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Hey Freepers, I am turning 21 soon and was wondering what handgun you would recommend for a girl looking to carry concealed. I’m rather overwhelmed by all the shiny guns at Cabela’s. ;) Thank you very much for your time!

A 38-year-old Malian immigrant wielding a hammer in a scuffle with authorities died on Tuesday from undetermined causes after being Tasered twice by police in the Paris suburb of Colombes, police sources said. AFP - A hammer-wielding Malian immigrant died Tuesday after French police shot him twice with a Taser stun gun during a scuffle, a police spokesman told AFP. "During his arrest, a Taser was used twice. Following the intervention, the person died of a cause that remains to be determined," the spokesman said, after the incident in the Paris suburb of Colombes. Police use of the Taser to...

Challenged by an unprecedented series of “firsts” for its upcoming initial flight of Falcon 9 with a Dragon spacecraft, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) stresses that even if the vehicle is not recovered intact as planned, the mission should be judged an overall success.

NEW YORK — Virgin Galactic's new commercial spaceship could be flying its first passengers — company founder Sir Richard Branson and his family — in about a year, Branson said today (Nov. 30) on NBC's "Today" show.

ST. LOUIS • Chief Dan Isom said today's shooting of four people at a St. Louis funeral home is the product "of an ongoing feud between gangs in St. Louis." Isom said conditions of the four victims are unknown. The funeral, at Reliable Funeral Home, in the 3900 block of Washington Boulevard, was for homicide victim David Terell Davis Sr. A woman who declined to give her name said she was attending the funeral when she heard loud gunshots. "Everybody started running," she said. The woman said she heard about eight shots outside the funeral home. Isom said he's not...

Picture used for illustrative purposes only. (SUPPLIED) A Saudi husband divorced his wife because she tried to wake him to go to work in the morning, the local daily Ajel reported on Sunday. It was the third time that the 23-year-old man, who was not named, divorced his wife for the same reason in the first time and because of his noisy children in the second case, the paper said without mentioning where he lives. “In the third case, his wife kept shaking him to wake him up so he will go to work in the morning…he got mad and...

A Saudi wife who got fed up with her husband and wanted to get divorced from him simply picked his mobile phone without his knowledge, typed the words “you are divorced” and texted them to her phone. She then went straight to court to get an official endorsement of the divorce, producing the text as evidence that her husband has divorced her. But the judge in the western port of Jeddah appeared clever enough to suspect the woman when the thought why the husband should send a divorce to his wife by mobile when he can simply throw the words...

MECCA -- A 3-year-old boy is in the hospital after being bitten by a dog. It happened at about 9:35 a.m. in Mecca on the 70000 block of Conchella Dr. video3-Year-Old Hospitalized After Dog Attack Fire crews say the toddler has multiple dog bites, including one on the neck.... "I think they [the victim's family] knew it was aggressive,” said Jocelyn Aldana, a neighbor who called 911. “Maybe they should have done something about it before this happened. Keep an eye on your dogs. If it seems more aggressive, then do something about it.” The child was airlifted to Loma...

Wasn't sure if this has been posted because I 'still' haven't quite figured out the ins and outs of the search engine. Sometimes it works, other times .. not so much! 8) For anyone interested .. This is Becks Getting rid of junk auction. (Leave the cookie jar alone .. The better half wants it! LOL)

Isn’t it just wonderful when two different people or items are paired to make a perfect combination? When I first met my wife, we discovered that we both loved to dip our french-fries into our Wendy’s Frosty (yes, that was back when Frostys were only chocolate). It was a wonderful coming together of flavors. Of course, there are other items that fit well together, beans and bacon, apple pie and vanilla ice cream, chips and salsa, and fried fish with malt vinegar! Ah… enough about food. How about Jeeps and mud? Goofy hats and babies? Doctors with small hands? A...

Is there anywhere I can go to be safe from the Palins? Can't go to the bookstore. The stores are all plastered with promotional posters for Sarah Palin's latest memoir; her memoir from last year is no doubt lurking on the remainder table. Can't watch television. There's a chance I might flip past their reality show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," on TLC. Though at least I can be grateful for small favors - like the fact that I won't have to watch the foulmouthed and fouler-footed Bristol Palin on "Dancing With the Stars" anymore. ............... Famous equals shameless. This has been...

