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Archive for August, 2007
Reason 28 to Homeschool
Aug 31st
Your third grader won’t be taught by a crackhead or a junkie. Meet Krista Crosby. She has a comic book name, and her superpower is the ability to fail spectacularly at being an educator. She also has one of the most pathetic booking photos ever.
Krista brought her heroin and her pot to school because she just can’t make it through the day without her smack.
From Omaha.com here:
An Omaha Public Schools (OPS) teacher will be fired after bringing heroin and drug paraphernalia to the elementary school where she taught.
Krista Crosby, a third-grade teacher at Florence Elementary, 7902 North 36th St., was removed Thursday from her classroom.
An employee of the school found a bag containing possible narcotics that belonged to Crosby. A small amount of marijuana and paraphernalia were also found on Crosby, according to police.
Crosby will not be returning to OPS, because the evidence was apparent.
She is not the first OPS teacher arrested in a drug case.
Lynn Weibel was arrested at her home in 2005 and later convicted of possession of a controlled substance – methamphetamine. She was a fourth-grade teacher at Wakonda Elementary at the time, but was later fired. Another OPS teacher, Jolene Cortez, was arrested earlier that year and convicted of conspiracy to distribute meth from her home. She was fired from her job as a second-grade teacher at Conestoga Magnet Center.
Meth must be huge in Omaha if all the elementary teachers are doing it. Remember when school teachers weren’t paid enough to afford drugs?
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Loading ...Make A Wish Movie
Aug 31st
The Make A Wish Foundation has a new line of movies out. Here is the first one created by Travis, a brave little boy. Don’t you wish all movies were like this masterpiece film? Click below to watch “The Boy Who Everyone Loved and Who Never Died.”
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Hippie NASA Employees Fighting New Badges
Aug 31st
Some stupid hippies who managed to work at CalTech as JPL contractors are suing the federal government. They want to block NASA from implementing a new badging process which every other federal employee and contractor has already gone through.
The process involves being fingerprinted and having a background check performed. Once fingerprints are taken and run through a criminal background check, a badge is issued to the employee, allowing them to work on federal projects. The goal is to keep criminals and terrorists out of the government infrastructure.
But Susan Foster and a bunch of whiny liberals at CalTech are not happy that their fingerprints will be checked and certainly don’t want anyone asking their neighbors if they are good people or not.
From the AP here:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers sued NASA and the California Institute of Technology on Thursday, challenging extensive new background checks that the space exploration center and other federal agencies began requiring in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
The lawsuit says NASA is violating the Constitution by calling on employees — everyone from janitors to visiting professors — to permit investigators to delve into medical, financial and past employment records, and to question friends and acquaintances about everything from their finances to sex lives. Those who refuse could lose their jobs, the suit says.“They don’t tell you what they’re looking for, they don’t tell you when they’re looking for it, they won’t tell us what they’re doing with the data,” said plaintiff Susan Foster, a technical writer and editor at JPL for nearly 40 years.
JPL employees have until Sept. 28 to fill out forms authorizing the background checks. Those who don’t will be barred from JPL and be “voluntarily terminated” as of Oct. 27. A request for a preliminary injunction blocking the requirements is to be heard in court Sept. 24.
A 2004 Homeland Security presidential directive mandated new security badges for millions of federal workers and contractors.
Foster said she will resign before the badges are required, and that there were members of the clerical staff who were too frightened about losing their jobs to come forward.
Foster is scared because she probably has a growing operation in her basement or some other criminal history. And with 40 years under her belt, she is probably afraid that she will lose her valuable pension if she is fired for a security violation.
Foster’s website is here. HSPD12 is here.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Dracula Fought War on Terror
Aug 31st
Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the 3rd, known as the Impaler, or as his name became known by the Islamic people who ultimately defeated him, Dracula, the Satan- was one of the first to stand against the rushing onslaught of Islamic savagery in Old Europe.
Constantinople had recently fallen to the expanding Islamic Caliphate in 1453, and Sultan Mehmed II began to focus his attention on the small country of Wallachia, which is now southern Romania.
Mehmed sent a diplomatic envoy to meet with Vlad to demand that Vlad surrender to the Sultan, convert to Islam, and begin to pay a small fortune as a tribute to his new master.
