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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94222332014-12-17T06:25:36.991-08:00Cogito Ergo GeekIPSC, USPSA, RKBA, politics, culture, etc (All quotes here are from Thomas Sowell)
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.

To find anything comparable to crowds' euphoric reactions to Obama, you would have to go back to old newsreels of German crowds in the 1930s
 Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-50424411026974689042014-12-16T23:52:00.000-08:002014-12-16T23:52:02.725-08:00Silence Of The LambsPeshawar school attack: Taliban 'burn teacher alive in front of pupils and behead children':

Taliban terrorists allegedly burned a teacher alive and made the students watch during their attack on a Pakistan school which left over 130 people dead. According to a NBC News report, citing an unnamed military official, the terrorists stormed the Army Public school in Peshawar, in north-west Pakistan, and committed the horrific act as well as detonating a suicide bomb which killed a number of students. "They burnt a teacher in front of the students in a classroom," the unnamed military source told the US TV network. "They literally set the teacher on fire with gasoline and made the kids watch." At least six militants entered the Pakistani school wearing security uniforms, before massacring an estimated 132 people and injuring another 122.
(H/T: Irons in the Fire)

Compare this to Sandy Hook:

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff members.Prior to driving to the school, Lanza shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the scene, Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
I don't mean to denigrate the tragedy of the Sandy Hook school shooting. I merely offer it in comparison.

In America, we acknowledge that this kind of "Silence of the Lambs" slaughter of the innocents is rightfully considered to be an aberration of of Civilized society. In other societies, it's Business As usual. It's political.

Here ... we hold our people and our governments to a higher standard.

In America, Liberals hold the peaceful citizens responsible for their actions ... and acknowledge (if reluctantly) that there is perhaps a reason why citizens should be allowed cannot be prohibited from owning guns.

We say: "When Guns Are outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Own Guns"

Liberals say" "Small Penis Gun Nuts, Fearful Of Imaginary Bad Guys, Salivate Over The Prospect Of Getting To Shoot a Burglar".

Well .. here's what it looks like when "only outlaws own guns".

With all respect to the victims of Sandy Hook and their families .. and I had no intention to minimize their grief at the tragedy .... I recently watched a video in which teachers who survived Sandy Hook discussed their experiences and announced that the solution was to remove all firearms from private hands .. by law.

But I ask myself (and surely you must be asking yourself as well) ... if America is The Great Satan, then why are these monsters limiting their efforts to their own people?

Granted, we've recently had our own spate of beheadings and burnings and we have a recent history of school shootings.

But why are we not seeing Jihadist groups here, in America, killing our children and beheading/burning their teachers in our schools?

Is Adam Lanza just a pale shadow of The Greater Evil?

And can we finally acknowledge that pure Evil exists, and must be combatted?

Or have The Evil Ones already noticed that they are next?

Is it that America has more guns per private citizen than any other industrialized nation in the world?

Could that be the reason? Do we intimidate the Jihadists as thoroughly (if inadvertently) as we do the Liberals?

Jerry The Geekhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-39433352215684552712014-12-08T20:18:00.000-08:002014-12-08T20:18:53.183-08:00Condescending Co-PresidentBiden to code-writing girls: 'You're as smart as any boy' | Fox News:

Don't worry, girls. "You're as smart as any boy." That was the message Monday from Vice President Biden as he pep-talked a group of young women during a White House technology event, in a uniquely Biden way.
How precious that the second-best Democrat in the nation should reassure "girls" that way.

Biden is, and always has been, an idiot. The worst thing is not that he is clue-less, but that the Democrats decided that he was ... acceptable ... to represent our nation.

After a CBS News reporter tweeted the comments, Biden's office retweeted them.

They're proud of their boy, they are!

Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-20404824325505898162014-12-08T17:35:00.000-08:002014-12-08T17:39:43.843-08:00Go, watch this!Never Yet Melted L Flash Mob: The U.S. Air Force Band at the Smithsonian

It will exalt you, and it will heal your heart.Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-51622259081328935772014-12-08T17:10:00.002-08:002014-12-08T17:19:44.024-08:00Happy AnniversaryI have been thinking that December 8 was the ten-year anniversary of Cogito Ergo Geek. But when I looked for my first post, I discovered it was published on December 01, 2004. Not December 8.

This calls for something special. I'm thinking ... Fireworks!

Oh ... go Full-Screen! You know you wanna!

Jerry The Geekhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-82447205395691144032014-12-05T21:56:00.000-08:002014-12-08T17:41:06.542-08:00Kids 'n Guns ... Good? Bad? Indifferent?Watch How Network Reporter Acts as 10-Year-Old Handles Her Favorite Guns — Then Wait for the Girl's Response | Video | TheBlaze.com:
(December 03, 201)

The ABC News profile of ten-year-old Shyanne Roberts, a young firearms enthusiast, seemingly raised the blood pressure of the reporter covering the story.
I teach people how to compete in "Run and Gun" competition: IPSC/USPSA.

I'll teach anyone. If they can handle the gun safely and responsibility, I'll encourage them to try competition. If they can't .. they can't I won't.

My oldest class member was in his late seventies; my youngest student was ten. People in their seventies are often not quite as competent as they would like to think, so they typically never actually come out for matches. They're not willing to learn.

The youngest members ... with the close supervision and encouragement of their parents ... typically stick around until they (a) kick my ass in a match, or (b) discover that the members of their opposite sex are more interesting than gun.

In the meantime, they learn. They build confidence in their abilities. They develop responsibility. They have a HUGE advantage over their classmates, because they know that their parents both love and trust them.

Trust is an issue. If you do not trust your child, they grow up knowing that they have not earned your trust, and they will be forever stunted.

On the other hand, if they know that they not only HAVE your trust, but they have EARNED your trust, they will be strong, confident, COMPETENT adults. Not every child has the maturity to accomplish this for themselves; it's good when they learn what kind of people they are at an early age.

Parenting:
It's the responsibility of the parents to teach their children.

If the parents have done their job, then child will grow to become as responsible as the parents.

If the parents have failed at their job, then their children will grow to become members of a riotous mob; burning and looting stores, killing other children, and otherwise undermining their society.

Children who have been loved, and (although not coddelled) encouraged to grow to the limits of their ability, will become useful, productive, confident members of their society.

I can teach the child of good parents that they have a responsibility. I can do this because their parents have already prepared them for excellence.

And when I see a family with everyone doing their job, it does not 'raise (my) blood temperature' when I see their children using 'lethal weapons' on the playing fields.

I just smile, and nod my head. I'm well satisfied. I trust them.

And I'm a little bit envious because my father taught me The Art of the Rifle, rather than The Art of the Pistol, when I was very small. And so these children will soon be kicking my ass in competition.

Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-39542368639404179052014-12-05T20:37:00.000-08:002014-12-05T20:37:12.002-08:00Has LEO equipment become too complicated?Gun-mounted flashlight plays role in another Denver police misfire - The Denver Post:
(December 05, 2014)

A Denver police officer accidentally fired his gun while trying to turn on a flashlight mounted on his weapon in March, the department's third flashlight-related discharge in two years, records show.
Perhaps we're asking too much of Law Enforcement Officers to keep track of multiple levels of lethality when arresting accused felons.

