[An Nahar] British researchers on Saturday unveiled a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge, saying the ancient stone circle was originally a graveyard and venue for mass celebrations.
The findings would overturn the long-held belief that Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in southwestern England was created as a Stone Age astronomical calendar or observatory.
A team led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson of University College London said Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is both older and had a different function than previously thought.
"In many ways our findings are rewriting the established story of Stonehenge," Parker Pearson said.
The archaeologists carried out a decade of research which included excavations, laboratory work and the analysis of 63 sets of ancient human remains.
They said the original Stonehenge appeared to have been a graveyard for elite families built around 3000 BC, 500 years earlier than the site that is famous today.
The remains of many cremated bodies were marked by the bluestones of Stonehenge, Pearson said.
Further analysis of cattle teeth from 80,000 animal bones excavated from the site also suggest that around 2500 BC, Stonehenge was the site of vast communal feasts.
These would have been attended by up to one tenth of the British population at one time in what Parker Pearson said resembled "Glastonbury festival and a motorway building scheme at the same time."
It seemed that ancient people traveled to celebrate the winter and summer solstices but also to build the monument, he said.
"Stonehenge was a monument that brought ancient Britain together," he said.
"What we've found is that people came with their animals to feast at Stonehenge from all corners of Britain -- as far afield as Scotland."
He said it appeared to be the "only time in prehistory that the people of Britain were unified."
Unesco describes Stonehenge as the most architecturally sophisticated prehistoric stone circle in the world.
But archaeologists have long argued about its importance to the people who built it, ranging from a place of astronomy to one of human sacrifice.
The researchers said their findings also gave a clue to why the monument stopped being used -- another mystery that has baffled archaeologists.
The earlier timeline they propose suggests that Stonehenge was built before the arrival of the "Beaker people" who brought with them a less centralized political culture.
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"Stonehenge was a monument that brought ancient Britain together," he said.
Foudn carved on rocks therein and translated:
Thar's no place that I'd rather be than rite hear,
Blue necks, white skin, warm primitive beer.
British researchers on Saturday unveiled a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge, saying the ancient stone circle was originally a graveyard and venue for mass celebrations.
The findings would overturn the long-held belief that Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in southwestern England was created as a Stone Age astronomical calendar or observatory.
What an idiotic, simplistic mindset. It could easily have been both.
Quick -- was a Crusader fortress a military or a religious institution?
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Ship, we're talking about a time period before the British invented beer warmers.
[Chicago Tribune] It sure wasn't the hole-in-one Mark Mihal had in mind.
While golfing with friends at the Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Ill, Mihal, 43, a mortgage broker from Creve Coeur, Ill abruptly dropped into the ground on the fairway of the 14th hole. It was the first time a person -- and not a ball -- has disappeared beneath the turf in the course's 20-year history.
It also was the first time in the memory of folks who study sinkholes in Illinois that a person has fallen into one.
"I was standing in the middle of the fairway," Mihal said Monday. "Then, all of a sudden, before I knew it, I was underground."
Mihal said he fell into the mud floor of an enclosure shaped like a bell, up to 18 feet deep and 10 feet wide. The rescue was precarious, he said, because no one knew whether the surface hole would grow or the enclosure would collapse.
A companion called the course's pro shop, where general manager Russ Nobbe gathered some rope and a ladder and rushed to the rescue. Mihal had dislocated his shoulder, so Ed Magaletta, a friend and a real estate agent, climbed down and put a rope around Mihal's waist so he could be hoisted to safety.
The rescue took less than 20 minutes, but Mihal said his mind quickly went to an incident two weeks ago in Seffner, Fla., where a sleeping man dropped into a huge sinkhole that opened beneath his bedroom. Authorities never recovered the body of that victim, Jeffrey Bush, 36.
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"take the penalty and the drop or chip out?"
Questions, questions
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DUBAI Kuwait has expressed dismay to the United Nations over a protest by stone-throwing Iraqis against the demarcation of the border, state media reported, underlining lingering tensions between the Arab neighbours a decade after Saddam Hussein was overthrown.
Iraq formally accepted a UN-demarcated border line in 1994 after the first Gulf War when Iraqi strongman Saddam sent his troops into Kuwait in 1990 and was forced out by a US-led coalition. But many Iraqis in the area remain opposed to it, saying the line robbed them of property and territory.
