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Ghosts, zombies and cartoon characters did their best Green Goblin impersonation Thursday during a pumpkin drop at Trolley Square. From the top of the mall's water tower, the costumed contestants attempted to drop the pumpkin through the sunroof of a Saturn car 80 feet below. K-Bull 93 FM radio put on the contest and awarded a prize of a $6,000, three-night getaway adventure retreat for four people to the Gateway Canyons Resort in Colorado to Brian Larson, who was dressed as "The Man in the Yellow Hat," the caretaker of "Curious George."
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BANGKOK: Thousands of pro-government "Red Shirts" have begun massing in the Thail capital to challenge attempts by opposition protesters to hand power to an unelected regime, warning that the kingdom was lurching towards "civil war."
The dismissal of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and nine ministers by the Constitutional Court this week for the improper transfer of a top security official has plunged the restive kingdom deeper into crisis.
Officials said about 3,000 police officers were on standby for the pro-government rally on the western outskirts of Bangkok.
Holding aloft portraits of Yingluck, the red-clad movement said it would keep up the protest for as long as it deemed necessary to defend the wounded administration.
"The Red Shirts cannot accept the undemocratic and unconstitutional appointment of a prime minister," said chairman Jatuporn Prompan, denouncing a call by the opposition for judges, the Senate president and other prominent figures to choose a new premier.
"It would be the beginning of a disaster for the country that will lead to civil war," he said.
Opposition demonstrators are gearing up to try to deliver a knock-out blow to the remnants of the government, to enable an unelected leadership to take the reins of the Southeast Asian nation and oversee vague reforms they say would tackle corruption.
Such a move would infuriate supporters of Yingluck and her brother Thaksin Shinawatra, a former premier who was deposed in a coup in 2006, an event that ushered in years of political turmoil.
A military crackdown on Red Shirt protests against the previous government left dozens dead in central Bangkok in 2010.
The spectre of the military seizing power also looms constantly over Thailand, which has seen 18 successful or attempted coups since 1932.
"The government is spending its energies hoping to keep military action at bay," said Paul Chambers, director of research at the Institute of South East Asian Affairs at Chiang Mai University.
"I am afraid an army coup could be approaching," he added.
Political violence has left at least 25 people dead and hundreds wounded in attacks by shadowy assailants in recent months.
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On Geraldine's Shoulders
Today when she saw the headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, "Geraldine Ferraro: A 'Lightening Bolt' for Women in Politics," my twelve-year-old daughter asked me, "Mama, who's Geraldine Ferraro?
Sigh. What to say?
Well, of course, Geraldine Ferraro was the first female nominee for Vice President of the United States. And I started there.
But there is so much more to say to a young girl growing up in a complicated world; because Geraldine's life and death -- and that glorious moment when she joined the ticket -- are all so much more significant than a single headline or sound bite.
How to contextualize Geraldine's significance and the significance of her nomination, in 1984, for a generation that has seen three female Secretaries of State, four female Supreme Court Justices and the nearly-successful presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton? How to impress upon a pre-teenager the continued urgency of our mission push for female representation in Congress, the courts and yes, someday the White House?
I was a sophomore in college when Walter Mondale chose the 48-year-old congresswoman from New York in his uphill battle against incumbent Ronald Reagan. And though Reagan won with an 18-point victory, we younger women saw her candidacy, as the beginning of what we thought would be a change in American political life.
Martha Washington's realm had been the household. George would mount his horse each day for the statehouse, and eventually for the battlefield; Martha's circuit was from the main house to the kitchen, storeroom, poultry yard, washhouse, smokehouse, and garden.
True, without the Founding Mothers to see to the plantations, estates and homesteads, the Founding Fathers could not have done the work of declaring independence, waging war and writing the Constitution. Still, women's contributions were domestic and, in some rare cases as consultants to their husbands, not as full participants in the political life of the country.
When the time for forming a more perfect union was hand, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband in Philadelphia:
"…[I]n the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.
"Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. ….
"Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the (servants) of your sex…." (Abigail Adams, 1776)
But "remember the ladies" they did not. In 1776, our forefathers declared all "men."
Women would wait until August 18, 1920, for the right to vote. Even today, women are paid, on average, 78 percent of what men are paid.
Then there is politics.
Since 1917, when Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin (R, MT) became the first woman to serve in Congress, a total of 274 women have served as U.S. Representatives or Senators. Sounds like a lot, but consider that the total number of representatives sent to Congress since 1789 is in the thousands, and the number of female representatives becomes far less impressive.
In 1992, hailed as "The Year of the Woman," we elected a record number of women (4) to the Senate.
The following January, Carol Moseley-Braun (D, IL) and Patty Murray (D, WA), and two Senators from California, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein (both Democrats) were sent to Washington. It was the first time in American history, that a state was represented in the Senate by two women. (I was so inspired that I also moved from California to Washington DC to join the Clinton Administration.)
But not everyone celebrated. When asked when his party might nominate a woman for President, George H.W. Bush sniffed, "This is supposed to be the year of the women in the Senate. Let's see how they do. I hope a lot of them lose."
It's seems 41 may have gotten his wish, if not in the Senate (only Moseley-Braun has left), but in the larger cause of equal rights and opportunity. Simply put, we are losing ground in battles that we shouldn't even be fighting at this stage of the game.
Nowhere have I heard this better discussed than on the Brian Lehrer show in his conversation with Kirsten Gillibrand. Senator Gillibrand was on to discuss data the recent White House Report on Women, especially the wage gap.
She also discussed politics:
"We still only have 17 women in the United States Senate...those are terrible indicators. Women have to be involved because if they don't participate, decisions are going to be made about every aspect of their lives and they might not like what those decisions are.'
We've come a long way since Martha Washington, but we still have so far to go. There still are not enough women in the higher levels of most professions, including politics.
That is because we don't make it easy. Not for a woman. Hilary Clinton learned this lesson the hard way back in 1992:
"Those of us who have tried to have a career, tried to have an independent life, tried to make a difference, certainly somebody like myself whose combined that with a very full and active public involvement, … you know I've done the best I can to lead my life; and you know, I suppose it will be subject to that kind of attack but it's not true and I don't know what else to say other than … I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life."
ABC News Nightline did an entire broadcast on the issue: "Meet the new political wife. She has a career, she has opinions. A partner in every way."
How challenging for the American psyche that a woman might have a career, opinions AND be a wife. Oh my!
We are behind Italy, England, India and even Pakistan, all countries that have had women heads of state. We have had none.
So, when Geraldine Ferraro decided it was time for women to be full participants, not just at the polls but at the top of the ballot, it was a hugely important moment in American history. It was important not just for women but also in the evolution of our country.
This morning, I tried to convey to my daughter the level of excitement that surrounded Ferraro's candidacy. The mood at the Moscone Center in San Francisco (where she accepted the nomination) was electric.
But of course, there were those who were not ready. Traditional attacks of the sort that would be made on a male candidate (on her finances, her politics and positions) were to be expected. But there were also the attacks on her wardrobe choices, her hairstyle, whether or not she teared up and the state of her marriage. This was the extra cost of being a female candidate.
And let us be clear: It is not just the men. Often we women stand in the way of our sisters.
When Hillary boldly, and with a nod to Gerry, made a run in 2008 for the top of the Democratic ticket, there was the famous moment that is sadly emblematic of the choices many women feel about other women.
At a campaign event in South Carolina, a female supporter asked John McCain: "How do we beat the bitch?"
If the Arizona senator objected to that characterization of then-Senator Clinton, he didn't say so. (At the time, McCain had only a two-point lead over Clinton.) Eventually he got around to stammering, "I respect Senator Clinton, and I respect anyone who gets the nomination of the Democratic Party."
