Monday, December 31, 2012

NY handgun permit problem ,stems from firearms owners

NY handgun permit problem.

 We'd not have a list of firearms owners and their firearms if New York state were to follow the federal guidelines and the Brady Inc policy. New Yorkers, firearms owners in particular have allowed themselves to be placed on a registered list which includes what type of firearms they own. It's pretty much the same type list the Nazi's used. Name,birthdate, location,fingerprints,occupation,SSN#,place of work,firearms and Serial No's,race,color,national orgin,4 friends names and locations,your mental state,criminal histior if any. YEPPER the only thing missing is RELIGION!

 Then add into the mix Judges who interpert the law as they see fit. WOW Hun, and you have a reciepe for disaster. Especially when those big EGOS are at stake. Had a fellow work mate a long time ago tell me this. If a Judge was any kind of a lawyer he'd never be a Judge.

So where does the problem lie?

After years of me telling sportsmen to stop using the antis terms and fancy names for firearms it apperars they just can't grasp the importance of the words.
 As I visited a few forums over the past week I still see in print from firearms owners the special words used by antis.

We'll never win anything using the oppositions lingo. Nor will we ever convince the 80%, so it's calculated; non caring public that we are serious when people in our own ranks are willing to give up another chip of the Liberty rock.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

New Mexico Wolf suit Appealed by Wild Earth Guardians


UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO

__________________________________________

)

WILDEARTH GUARDIANS, )


Plaintiff ) 1:12-cv-00118-LFG-KBM


v. )


JAMES LANE, DIRECTOR OF THE NEW MEXICO )

DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISH, sued in his )

official capacity, and )


JIM MCCLINTIC, CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW MEXICO )

STATE GAME COMMISSION, sued in his official )

capacity, )

)

Defendants, )

)

and )

)

NEW MEXICO TRAPPERS ASSOCIATION, NEW )

MEXICO COUNCIL OF OUTFITTERS & GUIDES, INC., )

NEW MEXICO FARM & LIVESTOCK BUREAU, )

COALITION OF ARIZONA/NEW MEXICO COUNTIES )

FOR STABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH, UNITED )

SPORTSMEN FOR FISH AND WILDLIFE, INC., NEW )

MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION, NEW )

MEXICO WOOL GROWERS, INC., AND NEW MEXICO )

FEDERAL LANDS COUNCIL, )

)

Defendant-Intervenors. )

__________________________________________)

NOTICE OF APPEAL

 

 

 

Notice is hereby given that WildEarth Guardians, Plaintiff in the above named case,

hereby appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from the final

judgment entered in this action on December 3, 2012.

Dated: December 28, 2012.

Respectfully submitted,

s/ Melissa Anne Hailey

Melissa Anne Hailey

New Mexico State Bar No. 25817

W. Randolph Barnhart, P.C.

50 South Steele Street, Suite 500

Denver, CO 80209

(303) 377-6700

mhailey@rbarnhartlaw.com

James Jay Tutchton

admitted pro hac vice

Colorado Registration No. 21138

WildEarth Guardians

6439 E. Maplewood Ave.

Centennial, CO 80111

(720) 301-3843

jtutchton@wildearthguardians.org

Attorneys for Plaintiff WildEarth Guardians

Friday, December 28, 2012

ASPCA Pays $9.3 Million in Landmark to Ringling Bros.


Media Contact: Stephen Payne, (703) 749-5505, spayne@feldinc.com

 
ASPCA Pays $9.3 Million in Landmark
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Settlement

 
Feld Entertainment RICO Lawsuit Will Continue against the Humane Society of the United States, the lawyers, and other remaining defendants

 
VIENNA, VA - Dec. 28, 2012 – Feld Entertainment, Inc., the producer of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Circus, announced today that the company has reached a legal settlement with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in connection with two federal court cases. Under the settlement, ASPCA has paid Feld Entertainment $9.3 million to settle all claims related to its part in more than a decade of manufactured litigation that attempted to outlaw elephants in the company’s Ringling Bros. ® Circus 


This settlement applies only to the ASPCA.  Feld Entertainment’s legal proceedings, including its claims for litigation abuse and racketeering, will continue against the remaining defendants, Humane Society of the United States, the Fund for Animals, Animal Welfare Institute, Animal Protection Institute United with Born Free USA, Tom Rider and the attorneys involved. 

