News of the Weird / Pro Edition (February 8)
News of the Weird/Pro Edition
February 8, 2010
Exceptionally Inexplicable Dispatches from Last Week
(datelines January 30-February 6) (links correct as of February 8)
Indiscriminate Anti-Discrimination, Plus Runaway Mojo, Neil Armstrong's Poop, and the Horror of Upside-Down Faxes
A Cavalcade of Anti-Discrimination
(1) Near-Perfect Storm: Benjamin Grundy is challenging Garfield-Palouse High School in eastern Washington for illegal discrimination. He's gay, plus biracial, plus mentally challenged. Plus, he'd like to be on the cheerleading team. (2) The U.S. Dept. of Justice is trying to get in front of any discrimination complaints in its Civil Rights Division, with a job announcement for "experienced attorneys," in which the Department "encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply." "Targeted disabilities" include the traditional (deafness, blindness) as well as "mental retardation." (3) Similarly, England's Portsmouth City Council tells aspirants for taxicab licenses that they can get applications in "another language [besides English]," in "large print," in "audio," and in "Braille." Seattle Weekly /// Department of Justice job notice (pdf) [link from The Volokh Conspiracy blog] /// Daily Telegraph
"Where Feet, Fist, and Faith Collide"
Pastor John Renken leads his flock in solemn prayer to the Heavenly Father and then, not an hour later in the back room of their meeting house, he's screaming at his parishioners: "Hard punches! Finish the fight! To the head! To the head!" It's Xtreme Ministries, of Memphis, where mixed martial arts is helping to re-masculinize the gospel (to correct, as another practitioner put it, having "raised a generation of little boys" as churches have catered mostly to women and children). New York Times
A Dog Chastity Belt – Seriously
It only sounds like a joke. Breeders like it because they can take charge of in-heat cycles without invasive surgery. (But don't tell anybody about that; show them this photo of the dog all harnessed up, and let them think this is just another shrink-wrapped dog toy on their supermarket shelf.) (Bonus: Desperately horny males ferociously gnaw at the straps, but so far haven't broken through.) San Francisco Chronicle /// Pet Anti-Breeding System
Teachers' Union Poster Child
Alan Rosenfeld, 64, a New York City lawyer and real estate entrepreneur with 12 properties, is also a schoolteacher, though he hasn't been in a classroom since 2002. He's one of those Rubber Room teachers, whose contract calls for full salary and benefits even though the chancellor thinks he's a sexual menace to his female students (proven only once, with wrist-slap punishment). Rosenfeld's salary is $100,000 a year plus health care plus retirement benefits (that would, if he retired today, get him $82,000 a year). New York Post
Free Judge Klein!
By now, everybody knows how the lawyers' class-action racket works. Lawyer digs up a Bad Guy and a Lead Plaintiff and some Victims. Judge certifies the "class." Lawyer and Bad Guy settle. Lead Plaintiff gets a nominal amount, Lawyer a big fat fee, Victims bupkis. Retired Los Angeles County judge Brett Klein got drafted back to duty to approve or reject the final terms of Windsor Fashions's class-action settlement for mistreating credit-card customers. Terms: Lead Plaintiff, $2,500, Victims, $10 gift vouchers, Lawyer, $125,000. Judge Klein said, Enough of this! I'll approve it only if the Lawyer also gets his $125,000 in $10 gift vouchers, too. Sweet! (Upshot: The legal establishment rebelled; the County bar association re-classified Klein as now permanently retired.) Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, Over on the Left Tail of the Bell Curve . . .
