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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.)
It’s like the whole world became the Lifetime channel!
I have said for some time that I am tired of the way men are depicted in ad campaigns — clearly, I am not alone. While any single commercial with goofy guys or clueless dads may get a laugh or two, there is a long-term cost at the subconscious level.
Oddly, as someone who usually has opinions and stuff about just about everything, I don’t often get all offended by television commercials (or sitcoms) that bash men and fathers or make them look like dolts. Sometimes I do comment about how it would be received if they made the same commercial with a mom or woman looking like an idiot, and (unsurprisingly) those around me think it’s a stupid question.
Sort of like “so simple even a therapist could use it,” I guess. It just doesn’t make any sense to them, with the implication being that men’s simpleness is understood by all.
But I guess I don’t worry too much about the unfairness. Maybe I should, because the reactions I get when I point out the unfairness illustrates how ingrained the unfair concept has become. But they’re television commercials. They’re supposed to be retarded. Anyone actually influenced by a television commercial is suspect.
Unfortunately, that appears to be way too many people these days.
Been real busy this weekend, but I did take the time to check out In the Shadow of the Moon. This is a great documentary based mostly on interviews with many of the Apollo astronauts and filled with tons of great footage, much of which I had not seen before.
I had mentioned the film in Linkzookery last September, but if it made it to this area during its limited theatrical run, I missed it. It was just released on DVD and I gotta say that its a good one.
One thing I must recommend is that you watch the bonus interviews in the special features of the disc. There is nearly an hour of additional material in there that’s definitely worth seeing and hearing. A couple of the sequences are “extended cuts” of sequences that were in the film, but most of them were cut entirely.
Michael Collins is probably the star of the show, but all of the astronauts were great. This is a very well made documentary and, though I’ve done a lot of reading and watching shows about the space program, it covered a lot of stuff that I was unfamiliar with or had not known much about.
Hard to believe we could do all of that in 1969. Let’s see what we do in 2009.
Official site here.
Melanie Bowers, the 13-year-old student who claimed she was beaten up and threatened with rape and death over an anti illegal immigration poster was lying lying lying:
After Melanie’s accusations, administrators reviewed school survellience videotape of the incident – which, instead of showing students beating or attacking her, showed Bowers scratching herself on her arms, face, and neck, and walking through the halls of the school calmly long after she claimed the incident happened.
After Melanie’s parents were presented with that information and the video, the school confronted Melanie, and she admitted that she made the story up.
Good idea. Make up stories. Get on the news. That will only be with your for…oh, I don’t know…the REST OF YOUR LIFE.
From now on, whenever anyone googles Melanie Bowers (like prospective employers and boyfriends), they will find out she’s that stupid girl who is a liar.
Nice.
UPDATE: Forgot the link.
