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Chicago- 446 school age children shot this year ... thanks Sarah R.!!

Chicago: 446 school age children shot so far this year with strongest gun laws in country - media silent!

Chicago: 446 school age children shot so far this year with strongest gun laws in country – media silent !

 

By Clash Daily / 19 December 2012

The cesspool known as Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the country, yet despite all the shootings, murders, and bloodshed, you never hear a peep about this from the corrupt state run media. In Chicago, there have been 446 school age children shot in leftist utopia run by Rahm Emanuel and that produced Obama, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, etc.  62 school aged children have actually been killed by crazed nuts in Chicago so far this year with almost two weeks to go. So why isn’t this news worthy? Is it because it would embarrass those anti second amendment nuts who brag about Chicago’s tough gun laws? Is it because most of the kids who were shot and killed were minorities? Or is it because the corrupt media doesn’t want to show Chicago in a bad light?

THE LIST OF MURDERED SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN 2012
18 YEARS OLD- 15

17 YEARS OLD- 16

16 YEARS OLD- 16

15 YEARS OLD- 6

14 YEARS OLD- 4

13 YEARS OLD- 2

12 YEARS OLD- 1

7 YEARS OLD- 1

6 YEARS OLD- 1

446 School Age Children Shot in Chicago so Far This Year
THE LIST OF SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SHOT IN 2012

18 year old- 110

17 year old- 99

16 year old- 89

15 year old- 62

14 year old- 39

13 year old- 21

12 year old- 10

11 year old- 2

10 year old- 3

9 year old- 1

7 year old- 3

6 year old- 2

5 year old- 1

4 year old- 1

3 year old- 1

1 year old- 2

Read more at fireandreamitchell.com

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Thomas Jefferson Wow! Thanks Pidge F.!

  This is amazing.
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 Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early
 in life and never stopped.*
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 At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.*
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 At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.*
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 At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.*
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 At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.*
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 At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.*
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 At 23, started his own law practice.*
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 At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.*
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 At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British
 America ” and retired from his law practice.*
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 At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.*
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 At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence .*
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 At 33, took three years to revise Virginia 's legal code and wrote a Public
 Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.*
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 At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
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 At 40, served in Congress for two years.*
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 At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial
 treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.*
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 At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.*
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 At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American
 Philosophical Society.*
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 At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of
 Republican Party.*
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 At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .*
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 At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.*
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 At 61, was elected to a second term as President.*
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 At 65, retired to Monticello .*
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 At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.*
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 At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served
 as its first president.*
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 At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of
 Independence along with John Adams.*
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 Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed
 attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God,
 his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most
 understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to
 lead us in the future:*
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 John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the
 brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This
 is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time
 in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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 "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall
 become as corrupt as Europe ." -- Thomas Jefferson*
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 "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are
 willing to work and give to those who would not."
 -- Thomas Jefferson*
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 "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A
 principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
 -- Thomas Jefferson*
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 "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
 government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of
 taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson*
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 "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from
 too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson*
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 "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson*
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 "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear
 arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
 government."
 -- Thomas Jefferson*
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 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
 patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson*
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 "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which
 he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
 -- Thomas Jefferson*
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 Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:*
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 "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
 than standing armies.*
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 If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
 their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
 corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of
 all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their
 fathers conquered."*
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 I wish we could get this out to everyone!
 I'm doing my part. Please do yours

LHL-JT- There's big games, and then there's Kentucky vs.Louisville

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There's big games, and then there's Kentucky vs. Louisville

Published: December 27, 2012 Updated 5 hours ago

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By Jerry Tipton — jtipton@herald-leader.com

