tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64912282012-02-12T16:14:30.566-08:00One man's search for the postmodernSafety Neal (USA)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07342660829277897082noreply@blogger.comBlogger17851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6491228.post-5858245422198343692012-02-07T11:15:00.000-08:002012-02-12T16:14:30.575-08:00

Scientific American has a short discussion of the potential of displaying information in a person's contacts or on eyeglasses. The new system consists of advanced contact lenses working in conjunction with lightweight eyewear. Normally, the human eye is limited in its ability to focus on objects placed very near it. The contact lenses contain optics that focus images displayed on the

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Humanity+ discusses the potential for human development based on emerging technologies of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience. This is simplified to Nano-Bio-Info-Congo or NBIC. NBIC will likely be used to enhance intelligence, mobility, cognitive qualities, vision and hearing. “I think we will stop short of eugenics but proceed to offer neurological

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I recently read an op-ed by Douglas Rushkoff, Are Jobs Obsolete? . An interesting viewpoint... it strikes me as an clever new paradigm that has little to no chance of becoming widely held in the United States in the near future. (I contend because our electorate is not very clever, by and large.) I was unfamiliar with Mr. Rushkoff, so I did some searching and discovered this short video of an

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Zombie Killer outfit from Safety Neal's Photostream. CONvergence is an interesting event. It's like a convention of conventions: steampunk, zombies, LARP, gaming, belly dancing...

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Survival in the zombiepocalypse will require more than just luck. Of utmost importance is the survival mindset and a working knowledge of zombies.But even the most determined individual will need some supplies. The Centers for Disease Control recently released suggested survival supplies and they are great, insofar as they go.But they left out one important item: a machete..flickr-photo { border:

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How to make a weapon out of simple rope!

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From the Archdruid Report:[T]he average European uses around a third as much energy per capita as the average American, and has a better standard [of] living by most of the usual measures. Until recently... I’d assumed that this was simply a function of waste and mismanagement on our part, and a more efficient use of limited resources on theirs. Still, I find myself wondering if there’s a direct

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Cascading disasters occur when one disaster triggers another. Japan is poised on the brink of a series of cascading disasters in Fukushima prefecture. Cascading disasters are especially challenging because they quickly reduce a country's capacity to respond. Infrastructure systems are necessarily interdependent. The earthquake and tsunami destroyed much of Japan's electrical and transportation

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New America Foundation's Michael Lind has a provocative article on Foreign Policy's website discussing bullshit concerns that animate public policy discussions and lead to apocalypse fatigue.I agree with Mr. Lind that the threat of nuclear terrorism is overblown (premise #1), that Europeans are not pacifists (#3), and that water-sharing is not a basis for the peace process (#8). But I am strongly

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } hasta la victoria..., originally uploaded by confusoefelice.

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John Michael Greer illustrates how political reform movements tend to be corralled in the US. While Greer's comments are in the context of the Peak Oil Movement going mainstream, I think his observation is more generally applicable.The most common source of trouble when a social movement succeeds in entering the collective conversation of politics is the lack of any constructive plan... [upon

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The Guardian's recent article on the UK's drug policy starts with a nice bit of sarcasm:If the purpose of drug policy is to make toxic substances available to anyone who wants them in a flourishing market economy controlled by murderous criminal gangs, the current arrangements are working well. |Guardian|Sad but true. The law enforcement approach to the war on drugs has been an abject failure.

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Jerry Mander has an interesting name, but I think he's eloquently described how the United States and western economics destroyed resilient communities around the world in the name of progress, by which I mean corporate profiteering.[A] basic part of the free trade ideology which is that all economies should shift from ... the import substitution model, that is to say the model where small

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Alex Steffen's rant at WorldChanging points out just how desperate the future will probably be for our children and grandchildren. [Environmentalists] have been warning for decades about the need to prevent catastrophe, coloring everything on the other side of catastrophe "unthinkable."Welcome to unthinkable. It's now where we live. Climate catastrophe is now a given: it's only the degree and

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This semester I've been auditing a course in Public Health Law and it has caused me to research the differences between the law enforcement model for dealing with crime and violence with the model that health care professionals use.A publication by the National Institute of Justice compared the two models and their approach to violence. The most clear striking difference is the law enforcement

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Skye Mountain Rescue team in action, originally uploaded by B℮n.

