I wonder…

Where they are going with THIS study…

Sixty-six percent of Veteran firearm owners stored at least one firearm unlocked, and 46.7 percent stored at least one loaded.

Storing a firearm loaded and unlocked was more common among Veteran firearm owners who:

  • Disagreed that firearms should be stored unloaded and locked when not in use
  • Agreed that firearms are not useful for personal protection if the owner has to take time to load or unlock them
  • Agreed that having a firearm in the home makes the household safer

Full article, HERE at Science Daily.

Honestly, I think this number is probably low…

The article goes on to prattle about Veterans Health Administration (VHA) initiatives to stop suicide and claim this is the first ‘comprehensive’ study…

But the total numbers are less that 4000 interviewed, with only a little over 550 veterans interviewed. That, to me, is NOT a comprehensive dataset. There are roughly 20.4 MILLION veterans in the USA, so to have a statistically significant study, one would need to systematically sample over 200,000 people!

Sigh… But they will run with this data, and I’m betting we (VA users) will start seeing more and more intrusive questions concerning gun ownership and storage in the home.

Humor me here…

Now we all know that PETA has forced Barnums’ Crackers to change their box to this…

It represents their ‘utopia’ that doesn’t even come close to reality…

Now ‘my’ proposal would be a little more realistic, and I’d credit it to PETA too…

h/t Tom and Jeff for that one

And apparently somebody designed a ‘new’ vending machine for the south side of Chiraq… Takes a dollar coin! 🙂

Of course they need to expand their selections a little bit… 😀

h/t JP

 

 

 

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Interesting, and true…

I’m old enough to remember the riots and the media coverage, both in the papers and on the three channels we got… And it went on for days…

Fifty years ago tonight, a great American political party was murdered by its own children and closest friends.

The party in question was the Democratic party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and JFK, which perished during the riots in Grant Park, Chicago, on the night of Aug. 28, 1968, in the midst of the party’s national convention.

Full article, HERE on the National Review.

This was, if I remember correctly, also the point at which the media really changed their coverage of not only Vietnam, but also the draft dodgers, protesters, and others who were anti-American.

They were lauded, law enforcement was vilified, and Bezerkley really became the forefront of the ‘protest’ generation when Haight Ashbury collapsed in early 1968 due to overcrowding. Remember, this was only a year or so after the hippies started in Haight Ashbury, and the psychedelic rock music was receiving more and more commercial radio airplay.

The Monterey Pop Festival in June further cemented the status of psychedelic music as a part of mainstream culture and elevated local Haight bands such as the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Jefferson Airplane to national stardom. A July 7, 1967, Time magazine cover story on “The Hippies: Philosophy of a Subculture,” and other major media interest in the hippie subculture exposed the Haight-Ashbury district to enormous national attention and popularized the counterculture movement across the country and around the world.

And here we are today… Sigh…

This is interesting…

Apparently some of the Brit science is settled crowd are getting up on their high horses… Again…

We are no longer willing to lend our credibility to debates over whether or not climate change is real. It is real. We need to act now or the consequences will be catastrophic. In the interests of “balance”, the media often feels the need to include those who outright deny the reality of human-triggered climate change.

Full article, HERE at the Guardian.

For a good basic primer on the whole climate change hoorah, go to Borepatch’s Blog, HERE. He does an excellent job of laying out the basics in understandable language, with graphs!

One thing I do find concerning, is that the RSS data is now apparently being ‘adjusted’ too… Since this is supposedly the ‘raw’ data, that’s a serious issue, as there is apparently a move to ‘make’ the data align more closely with the models. It’s NOT supposed to work that way. Control/raw data is just that. It’s NOT supposed to be ‘pre-adjusted’ to get the numbers one wants…

Sigh…

Songbird is gone…

John McCain, AKA Songbird, is now having to answer to a higher power tonight. And this will be one time he can’t lie his way out of what he’s done.

I’m sure the media will lionize him, elevating him almost like another Kennedy, all the while sweeping his real ‘accomplishments’ under the carpet as fast and hard as they can.

But the ‘net has a long memory…

His marriage into the Hensley family, and access to the money…

The Keating scandal- Anybody remember that one? No? Didn’t think so… Here are a couple of refreshers, HERE and HERE.

We will never know the real answer to what he did as a POW, unless they finally find the missing tapes of his broadcasts. The part I have a problem with was his insistence that there were no live POWs left behind after the 1973 release of the Hanoi POWs.  How could he possibly have known that? He was supposedly in the Hanoi Hilton, unless ‘somebody’ told him. There are a number of reports that a number of prisoners were left behind, in other locations. Some were alleged to be seen by witnesses, for more than a decade, into the early 80s. His constant fight to not allow access to the MIA/POW records and debriefs held by the Pentagon has never made any sense, unless there is something in ‘his’ debrief that he doesn’t want to get out, HERE.

Maybe it’s a good thing he spent time in Arizona, it’ll make him a little more accustomed to the heat where he’s gonna be for eternity.

Yep, already lauding him, especially for standing up to Trump, but nothing about his past actions, per se. HERE from the NY Post.

