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Police Chief's Memo on Supreme Court Ruling
Police Chief Cathy Lanier sent the following memo to District residents yesterday evening in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on the city's gun ban.
From: Lanier, Cathy (MPD)
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:35 PM
Subject: Supreme Court Update
Residents,
Unfortunately,, the Supreme Court today struck down part of the District of Columbia's handgun ban. I wanted to drop you a note to let you know the immediate impact of this decision.
The Supreme Court's ruling is limited and leaves intact various other laws that apply to private residents who would purchase handguns or other firearms for home possession. It is important that everyone know that:
a.. First, all firearms must be registered with the Metropolitan Police Department's Firearms Registration Section before they may be lawfully possessed.

a.. Second, automatic and semiautomatic handguns generally remain illegal and may not be registered.

a.. Third, the Supreme Court's ruling is limited to handguns in the home and does not entitle anyone to carry firearms outside his or her own home.
Lastly, although the Court struck the safe storage provision on the ground that it was too broadly written, in my opinion firearms in the home should be kept either unloaded and disassembled or locked.
I will comply with the Court's reading of the Second Amendment in its letter and spirit. At the same time, I will continue to vigorously enforce the District's other gun-related laws. I will also continue to find additional ways to protect the District's residents against the scourge of gun violence.
Residents who want additional information can visit the Metropolitan Police Website at www.mpdc.dc.gov/gunregistration. Residents with questions are encouraged to contact the Firearms Registration Section at 202-727-9490.
Sincerely,
Cathy Lanier
Chief of Police
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/dc/2008/06/police_chiefs_memo_on_supreme.html

Unforunate for who? Criminals? Socialists? And what brain injury does she have that makes her think a ban on semi auto handguns will pass legal challenge now?



From the FAQ on the effects of the Heller Decision.

Registrants also must be fingerprinted and pass a test regarding knowledge of District gun laws.

A TEST for a constitutional right? sorry I think school might still need to be in session for DC.
http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view.asp?a=1237&q=547431&pm=1

Apparently you can rent goats now.

http://www.goatfinder.com/renting_goats.htm

This would so have trumped personals ads.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080304/ap_on_re_us/obit_gygax

Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.

He had been suffering from health problems for several years, including an abdominal aneurysm, said his wife, Gail Gygax.

Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys, and eventually was turned into video games, books and movies.

Gygax always enjoyed hearing from the game's legion of devoted fans, many of whom would stop by the family's home in Lake Geneva, about 55 miles southwest of Milwaukee, his wife said. Despite his declining health, he hosted weekly games of Dungeons & Dragons as recently as January, she said.

"It really meant a lot to him to hear from people from over the years about how he helped them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, what he gave them," Gail Gygax said. "He really enjoyed that."

Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters and carry out their adventures with the help of complicated rules. The quintessential geek pastime, it spawned a wealth of copycat games and later inspired a whole genre of computer games that's still growing in popularity.

Born Ernest Gary Gygax, he grew up in Chicago and moved to Lake Geneva at the age of 8. Gygax's father, a Swiss immigrant who played violin in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, read fantasy books to his only son and hooked him on the genre, Gail Gygax said.

Gygax dropped out of high school but took anthropology classes at the University of Chicago for a while, she said. He was working as an insurance underwriter in the 1960s, when he began playing war-themed board games.

But Gygax wanted to create a game that involved more fantasy. To free up time to work on that, he left the insurance business and became a shoe repairman, she said.

Gygax also was a prolific writer and wrote dozens of fantasy books, including the Greyhawk series of adventure novels.

Gary Sandelin, 32, a Manhattan attorney, said his weekly Dungeons & Dragons game will be a bit sadder on Wednesday night because of Gygax's passing. The beauty of the game is that it's never quite the same, he said.

Funeral arrangements are pending. Besides his wife, Gygax is survived by six children.

About a week away from being under roof.

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The nice folks that are building our house have finished the concrete work, foundation, footers, crawl space, and driveway.

Pics behind the ( whiners cut )

I am so $%$% sick and tired of this crap. I swear to Christ I will have to bite my tongue till it bleeds to keep from kicking the snot out the first person that tries something like this on me.

This is so big brother its not even #$#$ funny.

Waitress" Im sorry You cant eat here, you are too...."

Waitress spends next 10 minutes trying to flush my spit out of her eye.





Mississippi Pols Seek To Ban Fats
New bill would make it illegal for restaurants to serve the obese
FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, a copy of which you'll find below, is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.

From the Smoking Gun website: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0201081fat1.html

We picked up a 2008 prius today and I am astounding by all the pretty gizmos and gadgets in this car. Actually its kind of 1 big gadget. I drive about 40,000 miles a year, and the little econobox I was using was not the most comfortable or efficient ride out there to say the least.

It has a back up camera? COOL

Not sure how to turn on the radio just yet.

