Pragmatic Insidious News Links for Tigers

Working on getting my site hits up..Pragmatic and Insidious were the two most looked up words this year..and now the news

Note in a bottle launched in NC found in Portugal
Parents to blame for massive brawl at 11yo hockey game
Virginia theme parks set Dept of Education school schedules
Pet Detective find missing kitty at Sea-Tac Airport
Mill Closing; 700 workers in Everett soon to be jobless
Homeland Security pays $12 thousand dollars for Snow Cone machines
State toll collectors make $100,000 a year plus benefits
GOP candidate Gary Johnson still needs your support!!
Navy buys its fuel in bulk! Spends 16 dollars a gallon
New voting laws prohibit Civics teachers from encouraging kids to vote
Seattle Schools builds $50 Million dollar admin building; cant pay for it
Feds pay big bucks to study power of prayer and alternative medicine
10 movies you didnt see but should
Israeli law makes the declawing of cats a crime
Ramtha still channeling ghosts in Yelm; wins court case

Obama is intellectually dishonest regarding women's health

I'm a big fan of contraception. Frankly I feel people who choose to have a child of their own instead of adopting one of the thousands of starving uneducated kids living in filth out there in the world are making a selfish choice (Being adopted permits me to have high horsed opinions like that btw) The Federal Deptartment of Health and Human services director Kathleen Sebelius (who has a degree in public manangement not medicine or science) recently vetoed plans by the FDA to allow Plan B, "the morning after bill", to be sold over the counter. Obama supported this decision 

“The reason Kathleen made this decision is that she could not be confident that a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old going into a drugstore, should be able — alongside bubble gum and batteries — be able to buy a medication that potentially, if not used properly, could end up having an adverse effect.”

Others did not.

Click below for some facts and my take

Solar flare hits Mercury; reveals UFO

Two nifty videos of a solar flare blasting the planet Mercury. The blasts appear to "decloak" a VERY large...something which NASA is saying is just a error in the video..both videos. Check it out and decide for yourself.

Airforce dumps the remains of 274 US soldiers in landfill

What kind of broken, inhuman people approves and go along with this sort of thing? I jsut cant get my brain around the idea someone thought this was a feasible cost cutting measure or whatever so I'm dawning the tin foil hat and guessing there is something fishy with these dead soldiers that the military doesnt want us to know.

It showed that 976 fragments from 274 military personnel were cremated, incinerated and taken to the landfill between 2004 and 2008.An additional group of 1,762 unidentified remains were collected from the battlefield and disposed of in the same manner, the Air Force said.

Bad Schools : Bad Reporting

I posted a story in a news posts about a 9yo who was suspended from school for being overheard calling his teacher cute. Fox News is reporting that the Principle who made that decision has been forced into retirement. However a little more digging from other news sources show that the principle actually chose to retire rather than accept accountability. Shocking that a public employee would choose to collect all his benefits and not have to work rather than face the music isnt it?
As far as I can tell the whole situation is a charlie foxtrot. The kids should not have been punished and the Principle, unless there a whole lot that we dont know about him, should not have been given the ultimatum of demotion or retirement over this small issue. but it got me thinking - really why is this National News? I'm sure lots of good things happen at this school that dont make Fox News or my blog. Am I as guilty as Fox News for sensationalist journalism? Are we "down" on the public school system because all we hear is the negatives? We know Public Schools arnt doing well but unlike the foster care system as far as I know they arnt killing kids or permanently scarring their mental health.

Good Charlotte The Anthem (MOTW)

Heard this one the radio on the way home. Lots of teen angst and the final few stanza make no sense but a good song none the less.

State treasure just rotting away

This to me is really sad. Obviously this is a time for government to tighten its belt but why do we have money for a $500,000 museum about the Viaduct but not any to treat this beautiful ship with some dignity.

Bill passed legalizing sodomy and bestiality in military

Hmmm anyone ever read the bills they are voting on??

On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

Article 125 of the UCMJ makes it illegal to engage in both sodomy with humans and sex with animals.
It states: "(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense. (b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”

Read more about the National Defense Authorization Act if you have the stomach.   

Herman Cain bows out with a quote from "Pokemon" ???

