house, fire pit and barnyard doing "host stuff." Others would be far better at describing the conversations that took place than I would be.
The food was delicious! Catfish grilled the brats and burgers to perfection and the dishes that were brought to pass were all masterpieces! Tom's chicken wings were so good my wife asked for the recipe. I do not think anything could have been better or more perfect.
Doc Scheffler offered a set of F/B plates for a raffle. $5 a person was collected with the winner getting the plate and the cash to spend at Main Gun. Nic won the raffle.
Brian had graciously brought a Tavor magazine to also raffle (it fits AR platform 5.56/.223 rifles) and Tom won that.
All in all a small group of Patriots met, sharing a meal and conversation.
Friendships were made, support offered and taken.
The foundation has been laid. Now the building starts.
III to III
Faces have been put to commenter names. Email addresses have been exchanged and hopefully the relationships formed will continue to grow.
Nic and his family arrived Friday evening and set up camp. I picked Catfish up from the train station and got him settled in the house.
Saturday Catfish worked on the CD3WD project while Nic and I set up tables, chairs and gathered firewood. Nic's daughters learned the patient art of stalking and capturing barn kittens.
III started arriving at 1230 and pretty much were all there by 130. Chairs around the fire pit allowed for conversation. I will admit that I was not able to talk and listen as much as I would have liked because I was moving back and forth between the house, fire pit and barnyard doing "host stuff." Others would be far better at describing the conversations that took place than I would be.
The food was delicious! Catfish grilled the brats and burgers to perfection and the dishes that were brought to pass were all masterpieces! Tom's chicken wings were so good my wife asked for the recipe. I do not think anything could have been better or more perfect.
Doc Scheffler offered a set of F/B plates for a raffle. $5 a person was collected with the winner getting the plate and the cash to spend at Main Gun. Nic won the raffle.
Brian had graciously brought a Tavor magazine to also raffle (it fits AR platform 5.56/.223 rifles) and Tom won that.
All in all a small group of Patriots met, sharing a meal and conversation.
Friendships were made, support offered and taken.
The foundation has been laid. Now the building starts.
III to III
Dave Dietz
NC: Gunman Killed Near North Carolina University
Via WiscoDave
Police said they had tracked a suspect thought to be armed onto the campus late on Monday.
That prompted officials to lock down the school about 10.15pm.
The suspect was found in some woods about three hours later.
University police chief Tim Bellamy said the man challenged officers with a gun and they fired.
A gunman has been shot and killed near the campus of North Carolina Central University in Durham.
That prompted officials to lock down the school about 10.15pm.
The suspect was found in some woods about three hours later.
University police chief Tim Bellamy said the man challenged officers with a gun and they fired.
More @ Sky News
Dingbat: Blood on the Constitution: Concern about American lives starts with gun control
Via WRSA
Here we go again. With 12 dead bodies at Washington’s Navy
Yard, not including that of the shooter, Americans are back to the usual
handwringing: Why, oh why can’t we stem the tide of gun violence?
People, this is not rocket science. (Evidently to you it is.)
For a start, we have too many guns sloshing around. A recent Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) backgrounder notes that “The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, has about 35-50 percent of the world’s civilian-owned guns.” Reading the news, you might imagine that Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or some other conflict-ravaged nation would be leading the most guns-per-capita race, but nope: That’s us. We’re No. 1.
Useful fool
People, this is not rocket science. (Evidently to you it is.)
For a start, we have too many guns sloshing around. A recent Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) backgrounder notes that “The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, has about 35-50 percent of the world’s civilian-owned guns.” Reading the news, you might imagine that Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or some other conflict-ravaged nation would be leading the most guns-per-capita race, but nope: That’s us. We’re No. 1.
More Marxist propaganda @ The News Tribune