So while the squirrel report is a news and talk show, and not another gun podcast, that’s the news to talk about today.
So call in to today’s show, we have Dennis from Dragon Leatherworks as a guest host to talk about his former home of New York, and their new stupid laws, as well as talking about pending laws.
So call in at 9pm EST, and join us for another SQUIRREL REPORT!
Or Refuse to get it. Chris Mathews:
The mood of the “Guns Over People” party is increasingly to vote for guns. Vote for war. Vote against people.
Why? I cannot figure. To paraphrase an old saying: “Guns don’t vote; people do.”
I have a feeling that there are more Americans with strong feelings about those first graders up in Connecticut than they do for the wild bunch out there worried about the “black helicopters” sweeping down on their front lawns.
We’ve seen the horror of crazed killers with semi-automatic weapons armed with big capacity clips. Still haven’t caught sight of those darn helicopters.
First up, guns are totally inanimate objects, but they’re important to people because people use guns to protect their lives and their liberty.
We haven’t seen the “Black Helicopters” yet because A) We still have our guns firmly in our hands, and B) Helicopters are impractical for door-to-door confiscation (duh). Its more like “Black SWAT APCs” is my concern.
Still EVERYBODY who’s talking about banning guns is talking about some form of confiscation. Grandfathering with zero transfer, So they’ll take your guns and magazines after you die, and nobody else will ever have them, or mandatory buy-backs, where they’ll give you some cash as they confiscate your guns, as if that has any meaning, or simply straight up confiscation.
Sorry, we haven’t seen the black SWAT APCs yet, but they’re gassing them up.
An interesting suicide method:
A 44-year-old woman, whose body was found in a heavily wooded area in a Pennsylvania state park, was ruled to have committed suicide by inhaling helium gas, police said.
When the anti-rights people cite “Gun Death” they often include suicide, claiming that if guns weren’t available the suicide wouldn’t happen.
Makes even less sense when you see this statistic:
Helium inhalation has become an increasingly popular method of suicide in recent years. According to a recent study, reported helium-related deaths spiked from two in 2010 to 42 in 2011.
Between 1993 and 2007 only 18 people were recorded as having died from the gas.
Helium is often used to eliminate the pain and panic that comes with asphyxiation.
I suspect that the low rate of “Helium Death” was simply because people were ignorant of how it could be used. With more knowledge you have more people using that method.
Hey, but guns cause death, right?
h/t Bob
The Glorification of the psychopaths is one of the reasons they do what they do.
H/T Endo
First from DJO:
And an oldie but goodie
I like turtles too, little guy!
I think we’ve talked about this before, but washing detergent is being used as a street currency.
“Tide bottles,” Ben Paynter writes in this New York piece, “have become ad hoc street currency, with a 150-ounce bottle going for either $5 cash or $10 worth of weed or crack cocaine.” It’s a huge problem for stores. In fact, one Safeway in Maryland was losing $10,000 to $15,000 worth of Tide merchandise a month, and it seems the detergent spree has spread from Maryland to the rest of the United States.
The reason? Turns out Tide is really easy to steal, and it re-sells at a premium, so street entrepreneurs, who are always on the lookout for low risk/high reward steals, have taken to Tide. Now, that’s what I call brand loyalty.
Everybody needs to wash their clothes, so detergents become a universal barter. Also I wonder for all the bottles stolen, how many are bought using public assistance monies, for the express purpose of buying drugs.
h/t Mrs. Weer’d
Two Monkey Stories. First an institute is going to discontinue using chimps for research:
After pressure from The Humane Society of the United States, Gilead Sciences has agreed to end the use of chimpanzees in research. The move comes after the animal-rights organization two months ago submitted a shareholder proposal urging the biotech to phase out the use of the primates in its medical research.
At the time, Gilead declined to respond to questions about the proposal or its use of chimpanzees. However, the Humane Society says the biotech reached out afterwards to maintain that chimpanzees were not currently being used for research and committed to refrain from doing so going forward. The decision is effective immediately.
If they aren’t using them, and can use a lower animal for similar research this is a very good move. This is one of the key ethical legs of animal research. Do as much research in-vitro on things like cell cultures, and then try to use animals of a biologically lower position whenever possible. Also reduction of numbers is a key factor. If you can get a statistically significant result with a cohort of 25 mice, don’t use 100 mice, and if you can accomplish the study using dogs or pigs, don’t use primates. Of course the Humane Society is against all animal testing, so I don’t trust them at their word.
Now onto airline refusing to ship research primates.
After more than a year of pressure from animal-rights activists, United Airlines has agreed to halt shipments of primates to or from medical research laboratories anywhere in the world. The decision means there are no longer any North American carriers that will transport primates for research purposes into the US or Canada.
In fact, only four carriers – Air France, China Eastern Airlines, Philippine Airlines, and Vietnam Airlines – continue to transport primates destined for experiments, according to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which had been pressuring United Airlines for more than a year to adopt the policy.
“It will be much harder for cruel experimenters to get their hands on monkeys to abuse now that United has joined every other commercial airline in North America in refusing to deliver primates to certain suffering and death in laboratories,” says PETA senior vp of lab investigations Kathy Guillermo. “PETA will continue to pressure the few overseas airlines—now numbering only four—that continue this inhumane practice.”
Nice, yeah I do medical research on animals not because it furthers human knowledge on health and development of new medicines and treatments for serious deseases, it just because it hurts animals and I LOVE that! BULLSHIT!
As I said above, institutions do all they can to limit primate research. Its not only ethical, but its cost-effective, still primates provide some VERY valuable animal data to medical researchers, and cutting off the supply chain will not only hurt research, but force the research to be done in other countries, often countries where the research may not be as easily trusted.
h/t Mrs. Weer’d
Firing Health Workers for refusing a flu shot:
Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down on employees who won’t get flu shots, with some workers losing their jobs over their refusal.
“Where does it say that I am no longer a patient if I’m a nurse,” wondered Carrie Calhoun, a longtime critical care nurse in suburban Chicago who was fired last month after she refused a flu shot….Most doctors and nurses do get flu shots. But in the past two months, at least 15 nurses and other hospital staffers in four states have been fired for refusing, and several others have resigned, according to affected workers, hospital authorities and published reports.
I certainly agree that health care workers should be strongly encouraged to be immunized, as they work in a place where infectious people, and people at the greatest risk for dying of the disease, will congregate. Still if the patients (and the general population, as they don’t become patients until they become sick) aren’t being forced to be immunized, then they are just as much of a disease vector as the workers.
Also with philosophies like herd immunity a few refusals (which what this whole article is about) isn’t going to matter.
It seems a shame to be making so much noise about this.
h/t Mrs. Weer’d
Another “Gun Death” from the “Religion of Peace”
A British judge on Monday sentenced a woman he called a “devoted and loving mother” to at least 17 years in prison for beating her son to death after he failed to memorize passages from the Koran.
That’ll teach him! Good thing she didn’t have a gun!
