Walk of Shame

In Hamlet they called this incest. In Christianity its called Adultary.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071119/ap_on_re_us/preacher_paternity;_ylt=AgivIHlMuxhkSP4DfrF3N5as0NUE





Warren Jeffs goes to jail.





http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071121/ts_nm/usa_polygamy_jeffs_dc_3



Some guy is accused of using a popular photoshop gag to slander his wife. He also had kiddy porn. Get it?



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071121/ts_nm/usa_polygamy_jeffs_dc_3

Simple Logic

If A, then B. (by the by)

KITTENS!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/7101506.stm
A bunny is foster parenting a litter of kittens. How adoreable.

More Tazing, More Questions

A 20 year old man in Frederick, Maryland died after police deployed a taser and stunned him. Allegedly, he and three other suspects were fighting when police arrived on the scene, and they tasered this guy. As of publication, there is no official cause of death.

So, if you run over a cop's foot, side-swipe a taxi, and then smash into a police cruiser to avoid getting arrested for driving drunk without a license, and then resist the police? That's a tasing, as this Ottawa woman found out.

To be filed in the "WTF" category, is this case which comes to us from Jacksonville, Florida. Allegedly, police had their suspect detained in the car, after zapping him for an undisclosed number of times for an undisclosed duration, and then during the four minutes between when the EMTs left and got the "cardiac red" call from the police officers, the man died. I'll take a shot in the dark here and say that this incident is probably as fishy as it sounds.

Talk about a lousy punchline, a Bradenton, Florida man was tased and arrested for being drunk in a joke store. The real punchline is that this incident is still fishy. For instance, even though officers had restrained the suspect on the ground, they tasered him to invoke cooperation with the handcuffs.

"Do it."

This is one of the more neuanced tazer stories. Clearly the kid was acting really stupid, and probably deserved to be tazed. However, from the article its not entirely clear that it was necessary. This article shows the police mentality that I have spoken about previously, that everything is percieved as a hostile act when all you deal with is the scum of humanity. Its also pretty clear that both sides are streaching the truth to make themselves seem as good as possible.

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=67793

Trifecta of trifectas is now in play!

Another case of tasing, the walk of shame, and the Wisconsin Crazy! This just goes to show that it doesn't pay to be a janitor at the wrong place at the wrong time. How long will it be until we have a trifecta of trifectas?

Feeling Sub-Prime?

The thing I want to point out here, that hasnt been mentioned except as denials that it is a consern, is that when the subprime mortgage market is allowed to push off its horrid investments on Fannie May and Freddie Mac this amounts to welfare. This is fucking corporate welfare. These are opportunistic people who took advantage of poor optimistic people who only wanted in on Bush's "ownership society." These subprime lenders were only conserned with making a buck and they all knew they were making a bad investment, which is why they hid these in larger investment packages and passed them off like hot fucking potatoes. Now that the investment has turned out to be a bad one they want to pass the burden of cleaning up the mess on to you and me, the fucking tax payers, and they want to leave the Joe and Jane Doe holding the bag. The poor people that got suckered into these predatory loans are still going to loose their home, while the fucking asshole real estate "flippers" got rich off of over inflated house values.

The big point again is that you and I are going to have to pay for the bad investments of some selfish dickheads. This whole thing strikes me as hypocritical bullshit. the people that wer making these investments are the kind of assholes that bitch and moan about the cost of social services and demand we privatize everything, but as soon as trouble looks their way and they go crying to the government for help. Every aspect of this makes me sick.

This whole thing is made worse because its tied up with the falling dollar, droping consumer confidance, falling manufacturing, inflation, falling wages, increasing unemployment, vastly increasing deficet.