I've posted this before, but it bears repeating: A Las Vegas Police Person, covering a suspect while her partner cuffs him, 'accidentally' (NEGLIGENTLY!) fires her Glock during the process.

This is what can happen when only a lethal firearm is available (from 2006)

And what if both systems are available?

What if the cop draws his Taser and shoots when he 'just makes a little mistake'.

But the classic example is the 2007 California incident when officer Noreiga in Madiera, California, drew his Taser on a handcuffed prisoner who was attempting to kick out the windows of the patrol car in which the prisoner had been secured. Noriega attempted to Taser the prisoner; instead, he shot his prisoner dead.

That's not Lon Noriuchi at Ruby Ridge: it's worse.

Horiuchi made a conscious decision to engage someone whom he considered a violent person during a direct engagement between the FBI Hostage Rescue Team ... and through poor judgement he shot a woman holding a baby. Bad, stupid, and he was one of the most highly trained snipers in the American judicial system.

But Noreiga had no intention to kill anyone. He was just inadequately trained, confusingly armed, and insufficiently experienced to judge whether (a) the prisoner's actions warranted being Tasered; (b) whether his attempt to stop the prisoner 'acting out' could perhaps be as well supported by non-weaponized means, and (c) whether the situation was so drastic that he couldn't stop for at least a few seconds to evaluate both his chosen response and the weapon he had drawn to effect that response.

Does that look like a pistol? An M9 (which one assumes the LEO used for his primary weapon)? Are the controls too similar for an officer in a high-drama moment to confuse one for the other?

Well .. apparently so.

The LEAST that could be done, would be for the safety switch to be 'differently mounted', so that the officer would have to (say) push a button on his Taser rather than flip a safety switch mounted in the same manner as his duty weapon.

What kind of training are these otherwise-responsible LEOs receiving on the use of the Taser v Pistol?

Jerry The Geekhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-35546591733288982532014-12-04T22:53:00.000-08:002014-12-04T22:53:00.992-08:00What part of "Free Speech" do you not understand?The entire concept of "Free Speech Zones" on College campuses is Anathema.

The First Amendment was established to recognize the right of Americans to 'indulge' in 'unpopular speech'. Anywhere. Any time. But Higher Education Institutions across America don't recognize this.

California college settles First Amendment suit with student | Fox News:

"Freedom of expression is crucial in the higher education community, and the District and its Board of Trustees have done much to protect and advance this cherished right," the statement read. "As part of the settlement, the District will be implementing new procedures that will expand its current free speech area to include most open spaces on campus ....... "
[emphasis added]

A student on a California campus spoke in a "free speech zone", and was not the subject of harassment by college administers. But when he (literally) stepped over 'the line' to discuss the fine points of his opinion with another student, a college administrator threatened him.

 Claiming that a political discussion could not take place outside of the free speech zone, the unidentified school employee threatened to eject Sinapi-Riddle from campus for violating the policy.

Since when is "policy" more important that the Constitution?

What are we teaching our children?

Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-12329594348182709312014-11-29T06:31:00.002-08:002014-11-29T06:31:55.846-08:00Thank GOD no guns were involved!Attack in China leaves 15 dead, 14 injured | Fox News: BEIJING –
(November 29, 2014)

Chinese state media say 15 people have been killed in an attack in the country's troubled western Xinjiang region. The official Xinhua News Agency says 14 other people were injured in what it said was a terrorist attack Friday in Shache county. The Tianshan news portal said Saturday that the attackers used vehicles, knives and explosives in the assault. It said the dead included 11 of the attackers. Such attacks have claimed dozens of lives in Xinjiang over the past year. Members of the region's Muslim Uighur minority group have bristled under what they say is repressive Chinese government rule.
Jerry The Geekhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-14910825571482933982014-11-28T21:20:00.000-08:002014-11-28T21:26:56.065-08:00Let's Get Rid of the ATFBackfire | Watchdog Update - Bill eliminating ATF introduced in wake of botched operations:
(September 17, 2014)

ATF! Whoo-ah! What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING!

 A bill that would eliminate the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and fold its duties into the FBI and other agencies was introduced Wednesday in Congress. The bill, by U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), would impose an immediate hiring freeze at the ATF and require that a plan be submitted within six months on how to move its activities to other agencies. The bill calls for eliminating the agency a year after the bill's final passage, moving its functions into the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Treasury Department.
Recap? Fast and furious. Bogus 'scam gun stores' to no discernible purpose. (Both programs got ripped off, putting more full-auto weapons in circulation than they might have prevented.)

It's time to put this ineffective dinosaur to bed. Or better, in the grave.

What are they good for?

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Alcohol ... how many stills are left in the backwoods of America?

Taxes ... an excuse for stifling American enterprise by imposing increasingly egregious taxes on the American public.

Firearms ... obviously, they don't know WTF they are doing, why they are doing it, or who they are doing it to. And they don't care; the agents are working for the man, and a paycheck. If we retire them all on full salary, America would be a better place. And much of their purpose seems to make criminals out of honest Americans.

Explosives ... they couldn't stop the Boston Marathon Bombers.

What do they cost?

ATF is a unique law enforcement agency in the U.S. Department of Justice that protects our communities from violent criminals, criminal organizations, the illegal use and trafficking of firearms, the illegal use and storage of explosives, acts of arson and bombings, acts of terrorism, and the illegal diversion of alcohol and tobacco products. The men and women of ATF perform the dual responsibilities of enforcing federal criminal laws and regulating the firearms and explosives industries.
In 1973, ATF had 3,829 employees, including 1,622 special agents and 826 industry operations investigators. The agency's budget was less than $74 million.
Today ATF has 4,719 employees, including 2,402 special agents and 791 industry operations investigators. The agency's budget is about $1.07 billion.
So we're spending over one BILLION dollars a year just to keep some bunch of bow-tied incompetents on the payroll? If we got rid of them, we'd be that much ahead ... not to mention that they would no longer be stumbling over our toes every time we choose to exercise our Constitutinal rights to keep and bear firearms.

Think nobody is paying attention?

Do the research:

Unintended Consequences: John Ross, 1996 - 2009

Essential Liberty: Rob Olive, 2012
(See also here)

What have we got to lose?

Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-25333594363573745972014-11-28T19:34:00.003-08:002014-11-28T19:34:44.718-08:00When White People RiotFerguson protests v. white people's riots (Opinion) - CNN.com:
(November 20, 2014)

CNN has fulfilled it's mission once again. By the clever manipulation of Moral Equivalence (even before the riots started) they have assured rioters that anything they do is just fine with their friends in Major Media.

