The government agreed to implement Islamic law and suspend a military offensive across a large swath of northwest Pakistan on Monday in concessions aimed at pacifying a spreading Taliban insurgency there.
After mauling a woman severely for no apparent reason this chimpanzee, who had been pretending to be tame all his life by appearing in commercials, riding around in tow trucks, etc, attacked police officers who arrived at the scene. Only after he cornered one in his squad car did an officer fire his weapon.
“She retrieved a large butcher knife and stabbed her longtime pet numerous times in an effort to save her friend, who was really being brutally attacked,” Conklin said.
Travis ran away and started roaming on Herold’s property as police arrived. Officers set up security so medics could reach the critically injured woman lying on the ground, Conklin said.
As the woman was treated, the chimpanzee went after several of the officers, who retreated into their cars, Conklin said. Travis opened the door to one cruiser and started to get in, trapping an officer who then shot the chimpanzee several times…
Posted in Just wow on Feb 16th, 2009, 11:09 pm by eric
Facebook’s new TOS basically says anything you post there is theirs.
“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post”
This is one of the things that has made the possibility of liberal success in this election a little easier to take.
The Democrats will be solidly in control in Washington. The silver lining is that for the first time in quite a few years, they will not be able to duck responsibility. As soon as they actually begin governing in January, they will, inevitably, begin to alienate voters. Obama in particular will not remain a tabula rasa, all things to all people, much longer. Whether he turns out to be the hard leftist of his legislative years or the borderline Republican that he sometimes seemed on the campaign trail, he will disappoint some of his followers. And the next time a hurricane strikes, it will be the Democrats’ fault.
This little quip (that I suspect is recycled) illustrates perfectly the problem with wealth redistribution. People like it in theory until it is their money. The story goes like this:
I got to wondering today - is there anyone in Barack Obama’s orbit that he doesn’t have to make excuses for? Biden, as everyone knows by now, pulled another gaffe this week (he told the truth again) and embarrassed the Obama campaign and sent the handlers banging their heads together to figure out how to spin it. “We’ll call Biden’s statement ‘political flourishes.’”
Biden said Obama winning the election would trigger a international crisis within 6 months. Palin pointed out another worry the Obama camp has:
“But I guess the looming crisis that most worries the Obama campaign right now is Joe Biden’s next speaking engagement. Let’s call that crisis scenario number five.”
Bolton, and most everyone else who has a clue is calling Biden’s observations in this case spot-on.
“The risk of an untried president is not only that he wouldn’t respond adequately, but I think there is the risk of an excessive reaction,” said Bolton. “The desire to prove, as Sen. Biden said, that Senator Obama has steel in his spine, proving how tough you are, can sometimes lead to an overreaction which would be as, or more dangerous, for the United States than what an under-reaction would be. I am grateful to Senator Biden for bringing it up for us.”
