Thursday - December 20, 2012
1 4 U Whiners
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You’ve heard that old expression “you’ve got to spend money to make money”? This hoary old chestnut has been taken to absurd extremes by the US Government, where it somehow costs them more money to make and distribute our coins than the coins are worth. Sweet.
When it comes to making coins, the Mint isn’t getting its two cents worth. In some cases, it doesn’t even get half of that.
A penny costs more than two cents and a nickel costs more than 11 cents to make and distribute. The quandary is how to make coins more cheaply without sparing our change’s quality and durability, or altering its size and appearance.
A 400-page report presented last week to Congress outlines nearly two years of trials conducted at the Mint in Philadelphia, where a variety of metal recipes were put through their paces in the massive facility’s high-speed coin-making machinery.
Evaluations of 29 different alloys concluded that none met the ideal list of attributes. The Treasury Department concluded that additional study was needed before it could endorse any changes.
What more do you need to read? You’ve got to wonder how much coin was spent on that TWO YEAR study, which had the typical, worthless, bureaucratic bottom line that more studying was needed.
What a load of copper crapper.
The government has been looking for ways to shave the millions it spends every year to make bills and coins. Congressional auditors recently suggested doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them with dollar coins, which they concluded could save taxpayers some $4.4 billion over three decades. Canada is dropping its penny as part of an austerity budget.
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A slight reduction in the nickel content of our quarters, dimes and nickels would bring some cost savings while keeping the magnetic characteristics the same. Making more substantial changes, like switching to steel or other alloys with different magnetic properties, could mean big savings to the government but at a big cost to coin-op businesses, Peterson said.
The vending industry estimates it would cost between $700 million and $3.5 billion to recalibrate machines to recognize coins with an additional magnetic signature. The Mint’s researchers reached a lower but still pricey estimate of $380 million to $630 million.
Only four of the 80 metals on the periodic table - aluminum, iron (used to make steel), zinc and lead - cost less than copper and nickel, the report stated. Lead isn’t an option because of its potential health hazards.
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Concurrent Technologies Corp., a Pennsylvania-based scientific research and development company, is working with the Mint on the alternative materials study under a $1.5 million contract awarded in 2011.
Sure, the mint needed to outsource their metals study. Because, you know, they know nothing about metals, and haven’t looked at alternate materials to make coins from ever. Not even in WWII, when nickels were made from aluminum.
It’s rather dark humor that the mint is capable of nickel and diming itself to death by producing those very coins. Pretty sure I read all about this in a Terry Pratchett book a couple years ago.
Hey government, you want the solution? Fix the damn economy (by getting the hell out of the way, and by stopping this dingdong Quantitative Easement garbage) and the value of our money will increase. “Strip” some of those horrendous EPA regulations and we can mine more of these metals. More metal = less demand = falling prices. Oh, and FIRE your money haulers. I’ll bet you ... a roll of nickels! ... that some non-union types can do the job for a whole lot less.
Oh, and from now on I’m going to try to get all my change in nickels, kind of like those bars in Texas and elsewhere that only gives change in $2 bills*.
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Permalink • Let’s Ban Foreign Vaccinations!
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Another victim from attacks on U.N.-backed anti-polio teams in Pakistan died on Thursday, bringing the three-day death toll in the wave of assaults on volunteers vaccinating children across the country to nine, officials said.
Hilal Khan, 20, died a day after he was shot in the head in the northwestern city of Peshawar, said health official Janbaz Afridi
Since Monday, gunmen had launched attacks across Pakistan on teams vaccinating children against polio. Six women were among the nine anti-polio workers killed in the campaign, jointly conducted with the Pakistani government.
The U.N. World Health Organization suspended the drive until a government investigation was completed.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the killings “cruel, senseless and inexcusable.” Speaking at his year-end news conference Wednesday, Ban said the victims were among thousands across Pakistan “working selflessly to achieve the historic goal of polio eradication.”
The suspension of the vaccinations was a grave blow to efforts to bring an end to the scourge of polio in Pakistan, one of only three countries where the crippling disease is endemic.
[the other two countries with endemic polio are also AQ controlled muslime shitholes: Afghanistan and Nigeria. Coincidence? Not hardly.]
