The NRA wants open carry in schools, churches and playgrounds … but for their own National convention?
“All guns on the convention floor will be nonoperational, with the firing pins removed, and any guns purchased during the NRA convention will have to be picked up at a Federal Firearms License dealer, near where the purchaser lives, and will require a legal identification.”
Hypocrites. 😦
Remind me never to watch Ultimate Fighting. Again.
It’s too brutal. I don’t like the high risk of concussion.
FOX National News is the worst.
They care only for ratings. If you don’t like FOX News (unfair and unbalanced), boycott.
A friend just bought a Surface Pro 3 at Costco. Not Future Shop.
Costco has less selection, but better prices. Simpler pricing.
One example.
Costco deal on Feb 1, 2015 $1,201.19
– What it includes:
• Surface Pro 3 – Intel® Core™ i5 Processor, 128GB storage2 with 4GB RAM
• Windows 8.1 Pro
• Surface Pen – for the best writing and drawing experience on a tablet
• Surface Pro Type Cover (black) – designed exclusively for Surface Pro 3, the revolutionary click-in keyboard also protects your display
• Office 365 Personal – a 1 year subscription3 to the latest versions of the best-in-class applications that you know and love like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote
The cost to match that at Future shop is $1,240.24. – about $40 more.
Buying online is much more complicated at Future Shop. In store, Future Shop spends more time upselling you. And confusing you with complicated and seemingly random discounts IF you buy a warranty.
Bottom line: Shop Costco over Future Shop, if you can.
In the late ’90s, Smith & Wesson was facing a major lawsuit filed by cities and states that blamed the company for rampant gun violence. The company stood to lose millions.
So in 2000, under pressure from the Clinton administration, Smith & Wesson’s chief executive, Ed Schultz, made a fateful decision — and raised the ire of the powerful National Rifle Association and its supporters. …
Click PLAY or see what happened next on YouTube.
On 11 May 2001, Saf-T-Hammer Corporation acquired Smith & Wesson Corp. from Tomkins plc for US$15 million, a fraction of the US$112 million originally paid by Tomkins. Saf-T-Hammer assumed US$30 million in debt, bringing the total purchase price to US$45 million …
In December 2014, Smith & Wesson Holding announced it was paying $130.5 million for Battenfeld Technologies, a Columbia, Missouri-based designer and distributor of hunting and shooting accessories. The company made the acquisition with the eventual intent to merge all its existing Smith & Wesson, M&P and Thompson Center Arms accessories into a single division
Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United.
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays … far from what our democracy is supposed to be. …
Citizens United was a terrible ruling. Most people asked to think about the issue for 10 seconds conclude that it’s a bad idea.
An ABC–Washington Post poll conducted February 4–8, 2010, showed that 80% of those surveyed opposed (and 65% strongly opposed) the Citizens United ruling, which the poll described as saying “corporations and unions can spend as much money as they want to help political candidates win elections“.
wikipedia – criticisms of Citizen’s United
So why do so many politicians, especially Republicans, support Citizens United?
Because they can only get elected with money handed them by corporate lobbyists.
I don’t see how U.S. politicians can get out of this trap. They must sell their souls to corporations in order to get elected. 😦
I love the internet.
I love social networks.
I don’t love addicts using their mobile devices too much in public.
National Geographic’s 2014 Photo of the Year
Perhaps I’ll stay mobile phoneless. I don’t want this addiction.
Of the crappy Canadian companies, Wind Mobile comes out best value in a recent survey.
I’m most interested in “International Roaming“, especially their UNLIMITED US ROAMING ADD-ON for $15 / month.
I’ll go visit Wind Mobile when I get back to Calgary. To see if they can convince me to sign on.
If not … I’m very happy with NO PHONE. 🙂
I used DHL for a very important shipment Nepal to Canada, Canada back to Nepal.
Waybill: 6046895223
Shipment Accepted ONTARIO SERVICE AREA, ON – CANADA
Monday, November 10, 2014 at 15:29
But it was not delivered to me in Kathmandu until … Sunday, November 16, 2014 at 14:09
Total 6 days. I was expecting 2-3 days.
It was on the delivery truck Friday 14th. All day. At 17:48 the note went up online “Address information needed; contact DHL“. We phoned instantly, only to be told that Saturday was a holiday. No delivery until Sunday. 😦
I complained by email, noting that hotels in Kathmandu do not have street address numbers. We gave DHL the best available address.
Pralhad from DHL Nepal did email me back. I appreciated this:
Please accept our sincere apologies for any trouble or inconvenience caused to you, due to this unfortunate incident.
We would like to inform you that given contact number on airway bill was incorrect to contact you and locate your address. Now it is sorted out and will be delivered around 2pm today.
I won’t use DHL again.
I’m sick again in Kathmandu. 😦 Everyone tourist gets sick here, actually.
Catching up on the interwebs.
___ original post from Nov 2009:
I’ve always exalted the mystical, magical capital of Nepal.
Sadly, fact is, it’s a hellhole.
Everyone in the polluted city is sick. Sick with respiratory problems. And worse.
The rivers are trashed. I hear that cremations are being discouraged, but there are still corpses in the water.
Everyone you meet is coughing, horking and spitting. The valley holds air pollution.
Tap water makes people sick. There are electrical brown outs almost every night. Can’t they generate hydro-electricity in the Himalayas?
I studied the trash removal system. There is one, actually. But it’s hopelessly bad.
As in India, best case scenario is to feed your paper to a sacred cow.
The only “progress” I can see over the past 11yrs is that the first KFC / Pizza Hut just opened. Is that progress?
I want to blame the Mayor for not improving this city … but Wikipedia tells me there is no mayor of Kathmandu at the moment.
Why am I not surprised.
Rick McCharles 