Especially appropriate around these here parts this past few days ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
SE coast storm could become tropical
The National Hurricane Center said a low-pressure system off the Southeast coast could still turn into a named tropical storm, but it isn't there yet.
A hurricane hunter aircraft sent to examine the storm Wednesday found the low pressure system centered about 250 miles southeast of Wilmington "has not acquired tropical characteristics."
The hurricane center in Miami said the system has the potential to turn into a named storm on Thursday as it drifts westward toward the U.S. coast.
Either way, the system will bring strong winds, coastal flooding, high surf, and dangerous rip currents to big chunks of the East Coast over the next couple of days.
Meteorologist Robert Digiorgi at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Wilmington said winds will strengthen as the day goes on Thursday.
Oh, joy ...
Just a Question
Are you one of those wankers who voted for Bush ‘cuz he’d be more fun to drink a beer with?
How’s that workin’ out for ya?
How’s that workin’ out for ya?
Man farts at officer, charged with battery
From the 'You have got to be kidding' Department:
Hold on there ... if a fart is battery, then a kiss is, oh, let's not go there shall we ...
After being pulled over for driving with his car's headlights off, the gentleman pictured here failed a sobriety test and was arrested for drunk driving.
While being booked at the police station "[Jose] Cruz then allegedly moved closer to one of the officers and passed gas, the station reported. In the complaint, the investigating officer wrote that police noticed a 'very strong' odor."
As a result, Mr. Cruz was charged with battery.
Planned explosion goes awry at Vermont airport
Officials at a Vermont airport say a planned explosion at a rock quarry went awry and showered planes and cars with large rocks.
Burlington International Airport Manager Brian Searles says rocks hit four small airplanes, several vehicles and some buildings Wednesday.
No one was hurt, but there was damage costing several hundred thousand dollars.
Some of the rocks were the size of microwave ovens.
The quarry is part of an area being readied for airport expansion. Searles says the airport will investigate how the explosion got out of hand.
I am surprised DHS isn't on this like white in rice. Explosion ... Airport - I mean come on, do I have to spell it out for you? Wait there will be some 'official' saying 'terrorists' could be involved shortly and it will most likely turn out to either be a error in placement of the charge, an error in prepping the charge - to wit: too much powder, wrong type powder, etc, or just some bone-head that doesn't know a blasting cap from a bottle cap being put in charge of the explosives by lazy co-workers.
Burlington International Airport Manager Brian Searles says rocks hit four small airplanes, several vehicles and some buildings Wednesday.
No one was hurt, but there was damage costing several hundred thousand dollars.
Some of the rocks were the size of microwave ovens.
The quarry is part of an area being readied for airport expansion. Searles says the airport will investigate how the explosion got out of hand.
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I am surprised DHS isn't on this like white in rice. Explosion ... Airport - I mean come on, do I have to spell it out for you? Wait there will be some 'official' saying 'terrorists' could be involved shortly and it will most likely turn out to either be a error in placement of the charge, an error in prepping the charge - to wit: too much powder, wrong type powder, etc, or just some bone-head that doesn't know a blasting cap from a bottle cap being put in charge of the explosives by lazy co-workers.
Monkey Business
They might be calling it monkey business in Mesa, Arizona, but police are interested in the outcome.
In that city, the police department has landed a $100,000.00 Grant to test how a Capuchin might perform as a one-critter SWAT team.
A Capuchin, with its human-like hands and problem solving ability, is considered the most intelligent monkey - Right behind the Chimpanzee in terms of brain power. (Which means far ahead of repugicans ... Oops, was that my outside voice? Sorry,. Please continue.)
Police there have purchased one and outfitted it with a Kevlar vest, camera and two-way radio and send it into spots where neither a man nor a robot can go.
"Everyone laughs until they start thinking about it," says Officer Sean Truelove.
Where is Lancelot Link when you need him?!
In that city, the police department has landed a $100,000.00 Grant to test how a Capuchin might perform as a one-critter SWAT team.
A Capuchin, with its human-like hands and problem solving ability, is considered the most intelligent monkey - Right behind the Chimpanzee in terms of brain power. (Which means far ahead of repugicans ... Oops, was that my outside voice? Sorry,. Please continue.)
Police there have purchased one and outfitted it with a Kevlar vest, camera and two-way radio and send it into spots where neither a man nor a robot can go.
"Everyone laughs until they start thinking about it," says Officer Sean Truelove.
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Where is Lancelot Link when you need him?!