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but some Islamic militants accuse health workers of acting as spies for the United States and claim that the vaccine makes children sterile.
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Permalink • finga ricking goord
Don’t blame me, Rich K sent me this link. Actually, I think it’s pretty goord good. Finga ricking goord!
It’s Christmas Eve in Japan. Little boys and girls pull on their coats, the twinkle of anticipation in their eyes. Keeping the tradition alive, they will trek with their families to feast at … the popular American fast food chain KFC.
Christmas isn’t a national holiday in Japan—only one percent of the Japanese population is estimated to be Christian—yet a bucket of “Christmas Chicken” (the next best thing to turkey—a meat you can’t find anywhere in Japan) is the go-to meal on the big day. And it’s all thanks to the insanely successful “Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!” (Kentucky for Christmas!) marketing campaign in 1974.
When a group of foreigners couldn’t find turkey on Christmas day and opted for fried chicken instead, the company saw this as a prime commercial opportunity and launched its first Christmas meal that year: Chicken and wine for 834 2,920 yen($10)—pretty pricey for the mid-seventies. Today the christmas chicken dinner (which now boasts cake and champagne) goes for about 3,336 yen ($40).
And the people come in droves. Many order their boxes of ”finger lickin’” holiday cheer months in advance to avoid the lines—some as long as two hours.
For nearly 40 years it’s been the same basic TV ad every time.
‘One of the reasons the campaign lasted so long is that the message is always the same: at Christmas you eat chicken,’ said Yasuyuki Katagi, executive director at Ogilvy and Mather Japan, the advertising agency.”
This year the ad guys are taking things up, up, and away. Literally.
And this year, the company launched a campaign that takes the holiday hype to new heights. From December 1 through February 28 passengers on select trips between Tokyo and eight U.S. and European destinations can enjoy KFC in-flight.
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Permalink • worth a smile
sharing something funny.
maybe only amusing but what the heck. All in the name of clean fun. (with apologies to Rich and NJY. LOL)
with thanks and H/T Lynne.
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Permalink • good evening dear readers. welcome. do come in. come and meet chucky, 2012
How bad is this? Imagine having to put up with this little turd.
And of course, the parents get all upset at the school.
I have never been nor did I ever want to be a parent. Just never had that instinct. So what I say is based on not thinking like one.
I think the school, one of the teachers maybe, should have arranged a little accident for the little monster.
Just you wait and see. Somewhere in the unknown future, his victim waits, unaware.
Parents furious after little Logan is expelled from infant school for stealing, vandalism and kicking teacher in the face - and he’s still only FIVE years old
His parents say he is always a ‘happy and polite’ child at home
Primary school child was suspended four times in his first year of school
By Emma ReynoldsA five-year-old boy who stole fruit, threw equipment around and attacked pupils and staff has been expelled - for kicking his teacher in the face.
Logan Steed was kicked out of Powers Hall Infant School in Witham, Essex, after being suspended four times in his first year for hitting, biting and punching pupils and staff.
He was told not to come back after teachers tried every disciplinary method they could come up with - even disrupting the class by evacuating every other child when Logan caused trouble.
The final straw came when Logan was sitting on a chair and kicked his teacher in the face as she bent over.
He cannot face any charges for his bad behaviour as an older child might, however, because the age of criminal responsibility is ten.
His parents, who are separated, say he is well-behaved at home and claim the school has ‘thrown him on the scrap heap’ rather than give him the special attention he needs.
Father Cameron, 27, a care home manager from Witham, Essex, said: ‘They said they had to exclude him to ensure the safety of the staff and other pupils.
‘But I don’t understand how a five-year-old can pose so much of a threat.
‘The school deserves some credit because they have worked with us, but they should not have given up on Logan. Not so soon. He is only five.
‘They must have been able to help us find an alternative. Once you expel such a young child it is with them for their whole life.
‘It feels like the school has not stuck to their end of the deal.
‘At home Logan is a happy, polite kid. He helps me with the cleaning. He is a happy little lad.
‘Logan used to come home and tell us about what he had enjoyed at school that day - now he has been thrown on the scrap heap.’
