“Gun Death” Killer Swan

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Seriously

Swans have a seemingly placid demeanor, and their monogamous mating habits have long made them a symbol of lasting love. But the creatures — generally snowy white, with long graceful necks and a black “mask” around their eyes — are territorial and can be quite aggressive when threatened. This aggression makes them good at driving off geese; it can also lead to tragedy.

Anthony Hensley was a 37-year-old married father of two who worked for a company that uses dogs and swans to shoo pesky geese from properties in the area. Hensley had taken to a kayak Sunday morning to check on the swans in a Des Plaines-area pond when one of the larger birds turned on him, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Cook County sheriff’s investigators believe Hensley either got too close to the swan or the swan’s nesting area, the Sun-Times said. Hensley rolled off his kayak and landed in the water, and the swan kept up its relentless attack.

The Sun-Times reports that the swan continued to pursue Hensley as he tried to swim to shore. Hensley was submerged when emergency workers arrived, and an autopsy found that he died from drowning near the Bay Colony condominiums in unincorporated Des Plaines.

Wow! Swans are fucking HUGE! I can imagine that if you’re in the water trying to keep your head up, unless you can plant your feet on the bottom, that swan can probably provide enough grunt to keep that head down until the fight stops.

Odd animal attack, but animals can be deadly even in what we consider Urban areas. Be they Coyotes or Bears, or Pit Bulls and Swans. I can imagine that if a gun was on the caretaker’s belt, maybe he could have stopped this before he died. Maybe not.

Either way, this isn’t a “Gun Death” so it doesn’t count.

h/t Whipped Cream Difficulties and Bob

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Oh, this is Great!

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Airports are waiving background checks on employees.

Employers at some U.S. airports are being allowed to hire workers without completing all background security checks because of a backlog in the screening process, federal officials said.

The backlog and resulting relief granted to airports was first reported by WSB-TV in Atlanta, which obtained a memo from airport officials outlining the Transportation Security Administration directive. The memo was sent from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport officials on April 20 to airlines and contractors there. It says workers can be granted access to certain parts of the airport before their checks are finished.

“To allow for a continuity of operations, TSA has provided airports and airlines with interim regulatory relief,” TSA spokesman Jon Allen said in a statement. “At no time was security at risk, and all new employees will still undergo identity verification and be subject to watch list matching.”

Of course the report is vague, but I think we’ve seen all the obvious flaws, like dumping out your water bottle before you go see the sexual deviants at the screening area…and then seeing some chump wheeling in a dolly full of water bottles to be sold on the other side in the various shops.

Of course its not like even if the system was running at 100% these fools could catch the next major terrorist, but hey, now it means the Terrorists won’t even have to break a sweat to get through.

….While a high school dropout sticks his hands down your pants and makes your children cry.

Disbands the TSA YESTERDAY!

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The Other Side of “Gun Death”

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Weerd Beard

I don’t see it very much anymore, but often the people who use “Gun Death” use that metric to not only demonize guns, but also give the illusion of safety. “Why do you NEED a gun, we have almost no ‘Gun Death’ here!”

Case and Point:

A 25-year-old homeowner shot a 26-year-old intruder Wednesday morning after police said he broke into the home on Mardale Avenue by smashing a window.

Bedford Heights detective Ken Hatcher said police were notified around 11 a.m. by the homeowner that moments earlier he had looked outside and seen the intruder breaking flower pots at a neighboring home.

Hatcher said the intruder then saw him and had broken a kitchen window and crawled in.

The homeowner, who had called 9-1-1, did not hang up the phone. He then confronted the intruder, who then grabbed a knife from the kitchen and threatened the homeowner.

Hatcher said the homeowner then grabbed a 45-caliber semiautomatic pistol and shot the intruder once in the chest area.

He grabbed a kitchen knife, that’s a deadly weapon. The homeowner grabbed a .45, that’s a better weapon, and then good guys win.

Of course those who pitch the metric of “Gun Death” would rather the intruder have all the advantages. They’re pro-criminal. Hell many of them ARE ACTUAL criminals, and they’re just showing professional courtesy.

Also for those of you in the caliber war, so much for the .45 ACP being the fist of an angry God. I remember hearing say to somebody “You shoot somebody in the hand and they’ll fall down!” Yet this fella took a .45 to the chest and the story doesn’t even say he was in “Critical Condition”. All handguns suck, but they’re nice to have when you need one!

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THIS MUST BE!

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Buddy at work was musing at how they have pit bulls fight for sport, he suggested sticking mixed-species who are known to be ornery into a steel cage until one expires.

He suggested an Ostrich and a Camel in Thunderdome. Seriously, that MUST BE!

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Constructing a “Progressive” Argument

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Weerd Beard

A comprehensive and well-made list of Fallacies.

If you’re a “Progressive” you’re going to need them!

What’s hilarious was I could toss a Joyce-Funded anti-gun comment into EVERY one of those.

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More WTF from Massachusetts

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Concord Proposes Cat Leash Law

Wednesday night, voters at Concord’s town meeting will vote on a new leash law – for cats.

