- “What I did after police killed my son.”
- The food insecurity lie.
- 12 graphs showing why people get fat.
- Oh, Canada. What you’ve reduced your people to. Airhorns? Seriously? Airhorns against thug barbarians? (H/T L.A.)
- Couple of weeks ago I linked to Ryochiji’s farewell to his Serenity Valley cabin as he prepared it as best he could against approaching fires. Good news; his cabin survived. Barely, but it made it.
- Yep, that would be about par for the course for U.S. surveillance priorities.
- Um … I’m really not sure why various news media keep presenting this as amusing. I know socks often go mysteriously missing. But 43 (and a half!) … you’d think the family would have wondered. (Tip o’ hat to S.C.)
- Kent says goodbye and thanks to JPFO.
According to the definition, I guess I am food insecure. We always have plenty to eat, but it is mostly what we can afford, not what we want. I’d live on steak and lobster if I could but reality dictates chicken and pork or beans and rice.
Nice to have charts and graphs to tell me why I got fat. It was hard to visualize that my lack of exercise and generally poor food choices and manic eating habits could of had anything to do with it without a nice graph. Glad they provided that for us.
About the “airhorns for self defence” link the story can be summed up in two words, the initials being total BS. The person who wrote this knows nothing about what he was reiting about.
People in Canada have the right to use “reasonable force” to defend themselves however the Police will investigate the use of force so the actions need to be justified. The issue is one of reasonable force. This means that once you are safe and the threat is over you should stop your actions I.E. your attacker is running away so you don’t go and chase him down then beat him to death with a 2”X4”.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/prairie-justice-rifle-toting-homeowner-puts-self-defence-202625427.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Law/Defences/Self-Defence_and_Defence_of_Another
Spell check fail… Writing not reiting
Thanks for that clarification, MJR!
Why people get fat… Last year I was told I had type 2 diabetes and need to shed a few pounds or the needles were coming. So I looked at various diets like low carbohydrate, paleo cave man and a host of others. I found that they all had one thing in common, to con me out of money. So I simply cut down the amount of stuff I ate, lowered the amount of junk food I consumed and stopped drinking sodas. Presto I am down 30 pounds over the last 10 months and my doctor loves me.
It really doesn’t matter too much about what you eat (I still do the burger joints and have my egg muffins in the mornings but not as often) so long as the calories you use are more that you consume you will loose weight.
“What I did after police shot my son”: This story left me unsatisfied. While I am glad the people of Wisconsin now have independent investigations going on (for however long that will last – not long, in my experience), I sure would not have responded that way to the killing and whitewash. The author does not seem like a man to me, but just another (meek) cog in the system.
What struck me about the Canadian story was the total cognitive dissonance:
1. Halifax Regional Police spokesperson Pierre Bourdages knows there are criminals out there who will hurt and maybe kill you. Therefore ” self-defense allows you to use as much force as possible to stop an attack, to break free from an assailant.”
2. But “In Canada it’s illegal to carry a weapon for the purpose of self-defense. And according to the Criminal Code, a weapon can be anything designed, used or intended to cause death or injury or even just to threaten or intimidate another person.” IOW even if you carry the legally-permitted air horn, “burst your assailant’s eardrums and you still might face charges. ‘If you’re carrying that in your purse, that’s fine,’ Bourdages says, ‘but if you’re carrying that and you actually assault someone with that item, the item becomes a weapon.'”
I sincerely hope that the just-passed-this-year revisions in Canada’s self-defense law help, but “The moral of the personal-safety story? No knives, no sprays, no guns, no anything, really. It’s unfortunately just you and your air horn out there” gives a whole new meaning to the term “criminal justice.”
OTOH I’m really glad the cabin survived. Half a football field? Yikes!
Front page article in the local paper last year about the “food insecure” here in the valley. The picture on the top of the fold showed a dour faced mother and her grade school son as one of their examples. Both were obese.
“Both were obese.”
Sounds like the local propagandist needs some instruction. Any propagandist with half a brain would look around to find a family that is skinny. 🙂
Somehow that is one bit of propaganda I think they will have trouble putting over. “A bridge too far” for the ruling class.
Oh yeah, that long article with all those graph is really going to get people to lose weight.
On another note: Spidey Dog, Spidey Dog, Where you’ve been?
http://barkpost.com/spider-dog/
And this “But I don’t wanna” dog.
http://barkpost.com/husky-dog-park-tantrum/
“Sounds like the local propagandist needs some instruction. Any propagandist with half a brain would look around to find a family that is skinny.”
From what I saw back when I worked at a grocery store, they would have had to look pretty hard. Of the thousands of customers I dealt with who used a particular card, I only saw one who wasn’t obese.
One.