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Jul 30, 2010
Daily Sad Violin: Women Pissed Bus Broke Down
The only time I’ve ever ridden on a Greyhound bus was the times they were chartered for school field trips up to Boston or New York. Greyhound though still survives and provides an option for people who need it. One of those people is a woman from Claremore, OK who was traveling from Columbus when her bus broke down in the middle of Missouri.
The bus was stuck in the hot for five hours with windows that couldn’t be opened and no apparent end in sight. Now that she’s back in Oklahoma she’s claiming it was one of “the most helpless moments of our lives.” Greyhound did the normal corporate apology and “we adhered to policy,” statement but the woman is thinking of suing.
Of course she would, but that doesn’t make it a suit worth filing. I’ve broken down in Missouri and if you break down in the wrong spots there’s not a lot around you. If a bus breaks down (as they do a lot of the time) the company pulls over, and calls dispatch who dispatches a new bus. It’s unfortunate it was so hot, but really what can the company do? You’re riding a busline not an airplane, they can’t instantly be there, hell they can’t be there in an hour or two a lot of the time.
Take us away sad violin clip from Youtube:
Jul 29, 2010
Career Special Teamer retires and will live out the rest of his days as the guy who made that amazing helmet catch.
Adios David and thanks for that one lone memory
Jul 26, 2010
Tennessee's Lt. Governor all for selectively applying the Constitution
Sounds quite a bit like that “judicial activism” stuff Conservatives dislike
Jul 25, 2010
Oldham Athletic Warns of Scouting Scam
Club warns of scouts contacting people in US and Australia and telling them the club would pay for travel and expenses as long as they paid insurance. The article or the club fails to mention this kind of practice is rampant in Africa as documented by Current
Jul 20, 2010
Grow a Pair
There was a time when my RSS reader was overflowing with Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, and any number of political blogs, but then I stopped reading a majority of them. Most of them annoyed me, while the rest I found myself mindless skimming over them not really even paying attention as I had gotten use to there being nothing of real value in them.
So when I kept seeing tweets about some Shirley Sherrod I was rather dumbfounded. Never heard the name before, not even in passing, so what’s the issue? Turns out Breitbart went out looking for blood and found the first thing he could find. He found (or so claims) a heavily redacted and edited video of a low level (to say the least) member of the USDA in Georgia saying something along the lines of “I didn’t help the whities as best I could.” Of course he didn’t do much fact checking because it was revealed very quickly that not only was the video taken out of context (figures) but she was talking about something from years ago (1986 to be exact). She didn’t even work at the USDA then, and the family she helped have been friends with her and stood by her through these attacks.
What Breitbart did was shameful but not surprising. He’s made his living off of this kind of stuff (just look at the ACORN videos), and it was meant to spark racial tension. The NAACP claims the tea party is racist so Breitbart finds a black being racist towards whites slams it on the internet and goes “rebuke this.” The same goes for the whole black panther meme. What is sick and twisted in this whole affair was not how Breitbart or the conservative dredges acted, we expect that, what we shouldn’t expect is for the administration to get wind of something and all but point a gun at the woman and tell her to quit. Vilsack has apparently taken responsibility for the issue and not only should he personally rehire the woman and apologize, but should subsequently can his own ass.
Don’t hold your breath on this being the last one of these things. Breitbart will find something else in a few months and Fox News and conservative blogs will pump it up, then it’ll be proven wrong, Breitbart will say he’s just showing what he’s got and get away while the damage is done. Breitbart’s clear goal is to take down Obama, in which case he should quit destroying lives of innocent people and grow a pair and go after Obama directly.
Jul 20, 2010
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Twitpic of the Day: Neil Patrick Harris + Double Rainbow = OMG.
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Twitpic of the Day: Neil Patrick Harris + Double Rainbow = OMG.
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What does it mean?!?
Jul 20, 2010
Point A is Tulsa, OK where I and my phone are. Point B is Fort MacKay, Alberta, Canada, where my phone thinks I am. This isn’t the first time the Droid’s GPS has placed me thousands of miles from where I actually am, but it is the first it’s gone out of the country. Fort MacKay is apparently a small hamlet of 700 or so with an economy based on the oil sands industry. Nice to know.
The other times the Droid has gotten lost it has placed me in the middle of nowhere eastern Colorado.
Jul 19, 2010
God they even have vuvuzelas at watch parties to see the sun turn into the ring from Lord of the Rings.
Jul 18, 2010
Gangs getting training in the military
[T]he officer said he has arrested high-level gang members who have served in the military and kept the “Infantryman’s bible” — called the FM 7-8 — in their homes. The book describes how to run for cover, fire a weapon tactically and do the “three- to five-second rushes” seen in war movies.
See also: Salon from last year on the growth of white supremacists in the military.
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