A suburban Detroit woman has decided to scare up the vote among neighborhood children by just offering treats to John McCain supporters.
Shirley Nagel of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., handed out candy Friday only to those who shared her support for the Republican presidential candidate and his running mate Sarah Palin. Others were turned away empty-handed.
TV station WJBK says a sign outside Nagel’s house warned: “No handouts for Obama supporters, liars, tricksters or kids of supporters.”
Nagel calls Democrat Barack Obama “scary.” When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: “Oh well. Everybody has a choice.”
HAHAHA!
Oh man - this is classic. I mean, seriously - kids wandering around looking for handouts. What is this country? SOCIALIST? Next thing you know, they’ll be asking for medical treatment, a library, and science education.
it’s time for the annual RTFA Mech Halloween Costume roundup. I scored based on the look of the costume, but also on the appropriateness. Bonus points for mobility, and points taken away for parents who made costumes for kids. If the costume looks like it won’t last more than 5 minutes, that’s going to cost ya.
Without further ado, the entries:
5. Baby Chicken Walker
HAHAHA! This costume is *WAY* beyond the league of that kid - what is he saying while he’s walking? I predict the night ends with the costume destroyed, the kid crying, and a deflated parental unit carrying a heavy load home: the kid under one arm, a sack of candy in the other arm, and the costume wreckage lying in the gutter. This link via boingboing.
Costume Grade: BA - clever components, great look! After review, extra points added
Deployment: D - never going to work with the kid
4. Mech bling, crew included
Vastly over-reaching, deadly serious, and destined to destroy every doorway it meets.
Costume Grade: B - looks great, probably cost a fortune/took forever to make
Deployment: D - needs support crew
3. Cardboard and timelapse
A better Battlemech costume. …too bad this kid didn’t make it for himself. Also, the video is sped up - I suspect mobility is limited, but it will probably last for a few hours. Meh… Looks good!
Costume Grade: B - looks great, good reuse, not made by the kid him/herself
Deployment: B - timelapse, video is painfully long
2. Hipster Mech perfection
Here’s a well-done chicken walker, which is in zen-like balance with its wearer. Simple is great, in this case!
Costume Grade: A - fake legs bonus!
Deployment: A - this guy can walk in the costume. Amazing, but that’s a major point in this contest.
1. Genius working transformers
Working transformer costumes! These aren’t “mech” costumes, but they just blow the others out of the water. These peeps probably made the costumes themselves, they are totally mobile, and the costumes ACTUALLY TRANSFORM.
Costume Grade(s): A+ - these are home-made, they look great, and they totally work
Deployment: A+ - real-time transformation. That is all.
About a week ago on California’s Highway 99, I snapped a picture of this majorly overloaded truck. To make it easier to tell how high it’s piled, I photoshopped a second copy of the cab into the picture.
Is this dangerous? I don’t know, but I wouldn’t want to be directly behind that truck.
Get a friend of yours to download, using Facebook, the ten most popular books at every college (manually — as not to violate Facebook’s ToS). These ten books are indicative of the overall intellectual milieu of that college.
Download the average SAT/ACT score for students attending every college.
Presto! We have a correlation between books and dumbitude (smartitude too)!
Heh - totally funny… but I’d interpret it more as “books that are dumb,” rather than imply some sort of causality.
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