Caio — November 7, 2008 @ 8:17 am

Furies ruin everything.

njch412 — November 7, 2008 @ 8:22 am

Lol, these next four years are going to be an amusement ride. Between Pelosi, Reid, and Emmanuel Rahm now too, say goodbye to every promise made during the campaign season. Real politics begins February 09

db_tanker — November 7, 2008 @ 8:42 am

I too am curious as to how those campaign promises are going to turn out. I think if Obama can keep half the promises he made, then we as a country would be in decent shape…but then the realistic part of me has to but consider just how many back-room promises were made to get into the white house. Even though I voted against him, I do wish him luck…the American political machine can wear you down bad.

Marrock — November 7, 2008 @ 8:55 am

@Caio: Now what could have the Roman goddesses of vengeance ever done to you to make you dislike them so much?

Oh wait, they torment sinners… nevermind, it makes sense now.

Caio — November 7, 2008 @ 9:16 am

You’re right. I mean furries but I guess I spelt it like the Anglo-Roman term for Erinyes, the Greek goddess who kill those that kill their parents, making me implicitly guilty of killing my parents.

What a Freudian slip, genius!

Paul_Is_Drunk — November 7, 2008 @ 9:47 am

@njch412:
@db_tanker:
People who aren’t old enough to remember politics before Bush II. Or aren’t smart enough. One of the two.

Paul_Is_Drunk — November 7, 2008 @ 9:50 am

Okay, I take that back on @db_tanker.

Still, I gotta admire the Repubs for sticking to the talking points.

ProTip: You have to wait ’til Obama is President. Even then, the country loves him right now. You’re only exciting the base, as usual.

db_tanker — November 7, 2008 @ 10:08 am

@Paul_Is_Drunk,

I have got sick and tired of both sides talking points to the point where I avoided any news program at all. I just want our country to be strong again like it once was. And if Obama IS the “second coming” of JFK, then by God let him at it. I really do see the Congress tying his hands on that however. And it will not be good for him. I honestly do think that he is trying to do what is right and he has my respect for that. He is, above all else, sincere in his convictions. McCain and Palin couldn’t touch that. I only wish that he picked another VP. Biden is…I guess too much of a compromise is what I am thinking. He represents the “old school” thoughts and ways. We shall see. I watch and wait.

Jagermeister — November 7, 2008 @ 10:09 am

I kinda feel bad for Obama. He’s in a tough spot right now, between keeping all the promises he made, an not making things worse in certain situations. There are alot of tough calls ahead. Personally, with as close as the popular vote was, I don’t think his approval rating will stay high for long. Best of luck to him.

db_tanker — November 7, 2008 @ 10:10 am

also @Paul_Is_Drunk,

I actually am old enough to remember Carter being Prez. lol

Marrock — November 7, 2008 @ 11:14 am

@Caio: Wow, you figured out how to use wikipedia, bet you’re oh so proud of yourself now you grotty little asstroll.

Caio — November 7, 2008 @ 11:23 am

Yeah, that’s right. I might have spent half a second googling and finding the mistake in your post: not too hard because you’re an idiot.

I wouldn’t have to though, as I had to read the Orestaia in high school. I’m assuming you’re American to have such a basic fact missing from your education.

LukeV1-5 — November 7, 2008 @ 12:59 pm

What makes me sad, Marrock, is that you thought that what you were saying would make you seem intellectual and cultured.

What Irony!

Marrock — November 7, 2008 @ 2:45 pm

The ironic part is you actually think I care what some random stranger on the internet thinks about me.

