My apologies. I accidentally deleted the following, along with the attached comments.
--trailing wife
Jeremiah Denton, Vietnam POW and ex-senator dies.
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-29 00:00
#1 Thank you for the post Besoeker.
Posted by: Woozle Untervehr1965 2014-03-29 11:14
#2 A great man indeed. Blinking out code while telling his captors to go to hell in a propaganda film? Just plain wow.
Posted by: Steve White 2014-03-29 11:29
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Welcome aboard, Jeremiah!
We've got most anything you'd desire.
The one thing you'll lack
Is the chance to go back --
At least not until there's a ceasefire.
Connecticut rifle owners now face a new regulation set to go into effect April 1st. Any gun owner intending to purchase a rifle must register with the Connecticut state government for a long gun eligibility certificate. The requirement is to be fingerprinted by both the state and federal governments, completion of a firearms training certificate, and you must wait 60 days to be approved. Before you can even walk into a gun shop (government approved) you must present the certificate to the gun shop.
For everything that has been said about the "assault rifle" registration act, this provision is far more ominous because now it pits the rights of individuals to purchase and hold a legal product against a hostile political entity intending to restrict those purchases through regulations. No idea how gun owners will react, but their choices are limited: Outright and public flaunting of the law, secret flaunting of the law, or just simply choosing not to purchase a rifle. And none of the public flaunting will take place at the gun shop, now agencies for the federal government.
Meanwhile in New York State, the New York State police have announced they will not enforce the 10 round magazine limit. Not quite a sudden burst of common sense, a New York federal district court ruled that provision and only that provision was unconstitutional. In fact it is all unconstitutional on its face. If the 2nd Amendment says "shall not be infringed," it is not for the states to infringe on those rights.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the New York State antigun law also mandated the creation of an ammunition database which, according to the news outlet, is in chaos. If registering firearms is against federal policy, how can a state maintain an ammunition database? Anyway, ammunition outlets such as Cheaper Than Dirt are already asking unnecessary questions of telephone customers not related to the purchase itself. For all the talk of chaos, ammunition outlets appear to be cooperating with the federal as well as the state government in establishing ammunition databases.
Housekeeping: the ammunition summary includes data from the last quarter. I thought I had included the data from the previous quarter (Q3) but apparently I did not. I intend to do this for every quarter.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly lower, while rifle ammunition prices were mixed.
Quarterly Report (From Q4, 2013): Pistol ammunition prices were mixed, while rifle ammunition prices were mostly lower.
Prices for used pistols and used rifles were mixed.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Unchanged three of previous four weeks) (From Q4, 2013: .33 Each, No Change)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, steel cased, .33 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, RN, reloaded, .34 per round (Unchanged five of last six weeks)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each (From Q4, 2013: .27 Each, -.01 each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, CCI-Speer, FMJ, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, reloaded, .27 per round (-.02 Each from last week)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, No Change From Last Week: -.02 Each (From Q4, 2013: .24 Each, +.02 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Tula, Steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store brand, reloaded, .23 per round (+.01 from previous week)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (From Q4, 2013: .40 Each, -.07 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bang it Ammo, Precision One, JHP, .47 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 Rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, .50 per round (+.03 Each from last week)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each (From Q4, 2013: .27 Each, No Change)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf :Polyformance, steel cased, .28 per round (-.02 Each from Last week )
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (-.18 over previous eight weeks (!)) (From Q4, 2013: .60 Each, -.13 Each (!))
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .47 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Bulk Ammo, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .51 per round (-.06 Each (!) after Unchanged for four weeks)
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged from last Week (From Q4, 2013: .25 Each, No Change)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Alamo Ammo, Wolf, steel core and case, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Red Army Standard, steel core and case, .22 per round (-.01 Each from Last week)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 each (From Q4, 2013: .09 Each, -.06 Each (!))
