I learned first thing this morning that the man who attacked the Dutch Royal family yesterday (HERE) died early this morning from his injuries. He never regained consciousness after surgery, so the police may never learn the real motive for his actions.
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Although they searched his house and checked his records, there is no indication that he was ever involved in this sort of activity before, nor any criminal record or history of mental illness. His neighbors told police that he was friendly, but kept to himself mostly. The man who has been identified by police only as T. recently lost his job as a security guard. T.’s landlord says that he was supposed to move out today because he couldn’t keep up with his rent.
The death toll has now risen to five, but after you see the videos that we posted you can’t help but be amazed that so few perished from the strange event.
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The political-correctness crowd that permeates the federal government has announced that they don’t want us to call the swine flu by its real name, swine flu. No. They are now calling it by some code name, R2D2 or something like that. It seems that the pig farmers are upset because so many Americans are undereducated and think that you catch the airborne flu virus from eating pig meat. They’re afraid that sales will drop. I look on the postitive side. Maybe the prices will now come back down to “normal” levels. Pork prices in the grocery have been much higher than usual for the past six months, so maybe we can afford some pork chops again.
And no doubt there are just enough simple folk who think that they’ll catch the swine flu by just walking into a Mexican restaurant that we’ll be getting some swift and choice seating for a few weeks. How about a Combo. #5?
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We’ve got some fun ahead later on today. I’m working on a story about some cockamaimie experiment that the Dept. of Homeland Security is conducting that is designed to make firefighters more alert, but more calm also. I think they’re going in the wrong direction. It’s always been my observation that first-responders reach their highest stress levels after they get back home and face the spouse.
Well, we’d better face the equipment now and get it checked out. I see we need more coffee, so I’ll get another pot started.
Meanwhile, I’ll share with you an innovative poster designed by one of our long-time readers who logs on as FitSsikS. He read our posting last night on the new term for the flu scare, Aporkalypse, and sent us this:
Okay, everybody. Mask up!
