October 4, 2005
We watched the 1931 Dracula movie last night and were reminded of a great quote by Martin, the Nut House Keeper, to the maid at a sanatorium where Renfield is kept and next to the abbey inhabited by Count Dracula.
A gunshot is heard. Out on the lawn, Martin has aimed and shot his rifle at a large gray bat. Van Helsing tells him that bullets are powerless. Martin turns to the maid: "They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have me doubts about you!"
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It is interesting how guns legally manufactured but illegally used, guns that were not defective but used by defective people and it's the gun manufacturers that are in trouble...Why not sue GM or Ford because maybe they manufactured the getaway car, or NIKE because perhaps they made the sneakers the perp used…
Court Won't Block Suit Against Gun Makers
A gunshot is heard. Out on the lawn, Martin has aimed and shot his rifle at a large gray bat. Van Helsing tells him that bullets are powerless. Martin turns to the maid: "They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have me doubts about you!"
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It is interesting how guns legally manufactured but illegally used, guns that were not defective but used by defective people and it's the gun manufacturers that are in trouble...Why not sue GM or Ford because maybe they manufactured the getaway car, or NIKE because perhaps they made the sneakers the perp used…
Court Won't Block Suit Against Gun Makers
Oct. 3, 2005 ASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court refused Monday to block a lawsuit against gun manufacturers accused of negligence for firearms violence in the nation's capital.
An appeals court had said that the District of Columbia government and individual gun victims, including a man who was left a quadriplegic after being shot in 1997, could sue under a D.C. law that says gun manufacturers can be held accountable for violence from assault weapons.
The high court had been asked over the summer to use the case to strike down the statute, which gun makers said interfered with their right to sell lawful products.
The lawsuit could still be voided by a new federal law, however. The Senate voted in July to shield firearms manufacturers, dealers and importers from lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes. Action is pending in the House.
..."The District of Columbia's statute threatens ... gun manufacturers with draconian penalties based on their lawful out-of-state commercial activity - and on the criminal misconduct of third parties over whom the manufacturers have no control," justices were told...
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/3/112350.shtml
Note, the following death toll is for all of Louisiana, not just N.O. Far less than the 10,000 & 20,000 numbers we'd been told to expect...even if they find more here and there... As Neal Boortz said, “But the story here is the media. Will they call New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on the carpet and ask him why he was so wrong? Will there be accountability for those who exaggerated the Katrina disaster for political gain? Imagine if it had been a Republican that made the 10,000 dead prediction. It would be the top story on many newscasts...how could they have been so wrong?”
La. Search for Katrina Dead Ends at 964
An appeals court had said that the District of Columbia government and individual gun victims, including a man who was left a quadriplegic after being shot in 1997, could sue under a D.C. law that says gun manufacturers can be held accountable for violence from assault weapons.
The high court had been asked over the summer to use the case to strike down the statute, which gun makers said interfered with their right to sell lawful products.
The lawsuit could still be voided by a new federal law, however. The Senate voted in July to shield firearms manufacturers, dealers and importers from lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes. Action is pending in the House.
..."The District of Columbia's statute threatens ... gun manufacturers with draconian penalties based on their lawful out-of-state commercial activity - and on the criminal misconduct of third parties over whom the manufacturers have no control," justices were told...
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/3/112350.shtml
Note, the following death toll is for all of Louisiana, not just N.O. Far less than the 10,000 & 20,000 numbers we'd been told to expect...even if they find more here and there... As Neal Boortz said, “But the story here is the media. Will they call New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on the carpet and ask him why he was so wrong? Will there be accountability for those who exaggerated the Katrina disaster for political gain? Imagine if it had been a Republican that made the 10,000 dead prediction. It would be the top story on many newscasts...how could they have been so wrong?”
La. Search for Katrina Dead Ends at 964
Oct 03 The search for Hurricane Katrina victims has ended in Louisiana with a death toll at 964... State and federal agencies have finished their sweeps through the city,....Mississippi's death toll remained at 221.
...St. Andrew the Apostle elementary school was the first Catholic school reopened in New Orleans. A week ago, residents were allowed to return to the school's Algiers neighborhood of 57,000 people across the Mississippi River that largely escaped flooding.
...Electricity had been restored to about 36 percent of New Orleans customers and to about 99 percent of the customers in neighboring Jefferson Parish, said Entergy Corp. spokesman Chanel Lagarde.
...And as another sign that the city was coming back to life, nine ships, including four container vessels, are scheduled to call on the Port of New Orleans this week, port officials announced. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/03/D8D0TC000.html
New data suggest Katrina was a less intense, Category 3 storm
...St. Andrew the Apostle elementary school was the first Catholic school reopened in New Orleans. A week ago, residents were allowed to return to the school's Algiers neighborhood of 57,000 people across the Mississippi River that largely escaped flooding.
