A filthy rich Florida man decided that he wanted to throw a party and invited all of his buddies and neighbors. He also invited Leroy, the only Redneck in the neighborhood.
He held the party around the pool in the backyard of his mansion. Leroy was having a good time drinking, dancing, eating shrimp, oysters and BBQ and flirting with all the women.
At the height of the party, the host said, 'I have a 10 foot man-eating gator in my pool and I'll give a million dollars to anyone who has the nerve to jump in.'
The words were barely out of his mouth when there was a loud splash.
Everyone turned around and saw Leroy in the pool! Leroy was fighting the gator and kicking its ass! Leroy was jabbing it in the eyes with his thumbs, throwing punches, head butts and choke holds, biting the gator on the tail and flipping it through the air like some kind of Judo Instructor.
The water was churning and splashing everywhere. Both Leroy and the gator were screaming and raising hell. Finally Leroy strangled the gator and let it float to the top like a dime store goldfish. Leroy then slowly climbed out of the pool.
Everybody was just staring at him in disbelief.
Finally the host says, 'Well, Leroy, I reckon I owe you a million dollars.'
'No, that's okay. I don't want it,' said Leroy.
The rich man said, 'Man, I have to give you something. You won the bet. How about half a million bucks then?'
No thanks, I don't want it,' answered Leroy.
The host said, 'Come on, I insist on giving you something! That was amazing!
How about a new Porsche or a Rolex?
Again Leroy said no.
Confused, the rich man asked, 'Well, Leroy, then what do you want?'
Leroy said, 'I want you to show me the Sumbitch who shoved me in the pool!'
Friday, August 3, 2018
Thursday, August 2, 2018
BLASPHEMY ... MAYBE EVEN SACRILEGE.
by Bob Walsh
This is truly disgusting and horrible. It is a recipe for fake bacon made by dipping rice paper into a marinade. It takes a lot of time and makes a lot of mess and you have to be very careful cooking it or the paper base burns.
What's the point. Real bacon is fast and easy and actually tastes good.
This is truly disgusting and horrible. It is a recipe for fake bacon made by dipping rice paper into a marinade. It takes a lot of time and makes a lot of mess and you have to be very careful cooking it or the paper base burns.
What's the point. Real bacon is fast and easy and actually tastes good.
NYPD PILOTS PROBABLY REGRET SHOWING THEIR BOSS HE IS A PRICK
Five NYPD pilots flew a counter-surveillance plane in a giant penis-shaped route while feuding with their boss
Daily Mail
August 1, 2018
Five New York Police pilots who were feuding with their boss flew a $4 million counter-surveillance plane in a giant penis-shaped route in a bid to troll him.
The phallic flight pattern showed up on the NYPD's tracking system back in March when the pilots opted to protest against Aviation Unit head Inspector James Coan, the New York Post reports.
Supervisors monitoring the flight-tracking software immediately alerted Coan when they noticed the penis shape.
Two of the pilots were removed from the unit as a result and the others disciplined after a departmental hearing.
The pilots staged the protest after they questioned whether the federally-funded plane was safe to fly over water at low altitude.
They were concerned about crashing into the ocean if a propeller happened to blow.
The pilots said they were ordered to start carrying out the flights in July last year.
Coan reportedly increased the number of runs in March.
'Any of the people who complained about the mission — they got the s–t end of the stick,' a source told the Post.
'They had to do all these menial tasks outside their job description, including washing (Coan's) car.'
The NYPD agreed in May to stop the missions until meeting with union representatives.
The plane in question was the same one the NYPD used to shuttle Mayor Bill de Blasio to and from vacation in Canada last month.
Daily Mail
August 1, 2018
Five New York Police pilots who were feuding with their boss flew a $4 million counter-surveillance plane in a giant penis-shaped route in a bid to troll him.
The phallic flight pattern showed up on the NYPD's tracking system back in March when the pilots opted to protest against Aviation Unit head Inspector James Coan, the New York Post reports.
Supervisors monitoring the flight-tracking software immediately alerted Coan when they noticed the penis shape.
Two of the pilots were removed from the unit as a result and the others disciplined after a departmental hearing.
The pilots staged the protest after they questioned whether the federally-funded plane was safe to fly over water at low altitude.
They were concerned about crashing into the ocean if a propeller happened to blow.
The pilots said they were ordered to start carrying out the flights in July last year.
Coan reportedly increased the number of runs in March.
'Any of the people who complained about the mission — they got the s–t end of the stick,' a source told the Post.
'They had to do all these menial tasks outside their job description, including washing (Coan's) car.'
The NYPD agreed in May to stop the missions until meeting with union representatives.
The plane in question was the same one the NYPD used to shuttle Mayor Bill de Blasio to and from vacation in Canada last month.
