Totally Stupid, Actually

The TSA let this woman get on an airplane with a tiny gun shaped object!

Barely.

And just imagine, the government allows these people to feel up your grandma.

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tiny menace

When I saw this question over at Tam's (who saw it on RNS) I immediately knew my answer. For a very long time this song has featured prominently on my life's internal soundtrack, alongside other classics like Breakfast at Tiffany's Moon River, a Tori Amos medley, a few Irish drinking fighting songs and The Ladybugs' Picnic from Sesame Street.

Quirky fierceness for some zombie slaying? Yep, that'll do.



And in case you need a visual of the last thing ol' Zed might see when the undead SHTF?
My Buddy the Gun Enthusiast is happy to help.

never forget

‘One of the lessons of 9-11 is that evil is real, and so is courage’
- George W. Bush

(to see the entire interview, begin here)

welcome to Ohio!

Where men like Canton City Council President Allen Schulman would rather see me dead than let me carry a gun.

(oh, and for the record, Mr. Schulman? The only person that seemed like any sort of threat in the original video was the policeman threatening to execute someone for being stupid. Not exactly the guy I'd trust to keep me "safe.")

half-life

Haven't much time to blog today but I wanted to tell a tale of a giant's decline, illustrate a small portion of the map of a once-great city's road to ruin...all paved with good intentions and government intervention.

• In cash-strapped Detroit, one library decides it needs a renovation. A total of $2.3 million of taxpayer money is spent on things like leather chairs ($1,100 ea.), stainless steel trash cans ($1,110 ea.) and fireplaces ($5000 ea.). The chairs have already had to be replaced with wooden ones, due to homeless people using them as toilets. 

• But another Detroit-area library is closed and the books are abandoned, left to rot and moulder on the shelves. 

•  Studies have shown that nearly half of Detroit's adult population are functionally illiterate.

•  And for a ineffective school system, rife with corruption, where almost two-thirds of children will not graduate high school, the federal government spends $49 million of your tax dollars on laptop computers for grade school children.

But, if you'll excuse me now, I must get back to work here at the reference desk - a young lady just requested the newest literary work by someone named "Snooki", the gentleman calling on line 4 wants some DVD about a time-traveling hot tub, and a very loud woman has started to complain that her Farmville game keeps making the computer crash.

bath bomb

I ran across this fun little item somewhere in the interwebs last night and immediately went to the website.
"Hey!" I thought. "It's soap! Shaped like a grenade! Neato." (they also have baby head soap, both available in a variety of colors and scents.) It's made here in Ohio and at $9, it'd make fun gift. As an added incentive, they donate 1% from each grenade sale to the Wounded Warrior Project. Cool, right?

Then I got to the disclaimer at the end of the page. I just couldn't believe it. It reads:

STINKYBOMB DISCLAIMER:
THIS ITEM SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN ON AIRPLANES. DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM AND THEN GIVE IT TO SOMEONE WHO IS ABOUT TO STEP ON A PLANE. DO NOT ASSUME THAT PUTTING IT IN YOUR CHECK IN LUGGAGE WILL ALLOW THE SOAP TO PASS ANY AIRPORT SECURITY SCANNERS.

Really, TSA? Seriously?

Phew!

I guess we can all rest easy knowing that Harry Reid will still get his cherry blossom parade. No word yet on the Nevada cowboy poetry festival.

Your tax dollars at work, folks.

Oh, and GOP? You're a bunch of spineless turds. Thanks for nothing.