 Just days after the Pumpkin Fest, riots erupted in the largely white town of Morgantown, West Virginia. Why? Because West Virginia University's team beat Baylor at football. The rioters "lit fires, pushed over street lights and threw rocks, beer bottles and other items at police," reported the local news. Police and fire vehicles were damaged. Eight people were arrested.
 Were the riot police, the National Guard, or a state of emergency declared? No. the city is just considering a law to ban upholstered furniture from outdoor areas, since the "tradition" of setting fire to couches apparently fueled the protests.
  Could you imagine a news story about a black community with a "tradition" of burning couches? The media would be pointing out how they're "destroying their own community" and the right would make assertions about black people not deserving public assistance.
[emphasis added]

No, I think that "... a news story about a black community with a 'tradition' of burning couches" would be a welcome relief.

In Ferguson, they're burning police cars. And stores. And looting. And threatening other citizens. And beating up old white men whose oxygen tank is the chosen weapon of assault.

Both instances of mob mentality are egregious. Participants in both riots should be required, at least, to pay for their crimes, both judicially and financially.

The difference is, drunken college kids who destroy public property will probably be arrested and be penalized. And when they sober up, they will probably have learned something from their negative experience.

What's the lesson in Ferguson? We can do anything we want to, because we have a "Just Cause" and that gives us license to do it. Arson, assault, anything ... they can't jail us all!

Many of the Ferguson rioters wear masks to protect their identity. They know that their "Just Cause" is not sufficient justification for their actions. They know they are primarily looters and arsonists; they went into their acting-out behavior not because of a political, racial or societal motive, but just because they want to rape, pillage and burn.

Oh, and a dozen boxes of Designer Shoes (most of which aren't even in their size) are a strong incentive.

Drunken college kids are like puppies who will pee on the carpet until they have their noses rubbed in it. They are sometimes capable of learning that their individual actions will carry a penalty, and they may even change the way they act in the future.

Looters and arsonists who are confident in the sure and certain outcome of their actions ... they will NOT be penalized, they will NOT be arrested, they will NOT have to pay for the property they stole, destroyed ... what they will learn is that 'bad behavior' will be rewarded.

And that's the way it is.

Jerry The Geekhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-61933900794540986652014-11-26T21:53:00.000-08:002014-11-26T21:57:25.870-08:00The MAP is not the Terrain!The Obama Administration has worked hard to convince America that the British National Health Care model is so superior to our (former) "independent provider" model, we have almost forgotten just how BAD the NHC (National Health Care) system really is.

Here's how bad it really is.

Jeremy Hunt: 'I took my children to A&E because I didn't want to wait for GP appointment' - UK Politics - UK - The Independent:

Jeremy Hunt has admitted taking his children to accident and emergency [A&E] because he did not want to wait for a GP appointment. The Health Secretary has spoken numerous times to urge the public to avoid A&E departments in all but the most urgent cases and turn to pharmacies, doctors' surgeries and walk-in centres instead. But speaking during today's health questions in the House of Commons, he appeared to go against his own advice. Mr Hunt said: "I took my own children to an A&E department at the weekend precisely because I did not want to wait until later on to take them to see a GP."
[added by editor for clarification]

The Future of Obamacare

The problems with a National Health Care System (ake: Obamacare .. or earlier, Hillarycare" are threefold:

(1) Somebody has to pay for it
(2) It's run by the Government
(3) It completely ignores the advantages of capitalism

One: Obamacare makes the young people pay for the old people
Two: When has ANY project prospered in a capitalistic sense when run by the Government? (NEVER!)
Three: Capitalism embraces the theory that when there's a profit involved, the provider will make whatever adjustments are possible as long as the cash flow continues. In Obamacare, the program continues even though it shows itself to be robbing Peter to pay Paul. This is a "Zero Sum" game.

And as this example (see above) clearly shows, even the politicians who are touting this Ponzi Scheme are marginally smart enough to understand that if the benefits are not supported by the costs, it's not only un-manageable, but ultimately it's not the BEST possible solution to the vaguely defined problem.

When it comes to Health Care, we want to have our family have the best possible therapy available within the margin of timely care.

Clearly, neither Great Britain's NHC (National Health Care) nor Obama Care fit within the these critical parameters.

Even though both NHC programs have been touted to be viable solutions, and they look good on paper (thousands of pages of paper!) ... the administrators and the politicians recognize that it's not the best solution when their own families are concerned.

Looks Good vs Feels Good

One of the main "Life Lessons" I learned while serving in Viet Nam is "The Map is not The Territory".

That means that the available information usually bears not even a passing resemblance to reality. When navigating through the jungles, we use maps (usually 1:50,000 scale --- we were tickled pink when we got 1:25,000 scale!) which allowed us to see the terrain in which we would be operating.

Sadly, even though the maps were usually based on photo-flights (airplanes which took pictures of the ground), usually the dimensions were skewed by 'photo interpreters' who just made their "best guess" of the actual elevations, vegetation, etc. (CF: Hamburger Hill)

So we used the maps as a general guide, but we did NOT believe them!

And they never learned otherwise! (Or else, they chose not to .. for purely political reasons.) That's another lesson WE learned, we who climbed the hills and waded the swamps. The Powers That Be paid no attention to the Reality we learned at the cost of our friends.

Imagine my surprise when I came home and discovered that this lesson was not only applicable to day-to-day life ... but that Politics was the art of developing a "map" of America ... and then relying on it without recourse to actual feet-on-the-ground experience.

When we consider the benefits to our families, we begin to understand that the View from The Sky is just another "Pie In The Sky" Ponzi Scheme.

This isn't good for us. It's not good for the Nation. And it's not good for our families.

You might as well bend over now, buddy. This isn't just another colo-rectal scan.

It's The American Government coming home to roost. Permanently.Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-10457652967071275462014-11-26T19:33:00.000-08:002014-11-26T19:33:45.522-08:00I don't blame him: I'd do the same damn thing!Reports: Top Iranian Negotiator 'Frequently Shouts' at Kerry, Western Officials | Washington Free Beacon:
November 23, 2014 12:30 pm

 VIENNA—Iran's foreign minister and lead negotiator in nuclear talks is known to frequently scream and shout at Western diplomats, including Secretary of State John Kerry, a practice that has caused alarm among bodyguards stationed outside the negotiating room, according to a member of the Iranian diplomatic team who spoke to the Farsi-language press.
Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-67447359163465360762014-11-26T17:54:00.003-08:002014-11-27T19:13:11.814-08:00"Like a five year-old trying to hold Hulk Hogan"In His Own Words: Wilson's Account of Michael Brown Shooting | MRCTV:

Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson - in an exclusive interview with ABC News - recounted his fatal encounter with 18-year-old Michael Brown.

I've deliberately held back from voicing an opinion about this shooting, because we just didn't have any idea at ALL what happened that night. There were many statements from so-called 'eye-witnesses' ... many of whom either changed their stories or refused to discuss their previous statements when questioned by both police and media.

Now we have the public statement from the officer involved in the shooting.

Personally, I think three things:

It wasn't Murder.
It wasn't even an arrest.
It was survival.

