Education is bad for your health.

How hard would it be to do that here in the US? Not very.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 01:10 PM | Comments (74)
Post contains 42 words, total size 1 kb.

Posted by: CAC at 01:13 PM | Comments (51)
Post contains 971 words, total size 8 kb.

Dangit.. I forgot.

Ok, gun pic name this firearm.

.jpg" src="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/sten_pic1 (448x20 .jpg" width="448" height="208" border="0" />

No answer below the fold because you all know what it is. Despite their current assholery, Brits made some pretty awesome firearms back in the day.

There was a time when we made the M1A1 Thompson submachine gun. There was also a time when we needed to make a cheap easy to break down version that still fired .45 rounds but was less complex. The M3 grease gun was made for this purpose. And it delivered.

OH okay, below the fold. more...

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 10:30 AM | Comments (119)
Post contains 134 words, total size 1 kb.

We've come a long way, haven't we?

"What we're not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest—we're not going to do that," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer recently told CNN's Jake Tapper. "I believe the House Republicans are entirely responsible."

“One hundred percent?” Tapper asked incredulously.

“Yes,” Pfeiffer responded. “Absolutely.”

....

With suicide bombs going off daily around the world and funerals for the Washington Navy Yard victims still taking place, one might expect a modicum of rhetorical restraint from inside the White House. No such luck. For five years now, such metaphors have been the cudgel of choice for administration officials, along with their fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill and journalistic fellow travelers.

It all starts with President Obama, who routinely accuses Republicans trying to thwart his spending plans by putting “party ahead of country.” Last January, when talking—as Dan Pfeiffer was this week—about GOP insistence on trading spending cuts for agreeing to raise the nation’s debt limit—the president said he wouldn’t negotiate with those holding “a gun at the head of the American people.”

Joe Biden asserts Republicans are holding the country “hostage” with their spending stance, and in a 2011 meeting with congressional Democrats the vice president agreed with the suggestion that Tea Party groups were “terrorists.”

Among Democrats on Capitol Hill, it starts at the top, too.

...

On the House side, such talk has long been a staple for Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, whose default argument on fiscal or economic policy is to impugn conservatives’ patriotism. In 2008, she said it was “very unpatriotic” for Republicans to balk at a big bank bailout. Two years later, she lashed out at those resisting raising the debt ceiling: “Are these people not patriotic?”

Fen's Law: "Progressives" believe in exactly none of the things they claim to believe.

Posted by: Ace at 09:42 AM | Comments (171)
Post contains 338 words, total size 2 kb.

I'm not sure this is what they had in mind with the ADA and making things handicapped accessible.

Got Expectations? Lower them... more...

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 06:48 AM | Comments (154)
Post contains 37 words, total size 1 kb.

Football. Yay boobs!

Somebody left this one in the college post yesterday and I snagged it LIKE A BOSS!

Thank you somebody!

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 08:45 AM | Comments (257)
Post contains 28 words, total size 1 kb.

Minimalist edition.

Posted by: andy at 03:57 AM | Comments (195)
Post contains 10 words, total size 1 kb.

Either not a lot of news came out this past week or Valve and AMD sucked all the air out of the room. There's a lot of videos this week.

More below more...

Posted by: Gang of Gaming Morons! at 12:00 PM | Comments (66)
Post contains 1546 words, total size 14 kb.

Enjoy.

Via @unklefabio.

Posted by: Ace at 02:56 PM | Comments (199)
Post contains 15 words, total size 1 kb.

In local news...

I have lived in Florida my entire life and have accepted that, in Jacksonville, you can't get anywhere without crossing one bridge or another. This particular bridge, the Matthews, has been trouble since the beginning.

The bridge, until just a couple of years ago, had a very slick grating which, with the slightest rain, would send cars spinning out of control. More than one friend has totaled a car at the top of it. Worse, it is situated atop a shipyard, meaning that ships of all size pass underneath it on a regular basis. There are some, such as myself, who avoid it at all costs because we recollect, with frightening clarity, this particular nightmare...

On a rainy day in May, some 33 years ago, a ship lost her way and thirty-five men and women lost their lives.

I won't say much because the horror speaks for itself. It is indelibly etched into my mind and, although the bridge has been rebuilt with numerous safety mechanisms in place, the few times I have crossed it have left me white knuckled and at a loss for breath.

Here in Jax, it has been reported that the Matthews Bridge will now be monitored for future signs of collapse resulting from this recent impact. That will come as little comfort to the thousands of commuters who cross the bridge on a daily basis.

To those who remember the Sunshine Skyway disaster, a few extra miles in the commute will prove well worth it.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 04:01 PM | Comments (235)
Post contains 265 words, total size 2 kb.