Tonight we talk about 9-11, and how you feel about it 13 years later.
This is the first year I didn’t post a simple remembrance post for this date. I’m officially pissed at how the world has changed after the horrible attack.
How do you feel reflecting on this day?
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I love rock-solid theories like this thrown into video game lore. In the end it’s a lot of work for worthless fictional speculation, but it’s really fun to see how it comes out!
Now he needs to do a bit on how Gouki is Ryu’s father in the Street Fighter series. (hint, Red Hair, and Gouki is always perusing Ryu, but while he is considerably more powerful, he never kills him)
Felon seen on Twitter holding guns gets 18 months
In a photo he posted on Twitter, Kwmaine Davis had a big smile on his face as he held one gun in each hand at a shooting range. His message to his followers: “Yes, I’m really bout that action.”
What Davis didn’t know is that one of his followers was a Boston police officer.
As a convicted felon, Davis isn’t allowed to possess guns, even if he’s only shooting them at a firing range. A federal judge sentenced him Wednesday to 18 months in prison for doing just that.
After seeing two firing range photos Davis posted on Twitter, Boston police notified federal authorities. Police were concerned that Davis, a known member of a violent Boston gang, had gone to the firing range to perfect his shooting skills. He already had been shot twice himself and convicted once before for illegal possession of a gun.
Criminals don’t care about the law. He’s a violent gang member, he’s been shot twice before, and this isn’t his first gun conviction, yet still not only did he illegally get guns, but he posted pictures of it online.
Of course why not?
He was sentenced to prison after saying he accepted responsibility for his actions and wanted to turn his life around. Davis, 23, told U.S. District Judge Denise Casper that he plans to go to counseling, return to school and find a job after his release.
Casper imposed a sentence that was agreed to by prosecutors and Davis’ lawyer under a plea deal. The judge told Davis she hopes he will make an “earnest effort” to get his life on track.
“At the end of the day, it’s up to you, and I wish you good luck,” she said, just before Davis was led away to begin serving his sentence.
Davis’ lawyer, Joshua Hanye, said his client admitted to being a member of the H-bloc gang – a violent gang that operates in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood – since the age of 13. But he said he Davis is “ready to make a change.”
Just tell the judge that THIS TIME you’re serious about flying the straight an narrow and he’ll give you a 18 month sentence at the grey-bar hotel! I’ll be AMAZED if he’s not out on the streets dealing drugs and carrying guns in six months!
We won’t be rid of this thug until somebody kills him, or he finally kills somebody else.
The moral of this story is that gun laws are pointless, because criminals don’t care, and the Justice system doesn’t seem to care much more. There is no evidence that this guy is going to clean up his act, and I would say quite the evidence to the contrary, and all he has to do is be a “good boy” by prison standards and he’ll be back with the gang in Boston before spring!
This story will ONLY end in murder. either the murder of Mr. Davis, or the murder of somebody else. I would say potentially somebody defending themselves from Mr. Davis, but this is Boston. This is how violent crime is treated in this country, and why you NEED to carry a gun!
Or maybe it’s just common sense.
13 Years ago we were attacked by terrorists. I was out to sea and thankful for that. I was away from the wide-scale panic and sheltered to some extent from the media, tho we were getting TV signal from the mainland.
Still that memory while not fading is being overshadowed by more recent dates. Other terrorist attacks like the assault on the Embassy in Benghazi, as well as other terrorist and Islamic violence done on other days, like the recent beheddings of American Citizens and the bombing at the Boston Marathon.
I can’t help but remember more than just that attack on that clear morning in September, while the calm seas lapped at the hull.
This video is more like how I’m feeling today:
I’ll spend today watching my daughter who will never know the 9-10 years (but will hopefully see them return to some extent) and helping the workmen who are working on my house which is my little piece of the American Dream.
Nothing since then has been as horrible as on that morning, but the horrors after have effected far more, and for this I’m sad.
Again, not really thinking:
So I have no idea when this image was made. It could have been after the Heller decision, or the recent decision that DC’s Ban on carry was unconstitutional.
