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Quick search had a couple of hits on sawed off shotguns:

http://bethel.kval.com/content/police-bicyclist-pulls-sawed-shotgun-officers
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20130102/NJNEWS/301020055/Police-Blotter-Criminal-mischief-Madison-sawed-off-shotgun-Long-Valley

Anti-gun people are trying to pick the low-hanging, easy fruit on their slippery slope to out-lawing all firearms.

You advocated that inexpensive models of pistols should be banned, noting that the poor could purchase rifles, which are not suited to concealed carry.

Yep

http://blogs.dailyrecord.com/photojournalist/2009/01/12/photoshop-for-dummies-part-1/

Look, I'm not defending this plan as some kind of good idea. I don't see how the threat of being tweeted about is going to change one fucking mind, when the thing at issue could already cause death, dismemberment, or jail time...

And I'm sorry I'm singling you out, but this thread is full of people saying "WHAT HAPPENED TO INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!? HURR!"

If you get arrested, I can report that you were arrested. I can report the facts of said arrest, and as much as is known about the circumstances of said arrest.

Yes, there are idiots like the Nancy Graces of the world who will try and convict people in the court of public opinion for the purposes of sensationalist journalism, and it's okay as long as they use the word "alleged" every ten minutes or so. Yes, that's within their rights, and the rules of the system, and if you would call that abusing the system, I'd agree.

But seriously, this is more akin to the police blotter in the paper. Only some bureaucrat thinks that since Twitter is the next big thing, that it will revolutionize this kind of thing and OMG SAVE ALL THESE LIVES.

A 28 year old man from Gluttony, TX was arrested by Rangers on Dec 17 while driving on Highway 1 through Sloth, TX.
Rangers charged him with DUI after failing a field sobriety test. The man identified as John Smith was released pending a municipal court appearance.

It's factual. John Smith was pulled over. John Smith was given a field sobriety test. In the judgment of the officer, he failed it. He was not convicted, nor does it say he was. In fact, it says his day in court is pending.

The above is of course made up, but here's some I just pulled up by googling "NJ police blotter"

The Daily Record Police Blotter

This happens all the time, and I don't see it as a violation of any kind of civil liberties. It's just reporting the facts of charges pending. Those charges may or may not stick.

I want to 'friend' journalists I like and trust on facebook and then see their stories

Facebook is prone to as much advertiser and "Quiz/Game/Application" noise as traditional newspapers. Twitter has a big advantage as long as they maintain the 155 character limit. Those 155 characters are enough for a Headline and a Tinyurl Link. That's your pathway for news.

Check out a "Green" blog related to local news that targets Morris County, NJ. There are a handful of real, opinionated, intelligent articles that are balanced by these simple Twitter feeds that bring you to other relevant information.

What I don't understand, while we are on the subject, is "Copy/Paste" journalism. For fucks sake... CNN copies the same spelling and grammar mistakes made by AP/Reuters. Can't they at least get a $10/hr copy editor to screen what they publish? That being said... there is NO VALUE in copying an article and pasting it in your blog. Eventually readers will figure out that you are not a SOURCE of information and they will move elsewhere. The national news sites (CNN, NBC, ABC, Faux News) already provide aggregated world news. Therefore, don't attempt to deliver regurgitated/aggregated news at a local level, unless that news somehow affects the local community.

Have You Killed a PalestinianToday?

May 22, 2009 5 Comments

1. In the good old days when the Summer and Winter Olympics were hosted in some really odd country, Canada for some reason comes to mind, the hosts used to be able to introduce their own sport to the smorgasbord of increasingly ridiculous sporting events that are the fruit of the Olympic Movement as the rich like to call it. So, maybe the Canadians would have introduced curling but they were beaten to this by the French in 1924. Anyway, a host country could push to have one of its sports as a demonstration sport to further the sports popularity.

