Does this seem at all familiar, Joe?

Professor Thomas Klocek a Roman Catholic…was dismissed by DePaul University for allegedly offending Muslim students when discussing Christian interests in Israel, disputing that Israeli treatment of Palestinians was akin to the Nazi treatment of the Jews and then terminating the discussion when it appeared that the students were more interested in Israel-bashing than discussing the issues.

It is our understanding that Prof. Klocek alleges:

1) He was never allowed to meet with his accusers.

2) He was never presented with a written list of the complaints or charges against him.

3) He was suspended by the Dean of the School for New Learning in clear violation of the University's own stated Faculty Handbook procedures.

4) He was never given a hearing.

5) A vote by the DePaul Faculty Council affirmed that the same rules that apply for a formal academic hearing apply to all professors, full-time and adjuncts alike.

Read more here http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/display_petitions.cgi?ID=3

I just realized that Dr. Joe's Cure for Everything is one of the viable options to winning WWIII (or IV depending...). As I have said before we must destroy their culture. One of the ways we can do that is by "corrupting" their youth and leading them away from a strict Islamic lifestyle. Hence giving their young hormonally overdosed youths a steady diet of porn could lead them to "the dark side" of western culture.

It could work! I even have a slogan for this campaign: "Porn for Peace."

I also have cameras and spare bandwidth. I'm hereby volunteering to help in this new campaign. I just need volunteer models. Send me an email with a sample photo if you want to participate. Hillary need not apply--we want to win this war, not put a bullet through our own brain.

Bruce Schneier must have different, and much better, search terms than I do for these things. Here is a sample of what airport security is about (emphasis added):

The point of the training class is simple - to teach you to identify the FAA test items on the x ray machine. Pat downs, hand wands, those sort of things were covered in a cursory manner. Pat downs, incidentally, had their own picture, illustrating that a man cupping a woman's breast served no purpose for security measures. The rest of the days were spent on the test items. We were drilled frame by frame, chanting in unison -
"Gun"
"Knife"
"Bomb"
"Clear"
"Knife"
This went on for hours, then the tests became "tricky". The film strip was inserted backwards, and we did it again. We lost two trainees that first run, two men who insisted that the slide they had just looked at left to right no longer contained the bomb when viewed right to left. Then they ran the strip upside down. When we concluded, it was time to be tested.

Test items. Not actual items considered a threat. Do you think I'm just displaying my Aspergers? Ha! Got you this time. Check out this:

"How do you know it's a gun?" He asked me.
"it looks like one," I said, and was immediately pounded on the back.
"Goddamn right it does. You get over here," yelled Mike to Will.
"How do you know it's a gun?"
"I look for the outline of the cartridge and the..." Will started.
"What?"
"The barrel you can see right here," Will continued, oblivious to his pending doom.
"What the hell are you talking about? That's not how you find this gun"
"No sir. It's how you find any gun, sir," said Will. I knew right then that this was a disaster.
"Any gun? Any gun? I don't give a fuck about any gun, dipshit. I care about this gun. The FAA will not test you with another gun. The FAA will never put any gun but this one in the machine. I don't care if you are a fucking gun nut who can tell the caliber by sniffing the barrel, you look for this gun. THIS ONE." Mike strode to the test bag and dumped it out at the feet of the metal detector, sending the machine into a frenzy.

"THIS bomb. This knife. I don't care if you miss a goddamn bazooka and some son of a bitch cuts your throat with a knife you let through as long as you find THIS GUN."
"But we're supposed to find," Will insisted.
"You find what I trained you to find. The other shit doesn't get taken out of my paycheck when you miss it," said Mike.

The incentives are screwed up. It's important they pass the tests, not that they catch you or I with a knife in the bottom of our carry-on luggage. Bruce has another post that points us in generally in the correct direction. But we really need to consider alternatives. The incentives need to be aligned with the desired goals--safe air travel. The passengers and crew of the plane have the motivation and are in the best position to implement appropriate security measures. Let them do their job instead of taking away their defensive tools.

I was talking with a friend at work yesterday. He grew up in Lebanon and his mother is still there. Nearly every day when I see him I ask about his mother (she evacuated safely and is doing fine so far). He told me the extremists are about 1000 years behind the times. They are brain washed and the entire world has a problem. I agreed.

If you don't agree then take a look at the evidence Michelle Malkin presents:

...a 16-year-old girl hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka. Her death sentence was imposed by Islamic mullahs for "crimes against chastity."

