That's when Bishop drew a gun and opened fire, Ng said. He heard a "pop-pop-pop" of a 9-millimeter handgun — it sounded like a Chinese firecracker, he'd later say — just before the room descended into a panic.
Bishop was targeting faculty members sitting closest to her, Ng said. As his injured colleagues went down, he and other survivors dived under the conference room table.
Then, within seconds, the shooting stopped, because her weapon had apparently jammed.
The lull gave the survivors an opportunity. Debra Moriarity, a biochemistry professor, scrambled toward Bishop and urged her to stop shooting, Ng said. Bishop aimed the gun directly at her and pulled the trigger, but it failed to shoot, he said.
Moriarity then led the charge that forced Bishop out the door.
"Moriarity was probably the one that saved our lives. She was the one that initiated the rush," Ng said. "It took a lot of guts to just go up to her."
The faculty members propped up the conference room table against the door and called authorities. Then they braced for her to return, but Bishop never came back — and Ng still isn't quite sure why.
"She could have killed everyone in the room," said Ng. "It could have been much worse."

OK, so I can be an insensitive bastard, but let's be clear: there are lessons one can learn from this and other incidents, and these lessons might one day save your life.

1. Always rule #1: in a gun fight, bring a gun!
2. With coworkers and friends dying around you, diving under a table is not a good plan.
3. Cowardice doesn't save lives. Ever.
4. Anything that can be used as a defensive shield can be used as a defensive weapon.
5. If your plan is to await a jammed weapon or a "rounds complete" scenario, plan on dying for sure the first time the opportunity arises.
6. "Please, no!" is not a suitable defensive posture.
7. Urging a gunman to stop shooting people is retarded.
8. Forcing a gunman out a door is not nearly as effective as taking the gun from the gunman and beating the living piss out of them - till they are unconscious or dead.
9. Never rely on someone else to save your life.
10. If your definition of security or safety is something other people provide, you are sheep, act accordingly.

Since the beginning, I've been a firm "denier" in the eyes of the Global Warming crowd, meaning I am scientifically literate enough to see that nothing has been proven and that there are serious flaws in the data collection and reporting methodology.

As has become the case, when Hussein Obama jumps on the wagon, the wagon falls apart. After Obama's State of the Union Address, in which he said the "science is settled", the unsettling began in earnest.

First, there was "Email-gate", then came the admission that the Kilimanjaro prediction (all snow gone by 2035) was pure garbage, followed swiftly by the public admittance that key data was gone, lost, poof. Then the weather stations in China, the anchor data for China's warming, were shown to have moved numerous times over their 50 years. Shortly after that, the data for the "hockey stick" graph went missing, no one has it or the initial paper. Then, the retractions on urban effect (concrete reflects more heat than rural landscape, causing cities to heat dramatically faster than rural areas.)

So, today, all that stands firmly on the "science is settled" side is Obama. Gore, and "An Inconvenient Truth" - which has been so thoroughly debunked as trash science that anyone watching the film is now deemed a satire fan or a total retard.

Now, into this quixotic quagmire, I now wade. Again.

To recap previous science lessons: concerning theories, one can reject a theory or fail to reject a theory, that is all. One does not "accept" a theory. Whether the theory is "evilution" - as the fundamentalists would say - or gravitation, you have only 2 options.

Man-induced global warming is a theory. As a scientist, one can fail to reject, or one can reject. As a pseudo scientist, environmentalist, or politician - in other words, those entirely uneducated in the actual science of the thing - I understand the choices are far more plentiful, but no better.

So, the purpose for the post: the recent cold weather, dramatically cold weather, neither proves nor disproves anything, it's just cold weather. Republicans grabbing onto the cold and snow as proof of no global warming is as retarded as Democrats grabbing onto fake data and a hot day as proof of global warming.Anecdotal evidence, though easiest to find, is the most useless in making actual scientific progress.

In the end, the data is still inconclusive. One thing we know for an absolute certainty: weather changes over time.

Also, for those days when the enviro-nuts come calling: remind them that the single largest green house gas (literally) is water vapor, and no weather model yet devised can account for the behavior of water vapor. Therefore, any conversation on carbon dioxide must be prefaced with the admission that you discuss a gas with a <5% relevance to the issue at hand. Once that is agreed upon, talk away. And remind them that plants absolutely love carbon dioxide. it's almost like they breath the stuff! Or something.

As with Senator Kennedy, the guy ain't in the ground yet and spinners are already re-writing history.

All I need to know of Murtha is this:

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Rep. John Murtha cannot be sued for accusing U.S. Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians "in cold blood," remarks that sparked outrage among conservative commentators.
The appeals court in Washington dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a Marine who led the squad in the attack. The judges agreed with Murtha that he was immune from the lawsuit because he was acting in his official role as a lawmaker when he made the comments to reporters.
Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich of Meriden, Conn., claimed Murtha damaged his reputation by saying the squad he was leading engaged in "cold-blooded murder and war crimes" in Haditha, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2005.
At a Capitol Hill news conference in May 2006, Murtha predicted that a Pentagon war crimes investigation would show the Marines killed dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians in Haditha.
- Newsmax article

The Marines were found not guilty of all charges.


To summarize, Murtha condemned Marines for murder when he didn't have all the facts. Once ht got the facts, he refused to apologize, then hid behind his political office while hurling unsubstantiated accusations.

Murtha will rot in the part of hell reserved for rapists and child molesters and traitors and people who thin Carrot Top is funny.

His death is unfortunate - since I never got the chance to stand before the man and call him a traitor to his face.


Rot in hell, asshole.

To my continued amazement, Hussein is getting traction with the "Bush spent all this money, it ain't my fault."

Barack Hussein Obama is a moron. And not just any moron, a champion moron, one could say a moron's moron.

The stimulus money Obama is trying so hard to tie around Bush's neck, he voted for it. And not only did he vote for it, he complained that it wasn't enough.

Now, with the largest budget in human (possible universe) history, he's still playing the part of the victim.

The deficits projected through 2020 continue to sore, and Bush's expenditures go away at the end of 2010 (say goodbye to those Bush tax cuts), and Obama still blames Bush.

The amount of money being spent today in Washington is unconscionable, yet still they trudge on, spending money we've not yet borrowed from China, in an effort to - what exactly? How does extending unemployment benefits encourage job growth?

We, as a nation, are retarded, we, as a nation (not me personally) elected a moron's moron, an ACORN attorney, a self-professed "Community Organizer" to lead our nation. We got what we (again, not me) voted for: an activist with an agenda counter to the American people's will.

I figure we have 2 more years of terrible leadership before he hits the campaign trails, blaming Bush for every mistake any administration ever made.

With some luck, you idiots will have figured it out by then.

For those who voted for Obama, thanx. Dicks.

State or federal, works for both.


Question: How do we stop spending so much money?
Answer: Stop spending so much money!

How retarded are these people?


Hussein and Arnold talk like entitlement programs are fixed, can't be defunded.

California is in hock to the US government, the US government is in hock to the nation of China.

By 2020, if the zombies don't get us, the interest payments on our debt will.

Bring on the Third World US of A!