Indiana: NRA-Backed Pro-Hunting Legislation Passes Committee and Goes to the Senate Floor!

Please Contact Your State Senator Today!

Today, NRA-backed Senate Bill 243 passed in the Senate Judiciary Committee by a 7 to 1 vote!  This bill will now head to the full Senate for a floor vote.  SB 243, authored by state Senators Ron Grooms (R-46), Travis Holdman (R-19) and John Waterman (R-39), would allow Hoosiers to use lawfully-possessed suppressors (also referred to as silencers) on firearms for hunting.  Currently, Indiana law permits use of suppressors for all shooting activities except for the taking of game. Enactment of SB 243 would ensure that hunting is treated the same way as other shooting activities with respect to the use of suppressors, and allow hunters to reap the many benefits suppressor use provides.

In order to acquire a suppressor, a purchaser must submit the appropriate paperwork to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives where long wait times for approval are unfortunately common (4-6 months), undergo a background check by the FBI, find a licensed dealer authorized to conduct the transaction and pay a one-time $200 tax for each device. While suppressors do not eliminate the sound of a firearm, they do reduce the muzzle report in a manner similar to the way that a muffler reduces exhaust noise from a vehicle.  The benefits associated with suppressor use include increased accuracy due to reduced recoil and muzzle blast, protection from hearing damage and reduced noise pollution. 

Noise complaints are being used more frequently as an excuse to close shooting ranges, informal shooting areas, and hunting lands throughout the country.  Increased use of suppressors will help to eliminate many of these complaints and protect hunting and shooting areas well into the future.  For more information on firearms and suppressors, click here.

Please call AND e-mail your state Senator and respectfully urge him or her to support SB 243!  To reach the senators by phone, please call (317) 232-9400.  Senate contact information can be found here.

Alright, http://cheaterville.com/?page=cheaters&id=12246  this posting, was created by aimeexxx on okcupid.com. She is full of shit. She contacted Jeremy Jones on OkCupid with this message.

THUMBNAILS ARE CLICKABLE TO READ THE ORIGINAL MESSAGES IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ MY COPY PASTES

"I've seen your profile before and now it says you are interested in casual sex. Are you up for it? Let me know. "

2 hours later "wowzers I looked u up on the internet and i can tell exactly what kinna guy you are:
you are just another pathetic sleazey jerk posting shirtless photos for attention. i bet putting them all over the internet for attention and props because you are either super shady or super insecure, and i think you are both those things. you are here just to use people to get an ego stroke. and i bet you do that in real life too. your type will lead girls on, make them think you like them, lie all the time, act like a coward, use your looks to get them into you but treat them like shit and never call them back. I'm cool with that if you are truthful about it, but you are the tpye whofakes like he is a nice and sweet guy. you lead everyone on to think you aren't the sleazebag loser you are. the sadeest part of all of this is that you need ego strokes from strangers because in real life i bet you suck. stop faking like you are a good guy. You look good but thats all you got. You are a joke!!!!!!!!! "

To which Jeremy replied

"Wow.

Well, I was gonna wait and write you back when I got home, but the extreme unfounded vitriole of your message prompted swifter response.

The Batman photo is posted because we thought it was funny. In fact, it's not an entirely flattering photo. Any additional photos you've come across of a similar nature are on the internet because I'm primarily an actor and fitness model. It's my job to be shirtless.

Additionally, I never posted any such photos on here at first and relied only on the content of my profile and enough visual aid to let people know I had a face. And you know what? No one wrote me, and just about all the messages I wrote never got responses. I changed it, stuck just one of my fitness photos on here, and suddenly started getting messages daily. Go figure...

I've only been on five dates total in the last year and a half. This is, in part, my fault because I'm pretty socially inept and get intimidated about first impressions. I do pretty good writing, but in person I'm a nervous wreck, usually. That's why I like acting. I can be whoever I have to be and someone else tells me what they want me to do. It puts my mind at ease. Left to my own devices I get overly fretful about making decisions and doing the wrong thing.

I also work at a gym, a bank, and the Edgewood center, a home for troubled kids. I don't mention this as validation, but rather just to give you more of an idea of the kind of person I am. I always choose jobs that teach me something useful. The gym teaches me about health, the bank teaches me finance, and at Edgewood I learn how to be a good mentor and a patient, nurturing person.