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The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)website has a new video up about checking a victim from head to toe for injury. Now, the check in this video would take place AFTER you've checked for breathing and a clear airway.Here's the video link: CERT head to toe first aid assessment video.Here's the video homepage generally.This video was very helpful to me because checking the head and neck for

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Wikileaks production at Collateral Murder of the massacre of a dozen civilians in Iraq is tragic.Watching the footage, I can understand how the aircrew could think the camera was an RPG in the stress of the moment and their reaction was swift. Listening to the audio commentary of the gunner and pilot is chilling.But the callousness of these actors as revealed on the audio track shouldn't distract

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } oxbow @ grand teton, originally uploaded by jars of clay.

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A law student sent me a New York Times article about new gun laws designed to evade the commerce clause for locally produced guns. Doing some searching I found this law student blawg post that points out that Wisconsin provides criminal penalties for Feds enforcing laws in contravention of their local statute.I pulled up the Wyoming law (HB 95) at their legislative website, and the student is

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I cannot believe there are still dipshits out there who contend that torture is a good thing, such as this piece in the UK's Independent by Bruce Anderson.Henry Porter points out why many of his arguments are bad in the Guardian.I have to admit to Torture Fatigue. Like David Schaengold, I cannot believe we are still having this argument.

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A recent Defense Tech article about cyber-warfare suggests that the US needs a national strategy to "close the gaps in policies, regulations and definitions that currently exist between military, law enforcement, the federal government, civilian authorities and private organizations."Could homeland cyber-security be the impetus for overarching regulations of virtual worlds?Back in 2007, U.S. Air

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Vice magazine has an article about a Baltimore stick-up artist Donnie Andrews who was (largely) the inspiration for The Wire's character Omar Little. Omar Little is an interesting example of a likable but violent thief.Criminals form their own ecologies and in prisons it's common for inmates to dominate and rob each other based on power and physical force.Australians use the word toe-cutter to

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 1000 Palmtrees on Molokai , originally uploaded by steffenbinke.

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The New York Times has an interesting piece documenting the public health risks of walking while texting or talking on one's phone.Pedestrians, like drivers, have long been distracted by myriad tasks, like snacking or reading on the go. But the constant interaction with electronic devices has made single-tasking seem boring or even unproductive.Cognitive psychologists, neurologists and other

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The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a decision that may change all the rules when it comes to the use of Tasers in Bryan v. McPherson. |PDF|Orin Kerr makes some excellent points at the Volokh Conspiracy about the odd narrative quality of the decision as well as its overreaching based on a summary judgment motion.We'll have to wait and see if this opinion heralds things to come

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Party Animal, originally uploaded by Safety Neal.

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The Dormant Commerce Clause (or DCC) posits that states and cities cannot discriminate against any out of town vendor. There are a couple of exceptions, but they're very narrow and essentially create a wide-open market in the U.S.For instance, the State of Minnesota cannot discriminate against out of state apples or even apples flown in from New Zealand.When I think about the amount of gas burned

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Feuer entfachen, originally uploaded by fotoARION.

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Winter has officially arrived in Minnesota. I just had an educational CCDC/CERT training session on cold water survival and hypothermia response.A few ice safety take-aways: Ice is never safe because of springs and fish activity. It's not necessarily a uniform consistency all over, so depth of ice varies.Wear a PFD if you go out on the water. Slush is always a bad sign. NEVER drive a car or truck

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The droids we're googling for, originally uploaded by Stéfan.

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The Committee of Public Safety has an interesting(and wide-ranging) critique of fourth generation warfare as a different way of analyzing the evolution of social groupings, arguing essentially that we've entered the network age where globalization ties people together more by networks of interest and commerce than by national or ethnic interests.Something to mull over...

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Last week was the 234th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps. I'm an Army brat and my experience is that all soldiers tend to be gung ho, but Marines are over the top by any standard.But when it absolutely, positively must be dead by midnight, I can think of no one I'd rather call on than the U.S. Marine Corps.Oo-rah has a nice post about what it means to be a Marine.Get some!

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This weekend I caught up on some of my educational programming on the DVR and I thought Rory Stewart's suggestions on Bill Moyer's Journal for how to approach the Afghanistan problem were insightful. Decide for yourself. I think Mr. Stewart is correct that Obama has put himself into a box in terms of policy decisions with no way out but to accede to the military's desire for evermore troops and

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Sun Sets on Château de Chillon, originally uploaded by Pear Biter.

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Juan Cole's supplies a larger context to the Republican resistance to trials for Gitmo inmates. Predictably, Republican critics vowed to fight [Obama's decision to try Al Qaeda detainees in New York District Court], since they much prefer to hold people forever without trial while torturing them, sort of the way some English kings did in North America before there was that pesky American

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I've started a new blog, Legal Search and Rescue (LSR). The Fireside Chat will remain my primary personal blog while LSR will be an outlet for my interests such as disaster law, law enforcement & military powers, martial law and other legal research topics.

