Froth Slosh B'Gosh

Still Unconstitutional

Pennsylvania's odious Voter ID law struck down.  Again.

Governor-Bought-And-Paid-For can appeal to the PA Supreme Court, but I strongly suspect that the attempt to disenfranchise voters via photo identification laws is quite dead.  For now.

Botched Execution

I've never been a fan of the death penalty, mostly for its irredeemablity if you make a mistake, but I think most would agree that if you're going to put people to death it should be done humanly.

What was supposed to be the first of two executions here on Tuesday night was halted when the prisoner, Clayton D. Lockett, began to writhe and gasp after he had already been declared unconscious and called out “oh, man,” according to witnesses.

The administering doctor intervened and discovered that “the line had blown,” said the director of corrections, Robert Patton, meaning that drugs were no longer flowing into Mr. Lockett’s vein.

At 7:06 p.m., Mr. Patton said, Mr. Lockett died in the execution chamber, of a heart attack....

A medical technican inserted the IV needle and then the the first drug, a sedative intended to knock the man out and forestall pain, was administered at 6:23 p.m. Ten minutes later, the doctor announced that Mr. Lockett was unconscious, and the team started to administer the next two drugs, a paralytic and one intended to make the heart stop.

At that point, witnesses said, things began to go awry. Mr. Lockett’s body twitched, his foot shook and he mumbled, witnesses said.

At 6:37 p.m., he tried to rise and exhaled loudly. At that point, prison officials pulled a curtain in front of the witnesses and the doctor discovered a “vein failure,” Mr. Patton said.

Without effective sedation, the second two drugs are known to cause agonizing suffocation and pain.

I suspect that even with effective sedation, the second two drugs cause agonizing suffocation and pain.  Observers just don't notice it because the victim is sedated.

Part of me thinks we should bring back public executions, erect a gibbet in the town square and let people watch.  If they see how horrible it can be, then perhaps there would be a push to end the barbarity.  But on the other hand, I can also see it appealing to the bloodthirsty, with tasteless shows like "Sunday Night At The Executions" being broadcast.

Banned For Life

I must say, I am surprised and pleased with NBA commissioner Adam Silver's decision to ban Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life due to his recent racist remarks.  Of course, the lawsuits will fly, but Sterling owns a franchise, and just as the owner of a car dealership or a fast food restaurant can have his franchise license revoked, I suspect the same applies to a sporting franchise.

And I'm sure the usual idiots will complain that Stermilng's "free speech rights" are being violated, but of course, they're not.  He's still free to spout whatever bigoted crap he chooses to.  We, as private citizens, and the NBA, as a private business, do not have to put up with it.

I'll add that I'm amused that the two people I referenced are named Sterling and Silver.

Let's Play A Game!

It's called "Guess Which Political Party."

The rules are simple:  I post a quotation by an actual elected lawmaker, and you get to guess which political party he or she belongs to!  Here's your first quotation:

“Men, by and large, make more because some of the things that they do,” he opined. “Their jobs are, by and large, riskier. They don’t mind working nights and weekends. They don’t mind working overtime or outdoors.”

“Men work five or six hours longer a week than women do,” he continued. “When it comes to women and men who own businesses… women make half of what men do because of flexibility of work, men are more motivated by money than women are.”

Child Abuse

These two asshats let TWO children die because of their religious beliefs.  My only question is why weren't the other children removed from the house after they let the first one die from a serious, but treatable disease?

 

I'm SHOCKED!!

Who could have known that Cliven Bundy is a racist???

“They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton,” Bundy was quoted as saying to a group of supporters last Saturday. “And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

Things That Drive Me Nuts...Woo Edition

Facebook argument.  For the record, I'm Jay Tee:

3 hrs · Edited · Like

• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee Tracked down the original story:  Appeared to be an aircraft, according to the guy who took the picture.  Sounds like media sensationalism. http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/.../self.../2234704/

  

  Self-confessed sceptic snaps photo of UFO over Caloundra

  www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au

  A COMMERCIAL pilot with more than 30 years’ experience has been left scratching his head over mysterious lights he saw over Caloundra on Good Friday.

  3 hrs · Like · Remove Preview
• 

  Remove

  Michael Hughes Well, DUH. I'm not appealing to authority. If he is a pilot, with 30 years experience, then he *does* have more authority than I do when discussing aircraft in the skies. I AM NOT SAYING THIS IS DEFINITIVE EVIDENCE OF ANYTHING. I would think it is worthy of looking into.

  3 hrs · Like
• 

  Remove

  Michael Hughes It would help if you read the article first before discussing it. He admits he zoomed in to get a better idea of what it was. Wouldn't you? And here is his quote—it's not "media sensationalism":
  
  --...See More

  3 hrs · Like
• 

  Remove

  Michael Hughes Reading the article under discussion should be the first rule of entering a FB conversation about said article :-)

  3 hrs · Edited · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee Well, the story says it was observed at 8pm, late in the day...Probably just the setting sun reflecting off the underside of a plane, and yes, I DID read the story. For example "It was only when he downloaded the images onto his computer he was able to...See More

  3 hrs · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee So what we have is a greatly digitally magnified image of a distant object.  I wouldn't be able to ID it as to type, military or civilian, but it does appear to be nothing more than an airplane.

