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Comment on Radio gun (2014-12-19 17:03:36)
In the the 60s, we all wanted to be "Secret Agent Man" This popular toy was from Mattel toys and called "Agent Zero M" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb9_0N3g5bw Anybody remember this one? Secret Sam Attache Case (1965) from Topper Toys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t6Bd0MwEh8 or the mega-popular Johnny Seven? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1iGSrFLUUw Every boy on our block had at least on of these... they were the most popular toys in the mid-60s.
Comment on Coffee (2014-12-08 21:36:11)
I guess I really am European... I saw a really lovely cup of tea.
Comment on animal school (2014-11-23 23:07:55)
Holy crap. This one is definitely a "keeper". In the future I'll look at it every now and again just to remind myself that in comparison my problems aren't so big.
Comment on Swiss Guns (2014-09-07 01:58:21)
It's always amusing to read and hear about all the nonsense shared as though Switzerland is some form of "gun-panacea"... believe me, compared to many of our neighbours that have stricter firearm laws - IT IS NOT. The devastation felt of life loss from firearms has been having huge consequences in every factor of life in Switzerland. Jobs, housing, education, businesses in both rural and cities... everything. Every family doesn't seem to be immune to the horror we are suffering. America is huge compared to Switzerland - and when murder and suicide take place here compared to America - in a country of only 8 million, one death either by murder and/or suicide has huge ramifications and it's effect is felt in every sector of our daily lives. "One source of information about guns is GunPolicy.Org, an evidence-based database on firearm safety hosted by the Sydney School of Public Health in Australia and partly co-funded, coincidentally, by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. We ran some comparisons through their database. We're not going to get into the definition of what makes a "civilized" country; instead, we looked at GunPolicy.org’s data on gun homicide rates for 24 countries, mostly in western Europe but also Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Switzerland's gun homicide rate was anything but "the lowest." It was fourth highest. Only Greece, Ireland and the United States had higher rates. (Switzerland also has the seventh highest suicide rate and the third highest rate of gun-related suicide, according to the GunPolicy.org data. In the latter case, only the United States and Finland had higher rates. Switzerland and Italy were tied for second for the rate of unintentional gun deaths; the United States was number one.) "Guns kept at home are not necessarily dangerous in the streets, but mostly in situations that happen at home, such as suicide and murder of family members (especially females). In this respect, Switzerland has one of the highest proportions in the Western world," said Martin Killias, professor of criminology and criminal law at the University of Zurich Law School. Nonetheless, we looked at its database on various crime categories such as assault, robbery, and theft, where guns were most likely to be involved, to see whether the crime rate in Switzerland was really that low. It wasn't: Eleven out of 26 countries had lower rates of theft than Switzerland. Thirteen of 26 had lower rates of robbery. Six of 26 had lower rates of assault. So the Swiss can't boast the lowest crime rate, another claim gun advocates make. http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2013/jan/06/facebook-posts/facebook-posting-says-gun-rich-swiss-have-lowest-f/ In Switzerland - every single day, one person kills himself or herself with a gun, more often than not a military weapon - a fact the authors say is directly connected to lax Swiss firearms legislation. According to the study, published in the current edition of the American Journal of Public Health, Switzerland and the United States have the highest rates in the world of suicide involving guns. Suicides are also five times more common than the total number of deaths related to car accidents, drug abuse and AIDS combined. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/high-gun-suicide-rate-linked-to-easy-access/982416 (the photographs are completely misleading - all the weapons are obviously military issued. Clearly, no one in the photograph is over age 30; they are either on-leave or on the way to military training. Of course, none of the weapons are ever allowed to be loaded while off-base. Any form of break of this rule calls for huge reprimands and/or dismissal.)
Comment on Why do you need a gun? (2014-08-26 00:24:29)
Some small eye-opening facts that seems to be frequently omitted about life here in Switzerland. Those that look at to Switzerland as some type of gun-panacea - the reality is - it's not. The fact to what's taking place here today is that ironically of all nations here in Europe, Switzerland is now beginning to show the very same devastating results and incidents' of gun violence and suicides as those taking place in America, suicide being the worst. Here's a little known fact that I'm positive is never brought up at your local NRA meetings: Suicide by personal firearms in Switzerland now accounts for more deaths than by car accidents, drug abuse and AIDS all put together. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Specials/Gun_debate/Background/Archives/High_gun_suicide_rate_linked_to_easy_access.html?cid=982416 Most nations can deal and recover from such a divesting loss of life but for Switzerland, this is a small nation with a small population compared with most of it's European counterparts; the gun-suicide/murder mayhem is now taking a terrible toll on everything there. For the first time in it's history, Switzerland is having very major and frank open discussions about rethinking it's liberal firearms policies and seriously entertaining placing a referendum to be put to the voters. Like many of it's European neighbours, many Swiss are quickly being swayed in favor of stronger firearms control. It's very frightening what's taking place here presently, there are whole villages where 10 to 15% of their population has been deeply effected or lost their lives to gun violence and suicide. BTW-most of those photos are out of context. If you are carrying a weapon, 99% of the time you are returning from target practice or in the military (mandatory) - the weapons are never loaded. Under no circumstances is one allowed to carry a loaded firearm in public. ALL ammo (every single bullet) is fully accounted for - ie: at target practice you buy 10-20 rounds - all rounds MUST be fired and used. This is not the US.
Comment on Why do you need a gun? (2014-08-25 23:57:43)
"Criminals would think twice" Criminals would think twice about what? That you and you're three-year-old are sitting on the sofa watching television - but hark - beware! Mommy's watching Sesame Street, folding the laundry and she's packing. Yeah - right. Who in their sane mind believes for a moment that a criminal is deterred for even a milli-second that mommy might be holding an AK while singing along with Big Bird? What utter and fucking nonsense.