First: Officer Wilson must have been terrified by the attack on him by a huge man who seemed to hold no fear of being shot; a man who nearly took his gun away from him. When someone tries to take your gun, there's no doubt what the next move will be. That "gentle giant" intended to turn the officers gun against him. The only reason that Brown didn't manage to disarm and then murder the officer was that one of the random shots during the struggle in the car did hit Brown. That may have been an "Owie" that led Brown to (temporarily) wander away.

Second: The account attributes no great qualities of competence to Officer Wilson. He barely held his own during the struggle in the car. After his attacker retreated, though, Wilson was able to re-confront his attacker and attempt to arrest him. Well ... that's his job. No LEO worth his salt is going to allow a violent felon to just walk away. Wilson HAD called for back-up ("Shots Fired"), and his duty then was to detain his attacker.

Third: After Brown had time to realize that he wasn't badly wounded, merely hurt, and then (just my impression) he got mad. We have seen from the videos in the bodega that he used his size and power to intimidate people. He was on a roll; he considered himself too powerful to be dissuaded by a little pain. He ignored legal commands to stop. He ignored being shot at repeatedly, and his adrenaline-fueled rush toward the police officer was like the charge of a bull elephant; unstoppable by anything less than a mortal wound.

Wilson shot several times at Brown at the beginning of his rush ... and then, knowing that he had hit him at least once, the LEO paused to see of the new wound(s) would cause him to hesitate.

Brown didn't stop. As Brown continued his rush toward Wilson, the cop tried again.

Wilson shot, hitting Brown again .. but Brown was determined not to stop until he got within grappling distance of the officer. He knew that if he could reach the cop, he could

Finally at the eight-to-ten feet distance, Wilson fired a final shot, hitting him in the head.

And the Raging Bull dropped, literally, at his feet.

I can't see how Officer Wilson could have done anything else, other than to have allowed Brown to walk away.

In fact, if Brown had continued to walk away after having been commanded to STOP .. this incident might have turned out differently.

But Brown would not ... could not ... allow the challenge to go unanswered. Instead, he turned and rushed the officer.

I cannot imagine how Officer Wilson could have responded otherwise. He had been repeatedly attacked, and his only alternative would have been to allow Brown to close and brutalize him, which would probably have ended up with Wilson dead.

And so, the good citizens of Ferguson, Missouri, loot businesses and burn their own city.

Martin Luther King would be so proud of you! (NOT!)

UPDATE: (November 27, 2014)
The text of the interview of Officer Wilson immediately after the shooting. (PDF available, but not here) This is the "post-action" review conducted by the police department.

The comments in the public interview seem to be fully supported by the contents of the 'immediate' police shooting review. That text would, of course, be available to Officer Wilson before he made his public statement.

Personal note: I've been involved in an 'immediate action' review, in the army, while operating in Viet Nam. I can attest that I was, at the time, very shaken ... and this occurred (in my experience) one day AFTER the the action occurred. When in this situation, I was a regular Chatty Cathy and I didn't have a single thought but to report the entire circumstances of the battle, my thoughts at the time, and anything else else which my Commander seemed to want. It's difficult to come up with a 'cover story' when your teeth start chattering as soon as you begin to relive the moments of sheer terror which happened so recently.

Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-36327383222299361742014-11-26T16:49:00.002-08:002014-11-26T16:49:21.676-08:00Security breach at USPSAEmail to members from USPSA:

We have become aware of a security breach

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USPSA.org Security issue

We have become aware of a security breach that happened on USPSA.org within the last 24 hours. The USPSA login database was compromised and at least a partial list of usernames and passwords were exposed. USPSA staff has taken steps to address the vulnerability and we have changed the system to ensure this type of attack will not be effective in the future. Members are encouraged to change their passwords on USPSA.ORG and any other web site for which they used the same password.

It is important to note that the breach did not involve the credit card processing system or any financial data. All credit card processing is done using a separate industry standard secure vendor - no credit card information is stored on the USPSA server.

We will keep the membership updated as more information is available.

Copyright © 2014 USPSA, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you are a USPSA member.

Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-17641251427323047222014-11-25T10:27:00.002-08:002014-11-25T10:27:44.378-08:00Feeling a little "JUMPY" today?
Epic World-Record Truck Jump by EMC and Lotus F1 Team

*(Background story here)

Jerry The Geekhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-74649067378921687492014-11-25T08:59:00.001-08:002014-11-25T09:13:12.682-08:00Cover-upBracken: Stonewalled In Obama's Garden Of Beasts | Western Rifle Shooters Association:
(November 23, 2014)

It is truly a great pity that in stark contrast to the Nixon Watergate era, today's American Pravda reporters are not interested in uncovering the truth, but instead, they are an integral part of the cover-up. Today's Woodwards and Bernsteins are secretly taking their marching orders from Obama's White House. Welcome to the USSA, comrades.

If you don't regularly read David Codrea's "The War On Guns", you might want to check out this article which he recommended.

It's very long, quite 'imaginative', tells a complicated story, and unfortunately makes President Obama's administration look like a proper Dog's Breakfast.

You might even consider reading either or both of the books cited there.

UPDATE: For background, Susan Rice's infamous Benghazi interview on YouTubeJerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-91796971960222343902014-11-19T06:39:00.000-08:002014-11-19T06:44:38.135-08:00Gun Sales Surge in St. Louis Suburbs Ahead of Jury's Ferguson Decision - NBC News.com"We're selling everything that's not nailed down," (gun store owners declare .. which may prove to be an economic boon to save Colt Manufacturing LLC from bankruptcy.)

It's an old story, reminiscent of the surge in gun sales when Barack Obama was elected President.

You never need a gun, until you really need one. That's the story.

Apparently, folks in the Saint Louis area expect they will 'really need one'.

Why?

Riots, of course. Also known as "Civic Disturbances" (not to be confused with "Civil Unrest" because there's nothing 'civil' about a Race Riot), the population expects that police officer Whatshisname will be acquitted of murder charges, and the fine, gentle Citizens (much like Michael Brown was a 'gentle giant'?) will be tossing beer barrels, overturning police cruisers and torching Korean grocery stores.

Unless the Koreans have their AK47's handy. Which may evince more protection of private property than will the PO-lice and their MRAPs (or whatever ...)

 THIS JUST IN:

Islam is the Nation of Peace!

Obama to enforce Immigration Laws!

"Global Warming" is now "Global Cooling"

Well, one out of three ain't bad, in the Teens of the 21st Century.

File this under: "What a Maroon!"

Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-76828458652678032262014-11-09T19:34:00.002-08:002014-11-09T19:34:33.596-08:00Great Open Carry VideoThis is the best way for cops to handle 'scary things'.

Our encounter one week earlier with an UNLAWFUL police officer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uipObT... We saw the a OC Sheriff car pull up so we all took out our camera-phones right away, anticipating trouble. This officer gets out of his car, waves to us, and walks right over. He shakes all of our hands, introduces himself, and states his purpose for walking over to us. (Somebody got scared and called). He never asked us to disarm, never threatened us, never asked for our names or identification. I think I can speak for everyone in the group that it was an honor to meet this man. Thisis what we need to see from police officers everywhere! THIS MAN IS A HERO

Note the people in cars, honking in support as they pass by.

