Eric Covener’s Journal

Alabama Legislature trying to get a law amended that would raise the maximum alchohol-by-volume percentage, to allow for “gourmet beers” to be imported and sold.

Check out Alvin Holmes at 5:33 or -2.00:

“What’s the matter with the beer we got? I mean, the beer we got drink pretty good, don’t it? I ain’t never heard nobody complain about the, uh, beer we have. It drink pretty good, don’t it? Budweiser. What’s the names of some of them other beers?…”

A surcharge for credit card payments on Tax payments? Really?

I reported them to MasterCard like the weasel that I am.

The last time I filled out that form, the lady at Bed Bath and Beyond checked Marjorie and my licenses for small purchases. When I showed concern that she wanted to see my license, she claimed my signature was illegible on my card and that it was for my own protection. Suspiciously, she returned my license before I signed the receipt :/

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/pet/595884950.html (note the older version of this post says he’s 80 pounds)

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1034464.html

Some Wake County black leaders are outraged by Garner Mayor Ronnie Williams’ statement this week that the town doesn’t want any more students from Southeast Raleigh. They call his remarks coded language directed at poor, minority students.

Williams, who is white, defended his town’s stance and respectfully shook off charges of bias. The issue is not race, he said, but Garner schools being asked to shoulder more than their share of students on free and reduced lunch — 60 percent and 70 percent, in some cases.

Magnet schools in Raleigh are designed to pull students into the city from the ‘burbs. To accomodate them, poor folk are bussed into Garner, where local residents are squeezed out of the schools located in their own neighborhoods. Net, a bunch of kids riding busses to school unnecessarily getting the same test scores.

There is no consensus that poor students do any better in school when they’ve taken a bus there en-masse, conceptually turning a middle class school in a middle class neighborhood into a poverty level school in a middle class neighborhood.

IBM Builds Green Data Center for GIB-Services; Innovative Technology to Heat Local Public Swimming Pool

The new data center is a highly secure data storage facility where GIB will support its clients in Switzerland, and will offer a first-of-its-kind energy model where a direct heat exchange will take place between the data center and a public swimming pool in the town.

The Day of the Dead “remake” is even more of a stinker then the original. This one was straight to video, not worth two trips for a free RedBox rental.

Romero doesn’t direct it — fast zombies like 28-days later but none of the characters really have anything interesting going on. Far worse then 28 weeks later of Land of the Dead.

Pringle denies masturbation in criminal complaint

According to the criminal complaint, Pringle asked the victim if she wanted to purchase some hand lotion that he was selling for the basketball team.

The victim them reported hearing a “smacking sound, like Pringle’s hand was smacking against the skin of his body,” and said Pringle began making moaning sounds after answering his cell phone, according to the criminal complaint.

http://www.missingmoney.com/Main/Index.cfm

Two Penn State reuslts for me, although I might be SOL proving residency.

Pirates seize French cruise ship

Pirates seized control of a French cruise ship Friday off the coast of Somalia, France’s Foreign Ministry said.
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The International Maritime Bureau, which tracks piracy, said in its annual report earlier this year that global pirate attacks rose by 10 percent in 2007, marking the first increase in three years.

Starv’en Marvin is at the helm!

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/pet/628896346.html