So Dateline NBC showed up at Murphy Texas to do what they do best, and that's catch online predators.
After the show, One of the men caught, a prosecutor from a neighboring county, committed suicide when police came to arrest him. The Murphy city manager who approved the operation lost his job in the ensuing furor.
The district attorney wont prosecute any of the men, (Get this) saying many of the cases were tainted by the involvement of amateurs. (Uh, you mean the amatuers that do this day in and day out for a living, teamed up with the amatuers from NBC who seems to know how to expose some of the underlying filth of our society? Those amatuers? Maybe the district attorney is an amatuer!)
"Certainly these people should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but the fact that this was all done for television cameras raises some questions," said Mayor Bret Baldwin. (Yea Baldwin, why don't you let the sexual predators who interacted with who they thought were underaged girls?)
It is the first time in nine Dateline stings that prosecutors did not pursue charges.
You can read the rest of the story at foxnews.com
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
CA Pet Sterilization Bill
A bill that would require most dogs and cats in California to be spayed or neutered has brought howls of protest from breeders and threats from the American Kennel Club to pull the nation's second-largest dog show from the state.
The bill — sponsored by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, a Democrat from Southern California who is also pushing to phase out the incandescent light bulb — would require pet owners to sterilize their dogs and cats by the time they are 4 months old, or face a $500 fine.
Read the whole story at news.yahoo.com
The bill — sponsored by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, a Democrat from Southern California who is also pushing to phase out the incandescent light bulb — would require pet owners to sterilize their dogs and cats by the time they are 4 months old, or face a $500 fine.
Read the whole story at news.yahoo.com
An Angry Wife?
Strangeness strikes again!!
A man in Florida wakes up with a headache. He goes to the hospital, they find a bullet lodged behind his ear. As soon as the medical staff note their discovery, the wife bolts from the emergency room. Am I confused? Are you confused?
Most interesting, but she says she accidentally shot her husband while he slept!
I don't know about you, but if I accidentally shoot someone, I'd try and wake them, let them know, and, oh, I don't know, TAKE THEM TO THE ER!!
She was jailed on a weapons violation charge while deputies pursued additional charges. (Yea, like attempted murder!? Well, time will tell what they find out!! Wow.
News.Yahoo.com
A man in Florida wakes up with a headache. He goes to the hospital, they find a bullet lodged behind his ear. As soon as the medical staff note their discovery, the wife bolts from the emergency room. Am I confused? Are you confused?
Most interesting, but she says she accidentally shot her husband while he slept!
I don't know about you, but if I accidentally shoot someone, I'd try and wake them, let them know, and, oh, I don't know, TAKE THEM TO THE ER!!
She was jailed on a weapons violation charge while deputies pursued additional charges. (Yea, like attempted murder!? Well, time will tell what they find out!! Wow.
News.Yahoo.com
Monday, June 25, 2007
Video Games NOT an Addiction
Whew! I thought I was in trouble.
Doctors backed away from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder. The move would have also paved the way for insurance coverage of video game addictions. (Oh great, another co-pay!)
While occasional use of video games is harmless and may even help with some disorders like autism, doctors said in extreme cases it can interfere with day-to-day necessities like working, showering or even eating. (OK, that is extreme.. we all need our showers!! I once played a board game with a bunch of friends for 3 days straight. Am I at risk now? And I must admit, one Friday night, many years ago, I started up a computer game, and suddenly, my back hurt, I was very hungry, and it was Sunday night!! That was freaky, but a one time deal.)
But addictive or not, too much time spent playing video games takes away from other important activities.
"The more time kids spend on video games, the less time they will have socializing, the less time they will have with their families, the less time they will have exercising," Kraus said. (On the other hand, those who have not socialized well anyway, would find this kind of escape a pleasant break from the day to day discomfort, wouldn't they?)
If you consider escape from reality for short bursts of time a disorder, we are all in a mess, but this article touches on the more extreme scenario, that for now, is being put on the back burner.
reuters.com is where the article is.
Doctors backed away from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder. The move would have also paved the way for insurance coverage of video game addictions. (Oh great, another co-pay!)
While occasional use of video games is harmless and may even help with some disorders like autism, doctors said in extreme cases it can interfere with day-to-day necessities like working, showering or even eating. (OK, that is extreme.. we all need our showers!! I once played a board game with a bunch of friends for 3 days straight. Am I at risk now? And I must admit, one Friday night, many years ago, I started up a computer game, and suddenly, my back hurt, I was very hungry, and it was Sunday night!! That was freaky, but a one time deal.)
But addictive or not, too much time spent playing video games takes away from other important activities.
"The more time kids spend on video games, the less time they will have socializing, the less time they will have with their families, the less time they will have exercising," Kraus said. (On the other hand, those who have not socialized well anyway, would find this kind of escape a pleasant break from the day to day discomfort, wouldn't they?)