 

“These defendants attempted to destroy our family-owned business with a hired plaintiff who made statements that the court did not believe.  Animal activists have been attacking our family, our company, and our employees for decades because they oppose animals in circuses.  This settlement is a vindication not just for the company but also for the dedicated men and women who spend their lives working and caring for all the animals with Ringling Bros. in the face of such targeted, malicious rhetoric,” said Kenneth Feld, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Feld Entertainment.

 

The parties filed dismissal papers today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia as a result of their settlement.  The settlement covers only Feld Entertainment’s claims against ASPCA for attorneys’ fees and damages in the initial Endangered Species Act (ESA) case filed in 2000 by the animal rights activists and the resultant racketeering (RICO) case brought by Feld Entertainment in 2007.  Discovery in the initial lawsuit uncovered over $190,000 that these animal activist groups and their lawyers paid to Tom Rider who lived off of the money while serving as the “injured plaintiff” in the lawsuit against the circus.   


“Our firm has been defending Feld Entertainment against this onslaught of misguided litigation brought by animal activist groups for years.  As their attorneys, it is gratifying to finally have a settlement that begins to make up for the harm inflicted on this company, the family who owns it, and its employees,” said John Simpson of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., lead counsel for Feld Entertainment in all of the cases covered by the settlement with ASPCA.

 
Background of Case


The original complaint was filed in July 2000 by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the Animal Welfare Institute, the Fund for Animals and Tom Rider, who is a former Ringling Bros. employee.  The case was dismissed in 2001 but was reinstated in 2003 after an appellate court ruled that if Tom Rider could prove that he was injured  by Ringling Bros.’ treatment of the elephants, the case could proceed.  The Animal Protection Institute joined the case in 2006. 


The trial began on February 4, 2009 and lasted approximately six weeks. The case is ASPCA, et al., v. Feld Entertainment, Inc., No. 03-2006 (D.D.C.)(Hon. Emmet G. Sullivan presiding).


On December 30, 2009, the U.S. District Court ruled in Feld Entertainment’s favor (published as ASPCA v. Feld Entertainment, Inc., 677 F. Supp. 2d 55 (D.D.C. 2009)). In its ruling the Court stated that, “the Court finds that Mr. Rider is essentially a paid plaintiff and fact witness who is not credible, and therefore affords no weight to his testimony regarding the matters discussed herein, i.e., the allegations related to his standing to sue." (www.ringlingbrostrialinfo.com/uploadedFiles/ASPCA%20Memorandum%20Opinion.pdf)

 

That decision found that the plaintiffs’ litigation was based on the untruthful testimony of a paid plaintiff and witness who the Court found received at least $190,000 in payments as his sole source of income over an eight year period by animal special interest groups, including ASPCA, their lawyers and an entity founded and controlled by those lawyers, the Wildlife Advocacy Project.

 

The Court also ruled, “that ensuring Mr. Rider’s continued participation as a plaintiff was a motivating factor behind the payments to him, and that these payments were a motivating factor for his continued involvement in the case.” The Court also ruled against the other plaintiffs in the case: “because the organizational plaintiffs have not established an injury in fact, traceable to FEI’s actions that can be redressed by the Court, the organizational plaintiffs have no standing to sue under Article III of the United States Constitution.”

 

Furthermore, the Court ruled that “based upon his failure to complain, the Court finds that Mr. Rider either (1) did not witness elephant mistreatment when he was employed by FEI or (2) any mistreatment he did witness did not affect him to the extent that he suffered an aesthetic or emotional injury.”  The Court’s December 2009 ruling was affirmed in its entirety by the Court of Appeals on October 28, 2011.

Based upon what was revealed in ASPCA, et al., v. Feld Entertainment, Feld Entertainment brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against ASPCA, HSUS and other animal rights activists and their lawyers alleging violations of the RICO statute and Virginia Conspiracy Act, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process.  The court denied the defendants’ motions to dismiss that case on July 9, 2012
Additional information on this litigation, including Court rulings, filings and elephant care
information can be found online at www.ringlingbrostrialinfo.com.


 Information on the

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation® and the company’s international elephant conservation programs is available online at www.elephantcenter.com.

Ringling Bros. Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. legal team is led by John M. Simpson and includes, Michelle C. Pardo, Stephen M. McNabb, Kara Petteway and Rebecca Bazan.


 

About Feld Entertainment

Feld Entertainment has produced Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey for over 45 years. Ringling Bros.’ elephants, the treasured symbol of The Greatest Show On Earth® and the subject of the litigation, continue to be healthy and well-cared for by a team of full-time veterinarians and an animal care staff that works to ensure that the animals have a safe and positive environment. The company meets and exceeds federal requirements on the care of its Asian elephants, tigers and other animals.  Its animal care practices are commonly accepted and well known to federal, state and local government regulators who routinely inspect Ringling Bros. in almost every city it visits.

