Arm the teachers, arm everybody, it's the only way to be safe. "Most of this research—and there have been several dozen peer-reviewed studies—punctures the idea that guns stop violence. In a 2015 study using data from the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University reported that firearm assaults were 6.8 times more common in the states with the most guns versus those with the least. Also in 2015 a combined analysis of 15 different studies found that people who had access to firearms at home were nearly twice as likely to be murdered as people who did not." And then I remember the teacher who threatened me after I saw him slam another kid into a locker for no reason except the teacher was pissed and the kid was moving too slow for him. (Grokked from Chang)
"But the hard part came next: trying to catch the rocket's falling nose cone with a big net on a ship in the ocean." Wut?!
"Ryan Reynolds just shut down a troll who criticized Make-A-Wish kids visiting 'Deadpool' set." After I saw Reynold in Deadpool I commented that I think he finally found the comic book hero he was meant to play. I say it again now. Fuck cancer. (Grokked from George Takei)
"An ex-Google engineer has sued his former employer, claiming that he was wrongfully terminated as a result of expressing his politically liberal opinions—which included opposing harassment and white supremacy—on internal message boards." Maybe he could go in with the guy that was fired for espousing that women weren't good enough in some kinda class action? (Grokked from Matt Staggs)
"Teachers across West Virginia walked off the job Thursday amid a dispute over pay and benefits, causing more than 275,000 students to miss classes even as educators gathered at the state Capitol in Charleston."
"Paying attention to the quality of the food is more effective for weight loss than religiously counting calories, according to a new study."
Sure there's no war against women. "The State Department is reportedly cutting back language regarding women's rights and discrimination in a report that will be released in the future… Officials at the department have been told to trim parts of the annual report on global human rights that talk about family planning and the amount of access women have to contraceptives and abortion, Politico reported, citing five former and current officials." They're changing the title of the section from "Reproductive Rights" to "Coercion in Population Control." (Grokked from Chuck Wendig)
"A review of data from the Mine Safety and Health Administration shows 1,001 more U.S. coal jobs last year compared with 2016, although energy analysts say the reasons are short term and have nothing to do with White House policies."
We don't need no stinkin' regulations. "Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is connecting the dots on how conservative politicians’ hatred of regulation isn’t just failing their constituents on guns, but on a whole host of public safety issues." Conservative policies and ideology leads to more deaths and injuries. (Grokked from Matt Staggs)
"The lead U.S. Agency tasked with granting citizenship to would-be Americans is making a major change to its mission statement, removing a passage that describes the United States as a nation of immigrants. In an email sent to staff members Thursday and shared with The Intercept, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna announced the agency’s new mission statement." There's more to it than just that, but yeah. (Grokked from Kelly Link)
"Rep. Devin Nunes, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, sent a tweet on Wednesday in which he sarcastically called on Russian bots to help an article he had linked to go viral." We already knew he was an ass, he can stop trying so hard. (Grokked from Cherie Priest)
"Routine handgun injuries leave entry and exit wounds and linear tracks through the victim's body that are roughly the size of the bullet. If the bullet does not directly hit something crucial like the heart or the aorta, and they do not bleed to death before being transported to our care at a trauma center, chances are, we can save the victim. The bullets fired by an AR-15 are different; they travel at higher velocity and are far more lethal. The damage they cause is a function of the energy they impart as they pass through the body." One of the CEUs I took this past year was on imaging of gun shot wounds. Yes this. Cavitation causes most of the damage. (Grokked from Kelly Link)
No comments:
Post a Comment