I just heard, from a message board, not my dad’s friends in Alaska, that there has been a rumor of IRS troubles for Palin.
Don’t know if it’s true or not, but resigning mid term to run for president makes no sense when she could just not run for reelection in 2010.
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Homeless Guy Smashes Other Homeless Guy Upside Head With Skateboard During Quantum Physics Argument:
A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said Wednesday.
I should have a joke here, but I got nothing.
Thankfully though, Opus3 at by invitation only Stellar Parthenon BBS does have a joke:
Actually, a common occurrence in physics departments, where the people look homeless…
He so owes me a screen wipe.
In fact, he may not even be number 2…or number 3, or even number 31, or for that matter, he may not even be number 62
You see, the New York Senate Democrats have locked themselves in the Senate chambers to prevent the Republicans from holding their own special session, which they did anyway, and claimed to have passed everything by 62-0, and that the session is over.
Of course with 31 people on each side, there is no quorum, so neither side of the aisle is acting with anything resembling sanity.
Only there was nothing to pass, because David Paterson had not bothered to finish the bills and send them to the legislature for the emergency session called by one David Paterson.
That being said, I think that NY State Senator Pedro Espada is the chief clown.
It appears now that he’s trying to extort money from the Democratic caucus, asking for $2 million for his “not-for-profit” health clinic chainwhen jumped to the other side over not getting $75 thousand for his little scam.
What’s more after weeks of claiming that thieves had broken into his “second” home in tony Mamaronack, he represents the Bronx, and stolen only those papers, the documents have turned up:
Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. now says thieves didn’t get the key documents he suggested might have been swiped during a reported burglary at his “second home” in Westchester County.
Espada, under investigation for living outside his Bronx district, raised eyebrows last week when he said that whoever broke into his Mamaroneck home stole files and documents – but no other valuables.
(emphasis mine)
How the hell this guy stays out of jail, I’ll never know.
Additionally, he had to be threatened with criminal charges before he was willing turn over his campaign donation information to state campaign finance authorities, though it appears that he still hasn’t paid the fines.
Meanwhile, a grand jury has been convened, and is investigating whether Espada committed fraud by misstating his true residence, and the Bronx DA is now going back further, looking at his earlier campaigns.
You know, relative to this crap, I live in a good government state, and I live in Maryland.
I never ever thought that I would put the phrase “good government” and “Maryland” in the same sentence.
One of the odd bit of news right now is that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has gone missing.
He ditched his security detail, he’s turned off his cell phones, and no one can find him.
The interesting quote in the above story is from his wife:
Neither his wife, nor the state’s lieutenant governor, nor police officials know where he is, South Carolina newspapers reported.
But Jenny Sanford told the Associated Press she wasn’t worried.
“He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids,” she said while vacationing with the couple’s four sons.
(emphasis mine)
She sounds to me like someone who is studiously avoiding trying to find the answer to this.
The real issue here is not Mark Sandford’s personal life. It’s the concern that self-hating individuals, and the closet does imply self-loathing, do not make good decisions on the public policy.
Here is a question, how many straight Republicans who practice marital fidelity does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Either one can do it themselves.
Update:
The governor has been located.
He has been hiking along the Appalachian Trail….Yeah, sure, I believe that.
A commenter on the 2nd link nails it:
brads77 Jun 23, 2009 7:28:12 AM
The only reason this guy would have hiked the Appalachian Trail is because he wanted to visit the Home of Deliverance–thinking that the movie was a love story.
Brads77 owes me a screen wipe.
Because turncoat State Senator Sen. Pedro Espada, he’s the one who runs the phony charity that he pays himself from while he breaks campaign finance laws, not the one who slashed his girl friend’s face, is now claiming that he actually gets two votes in the State Senate, because when the Republicans elected him president pro tempore of the Senate it gave him the “duties of the Lieutenant Governor” when there is no Lieutenant Governor.
I seriously think that this won’t end until some Senator goes Preston Brooks on another Senator on the floor.
But they do have more than their share
Case in point, a Republican legislative aide in the Pennsylvania statehouse who propositioned a teen online, he wanted to have sex while one or both of them were wearing a panda costume, and there are indications that diapers may have been involved too.
It gives an entirely new meaning to Richard M. Nixon’s “Checkers” speech.
When he talks about his wife Pat having, “Respectable Republican cloth coat,” and not a fur coat……
This is wrong on so many levels.
