QuietDan

Don't feed the trolls . . .

I'm thinking the Obama October Surprise wasn't supposed to include a failed debate. Romney turned the Obammunist into a floor-mop. Surprise!

Channel 5 - NBCDFW.com -- Dallas - Fort Worth Texas Area Fake Military Documents, Weapons Found in Abandoned Pickup SUV found crashed behind Hurst business By Frank Heinz Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012 | Updated 7:20 PM CDT Ken Kalthoff, NBC 5 News A dry cleaner and former member of the U.S. military has been arrested after suspicious documents and weapons were found in his crashed pickup truck early Tuesday. At about 5 a.m. Tuesday, a delivery driver spotted a crashed Chevrolet Silverado behind the Mayflower Place shopping center along state Highway 26 near Precinct Line. The driver notified the Hurst Police Department, who soon arrived to investigate. According to police, the vehicle was wrecked with front end damage, had its airbags deployed and, upon further inspection by officers, was found to contain what appeared to be military documents and two civilian weapons. Additionally, Hurst police said the truck has a military insignia sticker on the windshield and similar markings on some of the documents. Given the nature of the contents found, police requested the assistance of the bomb squad as well as the FBI, ATF and NCIS. Businesses in the shopping center were closed for a short time during the investigation, but reopened at about 11 a.m. after the bomb squad was cleared. Investigators later determined that the documents found in the truck were fake federal documents used to create false identifcation cards, not specifically military documents or identification cards. The owner of the truck, 29-year-old Azeez Ahmed Alghaziani, is a former member of the U.S. military, an American citizen, and the owner of a dry cleaning business in the shopping center. Investigators found the man inside his business, totally unaware of the investigation that had been ongoing outside. Officials said he was cooperating with investigators before he was placed under arrest by the Hurst Police Department on a charge of document tampering. According to police, Ahmed had been living at the business for several days. One of the federal agencies involved in the investigation told Richard Winstanley, the assistant chief of the Hurst Police Department, that the man had been a "person of interest" at one time in an investigation, but was cleared of any wrongdoing. Officials did not elaborate on the nature of the previous investigation. So far there is no word on what caused the crash. http://www.nbcdfw.co...-172283631.html

You know, you can put a clown hat on a warrior, and he'll look silly. But, he's still a warrior and can still kick your ass. Deep down inside all the clown clothes, there is still a Garand, and it's 30.06, and for eight shots it will kick ass. It's only a little bit of wood away from being dressed properly, and can be again, I imagine.

Whatever works! Know your varmint!

Bag it, set it on fire, and throw it back . . . (fun to think about, not so much fun to do . . . )

Someone needs to put a salt-lick in the park for the wild animals, and a tree-stand nearby, and just wait.

Well, if it can be done, perhaps it can be un-done. Hopefully the wood stock was put safely to one side to re-habilitate the old warrior.

$10 a pound for powder?? When if ever will you be back in the Murfreesboro area?

Best wishes and all prayers to you and your family and especially to your wife. It's often a personal, heavy blow. Combined with the loss of your father, it's a double hit for you for sure. You might not see it now but it is possible you and her will come out of this stronger.

I'm thinking Shep Smith handled this about as well as he could under the circumstances. When it was clear the video feed wasn't dropped, you could see him pull back in his chair in disgust, disappointment and dismay. It was a professional accident and not gratuitous or sensationalistic. Once it was clear the guy had put a gun to his head, he shot himself so quickly the studio couldn't react in time. I'm thinking they'll go from a five-second to a seven-second delay. The apology appeared to be professional, appropriate and heartfelt.

If Prostate Cancer was a Blue Ribbon, Colorectal Cancer would be a . . . Brown Ribbon?

Hard to tell here for a response: Are you operating under your Truth flag, your Sarcasm flag, your Air Force vs Army flag, or your "I'm sensitive don't josh with me" flag? We're not standing toe-to-toe here looking into each other's eyes for non-verbal feedback, so other online hints are often used. Your icon, your screen name and your narrative suggest you are active USA or have been recently, but you have yet to set your "military' flag in your profile. So, you probably ARE a no-foolin' professional, and probably NOT a mall ninja. Please advise. I especially appreciate your follow-on post comments with attachment point, adjustment criteria and worldwide availability & utility insight. /Truth off