Of course, the game at Louisville on Saturday is nothing new. Kentucky has been playing big games for a long time. Hype builds. Nerves tingle. Stakes rise. Margins for error shrink.
Former UK All-American Frank Ramsey recalled such a game at the end of the 1953-54 season. UK needed only a victory over LSU to achieve the program's first unbeaten season since 1912.
Apparently, the students took victory for granted in those days because their sections in Memorial Coliseum were largely empty at tipoff.
"We were behind at halftime," Ramsey said. "We came out for the second half and the whole student section was filled up."
Even with the student cavalry riding to the rescue from nearby dorms, victory did not come easily. Looking back almost 60 years, Ramsey remembered Adolph Rupp venting during a second-half timeout.
"Just go out there and lose the game!" Rupp snapped at the players.
Said Ramsey: "First time I ever heard him say something like that."
Kentucky rallied to a 63-56 victory to complete what remains UK's last unbeaten season.
As UK fans know so well, there are big games. And then there are games against Louisville.
"Emotions are probably higher in a Louisville game than any other game the whole year," another former UK All-American, Kenny Walker, said. "It's a very tricky game."
Walker recalled the buildup to any UK-U of L game as relentless and omnipresent.
"You knew everywhere you went, you couldn't escape it," he said. "Whether it be the barber shop, the grocery store, the car wash."
Whatever happens in the Yum Center on Saturday surely will pale by comparison to the Kentucky-Louisville game in the 1983 NCAA Tournament. Though separated by no more than 80 miles and each a nationally prominent program, the teams had not played since the 1959 NCAA Tournament. A regular-season UK-U of L game hadn't happened since 1922.
Like North and South Korea arguing about the shape of the table to be used in peace talks, UK and U of L would not — or could not — seriously discuss playing a game.
UK would not recognize U of L as a worthy rival. An unwritten "policy" prevented games against any in-state team, UK Coach Joe B. Hall and Athletics Director Cliff Hagan said.
The NCAA intervened. Two straight years. In 1982, UK's first-round loss to Middle Tennessee prevented a second-round game against U of L. Thankfully, for anyone interested in watching history in the making, Kentucky and Louisville stayed on course in 1983 for a game in the Mideast Region finals at — of all places — Tennessee's quirky Stokely Center.
"After going through the season and having a pretty good year, you think you've seen everything," said Walker, then a freshman. "I hadn't seen anything like that."
Then Kentucky Gov. John Y. Brown showed up wearing a sports coat that was half blue and half red.
"Man, this guy is really confused with what he's trying to do," Walker remembered thinking. "I was a freshman. I was just getting used to how much basketball meant to people in Kentucky."
Even media nerves frayed. A television camera man nudged Dirk Minniefield out of the way when the UK guard tried to get in place to inbounds a ball.
Looking back, Walker thanked "older brothers" like Sam Bowie, Melvin Turpin, Jim Master, Derrick Hord, Charles Hurt and Minniefield for helping him deal with the emotional setting.
UK's 80-68 overtime loss left Walker in need of counseling. "I was more shocked," he said. "I was more in disbelief than anything."
On Saturday, No. 4 Louisville will be the only team with older brothers. Walker cited the first five minutes as an indicator of Kentucky's growth as a team and a gauge on the benefits reaped by the so-called Camp Cal experience.
"Emotionally, you don't know what you're going to get with a young team," Walker said of UK. "This is a team trying to find their identity.
"I hope Coach Cal (John Calipari) will convince the players — and I think he will — that all the pressure is on Louisville."

Jerry Tipton: (859) 231-3227.Twitter: @JerryTipton.Blog: ukbasketball.bloginky.com

Mark Story- LHL At UK, Calipari has been the master of rivals

Mark Story: At UK, Calipari has been master of rivals

Published: December 27, 2012 Updated 5 hours ago
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Kentucky Coach John Calipari left, and Louisville coach Rick Pitino greeted each other warmly before last year's regular season matchup. Kentucky won that game 69-62 in Rupp Arena.

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By Mark Story — Herald-Leader Sports Columnist

By my reckoning, there are three competitive bars a University of Kentucky men's basketball coach has to clear to be perceived as "succeeding."

1. Have teams consistently peaking in March, including making periodic visits to Final Four.

2. Win meaningful championships (SEC regular season, SEC tournament, NCAA tourney) with some regularity.

3. Win more than your share of games against the teams the UK fan base most loathes.

Which brings us to our state's annual men's hoops grudge fest, Kentucky vs. Louisville.

