Subject: Military Weapons

• Nuke Parts Plant Paves the Road to Congress

  July 23, 2008

• Best Activist

  October 18, 2001

• Best Pairing of Artists

  October 9, 2003

• Best Paint Job

  October 7, 2004

• The Download: New Bodies of Water MP3

  Paul McCartney has been a longtime activist in ridding the world of landmines and the Aquarium Drunkard blog is picking up the torch. Next week, the blog will post up RAM on L.A., a free, track-for-track recreation of Paul and Linda McCartney's 1971 LP, RAM, with the hopes of generating money for the cause. Until then, download a couple of sample tracks below and if you're feeling generous, donate a few bucks at the No More Landmines website. Here's the tracklisting: 1. Too Many People - Earl

  February 26, 2009

• A Chain Reaction: Nuclear Weapons, Policy, and People

  September 18, 2008

• Kansas City Aviation Expo and Airshow

  August 21, 2008

• Geechy's Your Guy

  August 21, 2008

• Use Your Imagination

  May 15, 2008

• Napalm Death

  April 10, 2008

• Theater

  January 17, 2008

• Carry a Big Stick

  October 11, 2007

• Three's a Charm

  June 7, 2007

• Oval Office Ambush

  March 8, 2007

• Perceptionists, featuring Mr. Lif.

  Monday April 25, at the Jackpot Saloon.

  April 21, 2005

• Napalm Death

  Thursday, March 2, at the Bottleneck

  March 2, 2006

• Virtual Quagmire

  December 15, 2005

• Pelican

  August 18, 2005

• These Arms Are Snakes

  Monday, September 13, at the Jackpot Saloon.

  September 9, 2004

• Starlite Desperation

  Tuesday, July 13, at the Jackpot Saloon.

  July 8, 2004

• Paris, Texas

  Monday, July 28, at Davey's Uptown.

  July 24, 2003

• Project Censored's Top 25 Stories for 1999

  May 11, 2000

• This is the guy who woke up Westport by (allegedly) shooting people Sunday morning

  This is Ricky Brooks. Ricky L. BrooksJackson County prosecutors charged him with lighting up Westport with an assault rifle early Sunday morning. Court records say the shooting occurred around 2:40 a.m. after an argument between two women inside America's Pub, which continued in the Chili's parking lot near Westport Road and Mill Street, when a man entered the fray. Court records say the man retrieved a rifle from the trunk of a car and shot at least six rounds into a Suburban containing one of

  May 4, 2009

• According to the feds, the $673 million Kansas City Plant will make it rain

  www.atomicbombmuseum.orgBannister Road Kansas City PlantWhen the feds sell a project, by God, they really sell a project. Representatives from the National Nuclear Security Administration and the General Services Administration dropped by City Hall yesterday to ask for the Planning and Zoning Committee's final blessing on the Kansas City Plant's move from offices on Bannister Road to a new facility in what one presenter called "the industrial heart of the 6th District." In doing so, they threw a

  June 25, 2009

• The City Council moves to keep the Kansas City Plant’s warm glow close to home

  July 2, 2009

• Mr. Sciara goes to Kansas City

  Sciara at the bar in Cellar Rat where he can now charge for drinksCellar Rat owner Ryan Sciara recently started offering customers the option of enjoying glasses and bottles of wine inside his store. While that might not seem like a big step, it took a year for Sciara to legalize the deal, which included getting a new ordinance passed by the Kansas City Council so he could sell wine by the glass.The city essentially has two types of liquor licenses -- a retail license for liquor, convenience and

  July 16, 2009

• Now you don't have to choose between an AK-47 and a pickup truck

  The economy's tough. So faced with a decision of either buy a pickup truck (transportation is nice) or an AK-47, well, something's gotta give. Not at Max Motors, the pride of Butler, Missouri. They're giving away an AK-47 with purchase of a truck. So you can have your AK-47 and drive around with it, too.Don't forget to roll your mouse over the offer on Max Motors Web site to hear the soothing sound of automatic gunfire. Nothing new here. Move along.

  July 17, 2009

• $29 million road (a)head for Grandview

  ​Anticipating increased traffic when industry in the area expands and the NNSA/Honeywell facility comes online, officials from Missouri Department of Transportation and City of Kansas City are pushing a $28.9 million road project to improve the interchange of Botts Road and Missouri 150 in Grandview.MoDot officials say the "diverging diamond" configuration is suited to handle additional car traffic, which will result from additional industrial development in the area, including about 2,100 new

  July 29, 2009

• Welcome to L.A. & Boys and Toys

  August 6, 2009

• Police crackdown nets 93 arrests, $170K (update)

  ​Update 3:43 p.m.: Officer Darin Snapp just called to say that there actually was no "controlled buy" wherein a cop dressed up as a UPS worker and hand-delivered someone's stash only to arrest him seconds later. Police did seize the 40 pounds of pot, though. Live on paranoid fantasy!Over the last three days, officers with the Kansas City Police Department have been rushing drug-house doors, hauling out the criminals and making the local criminal element run scared. Local police, working in con

  October 2, 2009

• Rush forces KC car dealer who gave away AK-47s to boycott NFL

  Self portrait via cnsnews.comMark MullerThe loonies claiming they're giving up the National Football League due to its treatment of oppressed rich white guy Rush Limbaugh can count a Kansas City car dealer among their ranks.Our sister paper The Riverfront Times points out that Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors and wannabe arms dealer (he saved Missourians from having to make the hard choice between a pickup truck and an assault rifle this summer by giving away free AK-47s with purchase of a truck

  October 21, 2009

• Anti-nuke activists turn PIEA board meeting into impromptu talent show

  www.peaceworkskc.orgAnn Suellentrop of Physicians for Social Responsibility​Anti-nuke activists turned out to protest this morning's meeting of the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority, whose board voted unanimously to approve a development agreement to build a new weapons facility at Highway 150 and Botts Road. The National Nuclear Security Administration Campus will replace Honeywell's 60-year-old factory on Bannister Road, which manufactures 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for nuclear

  November 6, 2009