“Gun Death” Gross One

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Weerd Beard

How is this even possible?

Human rights organizations are calling for a federal investigation into the death of Darren Rainey, who was allegedly locked in a shower so hot it stripped the skin from his body

On the night of June 23, 2012, 50-year-old Darren Rainey, a mentally ill inmate at Florida’s Dade Correctional Institution, was allegedly taken from his cell and locked in a closet-size shower. Guards then turned up the water to 180 degrees and walked away. Two hours later, he was dead; large swathes of skin had peeled from his body because of the intense heat. When he was finally taken to the infirmary, his internal temperature was so high that it couldn’t be measured by a thermometer.

Not only is this sick, and horrible, but how is the water heat in the prison showers THAT hot. In cool weather I like REALLY hot showers. In hot weather I like my showers cold. No matter the season the WORST shower is a tepid one. Why would we pay MONEY to heat water that hot for prison showers. The heat on max should just be warm enough to be comfortable, it’s cost-effective, it’s safe, it’s humane, but there is no luxury.

Also I’ll have to add that the departed was serving a deuce for drug possession. So not only is this not a “Gun Death” but it is also a death from the War on Drugs.

H/T Wallphone

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The Squirrels Talk Science and Psudo-Science

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Weerd Beard

This is going to be a great show tonight!

A Primer on what we’ll be talking about is here.

I’m a scientist, and even before I had a degree or got my first paycheck for research I was a scientist. I didn’t realize it until I dated a woman who was NOT a scientist. Now my wife is a scientist, but that doesn’t mean there was anything WRONG with non-scientists, but people who haven’t spent a lot of time PROVING a hypothesis, and lived their lives as skeptics of things that couldn’t be easily observed or quantified see the world a LOT differently. Correlation DOES mean causation to them. They wore that pair of jeans and had a shitty day, the solution is to throw that pair of jeans away. They had a friend who was Catholic, and they were a self-centered asshole, so ALL Catholics are self-centered assholes, and probably anybody who goes to Church is too.

Today “Scientists” are celebrated by people with no scientific understanding, and so when they folly, it is assumed as a “scientist” they are beyond reproach.

This is definitely a topic you need to be a part of. So tune in at 9pm EST, and call in at 214-530-0036!

It’s THE SQUIRREL REPORT!!

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Quote of the Day: The Jack

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Found at Robb’s as we were discussing the willful ignorance of people who niether know, nor care who Joseph Goebbels was.

Part of it is a class aspiration. Think a British gentleman taking pride in his ignorance of how a boiler works.

*Of course* he doesn’t know such dirty low brow things work.

Another factor is fear. A fair fractions of Antis have friends. Friends who were good and anti-gun, friends who started learning about guns… friends who then started going to the range…

Friends who swore when they bought a gun that it was okay, that they sill supported “common sense laws” or “keeping guns away from the wrong sort.”

Friends who eventually became pro-gun.

And for the anti looking on in horror at the transforamtion… what started it all?

Why learning about guns.

I certainly agree that they see going to the shooting range, or even reading up on information on “politically Correct” guns like the Winchester Model 70 differ from guns like the AR-15 (or God forbid even know what the always ban-compliant M1A is) as “low” behavior beneath them.

I question if they indeed have seen friends and acquaintances change their mind on gun control. True believers like people who want to become active members of groups created by Bloomberg tend to, in my experience, be denizens of the Ivory Tower. Not only would reading ballistics data, and taking means to understand what those numbers mean, or throwing on eyes and ears and firing their first shots be “low” activities, but also associating with people who would be willing to stoop to that level are beneath them.

Now this isn’t EVERYBODY who may stand up for gun bans, or mandatory background check laws, or vote for a politician who is actively anti-gun. But I would say it IS everybody who is willing to run an anti-gun blog, or put on a T-Shirt for an Anti-Freedom PAC and go out for a rally flanked by armed guards payed for by Bloomberg.

There is a reason why reading anti-gun writing you get the distinct feeling that they want a civil war. They have “othered” our side so much that they won’t even speak to them.

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Gas Station Shootout

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Weerd Beard

The good guy came out on top!

Police say two men were killed by a gas station clerk during an attempted robbery Monday night in northeast Ohio that left the clerk wounded in both legs.

Authorities say three armed, masked men rushed into a Marathon gas station in Canton shortly before 9:30 p.m., triggering a shootout. Officers found two of the men lying on the ground near the station. They were later pronounced dead at a hospital.

A gunfight is never a good thing to be in, and the wounds in both legs show the peril. He could have been killed, and thankfully he wasn’t.

The anti-gun cult will say that if he just let the men take what they wanted, he might have come out unharmed. He MIGHT have, but I’ve covered lots of robberies where the clerk complied with the robbers and got killed, either to eliminate witnesses or the even more insane reality that sometimes if the till is smaller than the robber had hoped for he’ll be so pissed off that the clerk gets killed for it.

One thing to say is if robbers are given carte blanche when they threaten force it gives a level of acceptance to this behavior that somewhat legitimizes this sort of activity. I don’t have much faith in the prison system to rehabilitate criminals. What I do suspect is that third guy who knows his buddies are sleeping in the morgue will think twice before robbing somebody again. He may continue to be a criminal, but breaking into parked cars is a step in the right direction to sticking guns in the faces of innocent people.

