[News] Chuck’s Links for Tuesday, April 14, 2009
How did those SEAL snipers get clean shots in turbulent waters? The professional artillery devices to gauge variables of wind, humidity, etc., run $2k-$7k, but (seriously) there's an iPhone app for $12, and you can hook it up to your rifle with about $90 worth of hardware. StrategyPage.com
Carl Spackler Lives: Spokane, Wash., plans to detonate ground squirrels. KOMO-TV (Seattle)
To show how tough Russians are, it says here that this guy has a twig growing inside his lung. Novosti (Russian News and Information Agency)
His main problem? "I tried to find someone who would love me for me," Thomas Frazier told the judge at his child-support hearing (14 kids by 13 mothers, $530k in arrears). Flint Journal (Flint, Mich.)
She was just 10 yrs old when she was killed, but she liked to drive that all-terrain vehicle, even on the terrain of U.S. 65 near Sedalia, Mo., right into the path of a pickup truck (against whose driver no charges were filed) so naturally the girl's parents are suing the guy. Associated Press via Columbia Missourian
Already feeling no pain, two Australians decide to swim for more beer across a waterway known for its crocodile population . . .. Australian Broadcasting Corp. News
An Austrian architect said he wanted to see what it was like to be surrounded by blue and so painted his house inside and out with a particularly ugly shade of blue. The Sun (London) [Of course there's a photo!]
What recession? A Texas man shelled out $1,500 to own the molds that an oral surgeon made of the upper and lower teeth of . . Tiny Tim. Eagle-Tribune (North Andover, Mass.)
Well, this recession: A Wisconsin health-care provider laid off 90 people (mostly admin and staff people, but it did include one operating-room nurse being escorted out of the building . . during an operation). Wisconsin State Journal
[Jury Duty] We all have needs, so it's possible that Asia Marie Howard and William Walter Stephens are guilty of a "crime against nature" (as they say in North Carolina). Gaston Gazette
Today's Newsrangers: Emory Kimbrough, Ron Crumpton, Joe Schlegel
Carl Spackler Lives: Spokane, Wash., plans to detonate ground squirrels. KOMO-TV (Seattle)
To show how tough Russians are, it says here that this guy has a twig growing inside his lung. Novosti (Russian News and Information Agency)
His main problem? "I tried to find someone who would love me for me," Thomas Frazier told the judge at his child-support hearing (14 kids by 13 mothers, $530k in arrears). Flint Journal (Flint, Mich.)
She was just 10 yrs old when she was killed, but she liked to drive that all-terrain vehicle, even on the terrain of U.S. 65 near Sedalia, Mo., right into the path of a pickup truck (against whose driver no charges were filed) so naturally the girl's parents are suing the guy. Associated Press via Columbia Missourian
Already feeling no pain, two Australians decide to swim for more beer across a waterway known for its crocodile population . . .. Australian Broadcasting Corp. News
An Austrian architect said he wanted to see what it was like to be surrounded by blue and so painted his house inside and out with a particularly ugly shade of blue. The Sun (London) [Of course there's a photo!]
What recession? A Texas man shelled out $1,500 to own the molds that an oral surgeon made of the upper and lower teeth of . . Tiny Tim. Eagle-Tribune (North Andover, Mass.)
Well, this recession: A Wisconsin health-care provider laid off 90 people (mostly admin and staff people, but it did include one operating-room nurse being escorted out of the building . . during an operation). Wisconsin State Journal
[Jury Duty] We all have needs, so it's possible that Asia Marie Howard and William Walter Stephens are guilty of a "crime against nature" (as they say in North Carolina). Gaston Gazette
Today's Newsrangers: Emory Kimbrough, Ron Crumpton, Joe Schlegel
Comments
Jury Duty - Guilty. And, I'm really glad I don't put "in NC" at the end of my name in my comments anymore. I don't want to be in the same state with these people.
Posted by Nethie on 04/14/09 at 08:02 AM
SEAL Snipers - iHit? iKill? iSniper? Can get a copyright on some of those names?
Ground Squirrels - That's humane? Uh... okay. Wait, they're not actually detonating the squirrels; they're igniting oxygen. There's a difference. The former would look hilarious in a cartoon.
Lung Twig - How did a tree being to sprout with no sunlight?
His Main Problem - was that he found too many people to love him. (Or maybe he used his Penis Power!)
Parents Of ATV Girl - They should sue themselves for negligent parenting!
Crocodile Hors D'oeuvres - I'm not surprised at this, somehow. I'd like to think they wouldn't do this sort of thing sober.
House of Blues - Jake and Elwood would not approve.
