"...taking a critical look at the original intent of the current California guns laws in contrast with crime and murder statistics before and since their implementation; and compares these laws to those of the adjacent states. Story threads also look at the myriad of concealed carry permitting processes across the state to illustrate that not all residents are treated equal.In other words, this documentary will be a pro- 2nd Amendment documentary that will be aired on PBS (gasp!)
----------------The threads below will be woven with current events in California and Nationally that are creating demands for new assault weapons legislation and ammunition sales restrictions. Are these law in the best interest of public safety or infringement of our civil rights?
We will seek out interviews with leading constitutional historians, anti-violence leaders, gun rights activists, law makers and gun owners to create a film that will start a meaningful conversation, not add to rhetoric.
...."manufacturing will be handled by Automobile Craiova, which became Ford’s Eastern European subsidiary in 2008 after three turbulent decades under Romanian, French and Korean ownership. This is how Europeans outsource: Expensive Western European plants are increasingly running under capacity as work is transferred to factories in Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.Because the B-Max is a car you’ll actually be able to buy this year, it has a turbocharged engine as opposed to batteries, fuel cells and fairy dust. Ford’s 1.0-liter three-cylinder turbo EcoBoost is a compact, clever unit not unlike what we saw in the Sumo. Ford says it’s good for 118 horsepower and 57.6 mpg on the European cycle. This being Europe, there are of course two diesels to choose from as well, along with a smaller, or larger, gasoline engine." (Source)
Armed Citizen Stops Shooting Spree And Saves CopHere is the video:
An armed private citizen assisted a police officer who was pinned down by the gunfire of a madman who had just killed 3 people and could have killed many more. Amazingly the concerned citizen, Vic Stacy, did so by taking a shot of 150+ yards using only a pistol.
The caliber and gun are unknown, but Stacy mentions a “magnum bullet” which could mean a .357 or .44. Stacy landed multiple shots on the shooter and this allowed the police officer to also land shots with his AR-15 while the suspect was distracted. Complete story at the link
The political crisis in Romania deepened Friday after the Socialist majority in the Parliament in Bucharest voted to impeach President Traian Basescu amid rising international criticism of the left wing government’s apparent attempts to usurp power and subvert the country’s young democracy.Removed in a communist style putsch: twice elected
Romanian President Traian BasescuThe impeachment was one step among many that critics say Prime Minister Victor Ponta has taken in recent months to consolidate his rule. The governing coalition has already fired the speakers of both chambers of Parliament — an action the opposition called unconstitutional — and replaced the country’s ombudsman, who has the power to challenge emergency legislation before the Constitutional Court.
The (Supreme) court’s justices have been threatened with removal before their terms were up, although that idea was scrapped after an international outcry. But Mr. Ponta reduced the court’s power and is moving ahead with the impeachment.
It is the second time that Mr. Basescu — a former sea captain, anti-corruption crusader and polarizing political figure — has faced a referendum to remove him from office. A similar effort in 2007 failed when 74 percent of the voters opposed the move. Read the rest here
Author of the coup d'etat: the socialist Prime Minister Victor Ponta, an open admirer of Che Guevara, proven plagiarist and suspected murderer (see links)
So let's count all the Left's strikes against Romania's Constitution and laws:
1. Illegally fire the members of the specialized Academic committee who are verifying the accusations of plagiarism of the Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta's doctoral thesis.
2. Illegally fire the Ombudsman who is opposing the impeachment of the President on constitutional grounds and who referred the case to the Supreme Court.
3. Threaten to remove Supreme Court Justices then drastically diminish their power to "consultative attributions only" when they decide the impeachment has no constitutional support.
4. Illegally modify the Constitution to make the impeachment process easier.
5. Illegally remove the Speaker of the House and the Senate President and replace them with puppets of the Prime Minister.
6. Propose a law to ban Romanian citizens living abroad (who are in their overwhelming majority a center-right voting base) from voting in the Romanian elections.
Thank God for America and for the wisdom of the founding Fathers to put the Second Amendment in the US Constitution to help us citizens protect our freedom and preserve the Government system of checks and balances . Without the Second Amendment there is no question the American Left would have long time ago crapped on on our Constitution and pissed on our liberties.
...reads one of my blog entries (a video of a televised debate in a Muslim country in which one of the opponents produces a revolver), then he decides to post this commentary which is not only idiotic but also totally unrelated to the issue in the blog entry. Read it - it is a true gem of stupidity produced by a brain dead Occupying idiot who is claiming the video in question proves that...I am supporting Mitt Romney? WTF???
Joe Skillz · 1 day ago
I always enjoy reading your blog. It helps keep me grounded, knowing that there are many more gun-hugging, scared, sociopaths with calloused hands and room-temperature IQs, willing to do the bidding of rich Republicans, who laugh all the way to country club at how they have scammed the lower classes into subsidizing their holier-than-thou lifestyles. You think Romney wants to have dinner with you? You think he wants your daughter to marry one of his sons? Think again. He wants you to change the oil in his Mercedes and he wants your daughter to clean the toilets in his mansion. Figure it out.
