Children may soon be coloring in images of handguns inside coloring books the City Council approved Tuesday night for Racine Police Department officers to use in gun safety training.
News that the coloring books, donated by the National Rifle Association, might be making their way into Racine schools has made national news over the past week.
Racine Alderman Pete Karas led the charge against the coloring books, saying images of handguns in the NRA's Eddie Eagle coloring books wouldn't be adequate training to keep children safe.
After 45 minutes of debate, the council voted 8-to-7 to approve use of the coloring books, which feature the Eddie Eagle character and are intended to teach gun safety.
Her character is a "seductress," said Grant Cogswell, the Seattle screenwriter who wrote the Cthulhu script. Cottle plays a gay college professor from Seattle who returns to his home on the Oregon coast when his mother dies and gets mixed up with a mysterious cult and a sea monster whose name is the title of the movie. The script is based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Cogswell said.Good points: low budget, filmed in places not usually associated with movie-making. Bad points: original story had no "seductress" character, and the sexuality of the main character in the original story was a non-issue. I still think this one is going to be stinker. But it's not like bad movies haven't been made from Lovecraft stories before.
Budgeted at $450,000 and directed and co-written by Portland-based filmmaker Dan Gildark, the picture will be shot primarily in Astoria, Ore., and Seattle, Cogswell said.
The Phoenix Fire Department's Urban Search and Rescue team has been suspended from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for deploying armed police officers to protect firefighters in violation of the agency's rules.Someone somewhere doesn't even have a slight tenuous grasp on reality. Absolutely ludicrous.
As a result, Phoenix officials now are threatening to refuse some of the most dangerous deployments in the future or possibly even pull out of the federal agency altogether, unless the rules are changed to allow teams to bring their own security, even if that means police with guns.
The DVD includes The Call of Cthulhu (47 minutes, black and white), the high-fidelity and "Mythophonic" soundtracks, a 25 minute "making-of" documentary featurette, two slide shows, deleted footage, a prop PDF of the Sydney Bulletin and more.This one, for sure, I gotta see. There's also a trailer available for viewing online.
To appeal to Lovecraft fans throughout across the globe, this DVD provides intertitles in 24 languages including: Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Euskera, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxmbourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh. These aren't just subtitles either--they are the real title cards rendered tastefully in each language. If you thought the story was scary before, wait until you see it in Welsh!
The Concealed Carry Bill is back, and this time it's known as the Personal Protection Act.
The last version of the concealed carry bill was defeated by a single vote in February of 2004. Republicans say they've improved the bill and that this time it will become law.
'This is a women's rights issue. This is a personal defense issue. This is an issue that will save lives,' says Senator Dave Zien (R-Eau Claire), who is as passionate as ever about giving you the right to carry a concealed weapon.
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that the Belmont County Sheriff's Office is sending letters to concealed handgun license holders demanding that they complete a one page document verifying their address, and asking if they still have their concealed handgun licenses.The actual demand letter may be read here (pdf file). Ohioans for Concealed Carry response letter is here (pdf file).
Worse, the document states that you 'MUST' complete this form because it is 'a part of the requirements of having a CCW Permit.'
If you live in Belmont County, or if you obtained your license from the Belmont County Sheriff's Office, you may have received this letter.
Our last foray into the ethos of the Wild West was in 1987, when we made concealed weapons available to the masses. But a funny thing happened.
Doomsday predictions about gun violence never materialized.
Since 1987, Florida has issued more than 1 million concealed-weapons permits. Fewer than 200 have been revoked because the licensee used a gun in a crime.
In 1996, felons used firearms in 37,533 Florida crimes. Last year that number dropped to 25,771. That reduction is even more remarkable when you consider the state's booming population.
The simple fact is that most gun owners are responsible people, and laws don't change their behavior. There are almost 15,000 people in Orange County with concealed-weapons permits. When's the last time one of them pulled a gun on you?
The SAPD Vice Unit was conducting a sting operation called a reversal, meaning an undercover female patrol officer in plainclothes was on the streets in an area in which they received complaints about prostitution.He could lose his job and his "peace officer" license. He could.
Around 10:30 p.m., police said the 27-year-old Tisdale's truck approached the undercover female officer and police said a deal was made for sex.
"Once the deal was done, the person in the vehicle was told to drive around the corner, at which point, detectives were able to make an apprehension on that individual in the vehicle," said Sgt. Gabe Trevino, of the SAPD. "At that point, they realized the person driving the truck was an off-duty San Antonio patrol officer."
Police said Tisdale, who works out of the Prue Road Substation, is charged with prostitution, a Class B misdemeanor.
Tisdale has also been placed on administrative duty, pending an investigation.
Police said he could lose his job and peace officer license.
GC §411.186. REVOCATION. (a) A license may be revoked underand
this section if the license holder:
(1) was not entitled to the license at the time it was issued;
(2) gave false information on the application;
(3) subsequently becomes ineligible for a license under Section
411.172, unless the sole basis for the ineligibility is that the license
holder is charged with the commission of a Class A or Class B misdemeanor
or an offense under Section 42.01, Penal Code, or of a felony
under an information or indictment;
GC §411.172. ELIGIBILITY. (a) A person is eligible for a license toHe still has his job, he's still getting paid, and I bet he still carries a gun.
carry a concealed handgun if the person:
(1) is a legal resident of this state for the six-month period
preceding the date of application under this subchapter or is otherwise
eligible for a license under Section 411.173(a);
(2) is at least 21 years of age;
(3) has not been convicted of a felony;
(4) is not charged with the commission of a Class A or Class B
misdemeanor or an offense under Section 42.01, Penal Code, or of a
felony under an information or indictment;
The animal--which measures roughly 25 feet (8 meters) long--was photographed 2,950 feet (900 meters) beneath the North Pacific Ocean. Japanese scientists attracted the squid toward cameras attached to a baited fishing line.Some pictures are there if you follow the link. Good thing for them it was only a squid.
The scientists say they snapped more than 500 images of the massive cephalopod before it free after snagging itself on a hook. They also recovered one of the giant squid's two longest tentacles, which severed during its struggle.
The photo sequence, taken off Japan's Ogasawara Islands in September 2004, shows the squid homing in on the baited line and enveloping it in 'a ball of tentacles.'
Opponents of gun restrictions often argue that even seemingly modest restrictions are the first step towards total bans on all guns or all handguns.Bookmark it so you will have an easily available reference next time someone says you're "paranoid."
Some proponents of gun restrictions mock this: No-one is talking about gun bans, they say -- the slippery slope concern is groundless. In the words of Martin Dyckman, associate editor of the St. Petersburg Times (Dec. 12, 1993, at 3D), "no one is seriously proposing to ban or confiscate all guns. You hear that only from the gun lobby itself, which whistles up this bogeyman whenever some reasonable regulation is proposed."
Who is right here? Is it true that no-one is seriously proposing broad gun bans? Is it true that the slippery slope concern is just a bogeyman? Here are a few relevant quotes on this point. (All of them have been verified by me, Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law, UCLA Law School, with help from our excellent law library.)