That is just a hint of what we are fighting against. As long as we tolerate "crimes against chastity" and other affronts to the Islamic extremists we will be attacked. It will not stop until we capture or kill them. Yes, there are innocents die as we, and now Israel, fight this evil but the number of innocents killed will be greater if we do nothing. It is better to fight them now before they obtain atomic weapons rather than after. I just hope enough people of the world realize the seriousness of this war such that we have the resources and the will to finish it.

It's bad enough that cops enforcing speed limits have quotas. But think about the implications if Federal Air Marshals have quotas. And there's evidence that some of them do have quotas to meet. It's time to consider some alternatives and scrape the TSA efforts.

She does bind oxygen and carbon together and produce heat. So I suppose she is good for something.

Ry Jones
13:10 July 27, 2006
Referencing an individual he has low regard for.
[I suppose the same could be said of the barking moonbats. Ry is such a tolerant person. It must be rubbing off on me. Ry was in good form at lunch yesterday. He also had this to say.--Joe]

Ry sent me a link to a video. Pretty funny stuff. Probably safe for most work environments. It's a beer ad but you wouldn't have guessed it from the first 1/2 of the video. It could be considered an exaggeration of the sexual attitude differences between men and women.

I've never been to a museum of sex (it was a bordello museum, not a sex museum). I think would probably enjoy such a visit but not if they have exhibits of Hillary. Even if you drop the title of "The First Woman President of the United States of America" this image just drains it all out of me:

The criticism is right on but the proposals are only a step in the right direction. The optimal won't currently pass political muster so one has to go with the baby step:

This approach would begin with the fundamentally different assumption that the function of aviation security is to identify and isolate dangerous persons, not dangerous objects per se. The challenge is to keep bad people from causing harm, either in the terminal area or to the planes themselves. The TSA currently devotes the lion’s share of its airport resources to only one of these threats: preventing would-be hijackers from boarding planes with weapons. Far less money and effort is spent on securing airport terminal lobbies and the ramp areas where planes park and on keeping airline tickets out of the hands of known and suspected terrorists.

One summer I worked for a short time for a local guy doing contract game development. I got an email from him yesterday asking if I or anyone I knew would be interested in working for him again:

I have a game development position open and am trying to get the word out to people who might be interested. This is work much the same as before. Lots of C++ network & graphics coding. Initially it will be code maintenance on our PS2 and PSP titles, but will transition to new code development on the PS3 in the 6-12 month time-frame. If this sounds like it might fit with your current situation, please contact me. If not, please spread the word if you know of anybody you can recommend.

...

If you know any talented programmers who would like to get out of the city and would like to work long hours for low pay in the environs of Deary, please give them my address...

I turned it down. Right now I need a fairly high income to accomplish some particular goals and I'm pretty happy with the work I'm doing. It's very challenging and being forced to stretch myself is probably a good thing. It can be comfortable to coast but I'm sure I'm a better person accomplishing difficult tasks.

Where is Deary? It's about 20 miles east of Moscow on highway 3. As near as I can tell it has nine streets. And my recollection is that it doesn't have any stop lights. There are lots of trees and mountains however.

Let me know if you are interested and I'll forward your name on to him.

It's like a B-grade science fiction movie: Yellow jacket nests as large as Volkswagens.

Although I am fond of the saying, "There is no problem the proper application of high explosives can't solve.", I'm not convinced Ry has the correct approach with high explosives. I think some tests are in order to test that hypothesis.

Is it just me or do you see a similarity in people that are fearful of guns and gun owners? I remember the rallies against I-676 (Washington State initiative to register handguns) where a few pro-676 people showed up and a couple years later attending a rally in Olympia (capital of Washington State).  The anti-gun people just looked different. Here I see the same look. I want to say timid but that's not quite it. I sense a weakness. Perhaps a lack of assertiveness. Here's the picture:

I keep thinking "grass eaters", "sheep", and "prey". Why is that? And is it something that could be changed with training? Would a few hours on the range and in the classroom convert them to "sheep dogs"? Would their appearances change such that other "sheep dogs" such as I, and the "wolves", notice the difference?

Update: It's fear. That's what I see. I figured it out when I was in the shower this morning. It's like they are in a German concentration camp and they are submitting a petition to the camp commander.

I also should have commented on the text of the article. They say Cincinnati should ban handguns like Morton Grove, IL. That ordinance was held up as constitutional. There's just one problem. The Ohio Constitution has a provision for the right to keep and bear arms that IL doesn't have. And of course, there is Just One Question for these fearful people.

