Bad Serendipity: Your lab assistant drops the correct brain on the floor, and brings you the wrong one.
Good Serendipity: Your lab assistant drops sodium onto the severed arm of an undead seamonster, therefore finding out how to destroy them.
Happy Halloween!
Eight Shots and a Ping... The Suburban Redneck on politics, guns and current events.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Happy f******** UN Day
Happy birthday to the well-intentioned, but corrupt and ineffectual supranational body, whose annual Lower East Side gabfests accomplish nothing while causing commerce-stopping, pedestrian imperiling gridlock in New York City.
And in the field, the UN "Blue Helmet Force" at best stands idly by while thuggish Third World strongmen do their dirty work, while at their worst, actively engage in it.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Edumacational Video#1 - concealed carry, Detroit Style
Good friend of mine emailed this video to me last night:
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Lions and Tigers and Bears... oh shit! Bang!
Idiotic animal worshippers (as opposed to animal lovers, a big difference) are upset at the manner in which an exotic animal "outbreak" in Ohio was dealt with, which was properly, by shooting them.
The person who unleashed this plague was within the law by having his own zoological park, but then his private business became a public menace when he uncaged them all and corrected his lead deficiency with a 158 grain self-administered dosage, thereby preventing him from being held to account in this life.
If you have the resources to have your own live animal collection - fine. But to off yourself, and turn 'em loose on the rest of us is plain wrong. Anyone that does this has created a problem that puts the public at risk and requires publicly funded manpower and resources to deal with.
At least on paper, I'm willing to bet that a "humane capture" operation would have cost more taxpayer dollars, as well as having taken longer. Remember, every hour these beasts are free to roam is more time for them to kill an innocent person, devour a treasured pet, or cause a serious road accident.
I like the way Ohio dealt with this problem, one they didn't ask for in any way. The only way it could have been done better and more quickly would be if a some citizen volunteer hunters had been deputized, and allowed to keep what they've taken down as a trophy.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
No Gun Ownership in New Jersey (Unless your last name is "Soprano")
NJ2AS has put this together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fC2iu3CTPc&feature=player_embedded
Quite the well articulated plea to roll back some of New Jersey's Draconian firearm restrictions
and the shockingly arbitrary manner in which they are enforced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fC2iu3CTPc&feature=player_embedded
Quite the well articulated plea to roll back some of New Jersey's Draconian firearm restrictions
and the shockingly arbitrary manner in which they are enforced.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Does 1% + 99% always add up to 100% ??
Interesting site:
http://westandwiththe99percent.tumblr.com/
I think it's interesting that these people are giving "testimonials" about their empathy for the "99%."
They're priviliged people that at least acknowledge how fortunate they've been. Most seem/claim to have worked for what they have, some have simply lucked into it, ie inheritance.
But why now? Did these protests suddenly make them feel guilty about what they have, and what others don't? When they bought a latte at Starbucks, did they always leave a decent tip, if any? And are they now dropping a dollar in the tip cup, instead of the leftover 11 cents as so many well-off patrons do all the time?
I'm not railing against these "empathetic 1 percenters." But here is my issue with them, other than the epiphanic nature of what they're saying. Wealth is redistributed all the time. It's done purely voluntarily (charitable donations, gratuities, purchases of goods) semi-voluntarily ("My business is growing, and I can staff up to accomodate the growth, or not hire and risk flat revenue growth) or involuntarily (the taxman cometh).
The proportions of these types of redistribution are really out of whack, and some sort of consensus needs to be reached about where to set them.
What bothers me is how many of these "empathetic 1 percenters" are saying "tax me more." Wrong medicine for a serious problem.
The more governments collect, the more they spend. It's not as if tax hikes or new taxes are "lockboxed" away and allocated specifically toward deficit or debt reduction.
This is a common liberal confusion: mixing up "the economy" with "the national budget."
Look, I'm going to break with a lot of fellow conservatives here and just say it: the private sector went a little too far with downsizing and overall job elimination. They fired people even when their balance sheets were strong, and rewarded the c-suite with ever-higher bonuses and salaries. They have every legal right to do that, but it does long term damage to the economy in the aggregate.
That said, if these "empathetic 1 percenters" really want to be part of the solution I suggest the following: If you play golf with someone who's in a position to hire people, try to nudge them into calling back some laid off workers. If you own a business, and are on the fence about hiring someone, just go ahead and do it. If you are simply well-off, give that barista a dollar or more. Tip that deliveryman 5.00 intead of 1.00 or 3.00.
