Overnight Open Thread (6 Feb 2015)

It really is time to shut down the IRS. Hundreds of fired and reprimanded employees are rehired.

A-10 Quiz

So since you morons love the A-10, I though it would be time to quiz you on how well you know the A-10.

In Russia....

...this is what happens to their ships. Kaliningrad military graveyard.

Kilt Problems

I think GGE can relate. William Wallace lookalike sick and tired of female tourists checking if he is a 'real Scotsman'.

The Onion

Heh. Parenting advice.

Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe on high minimum wage laws and their bad unintended consequences.

Possible West Coast Port Lockout

Ahhh. Unions doing what they do best. Costly lockout looms at US ports. Dang they already make a good chunk of change (6 figures), $88K pension and still have their health care plan and they still aren't happy?

The Walking Dead Recap

Well, a humorous recap from the first episode to now. Can't wait for Sunday night and the midseason premiere.

Girl Scout Cookies

VA Viper compiled a pretty good list of beer and wine pairings for those Girl Scout cookies that you purchased.

MSM Power

Mission accomplished for the media when a survey conducted with 6900 students in over 37 countries lists George W. Bush as more hated than Stalin. Only Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein were more hated.

...the impact of time could clearly be seen. For example, the very recent figure of George W. Bush was rated as more negative than Joseph Stalin, who was responsible for innumerably more deaths. The effects of temporal distance can also be seen from the almost neutral rating received by Genghis Khan, which is not the result one might have expected given the amount of human suffering and cultural destruction he unleashed on the 13th century. Such mid-point ratings were also given to Saladin and the Qin Emperor, also ancient conquerors and empire builders, and to Napoleon, who is not as ancient, but considerably less controversial today than he would have been in the 19th century. Time seems to push these historical conquerors towards neutral evaluations as living memories of them fade [47], [48] or are simply not that well-known.

Dog Video

Tonight's ONT brought to you by proof that elbow appreciation starts at an early age:

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