Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Fox snooze

...makes a big deal out of some yahoo who claims to be the inventor of "printed guns". Guy is a blowhard, and it's unlikely he invented the technology of 3-D printers, or figured out the data set to run the printer to make an AR-15 lower or one of his so-called "Liberator" (stolen name) "Wikiguns".

He did appear on Fox snooze though, and insisted that they call him an "anarchist".

I can think of better names: plaigarizer, intellectual property thief come to mind. Raving ego-maniac is a given. Pro-gun spokesman is NOT given. This guy has less to do with defending the Second Amendment than my pet cat.

The opposition does seem to have suckered in on the "invisibility quotient" of the "Wikigun" pistol. Look, airport scanners can detect liquid, for Christ's sake, of course they will see the "Wikigun". Didn't we go over this whole basket of over-ripe tripe 25 or 30 years ago with the Glock pistols? Haven't the scanners improved markedly in the meanwhile?

Go away, Wiki-archist. you are boring us, and please don't think you've counted any coup by getting a few idiot Democrats to rise to your bait. I could put a fresh egg in the microwave, explode it (yes, they go boom if you throw the energy to them without breaking the egg-sac first) and say I had just discovered that chickens can lay explosive eggs, put a vid of it on You Tube and the idiotarians in the (D)onk Party would try to ban chickens.

No, the "printed gun" is not the end of Gun Control.

Remember that Gun Control is not about controlling guns, printed or not. it's about controlling PEOPLE with guns.

The Right Hand vs. the Left Hand

So, what useful thing is Rivrdog up to today?

I'm acquainting the Oregon Right Hand with the Oregon Left Hand, that's what.

I got a letter from the Oregon Dept of Justice, demanding to know all about my tax-exempt corporation, the Willboat Education Foundation.

So, I have retrieved the Incorporation packet I got from the Secretary of State Corporate Division, I've copied the entire package of 8 pages, added to it the IRS form granting my company it's tax-exempt status, and also added the completed three-page questionaire from the DOJ, and I will now mail it off to the State Department of Justice, after adding $1.32 postage to the large manilla envelope.

Grrrrr.! Now they wonder why we think Government sucks?

There's a reason to call them "Ass Press"

Two reasons, actually:

1. They are nincompoops. Utter crap flows from their newswire in a constant stream.
2. They have their lips pressed so far into the ass of the Socialists and their agenda item of Gun Control that they can't get the brown off.

Example, current, common, one each

The AssPress article asks the question, of whether Costas overstepped his position, in it's title. The answer is a simple "Yes". The article then goes on to issue a "well, no" answer and deliver a standard lefty excuse that Costas' departure from sports to delve into social engineering and Civil Rights Denial is okay because, well, because his ideas "will keep us safe". Except they won't keep us safe, that science is settled; denying the Bill of Rights is not only unpatriotic, it's treasonable; and just because, well, a sports blatherer is supposed to stick to sports. That's why they're there, isn't it?

When I want to see ass-kissing of the serious sort, I always turn to the Ass Press.

For Maroon of the Month, I give you Bob Costas. Wotta Maroon!

Sic Semper, etc

Having my lunch, and watching the quiz show "Millionaire". The first contestant is a black woman, who, the second she is introduced, alleges as how she is SUCH an Obama fan, then manages to drop Obama's name twice more in the next few seconds.

The game starts. Mizz Dizz don't know for Shizz, but she lucks into the first answer, jumps the next question, and is presented with the third, paraphrasing: Which of these Civil War women disguised herself as a farm wife to directly help the Union in an important aspect of the war". The choices were Harriet Beecher Stowe, two others and Harriet Tubman (Underground Railroad, remember?).

Mizz Dizz had to jump again, didn't know her own Black History. I knew the answer, never took Black History, just American History.

Sic Semper Obama-dummy. She withdrew from the game a couple of questions later.

Thursday Thuds, Labor Day Edition

Yep, it's early for Labor Day, but I might just be out for Dove season then...little buggers can make almost 60 mph, and they have only two bites of meat on them, but there are a LOT of them this year. Last week, there were dove and bobwhite quail EVERYWHERE we traveled East of the Cascades. I have the perfect gun for them, an antique L.C. Smith SxS 12, full & modified, and even though it is 97 years old, it has true-steel barrels, not Damascus, and will easily handle the low-base loads I hunt small birds with. In fact, it handles high-brass heavy duck loads just fine as well.

This weekend, I'm off to the High Cascades to attend a wedding. It will be the marriage of my best buddy's step-daughter. I've known her since 1985, and watched her grow up, from a precocious little girl who used to share her Mom's bathtub with my youngest (now Doctor) daughter, after playing outside and getting all muddy. Those were the days when my buddy was courting his second wife, a recent widow.

