Australia is sending aircraft to check out floating objects in the Indian Ocean spotted by satellite imagery that may be “plane parts.”[...]
Archive for March 19th, 2014
March 19th, 2014 - 7:21 pm § in Uncategorized
Sen. Rand Paul Compares GOP To Bad Pizza Crust
“(CNN) – Rand Paul put a new spin on a familiar refrain that the Republican Party needs to broaden its base. He compared the GOP’s need for change to a recent Domino’s Pizza’s campaign to improve its crust. ‘Remember when Domino’s finally admitted they had bad cru[...]
March 19th, 2014 - 7:00 pm § in Uncategorized
The Late Ray Jasper Deserves Only Crocodile Tears
Roger Rabbit “I’m on death row and yet I didn’t commit the act of murder. I was convicted under the law of parties. When people read about the case, they assume I killed the victim, but the facts are undisputed that I did not kill the victim. The one who killed him plead guilty to […][...]
March 19th, 2014 - 6:04 pm § in Misc.
The Doctor And The Lawyer
Spoiler alert: This hoary joke has circulated for many years, so you’ve probably heard it before, and some people think it’s not even funny but that’s their problem. Due to an airline reservation glitch, a doctor and a lawyer were seated together in first class. There was nothing t[...]
March 19th, 2014 - 12:22 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Photograpy by The Scot: Street Chess
Street chess, that institution of young, old, rich and poor cerebrally duking it out over a checkered board in the open air, thrives downtown in nearly every big city of America – but recently, that wasn’t quite the case in San Francisco. For more than 30 years, chess has been a permanen[...]
March 19th, 2014 - 3:08 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 26: Jews still segregated after Buchenwald liberated
Today is one month before April 19, 1945, 11 days after my father entered Buchenwald to give medical care. The camp had already been liberated by communist political prisoners before any allied forces arrived. Even after the camp was officially liberated by US forces, Jews were still segregat[...]
March 19th, 2014 - 3:02 am § in The Ave Scene
Can Hillary’s 08 Campaign Manager Screw Up Microsoft?
A source close to Microsoft reports that “Mark Penn is NOT departing Microsoft.” Who is Mark Penn? He was the ultimate political operative during the Clinton years before he managed to bungle Hillary’s campaign for President. David Korn reports at Mother Jones that Hillary’s su[...]
March 19th, 2014 - 12:47 am § in Hypocrisy
Honoring Citizen Hitler
Last year the Bavarian town of Dietramszell, rejected a vote to strip Adolph Hitler of his citizenship. Bavaria. Town archivist Agnes Wagner had found that Hitler was made an honorary citizen of the area in 1933.Mayor Leni Gröbmaier put a motion to the town council with the intent to distance the t[...]
Davey Jones: From Italy
Cagliari is in Italy, Sardinia to be exact, an intresting place, it’s been a cross roads and seaport for almost 3000 years. perhaps more, the culture is an intresting blend of North Africa and Europe, worth the time to visit. This time in though I didn’t make it ashore, DNV wanted a new [...]