Now, compare that with THIS.Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-71351399921680780442014-11-09T02:18:00.000-08:002014-11-09T02:18:51.173-08:00President Obama to Replace Attorney General Eric Holder With Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch - The AtlanticPresident Obama to Replace Attorney General Eric Holder With Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch - The Atlantic:

President Obama has settled on the chief federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, Loretta Lynch, as the nation's next attorney general. The White House said late Friday that Lynch was the president's pick to replace the departing Eric Holder, confirming a selection that CNN first reported earlier in the day. By choosing Lynch, Obama is bypassing a pair of candidates with more senior roles in his administration in favor of a prosecutor who could, potentially, be more easily confirmed by a Senate that Republicans will soon control.

Attorney General .. old

Attorney General ... new

Giving Obama his choice is like giving a kid his choice between recess and vacation,

Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-20608565997637568912014-11-07T23:14:00.000-08:002014-11-07T23:14:26.338-08:00Why I Carry ...and why not to say soFrom time to time I have held break-room conversations with co-workers.

They knew I'm a "Gun Nut", and some of them know I have a license to carry a concealed firearm.

 But of course, my co-workers are are Academics, who are more concerned with the concept and have no idea that I had been carrying a firearm on my employer premises (a university campus, where concealed carry is illegal) since the first day of my employment .. which lasted for over 15 years.

That's another story, which I shall not visit today. They never knew; they never asked.

In our conversations over coffee, when the subject came up (rarely), I asked them:
"Do you have a driver's license?"

All did, of course.

I asked them: "Do you carry it at all times? Do you have it on your person now?"

They said yes.

"Why do you carry it?"

Well .. because if I get stopped by the police, I would need it to show that I was a licensed driver.

"Okay. You carry your drivers license because sometime you may need it, even if you believe that you are obeying all traffic laws .. sometimes you might be pulled over for some reason that you are not aware of, such as a broken tail-light. Maybe it's not that you have intentionally done wrong, it's just because your car is old, or your car developed a short in the wiring."

Nods all around

"Or maybe you get into an accident. Is there anybody here who has never been pulled over by the police, or had an accident that was not their fault?"

Head shakes all around.

"Okay, so sometimes you need your driver's license, even though you never expect to use it. It's just that when you need it, you really need it. That's why I carry a gun. Off-campus ... here it's always safe. We're all friend; right?"

Nods.

I only held this conversation twice. Nobody ever asked me again. I'm not sure whether they bought my bald-face lie that I did not have a gun on my person at the time, or whether they decided that I was one of the 'good guys'.

Or maybe they thought twice about the line:
 Not HERE, of course; this is a college campus. What need would I have to carry a gun here?

Strangely, after the 2007 Virginia Tech school shooting, the subject never arose again.

I'm retired now, and I don't go out much. Of course, I no longer carry because .. why would I need a gun in a College Town?

Jerry The Geekhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-7664084455710865222014-11-06T02:47:00.001-08:002014-11-06T02:57:58.153-08:00Bread and Circuses ... and Pot2014 Oregon election results :: The Oregonian | OregonLive.com: regon [sic] results

For those who care ...

Oregon voted FOR Democrats in most significant races, and FOR Marijuana legalization ... but AGAINST mosquitoes and flies. *

Apparently, the weed-heads are more annoyed by flies than by Democrats.
(Which seems a good reason to oppose the legalization of Marijuana.)

Democrats only annoy them the one day a year when they can't ignore them. Perhaps if Oregon held elections more frequently, the preposterous Dem campaign ads would be seen as more pernicious to those of us whose perception of reality is more concerned with pot and television than with reality.

*(for party splits by state, see this graphic)

Jerry The Geekhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-56749653264422989952014-11-04T23:14:00.002-08:002014-11-04T23:15:08.314-08:00Politicians and Diapers ...."Politicians and diapers should be changed often, and for the same reasons."

Often cited to Mark Twain and Winston Churchill (and others, without rhyme or reason), the aphorism seems to work. The defination of "an honest politician is one who, once bought, stays bought" also seems applicable.

To tonight we are witnessing another evolution of the same old revolution ... "kick the bastards out".

The only CHANGE is that the bastards are the 'other' group; the only HOPE is that the newest group of lying bastards will provide sufficient resistance to the current Clown In Chief to force a degree of ... well, conservatism ... in his constant flow of outrageous, arbitrary social changes.

If nothing else, (a) the tendency toward acceptance of unrestricted/illegal immigration of people into this country, and (b) abrogation of our constitutional rights.

Yes, we will continue to deal with President Obama's "revolution by fiat" (aka: "I have a phone and a pen") zeal as he will doubtless continue to attempt to establish his leadership in a manner reminiscent of a nascent Community Organizer on a national scale. (God protect us from naif in power!)

But the Legislature has to duty of forming the laws (senate), and will not pay for the enforcement of inane laws (house); so we now have resumed a balance between the judicial, the legislative and the executive branches. Well ... sort-of.

Nobody wants any political party to rule both the Executive and the Legislative branch; it is a conundrum which has ALWAYS led to extreme measures, when one party is in power. When a 'new' (different from last week?) party gains control, we usually see excessive policies undermined, or boldly cast off.

Both parties are guilt of excessive legislation, arbitrary decision-making, and fear-mongering.

CIVICS:
When we see an extremist in the White House, we pray for the 'other side' to gain control of the Senate/House. This is ... when it happens ... an expression of The American Way. Politics is best served when the "balance of power" is enforced.

When we see an extremist Legislature we are often fearful of their power, as well. Fortunately, Legislature is not endowed with the power akin to "Presidential Veto" and "Presidential Findings",

But there are ways, and there are means, to curb both President and Legislature.

BALANCE OF POWER: Judicial
The Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS) does not have the same power as the President of the United States of America (POTUS) ... but it does have the power and the ability to adjudge POTUS decisions and ... occasionally ... rule them Null and Void. Not that this happens often, but it remains as a Sword of Damocles over all presidential powers, and this is A Good Thing.

SCOTUS rules on whether laws are acceptable under the guidelines of the Constitution of the United States of America. .

Note that other laws are not generally considered 'cogent'; usually, only the Constitution is considered applicable to cases which they accept for adjudicatio

Currently, we have a somewhat-Liberal court. But they can't 'rule' on an issue until it reaches their chambers as a specific issue. And they are limited by precedents and 'case law', which is often confusing. (See: Miller vs US, 1939).

BALANCE OF POWER: Legislature
The Legislature is divided by two houses ... House of Representatives and the Senate (the 'senior house'). The Senate can initiate laws, but the house funds them. If the Senate makes a law which displeases the House, it may find that there are no moneys available to enforce that law.