Your Weekly "Hey, Watch This!" Moment: A guy in a Detroit suburb built a snow sled with a motorcycle muffler, a piece of pipe, gunpowder, match heads, and gasoline, to power himself down a hill, and had a pal light the wick. Result: hospital. He's 62; you'd think he'd know better, but Alcohol Was Involved. Detroit Free Press
Inexplicable: Mr. Chamil Guadarrama, 30, was arrested in Springfield, Mass., after a store security guard spotted him with 75 bottles of lotion stuffed down his pants legs, which made him look like the Michelin Man, silly and nearly immobile. Said a cop, "They could not fit Mr. Guadarrama into the cruiser because his pants were bursting at the seams and he could not bend over." The Republican (Springfield)
Craig Show, 49, filed a lawsuit against Idaho state police and the Bonner County sheriff because they searched a bag on his motorcycle when he was stopped for DUI last year. That bag had been blessed by a medicine woman in 1995 and had remained closed ever since, and when the cops opened it, the mojo got out, and now Show's life is ruined, he says. United Press International (citing Bonner County Daily Bee, Sandpoint, Idaho)
Lame: He's only in high school so maybe the quality of his excuses will improve. He was caught with 150 snapshots of clothed females' body parts, which may or may not have been illegal to take, but then he offered the rationale that he had to go extracurricular because the sex education at Lake Travis High School (Austin, Tex.) is so poor. KXAN-TV (Austin)
Recurring Themes: (1) Crooks continue to brag about their crimes on Facebook, which cops monitor. (Wrote a grateful cop, to assault suspect Christopher Crego: "It was due to your diligence in keeping us informed [on Facebook] that now you are under arrest.") (2) Some anger-management counselors can't even talk themselves out of going postal when the need arises. (3) Amateur counterfeiters continue to settle for "Ehhh, that's close enough." (4) Crooks continue to call on the police when they need help, as though cops don't ever receive "be on the lookout for" photos. Buffalo News /// Washington Post /// Associated Press via KHOU-TV (Houston, Tex.) /// Charlotte Observer
Angst, Confusion, Crisis
A few municipalities have made wearing saggy pants illegal, but now two Florida guys have earned a patent for pants that only look like they're falling down. Comply with the law and keep your cred. ABA Journal
Speaking of the Patent Office, its Chief Communications Officer confirmed last week that the agency absolutely does not accept faxes that arrive upside down. If they get even one upside down page, they'll send you back a "Notice of Document Faxed Upside Down" instructing you to resend all of your fax, no matter how many pages. BNet blog
Life Imitates Police Squad: South Bend, Ind., police officer A chased a car theft suspect on foot, soon joined by officer B and his K-9. However, K-9 veered off and attacked officer A. A pulled out his gun and shot at K-9 (missing). That ticked off officer B, who started swinging at A, and the two were on. Other officers arrived, caught the suspect, and pulled A and B apart. K-9 then attacked a couple of those officers. South Bend Tribune
Saugatuck Township, Mich., voters will go to the polls in May on a referendum to raise the property tax to pay for the increased expense incurred by the town to fight a lawsuit that claims its property taxes are too high. Seriously. Grand Rapids Press
The California State Historical Resources Commission laid claim to new property for its historical register, namely, the detritus left on the Moon by Apollo 11 astronauts (since so many of the items were products of California companies). Most of the items had been jettisoned to make the astronauts' return flight lighter, and included tools, a flag, food bags, and, yes, bags of human waste. San Francisco Chronicle
Akbar Zeb must be one of Pakistan's most valuable diplomatic aces because they keep floating his name as potential ambassador to United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, and now Saudi Arabia. All three countries have rejected him, though, because in their Arabic dictionaries, "akbar zeb" means "biggest dick." Foreign Policy (citing Arab News)
Below The Fold
"Menstruating Ghost" Film Stirs Controversy Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Australian Associated Press story)
Bike Riding After Midnight Leads to Clown Attack Beaumont Enterprise
Childcare, Chinese Style: Rickshaw Driver Chains 2-Year-Old Son to a Post While He's at Work Daily Mail (London)
Someone With a Worse Sex Life Than You
Ian Stafford, 59, was sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty to a spree of panty thefts committed while he was mayor of Preesall, England. It appears that a number of the raids also resulted in happy endings. (Bonus: beyond-reasonable-doubt mugshot) Lancashire Telegraph
Your Weekly Jury Duty
[In America, you're presumed innocent . . . until the mug shot is released]
We don't know this guy's name, but he could be a "domestic batter[er]." The Smoking Gun
More Things To Worry About
Things You Thought Didn't Happen: New babies' DNA is routinely taken at hospitals for medical screenings. Did you know that several states keep that DNA, by name, on file forever? Is there a problem? CNN
News That Sounds Like a Joke: The lender will soon foreclose on the building in downtown Atlanta that's now a homeless shelter serving about 700 people, who will become, presumably, homeless homeless people. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The cursed Taliban shot down a supply helicopter en route to a British forward operating base in Afghanistan, leaving the cook with only with a cupboard full of Spam and no re-supply due for six weeks. Hence, sweet and sour Spam. Spam fritters. Spam carbonara. Spam stroganoff. Stir fried Spam. Daily Telegraph
And For Further Review . . .
