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Is the mass media telling us how to think?
Depending on which source of news you like best and in which form you prefer it, the news you get can be a little bias. For example, FOX tends to be more conservative than CNN. This can affect the types of stories they present to their viewers and how they present them.
Topics: mass media
Apr 19 2012: They don't teach us to think, they try to tell us what to think. A lot of TV news stations slant the news to fit their view points these days. Then, they try their best to sell it to us, rather than reporting just the facts. In my opinion, MSNBC can be the worst for doing this. I watch it once in a while to get a different take on a story, but usually the obvious bias of the "reporters" just makes me mad! It is up to each of us to remember the old "buyer beware" slogan, more than ever, and to sort through all the junk to get to the facts.
Apr 18 2012: Everyone has their own way to view this. Some think that XYZ is commie pinko and ZYX is the real truth. I question almost everything. I watch several US stations and BBC. That the media is bias is not a news flash. I question all major stories. Strangly the easiest lies to prove to be lies are campaign promises. A quick check of the Constitution the duties of the President and Executive Powers are outlined. The hardest are stats. Poll takers word the questions to get the answers wanted by the person who is paying them. I know I did this for a while. Ever wonder why the terms out of work and unemployed come up so often. shouldn't they mean the same. No way. One means the amount of people who applied to unemployment for the first time. The other is the amount of people who no longer applied for unemployment and have given up looking for work. Use the one that proves your point. The number hired includes part time and temps where it should only be long term employment. Yep we are led and lied to by almost everyone and the media goes with the one they are told to put forth as "THE ONE". If you are interested there is a video on you tube that is interesting and thought provoking about the Russian KGB by a defecter. Search for: Yuri Bezmenov. I am not saying that this is all true either but it did inspire thought. We currently have a multi millionare President who is preaching that the rich are your enemy while he pocketed after taxes $800,000 this year. When he gives this up I will believe him. He is a excellent talker and made the poor believe the rich Republicians are out to take their share of the American dream. Free this and free that is not possible but they believe him. My advice is to question everything and avoid smoke and mirrors at all costs. All the best. Bob
Apr 26 2012: Journalism has morphed into a tool of the News industry. Mass media certainly does suggest, overtly and covertly, how they want us to think, but they cannot make us think contrary to our own convictions. When a person is void of convictions the Media can easily hold sway. My answer to your interesting question is, if by "us" you mean people without convictions, absolutely YES. The answers flip-flops for people with convictions.
Apr 22 2012: nice topic,
I don't think media tells us what to think. I think what the media does is try to understand what and how people think and do what they can to appeal to their interest or fears.
If you read up anything on Edward Bernay's and Walter Lippmann in regards to propaganda techniques they'll tell you how the media functions.
Just some food for thought, most news sources are controlled by some sort of corporate interest and depending on who's paying the most money to these news corporations, depends on what stories get put out to the public, which is why fox may seem a bit more liberal than CNN at times.
Apr 19 2012: In my mind, Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent even 20+ years after it was written offers the best insight into how the mass media really works in America. It's essential reading to anybody interested in the subject.
As others have suggested, the best way to combat media bias and corporatism is approach every bit of news you see with a healthy level of skepticism.
Apr 18 2012: Not at all!
If the media accomplishes anything in the way of thinking skills it reduces the capability to think at all, no matter which media outlet is used. Instead the media molds minds to THEIR way of thinking.
The old saying, "Don't believe everything you read or hear," still holds true.
Therefore, constantly asking, "Why?" will lead someone to thinking on their own, no matter which media outlet they watch. The question, "Why?" will then send them in search of an answer, where ever that may lead.
Apr 18 2012: Steve Jobs once said...
"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."
Not a whole lot can be said after this deadly accurate thought by a true open mind... Mass media is not teaching us how to think, we (the people) are choosing not to think...
Apr 18 2012: The news we watch or read affects what we learn about and to some extent what we believe is true. You specifically asked whether the mass media teaches us "how to think" rather than asking whether the mass media tells us "what to think."
My conjecture would be that when we hear and read superficial or simplified versions of stories, and read and hear such a level of thought daily, we may become so used to this that we start thinking less deeply about things and are less likely to recognize that the issues are actually more complex than the accounts we hear.
In school when we work with children on critical thinking and on advancing our understanding of a subject by research, questioning, and discourse, we are trying to suggest a disposition to think carefully, learn to recognize bias, and learn to recognize the distinction between well supported fact or theory and opinion.
Such training can help a person later to recognize when something portrayed in advertsing or in other formats is over-simplified or misleading. But mass media and advertising are definitely a highly influencial counter-force.
Apr 18 2012: While anyone can put online "facts" as many conspiracy theorists do.
What matters is how a certain website or organization are considered to be trust worthy. Trust worthiness is generally established by search engines, well know organizations and people recommending sources of information, popularity and ability to compare different sources of information to see who can be trusted.
Another big advantage of the Internet is the variety of sources one has access to from both organizations and individuals, including people at the middle of an event that use Twitter and blogs to report what exactly is happening around them.
Some of the generally recognized sources of news information is Wikinews: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
By reading and comparing sites like Economists, BBC, Google News, Haffington Post, Wall Street Journal and others, one can get different views, opinions and wider range of facts.
Apr 18 2012: Yes Fox news terrible terrible, can you name one other conservative tv station?
Yet on the liberal side we ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS,Cnn, BBC, your right we need to get rid of that one conservative tv station.
I don't think that they realize they are biased (its a Kathryn Schulz thing). But to your question they definitely indoctrinate and polarize making it impossible for people to find out what they don't know as they walk around thinking they know.


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The aggressive pursuit of market share, particularly in the area of online payments and mobile payments, has intensified in the past year, as major credit card companies and dominant e-payment providers such as Paypal, Alipay and Google Checkout, fight for their places in the market. Tom Brown, a Senior Associate at Pinsent Masons, examines the recent events that are dramatically changing the e-finance landscape.
'Opportunities of Digitizing Payments' report: two viewsQ&A: EC challenge to Hungarian m-payments 'monopoly' Q&A: CFSA files lawsuit to end Operation Choke Point Bitcoin & The Law: webinar online Q&A: Financial institutions respond to Australia's 2014 Financial System Inquiry The European Commission's Payments Package – ECON finds its voice Reactions to the UK Government's plans to open up the UK payments system Q&A: The FCA's mobile banking review Reactions to PSD2 and the proposed regulation of MIFs Q&A: FinCEN and virtual currencies: the coming of clarity and ambiguity Q&A: Tony Anderson, Partner at Pinsent Masons, on the new regulator for the UK payments systems sector Q&A: Sarah Carter, General Manager, Social Business, at Actiance, about banks on social media

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Note: All Books in this department are Special Collection (Sp.C., reference) and not for check-out. Some titles by Garrett, McDonald, and Pruitt, as well as the Journal of Muscle Shoals History, are available in Non-Fiction for check-out. All books, periodicals, and census microfilm are listed in the library's online catalog.
Books — General Histories: 976.199
African-American Historical/Genealogical Information from Old Lauderdale County, Alabama Newspapers, 1827-1935; 3 vols.
Beasley, David B., History of the Downtown Florence Kiwanis Club: The First Ten Years.
Bernauer, Mary Ann, A History of St. Florian
Black Confederate Veterans, from Old Newspaper, Confederate Veteran and Other Magazine and Internet Articles; 2 vols.
Brewer, W., Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men
Burrell Reunion Committee, Crimson Tiger, 1903-1969
Florence Normal College History from Old Lauderdale County Newspapers, 1872-1930.
Garrett, Jill Knight, Early Settlers of Lauderdale County, Alabama
Hamm, Jane Johnson, Florence Wagon Co.: Memories and More.
Hausmann, Albert Charles, Police Story: A History of the Police Department of Florence, Alabama, from 1818-2000.
Hendrix, Tom, If the Legends Fade.
