Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Burglar Returns After Veterans Day Break-In of Paratrooper’s Home. This Time The Soldier Is Waiting.
After a man recently broke into his house on the night of Veterans Day, Andrew Myers, a paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne, decided he would not become a victim again.
Meyers posted his story, along with video, to LiveLeak:
More @ IJ Review
Under Obama, U.S. personal freedom ranking slips below France
Via Billy
Americans' assessments of their personal freedom have significantly declined under President Obama, according to a new study from the Legatum Institute in London, and the United States now ranks below 20 other countries on this measure.
The research shows that citizens of countries including France, Uruguay, and Costa Rica now feel that they enjoy more personal freedom than Americans.
More @ Washington Examiner
Americans' assessments of their personal freedom have significantly declined under President Obama, according to a new study from the Legatum Institute in London, and the United States now ranks below 20 other countries on this measure.
The research shows that citizens of countries including France, Uruguay, and Costa Rica now feel that they enjoy more personal freedom than Americans.
More @ Washington Examiner
New branch added to European family tree
Via comment by Anonymous on Neanderthal: Profile of a super predator
The setting: Europe, about 7,500 years ago. Agriculture was sweeping in from the Near East, bringing early farmers into contact with hunter-gatherers who had already been living in Europe for tens of thousands of years.
Genetic and archaeological research in the last 10 years has revealed that almost all present-day Europeans descend from the mixing of these two ancient populations. But it turns out that's not the full story.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Tübingen in Germany have now documented a genetic contribution from a third ancestor: Ancient North Eurasians. This group appears to have contributed DNA to present-day Europeans as well as to the people who travelled across the Bering Strait into the Americas more than 15,000 years ago.
"Prior to this paper, the models we had for European ancestry were two-way mixtures. We show that there are three groups," said David Reich, professor of genetics at HMS and co-senior author of the study.
More @ PHYS ORG
US-Armed Syrian Opposition "Surrenders" to Al Qaeda?
Via Sioux
Al Qaeda affiliates are suddenly now Islamic State (ISIS) affiliates, and entire groups of militants the US has been arming, funding, and training are "surrendering" to Al Qaeda, bringing along with them a large number of US weapons. Is this a failure of US foreign policy? Or is this simply a rhetorical means to explain away what appears to be an immense army of extremists the US is once again building up to direct at one of its enemies, just as it did in Afghanistan in the 1980's?
More @ Land Destroyer Report
Remington CEO: SAFE Act impacted decision to expand--in Alabama
Via Billy
Here is the expanded version of the second item from my "Albany Insider" column from Monday's editions:
Remington Arms has confirmed what many already long suspected — New York’s tough gun control laws played a role in the upstate gun manufacturer’s decision to expand outside the state.
Remington, which has operated in New York State since 1816, shifted 100 jobs down south in August. Another 126 people were laid off last week as a result of a decline in gun sales.
The company says one reason behind its decision to open a new plant in Alabama rather than expand in New York was “state policies affecting use of our products,” Remington Outdoor Company CEO George Kollitides wrote to some upstate officials Oct. 20.
Here is the expanded version of the second item from my "Albany Insider" column from Monday's editions:
Remington Arms has confirmed what many already long suspected — New York’s tough gun control laws played a role in the upstate gun manufacturer’s decision to expand outside the state.
Remington, which has operated in New York State since 1816, shifted 100 jobs down south in August. Another 126 people were laid off last week as a result of a decline in gun sales.
The company says one reason behind its decision to open a new plant in Alabama rather than expand in New York was “state policies affecting use of our products,” Remington Outdoor Company CEO George Kollitides wrote to some upstate officials Oct. 20.
More @ New York Daily News
80-Year-Old Army Vet and Cancer Survivor, Mercilessly Beaten By Police Who “Feared For Their Lives”
Via LH
An 80-year-old cancer survivor and Army veteran says that he fears
for his life after being beaten, bloodied and left with broken bones by
police.
“I’m afraid for us to even drive out of our driveway or to get on the street. I don’t know what they will do,” Libby Swan, Bill’s wife, said.
Bill Swan was on his tractor when he noticed a utility crew attempting to dig on his property and approached them to tell them to vacate his property. The workers then called police, according to KCTV 5.
When officers arrived they yanked Swan off the tractor and took him to the ground leaving him bloodied and with broken ribs.
“I’m afraid for us to even drive out of our driveway or to get on the street. I don’t know what they will do,” Libby Swan, Bill’s wife, said.
Bill Swan was on his tractor when he noticed a utility crew attempting to dig on his property and approached them to tell them to vacate his property. The workers then called police, according to KCTV 5.
When officers arrived they yanked Swan off the tractor and took him to the ground leaving him bloodied and with broken ribs.
More with video @ The Free Thought Project
New clearing breakthrough
Via Iver via
Wirecutter
I don’t have much info, but the consensus is that the guy reloads (which made me think of you), and fired a weak load, causing a jam. I’m hardly a firearms expert, but a couple of things spring to mind.
Surely clearing a jam with another bullet is not the best way. Then, if that doesn’t work, you wouldn’t keep firing.
I don’t have much info, but the consensus is that the guy reloads (which made me think of you), and fired a weak load, causing a jam. I’m hardly a firearms expert, but a couple of things spring to mind.
Surely clearing a jam with another bullet is not the best way. Then, if that doesn’t work, you wouldn’t keep firing.
More @ Knuckledraggin' My Life Away
HUH?! Mom of ISIS-Beheaded American: “allah Will Prevail” (In Post-Beheading Press Conference)
Via comment by Sioux on Here’s why Somali Muslim Refugees are moving to Ch...
What the bleep is wrong with these American mothers of ISIS beheadees? The mom of Peter Kassig a/k/a Abdul Rahman Kassig–newly separated from his head–is praising allah as “the one god” and saying he “will prevail.” HUHHHHHHH??????????? F-U, lady.
More @ Debbie Schlussel
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