McCain's choice, after receiving the GOP nomination, to place Sarah Palin on the Republican ticket, seems cynical, given his capitulation to such grossly sexist humor. It could not tip the balance in his favor, but the choice of a woman, once again, electrified the nation, and Palin has captured our attention, ever since.
Of course, Hillary didn't get her party's nomination. Barack Obama did. Whether that was about gender, or not, we will never know.
But we do know this: Win or lose, every time a woman runs for office -- Hillary, Geraldine before her, Shirley Chisholm before that and Victoria Woodhull (who was the first woman to declare and campaign for the Presidency in 1872), they lay the groundwork for the woman who will eventually hold that office. Each woman who dares to try is laying a brick for the foundation of the dream that a woman will someday sit in the Oval Office – in my daughter's lifetime. One day that woman will represent our daughters and sons in finest tradition of our nation -- that all men and women are created equal.
I pray that, by the time my daughter is sitting at this keyboard, writing of the passing of the great women of my generation, she will be able to write the name of the first woman Vice President or (dare I say it) President who stood on the shoulders of Geraldine Ferraro to get there.
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I'm not sure what you are referring to, but for most of SGA, anything was better than a Daedalus class in terms of firepower. The Asgard upgrades to the Daedalus class came after the Ori arc ended and the Asgard stupidly blew themselves up.
true, but the deadalus-class was a year or two in service when it got the pretty blue asgard beams, not 10,000 years, an it's shields were good enough to battle the mighty ori ships from the start. before the upgrade, it nuked a couple of really big wraith ships, and a whole fleet of asuran vessels. nukes are firepower, substantially more so than the ancient drones. not so hip, though.
the aurora is such an eye sore, firepower does not redeem that.
A Daedalus class ship could only take two shots from an Ori ship's main gun before the shields failed. While impressive compared to a Ha'tak's performance, it wasn't that great. As for nukes, they are utterly useless unless they are beamed into something or hit an unshielded target. In fact, the only thing that I can recall being killed by nukes without the need for some sort of convoluted scheme was a Wraith cruiser. Ancient drones have shield penetrating abilities and are capable of complex maneuvers, making them superior to all missile systems Earth uses.
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The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United States
In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory—a cowbell, a white stone perfectly round, a three-legged milking stool—that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Halls devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations—baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship—what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own lifes end comes into view. The Back Chamber is far from being death-haunted, but rather is lively, irreverent, erotic, hilarious, ironic, and sly—full of the life-affirming energy that has made Donald Hall one of Americas most popular and enduring poets.
"This 20th collection from the former U.S. poet laureate (My Noiseless Entourage) departs only by degrees from his poems of earlier decades--but it could just be his best book. Like most of Simic's work, these new poems end up short and sad, setting mysterious, wry, even Kafkaesque, scenes in which nobody gets what anyone wants: 'A dark little country store full of gravediggers' children buying candy./ (That's how we looked that night.)' Simic served as laureate in the last years of the Bush administration, and some of his new poems may reflect that experience: they attack, with a pessimistic asperity, callous military officers, bloodthirsty states and unnecessary wars, along with a weary or cynical America: 'the TV is on in the living room,/ Canned laughter in the empty house/ Like the sound of beer cans tied to a coffin.' Simic alludes quietly to the war-ravaged Serbia he fled as a child. But the 'ragged puppets' who populate Simic's stanzas are not always so foredoomed: in an 11-part sequence called 'The Invisible,' Simic modulates into a restrained and deeply moving lyric lament, admiring a dragonfly for his clear wings, a crow who was once 'a professor of philosophy,' and a 'Bird comforting the afflicted/ With your song.' (Oct.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright PWyxz LLC)
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In Child Made of Sand, Kingsley Tufts-winner Thomas Lux demonstrates a restless energy to explore new territory while confirming his place in the pantheon of contemporary American poetry.