...Electricity had been restored to about 36 percent of New Orleans customers and to about 99 percent of the customers in neighboring Jefferson Parish, said Entergy Corp. spokesman Chanel Lagarde.
...And as another sign that the city was coming back to life, nine ships, including four container vessels, are scheduled to call on the Port of New Orleans this week, port officials announced. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/03/D8D0TC000.html
New data suggest Katrina was a less intense, Category 3 storm
Oct. 04, 2005 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (KRT) - Hurricane Katrina might have battered New Orleans and the Gulf Coast as a considerably weaker system than the Category 4 tempest initially reported.
New, preliminary information, compiled by hurricane researchers, suggests the system struck southeast Louisiana on Aug. 29 with peak-sustained winds of 115 mph. That would have made it a Category 3 storm, still a major hurricane but a step down from the enormous destructive force of a Category 4.
Katrina might have further downgraded to a strong Category 1 system with 95-mph winds, when it punched water through New Orleans' levees, severely flooding most of the city and killing hundreds. The levees were designed to withstand a Category 3 storm...Notably, it would leave the specter that if a Category 4 or a Category 5 hurricane were to hit the same region it would be even more catastrophic.
New, preliminary information, compiled by hurricane researchers, suggests the system struck southeast Louisiana on Aug. 29 with peak-sustained winds of 115 mph. That would have made it a Category 3 storm, still a major hurricane but a step down from the enormous destructive force of a Category 4.
Katrina might have further downgraded to a strong Category 1 system with 95-mph winds, when it punched water through New Orleans' levees, severely flooding most of the city and killing hundreds. The levees were designed to withstand a Category 3 storm...Notably, it would leave the specter that if a Category 4 or a Category 5 hurricane were to hit the same region it would be even more catastrophic.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/breaking_news/12813868.htm
Oil prices ease amid plentiful crude supplies
Oil prices ease amid plentiful crude supplies
Oct 04 World oil prices moved lower as traders weighed up adequate crude supplies against a likely shortage of refined products ahead of the northern hemisphere winter.
...New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, dropped 87 cents to 64.60 dollars per barrel in electronic trading...In London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for November delivery lost 74 cents to 62.06 dollars per barrel.
...Some 92.8 percent of Gulf of Mexico crude production -- which usually stands at around 1.5 million barrels per day -- was still offline, according to the US Minerals Management Service. Around 75 percent of natural gas production was also shut down.
...A US congressional committee said on Friday that 12 refineries, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the country's oil-processing capacity, remained shut down...Six of the refineries are likely to reopen this week, the Joint Economic Committee of the House of Representatives and Senate said.
...Elsewhere, French oil giant Total's Gonfreville plant -- the country's biggest refinery -- remained closed due to an ongoing strike. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/04/051004134214.8p81doxp.html
...New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, dropped 87 cents to 64.60 dollars per barrel in electronic trading...In London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for November delivery lost 74 cents to 62.06 dollars per barrel.
...Some 92.8 percent of Gulf of Mexico crude production -- which usually stands at around 1.5 million barrels per day -- was still offline, according to the US Minerals Management Service. Around 75 percent of natural gas production was also shut down.
...A US congressional committee said on Friday that 12 refineries, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the country's oil-processing capacity, remained shut down...Six of the refineries are likely to reopen this week, the Joint Economic Committee of the House of Representatives and Senate said.
...Elsewhere, French oil giant Total's Gonfreville plant -- the country's biggest refinery -- remained closed due to an ongoing strike. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/04/051004134214.8p81doxp.html
If at first you don't suceed try, try again...
Earle Seeks Second Delay Indictment After Errors With First
Earle Seeks Second Delay Indictment After Errors With First
Tue Oct 04 2005 The AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN reports, Travis County prosecutors rushed Monday to fix problems with an indictment against DeLay... Last week a Travis County grand jury ended its term by indicting DeLay on a charge that accused him of conspiring to violate state campaign finance laws. The problem with that indictment, according to DeLay's lawyers, was that the conspiracy law did not apply to the election code in 2002.
The Texas Legislature changed the law, which went into effect Sept. 1, 2003. That left Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle and his assistants presenting a complicated case to a group of grand jurors on their first day of meeting. Prosecutors hoped to fix the problem by reindicting DeLay on charges that he conspired to launder corporate money into political donations. In 2002, the conspiracy law applied to money laundering.http://drudgereport.com/flash1.htm
The Texas Legislature changed the law, which went into effect Sept. 1, 2003. That left Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle and his assistants presenting a complicated case to a group of grand jurors on their first day of meeting. Prosecutors hoped to fix the problem by reindicting DeLay on charges that he conspired to launder corporate money into political donations. In 2002, the conspiracy law applied to money laundering.http://drudgereport.com/flash1.htm
predestination vs. free will http://www.freewill-predestination.com/
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