Down here in Broward County, we call him Sheriff Ken-Ken because he resembles a tiny Ken Doll. Sheriff Ken-Ken measures about 5 feet tall...in his elevator shoes.
Sheriff Jenne was elected to the Florida Senate in 1978 and retained that position for 18 of the next 20 years. He held all of the top committee chairmanships and was Senate Democratic Leader when Governor Chiles chose him to become Sheriff of Broward County in January 1998, replacing the late Ron Cochran."
True. Sheriff Ken-Ken isn't even a real lawman. He is a career politician. BTW, one of the great amusements down here is watching Sheriff Ken-Ken riding his horsey during parades. He looks like a tiny bald bowling ball trying desperately to keep from falling out of the saddle. It is also fun watching the Sheriff's Deputies riding with him straining to keep from bursting out laughing at Sheriff Ken-Ken's dilemma.
Zarrella admitted a major NRA talking point, and thus contradicted the clear implication of his Thursday demonstration: "In fact, if you fire the same caliber and type bullets from the two guns," one illegal and one legal, "you get the same impact."
So the first report was FRAUDULENT. However, don't expect Ken Auletta to criticize CNN for being biased. He is too busy leveling that charge at Fox News. So, Mr. Auletta, when did you ever catch Fox News FABRICATING stories such as CNN has done here and on other occasions?
Wrong, Sheriff Jenne. The Second Amendment protects you from people, not animals.
The very clear implication: The illegal model punches right through cinder block with devastating and deadly force, but the legal model can't even cause a speck to fall off.
Upon looking at the MRC videotape frame by frame, with the first rifle you could see a puff of smoke coming out of the end of the barrel as the deputy fired. But with the second gun, you could not see anything, as if no bullet were being fired. And if one was, the deputy either missed the target cinder blocks, or had good enough aim to be firing into the hole created by the first rifle.
What a fraudulent little bit of theatre, intended to panic the fearful and stampede the weak-minded.
This is an upside-down and backwards spin on a demonstration that I saw on the news many years ago. Hoping to use logic and reason to stop the headlong plunge towards idiotic gun-control laws, members of a shooting club in California allowed a news camera crew to film a comparison of the then-legal semi-automatic AK-47S and a centerfire hunting rifle.
A club member shot a watermelon with the AK, causing a small hole in the front and a fist-sized exit hole. Then he laid down the AK and picked up a semi-automatic Browning BAR in 7mm Remington Magnum, which he then fired at a second watermelon. Melon #2 vanished in a cloud of pink mist - nothing larger than a watermelon seed remained.
The message was clear: The AK, despite its gritty military appearance, was not as lethal as the shiny hunting rifle. Such logic never works on the left, though.
Is this the normal way sheriffs are selected in Florida? Are they appointed for life, or a fixed term? Can the governor fire them? In Texas we elect our sheriffs and they regularly stand for re-election. They almost always have some kind of law enforcement background, often as a deputy in the same county, occasionally in a municpal police department, or less frequently from a "corrections" background. The sheriff runs the county jail as well as policing those parts of the count without a municipal police force, so some corrections background is actually a good thing.
The Blitzer Report
Zero tolerance for distortions, falsehoods in journalism
This column was taken in part from Wolf's commencement address delivered at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication on Monday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The scandal rocking The New York Times right now is a journalistic low point. I am referring to the shocking news that a supposedly bright and talented young reporter, Jayson Blair, was a liar and a plagiarizer. Instead of reporting all the news that's fit to print, he simply made it up as he went along. I know all of you have been following this scandal, and while it's certainly not the first time that a journalist has been caught cheating -- many of you will remember the Janet Cook affair at The Washington Post and the Stephen Glass affair at The New Republic -- it seems to be have been the most sustained.
Here's what worries me so much. So many Americans already have a rather low regard for journalists; so many of our viewers, readers and listeners simply don't trust us. Many of them, according to public opinion polls, believe we have political agendas and biases that taint our reporting. And many of our news consumers, no doubt, suspect we often make things up -- whether to advance a political cause, or settle personal scores, or sell newspapers and increase ratings on television. What has now happened at The New York Times has simply fueled those suspicions.
It will now take The New York Times a long time to win back the trust of its readers. The top editors and executives at that newspaper have begun the process but they still have a lot of explaining to do. And in the process of explaining, they should be as open as possible with their readers.
Journalism is not a perfect science. It is often referred to as a first draft of history. And as all of you know, a first draft can occasionally be sloppy. Yes, we will make mistakes. But those are unwitting mistakes. There must be zero tolerance for deliberate distortions, false reporting and fiction writing in the guise of journalism. They cannot be tolerated.
Healthy skepticism is critical in doing our job. In my experience, if a story sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. Check and re-check and triple-check those sources. There are people with agendas trying to use us for their own purposes. And there are others who simply get their kicks out of advancing hoaxes on the news media. Those of us in the business of reporting have to err on the side of caution -- even if that means losing a scoop.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/
Funny: I don’t see any mention of their own “scandal.” Perhaps CNN is still 'triple-checking those sources'...
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BTW I don't know that much about these guns except that it was used, I think it is pre-ban (ser # starts with 93-), and was just over $530 with two 10 round and three 30 round mags. Not sure if it was a deal or not but it sure looks cool. I saw a 75 Round Drum on gunaccessories.com that would look pretty cool on it too.
Got 1000 rounds for $90 and plan to shoot some up this weekend.
Stupid question for those in the know: don't the 30 round mags and the 75 Round Drum all have to be pre-ban (I'm in GA not CA)?. My dealer seemed to have quite a few 30 round mags for not a whole lot of $ - but I want to do the right thing.
Among those sipping White House coffee with the president was Wang Jun, a guest of Charlie Trie. Wang Jun heads a Chinese government company that was later charged with smuggling 2,000 AK-47 automatic rifles into the U.S.
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They lie bigtime. It's like the lie of the day from them, or Lie dejour?sic..whatever. CNNSUCKS
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Another day, another CNN lie. How long are they going to be allowed to stay in business whilst telling lies every day?!