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Clop, clop, clop, bang, bang, bang, clop, clop, clop... (4.00 / 2)

Another Amish drive by shooting.  

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by: Eddie C @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 02:33:48 AM UTC

What is the point (4.00 / 2)

of your post? Amish men are short? The mug shots have nothing to do with any shooting, drive-by or other.

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by: count @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 03:46:39 AM UTC

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Sorry count (4.00 / 2)

It was a sound effect joke. Of course Amish men are the last people you would expect to be involved in a drive by shooting, or any sort of violence for that matter.

Anyway "clop, clop, clop, bang, bang, bang, clop, clop, clop" probably never ever happened and that is why I thought it was funny. Come on now, that's a little funny.

But what did was that eight Amish men were arrested because they refused to attach orange safety triangles to their buggies.

And that's the name of that tune.

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by: Eddie C @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 09:23:55 AM UTC

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I get it! I get it. (4.00 / 1)

It's a joke from the 90s. Kinda mean that those guys were actually arrested for a traffic violation.

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by: Crider @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 18:18:35 PM UTC

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West Nile virus (4.00 / 2)

Lisa Simeone, whom I met years ago when she hosted an exhibition of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, has distinguished herself by becoming Baltimore City's first victim of West Nile virus. She recovered and is OK.

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by: count @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 04:07:25 AM UTC

Awful disease (4.00 / 2)

I got it several years ago. I had a 102° fever that lasted for almost a week. And there was a very nasty neck and headache. Had no medical 'insurance' then or now so I self medicated, first with recently-expired Vicodin leftover from Kate's uterine fibroid surgery. Then with Motrin 800 mg. The fever could be controlled, but when the pill wore off, it would climb right back to 102°. We had a plan to go to the emergency room if it had progressed to meningitis, which seemed to me to be very likely at times!

Then after the fever broke, I had these incredible night sweat episodes for four nights after. I would wake up in the bed around 3 in the morning absolutely soaked. It was so wet I had to get up and go sleep on the couch. Then there was about three weeks of physical weakness. It seemed for a while like I would never get over that.

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by: Crider @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 18:48:23 PM UTC

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Memphis Teacher ordered to remove urban garden (4.00 / 2)

http://www.treehugger.com/file...

As it was, he did a deal with a blancmange, and the blancmange ate his wife.

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by: elfling @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 16:52:15 PM UTC

Nice pics. (4.00 / 1)

I have difficulty seeing what part of the ordinances might be violated, unless city fathers think a lawn is more desirable than food.

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by: count @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 17:11:45 PM UTC

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Heh. (4.00 / 1)

Just got to thinking, and something tells me there's probably some money to be made in a Lawns, Not Food! campaign these days...

;-P

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 17:37:41 PM UTC

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grass (4.00 / 1)

If not loaded with pesticides, lawn grass might be an edible crop.

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by: count @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 17:54:07 PM UTC

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daughter held up at gunpoint Sat night (4.00 / 3)

She's ok and so is the friend she was with. Only in fucking America where 14 year olds have guns  She spent 5 1/2 hours a the police station

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by: LeeN @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 18:53:15 PM UTC

14 (0.00 / 0)

Allowing such people to breed pollutes the gene pool. I have serious reservations about preserving the lives of such vermin.

I hope the person (a guy?) gets caught.

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by: count @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 19:08:11 PM UTC

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Glad to hear your daughter and her friend are okay. (4.00 / 1)

Guns are a scourge. I'm not talking about hunting rifles or guns for target practice. I mean the easy availability of guns to anyone and everyone.

And now the U.S. House is considering a law that would overturn every state law  governing concealed weapons. If it passes, no state will be able to regulate who gets to carry and who does not.

Previous commitment to a mental health facility? No problem, here's a handgun. In trouble with the law for beating up your wife or girlfriend? Don't worry, here's your Glock. Just got out of prison for attempted murder or rape or any other violent crime? Hey, you did your time, and here's your gun.

Why? 'Cause that's just how we roll in the USA.

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by: caseyOR @ Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 20:47:26 PM UTC

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when my daughter was in HS (4.00 / 1)

there was a shooting. A kid who I think was gay and probably bullied, blew his head off with an AK 47. WTF is an AK 47 doing in this neighborhood? Or any for that matter.

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by: LeeN @ Tue Sep 20, 2011 at 11:08:07 AM UTC

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AK47 (4.00 / 1)

When my kids were in high school, they told me AK47s could be purchased on Baltimore streets for $60-$75.

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by: count @ Tue Sep 20, 2011 at 14:29:51 PM UTC

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The problem with most guns used in crime (4.00 / 2)

is that they aren't being used by people with concealed carry (which requires an extensive federal criminal background check) and they aren't buying guns the legal way.

I think that if someone is buying an AK47 on the street, they're not going through a federal background check or a waiting period.

