Obama’s Terrorist Pal Bill Ayers & Top Bundler Jodie Evans

◼ Figures. Obama’s Terrorist Pal Bill Ayers & Top Bundler Jodie Evans Are Top Activists With Gaza Flotilla Group

A little fun

◼ First...http://www.papyruswatch.com/
◼ http://www.penisland.net/
Ok, I assure you, this is NOT a link to Penis Land. Just click it.

LOL

Sweet: Census workers report being hired and fired repeatedly to inflate official employment numbers

◼ Census employees are hired, fired, then hired again to exploit a loophole in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' methodology: it counts every job offer of one hour or more over the course of a single month. And double- and triple-counting is perfectly legit in the BLS formulations.

More and more and more and more jobs - SAVED OR CREATED. Har har har

The garden path

◼ Radioactive fish near Vt. nuke plant deemed common

If you're feeling compelled to go for nuclear power because of global warming - do you feel better knowing that the theory of global warming, now being debunked pretty thoroughly, might mean it isn't as critical? Why have people let themselves be led so far down the garden path on this issue?

Sign the Petition

Please sign this online petition contesting the proposed California law to ban open carry of unloaded firearms:
◼ http://www.petitiononline.com/CalOC/petition.htm
h/t: Fred

SoHumBorn Sunday: The Ride (Part 4 &5)

◼ SoHumBorn Sunday: The Ride (Part 4 &5)
...They park in Willits and get papers after showing their I.D. They spend a little time looking at pipes and clothes then get back on the road.

Once they’re south of Willits, Kaitlin once again pulls out the little bag of buds.

“Want me to twist?” KC offers.

“Sure.” She passes the bag to him and he begins breaking it up on a CD case as they drive along.

They are still making fun of the gas station woman when Emily glances in her rearview mirror. Her stomach tightens at the sight of the black and white.

“5-0 Kaitlin! Put that shit away.” She whisper as though he might hear her.

KC wads everything up in the zip lock and quickly tucks it in his sock.

The CHP car slides up beside them as Emily steadfastly looks straight ahead.

Under her breath Kaitlin is chanting

“Please, please, please, please….”

He doesn’t pass them. Instead he drops back and pulls in behind the truck

pt.5

She knows it’s coming, but when the lights come on she feels a wave of nausea.

“Oh shit…” read the rest

If you've missed the rest of the series: @ RedHeadedBlackbelt
◼ First: Growing Up in SoHum
◼ Second: Cheap Lesson
◼ Third: SoHumBorn Sunday: ToothFairy
◼ Fourth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Unexpected Company
◼ Fifth: Other End Of The Line (pt. 2 of unexpected company)
◼ Sixth: Bear Harbor
◼ Seventh: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 1)
◼ Eighth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 2)
◼ Ninth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Conclusion)
◼ Tenth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Tidy Bowl
◼ Eleventh: SoHumBorn Sunday:The Ride Part 1-3
◼ Twelfth: SoHumBorn Sunday: The Ride (Part 4 &5)

Kinetic time

◼ Arcata Eye Featured Photo
◼ site



◼ The 2010 Rutabaga Ball
Somehow this Bohemian alt. veggie rose to royalty level in association with the Kinetic Sculpture Race. Why? An educated guess says that Glorious Founder Hobart Brown found it appropriately incongruous and liked the sound of the word. One way or another the Rutabaga Ball became an annual precursor to the Race itself, a party where among other things the next Rutabaga Queen is chosen.

If you’ve followed Kinetic doings in recent years, you know that even before the passing of the Glorious Founder (Hobart died in 2007) the status and duties of Kinetic Rutabaga Queens expanded above the ceremonial.

2nd Iceland volcano issues warning

◼ Scientists say powerful Katla is ‘close to failure’

Is it failure if a volcano's job is to erupt?

Anyway - flashback - So, the ice is melting? Is it that SUV you're driving? Or is it earth's magma?
...another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice.