A new book on Adolf Hitler is out, examining his medical history. Some popular legends were debunked, e.g., he wasn't missing a testicle, did not have syphilis, was not delusional. On the other hand, he had flatulence something awful. His officers were known to hold perfumed hankies over their noses when he entered their bunkers. His personal doctor (who may have been a quack) injected him with a primitive erectile-dysfunction drug made from the semen and prostate of young bulls. The researchers found that, in all, Hitler took 82 different medications with as many as 28 a day. Daily Mail (London)
Newsrangers: David Abdoo, Ron Corby, Peter Smagorinsky, Bex Zumbruski, Steve Dunn, Stephen Taylor, H.Thompson, Mike Mendenhall, Larry Seltzer, Gary Goldberg, Neil Gimon, Susan Holland, Brian McIntyre, Joe Harman, Jeremy Kitt, Chrys Rodrigue, and Stefan Creaser, and the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors
February 8, 2010
Exceptionally Inexplicable Dispatches from Last Week
(datelines January 30-February 6) (links correct as of February 8)
Indiscriminate Anti-Discrimination, Plus Runaway Mojo, Neil Armstrong's Poop, and the Horror of Upside-Down Faxes
A Cavalcade of Anti-Discrimination
(1) Near-Perfect Storm: Benjamin Grundy is challenging Garfield-Palouse High School in eastern Washington for illegal discrimination. He's gay, plus biracial, plus mentally challenged. Plus, he'd like to be on the cheerleading team. (2) The U.S. Dept. of Justice is trying to get in front of any discrimination complaints in its Civil Rights Division, with a job announcement for "experienced attorneys," in which the Department "encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply." "Targeted disabilities" include the traditional (deafness, blindness) as well as "mental retardation." (3) Similarly, England's Portsmouth City Council tells aspirants for taxicab licenses that they can get applications in "another language [besides English]," in "large print," in "audio," and in "Braille." Seattle Weekly /// Department of Justice job notice (pdf) [link from The Volokh Conspiracy blog] /// Daily Telegraph
"Where Feet, Fist, and Faith Collide"
Pastor John Renken leads his flock in solemn prayer to the Heavenly Father and then, not an hour later in the back room of their meeting house, he's screaming at his parishioners: "Hard punches! Finish the fight! To the head! To the head!" It's Xtreme Ministries, of Memphis, where mixed martial arts is helping to re-masculinize the gospel (to correct, as another practitioner put it, having "raised a generation of little boys" as churches have catered mostly to women and children). New York Times
A Dog Chastity Belt – Seriously
It only sounds like a joke. Breeders like it because they can take charge of in-heat cycles without invasive surgery. (But don't tell anybody about that; show them this photo of the dog all harnessed up, and let them think this is just another shrink-wrapped dog toy on their supermarket shelf.) (Bonus: Desperately horny males ferociously gnaw at the straps, but so far haven't broken through.) San Francisco Chronicle /// Pet Anti-Breeding System
Teachers' Union Poster Child
Alan Rosenfeld, 64, a New York City lawyer and real estate entrepreneur with 12 properties, is also a schoolteacher, though he hasn't been in a classroom since 2002. He's one of those Rubber Room teachers, whose contract calls for full salary and benefits even though the chancellor thinks he's a sexual menace to his female students (proven only once, with wrist-slap punishment). Rosenfeld's salary is $100,000 a year plus health care plus retirement benefits (that would, if he retired today, get him $82,000 a year). New York Post
Free Judge Klein!
