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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.

 Yeah, like the system of pastors, bishops, and cardinals that was supposed to filter out child abusers…

 

Publisher Owned by Catholic Church Reportedly Selling Porn Novels
A publishing house owned by the Catholic Church has been selling thousands of pornographic novels, The Independent reports.