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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57338546-10391695/documents-atf-used-fast-and-furious-to-make-the-case-for-gun-regulations


[div class="excerpt"]ATF officials didn't intend to publicly disclose their... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/147 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:37:02 Long but worth it, if only to see the sheer volume of denial and revisionism:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=466525#466649

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=466525#466756

htt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/146 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:59:37 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/07/egypt-military-final-say-constitution


[div class="excerpt"][b]
Egypt's military will have final say on country's new constitution
Scaf generals say they will have final approval over new political system, whatever the outcome of the election[/b]

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/145 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:41:42 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=143075639

Justice Dept. Details How It Got Statements Wrong

[div class="excerpt"]Justice Dept. Details How It Got Statements Wrong
by The Associated Press

WASHINGTON December 2, 2011, 10:56 pm ET WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/144 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:33:23 Thanks to DUer dipsydoodle for the original. Looks like the UK Tories are dancing to Shell's tune:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5072248

UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project

Source: The Guardian Sunday 27 November 2011 1... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/143 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:28:06 Not that they didn't have their problems to begin with (search "Stop Illegal Mayors" for several examples), but I rather think
the Daley-like tactics of their founder, co-leader and chief financier against Occupy Wall Street will doom them.

I note that in contrast to say, two or three years ago,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/142 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:18:33 http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/crime_and_courts/blog/crime-and-courts-want-to-keep-guns-out-of-your/article_40e105ca-0ca6-11e1-9267-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story

[div class="excerpt"]Crime and Courts: Want to keep guns out of your home? Buy a 'no-gun' sign from the city


...Now that Wis... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/141 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:26:07 Got a Supreme Court decision or proposed law you don't like? Go ahead and lie- it's to save innocent lives, dontcha know?:

http://www.bradynetwork.org/site/MessageViewer/?em_id=45461.0&dlv_id=54721&pgwrap=n


[div class="excerpt"]Dear Friend,

As early as next week, the U.S. House of Represe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/140 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:04:55 http://www.npr.org/2011/11/01/141911605/senators-grill-officials-on-atf-operations

[div class="excerpt"]SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN: There's been a lot said about Fast and Furious. And perhaps, mistakes were made, but I think this hunt for blame doesn't really speak about the problem. And the proble... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/139 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:24:39 http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-swat-machine-guns-stolen,0,4131540.story?track=rss

(Note: emphasis added)

[div class="excerpt"]SWAT Weapons Stolen, Including Submachine Guns

KTLA News

9:38 a.m. PDT, October 17, 2011
LOS ANGELES (KTLA ) -- A cache of weapons was stolen from a buil... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/138 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:47:38 From the Department of Be Careful What You Hope For, Because You Might Just Get It:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-brown-guns-20111011,0,5655548.story

[div class="excerpt"].......The new law exempts peace officers, hunters and people attending gun shows or going to shooting ranges fro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/137 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:47:51 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20112834-10391695.html

[div class="excerpt"]"Gunwalker" allegation: ATF target was FBI informant


Confidential sources have told Congressional investigators that a main target ATF was trying to identify in Fast and Furious was actually a DEA confidential ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/136 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:38:51 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20110929,0,201277.story

[div class="excerpt"]ATF Fast and Furious guns turned up in El Paso

By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau

September 29, 2011
Reporting from Washington— A cache of assault weapons lost in the ATF's gun... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/135 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:32:12 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20111626-10391695.html

White House answers Congress in Gunwalker

[div class="excerpt"]...On September 9th, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked the White House to make former National Security Advisor Kevin O'Reilly available f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/134 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:13:33 I say "If", because there is as yet no non-Murdochian source for this. But [i]if[/i] it is true --and the documents at the link are not forgeries-- this is turning into a North American version of Iran-Contra.

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/another-f-f-bombshell-and-familiar-name-... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/133 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:53:19 Once again, dumpster diving pays off:

A month or two ago at work, I was dumping the trash when my eyes beheld a pair of Advent Baby II loudsepeakers next to the
dumpster. A quick look showed that one of the midwoofers had a blown cone, but the tweeters were intact. "H'mm" says I, "I can replace ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/132 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:03:21 http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/pb-boat-murder-charges-dropped-20110911,0,3261816.story

[div class="excerpt"]Murder charges dismissed against man who shot two on Riviera Beach boat


By Daphne Duret, The Palm Beach Post

9:39 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2011
Judy Mohlman thoug... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/131 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:14:19 http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-10/news/30139698_1_fatal-shooting-opening-statements-first-degree-murder

[div class="excerpt"]Trial in ’09 store clerk’s death opens
Jury shown video of man being shot in Jamaica Plain
September 10, 2011|By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff

Edward Corliss, 65, i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/130 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:19:52 As witness one Yvonne Abraham, columnist for the Boston Globe. From today's Globe:

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/09/08/of_guns_and_politicians/

[div class="excerpt"]Home / News / Politics
Shot through with humor
By Yvonne Abraham
Globe Columnist / September 8, 2011

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/129 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:23:04 I saw the CNN special about the attempts by the Muslims of Murfreesboro, Tennesee to build a mosque and the quite bigoted
reaction by some of the locals. It occurs to me that the congregants might take a lesson or two from Robert F. Williams
and the Deacons For Defense And Justice and start a gun... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/128 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:07:11 ...and 'suspicious' nationalities. Just to protect us, of course:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/nypd-cia-officer-works-at_n_936854.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/31/inside-the-demographics-u_n_943139.html

Google "demographics unit" for further details and additional r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/127 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:14:41 AKA my 82 year old father (who obviously knows his Dostoyevsky)
Some of you may remember his first missive here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1741452

After I told him about the reception that got here, he sent me this for posting (his title,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/126 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:00:00 http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2011/victory-recording-public

A Victory for Recording in Public!


The CMLP is thrilled to report that in the case of Glik v. Cunniffe, which the CMLP has blogged previously and in which the CMLP attempted to file an amicus brief, the U.S. Court of Appeals for t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/125 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:14:34 Mind you, this is a guy that you would take one look at and think "Joe Conservative" -and you would be very, very wrong.

He's a Navy veteran, worked his way through college with the help of the GI Bill, worked for the government or large corporations for most of his life. He is very quiet, yet ve... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/124 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:17:29 Toyota claims in one of their ads that there are currently six million Camrys currently registered in the US.
Sounds plausible, the damn things are near ubiquitous. When I heard this, it reminded me that, per certain estimates,
there are the same number of people with concealed carry permits in t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/friendly_iconoclast/123 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:30:27