Have fun pretending you matter.

bytehead — November 7, 2008 @ 3:03 pm

@db_tanker: You can remember, but did you vote (for/against) Carter? I (barely) remember JFK (although his funeral will be burned in my mind for the tedious hours of his burial being on TV, all (three) channels. Black and white TV no less.

elzarcothepale — November 7, 2008 @ 3:38 pm

@Marrock: so. . . wait. I have to bullet this to keep it straight.
In this thread:
*You correct someone on a typo in a comment thread by-
*making a flawed reference to an easily verified subject-
*changed mid-comment from an overcomplicated typo-heckling to a comment about Caio’s “sinning,” implying a judgment on your part about his character in general-
*then, when the object of your derision corrects your error with facts, you scoff at the idea of fact-checking- regardless of the fact the you started by commenting on an editing error before-
*slipping into foul language for no reason, only to be followed by-
*a denouncement of internet criticism’s relevance, though it was exactly what you had joined the thread to do. . .

so. . . what’s up with that, man? I mean- it seems like you started out trying to score some points and ended up getting mocked. My imaginary evaluation of self-worth aside, what happened here can’t be what you intended to happen. . .so, fail?
I think fail, man.
Oh, and Protip: you don’t waste time arguing with people that don’t matter- but don’t worry, maturity is on its way, kiddo.

LukeV1-5 — November 7, 2008 @ 8:54 pm

The man makes a convincing argument. I would buy a second-hand car from him without hesitation.

dieAntagonista — October 22, 2008 @ 10:18 am

Looks dope. But your room has to look pretty cheesy in order to match with those colours.
If it was in black and silver it would be perfect.

mintymadness — October 22, 2008 @ 10:55 am

It’s a tiki god…. ? I fail to see how the colors really matter when it comes to “making the room look cheesey.” LOL

dieAntagonista — October 22, 2008 @ 1:27 pm

What! Do you question the unlimited classy charisma of a tiki god figure?!
Bloody heathen

pornoperson — October 23, 2008 @ 9:29 am

Okay, where can I get a pair?

SumoSnipe — October 15, 2008 @ 10:04 am

Why yes its got a hemi.

natedog — October 15, 2008 @ 10:26 am

DAMN

it looks like it is poppin a wheelie

thelotuseater725 — October 15, 2008 @ 2:37 pm

It’s more tasteful than a car ” WIT RIMZ YO”

Dreth — October 15, 2008 @ 3:58 pm

THEY SEE ME ROLLIN’
THEY BE HATIN’

the3g_ipwn — October 15, 2008 @ 7:17 pm

That is a complete waste of money. Though not as bad as the poor bastards who pay money to see it then bitch because they’re poor.

Phyreblade — October 17, 2008 @ 1:46 pm

@natedog: It’s a bigwheel. They are perpetually popping a wheelie…

Billy Manic — October 14, 2008 @ 9:10 pm

This is truth.

Br0die_Bruce — October 14, 2008 @ 9:16 pm

What comic is this from?

Elepski — October 14, 2008 @ 9:29 pm

I like this plan!

garbledxmission — October 14, 2008 @ 9:38 pm

A.I.M. A fine evil organisation of the classic Cobra style.

ohmybob — October 14, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

I’m going to take a wild guess and say this is from Deadpool?

SumoSnipe — October 14, 2008 @ 10:22 pm

The backup plan is usually my main plan…. My friends rarely let me start negotiations. My backup plan? Get a bigger hammer.

ItsBoosterGold — October 15, 2008 @ 12:29 am

well, guy in back is deadpool… so that limits it to something awesome

vanvelding — October 15, 2008 @ 10:32 am

Deadpool is a pretty good planner.

Puulaahi — September 10, 2008 @ 7:35 pm

“Jesus is Awesome! I shoot Guns! ”

Small town values are so wonderful…ROFL

gudis — September 10, 2008 @ 8:54 pm

I’m dissapointed, their Barack Obama action figure is just a Jimmie Carter repaint.

the3g_ipwn — September 10, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

This stereotype of American conservatives is exactly what keeps costing Democrats elections.
You pretend to be better than everyone else. If I don’t share your views, I am backwards and unimformed. If I disagree with your policies, I must be ignorant. And still, You have the audacity to label me biggot, hypocrit, and racist. With that kind of double talk, we conservatives could nominate a pair of rodeo clowns and still smoke your asses.

