Who Made the Playoffs?
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Just a bit of information that you do with what you will. As the old saying goes: "TRUST NO ONE".
Section 3. Prohibition on possession or sale of non-coded ammunition.
1. All handgun and assault weapon ammunition manufactured or sold in the state after January 1, 2009, shall be coded by the manufacturer.
a. The calibers covered by the coding requirement shall include: [LIST CALIBERS].
2. No later than January 1, 2011, all non-coded ammunition for the calibers listed in this chapter, whether owned by private citizens or retail outlets, must be disposed.
RENDEZVOUS
by: Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
I HAVE a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple blossoms fill the air--
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my hand,
And lead me into his dark land,
And close my eyes and quench my breath--
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow flowers appear.
God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear . . .
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year;
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.
"Among the modern middle-class men, in terms of income and the station in life they have attained, there are two categories that deserve special attention: the bureaucrats and the managers of the great corporations. In earlier days, the government employee was held to be a man who could not have made his way in the business world and was therefore tolerated with condescension; he had little to do and his remuneration was correspondingly small. Even the few entrepreneurs who entered the public service did so mainly under draft, as a necessary though unwanted duty, to be got out of as soon as possible.
Today, the government agent holds his head higher than do those who furnish him his keep – he is the government while they are only the people – and is held in esteem by the very ones he dominates. He is, of course, a non-producer, but in the present ethos that circumstance does not degrade him, either in his own eyes or that of society; indeed, the producer holds an inferior position in life than does the government official. The government official is the law." --Frank Chodorov
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." ~ John Locke
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!" -- Samuel Adams
... iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulliAnd for those of us whose Latin is lacking:
uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim
imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se
continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat,
panem et circenses. ...
(Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81)
... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man,Mr. Sharkey, thank you for the reminder- keep your powder dry, and may your steps be quiet, solid and safe.
the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time
handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now
restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things:
bread and circuses...
(Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81)
SC boy shot, killed trick-or-treating; 2 injuredI was curious that there was no picture so I decided to do some searching and I found the following after spending ten minutes doing multiple Google searches (Web, News, then finally Blog):
Nov 1 12:54 AM US/Eastern
SUMTER, S.C. (AP) - Authorities say a 12-year-old boy has been shot and killed while trick-or-treating in central South Carolina.
Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson says the boy was trick-or-treating with his family Friday at about 8:30 p.m. EDT when they approached a home and thought they heard fireworks. Patterson says a man fired from inside the home, killing the boy.
The boy's father and brother were wounded by the gunfire. They have been taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The shooting suspect has been taken into custody. Patterson has not released the man's name or the identity of the family.
The police chief says she is in disbelief and does not know why the shooting occurred.
Breaking News: 12 year old boy shot and killed while trick or treating *Suspect, Quentin Patrick, arrested*:I wonder why the "news" sites are not posting the alleged murder's picture? My paranoid and skeptical nature says it is political correctness- especially since the national election is but a few days away.
Breaking News: 12 year old boy shot and killed while trick or treating *Suspect, Quentin Patrick, arrested* November 1, 2008 — mylifeofcrime
AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegallyAND
Nov 1 12:08 AM US/Eastern
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.
Onyango's case—coming to light just days before the presidential election—led to an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday's election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors, the U.S. law enforcement official told the AP.I called a good friend with Border Patrol and told him about this and when I told him about deports now must be approved by a Regional Director, his response was:
The unusual directive suggests that the Bush administration is sensitive to the political implications of Onyango's case coming to light so close to the election.