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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Thursday he knew nothing about the emails and texts members of his inner circle sent related to causing horrific traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge last September. As he grappled with fallout from the scandal, experts say it may be easier for staffers to cover their tracks.
Christie's political scandal is just the latest of many to involve texts and emails unearthed by subpoena. On Thursday, he fired his deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly, who was at the center of the bridge scandal, and the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday that it will investigate whether the lane closures violated federal law. "Time for some traffic problems," Kelly allegedly emailed to a Christie associate at the Port Authority. School children, commuters and emergency services were all ensnared in the traffic jams.
Millions of people already send files and messages using secure apps like Wickr, Tiger Text, Silent Circle and Snapchat, which can be timed to disappear after a specified amount of time. Launched in September 2011, Snapchat is one of the most popular. The company recently turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook. Users can send "Snaps"—photos or videos and short messages—that last between 1 and 10 seconds, depending on the time limit set by the sender. It has over 100 million users and shares up to 400 million snaps daily. Wickr was founded by a team of privacy experts "who believe that anonymous communication is important to our political and social discourse," according to the company's mission statement.
The bad news for media, the public and the authorities: Such messages may be zapped from servers and unavailable to investigators. More political operatives may start to emulate the social networking habits of sexting politicians and young adults—and many recent political scandals may not even have been uncovered by the media or authorities if they were sent using these apps, says Derrick Daye, managing director at Los Angeles-based consultancy The Blake Project. What's more, they could also make it easier for people in public life to engage in inappropriate and—in the case of the George Washington Bridge closure—potentially illegal activities, he says. "As long as there are private channels available, they will be used and certainly preferred," Daye says.
Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, social networks must comply with court orders if they're subpoenaed. However, only unopened snaps are stored on Snapchat's servers (for 30 days), a spokeswoman says. Likewise, TigerText doesn't store messages on the company's servers after they've disappeared and, thus, messages that have expired or been deleted cannot be retrieved, a company spokeswoman says. "If subpoenaed, TigerTexts cannot be used in evidence against you as the messages are impermanent and deleted immediately," she says, unless a customer voluntarily chooses to archive all messages for up to 30 days as part of TigerTexts' premium service.
Of course, these apps are not designed to encourage or condone illegal behavior. In fact, it's quite the opposite: TigerTexts counts hospitals and financial services companies as customers. Wickr was founded on the principle that private communication is worth money and should not be exploited. Silent Circle, which costs $9 a month, can send files of up to 100 megabytes—everything from x-rays to movies—and can also encrypt voice calls; it counts 26 of the Fortune 500 as customers and governmental departments from 11 nations. "There are legitimate reasons you would want your communications to remain private and ephemeral," says Michael Fertik, CEO at Reputation.com, a site that assists consumers shielding their privacy online.
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The world's first blockbuster drug is a hundred years old this week
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ON AUGUST 10th 1897, Felix Hoffmann, a chemist in the employ of a German dyestuffs company called Bayer, managed to acetylate the phenol group of a compound called salicylic acid. Not, on the face of it, the stuff for which front pages are held. But acetylsalicylic acid has two claims to fame. First, as the world's first truly synthetic drug (ie, not merely an artificial copy of a naturally occurring compound), it paved the way for the modern pharmaceuticals industry. Second, it is probably the most successful medicine in history. For acetylsalicylic acid is better known as aspirin.
Since Hoffmann's synthesis, aspirin has gone from strength to strength. It has not suffered proscription, as happened to its near contemporary, heroin. Nor has it been overtaken by more modern substances. Paracetamol and ibuprofen may have nibbled at its share of the over-the-counter (OTC) painkiller market, but aspirin still outsells them both in Germany, for instance, half of the OTC market belongs to aspirin-based products. Moreover, as time passes, aspirin looks more and more useful. It was first marketed mainly as an anti-inflammatory, particularly for people suffering from rheumatism, but its popularity as a general-purpose painkiller followed quickly. Lately it has come to be seen as a life-saver prescribed to those at risk of heart attacks and strokes as a way of preventing the blood clots that cause them. And the future may be even more thrilling, for current research is lining aspirin up to treat one of the nastier types of cancer.