Heather grew up alongside my Erin, in the same day-care, in the same schools, and they went to the University of Oregon together to learn how to be liberals. Erin came out Cum Laude in Pre-Med and Microbiology, and Heather came out Cum Laude in Architecture. Both stayed on for a fifth year, Erin to get a business major added to her degree, and Heather to get her Diploma in Architecture, which takes graduate-level work.

Erin takes broken people and puts them back together in the ER, and Heather takes the dreams of companies for new office buildings, and breaks them, putting them back together with greater efficiency and better form to promote greater productivity and reduced cost.

Heather is an outdoor person, so she is getting hitched at a High Cascades resort which caters to sportsmen and women in all seasons. Photos may follow. I'm dragging Petey the Pop-Up camper up the mountain to serve as overflow lodging, and I have cooked a Chili for her Chili Contest:

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Without further ado, off to the Thuds.

Thud the First:

NBC News. They announced that they are covering exactly ONE hour of the GOP Convention on three nights. Said something about advertising revenue. OK, then they expect much better revenue from the (D)onk Convention a week later? They admitted that they will be covering much more of that Convention. Can you say In The Tank for Obama? I knew you could. This old fart thinks that if the press is going to shill for a political agenda, they ought to either admit it or quit it. Maybe, in the Second Republic, the next Constitution might actually figure out how to have a free AND non-partisan press.

Thud the Second: The Obama Administration, again. This time, they had their shill claim that Obama has "created more jobs than Ronald Reagan did", and is therefore, better for business. OK, if you buy that stinking pile of manure as the Truth, I have eleven, soon to be twelve bridges that I own here in Portland, and will make you a package deal, very cheap... Lessee here, what was the population of the USA back then as compared to now? What was the definition of a "created job" then as compared to now (hint: today, a "job" is today considered one half of one FTE (full time equivalent) for one month (15 days of work). In other words, seventy hours of work is a full-time job under Obama! This was the definition we were shown in the fine print back when the "shovel-ready" crap was being shoveled our way. I seem to recall, but can't find it, that the old Federal definition of a FTE was 2080 hours of work in a calendar year, and half-time (one half of one FTE) was 1040 hours. At least, that was what the last big Federal Jobs Program, CETA, was based on. Of course, all this begs the questions such as: government jobs vs. private jobs; creating jobs while stifling more than you create (with regulations), etc, etc, ad nauseam.

Thud the Third:

Mittens gets this one. The current best estimate of the GOP's electoral votes has the number at 191, with 79 more needed to guarantee a Romney win. So what does the Stupid Party do? They promise to fit a plank into their platform that calls for an abortion ban. Last time this issue was polled, I seem to recall that well over 60% of voters supported the Roe vs. Wade decision guaranteeing a woman's right to choose to abort or not. This issue is a loser for the GOP, because when push comes to shove in the voting booths in November, GOP voters are going to vote for Mittens whether that plank is there or not, but the tiny number of swing voters, those who are expected to swing this obviously-close election, might just see that plank as a sufficient negative not to pull the GOP lever. The GOP loads up it's gun, once again, and points it right at it's own foot. BTW, that THUD! you hear in November will be the Constitution taking it's last fall.

Thud Three-A, Bonus Thud: With the above turd stinking up it's pocket, it says here that Romney wants to get back to the Economy, stupid. Starting a hormone-fired fight within the GOP over Biblical issues isn't the way to do it, Mittens.

Thud the Fourth: Minor thud here, but wastes of resources gravels my butt. About 6 weeks ago, I sent Mittens a donation of $50. My spouse also sent him some $$$. Together, we get around 3-5 appeals per day in the mail. Mittens won't use window envelopes, so I have to shred the pre-printed forms in each appeal, the appeal letter AND the envelope from each one (my security program has as it's cornerstone that nothing with our names on it goes into the trash).

Thud the Fifth: Dregs of Sass-siety Edition: The porno industry is again facing a delay in filming caused by actors with STDs. This has happened before. In similar news, there is now a reported skin infection which can be gotten in tattoo parlors. Who could have guessed THAT? God may keep you healthy, but the Devil has a large bag of disease to take you, body AND soul. Forget that at your peril.

That will be all, readers. Enjoy your weekend. 

Rep. Akin slept in class...Dummy! Maroon!

When I took the class, it was Psych 201, Human Development. In that class, I learned that many things affect how the female conceives. Fear, general physical stress and something as simple as dehydration can radically affect rates of conception following a fertile insemination. I learned that the fertile woman can affect the chances of conception positively by conscious actions, and the reverse is probably partly true as well.

This means that there is likely a small bit of truth in what Rep. Todd Akin tried to allege: that a woman truly fearing for her life in a violent rape might have less of a chance for conception than one who might have had some acquiescence in the act. I say might, because it's likely never been studied, and to do so would put the researchers in the class of the Nazi physiologist/experimenter Josef Mengele.

