Two Cool Videos.
First Jeff got himself a high-def camera, and how better to use it than record muzzle flashes on slo-mo!
And Mr. Weebl thinks the same way I do.
We buy chicken breasts when they’re on sale and freeze them. I mark the date on the bag, and note to content simply as “Tits”.
The Con-Plague turned into a fever last afternoon, and I pretty much just stayed in bed all day. Went to be relatively early, but Mrs. Weer’d woke me up when she thought she heard somebody screaming outside.
Turned out to be just coyotes. I’ve been looking out for predators to be moving into the neighborhood. A few years back we had a MASSIVE rabbit population. Soon a group of red tail hawks moved in, and suddenly most of the rabbits vanished and the hawks moved on. Now the rabbits have again exploded, but it looks like the coyotes are there to do the job.
I stepped out on the balcony to try to get a range and direction, and it turned out they were a few streets away. I need to remind the neighbors to keep their cat in at night. He’s a tough urban predator, but I heard at least 2 ‘yotes and I suspect they’d make short work of him.
Of course since I’d been sleeping for 4 hours before being woken up, I wasn’t terribly tired so it took me a while to bed back down.
So I’m gonna drop some videos on the blog then see if I can shut my eyes for a few hours more.
I answer the door armed. Generally because I put my gun on in the morning when I get dressed, and don’t take it off until I go to bed. But I’ll make it a point to bring a gun with me if I don’t expect somebody to be knocking. I must be Paranoid!
The prosecutor said Rios knocked on the door and when Hempel opened it he pushed himself in.
“She attempted to scream. He put his hand on her face and pushed her a distance into the living room, onto the floor and then he strangled her,” Romankow said. “He acknowledged that he did this, killed this lady.”
Investigators told CBS 2’s Christine Sloan that Rios walked away with only $360 worth of coins that he took over to a machine at a grocery store and turned into bills. Detectives said Rios had burglarized dozens of homes since January, including one by Hempel’s house, an incident resulting in him being chased by neighbors….Detectives said Hempel was the only victim who made the mistake of opening the door to Rios, a man with a lengthy criminal past that includes burglary and drugs.
This story comes from Bob who wrote this great peace on another illustrious citizen of Elizabeth NJ. This technique is a pretty common form of home invasion. The door is unlocked from inside by the unsuspecting resident, and then the door is used as leverage against them and entry is gained.
He then murdered her with nothing but his bare hands.
This was a career criminal who was known to police, yet was still walking the streets. Also he was unarmed. Those who use the metric of “Gun Death” see this as the vision of America. The criminals ruling over the unarmed lawful citizens, and while murders might be common, none of them would be “Gun Deaths”.
Is this the world you want to live in?
Well crap! I woke up on day three of the convention with a sore throat. I hoped it was just a rough voice from talking over the crowds.
Things seemed to get better….well now they feel worse. Gonna take it easy today.
Maybe more content when I’m feeling a bit more perky.
Zipties are one of those 1,001 use items. They’re cheap, they’re strong, and they work well for a LOT of uses. Most of them are good, some of them are bad…
Charlotte Schilling strangled her 10-year-old son with a plastic zip tie, then killed herself, Council Bluffs police said today.
Schilling, a 41-year-old Plattsmouth, Neb., woman, used a separate zip tie to strangle herself after killing Owen Schilling, authorities said.
No suicide note has been found….Criminal Investigation Division Sgt. Chad Meyers said Schilling had attempted suicide last November. She used a zip tie in that incident as well, but a family member was able to intervene.
never really considered zip-ties as a suicide means, but I can see how they work. Wrap one around your neck tight enough to occlude blood flow, and unless somebody comes in and cuts the tie, the occlusion will remain until death occurs. Seems pretty quick and painless too. Anti-rights people talk a lot of “Gun Suicide” because it accounts for about 50% of the suicides in this country, and they want to ban guns. Of course other countries with heavy gun control don’t have a notably lower suicide rate than the US…tho their “Gun Suicide” rates are much lower. With the exception of Japan where suicide can be considered “Honerable” under the right circumstances, generally you see the most suicides in places with long dark winters (like the Northern United states, Alaska, Scandinavia, Norther Russia) or places with minimal sunshine like Seattle Washington. Suicide is a horrible thing that hurts families a great deal, but its also a personal choice.
The real sorrow is that this woman murdered her young son before taking her own life. But it wasn’t a “Gun Death” so we won’t be hearing calls for Ziptie bans or background checks.
h/t AllenF
So Joan, and several other antis have been complaining about the fires in Colorado started by shooters.
Right. Citizens absolutely do NOT surrender their civil rights- ever, ever, ever. No matter that thousands of acres of land are burning. No matter that in national emergencies people do not necessarily think straight and may just use a gun when they shouldn’t. No matter that the common good and public safety are more important at times than individual rights. There just are times when, as communities, people should pull together to do the right thing and help out. But apparently not to the gun guys. They have to have their guns at all times even if they themselves can be dangerous. There just is no common sense when it comes to the common good for the gun rights advocates.
See? Its all about banning guns! FOR OUR OWN GOOD! Of course somebody who isn’t a drooling moron, Michael Bane has a lot to say on this.
I question whether “target shooting” in the sense we use the words are the cause of the fire, especially when the reports stem from the U.S. Forest Service, which has a long-term antigun agenda. I would, however, like to say quite bluntly to the shooters in the Front Range that we need to obey the restrictions! And in areas that aren’t restricted, for god’s sake use your heads! No tracers; no steel core surplus ammo (which will, rarely, spark off rocks); above all, no “exploding” targets of any kind! I also suggest carrying a good-sized fire extinguisher with you, as well as a shovel. Make sure any fire you start is out out out!