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammofast, Remington, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Smokey Mountain Munitions, Balzer, .17 per round (Unchanged (Two weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $761 Last Week Avg: $767 (-)
California: Spikes Tactical: $880
Texas: Bushmaster (Carbon Fiber): $700
New York: Yankee Hill AR: $825
Virgina: DPMS Panther (w/Scope): $750
Florida: Palmetto State Armory: $650
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,347 Last Week Avg: $1,180 (+)
California: DPMS: $1,200
Texas: Sig Sauer 716: $1,540
New York: None Available
Virginia: Armalite AR-10 $1,350
Florida: DPMS LR308: $1,300 (Same Gun)
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $699 Last Week Avg: $738 (-)
California: WASR: $800
Texas: Hungarian AMD-65: $695
New York: Saiga: $550
Virginia: Romak: $700
Florida: Zastava: $750
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $535 Last Week Avg: $570 (-)
California: Rock Island Armory: $500
Texas: Rock Island Armory: $450
New York: Unknown: $550 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Rock Island Armory: $525
Florida: Springfield (Stainless): $650
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $476 Last Week Avg: $456 (+)
California: Glock 19: $450
Texas: Glock 26: $499
New York: Glock 26: $450 (Prolly Same Gun)
Virginia: Glock 19: $485
Florida: Beretta 92FS: $495
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $467 Last Week Avg: $477 (-)
California: Glock 23: $500 (Possibly same gun)
Texas: Glock 22: $400
New York: Glock 23: $450 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Glock 27: $500
Florida: Glock 27: $485
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The Connecticut law will be held unconstitutional. I cannot imagine, with Heller and McDonald from the USSC, that those regulations can possibly survive review.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Libyan General National Congress President Nouri Abu Sahmein is the subject of a criminal investigation, AFP reported on Thursday (March 27th).
"An inquiry has been opened into the content of a video published on the internet... which could involve a crime of immorality," the public prosecutor's office said.
A video, apparently filmed in secret, began circulating online on Tuesday. It purports to show the parliamentary chief answering questions from an unknown man about the presence of two women in his home.
Abu Sahmein explains that the women were government employees returning some documents.
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Conakry (AFP) - Guinea's capital Conakry was on high alert after a deadly Ebola epidemic which has killed dozens in the southern forests was confirmed to have spread to the sprawling port city of two million people.
All those infected have been put into isolation at the capital's biggest hospital to avoid the highly contagious virus from getting into the population.
Aid organisations have sent dozens of workers to help the poor west African country combat the outbreak of haemorrhagic fever.
"The total number of suspected cases recorded from January to 28 March 2014 is 111 cases of haemorrhagic fever including 70 deaths ... or a fatality rate of 63 percent," said the ministry.
Most of the cases were recorded in southern Guinea, but in the past two days, it has spread to the capital.
"Intensive case investigations are underway to identify the source and route of these patients' infection, record their travel histories before arrival in Conakry and determine their period of infectivity for the purposes of contact tracing," the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a statement.
Ebola had never spread among humans in west Africa before the current outbreak, but further suspected cases being investigated in Liberia and Sierra Leone could push the total death toll beyond 80. The WHO said Liberia had reported eight suspected cases of Ebola fever, including six deaths, while Sierra Leone had reported six suspected cases, five of them fatal.
No treatment or vaccine is available, and the Zaire strain detected in Guinea -- first observed 38 years ago in what is today called the Democratic Republic of Congo -- has a 90 percent death rate. But the WHO played down fears of a massive spread, pointing out that the disease typically caused much less death and sickness than influenza, and adding that it was not recommending travel restrictions.
"Outbreaks tend to be limited. But certainly we need to watch this extremely carefully because there is no treatment, there is no cure and the course of the disease is more often than not fatal," WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told reporters in Geneva.
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A grenade attack on a funeral ceremony in the Central African Republic has killed 20 people and left another 11 injured. The attack occurred late Thursday night in Fatima, a Muslim neighborhood of the capital, Bangui.
A witness, Samba Vianney, said that residents had come together to mourn the death of a neighbor who was killed in fighting over the weekend. He said there were "loud bursts of gunfire, followed by grenade explosions."
Vianney blamed the attack on members of the anti-balaka militia, whose attacks have caused tens of thousands of Muslims in the C.A.R. to flee in recent months.
