Snowflakes in Hell

Apparently a thief made off with one of Teddy Roosevelt’s hunting trophies. The thief is probably lucky Teddy is dead.

The four legged kind. And here I thought the Swiss were mostly sane.

So how do you disguise a man purse so it doesn’t look metro? Well, make it look like you’re toting a pistol around, that’s how. If a shoulder rig isn’t your fancy, there’s also the OWB model.

Apparently even something much bigger has a hard time getting the job done.

I was just checking on the status of Sebastian’s next flight on FlightAware and discovered that Southwest has a pretty creative route for this particular flight number.

Most flights I’ve been on either fly between two cities repeatedly throughout a day or they travel in one general direction (say, Charlotte to Nashville to Dallas). But Sebastian’s next flight starts each day in Dallas and flies northeast to St. Louis. From there, it turns northwest to Omaha before a turn to the southwest to Las Vegas. Obviously, the next stop is to the northwest again to hit Reno. Then it continues on its northwesterly track to Portland before going northeast toward Spokane. I wonder how many flights do such and extreme zigzag around the country.

I would refer to this picture as a moment of zen, but since it is a dying star, there’s probably very little zen-like about it.

Click to enlarge.

A Pennsylvania civil war re-enactor accidentally shot his neighbors house with a replica cannon.  No word yet on whether the neighbor was a no good dirty Lincoln lover.

It looks like fake boobs have registration.   At least enough that given a serial number (they appparently have serial numbers) you can find the owner of said fake boob.  No word yet on where the Seventh Circuit stands on the consitutionality of boob registration.

… with a suppressed M4.

Kevin has a story that is absolutely mind boggling.  They apparently didn’t realize when you steal that kind of money, you better make sure they think you are dead.  They’ve not been watching enough movies:

Well, when you steal $600, you can just disappear. When you steal 600 million, they will find you, unless they think you’re already dead.

I’m going to agree with the folks who say they are counterfeit.  I also would not be surprised to find out they are not, in fact, Japanese Nationals, but North Koreans with false papers.  Can you imagine being the teller at the Swiss Bank when two guys show up with more treasury bonds than the GDP of most countries in their briefcases?

A fisherman catches a live air-to-air missile off the Florida coast in the Gulf of Mexico.  Fisherman tells his buddies he almost had an Ohio Class ballistic missile submarine, but it got away.

A funny thing happened on the way to Phoenix…

As I’ve been planning the Second Amendment Blog Bash, I thought it would be fun to post polls on the sidebar of the website for people to vote when they check he latest information. It’s not exactly on par with a rocking night out, but it was meant to get people excited about the Bash.

Unfortunately, I’ve learned that diehard GOP voters will hijack any poll and spam the site with fake votes and crazy comments. The first came from Mitt Romney supporters. They not only shared a link on the top Mitt websites, but one actually set up some kind of a script to vote for Mitt as their favorite invited speaker about five times every second. I changed the poll and banned everyone who voted for him after I got the first hit from the site. I also complained to the main culprits and they did honor my request to remove the links.

The latest is from a group of rabid Sarah Palin fans. Now, I like Sarah Palin. I became a much more active campaign volunteer once she was on the ticket. We waited to put a McCain sign out in the lawn until she was on the ticket. But, when people start using the Bash site comments to tell me about why they believe she’s G-d, things get a little creepy. So, again, when the kiddies over at TeamSarah.org started spamming the poll (one vote a minute – a little less demanding on the server, thank goodness), it was changed and a note went up asking them to stop. So far, they have refused to honor my registration so I can ask them to remove the link, and I’m not sure they will ever acknowledge it.

But, in telling you this, I pose the question that Sebastian asked me when I told him about the creepy comments: If Sarah is G-d, then what does that make Todd Palin?

A man is charged with a felony for throwing a fish at a boat that refused to move from under a bridge the man was trying to fish from.  It seems to be the prosecutor should use some discretion in the application of this statute, as this clearly isn’t an example of the type of case it was enacted for.

… Who has this dream:

I still have this dream, and I’ve been out of college now for 12 years. My God, has it really been that long?  I tend to wonder whether or not it’s related to anxiety over forgetting everything you ever learned.  I don’t think I can even remember how to do integration by parts.  I definitely couldn’t design an amplifier or other such electrical circuit without spending days hitting the books and relearning everything.  Hell, I’m not sure I even remember the math for complex electronic circuits.  I barely remember the physics of a transistor.

And I’m an electrical engineer.  This is what I get for working in IT for 10 years.  I guess it’s true what they say, your major is the subject you will learn and forget the most about.

Jennifer is properly revolted by the latest in male fashion trends.  Every year male fashion trends seem to get gayer and gayer.

According to the local news radio station:

Bucks County is the focus of world wide interest in unidentified flying object sightings. That’s according to local UFO enthusiasts who meet monthly in Philadelphia’s Fishtown section.

Bob Gardner is state section director of the Mutual UFO Network — or MUFON. He’s an expert on the Bucks County UFO sightings and a regular attendee of the UFO discussion group at the Germ bookshop on Frankford Avenue.

I think I know who they may be looking for.

Are they really getting that worried on the London Stock Exchange?

Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes.  I can think of at least two dozen ways I’d rather go off the top of my head.  This has to rank pretty far down anyone’s list.

Pretty horrifying 911 call of a woman who had her pet chimp kill a friend.  David points out:

But let’s forget the pundits and persuaders for a moment and just ask ourselves two basic questions:

Or would I rather be useless, and stand shrieking and blubbering helplessly into a telephone while some government worker on the other end of the line tells me to calm down?

If that were my loved one being mauled, having her face ripped off, being rended limb-from-limb, would I want to have the most effective means at my disposal to immediately save her?

I would imagine their solution would be to ban chimps.

Apparently it involves not scaring the band.  Seriously, go see the video.  Mexican gun laws are supposedly vastly superior to our own, but I don’t know of any wedding in the United States where the band would keep playing if gunplay breaks out on the dance floor.  Pretty clearly the band is used to this kind of thing.

I mean, literally.

Apparently yesterday was Squirrel Appreciation Day.  Bitter suggests that there’s no better way to appreciate squirrel than by frying it.

Cows and planes don’t normally mix.  Until Youtube brings us evidence that the rule is now officially out the window.

It’s extreme cow-tipping!  And to think, I only thought that was a sport where I’m from in rural Oklahoma.

Yes, we all know about England’s gun laws. Yes, we all know they are even cracking down on drinking. Yes, we all call them the nanny state and have for years.

But I bet you didn’t know it went this far*:

In England at least, you have limited choices; for a wedding to be legally binding it must be conducted in a licensed building. This effectively gives you three choices: a registry office, another licensed building for a civil wedding service or a religious building registered to carry out marriages (i.e. a church). Further restrictions relate to weddings taking place in churches as it must either be your parish church (effectively your local church) or a church with which you have a ’special connection’ and for which you must have a ’special license’. Unlike America, you cannot get married outside although it is possible to have a civil ceremony first and exchange vows again outside.

You can’t even get married outside? That’s nuts!

*Before you ask, I wasn’t researching locations for anything specific. It was just a click through kind of find and I just started reading.

Apparently it’s illegal to collect rain water in some western states without difficult to obtain water rights for doing so.  There’s a saying from the west that I believe goes something like “Out west, whiskey is for drinkin’ and water is for fightin’.”  Things like that don’t really change, though presumably we fight using lawyers these days rather than guns.