Lydia Lodynsky tells The Boston Globe that the bylaw that would be similar to one already in town for dogs…Lodynsky would sit outside in her yard to mourn. It was then she noticed the cats, and one by one, they would pick off birds, including a morning dove, a cardinal, and a black cap chickadee, according to the paper.

Now, one of the warrants on Concord’s town meeting tackles the idea of cats running loose. The Globe says that if a cat was to wander onto a yard, and the land owner doesn’t object, than there would be no issue.

She is right about one thing, cats are hunters and they do catch and kill a lot of small animals, often for sport. That being said we already have a similar ordinance…the law of nature. If you cat is out wandering the law of nature will be enforced by your local authorities.

The owners seemed to have taken them down, but my street had around 4 different “Missing Cat” signs up last fall. The cat isn’t “Missing” FYI.

**UPDATE** I missed this gem from the same meeting:

The town of Concord has banned the sale of bottled drinking water in town beginning in 2011.

“We only have one planet and I just don’t want to see it spoiled,” said Jean Hill, who introduced the measure at Concord’s Town Meeting.

Hill said that New York, Illinois and Virginia, as well as more than 100 cities, have taken action to cut spending on bottled water.

The measured passed by Concord would allow the sale of refillable containers of water, which could still be sold and delivered in town. Only plastic bottles that companies cannot reuse would be banned.

Anti-freedom, people! Remember Mommy .Gov knows best for you! Concord is LOUSY with moonbats!

BTW these morons don’t understand that people who drink bottled water can still get it by DRIVING to the neighboring towns to buy the same stuff, then hauling it home. You know, burning fossil fuels, as well as the local businesses who can’t compete with those who have the freedom to sell what their customers want.

This is “Progress” in “Progressive”. You wonder why I refuse to write it without the quotes.

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“Gun Death” WTF??

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Jennifer already covered it, but its too crazy to pass up.

The mother of a slain Oklahoma City man said her son, who was born a dwarf, was no match for the near 6-foot woman who killed him, apparently in a fit of anger.

Clara Ann Blocker, 40, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Cleveland County District Court to using a crystal ball and a DVD player to beat Erik Scott Saxton, 41, to death. Blocker was sentenced to life in prison on a first-degree murder count in the September 2010 slaying.

You can’t make this shit up!

Hey but this is what the people who talk “Gun Death” are dreaming of, the big killing the small, and using nasty things like DVD players and Fortune Telling equipment.

This isn’t a “gun death”, so to those who hate freedom, this smells of paradise!

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This Guy is GREAT!

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Snerk!

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Your Views are Not Relevant

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Gotta love this old saw!

I’m a hunter and a sportswoman. I own guns, but not for self-defense. I support gun control laws. I would happily vote to repeal the Stand Your Ground law in my home state of Oregon. In other words, the N.R.A. does not represent me.

Nor should it. The NRA supports the 2nd Amendment. As I like to point out, George Washington didn’t cross the Delaware River to get to his Duck Blind. The 2nd Amendment has never been about hunting. Further the 1st Amendment isn’t about tweeting what you had for breakfast, either. It IS about your freedom to speak out against a Constitutionally protected right, the right to self defense, and to tell lies about the NRA. Nobody cares one way or another about Suzie Mom-Blogger talking about the trials and tribulations of poopie diapers. People DO want to silence people who are a direct threat, like your malicious and ignorant statements, or from hate groups like the KKK or the New Black Panthers.

The Constitution doesn’t allow for their silencing simply because we may not like what they say. I think this is a good thing…you probably do too, but don’t think the other Amendments should apply so liberally.

I would like to hunt, but overall I live in a fairly urban environment, for me to hunt it would need to be a planned vacation, not weekend excursion or a fair weather pastime like it is for you. My guns are for the defense of my life and the lives of whom I care about.

What are your guns for? For personal enjoyment, and the killing of meat we have a surplus of at the local grocery stores. Whose opinion is relevant now?

Of course who’s relevant and who’s a stuffy elitist is irrelevant, as the 2nd Amendment doesn’t put any preclusion on hunting, and not only do I have zero issue with the sport, I’d love to participate. But she doesn’t want me to, because my hunting rifle looks scary.

Lily Raff McCaulou is a white woman voting for Jim Crow laws because she isn’t black, nor are any of her family members, and frankly she finds blacks scary.

And this attitude is why their side is losing ground so rapidly.

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Give Him Some Love

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Weerd Beard

David Price, the subject of this recent post found my story and left some kind words.

He also left a link to his website where he advertises concealed carry training for Illinois residents. Just because your home state won’t let you carry doesn’t mean you have to be disarmed wherever you are!

We need everybody in this fight! We need the stalwarts in the gun-friendly state to keep fording forward pushing back junk laws and pushing forward good new laws. We also need people in the last bastions of anti-rights teaching, running FFLs, and getting more people to know, understand, and maybe even like guns.

There’s a reason when the Brady Campaign recently pushed a pledge they got ZERO SUPPORT, even in anti-gun states there are a LOT of gun owners, and people who aren’t hostile to the 2nd Amendment. That didn’t come from nowhere, and its people like Mr. Price who are helping build that foundation.

So if you know anybody in the area who could use some training, or needs the services of an FFL, pass that website along!

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