Updates on Beauchamp
He was on his MySpace a couple of minutes ago, but appears to be off now. He and one of his friends were talking smack about Matt Sanchez. I'm still amazed the tool hasn't scruberased that blog. Maybe he forgot about it? I would think Elspeth would give him the heads-up.
ALSO, WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE MATT SANCHEZ. BUT WITH WOMEN AND NOT ON TAPE. I JUST RENTED TOUCHED BY AN ANAL I HEARD IT'S MR. SANCHEZ'S GREATEST FILM, AND BY GOLLY THEY WERE RIGHT
I CANT WAIT FOR HIS NEXT FILM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WILL BE STELLAR!!!!
I think the next one is going to be called "Schindlers Fist", but I
cant be too sure...i dont watch gay porn. On a side note: my grill blew
over and I rutted with my wife...send me money.
Hey I heard the news....three new Beauchampions!!!
Beauchampions...give me strength.
Update, Cuffy in commentposts notes that the "Grill fell over" line is Beauchamp taking a shot at Confederate Yankee, who's keeping the little bastardjerk's story alive. It sounds like he's at least somewhat aware of what's going on stateside.
LOLchamp
I'm in ur soulpatterns, messin with ur mindthoughts
Posted by: doubleplusundead at September 29, 2007 12:31 AM (rfBBP)
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OT, you rock, Sinistar. Thanks for your recent comments on my blog. I have a difficult time saying what I really think sometimes and opt for diplomacy and the "killing them with kindness" route instead. I think it is the southern manners thing I've been taught all my life.
Nanny Knows Best-Massachusetts Itching to Ban Smoking at Home
For now, they're playing it carefully, and trying to set up voluntary programs and registries with smoke-free apartments, but make no mistake, they want to drop the banhammer,
Still, health authorities in New England are treading lightly,
concerned that if they push for measures that are considered draconian
- backing laws that ban smoking in all homes, for example - they will
be dismissed as the "public health police," their efforts derailed.
Instead, they are championing an approach that combines education with
voluntary smoking prohibitions.
This statement is more than enough proof they they want to impose a ban, they clearly would love to, but they know they can't get away with it right now. I guarantee they get bolder over time, and smoking gets entirely banned in 15 years. People always support what seem like "reasonable" anti-smoking measures, and when they're warned that the Nanny Staters will use them as the excuse to tighen its grip, its always brushed off, up until their ox gets gored.
Of course, cordoning off smokers like they are a bunch of lepers helps the Nanny Staters in their efforts, its much easier to impose obnoxious bans on people you have no contact with than if you have to look at the decent guy down the hall or next door who happens to smoke and basically give him a big screw you, I don't care if it makes you happy.
I don't smoke, but I feel obligated to argue against this sort of thing because I know how this story ends, and its not good, it always starts with frivolous crap like this and moves to restricting critical rights.
And before I get the b-b-b-b-b-but, this program is voluntaaaary!!! Yeah, except its obvious they're being pressured to do it (before the Nanny State zealots get brave enough to move to coercion), I'm fine with people banning smoking in their apartments, homes or businesses, its a reasonable business practice, and its your property, but the government has no place pushing you around.
Miller Taking Heat For Sponsoring Folsom Street Fair
Apparently, Miller has asked their name be removed from the fair, but the money is I guess staying, some people are pissed at Miller, I don't drink that swill (I'm a one or two beers at dinner type, so super cheap crap doesn't appeal to me), so I don't really care.
The big brouhaha is over a poster featuring this goof on The Last Supper, with a bunch of leathermen and a bunch of sex toys on the table.
Really, I'm not surprised by the picture itself, this is just another typical boring swipe at Christians in the name of art and pretending you're some daring subversive, I'm more surprised that it wasn't Schmitts that sponsored the fair...
Posted by: Veeshir at September 27, 2007 02:42 PM (ThMnZ)
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It would be really brave if they'd do this with Mohammed and his midnight ride in which he descended to the 7th circle of hell. But then, the Moslems would riot and kick homosexual ass and cut a few throats along the way. Ehhhh, easier to tick off the Christians; everyone knows they're a bunch of pansies.