They have found at least one “hotspot” in the northeast corner of Greenland -- just below a site where an ice stream was recently discovered.

The researchers don't yet know how warm the hotspot is. But if it is warm enough to melt the ice above it even a little, it could be lubricating the base of the ice sheet and enabling the ice to slide more rapidly out to sea....

These two sorta go together in a kind of "Inconvenient Truth."

Conservatives got this point—they know it without being told—but liberals and progressives did not.

◼ And now we have a videotape metaphor for all the public's fears: that clip we see every day, on every news show, of the well gushing black oil into the Gulf of Mexico and toward our shore. You actually don't get deadlier as a metaphor for the moment than that, the monster that lives deep beneath the sea. ... He wanted people to associate the disaster with BP and not him. ... ronically enough, of a hard core of truth within their own philosophy: When you ask a government far away in Washington to handle everything, it will handle nothing well.

Peggy Noonan has emerged from the kool-aid stupor.

Something to try

◼ mushroom crêpe cake
◼ lime yogurt cake with blackberry sauce

Smitten Kitchen

one race, human

◼ Mud glorious mud - Thousands of tourists flock to South Korean town for the world's dirtiest festival

“idiotic cerebral meritocracy,”

◼ "Chris, I appreciate you being agitated. I wish more people were agitated like you are."

Nanny World

◼ Nanny State goes global
What’s next, a medal for soldiers who stop smoking, swear off alcohol, quit cussing, or lose 10 pounds? And what might such a medal look like? I suspect it would be cast of lightweight tin in the shape of a pansy.

Once exuding great promise, narcissistic baby-boomers are becoming the scourge of the world.

-22

◼ The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22.

More 1984 moments

remember the staged press conferences where the White House hands out the white lab coats to the Doctors? Time after time after time we are seeing these plants and stagings - and the media either never looks or is complicit. Here's another one: (and Kudos to Yid With Lid, who IS on it)

◼ Media Hides Fact Police Chiefs Meeting Holder About AZ Immigration Are Members of Pro-Immigration Group
At first glance it seems like a perfectly normal news story, but there is one item these news organizations are leaving out, each one of the meeting attendees are members of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) a "national organization of progressive police executives."

PERF is a national organization of progressive police executives from the largest city, county and state law enforcement agencies. PERF defines racially biased policing as “inappropriate consideration by law enforcement of race / ethnicity in deciding with whom and how to interview in an enforcement capacity.” PERF works with a diverse group of law enforcement officials, community activists, civil rights leaders and academics to set their standards and policies. These include the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, ACLU of Maryland, International Union of Police Associations, Union Baptist Church, and numerous law enforcement executives, partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program.

This group is not just against the Arizona law, it is against any enforcement of immigration laws. For example, last July the group protested the FEDERAL program getting local Police Deparments involved in enforcing immigration law:

SHAME ON YOU BARACK OBAMA!

A Slight Case of Mistaken Identity

Not sure what happened to "Fact Check Your Ass" - but our favorite blogger is off the deep end again:
◼ A Slight Case of Mistaken Identity
...Not that I mind a slight case of mistaken identity now and then, but I get kind of unreasonable when a leftist droid at Live Leak and fellow cronies at Little Green Footballs post my blog URL at The Millstone Diaries identifying me as the alleged cop killer Jerry R. Kane.

Late Friday and early Saturday morning, I began receiving death-threat comments on my about page condemning me to the nether regions of Hell. Although I was grateful for the attention, I wondered what I could have written that created such a stir and what the devil it was all about....