For the record I dislike this guy from his first interview on CNN where he couldnt answer any questions put to him. I'm going to guess this quote was thrown in to sabotage him by a disgruntled writer since everyone knows "Digimon" was the superior monster capture show and had much better music. I have 2 songs from The Digimon Movie in my collection :: Lets Kick it Up and Kids in America

I, for one, welcome our Dolphin Overlords

Kepler (NASA's special telescope designed to find out where in the Galaxy we are) has spotted another planet within the life-habitable zone of its star. 600 years away if traveling at the speed of light, word is this planet is large enough to be gaseous but small enough to have major liquid bodies and a solid core..Its surface is also a lovely ~72 degrees F. That's like Florida weather!

Time to stop wasting money on wars and invest in breaking/circumventing that light speed barrier so we can visit? 

I think "news" posts make me lazy

But here is another one. A couple of these come off Fark

Canada to test Fusion power plant
Bad School : Teen arrested for burping at school
Foster Children milked as source of income for Big Pharma
WSU to pay football coach $3+ million while tuition on the rise
Meet the Weta : World's heaviest insect
Bad School : 1st grader investigated for "sexual harrassment"
Photojournal of abandoned waterparks
Clinton groped in Myanmar
Message in a bottle sent from NC found in Portugal
Its MUCH cheaper to buy meds from Canada than in US
Bad School : 9yo suspend from school for telling friend his teacher was cute
3 part video on the history of online multiplayer games

I think we need a right to education amendment that prohibits schools from suspending kids unless they are an immediate threat to themselves or others. Sending them home to play x-box is not a punishment but can be destabilizing to the parents job and family stability.

25 demands of the Nazi Party

Gotta say, if you strip this list of its historical/cultural conflicts I agree agree with alot of these. Such as ::
11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
21. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.
24. We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense of the Germanic race.
The party as such represents the point of view of a positive Christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession. It fights against the Jewish materialist spirit within and without, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about from within on the pinciple:

COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD

Video posted proving Android phones record you illegally

As the title says really scary stuff. Everything done on an Android phone or that it is used for is recorded and sent to some "company" in California. Not kool. Make sure to watch the video though skip to 5 mins in where things get juicy.

The company told Wired.com last week that Carrier IQ’s wares are for “gathering information off the handset to understand the mobile-user experience, where phone calls are dropped, where signal quality is poor, why applications crash and battery life.” The company denies its software logs keystrokes. Eckhart’s 17-minute video clearly undercuts that claim. Every button you press in the dialer before you call,” he says on the video, “it already gets sent off to the IQ application. From there, the data — including the content of  text messages — is sent to Carrier IQ’s servers, in secret.

More news you can use!

Who owes what in the Eurozone
CPS charged with perjury, RICO violations of civil rights, fraud upon the court, obstruction of justice
Alien crop circle looks like giant penis
Canada to record children in school to enforce French language use laws
Obama fired 157 Air force majors to avoid paying retirement benefits
Coalition of 10-year-old boys asks people to call police if they see rape
Anna Mccaffrey, one of the first fantasy authors I read as a kid, passed away
Also dead this week : Josef Stalin's daughter
Sweden considers overtuning 1944 law that legalizes sex with animals
Elementry school treacher throws "bras and panties" party for students

I'll make a man out of you (MOTW)

Another great song I've babble-fished to Spanish..anyone want to give it a shot translating it? Click below

Strangers like me (MOTW)

I'm giving my refugees some Disney songs to translate back into English for practice. Anyone want to give a shot at translating my Spanish version ? Click below to see it. 

The Citizens Campaign

I heard the head lawyer behind The Citizens Campaign group interviewed on NPR today. The Citizens campaign is a nonprofit in New Jersey trying to help people play an active role in government that doesnt involve "politics" and donations. The most interesting point I heard is how folks dont know about the huge lists of open smaller commitment positions in government that virtually anyone can get simply by asking for the mayors office for the appointment. And once your in...your one of "them". Anyhoo they have a bunch of video "classes" on their website on how to change laws or snatch up open elected positions and they claim if you are truly interested they'll provide free legal legwork. I think you should at least check out the instructional (free) videos

Yoda says "Boil Japan!"

Blind Kitten! So Cute!

Love the music, love the kitty, had to post it - via Dori Monsen show.

So much news you can use!

Lots of interesting links! Clicky Clicky!

