We don't want your stinkin' homer ball . . .
Bleacher dwellers everywhere take note: this is how it is done.
New rule coming for 2012 -- player is automatically out and home run forfeited if the batter or any runner is struck by ball when player throws it back.
Which confidence is that?
Item on today's NYT web page:
And that's not even to mention the corruption.
(In fairness, the story is somewhat better informed than the summary on page one of the web page. And there, the rather shallow thoughts about security in the story are grafted onto a much better journalistic account of what happened in the hotel. Of course, you really can't use an incident like this to properly assess overall security and the actual questions raised in the pseudo-analysis part of the article. Not that people don't do it all the time. Actual story here.)
Item on today's NYT web page:
KABUL — A deadly assault shook public confidence in the ability of Afghan forces to assume responsibility for security.
Who exactly had confidence in them to begin with? The problem in Afghanistan has always been that the so-called government does not represent what we think of in the west as a "nation," and the military forces are likewise, uh, we'll use the word "unfocused."
And that's not even to mention the corruption.
(In fairness, the story is somewhat better informed than the summary on page one of the web page. And there, the rather shallow thoughts about security in the story are grafted onto a much better journalistic account of what happened in the hotel. Of course, you really can't use an incident like this to properly assess overall security and the actual questions raised in the pseudo-analysis part of the article. Not that people don't do it all the time. Actual story here.)
Time to quit the day job
In this morning's email:
$10.5 mil - imagine how much it would pay if the grammar were correct.
Hey - maybe they could hire me on as a copy editor.
In this morning's email:
Attention Beneficiary,
This is an official advice from the FBI, FOREIGN REMITTANCE/TELEGRAPHIC DEPT.
(FRTD), it has come to our notice that the ADB (African development bank) and C.B.N (central bank of Nigeria ) Africa has released your part of inheritance/contract payment of 10,500,000.00 U.S dollars into the Federal Reserve bank in your name as the beneficiary.
This foreign bank knows that they do not have enough facilities to effect this payment from their location to your account and therefore they used what is known as Secret Diplomatic Transit Payment (S.T.D.P) to do this transfer and they are currently awaiting a confirmation from you for final crediting to your account.
Secret diplomatic payments are not made unless the funds are related to terrorist activities, so if you are not intending to finance terrorism and your transaction is legitimate,
why then did you agree to receive these funds through this means that was used instead of a direct transfer to your account?
Our findings shows that this method of transfer was used in the past to finance terrorist acts, so there is need to correct this problem now to avoid you getting into trouble when the funds reflects in your account.
We advice you contact us immediately, as the funds have been stopped and held in our custody pending when you were able to provide us with A DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY SEAL OF TRANSFER (DIST) within 3 days from the United Nation, INTERNATIONAL FUND MONITORY UNIT (UNIFMU) that authorize the transfer and certified that the funds originated from Africa and Middle East is free from terrorist/drug and money laundry or we shall confiscate the payment.
We will allow the funds to be release into your account immediately you make provision the required document.
You will be directed where and how to get the document as it is not in your possession.
Awaiting your response.
Robert S. Mueller, III
$10.5 mil - imagine how much it would pay if the grammar were correct.
Hey - maybe they could hire me on as a copy editor.
Hell on earth
FP - Foreign Policy - is running a piece on the world's most dangerous borders. Right alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan, North and South Korea is . . . Mexico and the U.S.
And don't think that all of the violence is confined to the Mexican side.
Article on-line here. Bonus question - how many of these have been featured in my books?
FP - Foreign Policy - is running a piece on the world's most dangerous borders. Right alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan, North and South Korea is . . . Mexico and the U.S.
And don't think that all of the violence is confined to the Mexican side.
Article on-line here. Bonus question - how many of these have been featured in my books?
RIP
Marty Greenberg, the force behind so many anthologies and the man who arranged many of the books I've written over the years, died Saturday.
I'm sure there will be many different tributes to him. Here's something different that I remember, watching this game with him (unfortunately, not at the stadium, but that's another story).
Marty Greenberg, the force behind so many anthologies and the man who arranged many of the books I've written over the years, died Saturday.
I'm sure there will be many different tributes to him. Here's something different that I remember, watching this game with him (unfortunately, not at the stadium, but that's another story).
Whatever you toss . . .
. . . can and will be used against you in a court of law.
. . . can and will be used against you in a court of law.
Item:
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — State police say a Buffalo man's effort to ditch some drugs from a moving car didn't exactly go as planned.
Troopers with the state police Thruway detail say 20-year-old Sean Schmidt was standing with his upper body sticking out the sunroof of a vehicle traveling on Interstate 190 in Buffalo late Monday night.
When a trooper following in a state police cruiser activated the car lights to pull the other vehicle over, Schmidt threw a small bag of marijuana, which landed on the hood of the trooper's car.
Troopers say Schmidt was ticketed for marijuana possession and not wearing a seatbelt.
In need of De-training . . .
I think I've sat behind this woman a few times.
The original poster's comment:
This woman was talking too loud on the train when the conductor politely asked her to keep it down and stop using profanity or to take it to the vestibule. She jumped up and started yelling about how "educated" she is, proving the exact opposite.
There was an announcement a minute later asking all passengers to please not use profanity on the train, "especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport.
I think I've sat behind this woman a few times.
The original poster's comment:
This woman was talking too loud on the train when the conductor politely asked her to keep it down and stop using profanity or to take it to the vestibule. She jumped up and started yelling about how "educated" she is, proving the exact opposite.
There was an announcement a minute later asking all passengers to please not use profanity on the train, "especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport.
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