Uh-huh. I read the letter. I've written letters like that. Fulsome praise for the opponent. . . . The letter is a mind-f c u k on the Obammunist. Pure and simple. Narcissist Obama is already cutting back on his debate prep 'cause -- He's. So. Good. There's a good chance that Romney can kick his ass with facts, because the facts of the last few years are ugly and tawdry. There's a Winston Churchill quote that applies: People say we ought not to allow ourselves to be drawn into a theoretical antagonism between Nazidom and democracy; but the antagonism is here now. It is this very conflict of spiritual and moral ideas which gives the free countries a great part of their strength. You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, cannons, aeroplanes, fortifications, and the like — they boast and vaunt themselves before the world, yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home — all the more powerful because forbidden — terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. Cannons, airplanes, they can manufacture in large quantities; but how are they to quell the natural promptings of human nature, which after all these centuries of trial and progress has inherited a whole armoury of potent and indestructible knowledge?

The perp was lucky he wasn't stabbed and shot . . . and shot again. . . . and his corpse kicked around the room . . .

Cool! . . . uh, do you carry a knife by gripping it between your teeth? . . . (just checkin'!)

Police: Students hold off robber with guns, sword MURFREESBORO — It was a scary night for a college student who was being robbed at gunpoint, until his quick-thinking roommate helped turn the tables. While the pair waited for police to arrive, they held a suspect down with guns and a samurai sword, according to police. Tyler Michaels, 19, of Wenlon Drive in Murfreesboro stepped outside his apartment to smoke a cigarette around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night when he was approached by a man he didn’t know, Michaels said. “He came up to me and had a blunt (marijuana cigarette), and wanted to light it up with my lighter,†Michaels said. “He asked me where he could buy some weed, and I said ‘I don’t know.’†Michaels said he got an uneasy feeling and tried to make his way back inside when the man, identified as Dedrick Gaines, 18, of Fox Croft Drive in Murfreesboro, told him to empty his pockets. “I said, ‘Hold on, I’ll go get it from my apartment,’ and he said, ‘Don’t play me, I’ll kill you,’†Michaels said. Gaines forced his way inside the apartment. Michaels went to his bedroom and gave Gaines $20, but he still wasn’t satisfied. “I took the money and handed it to him, and he said, ‘I’m not leaving with that,’†Michaels said. Michaels said he was looking for anything in his bedroom to hit the suspect with. “Right when I saw his hands (move away from the gun) I just reacted,†Michaels said. “I grabbed him and slammed him against the wall, and then slung him to the floor.†The MTSU student said the two began to fight in the off-campus apartment. His room is still a mess. “He was hitting me and everything,†Michaels said. “I’m not going to lie; I took a beating in order to get that gun.†At first, two of his roommates, who were in another bedroom, thought he was being his usual self and joking around. They quickly realized he was in trouble. “I said, ‘He’s got a gun!’†Michaels said. “Andrew (Perez) saw that he had hit me in the eye, and I was bleeding and he knew it was for real.†Perez hit the robber over the head with the wooden sheath from a samurai sword and broke it. “I then picked up a sword,†Perez said. “It’s pretty intimidating. I would be scared of it, and that’s when he (Gaines) calmed down.†Another roommate dialed 911 while Michaels held his gun and the suspect’s gun on him. “At this point he’s saying, ‘Don’t shoot me; don’t shoot me,’†Michaels said. Perez stood close by with the sword. “And he was saying, ‘Don’t stab me; don’t stab me,’†Michaels said. At one point during the confrontation the suspect managed to get away. He attempted to run out of the bedroom when Perez tripped him. By that time Murfreesboro police were coming through the front door. Police said they don’t recommend victims fighting back. “The gun was stolen out of Memphis. It was obvious that he (Gaines) had no regard for human life, and it could have ended very differently for these college students,†said Sgt. Kyle Evans, Murfreesboro police spokesman. Michaels suffered two black eyes and had to get a few stitches over his left eyebrow. Gaines is facing a list of charges including aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, aggravated assault, simple assault, possession of stolen property, and possession of a weapon in the commission of a felony crime. http://www.dnj.com/a...|text|FRONTPAGE

If a felon, I wouldn't take his word for it regarding his conversation with his parole officer. I'd talk to the parole officer directly, and preferably have the arrangements reduced to writing, from the parole officer to you.

