It matters because it could have been me

JayG has a post up (along with a stunning graphic, if I do say so myself) regarding this lovely little story Concerns about an Oregon Department of Transportation employee who purchased several guns after being placed on leave prompted law enforcement across Southern Oregon to step in. Negotiators and a SWAT team from Medford police safely took a man — whose name wasn't released — into protective custody Monday morning in the 500 block of Effie Street, Medford police said in a news...

posted @ 3/10/2010 12:31:55 PM | Feedback (10)

Yet again

Another apparent suicide at a gun range ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- For the fourth time in four months, there has been a shooting inside a Central Florida gun range. A man was killed Wednesday night at Rieg's Gun Range on Orange Blossom Trail. But since people are used to hearing gunshots no one noticed right away until they found him lying on the ground. I've thought about that at the range many times. A gunshot isn't out of the ordinary so you pay it no mind. In a stall, you're...

posted @ 7/2/2009 7:55:45 AM | Feedback (12)

It's bound to happen

This is the type of story the anti-gunners flock to. An argument outside of a restaurant over a parking space turns deadly. It involves both booze and guns. This is definitely an example of a time where the lack of a firearm would have probably resulted in nothing more than a case of fisticuffs and some bruises. However, as Clayton points out, this is a rare event. As Second Amendment supporters, we have to face up to the fact that there are people out there who should not own firearms and...

posted @ 6/10/2009 10:51:04 AM | Feedback (8)

Such attention to detail

Mad Rocket Scientist sent me this little nugget last night MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Miami police issued a plea for information Saturday after at least one person with an assault rifle opened fire on a crowd of people on a streetcorner Friday night, killing two teens and wounding seven other people. "We need the community to come together, someone come forward and give us a tip," Miami Police Officer Kenia Alfonso told CNN. "There are a lot of people in that area. Someone must have seen...

posted @ 1/25/2009 2:15:25 PM | Feedback (8)

Conscience

A man who helped kill a police officer is offered a reduced sentence for coming forward about the crime. He declines Then Gamble spoke. He didn't want his sentence changed, he said. He deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. All he wants is for the remaining suspect to be brought to justice and have to face the victim's family. Gamble was involved in the murder of a police officer when he and his group were busted planning a bank robbery. For years, nobody knew what happened to...

posted @ 11/14/2008 12:40:35 PM | Feedback (1)

How fat do you have to be before lethal injection is inhumane?

Apparently, quite a bit more than 5'7" and 267lbs. For the record, I support the death penalty as a punishment but have little faith in our government to mete it out correctly.

posted @ 10/14/2008 11:53:32 AM | Feedback (4)

Woman in chains

No, really. Friggin' CHAINS Stephanie Ragusa was arrested a third time on April 28, 2008 and charged with having sex with an underage boy. First things first. I'd prefer, if guilty, she had a rope around her neck, but the fact of the matter is I don't know all the facts and can't pass judgement. What I can bitch about is the way she's locked up like some sort of violent felon. Seriously. She's a 26 year old woman of slight build. I can understand some sort of restraint that prevents her from...

posted @ 5/9/2008 11:14:22 AM | Feedback (4)

I guess they were afraid he'd poke them in the eye or something

Vietnam Vet arrested for pointing his finger like a gun Vietnam vet Greg Kachka had the chance to turn himself in but refused to do so because he did not believe he had done anything wrong, police said. .. Kachka claims he pointed at Herrmann after she made faces at him, but did not mean the gesture in a threatening way. “I look up and there’s Debbie Herrmann making all kinds of goofy faces at me,” Kachka told MyFOXChicago.com. “I didn’t do anything intentional. I talk with my hands a lot.”...

posted @ 5/1/2008 4:05:13 PM | Feedback (7)

Bulletproof chef

This was definitely weird GRETNA, La. - Celebrated chef Paul Prudhomme was setting up his cooking tent on the practice range at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Tuesday morning when he felt a sting in his right arm, just above his elbow. Prudhomme shook his shirt sleeve and a .22 caliber bullet fell to the ground, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said. Rule #4 is still in effect, even at a mile and a half or so.

posted @ 3/26/2008 11:06:36 AM | Feedback (3)

As opposed to the ones you cannot have forever?

