The study by Hamburg Sex Researcher Professor Dr Werner Habermehl looked at the sex lives of hundreds of German women and compared them with their hair colour.
He said: “The sex lives of women with red hair were clearly more active than those with other hair colour, with more partners and having sex more often than the average. The research shows that the fiery redhead certainly lives up to her reputation.”
He added that women who dyed their hair red from another colour were signalling they were looking for a partner, and added: “Even women in a fixed relationship are letting their partners know they are unhappy if they dye their hair red. They are saying that they are looking for something better.”
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Ignoring the obvious
Despite standing right beside the Muslim extremist who shot her and listening while he “ranted on the phone about Jews, Israel and the U.S. role in the war in Iraq and the Middle East” Ms Klein is concerned about all the wrong things:
Klein said she hopes the shooting will serve to renew local and national efforts to draft gun control legislation.
How and why Haq “was able to legally acquire two semi-automatic weapons in our state is still a very disturbing mystery to me,” she said.
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“Naveed Haq has wasted enough of my time,” she said.
Huh? Haq is the reason she may not regain the use of her hand. His extremist religious beliefs are the reason he and millions of others want her dead. And she is distrubed because it’s legal to purchase firearms? Had she purchased and carried a similar firearm she and others might not have been shot. She should exercise her rights, her brain, and before pushing for more useless gun control legislation answer Just One Question.
For reference see:
Going for the emotion
As pointed out by Denise, Jenny Price wrote another editorial. This time on gun owners instead of guns. I commented on her last one here. This one is about being “Targeted by Gun Nuts”. At the time I suspected she visited my blog a week or two after I wrote that post because of what I saw in my log file, but one never knows for certain.
Jenny, if you visit again please answer Just One Question.
I think the most telling part of the editorial are the last two paragraphs:
…do you really want these people on these websites (and 40 million other people in the country) to have guns?
I can cite statistics, and I can tell you why the right to carry a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun with a 10-shot clip is not guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment. But the paranoia and bone-chilling hatred that spew from such sites as packing.org and freerepublic.com make for an equally — and unusually — effective argument for a ban on handguns.
She can cite statistics but can she do it correctly? Last time she had a terrible problem doing so. I’ve looked around a fair amount this morning and as near as I can tell she is off by about a factor of two, on the low side, with the number of gun owners in this country.
And if she can tell us why the 2nd Amendment doesn’t guarantee us the right to carry a 9mm handgun with a 10 round magazine there are some others besides me who would be interested in her reasoning. For example:
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The Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session, 2/82
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The judges in U.S. vs. Emerson, 5th Circuit Federal Court
But then she could have done that this time but instead went for the emotional appeal and claims it’s is an unusually effective argument.
Quote of the day–Fabian Nunez
I think the 2008 presidential election will be won or lost on environmental degradation and new thinking on the environment.
Fabian Nunez
California Assembly Speaker
August 17, 2006
California on brink of global warming breakthrough
[We are in the middle of WWIII (or IV) and this guy thinks “new thinking on the environment” will be the deciding issue of the next presidental election? The guy is a Barking Moonbat.–Joe]
Missouri
I remembered as soon as I heard it, Barb and I mispronounce Missouri. It’s pronouced mi-ZER-ah by the locals here. With that small error corrected we are doing fine (other than the marginal Internet connection).
Monday was spent in Branson. In the morning we visited the Titanic museum. We were quite impressed. But why such an extensive Titanic museum in the Midwest? I could see having it in New York City, Belfast, or even London, but Branson Missouri? Never mind. We liked it a great deal.
Monday afternoon we rode the ducks with “Captain Clyde.” Very funny and pleasingly informative.
Monday evening we had dinner at the Shogun Restaurant and were pleased with both the food and the show.
After dinner we went to the Jim Stafford Show. He and his kids are very talented musically but the humor was disappointing.
Tuesday afternoon we visited the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Mansfield. I haven’t read even one of her “Little House on the Prairie” books or watched one of the T.V. shows but still enjoyed the museum. Her daughter Rose Wilder Lane was quite impressive too and a large section of the museum is devoted to her. Rose is considered seminal force behind the Libertarian party!
Late on Tuesday afternoon we found our way deep into the “hills” to the home of Ozark Pyrotechnics owner Dave and his family. The highest point in the state is 1772 feet and the lowest is 230 feet above sea level so it’s not really possible to have “hills” that qualify to our Idaho sensibilities. Dave is a self described hillbilly. If Dave and his family are representative of hillbillies then it is no insult to be called one. For hours Dave and talked about Boomershoot and his first effort at a similar event while Barb was entertained by the two girls:
Dave, knowing we were celebrating our 30th anniversary this week fixed us a wonderful dinner, complete with champagne, and put on a fireworks show for us. This wasn’t just a few fountains, sparklers and firecrackers. This was a real fireworks show that required a call to the local sheriff and the fire marshall beforehand. Here is a picture of Dave with his idea of real fireworks (the biggest shells for us were ‘only’ four inches):
Update: I forgot to mention the fireflies! Barb and I had never seen fireflies before. We saw our first fireflies Tuesday night as we were preparing the fireworks. The dark haired girl in the picture above caught a couple and showed them to us up close.
It was such a cool way to celebrate our anniversary. Other people celebrate anniversaries by going to Hawaii or Europe. We visited hillbillies in the Ozarks and saw fireflies and our own private fireworks display. How many people can claim an experience like that?
Quote of the day–Catherine Mayo
The folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush. He has hampered the liberties of my country in the name of September 11. Songs now can only talk of patriotism, they cannot mention peace.
