Best scam of the day uncovered -- did you fall for it?

see: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-investigators-probing-illinois-cops-wife-son/

Great news for gun makers -- as heard on CBS

Don't buy all the BS from the second amendment fanatics.  Smart guns are good for the gun industry.

The anti-gun Violence Policy Center said this in a background report: 

"Would smart guns entice individuals who otherwise wouldn’t buy a gun to bring a weapon
into their home?

Making smart guns available could increase the chances of selling guns to Americans who
currently do not own them. A March 1997 survey conducted by the National Opinion Research
Center found that, of respondents who were “unlikely to buy a gun in the future,” 35 percent
would “consider buying a handgun that would only fire for the owner of the gun.” Packaged
with a strong sales pitch, the technology could penetrate new markets for a gun industry that is
facing long-term declines in household and personal gun ownership, putting more families at risk
from the well-documented hazards that accompany bringing a gun into a previously gun-free
home."

And always remember more guns means less crime.

Read the entire report at the bottom of this web page: http://www.vpc.org/regulating-the-gun-industry/smart-guns/

Whats next? Global warming deniers will be called commies

"Russia's official view appears to have changed little since 2003, when Putin told an international climate conference that warmer temperatures would mean Russians "spend less on fur coats" while "agricultural specialists say our grain production will increase, and thank God for that".

The president believes that "there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries including Russia," says Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and critic of Putin. "That is why this subject is not topical for the majority of the Russian mass media and society in general." "

source: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/10/29/world/europe/29reuters-climatechange-summit-russia-media.html?_r=0

"Go ahead and make my day" - Dirty Hillary

note: this comes from a book cover from a book written by a liberal

Best propaganda of the day

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more racist rants

"Here’s something you may not know: Dr. Ben Carson is black.

Of course, I’m being a little cute here. The only way you wouldn’t know he’s black is if you were blind and only listened to the news......... Yet conservatives also refuse to adopt those liberal policies just to prove they aren’t bigots. Carson — not to mention Carly Fiorina and Hispanics Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — demonstrates that there’s no inherent contradiction between being a minority (or a woman) and supporting conservative principles. And that fact is just too terrible for some liberals to contemplate.  "

source: http://nypost.com/2015/10/30/the-ben-carson-secret-that-democrats-cant-bear-to-face/

Beware of bags of popcorn in Florida

"Mr. Reeves was arrested for the fatal shooting of Chad Oulson in January 2014. Police say Mr. Oulson threw his bag of popcorn in Reeves' face after the former captain criticized him for texting. Reeves responded by pulling out his gun and shooting Oulson in the chest, according to law enforcement. A bullet also grazed Oulson's wife, Nicole.

“I think we have a pretty solid stand your ground case,” Richard Escobar, Reeves’ attorney, told the Tampa Bay Times. Escobar plans to utilize a video taken at the scene to prove Reeves acted lawfully under Florida’s self-defense law and ultimately have the criminal charges dismissed. A five-day hearing is scheduled to begin on Jan. 25.

Recommended: Gun laws: How much do you know?

With strong support from the National Rifle Association in 2005, the "gunshine state" became the first to pass a ‘stand your ground’ law that allows citizens to use deadly force if they fear their own harm or death. Under Florida’s "stand your ground" law, “a defendant must be able to show that he had a ‘reasonable belief’ in a threat before using deadly force, not that the threat actually existed,” explains the Tampa Bay Times. If the judge determines the defendant had "reasonable belief" for using deadly force, the shooter is “immune from criminal prosecution and civil action.” "

see:   http://news.yahoo.com/florida-man-shot-theatergoer-texting-invoke-stand-ground-124807512.html

anti-cat propaganda for the day

fairness

"Authorities reported a group of five men hunting without licences was attacked by the big cat at a private game farm near the Kruger.

Matome Mahlale, 24,was killed along with two dogs, who were accompanying the group"

source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/615091/Lion-turns-the-table-on-illegal-hunters-by-killing-man-looking-to-shoot-him

best propaganda of the day

 
Note: just because what he says about reducing gun violence by locking up people so they are not on the street killing each other is true does not mean it is not propaganda.

Mein Trumpf makes racist attack on Ben Carson

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trumps-offensive-against-ben-carson-begins/

Well, that is what the left-leaning, liberal media would have been saying if someone attacked Obama. 

A propaganda picture is worth a thousand words

propaganda for the day

When people talk about murder rates comparing US to the other industrialized country is it a sign of liberal arrogance about the lesser-developed (meaning lesser) countries? Just saying. What follows is right-wing propaganda for your enjoyment. 

