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Hey Horde. Sorry I haven't been around, I've been in the hospital. Boy, THAT was one hell of a night, let me tell you.

Shall Not Be Infringed

This is from a few years ago, but it's a great response to all those people who claim the 2A is obsolite because the governemnt has armies with high tech weapons. It's by Larry Correia, who wrote the Monster Hunter International series of books (quite good, can recommend. Think Supernatural but without the angst and aimed at adults)

The 2nd Amendment is Obsolete, Says Congressman Who Wants To Nuke Omaha

This is a deeply ironic argument to make, considering that the most technologically advanced military coalition in history has spent the better part of the last two decades fighting goat herders with AKs in Afghanistan and Iraq. Seriously, it’s like you guys only pay attention to American casualties when there’s a republican in office and an election coming up.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama launched over five hundred drone strikes during his eight years in office. We’ve used Apaches (that’s the scary looking helicopter in the picture for my peacenik liberal friends), smart bombs, tanks, I don’t know how many thousand s of raids on houses and compounds, all the stuff that the lefty memes say they’re willing to do to crush the gun nut right, and we’ve spent something like 6 trillion dollars on the global war on terror so far.

And yet they’re still fighting.

So yes, groups of irregular locals can be a real pain in the ass to a technologically superior military force. That’s pretty obvious.

Now here is the interesting part. Best estimates are that any given time in Iraq we’ve been fighting about 20,000 insurgents at most. Keep that number in mind, because now we’re going to talk about the scope of this hypothetical fight over gun control.

This Is The Oddest Story I've Seen In A While

Coast Guard vet lured her accused rapist to woods, executed him and then went to get a tattoo

A U.S. Coast Guard vet turned OnlyFans model is facing a decades-long prison sentence for luring a man she claimed raped her into the woods of a national park in Ohio and executing him.

Chelsea Perkins pleaded guilty on Tuesday to second-degree murder in the 2021 death of 31-year-old Matthew Dunmire at Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Cleveland, court records say. Hikers in the Terra Vista Natural Study Area of the park found Dunmire’s body around 11 a.m. March 9, 2021, according to a probable cause arrest affidavit. He had a single gunshot wound to the back of the head and an Aquafina water bottle next to him.

FBI agents later learned Dunmire had gone out with friends and co-workers to a bar four days before the discovery of his body. Dunmire told them he was going to meet a woman who was in town for the weekend. The woman showed up in a white car and his boss watched him get inside and leave.

If you don't want to click the link, here's the gist. Highlight to read, 'cuz spoilers: In 2017, she accuses this guy of rape. Police can't find enough evidence to make the case. Several years later, she lures him to a hookup at an Airbnb she rents with her own credit card (Boy, I tell you, that “sorry I raped you/sorry I accused you of rape” sex is just the BEST, innit?) The next morning she takes him into the woods and executes him. But wait, there's more. His mom decides to kill her in revenge, shoots the wrong woman (who survives), then kills herself. Her dad get charges as an accessory, and now everybody's in jail.

Assassins

Arrested: Guess Who's Threatened to Assassinate President Trump Now

Ramon Morales Reyes, a 54-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, doesn't seem like the brightest bulb in the box, and he's got quite a lengthy criminal record to boot. In addition to entering the United States illegally at least nine times between 1998 and 2005, he's been arrested for crimes like "felony hit and run, criminal damage to property, and disorderly conduct with a domestic abuse modifier."  

On May 21, he apparently sent a handwritten letter to an ICE field intelligence officer, in which he laid out how he's going to shoot the president in the head at one of his rallies. (DHS released a picture of the letter, which you can view here. Honestly, if it had come from any other source, I'd wonder if it was even real.) It reads: 

Probably not the sharpest crayon in the shed.

Brutal Fight

Danger! Will Robinson!

Yellow Fever Resurgence Could Make COVID Look 'Pale' by Comparison

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

The development of a highly effective yellow fever vaccine in the 1930s changed everything. Yellow fever mosquitoes were also almost completely eradicated in the Western Hemisphere, and the two factors stopped urban spread in the Americas.

In the decades since, yellow fever mosquitoes have re-infested much of the neotropics, and while Africa continues to experience intermittent epidemics in urban centers, the Americas have been free of a yellow fever epidemic for 80-plus years, only experiencing small and infrequent outbreaks.

Scientists are concerned that reprieve won't last for much longer.

In recent years, there's been a worrisome resurgence in yellow fever outbreaks in Africa and the Americas, possibly because of poor vaccine coverage (Bolding mine)

It Followed Me Home, Can I Keep It?

Man wakes up to find a giant cargo ship in his yard

It certainly was a rude awakening. Johan Helberg was fast asleep in the early hours of Thursday when a huge container ship crashed into his garden, narrowly missing his home on the bank of Norway’s Trondheim Fjord.

“I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship,” Helberg told the Norwegian broadcaster TV2, adding, “I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal.”

The 442-foot-long NCL Salten was sailing to the western city of Orkanger when it went off course and ran aground in Helberg’s yard at around 5 a.m. local time (11 p.m. ET).

Just a few feet “further south, and it would have entered the bedroom,” Helberg said in a separate interview with NRK, Norway’s public broadcaster.

Oops

Pain In The Ass

Using Your Phone on The Toilet May Dramatically Increase Risk of Hemorrhoids

Reading on the toilet is something many people do, but the time-sucking powers of smartphones may have us sitting on the ceramic stool for an unhealthy amount of time.

A new survey has found that those who use their phones on the toilet face a 46 percent increased risk for hemorrhoids – swollen veins in the lower rectum, thought to be caused by too much pressure.

A participant's age, sex, body mass, exercise, or fiber intake did not have an impact on the results.

The survey – presented recently at the Digestive Diseases Week (DDW) conference in San Diego, CA – considered 125 participants who were receiving a colonoscopy. More than 40 percent had a hemorrhoid, and 93 percent said they used their phone on the toilet at least once a week.

The effect was not noted if you're reading Ace of Spades on the can.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by tough choices:

Which pill would you take?

Oh, and FTR: The hospital report above is not mine. Still sounds like a hell of a night for someone.

posted by WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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