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It's not often that a local ordinance amendment loosens restrictions — especially when guns are involved.

But, that's what the Farmington Hills City Council must do, to comply with Michigan's gun laws, specifically pertaining to carrying concealed weapons in public buildings and parks. State law allows it, and the Hills ordinances do not — making the city's ordinance unenforceable.

“The city is pre-empted by the state,” said Steve Joppich, city attorney. “This draft would bring our ordinances in line with the pre-emption.”

The rest here:
http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20090719/NEWS06/907190442/1023/rss05

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So some people have been asking what I'm running regularly these days, so I decided to show you my current work in progress. Thus I present you all to: Domain Mid-Range Control. Its essentially a 5 color control deck for the Post Lorwyn format.

11 Creatures

3x Wild Nacatl
3x Matca Rioters
3x Wall of Denial
1x Protean Hydra
1x Ranger of Eos

28 Spells

4x Ponder
4x Worldly Counsel
4x Rampant Growth
4x Maelstrom Pulse
3x Traumatic Visions
2x Path to Exile
2x Pyroclasm
2x Obelisk of Alara
2x Naya Charm
1x Lavalanche

21 Lands

4x Terramorphic Expanse
6x Island
5x Forest
2x Plains
2x Mountain
2x Swamp

The deck works by thinning itself out fast, and then maintain CA by always being able to fish out an answer thanks to Ponder and Worldly Counsel. It has several Win-Cons: Cheap Beatsticks, Lavalanche, and Obelisk of Alara. Currently being fine tuned! Hope you like it. Its a very fun control deck that doesn't run heavy permission.

( David Icke newsletter about Swine Flu vaccination, should anyone want to read it )

Working on an idea for a relentless rats deck.

20 relentless rats
4 quietus spike
4 gorgon's flail
4 divination
4 levitation
4 drowned catacomb
13 swamp
7 island

$100 deck right there. it's a little slow but I wanted to focus on the rats and making them untouchable and getting them out quick.

July 18, 2009, a day that shall live in infamy.

briteflite asks TQC about the first five minutes of the new Harry Potter movie.

Amongst normal answers, sonic_integer (bless her heart) exclaims, "You're a fag!"

Cue shock and surprise. When imaria prompted an explanation, she said:

"I know some people use fag as a derogatory term for a gay person but uh, I wasn't saying that. I meant it endearingly and closer in meaning to dag."

opheliaheart

imaria

yahvah

tqc_anon

sonic_integer

yahvah

ETA: Before anyone states this, NO, sonic_integer is NOT a troll. She has been a regular for years and is typically a very sweet person and fun to interact with, which is one reason everyone is so floored.
I can't say the same about yahvah though, I really don't know about him.

sonic_integer

And it contained a FOIL Ajani Goldmane! sick!

...but we may get a movie sequel to Master and Commander after all.

I really hope this happens!! Reverse of the Medal isn't the novel I would have chosen to do the next movie, but I'll be pleased to get pretty much anything as long as it's the same high quality as the first one.

Just playing with an animated traffic sign icon. It was hard to get it under the 40k limit, but with some quality loss I managed. Mostly it refers to bits of posts from this group. I used the sign generator at atom.smasher.org for the raw signs, then photoshop and its animation tool to merge them all together.

Breaking Wisconsin news for Kate, Dawn & Candace. :D

Ive just read an ad in a newspaper about the Big Chill music festival in Herefordshire next month. Film Four and Warp films are making a zombie film called "I Spit On Your Rave" and are encouraging people to take part in a zombie scene they are shooting at the festival. Its a great opportunity to break the world record for zombies captured on film. Ticket holders are invited to attend as zombies but they are also laying on a special 'zombie bus' to get people into make up. How cool is that?!

http://www.ispitonyourrave.com

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: James Brown - Make It Funky

I'm heading to our M2010 draft tomorrow, what should I keep a eye out for to draft?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/baldwin5.1.1.html

big 'duh' for the rest of us on this list.

yours truly didn't want to own a gun until i lived in Oakland, Ca. the local gun shop has been run off sadly enough. bizerley-ites are starting to talk about owning guns given the crime in the area.

again, big DUH.

enjoy...

