Police have been accused of getting their sums wrong when they swooped on a shopkeeper’s business and seized a cache of gun-shaped calculators - because they feared they could be used in a robbery.

I can’t help but find this funny:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/01/25/woman-claims-neighbors-energy-efficient-windows-are-melting-her-toyota-prius/

The Green window, made of, uh, glass? attacks the Green car, made of, uh, plastic?

Let the light sabers rattle!!! or buzz, or whatever it is they do.

March 16, 2006:

Once again, some merchant has been hacked (a.k.a. some merchant has been sloppy with my credit card number).

I logged on to my email this morning to find an alert message that one of my cards had been “reported lost or stolen,” so I called the issuing bank.

it should be a lot more fun to watch the Republicans on the playground.

But it isn’t, because if they don’t get their act together, and there seems little chance of that, we’re going to get stuck with more of same, and I’m not so sure the country can take much more of it.

So, in the issue of the Chevy Volt battery fire following a side collision test, we find the following quote from Jeremy Anwyl, vice chairman of auto-researcher Edmunds.com.

“We see gasoline powered vehicles blow up in the movies all the time.  A vehicle with batteries catches fire and it is portrayed as a big deal.”

http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/?p=16592#comments

Heh!!  A yard and a six pack indeed!!

(Thanks to my sister traveling that 10 pounds of goodness the first 150 miles for me!  It was a long enough driving trip already — Orlando to New Orleans via Baltimore.)

Another newspaper weekender who has lived a sheltered life.

The accident was anythihng but “freak.”

The coach was bench pressing 305 pounds at home without a spotter. 

Posted here with permission, this was originally posted in 2010 by its author, Paratrpr, in the M1 Garand forum at forums.theCMP.org. 

First a little background…

If you know the history of the Battle of The Bulge, and I’d hope you remember at least a little of it from school, when history actually meant something in our educational world, you know that Bastogne was an ugly and desperate scene in several ways, and that battle spanned the height of the Christmas season.

The news reports trumpet, “The war in Iraq is over!  Our troops have left.”

BULL.

Yes, there was a ceremony to include casing of the pennant, but all the troops have not in fact left.  We still have troops there.  Home to the largest US Embassy in the world, with 16,000 people assigned at an estimated cost of $3.5 BILLION a year, are we supposed to believe there are no military personnel in-country?

The Saudi Gazette at
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=20111218114027
reports today ”The Chinese invent self-cleaning clothing.”

BEIJING – Efforts to create self-cleaning cotton fabrics are bearing fruit in China. Engineers have created a chemical coating that causes cotton materials to clean themselves of stains and remove odors when exposed to sunlight. The researchers say the treatment is cheap, non-toxic and ecologically friendly.

Guaranteed to get a maintenance guy a bill for a couple of cheeseburgers, fries, and a drink at the flightline grill, and more.  Unfortunately, in this case I am one, and the other, or,… both.

So the government wants to drive the country further into debt.

It wants to continue it’s attack on the Constitution, and, oh by the way, that means attacking your rights and mine.  I sometimes wonder, however, if I’m the only one actually telling the politicians about it.  Surely if there were so many others doing so the politicians wouldn’t be acting as if they were unaccountable, would they?

If you don’t read Dr. Grumpy at least occasionally you’re missing a good blog.

And there’s a very good new post there today
at http://drgrumpyinthehouse.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-in-life.html.

Our flag flies at half staff on December 7
in memory and recognition of those who died.

For the record, I’m 66 years old.

Talk about some great people!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068810/Saudis-fear-virgins-people-turn-gay-female-drive-ban-lifted.html

From _{http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-robert-champion-death-famu-20111121,0,4359951.story}

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University officials expressed grief in a statement Monday after a student in the marching band died in Orlando — a death that has left Robert Champion’s family searching for answers.

Champion, 26, died Saturday night at an Orlando hospital following his band’s performance at the Florida Classic football game’s halftime show.

In perhaps a good lesson for politicians who would be king, some Brits are proving that the lack of firearms doesn’t necessarily mean a subdued population who will put up with inane leadership decisions.

There is more at the source, including photos, but the gist of it is:

Sorry, coach, you flunked, and it’s unfortunate, but you’ve been socially advanced so many times now you have truly run out of time.  School is over for you.  Goodbye.

Well, those we pay to take care of things at the federal level didn’t.  In fact, they have made a job of screwing it up.

We knew them for what they were and are, but we did nothing about it.

I really like lizards.  Secondarily, they eat insects I don’t like, and primarily, they are just fun to watch as they crawl up the patio screen or fence pickets, and as they change colors sitting on or running across the top of the fence pickets, preferring those uneven dogeared board tops to the smooth and straight rails. 

As Christmas rolls around each year, sometimes far in advance of it if conditions are right, I do my shopping for my three sons.  They know from both experience and my word that they will be receiving tools.  Yep.  It’s tools, always tools, and usually ones I believe they wouldn’t’ have bought for themselves because they are tools that wouldn’t be used very often. 

The Transportation Security Administration is plagued by significant problems, a congressional report said Wednesday on the 10th anniversary of Congress creating the agency.

According to the report “A Decade Later: A Call for TSA Reform,” the problems include:

• A bloated bureaucracy with 65,000 workers.

For those who bother to recognize Veterans Day, thank you.  And I’d ask that you think about it just a bit further.

For every veteran out there is a mother or father, sister or brother, who missed them while they were gone and in service.  That’s sacrifice, too.

Too much of the time, in fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOfrnKqk3zw&feature=related

Go ahead.  Turn the volume up and go full screen.

May Johnson and McNamara continue to rot in hell.

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Today is November 10.

A committee of the Continental Congress met at Tun Tavern to draft a resolution calling for two battalions of Marines able to fight for independence at sea and on shore. 
 
The resolution was approved on November 10, 1775, officially forming the Continental Marines.

From the Toledo Blade newspaper, about the life and death of Will Booth.  Thursday’s memorial service is not going to be easy, but I’ll be there.

Wilbur Booth, 1927-2011: Principal, coach in hall of fame as track official
BY NOLAN ROSENKRANS
BLADE STAFF WRITER

Just another chapter in why I was so happy when Lowe’s’ opened a store near me a few years ago.

On the way back from the airport I stopped at Home Depot because it was on the way, literally yards off the road I was on.