TranssylvaniaP 16 Hours ago
Dear Joe Skillz,
Not sure how did you get the impression I support Romney after you watched the funny video of the gun threatening Muslim. Did you read any entry on my blog even mentioning Romney's name? I think not. Must be your decaying liberal brain dipped in stinking Marxist shit for way too long that is causing you to have these schizophrenic delusions.
I'm not a Romney fan. But if you don't believe me go ahead and look for yourself, browse my entire blog. Maybe you'll learn a thing or two in the process, so maybe you'll be able to finally to pass the graduation test and get your middle school diploma.
Oh, and by the way... since you are ASSuming untrue things about me, let me tell you a couple of things about myself: I am a (legal) immigrant to this great country. I came here with only the clothes on my back 13 years ago after escaping from Romania. Since you probably don't have an idea where Romania is I'll enlighten you: it is a shit hole (former) communist Eastern European - nowadays socialist country, where a regular Joe Citizen needs a government issued permit to purchase and own a target bow or a simple air rifle and where only criminals and corrupt politicians have firearms. Just the kind of egalitarian gun-free kind of country you'd like America to become, isn't it?
After arriving in the US I never asked anybody for any handouts, I never needed any social assistance from the State, I never complained of being discriminated because some people were condescending me for my broken English, I never asked for food stamps or any welfare benefits even when my refrigerator was empty and didn't had enough change to wash my clothes at the laundromat. In other words, I was too proud to count on your liberal pity and become a slave tied on the Democrat plantation. I was a delivery driver, a janitor, a repairman. My wife cleaned motel rooms. And we're not ashamed of doing that. Work is work, you do what you have to do to succeed - and only stupid condescending liberals like yourself who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth are considering low paying jobs degrading.
Five years later I started my own business with a $1,000 capital and with the sweat of my brow I put my wife through college and grad school, and my son in the best film school in the world there is: the University of Southern California Institute Of Cinematic Arts.
So there you have it, Joe (no)Skillz: my autobiography and the American Dream - both in only three paragraphs. I hope you'll learn something reading it and better yourself in the future. Or if you so choose, stay a stupid liberal and keep on Occupying your parents basement until you're 45.
P.S. Edited to add:
Speaking of Romney's Mercedes: I also drive a Mercedes. My wife drives a Mercedes too. And my son drives a Volvo. Like Romney, we didn't steal them - we earned them. If you ever decide to quit your non-stop pot induced daze and decide you need a job please call me. I may have an opening for a grease monkey. So call me after you graduate middle school, OK?. Until then I'm doing the oil changes myself on all my family cars - and I'm not ashamed of that.
Mr. Maher,
here is a suggestion: lock yourself in a room with Col. West, guarded by MPs, talk your trash to him personally (don't forget to tell him you think that because he is a Republican he is nothing more than an ape), and let the best man exit the room.
This gun is about as tiny as it gets. Gizmodo explains that the 4mm bullets are about the size of Tic Tac and wouldn’t carry much of a punch. We wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of one of these, but at the same time you can’t be certain that this thing is going to deliver a kill shot.More
It’s a novelty item more than anything else, though it does have some serious self-defense potential. Could you imagine carrying one of these around in a state where concealed carry is banned? Cops wouldn’t even give it a second glance.
The fate of these Russians was one of the best kept secrets of the war. As many as could surrendered to American and British forces, trusting that they would eventually be able to settle somewhere outside the Soviet Union. But in February 1945, at the Yalta conference, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to Stalin's demand that they be handed over to him. The anti-Soviet Russians in the hands of the western allies would therefore be betrayed. To carry out the repatriation order, American and British servicemen often had to resort to deception and brute force. No one doubted what was in store for the Russians once they were in Soviet hands. Many were executed on the spot.
In some instances, Allied guards responsible for turning over their prisoners could see their bodies hanging in the forests where the exchange took place. Some were transferred on the same boat that had brought the British delegation to Yalta a few months previously. They were shot behind warehouses on the quay side with low flying Soviet planes circling overhead to help drown the noise of the rifle fire. Many returned prisoners were tortured before being shot. The remainder disappeared into prison camps for long sentences, receiving the worst treatment of all the Gulag's inmates. Needless to say all were immediately stripped of the new winter clothing and personal equipment that had been generously issued to them by the British in response to the cynical demands of Soviet liaison officers. American and British officers were the appalled eyewitnesses to many desperate acts of suicide by Russian men and women who preferred their own death and that of their wives and children to falling into the hands of the Cheka/NKVD/GPU/KGB.
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The more we think about these seven minutes of official film the more disturbing the questions become. Five weeks earlier, Russians interned at Dachau, site of the notorious Nazi concentration camp and not far from Plattling, had resisted their repatriation with a ferocity that stunned American military police, resulting in at least ten suicides. Did someone have the idea of using a film clip to quell rumors about the difficulties the American army encountered in the forcible repatriation program? Did they think they might show the clip in other camps whose inmates were also scheduled for deportation? The film material strongly suggests that it was intended to give the impression that the repatriation policy was being conducted without incident. Continues here.
