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They’re getting into it, down Miami way:
Two women were accused of stealing Christmas decorations from their neighbor’s front yard in Sweetwater, authorities said…
They are accused of walking into their neighbor’s front yard where there was a Christmas display, including several inflatable decorations. They began unplugging the Christmas decorations and fled [...]
Didn’t I?
The Irish accent was yesterday voted the world’s sexiest – knocking the Gauls off the top spot they’ve held for decades.
Men with an Emerald Isle brogue, as promoted by stars like Colin Farrell and James Nesbitt, came top in a poll of 5,000 women worldwide.
The fall from grace of the [...]
Seen in the parking lot at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center -
IYAOYAS, indeed.
Some among you – admit it – would like to know how many fish I caught today, on the Little Truckee. What species they were, their length and weight. How long they fought for their freedom, their bodies writhing in the waters and shimmering in the sunlight. The bending of the rod, the reel [...]
No, really.
The Little Truckee River, on my first guided trip.
It’s going to be cold, and the fish will be down. Might be I don’t get a bite. But I wanted out of Fallon, and spent an entertaining evening in Truckee, a town I have always loved without quite knowing why.
In [...]
Up at 0400 this morning, for to take in the 0500 brief. The flight was cancelled in the end, the forecast crosswinds being out of limits.
Briefed another go at 1245, the winds howling around outside. Launched anyway, shot my first Super Hornet, headed home to land.
Flew a surveillance approach in blowing dust, [...]
Seven men from a breakaway set of Amish are under arrest for suspicion of assaulting other Amish men by giving them haircuts.
The rogue clan’s name?
Mullet.
What goes around comes around:
A group of several dozen “Occupy Las Vegas” protesters camping on Clark County land located under the final approach to Runway 19 at McCarran International Airport today narrowly missed being injured when a 50 lb. slab of “blue ice” reportedly landed within feet of their tents.
According to witnesses, [...]
Because you just never know.
Breaking.
The country has been plunged into a constitutional crisis, as Americans woke up today to learn that the Teleprompter of the United States of America (TOTUS) has been kidnapped.
It is being held in an undisclosed location:
A van containing President Obama’s teleprompter and podium were stolen from a Virginia hotel parking [...]
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