Jury Duty - Not guilty (she)! Look at him, that ravishing Casanova; she could never turn down his smoldering eyes, or fiery, passionate kisses.
Ground Squirrels - That's humane? Uh... okay. Wait, they're not actually detonating the squirrels; they're igniting oxygen. There's a difference. The former would look hilarious in a cartoon.
Lung Twig - How did a tree being to sprout with no sunlight?
His Main Problem - was that he found too many people to love him. (Or maybe he used his Penis Power!)
Parents Of ATV Girl - They should sue themselves for negligent parenting!
Crocodile Hors D'oeuvres - I'm not surprised at this, somehow. I'd like to think they wouldn't do this sort of thing sober.
House of Blues - Jake and Elwood would not approve.
Jury Duty - Not guilty (she)! Look at him, that ravishing Casanova; she could never turn down his smoldering eyes, or fiery, passionate kisses.
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 04/14/09 at 09:19 AM
House of Blues - my friend just wrote a play about a woman who had to make everything in her house blue because it calmed her mother.
Posted by Leshka on 04/14/09 at 09:34 AM
Math test:
25 y.o. woman, 83 y.o. man, $20.00 blowjob
I think they must BOTH have some serious oral skills! (His are the verbal sort, hers...)
25 y.o. woman, 83 y.o. man, $20.00 blowjob
I think they must BOTH have some serious oral skills! (His are the verbal sort, hers...)
Posted by StanFlouride on 04/14/09 at 09:40 AM
Sniper At 100yrd wind and humidity don't count for much but the moving ship vs the moving life boat vs the moving targets all add up to one GREAT job. Well done!
Carl Spackler Fine idea but save if for the 4th of July and save some money on fireworks! Ohhh, look, a red one!
BTW, if I don't miss my guess the photo is of a red squirrel that lives in a tree.
Russan Botonist Can you spell C H E R N O B Y L?
Thomas Frazier This must be the dude that got that weird chick from yesterday all fired up.
Sedalia, Mo. Gotta keep those legal fees rolling it!
Aussie's beer Never met one I didn't like and never met one that didn't have a beer in his hand. Good on ya' mate!
Blue House Damn Chuck! This is some serious art work here!
Layoffs And the reason they needed 89+ office staff? Oh, yea, gotta keep the lawyers in Armani.
Jury Duty Shame on here! Bravo for him!
Carl Spackler Fine idea but save if for the 4th of July and save some money on fireworks! Ohhh, look, a red one!
BTW, if I don't miss my guess the photo is of a red squirrel that lives in a tree.
Russan Botonist Can you spell C H E R N O B Y L?
Thomas Frazier This must be the dude that got that weird chick from yesterday all fired up.
Sedalia, Mo. Gotta keep those legal fees rolling it!
Aussie's beer Never met one I didn't like and never met one that didn't have a beer in his hand. Good on ya' mate!
Blue House Damn Chuck! This is some serious art work here!
Layoffs And the reason they needed 89+ office staff? Oh, yea, gotta keep the lawyers in Armani.
Jury Duty Shame on here! Bravo for him!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/14/09 at 10:24 AM
detonate squirrels
I hate squirrels (but love beavers) just as much as the next guy but scorching them to death is kind of cruel. Still it is seems like an effective method.
I hate squirrels (but love beavers) just as much as the next guy but scorching them to death is kind of cruel. Still it is seems like an effective method.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 04/14/09 at 12:14 PM
tough Russian
Could have been the world's first Ent.
Could have been the world's first Ent.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 04/14/09 at 12:21 PM
Tiny Tim oral molds
I'd hate to see the cost if Tim wasn't so tiny.
I'd hate to see the cost if Tim wasn't so tiny.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 04/14/09 at 12:24 PM
Good thought Maxx. I came up with "Pod Person" after I'd signed off.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/14/09 at 01:06 PM
blue house: if he painted the houseplants then they will all die because they can't get the nutrients they need via their leaves. That's sad...
BTW - I *HATE* HOAs and I would rather live with a funky blue house next to me then put up with an HOA. I bought my house where I did specifically because it didn't have an HOA. Do we have nuisance? Some but nothing more then a few weeds here and there. And our neighborhood has a bit more character then most because we don't every house looking exactly the same as the other.
BTW - I *HATE* HOAs and I would rather live with a funky blue house next to me then put up with an HOA. I bought my house where I did specifically because it didn't have an HOA. Do we have nuisance? Some but nothing more then a few weeds here and there. And our neighborhood has a bit more character then most because we don't every house looking exactly the same as the other.
Posted by vegas_girl in Vegas Baby!! on 04/14/09 at 05:10 PM
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