Heston, Charlton

Heston, Charlton. My Crusade to Save the Second Amendment. American Rifleman, vol. 145, September 1997, pp. 30ff. Heston, newly elected president of the NRA, explains why he came out of retirement to participate actively in the fight for gun rights. 

Veteran movie actor Charlton Heston is elected president of the National Rifle Association, in what is viewed by many gun control advocates as an attempt to rehabilitate the organization s somewhat tarnished image. 

Charlton Heston, Academy Award-winning movie actor, best known for his star roles in Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments. Elected president of the National Rifle Association in 1998. In electing him president, the NRA probably wanted to harness Heston s appeal as a moral icon and patriarch, particularly to older and more conservative Americans. Heston roused the crowd at annual NRA meetings by holding up a rifle and shouting from my cold, dead hands By most accounts he was an effective spokesperson and fund-raiser for the organization. In 2002 the 78-year-old Heston was diagnosed with Alzheimer s disease and announced he would retire from his position with the NRA when his one-year term ended. 

Buckley, William E, Jr. Heston to the Rescue. National Review, vol. 49, June 2, 1997, pp. 62ff. Suggests that Charlton Heston, newly elected president of the NRA, may be able to improve the image of the beleaguered organization but that the NRA will also need to accept some compromises on gun rights issues. 

The Same Old NRA Its Policies Are Harmful, Even with Moses as Los Angeles Times, vol. 117, June 9, 1998, p. B6. Suggests that the election of Charlton Heston as head of the NRA does not change the harmful activities of the organization in blocking reasonable gun control efforts. 

I don t believe in astrology. I don t believe that aliens are descending to create crop circles or mutilate cows. I don t believe in a personal God who smites the wicked, or in TV psychics who can read minds or talk to dead Aunt Sally. I don t believe that Moses parted the Red Sea like Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments. I don t believe that the Earth is hollow, and that inside lives an advanced civilization known as the Agartha. 

This is serious, he says as his gaze drifts to her walls that contain a history of science diploma from Harvard with photos of her standing next to android versions of Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Charlton Heston. No wonder she knows so much about a broad range of subjects. 

Let us review. Escape from restriction is the commonest causes of epidemics by really new epidemics encountered so far in prehistorical and historical time. It might typically involve a mutation which, for example, overrides the immune system of a new host or permits entry into the cell of the new host. There are some 60 well-known zoonotic examples, if not exactly running from A to Z, certainly from Acinetobacter pneumonia to Yersiniosis that infect humans. The Z disease if it comes, may be aptly named the analogous Greek letter omega has been used in many science fiction stories for the ultimate bacterial or viral disease The Omega Man was a film in which Charlton Heston played the last uninfected man on Earth. Recent real-life examples include the recent outbreak in Toronto of bird flu (from Asian water birds), SARS (from the civet, etc.), anthrax (sheep), ebola (from rodents), and acquired CJD (sheep, mad cow). 

Fevre was much taken with medicinal antimony and particularly with its purification and fixation (as the calx) by the sun." He too noted the increase in weight upon calcination. The book Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, first published in 1604 and attributed to the legendary Benedictine Monk, Basil Valentine, used this flashy, Hollywood-like title to strike a blow for antimony in this long and passionate debate. For a modern encore, we eagerly await the movie version starring Charlton Heston as the chariot-driver. 

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