- Smith & Wesson recalls guns that could misfire - PPK and PPK/S models made in conjunction with Walther from 2002 to present. If you've got one of these guns, contact S&W for a return authorization stat...
- Bare-istas: Maine cafe pours topless cup of coffee - I dunno. I prefer my coffee be bottomless, actually.
- Leeches aid shark victim - File under E for eewwwww... Talk about headlines of the weird... How cool is it, though, that the surfer's hand was saved by leeches??? (As a side note, it's also kinda weird to hear medical jargon filtered through an Aussie accent...)
- Woman dies in T escalator accident - well, not exactly. Her clothing got snagged in the machinery and she suffered a fatal heart attack. What, a headline that bears little relation to the facts ot the story? Who knew?
- Angry citizens open fire on pols - Claire Wolfe, please call your office. Snark aside, this is a disturbing story on many levels, and it's a theme that I've seen popping up around the blogosphere. Let me state, for the record: I do not support nor condone such talk.
- In Debate on Climate Change, Exaggeration Is a Common Pitfall - WOW. A chink in the armor of the infallible Goracle? The NYFT is pointing out Global Warming hyperbole??? Guess the Carbon credit business is floundering worse than we thought...
- And lastly, in the news of the weird: Father Chains Girl To Bed To Stop Her Eating. Apparently it was to keep her in fighting form for Mixed Martial Arts fighting. Of course.
- UPDATE: New header pic. Goes with one of my favorite sayings: "A shotgun without a bayonet is like a day without sunshine"...
- UPDATE2: LawDog is celebrating his third blogiversary. Go wish him well, please - we want to do all we can to encourage him to post more!
Okay, that's about all the news I can stomach for now. Time to go tend to my sick charge...
That is all.
11 comments:
Even though it's a tabloid, the quality of writing at the Herald has declined precipitously over the past couple of years.
Here is a comment (not mine) from a recent Herald article.
"Whew! I thought it was just me. This story makes no clear sense. Do you have editors or has it become amateur intern hour at the Herald?"
Personally, I think motivated interns would write better articles.
Regarding the item "Angry citizens open fire on pols" -- piles of dead fish are funny, not menacing, and threatening letters are ... well, kind of pathetic IMO. But do you notice that none of the quotes from various ELECTED officials even hint that maybe the citizens' anger might be justified? Which, of course, lets the reporter also neatly avoid the implication that maybe those same officials, who were ELECTED to run their towns and the state competently and efficiently, have failed in their duties, and the voters who believed their promises and put them in office have a right to be pissed off?
I want to know if that bullet was fired from inside or outside the office?
http://freeinidaho.com/2009/02/25/just-a-question/
If the shot went from outside in, how did the inside of the windowframe get damaged?
Other way round, BillH. It's the outside of the windowframe that's damaged, when you'd expect the damage to be on the inside. To my admittedly-inexperienced eye, it looks like whatever made that hole hit the window from the inside at a sharp angle, smashed through the glass, hit the edge of the windowframe and left a giant dent there.
Stinky fish, nasty letters are all good (so long as the letters don't specifically threaten violence.)
Shooting at politicians instead of using reasonable means to get your point across is just NOT ACCEPTABLE.
I think that (credible, modern) use of leeches has been around for a couple decades. Maybe TOTWTYTR can elaborate. Me, I seem to recall this from 20 years or so back.
Like they say, there's two things about getting old. You start to lose your memory, and, um, ... now what the heck was the other?
Love the shotgun Gunpr0n.
The shotgun is great, but modern bayonets on them aren't what they used to be. Give me the old Pattern 1913 bayonet on the end of a shotgun any day. But enough of that. I have kids on my lawn to yell at, and my Wurthers hard candies are calling me.
Also lovin' the new header pic.
Nothing like the "Thump!" of a good solid 12...
Jay, you may not condone it, but I'm not surprised in the least; I've been expecting it to start for a few years now.
People are fed up with the incompetence, the corruption and the sheer arrogance of these bastards in office, and it's reaching the breaking point. Look to see more of this... and they won't be missing, either. (No, I haven't been and won't be doing the shooting... if I had been, I wouldn't have missed.) I'm still trying to make this work using the soap box and the ballot box.
Ross,
I most certainly do not condone it.
All it takes is *ONE* assassination and we *WILL* see door-to-door confiscation.
Mark my words on that.
(And yes, MauserMedic, the older bayonets were better, no question there. I would dearly LOVE to get a repro trench broom with the 1917 bayonet...)
Jay,
In addition to leeches, modern medicine has also turned to maggots for wound cleaning. The maggots are particlarly good at eating up the necrotic tissues, leaving behind clean, healthy viable goods. It looks totally gross, but it works very, very well.
What have you got lined up for tomorrow's gun Pr0n -- you've hit the century mark.
- Brad
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