The head of the African peacekeeping force in the C.A.R., General Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko, said this week that his forces will now treat anti-balaka as "enemies". The anti-balaka -- whose name means "machete proof" or invincible -- formed last year in response to a wave of violence by mostly Muslim Seleka rebels. Mokoko told a Bangui radio station that the militias will not be treated as self-defense groups.
[Al Ahram] Zim-bob-we's President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... will boycott next week's mammoth EU-Africa summit after his wife was not invited, a foreign ministry official said Friday. "We are no longer going to the EU-Africa. We disagreed on the composition of our delegation," said a source at the ministry, who asked not to be named
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[Dhaka Tribune] Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu has posed a question on to how Major Zia became president on Friday.
He advised BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... to do democratic politics instead of making fake claims of Zia being country's first president, reports BSS.
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How did Harry Reid become a millionaire when the bulk of his life has been spent in 'public service'?
[Al Ahram] Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has said his Twitter account was hacked, blaming right-wing foreign groups for posting false tweets in his name.
The messages were removed several minutes after being posted on his account, @MashiRafael, he wrote late Thursday on his microblogging site.
"A few hours ago my Twitter was hacked, and they sent false tw (tweets) with the usual outrages," he said.
One of the messages featured a link to an Anonymous Ecuador webpage on which were posted emails allegedly intercepted from government officials that related to security and intelligence matters.
Ecuador's Interior Ministry and the National Intelligence Secretariat issued a statement denouncing the hack as "an attack on internal security" as well as on Correa's privacy, saying it would not be tolerated.
Correa, who last year complained his email was being spied on, said he had to change passwords to his account.
"Apparently the attacks are by the extreme right of certain foreign countries, in complicity with unscrupulous national opponents," he said.
Correa is an active user of Twitter with nearly 1.5 million followers.
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Russia threatened several Eastern European and Central Asian states with retaliation if they voted in favor of a U.N. General Assembly resolution this week declaring invalid Crimea's referendum on secession from Ukraine.
The disclosures came after the Kremlin accused Western countries of using "shameless pressure, up to the point of political blackmail and economic threats," in an attempt to coerce U.N. member states to join it in supporting the non-binding resolution.
According to interviews with U.N. diplomats, most of whom preferred to speak on condition of anonymity for fear of angering Moscow, the targets of Russian threats included Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as well as a number of African countries.
According to the diplomats, the Russian threats were not specific. But they said it was clear to the recipients of the warnings not to support the resolution that retaliatory measures could include steps such as expelling migrant workers from Russia, halting natural gas supplies or banning certain imports to Russia to cause economic harm.
A spokesman for Russia's Mission to the U.N. denied that Moscow threatened any country with retaliation if it supported the resolution, saying: "We never threaten anyone. We just explain the situation."
[Al Ahram] Russia said on Friday a U.N. resolution declaring invalid Crimea's Moscow-backed referendum on seceding from Ukraine was counterproductive and accused Western states of using blackmail and threats to drum up "yes" votes.
The non-binding resolution passed with 100 votes in favour, 11 against and 58 abstentions in the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, in a vote that Western nations said highlighted Russia's isolation.
"This counterproductive initiative only complicates efforts to resolve the domestic political crisis in Ukraine," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
It accused Western states of using the "the full force of the unspent potential of the Cold War-era propaganda machine" to whip up support for the resolution.
"It is well-known what kind of shameless pressure, up to the point of political blackmail and economic threats, was brought to bear on a number of (U.N.) member states so they would vote 'yes'," the ministry said.
Several Western diplomats, however, have said Russia's U.N. envoy led an aggressive lobbying campaign against the resolution in what they said showed how seriously Moscow took the U.N. vote condemning a referendum that led to its annexation of Crimea.
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That must be the EU that ignored its own ratification process demanding do-overs till they got the results they wanted. Technocrats vs Oligarchs, the difference is only in the nuance icing.
[An Nahar] Wary of their powerful neighbor Russia, the Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia plan to double defense spending while Estonia will maintain its strong level after watching Moscow take over Crimea.