Oh well, at least he didn't link to somebody who linked to somebody who linked to somebody...
h/t: Ivy

Great Humboldt County reads

◼ SFGate's Jon Carroll mentions Arcata Eye owner/publisher/editor Kevin Hoover and his highly entertaining Police Logs:

"Thursday, April 15 9:21 a.m. A TransAm's inherent awesomeness was kicked up a significant notch with an impressive burnout demonstration (a symbolic representation of the young buffoon's ever-so-agile sperm motility, though he likely wasn't thinking about that, or much else) at Sunset and Western avenues. But the display of reproductive prowess took a humiliating plummet when the mouth-breathermobile slammed into a fire hydrant, unleashing a prematurely orgasmic fountain of wa-wa. As the dethroned cock-o'-the-block scurried away like a scared kitten in his crumpled chariot, an angered neighbor phoned police with a profanity-peppered report of the incident. As emergency forces sped to the scene, police handily located the slammed TransAm going nowhere fast on Boyd Road. Burnout Boy was returned to the scene to face the music, which took the form of police radios and a witness saying something along the lines of, 'Yeah, that's him.' The on-call Public Works tech responded and turned off the water.

"12:36 a.m. The testosterone cascade continued on Tavern Row, where a small but moronic menagerie of menfolk argued, then found common ground on one point - they should go into the alley out back, which is one of the few places left that doesn't have cameras trained on it (or so they believed), and fight. For whatever reason (possibly the irresistible allure of boiling grease, the aroma of which spans all races, creeds and belief systems as a sort of universal language of acrid stenches) the battling boyos' slugfest migrated to the donut shop alley, attracting yet more combatants. A woman told police she didn't feel safe in the area, so officers responded and arrived seven minutes later. But attention spans being what they are these days, hostilities had trailed off by then. Needless to say, donut production continued unhindered."

Kevin Hoover's Police Logs are ◼ a MUST READ
- and they've been assembled into two books:
◼ Kevin Hoover’s acclaimed Police Log books
The Police Log: True Crime & More from Arcata, California
The Police Log II: The Nimrod Imbroglios

Another great local read:
◼ Cab 10: The West Coast cabbie
Randy Collenberg was born and raised in Arcata, California. A dairyman for 25 years, he was offered a career change when he was offered a job as a cab driver. After a few months on the road, with an ever-growing number of anecdotes under his belt, someone suggested that he write a newspaper column. He did, and it was a instant hit. CAB 10, The West Coast Cabbie is a collection of his most popular columns. Great stuff about his cab fares and his experiences with them! Lots of oddballs that he dealt with in his cab!

No sh-t!? Bad news! Really bad news.

◼ Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer
WASHINGTON (May 24) -- Almost half of the 500 most popular sunscreen products may actually increase the speed at which malignant cells develop and spread skin cancer because they contain vitamin A or its derivatives, according to an evaluation of those products released today.

AOL News also has learned through documents and interviews that the Food and Drug Administration has known of the potential danger for as long as a decade without alerting the public, which the FDA denies.

SoHumBorn Sunday:The Ride Part 1-3

◼ SoHumBorn Sunday:The Ride Part 1-3
...She wasn’t asking for a BMW, (though that would be cool) or even a brand new car. Just a cute little Honda. Something she could pimp out with some tight wheels and a stereo.

She spent an entire year begging, badgering, and browbeating them. Finally they relented, sort of.

Her dad said she should work for what she wanted, and had given her one of his old patches. It was just four holes, on the south slope across the creek. They would give her the starts and amendments, but she would have to take care of it all Summer long. No trips up to Ruth Lake, or out to The Cove for a weekend.

Then… If she doesn’t kill it. If the rats don’t chew it down. If the deer don’t eat it, and Jah willing, CAMP lets her keep it. She might make enough for that little car she wants so badly.

Her mom didn’t really like the plan. She gave in though, hoping that it would keep her out of trouble until she left for school in Santa Cruz that winter, and with the thought that the hard work involved would inspire her to take college seriously, and do something real with her life.