Posted by: Indga at September 27, 2007 10:16 PM (9//5G)
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I had long suspected Ned Flanders was a Miller drinking man.
Posted by: Flea at September 28, 2007 02:06 AM (o6uVS)
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blah don't care. and on last check i'm pretty sure that the painting, "the last supper" was not considered sacred by anyone, and lampooning it matters not one wit. if Miller wants to sponsor it more power to them. maybe if christians weren't so stuck up they could check the numerous other lampooning of the painting and get their knickers in a twist about all those others too. But until than they are just singling out gays because secretly they are obsessed with butt sex. : )
Posted by: Tim at September 28, 2007 12:52 PM (Zr2oy)
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I'm not bothered because its just juvenile and stupid and its just not worth getting worked up over, but really, this is one of the more debauched goofs on The Last Supper, so I can see being annoyed with it.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at September 28, 2007 01:41 PM (rfBBP)
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What the hell has happened to Miller? They use to be the beer for blue collar guys and had all those great "Miller time" and "tastes great, less filling" commercials. Now they're doing this? Yeah, it's not worth getting worked up over, but it makes you wonder what the hell they're thinking.
Posted by: forged rite at September 29, 2007 01:37 AM (2YCJj)
National Republican Congressional Committee in Bad Shape
Which is what happens when you throw the finger at your own base, immigration in particular, numbskulls. Yet, the GOP elite continue to try pass amnesty measures, now they're just doing it quietly, piecemeal.
The Senate GOP campaign fund is at least in the black, which is better than the House, which has 1.6 million and is 4 in the hole. The only thing saving their asses right now is that RNC has a fair bit of cash on hand, but I get the feeling that ain't gonna last if the rocket surgeons in the GOP don't get their act together in DC and start pretending that they are Republicans.
Not that I think they really care, they've probably got a nice cushy lobby job lined up for when they get out of office, likely a reward for selling out and screwing over their own supporters.
Congrats Tushar!
Most of my readers are Ace of Spades morons anyway and have probably heard this from Slublog's post, but Tushar just became the father of twin boys!
Conservative Belle Smacks Liberal Douchebag David Shuster in the Mouth
I almost sent her story on Shuster's slimy gotcha game to Ace and Hotair, but didn't for some reason. Anyway, looks like she sent it to Newsbusters and Ace, and its since gotten picked up by HotAir.
So here's what happened in a nutshell, Shuster asks Republican Rep. Blackburn from Tennessee what she knows about a soldier who was killed in Iraq, she didn't know about him, but said she made sure to keep contact with all of those families who have lost family in combat. Shuster then asks her why she knows about all the crappy things that the MoveOn assclowns are writing and doing, but not the name of an 18 year old soldier killed in her district.
ConBelle, and I have no idea what the hell made her think to do this, checked into his address. Turns out, the soldier killed lived in another district! So as if his tactics weren't slimy enough, even his attack was based on false pretenses. Good job ConBelle, you pwn3d a commentator (and total fucktard) on a major news channel!
Good job, ConBelle! Couldn't have happened to a more deserving ass.
Also, wiserbud and WP took me Hostage and I'm throwing a live blog party there for the debate tonight. Anyone that wants to get drunk and come over and make funny is invited.
Posted by: Rosetta at September 26, 2007 06:46 PM (omkIU)
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You're blogging at Hostages? Aww, I asked ya to be my co-blogger first!
Posted by: doubleplusundead at September 26, 2007 08:14 PM (gJOMc)
Turns out I'm going to be interviewed by Mark Finkelstein (Newsbusters.org contributor and writer of the initial story) on his public access tv show tomorrow night in NY. The show is also broadcast on the web via an archive on the following Monday.
Even The Ghost of John Harvard is Excited About Halo 3!
