http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/ Posts for talk.politics.guns Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:28:50 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/img/64.png 64 64 NNSeek http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/so_heller_didn_t_mean_anything_eh_loon_sneasel_204158845t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/so_heller_didn_t_mean_anything_eh_loon_sneasel_204158845t.html TIME in the Chicago area.

Here, let me rub your nose in it again.

Wilmette village trustees voted Tuesday night to strike the village’s
1989 handgun ban from the books in the wake of last month’s U.S.
Supreme Court decision to overturn a Washington, D.C., ban.

Village officials suspended enforcement of the ordinance shortly after
the June 26 ruling and said it would probably not withstand legal
challenges based on the court’s reasoning in the ruling, which said
outright gun bans are unconstitutional.

The proposed ordinance to repeal the local ban was passed unanimously
late Tuesday night.

“The Supreme Court has made their decision. It calls into question our
ordinance,” said Village President Chris Canning. “We thought the best
thing to do was to suspend enforcement immediately and then look at
our legal options, and at least personally, I think the strongest
option that would give a clean slate to the whole situation would be
to repeal the ordinance.”

Trustees said they would explore other possible regulations, but felt
the current ordinance would not withstand a legal challenge.

AND:

Last, but not least, also earlier this week Evanston, Illinois
aldermen unanimously voted to amend the city's 27-year-old handgun ban
to comply with Heller. City officials acknowledged that in light of
Heller and a NRA financed lawsuit that rather than engaging in a
losing and expensive proposition, it would be the intelligent move to
come up with a registration ordinance though the details have yet to
be determined.

The City of Evanston apparently will seek to have the NRA lawsuit
dismissed, based on its plan to bring the law into compliance with the
court ruling. I will simply note that Buckhannon Board & Care Home,
Inc. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, 532
U.S. 598 (2001) requires a formal court judgment for a party to gain
42 USC 1988 fees. Making sure that this is done right is a matter of
fiduciary responsibility that rests on the NRA Board.




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]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:28:50 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/robert_novack_syndicated_columnist_in_hit_run_in_d_204113277t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/robert_novack_syndicated_columnist_in_hit_run_in_d_204113277t.html "Bo Raxo" gmail.com> wrote in message
news:gLGdnXlW14PSLxrVnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@comcast.com...
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> "James Fenimore" yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:c3cf1a6b-09bf-4790-9b28-b6e4716fcf16@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>> "Prince of Darkness" journalist Robert D. Novack this afternoon struck
>> a 66-year-old man in a Washington, D.C., crosswalk, and according to
>> an eyewitness, with the victim "splayed" on the car's hood, made a
>> hard right turn, throwing the body from the car, then sped down the
>> street and into a parking facility.
>>
>> Interviewed by ABC TV 7 News as he later walked near the scene in
>> D.C., Novack said, "I didn't know I had hit anyone," when asked why he
>> didn't stop. The news reporter said the police told her Novack would
>> be charged with failure to yield right-of-away to a pedestrian.
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>> Asked about Novack's response, the as yet unidentified witness said
>> there is "no way" the driver could not have known there was a body on
>> his car hood.
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> Novak making a hard right turn and ruining someone's life - it's like the
> Valerie Plame story all over again.
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> Perhaps Novak can get his pals in the Bush administration to declare the
> pedestrian an illegal combatant, and ship him off to Gitmo.
>
> And here is your money quote:
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> http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/23/novak-swings-too-far-right-hits-pedestrian/
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> Novak is known for being an aggressive driver, telling the Washington
> Post's Reliable Source column back in 2001, "I really hate jaywalkers. I
> despise them. Since I don't run the country, all I can do is yell at 'em.
> The other option is to run 'em over, but as a compassionate conservative,
> I would never do that."
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]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:40:26 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/sweden_model_for_the_american_economy_204112509t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/sweden_model_for_the_american_economy_204112509t.html taxes. Among other things the state provides universal tax-funded
childcare, parental leave, health care, education (including university),
retirement pensions and sick leave. Including value added tax (VAT - kind of
like sales tax), it is possible to pay up to 80%% of your income as taxes.
Contrary to popular belief, Swedes are quite OK with their high taxes. After
all it gives them tons of free and high quality services - what's not to be
happy about!