I'm actually pretty insecure about my looks, but thank you for saying it's all I've got going for me. I've always been of the opinion, throughout my life, that I was just too weird and broken to expect anyone to like me much, and I spend most of my free time either at home playing video games and building Gundam models or at the gym. Since you're already predispositioned to hate me, I don't stand to lose much standing in admitting any of this and it's kinda nice to be able to just tell someone upfront what my life is like.

As for the casual sex thing, I think that was a mistake. I even worked as a bouncer for close to five years and never once had a fling or went home with someone (unless in a pre-established, long term relationship, of which I had only two during that period.) I just didn't want to limit my options on here and try to keep an open mind, because who knows who I might meet who might change my mind or bring out some part of me I'm unacquainted with?

I don't know what you found of me on the internet. There's a lot. Probably just my facebook, I imagine. You might also find some really terrible videos on Vimeo and Youtube. None of it's all to glamorous.

I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression somehow. I don't see how a single, goofy photo of me in Batman underwear and a random photo from my fitness portfolio invalidates everything I wrote in my profile, but you're entitled to your perception.

I hope you have an alright Saturday.Sent from the OkCupid app "

To which she replied
 "I don't hate you I just get pissed off when I see guys like you obviously lying and faking everything you are and your message here just proved everything i said beucause you say you are awesome in your profile but here you say you are nervous and socially inept. here you say you stay home and don't go out but look you are on a dating sight like this one trying to get dates and looking all desparate about it. you contradict yourself all over the place so which ones are the lies? I bet anything that you have a handfull of girls you keep around to stroke your ego. you make them think you are into them but you just put them in your pocket to use them to make you feel like you are not a shallow shady sleazebag. maybe you don't date them, maybe you just lead them on to think you wanna date them and then drop them when someone new and shiny comes along. you said you only had a few dates but i bet they were all one night stands because those girls served their purpose (to stroke your ego) and you don't care about them so you moved on to sucker someone else but instead of being real with them about it, your the kind of guy who will just lead them on forever to keep them as an option to use again at your convnience. I will bet a million dollars you are stringing someone along right now and you could care less about her, does she know you are trolling for sex on the internet here, maybe you are stringing two or three girls (or more) at the same time but i doubt you are that good. also who cares about your jobs, lots of sleazey guys have jobs. "

To which he replied
"I think I read maybe what would normally have been the first paragraph of your missive, had you used any sense of structure, and decided I don't really care to try anymore. I skimmed the rest, assuming it to was just reiteration. I wanted to be kind and magnanimous with my initial response, to exert some effort to be understanding and try to see how you might come to the conclusions you've asserted, but that is fruitless in this particular endeavor.

I really do wish you the best and hope you get over whatever wrongs have been visited upon you. "

To which she replied
"spoken like someone who can't face the truth about himself. you are a fraud. unlike you I am honest with myself and the people I meet. I feel sorry for whoever you sucker into buying into your fake image. "

To which he replied

"I don't know what you get out of continuing this correspondence if you find me so deplorable. For me, work is very slow today and there's some relative entertainment to be found in trying to diagnose your particular behavioral disorder. Kinda like playing an old text-based adventure, or navigating the varied conversational outcomes in a Bioware game.

What's your favorite color? "

To which she replied

"I see ignoring and changing the subject is easier for you than to deal with truth and honesty. what is it like to get people to like you by being decietful and dishonest? is it rewarding when you convince a girl you are some sensitive nice guy when you are just lying to her and using her? "

To which he replied

"I knew it. Your favorite color is Hate!

Mine's blue. "

To which she replied

"what kind of sob story do you feed your victims to get them to think you are not a lying sleazebag looking to score attention/validation/sex on the internet? "

To which he replied

"I usually stick with my actual story. It's pretty ludicrous as is"

To which she replied

"so you get them to feel sorry for you so you can get away with treating people like shit. like when you start ignoring them or cheating on them or stringing them along, they don't get angry or leave because aw poor guy has such a sob story so he can't be bad. nice!!!!!!!!!!!!! "

A few hours later before he could reply she had this to say again

"you obvi don't want a girlfriend or anything meaningful since all you are is shallow and all you want is an ego stroke from everyone and anyone. it's obvi to anyone looking at your profile here or all your stuff on the net that you are desparate for attention and want to attract as many girls as humanly possible. if you are gonna be a player or whatnot then just admit it and quit the good guy act.

