So long as I can be one of the test subjects.
A 2006 study by Clemson University found that the average American walks about 900 miles per year.
Another study by the American Beer Institute found that American’s drink an average of 22 Gallons of beer per year.
That means, on average, Americans get 41 MPG.
Not bad!
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Of course, CNN has to make this sound as scarrrry as possible
Sounds frightening, doesn’t it? Time to ramp up the fear a bit more though,
South Africa’s state arms agency Armscor sold hundreds of millions of rounds of small arms ammunition into the open market in conflict with government policy, Business Day newspaper said on Wednesday.
Oh No! Not the open market! Did the ammo get ought up by the genocidal militias in Darfur? Did Hugo Chavez buy it?
Well, no.
The newspaper said a secret forensic report in 2005 showed Armscor had sold ammunition for AK-47, R-4 and R-5 rifles to Industrie Spreewerk Lubben in Germany “ostensibly for destruction and onward sale to companies in the U.S.”.
“(This) has seen the U.S. market flooded with military and police surplus ammunition from South Africa. Apparently the ammunition is openly advertised on the Internet,” the newspaper said, citing a copy of the report.
It got sold to you and me. We’re not scarrrry.
Unless you’re CNN.
Btw, since my ammunition is now seeing it’s 15 minutes of fame, I’m going out to the garage and bask in it’s glow of celebrity.
The Moonbattiest Moonbat of them all (now that Cynthia McKinney got voted out), Dennis Kucinich, was silent during the hostage crisis, but now that it is over he has a few words that’ll make you’re head spin
British Soldiers Show Diplomacy Can Work
President Ahmadinejad’s announcement proves the value of diplomacy. The United States should be using diplomacy with Iran instead of rattling the sabers and ramping up for another war.
I’m glad to see the Iranian President utilized the instrument of diplomacy to extend amnesty to the 15 British citizens.
Time and time again, Iran has offered to enter into dialogue with the United States, including an offer to resolve tension with the state of Israel. But this Administration has shut the door to dialogue and put the United States on a track toward a military conflict with Iran.
Instead of sending a second aircraft carrier toward the Persian Gulf, the United States should be focused on promoting diplomatic talks. The news of the Iranian release of British captives proves that we can talk to Iran to solve our differences, and we should.
He completely misses the fact that his hero in this matter, Ahmadinejad, captured these British sailors and Marines at gunpoint, being the agent provacateur of the whole situation.
But to Dingbat Dennis, it is all America’s fault in the first place, so that gets discounted before any other thought can take place.
And supposedly half of America wanted these people in power? I don’t believe it.
“You have not denounced anyone for…thirty… days… please remember that community policing is a civic duty and reporting people is easy and fun! Just use your mobile phone and send a text SMS to Whitehall 1212 with the name, address and crime of a school mate, family member or co-worker!”
“And remember, if you accumulate ten ‘Good Citizen’ points for denouncing smokers, homophobes, people eating high fat food, anyone making racist jokes in private, people making unauthorised D.I.Y. repairs to ‘their’ houses, anyone using illegal light bulbs, anyone questioning the unanimous and state approved scientific truth about global warming, home schoolers or people who buy banned war toys for ‘their’ children, you will get to appear on the Big Brother reality TV show by having your home’s internal CCTV footage broadcast live for seven days!”
Perry de Havilland – Samizdata.Net
You really need to follow this link.
Really.
That the Democrats don’t care about your well being.
In late February, due to not enough space in the jails (because the WA Dems refuse to build more of them), the King County Jail system released 83 felons and/or sexual predators back onto the streets without so much as a “By Your Leave”.
A furor erupted from the populace and (Barely) Governor Gregiore told them to stop doing that. They really didn’t, they just let less violent felons and/or sexual predators out instead.
And now that program of “Way Too Much Good Behavior Math” has come to fruition.
Early-release felon held in Federal Way rape, assault
A felon who didn’t report to the Department of Corrections after being conditionally released from jail in February was arrested Wednesday in connection with the alleged rape of a former girlfriend and assault on her 3-month-old baby in Federal Way.
Thomas Bienville, 36, who has convictions for rape, assault and attempting to elude police, was one of 82 felons the Department of Corrections (DOC) released on Feb. 23 because of overcrowding at the two King County jails.
It’s unclear whether Bienville would still be in jail if he had not been released early. The maximum penalty for violating the terms of release is 60 days.
That last line is a lie. Do the math. You’ll see that this cretin was let out approximately six months early. If he would have violated his release terms the afternoon of his release (which is common. Criminals hang out with other criminals) he would still have been in jail in the first week of May.
The Washington State Democrat Party (they won’t be “Democratic” until they follow the democratically enacted laws of this country. Especially the Constitutional Mandates which say it is the government’s responsibilty to arrest, try and house criminals, no matter how many of them there are) does not care one iota about the safety of the common citizen.
