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Anybody ever written a book?
And gotten it published. Non-fiction. I'm trying to write one but my main obstacle is when is the appropriate time to cite sources and use notes? I've got tons of documentation but I don't want to annotate every single sentence. Yes, I pretty much winged it through 2 years of college.
"The whole country...knows the problem was there weren't enough good guys with guns."
-Wayne Lapierre
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre on Sunday slammed "elite" focus on firearms in the wake of last week's Navy Yard shooting, saying there are bigger issues in play, including the need for more secure military facilities.
"The whole country...knows the problem was there weren't enough good guys with guns," LaPierre said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "When the good guys with guns got there, it stopped."
LaPierre said politicians and the media wrongly turned back to the gun control issue following the deadly shooting near the Capitol, when instead the country should emphasize reforming the mental health system and enforcing laws already on the books.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/09/lapierre-elite-firearms-focus-is-misplaced-173225.html
If you have ever published anything anywhere then you are a journalist
Fienstein trying to define who is and who isn't a journalist. Posting on discussion boards is journalism. Pamphleteering, making up flyers and handing them out on a street corner is journalism. Blogging, web publishing, citizen journalism, photography- all journalism. The permit you need to be a journalist is the US Constitution. Can not believe we actually have to have this conversation but in this age of free speech zones, who knows what's next. Thomas Paine's bones just cracked and he's rolling with the worms.
Time passes in increments of mass shootings
This work week began with 13 people being killed at the Washington Navy Yard and ends with 13 people being wounded in a mass shooting in a Chicago park. The TV news should just report mass shootings like they do the weather.
"It's looking like Monday is shaping up to being a hail of stray bullets... better bring a flack jacket!"
"We have had 005 0 days with out a mass shooting!"
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-16/local/42092857_1_second-suspect-lanier-gray
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57603810/chicago-park-shooting-leaves-13-wounded-including-3-year-old-boy/
How much have you traveled in the USA?
I've been to 47 states. Not Alaska, Vermont or Maine. I've seen a great portion of the United States which I try to use in my understanding of just how messed up our country has become. Most people it seems are just hanging on trying get by in life in the best way they can. I'll be on a train in say Missouri and see a house in a small town or out in the country and try to imagine what life is like for the people living there.
Petition to get GWAR to play Superbowl halftime show
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/latest-news/thousands-tell-nfl-gwar-should-play-super-bowl/article_021d9c5c-2132-11e3-8bb9-0019bb30f31a.html
Thousands tell NFL: GWAR should play Super Bowl
RICHMOND, Va. — GWAR at the Super Bowl?
An online petition started by video producer Jeff Cantrell of Morehead, Ky., calls for the National Football League to be daring and choose the Richmond-based heavy metal band for the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show.
So far, more than 23,000 people have indicated they would rather watch Oderus Urungus and company take the stage at America's biggest sporting event than has-been rockers or overhyped pop stars.
"We don't want another year of sitting around talking through a muted, boring NFL Super Bowl halftime show. We want something different. We want a real spectacle that only GWAR can provide." Cantrell wrote on Change.org. "Doesn't the NFL want more viewers? Don't advertisers want more people paying attention? This way everyone wins."
Kids partying and trashing millionaires vacant house
I just can't get all worked up to give a shit about this either way. Rich millionaire guy who could play with a ball has his second home trashed by a bunch of spoiled, privileged rich kids.
The word went out on Twitter — and hundreds of hard-partying characters turned out to trash the upstate New York home of a former NFL All-Pro.
Brian Holloway, who played for the Patriots in Super Bowl XX, watched the Labor Day debauchery via photos and text messages sent from inside his vacant house by the malicious merry-makers.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander declares the end of the welfare state
Youngest monarch in Europe says people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-king-willemalexander-declares-the-end-of-the-welfare-state-8822421.html
King Willem-Alexander delivered a message to the Dutch people from the government in a nationally televised address: the welfare state of the 20th century is gone.
In its place a "participation society" is emerging, in which people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets, with less help from the national government.
The king traveled past waving fans in an ornate horse-drawn carriage to the 13th-century Hall of Knights in The Hague for the monarch's traditional annual address on the day the government presents its budget for the coming year. It was Willem-Alexander's first appearance on the national stage since former Queen Beatrix abdicated in April and he ascended to the throne.
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The king earns an annual salary of around 825,000 euros ($1.1 million), though maintaining the Royal House — castles, parades and all — costs the government more than 100 million euros annually.
This is an insult!
To those of us who can't afford financial planners, who don't have 401Ks and those of us who can't pay the full balance of their credit cards every month. The Washington Post (once again!) carries water for those in the population who are much, much, more well off than the majority of the nation. So glad to know that the parasites that live off of government contracts in and around the beltway are doing so f-ing great, ie. your readership. GFYWARC Washington Post!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/16/this-4x6-index-card-has-all-the-financial-advice-youll-ever-need/
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