“Gun Death” Box Cutter

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

A box cutter is one of those tools. Many people have them, and businesses that need to open boxes tend to issue them to employees. They’re nice because they’re good at opening boxes, but are generally safer than knives. But then again, as we learned on the September 11th attacks they can also be used as weapons.

A South Korean man was arrested after allegedly attacking subway passengers with a box-cutter, injuring seven of them, police said.

The man, identified by his family name Yoo, was heading from Euijeongbu to Seoul when the incident happened, Yonhap news agency reported Saturday.

South Korea has a very low “Gun Death” rate…..but we NEED box cutters, so maybe we should just ban boxes???

h/t Maddmedic

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Bad Justice: Black Male

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Weerd Beard

This just smells of straight up lazy Police work.

While sitting in my backyard I heard adult male voices around the side of the house. I opened the gate and saw a white police officer handcuffing my 13-year-old son. The plainclothes Evanston, Illinois, officer and his partner did not identify themselves as police. They did not ask our son’s age or where he lived. They told him first to put his hands up and then handcuffed him. They assumed he was guilty, of what we didn’t know. His crime appeared to be that he was a black male.

Later, we would listen to the 911 tape of what preceded the incident. It was apparent police had targeted my son while he was riding his bike home from a friend’s house. Why? According to officers, he fit the description of a burglary suspect who had allegedly entered a nearby home. The description they offered: a black male wearing cargo shorts.

Our son was wearing cargo shorts, but that identification could have applied to hundreds of black males in Evanston on that particular day. Why didn’t the 911 dispatcher ask for a more detailed description of his skin color? His build? Whether he had facial hair? (He doesn’t.) Whether he had a tattoo or piercings? (He doesn’t.) Or whether he was wearing a hat? (He was.)

Story of why the call was made here.

Reeks of lazy Police work, and a wrongful arrest. Sorry “Black male wearing cargo shorts” is pretty darn vague, and covers a LOT of ground. I’m not a huge fan of the whole “Driving while black”, as I know lots of white folks getting pulled over for a bullshit traffic stop, and I know lots of stories of black males doing all sorts of depraved shit, and getting rightfully arrested, but somehow think its only relevant to their skin color.

This doesn’t seem to be one of those cases.

h/t Mrs. Weer’d

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Americans With Disabilities, Reasonable and Unreasonable

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Weerd Beard

When I saw the headline, I had one post stuck in my head…then I read it:

A man with a disabled right hand, arm, and leg, is suing Bank of America, saying while his bosses at Merrill Lynch accommodated his disabilities, BofA wasn’t having it when the company took over.

Daniel Herrmann, 38, worked in customer service for Merrill Lynch and later Bank of America before he was allegedly fired in 2010 for coming back from lunch one to two minutes late, ABC News reported Wednesday…..his new supervisors didn’t allow him enough time to type information into the computer between calls, causing his productivity to drop, he says.

“Dan was repeatedly told that accommodating him ‘wouldn’t be fair to people with two hands,'” his lawyer Emily Town told ABC News.

Now I think there are limitations to the Americans with Disabilities Act. In the Animal Husbandry field its expected you might have to lift a 50lb sack of feed or bedding for your work. If you’re the receptionist for a business, and have an uncontrolled seizure disorder, you might not be the ideal face for your business if the first impression for customers is you convulsing under your desk. If you’re a paraplegic, maybe EMS, Fire Fighting, or Law Enforcement isn’t the career path for you.

Still this case reeks of straight up bullshit. Two minuets late for a lunch break? Really? Not given some extra time to enter data into the computer, given that he has a disabled hand? Man this case just stinks. Could be that we’re only hearing one side of the story, but as I read it, I think the bank is being unreasonable.

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“Gun Death” Domestic Violence

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Weerd Beard

A Story of domestic Violence:

This is the moment a terrified 13-year-old boy tells 911 he has just seen his dad stab his mum to death

His dad, 38-year-old Jeremy Roberts, is accused of stabbing his ex-wife, 36-year-old Candice Roberts, when she arrived to pick-up her two children from their Grove City, Ohio apartment, the Daily Mail reports.

”My dad just killed my mum. He just told me to call you guys,” the boy said in a recording of the call.

We all have knives…many of us are divorced…its almost like the tool is irrelevant to the crime.

h/t Julie

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“Progressive” Insanity

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Weerd Beard

This is just “Progressive” hysteria!

Mitt Romney appeared on Univision Wednesday alongside Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, but something was a little peculiar about his appearance — his skin tone. Looking back at the hundreds of photos logging his every moment on the campaign trail, the Republican presidential nominee is usually not so shockingly tan.

While his orangey-brown appearance on Univision could have been the result of bad lighting or a makeup mishap, left-wing blog the Democratic Underground concluded that Romney “dyed his face brown for his Univision interview.”

I’d say, bad makeup and bad lighting. Anybody who’s worked in TV or stage, it takes some pretty unnatural makeup colors to make light skin look vibrant under bright TV lights. Any time I see the cast of a stage production I’m always amused by the makeup. Under the light they look great, but as soon as they enter more natural lighting they look like Oompa Loompas. I suspect either the makeup available was off, or the lighting was significantly different….or maybe both.

But nope, according to the “Progressives”, this is just more RACISM!!!

Idiots!

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A Great Invention!

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Where can I get one?

Chinese hospitals are introducing a new machine which can extract sperm for donors.

According to China’s Weibo social platform the automatic sperm extractors are being introduced in a Nanjing hospital, capital of Jiangsu province.

The pink, grey and white machine has a massage pipe at the front which apparently can be adjusted according to the height of its user.

Speed, frequency, amplitude and temperature are also controllable.

It has a small screen on the top which plays films for the user to help them with the extraction process.

See it in action at the link!!!

Heh, Interesting!

h/t Bob

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Ass Kicked by a Girl

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Amusing Story

An Iranian cleric said he was beaten by a woman in the northern province of Semnan after giving her a warning for being “badly covered,” the state-run Mehr news agency reported.

Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman in the street while on his way to the mosque in the town of Shahmirzad, and asked her to cover herself up, to which she replied “you, cover your eyes,” according to Mehr. The cleric repeated his warning, which he said prompted her to insult and push him.
Enlarge image Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning Her

“I fell on my back on the floor,” Beheshti said in the report. “I don’t know what happened after that, all I could feel was the kicks of this woman who was insulting me and attacking me.”

Nice move, Lady! Still given that this is Iran, she’ll probably get strung up for her little act of Woman’s Lib….

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Issa Still on the Trail

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Eric Holder is claiming he’s innocent of Fast and Furious.

Darrell Issa isn’t going to just let that stand

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Morning Read: Anti-Rights Cult

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Wizard PC has a great post up on why the Anti-Rights supporters are more cult, or fundamentalist group, than a rational ideology.

There’s a reason why you can’t argue with them, and they delete any attempt to refute their claims. Also that’s the reason why they’re losing, most people don’t want to do ANYTHING unless given good reason, and they don’t have a single good reason among all of them!

Great post!

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“Gun Death” Drugs

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Weerd Beard

I thought drugs were illegal?

at approximately 4:25 pm, Oklahoma City Police were summoned to 1440 North Court regarding a dead body at that residence. Officers arrived and discovered the victim lying in the bathtub, deceased.

Investigators were ultimately able to determine that the victim’s brother, Chance Wilson, injected her with methamphetamines, causing her death.

Those who use “Gun Death” seem to think that if guns were as illegal as murder, nobody would be murdered with guns. Certainly the prohibition of illegal drugs like meth did a lot for this crime.

h/t Jennifer

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