Kinda funny how the red ended up on top for me :)

81% Mitt Romney
78% Fred Thompson
72% Mike Huckabee
72% John McCain
68% Tom Tancredo
65% Ron Paul
57% Rudy Giuliani
37% Bill Richardson
32% Hillary Clinton
31% John Edwards
28% Barack Obama
26% Joe Biden
26% Mike Gravel
24% Chris Dodd
22% Dennis Kucinich

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

I am sure many of you have seen this one, but after realizing that I paid out more in taxes than a lot of people make I felt more true today.


Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until on day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20."Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20,"declared the sixth man. He pointed
to the tenth man," but he got $10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!"

"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Universityof Georgia

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do
not understand, no explanation is possible.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071212/ts_afp/healthscienceskoreacloning

South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, officials said Wednesday.

In a side-effect, the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams.

A team of scientists led by Kong Il-keun, a cloning expert at Gyeongsang National University, produced three cats possessing altered fluorescence protein (RFP) genes, the Ministry of Science and Technology said.

"It marked the first time in the world that cats with RFP genes have been cloned," the ministry said in a statement.

"The ability to produce cloned cats with the manipulated genes is significant as it could be used for developing treatments for genetic diseases and for reproducing model (cloned) animals suffering from the same diseases as humans," it added.

The cats were born in January and February. One was stillborn while two others grew to become adult Turkish Angoras, weighing 3.0 kilogrammes (6.6 pounds) and 3.5 kilogrammes.

"This technology can be applied to clone animals suffering from the same diseases as humans," the leading scientist, Kong, told AFP.

"It will also help develop stemcell treatments," he said, noting that cats have some 250 kinds of genetic diseases that affect humans, too.

The technology can also help clone endangered animals like tigers, leopards and wildcats, Kong said.

South Korea's bio-engineering industry suffered a setback after a much-touted achievement by cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk turned out to have been faked.

The government banned Hwang from research using human eggs after his claims that he created the first human stem cells through cloning were ruled last year to be bogus.

Hwang is standing trial on charges of fraud and embezzlement.

The priest that was the chaplin for my high school was just de-frocked for inappropriate sexual conduct with a minor. It was an all boys school at the time the kid touching took place.


He never came on to me, was I not hot enough for him?

Most recoil junkies like a really big gun.

One outfit decided to take it one step too far.

I present you the .577 tyrannosaur

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_punch

Ive known about this for years, but did it really need a wiki entry?

Is this really something that you just kinda misplace?

Brain Found in Bag Near Richmond, Va.
By Associated Press


RICHMOND, Va. - A brain was found in a bag near an apartment complex Tuesday morning, but it wasn't clear if it was human or animal, police said. It was discovered in an area next to a suburban Richmond apartment complex under construction and near a mall, Richmond police spokeswoman Karla Peters said.

The state medical examiner was examining the brain, she said. It wasn't clear how long it had been there.

"We're waiting for the medical examiner to determine how we should proceed," Peters said.



http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2007/10/09/783796.html&cvqh=itn_braininbag

Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god Tue Sep 4, 3:41 PM ET



Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.

Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due the problem.

The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.

"The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights," said Raju K.C., a senior airline official, without explaining what the problem had been.

Local media last week blamed the company's woes on an electrical fault. The carrier runs international flights to five cities in Asia.

It is common in Nepal to sacrifice animals like goats and buffaloes to appease different Hindu deities

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this thing rocks!

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Today we salute you, “Mr. Maker of Anatomically Aroused Deer Crossing Signs Guy”

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Yes, only you could be smart enough to think it would be funny to draw a fully erect deer member on every deer crossing sign in the States of Pennsylvania and New York. Why just draw a stiff rod on the deer crossing sign across the street from Andy’s Adult Bookstore where it might have generated a laugh or two - OH NO! Why do that, when you can hit every deer crossing sign from Yonkers to Plattsburgh to Pittsburgh.

CHORUS - Mr. Maker of Anatomically Aroused Deer Crossing Signs Guy

That’s right, let everyone know that all the animals of the forest are afraid of randy bucks with viagra induced deer manhoods. That wave of bunnies and foxes running across the highway isn’t driven by a forest fire – ITS ANIMALS FLEEING RANDY BUCKS IN HEAT. The world thanks you Man of Genius for alerting everyone of dangerous raping bucks on the loose in the forest. Bambi was never so terrifying.

Thank God you stopped making payments on your trailer and child support payments to the kids you fathered out of wedlock, and that you weren’t afraid of the State Police and ‘destroying public property’ criminal charges. That way you could get the word out - and motorists on vacation with their 5 year old daughters could be asked the question, “Daddy, what’s that line under the deer on the crossing sign mean?”

Thank you Mr. Maker of Anatomically Aroused Deer Crossing Signs Guy, crack open a nice can of Red Bull energy drink – you are a real American of genius – your impact on the world is to large to consider, and if God were here he would have one thing to say to you –

GET A LIFE!

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