Larry Potterfield of Midway USA makes his own!
It is known as the happiness chemical, but could serotonin also influence sexual preference? It certainly seems to in mice.
Serotonin is normally associated with mood – particularly feelings of well-being. But when Yi Rao of Peking University in Beijing, China, and his colleagues genetically engineered female mice so that they could no longer make or respond to serotonin, it appeared to affect their sexuality.
Although they would still mate with males if no other females were present, given the choice, the rodents preferred sniffing and mounting females.
This is the first time that sexual preference has been reversed in female mammals without the use of sex hormones. Serotonin can modulate olfaction, but the team ruled this out. Instead, it seems the chemical has a more central role in controlling sexual preference.
I’m wondering if its effecting sexual preferences, or just getting rid of sexual inhibitions. I’ll also note I see a LOT of homosexual mouse behavior, both in males and females in my line of work. Could all be a dominance issue, which is hardly analogous to the human behavior.
This would have been much more interesting if they had Floxed the gene and knocked it out with a promoter, so that they could observe the INDIVIDUAL mouse then induce the knockout with a promoter and see what changes happen in each animal.
h/t Mrs. Weer’d
.38 Special, plus a manual action makes this gun STUPID Quiet! I’m impressed!
The sound of the round hitting the dirt when he misses is just amazing in contrast to the quiet report.
The sad thing is that’s probably about $2,000 right there in hardware and stupid paperwork. Maybe we can kill the NFA some day!
Interesting story. Its a death from improper use of prescription drugs.
A Leesburg man who allegedly dealt oxycodone pills to Loudoun County teenagers for years has been charged with conspiracy in the death of a reputed customer who overdosed from an injection of the addictive painkiller.
While there are some that will argue the point, Oxycodone and other opiate pain killers have very valuable medical uses, but they are VERY dangerous (and addictive) if abused.
Of course like guns, people are attempting to ban this medication BECAUSE it can be abused.
Its not the tool, or drug, its the person and their intent!
H/t Nancy
Its an older story, but MAN I had to share!
WHITING, Maine — A truck carrying herring overturned on a sharp curve near the intersection of Routes 189 and 1 in Whiting early Saturday, spilling its cargo and injuring the driver.
According to Maine State Police Trooper Andrew Foss, the driver of the truck blew a tire as he drove through the curve, causing the truck to flip onto its side.
About 22,000 pounds of lobster-bait herring tumbled out alongside the road, and the truck owned by D.C. Airfreight of Winter Harbor had $25,000 in damage.
YIKES!!! I can only imagine that the lawn it got dumped on STANK for the rest of the summer!
And last the thing of nightmares!
The crash in Whiting was the second accident of this type in Washington County in just more than a week. On July 23, a tractor-trailer overturned on Route 9 in Alexander and spilled its entire cargo of herring. The driver in that crash was uninjured.
Stank Herring coming to a lawn near you!!!!
h/t C-90
Of Course there’s the stupid Zero Tolerance rules which is most likely more to attempt to extinguish gun culture than to do anything resembling safety:
Little boys around the nation keep getting in trouble for guns – whether they’re made of plastic, formed by fingers or even fashioned from Pop-Tarts – but some experts say having “zero tolerance” for games children have played for centuries is turning the adults into bullies and backfiring on kids.
Elementary educators trying to discourage children from settling pretend beefs with pretend guns is nothing new. But in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shooting, and with the grownups increasingly polarized over the Second Amendment, rules for recess, on the bus and in the classroom have become stricter than ever.
Some say too strict.
“These zero-tolerance policies are psychotic, in the strict sense of the word: psychotic means ‘out of touch with reality,’” Dr. Leonard Sax, a Pennsylvania psychologist and family physician, and author of “Boys Adrift,” told FoxNews.com.
Of course guns have the capability of being used for evil, but they have a greater potential to be used for good…both defense of life, but also plain old fun. If kids are prohibited from even THINKING about guns being potentially good, it makes pushing BS gun laws in the future easier.
Laws like “Gun Free Zones”.
Conservatives and Second Amendment activists are calling into question a California state law and Santa Monica College rules that ban guns on campus, arguing that a recent fatal mass shooting only proves the need to revisit the policy.
John Zawahri, 23, killed his father and brother on Friday and forced a woman to drive him to the campus. He shot and killed three more at the school, until police responded and engaged in a shootout with him. He was killed during the shootout.
Guns saved the day, as well as shed blood. Of course being California, and being a school campus, the guns needed to be summoned along with the cops, and the shooter knew the coast was clear when there were no cop cars or uniformed officers.
That isn’t true with 90% of America, where guns can be legally carried by lawful citizens. Note also these lawful places DON’T Have spree shootings.
The antis don’t even want to talk about that fact!
Glad this book is able to be published despite Chief Petty Officer Kyle’s untimely death.
This is a rich one!
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Of course “NRA” is just a simple call-out (can I say “Dog Whistle?”) about the Tiahrt Amendment, which was passed by the Legislature, not the NRA. Further it doesn’t handcuff the ATF or any law enforcement agency, it handcuffs anti-gun groups looking to use that private information for their own gains, or to attack lawful gun owners, or lawful gun shop owners. And again, LAWFUL gun owners, and shop owners, because if the ATF or Police finds any wrong-doing on anybody in their traces they are charged, which is now public record.
Of course the anti-gun groups don’t care about criminals, they want to slander and label all LAWFUL gun owners as criminals, and they do this by publishing carry permit data, and other personal information for the sole purpose of harassment.
Further Irony is that the woman is asking the ATF if they can do more. MORE? When we’re dealing with an agency that ran Operation Fast and Furious which facilitated the deaths of HUNDREDS of Mexican citizens, while making ZERO attempts to track the weapons before they were returned to the US by Mexican Law Enforcement as “Crime Guns”. The sole purpose of Fast and Furious was to manufacture “Crime Guns” by giving them to known Mexican Cartel Criminals and letting those guns slip into Mexico, only to be returned after Mexican officials found the guns at murder scenes or drug raids, so that ATF could deny its involvement and blame lawful American gun owners.
Can they do MORE??? How about LESS!
A 25-YEAR-OLD man who ate his hunting partner’s dog after it was killed in a monkey attack was shot dead by the canine’s owner with a crossbow last Tuesday. Police said the suspect and the victim were friends who were hunting together in Kratie’s Snuol district. It is understood the suspect shot his friend because he would not help save his dog from being killed in a monkey attack. The victim then took the dead dog home to eat. When the suspect saw this, he fired his crossbow at his friend killing him instantly. Police say the suspect confessed to the crime following his arrest.
Good thing nobody had a gun!
h/t Wallphone
