Last day to clear off your data on google

Follow the instructions in this story to keep Google from gathering all your data into one nice package for resale to advertisers and snoops. Gotta do it before March 1st. 

TV lawyer to represent 9yo in shooting case

Why is this publicity hound being allowed to represent the child shooter instead of a lawyer more familiar with juvenile justice system..or you know..children? Law is such a broken field corrupted by $$

Another nut job offs their kids -but which nut job was it?

Story out of Jacksonville, Fl today of a mother and 2 kids found shot dead. I swear we have one of these every week. The police arnt commenting on how they were killed but also arnt looking for anyone implying that the mother killed her kids then herself. However the husband did just get out of jail in Ohio 2 weeks ago, where he was serving time for sending the mother threatening texts. Fathers are so unfairly treated by the "system" that I'm going to guess she was a serious nut job and his efforts to protect his kids got him in trouble. I guess we'll find out. Update : The father is confirmed to still be in Ohio and the mother was in a recent car accident that left her without use of her legs..looking like mom got overwhelmed by her problems and pulled a murder suicide.Be interesting to see if pain killers played a role here.Update 2 : Sheriff confirms mother did the killing. Mother lost her legs in car accident texting while driving.

Is it time to say if parents cant keep their marriage together the kids need to be placed in foster care for the duration of the divorce?Is it time to move away from this archaic prehistoric 2 parent concept and have our future raised in bordering schools by multiple adults so if one flake out the kid harm is minimized?

How does one grieve over this? If you are the caseworker assigned to this family how tdo you go through life knowing you may have missed the signs..or if it was the father, how does the judge or correction officers who let him out life with this guilt?

I wonder if we havnt seen God around lately because he was crushed under the weight of human tragedy. .

9yo didnt shoot classmate - You did

The Seattle Time makes it abundantly clear that this shooting case is another story of DSHS using a kid to rehab 2 failed adults. When you leave a child in the custody of 2 people with multiple drug convictions who is surprised when that child shows up with a gun at school. But can we blame DSHS for being what it is ? Is an overgrown thistleful garden the garden's fault or the gardener. Without naming names I can think of several people who have spent thousands or millions of dollars on themselves but baulk at the idea of spending large amounts of money and make an effort to properly reform government.

Faster than Light particles were a buggy cable

Einstein is still King of the Ring when it comes to particle physics. Particles judged to be moving faster than the speed of light last year turned out to be just an error. We can still dream...

MOTW : Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter

Lion's share of news

Florida lawmakers try to give themselves complete legal immunity
Mitt Romney ties his dog to the roof of car on road trips
Chicago police arrest man for surfing on lake
Dog adopts 6 wild boar piglets
Heartland Institute emails reveal dishonestly regarding climate change
8 yo college student (now 14) graduates, writes book
Judge rules Marvel comic corp gets all profits, actual writers due nothing
Tiny lizard fits on head of matchstick
City pursues whistle blower instead of public employees caught in wrongdoing
NYPD actively spying on students all over US
Buffalo teachers get unlimited plastic surgery as part of contract
Seattle police dismiss complaint against cop who "threatened to make stuff up"
DNA sequencer size of USB stick charts your DNA in 6 hours
Firefighter falls 15 feet down fire pole, awarded 13 Million $$

Coughed up hairball is declared Best in Show

Irrefutable proof that dog people have questionable taste. Are we sure that this is actually a dog and not some sort of fuzzy hedgehog? When I think "dog" ..that aint it.

News you can use

Obama guts meaningful NASA funding for BS "manned" stuff
4 breeds that have never won at Westminster
73 cats found living in 1 bedroom apt
6 horrible contracts you've probably agreed to
Government considering making animal "luv'n" brothels illegal
Art made from insect body parts
Police arrest man for allegedly throwing a towel
Mass dolphin beaching continues in Massachusetts
5th grade teacher has students send letters to boyfriend in prison
State workers choose whether your child can eat their home packed lunch

Grumblings on a bad day

Grumble grumble. I went to one of these Florida food truck rallys everyone is talking about and it was hugely disappointing. There were like 4 bakery/donut/funnel cake trucks, a pizza truck and 3 actual food trucks with lines miles long. I ended up getting chicken in a sweet bun which wasnt bad but where was the hot dog truck ? The sandwich truck ? The taco truck?  I swear there is more food variety at the weekly farmers market. At least there you can get a Gyro.

One of my kids had a hockey game today and lost it 8-0. Wasnt his teams fault - their goalie is a beginner and the opponet goalie was making Hassek style saves. But it wasnt any fun to watch. And my kid kept passing it in front of his net. People are still coming up to me and telling me how amazing he skates for only first stepping on the ice 6 months ago. Boy is that a double edged sword when you've just lost 8-0 and your team is depending on you to score on one of the 5-6 break away he gets per game.

At one of the intermissions the league director informed me he'd just been fired and people might start asking why my kids havnt paid since he had apparently not informed his bosses of the decision to permit my kids to play for free.

My older kid was suppose to play a double header for a bantam league team that invited him to join them after he practiced with them last week but the arena director vetoed it - and never told me about this wonderful decision. So we are on time and dressed to play hockey and the kid is rightly upset that he didnt get to play this week and I'm left telling him they wont let him play with kids his age because hes too small. And were are both frustrated with this line of reasoning since there are kids of similar size and younger than him on this team..so what is it really about?  I feel like I failed since the 9yo gets to play 3 games this weekend while the 13yo got to play zero.

Brainbow

Scientists at Harvard express gay pride by painting individual neurons on a mouse brain each a different color. It got me thinking...everything in biology comes down to reproduction in some form or another. Except brain cells. Is intelligence un-biological?

Cant kill them fast enough

The horribly abused foster child in Florida has started talking about all the different abuses he and his sisters suffered. The caseworkers that failed to protect these kids are still keeping their jobs. I say you cant kill them fast enough. Throw the abusers AND the neglectors off the closest cliff you can find. I dont want valueless people lingering around to do more damage and I dont want to pay for them to sit in jail. In other news the guy in Washington used a hatchet on his 7 and 9yo sons before blowing them up.

After we hold accountable the directly involved I say we round up all the apathetic uninvolved rich people coasting through life and send them to liberate Syria or something.

Perspective

Here is a nifty little diagramming program that gives you an idea of scale from the tiniest particle to our galaxy and beyond. We are really a speck of a speck of a speck. For example I was reading somewhere that the 3 star in Orions belt, Betelgeuse, is 600 times the size of our sun. 

Cartoon shows Asian man marrying White woman

Via Topless Robot...um ya...What are Cartoons becoming?

News fresh from the Tarantula's egg

 Here's a few links to new stories you might find interesting. Several of them are from Fark.

Government considered bringing George Washington back from dead
6yo accused by school of sexual assult
Teachers claim parents are to blame for bad grades
Mail order brides still a booming industry
Judge blocks city council candidate for poor English skills
Park ranger uses stun gun on man walking dog off leash
5 simple things you will do that damage the planet today
Army claims secret to weight loss is medically adding more fat
Teacher of the year arrested for sex with 5 students
3yo boy getting an abortion