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I coulda swore I read something eerily similar to this not that long ago. AHA! Here it is... A similar story with a similar result that happened back in October: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3301&p=38643&hilit=+alarm+cleared#p38643 Glad to know that in both cases the house was empty and nobody got hurt or sent to jail.

I strongly recommend skipping the bullet system and going straight to a star ranking.

I agree, you can't blame the Hatian refugees. Remeber, there was some fancy-pants lawyer from Georgia (I think) that got MDR Tuberculosis. He was diagnosed in Italy and made international headlines when he was ordered to check himself into a hospital in Italy, and he hopped on a plane to get back to the USA. That guy put the entire plane at risk of catching MDR TB just so he could get back to the US. There are way too many ways to get and spread TB. The refugees are probably less likely to be the source for TB, because they've seen a doctor and been screened recently. It's just as likely it was some kid whose parents took him to Brazil, Venezuela, Greece or Israel. Those kids may not, necessarily, have been screened for TB before coming back to school for the year or after winter break.

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AAAAANNNNNNNDDDDD, here we go, again! viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7555

With my limited knowledge of California civics, I'd be willing to bet that the reason all those individual fees are added is because ticket fines go into a "general fund." But, legislators needed ways to pay for specific projects (i.e. a new courthouse, courthouse security, ensure local (city/county) funding from tickets--probably to encourage ticket writing). Thus, making the fine $142, would place $142 in the general (state) fund which would be subject to later legislative/budget mishandling, whereas adding specifically-enumerated fees places the money in the funds where it was originally intended to go. That being said, if governments would just be more responsible with their constituents' money, we wouldn't need all these special "fees" added on; it just looks sleazy and sneaky.

I've always just done Fedex Online printing. Upload the files, select print preferences, preview, pay, pick-up.

That's a good one!!!!!

All I read was: assault rifles, assault rifle, assault weapons, assault weapons, assault weapons, assault riles, assault weapons, assault rifles. That report seemed like it may have had an agenda.

Updated.

So, I bit the bullet and bought the documentary and watched it. It confirmed the apprehensions I had about buying it; it doesn't bring anything new to the table. If you're familiar with our cause and interests (i.e. 2A rights and the 2A movement), then you won't learn anything from this movie. If you don't know the basics (and I mean the bare basics) of the 2A movement, then you stand to learn something from this movie. Unfortunately, it didn't even really have a cohesive or interesting story, plot or angle. It claims to be about "driving across America" to find out about 2A rights and activists, but there was nothing about driving across the US or meeting interesting people, or seeing small town America. It had one small anecdote about how brandishing a weapon prevented a possible further crime (back in the late 70's) and one story about how the BATF messed up somebody's life. It was bascially snippets of interviews with about 5 pro-gunners while they sat and addressed long-standing 2A issues. I understand the importance of continuing the discussion, but this documentary lacks opposing views, new issues, interesting story(ies) and even the basic history of gun rights/loss of rights. Overall, I found myself fidgeting about 15 minutes into this 1-hour, 40-minute slog through old topics and talking heads and I struggled to pay attention through the end. So, this documentary has earned a rating from me of: P.S. If anyone wants to buy my copy of this movie from me, I'm willing to sell it to you for $8, about 1/2 the price I paid (I will delete this off my hardrive by 6/7/2010 if nobody buys it by then). It's electronic copy only, is 583 MB and is in mp4 format (warning: Windows Media Player doesn't support mp4, I had to download RealPlayer).

I think we had close to 20 a few weeks ago on 4/27. I'm pretty sure we occupied every port except for 2, and there were NJGFers waiting in line. It was a good night.

Six words: Small Claims Court; Breach of contract.

Your answer is here: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010 ... ce-officer

The transcripts of NJ's 1947 constitutional convention (which is when NJ's Constitution was re-written) includes a discussion about the RKBA. It turns out, a committee considered whether it should be added to the state constitution. The recorded testimony before the entire committee was with the head of the committee testifying that the committee considered the topic fully and considers the RKBA a civil right; one of the rights of the citizens. http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Informatio ... 1n305.html A more extensive write-up of how the Constitutional COnvention of 1947 viewed the PEOPLE'S right to KBA can be found at: http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Informatio ... 5n347.html

Megaman, the parking was ridiculous. I went down, couldn't find a place to park, and had to go back home. Frustrating.