Vlad demanded to know why two men were in his throneroom who refused to remove their hats as was the custom in his country. The Muslim envoy scoffed and informed Vlad that their own custom prohibits them from removing their turbans, and they were certainly not going to break that tradition now, especially to a kuffar, or non believer.
Dracula thought that this was an excellent custom, so to ensure that their hats stayed on their heads, he nailed the turbans to their skulls and ejected them from his throneroom.
Many of the stories about the impalings are true, but his victims were invading Muslims who were going to forcefully convert his people to Islam and kidnap his nation’s children to serve as servants and sex slaves to the Ottomans. Vlad is a hero to the Romanian people to this day.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Percocet, Vodka and Parenting Skills
Aug 30th
This is Holly Schnobrich. Fresh off of a DUI conviction, she got hopped up on Percocets and Vodka and then made her 5 year-old son drive her home. Yee Haw!
From the Indychannel here:
A woman was arrested for letting her 5-year-old son drive her around while she was intoxicated, police said.
Holly Schnobrich, 24, of Lafayette, was charged with felony neglect and public intoxication after neighbors told police the boy was driving her and his 3-year-old brother in their subdivision early Sunday. Wendy Barrett, a resident of the Saddlebrook subdivision, said Weston Schnobrich was behind the wheel of a Mitsubishi Galant that stopped in front of her home.
“So I approach the car, and the windows come down and there is a toddler on his knees, controlling the steering wheel. Barrett said she saw Holly Schnobrich buckled in the front passenger seat, and the 3-year-old was crawling in the back. “I asked her, ‘Ma’am, are you OK? Do you need some help? Is this your toddler?’ She admitted, ‘Yes, but he’s a good driver,’” Barrett recalled.
Holly Schnobrich admitted taking the prescription painkiller Percocet with vodka. She also had a near-empty bottle of sleeping pills that she told them she had for two days, according to the affidavit.
On Thursday, Weston said that he was having a hard time driving. “My legs were too short to reach the pedals,” he said. “I want to be a race car driver when I grow up,” he said.
Prosecutors said Schnobrich pleaded guilty last week to an unrelated charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
According to the Smoking Gun here, Schnobrich was taking the pills because the kids were “acting wild.” She needed to be high to deal with the kids.
I just finished watching Ricky Bobby the other night and couldn’t help but think of this scene below.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Virginia Republicans Have Good Plan For Illegal Aliens
Aug 30th
Its obvious that the Federal Government can’t solve the illigal alien problem by itself. Its going to take the cooperation of the state law enforcement to help identify known illegals that are in custody. Once identified, they should be held for deportation.
The Virginia Republican party has a sensible 5-point plan to help things along. Hopefully other states will follow suit.
From NBC4 here:
Virginia Republican legislative leaders Wednesday announced five measures targeting illegal immigration.
The proposed bills deal with law enforcement, business and education. Republican lawmakers said the measures are intended to make sure people who are tapping into taxpayer resources are in the country legally.
One proposal says that when a person is arrested, the sheriff must check a federal database to determine whether that person is in the country legally. Another would require every local jail to have an employee certified by the federal government to detain illegal aliens for deportation.
The third law-enforcement proposal would deny bail for any illegal alien who is arrested.
Other measures would allow the state to suspend the business license of any business violating a federal law against hiring illegal aliens and would bar illegal immigrants from attending Virginia public colleges unless they have a valid student visa.
The General Assembly will consider the proposals at the session that begins in January.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Global Warming Has No Consensus
Aug 30th
In fact, more scientists now agree that with global warming skeptics than agree that mankind is causing global warming. Over 500 modern papers on climate change were reviewed, and only one of them said that mankind was behind global warming and it would lead to catastrophic effect on the planet.
From DailyTech here:
Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers “implicit” endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no “consensus.”
The figures are even more shocking when one remembers the watered-down definition of consensus here. Not only does it not require supporting that man is the “primary” cause of warming, but it doesn’t require any belief or support for “catastrophic” global warming. In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.
Quick Al Gore. Go put on another concert.
Ten years from now VH-1 is going to do a show called “I Love the Oughts” about pop culture in the first decade of the 21st century. In it there will be comedians and pop stars laughing at everyone who was wearing those stupid Croc shoes and all those people who thought Man was killing the environment with CO2.
