“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams
As you should already know, a man went on a tragic shooting spree in a church in Knoxville, Tennessee on Sunday. The church was the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church and the man was Jim Adkisson. It’s been determined that Adkisson chose the church because he hated the church’s liberal teachings. Adkisson also believed that all liberals should be killed.
Oddly, if you do a search of Foxnews.com using the words knoxville tennessee shooting you get 36 hits but none are about this particular story:
Alan Grayson is running for the Democratic candidate for the 8th district of Congress. The position he is running for is currently held by Ric Keller. Keller is best know for the “Cheeseburger Bill” and well, not much else. At least, not much when it comes to his work in Congress.
But Ric Keller is for another post.
Alan Grayson has been fighting against contractor fraud for more than 16 years. Since the beginning of the Iraq War, he’s been battling against the no-bid contractors and the Department of Justice. One case involves a refrigerator truck that KBR was using to hold bodies of Iraqis. The bodies had been in the truck for two weeks in the Iraqi heat without refrigeration. Needless to say, it wasn’t pretty. Now, refrigerator trucks can be used to hold bodies, but then they can never be used to carry food or ice. KBR, however, continued to use this particular truck to carry ice.
Yeah, gross. And any ice or food carried on that truck becomes a bio-hazard. You can read more about this case and other cases in a Vanity Fair article.
I found a new tv ad that Grayson has put out over on Daily Kos. It looks great.
In case you haven’t figured it out, I plan on voting for Grayson. If you want to help Grayson out, please visit Act Blue or Grayson’s campaign website.
George Carlin died last night of heart failure. He was 71.
I never got to see Carlin perform in person. When he came to Orlando I remember having a prior obligation so I missed seeing him perform.
In 1978, Carlin ended up in a court battle in front of the Supreme Court over his “Seven Words” routine. The Supreme Court ruled that the routine was indecent, but Carlin continued to perform the routine. As a result, he was arrested several times. All of the cases were dismissed.
Okay, this is just weird. Apparently someone saw a black bear wandering around in College Park last night.
We saw a black bear last night in my neighborhood when doing for a walk about 8:30pm. It was in the really old and nice section of the neighborhood with huge oak trees and lots of deep lots off of Lakeview. It was weird-an urban neighborhood in Orlando and a black bear was in the front yard of an old empty house for sale. I kept seeing the bear and thinking it was a statue. Finally, about 2 houses away I asked Maria if she saw it– and was it really a bear? The bear turned it’s head and looked at us. Maria agrees it was a bear and goes running after it to get a closer look! Maria chased it in the back yard of the house and it was so dark we never found it again.
From the description, that’s not all that is probably not all that far from my house.
No, I’m not worried about my safety. If it was really a bear I doubt it is still in the area. Even if it is, I imagine it would be just as afraid of me. I will keep the dog close by, though, just in case.
