Saturday, September 24, 2011
Fined/gun permits revoked/losing livelihood because he fell asleep cleaning his guns
Via Survival
A GAMEKEEPER who was found asleep in a chair in his kitchen with a shotgun and rifle lying on the kitchen table was fined £160 at Inverness Sheriff Court.Martin MacKenzie has been suspended from his job and also faces losing his firearms licence.
Depute Fiscal Karen Smith said police had to attend the house at Mains of Aberarder and found Mackenzie asleep at the kitchen table.
The rifle and shotgun were lying on the table, she told Sheriff Ian Abercrombie.
Mackenzie (36) of Craggan Valley, Kiltarlity, admitted on May 18 last year failing to comply with conditions of his firearms certificate that he failed to keep the guns in a secure designated place.
Craig Wood, solicitor, said Mackenzie was married with two children, and had been a keeper at Arberarder for 10 years. "Since this incident he has been suspended by his employers."
Mr Wood added that a letter had been received from the Chief Constable asking for Mackenzie’s certificate to be revoked, but this was the subject of an appeal.
"He had been using his guns and intended to clean them," said Mr Wood. "He took several phone calls and when the police attended he accepts he should have dealt with it more expeditiously. He is a perfectly reasonable human being."
Al Gore’s Online Climate Show Viewed by Millions – or Not?
Talk about an inconvenient truth!
Climate Reality Project, the online home of Al Gore’s recent “24 Hours of Reality” broadcast, recently claimed that the event was a whopping success, with 8.6 million viewers. That number might have been the real whopper, however.
A back-of-the-envelope analysis of the webcast’s real traffic numbers by Watts Up With That — a website skeptical of the theory of global warming — suggests that number was maybe just a tiny bit inflated.
“There may have been about 17,000 dedicated viewers (estimating on the high side) of the program worldwide,” Charles Rotter wrote on the website. Watts Up With That’s cross-check is based on traffic statistics from popular web trackers Alexa and Quantcast. They do include several adjustments and estimates, the site cautions, and offers an explanation or two for the disparity.
Republicans Step Up Pressure on Holder as More Details Surface on 'Fast and Furious'
Congressional Republicans once again are turning up the heat on Attorney General Eric Holder, asking more questions about whether he had a role in the controversial anti-gunrunning operation known as "Fast and Furious."
The new inquiry comes from Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. Despite recent personnel changes at the Justice Department, Smith told Holder in a letter Friday the department cannot "pin this scandal on a few individuals and expect it to be forgotten."
"Fast and Furious was a result of systemic problems at the ATF. Congressional interest will continue until we fully understand who authorized the failed program," Smith said.
The idea behind Fast and Furious, hatched in the ATF's Phoenix office, was to let so-called straw buyers purchase guns in the United States so they could be traced to big-time gunrunners in Mexico. But documents and testimony now show that U.S. officials lost track of thousands of guns, some of which later were found at the scenes of violent crimes, including the murder of a U.S. border agent.
On Friday, National Rifle Association President Wayne LaPierre accused Holder of stonewalling Congress.
"This is the biggest cover-up since Watergate, and it's time to ask the Watergate question. Who authorized Fast and Furious, and how high up does it go?" LaPierre asked during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando.
"Whatever happened to "stop talking about" race, Mr. Freeman?"
Via The Battle of Atlanta
I posted this before, but didn't remember it yesterday when I put the Libtard one up. And as Thomas said "What ever happened to "stop talking about" race, Mr. Freeman:
LIBTARD OF THE WEEK – MORGAN FREEMAN
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Homesteading Alone
Via Survival
An Island to Oneself
On August 4, 1953 -- ten months after I had landed -- I welcomed my first visitors.
It was unexpected because I had long since stopped wondering whether one day I would wake up to discover a strange yacht or schooner anchored in the lagoon. I had become so engrossed with my life on Suvarov that I rarely gave a thought to the outside world.
They were very happy days. I was never lonely, though now and again I would walk along the reef wishing somebody could be with me -- not because I wanted company but just because all this beauty seemed too perfect to keep to myself.
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