AbNo — September 10, 2008 @ 9:17 pm

Damn, Ipwn.

Though I agree with you.

AbNo — September 10, 2008 @ 9:21 pm

Oh, also….

Whaaa! Whaaaa!!! WhaaaaaAAAA!

Seriously, where is this sand, that somehow manages to firmly lodge itself into every left-winger on the PLANET’s vagina coming from?

I haven’t heard this much bitching in a while.

kiltedforbes — September 10, 2008 @ 9:25 pm

I’m actually a registered Republican that is voting for Obama, I think the thing is that it isn’t that all Republicans are as you say “backwards and uninformed… ignorant….bigot(s), hypocrite(s), and racist(s).” Its just that if you are those things are you more likely to vote Democrat or Republican? Oh and the last four years the white house was filled with a pair of Rodeo clowns, so yeah there you are right.

Marrock — September 10, 2008 @ 9:27 pm

Hells, I just thought it was a funny comic.

When it comes to politics I’m an adherant of the philosophy put forth by Douglas Adams: “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

nyokki — September 10, 2008 @ 9:30 pm

Some liberals will imply conservatives are backwards, uninformed, ignorant and rednecks, etc…and some conservatives will imply that liberals are tree hugging, granola eating, animal loving vegans that wants the whole world to be gay. Neither are true for most people and it’s ridiculous that we keep these “divisions” going strong. We’re screaming bullshit at each other via megaphone rather than talking to each other. Rant over.

Puulaahi — September 10, 2008 @ 9:33 pm

@kiltedforbes
8 years…. actually.

I will not get into this mudslinging either, the politicians are doing that enough…

tiki god — September 10, 2008 @ 9:35 pm

if you are registered Republican then you are by definition a racist. There is zero doubt: if you subscribe to the republican ideology, you are a racist.

If you’re either a Democrat or independant then you are a true american and not a piece of shit like the GOP fuckups that are invading our country.

the3g_ipwn — September 10, 2008 @ 9:39 pm

@kiltedforbes:

I did not say Republican. Repukelicans are as bad as Emocrats.

I said Conservitave. I believe my government should protect me from enemies, both foreign and domestic, then get the hell out of my way so that I may persue the American dream. Nothing more. That is what true conservatism is.

the3g_ipwn — September 10, 2008 @ 9:47 pm

@tiki:

I consider myself a liberal, but I am compelled to vote republican only because of the pathetic nominees of the democratic party. In the words of Zell Miller. “I did not leave the democratic party. The democratic party left me.”

Puulaahi — September 10, 2008 @ 10:04 pm

I am not registered to any party. Life it better that way. The media/everyone focuses on the extremes of both parties/ ideologies and the only voice that matters is in the middle. But is never or rarely heard.

AbNo — September 10, 2008 @ 10:07 pm

Hey uh Tiki, isn’t/wasn’t Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) a member of the KKK?

MikeBabaguh — September 10, 2008 @ 10:17 pm

If that’s true, Abno, I’d bet that Byrd was a member of the KKK the same way your average, business-owning German male was a member of the Nazi party.

AbNo — September 10, 2008 @ 10:26 pm

Well Mike, if you don’t believe me, look it up.

Ah hell, I suppose I could give him the benefit of the doubt.

I mean, if some some guy from Illinois with a D next to his name can manage to miss over 20 YEARS of racism from a “dear friend for many years”, then I suppose Byrd could have just as easily been naïve when it came to being a judge of a person’s character.

That IS the point you were trying to make, isn’t it, Mike? That people can associate with extreme racists and not know it? Otherwise, it seems like a pretty flimsy excuse to me. :-/

reboot — September 10, 2008 @ 10:44 pm

There’s a thin line between stereotype and factual correlation. If I say that all republicans are ignorant rednecks, that’s a stereotype. If I say that Republican voters predominantly have no college education, work unskilled jobs and don’t practice modern family planning; that’s a fact.

nyokki — September 10, 2008 @ 10:49 pm

Byrd is older than dirt. He is a democrat and he was a member of the kkk, back in the day. Prior to Lyndon Johnson and the passing of the civil rights bill the democratic party had been the party of the south (pro slavery, Lincoln was a republican). When Johnson signed the civil rights bill he was reported to say “We have lost the South for a generation.” Basically political parties did a 180 in the 60s.