Be sure to read the comments to this post. More enlightenment is awaiting you there.

She appears to have taken after her father. That's my girl!

The war with Israel does not depend on cease-fires ... . It is a Jihad for God's sake and will last until (our) religion prevails...from Spain to Iraq. We will attack everywhere.

Ayman al-Zawahri
Second in command to Osama bin Laden
July 26, 2006
As quoted in the Jerusalem Post
[This is entirely consisted with Osama bin Laden's letter to America. This extremist culture must be destroyed worldwide.--Joe]

How interesting! Just yesterday I was just explaining to a lawyer how information is leaked in your search terms when you search the web. One of my blog visitors from the General Services Administration did a search for "nuke medina".

It probably was just some individual with free time on their hands as opposed to true government interest. But it's amusing all the same:

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The ruling has come out. No gay marriage in Washington State for the time being.

I'm all in favor of gay marriage but it needs to be approved by the majority of legislature and/or the people. The people working this issue have more foundation to lay before they can erect the institution.

Gun rights advocates can learn from this. Going to the courts to resolve your issue can backfire. If you don't win you can make things worse.

Of course, the Marxian definition of value is ridiculous. All the work one cares to add will not turn a mud pie into an apple tart; it remains a mud pie, value zero. By corollary, unskillful work can easily subtract value; an untalented cook can turn wholesome dough and fresh green apples, valuable already, into an inedible mess, value zero. Conversely, a great chef can fashion of those same materials a confection of greater value than a commonplace apple tart, with no more effort than an ordinary cook uses to prepare an ordinary sweet.

These kitchen illustrations demolish the Marxian theory of value--the fallacy from which the entire magnificent fraud of communism derives--and illustrate the truth of the common-sense definition as measured in terms of use.

Mr. Dubois
Instructor of History and Moral Philosophy
A character in Robert A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers
Page 90
[Do not think for an instant that Marxism, the most thoroughly tested and failed political philosophy in human history, is dead. It should be but millions of people still yearn for it. It's a mind numbing addictive drug that gives an initial euphoria and the illusion of well-being but ultimately it destroys initiative, your economic health, and then your life.--Joe]

Keep your blood pressure medicine handy as you read this. USA Today doesn't want to hear about defensive gun use. They made up details to avoid reporting about it in a story.

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men. We're trying to teach you to be dangerous--to the enemy. Dangerous even without a knife. Deadly as long as you still have one hand or one foot and are still alive.

Robert A. Heinlein
Sergeant Zim
A character in Robert A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers
Page 61
[I would probably say it slightly different. I would say, "There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous minds." In any case the anti-gun bigots need to learn this lesson.

In case you hadn't guessed I'm listening to Starship Troopers on my long commute to/from Idaho/Seattle. I had read it before but that was probably in the mid-70s. I remember Heinlein being a major influence on my world view. I sometimes have wondered if I would still be as impressed with him now that I am 30 years older than when I read his works. I'm not wondering anymore. It has a lot more meaning to me now than what I remember from then. And I'm recommending to Xenia that she read this book. Her boyfriend is in the U.S. Army. I had kept my Heinlein collection all these years "for my children, if I ever have any". I could never get any of them interested before--but things change when members of the opposite sex start influencing your children.--Joe]

When you travel by air with your firearm do not leave the magazine in your semi-auto. Especially if the magazine is loaded. Claiming that having an empty chamber counts as an unloaded gun may not work. Some jurisdictions may even consider the gun loaded if the magazine is loaded and in a different suitcase from the gun.

I once had two TSA employees argue for 15 minuts about a loaded magazine I had even with the gun completely empty. The smarter of the two finally won that arguement but I could have had to argue that point myself to a prosecutor and/or judge. And one time I wait for over 30 minutes because the TSA guy claimed he couldn't determine via the X-ray if the magazine in the grip of my Ruger P-89 was empty or loaded. The rules wouldn't allow him to touch the gun and drop the magazine to check it out, I wasn't allowed to touch anything once they had it under their control. So we to wait for a police officer to arrive from some distant city or something to take all of five seconds to pick up the gun drop the magazine, say, "It's fine.", reinsert the magazine, put my gun back in it's case and walk off.

Even if it is a muzzle loader. A fifty caliber hole will let all the blood out and ventilate your insides. And in someways perhaps even do a better job than many of the more modern defensive tools.

From Clayton.