Heritage Publishing Consultants, Inc.,The Heritage of Lauderdale County, Alabama
Hill, Jimmy and Billy Warren, A Walk Down Walnut
A History of Florence Female Synodical College Compiled from Old Lauderdale Co. Newspapers, 1855-1912
History of the Florence Wagon Company from Old Lauderdale County Newspapers, 1889-1940.
History of St. Florian, Alabama from Old Lauderdale County Newspapers, 1871-1944.
Johnson, Fred, I'm from Lexington
Lauderdale County, Alabama Masons, Good Templars, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Other Fraternal Orders, Compiled from Old Newspapers, 1851-1923.
Ledger of a Grocery Store at Gravelly Springs, AL 1879-1880.
Local History Columns from the Times Daily (various local authors); 3 vols.
Mason, Mildred, Waterloo School Through the Ages: 1800s Through 2002.
McDonald, William L., "Bill," Beginnings of UNA
Moore, Charles Enloe, Come Tell Me How You Lived: Native American History of the Tennessee Valley
Old Florence Newspaper Articles and Correspondents' Letters Dealing with East Florence c. 1886-1930; 2 vols.
Old Lauderdale County Newspaper Articles on St. Florian 1871-1944
Pettus, Ronald, A History of Killen
Pruitt, Wade, Bugger Saga: The Civil War Story of Guerilla and Bushwhacker Warfare in Lauderdale County, Alabama
Remington, W. Craig, Historical Atlas of Alabama: Volume 1: Historical Locations by County
Russell, Darrel L., compiler, Florence Female Academy and/or Florence Elks Lodge, Nomination as an Historical Site from the Private Papers of Alfred McCroskey.
Sockwell, Sandra, The Place Names of Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Alabama; 2 vols.
Steen, Robert, Florence State Teachers College Heroes of World War II (1941-1945)
Stumpe, Carl, A History of St. Florian Area Families
Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals and Wilson Dam History from Old Lauderdale, Franklin and Colbert County Newspapers, 1827-1895 w/index volume.
Warren, Polly C., Lauderdale County Civil War Records w/1860 Census
Books — Biographical
Brewer, W., Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men, From 1540 to 1872.
DuBose, Joel C., Notable Men of Alabama (1904); 2 vols.
Smith and Deland, Northern Alabama: Historical Biographical (1888)
Owen, Thomas McAdory, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (1921); 4 vols.
Alabama 1866 State Census – Colored Schedule, Lauderdale, Lawrence and Limestone Cos. (copied from microfilm)
Alabama Genealogical Society Magazine, "1830 Census, Lauderdale County, Alabama."
Garrett, Jill Knight, History of Florence w/1850 Census
Mahan, Pat, Lauderdale County 1840 Census
Warren, Polly C., Lauderdale County Civil War Records w/1860 Census
Books — Census Indexes
Note: There is no federal census for Lauderdale County prior to 1830. So-called "census indexes" up to that point are not, technically speaking census indexes, but are compilations of names taken from various other kinds of records.
1810: Jackson, Ronald V., Alabama 1810
1811-1819: Jackson, Ronald V.,Alabama 1811-1819
1820: Jackson, Ronald V.,Alabama 1820-29
1830: Gandrud, Pauline J., Alabama Index to the 1830 United States Census
1830: Jackson, Ronald V., Alabama 1830 Census Index
1840: Jackson, Ronald V., Alabama 1840 Census Index
1850: Jackson, Ronald V., Alabama 1850 Census Index
1860: Jackson, Ronald V., Alabama 1860 Census Index
1900: Kachelman, Joy and Carol Manuel, 1900 Federal Census, Lauderdale County, Alabama: Heads of Families and Others in the Same Family with Different Surnames
1900: Mahan, Pat M., Lauderdale County 1900 Census Index
Books — Religious/Church Histories
Cobb, Anita S., A Look at Mt. Zion, Its Past and Present, Celebrating 128 Years of Christian Service: A Historical Presentation of Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Coleman, Erwin M., A History of Temple B'Nai Israel: Florence, Alabama, Centennial Celebration, 1906-2006
Dixon, William S., St. Michael's Catholic Church 125th anniversary 1873-19983 vols
Hamm, Jane Johnson, East Florence Church of Christ History 1897-1997.
King, Mary Nell, and Hiawatha Walker, A History of the Church of Christ at Poplar Street and Wood Avenue, Florence, Alabama, 1886-1986
Lancaster, Dallas and Mary, Parish registers of Trinity Episcopal Church, Florence, Alabama with marriages and obituaries 1836-1933
Lancaster, Mary Holland, Gathering up our Sheaves with Joy: A History of Trinity Episcopal Church, 1824-1976, Florence, Alabama
Makowski, Suzanne Thurman, One Hundred Years of Work and Prayer, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Florence, Alabama, 1898-1998
Maxwell, Adine Johnson, To Follow in Their Train: History of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Florence, Alabama
McDonald, William L., Following the vision, 1822-21st Century: A History of the First United Methodist Church of Florence, Alabama
Parker, Alvin F., Salem Church of Christ, Lauderdale County, Alabama: A Story of Struggle and Success.
Srygley, Fletcher Douglas, Letters and Sermons of T. B. Larimore.
Books — Court House Records Abstracts
Campbell, Theresa Brewer and Darrel Russel, et. al., Lauderdale County, Alabama: Annotated Index to Chancery Court Records: Equity Record Book C, 1827-1830
Creek, Robin and Betty Womble, Marriages, Lauderdale County, Alabama, 1818-1857
Gandrud, Pauline J., Alabama Records, Lauderdale County Vols. 43, 104, 199
Mahan, Pat, Lauderdale County 1866 Tax List
Russel, Darrell A., Surname Searches in the Colbert and Lauderdale County Courthouses
Wright, Milly, Lauderdale County, Alabama Minute Docket a June Term 1839-May Term 1859
Books — Cemetery Surveys/Obituary Indexes
Abramson, Idah Mae and Doris L. Whisenant, Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery Records
African-American Funeral Programs; 4 vols w/idex
Barefield, Marylin Davis, Alabama Mortality Schedule 1860
Barnett, Muriel and Judy Mason, Cemeteries of East Lauderdale County, Alabama
Barnett, Muriel and Judy Mason, Death Notices from the Times Daily and East Lauderdale News, January, 1, 1996—December 31, 2000
Cemetery Vertical Files Drawer; (Arranged alphabetically).
Coleman, Erwin M., Index, Temple B'Nai Israel Cemetery, Sheffield, Oakwood Cemetery, Sheffield, Alabama
Dawsey, Scott, Jewish Cemetery of the Shoals Area, Temple B'Nai Israel & the Smith Burial Plot, Oakwood Cemetery, Sheffield, Alabama
Flowers, Loftin, The Forks of Cypress Slave Cemetery
Freeman, Bill, abstract of William J. and Martha J. Freeman's Stony Point Church of Christ Cemetery Book, 1896-1955
Gandrud, Pauline J., Marriage, Death and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers
Garrett, Jill Knight, Some Lauderdale County, Alabama Cemetery Records.
Hanhn, Marylin Davis, Alabama Mortality Schedule 1850
Hill, William Q., A History of Greenhill, Alabama and Some Surrounding Communities in Lauderdale County, Alabama, with 54 Cemeteries of the County
Irons, Orlan K. Cemetery Records: Lauderdale County, Alabama; 4 vols.
