Comments on: Independence Day

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:43:27 +0000

Someone should have explained that the Second Amendment is about the right to bear arms, not to arm bears… [rimshot]

I carried a .357 magnum in Alaska, but that was for moose, because they are mental. The bears and wolves would leave you alone as long as you left them alone, and didn’t do anything stupid. Challenging a bear over food is definitely in the stupid range.

Yeah, I remember when the Santa Ana’s arrived in San Diego county you went to the mall because no one had an air conditioned house. “It’s 70° year round, no need for heat or air conditioning.”

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:53:41 +0000

Ah yes, morons with guns. My neighbors the hockey fans invited a bunch of their fellow hockey fan friends over for a 4th of July barbecue. It was a typical noisy hockey fan gathering, hockey fans tend to not be quiet people (heh!). Their halftime entertainment was making CO2 bombs with dry ice, soda bottles, and water, which sound an awful lot like gunfire but at least harm only the person who is creating them (if the bomb explodes before he can run away). But the moron up in the Sierras who tried chasing a bear away from his 4th of July picnic food while armed with a .45 ACP did not fare so well, he got mauled when the bear took the gun away from him and prepared to shove it up his rear, only the gun accidentally going off as it was ripped out of his hand startled the bear enough that the bear decided to leave rather than continue thrashing the moron who wanted to take away *his* food (because once the food is in the bear’s hands, it’s now the *bear’s* food, not yours). 23 stitches was the result, and the moron got off easy (not the bear, alas, which rangers later killed because a bear which draws blood is not allowed to live even if the reason the bear drew blood was because an idiot waving a .45 rushed the bear and the bear defended himself). Which just goes to show that a .45 ACP is *not* a magic talisman, waving it at a bear does nothing good at all, unless you’re willing to use it to kill then leave the #$%@! thing home, grrrr!

As for wishing I was in New England right now, well, it got up into the 90’s on July 4 so I certainly wished I was *somewhere else* at least! I don’t have air conditioning and that heat is just brutal, once the house heated up in the afternoon I was sitting out on the Santa Clara version of the front porch (i.e., garage door open, under the shade of the garage door, in a lawn chair, with a cold Gatorade in hand) just to catch the closest thing to a cool breeze coming in off the bay (my garage door faces north, towards San Francisco Bay). What a day!

– Badtux the 4th Of July Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:24:34 +0000

Oh, I’m betting that you wish you were back in New England this week.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:22:07 +0000

I can’t understand that, Moi, it is just as factual as the cherry tree incident… 😉

By: Moi;)

Moi;) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:09:01 +0000

I was watching the John Adams series on HBO this week, and they talked about that very painting….guess JA wasn’t too happy with it!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:59:11 +0000

In reply to Anya.

That is, unfortunately, an all too common occurrence in the US – morons with guns. Of course, such things are illegal where I live, so there is absolutely no change in this potentially lethal behavior, which will still be identified as “an accident” if someone is injured or killed. It is pretty much the same as the DWI laws.

By: Anya

Anya — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:15:40 +0000

I am celebrating the holiday under a hail of bullets. Apparently, anything that makes a loud noise besides firecrackers is okay. Neighbors with a large tract of land and a legal shooting range have been going at it, but so, apparently, has some nitwit in the woods within 100 yards of the apartment. I’ve seen branches falling, and have heard at least one ricochet off something hard really close by. The cats are in hiding.

I am not looking forward to nightfall and the usual fusillade of bottle rockets….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:41:04 +0000

In reply to cookie jill. From my oil-stained coast to yours, thank you, and same to you, Jill.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:48:16 +0000

Happy 4th, Bryan.