Gun stuff...

I read the *Guardian* online--a UK newspaper described as "centre left" (socialist-Communist by U.S. political standards--prolly milquetoast by any other). In any case, the Guardian seems willing to give the other side an occasional voice. In the wake of the Colorado shootings, one such voice was that of someone named Tammy Bruce, who affirmed the necessity for a well-armed, law-abiding polite citizenry. I have heard this sickening argument on this side of the pond so much, I nearly dismissed her argument w/o further ado. But then she cited evidence--per Ms Bruce, in *another* Colorado shooting a few years ago at a church, an armed civilian with a concealed gun permit took out a gunman before he was able kill no more than two church members in his efforts at random mass murder. I have argued in the past that I did not know of any incident in which an armed civilian who happened to be present had ever stopped or limited a mass killing with firearms--but here was contrary evidence. But then I wondered-- why haven't the gun lobby folks made more of this incident? I googled and it turns out that much has been made of it--but not as unambiguously as Ms Bruce did. The "civilian" was an ex-cop named Jeanne Assam & she was acting as a volunteer security guard that day. There were also two volunteer male security guards, also armed, who drew their weapons but who froze for some reason... I wonder what would have happened if, say, there had been 20 armed civilians present...Good chance the gunman would have been stopped all right...an equally good chance that some would have frozen & that some would have shot wildly and killed or wounded many in the crossfire... Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Going dark on email & FB & my new bumpersticker

The computer I normally use has problems.  This computer & my mobile are slow and/or unstable.  So little from me until I get an overhaul.  Erndure as best you can.

I like my new bumpersticker:  Compassion is the best revenge.

So.  Be nice to me or I will feel compassion for you.

R.

 

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Re: Nerd joke...

Ha ha. I actually get it! 

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Roy Griffin <roygg9@yahoo.com> wrote:

So a Higg's walks into a church. The priest sees him and screams, "Blasphemy! Get out!"
The Higg's replies, "If you don't let me in, you can't have mass" 

---Stolen from a fellow named Mark Banister from somewhere on the Internet...

 

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Nerd joke...

So a Higg's walks into a church. The priest sees him and screams, "Blasphemy! Get out!"
The Higg's replies, "If you don't let me in, you can't have mass" 

---Stolen from a fellow named Mark Banister from somewhere on the Internet...

 

http://gg9-tto.blogspot.com/

So far out he scares even me--but he knows lotsa math

Jack Sarfatti also strongly advises us to read *How the Hippies Saved Physics*

http://www.starpod.us/2012/06/29/stealing-warp-drive-from-the-gods-the-men-who-would-build-prometheus-starpod-us-interviews-jack-sarfatti/#.T-9ZoHBu3ce 

There may be a smaller subset of the already small set of genuinely Unidentified Flying Objects that actually are alien craft, but by and large they behave rather more like gigantic poltergeist phenomena--or maybe the playful ghosts of great sulphur bottom whales or even brontosauri (no reason why astral cetaceans & dinosaurs couldn't fly, is there?)...

I'm just sayin'

R.  

 

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