Langley, Anna, Some Waterloo, Alabama Cemeteries
Lyon, George Edwin, Northwest Alabama Obituaries: Index of Obituaries Abstracted from the Times Daily Newspaper, 1985
Michael, Marlon L., The Hale Cemetery
Murphy, Montez, St. Michael's Catholic Church Cemetery, St. Florian, AL
Newton, Brian J., Cemeteries in the Natchez Trace Genealogical Society Coverage Area
Remington, W. Craig, Historical Atlas of Alabama: Volume 2: Cemetery Locations by County
Sledge, Billy J., 1947 Obituaries the Florence Times
Torbert, Robert E., "Bob," Florence, Alabama City Cemetery
Torbert, Robert E. and Theo Wiliford, Index to Deaths in the Florence Times, 1 January-31 December 1946
Wiliford, Theo, Death Notices, Memorials and Obituaries from the Florence Times, 1890-1930
Z. P. Morrison & Son Funeral Home Ledger
Z. P. Morrison, Undertaker, Casket Sales and Funeral Records, 25 Sept. 1917-Oct. 1918 and 8 Jan.,-15 June, 1922.
Books — Land Records
Boyd, Gregory A., Family maps of Lauderdale County, Alabama: With Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More
Cowart, Margaret Matthews, Old Land Records of Lauderdale County, Alabama
Wright, Milly, Early Land Buyers and Settlers, Florence & Lauderdale County, Alabama, 1818-1825 (with accompanying map in map drawer)
Books — Native American
Hendrix, Tom, If the Legends Fade
Martini, Don, Chickasaw Empire: The Story of the Colbert Family
McDonald, Bill, Lore of the River: The Shoals of Long Ago
Moore, Charles Enloe, Come Tell Me How You Lived: Native American History of the Tennessee Valley
Books — Folklore
Glass, Debra Johnston, Skeletons on Campus: True Ghost Stories of Alabama Colleges and Universities
Johnston, Debra, Skeletons in the Closet: True Ghost Stories of the Shoals Area
Johnston, Debra, Skeletons in the Closet: More True Ghost Stories of the Shoals Area
Pruitt, Wade, Bugger Saga: The Civil War Story of Guerilla and Bushwhacker in Lauderdale County, Alabama
Books — City Directories
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Tri-Cities Directory Comprising Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia, Ala., 1913-1914.
1920-21 Polk's.
Polk's Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia, Alabama, City Directory, 1926.
Baldwin's and Times Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Muscle Shoals Area, Alabama City Directory Master Edition, 1935.
Baldwin and Merchants' Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Muscle Shoals Area, Alabama, City Directory Master Edition, 1941.
1945 Baldwin's.
1950 Baldwin's.
1952 Baldwin's.
Nelson's Baldwin's Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Muscle Shoals Area, Alabama City Directory Master Edition, 1954.
1957 Nelson's.
Polk's Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Muscle Shoals City Directory, 1959.
1960 Polk's.
1962 Polk's.
1963-2010 Polk's.
Young's Business and Professional Directory of the Principal Cities of Tennessee and Northern Alabama: Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia, 1900.
Books — Bell South Telephone Directories
1948; 1951-2010
Books — Journals and Publications
The Journal of Muscle Shoals History vols. 1-17, 1973-2000. Also available in Non-fiction for check-out.
The Natchez Trace Traveler (published by the Natchez Trace Genealogical Society), vols. 1-17, 1981-2010.
Pier Post River Journal, vols. 2-6, 2001-2005 ed. and published by Bob Stansell.
Valley Leaves (published by the Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society), vols. 1-35, 1969-2005.
Books — Yearbooks and Annuals
Coffee Pot, Coffee High School, 1921-2004. Some missing issues.
Coffee High School Alumni Directory 2006
60th Anniversary Coffee High School Class of 1942
Diorama, Florence State Teachers College, now UNA, 1948-1997; 1999-2010.
The First Flight, 2005, Florence High School
Kilby Club Tracks 2005-2007; 2009
The Jolly Roger, Rogers High School, 1951-1952.
Mark of the Bruin, Henry A. Bradshaw High School, 1969-2003. Some missing issues.
Riverhill School 1986-1987
Shoals Community College, Scroll: 1990-1991
The Wee-Den, Weeden School: 1973-1982
The Wildcat, Central High School, 1992.
Microfilm — US Federal Census
Note: No Lauderdale County federal censuses exist prior to 1830
1830: Roll # M19-0001
1840: Roll # M704-0007
1850: Roll # M432-0007
1860: Roll # M653-0013
1870: Roll # M593-21
1880: Roll # T19-17: pt. 1 (digitally enhanced images)
1880: Roll # T19-18: pt. 2 (digitally enhanced images)
1890: Note: There is no 1890 census for Laud. It was destroyed with most of the rest of the 1890 census in 1921 as the result of a fire.
1900: Roll # T623-23: pt. 1 (digitally enhanced images)
1900: Roll # T623-0024: pt. 2 (digitally enhanced images)
1910: Roll # T624-21
1920: Roll # T625-27 (digitally enhanced images)
1930: Roll # T626-33: pt. 1
1930: Roll # T626-34: pt. 2.
US Federal Agricultural, Industrial, Manufacturers, Mortality and Social Censuses
1850 Agricultural Schedule
1850 Industrial Census
1860 Agricultural Census
1860 Industrial Census
1860 Social Census
1870 Agriculture Census
1870 Manufacturers Census
1880 Industrial Census
1880 Manufacturers Census
1870 Mortality Schedule
1880 Mortality Schedule
Microfilm — Slave Censuses
Note: Slave schedules exist only for the years 1850 and 1860 and only for Southern states
Roll # M432-19: 1850
Roll # M653-31: 1860
Microfilm — Soundex
1880: Abston-Glover; Incomplete series
1900: Moreland-Nichols: Incomplete Series
1910: Merett-Nolan: Incomplete Series
1920: Baxter-Trannon; Incomplete Series
Microfilm — U. S. Postoffice Records Microfilm
Appointment of Postmasters 1832-1971 Alabama: Roll # M841-0002
Reports of Site Selections 1837-1950 Alabama; Roll # M1126-0009
Microfilm — State Census
Note: The only state census for Lauderdale is the 1866.
Roll # M653-1439: 1866 (Note: This census has separate schedules for whites and blacks)
Microfilm — Lauderdale County Court House Probate Record Books
Lauderdale County Administration Record 1863-1921; Letters of Administration 1902; Adm. & Guardians Bonds 1860-1899; Letters of Guardianship 1902-1940; 1 roll
Lauderdale County Bonds
Lauderdale County Commissioners Court Road Book
Lauderdale County Confederate Pension Application Files
Lauderdale County 1907 Confederate Veterans Census (on roll # 66 with several other records)
Lauderdale County Dower Records
Index to Real Estate Conveyances (Direct and Indirect)
Lauderdale County Deed Record
Lauderdale County Deed Packets
Lauderdale County Inventory Record
Lauderdale County Inventory Record
Lauderdale County Judge of Probate Guardians and Administrators Bonds
Lauderdale County Judge of Probate License Book
Lauderdale County Justice of the Peace Probate Court Estray Book
Lauderdale County Letters Testamentary
Lauderdale County License Book for Physicians
Lauderdale County Notices of Appointments of Road Overseers and Apportioners
Lauderdale County Probate Minutes
Lauderdale County Probate Record Packets
Lauderdale County Unrecorded Papers (estate packets); 2 rolls
Lauderdale County Will Records
Microfilm — Private Records
Private records of Rev. W. L. ["Bill"] McDonald 1800-1978
Private Records of Alfred McCroskey, 1700-1978
Private Records of Joyce Mitchell
Microfilm — Family Vertical Files
Alexander Family; A—D; Roll # 8 (on roll with The Southern Rebellion Vol. 2 and Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence Vols. 1 & 2); Roll # 8
Lauderdale County 1862—1866; Roll # 10
Microfilm — other
1867 Voter Registration Microfilm; 1 Roll
Internal Revenue Assessment Lists 1865-1866 Microfilm:
Roll # M754-0005: Alabama District 3 (Includes Lauderdale), Divisions 1-16, Monthly Lists, Oct., 1865-Feb., 1866.
Cemetery Vertical Files
We have vertical historical files on many cemeteries of Florence/Lauderdale.
Family Files
We have a collection of files on local families (Colbert, Franklin and Lauderdale) that is arranged alphabetically. These files are constantly being updated and added to, and we welcome donations of relevant material to them.
Historical Files
We have vertical files containing information on various people and places of Florence/Lauderdale.