MILLER: Lead bullets under fire Senate bill would protect ammunition from EPA grasp By Emily Miller Should President Obama win in November, it's a certainty he'll try once again to ban lead ammunition. Just two months after he moved into the White House, the National Park Service suddenly announced it was banning lead bullets from its parks. The blowback from sportsmen was intense, so the agency backed down. Mr. Obama surely will exert "more flexibility" in a second term to accomplish this backdoor assault on the Second Amendment. Sen. Jon Tester, Montana Democrat, introduced a bill to make sure that can't happen. Just before the Senate adjourned Saturday to go campaigning, the body voted 84-7 to take up the Sportsmen Act during the Nov. 13 lame-duck session. It's a priority for a number of pro-hunting groups, including the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). "The threat to ban use of traditional ammunition without sound science is the most significant threat facing the firearms and ammunitions industries today," NSSF senior vice president Larry Keane told The Washington Times. "If the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were to ban traditional ammunition using the Toxic Substances Control Act, it would destroy the ammunition industry in the U.S., crater conservation funding and create massive supply shortages for consumers." The ban is a priority for liberal groups like PETA, the Humane Society and the radical Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) that want legislation to prohibit anything but "nontoxic bullets." This is mostly an excuse to sue ammo manufacturers out of business. In June, CBD filed suit against the EPA for not addressing the "toxic lead in hunting ammunition that frequently poisons our wildlife." Opponents are ridiculing CBD's "Get the Lead Out" campaign. "The notion that you can get lead out of the environment showed these people should not have passed their high-school chemistry test," said Mr. Keane. "Lead is in the periodical table. There is no more lead in the environment than there was 100 years ago." Don Saba, a research scientist and National Rifle Association board member, said that these groups are deliberately attempting to confuse the public into thinking the lead in bullets is the same as lead paint that is harmful to children. "The lead that is used in ammunition is metallic lead and is a very inert material that does not dissolve in water and it is not absorbed by plants or animals," Dr. Saba explained. "There is a tremendous toxicity difference between the highly inert metallic lead used in ammunition and the highly toxic lead compounds used in legacy leaded paints." The ammunition demonized by the self-styled environmentalists happens to fund highly successful animal-conservation efforts. The Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 set up an excise tax, now 11 percent, on ammunition and long guns and 10 percent for handguns. The resulting $7 billion in revenue over the years has gone toward restoring habitats for wild turkey, bald eagle, duck, elk and antelope populations. America's ammunition industry works on high volume and thin margins, manufacturing 9 billion cartridges a year, 95 percent of which have lead components. Lead is used in bullets because it is the perfect material -- dense, heavy, soft and inexpensive. Asked for an alternative, Winchester Ammunition engineer Mike Stock replied, "We'd use gold if it was cheap enough to make bullets." The NSSF estimates a lead ban would result in tens of thousands of jobs lost as prices would necessarily rise 190 percent. Mr. Obama has killed enough jobs in his first term. The last thing our economy needs is another assault on successful businesses. Emily Miller is a senior editor for the Opinion pages at The Washington Times Read more: MILLER: Lead bullets under fire - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/27/lead-bullets-under-fire/print/#ixzz27imSb7hW

Intercept and poison the shipments. Dead end-users, fear of the product, demand reduction. A little drastic, might violate a few laws, but -- what the hey! Surely, surely, we still have a little Agent Orange left over for the jungle production areas . . . I'm not a fan of drug use, drug users, or the impact on others, to include parking lot gun battles, human trafficking, child abuse, medical costs, traffic accidents, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. There are no victimless crimes. Start with heroin, cocaine, marijuana, . . . alcohol is a separate case due to cultural acceptance, take it on if any users are left.

Damn Skippy. This is what Grand Juries are for. Grand Juries are made up of US. They can take a lot of factors into account, and they can even look the other way.

Some South American countries solve the drug trade problem and others like it with "right wing death squads." Of course, that won't work here.

Prayers to him & his family, and you & your family.

SA EMP 9mm is my carry weapon, aluminum alloy receiver, steel slide, cross-cannons cocobolo grips. Small, tight, reliable, accurate & form-follows-function beautiful. So watch-like tight when new it needs about 200 rounds through it to loosen it up. If you don't do that and send it to the factory, they polish the feed-ramp, give it a kiss and promptly send it back to you all good-to-go. SA EMP 40 cal is steel receiver, steel slide, cross-cannons cocobolo grips and barks a little louder than the 9 mm. I know what I'd get.

I hope the EPA doesn't make your woodchip pile some sort of wetlands protected acreage or something equally stupid.