Now's as good a time as any to remember that the Iraqis and the Kuwaitis have never been the best of friends...
Iraqi police sources said the protesting crowd hurled stones at Iraqi security forces in the border town of Um Qasr on Monday, prompting the security forces to fire in the air to disperse them. The unrest was triggered by border signs maintenance work nearby, they said.
Kuwaiti border guards, hearing the gunshots and believing they were being targeted, opened fire at Iraqi security forces in response, Kuwaiti media reported. There were no reports of casualties on either side.
Great. Just great. Our advisors have been training both sides for how long now and neither can hit the broad side of a barn?
Kuwaits Foreign Ministry undersecretary, Khalid Al Jarallah, said his country has submitted a memorandum to the United Nations and to Iraq over the incident, according to Kuwaits state news agency KUNA.
We have issued a statement expressing our dismay over the irresponsible act, he said. It is an act that runs counter to the nature of brotherly relations between Kuwait and Iraq.
Kuwait pulled its border guards out of the area after the incident to calm the situation, Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported on its website.
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[An Nahar] The United States on Tuesday said it took "note" of an overwhelming vote by Falkland Islanders to remain a British territory, but refused once again to take sides in the dispute with Argentina.
"The residents have clearly expressed their preference for a continued relationship with the United Kingdom," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
"That said, we obviously recognize that there are competing claims. Our formal position has not changed. We recognize the de facto UK administration of the islands, but we take no position on sovereignty claims." "Present..."
The islanders organized the two-day vote in response to increasingly bellicose sovereignty demands by Argentine President Cristina Kirchner.
A near unanimous 99.8 percent of the 1,672 eligible voters in the disputed South Atlantic archipelago voted to stay a British territory, according to official results, with a 92 percent turnout. Only three of the 1,517 valid ballots cast voted "no."
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See RELATED BIG NEWS NETWORK > ARGENTINA: MALVINAS REFERENDUM A MEANINGLESS STUNT.
By most accounts, the Argentinian armed forces isn't what it was back in the early 1980's during "FALKLANDS I" - iff true, then the Argies will likely be unable to initiate any major milaction unless BRAZIL = MERCUSOR BLOC joins them in war agz the UK???
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Don't offer Diego Garcia to the Chinese: they'll accept and Obama will bow to them, then withdraw...
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So how's the White House doing on the 'Reconquesta' movement to return California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico lands to Mexico? You think London should issue a 'not taking sides' statement on that?
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bigjim, if that is really what you think then come to San Diego and cross the border into Tijuana. Then you will see how much worse California could be. Not that we're not headed in that direction.
(March 12, 2013) China may be the worlds biggest cyberspace aggressor, but security specialists say Chinas computer-controlled infrastructure is more vulnerable to cyber-attacks and to malfunctioning domestic software than are Western systems. Read Patricia Adams piece in the Huffington Post on why Chinas dams are vulnerable to both.
By Patricia Adams for Huffington Post Canada
When Chinas top generals warned against building the Three Gorges Dam in the 1980s, fearing it would become a strategic target for Chinas enemies, they imagined the weapon of choice would be dam buster bombs.
Now, 25 years later, as the threat of cyber warfare grows, Chinas military men must worry about modern day weapons malicious software infiltrating computers that control critical systems like pumps, motors, alarms, and valves that could allow an attacker to take control of the worlds largest dam, along with other critical infrastructure.
This nightmare scenario isnt just the material of spy thrillers.
In 2010, when Stuxnet, a computer virus dubbed the worlds first cyber superweapon, infected Siemenss control systems and caused Irans nuclear centrifuges to spin out of control, it also attacked six million computers and nearly 1,000 industrial control systems in China, according to Beijing-based antivirus service provider Beijing Rising International Software. Siemens, a German multinational, is one of Chinas biggest overseas suppliers of industrial computers.
While the China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center downplayed the malware threat, saying that no severe damage had been reported, according to the South China Morning Post, neither Beijing nor Siemens would provide a full list of the industrial facilities affected by the virus. Nevertheless, it is widely known that Siemenss control system is used throughout China by airports, railways (including the Shanghai Maglev), nuclear power plants, and the Three Gorges Dam.
Others were less sanguine about the threat. Professor Sun Jianping, a hydropower expert who led a study on the reliability and stability of the generators at the Three Gorges Dam, told the South China Morning Post: If someone hacks into the system and takes over, we will be blinded and disabled. It could cause more destruction than a bomb. According to U.S. hydrologist Dr. Philip Williams, catastrophic dam failure at Three Gorges would rank as one of historys worst man-made disasters.
