How much money can you come up with on short notice?

MiG 21 for sale.

You know you want to look.

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Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?: Part Two

She turned around and smiled. She passed me and walked into the room I had just stepped out of.

I wanted to say something, like “Hello, my name is Professor John Thomas Booty. And who might you be?” but I had an inkling that might come out as unintelligible, so I refrained.

As I followed her through the doorway that led out of the room I woke up in and into the hallway, the interior changed drasitcally.

She did something I was hoping for but did not expect.

Then again, I was not expecting to see every piece of furniture suspended from the ceiling with chains.

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Also, there were no windows.

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When Cops Were Peace Officers

And not Ninja-fied, door kicking goons.

Sheriff Charles Plummer calls it a career

After more than 50 years in one career, its not uncommon to think about what one would have done differently.

Monday, on his last day on the job, Alameda County Sheriff Charles Plummer had his own thoughts. After a retirement ceremony that included helicopter flyovers, bagpipes and what seemed like thousands of handshakes, the former Berkeley and Hayward top cop sat in his office afterward and voiced that one regret.

“I wish I would have hit some people harder during the riots,” said Plummer, speaking of the riots in Berkeley in the late-1960s. “I regret that.”

Beating hippie ass. Good times, good times.

So long and fare thee well, Sheriff.

Found at Right Thinking

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The Funnist Post Speech Leftie Spiel

And the Winner IS!

Joe from AmericaBlog

The morning after the big speech. Just watched Condi on the Today Show. She’s as clueless as her boss. Seriously, not a lot of brain power between them.

Let us run down the acheivements of Bush and Rice

George W. Bush: Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and, following in his father’s footsteps, was accepted into Yale University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1968. After obtaining an MBA from Harvard University (Bush is the only US President to serve holding a Master of Business Administration degree).

Next up,

Condoleeza Rice: Rice was hired for her first academic position by Stanford University as an Assistant Professor in Political Science (1981–1987). She was granted tenure and promoted, first to Associate Professor (1987–1993), and then (she was off-campus from 1989–1991) to Provost, the chief budget and academic officer of the university (1993–>2000), and full Professor (1993–present). In addition to being the first female and first minority to hold the position of Provost at Stanford, Rice was the youngest Provost in Stanford’s history. She was also named a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. She was a specialist on the former Soviet Union and gave lectures on the subject for the Berkeley-Stanford joint program led by UC Berkeley Professor George Breslauer in the mid-1980s.

As Stanford’s Provost, Dr. Rice was responsible for managing the university’s multi-billion dollar budget. The school at that time was running a deficit of $20 million. When Rice took office, she promised that the budget deficit would be balanced within “two years”. Says Coit Blacker, Stanford’s deputy director of the Institute for International Studies, “There was a sort of conventional wisdom that said it couldn’t be done … that [the deficit] was structural, that we just had to live with it.” Two years later, Rice convened a meeting to announce that not only had the deficit been balanced, but the university was holding a record surplus of over $14.5 million.

Dr. Rice is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville, Michigan State University in 2004, and Boston College Law School in 2006.

And that is just her academic career. Follow the link to see her private industry career and her life in the political world.

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As for Joe from AmericaBlog: Joe Sudbay – Blogger and DC-based political consultant with over twenty years of experience at both the state and federal level. Joe has managed political operations and legislative efforts for both candidates and issues-based organizations. For seven years, he was the Director of State Legislation at Handgun Control, Inc. He served as that organization’s first Political Director during the 2000 cycle where he designed the television ad featuring the NRA’s Vice President claiming the group would work out of the Oval Office.

Joe is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law. In addition, he has a Masters in Public Administration from Lehigh University and received his B.A. from the University of New Hampshire.

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Hmmm, I think it is an easy guess as to whom has the least amount of achievement and brain power (psst, Joe Sudbay, its you. Your high-water mark in life proved that you cannot even understand the Second Amendment).

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Who? What? Where? When?

Why? How?

All I remember is that I was sleeping.

I awoke in a lush, bricklain desert villa. Had I just been drinking too much tequila?

No.

Maybe.

With the fog still in my eyes, I stepped out onto the veranda.

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I had no idea who she was, but I wanted to be her friend.

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RNS Quote of the Day: 01/12/07

Update: I thought I had posted this this morning, but apparently it got caught up the ether and I didn’t notice until I went in to do my spam sweep. My apologies.

The fifth and final installment of Botson T Party’s “5 Levels of Awareness” from his book Boston’s Gun Bible

Black – You are engaging and will do exactly as trained through subconscious action (“viewing from above”).

It is another separation of the conscious and unconscious mind. If you have no training then “Nothing” is exactly what you will do.

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I wanna Palomino

Sorry for the short shrift today. Got stuck at work after my wonderful co-workers decided that “Snowpocolypse 2007” was just too much for them and had “extra-credit” work (notice I didn’t say extra-pay) to finish.

However, this looks as though it would be very interested to try, though for the horse’s sake, I think they should start people out with a paintball gun

Also, do you think they’re using shotshells?

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The Soundboard: Summer’s lookin mighty good about now

My least favorite season is summer. In fact, the only reason I even keep it on the list is becuase, at least when when it doesn’t rain here, the wimminfolk have a tendacy to walk around rather skimpily dressed. Otherwise, I have no use for summer.

However, after spending ten hours at work in a building with no heat, able to see my breath, I warmed slightly to that season, pun intended.

So, to keep my ears from being frost bitten, I grabbed some tunage out my little black thumbdrive to try and warm up the space; and this is one of the songs on that list.

Green Grass and High Tides – The Outlaws

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Good Common Sense / Bad Legislation

They say common sense just ain’t so common any more, and I agree with them.

But that doesn’t mean that I need the state to go and legislate it.

Washington State Senate Bill # 5067 – Requiring the use of headlights when the windshield wipers are in use.

It is just another reason for the Highway Patrol to pull folks over, like they don’t already have 9000 of them already.

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Yeah, Yeah

I forgot the music today. And here I had all night off to remember to pick some tunage.

Oh well.

Here, try this video of our “Snowpocolypse 2007” on for size instead and I’ll get some tunage up tomorrow.

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