ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN

[THE KOD]

Stopping the spread of deadly assault weapons

In January, Senator Feinstein will introduce a bill to stop the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices.

Following is a summary of the 2013 legislation:
Bans the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacturing of:
120 specifically-named firearms;
Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one or more military characteristics; and
Semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.
Strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and various state bans by:
Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test;
Eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test; and
Banning firearms with ?thumbhole stocks? and ?bullet buttons? to address attempts to ?work around? prior bans.
Bans large-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of accepting more than 10 rounds.
Protects legitimate hunters and the rights of existing gun owners by:
Grandfathering weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment;
Exempting over 900 specifically-named weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes; and
Exempting antique, manually-operated, and permanently disabled weapons.
Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:
Background check of owner and any transferee;
Type and serial number of the firearm;
Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;
Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and
Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration.

A pdf of the bill summary is available here.



Effectiveness of 1994-2004 Assault Weapons Ban

Following are studies that have been conducted on the 1994-2004 Assault Weapons Ban:
In a Department of Justice study (pdf), Jeffrey Roth and Christopher Koper find that the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was responsible for a 6.7 percent decrease in total gun murders, holding all other factors equal. They write: ?Assault weapons are disproportionately involved in murders with multiple victims, multiple wounds per victim, and police officers as victims.?
Original source (page 2): Jeffrey A. Roth & Christopher S. Koper, ?Impact Evaluation of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994,? The Urban Institute (March 1997).
In a University of Pennsylvania study (pdf), Christopher Koper reports that the use of assault weapons in crime declined by more than two-thirds by about nine years after 1994 Assault Weapons Ban took effect.
Original source (page 46): Christopher S. Koper, ?An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003? (June 2004).
In a Washington Post story, reporters David Fallis and James Grimaldi write that the percentage of firearms seized by police in Virginia with high-capacity magazines dropped significantly during the Assault Weapons Ban. That figure has doubled since the ban expired.
Original source: In Virginia, high-yield clip seizures rise. By David S. Fallis and James V. Grimaldi, Washington Post.
In a letter to the editor in the American Journal of Public Health (pdf), Douglas Weil and Rebecca Knox explain that when Maryland imposed a more stringent ban on assault pistols and high-capacity magazines in 1994, it led to a 55 percent drop in assault pistols recovered by the Baltimore Police Department.
Original source (pages 297-298): Douglas S. Weil & Rebecca C. Knox, "Letter to the Editor, The Maryland Ban on the Sale of Assault Pistols and High-Capacity Magazines: Estimating the Impact in Baltimore," 87 American Journal of Public Health 2, Feb. 1997, at 297-98.
A recent study by the Violence Policy Center finds that between 2005 and 2007, one in four law enforcement officers slain in the line of duty was killed with an assault weapon.
Original source (pages 6-7): Violence Policy Center, "Target: Law Enforcement?Assault Weapons in the News," (Feb. 2010).
A report by the Police Executive Research Forum finds that 37 percent of police departments reported seeing a noticeable increase in criminals? use of assault weapons since the Assault Weapons Ban expired.
Original source (page 2): Police Executive Research Forum, "Guns and Crime: Breaking New Ground by Focusing on the Local Impact," (May 2010

 

[THE KOD]

Looks like they are getting serious about banning assault weapons and large capacity magazines.


I was near a gun store today while out shopping and I decided to stop in and see what the selection was. I have heard alot of gun stores are out of assault weapons.

Not one Assault gun or magazine for sale in the store. 6 mth to a year waiting list. So they had one on display that was sold. I ask the guy how much ?

$ 2,443.00 for the .223 gun and 50 bucks for the magazine.


I think they have effectively shut down the market as the frenzy buying and panic has gotten them all gone. And if the law goes into effect in Jan then you dont get one either. They give you the money back.

They got plenty of shotguns, and many other defense guns though.

I looked close at a S&W .45 and .410 shot revolver that was pretty sweet. Only $ 849 bucks for that one.


I got enough guns. No way I would spend that kind of money on a assault gun.


its nuts.

 

[THE KOD]

The Falcon's brain-trust are too conservative to win a championship. It's not in their nature to run up the score on an opponent, and when they go cold (they always do) they begin to make mistakes. They had this team on the ropes in the first half, and decided as usual that they wanted to run out the clock by beginning to run the ball. Something they had no success at in the first half. This is why teams are not afraid to play the Falcons. They'll give you a chance to beat them no matter what the score.