All this springs ultimately from a substance that accumulates in willow trees. Rheumatism has plagued the human race at least since the flowering of the great river cultures of the Middle East. Clay tablets from the Sumerian period describe the use of willow leaves to treat it. The Egyptians were also aware of the pain-relieving effects of potions made from myrtle or willow leaves.
Extracts from the bark and leaves of the willow, myrtle and a number of other plants rely for their effect on the presence of salicylic acid, an organic compound composed of seven carbon atoms, six hydrogens and three oxygens. Edward Stone, a vicar from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, is generally recognised as the man who gave the first scientific description of the effects of willow bark. In 1763 he wrote a letter to the Earl of Macclesfield, then president of the Royal Society in London, in which he describes treating patients suffering from ague (fever) with 20 grains (approximately a gram) of powdered willow bark in a dram of water every four hours.
Stone's interest in willows was due to the ancient "Doctrine of Signatures" whereby the cause of a disease offers a clue to its
treatment. According to Stone:
As this tree delights in a moist or wet soil, where agues chiefly abound, the general maxim that many natural maladies carry their cures along with them or that their remedies lie not far from their causes was so very apposite to this particular case that I could not help applying it; and that this might be the intention of Providence here, I must own, had some little weight with me.
In 1829 the action moved to France. Henri Leroux, a pharmacist, obtained a compound of salicylic acid, known as salicin, in crystalline form for the first time, and Raffaele Piria, an Italian chemist, then succeeded in splitting it up to obtain the acid in its pure state. Reports of its beneficial properties spread quickly and demand grew. Hermann Kolbe, professor of chemistry at Marburg University, in north-western Germany, discovered the compound's chemical structure and succeeded in making it artificially in 1859. This allowed salicylic acid to be produced on an industrial scale, and by 1874 a factory in Dresden was able to sell it at a tenth of the price of material extracted from willow bark.
However, salicylic acid has unpleasant side-effects. Most notably, it irritates the stomach and many patients were simply unable to tolerate its unpleasant taste. One such patient was the father of Felix Hoffmann, and it was his father's complaints that stimulated the younger Hoffmann to play around with salicylic acid in order to produce something as effective as a treatment for rheumatism, but more palatable.
The head of Bayer's pharmacology laboratory, Heinrich Dreser, quickly tested Hoffmann's new compound on himself. He then set up a series of animal experiments (another first for aspirin; the testing of drugs on animals had never before been done in an industrial setting) and soon demonstrated the anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects of acetylsalicylic acid on his experimental animals. Tests on people began soon afterwards in the Deaconess Hospital in Halle an der Saale.
Following an enthusiastic report from the medical staff there, Bayer realized that it had a major discovery on its hands. In yet another first the first mass marketing of any drug the company sent information about aspirin to 30,000 doctors. By 1914, aspirin was making a healthy contribution to Bayer's profits. And although many of its foreign rights were confiscated by Germany's enemies after the first world war, Bayer still leads the world in aspirin production, selling 11 billion tablets a year.
Unlike many centenarians, though, aspirin is not ready to retire. In fact, its future seems brighter than ever following a number of clinical trials stimulated by the discovery, in 1971, of how it actually works.
In a piece of research for which he was awarded both a Nobel prize and a knighthood, John Vane, who was then employed by the Royal College of Surgeons in London, showed that aspirin suppresses the production of local hormones known as prostoglandins.
These are found in most tissues of the body, and they have a number of different functions including regulating the contraction of the so-called "smooth" muscle that is found in the blood vessels, the stomach, the intestines and the bladder, and mediating pain and inflammation. But they also regulate the aggregation of platelets scraps of cells in the bloodstream that help to form clots. Suppress the prostoglandins in platelets, therefore, and you suppress the formation of the sort of clots that trigger heart attacks and strokes.
The Physicians' Health Study organised by Charles Hennekens of Harvard University and published in 1989 involved more than 22,000 healthy American doctors. It showed that an aspirin a day reduces the incidence of heart attacks by half, and that the drug can also help to prevent thrombosis and strokes.
