Simple tale, we hear it every day, just most of the time its cars.
The driver of a speedboat involved in a Friday night crash that killed four people, including the driver, had racked up numerous drunken driving convictions, according to online Wisconsin court records.
But we can’t compare “Car deaths” with “Boat Deaths” with “Gun Deaths”. The Gun is different because its different!
Yeah!
h/t Maddmedic
Won’t lie its a catchy song, but DAMN that video is stranger than most of the J-pop bizzaro I’ve seen.
Now I have a philosophical question: What happens when a J-Pop star (or their art director) drops acid? Also are psychedelics in common use in Japan, or have the people simply trained their minds to see the world in such a way?
Thanks Tam for opening my mind! WOAHHHH!
Had an interesting gunnie dream last night. I dreamed I had just finished having dinner with some friends at a small urban cafe late at night and I was walking back to my truck. The landscape struck me as much like Portland where there are some various surface lots and abandoned buildings where you can park for free so long as you’re willing to walk through some shady zones. Wasn’t an issue, as it was a nice warm night, and I had my S&W 642 riding in my pocket. While walking through an alley Suddenly a big set of arms grabbed me. One had me around the chest, and the other was at my throat. I quickly fished my J-Frame out of my pocket cocked my elbow back until I felt the muzzle hit the torso of the man behind me and I touched off two rounds.
Hit, I saw the white hair of a young Whitey Bulger skulk off into a building. (BTW this scene seemed very reminiscent of the opening of Blood Work.
Not caring one way or another how things would work out for him I beat feat back to the cafe where the owner was closing shop for the night, told my story can called 911.
911 dumped me into a phone tree that essentially got me stuck with various busy signals and endlessly ringing phone lines. The cavalierly was not coming. I remember being upset that I didn’t have a reload on me, and now my diminutive J-frame only had 3 lives charges, but as some point through dream magic a pair of speed-strips arrived in my hand so I could do a tactical reload and pocket the partially used strip.
With no noticeable time passage it was suddenly morning and I decided it was safe enough to venture home. I was walking through a neighborhood of small single-family houses on postage-stamp lots, when guess who I see standing in a driveway washing a 1950s sedan? Ol’ James Whitey Bulger, and he recognizes me and is not happy about getting shot the night before (of course he looks as limber as a teenager after eating at least one .38 in the gut) He opens the passenger door of the car and pulls out what appears to be a J-Frame sized revolver, but this thing must have been in .44 Special as it had only 4 large holes in the wheel, and it was unloaded, but he was quickly stuffing shells into the charge-holes. By the time he had the cylinder shut I had my J-frame out and I put two in his chest and while he was on the ground raising the gun to me one in his head.
Knowing how he shrugged off the first hit in the alley, and that he seemed to be a bad penny and always turning up, not-to-mention his FBI most wanted status, I decided to put the last two into his head and feed the gun a fresh reload.
Yeah it was a little blood thirsty but I can’t imagine a jury in the world that would convict me.
Interesting dream as my gun ran just as it was supposed to, none of the typical hink that is known to us gunnies. And it appears that bullets not only landed where I wanted them to (with the exception of the two contact shots while I was grabbed from behind) all shots I remember a sight picture and trigger squeeze) and when the shots landed they were noticed by the recipient.
Only odd dream things were that Whitey Bulger seemed to have both found the fountain of youth, but also seemed to be at all interested in me, the magical appearing reload, the bizzaro 911, and that strange 4-shot .44 (I wonder if that is even possible).
Anyway thought I’d share. Oddly enough Mike also had an odd gunnie dream.
Watch the video to see the accident scene. Seems like a road-rage case.
Hey but no guns were used, so no “Gun Death”. Of course the anti-freedom people often cite road rage as a reason to not allow people to carry loaded guns in their car because it can make road rage worse.
Watch that video again you cold-blooded harpies!
h/t Wallphone
PS: It was a former coworker and friend of Joe Huffman.
Grahhh I still feel like crap. So the free ice cream is just flowing like asphalt. So here are some quick movie reviews:
Despicable Me . Nothing really new presented, except that its children’s movie with an anti-hero as the lead, which is fresh. Overall its just a fun and amusing ride, and a great film for anybody with kids who can’t watch the more risque films.