Satanists move to control GOP
For decades, Republicans have had all the fun, eroding the barrier between personal beliefs and public policy and legislating their own faith-based morality as a means of consolidating power. But now another politically active religious group is coming forward and asking for their turn to team up with the GOP to dictate how other people will live their lives- Devil worshipers. That's right. As it happens, followers of Satan have become a formidable voting bloc in this country since the late 90's and could soon rise up to challenge evangelical Christians for their place in the GOP hierarchy.
Arctic sea "foaming" with methane?
An article in The Independent reports on a new scientific discovery that massive amounts of a greenhouse gas are spewing into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic sea. WorldChanging puts it into context, opening with the line that this discovery, if confirmed, "is really, really, really bad news."Axiom
If a man alone in the woods opens his mouth and speaks and a woman isn't there to hear him, is he still wrong?
Strong earthquake hits off Mexico's Pacific coast
A strong earthquake has hit off Mexico's Pacific coast.
The U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 and was centered off the coast of Jalisco state.
The quake happened Tuesday night at 7:33 p.m.
There are no reports of damages or injuries.
No one listened then ... maybe, now?!
Here's a few things experts were saying about the economy before the meltdown.
That and a literary citation that was spot-on when written a few years back!
That and a literary citation that was spot-on when written a few years back!
“In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail — not the tail that wags the dog.”
– Lewis Carroll
“Welcome to the conservative’s worst nightmare: The law of unintended consequences. Why? Nobody wants to admit it, folks, but the conservatives’ grand ideology is backfiring, actually turning the world’s greatest capitalistic democracy into the world’s newest socialist economy.”
– Paul B. Ferrell, “11 reasons America’s a new socialist economy,” MarketWatch, July 22, 2008.
“The US economy had better have luck on its side. Luck is about all it has left.”
– Clive Crook, “Only Luck Can Save America’s Economy,” Financial Times, Aug. 3, 2008.
Bystanders pull students from burning bus in Florida
More Heroes:
Passers-by are being credited with pulling students from a school bus that caught fire after it was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer in north Florida, killing one teenager, a school official said.
Passers-by are being credited with pulling students from a school bus that caught fire after it was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer in north Florida, killing one teenager, a school official said.
"This was a tragedy, but it's also a miracle," said Marion County Superintendent of Schools Jim Yance." "We're lucky one person got out of there alive."
About 20 middle and high school students were on the bus when it was rear-ended Tuesday afternoon. Two were critically injured and several others had injuries not considered life-threatening.
The student who died was identified as Frances M. Schee, 13.
"The kid was lodged and I just couldn't get her out," Chris Mann, an elevator installer who stopped to help when he saw the accident, told the Star-Banner. "There was nothing I could do."
Yancey said at least four bystanders helped the students.
"I'd say they probably got half the kids off the bus themselves," Yancey said. "They were showing more grief and remorse from not being able to do more."
Police said charges are pending against the driver of the tractor-trailer, Reinaldo Gonzalez, 30, of Orlando. He was taken to a hospital with head injuries.
Earlier this month, a chain-reaction crash southeast of Tallahassee involving a school bus, minivan and cement mixer truck killed an 8-year-old girl and injured seven other children and the van driver.
Gas Shortage Cancels Classes At NC College
A gas shortage that's frustrating drivers in the Southeast has prompted a community college in North Carolina to cancel classes for the rest of the week.
Officials say an increasing number of the 25,000 commuter students at several campuses of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College aren't showing up.
A spokeswoman for the college in western North Carolina says even professors are calling to say they're stuck at home.
Drivers throughout much of the Southeast have been scrambling to find gas since Hurricane Ike shut down or reduced work at more than a dozen refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. Some stations don't have gas to sell, while others report long lines.
Congress, are you LISTENING!
Congress, are you LISTENING!
This from The Young Turks reflects what the Taxpayers are saying pretty well.
This from The Young Turks reflects what the Taxpayers are saying pretty well.
Clay is gay: Aiken comes out of the closet
And ...this is news?
Clay Aiken appears on the cover of the latest People magazine holding his infant son, Parker Foster Aiken, with the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay."
Okay, who was the one person on earth that didn't know this already?
So, Clay is gay - the world can keep spinning now! Whew!
Clay Aiken appears on the cover of the latest People magazine holding his infant son, Parker Foster Aiken, with the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay."
Okay, who was the one person on earth that didn't know this already?
So, Clay is gay - the world can keep spinning now! Whew!
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