So the Navy has just released two anti-drug videos this week. One targeting the use of bath salts & the other targeting spice.
I’m not quite sure how anyone can think that either of these videos could be effective. The bath salts one sounds like it was written by a bad Sublime knock-off.
Saw this over at reddit. It made me chuckle.
I say if we can find a way to detach it from the rest of the country, France can have California.
Image Via Fuck Yeah Ohio
A study by mobile advertising technology company (whatever the fuck that means), Marchex, has uncovered that Ohioans are the biggest potty-mouth in the Union. The study, released last May (I found out about it via A.V. Club), also placed Ohio in the top 5 of “least courteous” states, that is to say we don’t like saying “please” and “thank you” here in Ohio apparently.
According to Marchex:
The Institute, Marchex’s data and research team, examined more than 600,000 phone calls from the past 12 months. The calls were placed by consumers to businesses across 30 industries, including cable and satellite companies, auto dealerships, pest control centers and more.
The Institute scanned for curse words from A to F to S. Analysts then linked the frequency of those words with all 50 states.
Following Washington in the “Goody Two Shoes” category – states where people are least likely to curse – were Massachusetts (2nd place), Arizona (3rd place), Texas (4th place), Virginia (5th place).
Ranking behind Ohio in the “Sailors” category – states where people are most likely to curse – were: Maryland (2nd place), New Jersey (3rd place), Louisiana (4th place), Illinois (5th place).
Ohioans curse more than twice the rate of Washingtonians, according to the data. Washingtonians curse about every 300 conversations. Ohioans, on the other hand, swore about every 150 conversations.
Considering that the study was based off of telephone interactions with call centers makes me slightly skeptical of the wide spread implications of the study, after all what red-blooded American does not have his blood pressure increase the second he hears “for English press 1?” Still it’s nice to be #1 in something.
Despite the claims from fool-hearted teetotalers who state that beer is no good for you and that it is even worse for you when consumed in the cold, comes proof that beer really can keep you warm on a ridiculously cold day.
Well by-products of the brewing process can that is and when combined with the ingredients to make bricks. But hey, as far as I’m concerned that’s another win for beer. More proof that it is the single greatest gift to mankind sent down from the heavens.
According to a study printed recently in the American Society Of Civil Engineers, bricks made with just 5% spent grain were nearly 30% better insulators then regular bricks.
Via New Scientist:
Bricks are often impregnated with polystyrene as a way to enhance their heat-trapping abilities. This is appealing, because the bricks remain strong, and they can be built into energy-efficient buildings, says Eduardo Ferraz of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar in Portugal. However, EU restrictions on carbon emissions have made it expensive to incorporate polystyrene and other synthetic materials into bricks.
Ferraz and his colleagues have now shown that brewery grains can be mixed into clay bricks to enhance their ability to trap heat, without compromising strength.
Spent grain for the process should be easily available, because commercial breweries produce huge quantities of it as a pulpy mixture that is usually used in animal feed or ends up in landfill.
With a clay paste containing 5 per cent spent grains, the team was able to create bricks just as strong as the conventional type, while reducing the amount of heat they lost by 28 per cent (Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, doi.org/p6k). The reason for this, the team says, is that the grains make the bricks more porous, and so they trap more air, which increases heat retention.
Beer truly is the building blocks of a better world!
Police enforcing sharia law in Nigeria’s city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behavior deemed ”immoral” in the area.
The mass genocide of thousands of innocent and defenseless providers of hopped goodness occurred in a public display in Kano Nigeria.
Onlookers shouted “Allahu Ahkbar”, meaning “God is great”, as the bottles were smashed outside the headquarters of the Hisbah, the 9000-member moral police force tasked with enforcing sharia law.
The beer was confiscated from trucks that entered Kano after a state-government directive to Hisbah to restrict behaviour deemed immoral.
Beer wasn’t the only victim of the cull: more than 8000 litres of a local alcoholic brew called “burukutu” and 320,000 cigarettes were also destroyed.
Kano’s Hisbah chief Aminu Daurawa said he hoped the bottle-breaking ceremony will “bring an end to the consumption of such prohibited substances” and restore Kano’s “tarnished image”.
Alcohol has typically been available in bars and hotels to Kano’s Christian minority, but Daurawa vowed that Hisbah will soon embark on an operation to end the sale and consumption of all intoxicants.
Alleged drunks and drug addicts have been arrested during the crackdown, along with those accused of prostitution and homosexuality.
Now that the steaming pile of garbage that is Obamacare is upon us, the desire of progressives everywhere to limit freedom “in the name of whats good,” is beginning to rev up. Amongst the ways that Big Brother wants shackle the ambitions of freedom lovers is a renewed push for mandatory helmet laws. You know, for “our own good.”
Via a Press Release from the American Motorcycle Association:
PICKERINGTON, Ohio — A federal task force is poised to recommend that all states have mandatory helmet laws for all motorcyclists, which the task force says would reduce injuries and deaths as well as result in economic benefits, the American Motorcyclist Association reports.
The AMA has repeatedly expressed its belief that motorcyclists would be best served if regulators and legislators focus on programs to prevent motorcycle crashes from occurring in the first place. The AMA also said that any economic benefits would be insignificant since health care costs related to motorcycle crashes are miniscule in the context of total health care costs nationwide.
“The AMA continues to strongly encourage the use of personal protective equipment, including gloves, sturdy footwear and a properly fitted motorcycle helmet certified by its manufacturer to meet federal safety standards,” said Wayne Allard, AMA vice president for government relations, on Nov. 7. “But we also believe that adults should have the right to voluntarily choose to wear a helmet.”