The three countries of 6.3 million people will mark on Saturday a decade since joining the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... military alliance, a move seen as a bulwark against unwanted Russian overtures.
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Go Swiss. Issue every able bodied male an AK, 200 rounds of ammo, and every tenth an RPG to keep in their homes.
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Two percent of Estonia's 2012 GDP, $28.44 billion, is about $570 million dollars. That's not going to go very far even with a country of 1.3 million people.
I appreciate the sentiment but until the major European powers come to understand that THEY need to spend more on defense and deterrence (and to grow a spine), the Russians will do as they pretty much wish.
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[Al Ahram] Deposed Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych on Friday called for nationwide referendums to be held across the country to determine the future status of every Ukrainian region.
"As president who is with you in thought and soul, I ask every single sensible citizen of Ukraine not to let yourselves be used by the imposters! Demand a referendum on determining the status of every region in Ukraine," Yanukovych said in a statement quoted by Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency.
The comments, his first in over two weeks, came after Crimea voted to become part of Russia in a referendum earlier this month and was then rapidly incorporated into Russian territory.
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[Al Ahram] Time appears to have stood still in the weeks since anti-government protests turned Kiev's Independence Square into a battleground, the site almost perfectly preserved as a warning to Ukraine's new leaders that those who swept them to power are keeping close watch.
An angry tangle of metal, barbed wire, sandbags and tyres still block the entrances to the square where they were erected as a barricade against riot police in the final bloody weeks of three months of protests which left over 100 people dead.
Passers-by linger in front of makeshift shrines, surrounded by masses of wilted flowers and mementos honouring the dead, while others pose for a photo in front of the untouched theatre of Ukraine's revolution.
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[Al Ahram] Osman Erkov's farm sits pretty in a seaside village near Istanbul, but soon it will make way for one of Turkey's many new megaprojects, billed the "world's biggest airport".
"Look how beautiful it is, this landscape," said the dairy farmer, looking across the Black Sea village of Yenikoy on the rural fringes of the sprawling megacity of over 15 million people.
I s'pose it gives them something to do with all the money Saudi Arabia is giving them...
"Well, all that will disappear," he said, gazing at the future site of Istanbul's third airport, one of many grand projects of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... Continued on Page 49
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[DAWN] Punjab Assembly secretary Rai Nawaz was sent on a one-month leave after his sons thrashed a traffic warden for issuing them a ticket for road violation.
Rai Nawaz was initially removed from his post and made an officer on special duty (OSD) by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif but later Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Mohammad Iqbal sent the official on one-month leave following an inquiry conducted on the speaker's behalf.
According to police, the two brothers, both sons of PA secretary Rai Nawaz, allegedly tortured the warden when he fined them a day earlier in Lahore.
Both the accused, Rai Mumtaz and Rai Najam, were locked away Please don't kill me! following the scuffle and were presented before a local court today which released them on bail against sureties of Rs 50,000 each.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) filed an adjournment motion in the provincial assembly against the chief minister's move.
The PTI leader was of the view that the chief minister was not authorised to remove the Punjab Assembly secretary and questioned about what kind of justice was being dispensed where a father had to bear the punishment for the deeds of his sons.
Last month, a similar incident took place when Pakistain cricket star Umar Akmal entered into an altercation with a traffic warden in the same city.
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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.
Conakry (AFP) - Guinea's capital Conakry was on high alert after a deadly Ebola epidemic which has killed dozens in the southern forests was confirmed to have spread to the sprawling port city of two million people.
[Dhaka Tribune] Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu has posed a question on to how Major Zia became president on Friday.
Russia threatened several Eastern European and Central Asian states with retaliation if they voted in favor of a U.N. General Assembly resolution this week declaring invalid Crimea's referendum on secession from Ukraine.
[Al Ahram] Russia said on Friday a U.N. resolution declaring invalid Crimea's Moscow-backed referendum on seceding from Ukraine was counterproductive and accused Western states of using blackmail and threats to drum up "yes" votes. 
