gregladen | November 12, 2009Matt Springer is LIVID with my commentary on gun control. Go read his post here and say something nice in the comment section to make him feel better.
Mike Dunford has further comments on this issue as well, and as has been happening all along (since the Ft. Hood news broke) Mike is adding important information regarding the setting of this catastrophe, bringing his military base experience to the table. Have a look at his post.
And, I'm going to take this moment to make my key points once more because the gun nuts, I mean gun "enthusiasts" continue to get it all wrong:
1) The NRA/Gun…
gregladen | November 12, 2009No, don't go, stay! The NAME of the language is go.
Which was a poor choice of name because it will be very hard to google "go." In fact, Google won't let you google "go" by default because it is one of the SLWs (stupid little words) that Google prefers to pretend does not exist (I assume, possibly wrongly). And the true irony is that go, the language, is Google's new language!
Anyway...
It is a compiled langauge designed to build things like servers and other system level stuff, and it seems to have a ver very fast compiler. The idea is to have a programming language like Cxx built…
gregladen | November 11, 2009Almost Diamonds on Veterans Day
Vitaly Ginzburg, Man of Courage and Brilliance
Mat Springer: Veterans Day (and the scientists who help them win)
More Dark Energy at Starts with a Bang
gregladen | November 11, 2009
~Also of interest:~
Tales of life in the Congo: The Congo Memoirs 1 ~ The Zodiac
Falsehoods of Life, Culture and Evolution
The Natural Basis for Inequality of the Sexes
Hat Tip: Andrea Semlar
gregladen | November 11, 2009Of particular interest is a move within the AMA to rescind that organization's support of reform with a public option... What's up with that?
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gregladen | November 11, 2009Music, a bar, a fashion show by Lizzie and some other people. (If you go you can find out the actual identify of Lizzie ... you did know that is a pseudonym, right?)
Here's a flyer:
gregladen | November 11, 2009If you are an atheist, you won't want to see this. It will shatter (he he) your beliefs. This was sent to my daughter by a fellow student.
What I love about this is that it is a simple unadulterated lie. But it's OK to lie for god.
gregladen | November 11, 2009Or so says Stephanie Zvan, and she makes a pretty good case:
There's no place better than the internet to be sick. No, really. The people around here are amazing. I would have had a truly miserable last couple of months without them.
Read the rest here
gregladen | November 11, 2009There have been questions raised as part of this discussion about the nature of the weapons Nidal Hasan used in the Ft. Hood shooting. He apparently carried two pistols, and both are designed to be effective killing weapons. The more newly designed Five-sevN that he had purchased under the noses of the FBI who was busy investigating him is specifically designed to be very effective at killing large numbers of people in close quarters, to have more controlled "follow-up shots" and to pierce body armor.
These are all features that I'm sure would be very handy for, say, moose hunting, but the…
gregladen | November 11, 2009Don't as me. Ask PZ Myers. Next Monday, November 16th in Saint Paul.
Dr. Jerry Bergman and Dr. PZ Myers will be debating the topic: "Should Intelligent Design Be Taught In The Schools?"
This event is sponsored by the Christian Student Fellowship and Campus Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists.
The event is held at the North Star Ballroom, St. Paul Student Center (Buford Ave. near Cleveland Ave.)
7:30 to 9:30 PM, student center, St. Paul campus.
gregladen | November 11, 2009Today as I was driving into the city, I passed under a bridge, on which stood an older man with a big huge American Flag waving to the passing cars.
"Oh," I said to Julia. "Veteran's day."
It was too late to honk or flash my lights at the old Legionnaire in appreciation for his service. But then later on I heard about a story that made me glad I didn't. I've had a long and ambivalent relationship with both the VFW and the American Legion. And for the most part, they can kiss my ass. Here's the latest reason why:
American Legion Post 550, of Bloomington, Minnesota, has been carrying out…
gregladen | November 11, 2009Hominid Blogger Afarensis has fallen ill, and is in hospital with Pneumonia, likely caused by Swine Flu. Please drop over here and leave a note.
gregladen | November 11, 2009An anti-toxin that protects against ricin poisoning is to move into production for the first time, after eight years of research.
It is the result of eight years of work by researchers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).
The anti-toxin can protect against three times the lethal dosage of ricin and can be administered to 24 hours after exposure.
According to security experts, ricin is one of the weapons which could be used in a bio-terror attack.
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gregladen | November 11, 2009 Yes, I'm afraid so.
The Gun Nut Lobby (GNL) did a very good job at eviscerating the gun-check law. When US Army Major Nidal Hasan purchased a super powerful pistol for the purpose of killing several of his fellow soldiers, the law required a background check which was processed by one part of the FBI as per usual. That information ... that there was a purchase of a deadly weapon ... could not be made available in any other way, so the other part of the FBI, which was busy looking into Hasan as a possible security threat, was not allowed to know about it.
Gun Nuts: You owe the family…
gregladen | November 10, 2009 I believe this is a violation of the First Amendment!!!!
South Carolina is always trying to enhance its reputation as a conservative crazy backwater that does things like elect Joe Wilsons to the congress and flies the Rebel Flag over its state house and stuff. Recently, the state legislature approved a version of a license plate for the state with a big-ole cross on it and the phrase "I Believe" written on it.
District Judge Cameron Currie said that the plate violated the First Amendment, which enshrines the separation of church and state.
A similar bid by a group in Florida last year…
gregladen | November 10, 2009Check out the Popular Culture Translator.
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gregladen | November 10, 2009Both a gay marriage ban and the US military Don't Ask Don't Tell policy create health disparities, and it is now the official policy of the AMA to oppose both. Details here.