This is too funny, MIT students dressed up a statue of John Harvard in a Spartan helmet and a Battle Rifle. The perfect joke to go with the release of Halo 3.
The ambulance chaser suggested we need to put an end to frivolous lawsuits...yeah, Silky is saying this, SILKY EFFIN' PONY! He suggests that his fellow sharks should be barred from making more suit claims if they have a claim dropped as frivolous...
Says Silky
"I think that the bulk of the problem is created when cases are filed in the legal system that should never be filed, and the results are years of litigation and costs that are incurred by the health care provider that should not have been incurred," Edwards said. "A lot of that responsibility goes to the lawyers."
He wants to require two medical professionals to sign off on any claim before it is filed, I imagine this gets squeezed into the schedule with the mile long line of people getting their mandatory government dictated checkup. Oh, and of course he says this...
"I do want to push back some on what I
think is mostly insurance company-driven hysteria because I think the
reality is that the cost associated with legal cases is well under 1 percent of our legal system," the former North Carolina senator said.
Yeah, and what is the percentage of cost to the medical field, Silky?
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Oh I know Tort reform works, its just funny when you hear it from one of the biggest ambulance chasers in the country.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at September 24, 2007 11:05 PM (ocHo7)
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I wonder what percentage of suits are deemed frivolous, now? Is it 10%, 30%, 50%? I'm no expert but it seems to me that what the judicial system characterizes as frivolous is a very small subset of what the common man considers.
I'd also be interested in, historically, how many suits in this frivolous category would be deemed so because of the medical aspects of the cases, and how many for non-medical related aspects of the cases. Here, it seems to me, the actual medical issues would be maybe half of total issues causing them to be judged frivolous. I wouldn't be surprised if the "two medical professionals sign off" was a bone to his buddies to have warm bodies to still sue one last time if their filing is judged frivolous.
Posted by: Dusty at September 25, 2007 05:56 AM (1Lzs1)
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If we banned frivolous presidential candidate pronouncements, we could have some peace and quiet until November '08.
The legal definition of "frivilous" lawsuit and the street definition are quite different, which is why it's so difficult to obtain damages against a lawyer who's filed a frivolous suit against you. In the medical arena, 70% of cases which are filed end with no payment to the plaintiff, which means they're either dismissed or dropped before reaching a conclusion. Of the 7-8% which actually reach courtrooms, the physician defendant is found to be NOT liability or negligent 81% of the time.
While all of those suits clearly don't meet the legal definition of "frivolous," I'm willing to bet that at least SOME of them shouldn't have been filed at ALL....and since it costs about $25,000 to defend a case which never reaches a courtroom, and about $90,000 to defend a court case, all those caes which shouldn't have been filed cost the system a LOT of money....it's hysterical to hear one of the worst offenders - John "I can channel the spirit of dead babies" Edwards take shots at fellow attorneys. He'd better watch it or they'll cut off his money....
Posted by: Donna at September 25, 2007 06:51 PM (ayW5K)
Whiny Eco-Nannies Bitch To EPA About Air FreshenersConservativeBelle sends a story our way about a bunch of environmental wackos who want the EPA to ban air fresheners. Really there's not much to add to what she wrote, other than this is proof yet again that hippies are a smelly lot of bastards who hate anything that will make them smell like anything other than ass, potsmoke, patchouli or Doritos, or some combination thereof, so go over and read her post and the article.
Oh and she's got a great youtube ad linked that you definitely should watch.
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Why don't those assclowns just, you know, avoid the shit that stinks to them? Why do these infantards always insist on legislating their temper tantrums?
Related: I can't stand fragrances in soap, incense, air "fresheners," etc. I use Ivory soap and unscented shampoo, because I shit thee not, almost every fragrance on earth (artificial or concentrated natural) plugs my sinuses up like corks in a wine bottle. I get pounding headaches when I'm around that crap.
Posted by: skh.pcola at September 24, 2007 09:44 PM (jFpwo)
Dexter: Season One
Dexter is a show on Showtime, with a second season starting fairly soon(though two episodes from season 2 have been leaked and are all over the internet now). I did a marathon watch of the first season on DVD. It came recommended by a family member, and I'll echo that recommendation, Dexter is an excellent show.