Chief Emory is dead…

A Pearl Harbor survivor who pushed to identify buried unknown remains from the 1941 attack died Monday at age 97.

Ray Emory lived through the early morning Japanese aerial bombing but never forgot those who didn’t. He spent the past few decades doggedly pushing for those unknown buried remains to be dug up, identified and returned to their families.

Full article, HERE at Military.com

He was instrumental in pushing for the identification of the unknowns buried after Pearl Harbor, and could be considered one of the fathers of the Defense POW/MIA Accountability Agency, which now works to identify and return home those from WWII through Vietnam who died on the battlefield.

RIP Chief, know that others have stepped up and will continue your legacy!

TBT…

Occasionally one gets to see ‘weird’ things from the old P-3…

And you wanted to see THESE from a distance… Sadly, the ones we took were black and white, but a shipmate sent me this one from another event he was on as reminder…

And then we occasionally got to go play up north… 90 North…

Sigh…

Now I’m an old fart and paying for all those ‘fun’ times. But I wouldn’t change it for the world…

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Agenda, agenda, agenda…

Is this really the most important thing right now???

This is what I grew up with…

But PETA pushed for Nabisco to change the box graphic to teach children animal diversity. Nabisco removed the ‘offensive’ bars on the animal in cages graphics.

The did- But that wasn’t good enough for PETA even after they did away with the bars.

They wanted to see the animals free roaming without cages, coexisting, all living in harmony, just like in the wild, right? Lions and tigers living together, walking side by side with giraffes and zebras and no bloodshed? Teach the children?

The only thing ‘this’ will teach the children is how stupid PETA is. Predator and prey DO NOT walk side by side… Sigh…

The whole article is HERE, and honestly I’m surprised they didn’t force Nabisco to do away with the crackers designs and make them non-offensive circles or something else…

In other agendas, apparently the Hugos were handed out this weekend, to all females in every category. Apparently one man was listed, second fiddle of course, only because he’s partnered with his wife in whatever category it was. I haven’t even bothered to look. I AM waiting for the Dragon Awards, and I DID vote there, since that truly is a fan generated award!

Book Promos…

First up this week is indie author Laura Montgomery. This is the first book in this trilogy.

As always, click the cover to go to it on Amazon.

The blurb-

Gilead Tan and Andrea Fielding survived their stint in the military, got married, signed up to emigrate to a terraformed colony world, and went into cold sleep for the journey from Earth. While they slept, the starship went through the wrong fold in space and settled for a different world, a wild world. Three centuries after the founding of a colony on the uncharted planet, Gilead awakens to find humanity slipped back to medieval tech and a feudal structure. Worse, the king who wants Gilead awake won’t let Gilead awaken his wife.

Next is David Tatum

The Blurb-

The Inari’s Children Series:
Once magic was plentiful and the world was dominated by a singular empire whose name has long been lost to history. In its time, the great wizard Inari developed his greatest creation: The kitsune. His enemies were quick to copy him, and soon the world was populated with many different types of this remarkable creature. Two thousand years later and these different breeds of kitsune are fighting amongst themselves, and the rest of the human world joins them.

Book I: The Kitsune Stratagem
To avoid being used as a political pawn against her father, a young kitsune vixen named Kieras must leave her homeland. She soon gets caught up in the fortunes of Mathis, a vagabond hunter from Ekholm, a once sleepy little town on the verge of becoming a small city. To find a way to return home, Kieras must first help Mathis save Ekholm from threats both inside and out.

Next up is Cyn Bagley this is the second book in her series

The blurb-

Owen Wulfe has a vendetta and he needs Mari Cantor to lead him to the man who kidnapped his nephew and killed his sister and her husband. Mari wants nothing to do with Owen or his revenge. In the meantime EJ is sent on a diplomatic mission to the werecat clowder as the Alpha’s representative. Of course nothing goes right.

Instead of cowboys, this Western world is filled with shapeshifters, trying to live in a world of humans.

And last, but not least, Tom Rogneby’s short story collection.

The blurb-

A princess in a high tower
A holy promise fulfilled
A hidden gift uncovered
A nation caught by surprise
These and other stories are waiting in “Escort Duty.”
Strap on your sword, march to the sound of the guns, and enjoy these tales!

Disclaimer, I was an alpha reader on this one, and really enjoyed the depth and breadth of stories, I think you will too!

Also, I’d like to thank those who’ve bought/read TGM- Generations. I truly appreciate your plunking down your hard earned money, and I also appreciate those who’ve left reviews!

As indie authors, we live and die by reviews. I always want honest reviews, simply because I know not everyone will like everything. Although I don’t particularly like one star reviews, I can learn from each review. And Amazon helps to push the book(s) once you get over 50 and 100 reviews. Each of those steps gives us, as authors, a wider push into the bigger ‘pond’ if you will, that is Amazon’s Kindle ocean. With something over 8 million books available, and an estimated 300 million users of Amazon, there MUST be a few folks out there that will like what I wrote! 🙂

Re Larry’s official alphabetical list of authors, HERE, I’m probably around an L or M… But at least I’m not a Z! LOL