George Bush Praises Obama, Talks WikiLeaks & Admits He's Just Trying To Sell Books In Facebook Webcast JAMIE STENGLE | 11/29/10 09:10 PM | DALLAS — Former President George W. Bush has pledged not to publicly criticize his successor, Barack Obama, but he did offer some praise Monday during a live broadcast on Facebook to promote his new book. Bush participated in an hour-long discussion on Facebook Live with the site's founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and was asked what he thought the current administration was handling well. The former president responded that he liked Obama's policy on Afghanistan....

We’ve seen some remarkable feats of celestial navigation lately, not the least of which has been the flyby of comet Hartley 2 by the EPOXI mission. But as we continue our push out into the Solar System, we’re going to run into the natural limits of our navigation methods. The Deep Space Network can track a spacecraft from the ground and achieve the kind of phenomenal accuracy that can thread a Cassini probe through a gap in the rings of Saturn. But positional errors grow with distance, and can mount up to 4 kilometers per AU of distance from the...

A private rocket development company has struck a deal that could allow for demonstration launches of its reusable suborbital spacecraft from Florida. Masten Space Systems, a private aerospace company based in Mojave, Calif., announced a partnership with Space Florida today (Nov. 22) to explore the possibility of demonstration launches from Launch Complex 36 – a rocket launching pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Bristol Palin Eyeing Big Money Deals Post-'Dancing' By Rob Shuter Nov 29th 2010 03:03PM Bristol Palin didn't technically win 'Dancing With the Stars' last week, but financially, the 20-year-old mom is paso doble-ing all the way to the bank. "Bristol made over $345,000 from being on the show and currently is getting $35,000 for each speaking gig she does," an insider reveals to me. "Yet, all that is going to feel like pocket change if one or two of the big deals she's currently working on actually happens." Palin family friends tell me there is a major deal in the...

Popular science writers have been colonizing space via descriptions of the near future akin to science fiction at least since the 1920s.1 Retrospective story telling is attractive not only because of the overlap in the audiences for popular science and hard science fiction but also it lends a measure of pleasing inevitability to the promise of space colonization. For writers intent on sneaking past the messy problems of financing and populating their future space colony, there is nothing quite so effective as the sense of inevitability for giving readers permission to engage in wishful thinking. Crucial to the perpetration of...

Last week, MPAC completed a quarterly training for Transportation Security Officers (TSO) with about 2,200 officers receiving training on cultural awareness about Islam and Muslims. This was an important achievement for MPAC and the Muslim American community in light of the recent airport security changes and because TSOs are responsible for screening passengers and luggage. MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC Civic Outreach Coordinator, Saadia Khan and MPAC volunteers, Nisreen Malhis and Sireen Sawaf, conducted the trainings at Los Angeles International Airport for the past two months. They discussed the diversity of Muslims around the world from cultural dress to language...

Once Again,One Of Our MSNBC Punching Bags makes an accusation, yet would not inform us of the other half of the story. Tonight,"Leg Tingling Matthews" was having a cow over the Republicans blocking unemployment extensions.Yet he never mentioned THAT REPUBLICANS WANT IT TAKEN OUT OF THE STIMULUS!or Maybe that they would consider extending the benefits if Obama agrees to continue the Bush Taxes as is! And he has TWO DEMOCRATS! egging on the Republicans.Why Didn't Chris Matthews Want To Hear Both Sides Of The Issue?

This crime occurred in 1965, but reading this is horrifying. Truly appalling and outrageous. The sick part is, the mother, Gertrude Baniszewski was the one who instigated the whole thing. She was very insecure, extremely religious (no offense to anyone who is religious here), and a raging psychopath. Thankfully, she is dead and rotting away in Hell. Some of the other torturers involved are dead too, including Richard Hobbs, who did most of the dirty work. Her crime would make Hitler or Stalin proud. TruTV-Gertrude Baniszewski

EDITORIAL: Forcing Holder out Respected officials call for attorney general's resignation By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The calls have begun for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s resignation. Potential Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty both took that position last weekend in response to last week's embarrassing result in the trial of Guantanamo terrorist detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailiani. Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Pawlenty won't be the only prominent politicos reaching the conclusion that Mr. Holder is unfit for the office he holds. With Republicans getting oversight authority through their new House majority, the attorney general's conduct in...