Thursday miscellanea #31

  • Remember the video game Burgertime?
  • ‘Seester mentioned it a couple of posts ago, and today the House passed it.  Are you ready for micro-targeted punitive taxation?  They’re just thinking up all kinds of crazy shit up there right now, and then doing it!  Bang!  Change you can believe in, baby!
  • Nathan’s fever was hanging on this morning, so we’re 0 for 2 on the week (Tuesday, tomorrow) trying to get out of town for the day with BamaDan and his family.  Kid’s getting ripped off, being sick during spring break.  Next we’re going to try to hike with Saintseester and her seester this weekend.  Cross your fingers.
  • I got a wheresgeorge.com dollar bill today.  I don’t see them often, but I always enter them when I do.  The reports for the bills I enter never get any longer, though.  Not enough people play.
  • Freedom of movement is no more in Great Britain.  Every time you leave the country is recorded.  Twenty-four hours before departure, you must provide addresses, credit card numbers, and exact itineraries—information which is kept by the government for ten years.  This is to “catch terrorists.”  As big a woody as Obama apparently has for transforming us into nanny-state Europe, how long before we’re doing the same thing on this side of the pond?
  • My traffic’s up about 30% today because of hits on the Ravelry.com nonsense.
  • Nothing quite like a forever swastika, is there?

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10 thoughts on “Thursday miscellanea #31”

  1. Burgertime was incredibly fun. Loved builiding the burgers and knocking out the “bad guys” with the salt…

    As far as international travel is concerned, I had to call AirTran 24 hours before my departure to Mexico and give them all of our passport numbers and our final destination “so they could get in touch with us if flight info changed.” They didn’t specifically ask for my credit card number, but then again, they already had it from when I booked the tickets. We’re not that different from the U.K….

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  2. Tru dat, Bo, but “they” said it was new FAA regulations for international travelers to submit that information within 48 hours of travle to their airline.

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  3. OK, good point, but is the government storing the information “for our safety”?

    Hell, would we even know? Do I trust anyone in DC but Ron Paul? Probably not. 🙂

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