A THERMONUCLEAR WEAPON DOES NOT BELONG IN THE HANDS OF AN ENEMY OF THE STATE.
WE ARE
NOT AMUSED
MR. OBAMA.
Category: True Stories
Someone’s got problems.
That’s Jacqueline Lasdon, nightlife performer, whatever that means, and she inherited a lot of money ($2.5 Million) to waste her time doing this. Do I care what she does with her grampa’s trust fund inheritance? No, but what a waste.
At the Cheetos Convention
Snakes On A Hot Tin Roof
I was informed about a cool site called “MapCrunch” that takes you to a random Google Maps Street View Image with a single click ‘o the mouse, so I took it for a quick spin.
I ended up traveling North on the Bumthang-Ura Highway in Bhutan and decided to see what was around the corner. (Click on any image below for detail.)
Looks pretty, clean and quiet, paved road, dogs, no graffiti and snakes on the roof. Yeah, I could live there, and what could be better than living in the sticks and having a King named Jigme Wangchuck?
[h/t Baffled Baboon]
Yep. There they are.
1967 High School Girls
Chastity Suit?
Jaqueline Gadsden (aka Jane Daly) on the set of “The Mysterious Island“ in 1929. Although it was a silent movie (one of the last), it was filmed in color (one of the first).
[Image found here.]
Fire and Ice – February 2015
Philadelphia firefighters work the scene of an overnight blaze in west Philadelphia on February 16, as icicles hang from where the water from their hoses froze. Bone-chilling, single digit temperatures have gripped the region, prompting the closure of all parish and regional Catholic elementary schools in the city of Philadelphia.
Ice encases a traffic light and two fire fighting ladders, formed from water used to fight a fire, near the scene of an overnight blaze in west Philadelphia on February 16.
Vehicles and a building are covered with ice as firefighters worked to keep a warehouse fire down in the Brooklyn borough of New York on February 1.
Beacon Street in Boston on February 16.
That last one wasn’t the result of fire hoses, but it’s awesome. Beside the threat of ice and snow collapsing roofs, the huge icicles are potential killers down below.
[All images and captions from here, via here. Click photos for full size.]
Saturday Matinee – Mardi Gras & St. Valentine’s Day Combined: Smoking Time Jazz Club, Grampa Eliot and Doreen’s Jazz
“Percolatin’ Blues” courtesy of Smoking Time Jazz Club.
Grampa Eliot sings the truth.
Doreen’s Jazz is entirely awesome.
Have a great weekend, folks, remember the Presidents who afforded us our freedoms and those who assist in taking them away, and be back here tomorrow for more stuff.
The Bug That Wasn’t A Bug But Was.
Take a guess as to what it was – the answer’s below the break. Continue reading “The Bug That Wasn’t A Bug But Was.”
Aztec Death Whistle
It sounds exactly what my daughter’s boyfriend listens to. At first I thought it was a hoax, but apparently it’s not.
Tacky Raccoons 