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This has hit it's high-water mark. Stick a fork in it!
Egg meets sperm = matter.... What about the Big Bang? What created that?
Got a question.. How did the big bang occur? So nothing just blew up?
Thanks.
Sorry...I can't help it. I want to Fuck you up with a baseball bat...feel better! Asshole!
Benz he existed and he loves you!
Great Article in Smithsonian Magazine about how Chicago is saving the language of Jesus!
Who the Hell is the new mod?
GO TEAM
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A week-long Alabama standoff in which a retired trucker held a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker has ended with the kidnapper dead and the child safe, according to law enforcement.
"FBI Agents safely recovered the child who's been held hostage for nearly a week," FBI Special Agent Steve Richardson said at a news conference.
The agent said negotiations with the suspect Richard Lee Dykes "deteriorated" in the past 24 hours.
"Mr. Dykes was observed holding a gun. At this point the FBI agents fearing the child was in imminent danger, entered the bunker and rescued the child," Richardson said.
The boy identified only as Ethan "appears physically unharmed" and is being treated at a hospital, authorities said.
Dykes, 65, is dead, but officials have not yet provided details on how he died.
PHOTOS: Worst Hostage Situations
Dykes allegedly shot and killed a school bus driver last week and threatened to kill all the children on the bus before taking the boy, one of the students on the bus said.
"He said he was going to kill us, going to kill us all," Tarrica Singletary, 14, told ABC News.
Dykes had been holed up in his underground bunker near Midland City, Ala., with the abducted boy for a week as police tried to negotiate with him through a PVC pipe. Police had used the talks to send the child comfort items, including a red Hot Wheels car, coloring books, cheese crackers, potato chips and medicine.
Dykes was a decorated Vietnam vet who grew up in the area. He lived in Florida until two years ago, the AP reported, and has an adult daughter, but the two lost touch years ago, neighbor Michael Creel said. When he returned to Alabama, neighbors say he once beat a dog with a lead pipe and had threatened to shoot children who set foot on his property.
Who would have thought...NRA President's Son
Capitol Hill Blue ^ | December 17, 2002 | CINDY MORRIS
Posted on December 17, 2002 10:13:53 PM EST by arj
David Michael Keene, the prominent national conservative activist's son charged in a road rage shooting on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, was institutionalized with "severe emotional problems" seven times between the ages of 8 and 13, his mother said Tuesday.
"He's had a continuing problem with impulse control, and an exaggerated belief that he was in more danger than he was in at times, causing him to respond in a way that was more excessive or out of line with what was going on," Keene's mother, Diana Carr, told reporters outside the U.S. District Court in Alexandria.
Keene fired a pistol at another driver during an apparent road rage encounter on the parkway earlier this month. The bullet shattered the back window of the other car and lodged in the driver's seat, just inches from the driver's head.
He is being held without bail by federal authorities pending a grand jury investigation into the incident. Keene appeared before a federal judge Tuesday to try and be released on bail but the judge denied the request.
Keene's fiancé, who was in the car with him, said the gun accidentally went off when she tried to grab it away from him.
"The discharge of the weapon was a complete accident -- we're convinced of that. In no time in my son's history has he ever hurt anybody," Carr said.( sound familiar)
Keene was the director of online communications for the American Conservative Union and is the son of ACU chairman David A. Keene, an outspoken supporter of gun ownership and a member of the National Rifle Association board of directors.
The elder Keene has not spoken publicly about his son's arrest. His sister, Kerry Keene, told Capitol Hill Blue recently that "the media does not know the full story" of the incident that landed her brother in jail.
Lol just got two deleted posts for potty mouth.....I'm back.
I can relate to him.....never wins ....keeps trying. Cussed a lot!
He is mentally Illl how did he get a gun?
I can't believe he did that
Yeah! Come back when you have something to add!
The 49ers are not out yet. They have more experience.
I know. I can go in and buy any gun I want and I'm crazy as a Shit house rat!