A headteacher’s report dated November 20 states: ‘Logan’s recent behaviour has involved him kicking, biting, pinching and punching adults and children and throwing school equipment or threatening to throw school equipment at staff and children.
‘School records show that on the first day in our school (06/09/11) he hit, kicked and pushed other children and threw things around the room.’
The report details the incident where Logan is said to have kicked a teacher in the face on November 13.
It states: ‘[...] he was sitting and the member of staff was holding his arms. He kicked his legs up straight into the member of staff’s face.
‘She let go of his arms and he ran off to the library.’
The school took several steps to avoid expulsion, including one-to-one support from the head teacher, sticker charts, allowing him to do his activities in any order.
But Logan was permanently expelled after kicking a female teacher - who has still not been identified to his parents.
Mother Laura, 22, a chef from Braintree, Essex, said: ‘Before Logan started school we did not know he had this side to him. It is like we are talking about two completely different boys.
‘At home he does exactly what he is told and we have never seen him do any of the things that school say he did.
‘He is a really clever boy and now that is being wasted. We would do anything for him.’
Oh this little bastard is “clever” alright. He has learned at age five, how to pull the wool over grown up eyes. Except that is, those who have already been exposed to the creep. Watch out world, coming to a neighborhood somewhere soon. Maybe .... yours? Hmmmmmm?
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Permalink • well, its one way to raise $$$$$$$ for Christmas shopping. and not funny.
Mind you now, we must not get carried away and point out just what culture and group these nice gentlemen belong to. (see pix at link)
This is just another sorry example of what this country puts up with on a daily basis. Who knows how much goes unreported.
It’s bad enough when you have your own home grown vermin causing grief. But thanks to the new world order, Brits have to open their borders to all members of the EU.
Oh, allow me to digress for a moment.
Just what the hell was Obama thinking when he advised the Prime Minister here that his country should remain in the EU. Yeah, they were on a conf. call and O. gave his opinion which ok, might have been asked for although I can not imagine that, even for this PM.
Oh by all means remain and make it easier for folks like these to thrive.
I’ll use the comment made by someone else cos it fits better than anything I’ll come up with.
I’ve heard that TMay and Cameron want another couple of million Bulgarians and Romanians to arrive through our airports next year. They don’t say why it’s important to them that this should happen. Obviously, the people most affected - that’s us - aren’t considered important enough to be asked if this is what we reallly want. Don’t you just love them, bless their cotton socks. No, actually, they’re Traitors to our country - and they have no allegiance to it at all, that’s for certain ! Their careers will be cut short very soon, and no amount of ‘persuading the electorate’ will impress us ! Good riddance, political parasites !
- UK Rising , Definitely Here, 20/12/2012 10:55
The TMay mentioned above is Theresa May, a Conservative politician who is the current Home Secretary.
Romanian gang who caused travel chaos after stealing FOUR MILES of railway cable worth £500,000 are jailed for 23 yearsThe men, aged between 19 and 36, plundered rural railway tracks
Then they sold the metal for scrap replaced it with cheap shop bought wireBy Amanda Williams
Eight Romanian men who stole cable from remote rural railway lines and replaced it with cheap shop bought wire are today beginning combined prison sentences of 23 years.
The men, aged between 19 and 36, plundered rural stretches of the railway line between Evesham, Worcestershire, and Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, causing chaos for commuters.
Birmingham Crown Court heard the organised gang travelled from their homes in the Handsworth and Smethwick areas of Birmingham to target isolated countryside lines.
After pinching the cable they left it by the side of the tracks for another team from the gang to collect.
The gang then attempted to cover up their crime by replacing the stolen cable with cheap wire they bought and sold the original for scrap.
The court heard between 3 November 2011 and 24 May 2012, the gang struck at least 22 times, always at night, and stole a total of about 6,000 metres of cable.
The thieves cost Network Rail between £450,000 and £500,000 to replace and repair the cables and also fines incurred to train operators as a result of the delays and disruption caused.
Some of the gang also targeted the railway line in Church Lawford, Warwickshire, following increased police patrols in the Cotswolds.
