This guy is really impressive, but the odd first shot is even more impressive!
Sometimes when I say light blogging ahead I mean LIGHT. Tomorrow Weer’d World goes full-automation. There will be nothing but “Gun Death?” Files for a full week as I’m going to take a lovely vacation to Costa Rica. Cell coverage will be non-existent, and internet access is an unknown integer so we aren’t even bringing our various internet tools.
Should make for good pictures and good stories, but you’ll have to wait until I get back. So enjoy the posts I have lined up, and I’ll see you when I get back.
Just remember, I’ll be having a better time than you all are! 8)
It smells like SQUIRRELS!!!
Tonight’s topics are up on the website, its going to be a good one!
Also since the calls coming in went so well last night I’ll mention that the call in topic are Gun-Nut Nerdy quotes that you feel everybody must know. Breda cites Firefly’s “I’ll be in my bunk!”, I thinking I may have to cite Gunnery Sargent Hartman
Tho I’m sure some more will pop into my head, as I watch a LOT of movies, at a LOT of them have gunnie goodness.
Should be a fun evening, so tune in at 9pm EST for THE SQUIRREL REPORT!!!
We’ve all heard it. Here’s a rundown:
This June Usada charged Armstrong with drug trafficking and using banned steroids, the red blood cell booster erythropoietin (EPO), and human growth hormone as well as illegal blood transfusions dating back to 1986.
I find it so hard to give a shit about this. Its not economic, as these cyclists use crazy expensive ultra-light bikes to get the most of their power….not to mention how much time and equipment he must spend to keep in such good shape.
The drugs and treatments are against the rules….and rules are rules.
Still what’s the point? Isn’t this modern medicine? I mean 50 years ago Armstrong might have died from cancer, but modern medicine brought him right back to his prime. How are all the doping he allegedly did any different?
Same goes for when another sports player blows out a shoulder or a knee and has modern arthroscopic surgery. Back in the day it would be a career ending injury, or the more invasive open surgery might cause them to miss seasons and training that they never fully recover to how they were before the injury.
I don’t know these modern drugs, but I know the oldschool steroids were bad for you. But since when did we care about the lives of athletes? Just look at any retired athlete! I don’t know about cyclists, but baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and I’m sure Soccer (but I’m American so I don’t pay attention to that crap either), they’re in their 40s and so blown out with injuries and arthritis they move around like they’re in their 70s!
They used their bodies up being the best, and we don’t get all bluesy over it. Why do we care if Lance is shooting up all sorts of super hormones to make his body stronger? Its not like he’s doing that shit for fun, you never see anybody shooting heroin and then winning a marathon or the Tour De France.
Just quit being puritanical retards, we want him to ride a crazy space-bike wicked fast, and this crap makes him go faster. We also didn’t want him to die of cancer, which makes you go wicked slow!
Tell me what the damn difference is!
Frankly I welcome this. I will NOT be voting Republican for President because I lived under Romney as Governor of Massachusetts, and that was enough for me. Also given that the toss-up for President this year ended with a showdown between Romney and Santorum, and let’s not forget McCain. I hate ALL of them, and they don’t represent my view.
But the Democrats don’t represent me either. Then there’s this shit!
More here via Mrs. Weer’d.
I think we have a good freshman class in the GOP, and I can’t wait for these guys to come into their own, and supplant the big-government Bible-thumping Republicans.
The Fifth District Court of Appeals in Daytona, Fla., voted 2-1 that Lester should be disqualified. Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, had appealed to the court in early July for Lester to be removed.
His motion to disqualify the judge came in response to Lester’s order setting Zimmerman’s bail at $1 million. In it Lester wrote that Zimmerman had “flaunted the system” and practiced “deception upon the court” after it was revealed that Zimmerman and his wife Shellie had not told the court he had two passports and tried to hide the amount of money their defense fund had raised. record. They were also accused of speaking in code in reference to their assets.
The bottom line in all of this case is that the police conducted a through investigation in the days surrounding the shooting, and found no evidence of wrongdoing. The evidence was released and not only did Zimmerman have potentially life-threatening injuries, and no evidence of malice towards Martin, but his story stayed consistent over the days of stressful interrogation, and all of his details line up with the evidence collected.