Catherine Mayo
AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: Value of dissent
March 18, 2003
[Mayo is the Barking Moonbat who urinated in the aisle of United flight 923 from London to Washington D.C. yesterday.–Joe]
Quote of the day–P. J. O’Rourke
The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then get elected and prove it.
P. J. O’Rourke
Parliament of Whores
Quote of the day–Dave Barry
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They’re the kind of people who’d stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn’t bother to stop because they’d want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.
Dave Barry
Internet access is a pain
What I really need is a directional WiFi antenna. I’ve been meaning to get one and had really intended to do that before this trip. As I stand (the signal inside the car is too weak) in the parking lot next to our rental car (for the power from the inverter I did bring along) in the early hours of the morning, blogging, reading and writing email, I realize my tendency to procrastinate is a vice (Xenia, please learn from your father’s mistakes–even if you did inherit this personality trait from him).
I have permission to use the WiFi in the building across the parking lot from our place here but just not the range with the network card in my laptop. Neither WalMart nor Staples have the desired equipment. And it looks like the closest Fry’s is in Texas.
Nice twist
All though this video I get increasingly uncomfortable. I kept thinking “this can’t turn out well” and I was tempted to stop watching. The tension gradually increases and reaches a peak just as you “know” it’s going to get really ugly. It has a nice twist at the end as everything resolves in a satisfactory manner that makes it worthwhile watching. Via Ry.
It illustrates the truth of Lyle’s post from the other day.
Only the police should have guns
No wonder the police and the politicians in Philadelphia want the citizens disarmed: Philadelphia cops use badges to exhort sex.
Quote of the day–Donald L. Cline
Liberty is a hollow joke without an armed populace to protect the rights of all.
Donald L. Cline
August 14, 2006
Gun laws only help criminals
Arrival in Branson Missouri
We have arrived. The internet connection sucks. Only if I put my laptop on top of the T.V. at a funny angle can I get a connection. I think I can fix it but it will have to wait for a few hours. We are both tired and are going to take a nap.
NWA is going to get a letter from Barb about our baggage and a couple other items. She already called them and rattled their cage once. They messed up a bunch of people, not just us. It’s straightened out now but it wasn’t pleasant.
Quote of the day–Ramsey Clarke
We’ve made more enemies during the presidency of George Bush than in the rest of our history combined.
Ramsey Clark
Former US Attorney General
[And one could make a lot of enemies serving “colored people” in your restaurant in the deep south 50 years ago too. It’s the same emotional ‘argument’ about “squandering our good will”. We “squandered our good will” with Germany, Italy, and Japan about 65 years ago too. Doing the right thing is more important than trying to make everyone happy. Facts don’t support his agenda so he makes an emotional appeal.–Joe]
What will it take?
The majority opinion over here is pretty much what Ry and I have concluded. We’ll have to take a serious hit before we stop swatting at the “wasps” and instead destroy the “nests” and kill the “queens”.
Springfield via Memphis via Minneapolis
We were supposed to be in Springfield MO by now. But our plane to leave Seattle arrived 40 minutes late. It took off well over an hour late (taxiway congestion). We arrived in Minneapolis about 10 minutes after our connecting flight to Springfield was scheduled to leave.
The airline (NWA) put us up in a very nice room with free ground transportation, meals, and small overnight kit (they locked up our luggage for the night). Tomorrow morning we get a wake up call at 4:00 AM (2:00 AM my time) to catch a shuttle ride back to the airport where we catch a flight to Memphis and from there we go to Springfield arriving almost exactly 12 hours later than we planned..
Barb is stressing a little bit but as long as I do the interacting with all the wonderful service people that have been so accommodating we’ll do just fine.
I am annoyed with the hotel here, they have a policy of no guns on the property. This appears to be in accordance with Minnesota law. But since I don’t have my gun with me (it’s locked up at the airport) I suppose it doesn’t matter all that much this time. I’ll leave them one of these cards in the morning:
It’s off to Mark Twain land
Barb and I will be visiting the Mark Twain National Forest and Ozark Pyrotechnics this week. The plane leaves in a few hours. I’m sure it will be fun going through security. I’m tempted to play games with security but Barb gets annoyed when I do that when she is along.
While we are gone the Huffman-Scott compound will be occupied by men and/or women with nasty attitudes, both long and short guns, bitey dogs, but no explosives. The explosives have been locked away in a secure facility. This is so there will be something left of any goblin who visits while we are gone. I don’t want them to get all the fun.
Update: From being dropped off at the airport until we were through security and done putting all our clothes back on it only took 40 minutes. That 40 minutes included an inexperience ticket agent dealing with my handgun. They are doing their best to make the violation of our inalienable rights as painless as possible.
Airport/airplane security is a joke
As I have been saying for years current airport security doesn’t and probably can’t possibly work. Here are some other peoples thoughts on the topic:
- New Airline Security Rules (be sure and read the comments)
- Threat modeling airplane explosive detection
- Bruce Schneier points out knives and guns are built in prisons so how can we hope to keep them off of airplanes?
- Gaping holes in airport security
It’s time to investigate alternatives. Even scrapping the existing system entirely and taking all that money and investing it in intelligence and police work would be an improvement.
A good night to stare at the sky
There should be a meteor shower tonight.
Quote of the day–Douglas MacArthur
Appeasement but begets new and bloodier wars.
Douglas MacArthur
1880-1964
American general
Address to Congress
April 19, 1951
[Communists, Islamic extremists, or anti-gun owner bigots it still applies.–Joe]