More news on the WV Sniper as details begin to slowly trickle forward (login required, use ‘test/test/’):
Police speculated Friday that a large, white male driving a black pickup with an extended cab may be responsible for Thursday night
John Cole started Balloon Juice early in 2002. Those who have followed along know that this has been quite the journey.
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More news on the WV Sniper as details begin to slowly trickle forward (login required, use ‘test/test/’):
Police speculated Friday that a large, white male driving a black pickup with an extended cab may be responsible for Thursday night
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As any good Steeler fan will tell you, there is nothing good about Cleveland. It just figures that those bums were reponsible for the blackout, as well:
A failure to contain problems with three transmission lines in northern Ohio just south of Cleveland was the likely trigger of the nation’s biggest power blackout, a leading investigator said Saturday.
Alarm systems that might have alerted engineers to the failed lines were broken, according to FirstEnergy Corp., the Akron, Ohio-based utility that officials said owned at least two of the three lines.
It was not immediately clear whether that impeded efforts to isolate the local line disruptions, some of which occurred an hour before power system shutdowns cascaded Thursday from Michigan to New York City and into Canada.
“We are fairly certain at this time that the disturbance started in Ohio,” Michehl Gent, head of the North American Electric Reliability Council, said in a statement. “We are now trying to determine why the situation was not brought under control after three transmission lines went out of service.'”
Typical.
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Rot in Hell, Idi Amin. I am sure Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, and some gun control enthusiasts are upset, but the rest of the world will look at your cold, lifeless carcass with profound glee. My only regret is that your death was from natural causes, rather than the result of due process. I guess you will have to get yours in the afterlife.
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The Iraq’s want to offer some help regarding the NY Black-Out:
“Let them taste what we have tasted,” said Ali Abdul Hussein, selling “Keep Cold” brand ice chests on a sidewalk. “Let them sit outside drinking tea and smoking cigarettes waiting for the power to come back, just like the Iraqis.”
Here are some tips from the streets of Baghdad:
_ SLEEP ON THE ROOF. Without power
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Pejman read Dennis K’s weblog yesterday. He was not impressed.
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The last post by Scott Ott reminds me of the glory days of Will Warren, who used to be the poet of the blogosphere. Here is one of my favorites (which my mother claims is the funniest thing she has ever read):
Merci for Not Expiring
If you want to skip a jailing
when your body takes to ailing
And the doctor starts to shake his head and sigh,
Just don
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Genius at work:
2003-08-15) — The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) announced today that its fall lineup will include ‘Straight Eye for the Homo Guy’, a new show based on a similarly-named program on another network.
On each episode a team of five heterosexual males will do a “makeover” on one homosexual man.
Preview screenings of the pilot showed the five guys uncomfortably shuffling around the menswear section at Wal-Mart picking out trousers for a guy named Maurice, who they refused to take with them.
Read the whole thing.