Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope you get your bellys filled and have a great day

Love you all

Work is never boring

This is an article about an event that happened outside of my office.

Enjoy

The list of world's dimmest criminals may have just gotten longer: Police said that a suspect who allegedly robbed a PNC Bank at 1400 K Street NW this morning hailed a taxi to flee the scene.
According to police, the taxi driver dropped the suspect not too far away at 14th and Euclid streets NW, then promptly returned to the bank to alert police. The suspect, 43-year-old Francis Clifton Marshall, of no fixed address, was apprehended in the area a short time later.
Police said that Marshall entered the bank about 9:30 a.m. and persuaded a teller to give him an undetermined amount of cash by passing a note claiming that he had a bomb. It is unclear whether Marshall actually had a bomb. He was charged with bank robbery and probation violation, and he is due to be arraigned in D.C. Superior Court tomorrow. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112501697.html

Another take on the Story

In case you missed the news earlier, that bank robbery that briefly closed K Street near 14th this morning appears to have been perpetrated by someone who is several sandwiches short of a picnic. Early reports indicated that the suspect told a teller at the PNC Bank branch that he had a bomb, received some cash and an exploding dye pack, and then proceeded to hail a cab and asked to be taken to 14th and Euclid Streets NW. But the cab driver, realizing that he had been paid with a fistful of dye-covered stolen dollars, just returned to the bank after dropping the guy off to tell authorities exactly where he had taken him. The Post has a story up now, too, which confirms that the suspect, Francis Clifton Marshall, 43, was quickly apprehended thanks to the cabbie's tip. But certainly the best anecdote from this whole adventure comes from our own reader comments. Says CapitolGal:

I was at 14th and K and even called 911 about this guy. It was quite bizarre. I was shoulder to shoulder with him when the dye pack went off. Red dye gas went everywhere, completely covering me in the red cloud. I ran across the street and called 911. While I was telling them about what was happening, the guy kept digging thru his grocery bag where the red gas was spewing from, and his pants kept coming off -- and he was without underwear!! He ran down K street with red dye gas coming out of his grocery bag and his naked butt kept coming out of his pants. It was truly quite strange, and I seemed to be the only person calling 911 about it, Later, I asked the police outside and they confirmed that it was a bank robber but the officer couldn't tell me if the robber had been apprehended or not.

Well hopefully you can rest easy tonight, CapitolGal, knowing that this guy was in fact arrested shortly after committing one of the sillier bank robberies in the city's history. Hopefully he'll get some nice new underpants courtesy the D.C. Jail. http://dcist.com/2008/11/25/k_street_bank_robber_seriously_dumb.php

A few items

Okay, so November has not been the best month for me. First, Obama won the election, which I actually think might be okay. It looks like his government will be more centrist than he actually is. 2nd BYU lost to Utah. What a horrible game, I had a feeling it would be like that, I just did not think we would give up 5 turnovers, no wonder we lost.

But I am excited about Black Friday!!!!! I need to find some deals. I want the following, somehow, in the next year.

1. Kitchen Aid mixer
2. External Hard Drive
3. Food processor
4. North Face Coat $350 :(
5. Work out clothing
6. and much much more

My big goal is to get the Kitchen Aid Mixer for 150 for the 4.5 quart mixer or 200 for the 5 quart mixer. Anyway, I cannot wait for the ad tomorrow!!!!!! You all have no idea!!!!!

What a wonderful kid!!!

This little known kid died the other day, Brenden Foster. He had leukemia and was living on borrowed time but all he wanted to do was to help the homeless. He wanted to make them sandwiches. Read the following story. It is just amazing!!!! What a great kid.

http://www.komonews.com/news/34851839.html

BYU vs Utah

Well it is that time of the year. We have come to the BYU vs Utah rivalry. I am nervous that BYU will lose but I am keeping hope alive. Growing up in SLC and living a few miles away from the University of Utah, I have a deep resentment for the "U." So lets "Rise and Shout" and hope BYU wins.

Paranoia

One of my favorite blogs is this guy who takes random pics around Sweden. He recently took this pic and I really like it. I think this is so true. This guys site is: http://oktylus.blogspot.com/

I cannot believe I just did that

Okay, so I admit I loved the movie Bring It On. It was cheesy and wonderful. A great movie to bring a smile to your face. So tonight I was flipping through the channels and I saw that Bring It On: All Or Nothing was on TV. So what did I do, I started to watch it, that was my downfall. I flipped between it and reruns of Friends. But as the night went on, I was watching more and more of Bring It On. Oh it was horrible, but I kept on watching it. I even had something to do towards the end so I paused it so I would not miss the ending. Oh, it was so bad, but I could not stop watching I was hooked. Anyway, I cannot believe I just did that.

R.I.P. GOP

Well, the election is over and I am so glad. I was so sick and tired of these commercial on TV every 5 seconds. Obama's win is a very historic and monumental moment and I do not want to take away from that. But I would like to take some time to vent about the party I support. The Republicans blew it! I don't mean this year but 8 years ago. It happened when we let the religious right take over the party. When "W" ran 8 years ago, he ran as a compassionate conservative, someone who would work with both parties. He told us he was going to be a conservative that cared about social issues. Well, that did not happen. 9/11 changed the nation and the Bush Presidency. He gave up all of those principals (which he did follow in Texas) and ran a crusade to fix the Muslim world and moved to the far right. This movement changed the party, we used it as our excuse to do everything and it dominated our policies. We used it as our excuse to intimidate others and punish those who don't want to do what we want. Bush screwed up our international relations, economics, and etc, all for the religious right. We alienated whole groups of people. He never lived up to the way he ran his campaign

This election was about change and ending the Bush policies. Obama is young, energetic, calm, and a great speaker. The GOP could not match it. We were too beholden to the religious right, we are not capable of accepting people who are different. I hate that about the Republican Party.

When Collin Powell said he was voting for Obama he said he was doing it because the republican party has lost its way and I could not agree more. We screwed it all up and we deserved to lose like we did. We need someone young to change our party and we need to return to the center. We need to be accepting of others and allow diversity in our party. Somehow the Democrats were able to do that, why could we not do the same? I hope and pray this loss will allow the party to regroup and change for the better.

Congrats to the Obama supporters out there, I hope he is able to lead this country the right way and keeps to the center, we don't need another President going off the deep end.

God Bless the USA

Daylight Savings Time

I hope you all remember to change your clocks back an hour to end Daylight Savings Time. I did not know this, but Daylight Savings Times could really help us in the War on Terror. The Washington Post today had an article about how not all countries follow Daylight Savings. It told of an incident in Israel where not knowing about daylight savings time actually thwarted a terrorist attack. See the following:

"Back in 1999, terrorists on the daylight-saving West Bank built several time bombs, delivered to co-conspirators in Israel and scheduled to explode at a set time. Problem was, Israel had just switched back to standard time, so the only people injured were the terrorists themselves when the bomb detonated an hour earlier than they expected and killed them all. " Full article found at the following address: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103692.html

See Daylight Savings Time really can help us win the War on Terror :)