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Fun post on rules of gunfighting over at Everyday Gun Blog.Who knew there were so many rules?

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sun on the west, originally uploaded by Katarina 2353.

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The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty last week creates the potential for a stronger, more assertive Europe, but the character of the new President and Foreign Minister of the EU will have a profound impact on the role that Europe takes.[T]he Lisbon Treaty has the potential to herald the emergence of a new world actor – a Europe that can look upwards and outwards and is equipped with the

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Gizmodo has invited Aimee Mullins to be a guest editor. I love their tag This Cyborg Life.Here's Aimee's recent presentation at TED. Aimee's impressive modifications that make her taller, faster, better.Arguably I am a cyborg already because of my constant interface with the Internet through the elegance of my Iphone and the clunkier reality of the 3-5 desktop computers I use on a daily basis....

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Do you ever wonder if anti-depressants are so common because almost most every person on Earth has some form of mental illness? If not organic mental illness, then traumatic stress disorder. Even the odd sane person has the misfortune of being a sane person in an insane world... which makes that person a guard in this asylum we call Earth.

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I just received a piece of spam mail with the reference line: sad love words filthy ass whore...This juxtaposition of sentiment amuses me.

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CNN has coverage of Taser's new cautionary advice to police departments, don't tase people in the chest as this is more likely to lead to accidental death.Taser stun guns has advised law enforcement agencies to avoid hitting suspects in the chest, partly "to minimize controversy." ...The company advises aiming a Taser at a person's back, pelvic muscles or thigh.|CNN|Taser's advisory to police

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hamburger-Speicherstadt (HDR), originally uploaded by Kliefi.

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Interesting item in the Guardian about the play, Building Understanding: Epitaph for a Warehouse, performed by Chris Gunness, chief spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency.The Israelis fired white phosphorus artillery shells (aka WP or willy pete) onto the warehouse, there's really no denying that. Of course, some people consider the mere use of white phosphorus in an anti-personnel role to

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Those Damned Lawyers invite you to an afternoon of Winter Paintball: Kill Those Damned Lawyers, First Annual Winter War, 2010. The Winter War shall kick off with the invasion of SplatTag |Directions|at 1300 hours on Saturday, January 2, 2010.Participants must bring a red or blue armband. Lawyers should bring red armbands and non-lawyers should wear blue armbands. Anyone not wearing an arm band

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Polo Horse Rider at Kargil, originally uploaded by Captain Suresh.

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Thomas Ricks has a post about some of the lessons learned by the US military in Afghanistan. But what I thought was most interesting was one of the comments on Rick's post, which I've quoted below.[The enlisted personnel in the US Army] have learned that they are being sent to the graveyard of Afghanistan to fight and die for the criminal puppet Karzai and his lucrative heroin cartel.The

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Stephanie Johnson, a recent college graduate wrote a touching (if rather naive and self-pitying) commentary about the curse of graduating in the current recession/depression in the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required).[W]hat I'm certain will mark my existence forever is this: The curse of graduating in 2009... my college class faces the toughest job market in 25 years and our

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The House Of 647 Thieves, originally uploaded by BarneyF.

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Matt Taibbi does a nice job of encapsulating how corrupt and dysfunctional our political system is. I've been saying for years that the only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is who their corporate masters are.This is all a long-winded way of saying that we have problems whose solutions involve taking on powerful interests, political challenges that will necessarily involve

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Colin Gray has a short article on security situation in the 21st century that I just read. It suggests the future will be characterized by the following:Great power rivalryAdverse climate changeResource rivalries and shortages (food, water and energy)OverpopulationDisease pandemicsJihadi terrorism and insurgenciesNuclear proliferation The "unknown unknowns" (the things to worry about if we know

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } People lie. The evidence doesn't lie., originally uploaded by Eduardo!.

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Murder is a perennial topic of interest for myself and sociologists. Murder is the most easily documented crime because it's so hard to get rid of the body.There are many different types of murder: murder-suicides, serial killers, spree killers, thrill killers, manslaughters (accidental murders), self-defense murders, political assassination...But thrill killings are especially troubling to

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Brennan suggests the best qualities of America:We are not an assimilative, homogeneous society, but a facilitative, pluralistic one, in which we must be willing to abide someone else’s unfamiliar or even repellent practice because the same tolerant impulse protects our own idiosyncrasies.- Justice Brennan in Michael H. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989) I'm a very judgmental person, but it's good

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Deus Ex, originally uploaded by Kiel Bryant.