Comment on eye medicine (2014-08-25 23:22:20)
Nope, still does absolutely nothing for me - in fact, whenever I see something like this -- it puts me off completely. My first wife looked like this - and by age 22, untethered, they looked like two over-filled sagging water-balloons and by age 25 and 1 kid later - those damn things were flopping down to her waist. - Believe me guys, sex was never pretty. Give me medium, plump, perky breasts any day... my second is now 45 - she still looks hot.
Comment on finding god through sex (2014-08-16 00:15:34)
Sex sells.
Comment on Democracy is about choice (2014-07-29 11:25:33)
Actually it seems that the minorities have taken a lesson from their American counter parts about voting: Why bother voting. Voting changes nothing. Voting is just a waste of time. Voting only makes politicians believe you care. God only help us if the minorities finally figure out our system, and that the rest of us stay apathetic about voting, and they go and vote themselves in great numbers: Good morning House Speaker, Manuel Rodriquez.
Comment on Do not question the authority (2014-07-29 11:13:19)
and some of these counties even leave their doors unlocked at night or have no locks on the doors, sleep well and neither fear that their fellow citizens will shoot or massacre them and their entire family or co-workers. And this country with the Second Amendment like visiting these countries without a Second Amendment - and they always leave all their guns at home because they know they will be safe abroad. (As a decorated marksman, US Marine vet and living here 23 years in Europe - the sheer irony of this basic fact, still astounds me)
Comment on Great Yard Sign (2014-07-24 10:14:25)
nah, too much trouble... just shoot the gun owners when they walk past a window, locking up the house before leaving, mowing the lawn, laying out by the pool, back yard barbeque, picking up the mail or morning paper or loading the kids in the car. Makes things easier with the assurance they aren't going to come home and catch you in the act. Then after the family is wiped out - go in and check out their arms collection and see if they were worth all the trouble and used ammo. USA! USA! USA!
Comment on How we act. (2014-07-23 02:12:20)
Mr. Moore wasn't saying anything about race... he clearly states, "the very people forced to live in the worst parts of town, those that go to the worst schools and who have it the hardest are always the first to step up to defend that very system." If you want to believe he implied something else - I'm sure convincing you otherwise would be a dead-end argument. I claimed it was "color, creed, culture, sex or sexual orientation". I fully agree, 75% of all casualties were white - absolutely; a great vast of them poor white, poorly educated and few with a great many monetary options for a "free ride" to higher education or a career. I mean no offense by this - I took advantage of this same twisted system of "guarding the rich man and their son's freedom".
Comment on Bullet resistant protective blanket for children and adults (2014-07-22 12:05:08)
Only in America... this is just too funny, really. You people get better and better at the irony of it all. I'm sure I'll be crucified on the altar of "foreign asshole" but I couldn't let the op pass without saying that Americans are a really strange, silly and twisted bunch. It's difficult to see or understand that until viewed from the outside.
Comment on How we act. (2014-07-22 11:39:07)
I always found it interesting in the CofC that 4-of-6 dealt with the subject of becoming captured or being a POW and nothing to do with discrimination on the basis of color, creed, culture, sex or sexual orientation... something I personally found, as well as a great many others, found to be a huge and prevalent part of serving in the military. Perhaps it was this form of conduct that I was fighting to defend. Just saying. "I've always been amazed that the very people forced to live in the worst parts of town, those that go to the worst schools and who have it the hardest are always the first to step up to defend that very system. They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is remarkable, their gift to us." -- Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11)
Comment on two types of countries (2014-07-17 17:25:23)
And most of those coming from Europe. I'm an educator here... you have to be here to experience the army, make that, the mega-army of job recruiters and head hunters sent here by US top institutions, manufacturers and top education universities seeking and grabbing our best and brightest students at the end of each school year. It's not uncommon for high school students here to speak 3 to 4 languages (including English and Latin)... I wonder how many languages the average American high school graduate can speak. Parents and students take scholastic studies incredibly serious and there is absolutely no way that a "home schooling" programme would even be considered by a parent. It's nearly impossible and far beyond their capabilities to offer at home what is REQUIRED to pass to the next level. School bands, music, art, cheerleading and school sports programmes here in Europe are really non-existent. (apart from the mandatory PE classes). Sports are not considered in any form a part of a student's education. If your child wants to participate in any type of music, art or sports programme then the parents foot the entire bill for that child's extra-circular activities. Our European soccer, tennis, gymnastic stars, artist and musicians are not discovered in our schools. Driving a motor vehicle is not a part of your education here and one is not allowed to drive till age 20. (It is very, very rare here if you find anyone below that age operating a motor vehicle.) Many years ago, I was impressed while viewing a football game being played by two top rival American universities (USC vs. Notre Dame) and during half time they panned to the university library. On that Saturday afternoon were about 30 Asian students hard at study. When the sports interviewer asked one Asian student - "Why wasn't he at the football game?" his response was, "What football game?" After 22 years here in Europe ... I totally understand that student's response. Here in Europe when a student fails 40% of his grade level he is automatically held back a full year and must repeat that level to precede - no exceptions. It's not uncommon for many non-serious students to finish school at age 20 or even older. After a year (or two) being held back a level ... it's amazing how dramatically serious a student gets about his studies here. Education is real serious business here and they take no prisoners and drop-out rates are extremely low. Someone has to be living in a state of denial to really believe that a great many of your top paying and top job positions in the US are actually going to a foreign born work force recruited from abroad.