Emily had surprised everyone, she had thrown herself into the little garden project with enthusiasm. She’d asked her best friend Kaitlin to help her, and Kaitlin had agreed, in return for a twenty five percent share of the crop. Emily knew it wouldn’t be any fun alone, and giving Kaitlin one plant was well worth the help.... Read the rest

If you've missed the rest of the series: @ RedHeadedBlackbelt
◼ First: Growing Up in SoHum
◼ Second: Cheap Lesson
◼ Third: SoHumBorn Sunday: ToothFairy
◼ Fourth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Unexpected Company
◼ Fifth: Other End Of The Line (pt. 2 of unexpected company)
◼ Sixth: Bear Harbor
◼ Seventh: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 1)
◼ Eighth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 2)
◼ Ninth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Conclusion)
◼ Tenth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Tidy Bowl
◼ Eleventh: SoHumBorn Sunday:The Ride Part 1-3

$23.00 Job Feds Won't Do Women's Tank Top

◼ at Cafe Press h/t: Kirly

"Please donate $5 or more today:"

◼ Latest Obama Email: They Backed Down
Why do we have to send money to get legislation passed?
And isn’t Mr. Obama President of everyone in the country? Even bankers? Even so-called ‘special interests’?
Has there ever been a President with so many ‘evil enemies’ – among the American people?

I've been asking the same thing. He sends his goons out on "rich-hunts" - stakes out execs houses, anyone who dares question him is called a Nazi, and his Homeland Security focuses more attention on little old ladies than on terrorists.

R win in Hawaii despite the DCCC's $300,000 in attack ads against Djou

◼ Djou wins U.S. House seat
◼ Hope & Change Ripples Across the Pacific: Republican Wins ‘Obama’s Hometown’ for First Time in 20 Years

Althouse busts the Washington Post.

◼ If you're going to criticize the new social studies curriculum adopted by the Texas Board of Education, you'd better quote it. - Althouse busts the Washington Post. She says "Virtually everything cited in the article to make the curriculum seem controversial is misstated! Appalling!"

The WaPo article in question: ◼ Texas board approves social studies standards that perceived liberal bias

SoHumBorn Sunday: Tidy Bowl

I missed posting this last Sunday

◼ SoHumBorn Sunday: Tidy Bowl

The house was clean. That was a pleasant surprise. her brother was not known for his housekeeping skills, or any skills for that matter.

He was in fact a loser. When her husband gave him this job she knew she’d be the middle of a bad situation, but he’s family. What are you gong to do?

They had made every thing as idiot proof as possible. All he had to do was water, feed and make sure the place didn’t burn down. He didn’t even have to change the oil or pump fuel anymore. After the last fiasco he’d been banned from the generator shed and another man had been hired to handle those chores.

The house had once been home to a family. Little remnants of it’s past life linger. A little piece of crayon art in one of the upstairs windows. A child’s plastic bike in the front yard. Magnetic alphabet letters left on the front of the refrigerator.

Those days are over.

the upstairs has been gutted and is now brightly lit. Wooden beds filled with soil cover nearly every part of the floor the slim walkways are lined with hoses and fans are mounted along the walls it bears no resemblance to it’s past life.... read the rest

If you've missed the rest of the series: @ RedHeadedBlackbelt
◼ First: Growing Up in SoHum
◼ Second: Cheap Lesson
◼ Third: SoHumBorn Sunday: ToothFairy
◼ Fourth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Unexpected Company
◼ Fifth: Other End Of The Line (pt. 2 of unexpected company)
◼ Sixth: Bear Harbor
◼ Seventh: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 1)
◼ Eighth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 2)
◼ Ninth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Conclusion)
◼ Tenth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Tidy Bowl

Do you find this to be true?

◼ Happiness begins at 50 claims new research
Stress, anger and worry fade after the landmark birthday when we begin experiencing greater daily joy than younger adults, it is claimed.
Despite increased risk of death and disease, it seems that people worry less and that they ignore the negatives and accentuate the positives.

Dr Arthur Stone, a psychologist of Stony Brook University, New York, said the findings were "striking".
H/t: DT

Hypocrisy 101

◼ If You Take Your Graduate to See Obama and You Don’t Have Your Papers, You’re Going to Get Harassed
A public service announcement from the people who believe that “checking papers” is an affront to civil liberties:

The White House appears to be laying the groundwork for President Barack Obama to shake the hand of each senior at Kalamazoo Central High School’s commencement ceremony next month.

