It's been a long time since the last DOOM, my groovy babies. It's not due to any lack of DOOM to report, I assure you. It's just that my Kyrgyz prison cell did not have internet access. But now that I have escaped my unjust bondage, I am free once again to bring the DOOM train to your cities and towns, bearing a heavy load of bad economic news.

The AP catches a glimpse of the obvious: most people are out of work at one time or another in their lives. This falls under the heading "life is not fair". You show me somebody who never had to hustle to make the rent during a rough patch, and I'll show you a trust-fund baby who probably isn't worth a mousefart in a hurricane.
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Commence with the chatter and whatnot.

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Well, it's hit the 6 week mark and Test (people we're invading) is nowhere to be seen outside of an occasional token resistance welp. So sad more...

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Yes Virginia, There Is A Shotgun Claus

Armed Citizen Project is providing a free shotgun to residents of a small town outside of Houston.

“We give brand new pump action shotguns, 12 gauge or 20 gauge,” explains founder of the Armed Citizen Project Kyle Coplen. In fact, Coplen is offering free shotguns to every homeowner in the Oak Forest neighborhood in Northwest Houston. “The area we’re doing has about 400 homes in it. There was 107 home invasions last year,” explains Coplen.

Coplen came up with the Armed Citizen Project in January after he was disgusted by one of those break-ins, when World War Two veteran Elbert Wood had his house broken into.

In Case You Missed Andy's Interview With Andrew Branca

You can read it here. Be sure to check out the comments sections. Andrew was kind enough to engage the commenters and answer some of their questions. more...

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A Group Of Manly Men, Yukon, c. 1900

Update: I guess my eyes aren't what they used to be. The caption should probably read, "A Group Of Manly Men And One Extremely Pleased Woman"

Good morning morons and moronettes and welcome to the the award-winning AoSHQ's Sunday Morning Book Thread.

Never P* Off A Moronette - 2

OK, no more clowns and spiders and such. I want to make it up to the 'ettes for real this time. Besides, ace has been laying it on pretty thick with the Filner coverage this week, so I think we've all been creeped out enough. I mean, holy crap, can you believe this photo ace posted a few days ago? I feel sorry for that poor woman who had to smile for the camera while at the same time fighting off filthy Filner's groping hands. Ugh. Too bad she didn't break a few of his fingers while she had hold of them. That would have been freakin' awesome.

Anyway, so, if it were guys I had tweaked, I would try to get back in their good graces by posting stuff that guys liked, i.e. cheesecake pics. But we're talking about 'ettes here, and this being a real interleckshul book thread and all, I will post the equivalent of beefcake pics, i.e. manly books and manly authors.

We'll start out with a manly poet, namely, Gerald Manley Hopkins. Ha ha, see what I did there? I crack me up. No seriously, Hopkins is a wonderful poet. His "Pied Beauty" is one of my all-time favorites:

Glory be to God for dappled things —
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

I'm guessing the intended spacing of this poem will be destroyed by the Movable Type blogging software we have to use. My html-fu is weak, so I don't know how I can fix this. Look at this version here to see how it should be displayed.

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Here's another manly poet: Robert W. Service. What I like about this turn-of-the-20th-century poet is that he didn't work in some wimpy urban or academic environment, he went to British Columbia and the Yukon and spent much of his time trying not to freeze his butt off. How he got there:

Service moved to Canada at the age of 21 and traveled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with his Buffalo Bill outfit and dreams of becoming a cowboy. He drifted around western North America, "wandering from California to British Columbia," taking and quitting a series of jobs: "Starving in Mexico, residing in a California bordello, farming on Vancouver Island and pursuing unrequited love in Vancouver."

This wandering around working at whatever job you can reminds me of the early life of Louis L'Amour, another manly author whom I discussed in a book thread last autumn.

Service's first book is Songs of a Sourdough, available for free on Amazon, which contains his well-known poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee". The literary set of his day sniffed at his poetry, but he made a ton of money on book sales, so he could tell the critics to go pee up a rope. And that'a another reason why I like him.
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Well, she did and she didn't. The reporterette put those words to her, and B 29 repeated them as she was considering them, and gave a very ambiguous answer.

