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I think my muse is gravely ill.

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Roger Vanderpool, Nevada DPS director:

“Photo enforcement exists to help slow people down, thereby ensuring the safety of everyone on the road. Sadly, some drivers have no regard for the safety of others as they continue to recklessly speed,” (Link)

In the story it seems a couple of dumbasses have been caught habitually speeding as if the cameras weren’t even there. So, what if you were not “recklessly” speeding? What if on a long stretch to work you routinely drive five miles over the limit? No more taxi cab stops or stopping past the white line or you can be subject to being arrested, jailed and fined. Well fined. The cops probably wait until the total fines are over $10,000 before sending out a squad car to pick these reckless citizens up. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

If you think cops are watching all this video for the sole purpose of public safety, you are naive. Video surveillance seems contrary in a free society but if we are going to have it we must be sure it’s done fairly. At a minimum we must make all real-time surveillance of all citizens freely accessible to the public.

Video sureillance of the public should not be left to the police. Let the public police themselves. Millions of eyes on millions of monitors. UsTube.com. At least that way the vigilant citizen can bring grief to errant public servants, which I bet would happen at a far greater rate for public officials than for ordinary citizens.

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Mark Henderson, Science Editor of TimesOnline: “The result is that although more donors have been registered the shortage of sperm is becoming more acute.” You’ll have to click the link to see whether Henderson is talking about fertility clinics or adult video arcades.

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Former Secretary General of UN Kofi Anan:

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for ‘climate justice’, saying that it was polluters who should pay for the effects of climate change, and not the poorest and most vulnerable.

What an idiot like Kofi doesn’t understand is that the poorest countries are the worst polluters and that the poorest polluters are benefactors of the richest polluters. Americans cause more pollution because we make and export products that improve the daily lives of the poorest countries. Products like corn and the people willing to go over and pour it down their starving gullets.

The poorest countries must be held accountable for their fair share of pollution whether they produce it directly or indirectly through consumption. As a matter of fact, the poorest countries should have to pay extra if they are consuming donated products because there was no monetary offset on the rich producer’s side of the economic equation.

Why should a rich producer pay energy taxes on something that was given away to the poor polluters? In other words, who would willingly pay high taxes on a cost? The answer: many will not. Only the best of the best of the best philanthropist would do that. One who thinks taxes are good no matter what. How many of those are there out there I wonder.

Only someone who thinks the largess that flows from rich nations to poor nations is an unshirkable obligation instead of voluntary  charity could think in such a way as Kofi and the rest of his one world ilk.

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With the recent lightning storms and accompanying power outage the other day I was trying to explain to my kids how to master the fear of the unknown . I’ve tried to teach them over the years that you can’t live your life being scared all the time. Like running away from a mere category 1 hurricane or cringing in fear during a severe thunderstorm, for examples.

For lack of a better word I used the air-hooked “Mother Nature” in my explanation, literally, being sure they were aware of the hooks to avoid any hippie-like connotations. That’s the last thing I need is some hippie teen-agers going on and on about love and mother nature.

So I explain to them in a manner that only a drunken fat man sitting on kayak can do that in any natural event such as a hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake, tsunami, etc you take the best precautions available given your immediate situation and then relax until the aftermath. I slept right through the the very worst of Hurricane Alicia. It was kinda scary.

Certainly it is imperative that you are informed and prepared for any natural disasters that are likely to strike in your area–you don’t want to make it too easy for her– but when the time is upon you and Mother Nature comes for your ass, it’s your ass. Mother Nature don’t play.

The moral: Don’t be stupid, but don’t be afraid either. Believe me, it’s easier said than done.

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George Carlin was moderately funny, but he wasn’t all that funny. I’d characterize his shtick as socially observant in a humorous way. I’ll miss him about as much as I miss John Candy.

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How does this happen in a town of 5,100 with 30 churches?

In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as “silly pills” and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults.

There has been two convictions in the case so far and Patrick Kelly goes on trial today for aggravated sexual assault of a child, tampering with physical evidence and engaging in organized criminal activity.

The other two, Jamie Pittman and Shauntel Mayo, were sentenced to life and Kelly faces the same. With due respect to what allegedly happens to child molesters in the prison caste, these guys are getting off easy.

There are supposedly three others charged in connection with the case. What I don’t understand if the children are known to have danced for crowds as large as “50 to 100″ why aren’t there 50 to 100 people charged?

Then who is standing in line to take care of the children after they are removed from their parents, who seem to be involved somehow, another alleged child molester, John Cantrell.

What the hell is the world coming to?