The Community Preventive Services Task Force, whose 15 members are appointed by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, makes recommendations to the CDC and reports to the U.S. Congress about community preventive services, programs and policies to improve health. The task force is preparing to recommend that all states have universal helmet laws, which means that all riders, regardless of age, would be required to wear helmets.
The task force is ready to make the recommendation based on its belief that a universal helmet mandate would reduce motorcyclist deaths and injuries, and that mandating riders to wear helmets would result in economic benefits. The task force believes health care costs for injured helmeted riders wouldn’t be as high as those of injured unhelmeted riders, and also that universal helmet laws would result in fewer missed days of work for injured riders.
The CDC, which oversees the task force, is a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered in Atlanta. Its official mission is to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the United States. “Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same,” the agency says on its website.
Explaining the AMA’s opposition to the proposed recommendation, Allard cited the official AMA position on voluntary helmet use.
“The AMA strongly advocates helmet use, but helmet use alone is insufficient to ensure a motorcyclist’s safety,” said Allard. “There is a broad range of measures that can be implemented to improve the skill of motorcycle operators, as well as reduce the frequency of situations where other vehicle operators are the cause of crashes that involve motorcycles.”
In its position on voluntary helmet use, the AMA noted that mandatory helmet laws do nothing to prevent crashes.
“The AMA supports actions that help riders avoid a crash from occurring, including voluntary rider education, improved licensing and testing, and expanded motorist awareness programs,” said Allard. “This strategy is widely recognized and pursued in the motorcycling community.”
Concerning the task force claim of economic benefits, the AMA noted that injured motorcyclists are less likely than the general population to use public funds to pay for injuries sustained in crashes, and are just as likely to be insured as other vehicle operators.
In addition, the AMA said the costs associated with the treatment of motorcyclist injuries account for a tiny fraction of total U.S. health care costs. An even smaller portion of these costs is attributable to unhelmeted motorcyclists, the majority of which are paid by privately purchased insurance. In 2000, for example, approximately 1.55 percent of total U.S. health care costs were attributable to all motor vehicle crashes. Motorcyclists involved in crashes represented a miniscule percentage of this figure.
To read the AMA position on voluntary helmet use, go to www.americanmotorcyclist.com/Rights/PositionStatements/VoluntaryHelmetUse.aspx
cross posted at ...On Liberty
Phil Labonte of All That Remains – photo by Liz Ramanand
All That Remains is a band that as a metalhead I have “heard of” but never really heard. Despite the fact that “metalcore” as a sub-genre of metal was practically created in Cleveland by the band Integrity. I liked Vision of Disorder in the 90′s, Shadows Fall some early God Forbid and maybe Killswitch Engage, but for the most part I stayed away from the genre.
I have to say though that Phil Labonte, vocalist/founder of All That Remains may be one of my new favorite personalities in metal. Mainly because he doesn’t fall for all the pop-culture political brainwashing that so many others in rock & metal do.
He was recently interviewed by Loudwire, where he was asked about his “fued” with Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello and wearing an anti-Obama shirt while on stage in New York. He had this to say:
I specifically wore this shirt because I knew I was coming to New York. In fact the girls sitting down there gave me a look when I was coming to meet you and were like, “Look at his shirt” and I’m like, “Yeah, look at my shirt.” Nobody’s f—ing punk rock anymore, I was never a punk rock guy but punk rock is supposed to be against the machine, against the establishment.
I was talking crap about Tom Morello because how can you be Rage Against the Machine and then vote for someone that’s in the party that controls both the House and the Senate. So you’re against the machine but you’re voting for the candidate that is supported by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. That’s not raging against machine, that’s jumping into the machine’s pocket, that’s lining right up behind the machine.
Political correctness has permeated the society that we live in to the point where – it used to be okay to be crap, you’re free to be crappy. The freedom of speech doesn’t exist so you can say, “I hate the New York Jets or I love the New England Patriots or whatever” it’s so that you can say really controversial shit.
He’s fiercly pro-second amendment and even is the part owner of a gun shop. He had this to say in another interview about his politics:
I’m a libertarian. I believe that the government is massively expansive and has taken powers that it does not have. It should not be in the business of deciding who you should or should not be able to marry. It should not be in the business of deciding what drugs you can and cannot take and what you can put in your body.
It should not It should not be in the business of taking your money in the form of taxation.It should not be in the business of deciding if you should carry a gun. We don’t need all these federal agencies that we have. They’re a waste of money. They end up being bureaucracies. The government never ends up getting smaller. It only gets bigger.
Right on. I don’t know if All That Remains will become one of my favorite bands musically, I doubt it. But keep on raging against the machine dude!
Some Rock stars never get old, or at least the image of them in our minds eye never gets old, particulaly those who have passed on into the great concert hall in the sky. What if they were still around however? Much like the age progression photos of missing children on the side of milk cartons, Sachs Media Group has put together some pictures of what some famous rockers would look like if they were still around today.
For the full set of age progressed photos click here.
This past September the third annual Liberty Political Action Conference was held in Chantilly, Virginia. Among the speakers was Glen Jacobs, better known to fans of pro wrestling as the Devil’s favorite demon & the little brother of the Undertaker, Kane.
Here is his speech.
Foul-mouthed & tattooed, 'small l' libertarian leaning conservative. Lover of heavy metal, outlaw country & craft beer. Broken-hearted fan of Cleveland sports.
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