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TSA Needs Your Help!
Feb 7th
No education required!
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DHS Monitoring Twitter; Ejects Chavs From US
Jan 30th
Alternate title of this post: When Idiots Converge. Leigh Bryan, a 24 YO doofus from Ireland, and probable chav, tweeted that he was going to “destroy america” and “dig up” Marilyn Monroe’s corpse. Upon landing in LAX, he was intercepted by customs and searched and then told that he was not allowed entry onto US soil. It seems he was watchlisted by DHS idiots who don’t understand that pasty white guys from the UK use terms like “destroy” to mean “get wasted.”
From the Mail here:
Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to ‘destroy America’ and ‘dig up Marilyn Monroe’. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting. The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: ‘Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America‘.
After making their way through passport control at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) last Monday afternoon the pair were detained by armed guards. Despite telling officials the term ‘destroy’ was British slang for ‘party’, they were held on suspicion of planning to ‘commit crimes’ and had their passports confiscated.
Federal agents even searched his suitcase looking for spades and shovels, claiming Emily was planning to act as Leigh’s ‘look out’ while he raided Marilyn’s tomb. Bar manager Leigh, from Coventry, and Emily, 24, from Birmingham, were then quizzed for five hours at LAX before they were handcuffed and put into a van with illegal immigrants and locked up overnight.
‘When we arrived at the prison I was shoved in a cell on my own but after an hour two huge Mexican men covered in tattoos came in and started asking me who I was. ‘They told me they’d been arrested for taking cocaine over the border. When the food arrived on the tray they took it all and just left me with a carton of apple juice.‘
They spent 12 hours in separate holding cells before being driven back to the airport where they were put on a plane home via Paris.
Aww, poor baby only got apple juice.
Yes, its kinda absurd that DHS thinks that they are catching terrorists by reading tweets. Its refreshing to see them fail at this as badly as their airport screening prevents terror too. As long as DHS continues to pretend that white males plant bombs, they will fail at their task.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Spirit of Detroit Statue
Jan 19th
Spirit of Detroit, a photo by kaszeta on Flickr.
This statue is one of the few cool things to look at in Detroit in addition to some fantastic gothic architecture. The statue is supposed to symbolize a relationship with God, but it looks like a huge blue guy is going to crush a tiny family with a painful spikey ball.
Leave it to Detroit to evoke images of being all stabby.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Detroit River and Belle Island
Jan 17th
Detroit River and Belle Island, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
It seems like the prettiest thing in Detroit is looking across the river at Canada.
This was taken from an observation deck at the Detroit Renaissance Center. The day was mostly overcast and often you couldn’t see below the cloudline, but the river was a deep aqua color despite the cruddy weather.
And back during prohibition, bootleggers would drive across the frozen lake to deliver hooch!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Hate Crimin’ at the Cheese
Jan 16th
A white family was beat up by a black family at a Detroit Area Chuck E Cheese. The violence began when the grandmother of the white family requested that the black family stop dropping the F Bomb around all the little kids. The black man in the group passed his baby to someone, jumped over the booth and started swinging. I guess he thought if he hit white people hard enough they would spit out tickets too.
Mich. Family: Grandmother Assaulted at Chuck E. Cheese’s: MyFoxDETROIT.com
Was the crime racially motivated? If so, should it be a hate crime or just a regular crime?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Suicide at the Van Dorn Metro
Jan 6th
Some woman’s final act in life was to become a major inconvenience to commuters in the DC Metro Area. The woman jumped in front of the train at the Van Dorn Metro Blue Line Station. Northern Virginia residents are very nice, almost to a fault. Certainly there weren’t any angry black women to throw coffee at her like in the video below while shouting “I got places to be, go die somewhere else bitch!”
From the WashingtonExaminer here:
An adult woman was killed after she jumped into the path of an inbound train at the Van Dorn Street Metro station, becoming the transit system’s first suicide of 2012.
Police believe she intentionally put herself into the path of the train based on video footage, plus accounts from witnesses and the train operator, Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said.
Trains had to share a single track around the area after the 7:15 a.m. incident. Delays were occurring in both directions from the station. The train that hit her had been cleared from the area as of 9:35 a.m. but the track remained closed as the investigation and clean up continued.
Her death was the second suicide attempt of 2012.
Commuting in and out of DC is considered to be the worst commute in the nation on a good day. We sometimes get jumpers on bridges, protesters in the streets, or suicides on the railways, and this is the surest way to garner zero sympathy from anyone that has to make that commute. I don’t have to do the commute often anymore and I still say good riddance to rubbish.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Chipping with a 3-Wood in Nepal
Oct 21st
Haven’t had much success with Golden Tee lately. Mostly, the machines I find are either wonky or I simply can’t get a good score. Here is the highlight of last night’s session where I managed to do a 3-Wood chip shot from the shale rough.