Time for a letter to the local editor?

This is about the Spooner school board being expanded by a group of people calling themselves Families United for Superior Education (FUSE): 

"Editor:

The FUSE social movement came up with brilliant strategy to pack the school board.  Their Facebook announcement about their original petition to expand the school board said "Increasing the number of board members would ease the time-commitment overload for current board members by distributing the extensive responsibilities to more individuals". For some reason they forgot to mention the fact four new members could shift the votes on the board in a direction they favor. 

Back in the 1940s President Franklin Roosevelt tried but failed to get a law though Congress allowing him to pack the Supreme Court by expanding the number of justices so he could have a court majority favoring his New Deal agenda. As part of the evolution of the FUSE movement perhaps we need to start thinking of FUSE as the School Board Packers (SB Packers).  

While the SB Packers cannot appoint the additional school board members it may not really matter.  When attendees at the annual meeting for the district passed the agenda item to expand the school board it was nearly the same as the SB Packers winning the game. Who would want to run for the school board and get the same grief the current school board members are getting except of course former school district employees with an ax to grind who have retired or left to teach in other districts or their ardent fans. 

Oddly enough before writing caustic letters about fictional consolidators and real packers I had planned on writing a letter to the Advocate saying it was time for the school board to start exploring another referendum. The recall nonsense had faded away and the needed extra money has to come from somewhere. The last referendum went down in flames after the Advocate carried some articles saying how much teachers were paid. That all changed with Act 10 and the teachers were forced to sacrifice. With a few exceptions the school board seems to have been struggling to cut costs so perhaps it was time for the taxpayers to also sacrifice to keep the Spooner schools from declining. But the SB Packers have changed the game.

Will something positive come from all of this after all? If you look at the FUSE Facebook page it sounds like FUSE has the best of intentions but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Hopefully we do not eventually learn FUSE really means 'Facilitating the Unpopular Superintendent's Exit' and the packed school board next April resembles a phoenix arising from the ashes of a pre-Act 10 teachers union.   

Note: the public meeting to vote on expanding the school board occurs on Monday October 19th when TWW and Mrs. TWW will be at the body shop in Duluth getting something fixed so cannot vote. It is not likely the vote to expand will fail but one never knows. 

Let the paranoia get even stronger

"When everybody's out to get you, paranoia is just good thinking."  said Dr. Johnny Fever in the TV show WKRP.





"The questioner mistakenly believes there are no more handguns in Australia. And Hillary seems to think there are no legal issues involved in government efforts to restrict gun rights or institute forced buybacks; no mention of the Second Amendment and I suppose in her mind if she gets four years of picked Supreme Court justices, in effect we won't have a Second Amendment. Some sort of mandatory government buyback of weapons is, she said, "worth considering on the national level if that could be arranged."

source: https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/16/hillary-clinton-willing-to-look-into-a-s

best propaganda of the day

Aristotle on Trump

"Trump’s commonsensical outbursts have already affected the other candidates, some of whom appear compelled to alter their droning liturgical styles. By his presence Trump improves the system. My wife approvingly calls him “the Trumpet” for his brazenness. Of course all this bothers media intelligentsia who over-intellectualize mass political drivel. They speak in terms of Trump’s supposedly inevitable destiny to “self destruct” and so forth. Trump is perhaps too abrupt for them. Regarding ethos, Trump seems to appeal to audiences tired of professional purveyors of that which Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt has formally defined as bullshit, which is worse than the lie. The liar at least has some knowledge of truth, merely seeking to deny it, but the bullshit artist soars untethered from reality into a world of self-serving fabrication. Trump may or may not be a good man, but in today’s political ecology he remains an alternative to those surfeit with the professional patter of careerist politicians. In the end it may all come down to ethos.  So Aristotle, it appears, also knows the American electorate better than the pollsters and analysts who have been trying to account for the phenomenon of The Donald.     "

full post at: http://riseofantimedia.blogspot.com/2015/10/aristotle-on-trump-phenomenon-of-donald.html

First and probably last fall walk about

Vote ID will not solve this one

"The use of the Electoral College rather than the popular vote to pick the eventual president means the presence of some 11-12 million illegal immigrants and noncitizens living legally in the United States could hinder Republicans' chances of winning the 2016 presidential race, a new report shows.

How? The answer lies in the nature of the country's Electoral College and how it bases selection of the president on the U.S. Census, which in turn credits states for total populations of both legal and illegal residents. The result is that states like Florida and California, which sizeable populations of illegals live in, carry more clout for their number of electoral votes."

Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/clinton-illegal-immigrants-electoral/2015/10/03/id/694546/#ixzz3nvCd9KPp
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We need media control too

"Research shows that, in fact, mass shooters may be more likely to act when there has recently been a high-profile mass killing, a model more attune to viral infection than pure copycat."

source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34385059

TWW has not contributed to the mess since nobody reads this blog so it does not make anyone famous. 

here we go again but how often will you hear this on TV??

"Can mass shootings be contagious?

There’s no doubt about it. Suddenly, for example, there have been several shootings in movie theaters, and the number of shootings of four or more persons at a time has increased quite a bit over the past couple years. The media, without a doubt, has a role in facilitating more events. There is research that shows that fewer headlines can equal fewer incidents and vice versa. The repeated nature of the showing of the event serves to spread or accelerate the transmission of the behavior."

source: http://www.thetrace.org/2015/08/gary-slutkin-gun-violence-contagious-chicago-baltimore/

political post of the day

So what to do if this is true?

"People act because of the way they were treated by others — i.e., they pick up these behaviors in subconscious ways — and the brain is hardwired to copy other behaviors. Contagion means that something is contagious if it produces more of itself. Flu begets more flu, for example. The same principle is also true for violence, though it’s not true for everything: High blood pressure, for example, doesn’t cause other people to have high blood pressure. With violence, it’s just what we empirically see in nature — the greatest predictor of violence is exposure to a preceding event of violence. We also know there’s an underlying process that causes this to happen: There are neurons on the brain that cause copying, which is the principle way people pick up all kinds of behavior. Violence is a very powerful type of behavior for copying because it’s so electric and emotional that it actually causes even more copying. These are predicable biological processes."

source: http://www.thetrace.org/2015/08/gary-slutkin-gun-violence-contagious-chicago-baltimore/

live the rest of you TWW and Mrs. TWW watched the eclipse of the moon last night

More TRUTH - so once again what does a survey really mean

"Carlton and his colleagues sent surveys to nearly 2,000 biophysical scientists at universities in the Big 10 conference (which primarily includes universities in the Northeast and Midwest). The scientists surveyed included experts in a broad range of disciplines, including biology, chemistry, physics and geosciences, and also included some climate scientists."

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/25/yet-another-survey-shows-the-climate-change-debate-is-settled-among-scientists/

Notice how the survey people were nice enough to throw in some of the scientists who actually study climate in their sample. If TWW remembers right one leading denier said most of the other skeptics he knows think the climate has warmed but that humans play a small role in it. In other words they believe in climate change caused by humans but do not think humans are the main cause. 

What this survey may have measured was how much being indoctrinated by liberal values in a university setting by either classes or group pressure to conform influences how they think. 

The article also says: " In fact, cultural and political values do seem to play a role among scientists. Those who believed that global temperatures are rising were more egalitarian, more communitarian and more liberal than those who did not, the survey revealed."

ps. last month TWW's leased from the power coop solar panels generated 600kw of the electricity Mrs. TWW used. How many of the true believers in climate change caused by humans can claim they are doing as much to save the world?

So TWW has to ask

"Should someone who is against gay marriage, women's right to have abortions, welfare, does not think climate change is real etc. be elected president?"

"Carson was asked whether a president's faith should matter after businessman Donald Trump declined to say anything when a person asking him questions at a town hall said President Obama was a Muslim and not American.

"I guess it depends on what that faith is. If it's inconsistent with the values and principles of America, then of course it should matter. But if it fits within the realm of America and consistent with the constitution, no problem," Carson said. "

source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-carson-says-he-wouldnt-want-muslim-president/

So what do people in the Islamic religion think of gay marriage and abortion? 

see: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/026-homosexuality.htm

and: http://www.islamic-laws.com/abortion.htm

So once again what to believe. 

So who to believe ?

Or

"In this sharply divided country, there surely is also strong disagreement about the extent to which government ought to be protecting citizens from self-harm. But I presume that a broad spectrum of the public on both sides of the aisle would agree there is an appropriate government role in protecting citizens from being harmed by one another. So if we leave aside self-inflicted deaths, the average car is 1.8 times as risky as the average gun. That is,  my owning a car is 80 percent more likely to result in the death of another person than my owning a gun. In light of this simple fact, it is puzzling why gun ownership is so vehemently scorned on the left as somehow being a flagrantly irresponsible act."

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2015/09/01/should-guns-be-regulated-like-cars/




???

