Archive for September, 2009
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Friday, September 18th, 2009“I Hate Her” Caption Contest (Source: Break.com) Submit your original caption to this photo or e-mail me your photoshop entries. The winners will be posted on Monday, September 21st. Good luck! Other Current Contests: Blonde Sagacity Cowboy Blob Family Security Matters Military Times Rodney Dill RT Wizbang Top Ten Entries: 10. Little Red Riding Hood [...]
Miss Venezuela Pageant Feels Economic Pinch
Friday, September 18th, 2009And speaking of pinch, I’d like to pinch Miss Universe 2009: Stefania Fernandez from Venezuela. CARACAS – Despite a second consecutive victory at this year’s Miss Universe, even Venezuela’s hugely successful beauty factory is feeling the global pinch. The local “Miss Venezuela” organization — which has landed the South American nation more international pageant titles [...]
True Detective Stories
Friday, September 18th, 2009Remember all of the posts where I talk about idiot citizens and idiot cops? Well, this one involves a new category: Idiot supervisors. Last night two rookie officers came into the division with an arrest. They are beat officers who came out of the last police academy class. Eager, but green. Any hoo, the officers [...]
Obama: Violating Internet Users’ Rights
Friday, September 18th, 2009Hey guys, do you use Facebook? How about Twitter? Do you post any videos or comments on YouTube? If you do, chances are that the Obama administration has a file on you. Oh, and they didn’t bother to tell anyone that they were collecting your information. Isn’t that just terrific? Besides, that pesky Constitution thing [...]
Philadelphia Police Bracing For Layoffs
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Mayor Michael Nutter (D – Philadelphia) had his flunky, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, deliver the bad news to a group of Philadelphia Police officers last night: About 739 of them will be getting pink slips as early as Friday. Most of us in the department see this for what it is: Democrat politics as usual. [...]
An Earp Kid Update
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Well, it’s been a pretty busy week and a half. Erik (left) our 5-year old started kindergarten this week. It is a full day, which he hasn’t experienced before, but he is at the same school as Kyle, so big brother showed him around the first day. So far, Erik likes it, and hasn’t had [...]
Obama Killing Missile Defense Sites?
Thursday, September 17th, 2009According to The Weekly Standard, it’s true. This has to be a joke, right? I mean, we wouldn’t sell out Poland and the Czech Republic – home of my ancestors – to kiss up to Vladimir frakkin’ Putin, would we? That KGB rat bastard has done nothing but thumb his nose at America – and [...]
Olivia Wilde Gets Naked In GQ
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Oh yeah, that’ll rev up the search engines. Christopher Hitchens was Olivia Wilde’s babysitter. Richard Holbrooke and Peter Jennings were close family friends. She’s a real princess, married to Italian royalty. She takes phone calls from President Barack Obama. Plus she stars on a hit TV show (“House”) and poses for photos like these in [...]
Henry Gibson, 1935-2009
Thursday, September 17th, 2009A terrific talent. He will be sorely missed. LOS ANGELES, California — Actor Henry Gibson, who played roles ranging from loopy poets to vengeful Illinois Nazis and cranky judges during a 40-year film and television career, has died at age 73, his representatives said Wednesday. His movie roles included turns in two of director Robert [...]
Humpday History Highlight
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009You wouldn’t think that a place like Harlem would be so crucial to the Revolutionary War. You would be wrong. The Battle of Harlem, which occurred on this day in 1776, transferred a beleaguered Continental Army into a more confident, more aggressive force. A force that eventually defeated the greatest army on Earth. September 16, [...]
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