Archive for the ‘WTF’ Category
U.S. Weapons Now in Somali Terrorists’ Hands
David Axe:
Half of the U.S.-supplied weaponry that enables cash-strapped Ugandan and Burundian troops to fight Somalia’s al-Shabab terror group is winding up in al-Shabab’s hands.
The kicker: It’s the cash-strapped Ugandans who are selling the weapons to the insurgents.
TSA Agent Caught With Passenger’s iPad in His Pants; Allegedly Took $50,000 in Other Goods, Cops Say
The Broward Sheriff’s Office says 30-year-old Nelson Santiago stole around $50,000 worth of electronics over the past six months from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport’s Terminal 1.
Santiago — a TSA officer since 2009 — was caught earlier this week by a Continental Airlines employee taking an iPad out of someone’s luggage and stuffing it into his pants, the cops say.
Via Say Uncle.
If NATO is “an essential source of stability in an unpredictable world,” heaven help us all
An American colonel, recently returned from Afghanistan, told me that when he asked an officer from a European NATO member country to lead a supply convoy one evening, the officer explained that he was only paid to work for a set number of hours and his working day was done. Reminded that there was a war in progress, the officer said, “Maybe your country is at war, but not mine.”
There was a time when Murdoc thought that the primacy of the UN as the main international body was over than that an expanding NATO would someday fill its place in global politics. That time is long, long past.
NATO isn’t completely worthless. But it seems to inch closer and closer to that state every day.
Though, to be fair, sometimes (a lot of times?) it’s hard to tell that America is at war, too.
Via Instapundit.
United apologizes for reusing 9/11 flight numbers
United spokesman Rahsaan Johnson says the airline regrets the recent use of flight numbers 93 and 175, and has acted to remove the numbers from the airline’s computer system.
Johnson says the flight numbers probably went back into use just in the past few days, and he attributes it to a technical error.
Westwood track coach fired after boys run shirtless
Massachusetts:
Boys track coach Tom Davis was fired and escorted off the property at the high school on Friday.
Davis said the incident was about members of his team practicing without a shirt.
Davis, who was in the middle of his second year with the outdoor team, said he first heard about complaints about running shirtless a couple weeks ago and that Westwood High athletic director Karl Fogel told him that the administration was discussing the issue and that there was no rule against it, but that there were people who did not want them running shirtless.
The team was undefeated under Davis. They lost their first meet without him.
If the boys’ team is required to run in shirts, I wonder what the girls’ team is required to run in.
Man banging on plane’s cockpit door subdued by passengers, crew
Flight attendants and passengers subdued an unruly passenger and put him in handcuffs as an American Airlines flight was approaching San Francisco, police said.
Sgt. Michael Rodrigues, of San Francisco police, said the passenger was banging on the cockpit door and shouting unintelligibly on Flight 1561 from Chicago when he was wrestled down and put in plastic handcuffs.
There have been a couple of other odd incidents on airlines. Coincidence?
The United Way: Can you feed yourself for only $7 a day for five days?
Beginning March 21, you can take the Hunger Challenge.
This challenge is an exercise of empathy—to live in someone else’s shoes for one week and learn how you can help fight hunger in our community. Remember every household that receives food stamps has a different situation—some are able to purchase additional food, others use food banks or receive meals from friends or family, some people have time to cook meals while others don’t have a place to cook at all. Living on $7 a day is one scenario—sign up to take the Hunger Challenge and be a part of this week-long movement and share your story on our blog. The rules for the challenge are below.Hunger Challenge rules:
- Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner spending only $7 per day.
- Salt and pepper don’t count but all other seasonings, cooking oils, condiments, snacks, drinks, and everything else do.
- Don’t use food you already own.
- Don’t accept food from family, friends, coworkers and others. Not even the free samples from Costco!
- Try to include fresh produce and healthy protein each day.
- Keep track of expenses, food choices, and recipes and share your experiences on United Way of King County’s blog. We’ll have a prize for the best recipe.
Is this for real? I guess they’re trying to prove a point, but Murdoc doesn’t think it’s going to be the point they meant.
Murdoc’s family of four gets $22 per day under the rules (not $28), but that still comes out to $660 per 30-day month, or $154 per week. And Murdoc’s family doesn’t spend that much on average.
They are asking Murdoc to “live in someone else’s shoes for one week and learn how you can help fight hunger in our community” for five measly days by spending MORE on food than he does already EVERY DAY ALL THE TIME.
Murdoc has a tendency to fire off unpopular opinions once in a while, but his first take on this so-called “challenge” is that maybe people on food stamps get way too much money. $154 buys a hell of a lot of groceries in Murdoc’s world, and he’s not even trying to skimp by.
How’s that for an unpopular opinion? Don’t like it? Take this “challenge” for five days like Murdoc has for the past five years and then get back to him and whine all about missing your gourmet coffee or eating out five days a week or whatever the hell all that money gets spent on.
Since everyone is running around screaming about the horrors of radioactive contamination:
Via Say Uncle.
Military ‘diversity’: more DC silliness
It seems the problem is — wait for it — that the officer corps has too many white males…
“The commission believes that the diversity of our service members is the unique strength of our military,” writes the chairman, Lester Lyles, to President Obama, in a cover letter for the report. “Current and future challenges can be better met by broadening our understanding of diversity.”
Lester Lyles is a moron. Current and future challenges can be better met by fielding the strongest military possible.
Anyone who thinks anything else matters is, well, a moron like Lester Lyles and the Military Leadership Diversity Commission which was created by Congress in 2009.