That's why I get irritated when people start talking about limiting the concealed carry people. Kind of like increasing restrictions on who can be a pharmacist in order to control the meth problem.

I still say it's not a gun problem, it's a different social problem. When Harold was a kid, there were guns all over the place and we didn't have people shooting each other. The whole culture was different where he grew up. That's the difference.

Sunday I listened to gun fire all, day, long. Bang, bang, bang. Rapid fire (almost sounded like auto with a big clip), rapid single shot, bang, long pause, bang, long pause, etc. Rifles, shot guns, hand guns. It was like I was living next door to a firing range. Actually I have firing ranges on all sides of me. Am I afraid of being shot? Nope. Now why can I be around all of that activity and not be afraid? It ain't the guns. It's the attitude of the people with the guns that keeps me from being worried.

Restricting guns without changing the culture, that is the attitude of the people, will only cause people to use different weapons. It's not the gun that allows people to hurt each other. It's the ability to see your fellow human as nothing more than so much meat to be gotten rid of and shooting's expedient. Plus, even if we made all the guns illegal, it wouldn't keep the criminals from having and using them.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Wed Sep 21, 2011 at 04:22:49 AM UTC

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sorry (4.00 / 2)

but easy access to guns isn't the whole problem but a BIG PART of the problem. And I've tired of hearing that guns aren't the problem

Two men were picked up while my daughter was in the cop car? They weren't the perps although they cops spent 5 and a half hours trying to convince her they were. And many hours after they were frisked another concealed weapon was found taped to an ankle.

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by: LeeN @ Wed Sep 21, 2011 at 10:09:28 AM UTC

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Yeah, well that's a perfect example (4.00 / 1)

of my point. It's the person's ability to see their fellow humans as nothing more than cattle, to have such a low opinion of their fellows that they would steal from people rather than get a real job. That they would despise people to the point that they could beat or rape a person. That's the problem.

Go ahead and try to take their guns away from them. You appear to think that taking their guns away (which isn't possible in the first place) will make you safe (there were theives and thugs before guns and they were all armed). But you won't be able to. All you'll wind up doing is taking the guns away from the people who aren't a threat to you (the ones who are obeying the law in the first place), and you will do absolutely nothing to keep guns out of the criminals' hands.

England has extremely restrictive gun laws. Do you really think that the criminals in England don't have guns? Show me any country that has highly restrictive gun laws and I'll show you a country in which the criminals are pretty much still all armed.

Restricting access to guns for the law abiding people will do NOTHING to restrict the criminals' access to guns. Those two men the cops picked up while your daughter was in the cop car, do you think they'd obey any gun laws? How many gun laws do you think they were breaking when they were picked up? I mean, unless they have a concealed carry permit or they were carrying open there was a big law they were breaking, if either were convicted of a felony they may have been in possesion illegally, if they weren't legally able to buy a gun on the open market, then they would have gotten their guns on the black market. What part of the existing gun laws do the black market obey now?  

Do you really thing that someone intending to commit a crime with a weapon like that would go out to a gun shop and buy a firearm what would be registered to them, then go out and shoot someone with it? How stupid do you think these people are? That'd be exactly equivalent to someone going out and shooting a person and then leaving a business card. All firearms, with the exception of shot guns, are traceable via balistics.

The fatal flaw in your easy access argument is the assumption that it's even possible to restrict in any meaningful way, criminals' access to firearms.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Wed Sep 21, 2011 at 15:11:27 PM UTC

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It's the end of the world as we know it. (4.00 / 1)

My thoughts on an issue here are actually closer to yours than anyone else's!

:-D

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 06:29:38 AM UTC

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! (4.00 / 2)

Runs and hides.

;-)

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 17:15:50 PM UTC

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This is shameful... (4.00 / 1)

Yuck, shame on my New Jersey Football Giants.

Sam Bradford and the St. Louis Rams offense were running the no-huddle offense on a depleted New [Jersey] Giants defense on Monday night and doing it with great success. Unable to stop the Rams through traditional means like tackling and pass deflecting, the Giants tried a different strategy: faking injuries.

Following an eight-yard run on first down, two Giants players, Deon Grant and Jacquian Williams, simultaneously fell to the ground as the Rams came to the line without a huddle. The phoniness of both injuries was so obvious it was called out in the booth by the usually uncritical ESPN announcing team.

Ironic that one of my teams would do this, since I'm pretty sure they probably picked up the tactic from Oregon's conference opponents last year...

Yuck, stop that.  This 28-16 win is tarnished.

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Tue Sep 20, 2011 at 07:18:22 AM UTC

Winning display at the Heirloom Expo (4.00 / 2)

I wish I had gone to that show.

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by: Crider @ Tue Sep 20, 2011 at 20:33:52 PM UTC

organic productivity (4.00 / 2)

I wonder how much of the shortfall in organic productivity vs. chemical ag productivity, as shown in the USDA survey, is attributable to the predilection of organic farmers to grow heirloom varieties instead of high-yield production varieties.