And if you really don't think you're taxed enough, then by all means, write a check to the general fund of your state, town or city,or even a "gift to reduce the public debt." But remember that doing so will do very, very little to ameliorate the economic or fiscal mess we're in, and in fact may even "encourage the bastards."
You don't have to sleep in a tent in Zucotti Park to make a difference... just write a check... to someone.
http://westandwiththe99percent.tumblr.com/
I think it's interesting that these people are giving "testimonials" about their empathy for the "99%."
They're priviliged people that at least acknowledge how fortunate they've been. Most seem/claim to have worked for what they have, some have simply lucked into it, ie inheritance.
But why now? Did these protests suddenly make them feel guilty about what they have, and what others don't? When they bought a latte at Starbucks, did they always leave a decent tip, if any? And are they now dropping a dollar in the tip cup, instead of the leftover 11 cents as so many well-off patrons do all the time?
I'm not railing against these "empathetic 1 percenters." But here is my issue with them, other than the epiphanic nature of what they're saying. Wealth is redistributed all the time. It's done purely voluntarily (charitable donations, gratuities, purchases of goods) semi-voluntarily ("My business is growing, and I can staff up to accomodate the growth, or not hire and risk flat revenue growth) or involuntarily (the taxman cometh).
The proportions of these types of redistribution are really out of whack, and some sort of consensus needs to be reached about where to set them.
What bothers me is how many of these "empathetic 1 percenters" are saying "tax me more." Wrong medicine for a serious problem.
The more governments collect, the more they spend. It's not as if tax hikes or new taxes are "lockboxed" away and allocated specifically toward deficit or debt reduction.
This is a common liberal confusion: mixing up "the economy" with "the national budget."
Look, I'm going to break with a lot of fellow conservatives here and just say it: the private sector went a little too far with downsizing and overall job elimination. They fired people even when their balance sheets were strong, and rewarded the c-suite with ever-higher bonuses and salaries. They have every legal right to do that, but it does long term damage to the economy in the aggregate.
That said, if these "empathetic 1 percenters" really want to be part of the solution I suggest the following: If you play golf with someone who's in a position to hire people, try to nudge them into calling back some laid off workers. If you own a business, and are on the fence about hiring someone, just go ahead and do it. If you are simply well-off, give that barista a dollar or more. Tip that deliveryman 5.00 intead of 1.00 or 3.00.
And if you really don't think you're taxed enough, then by all means, write a check to the general fund of your state, town or city,or even a "gift to reduce the public debt." But remember that doing so will do very, very little to ameliorate the economic or fiscal mess we're in, and in fact may even "encourage the bastards."
You don't have to sleep in a tent in Zucotti Park to make a difference... just write a check... to someone.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
God Bless Kentucky!
Today is Day 1 of the October antipode of the Knob Creek Machinegunshoot
It takes place right outside of Louisville, and the forecast: rain today, windy tomorrow, Sunshine for the weekend.
Chances for a hail of lead: 100% with occasional streaks of tracers, punctuated by balls of flame and other miscellaneous detonations.
For a gun person, it's an experience beyond compare. Just watching the firing line erupt, and watching the targets downrange take a pounding is an inspiring sight. As are the thousands of folks milling around, all of whom share this glorious passion of ours.
Not to mention the opportunity to "rent" and fire all sort of interesting full-auto weapons. Aks, M-16s and WWII guns - both Allied and Axis are usually available - and a whole lot more.
My youtube videos are at: www.youtube.com/finalascent - all of them are cool, two of them I shot at the Knob Creek shoot.
It takes place right outside of Louisville, and the forecast: rain today, windy tomorrow, Sunshine for the weekend.
Chances for a hail of lead: 100% with occasional streaks of tracers, punctuated by balls of flame and other miscellaneous detonations.
For a gun person, it's an experience beyond compare. Just watching the firing line erupt, and watching the targets downrange take a pounding is an inspiring sight. As are the thousands of folks milling around, all of whom share this glorious passion of ours.
Not to mention the opportunity to "rent" and fire all sort of interesting full-auto weapons. Aks, M-16s and WWII guns - both Allied and Axis are usually available - and a whole lot more.
My youtube videos are at: www.youtube.com/finalascent - all of them are cool, two of them I shot at the Knob Creek shoot.
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