Loss of International Good WIll

During the initial phases of the feigned outrage in congress over the use of torture on those in U.S. custody, then Attorny General nominee Alberto Gonzales said in responce to criticism that even if we torture people Americans can never be as bad as the terrorists. It has also been remarked with dismay that the whole way in which the Bush administration has been treating detainees is one of the main reasons we are loosing all of our good will internationally.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002170340_gonzales04.html

For example, Russia has been throwing obstructions infront of international election monitors that they had origionally invited to oversee their current round of national elections. They dont take kindly to any criticism that they might not be behaving like a democracy should and impugn the recent American human rights record and voting irregularities stating that we are not ones to talk down to them about democracy.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyBfqwTaolA0ETVWNlYycSzVpn8wD8SV0H3O0

Pakistan is less subtle when it points out the speck in our eye to divert criticism from the plank in their own. General/President Pravez Musharrif declared a state of emergency and imprisioned political opponents, and today installed a "caretaker government." Musharrif justifies all this under his countries anti-terrorism laws and points to the U.S. when he justifies locking up dissodents. He says he is doing this to protect his country from radical islamists, but the people he is throwing in jail are the legitimately elected moderates he ousted from power in a military coup. His recent behavior and comments are reminicent of the attitudes of the types of people we have been forced to team up with in Bush's global, generational, war on terror. We have to deal with tribal warlords who see the way we behave and missapprehend it as anti-islam. They say they are also against the Islamists and say they are on our side. Once they have our support they proceed to be corrupt, violent, crime lords.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2GeoguY159A&refer=home

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071107/Malalai_Joya_071107/20071107/

The Friday Bacon

Chemicles from bacon promote quick recovery after a heart attack.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071112172140.htm

Diabetes = Terrorism

Aparently going into a diabetic coma is not only worthy of being tazed by some rural deputy in Alabama but by police in Leeds U.K. Wilfred Brimley better watch his ass.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/7096456.stm

Smell that wound, and tell me if it smells like Limburger

So, apparently the American housing market is going to continue to get worse and worse, judging from the storm surrounding Fannie Mae in the last couple of days. Apparently, the government-run enterprise is exposed to the tune of 270 billion dollars to the subprime housing market. This makes the funny math that Fannie Mae tried to pull on its last accounting statement all the more interesting, as it may indicate that they are already experiencing beyond normal losses, and the CEO is predicting twice the norm for next year. If one believes in the predicative power of the marketplace, the fact that Fannie Mae lost about 10% of its stock value yesterday.

The interesting part of this story comes from the fact that the housing market is eager to to push off their subprime assets onto the big GSEs, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which is why the market is so eager to see Fannie Mae' supervising agency, the OSHEO, to raise the housing lender's government-imposed financing caps. But, in light of the aforementioned outstanding exposure, combined with the fact that Fannie only has $40 billion in capital on hand, the bond issuance of the day before yesterday to the tune of $3 billion backed by home loans. looks like a desperate effort to keep the entire corporation from sinking into the red.

How important is Fannie Mae considering the unfolding crisis? I would say, "very."

Vancouver-style Tasing

Brought to you by the Globe and Mail, here's the story about Robert Dziekanski and his untimely end at Vancouver International Airport. Clearly, the man was scared out of his wits. Again, with almost every other taser incident that we've looked at here, the officers seemingly overlook Mr. Dziekanski's cooperation and give him a tasin'. In an interview, the photographer, Mr. Paul Pritchard relates how the cops immediately went to the taser option, as soon as the four of them arrived on the scene. The police discharged two air cartridges into the suspect, which are audible in the video. However, the cause of death comes into question later in the video, when one of the officers is seen striking where I think Mr. Dziekanski's head is. Notice how the body language of the officers changes drastically after that, and the witness on the video mentions "Code Red." I can only imagine what the Coroner's report will say.

Who vetoed my ham sammy?