I'd really like to see peoples' reasoning, if any, for NOT backing this one 100%:

Friday, July 17, 2009

A vote to protect your right to travel out-of-state with a firearm could
come to a vote next week -- even as early as Monday!

Senators John Thune and David Vitter are the sponsors of S. 845 -- a
bill that will establish concealed carry reciprocity amongst the several
states.

Senators Thune and Vitter offered the bill as an amendment (#1618) to
the Department of Defense authorization bill (H.R. 2647).

This provision will use the constitutional authority allowing Congress
to enforce "full faith and credit" across the country, so that each
state respects the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings" of
every other state (Article IV).

The benefit of the Thune/Vitter legislation is that -- unlike other,
competing measures -- it would protect the right of any U.S. citizen to
carry out of state (regardless of whether he possesses a permit), as
long as he is authorized to carry in his home state. This is important
because of states like Vermont and Alaska, where residents can carry
concealed without prior approval or permission from the state... in
other words, without a permit!

ACTION: Please urge your Senators to vote YES on the Thune/Vitter
concealed carry reciprocity amendment that will be offered to the
Department of Defense authorization bill and NO on any modifying
amendments. This vote could come as early as Monday, so please act on
this right away!

You can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the
pre-written e-mail message below.



( Of course, the letter draft )




...and yes, I'm well aware that this isn't the complete solution, and that the Constitution IS the original concealed carry permit. Nitpicks like that aside- your thoughts?

Current Mood: thoughtful

Well, sorta. Theoretically the pictures will be improving over the next month or so, we'll see how much improvement there will be.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

what do you think?

3 wild nacatl
4 woolly thoctar
2 mosstodon
3 meglonoth
2 spearbeaker behemoth
2 protean hydra

3 lush growth
4 mighty emergence
2 naya charm
2 mayael's aria
3 soul's might
3 oblivion ring
2 asha's favor

4 jungle shrine
2 ancient ziggurat
5 mountain
9 forest
5 plains

sideboard qasali ambushers against flyers, meant to switch with the nacatl

sideboard advice would be helpful.

I've played a few booster drafts and in only one sealed deck tourney and I got smashed. I know removal is key and I didn't get much, but I think I just got a little overwhelmed. I'm playing in a Sealed Deck M10 tomorrow and I just wanted to see what tips and trick you guys could offer up. Thanks!

Current Location: Chicago
Current Mood: good
Current Music: ABC 7 News

I have seen this link before but cannot find it.
Does anyone know where the humor page about the religious following of the colt 45 is?
It has a line something like "thou shalt not sin against pistol in the holy caliber which starts with 4 and ends with 5..."

I want to share it with a friend. He carries a .40

Ahoy, dear Brethren! It was my birthday, so I am later in posting than I planned, but alas, the All-Seeing, All-Knowing, Almighty ICONOMICON! has delivered a fresh batch of arcane and esoteric iconography! BEHOLD!

TEASERS:


( The people of Paris, fearful that they and their representatives would be attacked by the royal military, and seeking to gain ammunition and gunpowder for the general populace, stormed the Bastille, a fortress-prison in Paris which had often held people jailed on the basis of lettres de cachet, arbitrary royal indictments that could not be appealed. Besides holding a large cache of ammunition and gunpowder, the Bastille had been known for holding political prisoners whose writings had displeased the royal government, and was thus a symbol of the absolutism of the monarchy. )

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Heritage Druid x 3
Imperious Perfect x4
Bramblewood Paragon x4
Elvish Prominade x4
Hunting Triad x 4
Elvish Harbinger  x 3
Guruk Wildspeaker x 3
Llanowar Elf x 2

Doom Blade x4
Nameless Inversion x 2
Profane Command x 2
Coat of Arms x2

Gilt Leaf Palace x 4
Forest x 12
Swamp 7

This is my elf deck modified after M10, really all that is changed is I have doomblades and not terrors.
I have been running this since Lorwyn simply because I dont have the money to build a new type 2.
Any suggestions?

Current Location: Lost in Translation
Current Music: Far From Love ~ Above and Beyond