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Save the planet. Die at your appointed time. It’s for the kids.
Wait. It’s instructions for the kids.
Via Wizbang.
Subway is running a story-writing contest, but it’s not open to homeschooled students. They are probably afraid that those in government schools would be at a disadvantage. And they probably would be.
Here’s the disclaimer:
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Contest is open only to legal residents of the Untied States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.
The, um, “Untied States”? Screenshot here.
Subway should have hired a homeschool student to write their legal copy.
More at Wizbang , Michelle Malkin, and Croydon Citizens.
It just occurred to me that in the confusion surrounding the technical issues earlier this week, I never posted the links to all the great gun bloggers I met down in Louisville last week.
I think this is close to complete:
- A Keyboard and a .45
- Bitter
- Bloggo, the dog boy
- Call Me Ahab
- Chicago Handgun Rights
- Dave Kopel
- Days of our Trailers
- Glenn Reynolds
- Joe Huffman
- Michael Bane
- Ol’ Broad
- Rustmeister’s Alehouse
- Sailor Curt
- SayUncle
- Sharp as a Marble
- Smallest Minority
- Snowflakes in Hell
- Squeaky Wheel
- The Ten Ring
- The Unforgiving Minute
- US Citizen
- XRLQ
No doubt, I left someone out. If so, just kick me. And send me a note so I can apologize and correct my list.
Besides this star-studded crew, I also had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with the following non-blogger stars:
- Gordon Hutchinson, author of The Great New Orleans Gun Grab
- Todd Jarret, shooter extraordinare
- David E. Young, 2nd Amendment researcher and author of The Founders’ View of the Right to Bear Arms
- Robert Brown, editor of Soldier of Fortune magazine
- Ronnie Barrett of Barrett Firearms
- and a lot more.
What a mess. I’ll try to have them up again soon.
I’ll be amazed if this posts correctly.
UPDATE: Well, it only took 2 tries. Vast improvement.
UPDATE 2: Things are still wobbly.
UPDATE 3: What a mess.
UPDATE 4: I’m going to turn back on the CAPTCHA thing for comments.
New Hanover County Sheriff’s Deputies Upgrading Their Uniforms
The current patch features the battleship North Carolina (BB 55). The new one will also add the USS North Carolina submarine (SSN 777).
The Swedish Model: How to build a jet fighter
The Gripen N/G.
XP SP3 cripples some PCs with endless reboots
Fun.
What Happened in Piedmont?
What’s Going On? I can’t reach anyone from my hometown of Piedmont, UT.
Gruesome Body Bakery
Head bread, severed limb bread, organ bread, and more. Yum.
6 downloadable boot discs that could save your PC
Could get you out of a jam.
Fulton to increase water rates 15 percent
Fulton County officials praised county water users Wednesday for their success at conservation — then socked them with a 15 percent rate increase for their effort.
The conservation penalty the County Commission adopted Wednesday 6-0 matches the increase Atlanta utility officials asked to impose earlier this year but which the City Council so far has resisted. The average water/sewer bill should increase nearly $9 per month to a total of about $68 per month, water officials said.
Why raise rates on water? Well, because the conservation has cut revenues:
Utility managers said water use has dropped by as much as 30 percent since last year when Gov. Sonny Perdue asked each county to cut usage by at least 10 percent because of the lingering drought. That has Fulton facing potential default on its bonds, said Angela Parker, public works director.
“We just can’t swallow this reduction in revenues,” Parker said.
She said Fulton one day might roll back the rates if the drought ends and revenues return to pre-drought levels.
Riiight.
This is Fulton county doing this. Apparently the city of Atlanta is trying to do the same thing but has been blocked so far.
Looks like the assault rifle shoot-off finally made the big media:
In a comments thread over at Dean’s World, responding to a commenter who wrote that women should simply yell “Masher!” and hit the offender across the face if pressed against or fondled by a stranger:
That’s called vigilantism…So if you wish the people not to descend into tribalism and lawlessness, you would have to stop advocating ‘take care of it yourself’ for an official government law enforcement policy.
Oh for pity’s sake. Is it ‘vigilantism’ when a kid punches a bully in the nose?
Yes, of course.
In my school we seek to ensure that he does not have to do so.
I’m not making this up. There are people who really think this way.
(Cross-posted from GunPundit.)