A women takes this concealed carry stuff to a new level

"That's no place to pack a pistol...A Tennessee woman being booked for driving with a suspended license was slapped with weapons charges after cops found a loaded gun in her vagina, The Smoking Gun reported."

see: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cops-find-loaded-gun-tennessee-woman-vagina-report-article-1.1765910

Obama lies (well they said "Bush lies")

"Two senior analysts at CENTCOM signed a written complaint sent to the Defense Department inspector general in July alleging that the reports, some of which were briefed to President Obama, portrayed the terror groups as weaker than the analysts believe they are. The reports were changed by CENTCOM higher-ups to adhere to the administration’s public line that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the analysts claim."

see: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/09/exclusive-50-spies-say-isis-intelligence-was-cooked.html

TWW is glad he retired from IT. Getting dangerous out there.

Entire Hospital IT Department Being Placed into Protective Custody after “Upgrading” EMR

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LOS ANGELES – Yesterday evening, Have Mercy On Me Hospital in Los Angeles upgraded their Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and what ensued can only be described as “utter chaos”.   The entire hospital campus is on lockdown this morning as a SWAT team extraction mission is underway to save and rescue employees of the IT department."

source: http://www.gomerblog.com/2015/07/hospital-emr/

A TV first?

Quote:  "Tim said, “He was bound and determined to try to make a name for himself on live TV because he failed at it so many times. So no, I don’t blame the gun, I blame the guy that was holding the gun.” "

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/28/virginia-shooting-victims-husband-i-blame-the-guy-holding-the-gun-not-the-gun/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Well it was on right wing Fox News so that may explain it.  Usually you see reporters exploiting the grief of relatives who say the country needs more gun control without having much of an idea what they are talking about. 

Another tragedy more dumb comments

The recent shooting of the TV reporters is indeed ironic since they worked for a station that along with others helps to create more shooters who want to feel significant so use violence to become famous.

The solution here is we need TV control. Stations are licensed by the federal government so should be required to never mention the name of the person who kills people or even show the person's picture.  Only the victims get to become famous.  Now if this sounds dumb TWW challenges people to come up with a solution that would actually do anything except make people feel good.  The shooter bought his guns legally.

TWW also predicts the next shooter to become famous will be wearing a body camera to catch all the action so he can put it on Facebook or Youtube.  

Mrs. TWW's new Viking chairs paint job

A work in progress. 

Mrs. TWW monitors progress while eating breakfast

Latest adventures in freeloading

Be sure your benefactor gets some premiums (the name on the card was not a premium but instead another favor). In addition our benefactor got some zucchini and apples. 

Mrs. TWW chowing down her birthday dinner. 

No girl talk is complete without the pictures of the kids. 

Soul mates

You too can benefit from freeloading off of your city friends. For details see:                   http://warpedwoodturner.blogspot.com/2005/12/successful-country-freeloading.html

Hawk with brown tail on the railing down to the patio in the rain

It was hard getting a good shot through the window

You need to be Superman to change a Reeves drive on a lathe

This is how a Reeves drive works.  A lathe with this drive is cheaper to make so can be sold to people like TWW who are cheap. The problem is you need to be Superman to get the lathe apart and back together again when they get dirty and stop working right.

Steve Reeves as Superman

TWW found a gizmo on the Internet to take the thing apart and get it back together again. 

You tighten this nut and it pulls the other end away from the clip holding the cover on. If you mess up the stuff goes flying in directions. 

Back together but runs a little crooked. Oh well .....

Beer, cheese and now pot for WI

"Menominee Indian Tribe to decide on marijuana proposal

August 15, 2015 11:20 am

KESHENA, Wis. (AP) — The Menominee Indian Tribe is holding an advisory referendum on whether to legalize marijuana usage on the 350-square-mile reservation in northeastern Wisconsin."

source:   http://lacrossetribune.com/news/state-and-regional/wi/menominee-indian-tribe-to-decide-on-marijuana-proposal/article_eb6fa23f-59d4-5022-8085-65ea569a164b.html

dog days of summer?

blah

Proof that the black population will vote for Donald Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP6S3KE2DaI

(youtube will not let us embed this)

The truth comes out?

https://youtu.be/YL5Xd0TpZa8

Hindsight is 20 20

Now if only the  MN dentist had taken this tour and  not the cat hunting one....

for details see:  http://www.familiestart.nl/piraat/piraat.html

No progress since last blog entry last Tuesday

Mediocre apple tree having a good year

#@$^$@&% stump not letting TWW have a good summer

Polygamy is next then marrying your sister cannot be far behind

"Now it would seem to be impossible to believe anything else. With the prohibition against interracial marriage struck down, the prohibition against gay sex struck down and now the prohibition against gay marriage struck down, the prohibition against plural marriage cannot be far behind. To be sure, there are some problems that would have to be thought through or re-calibrated, such as community property laws, inheritance laws, custody laws, probate laws, tax laws and the like. But that's just a matter of tinkering with the details. The main principle -- the protection of "our most profound aspirations" (Kennedy) -- demands its extension to polygamy."