A man defends his and his child's life - This man [Labidou] was clearly in fear for his life and felt like he had no other options than to use his legally-permanent hand gun, firing several shots to defend himself sticking both men. Emphasis mine. WTF is a legally permanent hand gun? Hat Tip Greg

posted @ 12/19/2007 1:04:52 PM | Feedback (7)

Maybe a "Match and Gasoline Free Zone" sign was needed

I think the death penalty is warranted here LAKE WALES - While robbing an insurance business Thursday afternoon, a man set fire to two female employees, one of whom was five months' pregnant, according to police. He also shot a man in the face as he tried to help the women. None of the victims died, but that doesn't change the fact that this goblin tried to murder them. Just because he's lucky doesn't mean he's not deserving of having his birth certificate revoked. Of course, he had a...

posted @ 12/14/2007 8:31:39 AM | Feedback (4)

When the instructions tell you to carry around a spare set of pants

You might want to think about a different diet pill Sometimes, you can’t stop your weight-loss secrets from leaking out. Dieters have been flocking to drugstores to pick up Alli, the first over-the-counter weight-loss pill to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, despite the scary warning: Stray too far from your low-fat diet and you just might poop your pants. Apparently, the pill causes you to not absorb 25% of the fat in foods. So, if you eat more than 42 grams of fat, this...

posted @ 7/8/2007 11:07:21 AM | Feedback (3)

Repeat after me - There is no bias at the NY Times

I mean, this article is talking about some guy who invented a new space glove. It's about space. And gloves. And inventors. It has nothing to do with politics. Which you wouldn't be able to tell by this paragraph Homer summed up the bulk of his research thus: “I spent a lot of time doing this.” He held a single index finger a few inches from a fixed gaze and flexed it up and down, like a late-night stoner, real slow. Homer, who is 45, is a strikingly handsome guy — John Edwards handsome. I...

posted @ 7/6/2007 3:19:24 PM | Feedback (3)

But Rosie and the Truthers say it's impossible!

Tanker fire literally melts bridge Huge leaping flames from an exploding gasoline tanker melted the steel underbelly of a highway overpass in the East Bay's MacArthur Maze early this morning, causing it to collapse onto the roadway below and virtually ensuring major traffic problems for weeks to come. The elevated roadway that fell carried eastbound traffic from the Bay Bridge onto Interstates 580 and 980 and state Highway 24. It draped like a blanket over a roadway below, a connector from...

posted @ 4/29/2007 8:22:26 PM | Feedback (3)

Gunman takes hostages... at a gun range

The fact that he didn't immediately receive several dozen extra holes in his body might explain why I no longer go to this 'range' From TBO TAMPA - A 10-hour hostage situation at a shooting range came to an end about 3 a.m. when Jeffrey Lane Dudney, 42, killed himself. Dale Mabry Highway, which was closed during the tense standoff, is open for the morning commute. ... Gee said that there were three customers and two employees taken hostage. Two others in the store were able to flee before...

posted @ 4/13/2007 8:32:30 AM | Feedback (4)

We have a level 9 stupid alert!

Man sets meth fire, goes shopping Jonathan Zaletel, 19, was cooking meth in a bedroom closet about 7 p.m. Tuesday in the 1200 block of North Alma School Road near Ray Road when the fire started, authorities said. He unsuccessfully attempted to put out the fire by tossing water and window cleaner on it. When that didn't work, he decided to head to a nearby Wal-Mart to buy a fire extinguisher. Being that this idjit is still drawing breath, Darwin would have changed his mind had he lived in...

posted @ 3/18/2007 3:44:32 PM | Feedback (1)

Veteran's personal information stolen

To all my fellow soldiers, be aware of this WASHINGTON -- Thieves took sensitive personal information on 26.5 million U.S. veterans, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, after a Veterans Affairs employee improperly brought the material home, the government said Monday. The information involved mainly those veterans who served and have been discharged since 1975, said VA Secretary Jim Nicholson. Data of veterans discharged before 1975 who submitted claims to the agency may have...

posted @ 5/23/2006 8:58:00 AM | Feedback (0)

That's determination!

Serial killer tried to bite himself to death LONDON (Reuters) - A man on trial for murdering four people tried to bite himself to death as a fitting end to his killing spree, an Old Bailey jury heard on Wednesday.

posted @ 3/8/2006 2:22:00 PM | Feedback (1)

And you thought the Japanese ate weird things...

