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A while back I blogged about zombie ants, and they’re back in the news today.  Check out some of these zombie ant FACTS.

New gruesome details have emerged explaining how a parasitic fungus manipulates an unfortunate ant, filling its head with fungal cells and changing its muscles so the ant can grab a leaf in a death grip just when and where the fungus wants it.

The bizarre sequence that leads up to the ant’s death is completely out of step with its normal behavior and appears to be a way for the fungus to get itself to the perfect spot to spread its spores, according to the researchers.

Take a look at some of these photos, specifically #3 whose description is “In a scene worthy of a horror movie, one zombie ant bites the neck of another, already dead, zombie ant.”

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Currently, there is a bill in discussion in Florida’s house pertaining to the open carry of firearms.  Unsurprisingly, this bill has caused a great deal of debate.  The NRA and pro-gun committees have been trying to sell the necessity of the bill “to prevent the arrest of CWP holders who may inadvertently, or accidentally, expose their firearms”.  This is all fine and good, but I think this “reason” has missed the point.

Essentially what we have here is a “solution” to a problem by passing more legislation instead of fixing the original law.  I’m certainly not pro gun legislation, those of you who know me know that I am an avid gun owner, competitive shooter, and overall fan of firearms.  But the open carry legislation passed as a “fix” for the concealed carry law is a misdirection.

Also, it seems to me that some scenarios where an open carrying citizen might inadvertently cause an escalation.  Before the hate mail starts, let me play out a scenario for you.

You are in a gas station, looking through the candy bar isle when an shotgun carrying bad guy comes through the front door and demands the clerk turn over the register’s cash.  Normally you’d be carrying concealed, but since this law passed, you figure “what the hell” and suit up with a waistband holster.  Now the robber turns his attention to you, as he never even noticed you back there on his way in, and you have a gun on your hip.  Had you been carrying concealed, you might have decided to do nothing to stop the robbery, assuming the bad guy would take his money and run.  But now we have a good old-fashioned wild-west showdown taking place, as the criminal is convinced you’ll draw the minute you get the chance.

This is how people get shot.

I’m not saying the law will cause people to end up in a Hollywood style shootout, but it’s certainly worth entertaining the thought.  I do believe that an armed society is a polite society, and I think firearms have a lasting place in America, as this was a major factor in our history.  I’m only suggesting that the open carry / cowboy lifestyle might be a bit outdated.

Maybe we should spend less effort pleasing the NRA, by passing more laws and more time fixing the laws that are already broken.  Say, by adding a clause to the concealed law that allows for accidental display of the hidden firearm.

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Unemployment is still hovering at over 9% (actually more like 11%, but we don’t count under-employed or people who have just plain given up).  We are currently waging 3 wars… At the same time.  As if this wasn’t enough, we’re still buried in the middle of the worst recession in American history, home prices continue to plummet, and a class war is looming as the rich continue to tax the middle class into poverty.  Oh yeah, and there’s a world class nuclear disaster hanging on by a thread in Japan… Almost forgot that one.

But you fucktards are wrapped around some “noble” rich asshat in the UK getting married to some other rich asshat, and a reality TV show douchebag who is running for president as some kind of bullshit publicity stunt.

So, what’s on the front page of the news this morning?  Obama releases birth form, decries ‘silliness’.

Are you fucking kidding me?

GET a GRIP, America!

The most depressing part is, what can we do?  Congress is completely out of control, the President and his cabinet seem to have their own agenda which doesn’t include protecting or providing for any constituent who doesn’t own a corporation, and our government has decided to war us into permanent poverty.  This is really beginning to sound a LOT like the Bush administration.

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Normally I don’t post these types of thoughts, but I had a conversation with an acquaintance a few weeks ago, and the thought of it has been compelling me to get this out there.

If I could only give you one tip on how to lead a better life, I would give you this:

Go suck at something.

At first it sounds like I’m putting you off, but don’t be deceived by the tone.  The basic principle here is that if you go and try something you’ve never tried before, you won’t be any good at it;  but that is the point.

There are literally hundreds of things you can try with very little cost or preceding effort (if any at all):

Do you have a car and a driver’s license?  You can enter an autocross race!  You probably won’t win, but what do you care?