This was followed up by a so-called "meta-analysis" of clinical trials of aspirin published in 1994 by Richard Peto and Rory Collins of Oxford University. They reviewed the results of 300 published trials of aspirin, involving some 140,000 patients the largest number of patients ever reviewed at one time. The message was clear: if people under 70 who are at risk of heart disease were to take aspirin regularly, the number of deaths from such disease across the world could be reduced by 100,000 a year. Many people, including a lot of doctors, now begin their day with an aspirin.
That aspirin's uses may not stop there has been suggested by Sam Shapiro and his colleagues at Boston University. About five years ago they developed a hypothesis, based on data from experimental animals, that bowel cancer might be prevented by a regular dose of aspirin. Some 15-20 studies of this idea have since been carried out, and they suggest that it is correct the reduction being somewhere between 30% and 50%. Aspirin, Dr Shapiro believes, interferes with the biochemical mechanism that causes cells lining the bowel to become cancerous. This mechanism appears to involve prostoglandins in at least two of its stages. Keeping them suppressed keeps the cancer suppressed as well. There is clearly life in the old drug yet.


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Configuring Individual File Encoding
There are two modes of dealing with file encoding:
- Converting: the contents of the editor are stored in a different encoding. So doing, the contents of the underlying file change, but the contents of the editor stay unchanged.
- Reloading: the underlying file, opened in the editor, is shown in an encoding that differs from its original one. So doing, the contents of the editor can change, but the underlying files does not.
CLion suggests the following major ways to change encoding:
- Using the File Encodings page of the Settings dialog, for directories and for the files that do not contain encoding information.
- Using the Status bar or menu command, for individual files that do not contain encoding information.
- Using the editor, for individual files that contain encoding information.
To configure encoding for a directory or file without embedded encoding information
- In Settings, expand the Editor node and select File Encodings.
- The File/Directory column shows the tree view of your project. The Default Encoding column shows encoding for directories or files. Click the Default encoding column for a directory or file you want to define encoding for, and then choose the desired encoding from the drop-down list:
To change encoding of a file that contains explicit encoding
- Open the desired file in the editor.
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To change encoding of a single file that doesn't contain explicit encoding
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One of 17 Dead Cattle near gas well spill in LA
Shale Gas Drillers
Open Political Offensive
in Beaver County
by Randy Shannon
February 26, 2010
Wall Street bankers are investing big bucks in gas drillers as they spread across the state buying up mineral rights and drawing up leases to establish drilling operations. Stock prices of Atlas Energy, Range Resources, and Cabot Oil and Gas are soaring as they race to accumulate ownership of the enormous shale gas deposit in Western Pennsylvania.
There are two big issues arising from the exploitation of the state's shale gas resource. One issue is fair taxation that remunerates the people of the state for the loss of a resource that cannot be replaced. This is the gas severance tax that drillers pay to all states with substantial gas drilling. The other is protection of our water supply without which our property is worthless and our lives are at risk.
Pennsylvania does not have a gas severance tax. The Republican Party in Pennsylvania used the 2009 budget crisis as leverage to stop the imposition of the severance tax. This cost the state up to $100 million in lost revenue this year, at an equal savings to the gas drillers who can raise their campaign contributions to the Republicans.
The public awareness of this rip-off has grown to such an extent that Governor Rendell has proposed a severance tax for the 2010 budget equal to West Virginia's. The Democrats running for State Senate and State Legislature are supporting this position. Even Dan Onorato and Jack Wagner, who are taking $thousands from the drillers in campaign contributions, are saying they support a "reasonable" gas severance tax.
The gas drillers have taken a fall back position: if they are going to have to pay a tax, then they want more concessions from the state to give them a free hand in conducting their operations on the ground. In this Beaver County Times article from Feb. 12th (http://tinyurl.com/yap6azf ) the spokeswoman from the Marcellus Shale Coalition threatens to "move resources to shale formations in other states" if Pennsylvania does not make concessions.
