The Florida Legislature Is In Session
A member of the Florida legislature is proposing a 2¢ per roll tax on toilet paper to fund sewer improvements. While this CBS article milks the comedic value of this proposal, they forgot to ask if the tax would added before or after the 6% sales tax we already pay on toilet paper. Unlike luxury skyboxes at professional sports stadiums or emu feed, toilet paper is subject to the sales tax.
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Parking Problems
According to this report on the Australian Broadcasting site, a student in Evora, Portugal parked his car in a public lot and took the plates off to have them straightened.
Someone saw him take the plates off and leave the car, so they called the police to investigate.
The police decided that this was typical “terrorist car-bomb behavior” and called the bomb squad.
The bomb squad decided that since they couldn’t find a bomb to disarm, they had better blow up the car in a controlled fashion, which they then proceeded to do.
The student returned with his straightened plates as they were sweeping up the remains of his car.
Well, “the police blew up my homework” is certainly more original than “the dog ate it”.
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In Memoriam
March 11th, 2004, Madrid
Nuestros profundos condolencias en su perdida.
With 191 dead and hundreds injured the Spanish did not lash out without reason, but conducted an investigation which resulted in the capture of almost all of those responsible.
Had the United States been this reasoned in its response, perhaps Bali and Madrid could have been avoided with the capture of all of Osama bin Laden’s thugs in Afghanistan.
For more information on the Madrid bombing see this Wikipedia article.
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Friday Cat Blogging
[TM Kevin Drum]
Ovinnik
What is that?
[Edit: In Russian mythology an ovinnik is a barn sprite that looks like a black cat with green eyes. The photo is the result of taking the picture through a glass window with a flash.]
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