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“Gun Death” Runway Cross

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Weerd Beard

There are smarter places to be:

A WOMAN was sliced in two by a light aircraft as she tried to cross a runway in northeast South Africa.

…Spokesman Captain Carla Prinsloo said the women were thought to have been picking up wood in a plantation near the airfield when the accident happened.

He said, “They took a shortcut over the airfield but one of the women miscalculated and was hit by the plane’s left wing.”

The obvious solution is to ban airports!

H/T Bob

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“Gun Death” Deer Strikes

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Fun little fact: What’s the Most dangerous animal in Africa?

You’re thinking Lions, Elephants, Hippos, Cape Buffalo? Nope the Tsetse fly! because of the diseases they carry that are frequently fatal!

Now how about North America? Grey Wolf (nope, no recorded kills for the North American wolf, the ones of Eurasia are a bit more nasty) Brown Bear? Maybe Polar Bear!

Nope White Tailed Deer!

Ohioans have a greater chance of running into a deer on the road over the next year.

That’s according to State Farm, the state’s largest insurer, which says motorists in the Buckeye State have a 1-in-127 chance of hitting a deer in the one-year period that began Aug. 1. Last year, chances were 1-in-135.

The insurer bases its expectations on claims data and state licensed-driver counts from the Federal Highway Administration, according to The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1oUe9c3).

…In Ohio, seven deaths and 844 injuries were caused by deer-vehicle collisions in 2013, according to the Ohio Department of Public Safety. The department reported a total of 20,201 deer-vehicle crashes that year.

State Farm spokeswoman Angie Rinock said the company makes the prediction as another way to remind drivers to be aware of deer wandering into the roads.

And Ohio isn’t the worst!

West Virginia is the most dangerous state for car-deer collisions. Chances of a car hitting a deer there are 1-in-39.

The obvious solution is to hunt those bastards! Not only are they DANGEROUS and damaging, but they’re DELICIOUS!

But that would be “Gun Death”, and that’s bad and wrong, even if it’s just deer!

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Another “Trees Are Made Out of Wood” Story

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Weerd Beard

This goes in the “No Duh” File:

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says the company is pulling its support of a conservative political group because he believes it is lying on climate change.

The group, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), lobbies state legislatures on a variety of issues. It has proposed legislation to roll back government mandates for greater use of renewable energy.

…Schmidt said Google’s support of ALEC was due to an unrelated issue, which he did not identify. But he said “I think the consensus within the company was that that was some sort of mistake, and so we’re trying to not do that in the future.”

Or more like Google is a crazy “Progressive” company. They’re anti-gun, they support government spying, and their leadership are hardcore Democrats. Of COURSE they should never be involved in a Conservative PAC.

H/T Mrs. Weer’d

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I Really Expected it to Be Worse!

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Weerd Beard

So I saw these in a store a while back. I was REALLY grossed out, and didn’t buy it.

But the question loomed in my mind… HOW BAD???

Well I picked up some beer at the local liquor store to braise some beef (one beer) and for recreation (the other five) and there it was sitting in a ramshackle display:

GhettoMartini

That is “The Club” “Gin Martini”. They have a whole bunch of these little 200 ml cans with various cocktails in them. Priced at $2, I thought I’d bite.

Really not bad. Now mind you, it’s nothing great either. It certainly isn’t made with great gin, but it does taste like a martini, and not those silly “Let the vapors of the vermouth fall on the glass” martinis, you can taste the vermouth as well. Really isn’t terrible. Of course this is aided by the fact that it is only 42 proof, so it is a VERY watered-down Martini. Still for $2, I’ve paid more at a bar for worse martinis.

A fun little adventure. We’ll see if I’m dead in the morning.

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A Bold Leap Forward in Mobile Technology

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Weerd Beard

So as you all should know I’m a pretty hardcore Android OS guy. Well this weekend I decided the ease of use, affordability of product, and multitude of options for platforms was just too much for me to bear. So I wandered into the Apple store at the local Mall.

There it was, the piece of technology I’d always wanted! I had to buy it!

iSwatch

Yep, I got myself an iSwatch! It’s AMAZING! It tells time and runs Apple aps and only moderately cripples my non-dominant hand!

Still the story goes on! I hadn’t read about this product in any of the Apple press, nor on their website, but I guess my Apple store has some sort of promotional thing. For the same price of the iSwatch, I was able to get the iSwatch Plus!

iSwatchPlus

Just AMAZING! That screen is HUGE! Great for watching movies and I can now fed off attacks as if I was wearing a buckler shield! I already feel my left arm cramping up!

THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING!!!!!!11!!

I had to troll Alan with that one!

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“Gun Death” Mom’s Boyfriend

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Weerd Beard

How often do we read this here?

A young mother and her boyfriend’s brother have been charged with murder in the death of a 17-month-old boy who died from inhaling methamphetamine fumes from a basement laboratory.

I just bought a box of decongestants last week and again had to hand over my license and sign a form indicating I wasn’t going to cook meth with the stuff. No asshole, I have a small child in daycare and SOMEBODY is sick in my house every damn day it seems!

Hey but we still have deaths like this. Control on over-the-counter meds haven’t curbed the meth problem, nor has gun control laws. Nor have murder laws.

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