
Now there is something near and dear to my heard my 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
Rants and raving influenced by the darkside.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- Advanced registered nurse practitioners could prescribe patients medicines, including potentially addictive prescription drugs, under a plan the House passed Friday.
Nurse practitioners could write patients limited prescriptions for drugs such as painkillers, which include OxyContin, morphine and methadone. In some instances, patients could only receive three days' worth of the prescription medication.
Proponents say the bill would help lower Kentucky's Medicaid costs by decreasing the load on emergency rooms across the state. It would also help patients living in the state's rural areas where in some cases there are fewer doctors, proponents say.
Still, Rep. Howard Cornett, R-Whitesburg, held up four pages containing the names of drugs nurse practitioners would be allowed to give patients. Cornett said his eastern Kentucky district is fighting a drug epidemic and allowing more availability of potentially addictive medications would worsen the situation.
"Let's not make any more drug addicts than we already have," Cornett said.
"It doesn’t matter whether members of our commission come from countries that violate civil rights,” said Manfred Nowak, who passes for an 'anti-torture envoy' with the UN and is one of the authors of a report that recommends the closure of Guantanamo Bay on CNN’s ‘Your World Today’ (2/16/06). This statement offers remarkable insight into the aptitude and priorities of the United Nations while chipping away at any conclusion that this is an objective body with serious opinions.

The Navy announced Thursday that the last F-14 mission was completed Feb. 8, when two Tomcats landed aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt after one dropped a bomb in Iraq.

Fletcher has endorsed making a seat-belt violation a primary offense, which would allow law enforcement to stop motorists just because they aren't buckled up.
Fletcher's administration put its weight behind reviving the bill.
"As soon as this vote was counted and we fell short ..., we were on the phone with (House) members to let them know the governor wants this bill," said Fletcher spokesman Brett Hall.
The Kentucky Press Association has objected to exempting concealed-carry permit holders from the Open Records Act. If HB 920 passes, Kentuckians will have no way of knowing if sheriff's offices are issuing permits to criminals or the mentally ill.
This is another case of privacy claims colliding with the publics right to know.
Sen. Gerald Neal, a Democrat from Louisville and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he objects to the secrecy provisions.
"Firearms are dangerous," he said. "People should know who has these firearms."
But the committee, which includes six Republicans and nine Democrats, approved the bill unanimously, despite the objections of Kentucky Press Association lawyer Ashley Pack.
"Why would names be confidential?" she asked the committee. "The press and public have an interest in knowing."
The remains of four 101st Airborne Division soldiers, who had been missing in action for nearly 35 years, have been identified by the Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office.
They were:
Maj. Jack L. Barker of Waycross, Ga.;
Capt. John F. Dugan of Roselle, N.J.;
Sgt. William E. Dillender of Naples, Fla.;
Pfc. John J. Chubb of Gardena, Calif.
Slavery and the Founders
Our Founders were not Ignorant
By John D. Turner
"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warefare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of a CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce".
-Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence: Original Draft
How different American History might have been had these words, penned by Thomas Jefferson in his original draft of the Declaration of Independence, been allowed to stand. Words, which condemned the British king for allowing the slave trade to flourish, and for introducing slavery into the colonies in the first place. Words which the delegations from Georgia and South Carolina, who were unwilling to acknowledge that slavery violated the "most sacred rights of life and liberty", found offensive and therefore were stricken from the final document.
West: I'm not into politics at all. I can't even name the people in politics.
West: But I do believe the theory that AIDS was being placed in Africa. I do believe the FBI placed crack in the black community. I believe the U.S. government gave smallpox to the Indians. I believe financial institutions are capitalizing on the African AIDS epidemic.
The latest in a new genre of Turkish popular culture that vilifies the United States, a Turkish movie shows American soldiers in Iraq crashing a wedding and pumping a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.
They randomly machine-gun dozens of people to death, shoot the groom in the head and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison - where a Jewish-American doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv.
Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, which opens in Turkey today, feeds off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbor toward their longtime allies: Americans. It stars Billy Zane as a self-professed "peacekeeper sent by God" and Gary Busey as the doctor.
The Patriot Act compromise agreed to Friday included a provision to combat illegal methamphetamine by limiting sales of cold remedies used to make the highly addictive drug.
The measure is a compromise reached after months 'of haggling over the 30-day limit. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Jim Talent, R-Mo., who pushed the legislation in the Senate, insisted the limit was needed.
They had sought various ways to get their legislation through Congress, finally attaching it to the Patriot Act, only to find their efforts frustrated when the bill stalled in December over concerns that civil liberties protections were being shortchanged.