To ppl outside this country, this won’t mean anything. Especially in light of news that is far worse. I guess the reason for the post, added to so many others of like nature involving foreigners, is to continually shine a light on what happens when a country happily signs away its right to control borders and falls in with a bad crowd. The EU.
Just imagine if a thug in the USA was illegal and committed a crime deserving deportation, but the UN said it was a violation of his rights cos deportation meant the guy would be treated badly in his home country. And imagine further that the US, meaning YOU, were obliged to provide him with legal council AND btw, possible language interpreters, all under the the screen of human rights, decided on by your govt. AND the UN.
That’s pretty much the situation Brits find themselves in. I admit I may not have it 100% right. My comment is based however on what I see in the papers each day and hear on the news. Not to mention the complaints I read and hear from Brits themselves on the subject.
DEPORTATION ................................AFTERWARDS OR WILL THEY BE BACK ON BENEFITS AGAIN...................
- Jake
RoyG , Solihull., 20/12/2012 09:48 - “They are part of the EC and arrive here to work - at our invitation” The British people have NEVER voted for this stupid policy. It was imposed on us and tragically there is much worse to come. The sooner we free ourselves from the EU the better. As for the sentences, they are totally inadequate, but then we’ve lost all faith in our justice system as well. No wonder there is so much disillusionment with a parliament, that is so out of touch with the public.
- Southdownlad , Sussex, United Kingdom
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Permalink • Wednesday - December 19, 2012
A use-tax by any other name
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A bill that takes an incentive-based approach to reducing the use of throw-away plastic and paper bags advanced in the New Jersey Legislature on Monday.
The measure approved by the Senate Environmental Committee requires retailers to give customers a 5-cent rebate for each reusable shopping bag they use and charge them 5 cents for each single-use bag they take. A similar law adopted Washington, D.C. nearly three years ago reduced the number ofplastic bags ending up in the nearby Anacostia River by 60 percent and caused three-quarters of residents to cut their use of disposable bags, according to a follow-up survey.
“By charging a nominal 5-cent fee for each paper and plastic bag, customers become incentivized to either forego a bag or bring a reusable bag rather than pay the 5-cent fee,” said Keith Anderson, interim director of the district’s Department of the Environment, who came to Trenton to testify about the bill.
Anderson said D.C.’s 2009 bag law requires 4,300 food and liquor stores to charge customers 5 cents per disposable plastic or paper bag, generating $2.1 million a year for river cleanup. Merchants keep up to 2 cents if they offer an environmentally friendly alternative. Random inspections are conducted by secret shoppers, he said, and violators can be reported via a tip line. Warnings are issued for first offenses but fines for continued noncompliance can reach $500. Most businesses are not troubled by the law, he said, because it’s enabled them to order fewer bags, thereby reducing their bottom lines.
Sen. Bob Smith of Piscataway, who chairs the environmental panel and is sponsoring the bill, said New Jersey could look forward to $28 million in revenue from the law, which could be dedicated to helping regenerate Barnegat Bay. The bay, which has deteriorated because of overdevelopment and storm water runoff, was battered further by Hurricane Sandy.
There ya go. They’ve got the spending of the money this fiat will generate already figured out. A nickel here, a nickel there, and pretty soon it adds up to tens of millions to spend on sandbags, dredging, and barrels of baby fish for one of the most congested recreational waterways in the country.
Guess we’ve run out kids to spend money on in New Jersey. This is now the second law I’ve run across in as many days that’s “for the fishies” instead. And until we all get sick from bag bacteria, or figure out how to bring back more bags than we use, the state will use the retailers as their agents to suck and extra dollar out of every one of us each week. You know, for the privilege of buying our food and booze here in NJ.
Damn shame about all those throw away bags too. Until the cost of doing business in NJ got too high, for 50 years they were made right here in Flemington, just down the road. Heck, I almost took a job there once, but said no when I found out everyone worked on rotating shifts. A month on morning shift, then a month on afternoon shift, followed by a month on overnight shift. Fug that. I worked nights for 4 years when I was a young man. Never again.
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Permalink • Voices Of Reason
Tim Scott, (R - SC), Jim DeMint’s replacement.
