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calendar   Tuesday - February 05, 2013

Retinal TV?

Here is a link to a somewhat “insider” article on the coming UHDTV, aka “4K”. 4K is the next generation of flat screen TV, and features 4 times as many pixels as you currently get with you 1080p HDTV. Assuming you have one of those, of course. 1080p is the current HD digital broadcast resolution standard that gives you 1920 pixels across and 1080 pixels high. While several TVs are already on the market that can produce a 4K picture, no digital TV channel provider that I know of is currently able to send out a 4K signal. That means the 4K TVs out there have to map out 1 broadcast pixel to 4 flat screen pixels, for the time being. Right now those 4K sets are extremely expensive, with a price range between a decent mid-sized new car and mid-sized luxury car. Youch.

So what’s the big deal? It’s hard for some folks to tell 1080 from 720 when watching their shows from across the room. Well, that’s just it. When the 65lb CRT on my old PC finally died a year and a half ago, I replaced it with a 23” HP flat screen that cost me, I think, $200. It’s runs at 1080p resolution too: 1920x1080 pixels. And I’m sitting here at the PC using it, and the monitor is just more than arm’s length away. Call it 20”. I don’t have to sit 8 feet back from the monitor to use it. And even at an eye to screen distance of about 24” it is almost impossible to see any pixelation. With 4K, a 46” TV would have pixels the same size as those on my computer monitor; I could watch TV from 2 feet away if I wanted to. And that’s a really immersive experience. Almost like being in the front rows of one of those old time super wide screen Panavision movie theaters.

Perspective makes things look smaller when they are further away. One advantage of a large screen TV is that you get a bigger image, so things appear more life sized even if you are viewing from a further distance. But imagine a TV where the talking heads on the evening news are life size or larger, and you can walk right up to them - kissing or punching distance, depending on your feelings - and not be able to tell that they are digital images. Pretty darn awesome I’d say.

I don’t want to use the word “retinal” that a certain company loves to bandy about when pimping their little digital devices.  ("retinal" is buzzspeak for “you can’t see the pixels, even when you’re up close") True retinal varies with viewing distance and it varies with the age and visual acuity of the person viewing. And there is a big argument between the ad men, scientists, and eye care professionals about the resolution where true “retinal” really occurs.

4K is coming. The prices will drop, and drop fast, once the technology is a bit more polished. And the USA will probably lag a decade or so behind the rest of the world, just like it did with the switch from analog to digital broadcast signals. But the future will be bright. And amazingly detailed. Let’s just hope that by the time 4K gets here there will be better things to watch than Survivor, Idol, and Dr. Phil.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/05/2013 at 01:02 PM   
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Nice Line

“Well Regulated” does not mean “subject to lots of laws” any more than “Infantry” means “a room filled with babies”.

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/05/2013 at 12:45 PM   
Filed Under: • Guns and Gun ControlHumor •  
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calendar   Monday - February 04, 2013

Presidents and US currency

So, as the first mulatto black President, Obama is probably worth putting on our currency. Where?

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$1 bill. George Washington, first President and leader of the American Revolution.
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$5 bill. Abraham Lincoln, first Republican President who pulled our nation through its darkest time.
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$10 bill. Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father, first Secretary of the Treasury, and leader of the Constitutional Convention.
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$20 bill. Andrew Jackson, “Old Hickory” fought the British in New Orleans.
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$50 bill. Ulysses S. Grant, Union army general, led the North to victory in the Civil War.
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$100 bill. Ben Franklin, genius inventor, political theorist, and leading author of the Constitution.
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So, where do we put the first mulatto black President?

Food stamps! Finally! Someone we can put on food stamps. (or SNAP cards)
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Obama’s policies have put more people on welfare than any president before him, so this placement is most appropriate. Unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, for which he did nothing, this is an “honor” he richly deserves.

based on an email from a friend who shall remain anonymous


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 02/04/2013 at 10:53 PM   
Filed Under: • Obama, The One •  
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Combination Challenge #68

This, like the last one, is from chapter 2 of Combination Challenge. The tactical motif is the pin. You have to either make use of the pin, or break a pin.

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Black to move

Graphics courtesy of Exachess

I’m gonna call this one for KGrupa, who at least came up with the correct plan and ending.