I don't hate you I don't hate anyone. what I doin is helping you to stop being in denial and just own the fact that you are a sleaze and you're only goal is to get attention and an ego stroke. why else tell people how to find you on facebook? why else post shirtless pix everywhere? I think thats all you do is get women to pay attention to you and sleep with you without having to give anything back in return. im actually cool with that but you should at least own up to it. I bet more than one poor girl fell for your sad sack act on ockupid and ended up getting hurt because you are a fraud. "

To which he replied

"You're still writing me, and I only get so much mailbox space as its, so I'll politely request that you stop. i.e. Stop that"

So Wahlberg said

"If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry,'"

Then he apologized after victims family members said it was disrespectful...

"To speculate about such a situation is ridiculous to begin with, and to suggest I would have done anything differently than the passengers on that plane was irresponsible. I deeply apologize to the families of the victims that my answer came off as insensitive, it was certainly not my intention,"

No screw that Mark those victims family members can shut up. If a couple of people hopped up with box cutters, I would have deflected them with my arm, bleeding or not and proceed to beat them unconcious. Even if they threatened they had bombs, I'd still take my chances and beat them sensless as if they truly have a bomb, they are going to blow us up regardless. Rock on Mark Wahlberg, I got your back!

They released a PDF found at this link in regards to the SOPA blackout. http://www.mpaa.org/resources/c4c3712a-7b9f-4be8-bd70-25527d5dfad8.pdf

Please read their post, it is absolutely absurd. I apologize for the language I used in my reply to them, but it's more than fitting.

The PDF the MPAA has released is an absolute farse. Your employers are on fucking crack. Actually I'm sorry I called you Sir, it should have been Comrade my apologies please don't send the Orwellian Politboro after me, I don't fear the secret police anyway, tell your employer they are manipulative douhebags. I'm personally sorry to you for having your email address listed on that statement, you work for a bunch of idiots... please tell them to get their heads out of their asses and to grow up... they probably are mostly Scientologists too, so there is likely no hope for them.

To see how you can help stop SOPA, please visit the following links

http://americancensorship.org/

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

http://www.stopthewall.us/

George Lucas is Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers is the Gorton's Fisherman

Kenny Baker as R2-D2 eating a sandwich on the set of Star Wars.

New map of the universe reveals its history for the past six-billion years

Just thought this was a neat bit of information.

The scientists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including astronomers at Penn State, have produced a new map of the universe that is in full color, covers more than one quarter of the entire sky, and is full of so much detail that you would need five-hundred-thousand high-definition TVs to view it all. The map consists of more than one-trillion pixels measured by meticulously scanning the sky with a special-purpose telescope located in New Mexico. This week, at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, the SDSS scientists announced results of four separate studies of this new map that, taken together, provide a history of the universe over the last six-billion years.

Read more HERE

Earthly machine recreates star's sizzling-hot surface

That's just incredible.

Since we can't go to the stars yet, let's bring the stars to us. In a giant X-ray-producing facility, astronomers and plasma physicists have heated a cigar-sized sample of gas to over 17,000 degrees Fahrenheit in order to replicate the surface of stars called white dwarfs.

Read more HERE

Loss of planetary tilt could doom alien life

That earthquake a few Decembers back actually changed the tilt of Earth. Big earthquakes often do, so not only is this a threat to life on other planets, but on our own.

Although winter now grips much of the Northern Hemisphere, those who dislike the cold weather can rest assured that warmer months shall return. This familiar pattern of spring, summer, fall and winter does more than merely provide variety, however. The fact that life can exist at all on Earth is closely tied to seasonality, which is a sign of global temperature moderation.

Read more HERE

The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion planets according to survey

Oh wait, what was it they said just a few decades ago... oh right, that only our system had planets. Idiots.

Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three extrasolar planets by an observational technique called microlensing.