 

[THE KOD]

Tree stands ? platforms attached to trees that enable people to hunt from elevated positions ? are involved in more injuries and deaths than are guns, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of DNR data. Though hunting deaths don?t happen often, Georgia has three or four each year. And the largest percentage involved tree stands, followed closely by firearms, according to the newspaper?s analysis.

?Number one,? DNR Maj. Stephen Adams said of tree stand injuries and deaths. ?It?s very predictable.?

Falling 18 feet

Robert Razzano had a run-in with a tree stand in November 2006.

The Florida resident was deer hunting near Columbus with a few friends.

He said he was perched in a ladder stand, 18 feet off the ground, waiting to set his eyes on a buck.

He stood up, but his legs had fallen asleep and he tumbled over.

?I had no feeling in my lower legs,? he said. ?I got up too fast and my momentum, I just kept going forward.?

Razzano?s face slammed into a tree root and his elbows jabbed into his ribs.

He said he broke his back, his jaw, both wrists and multiple ribs. He spent the next six weeks in a hospital.

While Razzano attributes his fall to the loss of feeling in his legs, the DNR report on the incident also says that alcohol played a role.

Razzano acknowledges that he had had ?a drink or two? at lunchtime about three hours earlier.

Razzano?s investigative report also states that the incident could have been avoided had Razzano been wearing a safety harness.

?I tell people it?s the cheapest life insurance you can buy,? Maj. Adams said. ?I?ve never worked a fatality where somebody had a harness on.?

Tragedy in the woods

Since the start of the 2007 fiscal year, 21 people have died in hunting incidents in Georgia, according to the DNR data.

Nine of those deaths involved tree stands; eight involved firearms; and one involved both ? a boy who shot himself in the jaw while climbing down from a tree stand.

Another of those deaths came a few days after Christmas in 2007.

A 12-year-old boy was hog hunting with his father, uncle and cousin southeast of Macon, according to DNR documents.

Night began to fall and, sitting in a tree stand, the boy got excited because his uncle had just killed a hog not far away.

Then he saw something moving toward him in the dark.

His father was coming to get him out of the stand. The boy thought it was a hog.

He stood and fired. The fatal bullet struck his father on his left side.

?Due to his degree of excitement and inexperience as a hunter, he perceived this movement to be a feral hog when it was actually his father,? DNR?s investigative report states.

Adams, who supervises the DNR special operations unit that investigates major hunting incidents, said that all hunting incidents are preventable. Stored in the investigative files on each incident, he said, is information that reveals the specific missteps that lead to trouble.

In its data analysis, the AJC scrutinized shooting incidents.

There were 104 incidents that involved an identified shooter, including two involving crossbows.

In 41 of those cases, the shooter had not completed a hunter education course, which is required before anyone hunts in Georgia, with a few exceptions.

?To me, [that statistic] says that hunter?s education is important,? Adams said. ?Hunting is an activity that, before you do it, you should receive some training.?

In some of those shootings, people accidentally shot themselves. But there were 69 incidents ? roughly a quarter of all hunting incidents ? in which people shot other people.

There appears to be only one incident, though, involving a hunter who was shot by his own pet.

?I was glad to see him?

Arthur ?Hutch? Murphey said it happened after his group had finished hunting and was packing up. Murphey was retrieving the boat.

He and Buddy were both in the boat. So was his 12-gauge shotgun, pointed toward the back.

When Murphey got out to pull the boat out of shallow water, ?my dog ran to the back of the boat and stepped on the safety and trigger at the same time,? he said.

The shotgun blast tore through the back of the boat and into Murphey?s backside.

?I didn?t even know I?d been shot,? Murphey said. ?And then my leg started burning. And I was like, ?Oh crap, something ain?t right.? ?

A senior at Auburn University, Murphey said he didn?t hold a grudge against Buddy, who?s now about 5 years old and still his family?s pet, after getting home from the hospital.

?When I got home, he came in the house and lay right by my bed,? Murphey said. ?I was glad to see him, and he was glad to see me.?
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BAN TREE STANDS NOW !