This is a tired and overused empty threat. Pennsylvania has the greatest gas deposit in the United States that will last for decades. Drillers are rushing in, not hesitating in case they might have to pay a severance tax like in other states. Most importantly, gas prices are now relatively low, so that the longer it takes to drill, the more we delay, the more Pennsylvania will profit from higher future gas prices.
The shale fracturing or 'fracking' process as it is now practiced creates life-threatening environmental issues. To frack one well the driller takes around 6 million gallons of water from local creeks and rivers. They mix in a half dozen volatile hydrocarbons, such as benzene that cause respiratory failure and death in all mammals. They also mix in heavy metals, cyanide, and other chemicals that cause cancer. These chemicals are being released into the water table, on the surface, and in our waterways.
They are also buying up legislators in order to guarantee that their profits are maximized. State Legislator Jim Christiana, whose campaign was funded by the House Republican Campaign Committee, is working overtime for the drillers.
The drillers are unfolding a political offensive to ease their entry into Beaver County. Following their article of complaint in the Times, the drillers are holding a public meeting hosted by Representative Christiana. This "Marcellus Shale Informational Event" will be on Friday, March 5, from 8:00am to 10:00am at the Club at Shadow Lakes, 2000 Beaver Lakes Blvd., Aliquippa. Those planning to attend must call 724-728-7655 to RSVP. This will be a typical sales meeting with hand waving and big numbers thrown out to dazzle the audience into thinking that they, not the drillers, will be the beneficiaries of this wealth.
Based on experiences in central and southwestern Pennsylvania, folks have found that once the drillers gain access to their land, the owners have no say in what is done. People have experienced cancer, blown water wells, dead vegetation, poisoned animals, and polluted water.
The reason for this is that under the Bush administration, the EPA was called off the job of monitoring gas well fracking. The 2005 Energy Policy Act exempted the 247 chemicals and the practice of "fracking" from the Safe Drinking Water Act. Without this "Halliburton Loophole," the process would be less profitable due to the extensive testing, protective measures, and clean-up that would be necessary to safely frack shale deposits.
Drilling shale gas deposits under the Halliburton Loophole in the western states resulted in tragedy for scattered farm families, but not enough to cause a political backlash. Now that the "wild west" drilling practices that have been so profitable are practiced in Pennsylvania and New York, the impact even from one year of drilling has been measurable.
Judging from the impact of 700 wells on the water supply and the lives and property of the victims, we can project that drilling another 10,000 wells using current "wild west" practices will devastate Pennsylvania communities and possibly destroy potable water for millions of residents. In reaction to this looming disaster, Sen. Robert Casey has introduced the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (FRAC Act), S 1215, that closes the Halliburton Loophole.
In a brazen act of servility to the greed of the drillers, PA Republican Legislator Jim Christiana has introduced a House Resolution 609 in the Pennsylvania Legislature to express the sentiment that Pennsylvania does not want the Federal Government to enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act in regards to shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania! The resolution cites the expected monetary returns from drilling, the drillers claim that no pollution occurs, and phony issue of states rights not have safe drinking water.
The shale gas drilling is also a big issue in the campaign for Governor. Governor Rendell has given the drillers vast acres of state lands to drill in order to make up the budget shortfall negotiated last year. He has also announced plan to lease tens of thousands of additional acres this year. While Rendell supports the gas severance tax, he has made no effort to counter the assault on the environment.
In reaction to criticism and concern across the state, Rendell announced that he will double the staff of the Department of Environmental Protection to monitor the drilling. However this doubling still leaves the staffing levels below those of two years ago when they were slashed at the demand of the Republican State Senate. Even if the DEP staff were doubled again, the problem is that the DEP has not been charged with protecting our water supplies.
The PA DEP is only "monitoring" activity. It is not enforcing any regulations concerning chemical contamination by the drilling activity. Even worse, the DEP is allowing the drillers to dump drilling water laden with heavy metals and carcinogens into the Monongahela River. The water is highly toxic when recovered from the fracking process and it is placed in tanks and treated to remove the volatile hydrocarbons to meet DEP regulations of volatile hydrocarbons. However, it is then diluted with other wastewater and dumped into the river without DEP testing for heavy metals such as arsenic, selenium, mercury, lead, and other carcinogens. This recently resulted in an official warning to communities using Mon River water for drinking water.
