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Three shades of green
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Little girl
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Educate your friends and neighbors
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Quote of the day by Tamara
"My biggest worry is that, in times of national crisis, when nobody's working and everyone's afraid the currency will blow up, people want to vote for someone who promises to make the trains run on time without ever asking where exactly those trains are headed."
From Tam
From Tam
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Anecdotal evidence
I am not sure if my example is typical or not, but I just tried a test transfer from GPAL to a bank account and it cleared in a little over a day. I doubt they are flagging individual accounts for prompt payouts, so some functionality is still there.
At the same time, I hear that this quick progress hasn't been the case for several other people. So I don't know what to say: I am no going to try to describe the elephant by analyzing one patch of its skin.
At the same time, I hear that this quick progress hasn't been the case for several other people. So I don't know what to say: I am no going to try to describe the elephant by analyzing one patch of its skin.
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Blue
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America on inauguration night?
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SU16E+Red Lion forend
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Anderson Mfg. AM15
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Another shade of blue
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Guns and suicide rates, a theory.
Some say guns lead to suicides. Others claim there's no correlation. My theory is that gun control directly causes suicides.
It doesn't take much of a gun to make an effective suicide weapon. A single shot .22 Short or a flintlock derringer or even a matchlock is adequate -- after all, the use has the ability to make the shot count by putting the muzzle where the one shot would count (such as in the ear). Sights, large magazines, kinetic energy are all irrelevant as even the puniest round is sufficient for a brain shot. In the absence of guns, other methods (carbon monoxide, high ledges, and many others) work just as well.
But suicide requires a motive. Generally, it's a side effect of depression. One of the major environmental contributors to depression is not being in control of own life. A person dependent on others for the basics -- including safety -- is more likely to be depressed and so more likely to be suicidal. Conversely, people who are in control of their own lives -- which includes some capability for ensuring personal safety -- are less likely to get depressed.
In sum, those who deny weapons and the utilities those weapons confer (self-protection, ability to hunt for food, recreation) are reducing the quality of life for those they thereby oppress. Such oppression becomes an incremental contributing factor in depression and attendant increased suicide rates. Being denied weapons, including guns, causes an overall increase in suicides by other means. It's just a hypothesis, but it may be worth testing.
It doesn't take much of a gun to make an effective suicide weapon. A single shot .22 Short or a flintlock derringer or even a matchlock is adequate -- after all, the use has the ability to make the shot count by putting the muzzle where the one shot would count (such as in the ear). Sights, large magazines, kinetic energy are all irrelevant as even the puniest round is sufficient for a brain shot. In the absence of guns, other methods (carbon monoxide, high ledges, and many others) work just as well.
But suicide requires a motive. Generally, it's a side effect of depression. One of the major environmental contributors to depression is not being in control of own life. A person dependent on others for the basics -- including safety -- is more likely to be depressed and so more likely to be suicidal. Conversely, people who are in control of their own lives -- which includes some capability for ensuring personal safety -- are less likely to get depressed.
In sum, those who deny weapons and the utilities those weapons confer (self-protection, ability to hunt for food, recreation) are reducing the quality of life for those they thereby oppress. Such oppression becomes an incremental contributing factor in depression and attendant increased suicide rates. Being denied weapons, including guns, causes an overall increase in suicides by other means. It's just a hypothesis, but it may be worth testing.
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Превед! from New England
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Погладь паука!
Pet the spider!
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Custom .44 Magnum revolver
In case of sudden encounter with a black bear...
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At a cafe
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Hazards of foreign travel for photographers and journalists
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New England
Spending time in New Hampshire reminded me of the arbitrary nature of prohibitive laws and political boundaries. I was glad that my trip took me to North New Hampshire and not to Vermont (where my sound suppressor for the P22 would have been illegal). Massachusetts is another matter entirely...pretty much nothing tool-like is legal to carry there and few things are legal to own.
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Old-fashioned tunic
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Gun control isn't for YOUR safety!
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Tasty mushroom soup
From Dutch Treat restaurant in Franconia, NH
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