It’s a wilderness out there, but a few sane thinkers can be found on either side of the aisle.
Others:
Thomas Sowell notices that the same voices calling to disarm the public are the ones who want to let the criminals out of jail early.
Susan Brown on knee-jerk reactionism.
Michelle Malkin smells a witch hunt.
The battle is joined folks. It’s on. This is the moment, and the unhinged Left will not be happy until they’ve gutted the 2nd out of the Constitution. You know, that “fundamentally flawed” document that Obama despises.
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Permalink • post tragedy in ct., here’s a lesson on civilization from this side of the pond
This is yet another ‘mild’ example of the letters to the press published every day.
This one under the title:
When will US see sense on guns?
It is almost 220 years since the Second Amendment to the American Constitution gave their citizens the right to bear arms – will it be another 220 until they realize it was a mistake? In 1791 guns were almost as dangerous to the user as the intended victim. Unfortunately this is now not the case. Obama is a master of mock sincerity and will pontificate and do nothing. How many more tragedies before sanity prevails?
David Pimblett
Horbury, Uk
Wish I had a way to forward the link to the story mentioned here, re. girl defends self and home. With a gun.
I am surrounded by the most uninformed American critics imaginable. Sure, we aren’t above some honest criticism. Yes, I do understand that these folks do NOT understand our culture, and so slam us at every opportunity. It never occurs to them that for many American who do not own rifles and do not hunt, still feel safer with a gun in the home against the worst. A good example of which was the 12 year old girl who shot and wounded an intruder just recently. You may recall the story, posted here.
Kendra St. Clair, 12, said she was just doing what she had to when she shot a home intruder Wednesday in Durant, OK.
http://newsok.com/durant-girl-12-talks-about-shooting-home-intruder/article/3720428
It did NOT make the news on this side of the Atlantic. I got the story cos our RichK was alert and surfing.
And you will remember this one bit of civilization at work.
Bodybuilder ‘who beat girlfriend black and blue’ walks free from court when she fails to give evidence (because blundering CPS told her wrong time to appear)
How about this?
A murder by a criminal on bail is committed every ten days, and the real number could be even higher
Yeah, that’s all very civilized okay. People who have been reading BMEWS and my posts over time, will know I have left out enough to cover a year. AT least.
From the failed ASBOS that street punks wore as a badge of honor, and for those new here from outside the UK, ASBO stands for; Anti Social Behavior Order.
The punishment is severe and cruel and frightening but ALWAYS maintains the civil and human rights of the thug in question. Sure is scary. Unpaid community work, which they sometimes do not even show up for. I guess that’s one of their human rights. Then there were curfews. Oh yeah. Poor things had to be in by like maybe 7pm and couldn’t go out to prey on the public again til 7 the next morning. Maybe it was 8. Doesn’t matter. Point is, it was all very civilized.
And so fellow citizens I leave you with the words of our Bmews Poet Laureate, Rich K. With our thanks.
When Britain can support a civilized society of 316 million with as LITTLE gun violence as we have with no real Controls on everyday type guns THEN they can lecture us on the subject.Until then;FUCK OFF!
Posted by Rich K United States
Alright. Enough of that. Let’s see what civilization has to offer in today’s news.
Running for his life: Gangsters on rival turf chased and killed an innocent 17-year-old student who was ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’
· Kwame Ofosu-Asare was mistaken for a rival gang member· Two teenagers ‘who showed no remorse’ stabbed him fourteen times
· Idiabeta jailed for 19 years and Okusanya for 20 years today
· Idiabeta was in youth court on day of attack for breaching bail conditions
· Okusanya told police: ‘Everyone gets stabbed, everyone goes to jail, that’s how life is’
By Larisa Brown
Gangsters chased and killed an innocent 17-year-old student after mistaking him for a rival gang member.
CCTV footage shows victim Kwame Ofosu-Asare who was ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’ running away from Nelson Idiabeta, then 17, and Nathaniel Okusanya, then 18.
Moments after the teenagers were captured running after him and a friend, Kwame was stabbed 14 times in the back in a ‘cowardly and merciless’ murder.
The 17-year-old was mistaken for a rival in a ‘poisonous and senseless’ gang war, a court heard today as Idiabeta and Okusanya were jailed for life.