Readers familiar with Thomas Luxs quick-witted images ("Language without simile is like a lung/ without air") and his rambunctious, Cirque-Du-Soleil-like imagination ("The Under-Appreciated Pontooniers") will find in his new collection, Child Made of Sand, not only the signature funny, provocative, and poignant super-surrealism that has made him, along with Charles Simic, James Tate, and Dean Young, one of Americas most inventive and humane poets, but they will also find in a surprising series of homages, elegies, rants, and autobiographical poems a new register of language in which time and mortality echo and reverberate in quieter notes. In "West Shining Tree," we can hear this shift in register when he asks: "Ill head dead West and ask of all I see:/ Which is the way, the long or the short way,/ to the West Shining Tree?"
In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life, until it is hard to know what is innocent and what ominous. There is something about his work that continues to be crystal clear and yet deeply weighted with violence and mystery. Reading it is like going undercover. The face of a girl carrying a white dress from the cleaners with her eyes half-closed. The Adam & Evie Tanning Salon at night. A sparrow on crutches. A rubber duck in a shooting gallery on a Sunday morning. And someone in a tree swing, too old to be swinging and to be wearing no clothes at all, blowing a toy trumpet at the sky.
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teenager opening fire on two West Memphis police
"At this point, his 16-year-old son Joseph Kane comes out shooting with an AK-47." A dashcam video from a police SUV shows a teenager opening fire on two West Memphis police officers before taking off in a van with his father. Subsequent helicopter footage reveals a third occupant of the van escaping unharmed. The Game and Fish Officer who rammed his truck into the van most likely saved the lives of two wounded officers. Full Text. [more inside]
Judgement Day 2010
Today, June 28, 2010, marks the last day of the 2009-10 session of the Supreme Court of the United States. This day will mark a number of historical events, not only in terms of the cases to be handed down. [more inside]
The (lego) Lee Enfield sniper rifle
How the Daddy of Jesse Helms Gave Birth to Black Power
In 1936 in the Jim Crow South, Robert F. Williams was an 11-year-old black boy in Monroe, North Carolina, who watched helplessly as Jesse Helms Sr. (father and namesake of the former senator) beat an African-American woman to the ground and "dragged her off to the nearby jailhouse, her dress up over her head, the same way that a cave man would club and drag his sexual prey." Years later, after a stint in the segregated military, Williams returned home to Monroe and worked as an NAACP organizer, where he brought international attention to the Kissing Case, a 1958 incident in which two black boys under the age of 10 were sentenced to a reformatory for kissing a white girl. By then, Williams had also attracted controversy for his advocacy of armed self-defense, a position he outlined in the book Negroes with Guns. But it would all change overnight in 1961, when Williams landed on FBI's Most Wanted list, after being charged with kidnapping a white couple that Williams claimed he was trying to save from an angry black crowd. [more inside]
Light Grenades
Photographer/Filmmaker Freddie Wong and friends blow the crap (YoutTube) out of each other with light painting. [more inside]
Yarchive - Notes from the hinterland.
Yarchive is one man's collection of UseNET posts on the topics of Air Conditioning; Aircraft; Bicycles; Cars; Chemistry; Computers; Electrical, Electronic; Environment; Explosives, Pyrotechnics; Food; Houses; Guns; Jokes; Medicine; Metalworking; Military; Nuclear; Telephones; Physics; Risks; Security; Space mostly from a select group of authors. It has been updated several times since it first appeared here in 2001 and it never fails to sucker me in for hours every time I stumble upon it from a Google Search. [more inside]
Wild Hearses Couldn't Drag Me Away
Some folks keep them stock, some folks like to customize them, and some folks make them into rolling sculptures. Some are more famous than others. Got a hearse? Drive a hearse? Just like hearses? You'll want to check out this year's HearseCon! Here's the ad.
Bring me the Head of Saddam Hussein
"Ben Turnbull is fascinated by the global dominance of American culture, and his works unsettling effects result from re-presenting the toys of our innocent youth in symbolic forms that reveal the shocking truths about war, death and guns in the world's most powerful country." [more inside]
Arms dealers affiliated with 22 companies, including one with a former Joint Chief of Staff on its board of directors, have been indicted for soliciting kickbacks on multimillion dollar deals to supply munitions to representatives of a fictitious African government. [more inside]
Let's go shooting, and then we can go shopping!