Still Jason’s comment is kind of silly. “Where there are guns there are shootings”.
The people in the image are seeking refuge in the Supreme Court building, which is a “Gun Free Zone”, but what are they seeking shelter FROM?
DC Homicide and violent crime rates have been DROPPING since the gun laws in the district are being liberalized! Also there are so many places that have near 100% gun ownership that have very few shootings.
It isn’t gun ownership, it’s WHO owns them. You have a place where only criminals own guns, you have a LOT of shootings. You have a place where mostly law abiding citizens have guns and suddenly criminals aren’t as bold.
But oddly the anti-rights people claim all they care about is public safety…yet they ignore when the public actually becomes safer!
Wild Turkey maker reaches 60th year in business
Jimmy Russell strolled into a roomful of tourists, and soon the patriarch of Kentucky bourbon was surrounded by fans, posing for pictures and autographing bottles. The man behind Wild Turkey even took a turn as barkeeper, pouring samples of amber whiskey at the distillery’s visitors’ center.
When Brian Leathers of Hammond, Louisiana, told him he’d been drinking Wild Turkey for years, Russell replied: “I’ve made every drop.”
That was no idle barroom boast. The 79-year-old master distiller known as “Jimmy” to everyone in the bourbon industry has indeed been responsible for every drop of Wild Turkey produced for generations of consumers.
Celebrating his 60th year in the business, Russell has overseen production of about 3 million barrels of bourbon as Wild Turkey’s master distiller – enough to fill about 20 million cases, according to the brand’s parent company, Italian-based Gruppo Campari.
Man, read the whole thing, that’s a cool career story right there. Also because it happens to be my go-to everyday bourbon.
An “Anarchist-Collectivist”
And “Every Individual is part of a Collective” means “Shut up and like your Socialism!”
Heh, even anti-rights “Progressives” are getting sick of the “Progressive” moniker.
Also I’ve never heard of this dude. When I first saw the image I thought it Giovanni Ribisi after a LOOONG bender. I Googled his name, and even Google and wikipedia say he’s a nobody.
Sorry loser, I’m not part of your “Collective”, Fuck off!
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I’m amazed at how dumb this is:
What you mean like this one?
Or do you mean PHYSICALLY protecting women? Not just their rights? Like the right to keep and bear arms? Of course Ms. Smeal is the founder of NOW which believes that women are as powerful and as good as men…until a man physically assaults her, then they need to call a strange man on the telephone to come save her like in an old sexist faerie tale.
Of course all the Bill of Rights applies equally to women as it does men. Hell she used her 1st Amendment rights to malign the 2nd Amendment! As well as her urges for women to not go armed to their physical detriment.
I’m amazed somebody could make a statement so tone-deaf, but I’m more amazed that somebody would then make a graphic, and other people would spread it.
Hey but if anti-gun people were smart, they’d be pro-gun.
Thankfully no death, but damn serious!
A man is accused of putting a 2-year-old Maine toddler in a clothes dryer and turning it on, burning the boy.
WABI-TV ( http://bit.ly/1tFbOs2 ) reports that police say the boy’s mother left him with her boyfriend, **MONSTER**, while she went to work. According to court documents, the Bangor boy suffered second-degree burns on his arms and back and burns and blisters on his feet.
Again with Mommy’s boyfriend! How many times has this come up? What kind of beast puts a baby in the dryer for ANY reason? It doesn’t take much to kill a two-year-old, and this could have EASILY done it. Hear those stories of kids dying in hot cars? What gets hotter? A clothes dryer!
Also to step outside the seriousness, who NEEDS a clothes dryer? I have a clothes line (yes I still use a dryer, I don’t have enough line to dry every sock and pair of underwear I wash, small stuff on nice days go in the dryer) you don’t NEED to dry your clothes in these deadly murder devices.
Oh and also, note that almost everybody has a clothes dryer. My first apartment didn’t have one, but every other place had in-house laundry. Odd how this isn’t an every-day story.
Maybe its the people, not the tool.