The House may not initiate laws, although they may propose laws; so whatever their fancies, their nature will never become an issue unless they can convince the Senate to initiate the law. Or a reasonable facsimile there-of. (In fact, the law which the Senate ultimately approves may bear only a passing resemblance to the Bill which may have been proposed by the House.)

BALANCE OF POWER: Executive

The President of the United States (POTUS) has the ability to veto any bill which has been passed by the House and Senate, and which has been approved by the SCOTUS. He may issue "Presidential Findings", which have the power of law unless and until it has been brought by SCOTUS and subsequently found unconstitutional. (see above)

The President is charged with enforcing the laws and the constitution; but he may (at his discretion) decide NOT to enforce laws. This leads to the decision of our current POTUS to be disinclined to enforce .. for example ... Immigration Laws.

Both the Legislature and the Judiciary may disagree with the Executive branch, but they are powerless at this point. The Legislature may make laws; it cannot enforce them. The Judiciary may rule on violation of the laws, but not until a case if brought before them.

This causes the most powerful of the three branches of government ... the Executive ... the most powerful. One man is able to dismantle the other two branches. A stool may may stand on four legs; it may stand on three legs; but a stool will fail under two legs.

And under one leg .. it is a balancing act, not a government.

When a President is a Rogue:

When the President of an association decides to go his own way, disregarding the sage counsel of his Constitutionally established advisers, then he needs to be quite certain of the rightness of his cause.

Unfortunately, certainty is not always "good and sufficient". When the rule of one man becomes the Law of the Land, then that is the definition of a Dictatorship.

Our country has always been defined as a Republic. Not a Democracy. And certainly not a Dictatorship.

Why it is good that Republicans have now dominated the Legislature:

Now that the Senate and the House are both under the control of the party in opposition to the President, the Balance of Power has been restored.

Obviously, with the Senate willing to arbitrarily back Presidential Decisions, it became nothing more than a lackey .. willing to rubber-stamp the President and cleaving to The Party Line, it was nothing more than The Party Line writ large.

Now that the opposition party is in power, we can expect that the Presidential aspirations will be subject to more close review And resistance.

This is A Good Thing.

An 'unbridled' President, assured of automatic approbation for his policies, is naturally prone to excess.

A President who knows that his every decision will be closely reviewed ... and subject to not only Part Politics but Critical Analysis ... will be more likely to become less sanguine. (Call it "more Middle-of-the Road", if you will.)

We want this.

We want a moderate leader. We want a leader who is not making arbitrary decisions, based on his own personal bias. We want a President who feels obliged to answer not only to the Public, but also to "The Opposite Party". We want him to to justify his decisions to a critical audience in power. We want him to make a GOOD case for whatever he decides to do, so that we are assured that his decisions are the right ones.

When the Legislature was dominated by a political party which was invested in the confident approval of our President, we lacked the confidence of our leadership.

Now that the President must make a powerful case for his executive decision, we can be .. if not confident in our OWN approval, at least confident that his decisions have been approved by people whom WE have elected, through our popular vote.

Even those of us who may not have elected the President, personally,Jerry The Geekhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-89579505445158067472014-11-04T01:34:00.003-08:002014-11-04T01:34:41.285-08:00So what if you DO save your family and home from predation?[Video] Couple Who Shot, Killed Burglar Last Year Discuss the Toll the Incident Has Taken on Them:

.... one thing that we don't talk about often enough is the toll that is taken on you and your family after a defensive shooting.
Guns Save Lives is one of the few websites which I visit every day.

But this day, Dan Cannon talked about the burden which defending your family against a home-invasion imposes on the people who choose to defend themselves, their home, and their families.

It's a subject which deserves your attention.

Is it better to shoot? Or to be shot?

Is The Law less threatening than the Lawless?Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-40420003154251840052014-11-03T21:17:00.002-08:002014-11-03T21:24:09.122-08:00Politics! What is it good for? (Absolutely Nothin'!)I've been reading my ballots (Oregon is a "Vote By Mail" state) and I admit that I am despondent.

When I think about the presidential elections ... yet to come ... it's even worse.

Oregon cannot field a decent candidate in the Senatorial elections. This sorry state of affairs (pun intended) has existed for years.

When it comes to local elections, it's even worse. I'm sure that there are honest folks out there who would represent their constituents honestly and in good faith .. but are they capable? We can't know.

I'm reminded of the quote (often attributed to Mark Twain and/or Benjamin Disraeli .. but perhaps even those citations are wrong) concerning the three types of lies:

"Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics"!

Perhaps the more mordant quote should be: "Liars, Damn Liars, and Politicians!"

And how about war? Watch the video ... and substitute "Politics" for the word "War":

It's probably redundant to mention that all politicians are liars. Who said that 'anybody who wants to campaign for a public office is probably not someone you would want to hold it'? Well ... I did, for one.

Will Rogers had a bunch of things to say about politicians, politics and campaigning. But he didn't go far enough.

Voters today ... probably always ... have the choice of voting for the least dishonest/vompetent candidate. That's Hobson's Choice. (Look it up; I did) Or worst, Procrustes; who stretched or sawed off the legs of his guests to fit the bed.

We're at the mercy of the "least bad" alternatives when it comes to voting. Our candidates prove themselves to be venal, criminal, insane and/or incompetent. I offer Clinton, Nixon, Carter, Ford, Obama as examples (not necessarily in that order).

And yes, I even include Reagan .. who was a dunderhead but still a leader; we don't get many men of that caliber nowadays. * (Or Eisenhower, either, for that matter.)

We should have voted for Nancy.

At least she encouraged us to not 'do drugs'. What part of "Just Say No!" is a bad idea?

So we are left with the conundrum: "If you don't vote, you can't complain!"

Therefore, I am registering my complaints NOW, before the elections. Whomever is elected .. they're a dunderhead without charisma.

Or they have charisma ... but they're a STUPID, INEXPERIENCED dunderhead without the sense God gave a jackass. Yes, I specifically include the reigning President in that category.

Frankly, I would prefer a dishonest politician over an incompetent one. Which is why I thought Nixon was a 'good president'. He would have made a great Secretary of State, but he over-reached himself when he kept trying for the Presidency until the nation, in a fit of pique, elected him 'anyway'. He was A Leader. He may not have led us in the direction in which we wanted to go; he was the ugliest man who was ever elected to public office; and yes, he was "a crook".

But he was an Honest Politician.

The definition of which is: when he was bought, he stayed bought.

The same can be said for Lyndon Johnson, of the 'opposing party'; except that while Johnson was obviously for sale to the highest bidder, he was overwhelmed by his exalted position and imposed some draconian social policies which have undermined our nation for decades.

We should have elected Lady Bird, who at least encouraged us to put up walls between highways and junk yards in her (seemingly) bizarre "Highway Beautification Program" .. which was in itself more beneficial than most Presidential Edicts.

Come to think of it, most First Ladies had more balls than their presidential husbands.  Remember Dolly Madison?  Now there is a Lady I would have voted for.

Dolley Madison also helped to furnish the newly constructed White House. When the British set fire to it in 1814, she was credited with saving the classic portrait of George Washington. In widowhood, she often lived in poverty, partially relieved by the sale of her late husband's papers.

