1938. "Chretien Point Plantation, Sunset vicinity, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Structure dates to 1831."
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Friday, March 7, 2014
GOA Helping to Neuter Obama's Gun Control Agenda
Gun rights advancing, despite adversity
“GOA was the first
group to jump in and help with my legal expenses. They really made a
difference.” -- Connecticut gun owner (and state senate candidate)
Walter Reddy, thanking GOA’s Larry Pratt for helping him to get his guns
returned from overzealous prosecutors
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There’s been a lot going on around the country, and Gun Owners
of America has been at the center of much of it. We thank our grassroots
for their involvement in these efforts and for taking action on our
alerts.While this alert will show where we stand right now, please make sure you see the ACTION ITEM at the bottom.
NULLIFICATION BILLS ADVANCE NATIONWIDE
Gun Owners of America has been working with legislators in several states to prohibit state and local officials from enforcing Barack Obama's gun control agenda.
Go here to read more about these efforts -- and to see what you can do to add your voice in opposition to the recent anti-gun regulations promulgated by Health and Human Services.
ANTI-GUNNER BLOCKED IN HIS QUEST FOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
Despite the fact that the Senate blew up its own rules in order to destroy the filibuster, anti-gunners were not able on Wednesday to trot out the 50 votes needed to break a filibuster of the nomination of Debo Adegbile to be Assistant Attorney General.
You can go here to read more about this vote.
And here to see how your Senators voted.
WILL CT ARREST 300,000 GUNNIES & CONFISCATE THEIR GUNS?
An amazing example of civil disobedience is occurring in the state of Connecticut, but the national media is hardly talking about it.
Go here to read more about this story and to see what GOA is doing in the state.
OBAMA/HOLDER NICS CHANGES TO IMPACT GUN OWNERS
The big story this week relates to Eric Holder’s justice department, which will shortly announce NICS changes that would result in the permanent seizure of large numbers of firearms by executive fiat -- and make it harder for gun owners to get their seized firearms back.
Regularly, GOA receives pleas from members who have had guns seized by police, both legally and illegally. The common thread is that law enforcement is seldom cooperative in returning the firearms.
Sometimes police challenge the gun owners to “sue us.” And when there is a form and a procedure, authorities frequently ignore deadlines to respond.
Under Obama’s proposed changes, most gun owners with seized guns would have to go through a new NICS check. Since 8% of NICS checks produce “yellow” responses -- and 95% of these are false negatives -- you can be sure that few of these 8% are ever going to get their seized guns back.
In addition, Obama would create a centralized computerized registry of veterans and others who failed background checks.
Gun Owners of America will ask Congress to defund these lawless and unconstitutional actions.
ACTION: Contact the three key players in the House Appropriations Subcommittee, who have the power to include legislation to “defund” Obama’s anti-gun Executive Actions in the appropriations bills that will be moving over the next few weeks.
Those three key players are Frank Wolf (R-VA), Robert Aderholt (R-AL) and Andy Harris (R-MD). Those who live in these districts, can contact them by cutting-and-pasting the letter below and using their webforms. Those who live outside of the districts can contact them by fax or phone.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Rep. Frank Wolf, Chairman of the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee
* Webform: https://wolf.house.gov/
* Phone: (202)225-5136
* Fax: (202)225-0437
Rep. Aderholt, Vice-Chairman of the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee
* Webform: http://aderholt.house.gov/
* Phone: (202)225-4876
* Fax: (202)225-5587
Rep. Harris, the most actively pro-gun member of the subcommittee
* Webform: https://harris.house.gov/
* Phone: (202)225-5311
* Fax: (202)225-0254
----- Pre-written letters to Reps. Wolfe, Aderholt & Harris -----
Dear
I urge you to include legislation to "defund" Obama's anti-gun Executive Actions in the appropriations bills that will be moving over the next few weeks.
Eric Holder's justice department will shortly announce NICS changes that would result in the permanent seizure of large numbers of firearms by executive fiat -- and make it harder for gun owners to get their seized firearms back.
Regularly, Gun Owners of America receives pleas from its members who have had guns seized by police, both legally and illegally. The common thread is that law enforcement is seldom cooperative in returning the firearms.
Sometimes police challenge the gun owners to "sue us." And when there is a form and a procedure, authorities frequently ignore deadlines to respond.
Under Obama's proposed changes, most gun owners with seized guns would have to go through a new NICS check. Since 8% of NICS checks produce "yellow" responses -- and 95% of these are false negatives -- you can be sure that few of these 8% are ever going to get their seized guns back.
In addition, Obama's unilateral actions would create a centralized computerized registry of veterans and others who failed background checks.
So please make sure that upcoming appropriations legislation contains language to "defund" Obama's Executive Actions.
Sincerely,
Restoration of the William Mayo Pippen House
My great grandfather's place.
3. 1877. " In the meantime the fact that the
Negroes constituted such a great majority gave indications that radical
domination might continue. Especially this was true in regard to town
administration. This field of activity offered a greater opportunity in
exercising tact and ingenuity than that of county or state politics.
To meet this political emergency arose William Pippen.
