Don’t Mess With Texas

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Over at Robbs:

Alan:”That’s why deadly force is always a last resort. You only use it when the only alternative is that you or yours die.

(Or if you’re in Texas, sumdude is running off with your bigscreen.)”

Tam:”I thought that was only after dark? Or is it hubcaps after dark? Something like that… ”

Alan: “It’s cheerleaders TPing your trees you can shoot after dark. ”

Its a wonder there’s any crime in Texas!

Of course there also isn’t a wide spread epidemic of people shooting pranksters or other likely-innocent rapscallions in Texas.

Of course those of us who carry guns know that just HAVING the means to kill doesn’t somehow add a desire to kill. Further one of the cores of military training is to mentally prepare soldiers to kill, because even in a combat theater with full-auto weapons soldiers are reluctant to kill.

Shooting is ALWAYS the last resort. Of course the antis say blood will run in the streets. Reality is why they’re always wrong!

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Lunchbreak Jam

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Weerd Beard

I NEED Dubstep, specifically when I’m lifting weights. Its hard to push through the fatigue without a DRIVING beat.

So when I work out I put on my Dubstep Pandora station. This song came on. I hadn’t heard it before so I was curious. Generally I don’t much care for pop vocals, but the beat was good so I said “I’ll give it until the drop to decide”.

Yeah its GOOD!

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Morning Grove

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Weerd Beard

YEAH its time for a SEXY PARTY!

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Refreshing

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Weerd Beard

I’m very surprised to see this.

Recently The View had President Obama on and lobbed soft-balls at him so he could have an effective campaign add without having to pay for air time.

Still its good to see the women of the The View actually showing some backbone. I was expecting them to take more of a Position taken by NOW, which is the same as their stance on Bill Clinton. Paraphrase: “Well its OK if Democrats abuse women!”

I’m also glad she’s Ms. Cupp is just speaking out against it, but not attempting a showboat lawsuit.

More here.

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“Gun Death” Altercation

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Of course those who use the metric of “Gun Death” claim that without guns altercations will be settled peacefully. They don’t really meld with reality.

A Minneapolis man fatally stabbed his roommate during an altercation in their apartment Monday, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday, May 2.

Abdurahman Warfa, 27, was found by police Monday “lying on his back in a large pool of blood” with “a stab wound to his neck,” the complaint said. The Hennepin County medical examiner said Warfa died of “complications of a sharp-force injury to the left shoulder.”

Also present when police arrived was Warfa’s roommate, Abdirahim Mahamed Jama, 38. According to the complaint, Jama’s clothing was covered with blood.

“He attacked me and I stabbed him,” Jama told police.

Jama was charged with two counts of second-degree murder Wednesday.

But there were no guns! Why is there a dead body?

Oh yeah, those who use the metric of “Gun Death” aren’t from this planet!

h/t Mike W.

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You Might Be That Guy in the Lab

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

When we’re doing Liquid Nitrogen Safety and the trainer points out that while REALLY cool, DO NOT PLAY WITH THE LIQUID NITROGEN!

Like five sets of eyes all went to me and mouthed “NO!”….

It’s like I have a reputation!

I have no idea how that happened.

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Quote of the Day

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

From Paul, posted here:

If we were to implement performance-based employment for airport screeners, passengers would be given the screener jobs, (with a 100% detection and interdiction rate since Sep 12, 2001, it’s hard to fault those numbers!) and TSA employees would have to go back to making meth, picking peanuts out of elephant poop and collecting cans.

He’s got a point there…and while most of the TSA goons look like people who would otherwise be cooking meth, picking cans, or working in a job with a nametag and a hair net….the ele-poop jab made me laugh WICKED HARD.

Well said Salty! Fair winds and following seas!

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Disband the TSA!

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

And Disband it YESTERDAY!

n the decade since U.S. Rep. John Mica helped create the Transportation Security Administration, the veteran Republican has gone from reluctant father to outright critic.

Few areas of TSA have dodged Mica’s scorn; he has attacked the $7.8 billion agency on issues ranging from wasteful spending to the intrusive pat-downs of passengers by airport-security workers.

But only recently has the Winter Park legislator made progress on his top goal: eliminating the roughly 52,000 TSA screeners nationwide in favor of those hired by private security companies.

I have NOTHING wrong with security. I have issues with government mandates that are direct violations of our rights, cost us a TON of money! (7.8 BILLION???? JESUS Jumped-up CHRIST! FOR WHAT?) all for nothing!

With Private security airlines and airports can compete by having more efficient, less-invasive security. Also Private security are accountable for RESULTS! Your 10-year-old gets his nuts cupped by a high school dropout who later gets busted for child porn charges, meanwhile several terrorists and contraband get through, and nothing is stopped….the whole agency gets scrapped…unless its run by Daddy .Gov, then they ask for more money!

And of course with the freedom to choose your own security, WHY would anybody hire the TSA?

GOOD!

h/t to Erin who sent this to me!

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The Person, Not The Tool

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Another example of how safety laws work.

A sixth-grade student was arrested and removed from Whittier Middle School by police yesterday after she attacked a teacher with scissors, school officials said.

Superintendent James Scully said the scissors made contact with the teacher, but did not penetrate the teacher’s clothing.

Police and an ambulance were called to the school, and the student was removed from the building and brought to the police station, Scully said. He said the girl has been suspended for at least the remainder of the school year.

I mean WHY would scissors be allowed in a school! There should be a “Zero Tolerance Policy” on scissors! Also Pencils, and pens! Maybe even books!

See where we’re going? Again this is a violent youth who wanted to hurt a teacher for whatever reason. “Gun Free Zone” and “Zero Tolerance” of various mundane items. Humans are resourceful, we figure stuff out. Taking weapons away does NOTHING, only taking away malicious intent will solve ANYTHING, and humans have been trying to do that for so long I think we can chalk that one out as a loss.

Of course this is just a blogger with an agenda cherry-picking isolated events…

In April of last year, a 17-year-old student at the Haverhill’s St. James Alternative School was charged with attacking a teacher and an aide with scissors.

Ruben Vargas, a student in the TEACH program which serves children with special needs, inflicted a superficial cut on the abdomen of a teacher’s aide and slashed another teacher’s ring finger, school officials said.

Different school, same town. Either something is rotten in the state of Haverhill…or maybe I know what I’m talking about…

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Sub Fire

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Good thing it was at dock.

Fire broke out on Wednesday
evening on a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine docked at the
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine, injuring four firefighters,
officials said.

The cause of the fire is not yet known, but the vessel’s
nuclear reactor was not involved. There were no weapons aboard
the sub, which is at the shipyard for system upgrades and
maintenance.

The fire started in the “forward compartment” of the
U.S.S. Miami, an attack submarine docked at the Kittery, Maine,
shipyard shortly before 6 p.m. ET

Firefighters were still battling the blaze after 10 p.m.,
with equipment brought in from as far away as Boston’s Logan
International Airport, about 60 miles away.

“The ship’s reactor was not operating at the time and was
not effected,” shipyard spokeswoman Tami Remick said by
telephone from Kittery.

Even at dock that sounds pretty scary. Glad it wasn’t out to sea!

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