AbNo — September 10, 2008 @ 10:52 pm

I have a college education, and I’ve been a satellite communications tech, an electronic security systems installer, a repairman for Beretta USA, and on the low end of recent jobs, a cable man.

Everyone I know that votes Libertarian/Conservative has, or is in the process of getting their Bachelor’s degree, both my parents graduated from nursing school in the top of their class, and I’m currently looking for a four-year college attend in another couple of semesters.

Three of my friends from high school have law degrees, and one is working on her Master’s. (Fucking lawyers…)

Basically, unless I know (and/or am related to) EVERY GOD-DAMN EXCEPTION to your “fact”, I’d say it’s another one of those 78% of all statistics that are made up.

Or you’re just full of bull-shit. Your choice.

kiltedforbes — September 10, 2008 @ 11:30 pm

This should put some sort of end to it, unless you don’t care about real facts

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/20.....lls.0.html

silverflux — September 10, 2008 @ 11:56 pm

the difference between democrats and republicans, from a canadian viewpoint! ready?

- democrats try to help people and urge them to think for themselves.

- republicans make laws to suit themselves and then make it illegal to disagree with them.

AbNo — September 11, 2008 @ 12:06 am

You mean things like affirmative action (government enforced discrimination), the Fairness Doctrine, or what happens if you go to a website like Democratic Underground, and disagree with anyone there? Hell, I know a guy that sigged a “Banned at DU” gif with pride.

Or perhaps you meant things like tax cuts, small business incentives, ending slavery, and attempts to give people the tools they need to make their own way in life?

Further more, it’s not party lines, it’s ideology lines nowadays. There are many with an R in front of their name that act just like those on the left with a D in front of their name. (See: RINO)

Anyway, it’s late, and some TF2 is in order.

AbNo — September 11, 2008 @ 12:20 am

@Kilted:
Ooh, nice find! It’s CNN, but it’ll do for this bit of SRS BSNS.

Let’s see… By education, two groups voted in favor of Kerry…

Those with no high school education, and those with post-grad study.

So basically, people that couldn’t pass high school (though this might also include 18 year old seniors), and post-grad elitists voted for Kerry.

High school/college grads, and those with “some college” chose The Letter over Frankenstein’s Monster.

Thanks, Kilt!

nyokki — September 11, 2008 @ 12:29 am

@kiltedforbes
Nice find.

Puulaahi — September 11, 2008 @ 3:12 am

Safe to say Bush has the lowest approval rating of all time and he deserves it.Discussion over!

Enjoy!
http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm

AbNo — September 11, 2008 @ 6:08 am

Oh, oh, not quite, Puul!

You forgot to mention the Congressional approval rating: About 14%.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/108.....ow-14.aspx

“Since the start of the year, public approval of Congress has fallen from 23% to 14%, while approval of President George W. Bush has been more stable: 32% approved of the job he was doing in early January versus 31% today, with a range of just 28% to 34%.”

Oh, and those identifying themselves as Democrats that approval of this Nancy Pelosi Congress?

11%.

NOW the discussion’s over.

tiki god — September 11, 2008 @ 7:50 am

if you are registered Democrat then you are by definition a racist. There is zero doubt: if you subscribe to the democrat ideology, you are a racist.