1. … Kh7!
2. Be1 Kh6
3. Bc3 Kh5
4. Be1 Kg4
5. Bc3 hxg2+
6. Rxg2 Kh3
7. Be1 Bxg2#


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 02/04/2013 at 10:10 PM   
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another cut character

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Nice face. Actress Hanna Mangan Lawrence, who played Seppia in the Starz network drama Spartacus. Seppia managed to steal the Legate Gaius Claudius Glaber (played by Craig Parker, best known to Americans as Haldir the Elf from Lord of the Rings) from his missing pregnant wife Ilithyia (Viva Bianca) and got a couple of hot lap rides out of the deal, but when Ilithyia returned she did some savage coitus interruptus and stabbed the scheming little bitch in the back, then slit her throat and pushed her nearly decapitated dead body into the wading pool. Buckets of blood!  Glaber later gets killed in battle when Spartacus rams a sword down his throat and out his back. That’s almost tame compared to Ilithyia’s presumed end, when she goes into labor and her “best friend”, the widow Lucretia (Lucy Lawless) goes all cesarean and carves the baby from her womb, then takes the baby and goes to meet her dead husband in the afterlife by jumping off a cliff. “Batiatus always wanted a son!” When your character gets cut in Spartacus, it really gets cut!

See More Below The Fold

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/04/2013 at 11:26 AM   
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Oh Shut Up Already. And Just Go Away

Report shows UN admitting solar activity may play significant role in global warming

The Earth has been getting warmer—but how much of that heat is due to greenhouse gas emissions and how much is due to natural causes?

A leaked report by a United Nations’ group dedicated to climate studies says that heat from the sun may play a larger role than previously thought.

“[Results] do suggest the possibility of a much larger impact of solar variations on the stratosphere than previously thought, and some studies have suggested that this may lead to significant regional impacts on climate,” reads a draft copy of a major, upcoming report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Yeah. Significant. Good word. I’d guess ... oh, about 98.73%. No sun, no heat, and it’s back to planet ice cube. More sun, more heat. Duh.

This little bit of data was buried in Chapter 11 of the report. I wonder which chapter - maybe 38, or 74? - has the part that says Global Warming stopped 16 years ago, like the news in the UK the other week disclosed?

“The solar component is real but not of sufficient magnitude to have driven most of the warming of the late 20th century,” Pat Michaels, the former president of the American Association of State Climatologists, and current director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, told FoxNews.com.

The U.N. report also says that the effect of solar activity will be “much smaller than the warming expected from increases in [man-made] greenhouse gases.”

An estimate from NASA said that solar variations caused 25 percent of the 1.1 degree Fahrenheit warming that has been observed over the past century.

Wait, is this the same Muslim Outreach Group NASA that’s part of the Big Lie and is in it up to their eyebrows with all those other politically motivated “scientists”? And now they’re admitting to 25%? Which makes the reality at least 3 times as much? I’d say “liar liar pants on fire” but that would probably get me a Carbon Violation from the EPA.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/04/2013 at 09:28 AM   
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Cometh The King

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
‘Til it’s gone
They deposed the king
And put up a parking lot



Life imitates a (slightly modified) Joni Mitchell song?


The Bones Speak: Once, I Was King

Skeleton of Richard III found beneath a parking lot



Scientists announced Monday that they had found the monarch’s 500-year-old remains under a parking lot in the city of Leicester—a discovery Richard’s fans say will rewrite the history books.

University of Leicester researchers say tests on a battle-scarred skeleton unearthed last year prove “beyond reasonable doubt” that it is the king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and whose remains have been missing for centuries.

“Richard III, the last Plantaganet King of England, has been found,” said the university’s deputy registrar, Richard Taylor.

Bone specialist Jo Appleby said study of the bones provided “a highly convincing case for identification of Richard III.”

Richard III ruled England between 1483 and 1485, during the decades-long tussle over the throne known as the Wars of the Roses. His brief reign saw liberal reforms, including introduction of the right to bail and the lifting of restrictions on books and printing presses.

His rule was challenged, and he was defeated and killed by the army of Henry Tudor, who took the throne as King Henry VII.

