Where Are My Keys?

What's missing in this HuffPo story?

The Huffington Post reports on a school shooting in Atlanta today.  Read the brief story, and see if you notice what I did.

I'll wait while you follow the link.

 

 

One thing I noticed, was the lack of mention by HuffPo on what caused the shooter to stop shooting.  A quick trip over to the Atlanta Journal Constitution reveals this:

An armed police resource officer apprehended the suspect, also a student at the school, “within minutes,” authorities said during a late afternoon news conference.

School officials praised the response of the officer, an off-duty Atlanta police officer, but offer few details of the incident, which happened on the school campus between the main building and the gym.

So a trained, armed individual stopped further violence in a school.  I wonder why HuffPo left that part out?

Al Gore gets tough questions, for a change..

 

Bob Mendendez, feeling the heat..

I'll gloss over obvious "War on Women" angle of the Democrat using underage prostitutes fro his own pleasure, and instead notice how quickly Menendez "remembered" he owed his buddy $60k for use of his private plane:

“Wonderful things, subpoenas,” Wilford Brimley said in Absence of Malice, after the threat of one broke the silence of conspirators in the film’s climax.  We can add FBI raids to that list of wonderful catalysts.  After discovering that the FBI had raided the offices of his frequent travel companion and campaign donor Salomon Melgen, Senator Bob Menendez suddenly remembered that he owed nearly $60,000 to Melgen for private-jet flights to the Dominican Republic:

Embattled Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said through a spokesman Wednesday that trips he took on the private jet of a major political donor “have been paid for and reported appropriately.” But that may not have been accurate until shortly before the statement went out to media: WNBC-TV4 in New York City reported Wednesday that Menendez recently wrote a $58,500 check to the jet’s owner, Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen.

“Senator Menendez has traveled on Dr. Melgen’s plane on three occasions, all of which have been paid for and reported appropriately,” the statement said.

Menendez’s chief of staff, Dan O’Brien, told NBC that it took the senator three years to pay his private airfare because of an office mistake.

“This was sloppy,” O’Brien conceded about two 2010 flights. “I’m chalking it up to an oversight.”

“Sloppy”?  That’s hardly credible.  Senators have staff members that watch for those kinds of expenditures.  Three private jet flights to the Dominican Republic completely escaped their notice until the FBI raided Melgen’s offices?  Riiiiiiiiiight.

If Bob had any iota of self-respect, he'd quit tomorrow.

I'm not holding my breath.

The roller coaster that is the Weekly IUC continues..

Lots of peaks and valleys these days.  This week, the number jumps to 368,000 (up 38,000 from last week).

Kind of ironic that the same day the President kills off the Jobs Council, we see a significant increase in newly unemployed people, isn't it?

When Obama in January 2011 formed his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, unemployment was hovering above 9 percent. Two years president later, more than 12 million people in the U.S. are out of work. The unemployment rate has improved to 7.8 percent, but both parties agree that's still too high.

A provision in Obama's executive order establishing the council says it sunsets on Thursday. A White House official said the president does not plan to extend it.

Officials said the president always intended for the council to fulfill its mission and then wind down, and said that Obama would continue to actively engage and seek input from business leaders about ways to accelerate job-creation and economic growth. Among the steps Obama plans to pursue are expedited permits for infrastructure projects, the White House said.

Makes sense that eventually the Jobs Council would go away.  Shouldn't that day not come until unemployment numbers are somewhat in line with historical averages?

This President cares little about jobs and unemployment.

JDJ was in Portugal?

Taming 100-foot waves:

 

Of course he owes back taxes, he's a well-connected Democrat..

Will the OWS folks camp out in front of his house until he pays?

Mr Bryan, a former adviser to Bill Clinton who helped raise funds for Mr Obama's re-election campaign, has owed the money to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) since 2006, according to court filings obtained by The Daily Telegraph from Texas.