By now, everybody knows how the lawyers' class-action racket works. Lawyer digs up a Bad Guy and a Lead Plaintiff and some Victims. Judge certifies the "class." Lawyer and Bad Guy settle. Lead Plaintiff gets a nominal amount, Lawyer a big fat fee, Victims bupkis. Retired Los Angeles County judge Brett Klein got drafted back to duty to approve or reject the final terms of Windsor Fashions's class-action settlement for mistreating credit-card customers. Terms: Lead Plaintiff, $2,500, Victims, $10 gift vouchers, Lawyer, $125,000. Judge Klein said, Enough of this! I'll approve it only if the Lawyer also gets his $125,000 in $10 gift vouchers, too. Sweet! (Upshot: The legal establishment rebelled; the County bar association re-classified Klein as now permanently retired.) Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, Over on the Left Tail of the Bell Curve . . .
Your Weekly "Hey, Watch This!" Moment: A guy in a Detroit suburb built a snow sled with a motorcycle muffler, a piece of pipe, gunpowder, match heads, and gasoline, to power himself down a hill, and had a pal light the wick. Result: hospital. He's 62; you'd think he'd know better, but Alcohol Was Involved. Detroit Free Press
Inexplicable: Mr. Chamil Guadarrama, 30, was arrested in Springfield, Mass., after a store security guard spotted him with 75 bottles of lotion stuffed down his pants legs, which made him look like the Michelin Man, silly and nearly immobile. Said a cop, "They could not fit Mr. Guadarrama into the cruiser because his pants were bursting at the seams and he could not bend over." The Republican (Springfield)
Craig Show, 49, filed a lawsuit against Idaho state police and the Bonner County sheriff because they searched a bag on his motorcycle when he was stopped for DUI last year. That bag had been blessed by a medicine woman in 1995 and had remained closed ever since, and when the cops opened it, the mojo got out, and now Show's life is ruined, he says. United Press International (citing Bonner County Daily Bee, Sandpoint, Idaho)
Lame: He's only in high school so maybe the quality of his excuses will improve. He was caught with 150 snapshots of clothed females' body parts, which may or may not have been illegal to take, but then he offered the rationale that he had to go extracurricular because the sex education at Lake Travis High School (Austin, Tex.) is so poor. KXAN-TV (Austin)
Recurring Themes: (1) Crooks continue to brag about their crimes on Facebook, which cops monitor. (Wrote a grateful cop, to assault suspect Christopher Crego: "It was due to your diligence in keeping us informed [on Facebook] that now you are under arrest.") (2) Some anger-management counselors can't even talk themselves out of going postal when the need arises. (3) Amateur counterfeiters continue to settle for "Ehhh, that's close enough." (4) Crooks continue to call on the police when they need help, as though cops don't ever receive "be on the lookout for" photos. Buffalo News /// Washington Post /// Associated Press via KHOU-TV (Houston, Tex.) /// Charlotte Observer
Angst, Confusion, Crisis
A few municipalities have made wearing saggy pants illegal, but now two Florida guys have earned a patent for pants that only look like they're falling down. Comply with the law and keep your cred. ABA Journal
Speaking of the Patent Office, its Chief Communications Officer confirmed last week that the agency absolutely does not accept faxes that arrive upside down. If they get even one upside down page, they'll send you back a "Notice of Document Faxed Upside Down" instructing you to resend all of your fax, no matter how many pages. BNet blog
Life Imitates Police Squad: South Bend, Ind., police officer A chased a car theft suspect on foot, soon joined by officer B and his K-9. However, K-9 veered off and attacked officer A. A pulled out his gun and shot at K-9 (missing). That ticked off officer B, who started swinging at A, and the two were on. Other officers arrived, caught the suspect, and pulled A and B apart. K-9 then attacked a couple of those officers. South Bend Tribune
Saugatuck Township, Mich., voters will go to the polls in May on a referendum to raise the property tax to pay for the increased expense incurred by the town to fight a lawsuit that claims its property taxes are too high. Seriously. Grand Rapids Press
