Funny British Solicitor wigs!

I love the powdered white wigs from the 1700’s.

Don't get me wrong, I like tradition, but I don’t know how they keep a straight face, wearing these dopey things:


How do they do this with a straight face?

This guy looks like he has some woodland critter on his head:



It’s hard to believe, but they really wear these funny wigs.

This barrister wig looks like it’s alive:



I’m sorry, but this just does not look natural:



I did not know that women solicitors and barristers are required to polp silly wigs over their coiffeurs:

Pastor Dave helps Jack off the horse

Punctuation and capitalization are important, but I think that this headline could have been worded better:


Pastor Dave helps Jack off the Horse

Young Jack McGurkin enjoyed a horse ride under the supervision of Pastor David Bates at the 1st annual Interfaith Picnic, held Sunday at Kiwanis Park.

Suicide over Stolen Valor

I like to hire heroes, but I’m always concerned because of the huge amount of people who lie on their resumes. They lie about their experience and their education with free abandon, and I catch them all the time.

It should be a crime . . .

But some job applicants cross the line, lying about their military awards, claiming medals for heroism that they did not earn. I detest military posers, and I love the Stolen Valor Act that makes it a Federal offense to lie about being a hero.



Exposing military posers

You can pull a job applicants DD214 and 201 file from St. Louis, but it takes months, and then you have to fire them and report them to the FBI for arrest.

Firing a poser after you have hired them can be demoralizing to the existing employees, and embarassing and ugly to the poser.


Fake military heroes like this prick belong in prison


A general disgrace: Commanders who claim false heroism

But it’s not only job seekers and enlisted men who embellish their heroism.

It’s not uncommon for general officers to steal medals, and Douglas MacArthur got all sorts of underserved medals for valor, including a Distinguished Flying Cross at age 71!


Undeserved medals of General Macarthur

But there are other cases of dishonest general officers.

A NEWSWEEK Stolen Valor investigation ends in suicide

In 1996, Four-Star Admiral Jeremy Boorda, Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, decided to “Guild the Lilly” and added two tiny “V” pins to his Navy Medals.

Boorda earned the medals legitimately, but without valor, and placing the tiny "V" nuggets on them is an important distinction:


The unearned “V” devices (on green ribbons, 3rd row down from top)


"V" is for Valor

The Navy Achievement Medal is a great honor all by itself, and he earned it, but the tiny “V” nugget is important because it stands for “Valor”.

Anybody in the military instantly recognized this tiny V as recognition of an American hero. The V device is also used on the Bronse Star to indicate that it was for a heroic act:


The bronze star with a “V” for Valor and an oak leaf cluster

The "V" is also attached to Navy medals, instantly marking the wearer as being a hero:

The “V” nugget is the mark of a hero.

Tragically, after being exposed by NEWSWEEK, Admiral Boorda killed himself.

This was a severe act of contrition for an Admiral, but it's not unheared of for men of honor in the military to commit suicide.

The Patron Saint of Computers

Today they have patron saints for everything from accountants to yachtsmen . . .

The Partron Saint of Database Management

It’s true, the Catholic Church has noted that St. Isadore is the Patron Saint of all things Computers:


St. Isadore: The Patron Saint of computers

Others say that it's more accurate to note that St. Isadore is the Patron Saint of the Internet:


Pray to St. Isadore

Jesus is my DBA

While there is no Patron Saint specifically for database management, so many database folks say that Jesus is their DBA:


Jesus is my DBA

Jesus was a carpenter, but he would have been a good DBA, for many reasons . . .

Inappropriate little girl's toys!

I have noted many inappropriate children’s toys, but this one I cannot understand:



And this girl’s toy is not appropriate either:



This one is for a Country girl:

Training dolphins to hunch!

Oh My Heavens!

You want to avoid a horney dolphin!

If you look closely, you will see that the trainer has TRAINED the dolphin to hunch . . .

Watch closely and see the trainer cue the dolphin and then reward him with a treat . . . .

What does your phone number spell?

This is a fun site, just enter your phone number and see suggested words that it spells!

Phone Spell

The real world model for Peter Griffin?

After attending "Family Guy Sings" performance in Carnegie Hall, I have become a real Fan of Seth Macfarlane, a master of voices with a truly sick sense of humor!

I have to wonder who Peter Griffin was modeled after?



Is this the model for the Family Guy Peter Griffin?



Or this fellow?

Spocking your money!

I miss out on the the new fads . . .

Evidently, "Spocking" your paper money is the latest Canadian fad:




Evidently you can Spock Abe Lincoln too:

Elderly Iraqi woman hit by stray bullets!

You cannot win their hearts and minds when they have no minds . . .

Dumb people don’t make good liars:



AFP/Yahoo!News Caption: Tuesday August 14, 2007:

An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City.