The [Richard III] Society’s Philippa Langley, who helped launch the search for the king, said she could scarcely believe her quest had paid off.

“Everyone thought that I was mad,” she said. “It’s not the easiest pitch in the world, to look for a king under a council car park.”

Now, she said, “a wind of change is blowing, one that will seek out the truth about the real Richard III.”

For centuries, the location of Richard’s body has been unknown. Records say he was buried by the Franciscan monks of Grey Friars at their church in Leicester, 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of London. The church was closed and dismantled after King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1538, and its location eventually was forgotten.

Then, last September, archaeologists searching for Richard dug up the skeleton of an adult male who appeared to have died in battle.

Appleby said the 10 injuries to the body were inflicted by weapons like swords, daggers and halberds and were consistent with accounts of Richard being struck down in battle—his helmet knocked from his head—before his body was stripped naked and flung over the back of a horse in disgrace.

She said some scars, including a knife wound to the buttock, bore the hallmarks of “humiliation injuries” inflicted after death.

The remains also displayed signs of scoliosis, which is a form of spinal curvature, consistent with contemporary accounts of Richard’s appearance, though not with Shakespeare’s description of him as “deform’d, unfinished,” hunchback.

Pretty amazing, really. I’m not sure that the “humiliation injuries” stuff isn’t mostly conjecture; to a foot soldier with a knife, a buttock is about as high as he could reach a man on a horse. 


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/04/2013 at 09:11 AM   
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try taking his guns away. go ahead. make his day.

There isn’t a way I know of to embed the video so just posting the links contributed by RichK in our comments section.
I didn’t see this on YouTube (yet) so no embed.

Of course, I could call Drew and ask but it’s the middle of the night where he is.

Ring,Ring.
Hello? Drew? Is that you?  You don’t sound too good this morning.
What’s that?  Not morning? Sleeping? Oh, sorry. Never mind.

Hangs up and hides.

Somehow I don’t think his humor will extend that far so here’s the link, and much thanks to RichK for sharing this. Well done sir.

OK, Everybody here , GO AND WATCH THIS!!!!

Watch this from The Rott,I want this guy to run for President:
http://nicedoggie.net/?p=7599

If for some reason the link is bad go to the Rott and scroll down to the Article:
From My Cold, Dead Hands
http://nicedoggie.net/?p=7599


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 02/04/2013 at 02:19 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - February 03, 2013

Into The Dark

A 3rd Quarter power outage? For half an hour????

WTF folks, what the fudge.

I think the 49ers demanded an extra nap period. They sure seem to be in need of it. Maybe they should just go home and try again tomorrow.

Most hilarious one sided football game I’ve seen in ages so far. And after that 109 yard kickoff return ... aww, to hell with it. Somebody hit the switch!!

la di di, la di da, la di do ... time passes ... still no power in the stadium ... CBS scrapes the bottom of the barrel to find some kind of ads to run ... may as well mention those ... didja notice that you saw MORE commercials the first 8 minutes of the game than you saw game? What up wit dat shiz? Hated it!!

Hey, just as an aside, who was that doing the voiceover for the Dodge “God made a farmer” commercial? Kinda sounded like Reagan. Great ad, really got to me. But then, so did the “Clydesdale remembers” one. I’m such a softy. Sniff sniff. So verklempt. Same with Oprah doing the one for returning veterans.

Could you believe that godawful “I’m the next big thing.” “No, I’m the next big thing? ad from Samsung? How long was that piece of crap, an hour? Holy cats. Endless. CUT!!!

No really sexy ads this time. Nothing super funny. Nothing super gross either, thankfully. Nothing really standout either ... although the one with supermodel Bar Rafaeli making out with some blushing fat dweeb got my attention. What the hell? Is there anything models won’t do for money?? Horry Clap, and it went on for like 20 seconds. I have no idea what they were selling ... but ... eww.