I should note, its not one for kids, beyond the language, violence, gore, sex and nudity, Dexter is an extremely creepy, dark, gruesome, but ultimately enjoyable show.
Michael C. Hall stars as Dexter Morgan, a skilled serial killer who murders only serious criminals, usually other killers. Dexter long held the impulse to kill, and as a teenager was caught killing and dissecting animals by his foster father, a police officer named Harry Morgan (get it?). His father recognized that Dexter was destined to be a killer, and set boundaries for his son, to only kill those who were serious criminals and deserved to die.
Dexter works as a forensic investigator with the local police department, and is a masterful blood spatter analyst. He is an interesting character, completely empty and distant, he tries to pretend he has emotion and is capable of connection to blend in, sometimes, he doesn't get it quite right, and it produces some awkward, uncomfortable, and often amusing moments in the show. You can hear Dexter's internal voice, his mind's voice is flat, detached, which can sometimes be very funny. Dexter is an interesting killer, its obvious he likes to kill, but he does it in a very creepy, dispassionate, meticulous way.
The main plot of the first season revolves around another highly skilled serial killer, and an amazing game of cat and mouse between Dexter and the serial killer. Its a really interesting story, and if the very dark and gruesome nature of the show doesn't repel you, its very well acted, and will probably pull you in, I think you'll really enjoy it.
Don't Tase me, Bro! Remixed
Its obligatory at this point, Allah's got a thread up, as does everyone else, I usually strive for things no one else is covering, but this is too fun to pass up, head on over, I love this YTMND bit, someone linked it in the thread.
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I know, right? I love ELO to begin with, ELO plus good mix-in of that goofball getting zapped...awesome.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at September 22, 2007 03:13 PM (ocHo7)
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off topic, but Sin, I hope you noticed the comment I left on the vegan thread at Ace's. I wrote it just for you. It went like this:
"My friends,
While this man's dedication is certainly
commendable, I have lived my life eating delicious, tasty meat, and I
have no intention of stopping just because my food has a face. Not for
me, my brothers! Not for me!"
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 22, 2007 08:04 PM (nIl0o)
How The Gingrich Stole the '08 Primaries?
Here you go Newt Fans, he wants 30 million bucks by November and he'll consider it, get crackin', you only need one kidney, really.
It would be interesting from a political junkies' standpoint to see what would happen if Newt threw in. The guy is smart, and strategically, declaring late in the primary game is probably a good move for someone like Newt who has a lot of street cred among conservative primary voters.
Doing that, he avoids the tedious primary process that has been going on for months. Fred Thompson tried to have it both ways by announcing in a wink/nudge way his intent to run, but not actually throwing in and doing the actual campaigning.
It came off as teasing voters and hurt his bump in the polls, he oughta be in first place nationally, but he's stuck in second as far as I can tell. It ultimately worked, but not nearly as well as it should have. Newt, by just not indicating he'll do anything has avoided that, but the question is whether his conservative cred would carry him as he throws together a slapdash campaign operation in the short time he has.
The problem with Newt is, the media has put on a ton of effort in the past to slap him around and drag him down with his own skeletons, and he hasn't been left unscathed. I know that will get me some wrath, but really, alternate media has a small effect, the MSM still ultimately has the big clout when it comes to the daily news cycle, and it will be a liability for a Newt run.
Beyond that, Newt is a cocky bastard(and not in the likeable Rudy Giuliani sense), and a lot of people don't like cocky bastards, as indicated by his personal poll numbers, which I admit are probably skewed by the fact that a lot of people say they don't like him who have no idea who the hell he is, just that they've heard he's a bad guy.
So the real question with a Newt run is less could he win the primary, but can Newt win in a general election against Hillary? I don't know the answer.
Newt is a candidate I could vote for. He's a brilliant visionary. He has identified the things that need fixing and identified ways to fix them. When I listen to him, I never feel like I'm listening to hot air.