Internet Censorship bill passing in both houses of Congress
National Geographic photography contest winners
Kid, tired of pothead parents, calls the cops
Jesus of the Rocks
Dept. of Homeland Security directing Occupy Wallstreet crackdowns
Michael Jackson charged Sunday with kidnapping 11yo boy
Major US Lab charged with illegal breeding programs
Baby Born at 11:11am on 11-11-2011
Accused PennState child rapist's lawyer knocked up and married 16yo
Why are there "do nothing jobs" in public school system?
Congress declares Pizza a vegetable for the purposes of school lunches
Newest rage with the kids :: Vodka soaked tampons?
Dont stick full sized dolls up your butt
GE pays no taxes on 14 billion dollars in profits

Obama loves the military

 I voted for Obama the first time because I thought he'd drastically cut back the military spending and foreign action. The guy has done the complete opposite as maintaining and growing the strength and reach of the military industrial complex has been his priority.

Obama planning for "wars" in the Pacific
Obama paying private mercenary air farce to replace us in Iraq
Obama has increased the total size of the military

Either there is some great threat which only the presidents know about or Obama is trying to reduce unemployment statistics by bloating military recruitment.

Someone actually does something!

I like what this guy did here. Its about time people stop with the lips and move with the hips. Why bother ? Well to prevent a coup of course

Rambling about school

My refugee isnt doing too well in middle school.

Why are my Tax dollars paying for this ?

Congress cant come to agreement on basic needs such as medical care and social security but the Democratic and Republican parties each was just awarded 50 milllion dollars  in taxpayer money to pay for the security during their political conventions. I'm sorry but most of the candidates are multimillionaires and can pay for their own security thank you very much.

Thanks to Costco for making the effort

Props to Costco for offering interviews to the displaced employees. I'm not sure how many will take them up on the offer given they have the choice of not working and still being paid via unemployment, but at least Costco tried.

Important people apparently go missing regularly

I was looking into this story about the PennState guy showering with kids and I came across an interesting side story. In 1998 this coach was recorded by police admitting to having sex with one of the victims. The question at that point becomes why wasn't this guy changed then? The world may never know as the DA assigned to the case mysteriously vanished and even more suspicions the guy's computer hard drive washed up in some remote river

Costco's next funded Inititive : Let us sell pot

Via the Dave Ross show Costco efforts on liquior may make or break the legalize Pot movement

"Costco, confident that legislation allowing retail sales of liquor will pass, is already envisioning the next frontier: wholesale marijuana." Think about it. The legalization of marijuana all depends on whether its eventual sale is properly controlled and regulated. There's only one way to really regulate that and that's to have a store to sell it..“Our one concern is that customers will come in for some dope and spend all day milling around the sample tables.”

Italian's successfully test "Cold Fusion" power plant

As long as the mystery buyer isnt some coal company, we may now have limitless clean energy at our fingertips. Bet all the coal executives are crapping their pants about now.

Sneeze of News

 Several interesting tidbits not really big enough for their own post. Enjoy!

Syria breaks Arab League peace agreement (world still does nada)
2 books for girls about women in the army
Mom takes 4yo to get fuel for stranded car, leaves 2yo in car
Congress passes Bill declaring "In God We Trust" national motto
Foot long single celled critters found on Ocean floor
Parents can buy chickenpox via mail order!
Congress passes Bill giving wealthy farms free insurance
Parents who name baby "Hitler" loose custody of 3 kids
Fl Gov screws over small casino's to make way for 3 "Mega-resort" casinos
Another wonderful "children locked in cages" story

Wrong way to think about jobs

A story in the Orlando Sentinel today has all me riled up!

Nationwide, the defense industry could lose 1 million jobs, the study concluded.

Wacky dates

Via the Dave Ross show- We've got a palindrome date (11022011) coming up as well as the infamous 11/11/(20)11...of course since our calendar is set to some arbitrary date the Byzantine church set 1500~ years ago I'm not sure how much it means. Its important to remember the world we live in is VERY western history-centric regardless of the thousands of years human civilization has been around. And this is only the stuff we know from what didnt rot away or was otherwise lost over time.

FDA claims Licorice causes Arrhythmia.

Hmm anyone know anyone with heart issues that loves licorice tea ?

Steve Jobs & Thomas Edison

I was reading this article tribute to Steve Jobs and I noticed the author made the following connection about the quality of genius :

Both had less formal schooling than most of their respective peers. Both possessed the ability to visualize projects on a grand scale. Both followed an inner voice when making decisions. And both had terrific tempers that could make their employees quake. 

