For my long-suffering Brit Readers, who often have to deal with my barbs and jibes:
For my Murkin and Non-Colonial Readers, here’s a brief explanation if this heroic man is unknown to you. We have no such role model, try as the DemSocs may to create one:
Our guy [sic] definitely had the more striking outfit, although it’s probably not the best choice to adopt if one is trying to sneak into a government building.
If you watch this little episode and don’t fall in love with KC, we can’t be friends. (Here’s her story, if you don’t have the time to watch the video, although the video does her more credit.)
And astonishingly, she went back out the very next day (in a new aircraft, as hers was just scrap at that point).
I’ll bet that there is not a man alive — a real man, that is — who wouldn’t take a bullet for KC.
Here’s something I’ve never done on this website before, but when you see who and what this is all about, you’ll understand.
The executive summary reads as follows:
Recently laid off due to a company bankruptcy, he is an engineer and business development specialist with over 25 years in startups. He has invented, developed, and innovated in a number of technologies from graphing databases and encryption software to chemical coatings, low temperature gas kinetics, medical devices and software, aerodynamic vehicle systems, industrial visual safety products and more. Looking for something full time but is available for consulting. If you know anyone who needs good advice or help with a technological problem, he is a great place to start.
“He” is known to all Longtime Readers as “Combat Controller”, and he’s looking for a job.
He’s also one of my closest friends, so any help you can throw his way, whether by referral (what business-speak types call “networking”) or an actual job offer, will earn my undying gratitude, and may involve the gift of one of my prized guns should it all work out for everyone concerned.
If you have an idea, or need more info, drop me an email and I’ll put you in touch with him. Get the call out, folks, and thank you all in advance.
Reader Mike L. sends me this heartening news:
Dangerous street takeovers are happening more and more often in Oklahoma City and across the nation, which is why an updated city ordinance is cracking down on large groups of people who illegally block intersections, roads, or parking lots. Street takeovers can include street racing, or can simply involve participants using their vehicles to block intersections while they take over the area with friends.
Not only do illegal takeovers increase crime, they also block medical responders during emergencies.
The updated ordinance includes vehicles being impounded for 90 days, while participants can be jailed for 60 days, as well as face fines of more than $2,000.
My only suggestion is that the towed cars are taken not to impound lots, but straight to scrapyards where the car crushers are waiting. To paraphrase Samuel Johnson: nothing concentrates the mind more than an imminent crushing.
And the fine takes away the deposit for a replacement.
The Kim Award for Honest Speech and Straight Talk goes to Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County FL for this outstanding comment:
People have a right to be safe in their homes… I highly recommend, if a looter enters your home, you grab your gun and you shoot him, you shoot him so he looks like grated cheese.
I bet he drinks straight bourbon with a vitriol chaser.
No doubt some fainting goats will have a problem with his fine suggestion; just nobody on this website.
Just a lovely story, one that makes me want to take the barrel of tar off the boil, hang the rope back on the wall and postpone a trip to the range:
“Today at my local supermarket, there was an elderly lady in front of me, kept checking how much she’s spending. Long story short, the amount came to over what she had, and she asked for certain items to be credited off.
“The Aldi cashier turned around and said, ‘It’s only £1 something over, I’ll pay it for you.’
“When it was my turn I said ‘what a lovely thing to do’ and the reply was ‘we are all battling at the moment and we need to eat’.”
Nothing like a bit of gratuitous kindness to help assuage the rage, is there?