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The Internet is dangerous:

Eleanor Coner, the SPTC’s information officer, said: “Children are very IT-savvy, but they are rubbish at researching. The sad fact is most children these days use libraries for computers, not the books. We accept that as a sign of the times, but schools must teach pupils not to believe everything they read.

“It’s dangerous when the internet is littered with opinion and inaccurate information which could be taken as fact.

Dangerous? Oh my freaking god, it’s dangerous to use Wikipedia.

At one college in Vermont in the US, a history professor found several students repeated the same error in exam papers. On discovering the information came from Wikipedia, the college outlawed its future use.

How about educational institutions adapt and improvise. Instead of banning Wikipedia, how about teaching students how to do research in the information age, you know, using the Internet. How about teaching how to corroborate information from different sources; teaching the different technologies used to ferret out plagiarism; teaching how to ensure that they are not falling for a bunch of bullshit. This is what today’s students need. What they don’t need is for some dumbass professor banning portions of the Internet because they failed a history question. What a fucking moron. I think it might be time for some educators to consider retirement or a change of profession if they can not get with the new paradigm of the information age.

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Something smells fishy in Iran. Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Mohammad Ahmadian:

“If consumers do not cut down consumption by 10 percent, we will have blackouts until the end of the summer,” (Link)

This is nothing but an announcement that there will be blackouts and make no mistake, one way or another there will be blackouts.

So that leads me to wonder why Iran is preparing for blackouts in a country with more energy than they could ever use in ten generations? It could be that the Islamic terrorists in control of Iran have simply mismanaged the affairs of state and there really is a shortage of electricity. This is not out of the question since the mullahs surely must be constantly preoccupied with the destruction of Israel. So perhaps they failed to build and maintain enough power production capacity to sustain their population. Or maybe they have sufficient production capacity but can not meet power demand because they are selling every teaspoon of crude to gain maximum benefit from the insane profits that a teaspoon of crude is bringing these days.

On the other hand and equally as likely is that the Iranian “government” is flat out lying and instituting a power shortage on purpose as propaganda to build internal support for it’s extremely ill-advised nuclear program.

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I don’t usually like to call ‘em right out of the gate, but I say Daniel Watson did it.

An American tourist was charged with murder yesterday for allegedly drowning his bride of 11 days on a scuba diving trip on the Great Barrier Reef during their honeymoon. Christina Mae Watson, 26, died while diving on a shipwreck near the northeastern Australian city of Townsville while her husband looked on. (Photos at the Link)

According to Christina’s dad, Tommy Thomas, Daniel Watson believed that his wife had changed her life insurance naming him the sole beneficiary. Given how young the couple was, the fact that life insurance even came up as a topic of discussion before the marriage should have been a big red flag.

Guilty as charged. Take him out to the ship and drown his sorry ass.

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If these guys are so smart, how can they be so wrong? A leading psychiatrist, Dr Jerald Block on Internet addiction:

“The relationship is with the computer. It becomes a significant other to them. They exhaust emotions that they could experience in the real world on the computer through any number of mechanisms: emailing, gaming, porn.”

I can hear in my mind the German psychiatrist played by Michael Caine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels explaining this phenomena.

But with all due respect, no one is having a relationship with a computer. A lot of smart people still dont “get” the Internet. The Internet is not abstract; it’s real. All these sufferers of “Internet addiction” are not suffering alone with their computer, as it might appear to the outside, untrained eye. People who are spending their lives on the Net are spending it with other people; other people playing games; other people emailing; other people looking at porn. There is a whole other world through the portal of the computer, a world not restricted by physical limitations. A psychiatrist of all people should understand this.

“But there’s not any dancing, is there?” asks the Church Lady.

Oh yeah, there is lots of dancing.

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Seems Charles Barkley likes to gamble too much and has publicly sworn off gambling for a couple of years.

Barkley said on the air during the NBA playoffs he wasn’t going to gamble for “the next year or two” after he was sued by a Las Vegas Strip casino in May for failing to pay $400,000 in gambling markers, or loans.

Nonetheless Barkley is to play in the “Ante Up for Africa” charity event.

It’s interesting that Barkley was sued in court for his bad markers. I guess someone like Charles Barkley you don’t send a couple heavies over to break a kneecap. Somebody could get hurt.

Hmm. I wonder if Chuck might know something about the NBA referee gambling scandal?

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson seems to be a silly ass…

[T]his kind of over the top, sweeping talk about alleged black father irresponsibility from Obama isn’t new. In stump speeches, he’s pounded black men for their alleged father dereliction, irresponsibility and negligence. Whether Obama is trying to shore up his family values credentials with conservatives, or feels the need to vent personal anger from the pain and longing from being raised without a father, or criticizes out of a genuine concern about the much media-touted black family breakup is anybody’s guess. But Obama clearly is fixated on the ever-popular notion of the absentee black father. And that fixation for whatever reason is fed by a mix of truth, half truths and outright distortion.

