I was student-body president at my high school when this happened. My only worthwhile act in that office was to walk to the principal while people were still transfixed by the explosion and ask him to put the flag at half-staff, which he did.
Just had one on #20.
BTW, if your’re in the south sound area and are looking for a dentist who is an artist with a needle and drill, contact me.
Now it is sleep it off w/vicodin time.
L8R
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Watch the sunset, save a life.
A woman admiring the sunset on a tourist webcam in northern Germany spotted a man who was lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting authorities, police said Wednesday.
The man had climbed over pack ice off the coast to photograph a sunset near the town of St. Peter-Ording, then became disoriented on the ice, Husum police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow said.
Unable to locate the beach, the man began using his camera to flash for help. That got the attention of a woman hundreds of miles (kilometers) away in southern Germany who was watching the sunset over the sea on her computer.
So to all the blog widows out there, sit tight. This is very important work.
And we already have a how-to video on defeating the full body scanner
It seems I ruffled a few feathers the past couple days by mixing the discussion of politics with religion.
Quick point: The Religious Right was is not called as such because they are religious and on the right side of the political aisle. They are called that because they will vote their religion over every other policy point.
If you wouldn’t vote in that manner, then count yourself out and don’t go think I’m bagging on you or your religion. I’m only pointing out that some deeply religious folks (not just Christians) need to think about something else besides their afterlife before they vote and that they need to step at least 10 feet away from their preferred holy book before doing so.
An even quicker point is below the fold…
I didn’t think I would ever quote this guy again. But he actually said something I don’t feel like mocking him for.
We have a government that cannot balance its books, defend its borders or win its wars. And what is it now doing? Drafting another entitlement program as we are informed that the Social Security and Medicare trust funds have unfunded liabilities in the trillions.
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the question is not whether we will preside over the creation of a New World Order, but whether America’s decline is irreversible.
Oh, it’s reversable. But only in two ways.
The first is knocking it down to start over again.
The second could take place in next year’s election.
Sebastian at SiH points out that the census is set to begin soon.Washington State is set to gain a new seat in the US House of Representatives. Likewise with Utah. Texas will very likely be getting at least three new seats (though some say four). Sebastian also says that Pennsylvania will be losing one.
The Dems won’t stand for a net gain of zero new blue state seats and a net gain of four or five red state seats and will gerrymander the whowhatsits out of these results if given even half a chance. Without a decent showing in November 2010 (and in Massachusetts three weeks from today) the Democratic Party will get to decide the borders for those new congressional districts.
As an example, even though the growth hasn’t been in Seattle proper, if the Dems are in complete control of Congress in 2011, I can guarantee you they’re going to justify squeezing a goodly portion of the new district into the city limits in an attempt to make another guaranteed (D) seat out of it. However, if we can get some decent numbers in the House, we can possibly put it where it belongs. Either one involves pulling part of the 8th CD off and combining it with the part of the 1st CD or the 9th CD to make the new 10th CD. During the housing boom both of these areas absorbed tens of thousands of new families leaving Seattle for better housing prices and more livable space.
The 8th is currently held by Republican, Dave Reichert, he beat ultra-liberal talk show host, Dave Ross, for the seat in 2004 and held onto it through two more elections against the hyper-progressive, Darcy Burner. By grabbing a little bit off one end or the other of the 8th CD and comining it with a grab out of one of the other adjoining districts, where the growth actually happened, the people will be accurately represented and Reichertwill keep his seat.
The new district will be very competitive for either party for the foreseeable future, which is how it should be.
The fed is even spending an extra $13Billion to “educate the children” on how important the census is.
If it is that important to them, it should be deathly important to you.
I would like to frequent an establishment that post a sign such as this. Frequently.
Found @ Samizdata.UK
Need to pass out so I can start work early and get home before the PST ball drops.
You and yours have a good day and safe night and we’ll you on the other side of midnight.
Not what you metalheads are thinking
A New Hampshire woman diagnosed with a rare gastrointestinal anthrax case may have swallowed spores propelled into the air by vigorous drumming, a state health expert said.
Officials haven’t confirmed how the woman contracted the disease but are focusing on a drum-circle gathering she attended Dec. 4 at the United Campus Ministry center in Durham shortly before becoming ill. Public-health officials who learned of her diagnosis last week immediately began investigating, and earlier this week shut down the ministry center after anthrax spores were found on two drums.
Hippies cause disease.
Pass it around.
I’m getting emails from folks wondering why I haven’t yet blogged about the E.O. President Obama signed that essentially gives INTERPOL carte blanche on US soil.
What is there really to say about it that the pros haven’t said? We all knew he’d do something that outrageous. Some folks thought he’d wait a little longer. Other folks are surprised it took him eleven months.
Why did he do it? There are two possibilities: Because he’s an idiot who has no idea what he is doing, or because when he decides that he’s had enough from the opposition, he’s going to need a police force that will have no objections to rounding up any Tom, Dick and Harry that he and his people want grabbed.
Say what you will about them, but even the alphabet soup agencies ask questions from time to time and they leak like a colander. He can’t farm up enough Brownshirts from the Progressive Caucus in four or even eight years because the logistics of it are just too big. This move is something under the radar and already has boots on the ground.
Jackboots, to be exact.
There’s only one MSM’er who is asking any questions about it and the Administration keeps responding by acting as though his query is about what makes the apple pies in the press room so damn tasty.
What can we do about it? Not a damn thing. Which is why the Executive Order privilege needs to be taken away.
Oh sure, Congress can undercut the E.O. via legislation. But the current one won’t, so we’re ass-out until 2010 or 2012.
Why am I not worried? Because he didn’t import artificially intelligent armored robots. Just like any other US based jackboot force, these guys can be shot and killed.
I long ago resigned myself to the likelihood of having to defend my human rights via violence at some point in my life, and I don’t rightly care if their jackets say INTERPOL, or ATF, or FBI, or Treasury, or IRS, or FDA, or NEA.
Nihilism does have its upsides.
Read the header and remember: Live to Train and Train to Live.
I work so that I can afford to put rounds downrange as frequently as possible, and I put rounds downrange as frequently as possible so that I can stand a chance against the agents of a tyrannical government.
