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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (159084)	8/26/2013 8:47:23 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224706

Kenny...So how is the weather in Syria, does the poison gas affect global warming? Did USA have anything to do with the release of this poison gas?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (159084)	8/26/2013 9:11:11 PM
From: Jack of All Trades	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 224706

Why do you keep pointing out liberal cities? I'll tell you out here in New England, it's been a cool summer. Lake temps usually reach 80s by this time of year, this weekend they were 71, and water still high for this time of year. With realatively cool night time temps I would say the water temps won't go much higher this year.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (159084)	8/27/2013 11:37:24 AM
From: tonto	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 224706

Yes, Madison is always much warmer and more humid than the Lakeshore. Today will be a hotter day and then we will have rain and it will be more humid...thanks for the weather report...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (159084)	8/27/2013 6:53:51 PM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo TideGlider Respond to of 224706

Ahhhhh, returned to my home on the lake. 72 degrees...just perfect.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (159084)	8/28/2013 8:19:06 AM
From: Jack of All Trades	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo TideGlider Respond to of 224706

Updated: 7:57 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 \| Posted: 7:35 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 Woman brutally beaten by group of teens in North Side says attack was ‘racially motivated’ 0 198 1 198 View Larger Related View Larger North Side attack Sponsored Links Print free Caddie Shak fun park coupons PITTSBURGH — A woman who said she was brutally attacked by a group of black teenagers in Pittsburgh’s North Side Sunday said the girls savagely beat her while calling her racial slurs. Ginger Slepski said she suffered multiple injuries, including torn shoulder ligaments. She said she thought the girls were going to kill her. “I thought it was so animalistic. So violent. I’m so afraid for these girls to get out and walk the streets,” Slepski said. Police said Slepski was savagely beaten after the girls threw a bottle at her car on Concord Street and she stopped to confront them. “I was mad. I knew they were younger. I thought they were in their early 20s. I got out and said, ‘What is your problem?’” Slepski said. All four African-American girls then called her names before getting physically violent. “They yelled, ‘Shut up white [expletive].’ The other said, ‘Get that white [expletive],’” Slepski said. Slepski said she tried to get back into her car but the girls grabbed her by the hair. “The one punched me in the head and I was on a set of concrete steps and my head hit the concrete so hard,” said Slepski. “Then they all got on top of me and all their hands were in my hair. They kept telling each other to, ‘Kick her in the head. Kick her head in the concrete.’” Slepski said several people witnessed the attack but were too afraid to intervene. “Another woman was yelling at the girls, ‘I’m calling the police!’ And it’s like it only made it worse,” Slepski said. Slepski said a man finally jumped in and helped Slepski escape from under the group of girls. “I do feel like it was very racially motivated and I grew up in the neighborhood,” she said. Slepski said her injuries are keeping her from working as an electrician and she’s worried about having the means to take care of her daughters. The teens allegedly involved were all charged with robbery and ethnic intimidation.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (159084)

8/28/2013 10:27:55 AM

From: longnshort

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Harvard Study – Gun control doesn’t work

Here’s a piece of news that isn’t going to sit well with all the gun grabbing nannies who look to liberal colleges like Harvard for guidance.

The Bearing Arms blog reports.

Harvard: Gun control doesn’t workYou’re going to want to read all of this (PDF).

“Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence” in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy is the stuff of gun grabber’s nightmares. Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser have compiled a heavily foot-noted academic report that is nonetheless very compelling and relatively easy to digest.

Small Government Times offers a summary:

The Harvard study attempts to answer the question of whether or not banning firearms would reduce murders and suicides. Researchers looked at crime data from several European countries and found that countries with HIGHER gun ownership often had LOWER murder rates.

Russia, for example, enforces very strict gun control on its people, but its murder rate remains quite high. In fact, the murder rate in Russia is four times highertahn in the “gun-ridden” United States, cites the study. ”Homicide results suggest that where guns are scarce other weapons are substituted in killings.” In other words, the elimination of guns does not eliminate murder, and in the case of gun-controlled Russia, murder rates are quite high.

The study revealed several European countries with significant gun ownership, like Norway, Finland, Germany and France – had remarkably low murder rates. Contrast that with Luxembourg, “where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal, had a murder rate nine times higherthan Germany in 2002.

The study found no evidence to suggest that the availability of guns contributes to higher murder rates anywhere in the world. ”Of course, it may be speculated that murder rates around the world would be higher if guns were more available. But there is simply no evidence to support this.”

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