Yeah, there is absolutely no basis in fact to support a claim that black males are generally irresponsible fathers. Obama just has a misguided fixation that would make him tell these horrible lies against blacks.

I am kind of surprised that Pajamas Media would even run such a silly argument. Lots of good stuff in the comments, though. A sample:

Being a responsible father, not having kids with multiple women, providing for the needs of your children…are not behaviors unique to white/Asian men….but there would be an enormous stigma attached to white/Asian members of that culture for “bad behavior” in those situatons. There could exist no excuse (poverty, loss of job etc) which would remove the stigma or “excuse” the behavior.

If 65-70% of black children are born into single mother families, and black culture says…”well, you know…that’s the white man’s fault”…that issue isn’t going to go away.

Another sample:

 I didn’t know where this poison came from at the time, but I do remember the black kids at school calling the smart black kids, the ones with decent academic records, the ones who could read, write, and speak well — oreos. They were very specific: if you succeed academically, you aren’t really black. I heard those words hurled at my friends. And now, I know that they got if from church.

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I haven’t heard anything about this case for a while. I didn’t even know there was a case until reading this story but I am certainly glad to see some bad stuff happening to Lori Drew. Los Angeles US Attorney Thomas O’Brien:

“Any adult who uses the Internet or a social networking website to bully another person, particularly a vulnerable teenage girl, should realize this has serious consequences.”

But using the word “bully” to paint this sick psycho bitch, Lori Drew is unfortunate. Psychological abuse I suppose is what bullying is all about but what Lori Drew did is on a whole different level and labeling Drew as a bully confuses the distinction. In the schoolyard case of the bully, which I believe is a natural phenomena that has to to identified and corrected at some point before junior high before it becomes a problem, the combatants are all children who are at least on the same playground. Furthermore, when an adult bullies a child it’s called abuse and when abuse leads to death it’s called homicide.

Lori Drew is no better than a pervert who would lurk around the school zone looking to abduct, torture and murder a young schoolgirl. I mean, that is fundamentally exactly what she did. Lori Drew abducted Megan Meier’s attention online by impersonating Josh Evans, a fake identity, then tortured her mind with false promises of acceptance and affection using said fake identity, and then Lori Drew, with intent and malice aforethought, murdered Megan’s soul.

Guilty as charged!

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The very nerve of some people:

If convicted [of insulting Justice Belinda Ang Saw Ean,] Nair, a former Singaporean lawyer now based in California, faces up to one year in prison and a 5,000 dollar (3,630 US) fine.

Last Thursday, another charge accused him of calling Singapore judges “corrupt.”

I just can’t imagine the audacity of some of these “bloggers.”

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Why exactly will global warming cause all the coastal areas to flood? And other than having to relocate dense population centers why is a lot of extra water such a bad thing? It’s not like our dense population centers have been a raging success. They are in fact the source of many of the nation’s ills. Crime, pollution, poverty, urban sprawl… and global warming.

Besides, aren’t we in some kind of global water shortage crisis? Isn’t California shutting down for want of some more water? I can see how people who drink off the melting glaciers might be concerned about melting glaciers, but that is hardly a global problem, is it? Besides wouldn’t all the extra water from the glaciers have to be included in the weather systems, ultimately causing more rain around the world? Doesn’t redistribution of water make as much sense as redistribution of wealth?

You don’t hear a lot of talk about global warming being a good thing. Primarily I think this is because global warming, if it even continues over the long term, will cause many great changes and when there is great change the people who have are at risk to lose ground to the people who have not. People in charge do not like unmanaged change–that is, they do not like change where they are not still in control of everything after the change has occurred. Al Gore’s vile tobacco plantation could be reduced to a dust bowl, for example.

What if, after the initial global catastrophes, if any, global warming and melted icecaps were to provide an unmeasurable benefit to the the entire plant and animal kingdom of earth, enabling human civilization to endure and prosper for ten thousand years? Seems an unbiased scientist adhering to the scientific method would have to consider such a scenario.

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Watch this:

And if you think it’s cool, download it and play with it. It’s free. It’s small (like only 2.5 MB). And most of all, it’s Phun as all phuk!

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A big collection of Hillary photos that are, uh, not in her best light. My favorite:

and my 2nd fav:

Jeez, I think she is buried up to the second knuckle joint.