 

[hedgehog]

You can't predict crazy and you can't fix stupid :facepalm:

 

[Skulnik]

Scott, don't buy an Assault Weapon, case closed.

:toast:

You're welcome

 

[THE KOD]

Scott, don't buy an Assault Weapon, case closed.

:toast:

You're welcome

I will see if the ban does not go thru and the price drops.

I dont have one. Would be nice to look at it in the gun safe.

 

[THE KOD]

Al-Jazeera buys Current TV from Al Gore

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2012 file photo, Former Vice President Al Gore, Current TV Chairman and Co-Founder, participates in the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena , Calif. Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that has struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, Gore confirmed Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, boosting its reach nearly ninefold to about 40 million homes. With a focus on U.S. news, it plans to rebrand the left-leaning news network that cofounder Al Gore couldn't make relevant.

The former vice president confirmed the sale Wednesday, saying in a statement that Al-Jazeera shares Current TV's mission "to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling."

The acquisition lifts Al-Jazeera's reach beyond a few large U.S. metropolitan areas including New York and Washington, where about 4.7 million homes can now watch Al-Jazeera English.

Al-Jazeera, owned by the government of Qatar, plans to gradually transform Current into a new channel called Al-Jazeera America by adding five to 10 new U.S. bureaus beyond the five it has now and hiring more journalists.

Al-Jazeera spokesman Stan Collender said there are no rules against foreign ownership of a cable channel ? unlike the strict rules limiting foreign ownership of free-to-air TV stations. He said the move is based on demand, adding that 40 percent of viewing traffic on Al-Jazeera English's website is from the U.S.

"This is a pure business decision based on recognized demand," Collender said. "When people watch Al-Jazeera, they tend to like it a great deal."

Al-Jazeera has long struggled to get carriage in the U.S., and the deal suffered an immediate casualty as Time Warner Cable Inc., the nation's second-largest cable TV operator, announced it is dropping Current TV due to the deal.

"Our agreement with Current has been terminated and we will no longer be carrying the service. We are removing the service as quickly as possible," the company said in a statement.

Previous to Al-Jazeera's purchase, Current TV was in 60 million homes.

In 2010, the network's managing director, Tony Burman, blamed a "very aggressive hostility" from the Bush administration for reluctance among cable and satellite companies to show the network.

Even so, Al-Jazeera has garnered respect for its ability to build a serious news product in a short time. But there may be a culture clash at the network. Dave Marash, a former "Nightline" reporter who worked for Al-Jazeera in Washington, said he left the network in 2008 in part because he sensed an anti-American bias there.

Current, meanwhile, began as a groundbreaking effort to promote user-generated content. But it has settled into a more conventional format of political talk television with a liberal bent. Gore worked on-air as an analyst during its recent election night coverage.

Former New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Cenk Uygur are currently its lead personalities. Current signed Keith Olbermann to be its top host in 2011 but his tenure lasted less than a year before it ended in bad blood on both sides.

Current has largely been outflanked by MSNBC in its effort be a liberal alternative to the leading cable news network, Fox News Channel.

Current hired former CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman in 2011 to be its president. Bohrman has pushed the network to innovate technologically, with an election night coverage that emphasized social media conversation.

Current TV, founded in 2005 by former vice president Gore and Joel Hyatt, is expected to post $114 million in revenue in 2013, according to research firm SNL Kagan. The firm pegged the network's cash flow at nearly $24 million a year.
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First China buying citys in America

now we got arab jazeera buying into our TV


they are anti America


these fawks will not let us buy air time in arab countrys.

fawk me

Thanks alot Al Gore . you need the money obviously

 

[THE KOD]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Loganville mother of two assumed the knocks on her front door were from a solicitor Friday afternoon.

?Don?t answer,? she yelled to her 9-year-old twins playing downstairs.

When the visitor began repeatedly ringing the doorbell, she called her husband at work.

?Get the kids and hide,? he told his wife.

As he dialed 911, his 37-year-old spouse, who works from home, collected the children and hid with them in a crawlspace adjoining her office. By that time, the intruder had forced his way into the three-story residence on Henderson Ridge Drive with a crowbar, authorities said. He allegedly rummaged through the home, eventually working his way up to the attic office.

