Body count climbs to 13 in Albuquerque body dump Thirteen and counting. A crime scene investigator noticed some human hair as authorities continued to excavate a patch of the Southwest Mesa on Friday morning and this led to the discovery of yet another skeleton. It seems that every day or so another skeleton is found [...]

MIT undergrads have created a shock absorber that not only smoothes out the ride but generates electricity as well! The shock absorber would harness energy from the small bumps in the road. Senior Shakeel Avadhany and his teammates say they can produce up to a 10 percent improvement in overall vehicle fuel efficiency by using [...]

Javier Lozano (left) the local magistrate says he tells folks not to worry. Columbus, a small town of about 1,800 people sits on a patch of high desert in southern New Mexico, was a picture of tranquillity. Now less then 3 miles away in Palomas Mexico war has broken out between narcotics gangs against each [...]

Believe it or not folks it is common for bills in Congress to grow to well over 1,000 pages to around 2,000 pages. The stimulus bill was 1,200 pages. If you bet that anyone in congress read it in it’s entirety you would lose. This is a common ploy in Washington, make a bill so [...]

We are now using Tiny URL to shorten links to these news sources used in Short Takes. Some of the url’s are very long such as the one for the story in Mountain Messenger that is huge. Tiny shortens it to around 25 characters. The Paring Knife Solution to National Economic Woes The prescriptions for [...]

Here we go again, it looks like another fraud in the amount of billions of dollars has surfaced. Money manager Robert Allen Stanford now has two things in common with embattled investment manager Bernard Madoff: both have come under scrutiny for allegedly defrauding their investors, and both have given significant funds to politicians. Once again [...]

In a follow up on our February 13th story Arizona Rancher Sued By Illegal Aliens it looks like a Tucson jury has ruled in favor of the rancher, Roger Barnett.

A new website is now up called Recovery . Gov. It was put up by the Obama administration and will show where the money in the stimulus is going and gives a time frame for what is going on and when it it is going on. What follows is in the sites own words The [...]

Finally the two Border Patrol agents are free from jail that they should never have been in to start with. We have posted several threads on this before and made our stance known on the subject, we will not go into case details on it here. The Brass Monkey Blog is very happy that they [...]

Arrested in New York for beheading wife Muzzammil Hassan was arrested Thursday for, are you ready for this? Beheading his wife! Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light. OMG do you think [...]

Promises made when the Clinton administration was promoting China’s entrance into the WTO (World Trade Organization) were never kept by China. It was supposed to open the Chinese markets for American goods and of course open our markets to Chinese goods. This basically never happened. Instead companies here shut down and moved there manufacturing operations [...]

Sick and selfish and obsessed, Nadya Suleman. She is no better than the welfare moms who lay around the house dropping babies as fast as they can for more state bucks. She could not take care of the six she had, so she did the next best thing she could do, she went and brought [...]

A trial is in progress in Arizona regarding a patriotic American Citizen who is being sued by a gang of law-braking illegal alien criminals for holding them at gun point when he caught them on his property. The plantiffs (illegal aliens) said amongst other things that there civil rights were broken. Give us a break, [...]

In the wake of Bernard Madoff’s full victim list being made public, confusion still abounds as to who did or didn’t lost money in the world’s biggest ponzi scheme. But hey there is always some enterprising individual or individuals that will come up with an answer to almost anything if it is big enough. I [...]

Tucson, Arizona was probably not the best place to watch the game last night. Partly because of the disappointing result, but mostly because of the huge, flapping penis. With under three minutes left and just after Larry Fitzgerald’s heroic comeback(ish) touchdown for the Cardinals, the video feed abruptly switched to a scene from stablemate channel [...]

While things were rapidly melting down in ’08 banks that got millions in bail out money sought government permission to bring in thousands of foreign workers while Americans were getting there pink slips. The dozen banks now receiving the biggest rescue packages, totaling more than $150 billion, requested visas for more than 21,800 foreign workers [...]