Mr Bryan, who has been in a relationship with Ms Wintour since 1999, was also pursued for outstanding Texas property taxes, and has had energy companies he owns in the state chided by local authorities for falling behind on their financial filings.

The findings may threaten Ms Wintour's confirmation as a US ambassador if nominated by Mr Obama. Her appointment would need to be approved by the US Senate, which has in the past objected to irregularities in the tax affairs of nominees and their partners.

Mr Bryan, 66, was said to have a fortune of $30 million when he left his second wife, Katherine, for Ms Wintour 13 years ago. He reportedly suffered a decline in personal wealth amid the financial crisis, however, and frequently stays at Ms Wintour's $10 million townhouse in Manhattan.

Ms Wintour was one of Mr Obama's leading fundraisers during his re-election campaign, bringing in $500,000 to the president's coffers. At one $35,000-a-plate fundraising dinner in August, Mr Obama thanked "Anna and Shelby for being such extraordinary hosts".

Laws are for the little people.

This certainly won't leave any emotional scars..

We can't keep score at kids soccer games, or play dodgeball anymore.  Nope, that might leave schoolkids with bad memories of their school experience. 

What do you think this kind of experience would do to them?

According to a letter from Cary-Grove High School principal Jay Sargeant, there will be a code red drill at the school on Wednesday.

It will include somebody shooting blanks from a gun in the hallway “in an effort to provide our teachers and students some familiarity with the sound of gunfire.”

Parent Kassy Pinter says: “It’s probably necessary to have the ‘code red’ drill but not really necessary to shoot the blanks in the hallway.”

Parent Sharon Miller says the way Cary Grove has planned the code red drill is absurd and also thinks it’s not necessary to shoot blanks in the hallway.

“If you need to run a drill, you run a drill,” she told WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya. “They run fire drills all the time, but they don’t run up and down the hallway with a flamethrower.”

Parents are also concerned about some students getting too upset during the exercise.

What has become of this Country?  Yet another reason why my daughter won't attend Public School.

Grrr..

You know what drives me nuts?

People that aren't aware of their immediate surroundings.

People that think that they are the only person on the planet, that all that matters is in their immediate personal space, and are oblivious to others in their general vicinity.

I'm in the airport this morning, heading off to Seattle and Los Angeles for business, going through the TSA line.  Bags are on the conveyor belt, walk through the x-ray machine, and get to the other side, where 4 people are waiting behind the one guy who has decided he is the only one traveling today, and is getting dressed right at the "mouth" of the baggage x-ray.

Doesn't move his stuff down 6 feet to the left, so that the rest of us in line behind him can get our stuff.  Doesn't recognize that more bags and tubs are continuing to slowly push his stuff out of the way.

Nope.

Stands there like an idiot, no sense of urgency, takes his sweet time.  I move past the other sheep waiting for this clown, pick up my bags and tubs, and move to a quiet spot down the way to reassemble my possessions.

My plane lands in Seattle, and the flight waitresses ask us all to remain seated, as there has been a mild medical "emergency" on the flight, and ground-based paramedics are coming onboard to help this girl off.  They do their job, and the announcement is made that we may now deplane.

As is normally the case, some of the folks sitting in rows 1-4 don't have their bags in the compartments over their seats, so the "upstream spawn" begins, with a few of these people (instead of waiting for a few rows to clear out), begin wading against the flow to retrieve their precious suitcase from 10 feet away.

IF YOU WAIT FOR A MINUTE, OR ASK ME TO HAND YOU YOUR BAG, I WILL DO IT WITH A SMILE ON MY FACE.

But no, YOU have to elbow and force your way back, grab your stuff, and then for some reason, fight your way back downstream to recover your "spot" in line.  Keep in mind that your "spot" was about 4 feet away.  You will wind up getting off the plane a whopping 6 seconds faster than me.

Get a clue, people.

Random..

Better than 94% of the music coming out today..