Next up was drastically better than I expected. Love the Beast OK, Eric Bana, and a Ford XB Falcon GT, SOLD! Toss in Jay Leno, and Jeremy Clarkson, and a really candid look at Mr. Bana’s family, not to mention some AMAZING race footage in Tasmania, and it was a GREAT documentary!
Last up is a mystery. SOMEBODY from The Conspiracy Lokidude told me this film was streaming on Netflix (Love the Beast is too) but I forgot who tipped me.
The film is Modify, and this film pulls NO punches. It explores the world of body modification. It does a very good job at getting inside the mind of people who tattoo, pierce, surgically altar, scar, brand, as well as taking an interesting angle and talking to professional body builders. Not only did they give great interviews and present the art of body modifications, and shows some very amazing modifications and performances (like suspension shows) but it also shows a lot of bloody surgery, from cosmetic stuff like liposuction, face lifts, and breast augmentation, to piercing, implanting objects, tongue splitting, genital implanting and piercing, as well as gender reassignment.
Lots of blood, genitals, and stuff that looks VERY painful. I won’t lie, it made me a a bit uncomfortable in places, which is kinda why I put it on in the first place. Very very neat film. The coolest thing I took away was the interviews with Lizard Man as well as Stalking Cat, they really presented their modifications in a very sane and pedestrian way which I really enjoyed, given that I have not one tattoo or piecing.
Also what’s neat is one of my distinctive personal features is my beard which is a LACK of modification. Just neat.
Yeah so go check them all out, but be warned that Modify is a rough ride. If you’re into that, then its awesome, if you’re not, you’re not going to like it.
**UPDATE** Mrs. Weer’d just reminded me we also watched Blood Work which has been streaming on Netflix since I first started looking at their streaming selection, but I watched this week, and it blew my mind. GREAT mystery really good story, and good pacing. You’ll like that too!
Arcticelf tipped me off to this story
A experimental device that delivers electrical pulses to the forehead can help control epileptic seizures, say scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles….”Medications can cause mood problems, fatigue or problems with thinking for some people,” DeGiorgio says. “I see this as an alternative because it doesn’t cause those side effects.”
Yeah they do! Interesting info and of course I’d be interested in more data than provided by NPR. Still I must say we’re doing OK with this. The meds are being scaled down so far problem-free. Sadly I can tell the difference between a medicated and un-medicated Mrs. Weer’d, but hopefully that will be minimized over time.
Still good to see more stuff coming out over time. Hopefully we’ll be hearing more, and maybe even see a clinical trial if that seems like a good idea.
Had another Vicious Circle last night. By the time I got home from work I was feeling really tired. I took a nap and it didn’t get any better, so I called in sick.
Now I’m listening to it in my PJs.
Again the common denominator in violent crime is the person, not the tool.
The man involved in Monday’s bizarre case in which he is alleged to have run over a complete stranger in East Park with a stolen John Deere Gator ATV is now strongly believed to have been involved in an unprovoked knife attack just as strange from last month.
No guns, so no problem, right? What’s the big deal?
h/t Wizardpc
Too good not to repost. From Joan Peterson of the Brady Campaign.
The amount of rounds in a magazine certainly does make a difference. Tell that to the 3rd, 4th, 5th person killed at the Tucson shopping mall. At the least fewer people would have been killed and perhaps with more time to get away since the shots would not be coming so quickly.
And Joan what will you tell to the 1st and 2nd people? BTW you buddy and colleague, as well as likely all of his deceased classmates, were shot with ammo that had been loaded into a 10-round magazine. What do you say to him and his deceased classmates?
But this is why Joan moderates her comments. Arguments of the antis are for those who feel, but never think.
There’s a lot of talk about them. Check my sidebar and I’m sure you’ll find a more in-depth discussion of the current event. I really don’t care for the moment as I have zero interest in any product produced by said company. This story has further told me to simply stay away.
That being said, if you’re concerned about RFID chips, I suspect 10-seconds in the microwave will fry most chips, but leave most items (especially non-metallic, or items made of large solid pieces of metal. I haven’t extensively researched this but I hear its thin metal like foil, or pointed metal like forks that cause the most microwave drama) also baring a metallic reaction, simply putting a glass of water in the corner of the microwave to soak up the excess energy should keep your microwave from cooking itself.
Just sayin’