If you consider escape from reality for short bursts of time a disorder, we are all in a mess, but this article touches on the more extreme scenario, that for now, is being put on the back burner.
reuters.com is where the article is.
Police bust down on Cuddling ??
What? After seeing a title like that, I had to go check it out...
It seems that over in India, teenagers are canoodling in parks, restaurants and at Internet cafes and this crackdown on these "immoral activities," sparked raids that netted at least 10 couples being detained over the last three days. (I would think drug house raids, software piracy and their own religious issues would have more of a focus, but that's just me!)
Thank goodness for the police, becuase "Many boys and girls were seen in objectionable postures".
Just a side note, in as much as it is a very different culture, and I do not comprehend the mentality, but understand we all must do what we know, to do what's right. ON the other hand, my little humor gnome in my head couldn't resist!
If you want to read the rest of the article, it's at reuters.com
It seems that over in India, teenagers are canoodling in parks, restaurants and at Internet cafes and this crackdown on these "immoral activities," sparked raids that netted at least 10 couples being detained over the last three days. (I would think drug house raids, software piracy and their own religious issues would have more of a focus, but that's just me!)
Thank goodness for the police, becuase "Many boys and girls were seen in objectionable postures".
Just a side note, in as much as it is a very different culture, and I do not comprehend the mentality, but understand we all must do what we know, to do what's right. ON the other hand, my little humor gnome in my head couldn't resist!
If you want to read the rest of the article, it's at reuters.com
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Only in Idaho - Dog drives Car into River
Only in Idaho can we find a news article about a dog "driving" his owners car into a river. Of course, had the owner actually had the practice of using his emergency brake, maybe when the dog knoced the car into nuetral, he might not have paid a tow truck guy to go swimming!!
To be fair, I'm am sure that somewhere else, another dog has probably driven a car into a river or lake... right? Maybe?
To see the entire story, go to news.aol.com
To be fair, I'm am sure that somewhere else, another dog has probably driven a car into a river or lake... right? Maybe?
To see the entire story, go to news.aol.com
Friday, June 22, 2007
Large UFO Spotted
One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands.
An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine.
Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as "a cigar-shaped brilliant white light".
It sounds like aliens are now running tour "busses". "...And below us are humans. They are presently destroying their planet, and in the meantime, like to fight about a lot of things.."
See the whole article at ThisisLondon
An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine.
Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as "a cigar-shaped brilliant white light".
It sounds like aliens are now running tour "busses". "...And below us are humans. They are presently destroying their planet, and in the meantime, like to fight about a lot of things.."
See the whole article at ThisisLondon
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Disappearing Lake
It would seem that a lake has been reported as missing!
A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared at Bernardo O'Higgins National Park and in it's place was a 100 foot deep crater in late May were the lake had been in March.
One theory is the water disappeared through cracks in the lake bottom into underground fissures, but there have been no earthquakes to support that theory. This is whacky weird earth science at work again!!
Foxnews
Bruce is thinking aliens again!! And they were looking for the Loch Ness Monster!!! Wrong lake guys. (Come on, a guy has to have a sense of humor every now and then!)
A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared at Bernardo O'Higgins National Park and in it's place was a 100 foot deep crater in late May were the lake had been in March.
One theory is the water disappeared through cracks in the lake bottom into underground fissures, but there have been no earthquakes to support that theory. This is whacky weird earth science at work again!!
Foxnews
Bruce is thinking aliens again!! And they were looking for the Loch Ness Monster!!! Wrong lake guys. (Come on, a guy has to have a sense of humor every now and then!)
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
UFO's, Blimps & Baloons
Well, the black helicopters can go back to their landing pads.
The men in black can put their suits away.
Apparently a UFO was spotted over Salt Lake City and witnesses were going on about the "100 ft long" object floating silently in the sky.
Horrors of horrors, they have come!!
Oh, wait, never mind. The 100 ft long mysterious object turned out to be less than 20 ft long, (The aliens are smaller than we thought!!) oh yea, and it was some sort of model derigible.
So another fine case of human excitement turns out to be a baloon! (Shades of Roswell!! Oh wait, that was a real flying saucer. ... wasn't it?)
Read the whole article at kutv.com
The men in black can put their suits away.
Apparently a UFO was spotted over Salt Lake City and witnesses were going on about the "100 ft long" object floating silently in the sky.
Horrors of horrors, they have come!!
Oh, wait, never mind. The 100 ft long mysterious object turned out to be less than 20 ft long, (The aliens are smaller than we thought!!) oh yea, and it was some sort of model derigible.
So another fine case of human excitement turns out to be a baloon! (Shades of Roswell!! Oh wait, that was a real flying saucer. ... wasn't it?)
Read the whole article at kutv.com
Monday, June 11, 2007
Coaster Woes
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.
A dozen riders on a roller coaster spent half an hour hanging upside down - 150 feet above the ground - after a power outage shut down the attraction.
