“…or I’ll kill you or blow off your legs!”
[Update a couple minutes later]
Mark Steyn on anger management:
And now the media are full of stories about how the Tsarnaevs were all-American kids and “beautiful, beautiful boys” and maybe it was the boxing or the Ben Affleck movies or the classical music but, whatever it was, it was nothing to do with Islam. Nothing whatever.
So I guess it worked.
It always works with the fools in the media.
[Update a couple more minutes later]
“Soon we’ll be told American society is responsible for the Tsarnaevs because of our consumerist addiction to pressure cookers.”
Also, I fearlessly predict calls for, and introduction of legislation to ban the purchase and possession of recreational fireworks by the general public.
[Update a few minutes later]
Aaaaaannnndd…Jerry Rivers is first out of the gate.
Well, we could eliminate access to explosives and explosive precursors. Potential nitrates could be eliminated simply by banning electricity, air, and organic materials like clothing and food (basically all animals and plants). Alternate types of explosives could be handled by bans on elements like carbon, sulfur, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sodium, potassium, strontium, and cesium. For the life of me I can’t see how to cause harm with krypton or xenon, so those would be okay.
Seal someone in a container with nothing but Krypton or Xenon in it…they will suffocate (which strikes me as harmful)…
Eliminate access to containers.
You mean something like the Progressive/Green campaign to ban any industrial use of chlorine? Why? Because…. well, because its used to make things that are icky like pesticides and to ensure clean water supplies.
And if I remember correctly, there are some nicely explosive xenon-flourine compounds. Oh, well.
I was thinking the same thing. The crusade against chlorine was a remarkable low for environmentalism.
Yep, a couple of little scamps like Wally and Beaver Cleaver.
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Oddly enough, xenon (although it is extremely unreactive) works pretty well as an inhaled anaesthetic. It isn’t used much because of expense; otherwise, it would be near ideal.
But the point is well made. When I was studying chemistry at uni, a small comment going around was that anyone there who couldn’t blast open the building and/or poison everyone in it if he chose to was a pretty poor chemist.
I still have some of my old Army field manuals. “Special Forces Incendariary Techniques” shows many formulas for making flamable materials (e.g. napalm, thermite) for the stuff you’d find in most homes.
Has it reached the point yet where a Godwin-like rule can be said to apply to DHMO references?