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“scrap metal enthusiasts???”
“receive deal tweets???”
I guess it’s no weirder than scrap-booking.

Go to this map and type the name or your town in the box to see how much of the surrounding area it would cover.

AP – DANVERS, Mass. – A man in Danvers Massachusetts was cleaning a vacuum operated sausage seasoning machine when he got his head and shoulders sucked in and became stuck.

Somebody called 911 and they got him free. He didn’t seem any the worse for wear but they transported him to the hospital where he was checked and released.

So far there’s no indication of how the machine got turned on. OSHA is investigating.
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In further news, in the UK, the London Daily Telegraph, along with several other news services, called Briton Robert Dee the “world’s worst tennis pro.” So he got pissed and sued.

A bunch of the news agencies apologized but the Telegraph refused.

Well, it got to court: The judge looked at Mr. Dee’s record of 54 consecutive loses, all in straight sets, and found in favor of the Telegraph. Saying “If you’re not ‘the world’s worst pro,’ you’re close enough.”
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And finally we have Matthew Van McDaniel, 25, of Los Alamitos, who got drunk -his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit- and drove his Mercedes into the James Musick Correctional Facility in Irvine.–You read that right: He drove straight through a jailhouse gate.

Mr. McDaniel then broke an officer’s nose when they tried to restrain him.

The final tally on this guy: One felony count of aggravated assault on an officer, one felony count of being an ex-convict entering the grounds of a correctional facility, one misdemeanor count of reckless driving, one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of alcohol and one misdemeanor count of driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent or more. –For a grand total of nine years.

Seen in local shopping center.

According to the Telegraph.co.uk, A man who was frustrated with the snow that closed down Robin Hood Airport, in South Yorkshire, England sent this tweet: ”C—! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!”

End result? He was arrested and convicted by a district judge at Doncaster Magistrates Court who ruled that the Tweet was ”of a menacing nature in the context of the times in which we live.”

District judge Jonathan Bennett found Chambers guilty of sending a message by means of a public electronic message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character contrary to the Communications Act 2003.

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According to londonphotographers.org, in GB the cops can legally hassle you for taking pictures.
Photographer Grant Smith was searching for a location to photograph a famous architect when security called the police.

Branch member Grant Smith has sent this account of a stop and search under s44 of the Terrorism Act. The incident happened earlier today in the City of London whilst Grant was doing some test shots for an environmental portrait of an architect. This comes just weeks after the Metropolitan Police issued new guidance to officers about using s44 on photographers.

The incident clearly shows how officers are continuing to abuse Terror laws and how security guards are abusing their position by calling the police every time somebody photographs a building, which they claim is not allowed, but is of course perfectly legal and legitimate.

I wonder how long before the police and the judges all start sporting tiny mustaches?

Somebody better get Flash Gordon on the phone because it seems a Qantus flight was almost knocked out of the air by an evil overlord’s cosmic ray gun…… At least that’s one of the theories.

A Qantas Airbus took two sudden sever dives, one of 650ft and one of 400ft, when a computer malfunctioned. Now the Australian Transportation Safety Board says the problem may have been caused by cosmic rays.

Harold Sun – “Something happened in that box that sent the wrong data at various times to the (main) flight computer,” ATSB chief commissioner Martin Dolan said.

“We’ve not yet established why those spikes in data occurred. We are looking at that, including at things like the potential impact of cosmic rays.”

Despite being unable to explain the near-disaster, Mr Dolan said he was satisfied with safety measures introduced afterwards.

The computers in question, which process data from aircraft sensors, will remain fitted to Airbus aircraft.

But any data “spikes” are being filtered out after an interim software modification.

New software to improve the processing of data will be retrofitted to the worldwide A330 and A340 fleet.

That’s right children, cosmic rays may have been the cause of the near crash, so be careful and wear your tinfoil hats whenever you go outside to play.

I’ll wager the folks at Toyota are pissed because they didn’t think of this first.

From The Sun:
Security guard John Laker, 25, took a photo of Margetson’s breasts when she mistakenly walked into the X-ray machine, which makes “nude” images of passengers to find hidden weapons.

The Sun: An airport security worker plans to sue her bosses after a colleague leered at her “naked” image in an anti-terror body scanner.

Jo Margetson, 29, spent yesterday in crisis talks with Heathrow owner BAA.

She has consulted lawyers at civil rights group Liberty amid claims her privacy and human rights were breached. She could be entitled to £20,000.

NSFW — For those saying these things don’t show detail here is a site that shows just how detailed these images are.