They’ve got nothin’ on some Germans In a “slaughter room” fitted out with butcher’s bench, meat hook and cage, Meiwes severed Brandt’s penis and they both tried to eat it. “Due to the consistency of the penis, this did not succeed, either raw or fried,” Koehler said. Eeewww….

posted @ 1/12/2006 2:58:00 PM | Feedback (4)

If you pray, please do so now (Updated)

145 passengers on Jet Blue flight to attempt emergency landing in LA. They’re going to have to make a hard landing. God be with them.. Update:They made it safe & sound. The Political Teen has the video.

posted @ 9/21/2005 9:25:00 PM | Feedback (1)

The law of unintended consequences strikes again

As a parent of breastfed children, this worries me. Aug. 29, 2005— Breast milk of a startling number of mothers in the northwestern United States and neighboring Canada contains toxins from widely used flame retardants, a study showed on Friday. The discovery of PBDEs in mothers milk suggests "a major environmental health concern" that demands "quick action," said Clark Williams-Derry of Northwest Environment Watch. "It's time to stop using the flame retardants," Derry said....

posted @ 9/8/2005 8:52:00 AM | Feedback (3)

Pixar's Joe Ranft dead at 45

Joe Ranft, Pixar Animation Studios' head of story for more than a decade and a cornerstone of the company's creative team, died Tuesday when the car he was riding in plunged into the ocean after running off the road in Mendocino County, Calif. He was 45. I cannot begin to tell you how sad I am. Toy Story to this day remains one of my favorite movies of all time. Not just because it was the first fully computer generated movies to make it big, but because the story behind it was as beautiful...

posted @ 8/19/2005 10:47:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Truth is Stranger than Fiction

I always used to joke around about once guns were demonized enough for being responsible for crime, steak knives were next on the left’s hit list. Looks like the joke’s on me. If you don’t think this will rear its ugly head here in America, just wait. And when they outlaw cutlery, only outlaws will be able to cut thick steaks. Also Rolling With It™Daily Pundit

posted @ 5/27/2005 11:48:00 AM | Feedback (1)

Hell in a Handbasket, I Tell You

Tack this one on the 'They're starting younger and younger' department.5-Year-Old Girl Cuffed After Fight At SchoolST. PETERSBURG - Police handcuffed the wrists and legs of a 5-year-old girl at a school this week after the kindergartner attacked a teacher and the assistant principal, officials said.The student was disciplined and was to return to school today, Pinellas County schools spokesman Ron Stone said Thursday. He did not provide details of the punishment.Disciplined? What do you bet...

posted @ 3/18/2005 8:48:00 AM | Feedback (0)

Hot Damn! I Was Right!

Remember the Weatherman who got canned for the so called "racial slur" against MLK? Wizbang has the audio. Clear as a bell slip of the tongue (doesn't even pronounce the 'n' at the end of koo). The real kicker - the portion was prerecorded! There are editors who are more at fault than this poor schmuck.Now, I am not going through a bunch of hue and cry about the company's firing of this guy. From a business perspective, it probably was the quickest thing they could do to satiate the real...

posted @ 1/24/2005 7:07:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Laser-Man: Inept Doofus, not Scary Terrorist

I disagree with Michelle Malkin, whom I adore and normally find myself nodding in agreement with. Michelle writes:We are at war, fools. You really want to make this idiot a civil liberties martyr? Stop clucking and get serious. I am serious and I disagree with her.I'm not the staunch supporter of the Patriot Act that many who have argued with me say I am. That label is often given to me because I don't find the PA to be the threat people want to make it out to be so it is assumed I agree with...

posted @ 1/5/2005 2:03:00 PM | Feedback (9)

Possible Photo Forgery Calls Bush's TANG Commitment Into Question

*** MUST GIVE CREDIT CARD NUMBER TO SHARP AS A MARBLE ***Tampa, FL. - The White House today refused to answer questions about a popular photo released by the Bush campaign regarding Bush and his TANG service. "Bush absolutely fulfilled his commitment to TANG", White House spokesman Scott McClelland said during a press conference today. "The photos are accurate and we have no reason to question their authenticity."However, within hours of the photos release, various web logs, or "Internet...

posted @ 9/20/2004 9:23:00 PM | Feedback (11)

