Don't take me too seriously. I don't.
Last week 90 some people were rounded up in a drug raid in San Diego. More than 60 of the culprits were students at San Diego State. One of the students, a criminal justice major, asked one of the arresting officers, “Do you think this will hurt my chances of employment with federal law enforcement?”
Ya think?
Is it today’s cultural influence that causes someone to even ask that question? Or are today’s college students just dumber than they were decades ago? Or was it just this one?
AP March 11, 2008.
25% of Young Women Infected: Shocking results from a recent study by the Center for Disease Control show that one out of every four girls ages 14-19 has an STD. That translates into approximately 3 million infected girls – about 40% of all girls who admit to having had sex. The HPV virus was the most common infection.
And you thought pregnancy was the worst thing that could happen with casual sex. Folks, HPV is incurable and is a primary cause of uterine cancer.
When somebody did something very well, my mom said, “They did it up brown.” At the time I didn’t know where the phrase came from, but I now suspect it had cooking roots.
Anyway, The Villages, announced a trash recycling program that they’ve been working on for three years. Three years, you say? This required careful coordination with several trash companies and two of the three affected local county governments. They have also coordinated with local merchants like Publix, Wal-Mart, Lowes, Ace Hardware, and Home Depot, to make sure there will be enough supply of the required trash bags. 1That they’ve all sold out is not The Villages fault
Here’s the plan:Homeowners collect recyclables into 13 gallon clear drawstring trash bags. Pretty much everything that is recyclable is eligible: plastic, newspaper, magazines, phone books, aluminum and steel cans, glass, etc. (See the reprint on the left) Then they leave the recycling bags at curbside on one of the two “trash pickup days” each week. Simple as that. No sorting. On top of that it’s only $1.47 per month added to the trash bill and the first month, March, is free.
Some folks are complaining about the $1.47 and that the system’s too complex. I guess there’s no pleasing some folks. For me, it’s a painless way to be a little bit green…and do it up brown.
Footnotes
| ↑1 | That they’ve all sold out is not The Villages fault |
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From the Daily Sun, February 6, 2008:
Confused Florida voters try to cast ballots
Florida voters got so caught up in the excitement of Super Tuesday many tried to cast ballots for the presidential primaries — again.
Election officials across the state said they fielded hundreds of phone calls from confused voters asking where they could vote Tuesday, apparently unaware that Florida’s presidential primary was last week.
“We’ve had over 100 calls at least over the last two days,” said Kathy Adams, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Election Supervisor.
“Caught up in the excitement” is a complete mis characterization of the ignorance of these Florida voters. It’s not that we had early polling for two solid weeks before a week ago Tuesday’s election complete with campaign visits and ads from all the Republican candidates. One would have to living in a cave to miss all that.
Maybe we should yield to the stereotype of Florida and chalk it up to a “senior moment”.
Maybe since the Dems side of the primary was essentially marching in place due to the decision by the DNC to not count Florida’s votes at the convention for having the primary on Jan 29, many Dems weren’t paying attention to the election. 1It wasn’t reported, by the way, how many of the callers were Republicans or Democrats Or since Hillary came to Florida after the primary vote, perhaps voters got confused as to when the election was. 2Palm Beach County is the next county north of the infamous Broward and Miami-Date counties made famous by the 2000 presidential election
Maybe some voters just figured that they were entitled to vote twice during each election. 3We do have migrants from Chicago and New York, don’tchaknow
I don’t know.
Footnotes
| ↑1 | It wasn’t reported, by the way, how many of the callers were Republicans or Democrats |
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| ↑2 | Palm Beach County is the next county north of the infamous Broward and Miami-Date counties made famous by the 2000 presidential election |
| ↑3 | We do have migrants from Chicago and New York, don’tchaknow |
Quoted from Michele Malkin:
A Navy SEAL from Long Island who was killed while leading a reconnaissance mission deep behind enemy lines in Afghanistan will receive the nation’s highest military award for valor _ the Medal of Honor, President Bush announced Thursday. Read more