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Posted by Bigfoot on November 19th, 2008
An ultimate frisbee team in Staffordshire, UK is told to change their name, because it might (gasp!) offend someone.
An elderly blind woman faces a lein on her property, for an unpaid utility bill – of one cent. Do you think that someone in the city government might realize that going after their one cent might just cost more than one cent? Nope, not in Taxachusetts.
A man in Lewiston, Maine loses 140 pounds, in an effort of join the Marines. Now that’s what I call dedication. I already feel sorry for the bad guys who might cross his path.
The mayor of Baghdad has proposed a metro rail system. Naturally, I blame George Bush.
Somali pirates, a day after seizing a Saudi Arabian oil tanker, seize an Iranian grain ship. I’d say it’s time for some historical research on an earlier bunch of pirates.
Investor’s Business Daily has an idea for bailing out the Big Three U.S. automakers, which would involve chapter 11-style restructuring. Credit goes to former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. On the other hand, Mitt Romney says let them go bankrupt.
Thomas Sowell and Michelle Malkin give their reactions to the post-proposition 8 violence by its opponents.
(H/T for IBD’s editorial and the pirates story goes to Blogs For Victory.)
UPDATE: Former city councilor pays off the above-mentioned one-cent debt.
November 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
You do know I require payment when anyone mentions pirate’s, right?
November 19th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I’m not sure, William. You might have to fight it out with Gilbert & Sullivan. http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/html/index.html If you’d like to try your hand at singing, I can play the piano accompaniment to When The Foeman Bares His Steel, Modern Major General and With Catlike Tread.
November 19th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
why wouldn’t they go after a blind women, they are robbing us all blind.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
They owe me retroactive pay too, Bigfoot! :)
November 20th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
BWAHAHAH PIRATE PIRATE PIRATE
There. Bite me. No, make that pirATE me.