But we don't have any Dolly Madisons. We almost had a Sara Palin. We almost had a Geraldine Ferraro.

Pity. I would have voted for any of them.

Instead, we continue to vote for men who look good on television.

Which is why I don't own a television.

And it's why I am so despondent about voting,

......

You call me a curmudgeon. I consider myself a realist.

Okay, so sometimes I 'over-think'. And I WILL vote; I'm just not expecting to be happy about the results, even if the people I vote for win the election. (Perhaps especially in that case.)

Jerry The Geekhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9422233.post-80235432257464076072014-11-01T09:39:00.001-07:002014-11-01T09:39:19.972-07:00About Washington State's Competing Gun Measures... the NYT has an opinion: it's still all about the "notorious" Gun Show Loophole.

The People's Choice on Gun Safety - NYTimes.com:

Actually, Washington voters face two ballot measures on this nationally significant question. Initiative 594 would close notorious loopholes in gun control laws by requiring background checks for criminal activity and severe mental illness for would-be buyers at gun shows and on the Internet. The rival measure, Initiative 591, supported by gun rights advocates, says there can be no background checks without "a uniform national standard" — a Catch-22 ploy because, of course, there can be no such standard without congressional cooperation.
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God relationships are glorious~!
So the gf (omgz grlz) and I got into a huge fight about something retarded today. A couple weeks ago I came back to my college apartment to move back in for the rest of my summer as my summer job was kaput. During this time I didn't call my gf because I was busy moving stuff and getting everything squared away. Now, I am not really a phone person and she knows that, but it didn't really bother me not talking to her for 3 days.
Well when I get back(I came back home to get the rest of my stuff and tie up loose ends back home) we get into a fight because she was upset that I didn't call her for 3 days. I informed her that phones magically work both ways and she should have called me if she wanted to talk to me. Her excuse was "I was giving you space so you could move in and I didn't want to bother you." I told her that I didn't need "space" and that if she called me when I couldn't talk I would let her know and call her later.
Well I came back with my second load of stuff and have been moving in some more. I have been calling her every time we talk--so for the last 7-10 days all of the conversations we have had were initiated by me. I didn't really mind or even notice at first, but it started to bother me when I noticed that if I didn't call her for a day she wouldn't call me at all. So I did an experiment (shouldn't have but whatever) and didn't call her for about 2 days--but I had to ask her a question about something (giving her my old couch if she wants it). Well she was really "catty" on the phone and I could tell something was wrong.
One thing lead to another and we got into a big fight about it--again. I told her that she could call me and that I don't need space. Her excuse THIS time was, get this, "gender roles". "Girls aren't suppose to call guys;guys are suppose to call girls! Don't you agree that we have a pretty 'traditional' gender role relationship?" To this I responded "Yea, so why don't you come down and clean my kitchen, do my laundry, and make me dinner." She didn't take this as bad as I thought...she said "if we were married I WOULD do that stuff". So I said "if we were married I WOULD call you first" --just to be an ass.
I explained that I don't like to talk on the phone but I get over it and call her. She doesn't like to call me because it makes her "feel weird"...but she won't get over herself and call me. We argued about this for forever because she didn't understand that not calling me because it makes her feel weird is the same thing as me not calling because I don't like to talk on the phone. I told her that if a neutral party was listening to our argument they would say that I was being stupid ANNND she was being stupid--stupid^2. She told me "Maybe you should talk to your parents, because they usually straighten you out when you are being stupid." ( Which is true. They will tell me when I am in the wrong.)
So I called my dad, but he didn't answer. So I called my mom's cell (she was still at work), I filled her in on the story and she started laughing. At this point I am not as upset as I am just "this is ridiculous". My mom doesn't "take my side" per se but I can tell she agrees with me. She was very diplomatic--saying: "You aren't wrong and she isn't wrong. In relationships there are fights like these and you need to compromise..not try to be right." I quickly informed my mother that if we "compromised" then I would be right. If I was "right" then we would compromise. My whole argument was that if I can call her then she can call me. My mom pretty much agreed, but I let her go because I didn't want to keep her any longer at work.
While I was talking to my mom my dad called me back because he had a missed call. I explained why I called and he started to give me a "solution" then quickly stopped and said that I needed to talk to my mother. My dad and I are on the EXACT same wave length 99% of the time and he was thinking what I was thinking, but he didn't want to escalate our fight. I laughed and told him that I already got her side and that I wanted his. He and I both agreed that I should tell her: "I am completely fine with being the one that has to call every time. I really am. But if that's what you want you have to understand that you CAN'T get upset when I don't call you as much as you would like...and if you really want to call me then you can pick up your phone and do it." My dad also added that I shouldn't call her for a few days and see what she does (jokingly, but half serious).
So anyway my gf and I got into a fight 7th graders would have because she doesn't want to call me.
(As I was typing this thread my gf called and we got into it some more but she finally admitted that she "was being irrational" (read: I totally WON this fight But, now I am all spooled up and there is nothing left to fight about )

