The Mad Rocket Scientist is in a gunnie style pinch and needs some urgent advice.
Current and former LEOs, as well as those in the legal profession requested, though everyone should take a read of his dilemma and see if you too can help.
I have given him the name of a local gun rights legal eagle, but other than that, I was only able to offer the advice of Shoot, Shovel and STFU, which probably wasn’t much help.
Thank you.
UPDATE: Link fixed and Part 2
Maybe you’re exactly unlike me and are an outgoing person who likes to meet new people with whom you have very little in common with.
Or maybe you just need someone to make you legal in the carpool lane.
Or maybe, just maybe, you are a person of nefarious designs who sees an easy mark readily available on the iPod you just mugged from some guy. You’re wanting to upgrade from simple assault and theft to grand theft auto and you want that auto brought to you.
With gas prices costing an arm and a leg these days, people have found that carpooling is a great way to cut down on costs. Trouble is, it’s not always that easy to find a group of people that are traveling to your general destination.
Thankfully, with the iPhone’s location aware capabilities and the release of Carticipate, you can now make that task easier!Carticipate helps you find other’s in the area (who also are Carticipate users) so you can find a buddy to carpool with. Simply drop in where you are going and when you want to go there and you will find others in your area that are on that same route so you can work out some traveling options.
Sounds to me like picking up an e-hitchhiker, with the same probability of getting killed at a rest stop as the old movie plot.
Did any of you catch MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell being buried by balloons? After McCain’s speech finished, the network cut to her on the convention floor, and within seconds you could barely see her for all the balloons — which, it became clear, the delegates were gleefully tossing around her and in front of the camera faster than she could flick them away.
If I see the YouTube, I’ll post it. If you see it before me, put the link in the comments and I’ll post it.
BTW, Andrea seemed almost as gloomy about McCain’s speech as she was about Palin’s. Good times.
Edit: here ya go.
My mind’s just in the gutter. Last one for today. Alaskan folk wisdom:
My husband and I are both gold miners, and right now we have water flowing through our sluice box, and when that occurs we don’t do a lot of socialisin.’
Indeed. I’m just waiting for some big-city reporter to ask a Wasilla native “just what do you do around here in this tiny town?” and get the classic laconic reply, “well, we fuck a lot.”
Geekery for adults. Via Always Aroused Girl, I give you the Snarling Misanthrope’s reenacted Death of Boba Fett… by Sarlaac Fleshlight.
Best line:
It didn’t take very long, as each and every Star Wars fan already equates Sarlaac with vagina. (And you wondered why there are so many single men in their mid-late 30s.)
about the Republican ticket. What with the VPILF, FLILF, and, well, everything else you can think of, from age (both ends of the spectrum) to pregnancy to naughty librarians, some decent hack writers of slash fiction (both homo and hetero) should be able to make a fortune.
I’m just sayin.’ What, like you hadn’t thought of it too.
Pertaining a little to the post below:
I was warming up Buddy’s engine in the work parking lot and listening to the local Air America affiliate’s broadcast of the Bill Press Show before I hit the Source button on the stereo face to switch it to the thumb drive.
The guest on Press’ show was a guy by the name of Rich Masters (which is a perfect name for this elitist bastard). He was talking about Palin, and you could hear the fear in his voice after discussing the speech last night. One of his last sentences, closing out talking about Palin’s attendance at the 1994 Alaskan Independence Party’s convention, could easily be paraphrased as so: “And with affiliations like that I’m interested in what connections she has to Aryan and White Power groups. You did know she was born in Idaho, right?”
So all you Idahoans, top Democratic press moneys still think you’re all a bunch of inbred racists. I guess this guy hasn’t been to Sacramento in a few years. He’d see where the Skins currently congregate en masse if he’d get the balls to go.
This wasn’t the post I had written for today. This is a substitution caused by Sarah Palin’s speech last night. Today’s post will be up on next Thursday’s Soundboard.
First, the speech
The leftists are scared. It would behoove you to take a run through any of their blogs to find out just how frightened they truly are. If I had any pity available, I wouldn’t waste it on the leftosphere, but some folks aren’t as strong as I am on this topic. If McCain and Palin are able to keep this up it will be their election to lose.
I am in deep gratitude to Mrs. Palin for being the salsa which is slathered over the Turd Sandwich that was McCain v. Obama.
So, for her, the first song I heard after hearing her speak. I literally ran out the door seconds after her speech was complete, hopped in Buddy to go to work, and this was the track that leapt from the thumb drive in the deck.
Stand Inside Your Love – The Smashing Pumpkins
And then again, on the way home after having shown the above linked video to some co-workers, Klaus Meine and the boys from Hanover were the random selection off the same thumb drive.
You Give Me All I need – The Scorpions
Enjoy!
The Insurance Research Council could have saved the money they spent on this study and just asked me. Or you. Or anyone else with a fuckin’ clue
IRC Research Documents Higher Injury Claim Costs with Lighter Weight Vehicles (pdf)
Even those of us who are not students of extensive physics teachings could have told them this. But to justify their expenditure, they do actually have some dollar amounts:
Lighter vehicles: $5554 claim average
Heavier vehicles: $4859 claim average
A 14.3% difference.
Call your auto insurer and ask them if the company they represent is spreading these cost across the board or if the extra costs stemming from the liability of owning and insuring a small vehicle are being placed where it should be: On the small vehicle owner.
Yes, I realize that big vehicles hit small vehicles, but those costs are already put onto the large vehicle owner’s cost to insure. (The cost of full coverage for Buddy the Jeep, with 15K miles per year allowance, is less than the bare minimum liability only insurance requirement for Grimm the Not-So-Jolly Green Giant with only 3K miles per year allowance. When I asked our insurance agent why, she said that it is because he will destroy most other vehicles on the road, including late model full sized trucks.)
Which is why I think this man should be knocked upside his empty little head and told he’s an idiot
GM’s Lutz calls for break on crash testing in US
The U.S. should suspend crash-testing requirements in order to allow auto makers to speed more fuel-efficient models to the market, says Bob Lutz, General Motors Corp.’s vice chairman and product-development chief.
Umm, no? WTF, does this guy think we want death machine cars like the Chinese build?
