Teh Funnies…

Willie’s playing my song again…

So a little humor for your Friday…

The Ocean . . . All You Need To Know

Children Writing About the Ocean. The next time you take an oceanography course, you will be totally prepared.

1) – This is a picture of an octopus. It has eight testicles. (Kelly, age 6)

2) – Oysters’ balls are called pearls. (Jerry, age 6)

3) – If you are surrounded by ocean, you are an island. If you don’t have ocean all round you, you are incontinent. (Mike, age 7)

4) – Sharks are ugly and mean, and have big teeth, just like Emily Richardson . She’s not my friend any more. (Kylie, age 6)

5) – A dolphin breaths through an asshole on the top of its head. (Billy, age 8)

6) – When ships had sails, they used to use the trade winds to cross the ocean. Sometimes when the wind didn’t blow the sailors would whistle to make the wind come. My brother said they would have been better off eating beans. (William, age 7)

7) – I’m not going to write about the ocean. My baby brother is always crying, my Dad keeps yelling at my Mom, and my big sister has just got pregnant, so I can’t think what to write. (Amy, age 6)

8) – Some fish are dangerous. Jellyfish can sting. Electric eels can give you a shock. They have to live in caves under the sea where I think they have to plug themselves in to chargers. (Christopher, age 7)

9) – When you go swimming in the ocean, it is very cold, and it makes my willy small. (Kevin, age 6)

10) – The ocean is made up of water and fish. Why the fish don’t drown I don’t know. (Bobby, age 6)

11) – My dad was a sailor on the ocean. He knows all about the ocean. What he doesn’t know is why he quit being a sailor and married my mom. (James, age 7)

The Dragon strikes again…

Dragon Leatherworks will be opening a brick and mortar store.

Yes, we’re growing again! We’ve outgrown our present location, so the decision was made to go full-on brick-and-mortar!

A storefront has been selected here in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and we’ve begun sprucing up the new location. It will have 500 square feet dedicated strictly to retail space, which will showcase our holsters and gunbelts. We’ll also be adding a fashion concealed carry option for our female shooters, beginning with a hand-laced hip bag designed to carry pistols of the Makarov design or smaller, with a larger full-size gunpurse to follow right after the new Year.

Dennis is fighting the usual battles with ATF et al to get the licensing changed over, but as soon as he does the new store will be at:

Dragon Leatherworks
1956-B Oak Ridge Turnpike
Oak Ridge, TN.   37830

Dennis can do just about anything you want holster wise, and he’s been a long time contributor to all of our causes.  And he does DAMN GOOD WORK!!!

Oh yeah, and he’s also expanding into purses and other things!

Out of the past…

Sheriff Taylor got it…

Now why can’t the idjits in charge (who are supposedly WELL educated) get it???

Sigh…

h/t Craig

Interesting, this one didn’t post on time either… Seems like a ‘trend’ if it’s even slightly a negative post about the administration, it’s not coming up on time… Go figure… Morning unknown NSA analyst…

When Mommy goes to prison…

It appears Sesame Street has a new initiative…

It’s brought to you by the letter P — for prison.

PBS’s “Sesame Street” is moving from ABCs and counting numbers to offering its young viewers a bigger lesson in life: how to cope when Mommy or Daddy lands behind bars.

Called “Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration,” the program is distributing “tool kits’’ to schools, community centers and even jails in 10 states — including New York — starting today to help kids ages 3 to 8, organizers said.

Full article HERE.

Unfrikkinbelievable… One wonders how much money ‘this’ is going to take…

What in the hell is going on with America???

h/t Wai

 

What next???

From Mrs. C via email…

HAYWARD — An elementary school will hold a toy gun exchange Saturday, offering students a book and a chance to win a bicycle if they turn in their play weapons.

Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill maintains that children who play with toy guns may not take real guns seriously.

“Playing with toys guns, saying ‘I’m going to shoot you,’ desensitizes them, so as they get older, it’s easier for them to use a real gun,” Hill said.

At Saturday’s event, called Strobridge Elementary Safety Day, a Hayward police officer will demonstrate bicycle and gun safety, and the Alameda County Fire Department is sending a rig and crew to talk about fire safety.

Fingerprinting and photographing of children will be offered, with the information put on CDs for parents to use, if needed, in a missing child case. All youngsters attending will be given a ticket to exchange for a book, Hill said.

Every child who brings a toy gun will get a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles, Hill said.

Read the whole thing HERE.

Now I have to say I agree with her comment, “What kid in their right mind would trade a toy gun for a book?”

None that “I” know of…

But you have to remember this is a suburb of San Francisco, so ‘that’ does play into this whole stupidity…

In other news, females of ALL ages will now have access to the morning after pill…

The Obama administration announced Monday it will end age restrictions on emergency contraception, allowing girls and women of all ages to purchase the morning-after pill without a prescription. 

The Department of Justice notified U.S. District Judge Edward Korman it will submit a plan for compliance with his recent ruling that allowed unrestricted sales of Plan B One-Step. If he approves it, the department will drop its appeal of his April ruling.

