Some Old Dude

This is from the AP.

The Vatican will determine whether to defrock a priest accused of fathering a child with a high school graduate, a relationship that became public after the girl’s parents captured the couple on a video camera secretly set up in the parents’ basement.

Notice the inclusion of the phrase “high school graduate.” What has the girl’s education got to do with this article? -Nothing except as an excuse to include the words “high school.”

The eye picks up that phrase and years of reporters sensationalizing, rather than just reporting the news has trained a great many readers to take the implication that the girl was under 18 as fact. –Think Rush Limbaugh fans.

According to the DA here is no proof of that this relationship began before the young woman’s 18th birthday so there is no evidence that a crime was committed. But, hey… That isn’t exactly headline grabbing material.

We can do the innuendo, we can dance and sing
When it’s said and done, we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry
Dirty laundry ~ Don Henley

As for the actual story:
At least he got caught with a female of legal age, unfortunately I figure this guy is as good as gone. After all, he’s not a pedophile so the church is unlikely to protect him.

A Pakistani by the name of Khurram Sher was arrested arrested as part of an alleged terrorist plot against targets in Canada and abroad.

From an article on MSNBC

“The arrests have prevented the gathering of bombs and the execution of one or many terrorist attacks,” RCMP Chief Supt. Serge Therriault said.

Therriault said details on the targets would be released in court.

Police allege the suspects conspired with three other individuals to “knowingly facilitate terrorist activities” in Canada and abroad. Police say the plot ranged from Canada to Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai and Pakistan, but did not elaborate.

But before his arrest, Sher, a doctor in St. Thomas, Ontario, auditioned for Canadian Idol.

He told the judges he’s from Pakistan and likes hockey, music and acting. —I guess he forgot to mention his love of blowing up infidels.

William Shatner aka “The Shat” has a new gig as the Admiral on My Outerspace dot com

The site is completely SiFi themed and subdivided in to ships and planets where the members interests can be explored.
The planet Orpheus has a musical theme and the Galaxy is where Sci-Fi Fans and MYOUTERSPACE observers participate in discussions, view videos, and communicate with the MYOUTERSPACE community.
But my favorite planet is Creatia:

Creatia
People like writers, directors, and playwrights call this planet home. Creatia hosts a creative environment for thinkers of all kinds like writers, directors, and playwrights, who call this Planet home. Become a citizen of Creatia today and take advantage of the rich resources that this planet offers its citizens.

Obviously writers, directors, playwrights and the other masters of redundancy are welcome, but editors are strictly persona non grata.

The site’s been kicking around since 2009 so it’s still young and the only thing that bothers me about it, aside from the copy being written by someone from the Department Of Redundancy Department, is the Shat’s green hair. –I wonder if it’s supposed to be a joke, or if all those years knocking boots with brightly colored women has finally taken it’s toll.

For those of you who don’t remember Shatner’s younger years, follow this link to his classic rendition of Rocket Man.

Vremya Novostei: The content of toxic substances – lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, radioactive nuclides, caesium, pesticides and ergot – must be restricted in the Russian beer. Parasites of bread reserves – insects and ticks – must not appear in the production process. Beer must be made without the use of ethyl alcohol. Labels on the end product must provide full and true information for customers. These are a few of the new technical regulations on beer.

They are also regulating the amount of beer in special beer. It must contain at least 80% beer.
Beer based soft drinks and cocktails must contain at least 40% beer.

Beer based soft drinks??…. Only in Russia.

Ok guys. How many of you read this as Erotica?

Only in Japan would you buy a fizzy yellow drink called Unagi Nobori (surging eel) without having everyone in the immediate vicinity start to feel nauseous.

Unagi Nobori is made from eel extract and vitamins that some people believe will boost energy during the summer’s hot and humid conditions.

Kazunori Hayashi, spokesman for Japan Tobacco Inc, the makers of the drink, said it is “mainly for men who are exhausted by the summer’s heat”.

It may seem like an odd niche market to foreigners, but in Japan demand for eel is so high during the season that some businesses have been caught importing eel from foreign sources and relabeling it as Japanese.

In Las Vegas there is a Port a Subs with a delivery service.

I’ve been waiting for this. –Yet another excuse not to leave the house when it’s 110 in the shade.

Did you ever watch the old Dragnet on Tv. “Just the facts mam,” delivered with a face that indicated that “Sgt. Joe Friday” not only didn’t have a sense of humor. He obviously had never tried to develop one.

Microsoft has a page on humor under “Competencies,” that could have been written by the good Sargent.

From that page: “Has a positive and constructive sense of humor. Can laugh at him/herself and with others. Is appropriately funny and can use humor to ease tension.”

This was obviously written by someone who considers polkas to be a much-maligned musical taste and who has two jokes being considered for publication by Readers Digest.

How can anyone, even an international corporation the size of Microsoft be so freaking un-funny?

This is an excerpt from Doug Hanchard’s blog titled:
How did Congress pass extension of U.S. Patriot Act? Ask your doctor

And then the roof caved in, H.R. 3961 – Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 -was going through the House. Everyone in the House knew about the expiry of the existing extensions of the Patriot Act and thus was slipped as amendments to H.R. 3961. It was either that or watch H.R. 3961 face an uphill battle getting passed on the floor. According to the record, here is how the extension came to the floor as an amendment to H.R. 3961;

I won’t go in to the rest of the details, but I would advise you to read his entire post.

The problem I have with the process is the inherent deceit and dishonesty that our so called representatives use without hesitation, and without any sign of remorse that their bill is so unpopular that it can’t be passed on it’s own merit.

The patriot act is a violation of everything I would consider patriotic. It denies us rights, it assumes guilt and is abused by the police state.

Yes I used the phrase “POLICE STATE.” What else would you call it when an American citizen can be thrown in prison simply because someone didn’t like his name? What else would you call it when the police, in their myriad uniforms, have no oversight?

When the investigatory agencies find a violation of the law by various and sundry police agencies and can’t find a way to bury it, they announce it publicly. And by God they’ll step up and say the law has been violated again if it doesn’t stop.

The law has no teeth; after all, how do you punish an entire agency?

On top of everything else, the NSA / AT&T debacle shows that even if it can be proven that the law has been deliberately violated and names can be provided, the Whitehouse will protect that agency or company. This is done in the name of “national security.”

We have a constitution and a bill of rights that are supposed to protect our freedoms. –Instead they are twisted, ignored or made exception to, because some politician or group of politicians has an agenda.

The bills congress passes are not for our benefit. They are to feed the egos, further the agendas or profit the friends of those in power. And most importantly, they are there to control the peasants.

In Moscow there are many stray dogs, some of which have developed a unique system for acquiring food:

From English Russia:
Regular Moscow busy street with some small food kiosks. A middle-aged man buys himself a piece of hot fast food and walks aside chewing it without a rush. Then just in a second he jumps up frightened – some doggy has sneaked up on him and barked out loudly. His tasty snack falls out from his hands down to the ground and the dog gets it. Just ten minutes later, on the same place, the teen youngster loses his dinner in exactly the same manner. The modern Russian dogs are on their urban hunt.

There are also many strays in the subway system, a few of which have even learned to ride the train.

One look at this picture is enough to show that some of these “dumb animals” are smarter than the humans who ride the trains. Or maybe just more sober.