I am wondering if those ninnies who still believe in manmade global warming will feel foolish for having believed in it? I don’t think they will be apologetic at all for their fanatacism. I think they will sheepishly say “My heart was in the right place” but I hope they kick themselves in the ass for taking two minute showers and being stinky for a decade.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Monster.Com Copes With Recovery
Aug 30th
Monster has hired some security experts to help shore up their horrible network security to try to prevent another breach like the most recent debacle- the loss of 1.6 Million user resume files which included the names, addresses and phone numbers of job seekers.
From the AP here:
Monster Worldwide Inc., a major online job-search site, said Wednesday it was beefing up its security measures following a significant data breach this month.
Sal Iannuzzi, the company’s chairman and chief executive, said the company was improving its surveillance of how the site is used as well as limiting the way data can be accessed.Earlier this month data security company Symantec Corp. uncovered a scheme where con artists obtained user names and passwords of legitimate recruiters who use Monster to search for job candidates, and then gleaned personal information from job seekers that they then used to craft personalized “phishing” e-mails.
Monster said it believes the fake e-mails were sent to Monster users to lure them into divulging financial information. Monster said it recently became aware of illegal downloads of personal information from 1.3 million job seekers with resumes posted on Monster.com, including their names, addresses and phone numbers.
Don’t you have to have some sort of “surveillance” in place in order to improve it? And if they already had it in place, how piss-poor was it to miss 1.6 million records being spirited away by a few individual accounts? Shouldn’t that set off a few alarms? Or does Monster have tiered accounts- bronze, silver, gold and OMFG-TAKEeverything?
I recently encountered a person by the name of Dan on another blog, talking about his views on the Monster.com databreach. He is a Monster.com employee, leading their content group, with 8 years under his belt at the company. This makes him a grizzled veteran. And someone who survived the recent layoffs in which over 800 employees were axed. And he most likely got all of those emails that employees get during security breaches that state “don’t talk to the public about this incident. Refer them to the PR department.” Yet he went on a blog and wrote the following:
He said:
“While there was nothing stolen that you couldn’t find in the phone book, it’s still an issue for job seekers when they start receiving unwanted emails.”
The phone book? The phone book is a paper product and cannot be digitally downloaded to have 1.6 million names of people that need jobs. And even the online versions such as Bigbook.com only allows you to get a few names at a time.
And I don’t think Dan gets the scope of the breach and what Monster gives criminals by their dismal lack of security.
Its not the first time a breach like this has happened. Monster’s resume base has been pharmed for years by criminals. These criminals need to contact the unemployed and the desperate to get them to serve as mules to launder money from identity theft rings, drug money and yes, even terrorist financing.
Maybe this new security team can show Monster how to monitor their database using technology developed nine years ago. Its called statistical anomaly detection. Account metering. Email alerts. They should check into it. All of their competitors do it.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...The Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldier
Aug 29th
One of my favorite bands right now, and the video from one of my favorite songs. Pure rock and roll! Click below to enjoy. The band’s website is here.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Earthlink Fires Half of Employees
Aug 29th
Carnage at Earthlink. And more to come probably. Earthlink is trying to phase away from its money-losing business of cheap dial-up internet service to focus on a new money-losing business of “myspace mobile phones” and the money-losing business of city-wide wireless networks.
From CNET here:
Internet service provider EarthLink said Tuesday that it would lay off approximately 900 employees as the company restructures in an attempt to boost its sagging stock price.
EarthLink will lose about half its staff in the restructuring as it shuts down operations in Orlando, Fla.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Harrisburg, Pa., and San Francisco. It will also substantially reduce its presence in Pasadena, Calif., and Atlanta, the company said in a press release Tuesday.
The reductions are expected to cost the company $60 million to $70 million. But it will save EarthLink $25 million to $35 million through the remainder of 2007, the company said.
And these cuts may only be the tip of the iceberg, according to statements made by EarthLink’s new CEO, Rolla Huff.
“While we see this as an important first step in unlocking the underlying value that we believe is in our company, we are only eight weeks into the process of repositioning EarthLink for the future,” he said in a statement. “These changes get our cost structure in line, but there is much more to do. We expect to announce additional steps as we continue our work over the coming weeks and months.”