Ok, lights are back on, let’s play some football. No, not just you guys. BOTH you guys. Hey, wtf? WAKE UP!! Damn. Alternate universe time or what? Who took the first half Ravens away and gave us this bunch? WTF? WTFFFFF? Am I looking at blatant collusion? Flaccid Flacco now has just one play. ONE PLAY: Give the ball to the little guy and have him run right into the middle of the big pile of guys who want to stomp him. Are we shaving points here? To keep the game interesting and the ad revenue coming in? Or did the 49ers just sleep through the first half, and now they’re awake? This is so imbalanced it’s not even funny. No, not funny. Not enjoyable either. Doesn’t even seem possible. I’ve got no dog in this hunt. None at all. But one team completely dominating the game up to when the lights go out, and when they finally come back on it’s the other team’s turn for complete domination? I spent the first half of the game cheering. I spent the second half being pissed off. Come on. Every Raven guy is totally covered on every play? 49ers guys are always open, and Kopernick has all afternoon to throw the ball every single play? Please. I’m being played here. This is dishonest. Both of you teams can go to Hell. And excuse me, I don’t care if it is legal to run down the clock and give your opponents the 2 point safety. Deliberately giving away points? Legal or not, good strategy or not, it’s dishonorable. So the sleepwalking Ravens just barely win, almost by accident, after spending the whole second half trying their damnedest to loose. No wonder I don’t waste my time with football any more.

Hey, I hear we’ve got pro hockey again! A whole 35 game season after the lockout finally ended, with the exact settlement we all figured out would happen before it even started. Guess them old canucks needed an extra month or three to heal some injuries. 


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/03/2013 at 08:57 PM   
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the future looks darker

Well this isn’t any surprise, and anyone living on this side of the Atlantic who has eyes and ears, can see and hear it all around them.
I may not say things as well, but I and others right here at bmews have said as much for awhile.  Of course, muslim birth rates are not the only high rates to worry about.  I’d spell it out but that might be conscrewed as. raaaaaaacist.  And perhaps it is.  So what?  It just happens to be a matter of absolute fact.

If I were in my 20s in today’s world, I would be very, very worried.  In fact, I might even be somewhat frightened.

I once read an opinion by someone whose name I have long forgotten.  But I can’t forget the quote.

He said that “ had the Nazis won the war, in time even they would have become civilized.” Personally, I think there could be some truth to that.  Haven’t any idea how long that might have taken but in time, it is possible.
However ....  My imagination doesn’t stretch so far as to believe that a people who’ve had a good 1400 years at least, and only come as far as adapting to western technology in order to slaughter those who do not accept their version of god, or the equality of and worthiness of women, are capable of ever becoming civilized as we know the word.  We keep hearing that terrorists are a small minority of the whole and that the “vast majority” do not approve of them.
Fine. You can believe whatever you want to, but I do not buy that. 

I do not like seeing what I do, I don’t like the idea of floods of people arriving on the shores of their new country with names and spellings that are incomprehensible. 

While it hasn’t gotten quite as bad in the USA, yet, that is only due to the size of our country and the ability (for now) to absorb new peoples in greater numbers.  But even at home and without immigration, the darker peoples breed and breed and pretty much it’s as though they haven’t anything else better to do. Vilmar has a damn good example, scroll down to video.

So bottom line to end this for now.  If you’re only 50 and reading this, you’ll see it happen.  For those of us 60 and over, best of luck people. You’ll need a lot of that. Oh yeah, and keep your powder dry cos you may need that too.

The Silent Conquest of a Continent

Michael Youssef
Town Hall Daily

There’s been a lot of discussion within some in the media regarding the demographic changes taking place in Europe. But those of us who’ve travelled there have observed it firsthand: namely, the decreased birthrate among Europeans compared to the enormous birthrate increase among Muslim immigrants.

Overall, the birthrate across the continent is far below the replacement level of 2.1 children per couple. Italy, Spain, Austria, and Germany have a fertility rate of only 1.4, while Poland and Russia languish at 1.3 and 1.2, respectively.

However, as a subgroup, Muslims in Europe are producing from 4 to 6 children per couple. Encouraged by some sheiks in Muslim countries who have forbidden the use of birth control, Muslim immigrants are producing children at two to three times the rate of Europeans.

Even Muslims in Europe who came from more westernized Islamic countries, like Turkey and Tunisia, have twice the birthrate of other Europeans. And the rate among their second generations is holding to that factor.

There are many projections as to when the Muslim population will gain a majority in Europe. Some say it could be as soon as 2025. Others as late as 2050.