Seniors are being asked to provide their birthdates, Social Security numbers and citizen status to the Secret Service so background checks could be performed. Such a check is required for anyone who gets within an arm’s length of the president, students were told at their senior breakfast Friday.

Starting at $189,000

◼ Private Islands Online
Hey, it beats a bridge.

New Blog in the Blogroll

◼ mothersagainstdebt.com

Found it at The Scratching Post: ◼ Mothers Against Debt - with their new video. Nice find, KT.

This week Spain decided it wasn't going to be the next Greece.

◼ It launched tough fiscal measures, and pitched "green" programs and public union raises over the side. Seems there are some lessons here.

To complete our journey into national poverty, it’s essential to give another Congress, and presidential term, to those who tell us we’re not capable

of managing our business affairs, speech, and personal health. We must accept the proposition that freedom is such a failure that even thinking about it is sinful. There are no possible solutions to our problems, beyond those officially approved by the great minds in Washington, who are only interested in policing only one border: the limits of their imagination.

◼ How To Be Poor

...Obedience is the perfect ingredient to complete the recipe of poverty, after risk and innovation have been filtered out. History has shown us many wonders, but there has never been such a thing as a wealthy slave. If we surrender another decade to politicians who spend delusional amounts of imaginary money, demand rigid control of our markets, and replace voluntary cooperation for mutual advantage with compulsory obedience to the State, America can finally become poor.

"I love when people say they don't want to have argument."

"That's what we were sent here for."

Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his 'confrontational tone'

◼ Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his 'confrontational tone'
"They believe in certain things. They believe in bigger government, higher taxes and more spending...

I believe in less government and lower taxes and in empowering local officials who ere elected by their citizens to be be to fix their problems.

That may lead to a disagreement or two. Now I could say it really nicely. I could say it in the way that you all might be more comfortable with... I came here to govern, not to worry about reelection."

◼ (along came) Governor Christopher J. Christie! Check out the INCREDIBLE (and entertaining) exchange he had with Moran at yesterday's "33 bills" press conference. When was the last time we saw a Republican elected official display this much backbone with the media...

A Hidden History of Evil -

◼ Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?
h/t ORD

trouble for plagiarism

◼ Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud
Had they been a couple of untenured white guys, Summers and Kagan would have promptly ground them into hamburger, but these two were sacred cows.... Ogletree was a black star on a faculty often criticized for being overly white; even more problematic, Tribe was the superstar of the judicial left....

Not surprisingly, Summers and Kagan concluded of Tribe's transgression that it had happened twenty years earlier, that it was the "product of inadvertence," and they now "consider the matter closed." Writes Velvel of their conclusion, "it is a travesty. Its language is misleading, its logic miserable, and its spirit corrupt."...

What can you say?

◼ LSD Tripper Amputates, Flushes Monster-Containing Testicles - Arcata Eye

On April 18, officers responded to a residence to assist the Arcata Mad River Ambulance with a 31-year-old male subject who had just castrated himself. Medical personnel and officers were unable to locate the subject’s testicles. He later told officers that he flushed them down the toilet as he feared they contained “monsters.”

One in a rash of LSD incidents.

From the Mailbox: "These are your testicles. These are your testicles on drugs. Any questions?"

Nine people indicted for something he should have opened up willingly.

◼ 9 indicted on charges of accessing Obama records

This hiding the record is really absurd. Grades, papers - people have a right to know. And they should not be reduced to committing crimes to know it.

Civil And Criminal Probes Launched Against JP Morgan For Silver Market Manipulation

◼
Federal agents have launched parallel criminal and civil probes of JPMorgan Chase and its trading activity in the precious metals market, The Post has learned.

The probes are centering on whether or not JPMorgan, a top derivatives holder in precious metals, acted improperly to DEPRESS the price of silver, sources said.

