I recently typed in "the armed citizen" as a search term when I was looking for stories of people using legal firearms in legal ways to defend themselves and others.
The first hit came back with an "oops!" in Chrome telling me the site was down.
I looked at the cached version and discovered they were involved in a lawsuit started by the Las Vegas Review Journal.
The Journal has apparently been filing multiple lawsuits for copyright infringement and has allegedly even obtained copyrights after a story has been linked or repeated on another site in an apparent attempt to justify a future claim.
At first, I thought the Journal was just another leftist news outlet trying to strangle the flow of information that backs up conservative thinking.
Now my opinion is that they are just another failure, grasping at straws that are in other people's wallets.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Health Care Chart Update
Helen Thomas to be honored for hatespeech?
The Arab American National museum is trying to find funding to create a statue to honor Helen Thomas.
Thomas famously lost her job as the most desiccated White House correspondent over a video showing her making unacceptable statements about Israel.
She has long been known as anti Israel but her recent rant has made it very difficult for the statue backers to achieve the $30K goal they have set.
In a Twilight Zone twist, a Jewish group has given the project support.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit has voiced support with the caveat of 'hoping' that the effort is despite her recent statements instead of because of them.
Seriously, Helen Thomas is a walking talking gargoyle and they just need to bronze her when she assumes room temperature.
Thomas famously lost her job as the most desiccated White House correspondent over a video showing her making unacceptable statements about Israel.
She has long been known as anti Israel but her recent rant has made it very difficult for the statue backers to achieve the $30K goal they have set.
In a Twilight Zone twist, a Jewish group has given the project support.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit has voiced support with the caveat of 'hoping' that the effort is despite her recent statements instead of because of them.
Seriously, Helen Thomas is a walking talking gargoyle and they just need to bronze her when she assumes room temperature.
Cop injured in faked fight staged to cause "Teachable Moment"
A white Indianapolis, Indiana police officer was lured to a church under false pretenses in order to see how he would respond to a staged fight between two black men.
The officer was injured during the scuffle and now the tension between the police and the community has ramped up.
Police were already on edge after multiple incidents involving people taking pot shots at the police and have responded by warning all officers that further attempts to bait them will likely occur.
Police are asking prosecutors if they can charge any of the conspirators with a crime.
The officer was injured during the scuffle and now the tension between the police and the community has ramped up.
Police were already on edge after multiple incidents involving people taking pot shots at the police and have responded by warning all officers that further attempts to bait them will likely occur.
Police are asking prosecutors if they can charge any of the conspirators with a crime.
Teacher fakes fall to avoid evaluation
A teacher at a Brooklyn school faked a fall down a short set of stairs in order to avoid a scheduled observational evaluation.
She either forgot about the security camera or thought she was Oscar worthy.
She wasn't a very good actress and continued to insist that the fall was real, even though she quickly resigned.
The evaluation came after an entire three years of teaching.
How could she do the job for three years and still be so bad that she knew she was likely to fail?
I know there are a large number of bad teachers out there that the "system" protects.
They are a small percentage overall, but too many to accept as "business as usual".
If this is an example of a non-tenured teacher, I shudder to think of what the tenured failures are like.
She either forgot about the security camera or thought she was Oscar worthy.
She wasn't a very good actress and continued to insist that the fall was real, even though she quickly resigned.
The evaluation came after an entire three years of teaching.
How could she do the job for three years and still be so bad that she knew she was likely to fail?
I know there are a large number of bad teachers out there that the "system" protects.
They are a small percentage overall, but too many to accept as "business as usual".
If this is an example of a non-tenured teacher, I shudder to think of what the tenured failures are like.
Monday, August 2, 2010
78 dead in Bali from rabies
In another hard lesson about tolerance leading to disaster the Island nation of Bali is having an epidemic of rabies.
They have allowed feral dogs to roam free for generations and, of the population of about 600K dogs, only about a quarter are pets.
Authorities say that 70% of dogs must be vaccinated to reach the level of safety desired and only 20% have been reached so far.
When people went to the hospitals with bite wounds, they were often told their was no vaccine available.
30% of the island's dogs have been killed and people are (finally) getting the dogs vaccinated.
They have allowed feral dogs to roam free for generations and, of the population of about 600K dogs, only about a quarter are pets.
Authorities say that 70% of dogs must be vaccinated to reach the level of safety desired and only 20% have been reached so far.
When people went to the hospitals with bite wounds, they were often told their was no vaccine available.
30% of the island's dogs have been killed and people are (finally) getting the dogs vaccinated.
And then they came for the farmers
Proposed EPA rules on dust have farmers across America on high alert.
There is no way to farm without producing dust and the farmers insist that they wouldn't and don't endanger themselves by making dangerous levels.
Even driving down a dirt road could violate the rules.
Does this mean an end to access roads to state and federal lands?
There is no way to farm without producing dust and the farmers insist that they wouldn't and don't endanger themselves by making dangerous levels.
Even driving down a dirt road could violate the rules.
Does this mean an end to access roads to state and federal lands?
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