Chilly. This is the first Friday of the month, and that is the day for our AARP Chapter meeting. Yesterday, I checked out the meeting location, and there was snow covering some of the handicap access ramp.. so, because I would not be able to push Elaine's wheelchair through the snow, she did not go with me to the meeting. However, today, when I got there, I found that someone had shoveled the snow at last.. too late for Elaine to attend.
My buddy, Bruce Lohr spoke to our group about Homeland Security and how to look for terrorists, or at least suspicious activity. It's a jungle out there, folks.
Bruce mentioned a guy who had an explosive device hidden in his underwear. Unfortunately for him, his sweat caused a short circuit and his pants began to smoke. When his fellow (Dutch) passengers noticed this, they correctly took it as a threat and jumped him and started to hit him. He said that he was really glad to be arrested because he was afraid these folks were going to kill him.
In today's news, another terrorist tried to blow up a plane in Somalia.. probably with another underwear bomb... but, somehow, his wires got crossed and he was blown sideways through the plane's fuselage and ended up being the only passenger that was killed.
Bruce Lohr is a great speaker and he has a repertoire of dozens of speeches about crime prevention. I will be inviting him out to give his anti-terrorism talk to Carroll Lutheran Village. Bruce is also the TRIAD coordinator for the State of Maryland and will be having a quarterly TRIAD meeting in March, where a noted "crime fighter" will be giving us tips on crime prevention.
Ramblings:
People with dark eyes are more susceptible to pain than people with light eyes, or so I've read. True?
New York Post sez:
McDonald's claim that its new mozzarella sticks are "100% real cheese" is bunk, according to some folks who are suing for refunds. McD sez that they use 100% low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese. Are they telling a "whopper?"
New York police caught eleven members of the Queens "Snow Gang" who were "fishing" checks out of postal boxes by lowering blocks wrapped in adhesive duct tape and reeling in their catch. Quite innovative crooks, I would say.
Donald Trump suggested that Ted Cruz stole the Iowa Caucus win. He would like to see either a new election taking place or a nullification of Cruz' results. (Do you want cheese with your whine, Donald?"
Sarah Palin sez: "Polls are usually only good for strippers and cross-country skiers."
The faculty at Brown University voted to rename Columbus Day as Indigenous People's Day. (How do all those members of the Providence Italian community feel about that?)
In Moscow, punk-provocateur band Pussy Riot released a music video this week that mocks Russian law enforcement agencies. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and two other band members were jailed for a while in 2012 for staging an anti-Putin protest in one of Moscow's cathedrals. (So.. there is free speech in Russia! How would the U.S. Supreme Court have handled the issue of anti-Government protesting in religious locations?)
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