Crime Prevention and Other Things

Now this is the way to treat criminals! Guy gets robbed and the bad guys flee in car. So what does the guy do? He chases them in his Hummer and eventually runs over the getaway car. That's right, the Hummer (like a tank) rolls over the getaway car.

Big day in Republican history: 147 years ago today, the Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia, eventually leading to the nomination of the "Pathfinder" John C. Fremont. Polled pretty well in a three man race versus Buchanan and Fillmore. Later had a disasterous (he had no political nose at all, which makes one wonder how he would have fared as president) Civil War career. And 31 years ago today, 5 men were caught burglarizing the DNC at DC's Watergate complex, which nixed Nixon two years later. So in one day, you have the highs and lows of one political party.

Today is also the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, but I will leave that to my colonialist comrade.