Archive for April, 2008

night descends on 23rd

Published
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dave
on April 30, 2008
in photos
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night descends on 23rd

best headline evar

Published
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dave
on April 30, 2008
in Funny
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Police: Chimp stole dart gun, lunged at police officer before he was shot

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trapped

Published
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dave
on April 29, 2008
in Funny
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you may have heard of the guy who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours a few weeks ago here in new york city. now the spoofs have begin

this one had me crying

spring in the city

Published
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dave
on April 28, 2008
in photos
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spring in the city

HATs!

Published
by
dave
on April 26, 2008
in Funny and idiots
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Stolen from TSG

rocking to now

Published
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dave
on April 25, 2008
in music
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Air

freaking sweet

Published
by
dave
on April 25, 2008
in gearhead
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but scary as hell.

The Uno
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more here

living in a police state

Published
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dave
on April 24, 2008
in TEOTWAWKI and freedom
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The NYPD’s new firepower consists of cops with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Starting Thursday, five or six teams a day will patrol the major transit hubs in the city in the new program, all thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant.

“Times Square, Grand Central, Penn Station … the locations you would expect, but not only those locations. The assignments will vary and will be following no discernible pattern,” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Many straphangers were thrilled to see the city going all the way to protect its citizens.

“It’s a very good idea,” Patricia Knight Williams said. “It’s like a deterrent. It’s going to make me feel safer, much safer, yes it will. It’s a good idea.”

but Patricia seems to like it…

heh

Published
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dave
on April 24, 2008
in Funny
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so does this mean I’m affluent?

or just “OVER - OVER” represented? :-)

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this is scary

Published
by
dave
on April 24, 2008
in TEOTWAWKI and china
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the source doesn’t exactly look unimpeachable but if this is even partially true it’s pretty damn scary.


Some months ago, my contacts in the defense industry had alerted me to a startling development that has escalated to the point of near-panick in nearly all corners of Government security and IT infrastructure. The very-real concern, being investigated by the FBI, is that either the Chinese government or Chinese hackers (or both) have had the benefit of undetectable back-doors into highly secure government and military computer networks for months, perhaps years. The cause: a high-number of counterfeit Cisco routers and switches installed in nearly all government networks that experienced upgrades and/or new units within the past 18 months.

so, how much does a dead voter cost?

Published
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dave
on April 22, 2008
in TEOTWAWKI and political
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Barack Obama has been warned that his refusal to pay the traditional “street money” to local operatives to help get the vote out in Philadelphia today could cost him the crucial percentage points needed to knock Hillary Clinton out of the race for the White House.

why can’t they just bribe people with cigarettes and beer like the rest of the country?

quote of the day

Published
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dave
on April 18, 2008
in Funny and TEOTWAWKI
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This is a list of zombie films featuring zombies. This list does not include mummies or vampires.

dumping

Published
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dave
on April 16, 2008
in Funny
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What do you do if you’ve got a bunch of old subway cars you need to get rid of?

Dump them off the coast of Delaware New Jersey of course.

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that looks like fun

Published
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dave
on April 16, 2008
in cool and gearhead
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more pics here

FAIL!

Published
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dave
on April 14, 2008
in Funny and idiots
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More proof that knowing your target market is critically important.

“He was trying to sell these pieces of crack for $5 apiece to these elderly citizens and, clearly, trying to take advantage of them because he knew they received their checks on the 10th of every month,” JSO spokeswoman Melissa Bujeda said.

Or, is there a big call for crack among the elderly?

creative loafing

Published
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dave
on April 11, 2008
in cool
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step one. play this all afternoon

innnneerrrrnet

Published
by
dave
on April 10, 2008
in Funny and technology
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parents of the year

Published
by
dave
on April 10, 2008
in idiots
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Heston’s Legacy

Published
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dave
on April 7, 2008
in Things that go Boom and freedom
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Whatever his motives, whatever underpinned his passion for guns, Charlton Heston, in demanding equal treatment for blacks in the 1950s and later calling for everyone to have the right to bear arms, was a better representative of the spirit of American equality than any of those gun control campaigners who turned him into their favourite redneck whipping boy. You don’t have to be a friend of the NRA or a supporter of the senseless shootings in America’s poorer communities to oppose gun control. You just have to have some healthy trust in the American people and some healthy distrust of the American state - both qualities that liberals in America and Europe seem to lack today.

HT: alphecca

unintended consequences #78432

Published
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dave
on April 6, 2008
in TEOTWAWKI, food, freedom, idiots, political and science
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Two years ago the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation expected biofuels to help eradicate hunger and poverty for up to two billion people. Yesterday the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon raised real doubt over that policy amid signs that the world was facing its worst food crisis in a generation.

Since the FAO’s report in April 2006 tens of thousands of farmers have switched from food to fuel production to reduce US dependence on foreign oil. Spurred by generous subsidies and an EU commitment to increase the use of biofuels to counter climate change, at least 8m hectares (20m acres) of maize, wheat, soya and other crops which once provided animal feed and food have been taken out of production in the US.

Seems to me that every time the .gov gets involved in something it turns to sh*t.

Thanks to bio-fuel subsidies the price of my bagel keeps going up how much does that suck?