A Dixie Carpetbagger

A bus driver who T-boned a taxi (killing the cabbie) and one who beat down McGruff are back on the job, with back pay given.  Do I even need to say that they belong to a union?  What the blazes is it with union members and violence?  Are those shirts coated on the inside with chili powder or something?

The weird part is that the driver who put the hurt on the guy in the dog suit pulled over to do it.  Stopping your vehicle to beat down a costumed cop isn’t exactly a sign of mental stability… but, hey, maybe he knew the guy.  “Hold on folks, we gotta make a stop… that’s the bastid who stole my wife!”

(H/T Instapundit)

One of the most horrifying stories I’ve heard from the Korean war was written by one of my favorite military authors, Dave Hackworth.  He recounted the time when he and his platoon were holding a hilltop and were attacked by a literal wave of Chinese.  Men fired until they ran out of ammo, machine gunners fired until they slagged their barrels, and still the Chinese came.  One machine gunner ran out of belted ammo and ran his Garand dry, only to find himself in a bunker with 10 Chinese soldiers.  He shot 8, knocked two out, and then left a grenade as a parting gift while he headed south.

I relate this story to set up a question– do you think that Ms. Spangler has that same sinking dread right about now?  Her latest “victory” video has less than 200 views (as of 12:00 AM 13 June 2010).  A video showing girls at the NRA convention has over 2,000… and it’s a week newer.

There are people out the who will do anything.  Having been really fat– and working my way down to just kinda fat– this woman is pretty much the embodiment of my arch-nemesis.  Whereas I got to XXXL and realized that custom clothes are expensive, this woman is in XXXXXL… and gaining.  Worse yet is her baby-daddy egging her on: “You look at her curves and see her full belly and generous hips, it’s very sexy.”

To who?  Heck, at my high point, I wasn’t sexy to myself.  I can only imagine what a half ton of… errgh… uggh… (shudder)… okay, I need brain bleach.  Worse yet is something no commenter has picked up on.  Read this sentence:

“I’m very healthy. I go to the doctor every three months,” she said.

How does a 600 pound woman who has problems standing up long enough to shower go to the doctor?  Oh, wait, they call Fire/EMS, and the rescue squad helps them out!  (Which, of course, ties up the team in the event of, you know, a serious call… but hey, she’s gotta get her book deal!)  Meanwhile, she has Type II diabetes… and she’s still hoggin’ out.

(H/T Wyatt Earp)

When you fall to the Muslims, don’t call us in America.  After all, your own royalty has said that Islam is a good, environmentally-friendly religion.  Which is true… blood is an excellent fertilizer.

(H/T Wyatt Earp)

Back at the beginning of the year, video came out on Wikileaks that (supposedly) showed the crew of an Apache gunship mowing down unarmed civilians.  Heavily edited, the video caused an uproar amongst the left.

Turns out that the video was leaked by a 22 year old Specialist serving in Iraq.  Amongst the things he leaked werea classified Army report (ironically enough, detailing Wikileaks as a security risk) and over a quarter of a million diplomatic cables.  Congratulations, Spc. Manning, you just earned yourself a free one-way ticket to Leavenworth, Kansas!

Taurus is going to release a .380 ACP revolver.

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Who in the hell thought this one up?  Are the engineers at Taurus using a dartboard to select calibers now?  Hey, it’s not like .380 is hard to find… OH, WAIT, IT IS.  When I first saw this at Uncle’s, I thought it was a (tasteless) joke.  No, they’re serious– a revolver that’ll fire low-powered ammo that’s hard to find, will be useless without moon clips, and they stopped making a 9mm revolver to make this.

Great job, Taurus!  What’s next, a short-barreled .410 revolver for concealed carry?

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go take a walk before this music begins I go all Charlie Baileygates…

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking the laws. …just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on the guilt.   — Dr. Ferris, Atlas Shrugged

Weer’d has a post up about stupid laws and how they’re not enforced.  He points to one of Florida’s stupid laws (tie an elephant to a parking meter, and you have to pay the meter).  I’m going to point to a few more.

In Florida, you cannot-

1. Shower naked (no, I’m not f*cking kidding)
2. Fart in public after 6 P.M. (local or Eastern?)
3. Break more than 3 dishes a day (take THAT, clumsy waiters!)
4. Fall asleep under the hair dryer at a salon (half the older ladies in my area just became criminals.)
5. Wear a strapless dress if you are a male (but what if it matches my shoes?)
6. Sing in public while wearing a swimsuit (spring breakers, watch out…)
7. Live together and commit “lewd acts” while unmarried (now my favorite cousin’s a criminal…)
8. Commit “un-natural” acts on anyone (wait, what’s “un-natural”?)
9. Have sex, unless it’s missionary style (ahh, I think I figured “un-natural” out, guys…)
10. Kiss your wife’s boobs  (wait a second, I though that was cool under 7?)
11. Have sex with a porcupine (wasn’t this covered under 8?)
12. “Third Base” is off-limits.  Period.  (But what if you’re in the approved position?)

Translation– if you’ve been to Florida on spring break, you’re a criminal.  Period.  Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to arrest myself and wait for the police to arrive.  I know I have a pair of handcuffs around here somewhere…

Rush Limbaugh got married… and Elton John did the music.

Look, if Obama buys himself a white horse, I’m heading to the mountains.  And don’t even say anything to stop me.  “You even say, ‘huh’ and you’ll be talkin’ to yourself…cause I’ll be gone!”*

*I’ve been wanting to use that quote for a long time.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 has had its first successful flight… with a dummy Orion replacement on board, to boot.  Video highlights here (ignore the dirt dauber trying to nest in the camera housing, they aren’t that big… really).

This highlights something I’ve believed ever since I began edging into libertarianism (and Tam has pointed out the same thing)– private enterprise beats the pants off governmental agencies in the spaceflight arena.  Think about it– NASA can’t even keep up a reliable transport to the ISS (much less the Moon), but private enterprise can conceive, build, and launch a new transport in less than five years.

Of course, it still looks like astronauts will have to hitch rides from the Russians, but maybe it’ll be a one time thing now.

I was having problems with WordPress and the Journalist theme.  Not only the “phantom bubble,” but the fact that nested comments… weren’t.  Being fed up, I fired up Google and found out that it was the Journalist theme itself that was causing the problems.

Solution?  Activate the default theme, delete Journalist, download the newer version and install it… and now everything works– no phantom bubbles, comments nest, and I could swear that the load time went down a few tenths of a second.

You know that expression Foghorn Leghorn always did, laying on the ground and tapping his fingers on the earth?  Yeah, I’m doing a good impression right now.  Note to self: re-installation is almost always less effort intensive than repair.

But at least I can take some solace in not being the only one having some technical problems.