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It's an APW tradition to start each year with Beginnings. January is a fresh start, and for many readers, marks the launch of (official) wedding planning. Let's turn over a new leaf together.
"Because you don't need to register for all the things."
"Because if I can follow this tutorial, on my hotel room floor, while drinking champagne in my pajamas on the morning of my wedding, so can you!"
"This is my favorite essay that I've written in recent years. I was secretly pregnant when I wrote it."
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As the iconic Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor would say, "[guttural grunt], more power."
If I'm properly remembering Home Improvement, things rarely went awry for Taylor and his wife Jill. His North Star was the simple, relentless pursuit of the twentieth-century American "more is more" ethos. Taylor owned a multi-story house, had three stylish boys, a happy marriage, and a career that afforded him both celebrity and pursuit of his passion. Meanwhile the family's painfully levelheaded neighbor, Wilson, squandered most of his time clinging to eccentric cultural anachronisms alone in his backyard. It was strongly implied that he had lost the bottom half of his face in some sort of terrible accident.
The moderate Al Borland was also perpetually drab, surpassed by Taylor in every quantifiable metric of success.
Taylor is not America's Doctor today, though. (America's Doctor is of course Dr. Mehmet "A Revolutionary New Way to Live Years Longer: It's Red Palm Oil" Oz.) On the whole, twenty-first century medicine is ushering in a revival of moderation. This weekend, Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, wrote a fact-heavy piece in the Opinion section of The New York Times, "Don't Take Your Vitamins." It was the most popular article on the Times' site.
I know what it's like to be reduced to a headline. People sometimes put articles on their Facebook walls without reading past the headlines, I hear. Offit's actual point is more nuanced, if no less reactionary: Multivitamins are not a panacea; more is not always better; more is sometimes quite bad. Some of the anti-supplement data he cites is compelling:
In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1994, 29,000 Finnish men, all smokers, had been given daily vitamin E, beta-carotene, both or a placebo. The study found that those who had taken beta-carotene for five to eight years were more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease.
Two years later the same journal published another study on vitamin supplements. In it, 18,000 people who were at an increased risk of lung cancer because of asbestos exposure or smoking received a combination of vitamin A and beta-carotene, or a placebo. Investigators stopped the study when they found that the risk of death from lung cancer for those who took the vitamins was 46 percent higher.
Then, in 2004, a review of 14 randomized trials for the Cochrane Database found that the supplemental vitamins A, C, E and beta-carotene, and a mineral, selenium, taken to prevent intestinal cancers, actually increased mortality.
Another review, published in 2005 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that in 19 trials of nearly 136,000 people, supplemental vitamin E increased mortality. Also that year, a study of people with vascular disease or diabetes found that vitamin E increased the risk of heart failure. And in 2011, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association tied vitamin E supplements to an increased risk of prostate cancer.
Finally, last year, a Cochrane review found that "beta-carotene and vitamin E seem to increase mortality, and so may higher doses of vitamin A."
When you put it that way, vitamins look bad. Beta-carotene, very bad. The fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K), as a rule of thumb, are the easiest to get too much of. Still reductive notions swaying perception too far against nebulous notions of vitamins is also bad. Everything we knew is not wrong.
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I for one am pretty hyped for the site. Those Whiskey Crew guys know what they're doing. My only concern is the staff they're going to get behind the content. Gotta get some personality beside the content of the site.
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I have to change my pants
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" I have to change my pants "I do as well.
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I love movies, only because it's part of my career. so I'm pretty much gaurenteed to be for this.
I thought this was just an idea...
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Where does everyone go for their movie info? What would you want out of a Whiskey movie/tv site? 4:46 PM Feb 10th via Tweetie
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I am interested. I'd like to see a GiantBomb style movie site with legit film critics... every once in a while when the GiantBomb guys talk about movies I just cringe.
On a side note I picked "totally stoked" over "I need to change my pants" because I enjoy walking around with fecal matter in my pants.
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I am so totally stoked that I have to change my pants.
G. and H. are the best options in any poll ever.
tbh i never really checked out the other whiskey sites seriously. well okay there was this one time i went crazy on comicvine but that's just cause you look at one wiki on a comic and that leads you a bajillion others. A movie one would arouse interest, if they did reviews and stuff as well.
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It's time for me to get prepared for editing Wes Anderson and Jody Hill movie pages :D
I have suggested some ideas, I love me some movies,
I don't think I would post in the forums, but I will look through the site, I hope the Dude's they choose to run it are good,
I also hope that there will be some sort of community Film showcase, That would be a great thing that would complement the Whiskey way,
And also, why do people choose empty Poll options? do you think you are cool or something, just choose the options that have words in em'.
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Sounds pretty awesome. I may actually post on 2 sites now.
I think it's a sweet idea but I am a pretty casual movie goer, I assume it includes tv though? I watch quite a few tv programs... Though either way I don't really have as detailed or as many views of tv/movies as I do on games. It pretty much boils down to I like this this and this, and reality tv sucks mostly.
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Will be a member of that site too.
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What Whiskey really need to do (and I don't think this has happened yet) is make a united profile for all their websites. I.e. if you sign up for GiantBomb, your account details, profile, etc transcends between all their sites.
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This will be cool, Mystery Science Theater 3000 editing here I come!
" What Whiskey really need to do (and I don't think this has happened yet) is make a united profile for all their websites. I.e. if you sign up for GiantBomb, your account details, profile, etc transcends between all their sites. "Yes, that would be so amazing.
I dont get it? Is the option: "I have to change my pants" like, I am so stoked I have to change my pants?? Cause then youre pretty stoked I guess. Anyways, I would really enjoy a movie site by Whiskey so I went with "So stoked". Hope that was the right one for expressing I would totaly be in to that.
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Yeah, I like movies way more than videogames so I can't wait.
Yeah, no I get that. Point is, if some information is worth jizzing our pants for shouldnt that be option A? I dont understand your rating system is all Im saying. *sigh
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I didn't know they were making a movie site. I could use a new site for movies news. This is awesome!
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So long as they find a group of dudes who are as awesome with movies as the Giantbomb crew is with games, I'm all in. I mean, is this just something Dave is doing (Which would be cool in its own unique sort of way)? Will there be previews and reviews and such, or is it just an IMDB style trailers-and-credits sorta deal?


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Significant changes could be underway for manufacturers seeking permits to operate or expand in New Hanover County. At a work session this morning, the planning and inspections department presented an amendment to the county's industrial zoning ordinance that would require new companies, such as Titan Cement, to present burden of proof when filing for special use permits to operate.
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Educated at Cornell University, Brooklyn-born writer/producer/director Melville Shavelson first channelled his creative juices into the world of press agentry. Tired of blowing everyone else's horn, Shavelson and his agency boss Milt Josefsberg wrote some comedy material and submitted it to comedian Bob Hope in 1938. Hope hired them on the spot, and… More Bio:
Educated at Cornell University, Brooklyn-born writer/producer/director Melville Shavelson first channelled his creative juices into the world of press agentry. Tired of blowing everyone else's horn, Shavelson and his agency boss Milt Josefsberg wrote some comedy material and submitted it to comedian Bob Hope in 1938. Hope hired them on the spot, and though the comedian was tight with both a dollar and his praise, Shavelson remained with Hope until the late '50s. It was the Shavelson/Josefsberg team that helped develop the Bob Hope "character:" the brave coward, the impotent lover, the braggart with nothing to brag about, the man who never speaks when wisecracking will do. Shavelson worked on several of Hope's best films, including Princess and the Pirate (1944), Where There's Life (1947) and The Great Lover (1949). By 1954, Hope's box office was drooping, so Shavelson suggested that the comedian try a straight dramatic approach for a change. The resultant films, The Seven Little Foys (1955) and Beau James (1957), were both written and produced by Shavelson. It was Shavelson's contention that Hope was an accomplished enough actor to continue successfully in this vein, but when Hope decided to return to his old formula Shavelson felt that his writing skills might be better applied elsewhere. He went on to write and direct such box-office attractions as Houseboat (1958), The Five Pennies (1959), On the Double (1961) and Yours Mine and Ours (1968); in many instances, he also functioned as producer. On two occasions, Shavelson was honored with an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing. In addition to his work with Bob Hope, Shavelson also concocted comedy scripts for Danny Kaye and Groucho Marx. Though he'd severed most of his professional ties with Hope by the '70s, Shavelson had a long-standing handshake agreement to write and direct a Hope/Bing Crosby "reunion" picture, The Road to the Fountain of Youth, a dream dashed by Crosby's death; he also negotiated with Hope to work up a comedy about the Vietnam war, but the US invasion of Cambodia put the kibosh on that. Melville Shavelson was the author of two humorous, revelatory books about the movie business: How to Make a Jewish Movie (1971), a memoir of his experiences while producing and directing Cast a Giant Shadow, and the Hollywood-based novel Lualda (1973).
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