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TROY -- The Troy Police Department said this morning it will hold its first gun buy-back event Saturday.Firearms will be taken with no questions asked, Chief Nick Kaiser said. The person turning in the weapon will receive a $150 gift certificate to Crossgates Mall. The gun buy-back will be held from noon-6 p.m. at the Bethel Baptist Church, 2165 Fifth Ave. "The proliferation of illegal firearms on our streets is a serious threat to the safety of our residents and law enforcement officers,'' Kaiser said. The Rensselaer County district attorney's office will not file weapons charges against those who turn...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ5SVDYBNrY For those who rocked in the 80s, here is a flashback that seems very appropriate today. Living Colour- Cult of Personality from 1988.

Microsoft has been granted a stay of a landmark injunction in a patent infringement case that would have required the software giant to stop selling its popular Word in its current form by next month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday granted Microsoft's motion for a stay, pending appeal, of an injunction issued in August by a federal judge that bars sales of Word that include a custom XML code found to infringe on patents held by i4i--the plaintiff. "We are happy with the result and look forward to presenting our arguments on the main...

Anticipating hundreds of millions of dollars a year in greenhouse gas fees collected from California businesses, the Legislature is planning to redistribute much of the bounty to the state's "most impacted and disadvantaged communities." Perhaps a bill pending in the state Senate reveals the motive of feel-good legislative efforts to fight global warming: a massive redistribution of wealth. Assembly Bill 1405 calls for 30 percent of new fees raised under global warming regulations yet to be drafted to go to a Community Benefits Fund to be used in specially selected communities, based on specific criteria also yet to be drafted....

I won't try and turn this Van Jones story into a referendum on everything Obama. If I did that, my Obama supporting readers, you know who you are, would go into a fit. Still, there is something of a microcosm of both the Obama administration and our media in general in this story.

Authorities are searching for a healthcare reform supporter who they said bit off the fingertip of a 65-year-old man during a fight at a MoveOn.org rally in Thousand Oaks. The incident occurred about 7 p.m. Wednesday at a "We Can't Afford to Wait Vigil" organized by affiliates of the activist group MoveOn.org, which drew supporters of President Obama's healthcare plan, said Senior Deputy Eric Buschow of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department. The rally also attracted several counter-protesters, he said. During the rally at Lynn Road and Hillcrest Drive, near the Oaks Mall, the suspect and William James Rice got into...

On the eve of a major speech defending the British campaign in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown suffered a serious blow when the parliamentary aide to defence secretary Bob Ainsworth quit, telling the prime minister that public support for the war will collapse "unless politicians are seen to treasure those who fight for us". Eric Joyce, a former army major and Ainsworth's parliamentary private secretary, also condemned what he described as "petty, back-channel attacks" on the military by Labour politicians. Joyce, MP for Falkirk, is known to be furious at what he regards as invidious attacks on the former head of the...

State Fish and Wildlife officials say a 5-year-old Canadian boy was hurt when a cougar pounced on him while he and his family were hiking a remote trail in northeastern Washington. Department spokeswoman Madonna Luers says the big cat jumped the boy while he was hiking Wednesday with his parents and sister on the Abercrombie Mountain trail in the Colville National Forest. She says his mother began beating the cougar with a water bottle and the cat ran off.

This mornng Gateway Pundit Broke the story that self-proclaimed Communist and Obama Green Jobs Czar was a Truther, someone who believes that 9/11 was planned by George Bush so he could go into Iraq. Gatway Found Van Jone's name on a petition from 2004 that was eventually given over to the NY DA along with their 9/11 claims by the group 9/11truth.org Here at #47 on the list is none other than Barack Obama's communist Green Czar Van Jones: The news that Obama's Green Jobs Czar had a weak link to realty spread through the internet all day and eventially...

Did someone from the Obama administration sent out a directive requesting that people post something on forums like Facebook about healthcare. Two different people make the exact same post on my Facebook page. It was: No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day and do something useful, like writing or calling your representatives.4 hours ago · Comment · Like / Unlike

A four month old boy is still hospitalized Wednesday night, after a pit bull chewed his toes off a couple of nights ago. The baby's mother and her boyfriend are charged with felony child abuse. The couple was sleeping in the same room as the baby, when a 12 week old pit bull they were dog-sitting chewed off his toes. The dog has tested negative for rabies. Two other children who were in the house at the time of the incident have been placed in the care of relatives.

Poodle thrown to and killed by pit bulls By BLAIR DEDRICK ORTMANN September 2, 2009 Posted: September 2, 2009, 2:57 PM CDT Last updated: September 3, 2009, 10:12 AM CDT Bullett's bed and towel were in the kitchen Wednesday afternoon, his toys were scattered about the house as if awaiting his return. But the 8-pound, 8-ounce black toy poodle won't return. He was killed Sunday by pit bulls in the second violent animal cruelty case reported to Beaumont police in a week. "I loved my little baby," Ida Scott, 74, said at her Beaumont home, where she has lived for...

KSM being the trendsetter in the jihadi-fashion world

Authorities have closed Discovery Park in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood after a cougar was seen roaming the area. a cougar was on the old parade grounds of the park, a former Army post bordering Puget Sound on the city's northwest side. "This cat was large; he was very long. His tail was very long," Jacobs said. "I was fairly shook up, I have to tell you."

A new line of shotguns will roll off the assembly line for the first time Thursday in Meridian, boosting a business that has lost jobs and work hours in the recession. Advanced Precision Machining, 180 S. Adkins Way, founded in 1981, makes proprietary precision medical and semiconductor parts and prototypes for other companies. It recently began making parts for the shotguns and for rifles.

and this bozette is going to fix CA?

According to Gunny G Online: “This astounding control will include the elimination of organic farming by eliminating manure, mandating GMO animal feed, imposing animal drugs, and ordering applications of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides. Farmers, thus, will be locked not only into the industrialization of once normal and organic farms but into the forced purchase of industry’s products.” HR 2749 creates severe criminal and civil penalties, including prison terms of up to 10 years and/or fines of up to $100,000 for each violation. Does it include judicial review, Congressional oversight, a defined and limited set of penalties and punishments for a...

Another day and yet another revelation about an Obama administration advisor or member of the inner sanctum; this time one Anthony "Van" Jones, Barack Obama's "Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation," whatever that position is supposed to entail. I think it has something to do with being a member of the Communist Party and an all-around America-hating radical, but what else is new when we're talking about the Keystone Cops atmosphere currently underway over at the White House? As far as bizarre went, I thought I'd heard it all when Mr. Jones was busted on a recent video...

Please vote in this poll... 46% as of this post think it's great that Obama's addressing the kids!

Health, Wholeness and Holiness September 1st, 2009 by Francis Cardinal George, OMI The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, followed a week later by the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, are moments to recall our own future with God. Because Christ is risen from the dead in his own body, all of us look forward to rising from the dead when Christ returns in glory. A risen body is a glorified body, entirely suffused with the Holy Spirit, free of all the limitations, the diseases and the mortality that our bodies now suffer under. JesusÂ’ body,...