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by: count @ Thu Sep 22, 2011 at 23:39:58 PM UTC

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I want that black hat. n/t (4.00 / 1)

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 06:32:07 AM UTC

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ah c'mon. (4.00 / 1)

That's some eastern dude. Perhaps from New Jersey.

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by: count @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 07:08:22 AM UTC

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This is a very good horse! (4.00 / 2)

Gutsy Wrangler Huge Horse, Save Boy From Charging Grizzly

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Wed Sep 21, 2011 at 15:47:22 PM UTC

Very good horse... (4.00 / 1)

and a damned fine rider. What a horse! What a woman!

That's a a wonderful story that didn't make the national headlines, but it should have. I'm astonished that it wasn't even reported in either the Flathead Beacon or the Daily Interlake in Kalispell, and only a truncated version was published in the Hungry Horse News. It's picking up steam, though.

"Two weeks ago, I closed the deal and bought him," Bolster said as she was wrapping up her 2011 wrangling season.

"After what he did that day, he had to be mine."

I guess so!

Thanks for that, Joanne. Wow.

I was a logger in huckleberry country  around Hungry Horse in the summer of 1961 or 1962. We didn't see any bears that summer. The only grizzlies I've seen have been actually in the park.

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by: count @ Thu Sep 22, 2011 at 23:20:40 PM UTC

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When I say War Horse (4.00 / 2)

that's the type of horse I'm talking about. A warhorse isn't because of a large body or big hooves. It's heart. And that horse has HEART! He and his rider have a bond that few share in this day and age. And, because of that heart and bond, they were able to save two lives that day. The young rider and his mount.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 00:58:56 AM UTC

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head (4.00 / 1)

Tonk couldn't have done that without her, and she couldn't have done that without Tonk. If there's any justice in the world, Tonk and Erin will become the central characters in an iconic novel or film, and the story really should be in any Top Stories of 2011 list.

Heart and head. What you said is part of it, but can you imagine what that incident must have been like for Erin Bolster? The whole thing probably didn't take more than a barely few whirlwind minutes beginning with her mount being slammed by a fleeing deer. Nobody could have been prepared for that. Then things went to hell from there. She kept her head, she kept track of everything that was happening, she prioritized, she did the necessary. I'd go into the Bob Marshall Wilderness with her any time.

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by: count @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 02:05:42 AM UTC

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Yup! (4.00 / 2)

That's the other end of the equation. In years past, a horseman would have been defined by what Erin did and was able to do. Erin is a 'horseman'. She is a horse warrior, or calveryman(person/woman).  

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 02:50:09 AM UTC

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James Hong (4.00 / 1)

Egad, boys and girls, James Hong has a significant role in a movie scheduled for release in 2013, R.I.P.D.. What a career. An early job was dubbing a couple of characters in Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956, the year after Albert Einstein died). I wonder if he still gets residuals from that.

Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota...He studied civil engineering at the University of Southern California, but later became interested in acting and trained with Jeff Corey. Hong was a road engineer for Los Angeles County for 7½ years, acting during his vacations and sick days. He finally quit engineering for good to devote himself to acting and voice work full time.
...

James Hong also has a daughter, April, whom he coached and supported in her acting career since she began showing great interest in acting, singing, and dancing at the age of 4. Since then she has trained in various acting techniques originating from not only her father, but also Uta Hagen, Constantin Stanislavski, Yale School of Drama, and Viola Spolin.

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by: count @ Thu Sep 22, 2011 at 22:41:17 PM UTC

GOP debate (4.00 / 1)

Tonight's Florida GOP debate was the most interesting so far, I think. I'm pretty sure Rick Perry was drugged up. Of course I can't know if the pharmaceuticals were legal or illicit, but it was an interesting performance.

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by: count @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 03:12:06 AM UTC

Ibogaine! (4.00 / 1)

Rumor is a mysterious Brazilian doctor was brought in by the campaign...

;-P

/ Hunter S. Thompson

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 06:37:11 AM UTC

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R.I.P. Orlando Brown (4.00 / 1)

Former Raven Orlando Brown found dead in Baltimore

Jeff Zrebiec, The Baltimore Sun
5:18 p.m. EDT, September 23, 2011

Brown, the giant offensive tackle known for his mean streak on the field and his loyalty and gentleness off of it, was found dead Friday at his South Baltimore apartment. He was 40 years old and is survived by three sons between the ages of 9 and 15.

The cause of death hasn't been determined, and an autopsy is pending. City police and fire officials confirmed that they were at the former player's apartment at the HarborView complex in South Baltimore and there were no signs of foul play or suspicious activity, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

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by: count @ Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 21:33:27 PM UTC

Wow! (4.00 / 1)

That's WAY to young.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Sat Sep 24, 2011 at 00:58:53 AM UTC

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