According to the department’s letter to the judge, the Food and Drug Administration has told the maker of the pills to submit a new drug application with proposed labeling that would permit it to be sold “without a prescription and without age or point-of-sale prescriptions.” 

Read it HERE.

So, Sudafed needs a life history and a two hour pile of BS forms, IDs, etc…  But the morning after pill will now be on the aisle next to the aspirin???

And parents have NO say in whether or not Snowflake buys it, no matter HOW old she is???

Sounds like one more nail in the coffin of the family…

Sigh…

Contrasts…

An Iver Johnson ad,  date unknown, but probably early 1900’s

Iver Johnson AD

A Colt ad from 1919, when you could order a pistol through the mail…

colt pistol ad 1919

Today???
From Yahoo on the Connecticut firearms bill-

The bill also clarifies the status of .22-caliber rimfire rifles, defining them as assault weapons when fitted with a detachable magazine and more than one of several features including a folding or telescoping stock, bayonet mount or flash suppressor. With passage of Monday’s revisions, the firearm so constructed will no longer be available for sale in Connecticut, but consumers who purchased it since April 4 will be allowed to register and keep it.

Read it and weep HERE.

Note that just like New York, they had to go back and ‘clarify’ portions of the bill…

Why are we in this handbasket, and WHEREINHELL are we going???

Sigh…

Military told NOT to read/download leak data…

Here’s the web page…

AirForceNotice1

Now before everybody goes ballistic, this is actually correct for a COUPLE of reasons.

One, NIPR is a totally unclassified system, e.g NO classified of any kind allowed.  If you’ve looked at the Guardian article, the documents have a TS classification.  If Airman Shmukatelli were to go look at that page and pull up that document to look at it, he is effectively (even though the document is public on an unclassified server) committing a security violation.

Second,  if Airman Shmukatelli were to go look at that page and pull up that document to look at it and SAVE it to his drive, he is effectively (even though the document is public on an unclassified server) committing a more severe security violation, and if he sent it via NIPR to anyone, that ramps up to yet again ANOTHER level of security violation.

It does not matter whether the document is public or not, it is the classification level on the document that is viable and valid since that document has never been declassified by higher authority.

Actually, they are doing their folks a favor by preventing them from committing, however unwittingly, a security violation they would “legally” have to be prosecuted for.  Same as with the Manning/Wikileaks stuff…

Video

I’d try it…

This one falls into the ZOMG category!!!

The amazing thing is that the South African Legends Golf and Safari Resort’s famous lineup of hole designers — which includes Padraig Harrington, Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose, and Vijay Singh, to name a few — is not how the course markets itself.

So what is this South African golfer’s paradise known for?

Oh not much, only the longest (and highest) par 3 in the world.

The tee is set 1,410 feet above the green on Hanglip Mountain. From the base of the mountain to the back of the green is 1,312 feet. In golf terms, that’s a 437-yard par-3, with a vertical drop of 470 yards.

Without getting all geeked out, as this insane shot relates to the laws of physics and how the ball will travel on quite an extreme arc, it plays about 260-270 yards due to the vertical drop.

Called the Extreme 19th, this hole is the centerpiece of the course (you don’t say?). But playing it is not part of a regulation round of golf there. Here’s the price breakdown:

Round of 18 including lunch: $70 per player
Extreme 19th per foursome: $1,060

That extreme price does come with a few perks. Players get a helicopter ride to the tee and back down after hitting, a souvenir cap and glove, and a DVD of their play on the hole.

The coolest part: Each player is given six balls with tracking devices, since losing sight of a ball hit from 1,410 feet up is pretty likely.

There’s a prize worth over $1 million for any player that makes a hole in one. The money has yet to be claimed. 

Oh HELL yes, throw me in that briar patch!!!  Ummm, I wonder if Peter still has friends in that area???

Bloggers being regulated…

It’s happening now in Singapore, but how long before it comes here???

From France 24 website-

The group had also organised an “Internet blackout” on Thursday, where over 130 bloggers in the city-state replaced their homepages with black screens featuring the words “#FreeMyInternet”.

Under the rules, websites with at least 50,000 unique visitors from Singapore every month that publish at least one local news article per week over a period of two months must obtain an annual licence.

Websites granted a licence will have to remove “prohibited content” such as articles that undermine “racial or religious harmony” within 24 hours of being notified by Singapore’s media regulator, the Media Development Authority (MDA).

Read the whole thing HERE.

Knowing Singapore and how strict their laws are, I can believe they will try this. Their level of success?  I’m not sure…  I “think” this is based on the Chinese ‘model’ of restrictions and some things going on in the Middle East. Singapore is the first ‘free’ country to try this; BUT, if the bloggers kow tow to the government, I can see this spreading.

Could it come here???  I don’t think so without some MAJOR controls on the Net, but with this administration, who ‘effing knows…

Is THIS the next requirement???

 

generic NSA statementWhat say you???

Interestingly, this DID NOT post on time… Strange…

And feel free to steal this if you so desire…