If you’re either a Republican or independant then you are a true american and not a piece of shit like the godless liberal fuckups that are invading our country.

reboot — September 11, 2008 @ 11:27 am

@kiltedforbes
Are those the same exited polls that declared that Kerry was the winner? Remember that? They had to go back and “fix” the polls after the official results came in.
Exit polls have 3 problems:
1) Selection bias
2) Lying on purpose,saying what the they think the pollster wants to hear, eg Bradley effect
3) “Lying” by accident, eg AbNo who thinks that install cable boxes is a skilled job that requires an education.

kiltedforbes — September 11, 2008 @ 12:21 pm

So heres the thing with Congress approval numbers, people like to leave out the fact that congress rarely has numbers above 50 percent, they are the crap on of political offices, check this out if you don’t believe me: http://www.gallup.com/poll/107.....cords.aspx

People who make comments without proof are as good as evangelicals in my book, go flying spaghetti monster!!

Drewlicious — August 10, 2008 @ 3:30 pm

I believe that was originally stated by Mr. Homer J. Simpson.

MikeBabaguh — August 10, 2008 @ 4:44 pm

Yeah. Blatant Simpson’s ripoff.

Marrock — August 10, 2008 @ 4:47 pm

If your going to steal, may as well steal from the best.

I didn’t make it anyway, it was found lurking on my hard drive.

Exacerbate — August 10, 2008 @ 4:51 pm

You’re*

Max — August 10, 2008 @ 11:43 pm

I think a better term would be “used” than stolen. Despite the BOATLOADS of money MCS is making by this malicious theivery of fine art (see removed posts for inside-jokedness)

Max — August 10, 2008 @ 11:44 pm

erm, thievery. Sorry.

Drew — August 7, 2008 @ 3:06 pm

the question is, did he fire 5 hamburgers or 6. ize gots to know.

storminator — August 7, 2008 @ 3:53 pm

WANT!

my neighbors would freak out if that was on my porch….

DasMaus — August 7, 2008 @ 3:57 pm

WIN!!

and off road tires too!!!

Korinthian — August 7, 2008 @ 6:05 pm

Just don’t invite anyone working for airport security.

CMoorehead — August 7, 2008 @ 6:30 pm

Go ahead, Make my steak!!!

natedog — August 7, 2008 @ 7:43 pm

America, FUCK YEAH!!!

nyokki — August 7, 2008 @ 7:51 pm

I guess I won’t be submitting this pic. I was going to submit 2 different pics of this.

GorillaMunch — August 8, 2008 @ 3:08 am

imagine if this fired the hamburgers through the barrel when they were cooked.

robustion — August 8, 2008 @ 8:11 am

this is the best thing I’ve seen all day!

Marrock — August 8, 2008 @ 11:55 am

nyokki, send them in if you have them, I’d like to see this beast from different angles.

teezy weezy — August 3, 2008 @ 5:21 am

Is that all cops do then, shoot people?

AgZed — August 3, 2008 @ 5:53 am

Well no, cops also bring the dogs. And the bees. And the dogs with bees in their mouths. So that when they bark, they shoot bees at you.

Snow — August 3, 2008 @ 6:34 am

its against the law in the US to be a vigilante. i would like to hear from people as to whether a gun would have saved them in a certain situation without legal ramifications.

AgZed — August 3, 2008 @ 7:00 am

Snow: Of course it would have. Just ask Bernhard Goetz.

Oh wait.

legba — August 3, 2008 @ 7:35 am

Snow,
Alive and in jail vs. dead and law-abiding: your thoughts?

AlecDalek — August 3, 2008 @ 7:44 am

While I see the value of allowing citizens to carry concealed handguns as a deterrent against crime, I wouldn’t want one myself. The problem is if you were to shoot a criminal that was victimizing you, you’d have Al Sharpton calling you a racist.

Snow — August 3, 2008 @ 8:12 am

ok legba what if you shoot someone who had honorable interntions? another thing is you americans have so little faith in your justice system that you carry around a gun. i know its your constitutional right but thats so far outdated. and legba if you are in jail you may as well be dead. give me liberty or give me death.

Korinthian — August 3, 2008 @ 9:26 am

The gun part of the costitution is so the USAders can dislodge incompetent governments. Notice how they all walk around with guns and none of them do shit to impeach Bush after sending their kids to war (etc). Use your damn guns for the right things damnit, or I’ll lose whatever faith I have left in your so called democratic country.