I dont mean to toot my own horn but does that sound like anyone you might know? I would add this quote from Babylon 5 :

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst we do all that we can to destroy it.

Btw like Bill Gates, and Christopher Columbus, etc etc Edison didnt come up with his ideas he just borrowed them from other people and marketed them better. In Edison case he was just a businessman who stole from an employee named Nikola Tesla. I understand the Tampa Bay Lighting are unveiling there new Tesla coil at an upcoming game

Rap about making cartoons

Phineas and Ferb is a seriously popular show on Disney and while unoriginal in that it borrows many of its characters and concepts from other shows it does bare one unique aspect in that it contains a musical short in every episode. Its one thing to write a cartoon script for every episode, its quite another level of creativity to throw in an original song in each episode.

One armed 11yo takes down first deer

There has been several stories in the news about kids doing bad things with guns. Here is one good story about about a gun being a positive force in a child's life (albiet not for the deer)

Police deliberately shoot at protesters

The police have no business gassing people exerting their right of free speech and assembly. At the same time the "protesters" look like mostly kids out to cause trouble and media types.

Will Shatner returns to singing career

Apparently his return to TV being shot lived, the Shatmiester has pulled a Hasslehoff and rebooted his singing career. You gotta be really stoned I think to enjoy this particular redition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Food trucks abound!

Apparently a whole culture of gourmet food truck eat'n has sprung up of late. Both In the Pacific Northwest and in Florida. I'm proud to say while living in Lynnwood we tried out several of the taco trucks in the area in an effort to show the foster kids more diversity in food beyond and Mac & Cheese, Pizza and sushi.  Guess I gotta get on the band wagon here in Florida. wonder if the model could be used to make mobile social service providers.

Man has 100lbs balls

Via Fark proof that there are worse things than a bad hair day. Complete with picture.

US has 5th most unequal wealth distribution in the world

Heads up folks living in 4 million dollar condos! Your greed and feeling of entitlement has officially driven our economy off the cliff of aristocracy. The US has the 5th most unequal wealth distribution in the world . Nice going guys...very responsible.

Where our education priorities are

In our broken, noncompetitive education system these days school employees are usually more at fault than politicians. One wonder what the ratio of gay teens to highschool dropout is at this school. We need to focus a little less on social engineering and a little more on making sure kids can read, write and count.

Army paid 7 million for one day of training

I'm all for boosting the strength and role of fathers in the family..but this is absurd. I'm sure Patty Murry has her hands all over this Seattle based Halliburton-esk effort.

That’s right — all of this cash is for training. Loving Families Loving Children Inc. won’t design or produce any special software to keep moms, wives and kids in touch with their SEALs, nor any fancy platforms to run it on. It’ll instead design “resiliency assessment analysis, workshops and training programs.” The crunchy-sounding company gets $9,380,746 for designing such courses through 2012, with an option to extend till 2016.

Obama puts boots on the ground in Africa

Meanwhile, if meddling in Libya wasnt enough..US taxpayers now get to foot the bill for 100 ground troops Obama is sending in to run some warlord's army. Change my ass. Here is more info about the Africa troop deployment. I'm all for saving people from rape and murder and the like..but supporting one guerrilla warlord over another isnt going to accomplish anything. Has it worked in ANY of the 100s of countries we've meddled with thus far?

Iranian assassination plot an FBI hoax ?

The Uk's guardian Newspaper raises concern over several unanswered questions while a popular Veterans magazine claims to have proof that the farcical plot was really Isreal's attempts to start a war between arab nations

A profoundly unjust world

The greatest disservice parents could do is cripple their children with "values". This world is a profoundly unjust place, as stories like this clearly show.

People who "do good" or are "innocent" are not any less likely to get screwed by life, and are perhaps worse off without a toolbelt of survivor skills such as being able to lie or shove women and children out of the way to get to the exit.   

Boycott Columbus day

Stop celebrating false history created by the King of Liars, Richard Nixon! Teach kids the truth (which is more interesting) not the skin color biased psuedo-story. Columbus bought his maps and knowledge of the "new world" from Chinese sailors who had circumnavigated the globe in 3 fleets during the 1420's. He didnt actually discover anything and never made it to "America"..though he did visit Cuba and Haiti.