Everything is Terrible presents A Woman's Guide To Firearms, a mildly patronizing introduction to gun lust for the fairer sex.
Strict Liability
A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty". Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year. [more inside]
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Coke is Corn. (Among other things.) [more inside]
Lab coats and safety goggles at the gun show...
Playing Half-Life with a real gun? The magic of drywall, accelerometers, and geeks. (SLYT.) Courtesy of the good people at Waterloo Labs.
Guns and Poses?? Welcome to the Jungle....
The Second Amendment of the Constitution of United States of America gives us all the right to bear arms. It means that as Americans we can keep fire arms without governmental infringement. A few days ago many Americans chose to exercise this right at political Town Hall meetings on health care reform throughout the United States. Some are defending these actions. Others are not. The NRA is remaining quiet.
Women of the highest caliber
Give women guns! Forget chocolate and flowers. Women want guns. There is a history of women with guns. Women with guns will soon be mainstream.
Pastor Urges His Flock to Bring Guns to Church
As soon as you start saying that it's not something that Christians do, well, guns are just the foil. The issue now is the Gospel. So in a sense, it does become a crusade. Now the Gospel is at stake. Of the 40 states with right-to-carry laws, 20 allow guns in churches. [more inside]
Wait... No Pirate Vs. Ninja?!
Haven't you always secretly wondered what would happen if a ninja accidentally stumbled into, say, Bill and Ted's time traveling Phone Booth and ended up somewhere around 7th century BC, only to come face-to-face with a feisty Spartan? Have you not pondered what would happen if you locked up an Apache with a Gladiator inside some sort of 21st century battle dome? Are you frustrated because you feel like there's nobody doing proper scientific studies to see what would happen when you pit two historically violent warriors that could have never actually met in real life? Worry no more people - I present to you Spike TV's newest offering - Deadliest Warrior! [more inside]
Like crossbows? Like assault rifles? Got some spare AR-15 parts lying around begging to be crossbowed up? Then the PSE TAC 15 crossbow upper is for you! (video). Or how about this Swiss crossbow that can be cocked in 3 seconds? Alternatively build your own, or even build a repeating crossbow!
No end in sight
It's shocking enough that 90 people have been killed in mass shootings in the US in the past 2 years. But it's even more shocking that 44 of those deaths have occurred within the month since March 10, 2009, when Michael McClendon touched off a firestorm of violence that ended with the deaths of 10 people in rural Alabama. This has been a month of grave infamy in the United States. [more inside]
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Shoot Different. Or, if you prefer, iSnipe.
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UnNerfed - the Nerf dart blaster overclocked to 500 rounds per minute.
Military-Grade Moe-Anthropomorphism
Military equipment drawn as anime girls. Probably SFW, but good luck explaining it to the boss. Wikipedia explains.
Boy, you're going to bring home some meat this summer!
"I don't kill them because they're bad people. I kill them because I hate them."
The Punisher MAX #60 hits comics stores this week, marking the end of Garth Ennis's run on the series. His earlier Punisher work on the series put the character back on track after some disastrous wrong turns, but it was the Marvel MAX series that striped the Vietnam vet turned vigilante's war on crime of all extraneous elements and turned it into something dark and brutal. The evocative covers of Tim Bradstreet (also leaving the series) matched the interior darkness, with Ennis toning down his humor to let the Frank Castle become a monomaniacal psychopath in a corrupt world. Adversaries included the resourceful and violent Barracuda, a kind of anti-Punisher based on the song Stagger Lee. It's not over for the Punisher - screenwriter Gregg Hurwitz and artist Laurence Campbell are taking over the series, and Ennis will be returning to the character with a miniseries in the lighter tone of his Marvel Knights work or The Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe.