The California State Historical Resources Commission laid claim to new property for its historical register, namely, the detritus left on the Moon by Apollo 11 astronauts (since so many of the items were products of California companies). Most of the items had been jettisoned to make the astronauts' return flight lighter, and included tools, a flag, food bags, and, yes, bags of human waste. San Francisco Chronicle
Akbar Zeb must be one of Pakistan's most valuable diplomatic aces because they keep floating his name as potential ambassador to United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, and now Saudi Arabia. All three countries have rejected him, though, because in their Arabic dictionaries, "akbar zeb" means "biggest dick." Foreign Policy (citing Arab News)
Below The Fold
"Menstruating Ghost" Film Stirs Controversy Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Australian Associated Press story)
Bike Riding After Midnight Leads to Clown Attack Beaumont Enterprise
Childcare, Chinese Style: Rickshaw Driver Chains 2-Year-Old Son to a Post While He's at Work Daily Mail (London)
Someone With a Worse Sex Life Than You
Ian Stafford, 59, was sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty to a spree of panty thefts committed while he was mayor of Preesall, England. It appears that a number of the raids also resulted in happy endings. (Bonus: beyond-reasonable-doubt mugshot) Lancashire Telegraph
Your Weekly Jury Duty
[In America, you're presumed innocent . . . until the mug shot is released]
We don't know this guy's name, but he could be a "domestic batter[er]." The Smoking Gun
More Things To Worry About
Things You Thought Didn't Happen: New babies' DNA is routinely taken at hospitals for medical screenings. Did you know that several states keep that DNA, by name, on file forever? Is there a problem? CNN
News That Sounds Like a Joke: The lender will soon foreclose on the building in downtown Atlanta that's now a homeless shelter serving about 700 people, who will become, presumably, homeless homeless people. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The cursed Taliban shot down a supply helicopter en route to a British forward operating base in Afghanistan, leaving the cook with only with a cupboard full of Spam and no re-supply due for six weeks. Hence, sweet and sour Spam. Spam fritters. Spam carbonara. Spam stroganoff. Stir fried Spam. Daily Telegraph
And For Further Review . . .
A new book on Adolf Hitler is out, examining his medical history. Some popular legends were debunked, e.g., he wasn't missing a testicle, did not have syphilis, was not delusional. On the other hand, he had flatulence something awful. His officers were known to hold perfumed hankies over their noses when he entered their bunkers. His personal doctor (who may have been a quack) injected him with a primitive erectile-dysfunction drug made from the semen and prostate of young bulls. The researchers found that, in all, Hitler took 82 different medications with as many as 28 a day. Daily Mail (London)
Newsrangers: David Abdoo, Ron Corby, Peter Smagorinsky, Bex Zumbruski, Steve Dunn, Stephen Taylor, H.Thompson, Mike Mendenhall, Larry Seltzer, Gary Goldberg, Neil Gimon, Susan Holland, Brian McIntyre, Joe Harman, Jeremy Kitt, Chrys Rodrigue, and Stefan Creaser, and the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors
Comments
Anti-discrimination: I thought being mentally challenged was one of the requirements to be on the cheerleading team. And I've been in an English taxicab, and I'm more than a little convinced that quite a few of the drivers are blind and navigate by the potholes in the roads. They sure as hell take very little notice of pedestrians, traffic signals and other road users.
Feet, Fists, and Faith: Isn't it a bit of a disadvantage to have to turn the other cheek everytime your opponent lands a punch?
Rubber Room Teacher: One of my friends was once sexually assaulted by her teacher, in class no less, and it ended up with her being expelled (he went on to date another girl in my year, they 'started' going out the day she turned 16). It should be possible to fire these creeps. Hell, it should be legal to hunt them!
Adolf's 82 meds: "Master race", huh? 😕
Feet, Fists, and Faith: Isn't it a bit of a disadvantage to have to turn the other cheek everytime your opponent lands a punch?
Rubber Room Teacher: One of my friends was once sexually assaulted by her teacher, in class no less, and it ended up with her being expelled (he went on to date another girl in my year, they 'started' going out the day she turned 16). It should be possible to fire these creeps. Hell, it should be legal to hunt them!
