Tag: Fair
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Dutch Woman Visits Shooting Gallery Every Year For 67 Years
At the age of 88 Ria van Dijk still makes her pilgrimage to the Shooting Gallery. She has been going every year since she was 16 (except from 1939 – 1945) presumably because of WWII. The Camera is triggered by her hitting a target. View more of the pictures – HERE The book – HERE Neat idea.…
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Police Officer Demos Taser On 30 Students
A sheriff’s deputy in Lake County, Colo., has been placed on one week of unpaid leave after reportedly using a Taser gun on 30 students at a Lake County High School career fair Thursday. While the Taser is used by officers to aid in the arrest process, Holte said, its effects are not severe. “It’s…
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The Distant Executioner – Vanity Fair
Another very well written article from Vanity Fair. I started keeping an eye on their website ever since their article on Erik Prince of Xe (Blackwater) back in December of last year. You shoot one man, you terrify a thousand. That was the theory outside of Afghanistan. Through generations of warfare, it’s what sniping was…
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NYTimes Gun Laws Article And A Stereotypical Vanity Fair Summary
When President Obama took office, gun rights advocates sounded the alarm, warning that he intended to strip them of their arms and ammunition. And yet the opposite is happening. Mr. Obama has been largely silent on the issue while states are engaged in a new and largely successful push for expanded gun rights, even passing…
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Blackwater (Xe) founder Erik Prince in Vanity Fair
Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged by a grand-jury investigation, bribery accusations, and the voluntary-manslaughter trial of five ex-employees, set for next month. Lashing back at his critics, the wealthy former navy…