Shot by an armed bystander in Boston. A psych patient attacks a doctor, and is shot by an armed, off duty security guard. Not an on duty or off duty cop, but a guy who was armed. Carrying a pistol.

Being a sheepdog, rather than a sheep.

Possibly saving the doctors life (stabbed several times, but alive and recovering at this time) by shooting and killing the psycho psych patient. Even though most people in Massechussets are not allowed to be armed (Restrictive May Issue), this man was armed due to his profession, and he was in the right place at the right time.

How many more killings, robberies, or muggings could be stopped if more citizens were armed and able to stop criminal acts?

Seems that the data is getting SPARSER and SPARSER when it comes to the number of data points used for temperature recording….Making it harder to compare things to earlier years….Like 1975!

Follow the link. Interesting stuff.

Something to think about

If Email has a good use, it is the perpetuation of good jokes propagated via ones and zeros….

From a much forwarded email which wound up in my inbox…..

How I learned to mind my own business :

I was walking past the mental hospital the other day,
And all the patients were shouting, ’13….13….13.’

The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a
Little gap in the planks, so I looked through to see
What was going on…..

Some idiot poked me in the eye with a stick!

Then they all started shouting ’14….14….14’…

Sadly, I can see many of my friends being the organizer of such behavior at an institution…..You know who you are….

Seems that in Minnesota they are packin’ heat when picking up trash.

And I be that no guns were discharged while the road was being cleaned.

Despite the evil loaded firearms affecting people’s minds and all that.

Strange….

I find it hard to see how this is theft.

I mean, if you are gonna give me money, expect me to take it.

Armatys accepted a job with Basking Ridge, N.J.-based telecommunications company Avaya Inc. in September 2002, then changed his mind. But the company’s computer system never removed his name from the payroll.

Paychecks were deposited into his bank account until February 2007, when Avaya auditors discovered the mistake.

Seems that they are charging him with theft.

I think it’s just too bad for the company.

Via Hoosierboy comes THIS..

Slanted? Yes. Factual? More or less. Scary? You bet.

But that is what “Hope and Change” was all about. Hoe all of those who voted for it choke on it .

As Caleb says…”Well Played” even though this photo was most likely staged, the whole thing with the Pig Sickness Vaccine and the failure to ramp up production or to distribute it in an orderly fashion (like say to high risk folks first…) or with even a bit of forethought (perhaps there is a bit of forethought, but the distribution appears to be highly haphazard…)

If the vaccine distribution is any indication of the effectiveness of the way that the government will operate our healthcare then we should all be afraid…..Very very afraid (like we weren’t already…)

So I had a great time at the Indy Blogmeet. Thanks to whomever (Roberta??) set it up. I always enjoy meeting people who are intelligent witty and interesting. Everyone I met on Sunday afternoon met all those criteria…

Had an interesting discussion with OG, met Brigid (finally!!!) who is as interesting in person as her writing is, Tam (who I had met the day before, but is SO fun to talk to (and tall, BTW)), Owen, Jay (an interesting fellow, I assure you), Old Grouch and I had an interesting discussion of the psychological profiles of the folks carving pumpkins outside (there were some fairly disturbed folks, adult and children using fairly sharp objects….. Glad I was armed…)

Wayne (I think) was open carrying, and no one really cared (except that it was, I think, a Glock, which is sacrilege to those of us who are disciples of JMB, but even so, it was a Good Thing). I have a feeling that the rest of us were carrying concealed (maybe I was, and maybe I wasn’t….???) but I doubt that there was a lack of lead and brass in the room…

I think that Og did not mark his territory on my Prius…..

All in all, I really enjoyed the blogmeet. If I had been able to leave the gunshow earlier, I would have, just to be able to spend more time with these folks….

If you can make a blogmeet with these people, I strongly urge you to do so.

I gotta update my blogroll too…

than health care…..

But it seems that the DNC and the Socialized Medicine folks don’t want to let anyone know that.

Much like the profit margins of the Evil capitalists oil companies that were the bad boys last year, the Heartless bastards Health Insurers have low profit margins. You are better off investing in a LOT of other industries.

Link HERE