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NRA ad: Defend Freedom, Defeat Obama!
Which is worse: 1) making an attempt to legislate a ban/tax on firearms of these kinds which puts it up to be legitimately 'shot down' (hehe) or 2) proclaiming yourself pro-NRA and having your police force take citizens' guns away anyway...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPR9I4KMNI
Seriously. I'm asking. Which is worse?
Well, the NRA actually took that to court and got all the firearms returned. They're also currently fighting in DC over making sure the government follows through after the ban was overturned. So, in the end, the NRA still prevailed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_re_us/katrina_confiscated_guns
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27087738/
Palin abused power, probe finds (Politics Talk Post)
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/10/1531677.aspx
They didn't actually find anything unethical about the firings. The abuse of power claims are based around accusations of her knowlingly allowing her husband to be involved somehow. Problem is they don't seem to have any actual evidence. Just statements that they couldn't prove a personal connection, but since they couldn't disprove one either it must be true. Here's an article from the Anchorage Daily News detailing the trooper that was fired:
http://www.adn.com/politics/story/476430.html
Just about everything that was in question ethically happened even before Palin ran for office. Also, the things Palin claimed caused her to fear this guy were all substantiated by the trooper's record. They had police statements from before Palin even ran for office where Wooten threatened family members and was physically abusive. I think this will only become big if something more concrete comes out of it. Like if it actually makes its way to the Alaska Personnel Board and they find that she actually broke the law (which is unlikely). I would also expect Obama's campaign to run with this too if it really carried any serious weight.
I do like this part of the BBC article since it sums up what I think pretty nicely:
"The US presidential race has now become so polarised both Republicans and Democrats will likely see the report's findings as vindication for their own trenchant views about Mrs Palin, says the BBC's Richard Lister in Washington.
Alaska's governor will either be seen as the victim of a Democratic party hatchet job, or a hypocrite.
Most voters, for now at least, seem more concerned about who will extract them from the current economic crisis, rather than any questions about political infighting in far-off Alaska, our correspondent adds."
Another Good Lightsaber Duel
Added "art of the saber" to the tags at xxovercastxx's suggestion to help cut back on the frequent dupes of this sift.
Art of the Saber - One of the best home made duels ever
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MINK
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*promote
Farhad2000
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*promote for the elections.
Monkey Waiters in Japan!
Not a dupe. This one has reporter narration and interviews that are not in the other video.
Teacher Forgets His Periodic Table...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Science-Class-Lab-Explosion
OJ Waited 13 Years to Hear This Word
Pwnyd
http://www.videosift.com/video/Horse-Takes-Kid-for-a-Ride
Russian gets what he deserved, cruel bastard!!
http://www.videosift.com/video/Horse-1-vs-Jerk-0
October surprise??!! (Election08 Talk Post)
To any asshats who claim this is about Katrina. It seems odd to me to wait how many years before trying to implement this!!
Just because it seems odd to you doesn't make everyone else that followed the news an asshat. Here is an article from 2005 when this first came up. It doesn't seem odd to me at all that it would take the government a long time to actually do something they talked about.
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-09/2005-09-21-voa5.cfm?CFID=43835047&CFTOKEN=69876548
October surprise??!! (Election08 Talk Post)
"Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1385.html
Posse Comitatus means the power (or force) of the country. This refers to raising a militia. It was originally written to stop the government from grabbing able bodied citizens and forcing them into service, or a posse, for the purpose riot control, keeping the peace, arresting criminals, etc. This was part of English common law at the time. Prior to 1878 when the law was originally signed, it was a regular occurance to see the US Army enforcing law. The law was later amended to prohibit the US Army and Air Force from being used to execute law, but it's original purpose was to prevent local governments from forming a posse, or taking control of the military for purposes of law enforcement. Although it can be overridden in situations expressly authorized by the Constitution, or when authorized by Congress. This has happened many times before in the past in the case of disaster relief. For example, in the 1930's the Army Corp of Engineers performed disaster relief operations and aided communities in preventing and repairing flood damage.
http://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/pm/johnlfpp.htm
I'm still trying to find out more information on exactly how this whole dwell-time mission thing began and who is authorizing what. As of now, the article only references training in case they are called up for support. If it is approved by Congress, then they are legally allowed to deploy. Since this has happened in the past without incident, it is reasonable to assume it could happen again. Going on what I know from talking to the unit, they were ready to deploy for Ike, but were never called. I can only assume this means that since Congress didn't say they should go, they didn't go. It would be illegal if they just started deploying without approval since the changes were repealed from the Insurrection Act in January of 2008. I'm not exactly too happy with the idea myself, but I'm not seeing this as the doomsday scenario other people seem to be visualizing. It looks more like a response to continued reports and complaints about Federal shortcomings in aid during recent natural disasters.
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/posse%20comit.htm
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/baker1.html
I Miss Those 1-900 Numbers
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October surprise??!! (Election08 Talk Post)