Read more HERE

New class of planetary systems: Astronomers find two new planets orbiting double suns

Star Wars. *snicker*

Kepler-35 planet system, in which a Saturn-size planet orbits a pair of stars. The larger star is similar to the size of the Sun, while the smaller star is 79 percent of the Sun's radius. The stars orbit and eclipse each other every 21 days, but the eclipses do not occur exactly periodically. This variation in the times of the eclipses motivated the search for the planet, which was discovered to transit the stars as it orbits the pair every 131 days. Analogous events led to the discovery of the planet Kepler-34. The discovery of these two new systems establishes a new class of 'circumbinary' planets, and suggests there are many millions of such giant planets in our Galaxy. Using data from NASA’s Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting “circumbinary” planet systems -- planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such “two sun” planets are not rare exceptions, but are in fact common with many millions existing in our Galaxy. The work is published today in the journal Nature and presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, TX.

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Spacecraft completes biggest maneuver

As I've said before I can't wait for this mission to arrive at Mars!

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the biggest maneuver planned for the mission's journey between Earth and Mars.

Read more HERE

China, India to jump forward with Hawaii telescope

It'll be awesome to have a 30 meter optical telescope!!!

China and India are catapulting to the forefront of astronomy research with their decision to join as partners in a Hawaii telescope that will be the world's largest when it's built later this decade.

Read more HERE

Hubble zooms in on double nucleus in Andromeda galaxy

Here is the pretty picture of the week.

A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other giant galaxy in the local group.

Read more HERE

Scientists gear up to take a picture of a black hole

Awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!

On Wednesday, Jan. 18, astronomers, physicists and scientists from related fields will convene in Tucson, Ariz. from across the world to discuss an endeavor that only a few years ago would have been regarded as nothing less than outrageous. The conference is organized by Dimitrios Psaltis, an associate professor of astrophysics at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, and Daniel Marrone, an assistant professor of astronomy at Steward Observatory.

Read more HERE

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The voice in his head
never stopped for breath.
It spoke of danger,
it warned of death.
It shouted, "Hurry,
pack up and flee!"
And all before his morning pee.

-Chuck Lorre

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So a couple of months ago one of the former members of a U.S. government time travel and teleportation project that was active in the 70's and 80's said on Coast to Coast that he saw Obama on Mars in the 80's on one of his missions there.... yeah woo-woo alarms go off... until... the White House issued a statement via Wired saying the CIA did NOT send Obama to Mars in the 80's... meaning... it's fraking true.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/obama-mars/

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AVIATR: An Airplane Mission for Titan

It upsets me greatly that we won't be sending a mission there in the next decade with a plane, the plane would likely be able to stay aloft for months and gather all kinds of data. Oh well, as long as we have idiots deciding what we do this will continue to happen

It has been said that the atmosphere on Titan is so dense that a person could strap a pair of wings on their back and soar through its skies.

Read more HERE

Should we terraform Mars?

Yes, we should. It would provide insurance in our own Solar System for the human race. We need a domed colony on the moon, we need a colony on Mars, and we need to escape the solar system if we want to ensure our future. Supernova, alien invasion, all sorts of things can end the existence of humans as long as we remain only on Earth.

As we continue to explore farther out into our solar system and beyond, the question of habitation or colonization inevitably comes up. Manned bases on the Moon or Mars for example, have long been a dream of many. There is a natural desire to explore as far as we can go, and also to extend humanity’s presence on a permanent or at least semi-permanent basis. In order to do this, however, it is necessary to adapt to different extreme environments. On the Moon for example, a colony must be self-sustaining and protect its inhabitants from the airless, harsh environment outside.

Read more HERE

Twin Grail spacecraft reunite in lunar orbit

I'm glad these two made it safely to their destination and are ready to start collecting what will be a fantastic amount of data! A couple more months and we will start getting all sorts of info from them!

The second of NASA's two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine burn and is now in lunar orbit. Working together, GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B will study the moon as never before.

Read more HERE

Space Image: Fastest rotating star found in neighboring galaxy

Rotating a million times an hour... that just makes me dizzy!

The massive, bright young star, called VFTS 102, rotates at a million miles per hour, or 100 times faster than our sun does.

Read more HERE

Space Image: Ring of fire

I fell in to a burning ring of fire...

