Almost Home

Taking a quick pit-stop at the folks house.

Probably going to stop by Wally’s shop for a quick Hello, and then home. Unless I dally too much around the machine guns, I’ll be home in time for tonight’s Squirrel Report which I have done ZERO prep work for.

BTW, I’m still surprised at how much I love the new Ford Edge, its a really great vehicle to cruise across the countryside in.

Oh, and there is no way I might know this, but a little bird told me that if there is a speed governor on this car its further up the speedometer than would be practical on American roads….

Fun week, but I’m glad to be heading home!

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“Gun Death” Brutal Beast

It takes a monster to scare other monsters:

Some inmates who served time with Thomas J. Fox were so disturbed by his words and demeanor that they broke a jailhouse taboo on snitching and helped finger him in the brutal killing of an Oakdale nanny, police say.

The longtime criminal was in court Friday after being indicted by a Washington County grand jury in the fatal stabbing and robbery of Lori Christine Baker as she tried to break up with him last December.

The state’s key witnesses include some who served time with Fox, 44, of St. Paul, who was a fugitive when he first met Baker and began dating her — all the while using a fake name, according to one ex-convict who met Fox in prison.

Its not the tool, its the man who commits the crime. Really says a lot that other inmates were freaked out by this guy. Doesn’t matter if a beast like this has an AK-47, or a philips head screwdriver, they have the desire to kill, and they will accomplish this.

For those of us without this thirst for blood, carry your damn gun!

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Hells Yeah!

After three mice, at about an hour per mouse (!!) I finally got a carotid atery cannula threadded!

And the damn thing worked too!

Pretty amazing given that I was fried after number two blead out on the table….

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“Gun Death” Strangling and Beheading

In India where they have very low “Gun Death”

Bollywood actress Meenakshi Thapar reportedly has been gruesomely killed by two of her co-stars in a failed attempt to extort money from her family.

26-year-old Thapar was strangled and then beheaded after allegedly being kidnapped by two aspiring actors that she worked with on her latest film “Heroine”.

Amit Jaiswal, 36, and his lover Preeti Surin, reportedly decided to kidnap Ms. Thapar after listening to her boast about her family’s wealth and status in Dehra Dun, in the Himalayan foothills of northern India, according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph.

Yeah, guns cause crime…

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Morning

So begins day three of the surgury course.

Amusing things learned:

-Our instructor (who has a noticeable accent) taught us the “French Canadian Method” of cardiac puncture. Yeah, I’ll need to mess around with that some.

-My surgery skills have grown very rusty from the times when I did these things much more often, but rust polishes away quite quickly…unfortunately not quickly enough before we move to more advanced techniques.

-Vascular surgery in a mouse is work for watchmakers. I can do it, but man it’ll take me some work on that, and I think I’ll be using more of my time for these methods then the others that will be presented.

-Boy I should have been smart and cut that gorgeous steak I had for dinner in half, rather than gorging myself like I did. Rarely do you get meat cooked perfectly from food services!

-Said steak lead to freakish nightmares of mouse innards under high magnification, and then no further sleep from an upset stomach.

Thankfully we’ll only be in class until noon today, then we’ll be touring the park. I suspect the sleep I got will wear off quickly.

Hope y’all are well too!

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“Gun Death” Stabbing

Since they’re working so hard banning guns, we don’t hear much about “Knife Death”.

A Groton man assaulted with a knife in an incident Sunday in Lansing has died of his injuries, according to the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office….The case against Dana Houghtling, 40, of West Groton Road, Groton, has now become a homicide case, said Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson. The district attorney’s office will seek an indictment through the grand jury on Thursday, she said. Wilkinson said she doesn’t expect the grand jury to take longer than a week to make a decision.

“This crime appears to have grown out of a domestic incident and there were two altercations between the victim and the defendant in the course of the evening of April 15,” she said. “The second altercation is the one in which the victim received the wounds that killed him.”

That and “Progressives” have all sorts of fancy knives in their kitchens. They only want to ban rights they DON’T use.

h/t Zercool

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“Gun Death” Burning Memories

Interesting story:

A mother has confessed to accidentally starting the house fire that killed four of her children while burning photographs of her ex boyfriend.

Bobbie Kugler, 31, is believed to have told police that she set the bunch of pictures alight before throwing them onto a pile of clothes.

As the blaze tore through the two-storey, wood-framed home, in Rochester, New York, her children Gage Reavey, 14, Greg Kugler,13, Kandee Kugler, 12, and six-year-old Kaiden Kugler slept innocently in their beds.

Well I guess her melodramatic closure was more important than the life of her kids. Great mom! Close friend of mine did this after a nasty break-up…except she had the common-sense to do it in a sand pit at night in a fire pit.

But hey, this isn’t a “Gun Death”, so let’s just ignore it, it doesn’t fit the narrative!

h/t Whipped Cream Difficulties

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“Gun Death” Sailboat Racing

lets look at this though the eyes of the anti-freedom nuts.

The San Francisco Bay Area’s tightly knit sailing community is reeling after a racing yacht accident near the Farallon Islands killed one sailor and left four missing.

Twelve-foot waves pummeled the sailboat during the Full Crew Farallones Race and hurled it onto rocks at the Farallon Islands, pitching most of the crew overboard. Three sailors were rescued but Marc Kasanin, 46, of Belvedere died, in the water and four more disappeared in the waves.

Coast Guard and National Guard rescuers scoured the choppy waters 27 miles west of the Golden Gate for the missing sailors until the search was called off Sunday night. There were no plans to resume.

First up, these days there’s no reason to push a boat with sails, diesel works so much better, and is safer. Also why are we racing them? This is just frivolous and dangerous.

Obviously we need to ONLY use sail craft for historical purposes, like those various Mayflower and Santa Maria replicas you see putting around, as well as the US Navy SS Constitution, but John Kerry’s Sail Yacht? BANNED and CONFISCATED! IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE!!!!

Or we could act as adults and understand that people enjoy doing dangerous things, and some of them die.

h/t Whipped Cream Difficulties

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All Checked In

Just finished dinner and meeting the other folks who are taking the course.

Another good group, and it should be a lot of fun.

Also a little bit of politics came up…yeah I’m the only conservative.

Well just thought I’d give a quick update for those curious. Also I’m testing the WiFi strength, and its VERY slow, and cell reception on the island is a nightmare, so yeah, I’m going to be STARVED for internets by the end of the week!

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Light Blogging Ahead

Man seems like I’ve been traveling a LOT recently. I have no idea how Old NFO does it!

So I’m up in Maine, and will be headed north to one of the world-famous mouse labs for a week of surgery training. Should be fun and interesting, but I suspect blogging will be VERY light.

“Gun Death” Magazine is stuffed to the brim (thanks again for all reader submissions), so at least you can swing by for the freak show!

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