?He opens the closet door and finds himself staring down the barrel of a .38 revolver,? said Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman, who relayed the woman?s narrative to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He asked that her name be withheld.

The woman fired six bullets, five of which hit Paul Ali Slater in the face and neck area, Chapman said. But Slater was still conscious.

?The guy?s face down, crying,? the sheriff said. The woman told him to stay down or she?d shoot again.

Slater, unaware that she had emptied her chamber, obliged as the mother and her children ran to a neighbor?s house.

The injured burglar eventually made it out of the home and into his car, driving away before deputies arrived on the scene. He didn?t get far.

?When you got five bullets in you, it makes you kind of disoriented,? Chapman told the AJC.

Deputies found Slater bleeding profusely in a neighbor?s driveway.

?I?m dying. Help me,? he told them, according to Chapman.

Slater was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center and is expected to survive, the sheriff said.

The Long Island native, who now lives in Gwinnett County, was released from the Gwinnett jail in late August after serving six months for simple battery and three counts of probation violation. Slater has six other arrests in Gwinnett dating back to 2008, according to jail records.

?My wife?s a hero,? the woman?s husband, Donnie Herman, told Channel 2 Action News in a brief statement. He did not respond to a request for comment from the AJC. ?She protected her kids. She did what she was supposed to do.?

Chapman remarked that one of his deputies, impressed with the woman?s resolve, told the sheriff she had handled her first shooting better than he had.

?That mother?s instinct kicked in,? Chapman said. ?You go after a mother?s kids and she?ll find herself capable of doing things she never thought she was capable of.?
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[Duff Miver]

?When you got five bullets in you, it makes you kind of disoriented,? Chapman told the AJC.

Five bullets in the head? He'll be fucked up foirever. LMAO! I'll bet doesn't beak in again.

 

[THE KOD]

Americans are largely split in their reaction to the "fiscal cliff" agreement, but united in their dislike for the role played by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), according to a Washington Post/ABC poll released Tuesday.

Americans were divided on the fiscal cliff agreement, with 45 percent approving and 38 percent disapproving, although far more strongly disapproved than strongly approved. Democrats were more than twice as likely as Republicans to approve of the deal.

President Barack Obama won a majority of support for his handling of the crisis, as 52 percent of Americans approved of his approach, while 37 percent disapproved.

John Boehner, by contrast, saw a 20-point net negative rating, with 31 percent approving and 51 percent disapproving of his handling of the deal.

The fiscal cliff's resolution gave a bump of several points to both politicians over their performances in a previous ABC/Post poll from December.

As a Pew poll released Monday also showed, Boehner's low ratings come in large part from Republican unhappiness with his leadership. While Obama has broad support from Democratic voters, just 38 percent of Republican voters approved of Boehner's work on the negotiations.
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how do the Republicans lead anything when everyone hates this guy

 

[THE KOD]

?When you got five bullets in you, it makes you kind of disoriented,? Chapman told the AJC.

Five bullets in the head? He'll be fucked up foirever. LMAO! I'll bet doesn't beak in again.

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he is in intensive care

they dont think he will make it

 

[THE KOD]

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seriously


what is wrong with u ppl

 

[THE KOD]

WASHINGTON -- Taft Union High School in Taft, Calif., normally has an armed guard on campus to help officials with problems that go "beyond the scope" of the administration.

But on Thursday morning, as a student showed up with a shotgun and fired two to four shots at a teacher and a classmate, the officer was nowhere to be found.

"He couldn't get there because he was snowed in," Sheriff Donny Youngblood of the Kern County Sheriff?s Department said in a press conference Thursday afternoon.

To what extent the officer's absence contributed to the situation at Taft Union will never be known. Law enforcement officials were grateful on Thursday that the impact of the shooting had been limited. The suspected shooter injured only two individuals: a teacher who received what Youngblood called a "pellet wound" to the head, which did not cause significant damage, and a 16-year-old student who was evacuated to a hospital, where he or she remained in critical but stable condition.

Had another teacher and a campus supervisor not talked the shooter down from firing more rounds, Youngblood stressed, the situation could have been far worse. Youngblood estimated that some 20 additional students were at risk. Police arrived at the scene a minute after the first calls came in at 9:00 a.m. PST., and the suspect was in custody by 9:20 a.m.