Seattle Police join anti-Protesters

From the "Asinine/Scary section of Fark - Seattle police have a new policy to ticket anyone who honks in support of the Occupy Wallstreet protests.

Florida wants to legalize "Dwarf Tossing"

Chart this under politicans pandering to the Tea Party regardless of how absurd the effort it.

The former face of Evil

Slate.com ask who was the go-to figurehead for evil before Hitler. Kool story. BTW, now that Usama is toast the seat is vacant. Any takers? 

Volcanos seen from Space

Via Wired - some nifty pics of our planet spilling its guts out as seen from orbit of our shiny blue marble. I got to walk on cooling lava that recently covered the highway our car was traveling on in Hawaii.

Paper claims China planning to invade Vietnam

The official Chinese Communist Party newspaper called this week for China to attack Vietnam and the Philippines and lay claim to oil rigs in the South China Sea. Oh joy.

Monkey uses thoughts to move artificial arm

The next step in Cybernetics has arrived. Using a computer chip implanted in its brain, a monkey was able to successful control a virtual arm. Apparently the chip also translates a sense of texture back to the money as well. Very Kool.

Man catchs 245lbs Catfish

Via Fark - I for one welcome our Catfish overlords. Seriously though..70% of the planets surface is underwater. Who knows whats down there...

Daffy Duck 2011

10$ device from radioshack easily hacks voting machines

Via Salon.Com - a scary story about how easy vote rigging is. Electronic voting machines are the path of greed and laziness. The government is fine with spending xbillion zillion dollars bombing goats in Iraq but we can pay people to count the ballets by hand ? Only 16% of the population votes on average so its not like they are counting 300 million ballots.

White House cant find Colorado on a map

Via the Dori Monsen Show and CNN - a White House press release with Wyoming and Colorado mislabeled

Two headed cat turns 12

slow news week :) video take a moment to load

CERN tracks "impossible" faster than light particles

If this experiment turns out to be reproducible a chunk of Einstein and modern physics can be thrown in the hamper. I've always thought complex thought must violate the light speed limit otherwise you'd get chunks of ideas bleeding in like a train and its cars rather than the whole idea at once. My money is on these neutrinos moving so fast they skip out of our universe and then back in again..like being carried by a faster parallel stream and then falling back into the slow one.

BTW Time magazine profiled a 12 yo boy who had already got the jump on pointing out Einstein's errors

So much interesting news!

Lots of interesting links for thurs(t)day readers

One woman, two uteri, two healthy babies
DSHS ignored warning about "under the table" foster care home
Obama orders new bases built in Africa
SIXTY SIX kids found riding in a 8 seater van
Mother of 5 arrested for sex with boy she met in World of Warcraft
Hurricane to hit crippled Japanese nuclear zone

and finally a great webpage from NASA that shows a new space picture every day with an explanation of what you are looking at 

Jobs plan and gay soliders

I have a few comments on Obamas efforts of late to inspire the people who put him in office.

Angry birds economics

Cnn money is reporting that the popular smart phone game "Angry Birds" has surpassed 350 MILLION downloads. Depending on the version, each game costs between 50 cents and 5 dollars. Even if they are all the 50 cent version this company made 150 million dollars.

Angry Birds is a symbol of what wrong with capitalism today. Personally I found Angry Birds entertaining for about 2 minutes. And it probably took the writers of the game about that long to make. Designers of meaningful, complex games that are playable for years are all jumping ship and going over to facebook/app based game companies because the even the most successful PC games only sells ~500,000 copies. Just to turn a profit they need to charge $50-60 bucks per game. Like Wallstreet, all the incentive lies in the quick meaningless huge profit and early retirement. It also means the leonardo devincis of the industry are shackled to a grossly shrinking number of companies willing to produce these type of games.

Even more random interesting news links

I've been busy and havnt had the time to give each link the tender loving care it deserves.

16 Earth-like planets discovered
Mother steals money donated to pay for son's cancer treatments
Father of 3 missing boys set free after claiming he "gave away" kids
Tribes retroactively purging blacks granted tribal citizenship
School's to require sexual knowlege testing for kids in DC area
Google earth street view takes photo of nekkid woman
Afghani Air force pilot flies combat missions with 5yo daughter
Australian government unviels offical 3rd gender option "X"
FBI agent lesson program calls all muslim violent and radical 

Random interesting news posts

A little something for everyone

Another Star Wars trilogy in the making
Multiple choices in the UK school system
Laser based Fusion power source making progress
Transcontinental Railroad was built to fail but make corporations rich
Long list of skills that have become obsolete

and a SONG OF THE WEEK (remember those?) for 911. This is Toby Keith's "Beer for my horses" and a video from World of Warcraft

Dog sized crabs decimate Arctic ecosystem

As water temps rise large predators are on the move into waters previously too cold for them to survive. I for one welcome our new Crab overlords. Crab-People! Crab People!