Historical Maps
1816: John Hutchings & Charles Bright (map is labeled John Coffee) map of NW Alabama (the areas of Lauderdale, Colbert, Lawrence and Limestone Counties): In map drawer # 4.
1817: "Map of the Late Surveys in the Northern District, Drawn from the Returns by Peel & Sannoner." In map drawer # 4
Map Drawer # 1
1818-1825: "Lauderdale County, Alabama Location of Land Buyers, 1818-1825 by Milly Wright."
1837: Inset Map of Florence from John La Tourette's 1837 map "An Accurate Map of the State of Alabama and West Florida."
1844: "Plan of the Corporate Limits of Florence" by Ferdinand Sannoner.
1852: "A Plan of the Town of Florence and the Lands Adjacent Belonging to the Cypress Land Co." By Ferdinand Sannoner.
Ca. 1880-1900: "Map of Lauderdale County, Alabama." Engraved by Edwin M. Garner, Nashville, Tenn.
1888: "Map of the Town of Florence, Alabama Showing the Property of the Florence Land, Mining & Manufacturing Co." by Charles Boeckh, C. E.
October, 1890: "Map of the City of Florence Prepared Under the Auspices of the Florence Land Sale Company" by Ditterich & Kirby, Architects & Engineers, Florence, Alabama.
1907: "Map of Lauderdale County, Alabama," Compiled by Delos H. Bacon, Manager of the Florence Abstract Co., Florence, Ala. On wall behind desk. Copies in map drawer # 1.
1918: "Additions to Freight Station, Florence, Ala., L & N R. R. Co." 4 sheets.
1922/1923: "Florence, Alabama" by Evans and Meade, Engineers, Florence, Ala.
1922/1923-1940: "Florence, Alabama" by Evans and Meade, Engineers, Florence, Ala. Authorized Dec. 1922 and Completed Aug. 1923. Revised April, 1940 by TC Evans, Engineer Co.
Ca. 1930s: "Forks of Cypress" (built in 1822) Blueprints: Historic American Buildings Survey: 18 sheets.
1942: "General Highway & Transportation Map" by the Alabama State Highway Dept. and the Public Roads Agency, Federal Works Administration.
Ca. 1950: Mid-South Map Co., "Map of Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia Alabama." (Note: This map is in Drawer # 2)
1960: "Pickwick Landing Reservation," Sheet 24 D, "Lauderdale County, Ala. (Waterloo area) by Tennessee Valley Authority Maps and Surveys Branch.
Sheet 58 D "Town of Waterloo, Lauderdale County, Ala." By Tennessee Valley Authority Maps and Surveys Branch.
1965: "General Highway Map, Lauderdale County, Alabama," Alabama State Highway Department, Division of Highway Planning.
1974: "Florence, Alabama, Street Index Map" Compiled March, 1974, City Limits, 1974, Florence Chamber of Commerce.
1977: "General Highway Map, Lauderdale County, Alabama," Alabama State Highway Department, Division of Highway Planning: In 2 sections.
1980: "Florence City Cemetery," City of Florence Engineering Department, 8 sheets w/index map.
4th addition; 6th; addition; 7th addition; 8th addition and 10th addition.
1987: "General Highway Map, Lauderdale County, Alabama," Alabama State Highway Department, Division of Highway Planning
1995: "Lauderdale County, Alabama" (front) Killen, Alabama (back).
1997: "General Highway Map, Lauderdale County, Alabama," Alabama State Highway Department, Division of Highway Planning: 2 sections.
1998: "Coffee Cemetery"
1999: "Lauderdale County, AL, Emergency Services Boundary Map"
2000: "City of Florence, Featuring Lauderdale County," D & L Map Service, Arlington, TX.
2000: Metro Marketing, Inc., "2000 Metro Edition Map of Florence, Sheffield, Muscle Shoals and Tuscumbia, AL." (Note: This map is in drawer # 2).
2004: "Afro-American Cemeteries in Lauderdale County, Alabama" compiled by Darrell Russel
2007: "Wesleyan Hall and Annex" by Cory L. Sapp and Matt G. Taylor
2010: City of Florence Planning Department, "City of Florence Historical Districts"
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Counts, Patricia Landrum, editor, Landrum Collection of Historical Photographs
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Follow The River: A History of Florence and Lauderdale County Alabama. Also available in circulation for check-out.
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Sam Tageson is 18 and loves the San Jose Sharks.
Tageson also suffers from hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which is a rare condition in which the left ventricle of the heart is severely underdeveloped. At some point, Tageson will need a heart transplant.
Due to the life-threatening nature of Tageson's condition, he got involved with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which allows children to fulfill their dreams.
Sam always wanted to be a member of the Sharks, and the organization made that happen Tuesday when they hosted the Florida Panthers. Tageson signed a contract with the team, participated in their morning skate, came out through the Shark's head onto the ice and even stood with the team during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Maddison. (Because I can't get enough of you talking about Maddison, ever.) — myselfdisintegrated
No, no, no! Stupid tumblr, I typed THE LONGEST response to this and it ate it. I'm so depressed. No matter.
1. When or if I started shipping them: I casually shipped them prior to seeing Yesterday, because all of fandom was ahead of me (yay Australia), but after I saw the episode it was game over. I loved them. They had an intensity in their interactions that I had always longed for in the interactions between Derek and Addison. And I've shipped them, stupidly, ever since.
2. What I think their challenge is: Their timing. They're never quite on the same page, even though they always understand each other in a way the other people in their lives don't. When Mark broke the bet so Addison could leave with a clear conscience I was devastated, but in a good way, because I thought they would grow separately and find their way back to each other. In my head, that's still what happens. They've never been ready for each other, but they're always waiting around corners at the big events in their lives for the other. Their challenge is finding their moment, I think.
3. What makes me happy about them: Literally everything. I love how they have a familiarity in their interactions that makes me believe they have a long history. I love that even when they're not together, they're bickering and interfering in each other's lives or just managing to talk about things they can't with anyone else. I love how much implicit trust there is between them - how Addison knows Mark won't judge and how Mark knows that sometimes, she just needs to get out of her head a bit (and yes, that means sex, thank you crossovers).
4. What makes me sad about them: That they can never quite make it work. I love them for it, because it's so true to who they are as characters - they just don't quite know how to be together and it makes my heart hurt for them.
5. What moment I wish had never happened: Abortion arc. Not because there's anything intrinsically wrong with the storyline, but because it felt unnecessary and was sort of lost amongst the many story lines competing for attention in season 3. It meant that Addison's relationship with Alex was short-changed (I think) and it was never properly dealt with. I like how Private Practice has actually addressed it since, but Mark could stand to think about … well, anything in his past on Grey's.
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: I think we all know the answer to that. No, I haven't seriously hated any of their other love interests, I just haven't loved any of them either, except in isolated moments. I liked Addison and Kevin, but their break up was completely contrived and cheapened the whole thing. I liked Addison and Pete, but I also liked that they broke up. (For the record, I NEVER liked Addison and Sam. It felt forced and I don't particularly think Taye Diggs and Kate Walsh have great chemistry on screen.) I liked Mark and Lexie, but I also felt like they came to their natural conclusion and now the writers are trying to force them on us again. I even liked Mark and Teddy, but again, I'm glad they've moved past it. I would honestly like to see them both happy; if it has to be with other people, then no one we've seen yet, but I'd also be quite happy if they just kept dating casually and occasionally hooking up. (Thank you crossover.)
7. My happily ever after for them (warning this is extremely long):
In LA, Addison and Sam break up for the last time when they realise they want entirely different things. Addison goes to see Naomi in New York, for some much-needed best friend post-break up time where much emotional turmoil is worked through, cheesecake is eaten, Naomi confesses that she and Sam made out behind Addison's back, Addison confesses that she felt terrible for falling for Sam because he was Naomi's ex-husband, they make peace with each other and, after several bottles of wine and some good girlie crying, discuss harvesting Addison's eggs and an IVF strategy. The next morning, bleary eyed, Addison confirms that she really does want to try to have a baby. Fife's interest in piqued and he agrees to help out. With six months of IVF, some intense retconning on behalf of the writers (which is fine because the reproductive physiology in Private Practice is already tentatively likely) and a bit of science magic, Addison's uterus becomes occupied with a tiny sperm-donor human. Amelia helps Addison during the pregnancy and becomes an honorary parent to the child, all the while confronting her own demons.