To the best of anyones knowledge, Stuxnet did no harm to the Three Gorges Dam or other industrial facilities in China. But it was a wake-up call. Alarm bells have been sounded in almost every key industrial sector steel, energy, transport This has never happened before, Wang Zhantao , a network security engineer with Beijing Rising International Software told the South China Morning Post.
Chinas generals considered dams strategic targets because of their potential to suddenly release vast quantities of water, causing massive loss of life and chaos to civil defences. Bunker busting bombs could cause such catastrophic releases. So could uncontrolled overtopping caused by the failure of sluice gates to open. That nightmare scenario was narrowly averted at the Zipingpu Dam in 2008 when workers racing against time freed sluices jammed when the Wenchuan earthquake cracked the dam.
China is currently building more than 170 new mega dams, all of them strategic targets. Compounding the risk that each poses to Chinas security, is the fact that many are being built in cascades, so close to one another that catastrophic failure at one upstream, causing a tsunami would likely mean failure of those downstream.
Chinas leaders have an interest in playing up the threat of malicious foreign spyware, but malfunctioning domestic software could cause the same dam catastrophes.
In 2011, Sunway Force Control Technology, a Chinese software provider to major projects such as the Three Gorges Dam, the Daqing oil field, and Chinas space program, was ordered by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team to notify its clients of bugs that hackers could exploit. The bugs had been detected by Dillon Beresford, who works for the U.S. private security firm NSS Labs Inc., and who, in a reassuring example of international cyber cooperation, worked with Sunway and Chinese authorities and the Department of Homeland Security to fix the bugs he found.
This was not the first time Mr. Beresford had found flaws in Chinese software. Another attempt to correct dangerous flaws was ignored until Mr. Beresford went public. Then the Chinese authorities posted a fix for the vulnerability within a few days.
Ironically, despite Chinas notorious record as a cyberspace aggressor, security specialists say Chinas computer-controlled infrastructure is more vulnerable to cyber-attacks than are Western systems.
The great majority of computers used in China run pirated software, much of it derived from the Russian mafia, according to a Washington Times interview with James A. Lewis, a cybersecurity scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. So your software sector is stunted because no one can make any money selling a product that will be so quickly and easily pirated . if you use pirated software, you have no idea where it comes from, he said, noting that pirated software may be surreptitiously designed with back doors that allow unauthorized access. At best, pirated software cannot be patched to correct for flaws.
Moreover, Chinas infrastructure is especially vulnerable because of the countrys lack of transparency, states Mr. Beresford. Patches cannot be effective if they arent universally applied, making it necessary for the patches to be publically available for downloading.
Openness is not exactly a characteristic of Chinas cyber-world.
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Cyberhacking versus defective management software versus defective contruction or engineering - WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???
Japan says it has successfully extracted natural gas from frozen methane hydrate off its central coast.
The gas field is about 50km away from Japan's main island, in the Nankai Trough. Researchers say it could provide an alternative energy source for Japan which imports all its energy needs.
Methane hydrates, or clathrates, are a type of frozen "cage" of molecules of methane and water. They are found in ocean sediments and under the permafrost on land. Vast deposits are thought to exist, rivalling known reserves of traditional fossil fuels.
They don't 'rival' traditional reserves at all; they exceed traditional reserves by an enormous factor. Figure out how to tap clathrates and you won't need any other energy source for a long, long time.
Not to mention that some are already trying on the fear that global warming will warm the clathrates, releasing all the methane in one giant burp...and killing off all oxygen-processing life on the planet. Thus burning off some of the stuff ought to be considered a good thing, bringing some small amount of hope to the panic stricken.
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Jesus spoke to St Francis: "Francis, rebuild my Church which as you can see is falling into ruin".
There is a clear message in the Pope's choice of name. He even alluded to it in his address mentioning "careerists". The Vatican and Curiae are in for a thorough (and IMHO, overdue) cleaning. Watch for the whining to begin. (And now we know why Benedict abdicated - not enough energy or stamina to complete what will likely be a years long hard slog through the bureaucracy).
As a Cardinal, he is on record strongly standing for the Church's teachings and traditions regarding homosexual "marriage" and adoption, abortion (including the denial of Communion to pro-abort/"pro-choice" politicians), female priests, and many other hotbutton issues.