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Permalink • Must I Do This?
Skip this post if you don’t want to read low level details about how guns and bullets work. It’s pretty dull stuff, but I felt I had to post on it, given the rabid acts of the media right now and the amount of emotional disinformation they are putting out as “reporting”.
First cup of coffee. Pop on the PC to see what’s happening in the world. Found yet another over the top sensationalist article in the Brit press, foaming at the mouth about the Newtown shootings. Unbelievable nonsense presented as firearms facts. Am I the only person who can think? Is the entire world utterly ignorant about how firearms operate? Who writes this crap, and worse, who believes it? So here’s a few factual rejoinders; a couple grains of sand on the beach against the tsunami of garbage anti-gun “journalism” being spewed out around the world by deliberately ignorant reporters.
Adam Lanza rigged rifle for maximum damage
Lanza taped together two cartridge magazines to his Bushmaster .223 calibre rifle so that he could flip between the two with speed and ease, The Daily Telegraph has been told.
Wayne Carver, the Connecticut medical examiner, said Lanza used a technique known to gun enthusiasts as “jungle-taping”. This helps explain how the killer was able to wreak so much carnage in a shooting spree that may have lasted barely five minutes.
Nonsense. Taping magazines together like this saves perhaps half a second when you swap out an empty magazine for a fresh one. And it’s still a two hand job, one to press the magazine release button and the other to pull out the empty mag, reverse it, and smack it back in. It hardly takes any time less to use your one hand to press the release and drop the mag on the ground while your other hand pulls another one from your vest or pocket and inserts it into the magazine well.
The bullets used in the massacre were designed specifically to penetrate deep tissue and do a “devastating” amount of damage. Weapons experts believe the killer used “frangible ammunition”, which fragments on impact, inflicting wounds that are usually beyond medical help.
Probably nonsense. Actual frangible ammunition is widely available; the bullets are made from sintered bronze powder, which is then heated just barely enough to hold together. These bullets were designed specifically to not over penetrate, and turn into dust once they gone a few inches into their target. That makes them “safe” to use inside airliners in flight, where the chance of a bullet going through a target and then putting a hole in the cabin wall exists, which would eventually lead to cabin depressurization. Standard hunting ammunition uses “frangible” bullets as well, but only in that ALL bullets are frangible to some extent when they hit things. Please. Bullets are made out of lead, which is very soft stuff, wrapped by a very thin layer of brass, which is also a fairly soft metal. Spin them around at 100,000 rpm or so, and then shoot them into something fairly solid at 2000mph and they’re going to deform. Lots. This is called “mushrooming”, and it’s exactly what hunting bullets are supposed to do. But let’s look a little bit deeper. The M-16 and AR-15 family of rifles use a cartridge known as the .223 Remington. Hunters use that same cartridge to hunt rabbits and squirrels, a class of small animals known as varmints. Because these creatures are so very small, and often hunted at quite long ranges of 300 to 500 yards, the teeny tiny bullet fired by the .223 (the bullet is about the size of 3 grains of rice) has to mushroom very quickly to be effective. Thus varmint bullets are highly delicate, aka “frangible”, and shred themselves just after impact. Squirrels and rabbits are only a couple inches thick, so this kind of fast expanding bullet ensures a quick kill and makes hunting them humane. Yes, they seem to be nearly explosive in effect, but what you’re witnessing is the instantaneous hydraulic effect of kinetic energy transfer. Hit a deer with a Mack truck going 70mph and the effect is the same: splat. This is how bullets work. This is the real world, not some idiotic TV show. No bullet has every been designed to specifically create wounds that were beyond medical help. (gun folks: yeah, I know about the square ones for that early machine gun, designed to be used against muslims. The bullet didn’t work any different than a round one). But any small to medium small sized animal is going to die very quickly from both the hydraulic effect and the fist sized hole created by the bullet.
Lastly, it is a complete violation of physics for a bullet to be able to penetrate deep tissue and also fragment on impact. Choose one or the other. To penetrate deeply, you need inertia, which is given by mass and velocity. When a bullet fragments, the mass is lost. Little bits go off in various directions, and because they’re little they don’t have the inertia to penetrate very far.
