2014-06-11, 07:11
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Anyone interested in America's patterns of gun violence would do well to read a few entries in the "Gun Report" maintained by Joe Nocera and Jennifer Mascia of the New York Times. For over a year they have compiled reports of gun violence from around the country. Here's an excerpt from the report for one weekend last July. From reading the blog off and on over the past year, none of these are unusual events.
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 Most people who own guns own multiple weapons. This is obviously true just given the overall numbers. Estimates place the number of guns in private hands in the US at around 300 million. The survey shows that about a third of the 115 million households in 2010, or 38 million, reported having a gun, so the average gun-owning household has nearly eight guns [= 300/38]. Few households match the single-handgun-for-defense model. Most handgun owners own long guns, though the reverse is less true.
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2014-06-11, 12:17
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
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Gerrymandering of congressional districts deprive voters of their right to good government.
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2014-06-11, 21:36
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...dence-campaign
J.K.Rowling donates money for the anti-independence campaign for Scotland Well, that is unexpected. |
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2014-06-12, 00:42
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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2014-06-12, 01:07
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Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
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Simply because this is only the second time she did this - the first time it was with Gordon Brown and the Labour Party. Rowling has been mostly doing philanthropy works.
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2014-06-12, 01:28
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Arms Windfall for Insurgents as Iraq City Falls:
"The insurgent fighters who routed the Iraqi army out of Mosul on Tuesday did not just capture much of Iraq’s second-largest city. They also gained a windfall of arms, munitions and equipment abandoned by the soldiers as they fled — arms that were supplied by the United States and intended to give the troops an edge over the insurgents." See: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/wo...s-weapons.html ================================================= Al Qaeda Offshoot Captures American Humvees And Transfers Them To Syria: "The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a radical offshoot of al Qaeda, has taken control of Iraq's second largest city. Iraqi police and security forces reportedly fled Mosul prior to the attack, leaving the facilities of the city open for plunder. Mosul was a key area of focus for U.S. forces in an effect to stabilize Iraq, and large amounts of military hardware was left in the city for the Iraqis. Iraq's parliament speaker said that ISIS took control of the city's airport and obtained helicopters. ISIS also took control of U.S. Humvees, which they are now proceeding to send to Syria." See: http://www.businessinsider.com/al-qa...o-syria-2014-6 ================================================= Islamists seize 48 Turks from consulate in Iraq: "Militants seized 48 Turks from the Turkish consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, including the consul-general, three children and several members of Turkey's special forces, a source in the Turkish prime minister's office said." See: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Isl...in-Iraq-356001 ================================================= Iraq’s Terrorists Are Becoming a Full-Blown Army: "The group so extreme it got booted from al Qaeda controls huge swaths of territory. And now ISIS has got the heavy weaponry to back it up." See: http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...own-army.html# ================================================= Exhausted and Bereft, Iraqi Soldiers Quit Fight: "The infantryman and his colleagues were already worn down after six months of fighting militants in western Iraq, men flush with weapons and zeal. Army commanders had no answer for the daily deadly ambushes and no broader strategy for prevailing in the longer war. The final straw was the death of a friend, killed two weeks ago by a sniper’s bullet. The infantryman, Bashar al-Halbousi, deserted, making the same choice as hundreds of other soldiers in his battalion, he said. “The state is weak,” Mr. Halbousi said. “This will be an endless battle.”" See: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/wo...ight.html?_r=0 ================================================= Iraq Said to Seek U.S. Strikes on Militants: "As the threat from Sunni militants in western Iraq escalated last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas, according to Iraqi and American officials. But Iraq's appeals for a military response have so far been rebuffed by the White House, which has been reluctant to open a new chapter in a conflict that President Obama has insisted was over when the United States withdrew the last of its forces from Iraq in 2011." See: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/wo...y.html?hp&_r=0 Last edited by AnimeFan188; 2014-06-12 at 02:27. |
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2014-06-12, 04:03
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
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2014-06-12, 14:53
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: San Francisco
Age: 36
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20 years ago today OJ Simpson was racing down the freeway in his white Ford Bronco. I still remember that the surreal moment on the television. Everyone was watching that day, and in the coming months there was so much speculation as to whether he did it or not followed by OJ mania with books, movies, tv documentaries, catch phrases, and people associated with the case turning into over-night celebrities. Ultimately when the verdict was announced it was clear that racial relations played a huge role for the supporters and detractors. I also recall someone having a bumper sticker that said "Free OJ"
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2014-06-12, 21:17
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Saudi Arabian vandalizes temple statues
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2014-06-13, 00:10
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ontario, Canada
Age: 43
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Another provincial election has been held here in Canada, with Ontario going to the polls on the 12th of June. In a somewhat surprising result, the incumbent Liberals jumped from a minority to a majority government, with their gains coming at the expense of the opposition Progressive Conservatives. (Ironically, the third-placed New Democrats, whose refusal to support the last proposed budget had triggered this election, now find themselves without the means of opposing it once it is re-tabled.)