Meanwhile, in Seattle… Derek and Meredith conceive naturally (it happens!) and have twin boys. Mark and Derek do adorable bro-like things and are sounding boards for each other about being dads and teach their daughters and Derek's sons to do things like fish and throw baseballs. Life is peaceful. Mark dates. Jackson and Lexie break up. She tells Mark she wants to try again, but in the end, she goes back to Jackson. (I imagine there is to and fro here, and a source of much tension, but in the end, she and Jackson get engaged and Mark isn't sorry to see her go, because he does truly love her and wants her to be happy.) Callie and Arizona move to San Francisco, so Mark does too, wanting to stay close to Sofia. He opens a private practice there.
(I imagine that Mark and Addison do keep running into each at christenings and weddings and funerals and such. And they totally bone a lot when they do that, sometimes in wildly inappropriate places.I have such a super huge kink for that.)
On a trip to LA to see an old friend from residency, his friend offers him a two-day surgical rotation at his clinic at St Ambrose, obviously an effort to woo him into taking a job opening in LA. On his first day at the hospital, he has to talk to Addison, who has started to do more surgical hours again because she missed it, because he needs her OR slot. They're both stunned by the chance meeting and fumble through it gracelessly. The next week, he calls the night before he flies to LA and offers to buy her lunch to apologise for stealing her OR out from under her. They make a habit of it. The reconnection is tentative at first, but it's not long before they fall into bed together, again, as they always do. After that, it all goes swimmingly until Mark finds out about Addison's daughter. Shocked, he returns to San Francisco without giving her a chance to explain, feeling hurt that she kept such a huge secret from him and wonders what else she has been keeping, assuming the child's father must be in the picture. (Derek tells him he's being an idiot, since Mark himself has a child in unorthodox circumstances.)
Addison shows up on his doorstep that weekend, after he doesn't show up at the hospital on his usual days. They drink scotch and she tells him the whole story. They exchange apologies: him for overreacting, her for not telling him about her daughter. They settle back into a comfortable friendship, but don't discuss their relationship: it's a little more serious to contemplate now that they both have children.
This reaches its inevitable conclusion: a confrontation, possibly involving a sex fight, and two sulky surgeons. She calls him after a week of silence and they meet at Santa Monica Pier. Staring out over the water, they decide to give it a proper shot (actual excerpt to actual unpublished sequel to Flaws In Science /shameless self-promotion):
"With all our cards on the table," she says, "Without the insecurities, the doubts. We're too old not to fight the urge to self-destruct. So I won't run if it gets hard and you won't sleep with someone else for the heck of it and we'll talk. Ok?"
You stare at her, smirking. "And how long do you think it'll last?"
She wets her lips, nervous. "I don't know. All I know is I want to try."
And the rest isn't quite history. They don't walk off arm and arm into the sunset, or they do, but it doesn't stay that easy. But they make it work. Eventually she leaves LA, Amelia and baby in tow, and moves to San Francisco where they face the challenge of living in each other's space and blending families. And Amelia and Callie get on like a house on fire. And Arizona and Addison work together at the same women's and children's hospital. And Amelia eventually moves out of Addison's house, on her own, and starts dating someone wildly inappropriate and has a string of bad relationships until she meets someone exactly like her and they click and (in my head it might even be a woman). And Addison and Mark? They fight. They're both too stubborn for their own good. Mark sometimes stalks out of the house and finds himself in a bar flirting with a woman half his age before he knows it. Addison sometimes finds herself picking at his faults for no good reason. It's not all good, but it is mostly good. They get each other. It's trial and error. But they learn to be with each other and they find their moment.


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This is my first post to the B&N Community. I bought my Simple Touch two months ago. The power button did not operate properly and I was not able to even get to the internal instruction manual. The store replaced it with a new one. This worked fine until a few weeks ago when I briefly had problems with the button again. A few days ago I had problems turning it on again. Has anyone had similar problems? Can anything be done about this problem?
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What kind of problems are you having with it? Does it feel like it's stuck in a depressed condition? Or does it feel like it's too loose and isn't making the connection inside?
I haven't had any issues with my NSTGs power button. But working in B&N I have seen a few where the power button was stuck. Usually the person bringing it in said they had pressed down fairly hard on the button, some said they didn't and it seemed from how they used their device that they were telling the truth.
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A new ban on assault-style weapons was part of Presidential candidate Barack Obama's platform.
Fear of such a ban sent gun sales skyrocketing and the propaganda machine of the giant National Rife Association went into overdrive flooding its membership is "legislative alerts" about such a ban.
That was then, this is now.
Obama and the Democrats appear to have lost all interest in a ban on assault weapons or any other legislation cleaning up loopholes in America's gun laws even though killings are on the rise and gun violence continues to escalate around the country.
White House officials admit support for a new ban isn't there and the President isn't willing to take on another losing battle with Congress.
Although information on banning assault style weapons remains on the White House web site, sources within the Democratic party say the issue is dead and unlikely to be revived in the near future.
"It's over," a Democrat strategist admits. "The gun nuts have won…again."
On the morning of April 4, Richard Poplawski had a quarrel with his mother. It was over a dog urinating on a carpet. Mom called the police to have her 22-year-old son evicted from her house, a brick ranch with a dirty aluminum awning in the Stanton Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Two officers responded to the call, figuring it was a typical domestic dispute. Margaret Poplawski greeted them by saying, "Come and take his ass." But the younger Poplawski, who had been laid off from his job in a glass factory recently, had other plans. He went to a private arms cache in the house, retrieved his guns and strapped on a Kevlar bulletproof vest.
Poplawski shot officer Paul J. Sciullo II, 37, inside the house and hit 29-year-old Stephen Mayhle on the stoop. Both men fell dead. Poplawski calmly stood in the doorway and fired two or three more bullets into Mayhle's body, according to a police affidavit from a witness. Then he retreated into the house and fired hundreds of rounds, using an AK-47 assault rifle and other weapons to fend off a police SWAT team for four hours. He killed one other cop, 41-year-old Eric Kelly, and wounded yet another.
It was the deadliest day in the history of the Steel City's police department. When police finally apprehended and questioned Poplawski, he was without remorse. "He said he wishes he could have killed more Pittsburgh police officers," says a cop who was on the scene but asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing case. (Poplawski's lawyer did not respond to multiple requests for comment last week.)
There was a time when a creep like Poplawski would have become a potent symbol in the debate over gun control. He wasn't your run-of-the-mill malcontent. A white supremacist, he frequented the chat rooms of racist Web sites, where he posted screeds about a "Zionist occupation" bringing the country to economic ruin. But Keith Savage, manager of the Braverman Arms Co., where Poplawski got many of his guns (but not the AK-47, Savage claims), says nothing seemed amiss when he filled out Form 4473—the standard questionnaire for federally required background checks. The gun-shop staff had no way of knowing, for instance, about Poplawski's January 2005 discharge from the Marines for what Lt. Josh Diddams, a U.S. Marine Corps spokesman, tells NEWSWEEK was a "psychological disorder" (he had assaulted his drill sergeant during basic training, says Poplawski's mother). They probably also didn't know that Poplawski's former girlfriend had gotten a restraining order against him, later in 2005, after he grabbed her by the hair and threatened to kill her.
