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Or actually, a lot of tanks. More precisely, about 200 Russian T-72 and T-80 tanks apparently abandoned in a forest near Yekaterinburg.

“There are tanks all over the forest, abandoned,” an unnamed reporter on the video says. “If you need one, come and get it.”

On the other hand, at least one person says that they are not abandoned.

A military spokesman claimed the tanks were in fact being guarded by special patrols and were in the process of being dispatched to a military base. But military prosecutors appeared sceptical about his claims and opened an official investigation.

So, are they abandoned or not? Seems like it might depend on whom you talk to. But if they are, I have another question. Can we bring one back for Michael Dukakis?

He’s the same guy who destroys Lucas’s “Star Wars : A Phantom Menace” for over 70 minutes, it is in 7 parts. You should probably go watch it and you’ll get some of the humor he throws in at times in this review.

Pretty much sums up the movie:

My own take. Amazing visuals, especially in 3D. Storyline… weak.

I may be crazy, but I think these two guys resemble each other just a bit. Or maybe just like buying their glasses at the same place.
Domestic American terrorist Williams Ayers…

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Ohfercryinoutloud.

Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work.
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The Patrick administration decided last month to funnel an additional $30,000 to the nearly $400,000 annual car ownership program.
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The program, which started in 2006, distributes cars donated by non-profit charities such as Good News Garage, a Lutheran charity, which also does the repair work on the car and bills the state.
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“Given the state’s fiscal condition, paying for AAA and auto inspection costs is outrageous,” said Senate Minority Leader Richard Tisei (R-Wakefield). “There are so many families out there trying to deal with layoffs and pay cuts. You have to wonder what the state’s priorities are at this point.”

As we just pointed out here, MA leaders are debating whether to place it’s doctors and hospitals on a budget, which would be detrimental to the people. Yet here we have an example of a total waste of money. It’s a small sum, but that 400,000 would go to one of those sick people who could use a “test” to determine whether they live, or die.

Priorities? MA? I think they’ve got a problem.

Protesting taxes gets one into all sorts of trouble up my way:

MANCHESTER – All Michael Yannetti wanted to do Monday was to protest the notion of Washington bailouts and $3.6 trillion in federal spending. So he did what thousands did across the country this week: mailed tea to their congressional representatives in protest.

Yesterday, police showed up at his door.

The green tea he had mailed to the Manchester office of Rep. Carol Shea-Porter prompted the evacuation of her office yesterday. Police and firefighters were at the downtown location for about 1 1/2 hours, securing the scene and conducting field tests for possible hazardous substances or volatile compounds.

(rolling my eyes!)

Fox News has reported about the tea protests for weeks, he said. And Yannetti received an e-mail that designated Wednesday as the day to send tea to your congressman, he said. He put the tea in an envelope with his name and return address and wrote “tea protest” on the outside, he said.

After the letter arrived at Democrat Shea-Porter’s office at 33 Lowell St., Capitol Police in Washington told the staff to call city police and firefighters.

Well, Carol Shea-Porter doesn’t watch FOX news obviously. She should. Look at the waste of resources and money this caused.

Manchester Fire Lt. Paul Smith said emergency responders quickly identified the substance as tea or tobacco. But they tested the material to be sure.

Green tea? Substance? What the hell did they think it was?

Meanwhile, Manchester police asked Pelham police to visit Yannetti, who identified the substance as green tea, said Manchester police Sgt. Todd Boucher. Yannetti said he sent similar letters to the three other members of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation.

Police and fire units had left by about 3:30 p.m.

“It didn’t shut down commerce on the street or anything,” Smith said.

Boucher said a U.S. postal inspector has asked for a copy of the report.

Since when does green beany like “substance” warrant a Homeland Security like take down? fercryinoutload? When it’s about a tax protest…that’s when.

“Realistically, I don’t think there will be any charges coming from us,” Boucher said, noting that nothing was secretive about the letter.

I sure hope not. And please don’t try to justify this with excuses of the potential “dangerous” material possibility. At worst the tea could be mistaken for pot. At best, people KNEW exactly what it was.

Remember a few months back, when Mary Katharine Ham produced a video with the song Obama On Your Shoulder, in which a doll-sized figure of Teh One turned up when she did something that he would not approve of? Well now, the Obama doll has become reality, thanks to Gamu Toys of Japan. (Warning: The Gamu page will give you a dialogue box asking if you want to download Japanese characters. Just hit “Cancel” if you don’t want them.) I’m sure that Obama (both the American president and the Japanese city) will be delighted.

I have long been familiar with the Darwin Awards, given to people who improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it, but I only recently heard about the Stella Awards, named after Stella Liebeck, who achieved some notoriety by successfully suing McDonald’s, after burning herself with coffee purchased therefrom. From what I can tell, the Stella Awards go to whoever can do something stupid to harm themselves, but successfully sue to have the responsibility placed elsewhere.

Let’s Get This Right has the list of nominees. The first-place nominee was a woman in Oklahoma named Mrs. Merv Grazinski.
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A friend sent me some links to WP Theme designers who have developed “OBAMA” themes.
fercryinoutload. This is one of several. (SOURCE- in case YOU just have to dress your blog with the Bambi brand of Hope-N-Change.)

So I keep messing with different themes here, trying to find the perfect boringly boring black and white look…the other theme was great until I broke it beyond repair. I re-installed it and broke it again so I ditched it. THIS one is pretty simple and so far it’s easy to adjust.

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Kat tagged me with teh latest viral infection meme cross spreading the internets… which she got from Cao…who got if from…oh nevermind go read for yourself, :mrgreen:

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