"We're now dealing with international terrorism."

No shit, Sherlock?
◼ Obama wakes up - New York Post
the administration's biggest policy reversal to date came from Holder, the longtime advocate of terrorist "rights," who offered one of the most belated acknowledgments in history when he told a TV network, "We're now dealing with international terrorism."

Holder, of all people, now wants Congress to change the rules for Miranda rights, giving the government more time under a "public-safety exception" to permit extended questioning of terrorist suspects before arming them with lawyers.

And there wasn't a single mention of "man-caused disasters" this time around. Every administration point person talked "terrorism." Next thing you know, somebody in the White House will use the term "Islamist terrorist."
◼ at Lucianne

SoHumBorn Sunday: Unexpected Conclusion

◼ SoHumBorn Sunday: Unexpected Conclusion

...They were sitting at the table directly behind me. The two boys (probably technically young men) in that booth were so true to the stereotype, that they were very nearly, a satire of themselves. White ball caps 6017-dolce-gabbana-sunglasseswith gold graphics turned sideways snugly encasing each of their craniums. The shorter one had a large diamond stud in one ear, giving me an out of place flash back to some football star’s post game interview. The over sized pants riding mid rump gave them the distinct penguin like walk that, combined with the right brand hoodie and T-shirt spells out to the rest of us who they are. They wore the uniform with pride. Humboldt’s League of Young Dope Growers....

If you've missed the others in the series: @ RedHeadedBlackbelt
◼ First: Growing Up in SoHum
◼ Second: Cheap Lesson
◼ Third: SoHumBorn Sunday: ToothFairy
◼ Fourth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Unexpected Company
◼ Fifth: Other End Of The Line (pt. 2 of unexpected company)
◼ Sixth: Bear Harbor
◼ Seventh: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 1)
◼ Eighth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 2)
◼ Ninth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Conclusion)
◼ Tenth SoHumBorn Sunday: Unexpected Conclusion

Toldja

◼ Big firms find ending health insurance and paying fines may be cheaper
As companies crunch numbers on what the new law means for their bottom line, some have concluded they might be financially better off canceling their health care coverage and moving their workers to government-subsidized "exchanges" that will be created in four years.

In the case of Dallas-based AT&T Inc., the move could mean saving billions of dollars per year, according to internal documents that came to light this week.

....four companies – AT&T, Verizon Communications Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Deere & Co. – had investigated to varying degrees the impact of dropping health care coverage and pushing their workers onto the new exchanges, where they will be able to buy their own insurance.
◼ at Lucianne

Quote for the day...

"I am going to apply to the gov't for funding for a research project that they really need. I want to invent a printer that can actually print money as fast as they spend it." quoting MSM

Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees

◼ Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees
the administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus.

"They said if we tried to go back to class with our shirts not taken off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended," Dominic Maciel, Galli's friend, said. via drudge

The state of Pennsylvania publicly advertised his debt, revealed personal information to a third party and made some very thinly veiled threats

tactics that debt collectors have been barred from using for over 30 years now via the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act of 1978.

Big brother is here.
◼ Pennsylvania Outsleazes the Bill Collector - from RedState

$12 Cup Of Coffee Comes To New York

◼ How much are you willing to pay for a cup of joe?

A gourmet coffee chain is betting you'll pay up to $12 for a fine brew.

Cafe Grumpy has Brooklyn locations in Greenpoint and Park Slope. It also has a Manhattan location in Chelsea.

It is part of a small, but growing, movement of coffee shops roasting their own beans.

The company defends the steep prices, saying they are higher end coffees and take much longer to develop and process. via drudge

With the proliferation of coffee places; Starbucks, independents, little drive thrus, you have to wonder at what point they price themselves out of business. Three bucks didn't do it, four seems to have had an effect - twelve? I think we're seeing the end of the run.

