Worthless Hoodlums Break into Teen Mother’s House a Week after Her Husband Dies of Cancer; Get What’s Coming to Them
A teenage mother in Oklahoma is at home, one week after her husband dies of cancer, when two ne’er-do-wells break into her home. After grabbing her shotgun, and moving to a room where she also keeps a handgun, she calls 9-1-1 to report the intruders and asks the dispatcher if she can shoot them. The [...]
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A Little More Liberty Lost: 40,000 New State Laws to Take Effect in 2012
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good [...]
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Another Gun Owner Tries to Be Responsible in New York – and is Arrested
Perhaps you heard of the incident on 12/29 involving Meredith Graves, a Tennessee nurse visiting the 9/11 memorial in New York. Seeing a sign that read “No Guns Allowed”, Graves -who is licensed to carry the firearm in Tennessee- asked where she could check the gun. She was arrested, and faces a minimum of 3 [...]
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Weird. That “Blackbirds Falling from the Sky” Thing Happened Again – In the Same Town
Last New Year’s Eve, thousands of blackbirds fell dead from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas. Scientists believe the birds were startled from their roosts by fireworks, and being as blind as humans in the dark, they flew into buildings, cars, trees and each other and died. Last night it happened again, in the same town. [...]
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Happy New Year! Have a Resolution Pie
My youngest sister has a blog about pies. Baking pies, specifically. She bakes them for family, but gives a lot of them away to people that deserve a thank you, or a reminder that they’re somebody special. She wrote a post today that is about pies, of course, but it’s also about the New Year, [...]
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It’s Amazing How Far We’ve Come…
…with computing devices and storage. retronaut has a picture of one of the first IBM “supercomputers” in 1956. It weighed a ton (literally) and had an awesomely unbelievable five Megabyte hard disk drive. Now, it takes that much memory to store one song in your playlist.
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Buy Some Incandescent Bulbs, and Tell Al Gore What You Think!
Awesome. In the comments for 100 watt incandescent bulbs at Amazon, there’s this: Go get yourself some before they disappear. (H/T Instapundit)
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Watch Fetish: Casio G-Shock GB-6900
I guess this is the inevitable progression for watches: they talk to your smartphone by Bluetooth. This one has some neat-looking features. Casio Japan is planning [JP] to roll out the G-SHOCK GB-6900 on March 16 next year, a wristwatch that connects to certain smartphones via Bluetooth LE (LE=low-energy, a standard that’s baked into Bluetooth 4.0). The device will [...]
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Want Foie Gras and Truffles with that Burger?
You can get it on that double with cheese at Wendy’s, but only in Japan. Oh, and it will cost you $16. Wendy’s recently re-opened in Japan after a two-year absence. The truffle and foie gras luxury burger is a creation of the franchise owner in Japan. Wendy’s has a new burger, and it’s not [...]
Marine Unscathed in Multiple Tours in Iraq and Afghanistan; Shot 3 Times by Hoodlums in Florida
Lt. Col. Karl Trenker is a 29-year veteran of the Marine Corps. He’s had multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. So where does he end of getting shot? In Florida, attempting to sell jewelry to some hoodlums. When he showed the gold chain to the men, one of them shoved him and grabbed the chain. [...]
You Are the Weapon
This store had been robbed before, and the clerk decided he just wasn’t gonna take it this time. Bravo. video platform video management video solutions video player
Stuff I Didn’t Know: It’s NOT a Crime in Virginia to Drive Without Proof of Insurance.
I have labored under the misconception for all of my adult life that you must be able to show proof of insurance if a policeman stops you and requests it. Apparently, many police officers have also learned this apocryphal law: Virginia motorists are being ticketed and convicted of a violation that is not a crime [...]
Rest Easy, Air Travelers – You Are Safe from Dangerous…Cupcakes
The security theater continues to be the theater of the absurd. (from Newser) One sign the TSA has officially gone overboard: One of its agents deemed a Massachusetts woman’s cupcake a security threat. Rebecca Hains says she was moving through security at a Las Vegas airport on Wednesday when a TSA agent took her aside [...]
Cool Vimeo: Tonight
Here’s a neat little video for Christmas. Doesn’t look like it’s headed where it ends up. Merry Christmas!
Stupid Criminal Stuff: Hey, We Just Stole a Bunch of Stuff and $8K in Cash! Let’s Show it Off on Facebook!
Advancing into 2011′s Top Ten of Stupid Criminal Tricks: a quartet of enterprising young thieves in Pittsburgh. After they rob a store of cigarettes, candy, checks and $8,000 in cash, the young Einsteins head home and take some pics to…wait for it – post on Facebook. Apparently, the young thinkers weren’t aware that if you [...]
An Homage to Our Fourth Greatest President
Who has the greatest legislative and foreign policy accomplishments as President? Well, after Lincoln, FDR and Johnson(?), it’s Barack Hussein Obama. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. Listen; he’ll tell you himself. (H/T Nice Deb)
Aaah, The Overlooked Virtues of Those Eastern European Communist Regimes.
Perhaps you read, or heard, of the death this past week of Vaclav Havel, the playwright, anti-communist, and first president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. If you didn’t, or didn’t know who he was, you can read about him and his achievements here (it’s Wikipedia, but it’s a good summary). At any rate, he played [...]
Eco-Bullsh*t
- More Chevy Dolt Good News: Total Subsidies Amount to as Much as $250K for Every One Sold So Far
- Why is President Obama Opposed to Creating 20,000 New Jobs?
- Audi Chief Calls Chevy Volt “A Car For Idiots”
- Chevy Dolt Battery Problems Impact Sales of Ampera, Its European Cousin
- America Has A 250 Year Supply Of Oil; Let’s Get Busy Using It!
Liberty & Freedom
- Wanted at SEIU: Professional Rabblerouser
- December 15th is Bill of Rights Day in the United States
- More on That Silly Proposed NTSB Ban on Cell Phone Use While Driving
- Proposed NTSB Ban on Cell Phone Use by Drivers is Silly; and, It’s Unenforceable
- Energy for America: Let’s Unlock Our Vast Energy Reserves, and Create a Million Jobs
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