Robert A. Talbot's Wooden Guns
Il Diabolico Vendicatore!
In the wake of The Scarlet Pimpernel, countless figures have flamboyantly stalked the night. Among them were the scofflaw Arsene Lupin and his more violent contemporary, Fantomas. So influential was the latter that imitators soon arose, plying their merciless wiles on others. Among them were Fu Manchu, the nefarious Dr. Mabuse, the hooded Diabolik, and Matt Wagoner's Grendel. Not even Donald Duck was immune from the seductive lure of crime. [more inside]
The Internet Movie Firearms Database
If you've ever wondered which guns were used in a movie, which movies a gun has appeared in, or even which guns an actor has ever used, then the Internet Movie Firearms Database (probably) has you covered. [more inside]
Unmasking the perp
There's something about Mary. Sarasota, Florida, resident Mary McFate was a prominent gun control activist, active in anti-gun groups around the country. Mary Lou Sapone was a freelance spy with an NRA connection. They are the same person.
Rocket pistol
The gyrojet pistol (video) - a handgun firing 13mm rocket ammunition, was an attempt to revolutionise gun design in the 1960s. Around a thousand were produced, and some may have seen use in Vietnam. Rifle and carbine versions were also produced. Design problems meant that it never seriously competed conventional firearms, but there is a modern attempt to revive the concept.
Heller v. D.C. Decided
Heller v. District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court's first actual interpretation of the Second Amendment, has just come down. In a 5-4 decision, the Justices ruled D.C.'s comprehensive handgun ban to be unconstitutional. Antonin Scalia writes for the majority.
CRACKED and Loaded
I apologize in advance for linking to Cracked.com, internet leader in lame lists, but this 3-minute video sketch works for me: The Real Reason Guns Are Dangerous. [more inside]
Humans v. Zombies Post-Virginia Tech.
Commando Performance: (Toy) Guns on Campus Post-Virginia Tech - A fun game of tag for campus geeks? Or a celebration of immaturity and glorification of war and violence? Playing Humans v. Zombies after the Virginia Tech Massacre. [more inside]
I'm sure the NRA will have something to say about this
As the Supreme Court ponders the Second Amendment, The New England Journal of Medicine weighs in once, twice, three times.
Great moments in entrepeneurial inspiration
The gun dealer who sold the ammunition used in both the Northern Illinois and Virginia Tech campus shootings obviously feels remorse over his role, and wishes to atone. His solution? A (concealed) gun for every student.
The curious habits of the Mall Ninja
The Mall Ninja is easily distinguished by an abundance of "tactical" gear, such as fatigues, a thigh holster (with, of course, a Glock), combat boots, bandolier and other accouterments. Read the collected stories of the the Rapid Tactical Force at one of America's largest indoor retail shopping areas! Marvel at their cunning equipment selection (such as duct taped trauma plates) and learn from their battles with the dreaded mall gangs.
It seems wrong to call a gun 'cute'...
Minature gunsmithing is an amazing art form. [more inside]
Man versus nature
Domesticated by photographer Amy Stein explores the tension between settled and wild spaces.
Stranded is another collection of work dealing with the expectations of public and private space.
More self-explanatory: Women and Guns and Halloween in Harlem. She also has a fine blog.
Stranded is another collection of work dealing with the expectations of public and private space.
More self-explanatory: Women and Guns and Halloween in Harlem. She also has a fine blog.
Life Is Sketch Comedy and God and the Bible
something for everyone
Club Little Gun, a bunch of tiny guns built into things from rings to crosses. Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones, the whip pistol. via [more inside]
As The Culture Turns.
Restyling of real military weapons into fashion items for ladies.
Everybody here go BANG!
Gun for the whole family. A Scanning Around With Gene article about historic gun ads. More fun with Gene Gable: Cigarettes, diving, winter fonts, red white and blue, and so much more.
Shoot First, No Questions Asked?