Sweden is also the home of IKEA - the worlds largest furniture store. IKEA's
founder Ingvar Kampard is famous for being the 7th richest person in the
world (Net worth $31 billion) and driving a 15 year old Volvo station wagon.
It has been claimed that more people read the Ikea catalogue than the
Bible - and that one in ten Europeans have been conceived on an Ikea bed.

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]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:32:52 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/reduction_in_auto_fatalities_offer_hope_for_less_gun_204104829t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/reduction_in_auto_fatalities_offer_hope_for_less_gun_204104829t.html accidents have beeb fewer because there are fewer cars on the road.

so, why not increase gun prices? may be we can have safe-living tax on guns.

other example is fewer deaths due to decreasing tobacco consumption made
possbile by higher taxes on tobaco and a whole bunch lawsuits on tobaco
makers. may be gun makers could be sued and guns taxed more.

i can offer more help if you all need it with more suggestions that dr. dyer
also would approve of.

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]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:15:35 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/america_s_safest_towns_their_secrets_204095357t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/america_s_safest_towns_their_secrets_204095357t.html takes a little doing to find out hteir secrets. but input indicated they
have low gun ownership denisty.


http://www.travelchannel.com/Travel_Ideas/Family_Vacations/ci.America's_Safest_Towns...

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]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:32:08 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/china_blacks_mongolians_banned_from_olympics_204062589t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/talk.politics.guns/china_blacks_mongolians_banned_from_olympics_204062589t.html http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/OPINION/807230331/10...
July 23, 2008 - 7:06 am


China's official motto for
the 2008 Olympics in Beijing,

"One World, One Dream,"
is beginning to seem like one big joke.

To secure the Games and all the
prestige that comes with them,
China's government promised that
it would do more to respect human
rights and that the media covering
the Games would be free of censorship.

With just weeks to go
before the Games begin,
neither has proven true.

Isolation only hardens totalitarian regimes,
so the gamble the International Olympic
Committee took when it awarded the Games
to China was worthwhile.

But it's a gamble that the committee,
the athletes and China will lose if the
story of the Games becomes not one of
athletic accomplishments and international
brotherhood but repression,
censorship and violence.

Each day, it seems,
brings additional proof that
China did not deserve to
host the Games.

The latest came Friday when the
English language South China Morning
Post reported that Chinese authorities
planned to secretly ban blacks and
Mongolians from Beijing bars during
the Olympics.

Some Africans had been
selling drugs in Beijing bars,
and some Mongolian women were
working as prostitutes,
according to Canada's
Globe and Mail,

but the planned ban is reportedly a blanket one.

Blacks living in Beijing are
reporting regular harassment -
being asked to pay higher cover
charges to enter bars and forced
to show passports when white
foreigners are not.

Bar owners have reportedly been
forced to sign a pledge to ban
all "undesirables" during the Games.

One can only imagine
the consequences
for violating the ban.

What will happen when black tourists
are turned away and they go to the press?

Chinese authorities are reneging
on promises of press freedom,
denying visas to some visitors
and journalists assigned to
cover the Games and limiting
the hours that networks televising
the Games can operate.

So far,
they've only been authorized
to broadcast from 6 to 10 a.m.
and 9 to 11 p.m. Satellite access,

which has been severely restricted,
will supposedly be permitted during
the Games, but no one is counting on it.

All demonstrations,
commercial messages and protests
are strictly prohibited, but
when a protest occurs, it's news.

With much of the world angry over
China's repression of Tibet and
the blind eye it's turned on the
genocide in Darfur, protests are likely.

But the networks, which spent vast
sums for the rights to air the Games,
fear that they will lose their
investment if they report the news.

Others fear worse.

Some international journalists,
including several for American networks,
have reported getting anonymous death
threats linked to coverage of protests in Tibet.

Innocent Chinese are suffering as well.

Chinese authorities have been evicting
and tearing down the slum homes of people
living near the Olympic venue and banishing
mental patients, beggars and others who
might send a less than glossy image of
the nation out to the world.

That too, is news that the world will want to see.

The Chinese government seems unable to
resist exerting rigid control to prevent
dissent and project a false reality.

Unless it does,
the international stature it hoped
to achieve by hosting the Games will
be that of a brutal oppressor.

The choice is theirs, but at the moment,
the world's small ration of respect for
China's government is shrinking, not growing.

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