What looked like a possible plan for a Columbine style attack at a Westchester County school district has turned out to be nothing more than a Facebook misunderstanding.
Late last night a parent in the Ardsley School District noticed a posting on her daughter’s Facebook page that used the words “combine” and “revenge” scheduled for Monday at the high school.
After reading a few other stories about this, turns out the two words were in two totally different Facebook posts on top of it just being a parent with low reading comprehension. I mean, no kidding “combine” isn’t an abbreviation of Columbine (as the parent and school both thought it was). And whatever happened to parents asking their kids about things the kids or their friends are saying or doing? The post was about a football combine (look it up, if you want to know what that is), and who knows what the other post mentioning “revenge” was about. Must have been nothing, since no news stories bothered to mention. Anyway, more ridiculous panicking over nothing at all.
A local business owner is flabbergasted after a shipment of 30 toy [Airsoft BB] guns for his store was confiscated by ATF agents in Tacoma.
Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons. “With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun,” Crenshaw said.
All I’d like to know is in what universe an air-pump BB gun can be “easily” converted into a machine gun. Seriously.
Nothing succeeds in the travel industry like a bad idea. The latest hidden mandatory add-on is a “health” charge added to restaurant bills. As far as I know, this scam cropped up first in San Francisco, but you can count on it to spread.
The restaurants’ excuse for assessing this charge separately is to let customers know how much they’re paying for employees’ health coverage. That’s the same excuse hotels use when they add “resort” or “housekeeping” fees to unsuspecting guests’ room bills. It’s the same excuse airlines would use to exclude fuel surcharges from their advertised fares if the Department of Transportation would allow them. And it’s sheer nonsense.
Naturally, there is outrage among those persons who eat out and are inclined to being outraged about things not worthy of even raising an eyebrow over. At least they are stating clearly why the bill is larger than it used to be. I certainly wouldn’t have bothered. I’d have just raised the prices of everything and let them gripe about that. And what’s the easiest way to not pay for some poor waiter’s health care? Learn to cook and stay home. Probably takes less energy than what the complainers have been expending complaining.
Meals approved by Weight Watchers are going on sale at McDonald’s in New Zealand under a deal trumpeted as an enjoyable way to lose weight but that nutritionists criticise as a marketing ploy that doesn’t promote healthy eating.
Really?! Pure insanity. Aside from the fact that the quality of the foodstuffs sold at McDonald’s barely qualifies it to be called food, the chicken nuggets, fish sandwiches, and chili chicken wraps aren’t in any way healthy or diet foods. If the fat content doesn’t kill you, the sodium levels surely will.
Meanwhile, back in Clay County, Kentucky, where election officials (including the county clerk, a district court judge, and the school superintendent) were arrested last year, and are now on trial, accused of having “fix[ed] elections for decades,” a “precinct worker testified…that top election officers in the county taught her how to change people’s choices on voting machines to steal votes in the May 2006 primary.” The vote stealing was accomplished on ES&S touch-screen electronic voting machines, without the knowledge of legitimate voters, after they’d left the booth thinking they had cast their votes.
And people continue to wonder why I am not a fan of the electronic voting machines. Some form of actual paper record of each vote needs to exist. If a system can be cheated, and these boxes can, it will be.
You are aware by now that a 12,000 pound killer whale at SeaWorld Orlando killed his trainer Dawn Brancheau yesterday by pulling her into a pool and dragging her around until she drowned, in front of a crowd of stunned guests.
Chalk another death up to animal rights insanity and to the ongoing failure of the West to take counsel on practical matters from the Scripture
The American Family Association suggests the whale be stoned to death according to the “ancient civil code of Israel.” The whale doesn’t need to be killed. The whale needs to be released back into its native environment instead of being kept in tanks too small for it for the purposes of amusing humans and breeding more killer whales. The whale was doing what killer whales do. I mean, did no one ever wonder why they are called KILLER whales?