"I've got a shotgun. Do you want me to stop 'em?" On November 14, 61-year old Joe Horn saw two men breaking into his neighbor's home. He called 911, told the operator what he could see through his window. As Horn watched the men, he grew more and more agitated, saying he was going to go outside and shoot them. When the men left the neighbor's home, Horn went outside and did just that. Now, Texas gets to argue over the hero or villain status of Joe Horn in the public square (a debate made more volatile by concerns that race was been a factor), while weighing the merits of that state's recent adoption of Castle Doctrine (aka "Stand Your Ground" Law). First adopted by Florida in 2005, Castle Doctrine is now law in 19 of 50 states. So what does this mean for Joe Horn? Public accusations of vigilantism aside, what Horn did is arguably legal under Texas law ... or, at least, it would be had he shot the two men after dark.
Double Shotgun Mounted Bed
How many times as this happened to you? (warning: video/audio). It's late at night, you're in bed & you need to kill someone with a shotgun, only to find out the gun is ALL THE WAY across the room. Well, friend, your prayers are answered.
Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot
Knob Creek Gun Range, a former military-munitions test range situated near Fort Knox is home to the "World's Largest Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show". Run by private citizens excercising their second amendment rights (Kentucky has no state-level gun laws) the focus is on Class III firearms - things like assault weapons and anti-tank rifles, but also the occasional high-caliber sniper rifle and cannon. Hold my bourbon and watch this! (more)
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The folks down at the Pakistan Ordnance Factory [youtube: 6'40] would like to show you how they make some of their machine guns, mortar bombs (in a surprising range of bright, cheerful colors), tank and anti-tank ammo ("capable of defeating the toughest armor in the battlefield!"), aircraft and anti-aircraft ammunition, and so much more. "P.O.F. products are in service with over 40 countries around the globe, with an ever-expanding market!"
An average of 81 people die of gunshot wounds in the US each day. Most of them aren't who you'd expect.
How feasible is building a gun?
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Creepy Photos of Monkeys Wearing Doll MasksJuxtapoz // Friday, September 18, 2015
Finnish photographer and visual artist Perttu Saksa's series "A Kind of You" features a chained up monkey wearing scummy dirty clothes and creepy doll masks. Taken in Indonesia, Perttu found trained performance monkeys to be his subjects and photographed them in a way we feel questions the cruelty and immorality involved with the tradition.
Paintings by Christopher MurphyJuxtapoz // Friday, September 18, 2015
Christopher Murphy sees his paintings and drawings as opportunities to "explore the conceptual contrasts of reality versus illusory and permanence versus ephemeral as applied to memory." Using old family photographs, Christopher obscures the reality that existed at the moment of the photo by drawing upon the blank stares, static poses, and skewed colors that often exist in dated photos.
Sculptures Emerging From The WallsJuxtapoz // Friday, September 18, 2015
Tiles, cement, glue and metal plates: These are the tools of Graziano Locatelli. Familiar to most people, these elements are so often in places of comfort, such as the restroom or the kitchen, and his images of breakage and emergency evoke unsettled and surreal feelings. Locatelli says, "the subject of the breakage that bewitches me."
Remembering Oz MagazineJuxtapoz // Friday, September 18, 2015
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Music Video: Deerhunter "Breaker"Music // Thursday, September 17, 2015
Remember a few weeks ago when we told you we were excited about the new Deerhunter album, Fading Frontier, out on 4AD on October 16, 2015? Well, we are still really excited about the Atlanta bands new LP, and now even more so because the track "Breaker" has a video, a video that is simple and nice, for a track that is a nice return to a more experimental pop sound that made us love the band in the first place.
Alyce Tzue's 3D Animated Film "Soar" Wins a Student Academy AwardIn Session // Thursday, September 17, 2015
Alyce Tzue, a 2014 MFA graduate of the School of Animation & Visual Effects at Academy of Art University and currently studio director at San Francisco-based Smule, San Francisco-based developer of music apps. Her 3D animated film SOAR has been awarded a Student Academy Award and numerous additional awards.
