Random observations from the ADE community
As reported on CNET…
It turns out that all the TSA has been keeping all those naked pictures it has been taking of passengers. You know…. the fancy body scanners that look under your cloths to check for weapons penis/breast size. Nope… no possibility of abuse with this one.
Ok… This really isn’t a story about gun control on its face. Back on the 22nd of July a man was shot dead on a shooting range in Pennsylvania and some of his expensive rifles were missing from the scene (thetruthaboutguns.com).
Obvious issues worth considering here about being alert, etc. But, this alone didn’t grab my attention enough to post. It was fun to conjecture about the possible suspects… gangs, felons looking for guns, some other scofflaw with a lack of disregard for life looking for an easy couple of G’s. Heck, the victim was a personal injury lawyer, perhaps a disgruntled client? Ostensibly, one might even imagine using these possibilities as rationals for increasing gun control..
Well we do not have to hypothesize about the nature of the assailants any more as they were just arrested and charged with the crime: Two GUARDS Arrested in Pennsylvania Gun Range Shooting Death. Yup; by current best guess, it looks like our lack of disregard for life thieves were PA state prison guards. So much for gun control.
Overall a tragic incident, but, it reminds us of an important lesson. No matter how much we can trust our government and our police as a group — it is still a group made of individuals that have the same failings as the rest of us.
2 quicky updates….
1 – I have upgraded the site to the latest version of wordpress
2 – I am toying with putting ads on the site to support the blogging efforts. Ads will go to recoup direct hosting costs. Revenue, if any, beyond covering direct costs will be dispersed to the people that post on the site — they are the ones that make the site worth going to. As part of this process, I updated the “about” page to clearly reflect that our site is about education and humor and we do not promote violence… This has always been true, but, I don’t think explicitly put forth.
AB962 will:
This will not reduce crime (obviously). This will create unnecessary burdens on ammunition vendors and firearm range owners. This is a waste of money and effort and only serves as a form of harassment against law abiding citizens. As CK mentioned, this now moves to the Governer’s desk for a signature or veto. If he does not act in 30 d, this will automatically become law. In the past, he has always signed or vetoed such legislation after waiting until the last minute to hear comment from the community — usually signed ( .50 cal ban, microstamping).
Please contact the Governor now…
Or, if you are a little less lazy, consider calling/faxing or writing him here:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-558-3160 ( new number )
Heck…. Just do all four.
Probably many of you heard this story over the weekend. Short summary: a wheelchair man was sexually assaulted in the bathroom of a supermarket. WTF. Anyway, there was a nice perspective on this from the Examiner (via TheWaronGuns blog) written by a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair…
“The rape of a handicapped man is, of course, just one example of the strong preying on the weak: an adult abusing a child, a large, strong man assaulting a smaller, generally physically weaker woman, and a gang attacking an individual are a few others. I chose to write about this today because of the incident’s personal relevance to my situation.“
More examples I would use in that 9th grade social studies class of mine.
Here are 2 examples of photos+captions from mainstream media. Do they represent truth? If not, why not?
I tend to be slow to interest in these sorts of diatribes. Honestly, if you havn’t been compared to Hitler at least once, then you probably are never saying anything interesting (see reductio ad Hiter). That said… The new White House policy of requesting Citizens to report “misinformation” they hear about the Obama policies is just creepy…
Ahem:
“There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.“
Ok… Clearly I am looking at the wrong things when I look at pictures of women with guns, or, perhaps it is becoming more clear that I have been with ADE too long…
What is the first thing I noticed about this picture:
And… I found this as the headline picture for some editorial on gun control and arming women.. I dont really know. Can you look at the pic and tell me why I didnt read the story?
Happy 40th anniversary of what is, arguably, the greatest achievement the United States (possibly mankind) has yet accomplished.
So, what are we working on now? Where do our tax dollars go now that will have the same meaning or impact? I do like social programs, but, I also realize that social programs don’t directly produce anything — hopefully they enable people to be more productive, but, our social programs only have that as an indirect goal.
We need to find a way to be both “human” and be moving humanity forward.
In talking with a friend, the comment was made: “From the start of flight (1903) to landing on the moon (1969) was a span of 66 years…. there were people born that, within their lives, remember the first time man flew and the landing on the moon. Nut, in the past 40 years, nothing comparable.”
For the person that remembers the first flight and the first moon landing… What must they have envisioned for mankind’s future? I fear we have not lived up to expectations.
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