Category Archives: Current Events

Carry Permits work

for anyone that thinks people being able to legally carry a concealed weapon is a bad thing… read this.

From the article:

“There’s not much to it,” she said in a brief interview. “Somebody tried to mug me, and I shot him.”

Yup…87 year old wheelchair bound lady, popped the dude trying to mug her. He won’t be trying to mug anyone else for a long time is my guess..

Solar System Changing

Gah!

Everything I learned about the solar system is wrong… and apparently, so is everything currently being taught…

A bunch of star geeks today, have decided that Pluto is not a planet.. so, our solar system which has had 9 planets for like…forever… is down to 8 =(

That’s a lot of textbooks/astronomy books/etc. that need to be edited and reprinted now.

End of the World (again)

No really.. it is.. and I’m sure the predictions are real this time.. right?

Anyway.. it appears another comet/meteor/asteroid thingy is on an impact course with the Earth..its projected to pass closer to earth then some of our Satellites orbit!

This article has more details..although, its more geared to get you to watch the Dude’s TV show in October..

The odds of hit it hitting us, are apparently 1 in 38,000. Normally, that’d be a long shot, but, when you consider that the odds of winning the Powerball are something like 1 in 1.5 million….and someone wins that thing like every 2 or 3 months… suddenly, 1 in 38,000 doesn’t seem like such a long shot.

So.. maybe you should avoid making plans for 2036…just until we know for sure ;>

Go Israel!

I tune in the ‘war’ over in the mideast (and I mean, the real war.. the one between Israel and the Hezbolah, not us invading Iraq), occasionally.. to see what’s happening, and if anyone else has decided to try and jump in to the party.

And I see the reports saying that its “unfair” and how Lebanon doesn’t have the same size Army as the Israelis.. and I wonder two things:

1 – Who cares? I don’t recall anyone saying War was supposed to be fair.

2 – Who cares? Israel isn’t fighting Lebanon.. they are fighting the Hezbolah to get their men back.

If Lebanon was really concerned about this.. they would have done two things..

1- Disarmed the Hezbolah back in 2000 like they agreed to as a condition of Israel giving up the “buffer” zone it had carved out of Lebanon…

2- Forced the Hezbolah to give back the two Israeli soldiers when Israel said “Give ’em back, or we’re gonna whoop your ass”

Me… I’m hoping Syria or Iran decides to jump into the mix.. so I can watch the Israelis whoop their butts too!

Of course..if they decide to jump in, we have to jump in, Russia will jump in, Britain will jump in, etc..etc.. world war 3! it’ll be awesome!

Its better then taxes

There appears to be a budget shortall over in Chauncey, Ohio… seems voters turned down a tax levy last year that would have been used to pay for the electric bill for street lights… since then, the town has developed a….unique solution to raising the money to pay the bill…

They drop an old fashioned outhouse on your front lawn..and you must make a “donation” (of the monetary kind..not the kind of donation you’d normally make in an outhouse) to have it removed.. after making your donation, you get to pick who gets the outhouse next..and, apparently, its working, from the article:

In its first two days, the outhouse collected $200

So..in two days, they made about half of what they need in a month to pay the power bill… at this rate, they could be running a budget surplus in no time!

Its 6/6/06 people!

Geeze.. whats with all these people acting like today was going to be the end of the world? its not 6/6/6… its 6/6/06!

No one has said the year as “6” for 2000 years… no need to have your C-section rescheduled, no need to hide in your basement all day…

even if your superstitious having to take a number OUT of the list of numbers, just to fit your superstition, is going a bit far…

Nuts!

Oh the innuendoes! the double-entendres!

“Woman desperate to get her hands on nuts”

“Naked woman grabs nuts”

“Will strip for nuts”

In case you have no idea what I’m talking about (which really wouldn’t surprise me). A woman was busted in Pittsburgh for attempting to steal some nuts, when that didn’t work, she took off all her clothes and ran into traffic. The article is here.

Price Fixing

Yeah.. and the oil/gas industry says there’s no price fixing going on..thats why a gas station in South Carolina is suing another gas station for…. wait for it…. setting its gas price to low!

Really.. I couldn’t make this one up… here’s the link to the SC TV station’s article about it..

Can you say Gullible?

These ladies are probably soon going to fall for a email from someone in Nigeria telling them that a rich, distant relative died, and for only 100,000 dollars, they can have the sum of 150 million sent to them via western union…

In case you’re not sure what I’m talking about (and really, why would you be?) I’m referring to the two idiots in Florida (of course) that let someone claiming to be a Dr come into their house, get them undresses, and fondle them by saying he was giving out free breast exams.

From the article:

One woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all her clothes and began conducting a purported genital exam without donning rubber gloves, investigators said.

uh yeah… dumbass.. you don’t think maybe you should have been suspicious when he said he was a Dr, doing something for free, and not at the hospital or his office? did you even ask to see his ID? Probably not..

I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell you….

Ouch

So..surfing around today at work, I come across this article. Which seems to be a police blotter kinda thing for Lincoln Nebraska.. now, of particular enjoyment to me, was this blurb:

A 38-year-old Lincoln man showed up at BryanLGH Medical Center West on Monday, claiming he had been assaulted last week, police said Tuesday.

The man told hospital staff he was in the area of 28th and P streets Thursday when someone punched him in the head from behind and kicked him when he fell.

He said he temporarily lost consciousness and came to, only to find his pants down to his ankles.

An X-ray at the hospital Monday revealed a 20-ounce soft drink bottle lodged in the man’s lower intestine. He was to have it removed Tuesday.

Now.. don’t you think, that if you were assaulted, and had a plastic pop bottle shoved up your ass, that you might have noticed that something felt… different almost immediately.. I really can’t imagine it taking a week for someone to notice that they were having problems sitting, their ass was sore, and that they felt… full…