Matthew Brandt "Pictures from Wai'anae" @ M+B Gallery, Los AngelesPhotography // Thursday, September 17, 2015
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Spider Monkeys Volume 1 by Aneta BartosJuxtapoz // Thursday, September 17, 2015
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A razor-thin margin in the Virginia attorney general's race could ultimately put the decision about a winner before the General Assembly — but the rarely used strategy of contesting an election comes with its own political consequences, analysts say.
With Democrat Mark R. Herring leading Republican Mark D. Obenshain by 0.007 percent of the total statewide votes, whichever candidate is trailing when the state certifies the election results Nov. 25 is all but certain to call for a recount. And depending on the results, the candidates could conceivably contest the election.
Virginia law gives the General Assembly wide latitude to act after hearing a candidate's case. Lawmakers have the authority to reject the appeal, to order a new election or even to declare a winner — whether it is the candidate who held the lead or the candidate who contested the election.
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"That's a heavy burden," said former Virginia Attorney General Anthony F. Troy. "A contest, you have to demonstrate not that a vote was cast that shouldn't have been cast, but the results — the outcome — would have been different."
GOP lawyers appeared to be laying the groundwork for a possible claim Tuesday as Fairfax County tallied its provisional ballots. Attorney M. Miller Baker called the electoral board's approval of such ballots an "extraordinary, unprecedented move and said that, while the board's efforts to get as many voters included in the final certification was laudable, it raised questions about whether the state was providing equal protection for voters.
"Fairfax voters are receiving more-lenient, more-preferential treatment than other voters in Virginia," he said. "All Virginia voters are accorded the same treatment. That is not happening here today."
At a news conference this week, Mr. Obenshain refused to speculate on whether he would call for a recount, and when asked about action beyond that he said it was "premature" to state intentions.
The move could be politically risky as well.
The Herring camp on Thursday issued a news release citing editorials in The Washington Post and the Richmond Times-Dispatch urging both sides not to pursue a legal case. The attorney general's position has long been a launching point for gubernatorial bids, and a protracted struggle could tarnish the candidates and damage their future ambitions.
"I don't believe in recent history any Virginia candidate has brought a contest," said John Hardin Young, an election administration lawyer who was part of Al Gore's legal team during the recount of the disputed presidential election in Florida in 2000.
Mr. Young also said he thought the chances were "remote" that a recount would change the outcome.
In the 2005 race for attorney general, Republican Bob McDonnell picked up 37 votes in a statewide recount out of about 1.9 million ballots cast and defeated Democrat R. Creigh Deeds by 360 votes.
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I'm never sure how pissing off all the drivers in town really advances the cause of bike friendliness. People aren't sitting in their cars thinking, "you know, I should ride my bike too." They're thinking, "Get the fuck out of my way." I'm all for bikes, but this just always seemed really damn self-righteous. Especially doing it at rush hour.
@3 - Well, but anyone with kids did live some part of their life without kids, so it's not really the same thing. Someone who has never had kids has never experienced it, while someone who does have kids has experienced plenty of life without kids, so they have a pretty decent idea of what that's like. They don't know what it's like to live their ENTIRE life without kids, but that's fairly academic, isn't it? Not experiencing something for another day or year typically isn't markedly different from not experiencing it thus far.
Anyone's choice to have or not have kids is fine by me, but there's no question that people who have kids have experienced something that people don't haven't. The fault is in assuming that experience is crucial to having a "full" life.
The iPhone voice and data plan is pretty much identical to the voice and data plans for every other comparable phone from AT&T or other carriers. Mobile phone contracts suck, to be sure, but this isn't anything new, nor anything Apple has any control over. Someone please tell me about a cell phone network that costs "half as much per month." And if you think there's another phone that's comparable in features and usability to the iPhone, I'd like to see that too.
Irrational iPhone hating is just as silly as irrational iPhone loving.
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