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Would you ever have this anti-Bush sentiment till you do such a thing?

Florida man charged in anti-Bush road rage incident

A man apparently enraged by a campaign sticker for President George W. Bush on a woman’s sport utility vehicle chased her for several kilometres and tried to run her off the road while holding up an anti-Bush sign, police said.

“He told our officers that he just got mad at her, so he went after her,” said police spokesman Joe Durkin. Nathan Winkler, 31, was freed on $2,000 US bail early Wednesday on a charge of aggravated stalking, which carries up to five years in prison.

Winkler told police he got upset with the woman, 35-year-old Michelle Fernandez, after she made an obscene gesture, Durkin said. Fernandez was taking her 10-year-old son and three-year-old daughter to a ball field Tuesday when the incident occurred.

“Whatever gestures I made, I made them because I was trying to figure out why he was honking at me and pointing at his sign,” Fernandez said.

Police said that as Winkler chased the woman’s vehicle, he held up a small sign that read: “Never forget Bush’s illegal war murdered thousands in Iraq.”

Source: myTELUS

Well, the good thing is that – in Singapore, no one really cares who the president is. As far as I remember, the president is S. R. Nathan who is an Indian by the way. We have Malays as presidents, we have Chinese as presidents, and we have Indians. It’s kinda like a rotation kinda thing you know. You just let the Indian be Singapore’s president this time.

And you wonder – how can we have this system? Well, the thing is that the true power of Singapore’s leadership lies in the Prime Minister. Someone you don’t get to vote for at the moment. (Previously, we didn’t vote for S. R. Nathan either, even though he is the president, reason being there is no competitor.) Anyway, I don’t have the impression that we have any Indian Prime Minister nor Malay ones. It’s all Chinese, so much for multi-racial! Don’t blame the citizens, we didn’t choose them.

Americans does stranges things sometimes. “Somebody actually went out and stole 3.6 million nickels,” says FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela. “I mean, who would ever think that would happen?”

Who would? Not me. Especially when.. well, I’ll tell you later.

Millions of nickels stolen from Fed

FBI agents and police are baffled over how it happened. The driver, Angel Ricardo Mendoza, a private trucker from Miami, has also disappeared.

“He’s either a victim or a suspect,” says Sgt. Richard Mestre of the Miami-Dade Police Cargo Theft Task Force. “We’re not really sure.”

On Dec. 21, the 18-wheeler turned up at a truck stop in Fort Pierce, Fla., with the doors unlocked and the keys in the ignition.

All those nickels in back of the truck? Gone!

“There was no sign of violence whatsoever,” says FBI spokeswoman Orihuela.

Stealing nickels? What the hell is this guy thinking? Stealing 3.6 million nickels? That’s worth US$180,000, they’re in 900 bags and weighs 23 tons! Now here is the best part as quoted from MSNBC.com.

So, if someone steals 3.6 million nickels, how does he cash them in without attracting attention? Police say it would have to be done very slowly, in small amounts and at many different places, like grocery store counting machines. And even if he were able to cash in $500 worth of nickels every day, it would still take an entire year.

It’s a mystery that has some people wondering if it could possibly be worth all the trouble.

It’s crazy what people would do for the money. If I were a thief, I believe I would have been – you know – one that thinks. Anyway, you can read more about this at MSNBC Interactive – Millions of nickels stolen from Fed. [From Nightly News With Brian Williams.]

So you know about my project supervisor mistaking a thumb drive for a voice recorder. Just when I thought that was bad, I figured that my brother didn’t know what a “thumb drive” is either.

So I curiously question him, “what do you think a thumb drive is?”

He thought hard and after a while answered that it is an invention that I made while in Singapore Polytechnic.

Huh? An invention?! I guess he doesn’t know what course I am in; I’m in Biotechnology and I believe that has absolutely nothing to do with electrical engineering and the manufacturing of thumb drives. Anyway, even if I were to be in such a course, I wouldn’t be coming out with such a device. Not that smart.

He continued to guess and said it’s a camera memory stick. I assured him that there are smaller memory cards in the market.

Then he said it’s a key! To enter Singapore Polytechnic’s facilities. Very imaginative, but that’s not it either. I am not the lecturer and the only thing a student can open in Singapore Polytechnic is a locker! And I don’t own a locker. I mean, why do I need a locker?! I didn’t even bring my notes to school in the first place, how to store in lockers?

I showed it to my mother and ask her to guess what that is too. She told me that it’s something that you can blow into and it’ll produce some sound. Oh! A whistler! Good try, but no. No where near too, lol.

Well, at least my brother didn’t say it’s an amulet upon sighting the lanyard attached to the thumb drive. With such creative answers from my brother, Cyril Chua has all the right to not realize it’s a thumb drive.

And now, if you’re wondering why this blog post is titled “mini//calculator”, well, I just thought since this thumb drive has be transformed into just about anything, it can be a mini calculator too.