+1 for a well-bred Doberman. I'm not a fan of the oversized Dobes. I dated a girl who had a 65 lb bitch. The dog was sweet as pie. I saw her "turn it on" once when she had to have eye drops which blurred her visiony. I came in the door without knocking and there was a very brief stand-off in the living room. Once I called her name, she recognized me and went right back to sweet. Very smart, athletic, loving and protective. Plus, they're good with kids. Of course, this all depends on getting one from a reputable breeder.

Ok, I'm in! Of course, I'll have my S&W 686. Sigman, if you only want to put a couple cylinders (12-18 rounds) downrange, don't worry about buying ammo, I'll have .38spcl or .357mag (maybe both). But, if you'd like more time with the 686, feel free to bring some ammo, it's not picky about brand or reloads, either. Ray, I don't think we've met, I'll be wearing a blue Florida Gators hat, so you can spot me. I'll be there at 12 sharp.

I have nothing helpful to say, really, but... When I first saw the picture, I thought, "whatever was in that garbage bag must have been really angry to do that to those cars!" Alas, female driver on pills in a VW (triple word score). After a hit like that, vehicles many times never drive the same. I hope everything turns out ok for you. I'm just glad nobody was hurt.

:drool: EDIT: I didn't know that by typing ": drool :" I would get an emoticon!

I did both. The programs focused mostly on illegally-obtained guns. It discussed how straw purchasers get guns and sell them to criminals (they blamed the "loose" gun laws in the south/west and called I-95 "The Iron Pipeline" for all the "illegal guns" that get shipped north to places like Newark). It wasn't horribly anti-gun, although, you could tell the reporter was VERY anti-gun. There were some moments of sensationalism (e.g. when they showed clips of a police officer shooting at a target which was wearing a bullet-proof vest and the firearm being used was a full-auto (illegal for civilians) with armor-piercing bullets (also illegal for civilians). Then, the program went on to say something to the effect of how these guns are devastating and police are afraid to go up against these types of guns.) I simply had to roll my eyes. I guess the highlight was Nappen pinning Booker (the squirrely anti-gun moron) down and forced Booker to say, directly into the camera, "No legally owned guns have been used in any homicides in Newark." Earlier, Booker had said 1 legally-owned gun had been used in a homicied in Newark in the past 4 years, so I'm assuming he meant this year. The program also acknowledged that gun buy-back programs don't take guns from criminalss that intend to use them. Rather, they remove guns from households so they cannot be either used at an inopportune moment of passion or stolen. Then, the program went onto some hystrionics about somebody that was shot in front of their house in Newark, and he was a good guy and didn't do anything wrong and was active/supportive in the community. I feel bad for the family, but I thought that giving it about 25% of the airtime was a bit excessive. Overall, not a bad show, but not much to be learned from it.

HA! Gotta say, I called it 5 days ago! viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7700

Ray Ray, ImperialFish and Caine, I just got off the phone with my wife. She's stuck at work and can't make it out tonight! She and I are sorry to back out at the last minute, but her job (lawyer) sometimes does that to our plans. Plus, because this is finals time for me (law student), the only reason I was going was to get her some practice and experience. Thank you, guys, for offering to let her try out your guns. We'll keep trying to get out there!

You really want to provide the behavior of Mother Russia's government as a model for our country's government?!?! We run around screaming that our god-given right of self-defense is being infringed, and then demand that someone else's god-given right to not "be deprived of [liberty] without due process of law" be infringed. The problem with this case is that this man was held as a criminal (in a jail) for 35 days with nothing more than an administrative nod and wink. Face it, the government treated him inequitably and in contravention of the law and our Constitution. He should have been transferred to an ICE location within 48 hours for immediate processing as an illegal alien. Instead, he was held in jail indefinitely until someone got around to putting him into the Immigration system. As an example, what if he had been entitled to some type of asylum, yet he wouldn't get an asylum hearing until in the ICE system? So, a person otherwise entitled to be freed would have been stuck in jail for 35 days because of beauracracy. I hate illegal aliens, especiall drug-using pieces of waste like this guy. But, this law was written to deter the government from inequitably detaining people without due process of law...it is a basic human right, similar to the one we are so passionate about. I don't like the end result of an illegal being deported with almost $150k of my tax money. But, I'm more angry that the government continues to take such liberties with fundamental rights.

Not exactly a home invasion, but: http://www.northjersey.com/news/050810_ ... shop_.html