OMG you are right........to everybody else....he is second in command at the NRA!
This is why you need background checks that include mental health
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STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — A 25-year-old Iraq war veteran charged with murdering former Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and his friend turned his semi-automatic handgun onto the pair while they were at a Texas shooting range, authorities said Sunday.
Eddie Ray Routh of Lancaster was arraigned early Sunday on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, at the shooting range about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
Capt. Jason Upshaw with the Erath County Sheriff's Office said Routh used a semi-automatic handgun, which authorities later found at his home. Upshaw declined to give any more details about the type of gun used.
Routh has not made any comments indicating what his motive may have been, Upshaw said. Sheriff Tommy Bryant said Routh was unemployed and "may have been suffering from some type of mental illness from being in the military himself," but he didn't know if Routh was on any medication.
"I don't know that we'll ever know. He's the only one that knows that," Upshaw said.
The U.S. military confirmed Sunday that Routh was a corporal in the Marines from June 2006 to January 2010. He was deployed to Iraq in 2007 and Haiti in 2010. His current duty status is listed as reserve.
Routh is being held on $3 million bond. Authorities did not know whether Routh had a lawyer yet.
Bryant said the trio went to the shooting range around 3:15 p.m. Saturday. Someone else came across the bodies of Kyle and Littlefield around 5 p.m. and called 911.
Upshaw said autopsies were still pending and he could not say how many times the men were shot or where on their bodies they were hit.
After the shootings, Routh left the shooting range in Kyle's black pickup truck, Bryant said, first going to his sister's home in Midlothian, where he told her and her husband what he had done. The couple called local police.
Routh arrived at his home in Lancaster, about 17 miles southeast of Dallas, at about 8 p.m. Police arrested him after a brief pursuit and took him to the Lancaster Police Department.
Travis Cox, the director of a nonprofit Kyle helped found, told the Associated Press on Sunday that Kyle and Littlefield had taken Routh to the range. Littlefield was Kyle's neighbor and "workout buddy," Cox said.
"What I know is Chris and a gentleman — great guy, I knew him well, Chad Littlefield — took a veteran out shooting who was struggling with PTSD to try to assist him, try to help him, try to, you know, give him a helping hand and he turned the gun on both of them, killing them," Cox said.
A knock on the door at Routh's last known address went unanswered Sunday. A for-sale sign was in front of the small, wood-framed home.
Kyle, a decorated veteran, wrote the best-selling book, "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History," detailing his 150-plus kills of insurgents from 1999 to 2009. Kyle said in his book that Iraqi insurgents had put a bounty on his head. According to promotional information from book publisher William Morrow, Kyle deployed to Iraq four times.
Kyle's nonprofit, FITCO Cares, provides at-home fitness equipment for emotionally and physically wounded veterans.
"Chris was literally the type of guy if you were a veteran and needed help he'd help you," Cox said. "And from my understanding that's what happened here. I don't know how he came in contact with this gentleman, but I do know that it was not through the foundation."
Cox described Littlefield as a gentle, kind-hearted man who often called or emailed him with ideas for events or fundraisers to help veterans.
"It was just two great guys with Chad and Chris trying to help out a veteran in need and making time out of their day to help him. And to give him a hand. And unfortunately this thing happened," Cox said.
Lt. Cmdr. Rorke Denver, who served with Kyle on SEAL Team 3 in Iraq in 2006, called Kyle a champion of the modern battlefield.
"Everybody was aware in 2006 that something special or something unique with his skill set was developing and starting to grow and then it just carried on until he hung up his guns, at least in an active military capacity, and moved on," Denver said. His book, "Damn Few," about training SEALs, will be released this month.
Denver wasn't surprised that Kyle apparently used a shooting range to help someone with PTSD.
"For us, for warriors, that's a skill set that has become very familiar, very comfortable for us," said Denver, a lieutenant commander in a reserve SEAL team. "So I actually see it as kind of a perfect use of Chris' unique skill set and expertise of which he has very few peers."
