Cable Is Dying

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Weerd Beard

I’m happy to see it happen!

Walt Disney Studios said on Tuesday that it had completed a deal to show films from its Disney, Pixar and Marvel banners on Netflix, replacing a less lucrative pact with Starz.

The agreement is the first time one of Hollywood’s big studios has chosen Web streaming over pay television. Netflix has made similar “output” deals with smaller movie suppliers like DreamWorks Animation and the Weinstein Company. But all of the majors — Disney, Paramount, Universal, Warner Brothers, Sony and 20th Century Fox — have stayed with Starz, HBO or Showtime until now.

Streaming technology has convinced many people to save money by abandoning cable programming, this is only going to be amplified as streaming sources like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon start taking away resources held exclusively by cable, and especially premium cable companies.

Every house these days has internet, so outside of streaming cable is becoming an expensive luxury many can’t justify.

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“Gun Death” Another Monster

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Think of what it takes to do this:

The father who told police he tried to poison his children’s pizza actually drowned his five-year-old son in the bathtub and fed his daughter, seven, rat poison because he was angry at his estranged wife for seeing another man, it emerged today.

Leonardo Espinal, 47, was babysitting the kids at his stepmother’s Bronx, New York, apartment on Tuesday when he called their mom Rosaura Abreu and threatened to kill himself, sources said.

So what we have here is a man who killed his own kids for “Revenge” against his ex wife. Also its in NYC where guns are essentially banned. This is the world those who use the metric of “Gun Death” want us all to live in. Pretty sunny place, huh? Remember, its the people with the guns who are the dangerous ones!

h/t Bob

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Fitting Name

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Obama gets a fish named after him.

Now naming new species after celebrities is common, and frankly I don’t care. You discover a species you can name it whatever you want. You earned it.

Still fitting because its a darter, and the Snail Darter is one of the many endangered species that is destroying the California Agricultural economy.

Wear it with pride, Mr. President!

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Whittle Looks at the Political Landscape

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Weerd Beard

A great video:

Bill and I split on who we preferred to win in the last election. Personally I’ll take a not-serious Obama, over a deadly serious Romney.

Either way we’re boned!

Maybe the people will wake up…maybe they’ll die in their sleep…

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AFT on Free Market!

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Weerd Beard

ATF should be a convenience store, not a government agency!

LOL!

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Something for the Nightstand

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Cool 50 round Drum Mag for the Glock 9mm!

I’m impressed with the price! Most drum magazines cost 2-3x the price of conventional magazines for the same amount of rounds. Cool for range use and just fun-factor. But also I see things like this as being ideal for your bump-in-the-night gun. When I carry my 1911 I have 25 rounds spread between the gun and my magazines. Others who use double-stacks may have 50 or more rounds on their body…but that’s in mag carriers. Who has mag pouches on their nightstand? I don’t. I have spare mags in case I need to bunker down in my bedroom, but if I go looking for the source of a strange noise at night I’ll just have what’s in the gun. That can limit things tactically. Other people might bring a carbine which solves some of that, but at times I’ve answered the door armed to an unannounced visitor at night, and with a pistol you can conceal the gun easily, either under your clothes or behind the door you’re opening without causing concern to what you have determined to be a non-threat. Also a pistol lets you have a hand free to open doors or manipulate things while still having the gun at full-ready. I prefer handguns, and having a HUGE magazine is nothing but awesome.

Oh and for carbine fans, if you have a carbine that eats from Glock Magazines? Yeah this is for you!

Also any other reason to buy something better than the fact that its illegal in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California?

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Serves Them Right!

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Weerd Beard

SWAT Drone Crashes into SWAT Team

The Montgomery County sheriff’s office in Texas had planned a big photo opportunity with their newly acquired surveillance drone. It all went horrible wrong when, according to the Examiner, “[The] prototype drone was flying about 18 feet off the ground [and] it lost contact with the controller’s console on the ground. It’s designed to go into an auto shutdown mode … but when it was coming down, the drone crashed into the SWAT team’s armored vehicle.” (The SWAT team had suited up, armored vehicle on hand, for the purpose of the photo.)

I’ve said it before, Police SWAT teams are the standing armies that our Founding Fathers warned us about. Its the SWAT teams doing the lion’s share of work crushing our Constitutional rights with no-knock raids, and massive displays of force against relatively low crimes that can easily be dispatched with standard beat officers, especially these days when every cop is wearing quality body armor, and has an AR in their cruiser.

And this shows it best! Not only do they need to showcase their new drone, but they’re doing it in full battle armor. You don’t see the regular beat cops doing photo ops, because we KNOW why they’re there, and use them! They uphold our laws, and do it reasonably. SWAT teams are beyond the pale, so they’re in DESPERATE need for positive PR to justify their military weapons and equipment, and their bloated budgets that are simply used to bust pot dealers, and mess-up non-threats.

Now their super-expensive 4th Amendment violation came crashing into their expensive armored vehicle, and sent their hardened shock-troops running for cover.

GOOD!

h/t Tango

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“Gun Death” Shoving Match

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Another Sports Dispute that ends in Death:

A Pennsylvania man is charged with manslaughter after police say an alcohol-fueled shoving match over softball ended with his friend suffering a fatal head injury.

State police say 49-year-old Dennis Sprigg died nearly seven weeks after the Aug. 11 shoving match involving 51-year-old Randy Foor at Foor’s Bedford home. Police arrested Foor on Friday on charges of manslaughter and aggravated assault.

Police say Sprigg was knocked unconscious when he hit his head but briefly regained consciousness as medics tended to him.

Good thing there wasn’t a gun here, otherwise somebody might have been hurt! This is what we always hear from the antis, there is no way a shoving match, or a fist fight could end in death, hence why they want to ban guns, and focus on “Gun Death”.

Also Softball? Yeah somebody DIED from playing a bullshit bushleague sport!

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Damn Youtube

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Just noticed a ton of videos I’ve posted today from Youtube are messed up and are showing as the wrong video.

No idea what’s wrong except that maybe the recent youtube re-vamp is messed up.

I’ve fixed all I’ve seen with direct links, and hopefully youtube will fix the software issue in the near future.

If the video you just watched here at Weer’d World doesn’t seem to make sense, that’s probably youtube’s fault!

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Sidebar Update

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Weerd Beard

You’ll note over on my sidbar I have a new link to the Balloon Goes Up Store.

The store offers good gear at good prices, and I’m proud to be giving him some help!

I’ll occasionally be giving recommendations for products from his store to consider.

Today I’ll talk about the Kershaw Scallion by Ken Onion. My wife just recently bought this, she thought it would be a gift for me, but it never got that far. Its a small knife with a mild assisted opening system. My wife has small hands so prefers a smaller knife and this knife fits her hands really well. Also she’s not a knife freak, so she doesn’t have a ton of confidence with both deploying blades or closing assisted blades with strong springs. This knife is the perfect mix for her. The assist gives her that extra help in getting the blade into play, but doesn’t require much force to close.

Also the flipper tab works as a blade guard when the knife is locked open, meaning you have a bit more safety when cutting AND it can be used as a defensive edge.

Give it a look, and click the link so they know who sent you. Also that helps me out as a blogger, so double-bonus!

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