The chicken clucks, and the cow moos because THEY ARE NOT A DUCK!!! 😀
I was at a sporting goods store the other day and I saw a really nice Machete made by Gerber on the knife rack. I was surprised to see they were asking for under $30 for what accounts for a well-made knife. The cheap crap you can find next to the yard rakes and axes in the big box store can easily be paid for with pocket change!
When will we have common sense “Machete Control”?
A man who police say tried to cut several people with a machete at a Galveston birthday party this week has been charged in the case, police said.
It isn’t the tool its the person. And we NEED guns because the other guy WILL get a Machete if he wants one!
So my neighbor and I were walking back from the train after work. We saw a new Ford Interceptor rolling down the street. It pulled up to us and it was my other neighbor on duty with local PD.
Got his opinion of the new Taurus Based cruiser (He liked it. Also our Police are evidently too cheap to get the twin turbo version, but he says its plenty fast with the naturally aspirated engine), and I asked him, since I’m up for Renewal how long the permit wait was for my LTC.
He didn’t know the wait time, but DID know that all the Police Departments in the state have been inundated with permits. He added that that was awesome.
Yet another beat cop perfectly happy with people packing!
Smartphones can read boarding passes:
A vulnerability in US domestic airline boarding pass barcodes could allow travellers to bring unauthorised items on board, says a security expert.
The codes reveal what kind of airport checks a passenger will face and can be read by smartphones, he says.
It could undermine the US’s PreCheck system which randomly decides which frequent fliers can skip part of the pre-boarding security process.
The barcodes could allow passengers to work out if they had been picked.
Implying that Airport security is worth a God-Damn at finding threats.
Security Theater!
This time of year I get about a dozen email forwards with this premise.
My only complaint is that it doesn’t show how Crowder actually compensated the kids for participating in a Marxist Social Experiment. I’m hoping full-size butterfingers for all!
First I am just AMAZED at how much information scientists can get from fossils.
Denver Fowler at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and his colleagues studied numerous Triceratops specimens from Montana’s Hell Creek Formation to identify how many had the characteristic tooth marks of Tyrannosaurus on them. They found 18, most of which were skulls. When they looked closer, they noted something important: none of the bones showed any signs of healing, indicating that the bites were inflicted on dead animals that were in the process of being eaten.
As Fowler and his colleagues examined the various types of bite mark on the skulls, they were intrigued by the extensive puncture and pull marks on the neck frills on some of the specimens. At first, this seemed to make no sense. “The frill would have been mostly bone and keratin,” says Fowler. “Not much to eat there.” The pulling action and the presence of deep parallel grooves led the team to realise that these marks were probably not indicative of actual eating, but repositioning of the prey. The scientists suggest that the frills were in the way of Tyrannosaurus as it was trying to get at the nutrient-rich neck muscles.
“It’s gruesome, but the easiest way to do this was to pull the head off,” explains Fowler with a grin. The researchers found further evidence to support this idea when they examined the Triceratops occipital condyles — the ball-socket head–neck joint — and found tooth marks there too. Such marks could only have been made if the animal had been decapitated.
Follow over for pictures. I would imagine holding that monster head up front, and also the musculature used to drive those kickass horns would make some yummy neck muscles. Also This gets me thinking about the theory they the Tyrannosaurus wasn’t the top predator of movie legend, but a scavenger of the macro fauna of the day.
Also Jesse sent this to me as the Hurricane was hitting New York and Jersey. Live US wind map.
Book mark it for future viewing!
SCIENCE!!!
Mrs. Weer’d sends me this interesting story on Obesity and mice:
A novel animal model showed that the longer mice remained overweight, the more “irreversible” obesity became, according to the new study that appeared online ahead of print Oct.24 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Over time, the static, obese state of the mice reset the “normal,” body weight set point to become permanently elevated, despite dieting that initially worked to shed pounds, authors say.
“Our model demonstrates that obesity is in part a self-perpetuating disorder and the results further emphasize the importance of early intervention in childhood to try to prevent the condition whose effects can last a lifetime,” says senior author Malcolm J. Low, M.D., Ph.D., professor of molecular and integrative physiology and internal medicine.
Very interesting. This obesity rabbit hole really amazes me. I’ve always been of the “Eat less, exercise more” school, which still DOES have results, but more obese subjects tend to have worse results.
Of course understanding how this process works means that therapy the counteract the process could help many people!
Kinda interesting when people say “Gun Death” how prevalent other murder cliches are, like “Strangler”, “Stabber”, “Slasher” or, “Axe Murder”
A man armed with an axe has killed three children and injured another 13 at a childcare centre in southern China, state-run media reports.
Gun free zone in both policy and practice! Yet Mass Murder still exists! Hey, but “Gun Death” is totally a rational metric to use…right?
h/t Maddmedic
…Than an old fool
Dessicated old Commies for Obama!
Bring it you pinko geezers!
