Parrothead Jeff

Phoenix has never been and will never be a place I like. It’s too freaking hot in the summer for one thing (and I live in Las Vegas for crying out loud ) and it doesn’t seem to have much in the way of entertainment, either. It could be that I’m just [...]

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Since when can someone, I don’t care if they’re a cop, tell me not to video tape them from my own property? It would be time for me to install hard-wired security cameras at this point.
Also, if everyone agreed that the best course of action was to go the route of a search warrant, [...]

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Yep, it happened again. Not 15 minutes after I finished my last post, they hit again. The side door was covered with wood from Friday night/Saturday morning’s break-in, so they broke the front door. All four panes of tempered glass. I don’t think I should say what they did or did [...]

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So I was just wandering around The Flight Deck over at Lex’s place when I stumbled on a post with a video that brought out my acrophobia like nothing else has.
Here’s the video:

I can only imagine what lawyer fodder that would be in the U.S. and no, there’s no way you’ll ever get me up [...]

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The events leading up to this make for a long story which might be told sometime in the distant future, but this is remarkable in and of itself.
Not all that long ago, I and the rest of the techs on the floor at work were told we were not to discuss firearms on the floor [...]

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Some people think I’ve gone a bit overboard mounting a GPS receiver to my windshield. After my little run-in with the Nevada Highway Patrol, I don’t think so.
Here’s the reason I feel better having my Garmin reading out my speed. I’m actually going 65 M.P.H. per GPS, but I didn’t want to try [...]

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Good ol’ Pinch has a post up over at his place that made me question the contents and ingredients of my Diet Pepsi Max
Looks like either another news outlet screwed up or Iran’s a whole lot better at copying U.S. jets than we thought.
Is it just me that’s wondering :wtf: ???

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Hello Kitty AR-15 - evil black rifle meets cute and cuddly

Well, in the “spirit” of the California Assault Weapon Ban I decided to do my best to alleviate the fears of my fellow citizens and gun-banning legislators when I put together a new AR-15 for my wife. Below is the result of my painstaking [...]

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Whilst perusing the internet this morning, I came across something that has once again lowered my opinion of politicians and the “nanny state” to a new level. Read for yourself:
Bill would ban military slot machines - CNN.com
OK, so here’s the deal - this politician thinks that it’s OK for the military to sell alcohol [...]

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Ryanair calendar - 2008 cabin crew charity calendar
Fox News:
MADRID, Spain — Spain’s government-run Women’s Institute has labeled a 2008 calendar for low-cost airline Ryanair featuring bikini-wearing air hostesses as sexist and said it would be sending letters of complaint to Irish and EU authorities.
Yep, it’s come down to this. Ryanair, a low-cost carrier [...]

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FOXNews.com - ‘Drug’ Made From Human Waste Causing Stink on Web, in Law Enforcement - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
An implausible story about a natural high derived from human waste is causing a stink on the Internet and has forced a local sheriff’s department to issue a warning about [...]

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FOXNews.com - Al Qaeda Deputy Leader Takes Aim at Libya’s Gadhafi In New Video - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
CAIRO, Egypt — Al Qaeda’s No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri harshly criticized Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in a new audio tape Saturday, accusing him of being [...]

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Sex ban on the Airbus A380 - Times Online
The A380 may have the world’s first airborne double bed, but it won’t be put to the obvious use if Singapore Airlines has its way: “If couples used our double beds to engage in inappropriate activity, we would politely ask them to desist,” said the company’s Stephen [...]

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FOXNews.com - Official: Mexican Infected With TB Used Alias to Evade Capture - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
WASHINGTON — For the second time this year, the federal government has failed to stop a man infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis from traveling to and within the [...]

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Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » Need Another Reason to Hate Socialized Medicine?…
Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.
And by the end of the decade 200,000 “health tourists” will fly as far as Malaysa and South [...]

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Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize First Ever Given That Has Nothing To Do With Peace
Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2007. According to the Nobel Foundation, the award was given “for their efforts to build up [...]

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FOXNews.com - Children and Bikes: $200 Million National Health Crisis, Researchers Say - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News
Bicycle-related injuries among children and adolescents in the U.S. are a significant public health concern, costing nearly $200 million in annual in-patient hospital charges, according to a new study published in the October issue [...]

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Fascism comeback in Italy?
Recently, Italian lawmakers once again took aim at modern life, introducing an incredibly broad law that would effectively require all bloggers, and even users of social networks, to register with the state. Even a harmless blog about a favourite football squad or a teenager grousing about life’s unfairness would be subject to [...]

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Passenger Says ATA Harassed Him For iPhone Use
The passenger, who was only identified by his first name Casey, got a scare from ATA flight attendants and the police. The iPhone has an “airplane mode” that disables cell phone, radio, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth signals, thus allowing you to watch movies… but that didn’t stop flight attendants [...]

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FOXNews.com - Georgia Couple Defends Decision to Hang Dummies With Nooses on Halloween - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
“People were calling saying their children were disturbed by what they were seeing,” Gray said. “Halloween is not hanging. Hanging is not Halloween.”
The Troup County chapter of the National Association for [...]

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