But ABCNews of course clipped the remark to make it seem like she was saying that herself. And they did more than that-- they also edited her other remarks.

2. She stands by the verdict. ABC’s online story about the interview ends with Maddy asking, “Did I go the right way? Did I go the wrong way?” But that’s not the whole quote. In the unedited video, she continues: “I know I went the right way, because by the law and the way it was followed is the way I went. But if I would have used my heart, I probably would have [gone for] a hung jury.” In another clip, she draws the same distinction: “I stand by the decision because of the law. If I stand by the decision because of my heart, he would have been guilty.” At one point, she says that “the evidence shows he’s guilty.” Roberts presses her: “He’s guilty of?” Maddy answers: “Killing Trayvon Martin. But as the law was read to me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can’t say he’s guilty.” That’s the distinction she’s trying to draw here: Killing is one thing. Murder or manslaughter is another.

Despite ABCNews' false depiction of her as doubting the verdict, she in fact thinks the case shouldn't even have come to trial.

3. She thinks the case should never have gone to trial. According to ABC News, when Roberts asked “whether the case should have gone to trial,” Maddy answered, "I don't think so. … I felt like this was a publicity stunt.”

A juror who thinks the case was so weak it was a "publicity stunt" that never should have come to trial -- and ABCNews reports this as "Juror says Zimmerman got away with murder."

Shameful.

As NBCNews did with "he looks black," ABCNews is deliberately throwing oil on a smoldering fire of racial grievance, partly for ratings, but largely for ideology.

And partly out of racial guilt-- because, like TNR, they are overwhelming white and seek to ameliorate this situation not by hiring minorities (which could cause some of them to lose their jobs) but by shameless racial pandering.

Oh, and an important bit of fact-checking from the delightful idiot Touré, who wants you to know that George Zimmerman is not Hispanic, because he's actually Peruvian-American, which raises the indescribably delicious questions, "Where does Touré believe Peru is located, and what language does he think is spoken there?"

I wish I could see the world through his dumb-stupid eyes. What a wondrously moronic sight that would be.

Peruvia

Hidden high in sparking snow of the Bavarian Alps, this vibrant and diverse country is famed for making goose sausage, torch-skiing at night, and baffling simpletons on MSNBC.

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What a shocker. DC is the most dishonest place in the United States according to a Coca-Cola experiment. They even stole the bike of the co-founder of Honest Tea during the experiment.

- Washington, D.C. was the least honest location in the experiment with 80 percent of participants paying for their beverage.
- Overall, women are more honest than men (95% vs. 91%)—the same percentages in both our 2012 and 2013 tests.
- Unlike last year where redheads were most honest, in 2013 blonds were the most honest (95%) and followed by brunettes (93%) and then redheads (92%).
- The longer your hair, the more honest you are. People with short hair were 91% honest, vs. people with medium and long hair (93% and 94% honest, respectively).
- People in groups (96% honest) tend to be more honest than people on their own (91% honest).

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I'm old enough to remember when sex was "dirty". We told "dirty" jokes, read "dirty" books, looked at "dirty" pictures and saw "dirty" movies. Or, at least others did. I just heard about it.

But now this, this is a real dirty video. In fact, it's positively slimy. You'll be constantly thinking "eeeew, what are they going to do next?" but you'll keep watching to find out.

It's actually quite remarkable. It shows the mating habits of two lower life forms, and I'm not talking about Bob Filner and Anthony Weiner. more...

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Last night's ONT linked a story about some guys who got a Prius to break bad and do all sorts of unexpected nasty stuff by farkling it up through the (mandated by the govt BTW) onboard diagnostic port.

Industry apologists will whine that they had to do it with a hardwired connection to a laptop to make the bad things happen, yada, yada, yada.

That's fine, but the OBD ports are typically tucked away out of sight in most cars, so slipping something like an Arduino processor in there tucked up under the dash to do the damage at some prescribed time when a specific set of conditions are met isn't out of the realm of possibility.

The real problem is that the OBD micro-controller firmware even allows an external device to initiate dangerous vehicle actions (like applying brakes, farkling steering, etc) when the vehicle in motion.

The lesson of the past 20 years regarding tech and hacking is this: if something is physically possible then someone with malice in their heart is gonna figure out how, and eventually do it.

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