I don't know about his viability, but he'd get my vote over most of the other GOP candidates currently in the race.
Ahmedinejad Wants To Visit Ground Zero UPDATE: *REJECTED*
Its sounding like it might happen too, they're in negotiations with US diplomats, NYPD, and the US Secret Service. He wouldn't be permitted to go onto the grounds, but along the outside of them. They don't know why he wants to go, but it could happen on Monday or Tuesday if it does. I hope we don't let the slimeball near the WTC, he doesn't belong there. It would be an insult to all those lost on 9/11 and those who have died fighting the Jihadis.
An advance team for the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asked earlier this month that he be allowed to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site during the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week, but the request was denied, New York City police officials said today.
Merry Christmas!
Alejandro Valencio, claiming to be a woman's boyfriend, decided to surprise her by climbing down the chimney of her rented home at 3 AM...problem for Valencio was he got himself stuck, he was freed after the local fire department broke out a wall in the house and ripped away the bricks from the inner wall of the woman's home.
You won't be surprised to find out, alcohol was involved, said Alejandro,
"Because I want to feel like Santa Claus," Valencio told Evansville
television station WEHT. "I was just drunk -- I live here; she's my
girlfriend."
We make you do silly things!
The woman said she knew him, but he was not her boyfriend(hell, she could just be too embarrassed to admit she was with the screwball for all we know), she had to be forcefully moved by police to let the fire department bust open her fireplace, because she didn't want her brickwork destroyed. She told them to let him die in there.
The kicker, she was given citations for disorderly conduct and interfering with the firemen. Valencio got nothin'. After the incident, she went to bed, and he came back. She chased him out, throwing beer bottles at him. There's video, if you can get it to work, I can't there, but I could get it to work here.
Boomers, Can We Say Projection?
How many obnoxious Boomers are running around demanding more aggressive controls on the yoots of today? How many of them want to place bans on smoking, increased controls on drinking, unconstitutional bans, restrictions, and regulations on gun owners, teenage driving, censorship of violent or sexual content in TV, movies and video games? A lot of them, too many in fact support the Nanny State.
But what have we here? A little article by a Mike Males that shows that perhaps this poisonous brand of thinking is a wee bit of projection on the part of the Boomers.
The piece starts off by pointing to several studies where psychiatrists suggest that we should increase the age that people should be allowed to consent to certain activities, trying to use their studies to shape policy, one suggesting that voting and drinking ages should be raised to 25, and another suggesting we should raise the age of consent to join the military. Then Males lowers his main guns for a broadside...
Why, then, do many pundits and policy makers rush to denigrate
adolescents as brainless? One troubling possibility: youths are being
maligned to draw attention from the reality that it’s actually
middle-aged adults — the parents — whose behavior has worsened.
Oh, this is too sweet. But it gets even better!
Our most reliable measures show Americans ages 35 to 54 are suffering ballooning crises:
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18,249 deaths from overdoses of illicit drugs in 2004, up 550 percent
per capita since 1975, according to data from the National Center for
Health Statistics.
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46,925 fatal accidents and suicides
in 2004, leaving today’s middle-agers 30 percent more at risk for such
deaths than people aged 15 to 19, according to the national center.
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More than four million arrests in 2005, including one million for
violent crimes, 500,000 for drugs and 650,000 for drinking-related
offenses, according to the F.B.I. All told, this represented a 200
percent leap per capita in major index felonies since 1975.
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630,000 middle-agers in prison in 2005, up 600 percent since 1977, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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21 million binge drinkers (those downing five or more drinks on one
occasion in the previous month), double the number among teenagers and
college students combined, according to the government’s National
Household Survey on Drug Use and Health.
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370,000 people
treated in hospital emergency rooms for abusing illegal drugs in 2005,
with overdose rates for heroin, cocaine, pharmaceuticals and drugs
mixed with alcohol far higher than among teenagers.