RSIxidor — August 3, 2008 @ 9:32 am

So you want us to practice anarchy to prove democracy?

TrayShadix — August 3, 2008 @ 9:48 am

No, RSI. Korinthian is recommending we use force to exercise another constitutional right laid down by our very DECLARATION of Independence…

“…That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

RSIxidor — August 3, 2008 @ 10:10 am

I think the problem is this: Our society sees Bush as a problem yes, but they just saw, “It won’t be a problem in 4/8 years.” The issue is that the majority of society sees the president as the power behind the government, and while this one can definitely be accused of abusing this, we also need to look at the other three branches.

That, and most Americans are too lazy to give a damn.

Paul_Is_Drunk — August 3, 2008 @ 10:22 am

It’s not that we’re lazy, it’s just that there’s something on TV and we don’t have time to cook. Where’s the damn pizza boy?!!

MrDooves — August 3, 2008 @ 11:19 am

Its true TrayShadix, the government in the U.S. has been able to operate without fear of repercussion from its own people. They have continued to slowly allow things to falter in their own favor, and it seems most Americans are unable to see just how bad its become.

In countries like France, and the rest of Europe, the people have all the power. The government lives in fear and steps lightly that at any point the people will revolt and overthrow the current power. Protesting in Europe actually works. So the system is actually set up to keep the people happy, money being spent where the people want, and not the government. though I know that might seem odd to most.

RSIxidor — August 3, 2008 @ 11:32 am

That does make sense, too bad the majority of Americans would balk at the idea that FRANCE of all places has it right.

Caio — August 3, 2008 @ 10:02 pm

“Alive and in jail vs. dead and law-abiding: your thoughts?”

It’s always better to take the moral high ground. The “two wrongs make a right” philosophy is the only reason there’s violent crime in the first place. If everyone put ethical conduct first and foremost there’s be little need for guns or cops.

You put papa legba’s name t oshame.

Caio — August 3, 2008 @ 10:11 pm

Also, Mr. Dooves: What the fuck are you talking about? Aren’t you Canadian? Canadians are totally apathetic about politics compared to Americans. As are most Europeans. Americans spend a lot more time talking politics than people in most other countries. And hell, even the French are pretty apathetic about politics compared to, say, the Italians, and most of the Italians are still pretty damn unhappy about the government.

As for French having all kinds of super-duper control over the government I would say no. Yes, proportional election systems encourage multi-party legislatures, which reflects the will of the people a lot more. But that doesn’t matter because, compared to European countries France puts a lot more power in the person of the Executive. From my experience most people in France see their government as corrupt, nepotistic and Byzantine.

And don’t tell me about the occasional protest. Race riots were once common in the States (1991, late 70s, several in the 50s&60s, zoot suit riots, etc). And as for the 60s youth mass protests in France, that was nothing but trendy hippy bullshit copied directly from Americans.

Dooves, you bullshit and are blatantly factually wrong about literally everything you post about, and you’re so bad at it. You are like Cliff from Cheers.

Thrella — August 4, 2008 @ 4:35 am

Repost is repost.

storminator — August 4, 2008 @ 8:42 am

back in the days when i was being VERY naughty- i used to carry a gun when i was making “deliverys”. there were three occasions when i was REALLY glad i was armed. talk about TENSE.

LOL

i still carry a gun when i travel. better to have it and not need it.

uttermost — August 5, 2008 @ 9:05 am

My father was killed by a gun that had been bought for protection.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Self-Defense: The Great Myth of America’s Gun Industry
http://www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/self_defense.pdf.

Guns have long been seen as tools of self-defense in the United States. But, contrary to gun industry hype, unintended consequences often happen when people buy guns for self-defense. Studies by public health professionals have repeatedly found that having a gun around for any reason increases the likelihood that a family member—as opposed to a criminal—will be injured or killed with a gun. A 1997 American Journal of Public Health study showed that family members that had a history of buying a handgun from a licensed dealer were twice as likely to die in a suicide or homicide as were persons similarly situated who had no such family history of gun purchase. This increased risk persisted for more than five years after the handgun was purchased.

