Because they are trained and all that……

Yet things like this happen. 

Cops are human, some good, some bad, sometimes they snap. Sometimes they go crazy. We don’t know what she did to him or any of the details. (Not making excuses for his behavior here either). We simply don’t know.

But that argument about “only cops should have guns” because they are trained and psychologically tested and all that folderol falls apart with incidents like this.

Sometimes, it seems that the ancients weren’t ans ignorant of things as we thought.

Old Anglo-Saxon potion recipe kills bacteria, even MRSA.

The ancient remedy was discovered at the British Library in a copy of Bald’s Leechbook, widely regarded as the first known medical textbook…

Interestin’ one might say…

Makes ya wonder what else is out there….or lost through the ages, or because no one wrote it down….

Alchemy?

Skynyrd.

Yeah, I’m old.

Still a good tune.

Was discussing with a resident of Texas rain (it is interrupting his work up here) and I pointed out that Texas had it worse.  At least it stops for a day here and there.

He said Yes, that was true, and (up to a point) they needed the rain.

But he also pointed out that no matter how flooded the state gets, it never seems to drown the damned fire ants.

Why is that?

I have a notification that I can get Windows 10 for free from Microsoft.

Forums say this is a good thing, but some say this will become a subscription sort of thing.

I HATE —really absolutely positively HATE— windows 8.X. Can’t stand it. Hate the tiles, Hate the whole fucking thing.  It’s probably great in a tablet, but I’m using a laptop.

So if I upgrade, to 10, what is it like….More like 8, or can it be like 7? And if I DON’T upgrade, then what? At some point next year or whatever I can’t use my machine and haveta upgrade anyway? (or buy a new machine or whatever?)

(knowledgeable) Advice is sought.

Please, don’t advise me to go Linux.

ETA: Is Microsoft gonna continue to support 7 after 10 comes down the pike? Or will those of us who choose to stay in the Dark Ages fail to take the upgrade when offered to 10 (free) get screwed later?

Enquiring minds wanno know and all that.

Indeed.

You’ve lost it

Found at

So I am watching the coverage of the Dallas Police station shooting/bombing….

How do they know the van in “armored”? It isn’t all that easy to armor a vehicle…

The patterns of the bullet holes tell me that the description of the guns used by the (alleged) attackers as “automatic weapons” is a lie.

Many suspects, but they only caught one, and he isn’t talking (as he is at room temperature), so really, How DO THEY KNOW how many there may or may not have been? They assume more than one, but the attack took place in the dark, and really, cops have no idea the amount of shit one person who is motivated and unafraid of death can dish out in a short time.

And finally, one might have thought that Dallas could have found a Chief of Police who could speak reasonably well….Sadly, he can’t.

Like it would be a bad thing?

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Wednesday warned Republicans that if they don’t reach another bipartisan deal to lift spending ceilings, they risk causing another government shutdown this fall.

Let ’em shut it down. If it were me, I’d shut the whole thing down (less the military), and let it stay down for a month Close all those departments like DOE, Dept of Ed, Interior, ATF, etc. Then see what parts we miss, and reactivate those. Let the rest stay shut down until we (they, actually) find a way to not spend more than we bring in each year. In fact, I’d cut them so far that we would have a surplus of 10% until we pay down that debt.

But that’s just me….someone who has to stop spending when I am out of credit and all….