THE GUNS CRIMINALS WANT
Two Studies, One Troubling Takeaway: The Guns Best at Killing Are the Same Guns Criminals Covet
By Alex Yablon
The Trace
July 31, 2018
The same weapons that the gun industry pumps out in ever greater numbers are more likely to fatally injure people, a new study shows. The public safety risks of popular medium- and large-caliber firearms models are compounded by another fresh research finding: Criminals are seeking out those same guns.
In the first study, scholars dug into Boston Police Department investigative files and sorted shootings by the caliber of the guns with which they were committed. Caliber is a measure of a bullet’s diameter, which in turn affects the force with which it strikes a target and the size of the channel as it penetrates. Sure enough, the researchers found that, in Boston, gunshot wounds from medium- to large-caliber rounds were significantly more likely to kill victims than wounds from smaller-caliber bullets. According to the paper by Anthony Braga of Northeastern University and Philip Cook of Duke University, victims were 2.3 times more likely to die when shot with what the authors call medium-caliber handguns like the 9mm or .380 than they were if shot by weapons that fire small bullets like the .22.
The study shows, Cook says, that “the type of weapon matters separately and in addition to the intention of the attacker, skill of the attacker, and the circumstances of the attack, in terms of likelihood that the victim will die.”
Victims shot by what the authors classify as large-caliber handgun rounds, like the .45, were even more likely to die, with Braga and Cook’s analysis showing those wounds were 4.5 times more fatal than those from small-caliber rounds.
“Homicides were more likely to involve large-caliber firearms relative to nonfatal shootings,” the authors wrote. “The implication is that if the medium- and large-caliber guns had been replaced with small caliber (assuming everything else unchanged), the result would have been a 39.5% reduction in gun homicides.”
Not only are larger-caliber handguns deadlier than smaller pistols, they have exploded in popularity among legal gun buyers. Guns like the 9mm have become synonymous with the “good guy with a gun,” civilians who go armed in public for purposes of self-defense.
According the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, American gun companies produced approximately 2.3 million 9mm semiautomatic handguns in 2016, the most recent year for which manufacturing data is available. That’s more than four times the combined number of all small-caliber semiautomatic pistols manufactured the same year.
Compare that to data from 1990 when gunmakers produced just shy of 350,000 semiautomatic 9mm pistols, slightly fewer than the number of pistols that fired the relatively puny .22 round they made that year.
As we reported in 2016, the gun industry’s shift from producing more small, cheap “Saturday Night Special” pistols so common from the 1960s through the 1980s to more large-caliber, deadlier handguns depended on the expansion of concealed-carry laws.
In 1981, 19 states banned concealed carry in any form. But after decades of lobbying by the National Rifle Association, today all 50 states allow residents to carry in public to one degree or another. As a result, people who in a previous age would never have considered going armed in public now consider concealed carry acceptable. In certain parts of the country, the practice has gone mainstream: In Florida, more than 1.9 million residents — or one out of 10 people — currently have an active concealed weapons license.
To take advantage of the opportunity presented by loosened public carry laws and fear-based demand, gunmakers market weapons that pack the most powerful round into the most concealable gun frame possible. But “good guys with guns” aren’t the only people who hear that pitch.
Another study published this month in Criminology by Braga and David Hureau of the University of Albany examined the dynamics of Boston’s criminal market for guns. The authors interviewed criminals who were keenly aware of the differences between weapons, and who pay a premium for the kinds of newer semiautomatic pistols also favored by concealed carriers.
“All respondents acknowledged that the most desirable guns were larger caliber semiautomatic pistols,” Braga and Hureau wrote.
The most popular caliber among the criminals interviewed was the 9mm. The gang members and drug dealers who spoke with Braga and Hureau told them they preferred these kinds of guns because they fire a powerful cartridge, can store many rounds in a magazine, and are easily concealed in a waistband.
Cook says empirical research like these two papers get to the heart of gun policy.
“There are two fundamental empirical issues in the debate over gun control: does the type of weapon matter to lethality, and does the general availability of guns increase crime?” he said. “If you believe those things matter, then you can make policy to save lives.”
By Alex Yablon
The Trace
July 31, 2018
The same weapons that the gun industry pumps out in ever greater numbers are more likely to fatally injure people, a new study shows. The public safety risks of popular medium- and large-caliber firearms models are compounded by another fresh research finding: Criminals are seeking out those same guns.
In the first study, scholars dug into Boston Police Department investigative files and sorted shootings by the caliber of the guns with which they were committed. Caliber is a measure of a bullet’s diameter, which in turn affects the force with which it strikes a target and the size of the channel as it penetrates. Sure enough, the researchers found that, in Boston, gunshot wounds from medium- to large-caliber rounds were significantly more likely to kill victims than wounds from smaller-caliber bullets. According to the paper by Anthony Braga of Northeastern University and Philip Cook of Duke University, victims were 2.3 times more likely to die when shot with what the authors call medium-caliber handguns like the 9mm or .380 than they were if shot by weapons that fire small bullets like the .22.
