Three More Wins for Gun Owners

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.” 

This week in space: special post

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Earth Has a Second Moon, Astronomers Say

In a research paper called "The population of natural Earth satellites", astronomers say that Earth has a second moon at any given time. While these moons are small, the scientific implications of this discovery are phenomenal.

Think about it: instead of having to send crews to asteroids, now we know that they come to us—they orbit Earth and we can intercept them to learn more about the origins of our solar system. All with a small price tag.

 

Interesting, however how do they know it wasn't an ET craft?

Read more HERE

Mother ship detected near Mercury after a solar flare revealed it.

 

 

"A gigantic object the size of a planet has appeared on astronomers screens lurking near Mercury, with UFO hunters around the world wondering whether it’s an alien ship.

The object appears from nowhere in a sequence of images of a coronal ejection from the Sun, taken by a Nasa telescope.

As the flare races past Mercury, a huge round object appears next to it – but Nasa scientists insist that the object is merely a result of the way the images are processed."

 

The image from the telescope was analysed by the United States Naval Research Laboratory, with engineer Nathan Rich explaining that the ‘object’ is actually the image of Mercury from the previous day.

To make sure that the solar flare stood out, researchers compare the image with one taken the day before and subtract anything that appears twice – because that means it’s interfering background light.

Stars are easily eliminated, but moving objects, like planets, are more difficult to remove.

Rich told Space.com: ‘When [this averaging process] is done between the previous day and the current day and there is a feature like a planet, this introduces dark artifacts in the background where the planet was on the previous day, which then show up as bright areas in the enhanced image.’

Astronomer Dr Heather Couper also agrees that it’s not a huge death star.

 

AWESOME. Absolutely AWESOME.

 

Read more about it HERE, HERE and HERE

 

 

 

An impressive girl spins some words

To geek or not to geek--there is no question:
Whether 'tis Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock
on the Enterprise's five year mission to boldly go
Or to take arms against the Galactic Empire
and by Rebelling, end them. To beam, to warp--
And more--and with a towel to say we end
The panic, and the infinite improbability drive
That The Heart of Gold is heir to. 'Tis a fiction
scientifically to be wished. To beam, to warp--
To warp --perchance in space: ay, there's the Macguffin,
For in that Twilight Zone what twist may come
When we have shuffled off this Outer Limit,
Must give us cause. Where's the Doctor
Who makes calamity of so long life?
For who would bear the daleck battle cry,
Th' Silence oppressor, the weeping angels
The pangs of dimensional love, the loss of Gallifrey,
The insolence of Cybermen, and the sadness
That patient merit of th' too worthy takes,
When he himself must her memory make
A void and forget her purpose? Who would fez's bear,
To wear a bowtie inside a large blue box,
But that the dread of The Boy Who Lived,
The Good Omens, from whose bourn
No Postman returns, puzzles the Apocalypse,
And makes us rather troll those friends we have
Than make memes for those we know not of?
Thus minecraft does make junkies of us all,
And thus the native Bat of vigilance
Is watching o'er Gotham as laughing echoes die,
And Aquarians of great pitch and moment
In this regard their currents turn to geek
And take up searching for the Higgs. -- Soft you now,
and blame Canada.

I did not write this, "Someone Different" is the author. I had to share it.

If you wrote this, contact me

Dearest Romeo:
How are thou? Mine heart dust jump for joy, for we have found eac other at last! I thank thee for chatting with me. I hope we shall be friends for eternity. By thine way, I love whenst thow talks this way it suits thee very well. I shall await for thow's next letter, fair-thee-well mine dearest Romeo.
With love eternaly, Juliet

p.s. Happy thanksgiving

 

This letter was sent right around thanksgiving 1996, from 45858 Picadilly St, Lancaster CA 93534.

 

I have no clue the name, but I have a list of potentials, kind of hoping one of these people googles themself and finds this post.

 

Pamela Lynn Mowat

Hazel Annah Decker

Elizabeth J Decker

Jere Christine Lavitt

Heidi A Lavitt

Kerry M Stevens

Christy Dawn Stevens

Ally S Stevens

Kayci K Nelson

Shirley A Lavitt

Marie Leon

Aileen I So

Brigette Rene Jackson

Patricia Jean Patterson

Jennifer Lynn Reeve

Karis P Patterson

Brittany So

Carol Guyton

Diane S Guyton

jacqueline Rae Fox

Lynda J Decker

If you wrote this, or know who might have in 1996, shoot me a comment, or use the contact form to the right to email me.

She may have gone to  Paraclete High School