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More
than half of all new H.I.V./AIDS diagnoses in 2005 were given to
middle-aged Americans, up from less than one-third a decade ago,
according to the Centers for Disease Control.
What experts label
“adolescent risk taking” is really baby boomer risk taking. It’s true
that 30 years ago, the riskiest age group for violent death was 15 to
24. But those same boomers continue to suffer high rates of addiction
and other ills throughout middle age, while later generations of
teenagers are better behaved. Today, the age group most at risk for
violent death is 40 to 49, including illegal-drug death rates five
times higher than for teenagers. (emphasis mine-doubleplusundead)
Oh, snap! Y'know, I'm tired of getting the "yoots these days" crap from the generation that wallowed in the free love and drugs of the 60's and 70's, immediately followed by a call to impose some abusive Nanny State regulation that would first and foremost people in my age group. I'm gonna get a lot of use out of this piece.
And this isn't to say that I revel in the suffering or shortcoming of Boomers, I don't, but I do revel in smacking some of the arrogance out of certain ones. Many of them fall into the Nanny State trap, even otherwise smart conservatives, find themselves wanting to impose stupid regulations, by the behavior of the reckless yoots, hopefully this type of thing will knock some sense into them and make them realize statistically, they need to impose self-discipline, and get their own self-absorbed houses in order.
Males finishes it up nicely,
Commentators slandering teenagers, scientists misrepresenting shaky
claims about the brain as hard facts, 47-year-olds displaying far
riskier behaviors than 17-year-olds, politicians refusing to face
growing middle-aged crises ... if grown-ups really have superior
brains, why don’t we act as if we do?
I don't know if you saw the "our generation" thing on VH! (I think) (btw, I wasn't born until most of the people talking were either snorting coke and mainlining heroine, while wacked out on weed, were mourning their icons of substance abuse, and idiotic political reference, so who exactly is the "we" that makes that "our" which insinuates it's MINE!?) or the "documentary" on the history channel, a few years ago about drugs and how it affected culture, and the law.
If you watch either "documentary." Drugs in the 60's were AWESOME!!! drugs after Nixon became President he created a subculture of addicts, through the law to punish his enemies, in the late 70's Coke was AWESOME!! it was FUN and energizing, but the evil Reagen, who was a President of The United States of America, oppressed the peaceful partiers who were coke users, and often enough dealers, was guilty of creating crack.
Belzer, talking about "The Haight" talked about the "freedome of thought and action and concepts, we reached into ourselves and we did drugs to expand our mind." Belzer had nothing but praise for drugs in the interviews, however, oddley enough he doesn't mention the "gateway" concept of drugs. Drugs are like aspirin in his mind.
Sorry, I don't like talking about idiot drug users, I think some drugs are virtually inconsequential, but I have a lot of experience (very little of it directly personal, but drugs surrounded me since I was in about 6th grade)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 19, 2007 02:11 AM (QTv8u)
hendrix and joplin, and Christopherson (a libertarian, who leans 'Pub, was the love of janis's life, as was janis for chris) were heroine addicts.
Chris broke it, and became a real person.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 19, 2007 02:13 AM (QTv8u)
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That doesn't surprise me much. My supervisor at work keeps talking about "Generation Y" and telling me that I belong to it. I got her to give me a description, and she gave me a load of BS about how the young people today have different expectations for work and need to be mollycoddled. You need to give them lots of career advancement mentorship and invite their parents to their first day of work and so forth. Apparently, they are "very close to their parents." I pointed out that they weren't; it's just that their parents have been stepping in and solving all of their problems since Day One, and they expect the same thing to happen even when they are out in the real world.
These kids are punks, certainly, but the real problem is not the kids per se, but their boomer parents, who haven't raised them at all sensibly. I mean, these parents actually call college professors to talk about the kid's grade. If I were a professor and a parent called me asking to change the grade, I would roar with laughter and then hang up. And if I were a supervisor and the mommy called and wanted to come on the first day of work, I would laugh at that, too.