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Sarah referred to me as hypervigilant the other day, which really amused one of the other librarians. She thought it was a nice spin on my paranoia.I'm not sure why I'm such a safety freak. I would say it helps me sleep well at night, but I rarely sleep.Eternal vigilance, my friends...

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Mike Ferner has a fascinating post about non-lethal law enforcement/military technologies on display in response to G20 protests as well as new things in development.

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Kenneth Anderson asks whether Obama's recent speech at the UN suggests a change in the US's approach to international affairs.Mr. Anderson's view of America's military dominance suggests that the United Nations is really irrevelant in the context of global security and that Europe's armies are substantially incapable of any significant military operations.So, the US is the world's policeman

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They've been playing Eric Hutchinson's song "Ok It's Alright with Me" relatively frequently on Sarah's favorite radio station, Cities 97, and I cannot get it out of my head...See if it has that effect on you.

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If the police and army cannot protect you, then you just have to be your own protection. And that's when an AK becomes a very comforting piece of equipment.Dr Naeem Khan was taking no chances. Walking through streets once filled with Taliban gunmen, the amiable country doctor looked ready for battle – an AK-47 in his hand, ammunition across his chest, and a chunky dagger tucked into his pocket.He

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Malta - Euros (Coins), originally uploaded by marfis75.

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Previously I blogged about a student who was tasered in a library at UCLA for failing to display his student ID.The case settled for $220,000 according to a recent article in Minnesota Lawyer by Barbara L. Jones discussing recent legal developments in court cases related to the (mis)use of Tasers. Unfortunately, the article is only available to subscribers. If you've access the article is titled:

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H&K's G11 used caseless ammo, but was never adopted. Was it too far ahead of its time? Or was it just too fugly to take seriously?One potential problem with caseless is cooking off in a fire. Modern battlefields are filled with fire from flares, white phosphorus munitions and tracers, gun barrels overheating during full auto fire, these all ignite combustibles...So caseless ammo may be lighter,

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Yosemite Valley View, originally uploaded by Bridgeport Mike.

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Five people have been killed by loose floormats in Toyota cars.One of my friend's mothers was in a crash when a soda can rolled under the brake.It's important to keep all possible obstructions out of the driver's footwell.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } beavis, originally uploaded by stoneth.

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I often have South Park's counselor Mackey's line "Drugs are bad, m'kay?" running through my head when I read stories about drug abuse. Of course drugs exist on a continuum ranging from the beneficial to the pernicious... anti-depressants are beneficial drugs that help people live productive lives, for instance.Other the other hand, methampethamine is a rather pernicious drug in my

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Tazer of Liberty, originally uploaded by lakeshore.baby.

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Here's an interesting item about a California Highway Patrol officer tased an 81-year old man who was partially paralyzed and walked with a cane. According to this account, the man struck the officer with the cane before being tased.Now, what's even more interesting to me is Alternet's take on this:Again, every American needs to realize that if they look at a police officer sideways or

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Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.- Ernest Hemingway

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I think we need a new word for fake friends as described in my previous post. I suggest frake... But I'm open to suggestions!Of course, Sex and the City gave us frenemies, for fake friends, real enemies...But I just want something to indicate an impostor, a fake friend either hired or coerced into the role.This is essentially the entire premise of 2005's romantic comedy, the Wedding Date.

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I'd like to say that I saw this coming, but even I am not that cynical. Or at least I wasn't...Ichinokawa launched his Hagemashi Tai [I Want to Cheer You Up] agency three-and-a-half years ago, after abandoning plans to become a qualified counsellor...The affable, bespectacled 44-year-old now employs 30 agents of various ages and both sexes, across Japan with the skills and personality to

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mursi woman and Kalachnikov Ethiopia, originally uploaded by Eric Lafforgue.

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One of my favorite quotes from the Founding Fathers is from Samuel Adams.If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams, address

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Cliff along Lake Superior, originally uploaded by Safety Neal.

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Ran across this LA Times story talking about an anthropologist who has determined that the pace of human evolution has accelerated in the last 30,000 years based on studying human genetic data.The article merely refers to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences without a citation. I visited Professor Hawk's website and the PNAC website and the only thing I could find were

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lillies of Gull Lake, originally uploaded by Safety Neal.

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Got back from my vacation in the Boundary Waters this weekend. I had a great time and enjoyed fellowship and great food. Although I'm a hard core technophile, it was refreshing to not have any TV, radio, or cell phone service.The cabin actually had XM radio, but we never turned it on...