The study shows, Cook says, that “the type of weapon matters separately and in addition to the intention of the attacker, skill of the attacker, and the circumstances of the attack, in terms of likelihood that the victim will die.”
Victims shot by what the authors classify as large-caliber handgun rounds, like the .45, were even more likely to die, with Braga and Cook’s analysis showing those wounds were 4.5 times more fatal than those from small-caliber rounds.
“Homicides were more likely to involve large-caliber firearms relative to nonfatal shootings,” the authors wrote. “The implication is that if the medium- and large-caliber guns had been replaced with small caliber (assuming everything else unchanged), the result would have been a 39.5% reduction in gun homicides.”
Not only are larger-caliber handguns deadlier than smaller pistols, they have exploded in popularity among legal gun buyers. Guns like the 9mm have become synonymous with the “good guy with a gun,” civilians who go armed in public for purposes of self-defense.
According the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, American gun companies produced approximately 2.3 million 9mm semiautomatic handguns in 2016, the most recent year for which manufacturing data is available. That’s more than four times the combined number of all small-caliber semiautomatic pistols manufactured the same year.
Compare that to data from 1990 when gunmakers produced just shy of 350,000 semiautomatic 9mm pistols, slightly fewer than the number of pistols that fired the relatively puny .22 round they made that year.
As we reported in 2016, the gun industry’s shift from producing more small, cheap “Saturday Night Special” pistols so common from the 1960s through the 1980s to more large-caliber, deadlier handguns depended on the expansion of concealed-carry laws.
In 1981, 19 states banned concealed carry in any form. But after decades of lobbying by the National Rifle Association, today all 50 states allow residents to carry in public to one degree or another. As a result, people who in a previous age would never have considered going armed in public now consider concealed carry acceptable. In certain parts of the country, the practice has gone mainstream: In Florida, more than 1.9 million residents — or one out of 10 people — currently have an active concealed weapons license.
To take advantage of the opportunity presented by loosened public carry laws and fear-based demand, gunmakers market weapons that pack the most powerful round into the most concealable gun frame possible. But “good guys with guns” aren’t the only people who hear that pitch.
Another study published this month in Criminology by Braga and David Hureau of the University of Albany examined the dynamics of Boston’s criminal market for guns. The authors interviewed criminals who were keenly aware of the differences between weapons, and who pay a premium for the kinds of newer semiautomatic pistols also favored by concealed carriers.
“All respondents acknowledged that the most desirable guns were larger caliber semiautomatic pistols,” Braga and Hureau wrote.
The most popular caliber among the criminals interviewed was the 9mm. The gang members and drug dealers who spoke with Braga and Hureau told them they preferred these kinds of guns because they fire a powerful cartridge, can store many rounds in a magazine, and are easily concealed in a waistband.
Cook says empirical research like these two papers get to the heart of gun policy.
“There are two fundamental empirical issues in the debate over gun control: does the type of weapon matter to lethality, and does the general availability of guns increase crime?” he said. “If you believe those things matter, then you can make policy to save lives.”
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
20-YEAR GRUDGE AGAINST DOCTOR BECAUSE MOTHER DIED DURING OPERATION
Suspect identified in murder of prominent Houston cardiologist
By Samuel Chamberlain
Fox News
August 1, 2018
Houston Police announced Wednesday they had identified a suspect in the murder of a prominent cardiologist who once treated former President George H.W. Bush.
Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters that an arrest warrant had been issued for 65-year-old Joseph James Pappas, who investigators believe shot and killed Dr. Mark Hausknecht as he rode his bicycle to work on the morning of July 20.
"We need to find this guy," Acevedo said of Pappas, who he described as armed, dangerous and possibly suicidal. "If he's committed suicide, we need the body. If he's alive, we need to find him."
Investigators believe that Pappas held a grudge against Hausknecht after his mother died while the doctor was operating on her more than two decades earlier. Acevedo said that officers had searched Pappas' home Tuesday night and obtained additional evidence tying him to the murder.
"We believe that this absolutely is the killer," Acevedo said.
Acevedo said the department received tips identifying Pappas as the gunman after authorities released new surveillance video Monday of the suspect riding his own bicycle through a neighborhood moments after the shooting. The footage showed a man wearing a ball cap, a short-sleeved polo shirt and khaki shorts.
Investigators said the shooter passed Hausknecht from behind and rode at least a block ahead before turning around and firing three shots at his victim.
"There was a lot of planning that went into this," Acevedo said of the murder. "There was a lot of planning and, sadly, some skill ... The shots that he took, took some skill."