Adolf's 82 meds: "Master race", huh? 😕
Posted by Dumbfounded on 02/08/10 at 08:59 AM
"They could not fit Mr. Guadarrama into the cruiser because his pants were bursting at the seams and he could not bend over." Ok, wacky idea I'm sure but, did they consider removing the bottles from his pants before putting him in the car?
blessed bag: can't he just get another one? seems to me the luck portion of his mojo was running out anyway since he got pulled over in the first place so what does he have to lose?
clothed body parts: since when is this illegal? almost every picture I've ever seen has had clothed body parts in it.
patent office: seriously? they can't just turn the piece of paper right side up? I'm so glad my tax dollars are hard at work here.
jury duty: he looks kinda ... small. how much damage do you think he could do?
spam: you say that like it's a bad thing!
blessed bag: can't he just get another one? seems to me the luck portion of his mojo was running out anyway since he got pulled over in the first place so what does he have to lose?
clothed body parts: since when is this illegal? almost every picture I've ever seen has had clothed body parts in it.
patent office: seriously? they can't just turn the piece of paper right side up? I'm so glad my tax dollars are hard at work here.
jury duty: he looks kinda ... small. how much damage do you think he could do?
spam: you say that like it's a bad thing!
Posted by Nethie on 02/08/10 at 10:33 AM
"did they consider removing the bottles from his pants before putting him in the car?"
I'm sure they didn't want to be accused of interfering with the evidence.
"they can't just turn the piece of paper right side up?"
Well I did once invent a machine for automatically turning round upside down pages, but sadly the patent office rejected my application when I faxed it to them.
I'm sure they didn't want to be accused of interfering with the evidence.
"they can't just turn the piece of paper right side up?"
Well I did once invent a machine for automatically turning round upside down pages, but sadly the patent office rejected my application when I faxed it to them.
Posted by Dumbfounded on 02/08/10 at 11:02 AM
Jury duty: it's this guy http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001770/
Posted by Love Monkey on 02/08/10 at 11:58 AM
No, I wasn't joking. If you read the article it says all they have to do is turn the page right-side up, so apparently they are coming through readable, not blank, and that the patent office has no reasonable explanation for why they ask people to re-send the information. 😊
Posted by Nethie on 02/08/10 at 01:42 PM
anti-descrimination- this kid should be put on the squad, all quotas would be met in one fell swoop.
justice dept- most of the time they all come off as deaf, blind, and retarded over there.
taxi apps- BRAILLE ❓ :exclaim: really?
church fighters- i take it these guys are from the 'if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.' school not the 'turn the other cheek.' school.
dog chastity belt- every dog wearing one of these should bite the person who put it on them.
teacher- when teachers and teacher unions cry about how underpaid and over worked they are, this guy should be brought up. as long as unions defend people like this to this extent that is what causes alot of ill will. they can only prove one instance of abuse of a student, and once is not enough? how is once not enough for someone who works with children?
class action judge- of course the lawyers(who police themselves on ethics issues) weren't going to stand for this. all class action suits are, are money makers for greedy lawyers.
lotion- i'm guessing that was where all the lotion was going to end up eventually anyway.
mojo- officer evil(with pinky at corner of mouth) stole his mojo? how terrible.
pictures- if the kid thinks pictures of clothed body parts is porn, then i believe the sex ed. he has been provided was insificent.
anger management- that is freakin' hillarious!! :lol: send a few more poor saps to this guy for counselling so he can collect enough money from one level of government(medicaid payment for service) so he can pay his fines to another level of government. oh and, better get him some counselling too! :lol:
saggy pants- by this definition the laws could be avoided by bearing 2 pairs of boxers, so the ones you see aren't the last layer of clothing.
patent office- if only someone would invent a way to fix the problem, and then fax it in right side up so they get a patent and can manufacture it to sell to the patent office.
k9 police fight- well at least that dept. isn't descriminating against the mentally challenged with either people or animals.
property tax levy- ah...yeah, good luck with that. 😕
california- ca now owns all the poop on the moon! budget crisis over! congrats arnie!
akbar zab- if it's truth in advertising i'll bet somebody will want him somewhere! 😝
ghost on the rag- periods after death? a true horror flick! :ahhh:
chained baby- i read that since the publicity a daycare has promised the dad free daycare for 2 years.
mayor- wow, he got elected before they found out his dirty secret?! that usually doesn't happen.