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stanley-fish/scalia-gets-it-pretty-muc_b_7880118.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

more believe it or not time

Would Hillary really do what this woman says she did?

 

see: http://www.ascandaladay.com/

Will Mr. Bloomberg take our beer next? He already took our sodas.

"These findings have profound implications for crafting policy to avert future tragedies. In the wake of mass shootings, politicians from both sides of the aisle often call for including better mental health records in background checks. Though a worthwhile sentiment, the evidence suggests that these efforts would be better spent focusing on alcohol abuse instead."

source: http://www.thetrace.org/2015/07/chattanooga-shooter-mental-illness-alcohol-drugs-data-gun-violence/

TWW was right

In an earlier post TWW said "all live matter but some lives matter more than others".  This slogan would solve the problem the 'black lives matter' people have. See below: 

"  "So, Why Should You Care? Black Americans are more than twice as likely as white Americans to be unarmed when killed during police encounters, according The Guardian’s recent analysis of public records and local news reports. ...

The counterargument that all lives matter has been misappropriated practically since Black Lives Matter first emerged as a Twitter hashtag following George Zimmerman’s acquital in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. In a New York Times column in January, the feminist philosopher Judith Butler said that people using the slogan “all lives matter” are misunderstanding the problem. She put it this way: “If we jump too quickly to the universal formulation ‘all lives matter,’ then we miss the fact that black people have not yet been included in the idea of ‘all lives.’ ” "

The little sign on the door says it all

 

More problems with immigrants

The dogooders in the DNR brought the ancestors here as refugees and now the descendants are causing problems. Note how they trashed the purple flower.  And they have 8 kids too but they are currently hard to see. When will this end?

TWW may live long enough to see the coming ice age

"The Earth could be headed for a 'mini ice age' researchers have warned.

A new study claims to have cracked predicting solar cycles - and says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out.

This, they say, will lead to a phenomenon known as the 'Maunder minimum' - which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715, even causing London's River Thames to freeze over. "

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3156594/Is-mini-ICE-AGE-way-Scientists-warn-sun-sleep-2020-cause-temperatures-plummet.html#ixzz3fanekLo0
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Hillary and now the Republicans may be in big trouble

" Honora Laszlo, a volunteer with the Arlington, Virginia chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, asked Sanders during the question-and-answer session of a policy forum to clarify his stance on gun reform, and to explain his vote in favor of a 2005 law that shields firearms manufacturers from liability if their products are used in the execution of a crime....Sanders defended his record on gun control, noting that he took “very, very difficult votes” in favor of the 1994 assault weapons ban and, in 2013, to close the gun show background check loophole.

“With all due respect, you also cast the vote to allow gun manufacturers to never be sued,” Laszlo interjected.

“Right I did, OK?” Sanders fired back, adding later, “Why would I have voted that way? Because if somebody has a gun and somebody steals that gun and they shoot somebody with it, do you really think it makes sense to blame the manufacturer of that weapon? If somebody sells you a baseball bat and somebody hits you over the head with it, you’re not going to sue the baseball bat manufacturer”.....Sanders, however, pinned the intractability of the gun control issue on a cultural divide between urban and rural America.

“I come from a state that has virtually no gun control and it turns out one of the safest states in the country.... And people in rural America have got to understand that in an urban area, guns mean something very, very different.”

“We will not succeed on this terribly important issue if we continue the cultural warfare between urban America and rural America, and I think I’m in a good place to bridge that gap,” Sanders said.  "

source: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/10/bernie-sanders-spars-with-arlington-gun-control-activist.html

Hope and change

Or four more years of BO?

More white privilege

  "Both the Confederate and the U.S. flags represent slavery, genocide and bloodshed. This country was built on the oppression of African people. White violence is as old as America itself. It is time white people to stand up and take responsibility for this history. Reparations for stolen black lives!” Nevel said, according to the group’s website."
see: http://www.theamericanmirror.com/video-protesters-chant-black-lives-matter-while-burning-american-flag/

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