Monday, May 3, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Baby Otters!
Seriously, Baby Otters!
You guys, I mean it! Baby Otters!
Hey! You are not a baby otter! You are a red panda! Who the hell's in charge here?
No, you are a seal! I distinctly said baby otters!
There. Was that so hard?
The Gwinnett County Five
Last week, a story showed up in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about five creepy hillbilly-looking mf's arrested for having bombs in their van.
Gwinnett Fire officials are still investigating five people arrested after a county police officer discovered explosives during a routine traffic stop Monday.
Two devices confiscated from the scene contained shrapnel materials such as nails and screws, Tommy Rutledge, Gwinnett Fire spokesman, told the AJC.
“At this point there is no information that indicates any type of involvement with domestic terrorism or that links the individuals to any type of hate group or militia group,” he said. “Investigators are looking at any previous involvement or history that these individuals may have had with police.”
Since then, I've heard nothing about these psychos. Searching on Google just turns up various reprintings of the original article. We don't know who or what their target was ar what sort of f'd up motivation they had to blow up that something or someone. I don't even know whether the FBI or Homeland Security have gotten involved in the investigation.
When Bush was in office, every time they arrested anyone with any hint that they might be looking to blow something up, administration officials would be all over the news crowing about the super-deadly domestic terrorism ring they'd so cleverly managed to thwart.
Then it would turn out that they were just a bunch of morons with no ability to make explosives and no real intent to blow anything up, but we'd all have fun being scared for a couple of weeks and feeling like ol' Uncle George and Uncle Dick were keepin' us safe from a group of homeless Florida potheads with confusing religious beliefs or whatever.
I don't miss that. But I would like to know what the hell is going on with these nutjobs. Maybe if someone were to call the Gwinnett County Sherrif's Department and tell them that these 5 might be Muslims, we'd see some action on this case.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Sweet Tap-Dancing Jeebus, How Is Bill Kristol Still Allowed to Talk on TV?
From Politicususa:
Fox News contributor Bill Kristol was on Special Report with Bret Baier tonight defending off shore drilling, when he made perhaps the stupidest statement of all time. He said offshore drilling is quite safe, “and very environmentally clean, except where there is a disaster like this.”
Kristol said, “Look the data’s pretty clear in general that the offshore drilling of oil has become incredibly quite safe, not perfectly safe, but compared to other ways of getting energy, quite safe compared to the mining of coal for example, and very environmentally clean, except when there is a disaster like this spill, but Exxon Valdez was much bigger.
Also safe: Russian Roulette. Until the gun goes off.
Juggling Chainsaws. Unless you count getting your hand cut off.
Driving Drunk. Until the inevitable crash.
Seriously, how the hell is this moron allowed on television.
Has he ever been right about anything?
Two More Coal Miners Die in Kentucky
By Staff and Wire Reports
Published: 4/30/2010 2:25 AM
2 killed in coal mine owned by Tulsa firm
A Kentucky coal mine where two workers were killed in a roof collapse has been cited at least six times this year for using too few supporting bolts in the roof, state records show.
With the 29 miners killed at the Upper Big Branch mine 3 weeks ago, this brings the total to 31 coal miners killed so far this year.
So let's tally up the score:
Number of deaths this year per energy source:
31
11
The Occasional Bird
ZEROSo, explain to me again why we can't have renewable energy? Because it's un-American?