Once the left/press gets over its "Latino" celebration, they will start in on him, especially once he speaks out against the HHS mandate.
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Once the left/press gets over its "Latino" celebration,
The shine wore off that pretty quick! The usual suspects are already whinging about him being on the 'wrong side' vs Chavez, Kirchner, Castro and the rest of the liberation theology mooks.
Not one of the flock, but I say "Give 'em hell, Francis!"
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Makes sense to me, compared to Obama, FDR was a flaming member of the tea party.
Good old Joe, he'd have made a heck of a VP candidate for some Pub.
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He is not doing any pro free market stuff. Joe L is going to be pushing the internationalism side (stuff like strategic alliances and coalitions to support sanctions, etc.)
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The first flight of the long-range subsonic cruise missile, Nirbhay (Fearless) was terminated midway on Tuesday after it deviated from its trajectory and veered towards the coast within 20 minutes of its launch from Chandipur off the Odisha coast.
Nirbhay was supposed to home in on the target in the sea after covering its full range of 1,000 km as envisaged by Defence Research and Development Organisations (DRDO) missile technologists.
Soon after it was fired from a road mobile launcher at 11.50 a.m. from the Integrated Test Range, the missiles booster engine kick-started and gave it the required thrust. The booster engine and control systems worked well, the booster stage got separated and the cruise missiles systems were also in deployment mode.
Safety threat
The cruising phase was all right, and the way-pointing, navigation systems worked well during the first 20 minutes of the flight, said DRDO technologists. The tracking necessitated the missiles designated path to be close to the coast. After the missile had cruised for around 250 km at an altitude of 4.5 km, it started drifting from its path and since it posed a threat to safety on the coast, the technologists switched off its engine and aborted the flight.
A DRDO official later confirmed that it fell on land near the coast and claimed that no harm was caused to anybody.
Avinash Chander, Chief Controller (Missiles and Strategic Systems), DRDO, however, said the basic mission objectives were met and the cruise capabilities were established as it covered 25 per cent of the envisaged range. He said that all the parameters till the time it deviated were as expected. All the aspects of the cruise vehicle were tested and verified. That is a major achievement, Mr. Chander added.
Other DRDO officials said the deviation was caused probably by the malfunctioning of one of the subsystems. It might take three to four days to analyse and find out the exact cause. The next launch will be planned soon, they said.
Since it was the first flight, the mission objective was to prove the technologies related to subsonic cruise missiles and to establish the flight path. The missile was to follow a prescribed path to evaluate its subsystems in flight, the officials said.
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Sounds like this can be fixed. Paks and the Chinese have to be worried.
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Anything that'll worry the Chinese has to be a good thing. If Obama had any sense he'd be sending technical people to help...you know, kinda like the Iranians and the NORKS.
[Dawn] Two armed motorcyclists got a convict facing death penalty freed after attacking police officials guarding him outside the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Monday, officials said.
The attackers faced no resistance from police and executed their job in a calm, professional manner in one of the busiest districts of the city in broad daylight.
According to hospital staff and eyewitnesses, the gunnies took barely two to three minutes to finish the job and escaped with their associate. They said that people in and outside the CHK witnessed the attack in a state of shock and fear and rushed to help shift the injured coppers to the casualty unit after the attackers disappeared.
"The escaped man has been identified as Qayyum Baloch who was convicted by a local court for committing murder during robbery in 2001 under Section 396 (dacoity with murder) of the Pakistain Penal Code," said an official at the Risala cop shoppe.
"He was brought to the jail ward of the Civil Hospital for some treatment on the recommendations of central prison doctors and was waiting for his turn when the four coppers led by an assistant sub-inspector brought him outside in handcuffs," he said.
The police were unable to explain why the coppers brought the convict outside. As they were busy chatting with one another, two men on a cycle of violence appeared from somewhere and opened fire on the coppers.
"ASI Abdul Khaliq, 42, and constables Shoaib Akhtar, Dilawar Hussain and Tariq Khan suffered multiple shots and fell down, giving the attackers sufficient time to take along their comrade without facing any resistance," said the official.
The incident drew serious criticism from police authorities, who blamed the jail officials for handling such a 'hardened and convicted criminal in so casual a manner'. They also vowed to charge the jail officials as suspects in an FIR about the escape which would be lodged after the maimedcoppers recovered.