Everything after that was 100% political, and abuse of the justice system. Good for Florida for taking out the trash!
An elderly man was killed in downtown Manhattan Thursday after an SUV slammed into him and pinned him against a wall, authorities and witnesses said.
Because “Progressives” drive cars, but don’t own or carry guns, so only “Gun Deaths” count. Your life is only significant if it suits their selfish needs!
Always nice when you’re around a “Progressive” Protest:
A man staying at a makeshift protest camp near the Republican National Convention has been arrested and charged with armed battery on a fellow camper.
Tampa Police say 24-year-old Dante M. Sea was charged with aggravated battery Tuesday after he hit 60-year-old Eddie Thomas and broke Thomas’ jaw.
Oh, I can add the “Gun Death” tag too! Gotta Love “Progressives”, if it wasn’t for them this blog might be hard to write!
(Les is a HUGE help too! Keep those stories coming, buddy!)
I wasn’t going to post this story, but this one detail I found amusing:
According to police and court documents, the younger Gladden brought a disassembled shotgun, 21 rounds of ammunition and a bottle of vodka with him for the first day of school Monday morning. On his Facebook page, he wrote, “First day of school, last day of my life.”
Odd, I thought minors couldn’t posses alcohol, and certainly can’t bring it to school! Hell I knew a guy who was probably a pre-hipster who carried a hip flask in school, filled with benign beverages, or just water. He got in trouble and was threatened with suspension if he brought it to school again. He had a point that a hip flask itself isn’t a bad item, and his was a vintage item he snagged at a thrift store, and he was quite proud of it. Still I have a few hip flasks that I’ve acquired over time, and overall I don’t find much use in them, as they’re small and don’t really hold much more than to give you a good buzz if you down most of it in a sitting. I bring mine camping when I want to take a quick snort around the camp fire and pass it around, but I never saw the point when I see my pulp/noir heroes pulling out a flask and taking a quick hit when things got stressful.
Still its not like he was quenching his thirst with it, he was simply carrying it to make a scene, and there was always the potential that if the authorities got permissive he probably would have filled it up with rot-gut for drinking between periods.
Again, rules are ONLY useful for punishment, not CHANGING behavior. So why have rules that punish GOOD behavior, like lawful adults carrying guns when they go to work, pick up their kids, or attend functions?
For 25 years, the rhesus monkeys were kept semi-starved, lean and hungry. The males’ weights were so low they were the equivalent of a 6-foot-tall man who tipped the scales at just 120 to 133 pounds. The hope was that if the monkeys lived longer, healthier lives by eating a lot less, then maybe people, their evolutionary cousins, would, too. Some scientists, anticipating such benefits, began severely restricting their own diets.
The results of this major, long-awaited study, which began in 1987, are finally in. But it did not bring the vindication calorie restriction enthusiasts had anticipated. It turns out the skinny monkeys did not live any longer than those kept at more normal weights. Some lab test results improved, but only in monkeys put on the diet when they were old. The causes of death – cancer, heart disease – were the same in both the underfed and the normally fed monkeys.
Now we know that if you smoke a pack-of-nails a day, drink like a fish, or blow up to massive proportions you’re taking years off your life. Then again there are prominent figures like George Burns and Marlon Brando who treated their bodies like abject shit and lived to a ripe old age, meanwhile, while killers like cancer and heart disease can be caused by environmental factors, are also simply genetic time bombs.
And remember, none of these monkeys got hit by a drunk driver on their way to work one morning.
So it all boils down to what the non-fad assholes have been saying all along. Take care of yourself. Live an active life, and keep yourself fit. Eat good food, and don’t eat too much.
Hey, but if you really enjoy some greasy food like Pig-Wings (h/t Mrs. Weer’d on that gem!), or you want to enjoy a cigar and a few snifters of good scotch on a warm summer evening, or snack on the Doritos and cheap domestic beer while you watch the game on the tube.
Live a little, because being a half-starved monkey in a cage is no way to live!