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I saw District 9 last night and I give it two thumbs up. Rotten Tomatoes has District 9 pegged as 89% fresh as I write this.Update: Monkey made some telling criticisms of the film this week... I have to agree that alien "eye" acting is overdone, but I still enjoyed the movie.

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Jeffrey Goldberg has a provocative piece in the Alantic about the moral dimensions of Tarantino's new flick, Inglourious Basterds |RT|. ** Spoiler Alert - Don't read Goldberg's piece before seeing the movie if you don't want to learn about plot elements. **Early in [Inglourious Basterds], Aldo the Apache announces the goals of his unit: “We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } mer de tranquilite, originally uploaded by in touch.

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While we all know that global warming is accelerating, this article has some nice imagery.The glaciers of Greenland are the fat, restless fingers of its vast ice sheet, constantly moving, stretching down into fjords and pushing ice from the sheet into the ocean, in the form of melt water and icebergs.Before their first expedition, [glacier scientists] Hamilton and his colleague Leigh Stearns,

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Samurai Marghe, originally uploaded by IL_Razza.

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Since I recently suggested that Paul Wolfowitz would committ seppuku if he had an honorable bone in his body (via Facebook), I thought I'd do some research and I found a fascinating page on the ritual of seppuku.If he isn't going to kill himself, he should at least have the decency to shut the fuck up and not go around writing whiny articles suggesting Obama follow his example of ruining our

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC04907, originally uploaded by granitepics.

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Whether increased Taser use is good public policy is a complex question.Tasers essentially give law enforcement a portable cattle prod to use to obtain compliance. If you're a law and order type and think compliance with law enforcement is a good thing, then the Taser is a blessing because it's hard to argue with a Taser.On the other hand, even if you believe in civil disobedience, a Taser is

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Human Rights groups don't like taser products in general and the new Taser X12 shotgun-based module even less. The X12 is a shotgun that only loads the new XREP ammo. XREP stands for extended range electronic projectile.Here's an image of the X12 with a single-shot pistol taser (X26) below:.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } THE TURTLE, originally uploaded by Alice Linck.

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So, even though I fancy myself as Safety Neal and I read all these first aid manuals and buy my cutting edge safety gear, I don't necessarily assume that I know how to survive the apocalypse. If being smart and having a backpack was enough to survive the apocalypse, then it's not really an apocalypse.That's why I usually cannot stand disaster movies. If the cute female love interest is going to

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Between sky and snow, originally uploaded by Anna Kovaleva.

Safety Neal (USA)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07342660829277897082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6491228.post-11614466992571098202009-08-11T10:23:00.001-07:002009-08-11T10:29:03.250-07:00

If you aren't reading Nightwatch, you should be. I've absolutely no power to change any of the strategic mistakes Nightwatch identifies, but at least I won't be surprised when our foreign adventurism blows up in our face.Afghanistan: The new NATO Secretary General Rasmussen said there is no purely military solution to Afghanistan, and to win, the core of the new NATO strategy is to provide

Safety Neal (USA)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07342660829277897082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6491228.post-47077906372296998112009-08-11T10:21:00.000-07:002009-08-11T10:28:39.031-07:00

I find this analysis persuasive. Unfortunately, when the only tool the DoD has is a hammer...NightWatch Comment: The death of Baitullah Mehsud produced a leadership gap that lasted less than 36 hours. That is the downside of decapitation tactics – billed as strategies -- against tribal insurgencies and uprisings. Decapitation has never proven to be a permanent solution that produces the

Safety Neal (USA)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07342660829277897082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6491228.post-37670061081091935842009-08-07T19:26:00.001-07:002009-08-07T19:26:06.273-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } electrocution warning!, originally uploaded by iron ming.

Safety Neal (USA)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07342660829277897082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6491228.post-42587238213733562842009-08-07T19:19:00.000-07:002009-08-07T19:24:03.765-07:00

Hopefully I'll never encounter an electrocution victim (much less become one) but just in case, I thought I'd check into electrocution first aid.I like the suggestions at UMC:Electrical shocks can stop a person's breathing or heart, and also cause burns.If the victim is still in contact with the electricity source, be extremely careful that you don't become the next casualty. Switch off the

Safety Neal (USA)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07342660829277897082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6491228.post-58237438008999102892009-08-03T22:41:00.001-07:002009-08-03T22:41:51.386-07:00

I thought I was a safety geek, but this guy puts me to shame.

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