If the "experts" are right, Louisville and Rick Pitino are finally going to show Kentucky and John Calipari that payback can be hell (or swell, depending on perspective) Saturday afternoon in the KFC Yum Center. Should that prove so, it will end — or at least interrupt — what has been one of the great periods of "rivalry dominance" in Kentucky history.

For the teams UK fans most yearn to beat, John Calipari has so far put the "L" in "rivalry."

Billy Donovan has built Florida into the SEC men's hoops program that most consistently challenges Kentucky for league supremacy.

Under Calipari so far, Kentucky is 7-1 against Billy D. with two SEC Tournament wins.

Tennessee shares a border with the commonwealth. Back in the day, the Volunteers had a penchant for upsetting superior Wildcats teams, so UT has long been a foe that stirs the blood of many UK fans.

In the past three seasons, Kentucky is 6-1 against UT, including an SEC tourney victory.

The neighboring states of Indiana and Kentucky have long contested with each other over which is the best hoops locale. Bob Knight's adversarial past with UK spiced a long-standing antagonism.

Over Calipari's first three seasons, UK went 3-1 against the Hoosiers, including knocking IU out of the 2012 NCAA Tournament round of 16.

North Carolina is one of the few men's hoops programs whose heft of achievement allows it to look Kentucky square in the eyes. Head-to-head, UNC has often seemed to have UK's "number," as the Tar Heels lead the all-time series with the Cats 22-13.

Yet under Calipari, Kentucky is 3-1 against Carolina, including claiming a berth in the 2011 Final Four by taming the Tar Heels in the East Region finals.

Then there is Louisville.

In the here and now, there is likely no other rivalry in men's college basketball, including Duke-North Carolina, that burns with the white-hot fire of UK-U of L in the era of Calipari vs. Pitino.

As you have already read ad nauseam this week, Cal at UK is 4-0 against Ricky P. at U of L. That includes Kentucky's 69-61 victory over the Cards last spring in the first Final Four matchup ever between our state's marquee schools.

So against the five most-heated rivals that UK plays (or used to play) on a regular basis, Calipari is a staggering 23-4 going into Saturday's trek across I-64 to The Ville.

That will keep even the most demanding fan base in good spirits.

To put that in perspective, back when Pitino was overseeing a modern golden age in UK basketball in the 1990s, even he didn't fare so well against the teams Wildcats fans hated most. His record at UK against the Cats' top five rivals (same teams, but substituting Arkansas of the 1990s for Florida of the 2000s) was 31-15.

It's fascinating for a coach who has, so far, had his way with Kentucky's most despised foes that Calipari was so willing to let UK's annual series with Indiana and North Carolina lapse (though the latter is slated to resume next season).

Pitino as the Kentucky coach dominated Louisville, going 6-2 against the Cards and winning six of his last seven. Since he switched to red neckties from blue, the rivalry has not proven so convivial. Ricky P. has lost seven of his last nine games against Kentucky.

Pitino has not beaten a UK coach NOT named Billy Gillispie since Dec. 27, 2003.

If Kentucky (8-3 and not overly impressive so far) were to go to Louisville Saturday and beat what appears to be the best U of L team (11-1) of Pitino's 12 seasons, it would be the most demoralizing dagger in the rivalry's modern history to the Cardinals.

Says here the youthful Cats will give a good account of themselves, but that No. 4 U of L will prove too experienced and too deep.

In a flip from what has been the script for Calipari at Kentucky in rivalry games, Louisville 75, Kentucky 67.

Mark Story: (859) 231-3230.Email: mstory@herald-leader.com. Twitter: @markcstory. Blog: markstory.bloginky.com

Things I've learned as I get older ... Thanks Bob L.!

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> 4. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.
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> 6. If all is not lost, where is it?
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> 7. It's a lot easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
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> 8. Some days, you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.
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> 9. Kids in the back seat cause accidents.
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> 11. It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
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> 12. The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom.
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> 13. If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my knees.
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> 14. When I'm finally holding all the cards, why does everyone want to play checkers?
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> 16. These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter . . .
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> 18. DID I SEND THESE TO YOU BEFORE?