Links Around The Moronosphere
Be sure to check out dpud and his daily collection of links. (not responsible for eye- or brain-damage caused by clicking eddiebear's link, or any other).
Well-Prepared Clerk
If I ever started working in a convenience store I would make sure that I could protect myself. This is my kind of guy.
A man’s attempted armed robbery of a central Mesa store was foiled
Sunday when the clerk fought back with a Taser, his fists and a
handgun, police said.
That is friggin AWESOME. I was waiting for the part when the guy was supposed to say "I would have used the RPG but due to the enclosed space I was operating in as well as the fact that the guy was pretty much a puddle from the previous weaponry I felt that it would have been a bit of overkill."
Posted by: Old Iron at 06 May 2008@11:32:09 (tD0Cq)
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It sounds like he was a bit rushed... no mention of nunchucks, edged weapons, or pepper-spray. I would never use an RPG in a convenience store. If I worked in a gas station though....
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 06 May 2008@14:33:53 (Q5ggV)
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It's not overkill already? Was the robber Batman?
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 08 May 2008@01:36:45 (1Ug6U)
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It caught my eye because the guy had a Taser. I've never heard of that being used to thwart a convenience store robbery. Besides, everybody knows Batman doesn't rob stores... sheesh!
Good to see you Gabriel.
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 08 May 2008@01:51:21 (Q5ggV)
Check Out The Talent!!
I've long said that I would need six months of intensive art lessons to draw stick-people, so S.Weasel's talent leaves me in jealous awe, especially with the graphic to today's post. *Sigh* Go check out S.Weasel... she lets you "steal" her original graphics (like this!)
This isn't the graphic for today's post... get on over there to see it. It's worth it. And steal what you like, but it would be nice to say where you got it from. Go on, get going.
Dr. Sanity Has "Carnival Of The Insanities" Every Sunday
If you're still interested in surfing, every Sunday you can find "Carnival of the Insanities" over at Dr. Sanity's site. You'll never know what gold is hidden there until you check it out.
Links Around The Moronosphere - Weekend Edition From dpud
While lamenting a paucity of offerings, dpud manages to gather a ton of great links around the Moronosphere. He's included some especially fine stupidity pointed out by eddiebear, some funny stuff from The Pillage Idiot, and lots more. Click on over and prepare to spend some time with doubleplusundead and the gang.
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Between Saturday and Sunday, I've got a pretty good amount of links going now. It was a bit sparse on Saturday. I started out and after a while was like...hmmm, there's too much on here to ditch it now, so what do I do? Posted! I'm used to having a decent amount of stuff to post, even on the weekend, it was just an abnormally slow weekend.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at 04 May 2008@18:30:11 (ZuzXA)
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I know bud... just yankin' ur chain! It's what I do.
Heh.
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 04 May 2008@18:36:25 (Q5ggV)
You Just Gotta Check These Guys Out
I had tears of laughter just rolling down my face looking at The Bar Slaves. Examples of irreverent humor with some underlying honesty, some very funny pics that will definitely make you chuckle, and even game reviews that tell it like it is. Some is NSFW, but I'm not at work so no worries here.
Links Around The Moronosphere
I've had a drop in output the past four days for some health issues, a wonky router, and two short-notice day-trips out of town back to back. Health is coming back, I have a new router which I'll install tomorrow (I'd do it now, but I want all four kids involved so they learn how to set up a home network), the day-trips are done and I'm not likely to need further action on that front.
Fortunately, doubleplusundead keeps doing his phenomenal job of collecting the best postings from "The Morons". Regular readers of The Ace of Spades have come to be known as morons and dpud noticed how many had their own blogs. Inspired, he created "The Moronosphere" (check the blogroll) and with S.Weasel doing the graphics, has assembled an eclectic group of self-described morons who put out some startlingly-good articles. I'm not sure why I was invited unless they needed someone to bring the average back down to moron-level.
So check out the links at dpud's and enjoy some of the smartest morons you'll ever meet. I'm proud to be one of them.
Taking Back The Neighborhood
The only patrolling I ever did as an enlisted soldier in the military was during Field Training Exercises. As a Nurse Corps officer, patrolling wasn't even an option during training as our mission was different. Kim du Toit over at The Other Side of Kim has a great article about a soldier returning from Iraq and getting involved in his local Neighborhood Watch.
Great story and now I'm considering the Neighborhood Watch in my own area. I'm pretty asocial by nature. Not anti-social, I'm just happy being at home with the family and don't see the need to leave for other company. This could be something that helps me get to know the neighbors in a way that I'm comfortable with.
Dr. Sanity On Paranoia And Projection
When I first started reading blogs, I spent a lot of time on "progressive" sites trying to understand their reasoning. As I kept hearing about the coming "Bush Theocracy" and how fascist our government was becoming, with any dispute being attacked or mocked hysterically, I stopped even reading them. I couldn't understand why discussion over disagreements was impossible.
Dr. Pat frequently gives the answers and does so again today.
Don't expect a rational response to such questions. Questions like that
only elicit further complicated conspiracy theories that are
constructed around all of the shibboleths of the left (many of which
have evolved into dogma since 9/11)--anti-capitalism; multilateralism;
multiculturalism; poverty; victims of US imperialism; anti-Americanism
etc. etc. If you put all the conspiracy theories together you will find
a concatenation of bizarre and often contradictory components that
should make any reasonably intelligent person roll on the floor with
hoots of laughter.
It would be reasonable to laugh if it weren't so pervasive in Democrat elected officials. more...
It's funny, I'm always, always, always accused of being a Bush sycophant who can see nothing bad in anything he does and the lefty talking to me is just using his intellect to figure out the truth.
Funnily enough, I don't agree with everything Bush has done, I've been furious on occasion, and said lefty cannot find anything, not one thing, that Bush has done that he/she/it agrees with.
It's funny how the intellectually free are such lemmings while sycophants and myrmidons of the Bush Theocracy seem to have more.... nuanced opinions.
Posted by: Veeshir at 21 April 2008@15:44:20 (ThMnZ)
Sweep Nets Nearly 300 Illegal Aliens
A sweep covering five states netted almost 300 arrests of illegal aliens on charges of identity theft, document fraud, and being in the country illegally.
The raids were part of a long-term investigation, officials said.
Plants were raided in Mount Pleasant, Texas, Batesville, Ark., Live
Oak, Fla., Chattanooga, Tenn. and Moorefield, W.Va., authorities said.
Atkinson
said the company went to ICE agents with information about identity
theft at the Arkansas plant. The company uses a federal database to
check identity documents of new employees, but that wouldn't stop a
person from using a real, but stolen ID, he said.
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I'm not sure how typical these cases are. Los Hermanos Banda [the Banda brothers has a vaguely blasphemous ring in this context] were themselves here illegally, which is not true of most employers; nor am I am I sure that the Pilgrim's Pride poultry people are that typical, or more exactly the fact that the employer went to ICE first. I think the one that was most typical is the one you didn't highlight--the employment agency in Atlanta.
Posted by: kishnevi at 20 April 2008@22:36:28 (v/iXZ)
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Stories like the Atlanta agency are certainly the ones we hear about most of the time. I think it's because it reinforces the idea that "everybody is in on it anyway" so trying to stop it is futile. That's why I was surprised to see the other two examples and started me wondering if they're not actually more typical than the Atlanta case, just not reported as frequently.
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 20 April 2008@22:47:01 (Q5ggV)
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Heh-how could they round these folks up without DNA samples?
Posted by: JBHood at 21 April 2008@10:25:33 (UFNnW)
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