From a post published four days ago by Malcolm Pollack:
In Chicago, a city of 2.7 million people, fewer than 8,000 people are licensed to own a gun – less than 0.3%. The city’s gun-homicide rate is about 18 per 100,000. In Vermont, by contrast, where 42% of the population are gun owners, the rate of gun murders in 2010 was 0.3 per 100,000. So Chicago has a gun-homicide rate about 60 times Vermont’s, despite Vermonters being 150 times as likely to own a gun. To put that another way, in Chicago the ratio of the gun-homicide rate to the percentage of citizens who legally own guns is nine thousand times higher than it is in Vermont.
I’d commented in yesterday’s Reader Tips thread regarding this event, today I read the additional info that Lois Lerner is a friend, and had worked with today’s hard drive failure not in your regular news:
“The Federal Election Commission recycled the computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner’s — hindering an investigation into Sands’ partisan political activities, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Sands resigned from the Federal Election Commission in April after she admitted to violating the Hatch Act, which bars executive branch employees from engaging in partisan political activities on federal time and at federal facilities.
The twist is that Sands also worked under Lois Lerner when the ex-IRS agent — who is currently embroiled in a scandal over the targeting of conservative political groups — worked at the FEC’s enforcement division.”
and…
“Dear every single Republican ever, When will U learn that Barack Hussein Obama is simply smarter than U? Stand down, Signed #Obama2012 #p2,” Sands wrote on May 1, 2012.
In a message fro Aug. 25, 2012, Sands called Republicans her “enemy.”
In others, Sands issued fundraising pleas on behalf of Obama. “Our #POTUS’s birthday is August 4. He’ll be 51. I’m donating $51 to give him the best birthday present ever: a second term,” she wrote on July 18, 2012.” http://theuniversalspectator.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/b-s-meter-is-pinned-lois-lerners-former-fec-pal-under-investigation-claims-her-computer-crashed-too/
Are you seeing a trend?
Why the oil train derailed and exploded in LeMegantic, QC.
“The Wall Street Journal reported this week that producers of oil in the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas have invested hundreds of millions of dollars the past few years to “stabilize” the light sweet crude they extract and make it safer to transport, primarily by pipeline to Gulf Coast refineries. And then the Journal said: “In North Dakota’s Bakken Shale oil field, nobody installed the necessary equipment. The result is that the second-fastest growing source of crude in the U.S. is producing oil that pipelines often would reject as too dangerous to transport.” It’s Bakken oil that passes through Schenectady several times a day on CSX unit trains.” http://cs.trains.com/trn/b/fred-frailey/archive/2014/07/12/why-can-39-t-bakken-oil-be-made-safer.aspx?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TRN_News_NonSub_140714_Final&utm_content=
Are there any other model train enthusiasts out there?
Chow Times & Jack’s Bicycle Repair Shoppe News.
“A guy had wedged his bike half in the door and half in the aisle, blocking passengers.”
“You can’t bring a bike on the streetcar during rush hour,” I told the cyclist. “Yes I can,” he replied.”
…-
“‘This streetcar is unbearable’: Overcrowding, disinterested drivers part of the rolling horrors on Queen”
“A guy had wedged his bike half in the door and half in the aisle, blocking passengers. No one said a word. Most windows were shut. The streetcar stank” http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/14/overcrowded-streetcars-disinterested-drivers-part-of-the-rolling-horror-show-on-queen/
Why the oil train derailed and exploded in LeMegantic, QC.
The train did not derail because of the type of oil it was carrying. Other trains carry that oil every day without derailing. The train derailed because it was going too fast for the curve. It was going too fast because the engineer failed to follow Canadian safety regs to correctly immobilize the train when he left it unattended.
The nature of the cargo certainly did contribute to the extent of destruction AFTER the train derailed.
“The train did not derail because of the type of oil it was carrying.”
Yes, I realized that much later after my post. However, the oil the train was carrying was not stabilized. I suspect that the stabilization process will be expanded to include all types of oil.
Pipelines are much safer than trains for transporting crude oil.
“Bring me my bow”
“No, we haven’t given up the ghost. Just a little more fever. (This website was knocked off the Internet for the last six days; hardly for the first time.) Be assured, gentle reader, that we do not surrender our ghosts, in the High Doganate. Nor throw in our towels, except to the laundry. Verily, we cling to our ghosts, up here, along with our guns and our bibles.” http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/
” Our thuggish prime minister pumps his chest while people die in Gaza. He may think there are votes to be had by cheering on Netanyahu from the sidelines, but leadership is about trying to find ways to lessen the conflict,”
Charlie Angus, on his facebook page, now removed.
Angus trolled for votes with his best friend Chief Spence for months. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/john-baird-condemns-hamas-rejection-of-ceasefire-with-israel-1.2707646
BTW, Justin Trudeau has finally weighed in on the conflict. This must upset his best friend Omar Alghabra.
