http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/31/fbi-uses-chainsaw-in-raid-on-wrong-fitchburg-apartment/#comments

How do these people manage to load their weapons with the correct ammo?

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.”

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. 

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?

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. 

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.

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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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.

Perhaps the Vatican should pay dues taxes before it tells the world how to govern itself.

Or perhaps it could look into its own monumental collective failure to uphold even the most civil of behaviors before lecturing the world at large on idolatry, selfishness, and “cultural and moral values.”

Spanish society has been shaken by allegations of the theft and trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, which started under Franco and continued up to the 1990s.

…

Spain’s stolen babies

OK, let me get this straight.  The Cost of Living adjustment for Social Security will be 3.6%, meaning that is what the government thinks has happened to my cost of living since 2009?

Where do these bureaucrats buy their gas, their clothing, their food?  Do they have windows?  Are they allowed “out” much?

Well, the blog is working again thanks to Jeff.  I have absolutely NO idea what to do when this stuff goes South, and it did last week.  Problem is, though it’s fixed now, though I still don’t know what magic buttons he pressed, not that I need to know, but the software is terribly out of date.

Today in his speech he said we are better off than we were 10 years ago.

Oh, really?

From the Las Cruces [New Mexico] Sun-News:

Federal agents employed a red herring Tuesday morning to spring a sting operation on a Deming family for their alleged role in smuggling firearms to Mexico and money laundering.

I don’t trust them individually, and I damned sure don’t trust them as a group.

They all drive similarly marked and equipped vehicles, they all wear similar uniforms, they all carry lethal weapons and tools to take away my freedom, they all have monstrous governmental backing that supports them even when they lie under oath, or falsify official documents, and they all wear badges.

At CNN today:

(CNN) – A total of 250 clerics in the Boston Archdiocese have been accused of child abuse in recent decades, according to information made public Thursday by Cardinal Sean O’Malley in an attempt to help resolve an issue tearing at the core of Catholicism.

From the LA Times:

[Rep (D-Los Angeles) Maxine] Waters vowed to push Congress to focus on creating more jobs. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” said Waters. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to hell.”

Well, the Republicans had their debate the other night, if you want to call it that.  Given some of the questions I heard (I popped in and out, admittedly mostly out but did I get a random sampling) there wasn’t much of an opportunity to impress.  Or at least I didn’t hear any answers that were particularly impressive.

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