Craft International, Kyle's security training company, had scheduled a $2,950-per-person civilian training event at Rough Creek Lodge called the "Rough Creek Shoot Out!" for March 1-3. The price included lodging, meals and shooting instruction. Kyle was scheduled to teach the first class, called "precision rifle."
Valid point.
Are you ashamed of being an American? I'm not!
You didn't mention the little girl shot in the head for wanting to go to school.
I guess two oceans don't help either huh?
Here you go
The "fiscal cliff" is not the only "cliff" averted in Congress' last-minute negotiations: The so-called "milk cliff" was also avoided - for now. As part of the "fiscal cliff" deal, Congress passed a temporary extension of several agriculture subsidies, including one that would avoid a drastic spike in milk prices.
Because Congress was unable to pass an extension of the farm bill before the end of the year, milk prices were expected to rise to $7 or $8 a gallon in the new year because the milk subsidy program would revert back to an antiquated formula that was implemented in 1949. But a provision written by "fiscal cliff" negotiator Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was added to the "fiscal cliff" bill and Congress passed a nine-month extension of the current subsidy program, which will keep milk prices stable.
While the fix takes care of the most immediate concern to most Americans - milk prices - it also extends $5 billion worth of government subsidies for commodities such as corn and soybeans, regardless of whether farmers grow crops. While farmers covet the expensive subsidy, critics decry it as wasteful, misdirected government spending.
Other programs, however, were cut, including conservation, organic growing, and fruit and vegetable programs.
Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., praised the last-minute extension of the dairy program, but said she was disappointed in the contents of the rest of the bill. "I am deeply concerned that Republican Leader Mitch McConnell insisted on including an incomplete Farm Bill extension that ends funding for important parts of the bill," she wrote in a statement. "Senator McConnell insisted on a partial extension that reforms nothing, provides no deficit reduction, and hurts many areas of our agriculture economy"
Farming interest groups lambasted the bill. "The deal is blatantly anti-reform," the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition wrote in an abrasive statement. "The message is unmistakable - direct commodity subsidies, despite high market prices, are sacrosanct, while the rest of agriculture and the rest of rural America can simply drop dead.
The Senate passed a farm bill extension in June and but the House never voted on it or its own version, leading to the version passed last night. Congress will now have until the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, to pass a more typical five-year extension.
So you want 11 dollar a gallon milk?
For a gun yes. What if your neighbor is Bipolar?
My God these people are clueless
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association's executive vice president continued to oppose background checks for all gun purchases despite polls indicating that most NRA members don't share his position.
The NRA's Wayne LaPierre said on "Fox News Sunday" that background checks for all gun purchases would lead to a national registry of gun owners. Critics say such a registry could lead to taxes on guns or to confiscation.
Just found it interesting.
Who would have thought
Stallone attends …
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Sylvester Stallone says that despite his "Rambo" image and new shoot-em-up film "Bullet to the Head," he's in favor of new national gun control legislation.
Stallone supported the 1994 "Brady bill" that included a now-expired ban on assault weapons, and hopes that ban can be reinstated.
"I know people get (upset) and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon.' Who ... needs an assault weapon? Like really, unless you're carrying out an assault. ... You can't hunt with it. ... Who's going to attack your house, a (expletive) army?"
The 66-year-old actor, writer and director said he also hopes for an additional focus on mental health to prevent future mass shootings.
Dick it took us 12 years and WWII to pull us out of the Great depression.
DOW 14000, house increasing in value, jobs stabilizing, house inventories lowest level,out of onw war soon to be another.
People skills Wall people skills.....work on it!
Why on earth would anybody attack you?
I agree!
Jesus loves you Benz!
The economy is recovering ....deal with it!
No ....get current.
Lol The DOW broke 1400......... They have to bitch about something.
Fair enough.......again......don't don't open a can of worms then run off when people respond. Maybe you should redo your board rules and reflect your posting rules......ie when you are tired of a subject it is closed. That would be fair ...no?