The DEP claims that they cannot test for chemicals in the poisoned water if they don't know what the chemicals are. And there is presently no requirement for the drillers to reveal the contents of the fracking fluids. Hearings will soon start in Representative Waxman's committee of the US Congress to look into the fracking chemicals. However, the DEP can act if the people of Pennsylvania demand it. Dumping of unknown chemicals in the river can be halted until their effect is determined. Democratic legislators in Pennsylvania have called for a suspension of drilling until this issue is resolved.
Democratic Party Gubernatorial Candidates Dan Onorato and Jack Wagner have accepted donations from the drilling companies. While they have position papers talking about severance taxes and safe drilling, both candidates have avoided addressing the urgent problem of contamination of our water supply and destruction of farmland and animals. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Joe Hoeffel has accepted no money from the drillers and is calling for "strong swift action to ensure drilling is conducted safely and responsibly."
Robert Schmetzer, vice-president of PA 4th CD Chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, and Democratic Party Chairman of South Heights Borough released the following statement:
"I have been told that Onorato, Wagner, and Corbett took money from the drillers. Please send Jacks position on drilling. The Repubs took a stand on drill baby drill !….. Dems want the gas without destroying Pennsylvania's land, water, or air as guaranteed in our constitution.
Protection of our people ,their families, and health is the #1 issue….. Bush/Cheney stripped the federal Acts clean of protection. Bob Casey is trying to correct this. 2005 moratorium stripped the Clean water act; safe drinking water act; clean air act; superfund act; and NEPA – national environment policy act. Cheney wanted to pave the highway
for Halliburton energy.
There have been 247 chemicals from MSDS sheets recorded. They have caused air, water and land contamination in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming by using toxic, carcinogenic and endocrine disrupting chemicals. The companies don't have to tell what they are pumping underground. The DEP and EPA don't have any cases of well pollution as told by the drillers.
That is because they don't have to report to any agency. Presently there is no Federal agency monitoring the frac chemicals because companies don't have to tell. They also don't have to tell of any accidents. This issue is explosive and will be a huge issue in this election. Shellshocked…!"


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HaysMed Hosts Women's Health Symposium for Health Professionals
(Hays, KS) February 29 2016 – HaysMed will host a Women's Health Symposium on Wednesday, March 30. The program will be held at the Hadley Rooms with registration beginning at 8:30 and the program running from 9:00 am – 4:30 pm.
Presenters for the program include: Elizabeth Ashworth, MD, Brandon Cunningham, MD, Rebeka Weber, MD, Carmen Winter, MS RCEP CWC and Jessica Albers, RN, BSN, MFS, SANE-A, SANE-P all from HaysMed.
The topics to be covered are women and heart disease, breast health, obesity in pregnancy, menopause, women and exercise and domestic violence.
This program is designed for Physicians, PAs, ARNPs, Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Social Workers, PTs, OTs and other interested healthcare professionals. SIX (6) hours of continuing education credit are available for CNE, CME and Respiratory Therapy credit. Approval is pending for ASRT Category A credit. Paperwork will be provided to submit for KOTA and KPTA for credit.
Fee for the symposium is $60 for non HaysMed associates and $30 for Critical Access Hospital employees. A $25 registration is required for students. Seating is limited to 150 people.
To register go to http://haysmed.com/education, call 1 (800) 248-0073 Ext 5500 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
The film world has a version of "¡Three Amigos!" And the world of politics has a friendly triumvirate too, as Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham have also been categorized in similar fashion to that of their silver screen counterparts, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short. This evening, in an interview that features nearly as much drama and humor as the 1986 western comedy, "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomes the three Senators for a face to face interview from Washington, D.C.
