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As a lady in Stamford, Connecticut discovered:

Stamford police shot the chimp multiple times when he ripped off a side mirror and tried to enter a police cruiser, Conklin said. Travis (the chimpanzee) returned to the house and died inside.

The 2009 Circle Hawaii Cruise - Holland America Zaandam, January 5-21, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Eleven

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(Yes, Snookums finally finished up the writing, and Filbert finally has gotten around to posting the exciting conclusion to our Hawaii trip. Yee hah.

January 20 (Tuesday, Day 16, Ensenada, Mexico)

At 4 AM we were woken by the fog horn. It was still going off every two minutes at 8:30 when we really got up. We turned on CNN to see the inauguration activities. We decided that we are probably one of a very few number of people that were guests on a cruise during the election as well as during the inauguration. After watching the festivities, we went to breakfast. Snookums was thrilled since for the second time on this cruise, chocolate chip pancakes were served. They are delicious since the chocolate chips are ooey and gooey and all melty. Next to Regent’s raisin French toast, this is Snookums’s favorite cruise breakfast. It was a perfect start to an action-packed day.

Mexico in the evening twilight

More after the jump . . .

British, French nuclear subs collide in Atlantic

Confirming media reports of the incident involving Britain's HMS Vanguard and France's Le Triomphant, Britain's First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jonathon Band said the submarines "were conducting routine ... patrols in the Atlantic Ocean.

"The submarines came into contact at very low speed... No injuries occurred," he said in a brief statement to reporters.

The headline is good enough for me to post: Rote memorization of historical facts adds to collective cluelessness:

Brenda M. Trofanenko, a professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education, says that teaching history by rote – that is, by having students memorize historical dates and then testing them on how well they can regurgitate that data on a test – is a pedagogical method guaranteed to get students to tune out and add to our collective civic and historical cluelessness.

Via Instapundit, this brochure at Mises.org . . . brought to you by . . . General Motors! (Originally published in Look magazine, back in the day, when the U.S. was opposed to that sort of thing.)

You Obama voters really just don't see this coming, do you? It's still all changey-hopeyness and flowers and sunshine and unicorns and stuff.

Well, don't say you weren't warned. "People get the government that they deserve."

Forwarded to my by a friend, seen in South Dakota's state capital city as the State Legislature was coming to town:

I'm told that the BS in question refers to a local car dealer's annual "blizzard sale," although I'm not completely convinced of that.

in Salon:

Speaking of talk radio (which I listen to constantly), I remain incredulous that any Democrat who professes liberal values would give a moment's thought to supporting a return of the Fairness Doctrine to muzzle conservative shows. (My latest manifesto on this subject appeared in my last column.) The failure of liberals to master the vibrant medium of talk radio remains puzzling. To reach the radio audience (whether the topic is sports, politics or car repair), a host must have populist instincts and use the robust common voice. Too many Democrats have become arrogant elitists, speaking down in snide, condescending tones toward tradition-minded middle Americans whom they stereotype as rubes and buffoons. But the bottom line is that government surveillance of the ideological content of talk radio is a shocking first step toward totalitarianism.

Emphasis added.

Rasmussen reports:

Forty-four percent (44%) voters also think a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress, but 37% disagree. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.

Snookums won't like this:

The Palm OS is a dead duck. Palm's CEO Ed Colligan has signed its death sentence today. But while there will be no more new Palm OS products, their Windows Mobile smarty-panty-phones will survive (!):

Talking to investors today, Colligan said there was no point in keeping on with its development.

• No more Palm OS devices to be released by Palm. Only third-parties will do them.
• From now on, it's only webOS (the operating system in the Pre, pronounced "huevos" in Spanish, which means "eggs" or "cojones") and Windows Mobile devices.

Of course, she was mightily peeved when Graffiti went away.

The Cato Institute's William Niskanen:

This is the fifth time in my adult life that the president has asked for or asserted unprecedented authority on an expedited basis with little or no congressional review. Each of the prior occasions turned out to be a disaster.

The five crises?

August, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin incident,
August 15, 1971, Nixon imposes wage and price controls,
October, 2002, Congress approves the Iraq War,
October, 2008, Congress approves TARP (aka Bailout 1.0),
And now, February, 2009, Congress approves the Spendulus

They appear to be coming quicker and quicker now, don't they?

Hail the Fuehrer! Bow Down to the One! OBEY.