The shooting goes down as yet another chapter in a series of recent instances of gun violence. Coming at the start of what promises to be a contentious political debate around gun control legislation, it could potentially alter the course of that conversation.

That's because Taft Union High School had already adopted the type of preemptive security approach that the gun rights community has been advocating for. In a School Accountability Report Card for the 2011 to 2012 year, officials listed the following under the heading: School Safety.

"Two campus supervisors and a uniform deputy sheriff (the school resource officer) monitor the campus before, during and after school."
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there goes the shotguns

 

[THE KOD]

Georgia police are refuting claims that slain YouTube gun activist Keith Ratliff was found bound and murdered on a rural road.

Ratliff-- the victim of a single gunshot wound to the head -- was found Jan. 3 in an apparent homicide at the weapons development and testing facility he operated in Carnesville, Ga.

"He was not tied up," Mike Ayers, Georgia Bureau of Investigations special agent, told The Huffington Post.

Ayers also confirmed that Ratliff's death "took place at the business," rather than outdoors near a highway.

Both apparently false reports circulated Wednesday, one week after Ratliff was last seen alive. The 32-year-old was discovered unresponsive and a coroner pronounced him dead at about 6:30 p.m. Jan. 3, officials said.

"There was no sign of a struggle," John Bankhead, GBI director of public affairs, told HuffPost.

Bankhead also refuted the notion that Ratliff was "bound" and said "he was in his office" when police found him.




Ratliff was an outspoken gun advocate best known for his contributions to the FPSRussia, one of YouTube's top 10 channels. The site, which features high-power firearm demonstrations, commands nearly 3.5 million subscribers and has generated more than 500 million page views.

In one clip, posted to his personal YouTube account, Ratliff discusses his thoughts on gun rights, proclaiming, "I am a gun nut."

"Every one of you should be able to own an assault weapon of your choice because that?s what the Second Amendment is about," he said in the video. "It?s about owning weaponry to allow you to defend yourself from all enemies no matter where they rise from.?

Though multiple weapons were found at the crime scene, investigators believe that the gun used to kill Ratliff was not left behind.

"Right now, we are still interviewing people, following leads and putting the case together," Ayers said. "The investigation will take us where the leads take us."

Ratliff is survived by his wife and 2-year-old son in Kentucky.
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just shows to go ya

even gun nuts get shot in the head

 

[THE KOD]

The White House responded to a handful of "We the People" petitions calling for the government to allow some states to secede, saying "our states remain united."

"In a nation of 300 million people -- each with their own set of deeply-held beliefs -- democracy can be noisy and controversial. And that's a good thing," writes Jon Carson, Director of the Office of Public Engagement. "Free and open debate is what makes this country work, and many people around the world risk their lives every day for the liberties we often take for granted. But as much as we value a healthy debate, we don't let that debate tear us apart."

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how unpatriotic these people are.

They really don't love America- only themselves and people just like them. This narrow-minded, cramped view limits both their vision of the country and their own future.

Anyone that encourages this pointless (secede, really?) exercise merely wastes time, resources and energy. Sad, frightened, little people fearfully peeking out from their fortress mentalities instead of embracing the rollicking and rolling gumbo that is the USA.

what happened to all of the neo cons that were going to leave the USA if Obama was elected again
:142smilie

 

[THE KOD]

 

[Duff Miver]

Gun violence is a simple problem to solve. Just go back to the second amendment.

Everyone who is a well regulated member of a militia gets to carry anything they like. Everyone else gets a single shot muzzle loader, just like the founding fathers intended.

 

[THE KOD]

Suspected car thieves shot


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SAN ANTONIO -- A man is dead and another is recovering in the hospital after police say they were shot while trying to steal an SUV from outside a home in an affluent neighborhood.

San Antonio police said the shooter, who was visiting family at a home in the 600 block of Lightstone Drive in Stone Oak, heard the men breaking into his Toyota 4Runner around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The 25-year-old man stepped outside with a gun, confronted the men who were rifling through his vehicle and opened fire, according to a police report.

He later told police that he thought one of the men also had a gun.

Neighbors reported hearing five to eight gunshots, although the number of gunshots was taken out of the police report.