I can only conclude that one of two cases is the truth here: Akin deliberately made up this idea and presented it as a tested, proven hypothesis, or he slept through those parts of the class he took.

I'll give him the benefit of my doubt: he slept through the class.

Time to retire, dummy, or choose to wear the Dunce cap forever more. 

First question: why 16-minute police response at Aurora?

Aurora, CO. Hmmm, I remember an event there, not too long ago, where the cops there arrested everyone in a major intersection, at least 40 people, in an effort to capture one bank robber.

Last night, the same police force, knowing that 3 theaters were premiering a blockbuster movie and that many people would be there, that police force took 16 minutes to respond to an active shooter scenario.

Let's add it up: the first incident revealed that those cops have leaders who don't know their constitution(s), which don't permit such mass arrests, and the current incident shows that same leadership to have leaned NOTHING about active-shooter events. Active shooters are stopped by IMMEDIATE armed response AND intervention with deadly force, and that is the ONLY way to stop them.

The solution here for Aurora is to fire the Chief, and all of the command officers on duty last night (and on June 6th, for that matter). The Sheriff needs to take over that Police Department, and insure that the municipal police officers there are properly trained, and thereby restore the confidence of the people of Aurora in their public safety.

If that Chief were to eat his gun this evening, I would say he FINALLY realized the gravity of his position of protecting the public safety, and his personal failure to do so. He won't do anything so honorable, though, so just fire the Chief's sorry ass and blacklist him so solidly so that he can't ever get another public safety job.

 

Masters of the obvious

The dept. of Doh! (a sub-department of  Dummies):

Men unhappy in their relationships look at porn more often...

In other earth-shaking news, the sun rose this morning.

"Pox Parties"....WTF?

Local evening nuze last night did a story on parents who fear vaccinations for their children, but somehow went their children to have immunity from common childhood diseases, so they're throwing "pox parties".

At the pox party, a child with active Chicken Pox is introduced to the kids who don't have it, and they play together such that there is sure to be body-fluid exchange (kiss or touch or share food). Another form of the Pox Party is for the parent of the kid with chicken pox to go out and buy a box of lollipops, open each one, and have the infected kid lick them all, then wrap them back up and send them (in this case, via the US Mail, which was a felony) to the parents who wanted their kids to get the chicken pox.

Here's the problem with this sort of "folk doctoring".

First of all, it's completely medically unsupervised. The child who is passing along the pox might have a secondary infection of a horrible kind, and pass that along, as well as the pox.

Second of all, the parents who expose their kids to the (unknown and probably undiagnosed) disease of another kid have no clue what the problems might be when their kid develops the disease. Their kid might be immuno-compromised, and the pox might kill their kid (or maybe the secondary infection will).

Third, the dosage of the agent is completely uncontrolled, and it's medically and morally wrong to give any drug to a patient if you can't control the drug or the dosage. To be fair, I should point out that the use of smoked Medical Marijuana also disregards this rule (to the utter stupidity of the medical Establishment, some of which supports it).

OK,'Dawg, what's YOUR remedy for parents who far vaccinations but want their kid naturally exposed to these kiddy-diseases?

I'm glad you asked, Mister Muse, but I would have told you anyway.

Suck it up, parents, control your irrational fears, and take that kid in for it's shots.

End of story.

Oh wait, not quite the end. The government ought to prosecute those who have violated actual LAWS by deliberately spreading this disease. Yes, send some of those "No vaccinations" mommies to the hoosegow. Especially the ones who work up the Pox Parties, but every parent involved in this cockamamie scheme gets a negative file on them in the Children's Services Division for phsically abusing their kid(s).

This isn't about politics. It's about having the smarts to properly raise kids, and not threaten their very existance with your idiot scheming. If you aren't smart enough to raise a kid without jeopardizing it's existance, you shouldn't be a parent. In THAT respect, the State DOES have an interest in your parenting, a moral interest as well as a legal interest.

Thursday Thuds - #12 - eaten by Typepad

..the entire post of 5 cleverly-crafted Thuds was just destroyed by the blog engine as I tried to post it to the blog. An hour and a half of work down the memory-hole, and I am not in the mood to re-create it.

The blog-engine's autosaving function was inoperative (it works in the background, so you don't know when it's running or not), and aside from the title above, nothing was saved. When I hit the "Save" button after I finished, I got a "505 - bad gateway" error message, and pushing the back button dumped me out of the entire Typepad-wordpress system. This used to happen more frequently, but it hasn't for several years, and I'd gotten out of the habit of saving each paragraph written, since the engine did it for me. Asswipes!

I may re-create some of the Thuds as individual posts in the next couple of days, but right now, I have a Business Plan to write to show my company banker at 3pm...