 
Feld Entertainment, Inc. is the worldwide leader in producing and presenting live family entertainment that lifts the human spirit and creates indelible memories, with 30 million people in attendance at its shows each year. Feld Entertainment’s productions have appeared in more than 70 countries and on six continents to date and include Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Disney On Ice, Disney Live!, Monster Jam, Supercross, Areanacross, Nuclear Cowboyz and IHRA drag racing. More information on Feld Entertainment is available online at www.feldentertainment.com.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

No losers everyone's a winner

No losers only winners:
Do ya think FaceBook and the other social media outlets will ever create a dislike or that sux button, I don't.
It seems these social media outlets only promote yes or positive responses. Kind of like new project in the corporate world. Even it it is wrong and does not work you still win ..Why, because the project was finished regardless of the outcome.

Damn, who would have thought it all started with no looses in grade school athletics. Everyone is a winner.

Be Happy

Regards,
 BPB

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Musical Rant on media propaganda

Check out the video

Performed by Rex Benincasa, with Sean Kupisz on electric bass.
Background support vocalists: Lura Berry and Jose Antonio Melian.
 
This is a shuffley rant rap about The Media; disinformation, propaganda, spin and general manipulation of facts by agencies and people with an agenda to influence the knowledge and opinion of the public. Just the facts.

Lyrics are below.

Don't cha get it? Yeaaaaaaaah! So
SOME of it is the way it is But
WAY more of the time it's big
game SHOW BIZ To pull it
off right The Fat Boys
keep the frame tight. Want your
vision narrow Want your vision
narrow. Sell it all with a
bit of DisInfo
Clip a little hide a
little DisInfo slide a
little False facts in plain
sight Leak Her just right You'll
never feel the bite You know
Z was right: "...slime
from your video." "...slime
from your video." It's just
"Junq Junq Junq...."
And all along they gently guide you
sliding down the slope of acceptance
Doesn't matter what language they're
BSin' in They just
cherry-pick some fiction and
sell it with some "spin". If they're
Pushin' peace from the left or
Hawking from the right What we
get depends on how in Hell they
sell and gel the light. It's
clear what you hear but the
real story's missing and the
powers are hissing _ trying to
make you shake, make you quake-
break orange alert fake to
scare you more jack you down
on the floor false di-
lemmas, vapid nonsense.
Stuff to shake you up
shake you down for more. Wanna hear
more about What for?
What for? You
really don't know what lies
under the half lies? Spinning
long term well disguised
super-size lies? POWER
PLANS! They stay "on point"
threaten you with the joint (and)
Little DisInfo mash-up
helps them sweep the cash up
Power's the focus using lots of
wordy hocus-pocus 'cause
back room deals for oily stuff and
bloody-money's not enough. They're
mad greedy needy so they're
frontin' lefty right with The
New World Order plainly
marching into sight DisInfo's
cooking up some jive of the kind
sparkly enough to distract your
Mickey D mind Keep the
working proles guessing "Look!"
red, white and blue
window dressing! TV
Junq junq junq....

And all along they gently guide you
sliding down the slope of acceptance
Guide you to the chute Here comes the
jack boot!
Never know what hit-cha as the
Shirts come to git-cha Spinning their
Red herring views You
won't hear about that chute
on the local news! On the
info-tainment news they feed you
"Junq Junq Junq...." Keep
everybody freakin' but
offer up a beacon to
buoy up your hopes as you
back up to the ropes. With a
handful of players pullin'
strings and gettin' fat. But the
tail waggin' the dog is
really where it's at. So
you can listen closely but
what you'll hear is mostly more of
what "They" say;
Very scripted every day
Spinny DisInfo guides you and
critical thinking eludes you.
You're surrounded and your brain's
barely grounded as they push

"Junq junq junq junq
junq junq junq " Talkin' 'lotta
Blue State Red State
brain dead in the head State
Sound bites, pull quotes
propaganda, lost votes.
(Don't you worry what it is.
We might not even count 'em)
Get some

Good Ol' Boys to de-
cide. Then they'll
take you for a ride
sliding down the slope of acceptance.
Skim a little hide a
little let DisInfo slide a
little Leak Her just right You
never feel her bite Slick and
hairy-scary. Don't you know
Z was right: "...slime
from your video. "...slime
from your video." It's just
"Junq Junq Junq...."