Man Dies Hour After Being Shot With Taser

A local story for me.A Polk County deputy used a Taser stun gun to subdue a suspect after he attacked her. The man died after going into 'medical distress' at the scene.AUBURNDALE - (AP) -- A 32-year-old man died after struggling with a sheriff's deputy who shocked him twice with a stun gun, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.Deputy Jennifer Sanderson found the man walking in the roadway on U.S. 92 about 10 p.m. Thursday, a sheriff's report said. He appeared to be intoxicated, and the deputy...

posted @ 8/29/2004 9:10:00 AM | Feedback (0)

'Scream' Stolen

Laurence points to a story which breaks my heart. OSLO, Norway (CNN) -- Masked robbers stormed into an art museum in Norway and stole Edvard Munch's famous paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" at gunpoint before the eyes of stunned museum-goers. For those of you who might not know the details, these are the images they're talking about (click for larger) What a shame. It's like someone stealing the Mona Lisa. My main concern is that the cretins won't handle the image properly and...

posted @ 8/22/2004 10:15:00 AM | Feedback (1)

Aiming for the Stars, They Hit the Trees

No X-Prize for you!A rocket belonging to a team taking a low-budget stab at the $10m (£5.7m) Ansari X-prize has exploded less than 1,000 feet into the air. Nobody was hurt in the test which took place on Sunday just south of Olympic National Park in Washington State, US. Tell that to the dummies.Rubicon 1, which is seven metres (23 feet) long and 96cm (38 inches) in diameter, held three dummies simulating the weight of astronauts. I wonder if they added in the extra weight to simulate the...

posted @ 8/9/2004 8:57:00 PM | Feedback (0)

I'm Rick James Bitch!

Not any more.Update: John Kerry is publicly questioning the timing of Rick's death.Update II: Rick James is still room temperatureUpdate III: The Rick James "What The Funk?" tour is still cancelled.Also rolling with itmicheleINDC JournalRed Sugar Muse

posted @ 8/6/2004 3:54:00 PM | Feedback (7)

Bomb Scare Closes Universal Orlando Parking Garage

A friend of mine was there for the fun. I expect more happenings like this. Like Jeff Jarvis, I would rather have too much precaution than thousands of dead Americans. I also believe we'll see successful attacks as well and that many will bemoan that the extra security isn't helping. Those people will be wrong.

posted @ 8/3/2004 12:55:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Just When You Thought the World Was Sane...

You read crap like this... They found that five young people had erected a bamboo tripod and hung meat hooks from it. A young woman, her feet brushing the surface of the shallow water, dangled from the frame, hooks embedded firmly in her shoulders.My favorite part?Lt. Tom Brazil of the Coast Guard said a young man, who also had hooks embedded in his heavily pierced and tattooed skin, told him the group was “just enjoying the afternoon.”Now, they're looking into if there is anything the...

posted @ 7/26/2004 2:34:00 PM | Feedback (1)

Nukes Found in Iraq. Someone Check Out Snopes.com Please.

I don't believe it. I don't want to believe it. Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday.This story has already been called 'stupid' by the Iraqi Interior Ministry. I'm inclined to believe him because I don't want to think that we just happened to 'stumble' on nukes. That would mean the possibility of more of them hidden in Iraq that we'd have no idea where they are but some...

posted @ 7/21/2004 10:47:00 AM | Feedback (4)

Man Accused of Hitting Woman With Gator

Wow. And you think we have problems casting votes?

posted @ 7/19/2004 2:29:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Religion of Beheading Strikes Again

Hot Abercrombie Chick's got the scoop. Speed of thought had it first.f*#@ing assholes....Also rolling with itWizbang

posted @ 7/15/2004 2:57:00 PM | Feedback (3)

From the "I didn't think she was still alive" department

Weezie is finished movin' on up.

posted @ 7/15/2004 2:02:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Terrorists Say Marine Beheaded

Iraq Militants Claim Marine Beheading from Yahoo News / AP "We would like to inform you that the Marine of Lebanese descent has been killed, and you will soon see the movie with your own eyes," said the statement, signed in the name of the group's leader, Abu Abdullah al-Hassan bin Mahmoud.The U.S. military in Baghdad said it was checking into the report of the 24-yer-old Hassoun's death but had no confirmation for the moment.This is aimed at ruining the 4th of July. I hope, instead, that it...

