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Hunting season has begun in the area. And not only that I went a huntin this morning also! I had to go have ANOTHER chit chat with DeLaney's teacher.
DeLaney's class is full of pre-puberty and full on puberty lil girls. Mothers with girls can feel my pain! The issue we chit chatted about today involved a student stealing DeLaney's spelling work and putting her name on it after crossing DeLaney's name out. I have no clue what happened with the lil girl but I do know they had a conference with the parents last night. DeLaney got Chess Club taken away from her over her making a "snide" sound to the other girl after the girl got caught with DeLaney's work. I let the teacher know I don't appreciate DeLaney having Chess Club taken away from her for that and that alone. And the next issue was the fact the lil girl and her lil cronie girls decieded to take it out on DeLaney at the end of the school day yesterday by taking DeLaney's things off and out of her desk and hiding them. DeLaney was late on comign down to the vechile yesterday because she was trying to find her things. The teacher was informed by me today of what happened. I won't put up with it. And if it happens again I'll bring a Tribal Officer or BIA Agent up to the school and press charges against the girls. Oh and if another 8th grader feels the need on joining the lil ghetto ass girls in harrassing DeLaney during her time in the office again, I'll take it up with the 8th grade teacher and the 8th grader's parents. I don't get free shit from the government or the tribe like the rest of the kids, I pay good ass money for my kids' school supplies. I make it a point to go to different places to get different looking items so my kids can tell the difference from other kids. If those kids want to lay their hands on my daughter's thing we are going to have issues. I like DeLaney's teacher this year. She is not putting up with shit anymore than I do. She is making all those girls account for their behavor. Now she is another None Indian teacher that feels that none indians should feel sorry for the indians but she also found out the first chit chat this white ass mamma grew up on the rez and won't have my chidlren bowing to indians or any race for that matter for what happened in the past. Especially when my families didn't do shit to anyone but live their lives. The teacher is working with me this year instead of blaming DeLaney for everything. She is going to pass on information to the School Counselor (the teacher is really makign the counselor help her with this class of snotty lil girls-and yes DeLaney is one of them-I am no fool she is my daughter and is causing some of the issues also), they are going to have an imprompto class meeting with the counselor, the administrator and one of the priest today. The teacher took me very seiously about bringing up an officer to press charges if the stealing continues. She also took me very seiously when I said I had the Arch Dioceses out of Omaha on speed dial thanks to my mom who is a parishnor of the mission as are my children, and if the bullshit doesn't stop, I'll let the Arch Diocese know about the cartering to Indians and the none teaching of the Roman Catholic Doctrine. And if they dont' do shit I'll take it all the way to the Vatican. This Pope is all about Catholism and not catering to other cultures but the Roman way. That bunched up the teacher's panites more than anything.
As a parent I am all about holding my kids responsible for their actions. DeLaney is comign off a month long gradantion for the last incident she was involved in at school. Even though I feel she did no wrong but defend herself. I grounded her for her knowledge of TKD and how she didn't realize she can hurt ppl now. But I will NOT let my children bow to anyone. They will stand tall, be proud of their ancestory and culture and I will back my children up. I come from a line of Warriors, my husband comes from a line of Warriors and my children will be Warriors in anythign they do.
Anyway as of this weekend I am very happy we will be gone for the start of hunting seasons opening. I get really tired of the East/West Coasters and Southern People coming into the Midwest states and not abiding by the laws and common sense laws of hunting. I am already seeing out of state license plates (out of state for us means any plates not from our tri state area and the surrounding states) with guns, bows, and dogs. None of my family hunts the birds that are opening up this time so any shot heard in my area is going to constutie an immeditate phone call to the farm to my cousin to go find the truck to impound it on the farm till the cops get to the farm shop. I am not playing this year. I have a flock of 30 plus turkeys that roost near my house, I don't need a stray bow or bullet coming out of no where and hitting my kids or cats! Plus our hosue sits in a hallow surrounded by feilds dumb asses from out of state don't look to see what house sits where. On top of that they dont' follow tribal laws on where tribal land is and where it isn't. They think jsut because they have a tribal permit on top of a state permit any and all land and fields is open game to them. If the land isn't tribal owned it is private owned by Indian and None Indian alike and those hunters need permission. I am also going to confescate any and all hunting dogs I see running near my house. I have a nice supply of ground round that I'll lure them out of the fields with. My Uncle and his boy inform me of when they allow anyone to hunt near my house. And the Tribal DNR officer does the same thing because he doesn't like the fact his honorary grandkids (my kids) play outside and the out of state hunters don't always use their heads.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/17223812/detail.html
LAKE LYNN, Pa. -- An 85-year-old great-grandmother from Lake Lynn, Fayette County kept an alleged burglar at bay using a .22-caliber pistol.
According to police, a 17-year-old suspect was attempting to burglarize Leda Smith overnight.
That's when Smith grabbed her gun and told the teen that she would shoot him if he moved, police said.
"I had the gun on him before he turned around and said, 'you've had it,' " Smith told Channel 11-News.
According to police, Smith ordered the boy to dial 911 and then gave him some advice.
"Dial 911 and don't attempt to throw the phone at me, or do anything bad or i'll just shoot you," Smith said.
When police arrived, they took the teen into custody.
Charges have been filed against the boy and an alleged accomplice.
