Wilkesboro, North Carolina:
Police in Wilkesboro are looking for the man who they say accidentally fired a gun in a [GNC] store during a discussion on the Second Amendment. [...]
Police say the man pulled out his gun to show an employee when he accidentally shot a printer.
According to the police report, the man told the store employee he "could not go down for this," and left.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2002—Army fires gay Arab linguists:
How can the US make any credible claims that it is fighting the terrorist threat with all available means when this sort of crap happens?
Nine Army linguists, including six trained to speak Arabic, have been dismissed from the military because they are gay.
The soldiers' dismissals come at a time when the military is facing a critical shortage of translators and interpreters for the war on terrorism. [...]
The government has aggressively recruited Arabic speakers since the Sept. 11 attacks.
"We face a drastic shortage of linguists, and the direct impact of Arabic speakers is a particular problem," said Donald R. Hamilton, who documented the need for more linguists in a report to Congress as part of the National Commission on Terrorism.
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today's Kagro in the Morning show, it's our turn to grouse about Richard Cohen.
Joan McCarter scores a few points, updates us on the latest filibuster showdown, and explains the competing Dem & Gop "you can keep your insurance" bills. Chris Christie's abrasive style wasn't always a winning strategy. (And why is it that high-ranking men get to "win" like that, anyway?) The woman pictured on the original healthcare.gov web site gets "cyberbullied." (Remember the SCHIP granite counter tops?) A revival of the bizarro 1995
NYT story about "That time Harvard and Yale took Naked Photos of all their Freshman Students." Yes, hello there, "Best and Brightest!"
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