Further more, they enact legislation to make it harder to defend yourself, and promote propaganda which stereotypes the folks who do want to defend themselves as ignorant rednecks and/or sociopaths.
They would rather jail a law abiding gun owner and strip them of their right to protect themselves with a firearm than to jail one single actual criminal for the full length of their sentence.
Cities like Seattle and counties like King, make getting your Concealed Pistol License as much of a pain in the ass as possible to discourage people from doing so. Then, when the market takes effect and citizens go outside their city or county of residence to apply for the permit because it is faster to do so there, the State Democrats enact legislation to require people to ONLY go to their city or county of residence.
Not one single NFA weapon or otem has been approved in King County is nearly two decades. If I remember correctly, Pierce and Snohomish aren’t far behind in their “roundfiling policy” of NFA application paperwork.
Not that that matters all that much, when the State Democrats passed the law requiring people apply for the CCW within their jurisdiction of residence, they also tacked on that while you could still “Own” NFA articles in Washington, you were not allowed to “Use” them. even if you did so out of state.
The only rights they care about are the right for illegal immigrants to vote, drive and live life in America unhindered; the right of those who have no drive to better them selves to your tax money, and their own right to tell you how much of your money is theirs and and to waste it on boondoggles like “Global Warming Coalitions” with Vancouver BC and mass transit that goes nowhere anyone wants or needs to go.
Fuck them.
And I knew this was going to happen. Watch the moonbats deny this is happening.
Democratic White House hopeful John Edwards’ team has been collecting e-mail addresses from supporters who’ve sent his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, notes – and using them for fund-raising requests, aides acknowledged yesterday.
The link on Edwards’ campaign Web site invites people to “send a note to Elizabeth and John” and features a sad letter from the former senator penned just after the couple found out her breast cancer had spread and is now incurable.
But people who’ve been sending such well wishes have been hit with e-mail solicitations from Team Edwards, asking for donations just as all candidates are looking to post big online fund-raising numbers.
Not satisfied with wishing ill upon Tony Show when it was released that his cancer has returned, the left has to let this go on without a word of rebuke towards “Team Edwards”.
They are diseased and cannot be let come back to power.
Found at Right Thoughts
That is the only thing I can come up with from “Should have been a blonde” Pelosi screwing Israel over during her visit to lick the boots of the Syrian dictator, Assad.
Even the WaPo, who couldn’t stop praising “The First Woman Speaker” for weeks and weeks, thinks her an idiot
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad. After a meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Ms. Pelosi announced that she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that “Israel was ready to engage in peace talks” with Syria. What’s more, she added, Mr. Assad was ready to “resume the peace process” as well. Having announced this seeming diplomatic breakthrough, Ms. Pelosi suggested that her Kissingerian shuttle diplomacy was just getting started. “We expressed our interest in using our good offices in promoting peace between Israel and Syria,” she said.
Only one problem: The Israeli prime minister entrusted Ms. Pelosi with no such message. “What was communicated to the U.S. House Speaker does not contain any change in the policies of Israel,” said a statement quickly issued by the prime minister’s office. In fact, Mr. Olmert told Ms. Pelosi that “a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel.” In other words, Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel’s position but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad’s words were mere propaganda.
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Two weeks ago Ms. Pelosi rammed legislation through the House of Representatives that would strip Mr. Bush of his authority as commander in chief to manage troop movements in Iraq. Now she is attempting to introduce a new Middle East policy that directly conflicts with that of the president. We have found much to criticize in Mr. Bush’s military strategy and regional diplomacy. But Ms. Pelosi’s attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.
Nancy, you ignorant slut.
Stay there. that is all I have to say. Stay there.
From the FAL Files Forums, here’s this article for your reflection.
I’m not much of a farmer, myself, although I come from a long line of ’em on one side of my family. So I’m not sure how serious a threat this might be. Note that the article claims Homeland Security thinks it is.
I’ve resisted storing wheat, mainly because I can’t see myself rotating it into our regular food consumption, so it would likely just rot. Maybe that needs rethinking. It probably wouldn’t be too hard to start eating a bowl of cracked wheat for breakfast every morning. That’s assuming it tastes good….
That’s the title of Victor Davis Hanson’s latest batch of wisdom, in this instance about Iran, the British hostages, and what not to do about the mullahs’ childlike tries to get our attention.
I post this track up ever once in a while just to surprise folks who have recently joined us here at RNS.
While it does contain some braggadocio and stuff that makes most gunnies cringe, you have to remember that he means every single word, having heard him speak on this subject in public, it is just that this artist was playing to an audience that the gunniest gunnies in the gunosphere (that would be you folks) do not belong to.
So without further ado, and without any more mangled sentences like the one impersonating a paragraph above, I give you
No Hold Barred – Sir Mix-A-Lot
And you thought he only liked big butts.