"It's not professionalism. The way jail officials handled the convict's security," said DIG-South Shahid Hayat. "Under the set rules, they should have brought the convict in an APC (armoured personnel carrier), which is escorted by two Mohafiz police mobiles.
"But he was brought to the hospital by only four coppers. Similarly, the area DSP and SHO were not informed before the prisoner's movement, which is an SOP (standard operating procedure) while transporting such criminals from one place to another," he said.
The DIG suspected the entire episode was 'pre-planned' with some level of connivance by the 'officials' as the illness for which the convict was recommended to be treated at the Civil Hospital was still not clear.
"We are moving ahead with investigations and will definitely nominate as accused the coppers who were handling his security in so causal a manner. Similarly, there are serious question marks over the entire process which led to the convict's escape," said DIG Hayat.
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Now 3 for death.
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[Dawn] Three private security guards were rubbed out during an armed attack by bandidos on their cash van in an Orangi Town area on Monday, police said.
They said that the security guards resisted the robbery attempt to an extent that they laid down their lives and forced nearly one dozen gunnies to run away only with Rs400,000 out of around Rs8 million in the cash van.
They said that the cash van of the Phoenix Securities was returning from the Aligarh Market branch of the MCB when around a dozen armed riders intercepted it.
DSP Zahid Hussain Siddiqi said that the van was carrying some Rs8 million. Initially four youngsters on two cycle of violences intercepted the van, but when the firing began, their aides on two or three bikes emerged there, he added.
He said that an exchange of gunfire took place between the security guards and the gunnies. The intense firing sowed fear and panic in the densely populated neighbourhood.
Witnesses said that they saw people running for cover and traders pulling down shutters.
By the time the guns fell silent, a heavy contingent of police backed by the Rangers reached the scene and found all three guards -- Amanullah, Ghulam Muhammad and Irfan Khan -- badly maimed.
"The guards were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where they died," said the area DSP. "The van was later examined and it was found that over Rs400,000 are missing from the total cash that suggested that the bandidos managed to take away some cash."
The bandidos were also armed with explosives and while fleeing they threw 'explosive-packed tennis balls' to harass people who gathered there.
"The kaboom caused injuries to three people, including two children. They were identified as 50-year-old Muhammad Yousuf, 10-year-old Shumail and eight-year-old Rehan," added DSP Siddiqi.
No case was registered at the Orangi Town cop shoppe till late in the night and the officials said that they were gathering facts and collecting evidence before lodging an FIR.
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[Dawn] The Aabpara police have jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a 15-year-old seminary student on the charge of kidnapping and killing his classmate in the city about two months back.
The police are also hunting for a relative of the accused who allegedly kidnapped children and sold them to cut-throats for their use in terror activities, sources close to the investigation told Dawn.
The 13-year-old boy from Wazoo disappeared from his madressah situated at Shakarparian on January 4. His father, who currently lived in Taxila, lodged a complaint with the Taxila and Aabpara police on January 29 about the disappearance of his son.
On January 4, the boy left the seminary along with his class fellow in front of other students.
Though the same day the accused returned to the seminary, the student from Waziristan went missing.
When asked by the seminary administration, the accused, a native of Mardan, showed ignorance about the whereabouts of the missing student and even denied that he had accompanied him out of the seminary.
On January 6, when the seminary administration grilled him to tell about the missing student, the accused fled from the institution.
Three weeks later -- on Jan 29 -- he along with another person reached the Aabpara cop shoppe and lodged a complaint against the administration of the madressah.
He alleged that the madressah administration was treating him unfairly after the student went missing.
When the police approached the seminary, its administration informed them that the missing student had gone out with the complainant.
They said instead of telling anything about the whereabouts of the student, the accused had beat feet from the seminary.
The police placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! the student for investigation the same day. During questioning, he confessed that the victim had left the madressah with him.
He said he took him to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. Road and handed him over to some people near a garment factory. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... a day later he changed his statement and said the student was handed over to some people at Sabzi Mandi who took him away.
Police picked up a number of people from the Sabzi Mandi area on the basis of the allegations but later they were allowed to go.
But on February 14, the accused told the police that he took the victim to Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) where he and his brother in-law molested him.
After molesting the boy, when the brother-in-law of the accused tried to take the boy away, the latter resisted.
