FRIDAY FUNNIES

BREAK NO BONES

By Kathy Reichs (Temperance Brennan#9): "Electricity comes from electrons,

 morality comes from morons."

BLOOMBERG: GET TOUGH ON GUNS

'New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on both presidential candidates to take a harsher stance on controlling guns and violence in light of a shooting at a Colorado movie theater. “Soothing words are nice, but maybe it’s time that the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they are going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country,” said Bloomberg, a longtime advocate of gun-control laws, during a radio interview Friday. “I mean, there are so many murders with guns every day, it’s just got to stop ... In the end, it is really the leadership at a national level, which is whoever is going to be president of the United States starting next January 1. What are they going to do about guns?”'


But, sad to say, absolutely nothing will be done...as always...

FRIDAY FUNNIES

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE...

 "Much of the developed world, including the United States, is stagnating. The founder of economics, Adam Smith(1723-1790), had a term for this. He called it “the stationary state.” In his day it was China that looked stationary: a once “opulent” country that had simply ceased to grow. Smith blamed China’s unfavorable institutions—including its bureaucracy—for the stasis. He also noticed how the stationary state favored the super-rich and civil servants, leaving poor laborers to slide toward subsistence wages."

From Niall Ferguson, The Daily Beast

...The more they stay the same...

RIP: JON LORD

1941 - July 16 2012: The keyboard wizard (and co-founder) of Deep Purple: once heard, who could forget "Hush", "Smoke On the Water", & "Highway Star" (definitely one of those songs that you love to listen to while driving!). And whether on vinyl, cassette, CD or MP3, he will live on forever...
Rock on Jon, rock on...

FRIDAY FUNNIES

STRIP JACK

by Ian Rankin:
 '"Should we stand by to repel puns?"asked Holmes. "How about this: the deceased was found near a waterfall. However, study of eyes showed no signs of cataracts."'

HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY

To the Rolling Stones, who played their first gig at London's Marquee Club on this date in 1962! 

Boy, who'd of ever thought they(and rock 'n' roll in general)would still be around!

I GUESS THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED A PASSING OUT CEREMONY

'It's not just sitting down. Adopting any one posture for a long time is bad, says Jane White from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

"Some of the Met police recently collapsed at a passing out ceremony from standing up for too long. It's being static that's the health issue - it slows down the circulatory system, blood, oxygen and vital nutrients," she says.'

From BBCOnline

BIG BROTHER IRONY

 And if you don't get it...shame on you...

PUT YOUR BID IN NOW, EVERYBODY NEEDS ONE OF THESE

A Victorian vampire-slaying kit is expected to fetch £2,000 at an auction in North Yorkshire.
The 19th Century box contains a crucifix, pistol, wooden stakes and mallet, as well as glass bottles containing holy water, holy earth and garlic paste.
The box was left to a Yorkshire woman in her uncle's will.
Oonagh Drage of Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, said she had not seen anything like it before.
Ms Drage said the kit was probably made in the late 1800s and was possibly inspired by the popularity of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
"It's probably a novelty thing. It's playing to people's superstitions."
As well as the weaponry, the box holds a copy of the Book of Common Prayer from 1851 and a handwritten extract from the Bible which quotes Luke 19:27.
It reads: "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."

FRIDAY FUNNIES

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

DISNEY CONQUERING THE SOLAR SYSTEM?

 Starting with the planet mercury, it seems....