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Saturday, May 18, 2013
THE ROANOKE TIMES
A bookstore is coming to Wasena, hooray! http://blogs.roanoke.com/storefront/2013/02/retail-roundup-former-teacher-to-open-bookshop/
Re: the Beta, I’m getting frustrated with the lack of HTML allowed in the comments. No paragraph break on carriage return. My old standby P does not work. Neither does BR. Which tags still work?
Secretary of State John Kerry can invent his own country but women like Sarah Palin are stupid.
http://twitchy.com/2013/02/25/what-about-your-gaffes-secretary-of-dunce-john-kerry-can-see-kyrzakhstan-from-his-house/
A Book Store….yeah, right. and John Smith I hear is opening a repair shop for Model T Fords….Taking bets on which one will last the longest, lol
I’m sorry to be so pessimistic, but opening a book store? It must be nice to have money to poor down the drain. In today’s world this is tantamount to opening a T.V. repair shop for analogue T.V.’s and VHS tape players.
It’s only a matter of time before the big box book stores become dinosaurs in today’s high tech world. With today’s computer, Iphone, Ipads, ereaders, devices I don’t even have a clue to what all they do, but I do know they are making books a thing of the past.
I have a friend who is 76 and now reads his books on whatever these high tech devices are, and with children 3 and 4 using computers, there is no need to even go to the libraries anymore. Everyone I know, including myself goes to the library to rent movies, use computers or use the access to the Internet. So, one day in the future kids will see a book lying somewhere and say, “What’s that”?
E. Duane, maybe one day books will be outdated, but I don’t think it will be in my lifetime or yours. I have a son in college and even now there are still books that just don’t work electronically, although they ARE supplemented electronically. And there are still people who just prefer that ahrd copy in their hands.
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Now a new independent bookstore making it? That’s tougher.
Give me a break!
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http://tinyurl.com/ang6dxn
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If You Take These Jeans’ Name in Vain, Prepare to Meet Their Maker
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Italian Apparel Company Registered ‘Jesus’ as Trademark, Protects It Devoutly
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By JACOB GERSHMAN
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Inspired by his time leading a singles ministry in Virginia Beach, Va., Michael Julius Anton came up with an idea for a clothing line that he thought was catchy and unique—”Jesus Surfed.”
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He was on good ground with “Surfed.” But when he went to register the trademark, he found someone had beaten him to Jesus.
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In a branding coup of biblical proportions, an Italian jeans maker persuaded the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2007 to register the word “Jesus” as a trademark, giving the company exclusive rights in America to sell clothing bearing the name of Christianity’s central figure.
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Since then, the owner of the trademark, Jesus Jeans, has clamped down on Jesus-themed apparel, pitting its litigators against more than a dozen other startup clothing lines it claims appropriated “Jesus” without the company’s blessing. The company doesn’t have a trademark on images of Jesus, just the word.
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Mr Transparency President Obama’s best line from the Governor’s Conference
“What I want to do is clear out the press so we can take some questions.”
BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Just send the journalists an email telling them what they should report.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/pope-changes-conclave_n_2758053.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl36%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D274898
“The difference in cases boils down to the fact that O’Brien himself was accused of improper behavior, whereas Mahony has been shown to have covered up for other priests who raped and molested children – a distinction that has long shielded bishops accused of cover-up from Vatican sanction.”
This is where the church is going to hang its hat? Differentiating between the actual molestors (bad) and those who “only” enabled it (good)? And the Pope is going to be living out his years at the Vatican in order to preserve immunity from prosecution.
In 1000 years, if the Vatican’s still in business, I wonder what the books will say about this period in papal history.
The Catholics are going to have to outsource that Pope job.
http://tinyurl.com/aanpmp8
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Obama Justice Department Won’t Disclose Number Of Classified OLC Opinions
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Posted: 02/25/2013 2:44 pm EST | Updated: 02/25/2013 3:11 pm EST
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WASHINGTON — Just how many classified opinions has the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued since President Barack Obama took office four years ago? The department won’t say.
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In response to the Freedom of Information Act request, the OLC sent a letter dated Feb. 20 and enclosed five mostly redacted lists from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and the first month-and-a-half of 2013.
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What’s more interesting is what wasn’t included: The office stated that it was withholding, in full, 11 lists of classified OLC opinions. Because the length of each list is unknown, it’s unclear how many classified opinions the OLC has issued during the Obama administration.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has indicated that there are 11 OLC memos specifically related to the Obama administration’s targeted killing program and that members of Congress have seen only four.
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E. Duane Howard: I have a friend who is 76 and now reads his books on whatever these high tech devices are, and with children 3 and 4 using computers, there is no need to even go to the libraries anymore.