Officers said the shooter is not expected to face any charges since he was protecting his property. :scared :scared

One of the suspects, who was standing by the getaway car, drove off after getting shot but crashed into a parked car about a block away. He then rolled out into the lawn.

A homeowner near the crash said he went outside and tried to get the wounded man's name, but all the man could say was "I feel like I'm dying."

Officers and emergency responders tried to revive the 32-year-old man but could not.

The other man was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center.

Later Tuesday morning, a neighbor condoned the actions that were taken to stop the suspected thieves.

?I fully agree with it. I spent 30 years in military; I'm familiar with firearms,? said David Oliver. ?I think they have a right to intervene.?
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I have always read that you have to be in fear of your life , not protecting property.

not sure what is up with that part

thug life sucks sometimes

 

[THE KOD]

Bill Clinton is a multimillionaire, but you?re paying for the Cinemax in his office.

That?s just one eyebrow-raising expense a former occupant of the White House has been allowed to put on the taxpayer tab every year, even though every living ex-president is quite wealthy.

In an attempt to shed light on this little-known perk of being a former commander in chief, The Daily Caller ? through a Freedom of Information Act request filed last year ? has obtained thousands of pages of emails and documents from the government detailing how taxpayer money is spent on former presidents each year.

The documents obtained from the General Services Administration ? the agency that oversees taxpayer funding for former presidents ? are from fiscal year 2011.

Like other former presidents, Clinton ? the still-popular Democrat who was recently named ?Father of the Year? by The National Father?s Day Council ? used the nearly $1 million dollars allocated to him from the government to cover post-presidency expenses like personnel, travel, rent and postage. (RELATED: John Edwards won ?Father of the Year? award from same group in 2007)

Clinton also used the funds to wire at least 10 televisions in his offices to a premium suite of content from DirecTV, according to a February 2011 statement. That year, taxpayers spent $184.26 a month for Clinton?s DVR service, 145 ?Office Choice? channels and 32 high-definition ?Entertainment Unlimited? channels.

That entertainment package, according to DirecTV?s website, includes premium channels like Cinemax, HBO and Showtime. Cinemax, for example, plays hit movies like ?Aliens? and ?50 First Dates,? according to a recent listing.

Late at night, the premium channel earns its ?Skinemax? nickname with a turn toward adult programming, offering shows titles like ?Busty Coeds Vs. Lusty Cheerleaders,? ?Sex Games Cancun 01: Last Temptation of Hank? and ?Hotel Erotica Feature 05: Bedroom Fantasies 2.?

But Clinton ? whose office didn?t respond to TheDC?s multiple inquiries by phone and email to explain why taxpayers should cover movie channels for him at work ? isn?t the only ex-president who took advantage of the $3.7 million in taxpayer dollars in fiscal year 2011.

That year, according to the documents, taxpayers provided $517,000 for former President Jimmy Carter, $835,000 for George H.W. Bush and $1.3 million for George W. Bush in government funding. About $14,000 was also given to the still-living widows of former presidents.

Those figures do not include the cost of Secret Service protection, which all former presidents and their spouses are now guaranteed to have for the rest of their lives, thanks to legislation signed into law last week by President Barack Obama. (RELATED: Obama restores lifetime federal protection for ex-presidents)

Carter also billed taxpayers for satellite television to be pumped into his Atlanta, Georgia offices. The former peanut farmer used a much more scaled-back service plan from Dish Network Corp. that provided at least two televisions with $646.57 worth of programming in 2011 ? no Cinemax in that package.

Additionally, Clinton and Carter?s offices both use taxpayer funds to pay for subscriptions to The New York Times. Carter received the paper version in 2011 ? running a bill of $415.58 ? and Clinton dropped $322.40 on a digital subscription.

The documents obtained from the GSA do not indicate whether either Bush charged his TV bill or newspaper subscription to taxpayers. TheDC has submitted a fresh request for the information.

Dan Cruz, deputy press secretary for GSA, told TheDC via email that these expenses are consistent with current law.

?By law, the General Services Administration is responsible for providing former U.S. Presidents with office allowances,? wrote
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some entitlements are just shrugged off

just pay it and dont worry about what I get

I need my 8 TVs at the office. Hell half the time I am not there, and half the time I sleep on the couch.

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