I have forwarded the "New Velcro" link to the tough-as-nails, brand-protecting crusaders in the Velcro USA legal department. That article will be the start of one fun-filled day for them.

Here's the thing - one does not use "Velcro". They use Velcro brand hook and loop tapes. This guy did not invent a "New Velcro" he has come up with a new type of hook and loop product.

And, who ever said the sound was a problem? I like it.

But, the product does look cool. Good luck with the legals cats, though.

How does she know so much about Velcro brand products?

Amen to the article about VT. The local Fox ambulence chasers were on Tech campus a week ago (during our summer break, so they were amazed there were no students).

I ended up giving them not what they wanted, namely that VT was rare and freakish, there is no reason to take extra measures and that systems had already been in place to identify and assess the problems with the gunman himself.

I'm not even entirely sure the piece aired - it was probably one of those backup deals since I was pretty sure the blood to money conversion had already been completed for the VT event.

Has anyone been following Rusty today? He's twittering his gallbladder surgery. It's a first.

Some good news for Jules (and everyone else!):

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, May 16 (Reuters) - Costa Rican President Oscar Arias vowed on Wednesday to stop sending police to train at a U.S. facility criticized for a history of producing soldiers who went on to violate human rights.

Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, made the promise after talks with Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a U.S. activist priest who has campaigned since 1990 for the closure of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School for the Americas, at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Though U.S. defense officials closed the original school, a Latin American military training facility, in 2000 and reopened it a year later under the new name and with a new curriculum, critics say the change was purely cosmetic.

Costa Rica currently has three policemen at the center. "We agreed that when the courses end for the three policemen we are not going to send any more," Arias said.

Costa Rica has no army but has sent some 2,600 police officers over the years to be trained at the school, which critics say trained dictators, torturers and assassins.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16283279.htm

yay Costa Rica! And they have free health insurance....aaahhh

Slidingly Engaging Fastener? How can something be sliding and engaging and fastening at the same time!?

Re: Do you know your rights during a police encounter? Take this quiz to find out.

I got 7 out of 8. I got the last one wrong, but only because I put the REAL answer not the bullshit law answer. And even the damn answer said I was right - you can be arrested for refusing to identity yourself.

Thanks Ruby, I've been a big slacker and not gotten the word out about this.

It really is an amazing delegation of citizen amabassadors. Unprecedented actually. Father Roy and Lisa are amazing.

The bill to close the school should be coming out of committee soon, but I'm sure it has a lot to do with the back and forth about the Iraq bill before it can be attached to a spending bill for the DOD..

Thanks for keeping your eye on it though!

Thanks Ruby, I've been a big slacker and not gotten the word out about this.

It really is an amazing delegation of citizen amabassadors. Unprecedented actually. Father Roy and Lisa are amazing.

The bill to close the school should be coming out of committee soon, but I'm sure it has a lot to do with the back and forth about the Iraq bill before it can be attached to a spending bill for the DOD..

Thanks for keeping your eye on it though!

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BTW, Ron Paul was the first presidential candidate to update his profile on D&E :-)