  3 hrs · Like
• 

  Remove

  C Scott Taylor You might want to take into consideration that 8pm is long after sunset here in Australia in mid-autumn. No sunlight left for reflections...

  2 hrs · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee Sunset at roughly 6pm, which means twilight/evening.  A low sun on a high-flying distant object could very well reflect a setting sun, even if the sun wasn't visable to an observer at ground level.  As could industrial light sources, especially at great distances.

  35 mins · Edited · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee Looking at a map of Caloundra, there is an airport directly west of the town.  That would be consistant with a low sun reflecting off an aircraft to the west of the observer.

  33 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  C Scott Taylor At 8 pm at these latitudes, there is no sunlight left in the sky, even at high altitudes.
  This is an experienced pilot who was a strong skeptic. Why are you continuing to debate his testimony? You have only maps and a very distant perspective.
  Low moun...See More

  29 mins · Edited · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee His testimony is that it appears to be an airplane.

  28 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  C Scott Taylor His testimony is that it does not compare to any of his previous experiences and remains unidentified.

  26 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee Wings+fuselage=airplane.

  26 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  C Scott Taylor Airplane = constructed vehicle for moving thru air. Type? No beacon? Not in regular flightpath? Moving erratically? Oddly bright?

  25 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee It was only when he downloaded the images onto his computer he was able to zoom in and see what appeared to be wing tips and the slight outline of an aircraft body.
  
  "I was surprised ... with the clarity with the camera," he said. ...See More

  24 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  C Scott Taylor So?

  24 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee You cannot necessarily discern a beacon from a single frame.

  24 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  C Scott Taylor If it had a beacon, which by definition is meant to be observable at long distances from most perspectives, he would have seen it and dismissed the entire event.

  23 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee He first thought the lights were Chinese lanterns, but it was "moving at a speed that (he) had never seen a lantern or something of that sort doing"  Aircraft move much faster than Chinese lanterns or their ilk.  Also, a beacon rotates, if the reflector is facing away from the viewer at the time the picture is snapped, you would not see the beacon.  This really isn't that hard

  21 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee Bottom line:  It looks like an aircraft in the vicinity of an airport.  Applying Occam's Razor, the image is probably an airplane

  20 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  C Scott Taylor I'm done. It is no use discussing something with someone who only wants to deny that a trained observer who has produced photographic evidence of an anomaly is making sense, especially when what is being contested is based on a very brief story in a local newspaper.
  Occam's Razor is a very poor defense of simplistic dismissals of evidence.
  The question is not what is 'probable', but what might be gleaned from this event. A strong lack of supporting evidence that it WAS an airplane is the entire reason this expert witness went to the effort to share his puzzlement.
  You want to dismiss this with a facile 'explanation'.
  Go for it.

  16 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee Uh, because the explaination is the most logical one.  Extrodinary claims require extraordinary evidence.  In the case in point we have an image that looks like an airplane, in the vicinity of an airport.  If you want to postulate that its NOT an airpl...See More

  11 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee Also also add that a pilot isn't a trained observer.  He's a pilot. Pilots are just as succeptable to error as any other person.

  9 mins · Like
• 

  Remove

  Jay Tee Also, also too, your dismissing my arguments because its based on a brief story in a local newspaper, while giving weight to a single person's assertation in a brief story in a local newspaper.

  7 mins · Like
• 

   

  Write a comment...

 

 

 

About

Create Ad

Create Page

Developers

Careers

Privacy

Cookies

Terms

Help

Facebook © 2014 · English (US)

Banner Day!

I got the lab report back from my latest blood work, and for the first time in years, my cholesterol and triglycerides are under 200, my LDL (bad cholesterol) was under 100, and my HDL (good cholesterol) was above 40!  I've always managed to get one or two of those numbers where they're supposed to be, but this is the first time I've gotten them all into the healthy range! 

As someone diagnosed with a "pre-diabetic condiction" this is great news!

Why Cliven Bundy Is A Criminal

Best analysis I've seen so far for what should be blindingly evident.

Under the Taylor Grazing Act, a permit system was set up that granted grazing privileges, not rights. The grazing permit is a revocable license under the law, not creating any right, title, interest, or estate in or to the land. In the early 1990s the BLM revised Mr. Bundy’s, and other ranchers’, permits to protect the desert tortoise. Mr. Bundy did not like the revision and so he made, in my opinion, a catastrophic, knee-jerk mistake when he stopped paying his grazing fees in defiance. It was catastrophic because what he did the moment he stopped paying was remove all legal standing he had. He relinquished any claim he had to graze on public land. When he did that, the BLM rightfully canceled his permit and would not grant him anymore permits.

Well, THAT was Scary

I was on the porch sipping a beer when I witnessed five teens breaking into the house across the street from me.  One opened the window, crawled in, and opened the front door.  There was much going in and out, before all five congregated on the porch.

I called my local police as soon as I witnessed the break in.  They arrived within minutes.

It turns out that one of the teens, a 14 year old lived there, and had a key to the premises. 

On one hand, I'm glad that there was no nefarious activity going on.  On the other hand, I'm embarrassed that I sic'd the local constabulary on a neighbor, who I didn't recognize.