Regardless of when Muslims become the majority in Europe, that turning point will present one of the greatest ironies in 1,400 years of European history.

Ever since Islamic expansion under Caliphates Umar and Usman, Muslims have tried again and again to invade and defeat Europe. But they failed.

The Ottomans got the closest; in fact, as close as Austria. But ultimately, that attempt and all others were unsuccessful. Until now. As Sheik Yousef Quardawi has been quoted to have said: “What our forbears failed to do by the sword, this generation is accomplishing through legitimate birthright, immigration, and petro-dollars.”

It’s impossible to predict whether radicals or more westernized elements will dominate the coming generation of majority Muslims. Certainly the current push for Sharia implementation in many European countries, including England, presents a foreboding omen.

That news doesn’t bode well for atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists. At least Christians and Jews will be treated as demis, or second-class citizens. But the Sharia will have no such leniency for out and out non-believers.

What will happen to the gospel of “tolerance” that secular forces preach today? Although purveyors of that gospel are, in reality, the most intolerant of all, that won’t matter. “Tolerance” is used to give Islamists a foothold in the West, and then the proselytizers of that gospel will be swept into the dustbin of Islamic intolerance.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 02/03/2013 at 10:15 AM   
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calendar   Saturday - February 02, 2013

Blimey, Blighty, Bite Me

Learn this replacement meme and use it exclusively: any “evil black rifle”, ie an AR or an AK, is no longer an assault weapon. It is now an MSR, a Modern Sporting Rifle.


British Overlords Nix MSRs from USA’s Biggest Gun Show

Gun Show Cancels Itself

Brits Left Scratching Heads


Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show: What Postponement of the U.S.’s Largest Gun Show Says About America

The media is missing the real story behind the “postponement” of the largest outdoor show in America.> This is a story of ignorance, bias and a gross misunderstanding of America and Americans.

This unfortunate fight began when Reed Exhibitions, a British events organizing company, announced that firearms and products associated with modern sporting rifles (guns the media has given the dubious label “assault rifles”) wouldn’t be allowed at the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show. The show was scheduled to begin on February 2 in Harrisburg, Penn.

Hey, that’s just an hour and a bit down the highway from here!

Reed Exhibitions prohibition also extended to images of modern sporting rifles. They wanted to whitewash a firearm category with Orwellian zeal from the show because they deem these semi-automatic rifles to be too militaristic for civilian use. They mandated this ban at America’s largest outdoor show, a show that regularly attracts 200,000 outdoor enthusiasts and pumps an estimated $44 million into the region’s economy.

Crivens. You can see where this is going. Friggin’ Idjits.

The backlash was fast and grassroots. Reports that companies were pulling out of the show quickly began to snowball. Cabela’s, a major sponsor (Cabela’s has a store in Harrisburg), was one of the first to announce it wouldn’t participate. Soon groups like the National Rifle Association, the National Wild Turkey Federation, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and companies like Ruger, Smith & Wesson, Crimson Trace, Trijicon and many more started to publically announce they were cancelling plans to attend in protest—this despite real costs to their bottom lines.

Seeming shell-shocked and still out of touch, Chet Burchett, of Reed Exhibitions President for the Americas, responded by saying, “Our original decision not to include certain products in the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show this year was made in order to preserve the event’s historical focus on the hunting and fishing traditions enjoyed by American families…. In the current climate, we felt that the presence of MSRs would distract from the theme of hunting and fishing, disrupting the broader experience of our guests. This was intended simply as a product decision, of the type event organizers need to make every day.”

Talk about being out of touch. Modern sporting rifles are among America’s top-selling firearms. Many, such as Remington’s R-15, are chambered in calibers used by deer hunters. Predator hunters have long used them. The companies that make them are working around the clock to fill months, even years, of backorders.

Hellena Handbasket. That’s somewhere in Utah, isn’t it? I’m sorry for the people in Harrisburg who won’t have a quarter million more hunters around to sell things to (they already have tens of thousands coming by every day to go to Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s, outdoors stores each nearly as big as a shopping mall). But we just aren’t going to bend any longer. And especially not from a “breeze” coming from that particular over there. Just because.

