Do they make them this way anymore?

WARSAW, Poland – Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the ill-fated 1943 Warsaw ghetto revolt against the Nazis, died Friday at the age of 90.

Read it. This guy was a genuine hero and mensch, apparently every day of his long life.

Cop does great work off the clock

Kinsman Road (one of the seediest in Cleveland) is undergoing some repair and is down to one lane westbound at one point. This made it convenient for the local thugs (who have apparently taking notes on the work of their friends in Sadr City) to set up a roadblock for purposes of robbery. This worked for awhile, until they encountered  an unnamed off-duty policeman, who did what any armed citizen would have done when a gun was pointed at him. Result: one 22 year old perp dead (probably 6 times too late for Darwin).

 

The coments are hilarious:

Quote CapaCity: “LOL, a road block. Whats next a drive thru.”

Funny as it sounds, that would probably work in Cleveland. The sheep would just drive through and hand over their wallets and their ‘bling’.

                       — ricefarmer

I’m in love

Yes, I know she’s a politician, and that she’s taking most of the swag. But her colleagues set the bar so gosh-darn low.

“We will request federal stimulus funds for capital projects that will create new jobs and expand the economy,” Governor Palin said. “We won’t be bound by federal strings in exchange for dollars, nor will we dig ourselves a deeper hole in two years when these federal funds are gone. For instance, in order to accept what look like attractive energy funds, our local communities would be required to adopt uniform building codes. Government would then be required to police those codes. These types of funds are not sensible for Alaska.”

The legislation does not include funding requests for government operating programs. Governor Palin has indicated the state will not stand in the way of local governments or other entities pursuing stimulus funds directly from the federal government.

“The law requires me to certify that the requests I forward for legislative approval will meet the requirements of the ARRA to create jobs and promote economic growth,” Governor Palin said. “Legitimately, I can only certify capital projects that are job-ready. Alaska has seen unprecedented increases in the level of state funding for education because that is our priority. I don’t want to automatically increase federal funding for education program growth, such as the National Endowment for the Arts, at a time when Alaska can’t afford to sustain that increase.”

“Simply expanding state government under this federal stimulus package creates an unrealistic expectation that the state will continue these programs when the federal funds are no longer available,” said Governor Palin. “Our nation is already over $11 trillion in debt; we can’t keep digging this hole.”

And here’s the short-form:

“We can’t accept the bait,” Gov. Palin said. “To me it’s a bribe. ‘Here take these dollars. You got to grow government.’”

My kind of Santas

...covering speed cameras in Tempe AZ.