England’s Transport Secretary Lord Adonis defended the use of these scanners.

“A pat-down search is intrusive but people accept that,” he said.

“A body scanner is in the same category. Images are deleted and staff are properly trained and supervised.”

Right. If everybody is trustworthy, properly trained and supervised, how come this woman is suing?

This is the new “Ace” bus That’s designed to look and feel like a train. –It’s supposed to make people more inclined to ride the bus.
(I wonder who profited from this fiasco.)

Maybe this looks cool on paper, but the truth is that people don’t, as a general rule, voluntarily ride the bus.

I don’t care how fancy-schmancy the bus is, it still takes three or four times as long to get from the Boulder Hwy to the Strip and back as it would by car, people still have to risk running through traffic to change buses because of f***ed up scheduling, and people still have to sit or stand out in the weather waiting for the next bus.

The bottom line: A bus is just a bus. Even at almost a million dollars each, these things are just buses.

Might I suggest that the frauds at the RTC spend a month trying to run their errands, get their kids to soccer practice and get to work solely by bus.

I’m not suggesting some one day rolling press conference, where everybody knows the boss is going to be on board so the bus is clean, on time and never breaks down. But rather that they ride anonymously, like every day people just trying to get through daily life. –Of course this would never work because we all know that no one is going to allow the boss to sit in the heat or rain wondering if they are going to make it to work on time because their bus is late.

For those of you who think this is a good idea, remember that other taxpayer funded failure: The monorail. –A project that is still being defended as a potential moneymaker.

The author of Political Nevada questioned the competency of teachers in Nevada. Saying that there needs to be a proficiency test.

Here is his opening paragraph:

Everytime the results come back in a comparison study concerning the quality of education in Nevada, someone will defend the poor quality of education by saying that the lack of money for reducing the amount of students by hiring more teachers is the reason. That is not the reason, that is an excuse.

I agree that there needs to be some sort of criteria by which teachers are judged. Like the tests that were applied as part of the no child left behind project. Of course those tests are now being thrown out because of the high failure rate, and you can rest assured that the teacher’s union would find a way to strong arm our elected officials into throwing out any tests that reflected badly on their members.

Perhaps suggesting some sort of proficiency testing is just shouting into the wind, but something needs to be done.

We have classes that are being taught primarily in Spanish with just a few English speaking students and we have classes being taught primarily in English with just a few Spanish speaking students.

Can you imagine the frustration of the teacher who has a room full of students and must now make an extra effort to redo every lesson for a few English/Spanish speakers. This situation is unfair to all parties involved, but is addressed by a principle who says “there’s nothing I can do,” or worse, a school district that says “there’s nothing we can do” because “our numbers say…”

To top it off the rules make it all but impossible for a student to transfer to another school, even if they can provide their own transportation, because the district is divided along lines on a map that are apparently chiseled in stone.

The problem isn’t that we must educate the children of people who are here illegally, any more than the solution to improved education in primarily minority schools was to bus students across town based on skin color. The problem is a system that is driven by numbers, with no room for common sense or caring in the slightest for an individual child’s welfare.

This situation exists because numbers are easy to manipulate, and most so called educators in upper management are not educators but political creatures who got where they are based on a college degree and a better than average line of bullshit, who are hired by politicians to shuffle things around, making certain not to disturb the underlying policies, touting whatever minor changes they make as great improvements. Then when the situation becomes untenable, they take the fall, so that the politicians never need to take the blame for their own failures.

Once again we are back to the politicians. they are the ones who have the final authority, but would rather spend money on beautifying a school or building a new building, than facing up to their responsibilities and fixing the problem. –Which is a lack of basic education across the board.

A final thought: Why is it that the European and Japanese education systems consistently turn out students who’s test scores surpass those of the US?

This is the line outside the Sahara Ave office of the Nevada DMV on Thursday morning.

After a two hour wait outside, this is the line to get a number, to get in line, inside the DMV

I know the valley is growing, but the DMV isn’t keeping up.

In fact most of the Government agencies a civilian must deal with, ranging from the DMV to the Nevada Division of Welfare to UMC are overloaded past the breaking point.

Some, but not all, of this would be eliminated if we would reserve all services for legal residents only, but we all know that as long as illegals provide cheap labor, that’s just not going to happen.

Besides, the cold hard facts in the matter are that we simply have more people than the system can handle. And rather than give up the sweetheart deals with various industries -gaming and mining come to mind- and raise their taxes, our elected officials sit on their butts doing nothing, while the state’s infrastructure crumbles.

As the saying goes: Money talks, and nowhere does it talk louder than in Carson City.