After the past 2 years spent unemployed or at horrible jobs, it is my distinct pleasure to announced that today I:

1) Rode in a chauffeured car.
2) Hung out in the Fox News Channel green room.
3) Saw Amanda Carpenter and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY).
4) Talked to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Andrew Breitbart.

Fun times.  And I still have the Lost season finale to look forward to.

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Paramedic cares for pets until man recovers from coma

With all the horrible news and all the gloom and doom, it's good to remember there are wonderful people in the world.

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Which really really hurts btw

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No, not that Barry, Barry in CO, who knows a thing or two about snappin' purty photos.  No, seriously, check these out.  Alice and Barry could put together a nice CO-based photoblog.

Few more.

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If you haven't seen it, Mike at Cold Fury put up an awesome rant yesterday.  Well worth a read, but be forewarned, it contains some salty language.

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Startled burglar pleads for life

Personal favorite part of this article?

"As Stucky described it: “Then he started screaming like a little scared girl, 'Please don’t shoot me, please don’t shoot.’"

The picture with this is fab as well.

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Well, Gov. Palin's win/loss record in this arena must be about 872-0, as another complaint was tossed out.

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Yeah, just this once.  Because happiness is a new pair of these:



The only major chain around here doesn't carry half sizes anymore, so I had to order them from Amazon.  Gotta love that new Chucks smell.

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Seriously, just go watch the video.

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Here's a story right up your alley.

"They should say we're an honourable profession and we don't want to be portrayed that way," he said. "We don't want to look like insane people."

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Not so in Northeastern PA. Why is it I have the sneaking suspicion of some of our esteemed contributors or fellow Morons could have been this person?

Long, rambling, sometimes incoherent messages have routinely been forwarded from Griffin to dozens of people both on and off the commission.

"Don't you dare waste my time with your (expletive) you lying cheating son of a (expletive), sneaky back door (expletive) nut (expletive) sucker." Griffin wrote to one recipient.

In another e-mail sent to multiple readers, Griffin wrote, —¦ all the banging in the bathroom didn't tell you what I was made of, buddy?? no cement boots for me! Nice try though. a real drama rama! Reminder: I am the quintessential professional! decorum and common sense are my bylaws!"

The adversarial messages and accompanying tone in person have slowed the commission's work.

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Once again, proof that letting people protect themselves is a good thing.

Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey.

That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.

The student then ran to the room where the second gunman, identified by police as 23-year-old Calvin Lavant, was holding the women.

“Apparently the guy was getting ready to rape his girlfriend. So he told the girls to get down and he started shooting. The guy jumped out of the window,” said Bailey.

A neighbor heard the shots and heard someone running nearby.

“And I heard someone say, ‘Someone help me. Call the police. Somebody call the police,’” said a neighbor.

The neighbor said she believes it was Lavant, who was found dead near his apartment, only one building away.

Bailey said he is just thankful one student risked his life to keep others alive.

“I think all of us are really cognizant of the fact that we could have all been killed,” said Bailey.

Thanks to Retired Geezer.

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Seriously, I haven't seen a mismatch this pronounced since Godzilla stumbled across the Tokyo Mass Transit System.

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...with Robert Stacy McCain's post here.  I also like how openly shameless he is about traffic whoring for the dollars.  It's refreshing actually.

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