A brawl took place during which the brother-in-law hit the boy in the head with a baton. As a result, the student fell unconscious.
Both the accused persons beat feet from the scene. On the information provided by the teenage accused, the police recovered the decomposed body of the victim from the premises of the university on February 14.
The arrested boy told the Sherlocks that he used to arrange boys for a group with whom his brother-in-law was in touch.
He said he lured his victims to a designated spot from where the agents of the group took them away. The police raided several spots in and outside the capital city to arrest the relative of the accused but he is still on the lam.
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The husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords went to a Tucson gun store a week ago to buy a .45-caliber handgun and a military-style rifle the day before he appeared with his wife at the supermarket where she was wounded in a rampage two years ago.
It didn't take long for the purchase to draw criticism from gun-rights supporters.
Mark Kelly said he bought the AR-15-style weapon to draw attention to the relative ease with which people can get the type of gun that the shooter used in the Newtown school and Colorado movie theater killings. Sure! "It is funny how Mark Kelly decided to choose to purchase a trade-in with a 20 day waiting period as his example of how "easy" it was to purchase an AR-15. I hope you enjoy staring lovingly at your purchase through the shop window until the waiting period is over, hypocrite." (From Daily Mail Comments)
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A lttle late Mark. If you had been there with with your wife two years ago when the self confessed liberal nutcase started shooting at your wife and 18 others things might have been much different if only one good guy, even you were packin heat, too.
Man up. Keep the 15 and the 45. Family first, liberal ignorance dead last.
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Why can't he just admit he'd feel safer with a couple heaters around the house? Some psycho did try to kill his wife after all.
A good chopper would have prevented the whole incident, more or less. I'd be buying guns too if I were him, just not out trying to make it illegal for others to protect themselves. What an A-hole.
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Personally, I'd buy a Thompson if I could find one. That and a 1911A1 and I would be set, only have to buy one type of ammo for the whole lot.
I also get the added benefit of how hard the ACP round hits so when I spray and pray with the trench broom, I can stop a lot of silliness out of the opposition
Does anyone know where I can buy one of those things. I STILL say the M-16 is a piece of crap, I didn't like it when I carried it and I still don't like it. One good Moison Nagant in the right hands could keep a platoon armed with that plastic piece of crap at bay for hours.
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The original story had him just giving it to someone else, I guess now that story is the Tucson Police. I'm sure that would fit in their armory like my jeep would fit in Dale Earnhardt Jr's garage. Why not record the seriel numbers and turn it over to the BATF?
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buying a gun with the intent to turn it over to someone else is called being a "straw buyer". Only the cartels are allowed to do that
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Blew his chance for a good cover as an 'investment opportunity'. Less expensive than gold, but as much in demand. Playing the market, yeah, that's the line.
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Yup, and now someone who may have a legitimate need cannot purchase it because richie rich here has money to burn on a donation to the PD's next raffle or employee of the year gift.
But hey, successful fighter pilot, astronaught, and husband to a powerful politician can walk right in a purchase a rifle, so long as the rifle isn't a Fast and Furious hand-me-down? Perhaps next Mr. Kelley will demonstrate how easy it is to purchase the same type of drugs skunkfkr used and rail against Colorado's new drug policy? No, of course not. What an aloof prick showing a hand of poor judgement.
You shall be cursed with muffled giggles for the remainder of your cocktail parties.
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Mark Kelly said he bought the AR-15-style weapon to draw attention to the relative ease with which people can get the type of gun
People!?! Lets start with Mr. Kellys impeccable record with no history of mental illness or civil commitment. That alone should be enough to clear NICS. Next, he had a previous background check for his handgun purchase and presumably is certified for CC. Now as ex-military and former NASA astronaut he probably still retains some upper level of government clearance. Of course, if there were any glitches having connections like an ex-congresswoman wife might grease the wheels. Oh yeah, having enough chinga to buy off the rack when the rest of us shmoes have to fork over a down payment just to get on a waiting list dont hurt none either.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[An Nahar] The United States on Tuesday said it took "note" of an overwhelming vote by Falkland Islanders to remain a British territory, but refused once again to take sides in the dispute with Argentina.
[Dawn] Two armed motorcyclists got a convict facing death penalty freed after attacking police officials guarding him outside the Civil Hospital 
According to hospital staff and eyewitnesses, the 
The police were unable to explain why the 
[Dawn] Three private security guards were 
Wazoo