Other studies have looked specifically at the more narrow question of keeping guns in the home for self-defense. One, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that having a gun in the home made it nearly three times more likely that someone in the family will be killed. This risk is particularly high for women, who are more likely to be killed by a spouse, intimate acquaintance, or close relative. An Archives of Internal Medicine study found that, with one or more guns in the home, the risk of suicide among women increased nearly five times and the risk of homicide increased more than three times.

These and other studies have documented repeatedly the enhanced risk that comes from bringing a gun into the home. Even the gun press admits the risk in unguarded moments. Describing the demise of so-called “lintel guns,” firearms hung over the door ready for immediate action in frontier times, Shooting Sports Retailer noted:

“Today, guns in a home used for self protection are not hung over the door but are more likely in a desk drawer or beside the bed in a night stand. When a child is hurt in a firearm accident it is often the self defense gun that was found, played with, and ultimately fired by the youngster.”

But how often do people use guns successfully to protect themselves from criminal acts? Does it justify the deaths and damage that comes with guns? Apparently not. Most studies have found that guns play a relatively minor role in preventing crime but a major role in facilitating it. For example, the US Department of Justice study found that, on the average, between 1987 and 1992 only one percent of actual or attempted victims of violent crime, or about 62,000 people, attempted to defend themselves with a firearm. On the other hand, criminals armed with handguns committed a record 931,000 violent crimes in 1992. Data from the FBI’s Crime in the United States reveals that for every time in 1998 that a civilian used a handgun to kill in self-defense, 50 people lost their lives in handgun homicides alone.

One advocate of the value of handguns for self-defense is Gary Kleck, professor of criminology at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Kleck and his colleague Mark Gertz claim their survey research indicates that civilians use guns in self-defense up to 2.5 million times a year. Naturally enough, the NRA and the gun industry have widely cited Kleck’s work as proof of the value of owning a gun. But Dr. David Hemenway, a professor at Harvard’s School of Public Health, dissected the work of Kleck and Gertz in The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, concluding that their survey contained ”a huge overestimation bias” and that their estimate is “highly exaggerated.” Hemenway applied Kleckand Gertz’s methodology to a 1994 ABC News/Washington Post survey in which people were asked if they had ever seen an alien spacecraft or come into direct contact with a space alien. He demonstrated that, by the application of Kleck and Gertz’s methodology, one would conclude that almost 20 million Americans have seen a spacecraft from another planet and more than a million have actually met space aliens.

slick556 — August 23, 2008 @ 12:26 am

http://www.claytoncramer.com/g.....chive.html

Sticky — July 6, 2008 @ 10:26 pm

Looks like Darth Vader’s and General Grievous’s love child.

Marrock — July 6, 2008 @ 10:40 pm

And he has a cute little ascot too.

orbitn — July 7, 2008 @ 1:56 am

Steampunk is one of those things that’s weird, like a dream where the world is just not-quite-right. It leaves a bad mental aftertaste for me thats hard to describe.. although the artist is talented - it’s spooky

awfulintentions — July 7, 2008 @ 2:52 am

The attention to detail is quite refreshing.

::thumbs up::

Gunface01 — July 7, 2008 @ 3:08 am

Oogh… this scares the shit out of me

I had a nightmare when I was little about this big shadow thing with really long lanky arms and they were all shaky and horrifying and he was trying to grab/molest me. This pic reminds me of that.. *ultrashudder*

natedog — July 7, 2008 @ 7:54 am

Moar liek Darth Gaydar

amirite?

Dyna-Mole — July 7, 2008 @ 11:02 am

@natedog
as in he’s so gay, he can tell if you’re gay too. even without using the force.

glam_bastard — August 15, 2008 @ 12:45 am

me= epic fail at seeing what is GAY about a man/machine that could kill you.

natedog= epic fail at life.