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Entries from August 2005

Bulldozers In The News

August 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

Hey, it’s late summer! Time for a good story about a guy on a bulldozer going on a rampage, like this one:
Man Charged With Drunken Bulldozer Ride - Yahoo! News
Last June, a man went on a tear through a small Colorado town because he was pissed off at local government.
Remember, friends don’t let [...]

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Failing The Turing Test

August 23rd, 2005 · 1 Comment · SABRE2th Tigress: Book 'em, Dano.

It always amuses me no end when I’m going through the error queues and come across a record where someone is carrying on an argument in the quality control remarks.
In this case, someone was trying to get the quality control program to package up some paper tickets and send them to the address in the [...]

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Pat Robertson’s Latest Kooky Fatwa

August 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

Chicago Tribune | Televangelist Calls for Chavez’ Death
Yes, he thinks our gummint should send some special ops guys in to kill Chavez, because it’s cheaper than starting a war to take out a nasty horrible anti-Bushite, and by the way the oil won’t stop flowing.
You know what? Pat Robertson is a kook. He’s been [...]

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Hell Week

August 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Uncategorical Weirdness

My week from hell, day two:
My supervisor is out of town all week.
My colleague whose job is similar to mine is out of town all week.
I back both of them up when they are not in.
I work in corporate travel, and there’s an airline strike this week.
I am still expected by a service coordinator to [...]

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Finger Constantly On The Button

August 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Politics, Schmolitics

CBS News | Bush To Rally Iraq Support | August 22, 2005?11:00:05
My lucky family in Salt Lake will have the dubious pleasure of a Presidential visit there; meanwhile the anti-war activists on the Cindy Sheehan bandwagon couldn’t even get an ad on one local TV station, because it was deemed likely to be “offensive to [...]

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