Do you own a pistol?  Do some searching for your local IDPA and go competition-shooting.  It’s completely safe, and a hell of a good time!  And, seriously… it’s like $20!  If you don’t own a gun that’s fine!  Call your local shooting range and RENT one for an hour.

Neither of the above mentioned require any training, classes, or special equipment.  Just get in the car, and go!

Buy a camera, and learn to use it.  There are hundreds of weekend photo courses you can take for as little as $25.

Need more horsepower than a camera can offer?  Go get your motorcycle license.  You may never use it, but so what?  You can take the basic rider course for less than $150 in most places.  They supply the motorcycle, the helmet and the instructors!

Want to impress the ladies (or men I’m not judging)?  Go pick up a cheap guitar and watch some YouTube videos.  You can learn basic chords and songs without ever leaving your house.  You’ll sound like shit and have a blast doing it!

Looking for more of a challenge?  Try an auto or motorcycle track day at your local race track, there are hundreds (maybe thousands) in the continental US.

Call your local skydiving school and jump out of a plane in just 5 steps!  (OK, you probably don’t want to suck at this one but you get the point.)

I’m sure you’ve seen this famous quote (or some variation of it):

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO!”
- Bill McKenna

Outside of it’s obvious intent to convey a feeling of wildness and reckless abandon, I think there is another message here.  To me, there is more emphasis on the “get out there and do something” subtext than on its “burn the candle at both ends” connotation.

So get off your ass, get out there and go suck at something!

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So, I decided to throw out everything in my closet and re-style myself for 2011.

Time to get on the net and find some relevant styled clothing!  And that’s when everything went down the shitter.

A quick Google search for Men’s style returns sites like GQ Magazine, Men’s Health: Style, Esquire, and a site called Luxist (who is responsible for the insanely fucking stupid man-purse you see on your left, on their FUCKING HOME PAGE).

And herein lies the problem.

So I changed my Google search to “Men’s style -douche”, which… Returns the same fucking results.  Here is what’s “hot” this year, according to GQ magazine and, yes… These are actually MEN:

No, seriously… Here’s the source

If anyone has a line on a site I can check out for style that won’t make me look like a flaming hipster douche-bag, please let me know.

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I was having a conversation with a co-worker the other day, and it inspired me to post some thoughts on the subject of firearm ownership in America.

Outside of sport, meaning competitive shooting or hunting, there is really only one reason to own a firearm and that is defense.  Weather home defense or self-defense (outside the home), guns are specifically designed to shoot stuff.

Those of you who know me know that I do a fair amount of competitive shooting, but that isn’t what got me interested in guns to begin with, it’s just where I ended up while looking for some light tactical training.

Back to that conversation;  The most interesting part of the chat was (I’m paraphrasing here, my memory is questionable at best) this quote:

“When America was young, the only reason to own a gun outside of hunting was as a balance against a tyrannical government.  At that time, this argument made sense, but now the government has tanks.  I don’t have a tank.”

This is an excellent point.  In my mind there are only two real scenarios (not counting of course, your standard home invasion, or zombie apocalypse) where defending yourself at home would be a reality.

Scenario 1:  You are protecting, probably with others in some militia-style setting, yourself and your property against an invasion of a foreign (or domestic) tyrannical government/armed forces.  Success in this scenario is the least likely of the two for the reason stated above.  Even with solid professional training, your ability to overcome those forces (much less survive) is infinitely minimal at best.  The good news is, this scenario is much less likely to occur than the next.

Scenario 2:  The civility of American society has broken down and you are protecting yourself and your property from militant civilians attempting to take from you what you have.  This scenario is much more likely.  We have already seen this manifested in small scale, think about the New Orleans flooding and the insanity that followed there.  Certainly, your defense against the “common man” has a much higher rate of success (in comparison to scenario 1) in my opinion.

An attempt by civilians to thwart an invasion by any military force would certainly be met with complete defeat, and even more certainly by death to countless defenders.  This fact would not keep me from putting up a fight, but taking a step back to recognize this reality helps us understand firearm ownership logically.  That is to say: we are not all back-woods militants hell-bent on conspiracy theory and anti-government propaganda.

My point here is not to play devil’s advocate to any American militia (which is no-doubt growing by the minute), but perhaps to offer some perspective to those who lobby for “gun control” legislation.