jury duty- the little prick is guilty.
dna- not a suprise. let me piss some people off. if the dna is never used for anything with the name attached, fine. also in 20 years add it to codis with name, it won't matter a damn if they never commit a crime. but if a murder or rape has dna left from the perp and it matches then so be it. not being in codis only protects the guilty, because the innocent won't be matched up.
foreclosure- so glad the banks are trying to help people refinance and such since we the people bailed them out. anybody heard of fast track foreclosures?
spam- war is hell.
hitler- we already knew he stunk!
justice dept- most of the time they all come off as deaf, blind, and retarded over there.
taxi apps- BRAILLE ❓ :exclaim: really?
church fighters- i take it these guys are from the 'if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.' school not the 'turn the other cheek.' school.
dog chastity belt- every dog wearing one of these should bite the person who put it on them.
teacher- when teachers and teacher unions cry about how underpaid and over worked they are, this guy should be brought up. as long as unions defend people like this to this extent that is what causes alot of ill will. they can only prove one instance of abuse of a student, and once is not enough? how is once not enough for someone who works with children?
class action judge- of course the lawyers(who police themselves on ethics issues) weren't going to stand for this. all class action suits are, are money makers for greedy lawyers.
lotion- i'm guessing that was where all the lotion was going to end up eventually anyway.
mojo- officer evil(with pinky at corner of mouth) stole his mojo? how terrible.
pictures- if the kid thinks pictures of clothed body parts is porn, then i believe the sex ed. he has been provided was insificent.
anger management- that is freakin' hillarious!! :lol: send a few more poor saps to this guy for counselling so he can collect enough money from one level of government(medicaid payment for service) so he can pay his fines to another level of government. oh and, better get him some counselling too! :lol:
saggy pants- by this definition the laws could be avoided by bearing 2 pairs of boxers, so the ones you see aren't the last layer of clothing.
patent office- if only someone would invent a way to fix the problem, and then fax it in right side up so they get a patent and can manufacture it to sell to the patent office.
k9 police fight- well at least that dept. isn't descriminating against the mentally challenged with either people or animals.
property tax levy- ah...yeah, good luck with that. 😕
california- ca now owns all the poop on the moon! budget crisis over! congrats arnie!
akbar zab- if it's truth in advertising i'll bet somebody will want him somewhere! 😝
ghost on the rag- periods after death? a true horror flick! :ahhh:
chained baby- i read that since the publicity a daycare has promised the dad free daycare for 2 years.
mayor- wow, he got elected before they found out his dirty secret?! that usually doesn't happen.
jury duty- the little prick is guilty.
dna- not a suprise. let me piss some people off. if the dna is never used for anything with the name attached, fine. also in 20 years add it to codis with name, it won't matter a damn if they never commit a crime. but if a murder or rape has dna left from the perp and it matches then so be it. not being in codis only protects the guilty, because the innocent won't be matched up.
foreclosure- so glad the banks are trying to help people refinance and such since we the people bailed them out. anybody heard of fast track foreclosures?
spam- war is hell.
hitler- we already knew he stunk!
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/08/10 at 02:24 PM
you make an excellent point dumbfounded(as always). the reason for the 1 in a mill. matches is due to only so many points of the profile being checked right? if so it might require a more thorough comparison to comfirm. i don't know that that would always be possible with the evidence samples either. so i guess, at the very least, we aren't technologically ready for my 'good' idea.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/08/10 at 03:00 PM
Akbar Zeb: I just love how Arabic varies so widely across North Africa and the Middle East, and how the nations of the Arabian Peninsula are all snobby about how *they* speak the proper dialect.
Bike riding after midnight always leads to clown attacks!
Bike riding after midnight always leads to clown attacks!
Posted by venomlash on 02/08/10 at 03:34 PM
Just a note on this teacher thing. Fox News carried this story last week. The guy has only been accused by one kid. No proof, no collaborating victims or witnesses but the school board still won't let him back into the classroom. Not the union's fault here from what I heard.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/09/10 at 12:11 AM
OMG, the K-9 story is KILLING me! ROTFLMAO!
Posted by warrenwr on 02/09/10 at 06:34 PM
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