Archive for August, 2007

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The Iodine State?

Friday, August 24th, 2007

I would never have known that SC was known, at one point, as ‘The Iodine State” were it not for a little link on the SC DMV website: SC DMV Historical Information.  Lo and behold, Google proved it true as well.
Interesting. Of course, I’m not originally from here, so some of you ‘native’ readers [...]

Fire!

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

We had a trailer fire tonight - and it was a save I might add.  Dispatched as a structure fire, no information (as is expected from Central dispatch) other than that everyone was out of the residence and that there was a vehicle parked next to the residence (not particularly useful information, but info nonetheless).  [...]

Eeeek!

Friday, August 17th, 2007

A few weeks ago I had wandered out to the garden before work one morning and found one of these critters munching on my tomato plants.  In my semi-awake mode the thing startled it.  It was so big, it was so ugly, it had a horn on its ass.  I half thought it might bark [...]

Thinly Veiled Circumvention

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Regarding Dorchester District 2’s introduction of an ‘elective’ Bible class in their schools. Elective for students, but not for taxpayers. Do you think they’ll give non-Christians refunds? I’ll be posting more about this when I get out of work this evening.
Okay so I never posted that evening when I got out of [...]

Tragic

Monday, August 6th, 2007

An officer trying to shoot a snake accidentally shot/killed a 5yo boy in Noble, OK.  That’s soooo horrible.  And even for me who tends to dislike children.  Now, logic would say that there are more important ways to off a snake than shoot at it.  I’d also have to say that I remember being taught [...]

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