Seated across from political trio, Piers Morgan asks each of them to share their personal perspective on the definition of marriage and gay rights:
"In my state, we're not going to change the traditional definition of marriage and I would support the traditional definition of marriage not out of hate but out of that I believe that's just best for society," says Graham, a Republican representing South Carolina. "At the end of the day states will come out differently on this issue and I think that's the way it should be."
Talking about separate states that have different views – and using an example of New York and South Carolina as provided by Graham – Morgan attempted to further the discussion on freedom:
"Can they both be equal? Can they both espouse equality if actually in one state you can't get married and in another state you can?" asks the host.
"The Supreme Court will decide that question this term. Really that's the basic question," notes Lieberman, an Independent from Connecticut. "Is it unconstitutional to prohibit same sex marriage?"
Asked to answer his own question, Lieberman shares his specific belief:
"I think the marriage ought to be decided by the state, so that would mean that some states would have the right to prohibit same sex marriage."
Listening intently, but yet to participate, McCain jumps in:
"That's the principle of the conservative federalist belief."
Watch the clip, and listen to the interview, then tune in tonight at nine as Morgan and the "three amigos" address the topic of Susan Rice, her role in the post-Benghazi debrief, and her qualifications for Secretary of State.
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If you are going to use a movie reference to name Sen. McCain, Sen. Lieberman and Sen. Graham you should use "Meet the Fockers".
How about asking the real questions? Is Richard Silverstein wrong?
Piers, why did you let L. Graham say the religious views of his state dictate what the definition of marriage is? What happenned to the separation on religion and state?
I wish you had asked all 3 if they were aware of "Loving vs Virginia", a case in which the Supreme Court said that "frredom to marry'" belongs to all Americans.
I also wish you had time to present to all 3 the same discussion you had with Bob Costas re accidental shootings vs shootings to protect the homestead.
I find Lindsay Graham's comments on the "definition of marriage" interesting and a typical response from someone of his political party. Interesting because only a few minutes prior when speaking about gun control, he reflected on his childhood in the South and how guns were part of his life and culture. In defending the Second Ammendment he stated, and I quote, "If my individual rights are limited by the sensibilities of others, then I really have no rights."
Senator Graham, you should think about your words when it comes to a gay couple wanting to get married and exercising their rights. Why are your words ok for you to live by but not good for gay people? Typical hypocracy!
You are so right. I am from SC, born and raised. I am not gay but I totally agree with you. When it comes to politics, they are big on their rights when it benefits something they enjoy and guns are big in the South. Sometimes I want to leave this State. Another thing, they use religion in politics and don't recognize "separation of church and state".
the "gateway drug" argument goes like this: " since 90+% of heroin users tried beer first : beer must be a gateway drug and should be illegal". the logical argument goes like this: "since 90+% of people who try beer or pot do not go on to become heroin addicts neither is a "gateway drug".
crypt keepers opinions are so predictable-Mc Cain is such a great example of marriageand how to treat a spouse–Lindsey needs to go thump his bible and thank god anyone would marry him-Piers work on your speech impediment-the lisp is annoying-but thanks for pointing out the stupidity of "state" legal choices on marriage.Are these really the idiots we have put in charge of this country/ pitiful.
The real "problem" with gay right activists is they do not have enough lobbyists in Washington. It's a shame that just minutes after yet another tragic shooting, the "amigos" had to recite the nonsense the NRA has been feeding us.
Senators, we are not in the 18th century any longer, we do not need submachine guns to protect ourselves from the government and, Mr. Graham, if the British were to invade, all the billions we spend in defense should be enoug, no need for civilians to jump in to defend the homeland
"As I told the Daily Express two gays ago. S-tability H-onesty I-ntegrity T-ruth without them You're left with just the initials."
"We may be aged, but I'de never marry again anyways. She's Mexican, and we both sing on Karaoke."
Bad idea put arm guard in school.. Gun only for Government official at WAR. NO VIOLENCE GAMES FOR KIDS EITHER. Kids lean this type of violence in their bedroom and they get out to test it. All this must be STOP IF OBAMA WANTS TO END KILLING.
Every kids know when their parents keep their guns so after they learn in their bedroom they want to try outside. My kids under 5 only want to be bad guy when they play games. This is bad.