News Roundup
- From the “Qel Surpis” Department – The U.S. team that has been negotiating with Pakistan over re-opening of land routes to Afghanistan has decided that pissing their lives away in Karachi isn’t worth the effort. The routes were closed after an incident in 2011 in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed by mistake by NATO forces. My guess is that for once we looked at the price of Pakistan’s friendship and decided that if we have to buy friends, we can get a better deal.
- From the “Sweet Bureaucratic Tears” Department – The Supreme Court has denied an appeal by a former federal employee who was fired for not registering for the draft. Imagine that, a bureaucrat for the Treasury Department was fired for not following a bureaucratic process that happened to be a law, and the decision sticks. I, for one, look forward to the flood of bureaucrats who get to taste a little of what they’ve been dishing up. I particularly look forward to watching IRS employees stand in line to set up appointments for a consultation on their appeal of a bureaucratic decision to have their backyard declared a wetland.
- From the “Better Than Harsh Language” Department – A woman in Texas got lucky the other day when the police arrived just as she started shooting a burglar. She got lucky because she was shooting him with a paintball gun. Luckily for her, after she shot the intruder four times, he turned yellow and just waited for the police to take him away.
- From the “No Kidding” Department – Hosni Mubarak, the deposed dictator of Egypt, has stated that the new government is trying to kill him now that he is in prison. Hosni, my son, you get the DaddyBear Medal of Obviousness this week. You spent 30+ years running a brutal dictatorship,and when you were overthrown by a new brutal dictatorship they didn’t just put you up against a wall and use you to make a modern art masterpiece. Count your blessings. At least this way you will die on a pillow.
- From the “Oops” Department – The British Prime Minister is a bit red in the face after forgetting his 8-year-old daughter at a pub over the weekend. Apparently the leader of the nanny state forgot that the nanny wasn’t along on his jaunt to the country. There is a silver lining here, though. By the time Mr. Cameron had realized his mistake and returned, the young lady had moved up from dishwasher to pulling pints for the patrons, and was working on opening her own place next door. If she keeps this up, her industriousness will be a political liability to her father, and she’ll have to either go back to depending on the welfare state or emigrate in order to utilize her skills.
Posted by daddybear71 on June 11, 2012
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/ June 11, 2012Hellva collection there DB… 🙂
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