Anyone ever heard of this?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXXrB3rz-xU]
Thoroughly disgusting.
Category: Satire
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Golf Ethics
Here is a golf ethics question for you.
What if you were playing in the club championship tournament finals and the match was halved at the end of 17 holes. You had the honor and hit your ball a modest two hundred fifty yards to the middle of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron to the pin. Your opponent then hits his ball, lofting it deep into the woods to the right of the fairway. Being the golfing gentleman that you are, you help your opponent look for his ball. Just before the permitted five minute search period ends, your opponent says: “Go ahead and hit your second shot and if I don’t find it in time, I’ll concede the match.”
You hit your ball, landing it on the green, stopping about ten feet from the pin. About the time your ball comes to rest, you hear your opponent exclaim from deep in the woods: “I found it!”. The second sound you hear is a click, the sound of a club striking a ball and the ball comes sailing out of the woods and lands on the green, stopping no more than six inches from the hole.
Now here is the ethical dilemma:
Do you pull the cheating bastard’s ball out of your pocket and confront him with it or do you keep your mouth shut.
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Obama Transparency Scaled Back… as to Wine
When British Prime Minister David Cameron visits President Barack Obama this week, one detail may stay bottled up: the labels on the wines the White House pours at the state dinner tomorrow night.
For Obama’s first three state dinners, honoring the leaders of India, Mexico and China, the White House released the name, year and appellation of wines — all-American — paired with each course.
Part of a tradition observed by previous presidents, including George W. Bush, that disclosure stopped after Obama’s dinner last year for Chinese President Hu Jintao. One of the wines served on Jan. 19, 2011, was a top-rated 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon from Washington state that originally sold for $115 a bottle and went for as much as $399 by the time of the dinner. The price the White House paid per bottle was not made public.
At the next state dinner, on June 7, 2011, for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the menu made public by the White House didn’t include details on the wines.
via Businessweek.
It’s national sunshine day, or week, or something. In order to celebrate the White House decided that it was releasing too much information, a/k/a not sending the right kind of message in these tough economic times, when it came to the wine list.
Ridiculous.
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8 Shot on South, West sides Overnight
6:00 a.m. CDT, March 11, 2012
At least eight people were shot Saturday night and Sunday morning on the South and West sides, according to police.
via Chicago Tribune.
Eight in one night. It appears that all the criminals are willing to carry despite all the laws Rahm et. al. keep passing. So what are the innocent to do?
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One day I’m going to investigate how Anita Alvarez prosecutes these cases. My guess is that we have all these guns laws and none are being applied.
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Bus Driver Injured with Caustic Liquid by Passenger
A CTA bus driver was treated at an area hospital tonight after a woman threw a liquid believed to be rubbing alcohol in the man’s face when the two argued about an expired fare card, police said.
via Chicago Tribune.
One word yet on whether Rahm’s going to demand from Springfield a Rubbing Alcohol Registry.
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DC Metro’s Pervert Problem
[DC] Metro took several steps this week to address complaints that it wasn’t taking sexual harassment seriously enough. …
“I was disturbed to hear their reports about assault and intimidation while riding trains and buses, particularly those accounts which involved our employees making disrespectful comments,” Sarles wrote to his more than 11,000 employees in a newsletter on Friday.
Several riders had testified at a D.C. Council hearing last month that Metro needed to take harassment more seriously, recounting stories of being groped on trains and accosted by masturbating men. They said other transit agencies had put up public service advertisements to address the issue.
The complaints became more heated, though, when a Metro spokesman told WUSA9 that “one person’s harassment is another person’s flirting.”
via Washington Examiner.
Wouldn’t it just be a whole lot easier to just tell the Senators that they can’t ride the Metro anymore.
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FAA to Allow Unmanned Drones (to kill you)
The Federal Aviation Administration has taken the first concrete step toward allowing drones to fly alongside passenger airplanes in the United States.
As required by a law signed by President Obama in February, the FAA is moving forward with a plan to integrate unmanned aircraft into the national airspace by 2015. …
Proponents of the plan envision drones being used to help dust crops, fight forest fires, sell houses, shoot movies and assist local police in chasing suspects.
via Chicago Tribune.
Now that Eric Holder and the FBI Chief are talking about how the U.S. Government has the right to take your life away from you without even giving you a trial, this is really just the next logical step. What a better way to kill U.S. citizens than with UAVs?
2012, meet 1984.
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Lawyers for Occupy Say Crackdown was Practice
Lawyers for dozens of Occupy Chicago protesters arrested in Grant Park said Wednesday that the mass arrests amounted to a “dry run” by the Emanuel administration for handling protests during the G-8 and NATO summits in May.
“This was Mayor Rahm Emanuel being Mr. Tough Guy to show the world that they could come to the G-8 and NATO,” said attorney Thomas Durkin, who represents a dozen of the 94 defendants seeking to have their cases dismissed
via Chicago Tribune.
Hello pot, meet kettle.
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Ron Paul Predictions from 2002
“Ya ya.” I thought to myself as this started. Just plain amazing how right this guy was nearly 10 years ago. Time for some folks to wake-up and see what’s really happening.