May Day
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5 Years ago, we saw this:
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Dawnell and I took the van out last night and she drove while I sat and listened, no squeaks that I could hear and I hear pretty good. So I guess Todd Archer Hyundai got it fixed finally using one of their “Squeak repair kits”. It would have been nice they had squeak reapir kits 11 months ago.
Working days has been going pretty good. I am home when the boys get off the bus and I usually have dinner ready to go by the time Dawnell gets home.
Might have some big thunder storms tonight. Hopefully we can keep both boys calm during them. Shane especially gets uptight, but he has been through a tornado so it is to be expected I guess.
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FELONY WEDGIFICATION
At 8:16 p.m. on April 22, a North Platte police patrolman was dispatched by the 911 Center to a North Platte home in the 200 block of William Avenue on the complaint of a wedgie.
Seems a neighbor kid gave a youngster a wedgie and the boy’s father called the police.
A wedgie is the condition of having one’s underwear or other garmets “wedged” between the buttocks. This can occur, due to tight garments or physical activity, or performed as a prank by another person by yanking the undergarments upward, thus “giving a wedgie.”
The officer arrived at the residence and talked with all concerned, according to a police spokesman. The father of the boy who received the wedgie thought it was inappropriate.
The officer was able to calm the situation and no one was cited or arrested.
The police spokesman said they are ever vigilant and on the lookout for wedgies here.
“You might get away with that in Lincoln or Omaha,” the spokesman said. “But we’re not going to allow wedgies in North Platte.”
The spokesman said they planned to put a stop to the wedgies before they escalate into full-blown melvins or atomic wedgies.
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DHS AT ITS BEST
Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation “embarrassing,” and some members of Congress vow to fix it.
The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC), the once-banned anti-Apartheid organization. In the 1970s and ’80s, the ANC was officially designated a terrorist group by the country’s ruling white minority. Other countries, including the United States, followed suit.
Members of other groups deemed a terrorist threat, such as Hamas, also are on the watch lists.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says “common sense” suggests Mandela should be removed. He says the issue “raises a troubling and difficult debate about what groups are considered terrorists and which are not.”
When ANC members apply for visas to the USA, they are flagged for questioning and need a waiver to be allowed in the country. In 2002, former ANC chairman Tokyo Sexwale was denied a visa. In 2007, Barbara Masekela, South Africa’s ambassador to the United States from 2002 to 2006, was denied a visa to visit her ailing cousin and didn’t get a waiver until after the cousin had died.
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“… Magna Carter …”
George W. Bush
circa May 30, 2001
Standing before giant redwood trees in California, the president stated that the trees were there when the “Magna Carter” was signed.
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264 Days Left
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring
Freedom casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central
Command: 4527
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