Lanza is believed to have fired at least three 30-bullet magazines with chilling accuracy – only two people, both teachers, survived their injuries.
“Chilling accuracy”? Oh please. He had a rifle. The people he shot were only a couple feet away. That kind of rifle with that little cartridge has next to no recoil, so he was never pushed off target by the kick. It would be almost impossible to miss, even if you just pointed without really aiming.
And now I read how Vice President Plugs Biden, arguably the stupidest human in government, will head up Obama’s push for sweeping anti-gun legislation. (keeping Obama’s hands clean, what what?) While the entire world press amps up the hoplophobia as high as it can by publishing endless misleading articles. And in the end, damn little will be done to get the lunatics out of the public so that they can’t own or steal weapons to enact their rampages. No, it’s time to really screw over the law-abiding gun owners, because we’re all somehow responsible for the actions of another madman loose in society.
If you want to know the real truth about how bullets work, read this. It will take you an hour, but you will be properly informed. If that’s too much, just jump to here and look at the pictures: for the most part, .223” hunting bullets only penetrate about 4”. The best of them can manage about 7”, but with much less mushrooming than the others. The horribly sad part that relates to this tragedy is that half a foot is about the torso thickness of a 6 year old. Those poor kids were blown to smithereens, and that’s sickening. But pistol bullets would have done exactly the same thing. They were just too small a target.
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Permalink • Tuesday - December 18, 2012
Two I Stole Off The Net
I could write paragraphs on each, but then so could you.
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Crivens. I’m sick of it. There are only two stories on the news in the entire darn country. The “national conversation on guns” which appears to be nothing more than the far left media ramming their fantasy based opinions down our throats, and “the fiscal cliff” which is more smoke and mirrors from DC. Cliff? Please. Such BS. Infinite stepped abyss is more like it. Neither Obongo nor Boner have any intention of reigning in out of control spending. When what we need is a major slash across the entire federal budget - a good 40% across the boards, just to start - and a major thinning of entire entrenched departments of that government to shrink it so that it’s merely thrice the size it ought to be, the absolute best any “deal” is going to do is to slightly reduce the rate at which deficit spending increases. Seriously, that’s the best they will be able to do: a minor decrease in the rate at which they continues to expand the national debt. So it’s all just a bunch of crap. Smoke and mirrors.
So what do I have to post about then?
Well, New Jersey has a new, more domineering lawn fertilizer law, designed to “save the oceans” by nickel and diming small businesses to death and by screwing over homeowners who come afoul of the new “Yard Police” or whatever expansion of government this will entail. You see, Republican Governor Chris Christie has signed legislation that makes it illegal for you, the New Jersey homeowner, to fertilize your lawn after early November. And you can’t hire someone to do it either. And the fertilizer used won’t have any more phosphorous in it, and by next year we’ll all be using the special “NY/NJ formula” grass grower that has only slow release nitrogen in it. Plus, now Juan, Raul, and Jorge are going to have to go to government run classes and pay a fee to get “certified” so they know how much Scotts to lay down. And the yard crew boss has to pay a bigger fee. And you the homeowner will get slapped upside the head with some significant fines if the Yard Cops catch you spreading the 5-5-5 out of season. Or - get this Ex Post Facto rule - you get fined if you fertilize and then it rains. Seriously. I am not kidding.
Screw “it’s for the children”. Now we’ve got “it’s for the ocean”. NJ, paving the way to save the oceans.
Is fertilizer runoff a bad thing that’s harming the seas? It’s possible. But we’re now going to let our lawns suffer to try and help. Guess they’re going to rename Fairlawn NJ to Brownlawn.
“Healthy Lawns, Healthy Water” link.
Fertilizer Law FAQ from Rutgers link.
Clean Ocean Action, a related link.
You know, Conservatives can care about the environment too. And we can each do what we can to eliminate fertilizer runoff. It’s just nanny-state laws like this that irritate me, because in my naive mind everyone should take the responsible course of action on their own, without having a law and yet another government busybody looking over their shoulder forcing compliance.
Posted by Drew458
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