First item: Moammar Qaddaffi.
Or however you spell it.
The guy's a lunatic, that's all there is to it.
Next up: Kansas lawmakers have come to the conclusion that Kansans--and visitors on their freeways--don't go fast enough (yeah, right) so they're considering raising the speed limit to 75 mph.
Yahoo.
Naturally, this goes right along with the "guns everywhere" philosophy. Forget that it's more dangerous driving at higher speeds and that it burns more gasoline (from the Middle East). Forget all that. All that matters is that we go ever faster, right, representatives?
Knuckleheads.
Third on our list of Saturday lunacy (or idiocy, whatever applies): It seems in New York, "Candles ringing a bed in a voodoo ceremony that included sex ignited sheets and clothing strewn nearby and cause a fatal Brooklyn apartment fire last weekend, a city official said Friday."
I don't even need to comment on that one.
Fourth: This one really has me. It seems some young guy--a 19 year old from Holt, Missouri had been involved in a rollover car accident near Kearney.
No big deal so far, right?
But wait:
"Staff members found marijuana, assorted pills, drug paraphernalia and an apparent explosive device in the man's clothing."
Yikes.
"They moved the items to the ambulance bay and called police." Okay, sure. Makes sense.
They checked it out and the young man and then---here's the crazy part---released said young man "pending further investigation."
Wait a minute.
He had pot, assorted pills, drug paraphernalia and an apparent explosive device but wasn't taken to jail on suspicion?
And you don't think he's going to maybe leave the area? I thought pot was a felony.
Now that seems crazy but hey, what do I know?
Fifth and finally on the brief list of crazy today is this and I'm going to quote this one completely:
"INCITING HATRED: Italian police Friday arrested six Moroccan men suspected of inciting hatred against Pope Benedict XVI for converting a Muslim journalist to Catholicism."
Guys, you gotta' get a job.
Have a great, sane weekend, y'all.
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I lived in kansas for this the first time around (1995, maybe?) - when crappy state highways had their speed limit raised from 55 to 65. When the limit was 55, people used to drive 60 on the two-lane roads (this is one lane each direction, shared with farm equipment traveling from field to field). Remember in some places these roads didn't even have gravel shoulders.
Anyhow, now that the limit is raised to 65, people actually drive 70 on them. The accidents (when they occur) are more often fatal.
That's another thing I hadn't mentioned. No matter the speed limit, there will always be plenty of people who feel they have to go at least 5 more mph over that. It's an endless cycle.
You have to drive faster to keep ahead of the bullets.
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