“Gun Death” Superbug

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Wow, this warrants a special post:

Over six frightening months, a deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics spread in the nation’s leading research hospital. Pretty soon, a patient a week was catching the bug. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health locked down patients, cleaned with bleach, even ripped out plumbing – and still the germ persisted.

By the end, 18 people harbored the dangerous germ, and six died of bloodstream infections from it. Another five made it through the outbreak only to die from the diseases that brought them to NIH’s world-famous campus in the first place.

It took gene detectives teasing apart the bacteria’s DNA to solve the germ’s wily spread, a CSI-like saga with lessons for hospitals everywhere as they struggle to contain the growing threat of superbugs.

CSI, more like those crazy contagion horror films like Outbreak, Contagion, and The Andromeda Strain!

Its one thing to be chased by a guy with a hockey mask and a butcher knife, its another thing to be stalked by a killer you can’t even see or feel! Good work guys at sorting that one out!

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Did I Mention I Read Monster Hunter Alpha Last Week?

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

This latest project from Dragon Leatherworks is JUST AMAZING!

The holster that I made for one of Larry’s BIGGEST fans. I think it came out great, and the pictures from my customer showing his 625 with the MHI engraving on the sideplate in the MHI holster I built is REALLY cool….

You said it! Wow! I Really like the green splash on the MHI Logo AND the MHI Side Plates on the 625. I’m sure Earl Harbinger will be calling soon asking for a pair for himself!

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Did He Think This Through?

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

This story got me scratching my head:

For a while, having Julian Assange crash at the Ecuadorian embassy in London wasn’t that big of a nuisance. Sure, Assange was always there. But it wasn’t his fault — he would be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault if he ever left. And yeah, there wasn’t really space for him there, so he “sleeps on an air mattress in a small office that has been converted to a bedroom,” according to the New York Times.

We talked about all the luxuries of the modern prisons here, is Assange’s political asylum any better?

I have mixed feelings about Mr. Assange, on one hand he’s a bit of an anarchist who doesn’t seem to care if his wiki-leaks page gets good people killed, on the other hand he is doing good work keeping governments accountable. I haven’t done the math so I’ll just reserve judgement.

Still to avoid going to prison he’s essentially locked himself in a small office to sleep on an air mattress, and NEVER go outside. I guess there are better chances of “Escape” for him, but really would he be worse off if he was convicted of sexual assault in Sweden?

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Bad Justice: Famous

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Or more accurately: “Can you Imagine if He shot an Average Joe?”

John Lennon’s killer was denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before a parole board, New York corrections officials said Thursday….Chapman shot Lennon in December 1980 outside the Manhattan apartment building where the former Beatle lived. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. The musician, singer and songwriter was 40.

“Despite your positive efforts while incarcerated, your release at this time would greatly undermine respect for the law and tend to trivialize the tragic loss of life which you caused as a result of this heinous, unprovoked, violent, cold and calculated crime,” board member Sally Thompson wrote. Board members Joseph Crangle and Marc Coppola agreed.

The panel praised Chapman’s conduct and accomplishments but said “parole shall not be granted for good conduct and program completions alone.” The board noted there was significant opposition to his release.

If this had been a crazy homeless man stabbing a college co-ed on her way back from the bars, or on her way to class, do you think anybody but the immediate family would remember the case enough to express their feelings to the board?

The only reason why he’s going to the can is because he shot a member of the most popular band in the world. Still:

Chapman can try again for parole in two years.

Let’s face it the system WANTS him out, and frankly I don’t see the point. Not murdering people is EASY, I do it all the time, and just about everybody else does this as well. Why do we need to really be concerned about the few defective drones out there why not only don’t play by the rules, but have no concept that there are rules at all?

Bad Justice!

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Bad Party Guest

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Wow!

A hefty hippo chased away from his herd at a South African game reserve has found a refreshing place to relax: the lodge’s swimming pool. Now it’s stuck there….Wentzel said the 4-year-old hippo’s mother gave birth recently, and more dominant males forced him from the herd.

The staff has been feeding the hippo. Ferreira said it’s been noticeably relaxed with no other hippos fighting it for dominance, though the water in the pool has been getting mucky with hippo poop. The pool will be entirely drained before the hippo is lifted out.

Because the hippo was chased away by his herd, it will be moved to another animal sanctuary, Ferreira said.

Can you imagine what that pool will look like after its been decanted? Also what a rough job it’ll be for the biologists removing the brute. Hippos are HUGE and VERY dangerous.

Man I thought it was yucky when I’d see my neighbor scooping dead frogs out of their pool, and the occasional squirrel!

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“Gun Death” Gas

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

My home has natural gas…I guess I’m a potential criminal in the eyes of those who use “Gun Death” to get their way.

When River Falls police arrived at the home to check on the children, they were greeted by a strong odor of natural gas and found the girls dead, MyFoxTwinCities.com reported. The girls’ father, Aaron Schaffhausen, turned himself into police a short time after the discovery.

Obviously we all must heat with oil! And Gas stoves are a method of suicide!!!

h/t Maddmedic and

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Water is Wet, and Trees are Made of Wood

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

And Rodney King died from “misadventure”

Rodney King had been drinking and was on drugs when he plunged into a swimming pool and accidentally drowned in June, a coroner’s report released Thursday concluded….”It concludes our investigation,” he said. “Basically, our investigation revealed the same conclusion and now that we have the toxicology, it basically reinforces that.”

King is only famous because he was drugged out of his mind, lead police on a high-speed chase, resisted arrest, and was video taped when the police finally subdued him.

That and the racists of LA decided it was all race-related, and chose to send a message by destroying their own neighborhoods.

King continued to get in trouble with the law and lead a checkered life until the time of his death.

The report details numerous injuries King sustained over his lifetime, including several birdshot pellets that remained in his body after being shot in 2007 by a shotgun.

Nice!

Yeah this should be a surprise to NOBODY!

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STOP….SQUIRREL TIME!!!!

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Yep time for another SQUIRREL REPORT!

We’ll be talking politics like Newsweek and Aikin. We’ll be talking about grown men wearing skirts to fight cancer. And our call in topics will be your views on those topics, whatever else we talk about and the worst injury you’ve inflicted on yourself in honor of this dude.

So yeah, should be fun! Join us FOR THE SQUIRREL REPORT!!!! 9pm Eastern Time!

wait….YOU ARE NOT A DUCK!!!

THE SQUIRREL REPORT!!111!!!

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Sikhs Arming Up

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Seen in the wild!

Good for them, and Welcome to America guys! Also if anybody in your family wants to open a restaurant, I’ll encourage that behavior too, because your food is AWESOME! 8)

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Things I Don’t Get

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Weerd Beard

“Non Of The Above Ballot Options”:

A quirky Nevada law that Republicans feared could siphon votes from a disgruntled electorate and sway the outcome of close presidential and U.S. Senate races in the state was struck down Wednesday by a federal judge.

U.S. District Judge Robert Jones said the state’s decades-old ballot alternative of “none of the above” was unconstitutional because votes for “none” don’t count in the final tallies that determine winners.

Now this box WOULD make sense if the “None” box WON the general election, that it would trigger a new primary and special election, preferably with the old candidates excluded from the primary. But in this case it means “None of the Above wins, but you got second place, so you win!” which is just good for moral!

So yeah this sounds like a waste of time. If you want to send a message just leave the box blank. A local radio host used to compare the number of votes Ted Kennedy would get on his many unopposed Senate runs vs. the ballots submitted to show how willing people were to vote for the murderous drunk.

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