One could argue that the "government stupidity" is redundant, but please don't bring up that argument this time. The following example provides more material for illustrating your point today:

The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security said while in Edmonton on Tuesday that certain types of travel will be exempt from new regulations on border crossings between Canada and the U.S.

While speaking to legislators and business leaders from both sides of the border at the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region's annual summit, Michael Chertoff said a "practical approach" is necessary.

"In particular, we will not be, for example, including in this set of regulations a requirement for passports for ferries or private watercraft, recognizing that this is a particular form of transportation that we don't want to interfere with," said Chertoff.

Security, defensive security in particular, is only as good as it's weakest link. If a passport requirement for travel between the U.S. and Canada provides some sort of security advantage (I question that it does, but that is why the requirement was put in place) then having an exemption for ferries and private watercraft is of dubious wisdom. Does this mean that terrorists don't know how to board boats? Does Mr. Chertoff think they are all scared of the water?

I suppose it's possible that the water routes have some sort of different security mechanism that provides as good as or better security than checking your passport as you drive across the border. But I doubt it. Most likely they don't have the facilities and resources to deal with all the crossings.

Take a look as places like Detroit, which is actually directly north of parts of Canada. End to end Lake St. Clair is only 25 miles long and provides direct access into Detroit from Canada. Personal watercraft can easily cross that gap in 45 minutes. It's just not possible to interdict all the water skiers, fishermen, and people just crossing the lake to eat dinner in the city and ask them for their passports without pissing everyone off. Similar claims could be made about Lake Erie, and in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

And what's the point with passports anyway? Does someone think having "good ID" somehow makes everyone safer? Here is a case where fake ID is saving lives.

The bottom line is that passports cannot improve security. The reason our government is requiring passports, in some cases, is to make some people feel more secure. Real security depends on hunting down those that try inflict violence upon us and capturing or killing them. Exactly the solution Israel is implementing now.

Thanks to Bruce Schneier for his no passports needed for water traffic and the fake ID saving lives posts.

In India you can get free Yoga instruction if you want. As much as Dr. Joe advocates more sex as a cure for everything I think perhaps paying for your Yoga instruction would be the better alternative if you are considering changing your vocation just for the free instruction:

Now, sex workers throughout the country would be taught Yoga under the aegis of Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Samiti, an organization devoted to the welfare of prostitutes. Another organization - The Friends Society - has also decided to help them.

The first camp has commenced in the Shivdaspur area of Varanasi by Swamy Yogeshwaranand, a disciple of Yoga Guru Swami Ramdeo.

According to President of Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Sabha, Yoga will help the sex workers in keeping themselves mentally and physically fit. Prolonged sex act makes them physically very tiring if a sex worker has to attend to many customers in a day.

Often sex causes vaginal pain and mental stress. Yoga would help them enjoy the act which otherwise is an act of drudgery for a sex worker.

...

According to President of the Friends Society Ashish Agarwal, yoga classes would be held in more than 1100 red light areas across India and such classes would benefit 23.85 lakh sex workers who often satiate the hunger of as many as 80 lakh customers.

Perhaps it's because I can't relate to the environment. No one in my grade school (I never went to nursery school or kindergarten) had "two dads" or "two mums". In my little school, where I was in the largest class ever with six students, there weren't even any single parents. I didn't even get a hint of what homosexuality was about until L.J. tried to explain in to me in about the fifth grade. But in any case this seems just a little off base:

Nursery teachers should promote tolerance of same-sex partnerships and outlaw the use of offensive homophobic language in the classroom or playground, a teaching union said today.

...

The NUT said: "It is particularly important to begin to make three to five-year-olds aware of the range of families that exist in the UK today". That would includes families with single parents or those with "two mums" or "two dads", the union said.

...

The guidance, which has so far been voluntary, is due to become compulsory for early years staff from next year, following the outcome of the consultation.

Is this really an issue in the lives of three to five-year-olds? It would be difficult for me to defend this against the obvious accusations and baggage of "promoting the homosexual agenda" or some such thing.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue--and thoroughly immoral--doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

Mr. Dubois
Instructor of History and Moral Philosophy
A character in Robert A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers
Page 26

Democracy is also a form of worship.  It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

H. L. Mencken

NOT!

Those of you that have requested more frequent Boomershoots don't know what you are asking for. It was 104F there today.

I went out to the Boomershoot site to inventory and organize a few things then fix the broken table we use for making reactive targets that sometimes fell down when we're using it. For some reason my helpers seem uncomfortable with a hundred pounds of explosives falling to the ground all around them. I can't imagine why.