(William Mayo,
my great grandfather. He traveled to New York City after the War in his
Confederate uniform as that was all he possessed, asked a friend of his
father's if he would lend him money to start a mercantile shop in
Tarboro, which he did, and was so successful that he built the *William Mayo Pippen House beside the library in 1870 while acquiring numerous other lots. BT)
He conceived a plan by which the whites could control town affairs in
Tarboro. The old citizens will recall that prior to1875, there were no
wards or districts in the town of Tarboro; in fact, no such provision
had been anticipated in the town charter. (1760) A census of the city
showed that the Negroes had the majority and invariably elected all
three commissioners. Mr. Pippen appeared
before the State Legislature and succeeded in having the charter
amended, dividing the town into three wards. The first and second wards
contained the majority of whites in the central part of town, while the
third ward included the suburbs, where the Negroes lived. This placed
the Negroes in a position to carry only one ward, and the whites the
remaining two wards, and Negro domination collapsed."
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TARBORO — An exterior restoration of the Pippen-Staton House, a grand post-Civil War era mansion on Tarboro’s Main Street, is under way.
SECU*Real Estate has hired the Enfield-based contracting company Andrus & Company, LLC for the rehabilitation project. Preservation architect Richard Andrews estimated the project would be completed in three to four months.
“It is what I consider to be a pivotal, significant property within the Tarboro Historic District, which is a National Registered Historic District,” Andrews said. “The owner wants to sell it to a buyer, who will then complete the rehabilitation on the inside of the house…It would make a great residence. It’s been a residence ever since it was built.”
William Mayo Pippen, a wealthy merchant and planter, was the home’s first owner, purchasing the property in September 1879.
More @ The Daily Southerner
Looking for Mr. Jefferson
A cynical but true saying
that sometimes passes around among historians is “He who controls the
present controls the past.” Man is a symbolizing creature, and political
struggles can be as much over symbols as over tangible things. Those
who hold power and those who seek power want to associate themselves
with favourable symbols from their society’s past. It gives them an air
of tradition and legitimacy. Those who hold political, cultural,
educational, and media power obviously have an advantage in this game.
Or sometimes the game is associating rivals with negative symbols. Who
does not want to be likened to Lincoln Me and you, I am sure Dr. Clyde :) and to stick his opponents with
Hitler?
Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King and in a time in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America is as remote to most citizens as ancient Persia or China.
More @ Nomocracy In Politics
Otter attacked a young alligator at Florida wildlife reserve and ate it alive
They may appear cute and cuddly, but as one alligator soon learned, otters can be vicious predators.
These photos show an otter overpowering a juvenile gator and despite the reptile doing its best, it was no match for the fanged weasel-cousin.
The animals were spotted at Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, where it soon became clear that the otter was in it to win it.
More @ The Daily Mail
Putin mocks the West and threatens to turn off gas supplies
Via Billy
Russia also scuttled a third ship in the Crimean harbour of Donuzlav to tighten its blockade on the doggedly loyal Ukrainian navy vessels trapped behind Russian lines.
Couldn't find this in English, but you can make out a good bit.
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Russia also scuttled a third ship in the Crimean harbour of Donuzlav to tighten its blockade on the doggedly loyal Ukrainian navy vessels trapped behind Russian lines.
Vladimir Putin has mocked diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine
crisis as Russia threatened to disrupt European gas supplies by cutting off
sales to Kiev over its unpaid debts.
The Russian president said through his official spokesman that, despite deep
disagreements with the West, he did not want a confrontation over Ukraine to
spiral into a “new cold war”.
Nevertheless Dmitry Peskov ridiculed Western demands for direct talks between
the Kremlin and the new Kiev government.
More @ The Telegraph
Russia in patriotic fervor over Crimea
Russia was swept up in patriotic fervor Friday for bringing Crimea back into its territory, with tens of thousands of people thronging Red Square waving flags and chanting "Crimea is Russia!" as a parliamentary leader declared that the peninsula would be welcomed as an "equal subject" of Russia.
The semi-autonomous region belongs to Ukraine, but the local parliament has called a March 16 referendum on whether Crimea should join Russia, a move President Barack Obama has called a violation of international law.
More @ Townhall
New York Judge Orders County to Provide Newspaper With List of Pistol Permit Holders
The Journal News is at it again.
The Gannett-owned newspaper that infuriated pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties by publishing an interactive online map of permit holders in 2012 that included their home addresses has just won the latest round in a battle to acquire even more permit holder addresses:
A state judge has ordered Putnam County to turn pistol permit records over to The Journal News, which sued for the data last fall after the county denied the newspaper’s Freedom of Information Law requests.
In a five-page decision Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary cited the NY-SAFE Act, a sweeping series of gun-control measures that allowed gun owners to remove their names from a public database after the law was enacted in January 2013.
Neary ruled that the names remaining on the database — those who did not ask to be removed from it — are a public record and therefore subject to open disclosure laws.
More @ Bearing Arms
AP Smears Trail Life Boys with Misleading 'Nazi' Photo
“I was horrified,” said John Stemberger, chairman of the board of Trail Life USA, a new, rapidly-growing scouting organization that doesn’t allow openly gay members.
Stemberger was referring to an Associated Press photograph that accompanied an in-depth story about Trail Life. The image showed a group of young boys gathered in a circle with their hands raised at an unusual angle. The AP’s original caption on the photo said they were reciting the organization’s “creed” during a meeting in North Richland Hills, Texas.
It took the AP several days to acknowledge their error. But by then, the unfortunate comparison to Nazi Germany had spread on the Internet faster than Hitler’s invasion of Poland.
More @ Townhall
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