Photo by Mara Kuhn, The Sentinel-Record / AP
It took about 30 minutes for the city Fire Department to rescue the riders using a ladder truck Saturday evening, said Aundrea Crary, spokeswoman for the Springs & Crystal Falls amusement park.
Spectators cheered when the riders were brought to the ground from the highest point of a loop on the X-Coaster, but one passenger threw up after reaching safety.
Spectators cheered when the riders were brought to the ground from the highest point of a loop on the X-Coaster, but one passenger threw up after reaching safety.
That's f'd up. My head would have exploded hanging upside down!
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Wanna Help Find Space Aliens?
It's called SETI. (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)
SETI is made up of 135 scientists and support staff who have committed their professional lives to searching for signals from extraterrestrials.
In coming years, SETI will launch its most ambitious search to date. Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, has bankrolled much of an array of 350 radio telescopes that will be devoted full time to SETI's search.
Since the first search for radio signals began in the 1960s, only about 1,000 stars have been surveyed and no unusual signals have been detected.
If humans ever detected a signal, it would be a decidedly one-sided conversation. It's also possible that any civilization sending the message would have died out before its message reached Earth due to the great distances between planets.
In the 1950s, physicist Enrico Fermi posed a rhetorical question that went something like this: If aliens exist, where are they? In other words, why haven't we found them? (I say they have found us, saw what we do to our planet and ourselves, and booked for another galaxy!!)
Their website is http://www.seti.org/. The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.
They have different web pages of cool stuff -
Their Telescope Array page.
The Carl Sagan Center page and other stuff.
There's a good read on SignOnSanDiego.com about a big cash infusion into the project.
(My info tidbits came from this article. It's a vrey informative article.)
IF you feel like helping out, you can donate your computing power to the cause at
http://setiathome.berkely.edu/.
SETI at Home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
I use one of my computers to run their program and help analyze their data.
The idea behind Seti At Home is to use the collective computing power of the computers on the Internet in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The premise is by using screen saver programs for a wide variety of computer types, SETI uses your CPU to analyze data. The screen saver downloads a chunk of data from SETI that has not been processed. Your computer then processes the data automatically when the screen saver is enabled.
When the screen saver has results, they are sent back to SETI and you get another one. Simple and clean. You use your PC as you normally would and SETI gets it when you are not using it. You even get to choose how much of your CPU it can use, and other things. I don't like my CPU cranking 100%, so I have it set to about 30% of the CPU ability. Who knows, maybe you will be the one to answer ET when he calls for pizza.
There are a number of cool statistics being kept about the process including who has processed the most data units, who has used the most CPU time and who has come closest to getting a hit. You can group your computers under a name, so your results are tallied together.
Go check it all out and have some fun in the process!!
SETI is made up of 135 scientists and support staff who have committed their professional lives to searching for signals from extraterrestrials.
In coming years, SETI will launch its most ambitious search to date. Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, has bankrolled much of an array of 350 radio telescopes that will be devoted full time to SETI's search.
Since the first search for radio signals began in the 1960s, only about 1,000 stars have been surveyed and no unusual signals have been detected.
If humans ever detected a signal, it would be a decidedly one-sided conversation. It's also possible that any civilization sending the message would have died out before its message reached Earth due to the great distances between planets.
In the 1950s, physicist Enrico Fermi posed a rhetorical question that went something like this: If aliens exist, where are they? In other words, why haven't we found them? (I say they have found us, saw what we do to our planet and ourselves, and booked for another galaxy!!)
Their website is http://www.seti.org/. The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.
They have different web pages of cool stuff -
Their Telescope Array page.
The Carl Sagan Center page and other stuff.
There's a good read on SignOnSanDiego.com about a big cash infusion into the project.
(My info tidbits came from this article. It's a vrey informative article.)
IF you feel like helping out, you can donate your computing power to the cause at
http://setiathome.berkely.edu/.
SETI at Home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
I use one of my computers to run their program and help analyze their data.
The idea behind Seti At Home is to use the collective computing power of the computers on the Internet in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The premise is by using screen saver programs for a wide variety of computer types, SETI uses your CPU to analyze data. The screen saver downloads a chunk of data from SETI that has not been processed. Your computer then processes the data automatically when the screen saver is enabled.
When the screen saver has results, they are sent back to SETI and you get another one. Simple and clean. You use your PC as you normally would and SETI gets it when you are not using it. You even get to choose how much of your CPU it can use, and other things. I don't like my CPU cranking 100%, so I have it set to about 30% of the CPU ability. Who knows, maybe you will be the one to answer ET when he calls for pizza.
There are a number of cool statistics being kept about the process including who has processed the most data units, who has used the most CPU time and who has come closest to getting a hit. You can group your computers under a name, so your results are tallied together.
Go check it all out and have some fun in the process!!
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