Yes, our backs are to the wall. But in that squeeze we may have discovered brotherhood. Mess with one of us and you’ve messed with all of us. We’ve given and we’ve given and we’ve given, and now we have reached our limits. We will not give any more, ever again. Push us again at your own risk.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/02/2013 at 02:11 PM   
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Turning a Reply into a Post

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From: xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:00 PM
To: Drew458@barking-moonbat.com
Subject: Firearms Attitudes and Lying With the Truth

Roaming around the internet, I found an old Life Magazine article titled: “Drawing a Bead on Safety”, that was published in 1956.

http://life.time.com/history/gun-control-1956-edition-teaching-firearm-safety-in-indiana-photos/?iid=lf|mostpop#1

There are several things worth noting in it, both the story of the original article and the modern commentary by Ben Cosgrove, editor of Life.com.  Many of you have heard me say that it is possible to blatantly lie, while each word you speak is the absolute truth.  Mr. Cosgrove’s commentary is an excellent illustration of this.

Below are my comments and Mr. Cosgrove’s original text.  Except for U.S. Census figures, I am only using the facts and figures in Mr. Cosgrove’s article.  With a little reflection, I’m sure all of you can critique Mr. Cosgrove even more thoroughly than I have.

Mr. Cosgrove begins with a disclaimer that images of “guns and children in a classroom might be distressing to some readers....” Distressing to who?  People whose automatic reaction to firearms is unreasoning fear?  The entire article is about teaching the children about the basics of safety.  Then again, to some people, the idea of teaching children not to be afraid of firearms is shocking.  Isn’t there enough fear in the world without encouraging fear by willful ignorance?

[NOTE: LIFE.com is aware that encountering images of guns and children in a classroom might be distressing to some readers — even if those images were made decades ago and depict an adult instructing schoolkids in a rural community in the proper and safe use of firearms. Our intention is not to incite, or inflame, but to add context and perhaps even some nuance to the current national dialog around guns and gun violence in the United States.]

Nice to know that Mr. Cosgrove doesn’t want to incite or inflame anyone, who is he afraid of?  How is passing on the knowledge that teaching children is a viable method of reducing injury and death inflammatory?

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The email goes on to point out how just about every sentence in the photo essay is designed to bend the truth, and play your emotions. It’s a good fisking, but if you follow the link forewarned, you too can see the subtle bias at play and tear it to shreds. I put this email stub up here to remind you to keep your guard up all the time; this kind of soft intolerance is around us constantly. I read an essay yesterday showing how women’s magazines are chock full of it too; that they preach a dual message that 1) women shouldn’t own guns or defend themselves and 2) Republicans and Conservatives are old white guys who are wrong about everything and very uncool and unpopular, so you don’t want to be like them. It’s true! Every one of those magazines has a strong Left bias.

Keep your guard up, and fight the meme whenever you find it. Speak up!

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I can’t take much more of this shit, although I do appreciate the link and the analysis.

I was looking at documents made by the Chicago Police about homicides in their city. Chilling stuff ... For more than 20 years the statistical breakdowns hardly change: Blacks do 75% of the killing, Hispanics 20%, Whites 5%. Blacks are 75% of the victims, Hispanics 20%, Whites and Others 5%. Year after year after year. 75% of the killings are gang related; nearly 3/4 of the victims has a prior arrest record. Oh, and rifles are almost never used. Almost never. Google up Chicago Police homicide statistics; there are loads of links to official reports. The numbers change a little from city to city, but the FBI’s national overall numbers are pretty much exactly the same, and for exactly the same reasons. Young black and brown males 16-35 with criminal records killing other black and brown males 16-35 with criminal records, most often on the weekends in warmer weather, out in public, from after dinner time until the late at night. The 2011 Chicago Police report spells this out in exacting detail. Another large part of the homicides and woundings are bystanders hit with stray bullets during those same time periods.

Anyway, yes, it’s blacks and browns ... but mostly it’s gangs. Stop the gangs and you’ve cut the homicide rate in half. Firearms are pretty much banned in Chicago. Handguns are illegal IIRC. And yet the cops there recover thousands and thousands of guns every year.

So how do they get the guns? Can the pipeline be plugged? Is it really the Tiahrt Ammendment causing the problem, or is that just BS?

