Outrageous Malfunction

In fact, he claims Katrina saved lives because parts of the city were evacuated. Video and photographic evidence on the link.

State blamed for fatal shooting spree at Jewish day care

[...] “For us to be able to protect our family, we have to depend on our government,” Stepakoff said. “I’m hoping that this will make the government … hold up that trust.”
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Choice quotes from Video provokes questions of Lebanese army:

[...] However, it is possible that unpleasant parts of the video were deleted during editing. [...] The actions, as depicted in a video where parts may have been deleted
and edited [...]

A video of Hezbollah staging of corpses? No, a video apparently taken by the Israeli military:

The video, shot by Israelis on August 10, when Israeli troops “took control” of the southern Lebanese town of Marjeyoun, aired on Israel’s Channel 2 on Wednesday.

“Took control”? I’ll say. CNN provides a link so you can decide; of couse, it may be edited:

(Watch the video to see if it suggests treason or courtesy — 2:29)

This exchange, though, is priceless:

Daoud: “Don’t we need to tell our bosses?”

Israeli soldier: “Tell whoever you want.”

Daoud: “We need to brief them on what happened.”

Israeli soldier: “We briefed (U.S. President) Bush. You brief whoever you want.”

Daoud: “We need to brief Bush too.”

Ah, it all becomes clear now.

Although I was aware of the trivia of Germany’s actual post-hostility re-constitution as a non-occupied state, I was unaware that for Japan and (now) Russia WW2 has never ended.

The four islands — called the Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories by Japan — were seized by the Soviet army near World War II’s end. Tokyo has demanded their return, and the dispute has blocked a treaty formally ending wartime hostilities.

Today it is reported that the Russian Navy opened fire on a Japanese fishing vessel and killed one Mitsuhiro Morita, a 35 year old fisherman.

• press and hold the backlight (lightbulb) button and use the stylus to press the reset button.
• Hold the backlight until you get a menu with three options.
• Use the dpad up button to move from item to item, use the down button to select yes or no.
• Set Clean Registry and Format Storage to YES and press the middle dpad button to reboot.

This also works for the QTEK 9100

There is a popularly mis-held assertion that you can distill a certain volume of spirits in the US every year without approval. This
is wrong. You may brew beer, you may make wine, but you may not distill spirits in any volume without paying your taxes to the ATFE. I understand why people want to conflate spirits, beer and wine but wishful thinking doesn’t change the law.

I see this often on internet forums and it drives me nuts. The other bit of urban legend is that home distilled spirits will make you go blind. This is also not correct: distillation is a physical process, not a chemical one. You are not creating chemicals that were not there in the first place. Provided you don’t adulterate your mash with something, it won’t be in the finished product. As the starter material for most liqours is a beer or wine (think of moonshine as distilled sugar wine), you should be safe drinking the product. Please understand that ethyl alcohol is a poison, it just acts more slowly than other alcohols.

You may argue, and I agree, that the government has no legitimate interest in regulating production of alcohol for any purpose. Be that as it may, it is the law of the land that you cannot legally produce spirits in the US without paying taxes and obtaining permits. Don’t let your libertarian ideals land you in federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison.

There are examples which go the other direction, as well. It is perfectly legal at the federal level to manufacture your own firearms so long as you don’t sell them and don’t make one in a prohibited configuration (read this as a configuration which requires a tax other than excise tax to be paid). The advantage is that if you’re handy with a drill press and a vise, you can escape paying the excise tax on firearms purchases. I find that the investment in time is not worth the money, but this may not be true for you. Machine guns are legal for purchase at the federal level, as are sawed-off shotguns and suppressors. Possession and use varies state to state; in Washington, it is legal to buy a suppressor but it is illegal to use it.

Please ask the experts (ATFE, TTB) if you have questions on alcohol, tobacco, firearms, or explosives. Don’t trust me, I’m just some idiot on an internet forum.

I saw this in the store and had to buy it:

Taste test: Like V8 with a snap. Pretty good. Looks like Snap-E-Tom has been a Del Monte product since at least the 40’s, but this is the first I’ve heard of it. It was next to the colas at my local grocer.

I don’t know if it slices and dices, but it does everything else.

Neat video.