Cleaning out my drawers

Now that I see it up, that title sounds kinda gross, doesn't it? Oh well. Here's a bunch of crap garnered from local news, some of it several weeks old. Enjoy!

Who'd a thought shooting off a hail cannon could cause such controversy?

There's a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in little Olathe, Colorado. Is this the first attempt by the Klan to go international?

At last the constabulary are doing something about the filthy beggars who've been cluttering up the sidewalks and intersections of Denver for so many years.

Kidding! About the filthy beggars! Actually I've made scores of contributions to the Signholder Tribe, and when I see the gratitude in their bloody eyes, feel the tremor of thanks in their shaking hands, and smell the Mad Dog of appreciation on their infected breaths, I go away with the glow of a Good Deed, Well Done.

Cowtown no mo': The Colorado Convention Center recently played host to the Christian Retailers Convention, which is really neither here nor there but gives me an excuse (finally) to run this:



A Discount Bible franchise in Fort Benton, Ark. For a mere $20,000 up front the Drunkablog has just been named franchisee for Discount Bible in New York City, New York.

"They" are shutting down Cheyenne Mountain, famed in (sci-fi) story and song as the home of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command. I was under the impression that the D-a-W's dad had worked in Cheyenne Mountain during his air force career, but she says it was a different mountain, in Maryland, which made me hope maybe he worked in the nuclear-armed mountain taken over by revanchist Russkis in Stephen Hunter's The Day Before Midnight, the best nuclear thriller ever. I can't believe it was never made into a movie.

What was I talking about?

Last Friday the Post ran a nasty little piece by Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Representative sentence:

If we "stay the course" with belligerence to the Arab and Muslim world now, then we should not be surprised when they respond with belligerence to their continued humiliation and not-quite-human treatment by the international community.

Unsurprisingly, LGF has a lot on Al-Marayati.

Finally, the News had a story on Neil Beidleman, the Aspen-based mountaineer who was on the Mount Everest climb recounted in Into Thin Air (no link because everyone's already read it): Tragic mountain, one decade later. He won't point fingers so it's not very interesting.

Update: I have no idea if Discount Bible is really a franchise operation, but I doubt it. No inquiries, please!