In the past, national political leaders might have raised troubling questions about how such an unstable character could obtain easy access to high-powered weapons. They might have been even more motivated given that Poplawski's cop-killing spree was part of a near epidemic of mass homicides that have left 58 people dead over the past month. Or given that Mexico's insanely violent drug cartels are arming themselves with high-powered assault weapons purchased at U.S. gun stores and later smuggled south of the border. Yet many past champions of stricter gun-control measures are silent. These include top Obama White House officials who have squelched any talk within the administration about pushing further gun-control measures."It's weird," says Peter Hamm, the communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "When you see people like [Attorney General] Eric Holder or Hillary Clinton or [White House chief of staff] Rahm Emanuel become muted on this issue, you feel like you want to call up a friend and say, 'What's up?' "
Running for president in last year's Democratic primaries, Barack Obama promised to restore a federal ban on certain semiautomatic assault guns—a position that's still on the White House Web site. The ban was originally passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress in 1994 and lapsed five years ago. In recent years the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has also lifted virtually all restrictions on imports of foreign-made assault weapons, permitting a flood of cheap Romanian, Bulgarian and other Eastern European AK-47s to enter the country, according to gun-control groups. "There's been an absolute deluge of these weapons," says Kristen Rand of the Violence Policy Center.
But Obama and top White House aides have all but abandoned the issue.
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curious. a right wing nut goes off the deep end having bought into the propaganda, kills a bunch of cops over urine, and justified it with his "government is evil" ideology.
In rebuttal, the thread is filled by posters who agree, and post that same ideology to discredit gun regulations.
Thank God Iraq didn't have gun control, so that when foreign nations took over their government the peoples could form an insurgency, and fight back for their country against those who declared Marshal law. granted, the surge worked, and put down this well armed insurgency, but what the hell, that's Iraq, us john wayne types would have defeated the American military, and coalition of the willing. right?
<–slowly shakes head. the things that are pawned off as intellect these days.
Recall Robert Bork? the one the leftist liberals "borked" his supreme court nomination because he was far too right wing conservative constitutionalist? You know, the staunch constitutionalist the conservatives said would restore DC to a constitutional government?
ahem…Bork is well on record on the 2nd amendment. His conservative opinion is…you only have the right to own a fire arm IF you are part of a well regulated malitia, otherwise, you do not have the right to keep and bear arms personally. Funny, the NRA didn't have a problem with that.
Canada has more guns per capita than America, and yet doesn't have any where near the violent crime this nation is subjected to daily. Guns are not the problem. Ideology is the problem, and on this the far left, and far right are in solidarity. though this issue is not limited to just this.
several years ago Seattle was trashed when the WTO came to town. what MSM failed to cover is where all those anarchist came from.
Back in the day, local leftist radicals used to use the city of Eugene Oregon for practice just before going national with a protest. this allowed them to see how police would react under different situations. Just before the Seattle event, the U of O invited the world anarchists to hold their yearly convention here. Gosh, downtown Eugene ended up being trashed in protest, no one saw that happening. Buses were than chartered here, and these anarachist from around the world were bused to Seattle just in time for the WTO. Seattle burns, news at 11. during this time 2 other issues arose that dovetails…a local car dealership was fire bombed, and over in felony flats a leftist liberal cabal was busted with a garage full of explosives, enough to blow up half the city. Ted kazinski had nothing on them.
the point. what is this whacked leftist ideology that provokes them to stock pile bombs? government is evil, and gonna get us. look how they illegally wire tap our phones, and spy on us via the FBI, etc etc etc. golly, Bush is going to declare Marshal law, halliburton is building concentration camps in America!!!
in other words, when you listen to the ideology of the far left, you start hearing almost verbatim Tim Mcveigh. The difference being, the left prefers bombs, the right loves their guns.
Id say most of the deaths in this country at the hand of a gun, has more to do with a double standard of justice in America, and the dysfunctional tyranny thereof, than the 2nd amendment.
as for regulation, back ground checks, etc? what did Reagan preach? trust, but verify.
Wow! All it takes is someone saying they plan to take your penis extensions away and all you gun crazies come running out of the woodwork like termites fleeing a fire.
Why, if you love guns so much (and please don't give me that second amendment bull about right to bear arms, if you read it it says something about a well-armed militia, and I don't see you running to join up) why not take a ride to Afghanistan and shoot some Talibanners, maybe hunt Ossama bin Laden too?
Go now, the Army needs more crazies with auto and sniper weapons. Park a Tank in your front yard so the little woman can defend hearth and home. The cops who went on that call were experienced, professionals, all with weapons and the knowledge of how to use them. It did them no good at all. Do you all really believe that having a gun or guns in your home will allow you more protection?
If you do, I have a lovely bridge in NYC for y'all to buy and I will give you a hell of a discount.
One of those liberal nanny state pricks
I despise the power of the NRA. However, I am smart enough to know that the NRA will never be beaten in obscurity by any party or group.
I cannot understand the the mentality of "GUN NUTS" no matter how hard I try. There is no rational reason for anyone owning an unregistered arsonal period! Gun collectors (I do know a few) are proud of their collections… their collections are valuable and insured the same as an art collection. Those of you who take umbrage under the second amendment, using it as an excuse for ILLEGAL gun ownership will always bring to my mind the term "armed and dangerous"
This isn't about unregistered arsenals at all, but the constitutionally protected inalienable right for citizens to own guns. To protect ourselves and our families and our property not only from criminals, but from a tyrannical government.
If you wish not to own firearms then that is your choice. But criminals, by definition, do not follow our laws, so simply outlawing guns for those that do follow our laws won't do anything to stop gun crime.
I have no problem with any Americans that have a desire to be victims, it's just not my gig.
In fact some of the cities with the strictest gun laws coincidentally have the highest crime rates. Go figure. It appears that the local gangbangers don't have the patience to wait the three days.
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." – Thomas Jefferson
As for the NRA – I don't belong and I wouldn't even consider it. Actually, one should check out Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership. They may know a little something about what happens when a government disarms a population.
I would also recommend checking out HR 17: Citizens' Self Defense Act of 2009 and specifically some of the statistical examples in that bill.
Such as…
Section 2(b)"Of the 2,400,000 self-defense cases, more than 192,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse."
Section 2(c)"Of the 2,400,000 times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, 92 percent merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8 percent of the time, does a citizen kill or wound his or her attacker."
Might as well ban assault box cutters. 19 of 'em were able to take out nearly 3,000 people and resulted in another 100,000+ dead, 4 million displaced, 3,000 some odd tortured and an ongoing regional war in the Middle East.
Talk about yer weapon of mass distraction, I mean destruction. Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
Hi barak,
I believe one time you revealed you are Jewish. I'm 64, my wife is ten years older than myself, us being married 43 years this August.
My wife is a German, many years an American citizen with half Jewish roots who as a child witnessed the banker, butcher and baker the dragged off behind either SS or Gestapo operatives. Some were dragged literally by a rope tied to their ankles behind a vehicle over cobblestone streets; many picked up in the dead of night; ie, under the policy of "Nacht und Nebel"…into the night and fog never to be seen again!
Other than shotguns and possibly a few hunting rifles and handguns here and there the German people had no defense against such government overreaching which is a gross understatement based on historical outcomes.
So until you witness close family and friends affected directly by government enfranchised thugs many of which were liberated from German prisons in order to staff the SS and its' various service branches one should not be all too eager to condemn our good citizens as being gun nuts. It might just take a bunch of well-armed "nuts" still with a vestige of patriotism in their spirits to stop such a push by our now criminally inspired government.
She only survived because her father was a Colonel in the German Army performing as a dentist his specialty maxillo-facialary surgery with her as a child living with her gentile side of the family; ie., her father. Her Jewish mother died of cancer in 1941, she age 7.
Based on the activities of Blackwater Security et. al. private security firms, along with my knowledge of how Delta Force is trained concerning the suppression of "urban unrest", our government will be operating with a similar Gestapo/SS playbook. I'm not joking either…!
