OK, Well Played BPD

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Weerd Beard

I gotta say, this story sounds like a well executed strategy.

If you remember my last post on Occupy Boston the Mayor gave a Midnight Deadline for clearing Dewy Square. The hippies who didn’t want to get arrested rolled out, and they were replaced en-mass with protesters from out of state who were more than willing to spend a night in jail (or worse). So when the cops showed up they were right ready to scrap it out.

The cops backed down. I assumed, with good reason, that it was a combination of bleeding-heart liberalism, and political favoritism. Still seeing this story, I suspect I was wrong. It appears the saber rattling shook the tree and cleared out many of the fair-weather protesters who didn’t want a hickory-shampoo and a side of pepper-spray, and while the group called on re-enforcements to make a proper bloody riot of the event, they declared victory too soon.

Looks like the clearing went off without injury or any major disturbances.

Looks like they did well, and the trespassers are now attempting to regroup. This will all be for nothing if we let them re-settle.

Time will tell.

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Update

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Weerd Beard

So first up, The wine I had with the last Vicious Circle went down surprisingly smooth, all things considered. Still the drunk it supplied me was very creepy. Giddy feelings of drunkenness punctuated with feelings of dread that the horrible shit was getting closer to my brain.

There indeed was a hangover, but nothing terrible, and I suspect the majority of the poor feelings was going to bed at 1am with a belly-full of hobo-wine, and not the effects of the wine itself…still I must say I have no cravings to to saddle up for a midnight ride on the Night Train. I’ll stick with 40s when I feel the need for abject scumbaggery.

The new computer is FINALLY running. I had some freaky Malware sneak onto the system within seconds of getting the system running that crippled it near 100%…nuke pave, and let’s try that again. Now it’s working fine. Also I stuffed the auxiliary hard drive with all the goodness from my last box, and its currently hooked up to a USB adapter and sitting on my desk transferring my old files. We’ll be about 90% functionality soon…and then we’ll SLOOOOOWLY get our way up to 100%

Until then I’ll be kinda distracted. TTYL!

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“Gun Death” Family Stabbing

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Weerd Beard

The “Gun Death?” Files are here to both show how invalid the metric of “Gun Death” is because of the multitude of murder weapons available to people even if guns never existed, but also to show what happens when good guns don’t exist. This story shows both.

ATLANTA – Police officers shot and killed a woman in an Atlanta home when she didn’t comply with orders to stop stabbing her young daughter, who also died, authorities said Monday.

A simple story, a woman with a knife kills her daughter, and does not comply even when confronted by armed police.

The unarmed daughter was unable to stop her…the armed police were.

Guns are very useful tools, and they might save your life, or the lives of others.

h/t Bubblehead Les

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Dark for a Bit

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Weerd Beard

You might have guessed from this last post we have a new ration of computers in the Weer’d household.

Getting this box squared away to start a new life as a TV streamer, and get the new system up and running.

BTW I like getting a new computer because they run better…but I feel like I’m using a strange computer for about a month.

See you all in a bit on the flip-side!

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“Gun Death” Restraining Order

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Weerd Beard

I’ve had several people contact me for advice about stalkers or people who are making violent threats against them. I tell them two things: Get a Protective Order, and get a gun, and train to use it. Its stories like this that drive my advice.

A Carlsbad woman found strangled last week had claimed days before she went missing that her ex-boyfriend was stalking her and her daughter, had threatened one of her friends and had once dragged her into his car before she escaped, according to documents supporting a domestic violence restraining order.

Now in this case the woman was killed by strangulation. All the gun control in the world would not have stopped this brutal murder. On the other hand if she had been armed she certainly would have stood a better chance at defending herself. And if the fight culminated in this jerk being shot dead the protective order would have both documented past violence, and future violence, and she would have a VERY solid case for justifiable homicide.

But that’s just about all restraining orders do. They certainly don’t STOP a violent person from doing ANYTHING. Bullets do. Consider that.

h/t Wallphone

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G33k Heaven!

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Oh shit!!!

Mrs. Weer’d just wired up her old desktop to the bedroom TV!

I CAN PLAY Nethack on alt.org from bed now!

I will be informing my Boss of my resignation on Monday…why will I ever need to leave bed now???

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Play Me Out: Richard Cheese

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Weerd Beard

While we wait, enjoy this piece of classic Rock turned lounge.

Just too damn good!

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Potentially My Last VC

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Weerd Beard

It’s Friday night, and at 9pm EST it’ll be time for some good old Vicious Circle.

I love it, and it’s been two on two week hiatus. Why might this be my last Vicious Circle?

Well tonight this is my beverage:

Yep that’s an MD 20/20 AKA Mad Dog, and that’s not a modern label, this is a 1990s vintage, and I have cracked the seal to verify it wasn’t Vineger and found rust under the cap.

My wife is standing by with an epi-pen that’s probably about 15 years past expiration, and Jay G has my home phone number in the event she falls asleep as my internal organs dissolve.

If that won’t get you to tune in live nothing will!

With a little luck and a decent tail wind I’ll have recovered from this Vicious Circle in time for the next one….if not, it’s been real swell! 8)

BTW this encapsulated hangover is Wally’s doing. I don’t know why, but I’m still Friends with him!

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Quote of the Day: Barron

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Barron hits it out of the park with this tag line.

No one but god himself has the ability to restrict the right to self-defense, and even then I’d tell him to F-off.

I’ve always been one to say that you can’t believe in a kind, compassionate, and caring God who says you can’t eat bacon or pork ribs. Sorry, that’s not love, that’s SPITE!

Same goes for a God that demands you not defend your own life as a sacred gift, or defend the lives of innocent others.

If your God asks you to not defend yourself, you rightly should tell him to F-Off, because either he deserves it, or he’s testing you on the brass content of your balls.

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More Blood-Dancing

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Omar Samaha’s sister was killed by Cho in the Virginia Tech Massacre. It appears now he’s working with the other blood-dancers at CSGV to make sure everybody in America is as helpless as his sister was that day.

BTW in the whole interview notice how the one concrete thing is the police response time was a “Quick” 20 mins. (I would call that hardly enough, given that the majority of the VT students were murdered in about a 10 min timespan) The rest is hand-wringing and blood dancing.

These are shameful people, and while I pity his loss, when you do something like this you lose my sympathy very quickly.

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