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I disagree. Part of my day job involves teaching people from all backgrounds and experience levels how to use high-tech devices. We often send people to the local library to get further instruction as well as books (yes books) because there is literally no other place in town willing to teach people how to use computers, the Internet, e-readers, iProducts, etc. for free or close enough to it. (I can teach you how to use most of the e-readers available on the market but I don’t own one. I feel the same way you do. I love dead tree writings and the stores that carry them too.)
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In my mind, that’s what libraries are designed to do: make education and culture available to everyone, regardless.
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Sadly, the big box store has redefined what the average person thinks of as a fair price for goods. Wal-Mart can afford to sell a $10 book for $5 because they’re a supracorporation who can sit on a distributor until the distributor cries uncle and agrees to sell to the behemoth at a razor-thin profit margin. Then, when Wal-Mart buys a billion $10 books in bulk, they can add a dollar to the price and still rake in a hefty profit. Chances are, the retired schoolteacher opening the store in Wasena can only sell you that $10 for $9 if you have a coupon or a loyalty card or some other kind of discount and he’s financially able to eat a dollar in incentives.
http://tinyurl.com/ahkkwss
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Son Uses Father’s Gun To Fatally Shoot Home Intruder
HOUSTON (CBS Houston) – A man thought fast and protected his family from a home invasion after three armed suspects broke into the house.
The trouble began around 8 p.m. on Thursday while the family was baking a cake. They were interrupted from the task by a knock on the door, KHOU News is reporting.
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“I see a young boy and I think it is a friend of my son so I open it a little bit,” the father recalled while talking to the station. “These guys push and out comes two more, they push me on the ground.”
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The suspects reportedly went after the mother of the family while the father was knocked down, as the son ran to get his father’s gun. Once he retrieved it, he fatally shot one of the invaders.
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The other two suspects then fled the scene.
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No charges are expected to be filed against the son.
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http://www.wcti12.com/news/Police-4-year-old-boy-shoots-and-kills-toddler-brother-using-father-s-gun/-/13530444/17681676/-/617dlhz/-/index.html
“According to investigators, the two brothers were playing with the handgun, found in a bedroom at their Minneapolis townhouse, at about 12:45 p.m., when the 4-year-old shot his younger brother. The toddler died in the ambulance, officers said.”
DaveHicks, there are all sorts of happy gun ownership stories out there.
At last some sanity from the federal courts. Can’t wait until the gets to Indiana and Virginia.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323864304578320661793999462.html
Let’s see if this link works.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/us/court-finds-no-right-to-conceal-a-firearm.html?_r=0
Is there a patron saint of used clothing?
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/christianity/pat-robertson-says-demons-could-attach-themselves-clothes-goodwill-video
Should people once adjudicated criminally insane ever be allowed to own firearms? For one Utah lawmaker, the answer is a definite yes.
It appears that things have gotten so whacked that nominally sane lawmakers believe crazy people have gun rights. (Next up: gun rights for violent felons!)
Dan Casey | February 25, 2013 at 10:34 pm
Should people once adjudicated criminally insane ever be allowed to own firearms? For one Utah lawmaker, the answer is a definite yes.
It appears that things have gotten so whacked that nominally sane lawmakers believe crazy people have gun rights. (Next up: gun rights for violent felons!)
Dan. I hear that the NRA has two new ads coming out. One is for restoring second amendment rights to Guantanamo detainees. And the second is
an endorsement for a concealed carry permit for Charles Manson.:)
The focus of the NRA is not gun safety, certainly not the safety of society and not so much about felons or the mentally ill not having guns. Their focus is pimping for gun manufacturers by ginning up the fear that they are “coming for your guns”. After every mass shooting and after both Obama elections, the guns sales soar. It has NOTHING to do with safety and the sooner we realize that, the sooner this circus will leave town.
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These people truly believe they have the gun power to fight the government. They truly believe they are going to spill blood to water that “tree of liberty”. They are not playing, they are not being hyperbolic, they are telling their truth and we would do well to listen. Arming the mentally ill, the borderline personalities, the “militia” types, the anti-government, anti-socialism/marxism/communism folks are for real and that they have “an army” is the concern, not who the hell is in it.
Re: Sandi Saunders at 6:22 pm
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Remember when I commented that “some” of the gun control crowd wanted prohibition of all private ownership of firearms and you objected that that wasn’t true?
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Then when I posted the Feinstein clip [ http://tinyurl.com/a7yc66y ] and other links to rampant Prohibitionist you countered something along the lines that at best I was overgeneralizing and mis-characterizing a wide spectrum of the more-restriction crowd’s positions?
