Yet another bad gift idea. Be sure to read the customer reviews.
My friend Julian Sanchez has a new True/Slant blog.
Slate reviews The Road, the movie. I have my doubts that the book is adaptable to the screen. But I’ll see it anyway.
Scott Greenfield on judicial immunity: Draw the line at criminal conduct. Seems like that’s a good line of demarcation for prosecutors, too.
An early peak inside the Burj Dubai, which is supposed to open in January.
Large-city police forces upset that they’re not getting a chunk of federal stimulus package. The solution? “The way to solve this problem is … to increase the funding…” Of course!
Dog greets customers in uniform at Clearwater, Florida BP.
Some incredible black & white photos from East Africa.
The cereal chooser flow chart.
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TheAgitator.com
You SugarFree’d the first link.
If the left had gotten their anti-AGW legislation a decade ago under President Gore, who doubts they would be claiming credit for ’stopping’ AGW because the lack of warming in the past 10 years was due solely to their left wing political actions and they Saved Us All? Imagine how hot they’d claim 2009 would have been if not for them saving us.
(He said this was an open thread).
Link #1…good to know that the roads will be a little bit more dangerous after the holidays.
I was driving down the interstate at 60 mph & was passed by a car & the driver was playing the guitar.
Burj Dubai: About to become the tallest slum in the world if I’m reading the financial tea leaves correctly.
Methinks Dubai is experiencing a tiny bit of buyers remorse regarding their unique development plans.
Troubles in Dubai
holy cow…I frequently stop at that BP for gasoline as it’s just a few blocks from the Unity church I visit on Sunday mornings. But I’ve never used the drive thru or noticed that hound. Will try and surprise my wife in next few weeks by pulling through.
I hope that BP doesn’t become popular with cops.
“An early peak inside the Burj Dubai, which is supposed to open in January” … maybe.
Some of the comments left in reply to customer reviews of the Steering Wheel Desk are more entertaining than the reviews themselves. There are some funny customer submitted images as well.
Also, back in 2007, Mark Thornton pointed to Burj Dubai as another one of the warning signs saying the “Skyscraper Index predicts economic depression and/or a stock market collapse to occur prior to the completion of the skyscraper”.
Thornton wrote an article on the Skyscraper Index that appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics in 2005, titled Skyscrapers and Business Cycles.
While I loved No Country for Old Men (both the book and movie), I really didn’t enjoy reading The Road, for several reasons. I don’t plan to see the movie. There just doesn’t seem to be anything to it. I know it’s supposed to be about the father’s love, but i didn’t even get that out of it.
Hey! I’ve only been drunk 4 times in my life (and all were before I turned 22, I’m 65 now), but I love Lucky Charms.
And yes, I still drink alcohol, just not to the point of drunkenness.
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About Dubai -
Maybe I’m uneducated, but I believe Dubai is a religion-run country, which violates my ruels of tourism. I’d rather go to a communist country where the first rule of behavior is clear (obey the Dear Leader/don’t criticize the government) than a religiously-run country, where the rules are weird.
Plus, I’m pregant, and seeing that I need to provide a marriage certificate or leave the country before I can give birth is reason #1 for not going there. Heck if I know where my 13-year old marriage certificate is.
I think I’ll wait for the Book of Eli to come out for my post-apocalypse fix.
I read ‘The Road’ and found it to be the most depressing thing I’d ever read. I can’t imagine wanting to watch it as a movie.
Funny comments on the laptop desk, although it’s pretty clear it’s not for use while driving. The first 90-degree turn and you dump your computer.
My husband and I just wasted an hour of our lives literally ROTFL’ing at the Amazon comments. Actual tears were shed. Thanks for that !
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34194122/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001
PARKLAND, Wash. – A gunman walked into a coffee shop and shot and killed four police officers Sunday morning in what sheriff’s officials described as a targeted “execution.”
The officers were sitting in the cafe at a strip mall near the Tacoma suburb of Parkland with their laptop computers, preparing for their day shifts, when a man came in and opened fire, Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.
The officers were obviously targeted because they were in full uniform, their marked patrol cars were parked outside and no one else was shot at, Troyer said.
“This was more of an execution. He walked in with the mind of shooting police officers,” Troyer said.
It wasn’t immediately known if any of the officers were able to return fire. They were declared dead at the scene.
Troyer said two employees and a few customers were in the Forza Coffee Company shop at the time but no one else was hurt. “As you can imagine they are all traumatized,” he said.
Authorities scoured the area for the gunman, who fled from the coffee shop on foot and may have gotten into a nearby vehicle. The shooting suspect was described as a “scruffy”-faced black man in his 20s or 30s, 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 10 and wearing a black jacket over a gray hooded sweatshirt, and blue jeans.
“We are in the process of searching multiple locations,” Troyer said.
Nearby McChord Air Force Base was put on alert.
No advance threats
The victims were three males and one female, all officers with the Lakewood Police Department southwest of Tacoma, Troyer said.
There were no specific advance threats against the officers, Troyer said.
A $10,000 reward was being offered for information leading to those responsible.
“This is an example of the danger that police officers and deputy sheriffs and state troopers face every day,” Sheriff Paul Pastor said. “The person or people who did this not only harmed us, they harmed the good that we can do in the community.”
There was no indication of any connection with the Halloween night shooting of a Seattle police officer, Troyer said. The suspect in that shooting remains hospitalized.
The cops are clueless that they way they treat non-cops is the reason for incidents like this; and the worse the cops get, in their “us and them” attitudes and misconduct, the more often they’re going to encounter this kind of backlash.
I will say, however, as cops go, the number of allegations of misconduct are fewer in the PNW than almost anywhere else in these united States of America, so it is kind of a surprise the backlash appears to be beginning here.
While the event is sad, and it’s very likely that the officers murdered were “good” guys, can’t say I didn’t see it coming. Can’t say I don’t see events of greater magnitude occurring in the near future as tensions rise and the economy plummets.