I live up here in the restricted zone, and yes, this has put a huge crimp in my shooting practice for the year. But yesterday it was 91 degrees at the Secret Hidden Bunker — the first time in 13 years the temperature has hit those highs at almost 9000 feet! The humidity is in the single digits, dead dry. Right now, the wind is down as the temperature climbs once again into the 90s, but it will come up hard in the afternoon. What that means in simple, easy-to-understand terms is every single spark goes! And with winds gusting 30-40 miles per hour, there’s no stopping it.
Its not HARD not to burn the place down, and still have a fun day of target shooting. And of course the risky kind of shooting is already restricted when the fire danger is high.
Of course what you won’t hear about from the antis is this story:
People remained out of their homes in Last Chance, Woodrow and surrounding areas on Colorado’s eastern plains Tuesday after fire raced across 41,000 acres of prairie land Monday.
Officials believe the fire began at about 1:30 p.m. as a result of sparks from a tire blowout along Colo. Highway 71 near the small town of Last Chance in Washington County Monday. The sparks set some brush on fire. It then burned 41,000 acres.
I’ve seen tires blow out at highway speeds and it indeed produces more sparks than an 80s music video. I’ve also seen tons of people riding around on under-inflated tires. Who’s willing to bet that Joan has NO idea what the factory recommended tire pressure for her car’s tires, as she’s probably riding around on her tire’s sidewalls.
Joan won’t talk about this because a ban on cars would inconvenience HER! She just wants to restrict rights she doesn’t use!
You see guns are different because they are different!
LOL this reminds me of the squirrels that wander into the lightning breaker on my power lines.
That’s just nasty!
I was staffing a security post at the con when some friends started talking about Dragon Ball Z. I decided to tease them on the lack of plot.
And its now on youtube!
just for LOLz!
I mean besides the rank incompetence in the TSA.
A terminal at New York’s JFK Airport had to be evacuated and hundreds of passengers marched back through security screening Saturday, all because one Transport Security Administration (TSA) agent failed to realize his metal detector had been unplugged, sources said.
The stunning error led to hours of delays, two planes called back from the runway and infinite frustration for furious passengers.
One of my amusements while waiting in line is seeing how things work. All the metal detectors I’ve seen generally have two light interfaces. A green light when the unit is on but no metal is detected, and a red light (accompanied with a tone) when metal is detected. I’m sure this interface differs slightly with brands and makes of detectors. Still all detection devices generally have an interface that allows users to know the unit is operating properly even when no source is detected. There are all sorts of interfaces with smoke detectors that say they’re running but don’t smell smoke. Same with carbon monoxide testers. Further those hand-held metal detectors that you see people hunting for treasure at beaches and parks with have a light that show that the device is indeed walking.
Now why wouldn’t the TSA have a protocol, say at shift change, to verify that the devices are on, and maybe drop a screw driver, or a small belt buckle…or maybe an ultra-expensive US-certified metal quanta into your pocket and walk through the device to make sure it smells what it needs to find.
These are the people who are watching out for our safty and violating our rights to perform their acts!
DISBAND THE TSA YESTERDAY!
The Mrs. Sent this to me for obvious reasons. I’m a heavy tea drinker.
Men who are heavy tea drinkers may be more likely to develop prostate cancer, according to new research.
A team from Glasgow University tracked the health of more than 6,000 male volunteers over a period of 37 years.
They found men who drank over seven cups of tea per day had a 50% higher risk of developing prostate cancer than moderate and non tea drinkers.
Now what does it mean?
The team said it did not know if tea was a risk factor or if drinkers lived to ages where cancer was more common….Volunteers were asked to complete a questionnaire about their usual consumption of tea, coffee, alcohol, smoking habits and general health, and attended a screening examination.
Just under a quarter of the men included in the study were heavy tea drinkers.
Of these, 6.4% developed prostate cancer during a follow-up of up to 37 years.
Researchers found that men who drank more than seven cups of tea per day had a significantly increased risk of prostate cancer compared to those who drank no tea or less than four cups per day.
This is one thing that really bugs me:
He said: “Most previous research has shown either no relationship with prostate cancer for black tea or some preventive effect of green tea.
“We don’t know whether tea itself is a risk factor or if tea drinkers are generally healthier and live to an older age when prostate cancer is more common anyway.”
“We found that heavy tea drinkers were more likely not to be overweight, be non alcohol-drinkers and have healthy cholesterol levels.
“However, we did adjust for these differences in our analysis and still found that men who drank the most tea were at greater risk of prostate cancer.”
Green tea, black tea, oolong tea, et al are all the leaves of the same plant, just processed differently. The claimed health benefits of green tea seem to root themselves in the fact that most of the tea studies have been conducted in the Far East where green teas are the preferred beverage. Also it should be noted that a Far Eastern diet is drastically different, as well a drastically different genetic stock. The same could be said about Scotland. Some of my ancestors are from that island, but just some of them, and I’m sure I couldn’t pinpoint all the various matings of people in my direct genetic line for the migratory people who eventually wound up in Maine and created me. How many of the people in the study could trace their ancestry to Scotland for say the last few hundred years?
Its an interesting study, but it smells of me like a study pointing out that eating Haggis and cheese burgers decrease the risk of sickle-cell anaemia. Correlation does not always mean causation.
Now how about a cup of tea?
