Scott Thomas, the drummer for the band Parmalee, was critically wounded defending his band mates when two armed thugs attacked them as they were packing up after a show. Thomas manged to kill one assailant and wound the other, saving the lives of his band mates. Now he faces a series of expensive surgeries and Parmalee is asking for help to pay his medical bills.
Please visit Help Parmalee and give what you can:
From CNN, and when the commies there say there’s a problem, there’s definitely a problem:
This is the catalyst to the collapse coming. JP Morgan announced in a report that stores were sheltering customers from the food price increases in hopes of not losing customers, but that can only last so long.
Americans are still feeling the pinch though, partly due to factors not related to our economic troubles at all but they will accentuate them.
The bad economy is to blame, but not as much as the civil service unions who (thanks to the poor educational system courtesy of the Teacher’s Union) don’t understand that when a city runs out of money … it runs out of money:
Rev. Joseph Tracy said he’s tired of going to funerals. And now, he suspects he’ll be going to more of them.
“It’s open field day now,” said Tracy, the pastor of Straightway Baptist Church here. “The criminals are going to run wild.”
Gang activity. Drug dealing. Cold-blooded killing. Tracy worries that a decision to shrink the police force by almost 30 percent will bring more of everything.
The pastor voiced his concern on Friday at a raucous special City Council meeting at which East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks announced that the city will layoff 37 employees, including 19 of its 62 police officers, 11 firefighters, four public works employees, and three administrators. The layoffs take effect on Sunday.
Parks said the weak economy has robbed the city of badly need money. For example, revenue from the Casino Queen was $900,000 below budget expectations last year. There are no signs of improvement, Parks said.
“I want our citizens to know we have some of the bravest police officers and firefighters in the country,” Parks said. “But we don’t have the money to pay them. We have to have fiscal responsibility.”
City officials wanted police and fire unions to accept a furlough program that would have required employees to take two unpaid days in each twice monthly pay period. If accepted, emergency responders would have seen a pay cut of about 20 percent for the rest of the year.
Parks said the two sides couldn’t reach an agreement. On Friday, he stared at a standing-room only crowd and told his emergency response chiefs words they didn’t want to hear: “Tell your workers to start packing their things.”
The news spurred shouts from the crowd.
“The blood is on your hands,” yelled Michael Hubbard, an East St. Louis police officer.
No actually the blood is on your Officer Hubbard. The police were asked to man up and accpet some austerity measures in an atttempt to kep them employed, they said no. I guess the police think money grows on trees.
East St. Louis is already a war zone though. Losing police will make things much more unsafe. And this is just one of many towns that will be forced to make this decision in the coming years.
Another great review from The Nutnfancy Project. I have a snub nosed revolver myself and I’m a fan (though I understand they are severely limited) mainly because I’m at heart an inner city boy and think of guns as something you pull out quick because someone or something is coming at you. I like revolvers, as I’ve said before, because I’m a simple and old fashioned man. The snubby in various calibers is ideal for a “kit gun” or what some old timers called a “tackle box gun” because it was kept in (you guessed it) an angler’s tackle box. My kit gun is a inexpensive Charter Arms .327 Federal which I happen to love, even though it is much maligned in gun shops and on the Internet.
TNP does a great job going over the negatives of the Bodyguard (and really most snubnose revolvers) without overstating them. The S&W is not a cheap gun, but they are not terribly expensive if you’re going to have one handgun and want a snubby. If you’re getting a snubby for a second gun or as back up I’d shop around. The video is about 40 minutes long so settle in but this is an in-depth review that is useful for anyone considering snubnosed revolvers in general as well as the Bodyguard in particular.