Seawitch (1977) is somehow timely

◼ a novel written by the Scottish author Alistair MacLean
Lord Worth, ruthless and fabulously wealthy, has made a lot of enemies in the oil business. His new offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, named Seawitch, is one of the biggest in the world, and will put his competitors out of business. To destroy it and therefore be able to inflate the price of oil at will, the competitors get together and send one man to deal with Lord Worth...

And so it begins

◼ TERROR IN TIMES SQUARE: EVACUATION DUE TO CAR BOMB, FAILS TO DETONATE NEAR COMEDY CENTRAL
◼ NYC TIMES SQUARE TERROR CAR BOMB "VERY DEADLY"
◼ Times Square car bomb: Alert street vendor summoned police over smoking SUV
◼ Police investigating connection to South Park in Times Square bomb attempt
"3 cops, street vendor stop Times Square car bomb from detonating; Gas, clock found inside car," by Allison Gendar, Rocco Parascandola, Kevin Deutsch, and Samuel Goldsmith for the New York Daily News, May 2:

Three heroic cops and a quick-thinking street vendor stopped a madman from detonating a car bomb in the heart of Times Square Saturday night, law enforcement officials told the Daily News.
The T-shirt vendor - a Vietnam vet - told Officer Wayne Rhatigan there was smoke coming from a Nissan SUV on the southwest corner of 45th St. and Broadway about 7 p.m., sources said.
Rhatigan approached the car, saw the smoke, and sprang into action.
"I did a lap around the vehicle. The inside was smoking," Rhatigan told the Daily News Saturday night. "I smelled gunpowder and knew it might blow. I thought it might blow any second."
He grabbed two rookie female cops patrolling the area. Together, they pushed hundreds of people away from the scene as they called for backup, he said.
The Fire Department and bomb squad rushed to the scene.
What they found was stunning: a running SUV packed with three propane tanks, two red 5-gallon plastic jugs of gasoline, a clock, electrical components and a canister of gunpowder, police sources said....

SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Conclusion)

◼ SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Conclusion)
Stan has had first responder training and tilts his head in an effort to clear an airway. The unexpected result is a slight crunching sound and a pathetic bubbling moan.

“Oh God! Ohhh God! His neck is crushed man!” Stan looks at Eric “We gotta get him to the hospital.”

Eric stands and kicks the couch hard. “Shit!” Every bad thing that’s going to come of this is clear as day. The cops are going arrest the boy for this and once they get here and find the grow, probably put the others with social services.

They’re going to want to talk to every one, be out here askin’ all kinds of questions. No time to get a story straight… and all those damn women! They’ll talk, not to the cops, but it’ll be a cluster fuck, sure enough. ”Fuck!”

The other men are all running similar scenarios in their minds. Wondering what kind of hell this is going to bring.

“Dad?” Jamie has been standing quietly watching the faces of the men he’s known his whole life.

Looking at his son he wishes he hadn’t brought him this day. Hell, he wishes he worked at a gas station, lived in a trailer park, and none of this had ever happened.

“Get him in the truck. I’ll take him to the hospital. The rest of you guys go home. You were never here.”

If you've missed them: @ RedHeadedBlackbelt
◼ First: Growing Up in SoHum
◼ Second: Cheap Lesson
◼ Third: SoHumBorn Sunday: ToothFairy
◼ Fourth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Unexpected Company
◼ Fifth: Other End Of The Line (pt. 2 of unexpected company)
◼ Sixth: Bear Harbor
◼ Seventh: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 1)
◼ Eighth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Part 2)
◼ Ninth: SoHumBorn Sunday: Weathering The Storm (Conclusion)

Does your blackberry accidentally make calls?

man, those things are dangerous.

h/t: PD

Radio killed the video star

And the economy killed Michelle Obama's fashion designer.

KIlled her business. See, she didn't cater to the homeless. She catered to the people who 'make too much.' And there aren't enough of them around anymore. The ones that are left are looking at crushing new taxes, regulations and fees. There just isn't room to buy wares from a talented up and coming designer.

◼ Maria Pinto - folding her fashion business