The chief told people living in the area to be on the lookout for a Schwinn ten-speed bicycle that he said Pappas rode "extensively and almost exclusively."
In 2000, Hausknecht treated Bush for an irregular heartbeat after the 41st president complained about lightheadedness. After Hausknecht's death, Bush called him "a fantastic cardiologist and a good man."
By Samuel Chamberlain
Fox News
August 1, 2018
Houston Police announced Wednesday they had identified a suspect in the murder of a prominent cardiologist who once treated former President George H.W. Bush.
Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters that an arrest warrant had been issued for 65-year-old Joseph James Pappas, who investigators believe shot and killed Dr. Mark Hausknecht as he rode his bicycle to work on the morning of July 20.
"We need to find this guy," Acevedo said of Pappas, who he described as armed, dangerous and possibly suicidal. "If he's committed suicide, we need the body. If he's alive, we need to find him."
Investigators believe that Pappas held a grudge against Hausknecht after his mother died while the doctor was operating on her more than two decades earlier. Acevedo said that officers had searched Pappas' home Tuesday night and obtained additional evidence tying him to the murder.
"We believe that this absolutely is the killer," Acevedo said.
Acevedo said the department received tips identifying Pappas as the gunman after authorities released new surveillance video Monday of the suspect riding his own bicycle through a neighborhood moments after the shooting. The footage showed a man wearing a ball cap, a short-sleeved polo shirt and khaki shorts.
Investigators said the shooter passed Hausknecht from behind and rode at least a block ahead before turning around and firing three shots at his victim.
"There was a lot of planning that went into this," Acevedo said of the murder. "There was a lot of planning and, sadly, some skill ... The shots that he took, took some skill."
The chief told people living in the area to be on the lookout for a Schwinn ten-speed bicycle that he said Pappas rode "extensively and almost exclusively."
In 2000, Hausknecht treated Bush for an irregular heartbeat after the 41st president complained about lightheadedness. After Hausknecht's death, Bush called him "a fantastic cardiologist and a good man."
IS CALIFORNIA BURNING?
Pretty Much Yes
by Bob Walsh
As I write this there are 17 substantial wild fires burning in the formerly great state of California. I can smell the smoke in the air and I am nowhere near any of them.
Two days ago there was serious worry that all of Redding might be burned out. Redding is a city of 90,000 people. The odds have now gone down, but not to zero. There is another huge fire wine county and one in SoCal that are large and getting larger.
The fact is that CA has a shit forest management plan. There are a gazillion dead trees out there but the environmental nutters don't want them to be removed because a logging company might actually make money off of them and would have to have access roads to do it.
If active forest management is evil t and forest fires are bad and lack of active forest management leads to more and worse forest fires, where is the win?
EDITOR'S NOTE: The fires are God's way of punishing Kookfornia for the sins of San Fransicko. Amen!
by Bob Walsh
As I write this there are 17 substantial wild fires burning in the formerly great state of California. I can smell the smoke in the air and I am nowhere near any of them.
Two days ago there was serious worry that all of Redding might be burned out. Redding is a city of 90,000 people. The odds have now gone down, but not to zero. There is another huge fire wine county and one in SoCal that are large and getting larger.
The fact is that CA has a shit forest management plan. There are a gazillion dead trees out there but the environmental nutters don't want them to be removed because a logging company might actually make money off of them and would have to have access roads to do it.
If active forest management is evil t and forest fires are bad and lack of active forest management leads to more and worse forest fires, where is the win?
EDITOR'S NOTE: The fires are God's way of punishing Kookfornia for the sins of San Fransicko. Amen!
SAVE THE PLANET...BULLDOZE CALIFORNIA FORESTS
by Bob Walsh
Did you know that even a medium-size wild fire puts more carbon particulates and nasty stuff into the air than four YEARS of automobile use in this country? However, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) does not count wild fires as an "official" source of air pollution. (This figure came from CA. state legislator John Moorlach so he may have just pulled it out of his anal orifice, you never know.)
Assuming it is true the solution is obvious. We should bulldoze the forest and install artificial forests with fake trees concealing mechanical carbon dioxide scrubbers. They could put in a few fake Spotted Owls and stuffed deer to make the wild life people happy.
Sounds like a plan to me.
Did you know that even a medium-size wild fire puts more carbon particulates and nasty stuff into the air than four YEARS of automobile use in this country? However, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) does not count wild fires as an "official" source of air pollution. (This figure came from CA. state legislator John Moorlach so he may have just pulled it out of his anal orifice, you never know.)
Assuming it is true the solution is obvious. We should bulldoze the forest and install artificial forests with fake trees concealing mechanical carbon dioxide scrubbers. They could put in a few fake Spotted Owls and stuffed deer to make the wild life people happy.
Sounds like a plan to me.
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