On a scale of 1 to 10, wind scores a 3, solar a 5, and oil/gas 8 (no 10′s; 8 is the highest). The main problem with oil and gas (in this guy’s mind at least) is their lack of abundance. It’s interesting to note that he doesn’t dock any points for carbon emissions. Not sure if he disregards climate change hype entirely, or is just more concerned with the immediate problem of oil supply not keeping up with demand.

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Still, the demographics are 65% white, 25% black.

Yeah, that’s just a little misleading figure from my experience. Although I’m sure it’s the official census tally.

Being ‘white’ south of I-10 certainly isn’t the same as ‘being white’ in Kansas. The diversity of blood (Spanish, French, African and American Indian) is incredibly complex amongst Cajuns. And the farther south the more convoluted it gets. Not to mention all the blue eyed black girls that go back almost two centuries.
Damn I miss Louisiana!

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1. Interchangeable parts.
2. Isn’t it relatively easy to modify the ballistics marks on a barrel anyway? and/or don’t they slightly change over time with use

Fire-lapping………..
and you can keep your own barrel.

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1. Interchangeable parts.
2. Isn’t it relatively easy to modify the ballistics marks on a barrel anyway? and/or don’t they slightly change over time with use

Bingo. Every shot fired down a barrel changes it. The first shot changes it the most; eariler shots change it more than later, etc, I;ve got about 1000 rounds out of my newest 9mm, bet you dollars to hollowpoints that its “signature” is different from my first round.

Oh and #1 is true, too. Change a couple of parts and you have a new fingerprint. Change one part and collect your brass (or fire a revolver) and same deal.

#3 is that most murders aren’t committed with a gun owned by the first buyer.

#4 There is no way to compare thousands of bullet automatically. It takes a human eye to look at two bullets and match them. If every gun in th US was ballsitically fingerprinted, there would be 100 million of them. You could narrow them down by caliber, but imagine a 9mm murder. You would have to painstakingly compare your murder round to what a million other bullets? Ten million?

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JimK recently posted..Another telling of my accident

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If you are reading this and thinking “Wow, what a great idea” then you probably don’t know anything about firearms.

You know, I don’t really know much at all about firearms, but 2 things pop into my mind just based on common sense..
1. Interchangeable parts.
2. Isn’t it relatively easy to modify the ballistics marks on a barrel anyway? and/or don’t they slightly change over time with use?

I really need to actually exercise my 2nd amendment rights.

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There are simple glaring differences however, if you don’t want to get bogged down in the details (for example a lot of the worse Islamic claims are not found in the Koran but in other texts, which themselves are not accepted by all Muslims). Keeping in mind a religion as recorded in the texts cannot be responsible for those who deviate or choose to only practice a few parts of the fine print, whilst ignoring the major themes, and not assuming God is real or not – the following all help shape the consciousness of the practitioners:

1: Christianity has a built in doctrine of “to be Christian is to suffer” and to accept suffering as part of life. Basically to roll over and take it. Islam does not teach this. It does teach to sacrifice in the name of Allah but not to accept suffering as a natural state or to turn the other cheek (QUITE the opposite).

2: Christianity’s God is all forgiving and is open to forgive almost all sins, so long as you repent: all men are sinners. Islam, on the other hand, says God will do whatever the hell he likes.

3: Christianity does not claim to be a political system, this can lead to some Christians even refusing to vote. Islam IS a political system, you cannot separate them from one another. It was envisioned as such. The prophet of Islam designed his religion to OBTAIN power. Whoever came up with Christianity taught it as a coping mechanism to deal with the sufferings and oppression of human life/Rome.

4: Jesus healed the ear of the guard who came to take him to his death. Muhammad was a warlord. ’nuff said.

5: Islam quite clearly divides humans into various camps with Muslims at the top and Atheists and polytheists at the bottom. This is standard for religions, such as Hinduism which has its own caste system. Christianity, as the exception, is the opposite of this when it comes to how humans should be treated.

6: The Koran is the unchanged word of Allah END OF STORY. The Bible on the other hand is various books, most Christians accept the NT was essentially put together by men and had nothing to do with God’s word. This causes, even if you generally accept it’s God’s word, some level of disconnect in the conciseness of Christians, save the most barbarian of Christians.

Simply consider this – Islam, as we’re often told, was far more advanced than the Christian, medieval, world. They were the lords of culture whilst the West was living in mud huts etc. If this is true then why are Islamic countries today so backwards? Surely the Islamic world had a head start? *que some idiotic statement about colonialism, which only proves my point

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Religion = Insanity

I am an atheist who thinks al lthe sky pixie talk is wacko (I really like the cargo cults, though). I have know a lot of really smart (and nice) religious people. Assuming that everyone is a gropu is jsut like your worst stereotype of that group is simple bigotry.

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The registry is just another “Look we did something instead of actually doing something” idea. Do you guys remember a few years ago when the Dems wanted to create a ballistic database? “Finger print” every gun sold? Every gun would be fired once and the bullet stored before the gun was sold so that they could use that info to match up murder weapons. I think a couple of states actualyl did this. If you are reading this and thinking “Wow, what a great idea” then you probably don’t know anything about firearms.

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Suffice to say, the most complex thinking I’ve ever seen on someone that’s served jail time for petty criminal crap was how to score drugs and hookers on any given night of the week.

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Already answered, if practicing Jews were Old Trestament complaint and were regular practitioners of Leviticus style nutjobbery, then I would rag on them as well, but they don’t.

In one instance you claim to know what the Koran teaches, but when it comes to Judaism you are wiling to cut the Torah some slack because its followers are largely good people? Wtf? :) That’s all I wanted to see, but for all religions.

Fuck bigoted fundamentalist arsehole followers of any religion! Just don’t claim to understand the true meaning of their respective texts. There is peaceful Islam, that’s just a fact. One major reason for it appearing to being more violent than others is that it happens to be the dominating religion of some pretty messed up regions, lacking in democracy, personal freedoms, education, other basic human rights, infrastructure etc.

Which scholars? I could provide you with about a hundred youtube videos of “scholars” perpetuating that belief and calling those not of that belief false and abominations.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is as far as I have been able to see a voice of reason. I’m not into counting scholars though. The group [peaceful Islam] is large enough for me to contend that it isn’t right to claim that the Koran teaches the killing of infidels.

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Complex forensic stuff is a good idea. But let’s not labor under the illusion that CSI is a documentary, it’s very rare that things go beyond a few interviews.

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Maybe we should take a poll; if you were planning on killing somebody, how would you do it?

By any means necessary.

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I’ve going for a gallon of gasoline, a car tire, and a road flare – if I hate you enough to kill you, you’re going to suffer….

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But surely that 4.7% is still 4.7% and better than nothing?

So you didn’t bother to read this far?

Even in those 62 cases, Canadian authorities concluded the registry made no difference. Traditional police work and straight-forward confessions solved most of those.

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