Notably, Kathleen Wynne is the first woman to be elected as premier in the province, and the first openly gay premier to be voted into office anywhere in Canada. Given the contentiousness of gender and orientation issues in other parts of the world, it should also be noted that neither topic was an issue in this election campaign. What any of this means for the 2015 Canadian federal election remains to be seen. While the Conservative government in Ottawa was somewhat relieved to see the Québec Liberals win a couple of months ago (since that win put the issue of a third sovereignty referendum into the long grass), there is no love lost between them and the Ontario Liberals. (And despite both having the word "liberal" in their respective titles, the Québec and Ontario Liberals are each very much their own parties, with distinct sets of priorities and interests in play.) But there's no guarantee that these results will translate into a better showing for the federal Liberals, or a worse one for the federal Tories or NDP, when the next race for Parliament Hill is settled next year. (I'm not too keen on the voting system over here, though. I'd prefer an Irish-style multi-member single transferable vote setup, rather than the single-seat first-past-the-post system in place at the federal and provincial levels in Canada.)
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2014-06-13, 00:31
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Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
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2014-06-13, 00:55
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Iran Deploys Quds Forces To Support Iraqi Troops, Helps Retake Most
Of Tikrit: "In a stunning development that threatens to further destabilize the Middle East, Iran has deployed an elite unit of its Revolutionary Guard to help the Iraqi government take on ISIS, the Sunni militant group that has seized several areas in the northern part of the country. Two battalions of the Quds Forces are already making progress in their fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, the Wall Street Journal reported. The militant group took control of Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on Wednesday, but Revolutionary Guard and Iraqi troops overtook 85 percent of the city on Thursday, Iraqi and Iranian security forces told the paper." http://www.ibtimes.com/iran-deploys-...tikrit-1599766 ============================================ US airstrikes to support Iranian Revolutionary Guard's offensive in Iraq?: "Iran deployed its Revolutionary Guard to help Iraq battle insurgents from a group inspired by Al-Qaeda, according to a recent report. In the meantime, the US is mulling airstrikes to support the Iraqi government." http://rt.com/usa/165612-us-iran-all...aq-insurgency/ So, if we use airpower to help Iraq, we may end up providing air support to the Iranians? Wow ........ ============================================ The Iraqi Army Was Crumbling Long Before Its Collapse, U.S. Officials Say: "The stunning collapse of Iraq’s army in a string of cities across the north reflects poor leadership, declining troop morale, broken equipment and a sharp decline in training since the last American advisers left the country in 2011, American military and intelligence officials said Thursday." See: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/wo...n-decline.html |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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2014-06-13, 01:04
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Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
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 Not that familiar with Japanese law on such matters, but I imagine you could get sentenced for a pretty uncomfortable length of time for intentionally destroying cultural icons so brazenly. And Japanese prisons aren't exactly comfortable. ...though form the perspective of someone from Saudia Arabia, Japan's judicial sentences probably looked like a cakewalk.
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2014-06-13, 01:26
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NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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I think for him in a Japanese prison, he would have even a tougher time with the 893 Japanese supremacists; he would probably wished he was in his home country's prison given how these people have one-tracked minds minds. It would be more painful than becoming a pleasure tool in an American prison.
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2014-06-13, 06:10
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2014-06-13, 09:21
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Location: Australia
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