Category: Who knows

The latest film produced by our buddy, Casey J Porter, is about a volunteer program for transporting cancer patients to their treatment in some pretty hot cars;

You know that I’ll use any excuse to mention that I know Eve Chase, but this time, I’m a little hesitant. Here she is starring in the latest offering from our buddies, the Ranger Up guys in a video about the unlikely love that grows between an inspector at the Central Issue Facility and a grunt trying to turn in his issue;

“Coming to a bin by the register at a Kroger’s near you” just about sums it up.

The West Virginia Department of Homeland Security, in an obvious attempt to heighten Zero Ponsdorf’s anxiety levels, has launched their smart phone app, for those pitifully few of us who use our phones here for anything other than phone calls according to The Danger Room;

I downloaded it onto my phone. The interface is simple. After informing you that you should dial 911 for an actual emergency and asking if you want to submit your geolocation information, the app is fundamentally a camera function. You can annotate the image you capture with date and location (if you didn’t enable the auto-geolocation function); additional details like a “Subject’s” name, gender, eye color, “hair style” and more; and vehicle information if applicable. And you can submit your own information, allowing the authorities to contact you, or choose to submit it anonymously.

Once you click the green “Submit Report” bar, the picture you’ve snapped and the information you’ve recorded goes to the West Virginia Intelligence Fusion Center, a partnership between state law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security. “The longer you wait the less accurate eyewitness information becomes and evidence fades,” the fusion center’s director, Thom Kirk, said in the statement.

Although it’s nice to be prepared, there’s little chance of anyone catching any terrorists in WV and the “Fusion Center” will be inundated with photos of me sitting on my deck in my underwear with a frosty cold one, or Zero brush-hogging while under the influence;

It’s also unclear why West Virginia thinks its citizens need app-based suspicious activity reporting. A February study from the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University found that not a single plot or alleged plot involving Muslim-American terrorism occurred in the state in 2011. (.PDF) A Washington Post investigative project in 2010 found that West Virginia was one of only 15 states that has no terrorism convictions in state or federal courts since 9/11 and ranked 36th in states receiving federal homeland-security cash in 2009.

Now, if they had an app for reporting stills and meth labs, that might work for West Virginia, unless there’s an aversion to revenooers.

Well, that’s according to his swing coach, Hank Haney in his new book The Big Miss according to SkyNews.

Mr Haney wrote: “I thought ‘Wow. Here is Tiger Woods, the greatest athlete on the planet, maybe the greatest athlete ever, right in the middle of his prime, basically ready to leave it all behind for a military life’.”

According to Mr Haney, Woods undertook dozens of trips to naval bases across the country “in a programme that approximated the training for a Navy Seal candidate”.

“To my knowledge, he did training in parachuting, self-defence, urban-warfare simulations and shooting,” he claims.

“I never heard of Tiger doing any training in the water with the Seals, but he was already a pretty accomplished diver.”

Well, at least he doesn’t walk around with a Trident on his golf bag. One of our ladies sent us the link yesterday and I can’t remember for the life of me which one it was, so sorry.

I just saw this on CMT, so if it’s been around, I apologize, but it’s new to me. Some of the best scenes from the movie and it rocks pretty hard.

Good ‘splodin’, too. Real ‘splodin’ without those flashy phony Hollywood gasoline-fueled flashes.

Mark Christianson, who is the founder of paratrooper.net, the place that got me hooked on the internet back at the turn of the millennium, wrote and asked for your help.

His daughter, Amanda, founded Cleats For Kids which has been submitted to Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy ‘Choose to Matter’ contest and she’s a few hundred votes behind from winning a trip to London, if I read all of that stuff right. Here’s her Facebook page related to the charity.

I know you dickweeds hate to click on stuff I tell you to click on, but this time do us proud and click on the “Vote” link at the top of the page on the first link in this post and help Amanda get a trip to London.

Well, not if the residents of Keene, New Hampshire get their say, the police department won’t get their own tank…well….not a tank but a Grumman F8F Lenco Bearcat like the one that’s pictured above that Nashville, TN PD owns.

More than 100 people packed a Feb. 9 meeting of a city council committee, nearly all to oppose equipping the police deaprtment, with about 45 sworn officers, with a Bearcat. One speaker quoted in the Keene Sentinel was Roberta Mastrogiovanni, owner of a newsstand downtown. “It promotes violence,” Mastrogiovanni said. “We should promote more human interaction rather than militarize. I refuse to use money for something this unnecessary when so many people in our community are in need.”

Since the 1990s, the Pentagon has made military equipment available to local police departments for free or at steep discounts. This, along with drug war-related policies, has spurred a trend toward a more militarized domestic police force in America. Law enforcement and elected officials have argued for years that better-armed, high-powered police departments are needed to fight the war on drugs.

I don’t think the Bearcat influences criminals to commit crimes they might otherwise not commit, but I’d like to hear the PD’s justification for purchasing this armored vehicle. It was bought with a $285,933 grant from the Homeland Security Department, so while we’re jacking up healthcare costs for veterans and slashing our national defense capabilities, Homeland Security is handing out armored vehicles t local police departments. I wonder what has happened in Keene lately that justifies this purchase. Have the meth labs been fortified? Deer hunters getting out of control?

There’s a reason that the military can’t operate inside the US and for the same reasons we don’t need a police force that’s armed like the military.