5 Million without power

The authorities would like us to believe that 1 employee tinkering with a substation in Yuma, Az has "accidently" cut power to over 5 million people. San Deigo, Yuma and nearby Mexican boarder cities are all reporting blackouts. 2 Nuclear plants went into auto shutdown. Sony Online gaming network, headquartered in San Deigo, collapsed. Several sewage treatment facilities overflowed and leaked into the ocean. Traffic system are all down. I say no way - there are firewalls and trip switches to prevent massive surges across multiple grids. This event stinks of EMP weapon testing.

NPR charts Republican anti-science quotes

Via Fark; I found this chart informative and fairly scary. Whats more distubing though - that the candidates actually believe what they are saying or that they think millions of voters do?

Mel Gibson filming the story of hanukkah

Cant help but respect Mel for this! First - the Maccabees story is one of the great stories never told by like anyone so Mel's really got a chance to do another Braveheart. And Mel - hes like - wanna call me a anti-semite? Fine I'll make a movie about Jewish people. Tyrion Lannister said "If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore." Look like Mel took him to heart. 

NASA tests long range ship engine

This is the one that is suppose to get us to Mars

The price of pot

I thought this map from Wired was pretty interesting as it charts the cost of an ounce of pot per state like gasbuddy does for gas. I'm not advocating usage btw..but if you absolutely have to use chemicals to relax..pot is easier on your body than beer or any other non legal option. As long as you dont smoke it. Costco or other warehouse stores sell humidifiers that are easily converted into bongs.
All the benefits without inhaling the toxic stuff from burning things

History of MMOs

An MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online games) is a game that is capable of supporting 1000s of players at the same time and contains at least one virtual world that remains active when the user leaves. The current largest western MMO is World of Warcraft with 11 million subscribers. China's "Happy Farm" has it beat with 228 million subscribers and an average of 23 million users logged in every day. 

This awesome chart depicts most of the history of massive online gaming. I actually started playing MMOs with a game called Neverwinter Nights (seen in the picture above) which debuted in 1991. This chart has the added effect of making one feel really old.

Random interesting news links

Lots of interesting news links that defy categorization and dont merit their own post. Several are from Fark.

Kids play with 2 headed baby cow
Children with older fathers at greater risk of mental illness
Teen pretended to be ER doctor..why would anyone do this?
Florida has more "pain clinics" than Mcdonalds locations 
Obama scraps new clean air laws
Man-bear-Pig reborn in Guatemala
Molasses apparently is a cure-all for toxic waste
21yo UCLA student joins Libyan resistance; calls it a "vacation"
Blind people using sonar like bats or dolphins 

George Lucus makes changes to Star Wars

Via Evil Avatar, news that Geroge Lucus has added something to the final battle between Luke and the Emperor. Click the link to learn more!

Did Odds On Promotions steal 30k from kid?

So an 11yo kid successfully shoots a puck into the little teeny tiny hole for one of those halftime contests. But because his twin brother's name is on the ticket they get nothing. Lame. Odds On Promotions will instead donate 20k to hockey programs in the area and the kids get to attend a hockey camp at the rink free of charge. Fair trade ?

Sept 1st Dolphin Day protest

September 1st marks the start of the Japanese Dolphin and Whale hunting season. Be part of the protest  at your local Japanese consulate.

Boeing pays CEO more than it paid in taxes

Via the Dave Ross show - corporate and person greed reaches an all time high in a report that find Boeing and other big corporations entire tax burden is less than what they pay one employee.




The report claims Boeing only paid $13 million in federal taxes in 2010. That's about $800,000 less than Boeing CEO Jim McNerney made.

One of the reasons I dislike working for Costco is that 50% of its workers are denied health care coverage while executives are being paid fat cat multimillion dollar salaries in addition to receiving health care benefits. If corporate profits dont go to taxes then they need be distributed to the workers not a few suits at the top.