The shake-up comes as EarthLink struggles to find ways to balance losses in its traditional Internet service provider business with the high cost of building its municipal Wi-Fi and cellular phone businesses.
Last I heard, no one likes to use city-wide wi-fi. And I have no idea how free wireless internet is supposed to generate a profit.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Sony in a New Rootkit Scandal
Aug 29th
Many people vividly remember the Sony rootkit scandal of 2005. I still detect hosts on networks I monitor as being infected with the rootkit, prompting a system rebuild. If you are not familiar with the 2005 scandal, Wikipedia has a pretty good summary here. Essentially, Sony wanted to agressively protect its copyrights on its music, and to do so, it distributed music CD’s with software on it that auto-installed on PC’s, hiding software from the user and crippling PC functionality. In addition, wily hackers knew how to exploit such code to install their own hidden backdoor into affected systems.
Now Sony has been caught by F-Secure using rootkits again, but this time the software is bundled with some high-end thumbdrives and biometric readers.
From Reuters here:
Software included with high-end memory sticks sold by Sony Corp can make personal computers vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, according to researchers with two Internet security firms.
Sony’s MicroVault USB memory stick and fingerprint reader includes software that creates a hidden directory on the computer’s hard drive, researchers with Finnish security software maker F-Secure Corp reported on the company’s blog on Monday.Such software that hides itself, which is known as a root kit, leaves room for hackers to secretly infect personal computers, they said.
F-Secure’s blog posting said it attempted to contact Sony before alerting the public about the software, but the company had not replied.
On Tuesday, researchers with McAfee Inc. said they had confirmed the vulnerability described by F-Secure.
“The apparent intent was to cloak sensitive files related to the fingerprint verification feature included on the USB drives,” said McAfee spokesman Dave Marcus. “However, software creators apparently did not keep the security implications in mind. The application could be used to hide arbitrary software, including malicious software.”
This is not the first time F-Secure has found Sony software installing hidden directories on the drives of its customers. In 2005 there was a similar situation involving the electronics maker’s digital rights management software, security experts say.
On F-Secure’s blog today, the security group confirms that the rootkit can be used by malware authors to hide any file folder.
This new rootkit (which can still be downloaded from sony.net) can be used by any malware author to hide any folder. We didn’t want to go into the details about this in our public postings, but we suppose the cat’s out of the bag now that our friends at McAfee blogged about this yesterday. If you simply extract one executable from the package and include it with malware, it will hide that malware’s folder, no questions asked.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Hippies Distraught as BurningMan Blazes Early
Aug 29th
The Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert ran into a snag when Paul Addis decided to get a jump start on the celebration. He ignited the towering wooden sculpture of the Burning Man Monday after midnight. It was supposed to spark into blaze on Saturday. Thousands could be heard saying “Bummer, Man” all at once.
From the AP here:
Burning Man became Burnt Man four days early on Tuesday, and a San Francisco performance artist was arrested for igniting the signature figure of the counterculture festival in the remote Nevada desert.
The early morning fire scorched about 85 percent of the structure, Burning Man spokeswoman Andie Grace said. Event engineers decided it would be best to dismantle it and rebuild a less elaborate version, accomplishing in two days what normally takes weeks so the figure would be finished in time for Saturday night’s scheduled burning, she said.The approximately 40-foot-tall wood and neon structure was supposed to go up in flames in the ceremonial climax of the weeklong annual event.
Many festival-goers who were awake watching Tuesday’s lunar eclipse said they saw a man deliberately ignite the figure at about 3 a.m., Grace said.
“It was in plain sight of many people,” she said. “Everyone is looking at it this morning, this big black figure in the sky and that wasn’t supposed to burn, saying, ‘Now what do we do?’”
Paul Addis, 35, of San Francisco, was booked into the Pershing County, Nev., jail on suspicion of arson, illegal possession of fireworks, destruction of property and resisting a public officer, according to the sheriff’s department. He posted a $25,632 bond, a sheriff’s dispatcher said.
How the hell can someone be accused of arson for burning something that was intended to be set ablaze? I think its awesome that even a so-called “counter-culture” has a “counter-culture” to it. One dude Pwn3d the whole festival.