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Found this lurking around on the web, it’s a fantastic read!

“The Gun Is Civilization”
by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation… and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)

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“Child molestation”, “slaying of two police officers”, “woman was found dead”, “couple found slain”.
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Am I listing nightmarish conditions?  Maybe remembering something I saw on the news in some war-torn country last night?  No, I’m reading the headlines from my neighborhood’s news paper.  And those are just from today’s news.

Certainly seemed like a nice enough neighborhood when I moved here.  But, like just about every other neighborhood in Florida, the seams are beginning to burst.  A reasonably low cost of living, combined with the unusual mixing of high-cost and low-cost housing housing in close proximity seems to have attracted the best and worst of society.

Being originally from the north, I noticed the strangeness of a $350,000 home next door to rent controlled apartments quickly.  But I don’t think the reality of the implications really set in until I bought a house.

Last week, in an affluent neighborhood just down the street from mine, a 22 year old girl was shot in her garage over some money she owed to her drug dealer.  The house she was living in (presumably with her parents) is both larger and newer than mine.  There is a trailer park not one mile from my front door where 9 arrests have been made in the last 6 months.  NINE arrests!

Maybe it’s time to think about renting again..  You know, in another state, or possibly a nice war-torn country.

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Here’s an interesting twist you’re not likely to see again any time soon:

The news is atwitter with Sarah Palin’s recent video in which, as I’m sure you already know, she uses the phrase “blood libel” which has everyone and their mother jumping up and down about antisemitism and racism (or maybe she’s an aspiring candidate for Miss America).

Firstly, let’s get into Palin’s head.  OK, now that we’re back from that 2 second examination we can only come to one conclusion.  Palin is an idiot,  at best.  To even begin to believe that her little video speech was anything but reading a poorly prepared statement would be ridiculous.  Racist?  Maybe.  Antisemitic?  Perhaps.  But intelligent mastermind behind a conspiracy to have a congresswoman murdered?  Um, no.

The attempted murder of  Gabrielle Giffords was tragic, and carried out by a pretty “unusual” guy with a history of mental illness.  It is safe to say, I think, that an intended targeting for assassination by the Republican party, the Tea Party, or Palin herself is unfounded, and just plain stupid.

Far be it for me to defend a politician, especially this one, but credit is only due where it is deserved and she deserves none of it.

Seriously guys, let’s center on the important issues and stop fluffing the news with bullshit.

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Far be it for me to ruin another holiday for you all (yeah right) but just for the sake of posterity, I thought I’d share the story of Thanksgiving.  Not the “native Americans and pilgrims sitting down to dinner version” though.  For a change, this year, lets try the truth.

Here’s what really happened:

“… ‘Thanksgiving’ did not begin as a great loving relationship between the pilgrims and the Wampanoag, Pequot and Narragansett people.  In fact, in October of 1621 when the ‘pilgrim’ survivors of their first winter in Turtle Island sat down to share the first unofficial ‘Thanksgiving’ meal, the Indians who were there were not even invited!  There was no turkey, squash, cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie.  A few days before this alleged feast took place, a company of ‘pilgrims’ led by Miles Standish actively sought the head of a local Indian leader, and an 11 foot high wall was erected around the entire Plymouth settlement for the very purpose of keeping Indians out!  Officially, the holiday we know as ‘Thanksgiving’ actually came into existence in the year 1637. Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed this first official day of Thanksgiving and feasting to celebrate the return of the colony’s men who had arrived safely from what is now Mystic, Connecticut.  They had gone there to participate in the massacre of over 700 Pequot men, women and children, and Mr. Winthrop decided to dedicate an official day of thanksgiving complete with a feast to ‘give thanks’ for their great ‘victory’…”
- source

Here’s another lovely tale:

“In 1637 near present day  Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside.  Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared “A Day Of Thanksgiving” because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.

Cheered by their “victory”, the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered.  Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.

Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now  Stamford, Connecticut, the churches announced a second day of “thanksgiving” to celebrate victory over the heathen savages.  During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls.  Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts — where it remained on display for 24 years.”
- source

I don’t mean to ruin your family’s dinner but maybe, just for a minute, take a moment out and remember what organized religion and fear have done to the people who lived before us.

Happy Thanksgiving…  Doesn’t have the same “ring” to it now, does it?

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