posted @ 7/3/2004 4:12:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Local Teacher Sex Scandal

Teacher Charged With Having Sex With Teen TAMPA, Fla. A 23-year-old middle-school teacher was charged with having sex with a 14-year-old student in a classroom, at her apartment and, once, in a vehicle while the teen's 15-year-old cousin drove. This story is disturbing in many ways. First off, and pardon me for being superficial but the teacher in question, Debra Beasley Lafave, is smoking hot. Now this bothers me because I look at her pictures and find her attractive and at the same...

posted @ 7/2/2004 10:15:00 AM | Feedback (5)

RIP Keith Maupin

An Army soldier has been murdered by his captors. Iraqi militants killed an American soldier they have held hostage for nearly three months, saying the killing was because the U.S. government did not change its policy in Iraq, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. I don't know what the proper response is. The “warmonger” in me wants to level a town for every soldier or citizen killed by these thugs, but logic and my humanity tells me that is wrong. Some may say we should...

posted @ 6/28/2004 8:27:00 PM | Feedback (16)

Hooray for Iraq!

Glad to see the sucker punch to the terrorists on the Iraqi Sovereignty handover. 2 days ahead of schedule. Unfortunately I don't believe for a minute that this will end the attacks and I fear Wassef Ali Hassoun and the Pakistani man recently abducted by AQ will meet the same fate as the rest. Hassoun is a fellow Marine, and I know what would happen if you let my guys go do what they know best. Still, this is a historic day. There's still the chance another evil regime sprouts up, but we...

posted @ 6/28/2004 11:20:00 AM | Feedback (2)

Korean hostage beheaded.

Via Fox News. Bastards. Bitch and moan all you want about the evil American Empire™ but we, as a country, do not behead our captives and parade them around the world. And when one of our guys steps out of line, we rabidly persue justice. Just ask yourself this question - Would you prefer to be an imprisoned by any terrorist organization or by America? This wasn't one of ours, but we should react as if it were. This was, more than likely, an innocent human being who was just in...

posted @ 6/22/2004 1:17:00 PM | Feedback (3)

New cell phone virus reported.

Whoa! I wonder if you can get a nasty ear infection from this?

posted @ 6/18/2004 11:21:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Michael Berg has officially squandered any sympathy for his son's death

Bill at INDC Journal was brave enough to attend an A.N.S.W.E.R. rally where Michael Berg, whose son's beheading by terrorists was taped and promptly buried by the Media, spoke. What he said was simply disgusting. Michael rallies against those who profit from the war, those who supported the war, and those who believe that what we are doing in Iraq is the right thing to do. In other words, the man is desecrating his own son. He uses his own son's decapitated head as a platform...

posted @ 6/7/2004 1:36:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Kerry's flip-flopping - A new, renewable energy source?

Bill Hobbs points out another Kerry flip flop. Can we not tap into this man's constant changing state and pull off some energy? Seriously, wrap his stand on any issue in copper wire, shove him between some magnets, and give him a mike and a podium and the RPM's he generates should be enough to power most of the east coast*. I hope that as the Internet grows that politicians of every stripe will realize that now, the common Joe can research fast enough to see through all the B.S....

posted @ 6/3/2004 10:47:00 AM | Feedback (0)

That's my Marine Corps

From Bill at InDC, a great post about a great Marine. Granted, when I was a Marine, the best I'd have been able to pull off is giving someone a nasty cut with a pair of wire strippers or hitting them over the head with my toolbox. Damn this makes me proud to have worn the uniform!

posted @ 5/27/2004 3:55:00 PM | Feedback (16)

This is simply disgusting

I'm trying to do my part to expose this travesty. The Hooters in Lakeland, Florida is having a contest {from Sekimori} The contest is for girls 5 and under, and will require they be dressed in little orange spandex shorts, and a tied up Hooters t-shirt. Simply disgusting. Please let Hooters know how you feel about this stunt. [UPDATE] I received an email back from Hooters. Thank you for expressing your concern regarding the contest in Florida. A store manager decided to host an event for...

posted @ 5/21/2004 1:48:00 PM | Feedback (1)

Beating the Puppy Blender to the punch

Remember, you heard it here first! Indeed!

posted @ 5/21/2004 10:33:00 AM | Feedback (0)