Very late, and yet to be clarified, but good on him anyways.
“Israel has the right to defend itself and its people. Hamas is a terrorist organization and must cease its rocket attacks immediately. ”
When the Prophet does it, that means it’s not illegal
————————————
MONTREAL — A chiropractor was fined $1,000 earlier this month for asking a 15-year-old patient to marry him.
Verret claimed he initially “thought he was acting properly” given that he and the girl are both Muslim. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/07/15/21808436.html
AGW Regress Report.
Q: Who’s on home, Bud? A: “polar air” July 2014, Lou.
“Minneapolis, home of the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, set a record low maximum temperature of 65 on Monday, breaking the old record of 68 set in 1884.”
…-
“Autumnlike Chill to Expand From Midwest to South, East”
“A summertime version of the polar vortex will continue to set record low temperatures in the Plains and Midwest this week.”
“Nearly a dozen cities across the Plains set or tied record lows Tuesday morning including Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Rapid City, South Dakota; and Dodge City, Kansas.
The polar air will continue to expand southward over the Plains, eastward across the Midwest and will touch the interior South and Appalachians.” http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/midwest-to-feel-septemberlike/30357926
Post by EBD on 7-14-13.
Easter weekend… Nine people have been killed and a further 32 injured in weekend shootings in Chicago which started on Friday afternoon and lasted until Monday morning. Five of the injured are children…Since the beginning of the year, 288 people have been the victims of shootings in Chicago. In 2013, more than 2,100 were involved in shootings. http://rt.com/usa/dead-injured-chicago-violence-820/
Victor Davis Hanson: Our Roost, Obama’s Chickens.
DOJ investigates Nebraska parade float critical of Obama.
Can you imagine seeing, six or eight years ago, the headline “DOJ investigates Nebraska parade float critical of Bush”?
Me neither.
Mark Steyn: The Outhouse of American Liberty.
From a post published four days ago by Malcolm Pollack:
Glorious
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-by-howard-zinn-and-noam-chomsky-recorded-summer-2002-for-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-platinum-series-extended-edition-dvd-part-one
Palestinian envoy to the UN Human Rights Council says that “each and every” rocket fired by Hamas is a “crime against humanity.”
Please check out PM Harper’s rebuke of Obama and the UN. His leadership in voicing the obvious regarding Israel vs Hamas Is encouraging.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/14/Canada-s-Harper-Condemns-Obama-and-West-for-Not-Supporting-Israel
I’d commented in yesterday’s Reader Tips thread regarding this event, today I read the additional info that Lois Lerner is a friend, and had worked with today’s hard drive failure not in your regular news:
“The Federal Election Commission recycled the computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner’s — hindering an investigation into Sands’ partisan political activities, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Sands resigned from the Federal Election Commission in April after she admitted to violating the Hatch Act, which bars executive branch employees from engaging in partisan political activities on federal time and at federal facilities.
The twist is that Sands also worked under Lois Lerner when the ex-IRS agent — who is currently embroiled in a scandal over the targeting of conservative political groups — worked at the FEC’s enforcement division.”
and…
“Dear every single Republican ever, When will U learn that Barack Hussein Obama is simply smarter than U? Stand down, Signed #Obama2012 #p2,” Sands wrote on May 1, 2012.
In a message fro Aug. 25, 2012, Sands called Republicans her “enemy.”
In others, Sands issued fundraising pleas on behalf of Obama. “Our #POTUS’s birthday is August 4. He’ll be 51. I’m donating $51 to give him the best birthday present ever: a second term,” she wrote on July 18, 2012.”
http://theuniversalspectator.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/b-s-meter-is-pinned-lois-lerners-former-fec-pal-under-investigation-claims-her-computer-crashed-too/
Are you seeing a trend?
The cost of groping children and little old ladies is going up.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/tsa-security-fees-set-big-leap-article-1.1866216
California may not even need the “big one” to destroy it. The entertainment factor should be just as good and the loss of life would be minimal. I don’t doubt Mexico is studying the impact and whether or not they should allow it.
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Six-Californias-backers-say-it-s-heading-for-5621377.php
RE: Chicken video.
Love the line about ”necks and backs.”
That`s what the people of Canada are going to get once the native activists and lawyers are done with the Northern Gateway pipeline.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/northern-gateway-pipeline-first-nations-outline-constitutional-challenges-1.2706376
A Fractured Leghorn
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvn8vt_a-fractured-leghorn_shortfilms
Why the oil train derailed and exploded in LeMegantic, QC.