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Gun-control groups fear top activist was NRA spy
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080805/ap_on_re_us/nra_mole
PHILADELPHIA - A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two anti-violence groups is suspected of working as a paid spy for the National Rifle Association, and now those organizations are expelling her and sweeping their offices for bugs.
The suggestion that Mary Lou McFate was a double agent is contained in a deposition filed as part of a contract dispute involving a security firm. The muckraking magazine Mother Jones, in a story last week, was the first to report on McFate's alleged dual identity.
The NRA refused to comment to the magazine and did not respond to calls Tuesday from The Associated Press. Nor did McFate.
The 62-year-old former flight attendant and sex counselor from Sarasota, Fla., is not new to the world of informants.
She infiltrated an animal-rights group in the late 1980s at the request of U.S. Surgical, and befriended an activist who was later convicted in a pipe bomb attack against the medical-supply business, U.S. Surgical acknowledged in news reports at the time. U.S. Surgical had come under fire for using dogs for research and training.
McFate resurfaced in Pennsylvania and has since spent years as an unpaid board member of CeaseFirePA and an organization called States United to Prevent Gun Violence. She also twice pushed unsuccessfully to join the board of the nation's largest gun-control group, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
"It raises some real concerns with the tactics of the NRA. If they've got one person, maybe they have more. If they've done this dirty trick, what else have they done?" said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, which planned to search its offices for listening devices and computer spyware.
The Brady Campaign and other groups said they are also researching whether McFate's alleged spying constituted a crime.
"Under some circumstances, it could be trespass," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and a former prosecutor. But "if they're open meetings, it may be underhanded and sneaky; it may not be illegal."
At States United, McFate served as federal legislation director, meeting with members of Congress on Capitol Hill and writing letters. Over the years, she also stuffed envelopes, attended rallies and took part in conference calls and strategy sessions.
In retrospect, Helmke said, he now realizes McFate stopped by the Washington office for meetings and conference calls that could have been handled by phone, and perhaps pushed too hard to join the board or lobby Congress.
But as for any secrets she might have been privy to, the gun-control groups said they have little to hide, since they put their message and information about their budgets on the Web.
The allegations against McFate stem from a lawsuit brought against officials with Beckett Brown International, a now-defunct security firm based in Maryland. A former beer distributor who bankrolled the firm accused them of defrauding him.
Boxes of documents filed in the dispute reveal that McFate worked as a subcontractor for Beckett Brown and that the firm's clients included the NRA. And they show that McFate billed the firm for unspecified intelligence-gathering services, submitting among other things a request for a $4,500-a-month retainer in 1999.
The documents also reveal that McFate — that is her maiden name; her married name is Mary Lou Sapone — tried to get daughter-in-law Montgomery Sapone hired by Beckett Brown. Montgomery Sapone worked as an intern at Brady Campaign headquarters in 2003, the gun-control group said.
John Dodd III, the Maryland beer distributor who bankrolled Beckett Brown, told the AP that he did not condone the infiltration of activist groups.
Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ, said he feels betrayed by McFate. Miller's brother, an FBI agent, was shot to death in 1994.
"To have somebody that I consider a friend, have been with dozens of times, shared meals with, treated as a friend, to have her be an employee, a subcontracted spy for the NRA, is just mind-boggling. It's so venal," Miller said. "In the battle of ideas with the gun lobby, we're at a constant disadvantage because we're honest."
Timothy Ward, a former Beckett Brown principal who said in a sworn statement that McFate worked for the firm, declined comment Tuesday through a person who answered the phone at his new company, Chesapeake Strategies Group. The NRA now uses that firm for intelligence-gathering, another Chesapeake official said in a deposition.
The CeaseFirePA leadership plans a vote Friday on whether to expel McFate, a board member for seven years.
"I feel flattered that the NRA would feel that they would have to infiltrate Ceasefire of PA. Obviously, they're hearing our footsteps," said Phil Goldsmith, the group's president. "Frankly, I think it's a waste of their money. We don't deal in state secrets."
Associated Press
7:35 AM CDT, July 23, 2008
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-gunsbuyback,0,5817859.story
CHICAGO - The city of Chicago is hoping to take a record number of guns off the street this weekend.
On Saturday, the city will be in the gun business, as it will pay -- no questions asked -- $100 for every gun turned in to one of 25 participating churches.
Last year, using money from corporate donors, the city purchased a record 6,700 guns in a similar buyback program.
When people turn in guns they will receive a $100 prepaid MasterCard. They'll get $10 prepaid cards for BB guns, replica guns and air guns.
DC Rejects Handgun Application
WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- District residents can start registering their guns today. But at least one very high profile application was already rejected.
Dick Heller is the man who brought the lawsuit against the District's 32-year-old ban on handguns. He was among the first in line Thursday morning to apply for a handgun permit.
But when he tried to register his semi-automatic weapon, he says he was rejected. He says his gun has seven bullet clip. Heller says the City Council legislation allows weapons with fewer than eleven bullets in the clip. A spokesman for the DC Police says the gun was a bottom-loading weapon, and according to their interpretation, all bottom-loading guns are outlawed because they are grouped with machine guns.
Besides obtaining paperwork to buy new handguns, residents also can register firearms they've had illegally under a 180-day amnesty period.
Though residents will be allowed to begin applying for handgun permits, city officials have said the entire process could take weeks or months.
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