Category: News

Motherboard – by Ben Richmond

On June 3, 1880, just four years after he patented the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell was talking wirelessly, sending his words over 213 meters on a mirror and a sunbeam on top of the Franklin School in Washington, DC. Bell called it his most important invention and named it the “photophone.”

Just like a telephone, you’d speak into a transmitter and it would be heard via a receiver, except, rather than sending electrical signals over wire, the transmitter focused light onto a parabolic mirror. When you spoke, the mirror vibrated in response, which modulated the sunbeam and varied the intensity of the light reaching the receiver, where, by shining on light-sensitive selenium, the light became speech again.   Continue reading “Alexander Graham Bell Made a Wireless Phone That Ran on Sunshine”

Bob’s Blog – by Curt Dale

Let’s all remember that Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, helped Obama set the table for the Taliban Feast now being celebrated across the Taliban’s world and for Vladimir Putin’s blitzkrieg into the Crimea and his incursions into Ukraine. Her seemingly horrible performance may have been completely intentional, more so than we could ever imagine. Yes, I did write “intentional.” Obama wanted to close Guantanamo from the outset and has chaffed over it for 6 years. He could not quite find the right time to make his move. He could not sell Congress on sending the top five terrorist in that prison back home. Continue reading “Queen Hillary sees “nobility” in Obama’s swap of terrorists for deserter”

CBC News

Homegrown extremism abroad has a new face, and CBC News has learned it belongs to yet another Calgary man, a development that points to the West as a hotbed for exporting jihadis.

His name is Salman Ashrafi, and when the Al-Qaeda splinter group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) released images of him last month following a double suicide bombing in Iraq in November that killed 46 people, he was celebrated in a martryrdom notice.   Continue reading “Suicide bomber killed in Iraq part of wider jihadi base in Calgary”

Calguns Foundation Wiki

Dealer’s Record of Sale (DROS), 1924

DROS was implemented by AB 263-Hawes, introduced in 1923 and effective August 7, 1924. Licensed dealers were, and are, required to report handgun sales to the state.

Electronic versions of DROS were specified in AB 671 (Peace) in 1997. (link below)   Continue reading “Timeline of California Firearms Laws”

Press TV

On Monday, Sarkozy told reporters in Moscow that he had met with Putin and that they “had lunch together.”

A Kremlin spokesman also said that the meeting took place in Sochi and that it was of a “private nature”.   Continue reading “Sarkozy and Putin meet in Russia”

Left Hook – by Dean Henderson

Last Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakhstan President Nurultan Nazarbayev to launch the Eurasian Economic Union. The move comes on the heels of a $400 billion natural gas deal he signed with China and announcements that Russia will use rubles instead of dollars to conduct most international trade.

Western aggression in Ukraine was the last straw for the Russians, who saw this movie before in their own country.   Continue reading “Putin Launches Eurasian Economic Union”

Huffington Post – by Michael McAuliff

WASHINGTON — Arguing for a constitutional amendment to bar unlimited spending in politics, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the flood of unregulated campaign dollars made him feel “unclean.”

The Nevada Democrat said he first experienced the unpleasantness of unchecked cash when he narrowly defeated John Ensign (R) in 1998, when Supreme Court rulings allowed money to be funneled through state parties. Each side spent about $10 million in that race, Reid said.   Continue reading “Harry Reid Says He Felt Dirty From Unlimited ‘Corrupting’ Campaign Cash”

The Daily Caller – by Chuck Ross

A Massachusetts gun store owner says it’s “too late” for a bank to mend a relationship that it broke.

Mark Cohen, who owns Powderhorn Outfitters, a Hyannis, Mass. gun retailer, said that his longtime bank, TD Bank, refused to extend a line of credit because of the business he is in.

Cohen explained what happened in an interview with The Daily Caller on Friday.   Continue reading “Gun Seller Dropped By Bank Rejects Their Attempt ‘To Kiss And Make Up’”

Daily Mail

A captured American soldier is training Taliban fighters bomb-making and ambush skills, according to one of his captors and Afghan intelligence officials.

Private Bowe Bergdahl disappeared in June 2009 while based in eastern Afghanistan and is thought to be the only U.S. serviceman in captivity.

The 24-year-old has converted to Islam and now has the Muslim name Abdullah, one of his captors told The Sunday Times.   Continue reading “Taliban claim captured U.S. solider has converted to Islam and is teaching its fighters bomb-making skills”

Freedom Outpost – by David Risselada

Sometimes when shady plans backfire, they backfire really well. This was definitely the case on Saturday May 31st in Tulsa Oklahoma, as The Oklahoma Open Carry Association met Moms Demand Action for the first time.

The anti-gun group requested a booth at the local farmers market and was denied, so they set up shop right on the outskirts of the downtown Tulsa event in order to gather signatures. They were a bit surprised when members of The Oklahoma Open Carry Association approached them to ask some questions. As is usually the case when dealing with liberals, the questions we asked went unanswered as the host of their event, (who incidentally, didn’t look like that much of a mom seeing as though he was a man) deflected the questions and attempted to change the subject, ridicule and even accuse us of wanting to start a war with the police. This came about because he made it perfectly clear that he didn’t want to be in any public establishment with citizens carrying handguns in the open. He was alluding to his belief that we are just a bunch of untrained rednecks that simply shoot indiscriminately in all directions just to prove how big our egos are.   Continue reading “Tulsa Chipotle Kicks out Anti-Gunners “Moms Demand Action” for Rude Behavior”

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The Hill – by Alexander Bolton

The White House has apologized to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for failing to alert her in advance of a decision to release Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay.

Feinstein told reporters that she received a call from Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken on Monday evening apologizing for what the administration is calling an “oversight.”   Continue reading “WH apologizes to Senate intel chief for prisoner swap secret”

AOL

BANGKOK (AP) – Thailand’s military rulers said Tuesday they are monitoring a new form of silent resistance to the coup – a three-fingered salute borrowed from “The Hunger Games” – and will arrest those in large groups who ignore warnings to lower their arms.

Despite the warning to protesters, the junta offered a reprieve to the country’s vital tourism industry. It lifted the military’s curfew at three popular beach resorts – Phuket, Koh Samui and Pattaya – to ease the impact of the May 22 coup on tourists. Continue reading “Thailand’s junta warns over ‘Hunger Games’ salute”

Huffington Post – by Paul Alias

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy has died.

Alexander Shulgin died Monday at his Northern California home at the age of 88.

His wife, Ann, says liver cancer was the cause. She says he was diagnosed about a year ago.   Continue reading “Alexander Shulgin Dead: Chemist Some Called ‘Godfather Of Ecstasy’ Dies At 88”

Millard reports the service went very well and he and his friend got a lot of footage.  Being working folk, they probably can’t start editing until tomorrow.  Millard says the You Tube video will be complete as soon as possible and he will be on the site this evening to answer any questions you might have.

(This is not my story, but was forwarded to me by a friend.)

It was a fine summer day…

Well, it would be fine, if it weren’t for all those big yellow dandelions cropping up in the lawn.  My husband, Don, and I tried to eliminate them from our view, but with no success.  They held steadfast.  I was reluctant to use chemicals, thinking of possible harm to our feathered friends who visited the various bird-feeders and bird-houses which Don had built and placed around our yard.   Continue reading “The Color Yellow”