“Howard Dean wants the white trash vote,” wrote Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer in mockery of the Vermonter. “[T]hat’s clearly what [Dean] meant when he said he wanted the votes of ‘guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.’”
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12 shootings related, Ohio investigators believe
Authorities in Ohio now say they believe 12 shootings near Interstate 270 are related. One of the shootings killed a woman as she rode in a car. Law enforcement sources say that while only four shootings have been linked by ballistic evidence, they all “show intention and purpose.”
Productivity Growth Rate Best Since 1983
WASHINGTON — Productivity (search) of U.S. companies rocketed at a 9.4 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the best showing in 20 years, offering an encouraging sign that the economic resurgence will be lasting.
BAGHDAD, Iraq
U.S. forces arrested 34 people and confiscated hordes of guns and weapons in a raid in the northern Iraqi town of Hawija, the military said Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES
Rock star Alice Cooper showed up in full makeup Tuesday to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
KASSEL, Germany
A computer expert accused of killing, dismembering and eating another man who allegedly agreed to the arrangement over the Internet went on trial for murder Wednesday at a court in central Germany.
Boy, 15, Struck crossing street
VALENCIA — A teenage boy was seriously injured Monday when a motorist apparently ran a red light and hit him in a Lyons Avenue crosswalk, sheriff’s deputies and a witness said.
The 15-year-old was thrown about 85 feet just in front of Old Orchard Park, Deputy Roy Henstrand said. His injuries, though, did not appear to be life-threatening, sheriff’s officials said.
Witnesses said the motorist, an unnamed 72-year-old Saugus man, was heading west on Lyons at about 2:15 p.m. and drove straight through the red light at Peachland Avenue as the teen stepped about five feet into the crosswalk, Henstrand said.
The driver told investigators he had taken his eye off the road when a motorist next to him began changing lanes, Deputy Michael Perry said.
Apparently the gentleman who hit him was NOT cited, pending further investigation. What gets me here is not the fact that he is old and hit someone, but that he was not arrested. I am not for any kind of different treatment for the elderly, but when they fuck up and hurt or kill someone, they should be treated as everyone else.
This is going to lead to new rounds of debate of what to do with older drivers and the way they are treated. They should be treated no better or worse than anyone else with a drivers license. Perhaps tougher driver test for EVERYONE should be the ticket. Perhaps a very large fee (around $200-$300) would be the ticket.
Freedom
“Most American warriors subscribe to the words of John Stuart Mill: “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
Supreme Court Refuses to Confirm Constitutional Right to Bear Arms
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court disappointed gun rights groups Monday by refusing to consider whether the Constitution guarantees people a personal right to own a gun.
The court has never said if the right to “keep and bear arms” applies to individuals.
I have a pr0n name!!!
Thanks to these guys I now have an official Pr0n name. Kid Longhorn!! hehehe.