Deciding on my favorite was simple but the the runner up was quite difficult since there are so many to choose from.

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He’ll have my vote

For the first time in Chile, a mayor plans to give out free Viagra to men 60 and older in his town to improve their “quality of life” four times a month, according to media reports.

“This has to do with quality of life and it’s done responsibly. It’s not just like handing out candy at the corner,” Gonzalo Navarrete, a physician and mayor of the poor town of Lo Prado south of Santiago, told Las Ultimas Noticias daily. (Link)

Viagra — so old guys can whack off again.

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I sure am tired this morning. I was up way past my bedtime last night and I still haven’t seen the Rockets win a game this year. I watched a game or two early in the season, I saw the first game after the 22 game winning streak, the 2nd half of game 1 vs Utah, and I stayed up late to watch all of game 2 last night.

Maybe it’s me.

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There is no way this is entirely acurate:

Slemp reportedly fell about 100 to 200 feet before landing on the interior slope of the crater. He then slid on hands and knees to the bottom of the crater.

If you know anything about falling, then you know that a 100 to 200 foot fall is not something a person survives. If by some miracle you do survive…

Okay, maybe Slemp just stopped to piss into the crater, to leave his mark as it were, and he still had on all his riding gear, including a full face helmet, when the ledge gave way but the force from the fall itself would leave a small crater and flatten your body upon impact to such a degree that… okay, imagine getting hit with a baseball thrown by a steroid enhanced Roger “the Rocket” Clemens. Now Imagine a baseball the size of the earth hitting you at that speed.

I’m thinking it wasnt a free-fall. I’m thinking the report would have been more accurate if it had stated that the guy tumbled down the side of the crater for about 100 to 200 feet when he caught his balance and was able to slide down on his hands and knees the rest of the way. In which case I’d say his riding gear saved his life. It might actually have been fun.

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I’ve been wandering around the net the last couple of days looking for some new stuff — new to me that is — and found a couple of sites you might find interesting.

The People’s Cube - The Stalinist version of The Onion.

The Dick List - Same stuff, but different.

Funnimetric -

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JVON has a great story by a SR-71 pilot. An excerpt:

One day, high above Arizona, we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. ‘Ninety knots,’ ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. ‘One-twenty on the ground,’ was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was ‘Dusty 52, we show you at 525 on the ground,’ ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter’s mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ‘Aspen 20, I show you at 1,742 knots on the ground.’ We did not hear another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.

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Jo has sent you the following story:

After 75 years of marriage, Fort Worth couple died 5 hours apart
By SCOTT STREATER

FORT WORTH — The routine was familiar to the family and friends of J.C. and Josie Cox.When the couple visited, they’d sit a spell and talk, perhaps for an hour, maybe two. Then, without saying a word, Mr. Cox would stand up, grab his hat and coat, and silently walk to the front door. It was his way of saying he was ready to go, and Mrs. Cox, his wife of 75 years, always followed.Last week, at an Arlington nursing home, Mr. Cox, 100, clutching his wife’s hand, died of complications from pneumonia. Five hours later, Mrs. Cox, 96, followed her husband. She had suffered from a heart condition.

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Is there any doubt about how this is going to turn out?

A landowner with “strong anti-government attitudes” barricaded himself in his rural home Thursday and fired shots at SWAT officers trying to search his home and arrest him, authorities said. No one was injured.

The dispute started Monday when Richland County sheriff’s deputies tried to serve Robert Bayliss, 60, with a lawsuit seeking to evict him for failure to pay property taxes back to 2001 on his home and 18 acres, Richland county counsel Benjamin Southwick said.

You will send the government your money or they will take your home and property. If you resist their demands you will be arrested and jailed, if not killed. But don’t worry, it’s all legal and fair and we live in the greatest country in the world. So don’t worry. This will never happen to you, as long as you send in your money.

Anyone who doesn’t have “strong anti-government attitudes” is living in some kind of la la land, I think.

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Do we really want four years of this:

But later, a senior Clinton spokesman told reporters that Clinton did not mean to imply that she was not referring to what she allegedly said to Richardson about Obama.

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I want to thank Branch for the link, but for some reason words escape me.

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I hate to be stereotypical, but Arabs sure are prone to Hyperbole:

“The [Iraqi] police and army are being used for political goals, while they should be used for the benefits of all the Iraqi people,” said Nassar al-Rubaei, leader of the Sadrist bloc in parliament.”If these violations continue, a huge popular eruption will take place that no power on Earth can stop.” (Link)

So, not even Islam could stop it? What an unfortunate name for the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr. Not even Madison avenue could make a Sadrist seem appealing

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