Iowans would have saved $3 million — or $12 a family — this Thanksgiving weekend on gasoline if the federal government already had required vehicles to get 60 miles per gallon, an environmental group said Tuesday.
What a limited world-view these guys have. If Mommy Dotguv required vehicles to get 120 miles per gallon, that same poor family would have saved $24. Further, imagine how rich we'd all be if His Obamaness told Detroit to make 'em go 1,000 miles on a gallon.
Not to mention the joy of having Washington mandate on-board, on-demand force fields fueled by unicorn farts.
Nov 24, 2010
Nov 23, 2010
The Only Ones
AP corrections are more fun than the original stories. In this one, intense editorial oversight and multiple layers of fact checking revealed that revolvers don't use clips.
(This version CORRECTS Corrects to say ammunition clip was from officer's service weapon instead of revolver), reads the appended editorial note.
Sure, it was actually a magazine, but why get pedantic?
Officer Friendly lost his ammo on a previous flight. He either didn't notice or decided to brazen it out to avoid crude locker room cop jokes. "Got your ammo, Sam Spade?"
The air line security biffs, who carefully sweep the jets between flights for dangerous objects, didn't find it either.
Let us hoist a glass to the Only Ones.
(This version CORRECTS Corrects to say ammunition clip was from officer's service weapon instead of revolver), reads the appended editorial note.
Sure, it was actually a magazine, but why get pedantic?
Officer Friendly lost his ammo on a previous flight. He either didn't notice or decided to brazen it out to avoid crude locker room cop jokes. "Got your ammo, Sam Spade?"
The air line security biffs, who carefully sweep the jets between flights for dangerous objects, didn't find it either.
Let us hoist a glass to the Only Ones.
To Grandmother's House We Go
If you believe your government and the national news media, the pornscan opt-out is so far a bust. Only a few American fliers are crotchety enough to object to displaying their junk to total strangers. When an intimate grope is the alternative, I suppose that's understandable.
If we paid attention, we saw it coming. Various polls have shown 70 to 80 per cent of us are willing to trade our Fourth Amendment protections for the illusion of security.
I live mostly rural these days and fly seldom, but I remain an American citizen who understands that what happens to my fellows in mobbed airports will, in due course, happen to all of us somewhere.
Do you doubt that the bureaucratic imperative of mission creep will eventually strip your mother naked during rush hour in the D.C.Metro system, at the AmTrak depot, and before she's allowed to enter a crowded theatre?
If we paid attention, we saw it coming. Various polls have shown 70 to 80 per cent of us are willing to trade our Fourth Amendment protections for the illusion of security.
I live mostly rural these days and fly seldom, but I remain an American citizen who understands that what happens to my fellows in mobbed airports will, in due course, happen to all of us somewhere.
Do you doubt that the bureaucratic imperative of mission creep will eventually strip your mother naked during rush hour in the D.C.Metro system, at the AmTrak depot, and before she's allowed to enter a crowded theatre?
North Korea
Wait a minute. Didn't we pay up when Kim demanded a bribe a year or so ago?
Maybe it would be easier just to put him on our MasterCard. Automatic pay the first of every month.
Maybe it would be easier just to put him on our MasterCard. Automatic pay the first of every month.
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