Also, you can see a yeti strolling past up on the hillside.
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Earthquakes and Rockaway Beach
Oct 20th
So I got the whole California experience. Rode out a 4.2 quake in a downtown highrise 26 floors up.
So I headed out before any aftershocks came my way. Now I’m staying my last night at Rockaway Beach in Pacifica. Cloudy, tho.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Spooky Wine
Oct 16th
All of the vineyards in Napa are decorated for Halloween. This was taken inside the tasting room at Trefethen-
In addition to the 15 dollar tasting, I went home with a 30 dollar bottle of Chardonnay. Yeah, its better than the Chardonnay I get at home in Virginia, but perhaps not worth the 45 bucks for the bottle.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Biker on Mt Diablo
Oct 15th
Earlier today I took the rental car to the top of Mount Diablo outside of Walnut Creek, California. The weather was fantastic, and the winding road to the summit was crawling with cyclists- how I managed not to smush one in my grill was a miracle. I did manage to snap this photo, as well as take the panoramic photo below:
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Autumn Ivy at Silverado Vineyard
Oct 15th
Who says California doesn’t experience seasons? In Napa Valley, the seasons express themselves with color changes on the vineyard tasting rooms.
This was taken at Silverado Vineyard, where I picked out a great Sangiovese.
Funny- when I was here last in May, it was so cold you needed a coat. Now the weather is warm and the leaves are changing.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...San Fran from the Rooftop
Oct 13th
Staying at a pretty cool Victorian Bed and Breakfast in the Mission District. From the roof you can see most of downtown San Francisco.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...All the Single Women
Oct 12th
i saw this photo on the wall at Harpoon Harry’s in Key West. I have no idea what was going on but one thing is certain- this is the shallow end of the gene pool.
Today is a travel day for me- jetting from Key West to San Francisco- and this may be the only post today. Try to leave the best caption for this photo or check out my archives.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Maidenhead
Oct 11th
Saw this maidenhead in a Key West art store and thought it was beautiful… Until I used a flash for the photo and now I think she is just plain creepy. Yet still awesome.
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Tribute in Lights
Sep 11th
My delayed flight back from New York last Thursday night was a very bumpy one. The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee was dumping floodwaters from my home up through Pennsylvania and the clouds were beginning to encroach on the NYC area too. My wife kept texting that she was bailing water out of our basement, and I just wanted to get home. As we circled New York on the ascent from LaGuardia to head south, I saw a brief break in the clouds and could see what appeared to be giant lasers shooting into the sky. And then I realized that even with a bumpy ride and flooded basement, I at least, was getting to go home again.
You can see more of John Deguzman’s pics here.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...London Bridge Sunset
Aug 1st
That’s London Bridge, looking at the north bank of the Thames. This shot was taken right next to the replica of Francis Drake’s ship, the Golden Hind, that circumvented the globe, pictured below.
And, here is a panorama of the site. And yes, I was certainly drinking a few delicious English ales at the time.
This post gets the pirate tag because Drake died after attempting to take San Juan, Puerto Rico from the Spanish.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Looking out over the Thames
Jul 30th
I got to enjoy my home for about 36 hours. Now I’m back at Dulles waiting to board a late flight to London. The flight is delayed, I’m stuck in a middle seat because the trip was a bit last-minute, and I will be gone another week.
Blogging will, as is most often the case these days, be erratic, light or even non-existent at times.
And has anyone else noticed that my blog, which started out to be an opinion/politics blog has become much more of a travel blog this past year or so?
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Garbage Truck, Shirley Temple, and REO Speedwagon
Jul 28th
At the Hard Rock in Hollywood FL is REO Speedwagon’s Dave Amato’s guitar encased within a coffee table on a common area. My boy is busy driving a toy garbage truck over it and sucking down a Shirley Temple.
I reckon ol Dave’s ax didn’t merit a more prominent placement in the casino?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Chillin’ at the Hard Rock
Jul 28th
My wife and I honeymooned here at the Hard Rock Seminole in Hollywood, FL. Neither of us gamble, but we love the amenities, shopping and wide variety of food and fun that a casino resort offers. Its our last day of vacation and we are having a blast with more to come. Cartney swam himself into a catatonic state and Jess and I downed an “Oh Yeah!” Kool-Aid-sized pitcher of sangria while we were poolside.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Cartney and the Lorikeets at Butterfly World
Jul 27th
I have a couple of friends that are terrified at the thought of birds crawling all over them. Cartney shows no such fear. Well, maybe he did get a little freaked when one got on his head.
And no one got pooped on, which is awesome.
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