Oh, and I told my supervisor that I frankly resented being lumped in with these do-nothings and that my mom raised me properly. Alas, it hasn't stopped her from talking her Gen Y talk....
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 19, 2007 06:26 AM (AFVAc)
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Pinto, yeah, I saw it. It was hours upon hours of self-absorbed reflecting, it annoyed the hell out of me. Really you described it about as it was.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at September 19, 2007 10:14 AM (lDHHO)
This is seriously creepy, and exactly why we have the Secret Service, to keep an eye on cranks like this. Here's what the crazy hobo says in his email;
"It is my clear, unequivocal, unabashed desire to place a plastic bag
over (Barbara Bush's) head, tape it to her neck, and slowly strangle
her to death," read one of the messages, which according to court
papers, Dees sent to U.S. Secret Service agent Keith Saunders.
Yikes, glad they caught the guy. And of course this just makes you cringe.
While nothing in the record suggests Dees ever posed a direct threat to
Bush, court papers say he's been arrested several times for allegedly
carrying a concealed weapon.
Anyway, the guy was sending these emails to a Democrat congressman in Vermont for some reason. At his court appearance, he went into a rant, saying that he was being conspired against by the government. He's being held without bail, thankfully.
*ConservativeBelle pulls an excerpt from his Yahoo! profile in comments, really creepy.
The internet detective side got the best of me and I checked to see if he had completed any info on his Yahoo profile (it is set as adult content), since the article showed an email address. He's a certifiable lunatic. This is what he put on his hobbies section:
Hobbies: strangling politicians and judges (both federal and state); perfecting means of germ warfare for government building usage; raping; pillaging; looting; beating up small children, puppies and kittens; proving santa claus does not exist; proving black is not even acceptable,
But during a bond hearing earlier this month in Albany, U.S. Magistrate Judge Randolph F. Treece said that despite Dees' behavior, he has no reported history of drug use or mental illness.
He lives under a bridge, and threatens politicians with rape and strangulation. Nope, no mental illness here. Nothing to see, move along, folks.
Posted by: Tim at September 18, 2007 07:50 PM (WiHUE)
Scavenger Hunt Ends in Explosion
A group of teenagers put together a scavenger hunt for a friend's birthday party, one of the clues was a briefcase taped to the undeside of a slide at a playground at an elementary school. A teacher's aide saw the odd package, and it was reported to police, the school was evacuated students sent home, and other schools were checked for odd packages as well. The police called in a bomb squad and had the briefcase detonated.
The teenagers were initially afraid to tell the police what happened, but eventually came forward. The teenagers weren't charged with anything as there was no malicious intent.
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Yeah, but the real question remains: Who won the scavenger hunt?
Posted by: wiserbud at September 17, 2007 01:36 PM (IHbof)
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Okay, so it was a more dramatic version of a fire drill. No one was hurt, the right steps were taken, first responders got some good practice and more importantly the bomb squad got to explode something. Cool friends to think of something fun like that for a birthday party.
Bullies Get Smacked Down In Fabulous Fashion
A new freshmen student at a school was harrassed, called gay and had a group of guys threaten to beat him up for wearing a pink shirt. Two seniors at the school caught wind of the bullying, and quickly set up a campaign online to get everyone at the school to wear pink clothes the next day, passing out pink tank tops and other pink clothes to everyone to wear.
They got about half the student body to wear the shirts and other pink clothes. The group who harrassed the new student were pissed, one going so far as to start throwing chairs around in the cafeteria. The bullies are still mad, but they know that the students are entirely against them.
Honestly, we need to see more of this, most schools are entirely impotent and/or incompetent when it comes to controlling the bullies wandering the halls. Sadly, many school shootings are triggered or fuelled by bullying or harassment that has gone unpunished or unstopped, which is something I and everyone else at my school learned the hard way(thank God it was a minor one and no one was killed).
The only way that bullying in schools is going to be stopped anytime soon is if students do it themselves, so cheers to the students at Central King's Rural for standing up and doing what's right.