“The Wall Street Journal reported this week that producers of oil in the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas have invested hundreds of millions of dollars the past few years to “stabilize” the light sweet crude they extract and make it safer to transport, primarily by pipeline to Gulf Coast refineries. And then the Journal said: “In North Dakota’s Bakken Shale oil field, nobody installed the necessary equipment. The result is that the second-fastest growing source of crude in the U.S. is producing oil that pipelines often would reject as too dangerous to transport.” It’s Bakken oil that passes through Schenectady several times a day on CSX unit trains.”
http://cs.trains.com/trn/b/fred-frailey/archive/2014/07/12/why-can-39-t-bakken-oil-be-made-safer.aspx?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TRN_News_NonSub_140714_Final&utm_content=
Are there any other model train enthusiasts out there?
Chow Times & Jack’s Bicycle Repair Shoppe News.
“A guy had wedged his bike half in the door and half in the aisle, blocking passengers.”
“You can’t bring a bike on the streetcar during rush hour,” I told the cyclist. “Yes I can,” he replied.”
…-
“‘This streetcar is unbearable’: Overcrowding, disinterested drivers part of the rolling horrors on Queen”
“A guy had wedged his bike half in the door and half in the aisle, blocking passengers. No one said a word. Most windows were shut. The streetcar stank”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/14/overcrowded-streetcars-disinterested-drivers-part-of-the-rolling-horror-show-on-queen/
Why the oil train derailed and exploded in LeMegantic, QC.
The train did not derail because of the type of oil it was carrying. Other trains carry that oil every day without derailing. The train derailed because it was going too fast for the curve. It was going too fast because the engineer failed to follow Canadian safety regs to correctly immobilize the train when he left it unattended.
The nature of the cargo certainly did contribute to the extent of destruction AFTER the train derailed.
Woe is us….
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/climate-change-may-increase-risk-of-kidney-stones-study-1.1911313
What next?!?
Idiots!
“The train did not derail because of the type of oil it was carrying.”
Yes, I realized that much later after my post. However, the oil the train was carrying was not stabilized. I suspect that the stabilization process will be expanded to include all types of oil.
Pipelines are much safer than trains for transporting crude oil.
“Bring me my bow”
“No, we haven’t given up the ghost. Just a little more fever. (This website was knocked off the Internet for the last six days; hardly for the first time.) Be assured, gentle reader, that we do not surrender our ghosts, in the High Doganate. Nor throw in our towels, except to the laundry. Verily, we cling to our ghosts, up here, along with our guns and our bibles.”
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/
” Our thuggish prime minister pumps his chest while people die in Gaza. He may think there are votes to be had by cheering on Netanyahu from the sidelines, but leadership is about trying to find ways to lessen the conflict,”
Charlie Angus, on his facebook page, now removed.
Angus trolled for votes with his best friend Chief Spence for months.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/john-baird-condemns-hamas-rejection-of-ceasefire-with-israel-1.2707646
BTW, Justin Trudeau has finally weighed in on the conflict. This must upset his best friend Omar Alghabra.
Very late, and yet to be clarified, but good on him anyways.
“Israel has the right to defend itself and its people. Hamas is a terrorist organization and must cease its rocket attacks immediately. ”
When the Prophet does it, that means it’s not illegal
————————————
MONTREAL — A chiropractor was fined $1,000 earlier this month for asking a 15-year-old patient to marry him.
Verret claimed he initially “thought he was acting properly” given that he and the girl are both Muslim.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/07/15/21808436.html
Use Fontana and Liberal Librano$ and Mamma Mia in a sentence.
“Joe Fontana, the former mayor of London, Ont., who was convicted of fraud-related offences from his time as a federal Liberal cabinet minister,…”
H/T Liberal Justine.
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“Joe Fontana cries to judge before four-month conditional sentence handed down, former London, Ont. mayor says he was ‘very, very stupid’”
“He began to sob as he mentioned that the fraud took place shortly after his mother’s death.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/15/joe-fontana-cries-to-judge-before-four-month-conditional-sentence-handed-down-former-london-ont-mayor-says-he-was-very-very-stupid/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
AGW Regress Report.
Q: Who’s on home, Bud? A: “polar air” July 2014, Lou.
“Minneapolis, home of the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, set a record low maximum temperature of 65 on Monday, breaking the old record of 68 set in 1884.”
…-
“Autumnlike Chill to Expand From Midwest to South, East”
“A summertime version of the polar vortex will continue to set record low temperatures in the Plains and Midwest this week.”
“Nearly a dozen cities across the Plains set or tied record lows Tuesday morning including Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Rapid City, South Dakota; and Dodge City, Kansas.
The polar air will continue to expand southward over the Plains, eastward across the Midwest and will touch the interior South and Appalachians.”
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/midwest-to-feel-septemberlike/30357926
Post by EBD on 7-14-13.
Easter weekend…
Nine people have been killed and a further 32 injured in weekend shootings in Chicago which started on Friday afternoon and lasted until Monday morning. Five of the injured are children…Since the beginning of the year, 288 people have been the victims of shootings in Chicago. In 2013, more than 2,100 were involved in shootings.
http://rt.com/usa/dead-injured-chicago-violence-820/