I think every year someone should attempt to burn it early. You get teams- one team defends against would-be arsonists, and the other team tries to burn it down.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Nowak to Plead Bat-Shiat Insane
Aug 28th
Not much of a shock, huh? Any bitch who would drive cross-country in a diaper so she could confront her boyfriend’s lover with a BBgun, duct tape, mace, and a mallet wouldn’t be too stable, eh? But get a load of her laundry-list of excuses in the story below:
From the AP here:
Former astronaut Lisa Nowak is pursuing a temporary insanity defense on charges that she assaulted and tried to kidnap a romantic rival, according to a court document released Tuesday.
Nowak suffered from major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, insomnia and “brief psychotic disorder with marked stressors,” defense attorney Donald Lykkebak wrote. He said the already-petite woman had also recently lost 15 percent of her body weight and struggled with “marital separation.”“This notice does not challenge competence to stand trial, but only raises insanity at the time of the offense,” he wrote.
Nowak, 44, was charged with attempted kidnapping, battery and burglary with assault after allegedly driving nearly 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando to confront Colleen Shipman, the girlfriend of a former space shuttle pilot Nowak had been involved with.
The lawyer forgot to mention that she was suffering from cough due to cold, pre-menstrual cramps, a not-so-fresh feeling, migraines, and athlete’s foot.
I don’t think that temporary insanity will have much bearing on this case at all. A Thousand miles is a long car trip, filled with long silent moments when clarity could intrude long enough to talk the crazy psycho bitch out of attempting to kidnap a lover’s rival.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Help Me, I Need a Translator
Aug 28th
Does anyone speak “Stupid Blonde Whore?” Watch this video and help me decipher “Miss South Carolina” Lauren Caitlin Upton’s Miss Teen USA response to a question about poor geography skills in US schools.
I think her response translates into “Well, like schools are hard, and thinking is like, all hard and stuff too- and like, in the Iraq there are like, different thinking and like, South African children like MySpace comments like, even more than me!”
Her response should prove that parents need to homeschool their children, especially the stupid ones.
What a waste of time her doting parents spent on this brainless tool, entering her into pageants. Lauren should go straight to the pole. She is too stupid to be in Playboy. And even if she had won, wouldn’t a scholarship be wasted on this dolt?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Chinese Internet Police: We are Watching You
Aug 28th
We all hate popup ads. Most of us also hate flash animation ads that block out web articles we are trying to read, and we get pissed off more when we have problems finding the “close” button to make the ad go away. Now imagine that you get those popup ads every 30 minutes, and there is no close button. Now imagine that its the Internet Cops. As if living in a communist country didnt suck enough-
From the AP here:
Police in China’s capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user’s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.
Starting Sept. 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 of China’s top portals and by the end of the year will appear on all Web sites registered with Beijing servers.China stringently polices the Internet for material and content that the ruling Communist Party finds politically or morally threatening. The animated police appeared designed to startle Web surfers and remind them that authorities closely monitor Web activity.
How much more big brother can China get with their intrusive web monitoring? Well, actually, they are likely to get much tougher soon. I predict that China will institute mandatory host-based monitoring. A government-sponsored trojan horse program will be required to access any registered web content- like a decryption key of some type. The downside of this is that the trojan also monitors directly for illegal content. Its coming, you mark my words.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Hedgehogs Cuddle Bristle Brush
Aug 28th
This picture is just too sickly sweet not to post. Baby hedgehogs. Orphans. Their mama was squished by a palette truck. They were taken in by a wildlife park and are being nursed back to health by a cleaning brush.
Somewhere I gotta find a picture of orphan turtles getting cozy with a VW hubcap. Thanks to Neatorama for the link to the original story here.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Disgusting Creepy Gay Politicians
Aug 28th
Minneapolis airport is a major hub for many connections to the northwest. But apparently it is also renowned for having quickie gay sex between flights.
It seems that the Republican US Senator from Idaho, Larry Craig, likes to skulk around in filthy public restrooms so he can engage in anonymous gay sex.
Disgusting on so many levels. Forget that the man is a politician. It’s the fact that depraved hog gobblers like him do this in the men’s rooms of airports and rest stops that creeps me out. I already get a little skeeved out when I have to use the facilities at such places due to the reputation of such behavior.
But add to this the fact that he is a US senator and the holder of state secrets, and stupid behavior like this that could expose him to blackmail- and the behavior is absolutely inexcusable. He should have his security clearance revoked. This is exactly the same argument I made for impeaching Bill Clinton- its not the sex, its the risk to having enemies blackmail him.