Well, we now have a new theory on the fate artist Vincent Van Gogh’s ear, that rather than having cut it off himself, that it was as a result of a fight with fellow artist, and friend Paul Gaugin:
According to official versions, the disturbed Dutch painter cut off his ear with a razor after a row with Gauguin in 1888. Bleeding heavily, Van Gogh then walked to a brothel and presented the severed ear to an astonished prostitute called Rachel before going home to sleep in a blood-drenched bed.
But two German art historians, who have spent 10 years reviewing the police investigations, witness accounts and the artists’ letters, argue that Gauguin, a fencing ace, most likely sliced off the ear with his sword during a fight, and the two artists agreed to hush up the truth.
This is a definition of friendship of which I was previously unaware.
*You really didn’t think that I could pass up this pun.
First, we have the return of a variant of Spanish Influenza (Swine Flu), and now we have reports of a spike in volcanic activity at Anak Krakatau, which in Indonesian, means “son of Krakatoa,” the small volcanic island that is the the volcano that emerged from the explosion of Krakatoa.
It’s kind of creepy when you think about it, stock market crash, Spanish Influenza, and now this.
What catastrophe is due to revisit us again? The Black Death? The 100 Years War? The Partridge Family?
David Whoreowitz (Horowitz) is making sense loony toon, fellow traveler with cop killers, and all-around bigot, is saying that the right wing attacks on Obama have been profoundly unhinged.
When this man is the voice of reason in a discussion, the rapture, or at least some helium filled blow up sex dolls, is not far off.
If you win the CBS Cares® Colonoscopy Sweepstakes:
Welcome to the CBS Cares Colonoscopy Sweepstakes!
This is an actual sweepstakes and, if you are the grand prize winner, we will fly you and a companion to New York where you will receive a free colonoscopy. You will also be given three nights’ accommodation in a suite at the luxurious Loews Regency Hotel, which will include the night before you are “awarded” the colonoscopy.
…….
This is just wrong on so many levels.
People over a certain age should get regular colonoscopies, and they should be checked for polyps, but this contest is the worst idea since the little Johnnie home root canal kit.
You may, or not, be aware of the concept of reactive armor.
It’s used on a fair number of armored vehicles out there: It’s a box with explosives in it, and when struck by a round, it explodes, dissipating the jet from a shaped charge or altering the path of a kinetic energy penetrator dart.
Well, someone has taken the next forseeable step, and submitted a patent application for an exploding bullet proof vest:
As Dave Barry would say, “I am NOT making this up!”
Check out patent number 6474213, Reactive stiffening armor system, which proposes:
A reactive armor structure having an outer layer and a reactive element adjacent to and integral with the outer layer is provided. The reactive element provides an amount of support to the outer layer effective to restrain movement of the outer layer and to delay fracture of the outer layer when the outer layer is impacted by a projectile.
I wonder what happens when a limb is in the path of the detonation of:
10. The structure of claim 1, wherein the explosive material has a detonation velocity of from about 2 km/s to about 5 km/s.
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24. The structure of claim 15 wherein said reactive material comprises a material selected from the group consisting of TNT, RDX, Comp-B, Octol, and nitromethane.
I’m not sure if it would be worse to be the guy in the armor, or the guy standing next to the guy in the armor.
The location of the collision (top) appears rather different from where it was indicated in my post yesterday (bottom).
What the hell was a British boomer doing so close to French territorial waters?
Based on my eyeball scaling off of Google maps, it’s around 100 miles off the French coast.
Odd.
It appears that French boats have gotten a LOT quieter in the past decade, because a decade ago, on Usenet, I heard many comments from former submariners who said that they were loud.
Background here.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot????
I think that there are still a few bugs in this test.
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* Seriously, first an Iridium and a Cosmos satellite collide in orbit spewing debris all around the immediate vicinity, and now French and British boomers (SSBNs) have collided.
This is just weird.The HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant, each carrying 16 missiles, and an indeterminate number of warhead struck each other in the middle of nowhere:
Not only did it occur in the open ocean, as opposed to a choke point like a port or the Straights of Gibralter, but it was two SSBNs.
If one had been an attack submarine, I could see it, because you would have a “friendly” tracking exercise, but this is not the task of the SSBN.
Yes, I know about the story of the Leningrad elephant, but it’s just weird.
*Tin foil hat image swiped from Attytood.
It appears that a noted British doctor made up the condition and submitted it to the British Medical Journal in 1974, in response to reports, which she thought were a prank/hoax, of a condition called, “guitarist’s nipple”, which is or is alleged to be a chafed nipple from resting the guitar there.
Normally, I wouldn’t have cared, but I played cello when I was 9 and 10, before switching to trombone, so the hed made me want to read it.