Carl Nemo **==
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Good reiteration, yet the base cause has not been identified in my view. Ever since we – our society – decided on political correctness as the measure of humanity, all "common sense" has evaporated. Anything that can now be thought of as distinguishing between right/wrong and success/failure – especially in schools – has become HATE SPEECH against some protected class or group. ALL God's children (evolution aside) are equal – not just in their manifestation, but also what they do. That's why scofflaws, tax cheats, other criminals and misfits can grab the reins of gov't not just with immunity, but impunity, since people have been conditioned to look aside when such aberrant personages come into view. People shrink back for fear of being labeled as social pariahs for their more respectable views and ridiculed by those who really deserve to be called out for actions that dehumanize… in the name of liberalism, i.e., the doctrine that you can do or say anything you want, so long as I believe it too.
Of course, from the evolutionary perspective, especially social evolution if your model includes that, this inappropriate homgenization will lead to greater vulnerability and propensity toward extinction – both as a society and a species.
Collectivism is slavery…
Im not a gun person, per se. During my tour in the military, early in my training I quailified as sharpshooter with an M-16 and later enhanced my skills to qualify as expert.
I could shoot the eye out of George Washington on a quarter as far away as I could see the quarter. But, I don't feel the need to get an AK-47, or the like, but if I did feel the need, to protect my property and family, I'd want that right.
I support everything that you stated in the most profound way humanly possible. I support it so much that I want to post your comments again.
QUOTE: Bryan McClellan
"Semi automatic weapons may look like assault weapon replicas but unless they are fully automatic they cannot be put in that classification truthfully. If I assault you with a knife then said knife becomes exactly that, an assault weapon.Give me a break you liberal nanny state pricks.
Thousands upon thousands of law abiding gun owners are not responsible for the nuts and crackpots who will obtain weapons whether they are banned or not.
The Dem strategist that referred to the majority of responsible hunters and collectors as gun nuts can kiss my ass. For these liberal doves to preach to the populace about crime is vulgar and insulting considering the ongoing assault they have perpetrated on the rights of the individuals self destiny.
This guy is just the tip of the spear of undisciplined youth that our society has cranked out lately. When they neutered the schools of corporal punishment and instituted policies of fast track education and don't hurt little Johnnies feelings they screwed us all.Kids are not held to account but are drugged into submission leading them later in life to develop Jekyll and Hyde personalities.Thanks Dr Spock, but no thanks.
These dammed idiots would have us defending ourselves with elevator music and a fresh pot of tea ala the Brits and look what they are dealing with now.
Lets just wave a Martha Stewart cookbook and talk in a soothing tone the next time some asshole breaks in and seeks to rob and destroy the sanctity of our home.Try that in your gated community when your pussy policies come back to haunt.HACK!"
WHAT BRYAN SAYS…goes double for me.
Especially about the kids in school. I know, I worked in a school system for years. There's so many fears about hurting a child's feelings rather than doing what failed parents should be doing…helping kids understand that the world is a beautiful place, but it requires being responsible, dependable, and accountable to keep it from becoming a global death trap at the hands of home grown bullies and community terrorist.
People in the United States…will go to any length to place blame except where it needs to be places…because then they have to look at the root of the origin of the blame…and it begins with each and every individual.
Yes, Bryan…we are a growing nation of pussies, social wimps, the "lets not avoid hurting our kids feelings rather than teach them ethics and moral responsibilty.
If I weren't an Evolutionist, I'd say…May the gods of humanity have mercy on our igorance and apathy.
I'm ashamed of the total igornance and denial, and more than that…the sheer gulibility of our nations citizens who can't come to grips that self-responsibility is a necessity for our nation's survival.
For every kind of sick, perverted human variation possible…they'll raise their ugly heads sooner or later…and there's not a fricking thing our nation can do about it…except get them off the streets, but nobody is willing to pay for that type of action. They just all can't be stopped. It's part of the human condition.
THIS IS ABOUT COMMON SENSE…not liberal or conservative cents…yes, I spelled it right "cents"…and we all know what that means.
Our government would sell any rights we have (or had) for enough money.
Sooner or later,
we will have to negotiate a price,
seems that their scrip is no good.
Not in the now, not ever.
We has met the enemy, said Pogo.
Are these "gun nuts" like 2nd amendment nuts or constitutional crazies? Which parts of the Bill of Rights are acceptable and which ones are not? Is it time to play Bush? From here on, all reprints of the Bill of Rights should be redacted to fit the megalomania of each particular administration.
This is the topper..
Right through the front door..
POGO wasn't a Crock..
Semi automatic weapons may look like assault weapon replicas but unless they are fully automatic they cannot be put in that classification truthfully. If I assault you with a knife then said knife becomes exactly that, an assault weapon.Give me a break you liberal nanny state pricks.
Thousands upon thousands of law abiding gun owners are not responsible for the nuts and crackpots who will obtain weapons whether they are banned or not.
The Dem strategist that referred to the majority of responsible hunters and collectors as gun nuts can kiss my ass. For these liberal doves to preach to the populace about crime is vulgar and insulting considering the ongoing assault they have perpetrated on the rights of the individuals self destiny.
This guy is just the tip of the spear of undisciplined youth that our society has cranked out lately. When they neutered the schools of corporal punishment and instituted policies of fast track education and don't hurt little Johnnies feelings they screwed us all.Kids are not held to account but are drugged into submission leading them later in life to develop Jekyll and Hyde personalities.Thanks Dr Spock, but no thanks.
These dammed idiots would have us defending ourselves with elevator music and a fresh pot of tea ala the Brits and look what they are dealing with now.
Lets just wave a Martha Stewart cookbook and talk in a soothing tone the next time some asshole breaks in and seeks to rob and destroy the sanctity of our home.Try that in your gated community when your pussy policies come back to haunt.HACK!
Your best post ever, Bryan.
Collectivism is slavery…
Great post. One can argue that the Congress itself is an assault weapon and should be banned in the interest of public safety. They've certainy assaulted me – both in the pocketbook and intellectually.
Thank you Bryan, best post ever.
Law abiding gun owners need to demonstrate better responsibility and stand tall above the gun control groups, and we need to work on enforcing laws already on the books instead of letting the Brady Bunch start with guns and end with removing the pointy part of plastic knives.
Most folks don't realize that the only difference between a so-called "assault rifle" and a garden-variety semi-automatic hunting rifle is a hole in the stock to put one's thumb through. But, the "assault rifles" look wicked and menacing, especially when they're painted black and are in the hands of the bad guys and on cop shows and action movies.
I'm not sure from your comment as to what side of this issue you stand yourself, but I assure you that a thumbhole stock does not define an "assault weapon".
For instance, I own several semi-automatic "assault rifles", none of which have a thumbhole stock. On the other hand, I haven't seen many military-issue arms, be they M-16's, M-4's or the many AK-47/74 variants that have thumbhole stocks.
The publicly available "assault weapons" are semi-automatic versions of their military-issue counterparts. Two positions on the selector – safe and single-shot fire, as compared to the military weapons that can have as many as four selector positions – safe, single shot fire, three round burst, and full automatic.
To be more exact:
From Wikipedia:
"Assault weapon refers to firearms that had been developed from earlier fully-automatic firearms into semi-automatic civilian-legal versions. Semi-automatic firearms, when fired, automatically extract the spent casing and load the next round into the chamber, ready to fire again; they do not fire automatically like a machine gun, rather, only 1 shot comes from each trigger pull.
By former U.S. law the legal term assault weapon included certain specific semi-automatic firearm models by name (e.g., Colt AR-15, TEC-9, all non-automatic AK-47s, and Uzis) and other semi-automatic firearms because they possess a minimum set of features from the following list of features:
Semi-automatic rifles able to accept detachable magazines and two or more of the following:
* Folding or telescoping stock
* Pistol grip
* Bayonet mount
* Flash suppressor, or threaded barrel designed to accommodate one
* Grenade launcher (more precisely, a muzzle device which enables the launching or firing of rifle grenades)
I was earlier referring to the pistol grip which is the most usual visual identifier, followed by a folding stock. My point is that there's little practical difference between a common semi-automatic hunting rifle and a so-called 'assault rifle'.
I'm a Libertarian and I am a member of the NRA. I own guns and will not elaborate more on that.
