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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (697319)2/5/2013 2:06:38 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577168
 
Skeet-Shooting Obama Now a Doll

HEROBUILDERS RELEASES ITS 4TH OBAMA ACTION FIGURE

By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff
newser.com
Posted Feb 4, 2013 6:02 PM CST

(NEWSER) – Paging the inevitability department: President Obama's newly released skeet-shooting photo has inspired an action figure of the prez hunting with a shotgun, reports the Huffington Post. The $19.95 doll includes a sweatshirt with "clay pigeons" written on it, a twisted smile, and muscles bulging à la Sylvester Stallone. The doll's maker explains the bod: "It's too complex and costly to make multiple bodies," said Emil Vicale, owner of Herobuilders. "Most action figures use just one body." He's built three other Obamas before, including an Obama Dark KnightJoker doll and an Obama Navy SEAL doll. Click for more on Herobuilders' other figures ... like "tanning mom."



To: d[-_-]b who wrote (697319)2/5/2013 7:36:59 AM
From: Brumar893 Recommendations  Respond to of 1577168
 
The WH image-makers are sensitive to Obama being laughed at. Which is why Obama hasn't thrown out anymore first pitches at baseball games. He looked hilarious throwing like a girl. When they realized people were laughing at at the idea of Obama shooting skeet "all the time" they figured they'd help out his image by releasing a photo of Obama firing a shotgun ... being metrosexuals themselves they botched the job.



To: d[-_-]b who wrote (697319)2/5/2013 2:39:32 PM
From: FJB1 Recommendation  Respond to of 1577168
 
Court: NYTimes's Request for New York City Gun Owners Violates Law


As did the previous release of a list of gun owners.



11:56 AM, FEB 5, 2013 • BY DANIEL HALPER

A New York appellate court has ruled that the New York Times's request for a list of gun owners in New York City, under the Freedom of Information Law, violates the state's statute. The ruling overturns in part a lower court's ruling.

"Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Jane S. Solomon, J.), entered November 1, 2011, granting the petition to the extent it sought an order directing respondent, under the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law § 84 et seq.) (FOIL), to provide an electronic copy of a database, as redacted, of names and addresses of New York City residents who have been granted handgun licenses, and a database, to be redacted, of hate crimes reported to respondent from January 1, 2005 to the present, and denying the petition to the extent it sought an order directing respondent to provide an electronic copy of its crime incident database, a declaration that respondent's practices in responding to FOIL requests violate the statute, and an order directing respondent to cease these practices, unanimously modified, on the law, to deny the petition as to the databases of handgun licensees and hate crimes and to reinstate the petition with respect to the demand for the crime incident database, insofar as it seeks production of the electronic crime incident database produced in Floyd v City of New York (08 Civ 01034 [SAS] [US Dist Ct, SD NY]) (the Floyd database), and the matter remitted to Supreme Court for a determination of whether production of the Floyd database should be ordered, and, if so, to what extent and under what conditions, and otherwise affirmed, without costs," reads the ruling.

weeklystandard.com



To: d[-_-]b who wrote (697319)2/6/2013 4:36:23 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1577168
 
Hi d[-_-]b; I think you're right, they did photoshop in some smoke, and it's clearly single shot trap shooting rather than skeet.

I was trying to think of a reason why you'd get that much smoke from smokeless powder. Maybe some sort of cloud effect such as what aircraft create. But my understanding is that contrails form due to decreases in pressure while shotguns only produce increases. I've just never seen anywhere near that much smoke coming out of anything but a black powder rifle.

I think that the reason someone photoshopped in the smoke was because it is so hard to get a photo of a firearm being fired. The only photo they had was of him sighting down the barrel so they photoshopped it.

In the final analysis, who really cares, but it was fun to talk about.

-- Carl