Women aren't carrying their weight.

Looks like the VA knows how to fire people:

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/08/24/looks-like-the-va-actually-does-fire-people-if-they-blow-the-whistle-on-the-va/

How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?

https://twitter.com/MarioVilas/status/766605208499654657

Besides, how does one mistake a 10 year old for someone who's 20?

Goobers with guns. It’s what they do, ma’am. They’re dangerous to everything and everyone around them, including themselves. You know, it might have been easier and more efficient if they had walked up to the kid and talked to the him.

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2016/08/24/newark-police-pull-shotguns-on-ten-year-old/

Marines are supposed to break things and kill people, police are supposed to be peace officers.

Also: Marines go to the range far more frequently and put much more ordinance down range than the typical doughnut muncher.

We, as law enforcement officers, need to adopt the same mindset as that of the Marine Corps when it comes to job titles. In the Marine Corps, everyone, regardless of rank, is a rifleman first and foremost. The "job" he does in the Marines comes second. We’re civilian law enforcement, so our "job" to protect and serve comes first, but we need to have the mindset that each and every one of us is also a rifleman. We need to be equipped and trained as such.

https://www.policeone.com/police-products/firearms/articles/212691006-Heres-why-all-police-need-a-patrol-rifle/

Who knew?

EXCLUSIVE: Jews are 'adept at working the American political system' aided by 'the memory of the Holocaust' - extraordinary claim made by journal where Huma Abedin was assistant editor

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3755266/Radical-Muslim-magazine-edited-Hillary-Clinton-s-staffer-Huma-Abedin-claimed-Jews-adept-working-political-aided-memory-Holocaust.html

Another bakery doing something to offend people:

http://fox40.com/2016/08/23/local-bakery-facing-backlash-over-ken-doll-birthday-cake/

But this time, the target of the insults are the people who complain. Hmm..

"Rabies can be a fantastic tool, in the right hands."

(Article: Why One Neuroscientist Started Blasting His Core
A new anatomical understanding of how movement controls the body’s stress response system. By James Hamblin, in The Atlantic.)

Core-blasting.

The World Science Fiction Convention was this past weekend.

David Truesdale, who publishes an online magazine, was moderating a panel at the convention. During the panel, he expressed some opinions that differed with the current orthodoxy.

For this, Mr. Truesdale was expelled from the convention. I have not seen any credible evidence that he attacked or even physically threatened anyone: merely that he expressed an opinion, and was expelled for doing so.

Recording of the panel in question and more comments here.

Privately funded surveillance, no prior notice to the public, used by the police as they see fit,

What could go wrong??????

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/24/baltimore-police-aerial-surveillance-cameras

"Magic" boats explain increasing minimum wages

http://redpanels.com/75/

This blog was better when there were more women commenters. Remember PJ? Marion? And that girl from Boston, the blond kid? And the one from Virginia with the daughters?

It wasn't all resentful men.

Channel 2 suspended the eight women, saying they have a month to lose weight as long as they have an “appropriate appearance” to go back on air.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/08/25/egypt-suspends-eight-female-broadcasters-tells-them-they-are-too-fat-to-be-on-tv/

"Core-blasting."

Crid at August 25, 2016 9:26 AM

I have to admire someone who can multitask, especially while reaching in the shower.

Sixclaws: Mario Vilas is displaying his ignorance. One BTU is the heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree. Water weights about 8 pounds to the American gallon (1 pound per pint, or one ounce weight per liquid ounce). So 8 BTU's.

That's not a precise calculation. A gallon of very pure warm water might weigh only 7-1/2 pounds, or a gallon of sea water at 37 degrees F might weigh considerably more than 8 pounds. (And the weight of the same object varies by about 1% depending on where you are on Earth - "g" varies by that much with latitude, altitude, and how dense the rocks underneath are.) If I needed better precision, I could go to Wikipedia, look up water, and find the density in American-English units. (Of course, it depends on temperature, which is why specific heat is defined by the pound mass, gram, or kg, not by volume or weight, but the BTU's/pound or calories/milliter also varies with temperature.) If I needed more precision, first I'd have to measure the tenperature of the water. Then I could go to thermodynamic tables that give the properties of water, including density and heat capacity, at various temperatures - in whichever system of units I prefer, because all this was measured and tabulated early in the 19th Century. It's critical to predicting the power and fuel efficiency of steam engines.

Yes, the metric system is a little easier to learn and to work with, and I'll use it for engineering calculations when given the choice. But anything you can calculate in metric units, I can calculate in English units. It might take a little more work, and it definitely takes an awareness of varying definitions, which are sometimes much more significant than the 8 different definitions of BTU in Wikipedia. E.g., the British Imperial pint is 20 ounces rather than 16. The ounces are slightly smaller than the American-English system ounces, but the British pint of beer is noticeably larger than the American one, and your car will go a little further on an Imperial gallon of gasoline. (OTOH, you probably have to pay more than twice as much for that Imperial gallon, if you can find someplace in the British Isles that sells petrol by the gallon. The prices don't sound so terrible when quoted by the liter.)