Monthly Archives: December 2009
TSA – American storm troopers
The boys from Obama’s Washington are busting down doors of bloggers, searching for the person who leaked their ridiculous (and embarrassing) directive on post-Captain Underpants security “improvements”. The New York Times has, again and again, revealed secret programs of the … Continue reading
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From having sex with your brother’s girlfriend to killing deer is a short fall
Ex-cop now charged with illegally hunting deer. Bad boy.
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Bob Horton makes sense
Yes, he’s a friend of mine, but his column today on the just a few of the idiocies of our town government are spot – on. Go, Bob!
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Incredible news from Land of Oz
9th Circuit upholds dismissal of class action suit against Apple. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District affirmed a 2008 decision by a California district court to dismiss a long-running lawsuit that claimed iPods endangered users’ hearing. iPods, … Continue reading
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Al Qaeda keeps this s**t up, the Democrats won’t have an issue left
58% of Americans support waterboarding Captain Underpants to get information on his terrorist pals. Oh, the humanity! By the way, if you excluded New York, Massachusetts and California from that poll the numbers would probably be around 98%. Can you … Continue reading
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Girl stabbed to death by father in Greenwich
A botched murder-suicide at 100 Sterling Road. Tax records show owner as 100 Sterling LLC but no such entity filed with the state. 20-room house on 37 acres, so not, presumably, some backwoods family like the Fountains. UPDATE: Reader says … Continue reading
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Ya wanna wake a body? Here’s a body – enjoy.
Waterbury funeral home cremates wrong corpse, substitutes another for the wake. That’s the trouble with open casket viewings – some smart-ass always complains that Mama doesn’t look the same.
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Brave new world
18-year-old W. Hartford kid arrested on multiple counts for giving a friend a ride home in the trunk of his car. There wasn’t room in the car for everyone so one kid climbed in the trunk. Who the hell didn’t … Continue reading
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Airborne CO2 hasn’t increased in 150 years
Back to those computer models, gentlemen!
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The accolades just keep pouring in
Dodd voted most corrupt politician of 2009. He certainly has my vote, but why limit it to just 2009?
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Irrational exuberance
The Wall Street journal reviews “Priceless”, today, a book about, natch, pricing and the tricks used to befuddle consumers. Or, put more nicely, why “psychology counts as much as logic in many simple economic decisions.” Lots of interesting examples (Skippy … Continue reading
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Sometimes being a landlord doesn’t pay
Police find remains of 400-500 dead animals in Philadelphia rental home. My guess is that the security deposit won’t cover the cost of that clean up.
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Stay in bed this morning
Back from Newark and while the highways were okay at 5:00 AM, the Post Road as of 9:30 is a mess – if you’re curious how many people live and drive here without snowtires take a ride over there – … Continue reading
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heh
Reader John, commenting on the Crotch Bomber, says,” Concerning the hapless Nigerian, I can’t help but think how the 72 virgins would respond to the third degree burns..Ouch.”
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The black helicopters are hovering
10: 33 pm: Rush Limbaugh stricken with apparent heart attack while vacationing in Hawaii. Coincidence that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are also vacationing in Hawaii at this very moment? I think not.
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America the fair
So, precisely because your average terrorist these days is a young muslim male between the ages of 19 and 28 flying on a British, Pakistani or other Middle Eastern passport, we will not single out those individuals for special scrutiny … Continue reading
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There must be better records to beat
Woman with 0.718 BAC tops North Dakota record. She was cheating, of course, because any normal person is dead at half that. Nice touch? After getting out of the hospital and on bond she skips bail and is found, again, … Continue reading
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How long does it take the world’s fastest train to travel from Guangzhou to Wuhan?
Answer: 5 1/2 hours. 3 to travel the actual distance, 2 1/2 to stop in the middle and search for a disobedient smoker who set off a smoke alarm and shut down the train. Nice to know that China has … Continue reading
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Spec houses
Of the 539 single family homes on the market, at least 32 of them are spec houses priced at $5 million or more. That’s down from the 53 we had last year, but we lost a lot to rentals and … Continue reading
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