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Please reread your last. Do you see a pot-kettle or glass-house & stones analogy related to your comments?
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IMHO, you have moved way too far into broad-brush condemnation / caricaturization and you are way too far into fighting strawmen.
Re: Dan Casey | February 25, 2013 at 10:34 pm
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FWIIW, your question is but a narrow slice of a much broader issue, about which I am deeply conflicted — namely the whole area of restoration of civil rights (and also various privileges) to those adjudicated criminals and/or those adjudicated as a danger to self or others.
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As a society we are all over the place on those questions — not only across state lines but within individual states. Then add in the complications of pardons; reversals of adjudication; expungement / sealing of records; probation-before-judgement / suspended imposition of sentence; the subsequent assessment of the effectivness of treatment and/or of mental capacity / health; rehabilitation; etc; etc; etc.
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IMHO, there is neither rhyme nor reason as to why one thing is treated one way and another is treated yet another way. And in some ways more important, the lack of rhyme or reason as to why one individual (or segment of society) is treated one way and another is treated yet another way — particularly when quite often access to resources, power and privilege often appears to be the driver of distinctions in treatment.
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IMHO, I would love to see a dedicated thread to those broader questions.
I do not see it that way Dave Hicks, but I certainly appreciate your concern for my integrity. I was speaking of the NRA, not all gun advocates and certainly not all gun owners. If my condemnation of the NRA was too “broad-brush” for you that will have to remain a point we disagree on. The “strawman” you see is pretty real and indefensible IMO.
Re: Sandi Saunders | February 27, 2013 at 1:34 pm
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Sandi,
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I suspect that you might be surprised about the divisions of opinion with in the NRA members on fund-raising, tactics, focus, etc — albeit the top leadership is rather united.
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Re: Sandi Saunders | February 27, 2013 at 1:34 pm
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Sandi,
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The whole purpose of creating a real “strawman” is create one that is indefensible, IMHO.
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Why is it that NRA members often disavow the stated position of their own organization – which I imagine is suppose to be speaking on behalf of their membership?
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Can we not just start calling the NRA what it really is? It is an organization representing the gun and ammunition MANUFACTURERS – not gun collectors, hunters or hobbyists. It’s simply another industry lobbying group disguised to look like it represents the interests of legitimate gun owners, who have been scammed into joining it by claims that “the government wants to take away your guns!” or, “the government wants to take away your Second Amendment right!”,or, “it’s not fair to punish law-abiding, responsible gun owners because some mentally ill “nut” goes on a shooting spree!” [But of course it is fair to let children be murdered because gun owners don't want to be inconvenienced.], – and my favorite new meme, “guns are not the issue.”
Ummm-really?
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Guns don’t kill people -, people WITH guns kill people – however people with semi automatic guns and a hundred round clip have a relatively greater chance of increasing the carnage in public areas, and in a very short time. These fast firing weapons with their large capacity magazines add to the potential carnage relatively easily. So people with guns now have the capacity to kill dozens quickly. Great for military use, not so great for use against our own citizens..
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How can rational people not see a need for common sense regulations that will allow us to reduce the easy availability of certain guns and high capacity magazines, keep guns out of the hands of criminals; disallow private sales without a background check [ex gun shows]; and the establishment of a national set of laws to stops the illegal sale and transport of weapons across state lines?
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Wouldn’t national gun laws mean everyone playing by the same rules?
“Why can we not just start calling the NRA what it really is? It is an organization representing the gun and ammunition MANUFACTURERS – not gun collectors, hunters or hobbyists. It’s simply another industry lobbying group disguised to look like it represents the interests of legitimate gun owners, who have been scammed into joining it by claims that “the government wants to take away your guns!” or, “the government wants to take away your Second Amendment right!”,or, “it’s not fair to punish law-abiding, responsible gun owners because some mentally ill “nut” goes on a shooting spree!” [But of course it is fair to let children be murdered because gun owners don't want to be inconvenienced.], – and my favorite new meme, “guns are not the issue.”
Ummm-really?”
–Hillary
BINGO! They take the gunners’ money and then spend it enacting laws so they can sell them more guns.
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Kinda like the Roanoke Times is a lobbying group representing the Democratic Party.
Re: Hillary | February 27, 2013 at 3:25 pm
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Why is it that NRA members often disavow the stated position of their own organization – which I imagine is suppose to be speaking on behalf of their membership?-
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Because the the pro freedom / anti- prohibition folk are not as lock-stepped and brainwashed as some commentators and talking heads on the more restrictions / pro-prohibition side of the debate want to paint them as being.