Embracing the universalist elitism of the Olympic Movement and keeping in step with the mores of globalism, the tuyuur here at Mantiq al-Tayr very much hope that the Olympics will soon be hosted by Israel or by its satellite country, The United States of America. If the games are hosted in the US, then we recommend that waterboarding be introduced as a demonstration sport. In fact, recent events have provided excellent victims to be publically waterboarded by Israeli-trained CIA contractors and the winner would be the one who gets the most outrageous confession from these four morons who were set up by the FBI. (While Rosen and Weissman get off. Oh, and where the hell is Edward Mosberg? An email from Mantiq al-Tayr to the author of the article sent two days ago asking if Mosberg has come back to the US or not remains unanswered.)

However, in the interests of providing a really entertaining demonstration sport that will stimulate the loins of everyone from AIPAC to Judith Miller, we here at Mantiq al-Tayr held a minyan and bobbed our heads up and down begging Shadai to have the Olympics held in Israels eternal capital (no, not New York you smart asses), Jerusalem.

The Israeli national pass time is finding creative ways to murder Palestinian men, women and children. They are very good at it and probably would take the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals. Still, its great fun and Im sure that the US and the UK would at least give the Izzies a run for their money that they took from us.

So, for example, lets take the case of Israeli Border patrolmen Shachar Butbika and Dennis al-Hazub. They won a gold medal in 2002 for abducting a 17 year old Palestinian boy, beating the shit out of him, and then kicking him off the top of their patrol car as it roared down the road at 80 kph. His head smashed into the pavement and the impact killed him. What made this one even more fun was that the boy violated Israeli law by resisting their efforts to toss him off the patrol car kind of like a battle you have when you catch a big fish and real it in. Hahaha-Aretz reports:

He was beaten by Butbika and then forced to jump from the moving vehicle. He resisted, holding onto the jeeps roof, but was eventually forced out. One of the officers shouted hes dead. They drove away, without offering medical assistance, and tried to eliminate the evidence.

The 17 year old boys name is: 'Imran Abu Hamdiya

Here is a photo of him.

Imran Abu Hamdiya

Butbika and al-Hazub also won the silver medal that day as well. For earlier in the day they picked up another Palestinian youth, 20 year old Alaa Sankrut. Sankrut

was hauled onto the jeep, driven to a discreet location and kicked and beaten with a pickaxe handle, sustaining skull fractures

Unfortunately, Butbika and al-Hazub fucked up and the guy lived, much to the

There was an AP investigation a few weeks back about how frequently the state & federal governments publicly announce huge fines that they have no intention of collecting -- http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A ID=/20060326/BUSINESS/603260365/1003

Hell, why not announce an 800 Quadrillion dollar fine? That'll show the public we're serious! Of course, you're off the hook if you can cough up $5,000 or so...

Sounds like a nice analysis in theory, but in practice the ones making the really big bucks (the "$3M to toss a ball around" quarterback type) don't EVER stop earning (commercials, endorsements, speeches/conventions, broadcasting, etc). The ones who didn't make the big bucks can't afford to retire after 4 years of work (the average NFL career) any more than you or I.

I know a couple guys from college who played pro football - I would be surprised if they ever made more than $300k a year for all of the 3-4 years they played before getting injured and/or cut. Luckily they were smart guys who actually got something out of their free college education so went onto I-banking, various entrempeneurial activities, managing family business, etc. But the majority of ex-players who weren't as educated or connected can have a really hard time...

Relevent article on this from last week:

http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A ID=/20060129/SPORTS/601290350/1002

New Orleans ring any bells ?

still at least there is free wifi, that helps when you have (whats left of) a population who lost every single thing they owned

As for human rights, Guantanamo bay ? CIA torture flights ? Corrupt Politicans ? Fake News ?, Poverty ? Chemical Weapons ?

sure China has problems, but take that plank out of your eye first

http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/articles/news2-las er.htm

Apparently it was a "laser pointer" the guy bought off of the internet? Personally, I have not seen any green laser pointers...