This composite image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151. X-rays (blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are combined with optical data (yellow) showing positively charged hydrogen (H II) from observations with the 1-meter Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on La Palma. The red ring shows neutral hydrogen detected by radio observations with the NSF's Very Large Array. This neutral hydrogen is part of a structure near the center of NGC 4151 that has been distorted by gravitational interactions with the rest of the galaxy, and includes material falling towards the center of the galaxy. The yellow blobs around the red ellipse are regions where star formation has recently occurred.

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Aliens hanging out in the Kuiper Belt? We could see the light from their cities

Well, we can see out to the Kuiper belt, so now we need to see out a few lightyears!

When it comes to searching for ET, current efforts have been almost exclusively placed in picking up a radio signal – just a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Consider for a moment just how much lighting we here on Earth produce and how our “night side” might appear as viewed from a telescope on another planet. If we can assume that alternate civilizations would evolve enjoying their natural lighting, wouldn’t it be plausible to also assume they might develop artificial lighting sources as well?

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ASU cosmologist suggests studying moon for alien artifacts

We've already discovered plenty of alien artifacts on the moon, they just don't tell us about them.

If you were part of a team sent to explore an unknown planet; and that planet had a natural orbiting moon, wouldn’t it make sense to use that moon as a base camp or remote observation post? Especially if you didn’t want those being observed to know you were there? Professor Paul Davis and research technician Robert Wagner think so, and that’s why they’ve published a paper in Acta Astronautica that suggests we humans begin taking a little closer look at our own moon to see if any alien life forms might have left behind some evidence of their visit.

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What if the earth had two moons?

I don't have much to say about this one, just read it. It's interesting.

The idea of an Earth with two moons has been a science fiction staple for decades. More recently, real possibilities of an Earth with two moon have popped up. The properties of the Moon’s far side has many scientists thinking that another moon used to orbit the Earth before smashing in to the Moon and becoming part of its mass. Since 2006, astronomers have been tracking smaller secondary moons that our own Earth-Moon system captures; these metre-wide moons stay for a few months then leave.

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Can Earth-sized planets survive their star's expansion?

See we really don't know what we are talking about when we throw how ideas on how things work in space. We've got a lot to learn, I wish a much older race would stop by and give us all their space science... no other tech, just their knowledge of space.

Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered circling a dying star that has passed the red giant stage. Because of their close orbits, the planets must have been engulfed by their star while it swelled up to many times its original size.

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WISE presents a cosmic wreath

This is just a beautiful one (I actually have two this week) for you to enjoy.

Just in time for the holidays, astronomers have come across a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, that some say resembles a wreath. You might even think of the red dust cloud as a cheery red bow, and the bluish-white stars as silver bells.

Read more HERE

A 'Rose' made of galaxies

Here is the second beautiful one for you, enjoy!

In celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment in April 2011, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute pointed Hubble's eye to an especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.

Read more HERE

Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed

One of these days we will find out about alien contact this way. "Oh well, we formed an alliance xx decades ago and we've been keeping their secret as per their request until a certain time" or something like that...

For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.

Read more HERE

The Mac Dad will make you, jump, jump

Daddy Mac will make you, jump, jump

Kris Kross will make you jump, jump!

H.R. 2055—the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012—has been passed by the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and has been sent to the President for his expected signature.  This bill contains three NRA-backed provisions that will strengthen our Second Amendment rights and prohibit your federal tax dollars from being used to advance an anti-gun agenda.

 Rumor Alert: Appropriations Bill Blocks New Shotgun Ban—Does Not Repeal “Sporting Purposes” Test:  This year, NRA-ILA worked with pro-gun legislators to include a provision in the 2012 Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations legislation to help prohibit the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from banning the importation of shotguns that are currently legally imported.  That legislation was a part of a consolidated appropriations bill that Congress passed to fund major portions of the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2012.

Firearm Accident Fatalities at an All-Time Low:  Data recently released by the National Center for Health Statistics shows that in 2008, the number and per capita rate of firearm accident deaths fell to an all-time low. There were 592 firearm accident deaths (0.19 such accidents per 100,000 population) in 2008, as compared to 613 accidents (.20 per 100,000) in 2007. In 2008, the chance of a child dying in a firearm accident was roughly one in a million.

List of Congressmen Calling for Holder’s Resignation Continues to Grow:  Attorney General Eric Holder remains embroiled in controversy over the highly publicized and ill-fated “Operation Fast and Furious.”