Friday, August 17, 2007

Free kibbles

Pentagon spend nearly $1,000,000 to ship two, 19 cent washers.

North Texas cities using stop light cameras use invisible stop lines to convict drivers, instead of the marked stop line. This is government fraud, not an instance of ignorance of the law.

Guards are responsible for more than 1/2 of sexual crimes in prisons.

Couple win $80,000 from government because they were arrested for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts.

This girl is 15?

Tuesday's bomb attacks in northern Iraq killed 344 people. Al Qaeda had to go a long way from Baghdad to kill so many people to discredit the surge. Of course the surge was never intended to secure the entire country, but to secure Baghdad and surrounding areas, but I have no doubt Gen Petraeus has forced hunting down these killers right now.

Time reports that our schools fail gifted students. Don't forget everybody else.

NASA will not repair shuttle heat shield before reentry.

New Orleans is still vulnerable to flooding. That's because they haven't augmented the levies to withstand a Cat. 5 hurricane like they should have in the decades between Camille and Katrina. Government at all levels is so bumbling, our representatives to selfish, they probably never will.

Hell must be freezing over. James Carville, Karl Rove, and now Jimmy Carter have all agreed with me this week. CARE (and Jimmy Carter) think that US food aid to Africa hurts the Africans. As I've always said, welfare of any form hurts both the provider and the recipient.

Rudy Giuliani has changed his position on illegal immigration to take a strong stance against it. I guess he forgot all about inviting illegal immigrants to New York when he was governor. Maybe he learned about sticking his finger in the wind from Romney and the mistress herself, Hillary.

Scientists discover major southern ocean current. We focus on the Gulf Stream, but that's a ego-centric point of view. To our view, North America and Europe are the center of the world, so we apply unusual importance to the gulf stream. No doubt, there are equally important ocean current drivers elsewhere.

4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons announced.

Rutger's basketball player sues Imus hoping for a big payday. This is bull. As Boortz says, this is a good example of why we need a "loser pays" legal system.

No comments:

Post a Comment