On 1/25/13 IL Senator Quigley “submitted” his TRACE Act bill yet again ... although in truth he hasn’t done beans, because he submitted a bill in name only: it has no text yet. He just “got a number”, with the contents to follow. The TRACE act usually calls for the NICS info to be saved for a month, but this time around he says it’s going to call for it to be saved 180 days. And more text in this year’s version will dismantle the Tiarht Ammendment.  I’m really not ho TRACE is going to keep criminals from getting guns, though NRA and FOP claim Tiahrt protects my privacy, and that the data is already specifically available to law enforcement people working on actual cases. It just isn’t available to snoopy cops or reporters, or to people with an axe to grind. Look it up and form you own opinion.

But maybe ... maybe ... if NICS results sat around longer (after 24 hrs right now they’re erased), and each time a new query was sent it looked to see if another query had been made for that person within ,,, a week, two weeks, a month, 3 months, 6 months? would that actually spot the straw purchasers?

Is that the idea? See me trying hard to understand the Liberal viewpoint? I’m honestly looking for solutions that could work, and we could be so much better off if the lower income urban environments were more peaceful. But at what cost to the rest of us? I completely disagree with the “if only one child can be saved” meme; it’s crap. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few” applies just as much or more so.

The numbers can not be ignored. Nearly three quarters of the violent death in our country comes from criminals killing other criminals, and about a quarter of what’s left comes from criminals killing their crime victims. And organized urban crime is THE massive piece of the pie: gangs.


These gangs are chock full of criminals and underage youths. Neither group can legally buy a firearm. The gangs are armed to the teeth. Somebody is breaking the law selling them guns. How do we stop this?


Oh, and what happens if you do take away all their guns, and the gangs go right on killing each other, only using knives and bats and cars as weapons, which they already also do right now? That might stop some bystanders from getting killed, but then again, it might not. Put crash bars or a plow blade on an Escalade and you can run down a whole sidewalk full of people while trying to get to that gang banger you’re targeting. Then you can just drive away to the car wash.

No, the way to stop it is to stop the gangs from even existing. But that takes us back to that whole failed War On Drugs thing, theft by order and the ease of fencing stolen stuff (Ebay!!!), pimpin the hos, protection rackets, and other urban crime.

Somebody, please, give me a plan that will keep guns from the gangs, but not trample my rights with even so much as a footprint, because I’ve already been trampled too much. And frankly, at this point I’m not really sure if I give a damn about those locked into a hopeless urban culture. They’ve had generations to escape and haven’t ... and hundreds of billions in support and opportunity, all to nearly no avail ... so why don’t the rest of us just put up a fence and say to heck with them?


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 02/02/2013 at 07:12 AM   
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a couple of items to brighten the day ahead

Look, the darn fact is, guns are just too dangerous to leave in the hands of responsible, law abiding civilian gun owners.  Can’t have that ya know.
Just look at these examples of violent lawlessness and ask ….

erm, wait a minute.  No guns involved?
Oh.

Never mind.

MAN KILLS WIFE WITH GARDEN GNOME AND KNIFE

A former RAF sergeant had an argument with his wife. He’s 76 btw.
Well, according to the papers, he lost his cool and “bludgeoned” her with a garden gnome before stabbing her to death.

Must have been one hell of an argument.
He told the police he, “just lost it.”

He has been sentenced to four years in jail.
Doesn’t seem like much for what he did but hell. At least it wasn’t a gun which would have drawn more jail time for certain.

Anyway, the poor guy is a victim too as at the exact time of the killing,
he was suffering from a “DEPRESSIVE EPISODE.”
( Preston Crown Court) You couldn’t make this up.

In a bit of other gun related news.  Oh. No gun involved.
That’s okay then.

A young male is reported to have been stabbed ….
In the entrance to a court building yesterday.
A gang of ‘yoots’ was seen running from the scene.

The young black man, it says in my paper, was in the security entrance to Inner London Crown Court.

He was treated at the scene and his injuries were not life threatening.

Yeah I can hear the anti gun folks screaming, but if he’d been shot he’d be dead.  Yeah, so?

In conclusion and way off topic, if I ever had one, a HUGE Thank You to Vilmar who gave me a new expression I had never heard or thought of before.
See?  When you pay attention to smart people you learn new things.

Ground Apes!

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