Anyway, I arrived by about 8:45 AM and it was already warm. The Taj Mahal was buzzing with wasps and I threw out between five and ten nests and killed a half dozen or so individual wasps. I got stung by a wasp I never did see. I did all my inventory and organizational chores as the temperature kept rising. It was really hot and there wasn't even the hint of a breeze. I was dripping wet with sweat even though I was working in the shade. I left about 10:45 and when I arrived at my parents house two miles away it was 99F. By 13:30 it had risen to 104F.

Doug and I went back out about 15:30 after the temperature had dropped back down to 99F. We fixed the table and scoped out the possibility of putting in a culvert to get better access during our wet springs. After the last trip through the creek this spring Scott said he would need a snorkel if he had to go through again. And the year before that Ry got his van stuck there (as well as in the middle of the field).

No matter how great the ballistics would be on a day like today you don't want to lay out in the middle of dry hay field when it's over 100F and the wasps are stinging you. You really, really don't.

These numbers should make everyone question the NRA's campaign for lax CCW laws under the guise of fighting crime.  If the gun lobby is truly interested in reducing crime, they should work for common sense measures like stopping criminals from getting guns at gun shows and limiting handgun sales to one per person per month to cut gun trafficking. Working with lawmakers, law enforcement, the public health community and civic leaders on proven crime-fighting strategies, we can make America safer for everyone.

Sarah Brady
Regarding a 'study' that claims crime rates fell faster in states that did not have 'shall issue' concealed carry laws.
Originally from: http://www.handguncontrol.org/press/RLSE.htm (As of January 20, 1999)
Currently found here: CONCEALED TRUTH Concealed Weapons Laws and Trends in Violent Crime in the United States
Issued October 22, 1999
[What she fails to tell you is that the crime rate was much higher in the states with disarmed vicitims both at the beginning and at the end of the time period under consideration. The crime rate could be zero at both the beginning and the end in states with lots of guns and 1000 murders per 100,000 and then later 999 murders per 100,000 in the Sarah's utopia and she would still be singing the same song of joy and be entirely truthful.--Joe]

You cannot defeat your enemy unless you take the offense. We are opening up another offensive front:

Former U.S. representative Bob Barr of Georgia filed a $400 million lawsuit against New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday, claiming Bloomberg's attempt to crack down on gun dealers was "careless, willful and clearly illegal."

The lawsuit, filed in Cobb County Superior Court in Marietta, Ga., came in response to a federal lawsuit filed by Bloomberg in May alleging that 15 firearm brokers in five states, including Georgia, were "rogue gun dealers."

...

Barr's lawsuit alleges that Bloomberg made misleading statements to the national media that were defamatory toward Smyrna, Ga., gun dealer Adventure Outdoors.

"We didn't start this fight. They did," Barr told a cheering crowd in Marietta's city square. "But we intend to finish it and win."
Bloomberg's lawsuit claims that the dealer sold 21 guns over a seven-year period that were used in New York crimes. The shop's owner, Jay Wallace, said his name has been "trashed in the public eye of the nation."

"I've run my business with honesty and integrity, and I take pride in being part of the firearm industry,"he said.

The announcement took on a patriotic tune as flag-waving supporters cheered the news of the lawsuit and danced.

"We will fight to prove the Constitution of the United States is still intact, and that Mr. Bloomberg's fight to abolish the Second Amendment must and will fail," said Edwin Marger, a lawyer who filed the lawsuit with Barr.

See also the press release that Cam Edwards received.

I'm hoping to open up a new offensive front of my own soon. Sometimes things move far, far slower than one hopes.

In the last five months of World War II, American bombing raids claimed the lives of more than 900,000 Japanese civilians -- not counting the casualties from the atomic strikes against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is more than twice the total number of combat deaths that the United States has suffered in all its foreign wars combined.

On one night, that of March 9-10, 1945, 234 Superfortresses dropped 1,167 tons of incendiary bombs over downtown Tokyo; 83,793 Japanese bodies were found in the charred remains--a number greater than the 80,942 combat fatalities that the United States sustained in the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined.

Walter Russell Mead
The Jacksonian Tradition and American Foreign Policy
[Thanks to Kevin Baker for pointing this out. The Barking Moon Bats and the Muslim extremists should be reminded of this every time they whine about the civilian deaths in the MidEast. If you really piss us off you will have something to complain about.--Joe]