A Chimpanzee?

Reuters reports on training that the Belgian police force has conducted.

On the cover of the training presentation a picture of president Bush's face was shown beside photographs of a chimpanzee. The purpose of the training was to aid officers in dealing with unruly soccer fans. I'm sure someone has an inkling as to the logic for this, but I'm a little slow to understand the point.

Read full story here.

The Galveston Plan

The AP reports on three Texas counties who are among a small number of state and local governments around the country that opted out of Social Security for government employees or never joined up at all, like Massachusetts and Ohio years ago.

An Estimation of the plan on an employee who works 37 years at an average of $25,596 a year with a monthly benefit of $1,250, versus $669 from Social Security. An employee who worked the same amount of time, but earned $75,000, would get $3,663 a month, compared with $1,301 on Social Security.

Read the ful story here.

`We Don't Want Your Oil'

I thought you might enjoy some insightful remarks from Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader. Sen. Reid recently visited Iraq as reported in Wednesday's Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"Every place we went, there were people with guns: men, women," said Reid, D-Nev. "It was remarkable."

"A lot of troops from Nevada aren't kids. They're white-haired men."

"I told the Iraqis every chance I got, `We don't want your oil."

Ok, so... Well, thank you for the powerful insight senator.

350 Eggs?

Yep, two men have eaten 350 Easter eggs. Ananova reports on Jeff Pyne and Rahul Patel's unique accomplishment. Read the story here.

From Mars & Venus

Great post on the real clear politics site today. REPUBLICANS ARE FROM MARS AND DEMOCRATS ARE FROM VENUS. Give it a good read.