Thanks Bryan for a well-written rebuttal to those that think draconian gun control is going to somehow stop such violence in America.
"Lets just wave a Martha Stewart cookbook and talk in a soothing tone the next time [some asshole breaks in] and seeks to rob and destroy the sanctity of our home."…extract from post
With reference to your post, I've bracketed "some asshole breaks in". This asshole just might be our U.S. government gone rogue with a declaration of martial law because "we the people" have had a bellyful of their taxation without representation and who now seemingly have a deaf ear to protecting us from such rapacious taxation that's now become an unpayable lien against generations of Americans to come.
I'm personally not fearful of some wacko breaching my home security, but that of our now seemingly out of control government that's turned a deaf ear to us.
Whatever the reason, I'm glad the spineless Dem weanies have backed off concerning their bogus claims that assault weapons are flooding Mexico from the North b.s. as in recent CNN coverage of violence down Mexico way.
They won't come out with the truth that that RPG's, true automatic weapons, grenades of various types etc. plus other heavy ordnance comes in via the now Peoples Republic of China controlled Panama Canal zone and also from our not so dear allies in Israel who are premier world class arms dealers.
The Swiss who represent the longest standing democracy on the planet; ie., over 700 years have a requirement that every Swiss household be armed with a military class rifle with every able-bodied male to be active in the reserves 24/7/365. Even the women know how to use such weapons. They also have a superb civil defense system. It seems only the U.S., the Eurozone and most despotic regimes lean towards absolute and total confiscation of guns from the populace. A few years back Australia sufferred a mass killing by a deranged gunman. The national legislature acted in a kneejerk fashion calling for the confiscation of guns. Crime jumped 22 percent nationwide in short order post confiscations. I surely wouldn't want to be living in the outback without the aid of a gun; ie., a necessary tool for survival.
To me a gun is no different than an axe, long handled shovel, a chainsaw, a nailgun or any other tool. Used properly in a safe manner and you'll have no problems, but you can surely be dealt death via any of my aforementioned household tools in the hands of a scheming maniac.
People in this country need to buck up to the harsh realities of existence. Instead they've tried to convert the U.S. into one big feelgood coast to coast shopping mall with a bunch of bovine intellects who evidently trust their goverment and local police agencies to be their friends and protectors…NOT! Sorry folks, but the order of our government and agency policing has changed in this country ever since the Federal government started gifting large amounts of money to virtually militarize America's police agencies coast to coast. They no longer look on the good citizens as those that they are sworn to protect, but we are the enemy and they show so with their overly responsive actions on many emergency calls that quickly escalate to a SWAT level encounter.
Thanks again for your great post Bryan… : )
Carl Nemo **==
"This asshole just might be our U.S. government gone rogue with a declaration of martial law…"
Certainly a possibility Carl – but maybe a big enough groundswell could get the rest of our "defenders and protectors" to sign on with the guardians of this org:
Collectivism is slavery…
My father-in-law is certain they will just issue an executive order or go door to door in a declared emergency as they did in New Orleans after Katrina. Where was the NRA then?
Not much protection from groups after the fact. Many that had their guns taken after Katrina never received them back. Even the police were looting, making your own gun your only source of protection.
No sense in making them illegal when they can just declare martial law and make up any law they want. No sense in the hassles or in getting us proles more upset and burying our guns with our other survival supplies.
Hopefully enough of us have plenty of unregistered weapons to fall back on when they come for the registered ones.
Guns only get limited when Republicans are in control. Such as Reagan after he was shot Brady Bill. With Obama's unity desires and dislike of political blood, I knew in advance there would be no increased gun control. Perhaps a determined Democrat would have fought tooth and nail for a bill, despite a filibuster.
Charleton Heston I suspect, (if he was still in alive) would have been astute enough to realize that Obama would be no problem, but McCain born again on gun control, would have suddenly seen the light after another massacre, pushing something through.
By the way my password, a catchy phrase, doesn't work but in a site I never signed out of. And CapitolHillBlue is suddenly oversized, and I must scrawl quite widely to get more than on article.
CHB's layout has been screwed up for me since the blogs were first turned off. Many of the links aren't right. Looks like it was made for screen sizes over 1024×768 which is too bad since a large majority use that resolution. I make all my sites use liquid, which means they resize automatically to any screen size so what looks good at 1024×768 looks good on a smaller screen like a Palm or iPhone and also larger screen sizes.
I compensate for my nettop's (MSI Wind) 1024×600 screen size by surfing CHB in full screen mode. Just tap F11 in IE or Firefox to go full screen. Esc or F11 again will take it back to normal size. That won't fix the left to right scroll bar which is too bad. I use that nettop from the couch all the time. Really good deal for around $329 for the 10-inch screen.
The laptop I'm on right now is 1280×800 and everything fits nicely. I use roughly 6 machines on a regular basis so I have lots of different ways to look at CHB.
Doug probably set the width to 1024 forgetting the scroll bar on the side takes up pixels too. It's a very common mistake and easily overlooked when you program at a high resolution and don't double check your work in other resolutions.
Yep. That's what happens when the laws and definitions are written by fools in Washington with very little – if any – practical knowledge of the subject matter, but only a firm grasp on which way the lobbyist money flows.
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For the life of me, I have no idea why everyone wets their undies when they hear the term assault rifle. Possibly it's the word assault that has them quivering. Maybe its our crooked crimpols in DC that have the severest episodes of such unwarranted fear or is it?!
This weapon has a venerable pedigree going back to 1949 and was designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, considered a hero to the former Soviet Union and surely on into our times. It is the most licensed arm in the world being in the hands of many nations on earth. It's ugly but with incredible functionality as a tool of war both for offense and defense; ie., it gets the job done! : )
It resists jamming by sand, wet sand and mud and temperature extremes due to its intentionally designed looser tolerances than our M16 and even the venerable M14. You'll even see our GI's in Iraq toting AK's in lieu of their issued M16 "Shootin' Shell Mattels". In fact they've been demanding a better firearm than the M16 for sometime feeling it's inadequate in an urban warfare situation with so much rock, stone and stucco type buildings. You feel pretty inadequate standing behind a door frame that's seemingly sturdy to witness fire from an AK cut the frame away from the concrete while your puny .223 round fragments or easily ricochets off such structures.
What's more it has a nice compliment of magazines holding an adequate amount of rounds to be discharged in either the semi-automatic or automatic modes.
"30-round detachable box magazine, also compatible with 40-round box or 75-round drum magazines from the RPK"
In a pinch, it's more than adequate for hunting purposes at least by hunters that take pride in placing their shots well and aren't into overly long range "risk" shots.
Rest assured when the balloon goes up and we have either our rogue military and police along with hundreds of gangs throughout this nation rampaging and terrorizing the cities and countryside, your AK will be your absolute best life-saving companion. : |
Carl Nemo **==
The point is, Obama has not abandoned anything.
He's just not going to work on it right now.
Personally I'd like to see gun control groups like the Brady Bunch back the hell off and let some reasonable dialogue take place.
Maybe then we might see something reasonable in terms of training and registration, and perhaps some education and responsibility.
Nothing can be done to take guns out of the hands of criminals, but a lot can be done to make better responsible law abiding owners.
The reason this is important is because the better behaved and more responsible our law abiding owners are, the easier it is to spot the criminals.
Let's concentrate on better enforcement of existing gun laws and better penalties for use of guns in crime.
Let's work on incentives to get unregistered arms off the streets and out of the hands of criminal street gangs.
We might just need their help someday.
I see this as the onset of classic government incrementalism. Go for the extreme position right off the bat, gauge the public reaction, then back off and try a more circuitous route.
Now they can say that they're backing off the position to lull everyones back to sleep, and then begin to seek smaller incremental changes along those same lines.
If I am a potential mayhem artist,
and I've no idea if you are armed,
the logical course is to leave you alone.
We are the govimint CATS…
I wonder how many homeless had a spot of tea today?
Keep your hat in the ring please..
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