Found in this thread on saubier.com:
…when I was flying in to Bozeman I was talking to a real cowboy (hat, boots, drawl and all).. I asked him what they do with the cattle when its -20 degrees and such. He said “nothing”. I said “sucks to be a cow” and he just nodded.
and here is a nifty graph to make it clear
This part sounds ever so familiar (same problem in large corporations, public schools, law enforcement, etc.)
The Goldwater Institute points to a third poison to add to rising prices and declining productivity: administrative bloat. Between 1993 and 2007 spending on university bureaucrats at America’s 198 leading universities rose much faster than spending on teaching faculty. Administration costs at elite private universities rose even faster than at public ones. For example, Harvard increased its administrative spending per student by 300%. In some universities, such as Arizona State University, almost half the full-time employees are administrators. Nearly all university presidents conduct themselves like corporate titans, with salaries, perks and entourages to match.
I’ve said before why I think CCW insurance is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Lots of cities and states out there aren’t gun-friendly; California’s CCW regime is opening up as we speak, county by county, and so there’s a good market for this insurance.
But what about gun-friendly states? Arizona’s about as gun-friendly a state as you can imagine, right?
Even there, you can be prosecuted for a justified self-defense shooting.
In this case the Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network stepped in, and the shooter was lucky to have a couple of good public defenders. Both of those things are extremely unlikely to happen to you. Also note that ACLD only has a war chest of $65k or so. I’m a cautious guy; I’d rather have a $250k policy backing me up, for less than the cost of a handgun.
h/t: Snowflakes in Hell.
Had to put the bass drums to bed for a while and wandered to the Derek and the Dominoes Live at the Filmore album.
I went looking for that version of this track, but couldn’t find it. This one will do well enough though.
It is a little known fact that the reason behind the long outro on the live versions of this song is because Clapton has a gauge he wears on his wrist that tells him how close he is to spontaneously converting to pure rock energy (which is what actually happened to Freddie Mercury). Once he pegs the gauge he has to simmer the energy down or risk a flash cavitation.
Yes, Rock is like steam.
In this version he doesn’t peg the gauge quite as hard, so you need to go buy the Filmore album.
While we’re cooking here….
Enjoy!
from those European social democracies after all.
From the article:
But there’s another reason why I can let my daughter swim in the Amstel, and that is that I’m pretty sure that in a well-regulated country like the Netherlands, the water is reasonably free of heavy pollutants and raw sewage. (I would not, for example, let her swim in the Mekong.) This, I think, outlines a useful distinction between different kinds of regulation. I am perfectly capable of assessing for myself the risks of swimming across a small pond in Massachusetts, or the risks of swimming in the Amstel when lots of boat traffic is around. I don’t need regulations to protect me; I have common sense. What I can’t assess for myself is the risk that the water is contaminated by raw sewage. For that, I need a regulatory agency that stops households and businesses from polluting the river. To generalise: for risks I can assess myself, I don’t want regulations that prevent me from doing as I please just because I might end up suing the government. For risks I can’t assess myself, I do want regulations that give me the confidence to do as I please. One kind of regulation stops me from swimming in a pond in Massachusetts. The other kind lets me swim in a river in the Netherlands. One kind of regulation makes me less free. The other kind makes me freer.
RTWT
From this article we get this quote from a police official:
“Officers’ safety comes first, and not infringing on people’s rights comes second,” Healy said.
I saw this video over two years ago, but just recently found it in my bookmarks. Most of you probably already know his story, but may not have seen this. What a Patriot! I think the only reason he is not a household name is because he does not want the glory. But, he wrote the book and shares the story to honor his fallen brothers–something our media refuses to do.
How else to explain that a Taiwanese single-malt beat Scotch premiums in a blind taste test?
Most of you are probably aware of the ongoing drama, but the end of the article caught my eye:
The White House referred questions on the issue to the Pentagon, which referred questions to the U.S. Embassy in South Korea, which deferred back to the State Department.
That is your government hard at work!
