Better Than A Trash Dump?

One can hardly expect the Right Thing to be done by New London, in light of recent history, but does anyone really think turning the woman's home into a garbage dump is better than saying "haha, woopsy!" and handing her back the deed?

Hat tip: Instapunhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifdit

Police: Not The Solution To EVERY Problem.

For some things, you just go home sad and tell the children it's George Bush's fault. Take this case for instance: If your dog wraps its leash around the headrest and strangles itself to death while you eat, calling the Police is not the appropriate thing to do.

Officer Dave sez: I'm sorry your dog is dead ma'am but you're going to have to explain to the court how it's not a case of improper transport of an animal and/or animal cruelty, seeing how IT'S YOUR OWN STUPID FAULT the poor thing is dead!

Bad Week for the Boss

First Team Obama had to give ground when they had to reschedule his Big Speech next week. Then they caved again to right-wing interests by putting off implementation of the new CO2 standards.

It's funny what happens when you try to impose your whims on reality. Now President Obama's had two occasions in the same week where he was forced to back down from ideas that were ill-advised in the first place. If only he would have listened to sound council before proposing these things, he could have avoided loss of face.

Then again, before you can listen to sound advice, you have to have good advisors which he obviously does not. Oh well. It is hoped this makes a few more of his supporters stay home next Election Day.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Good

• Good: Always having a knife on your person
• Bad: Losing your knife
• Worse: At an inflatable party zone playground
• Ugly: During a child's birthday party with 30 kids running around
• Good: Having a 6th sense about your weapons
• Better: Realizing your knife is missing and telling one staff member and one friend
• Best: Finding the knife in a cranny right near where where your spidey senses first started going off

Thank God, that could have gone a lot worse. The party was good great fun, by the way. But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln . . . .

War Stories

Some are better than others. You are cheating yourself if you don't read this one.

Feel free to order me a copy of the book when you're done. Hat tip: Mike

This Is My Surprised Face

Iran is developing nuclear weapons? NO! WHO would have guessed!

Bah, HUMBUG!

A fine excuse for picking a man's pocket every first Monday in September!

My Darling Wife is happy this year that I don't believe in happy communist worker day Labor Day. She is holding classes and I'll be home to tend to the younger half of the Zoo while school is ongoing. Then maybe we'll go shout our support of the workers of the world in a parade . . . or something.

Labor Day is for COMMUNISTS.

Global Climate Modles Thrown For Another Loop?

What does it do for planetary heat circulation to have a 250-mile wide river moving a million gallons per minute? How does it affect earthquakes? Well I'm guessing nobody knows, but there is one, MILES BELOW the Amazon river. Seriously.

News That Sounds Like A Joke Roundup

I shake my head and wonder when Jesus will come back. To hear stories like this makes me want to go to bed . . . or is that because it's past the witching hour? Oh well, read 'em and weep:

Illinois pays sex offenders to babysit for poor families

You can't fire an alcoholic truck driver. He's disaaaabled.

Secretary of the United States of America's Department of Labor shows solidarity with the workers of America . . . by buying a car made in Canada with Canadanadian parts.

Hat tips: Instapundit

Man dies of infection. TOOTH infection. Better pull that sumbich with some pliers!

Wikileaks takes issue with The Guardian for . . . leaking information about wikileaks

Hat tips: Fark.com

Understanding: The Refresher Course

I had

completely

forgotten that when Texas was a puppy, he stayed with us for a couple of weeks. That was a couple of years ago and we came to an understanding just between us two boys.

His family went out of town for a week, and he nipped at #3 a couple of times when #3 was messing with him. Time for some dominance training. The dog could deal with being stared down by #3, but having the boy touch his head was too much. Growling = Problem. I went to grab at the dog and he showed his teeth. BIG mistake.

Fortunately nobody had to bleed out on the carpet. He's harder to choke now and significantly trickier to get hold of but the lesson has been re-tought in a way I hope will stick for at least a day. His family will be back tomorrow. Next time (if there is a next time) this dog comes around, I'm going to make it priority #1 to make him know exactly where he stands: on the BOTTOM of the pecking order.


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THEN I had to explain to #1 why all of a sudden her peace-loving daddy with gentle hands was visiting dramatic violence on something. She's led such a sheltered life in her formative years we're going to have to break the ugliness of the outside world to her in stages. Or we could just let the televisor do it, whatever.