And in this instance, its not about homosexuality. If you are gay, be gay and be proud. Gays that are out and comfortable with who they are rarely engage in dangerous, depraved activity such as anonymous sex in public. Gay or straight, its disgusting behavior.
From the Idaho Statesman here:
U.S. Sen. Larry Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct this month after his arrest in a Minneapolis airport men’s room by an undercover officer who said Craig was sending signals that he wanted to have sex.
The arrest, first reported this afternoon in the magazine Roll Call, occurred June 11 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Craig was “detained for approximately 45 minutes, interviewed, photographed, fingerprinted and released, and police prepared a formal complaint for interference with privacy and disorderly conduct,” according to the investigating officer’s report, which Roll Call provided to the Idaho Statesman.
Minneapolis airport police have made “numerous arrests regarding sexual activity in the public restroom,” the report said.
When Craig was arrested, police at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport were conducting a sting operation to investigate allegations of lewd conduct at the airport’s main terminal.
The cop’s statement is here. Let me say that his job is ridiculously gross. He has to sit on toilets, listening to people fart and drop bombs, and try to catch gay dudes trying to get it on? He should get a raise.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Vick Finds Jesus and Seeks Redemption
Aug 27th
Vick pleaded guilty and then held a presser in which he claims that Jesus has forgiven him, so won’t we do the same?
From the AJC here:
Vick apologized to the world, asked for forgiveness and promised to redeem himself as he faces what could be more than a year in prison.
“I want to apologize for all the things that I have done and that I have allowed to happen,” Vick said after federal Judge Henry E. Hudson set his sentencing date for Dec. 10. “I totally ask for forgiveness and understanding as I move forward to better Michael Vick the person, not the football player.”
Vick, who has admitted to helping kill pit bulls that did not measure up as fighters, was not specific about the actions he regretted. But he called dogfighting “a terrible thing” he rejects.
Speaking slowly and softly, the 27-year-old ex-Virginia Tech star also declared that he had “found Jesus” as part of his ordeal and has turned his life over to God. He did not take questions after speaking in a conference room at the Omni Richmond Hotel.
“I accept responsibility for my actions and what I did. And now I have to pay the consequences for it,” Vick said, perhaps hoping Judge Hudson will hear his remorseful comments before sentencing.
“In a sense, I think it will help me as a person. I have a lot to think about in the next year or so.”
So did he find Jesus when he bashed the dog’s skull in? Or was it when he electrocuted the other dog? Or maybe he saw Jesus in the bubbles rising from the water-filled lungs of the dog he drowned in the pool?
Vick had his chance to be a man when he left High School with a full scholarship to Virginia Tech. He had a chance to be a man when he was drafted to the NFL earning millions of dollars. Now he suddenly wants to grow up? Too late, Mike. Serve your time and go away.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Great HelpDesk Ya Got There
Aug 27th
Like many people in the IT industry, I spent my allotted time working on a Help Desk, trying to help users get their problems solved, and also trying not to strangle the stupid and the inept. I never had a great sign like this one below that I saw on Neatorama. I usually responded to stupid questions with an exaggerated eye-roll or a witty (I thought) comment.
This should be on the door of every helpdesk office.
The witty stupid comments slowed down a LOT after I got fired from a help desk at an Airline’s corporate headquarters. I reported to a woman’s desk to handle a complaint about her new HP printer. She told me, “I keep pushing the print buttons, but it won’t come.”
And I responded, “Come? Its not even breathing hard.”
It turned out that she was the secretary of a powerful executive and I got fired for the comment the next day.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Attorney General Gonzales Quits
Aug 27th
Or was fired or whatever. Im sure more details will be forthcoming. Gonzales was under constant hounding by the Democrats in congress about the firings of several federal attorneys, which is perfectly legal to do under any circumstances.
Maybe if Gonzales deported kids he could have kept his job.
But if you roll tanks into a private compound and spray napalm on women and children like Janet Reno did in Waco, no one forces her to quit.
If you use machine guns to forcibly remove a 6-year-old child from relatives in Florida and force the bastard to live in a communist impoverished country, well, that’s fine too. Elian Gonzales was the only immigrant democrats wanted to eject from the country.
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