Rep. Obey (D -Wisconsin) said the President would have vetoed a ham sandwich. I cant find anyone using the quote. Aparently the media doesnt want to use such a colorfull phrase.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/national/main3494847.shtml

NAKED TIME with yours truely

Is it just eye? just the little ego within that seems to think that the RIAA has no place to deny collage kids financial aid when their campus either doesn't want to spend the money and man power to enforce copyright laws or doesn't have the money or man power to do such? seriously, WTF? Its like enforcing a law that would require teachers to report any student caught listening to a copied tape in their walk-man. and worse yet, if they dont report on a student engaging in the cultivating experience of looking or listening to pirated media, then all student, regardless of woning a walk-man (computer) will get a federally placed aid removed thus making it impossible for some of the poorer to go to collage. bull-Sh!T i say. their i blogged. i feel dirty. yuck.

http://www.bizorigin.com/2007/riaa_nuclear_option

Trifecta

The walk of shame, the Wisconsin crazy, and a tazing all in one marvelous story.
A Madison, Wisconsin police officer accidently discharged a tazer and tazed him or herself.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_fe_st/odd_taser_accident_4

The new cover to Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Don't Panic

144 posts and this is the second with primary source reporting.

Background: This afternoon I was in a neighborhood in Cleveland that boarders two neighborhoods that are drasticly distinct economicly. The far east side of Cleveland which is poor, with many abandoned homes, foreclosed homes, and boarded up storefronts, where the average home sells for not more than $30, 000. Seperated by two to three blocks of shops in increasing state of repair as you travel east is the western edge of Shaker Heights, a community that is host to homes that top $1 million.

The Observed Facts: On the street that markes the political/jurisdictional boundry between these two communities (Kemper/Moreland), I saw what I would term a "speed trap." Between the hours of 3pm and 4pm I observed six seperate traffic stops on this street. Of those six traffic stops the only three of which I was able to get a look at the driver of the vehicle, the driver was a black male.

Interpretation: I have made no attempt to contact the Cleveland or Shaker police departments to clarify what I saw. Also, I make no accusation of racial profiling. What I observed could easily be a fluke in the time that I happened to be looking and all the other people that were stopped during this operation were of some other ethnic/gender mix. It only looks bad when there is this kind of strong arm tactics that could lead to such an impression.

brief the taser shorties

A jailer in Walton County Georgia is punished for misuse of a taser, a first since the department began using them in more than four years of use.

A guy crazed by ganja assaults an 18-wheeler, gets a tasing. There is no readily apparent explanation as to why he was naked, though. Disorderly conduct and resisting arrest seem like a fitting punishment.

A school officer in Fredericks County, Maryland deployed a taser against a 17 year old who was resisting efforts to take custody of his sister. He later goes to jail for disorderly conduct and several other charges.

A guy gets trashed and ends up trashing a show at the Washington University in St. Louis, that's a tasing. As of publishing, there is no word on the charges he faced, if any. Here's the Chief of the WUPD discussing why the tasing was appropriate, and raising the question of whether a taser is appropriate if it is not meant to incapacitate the subject, instead designed only to cause pain.

A question that's so interesting, in fact, it's part of a blossoming legal battle involving tasers in Waxahacie, Texas. It might be of note also for the poor guy in Alabama who was tased for having an epileptic seizure, as it's pretty much what happened to the plaintiff in the case.

From the realm of good news, a tape of the incident in Vancouver, B.C. is going to be released for public consumption tomorrow. The first one to post the Youtube video here on the blog is officially a nerd of the highest order. Let the race begin!

Sure, Taser parties might be the hottest thing since being born again and hosting a bible study, but the stock market isn't being kind to Taser, International today. Perhaps investors are nervous about the aforementioned legal battle and its implications for future orders, or looking at the crumbling expenditures in the public sector and wondering if police departments are going to have enough money to keep their fleets moving, nonetheless replace fragile tasers.

Walk of Shame

I took a Harris Poll survey yesterday that asked wheather I thought it was wrong for closeted gay celeberities and politicians to be outed by the media. The next question asked, what if they are a politician that activly opresses homosexuals.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-boballen1007nov10,0,1617921.story

His conviction will require him to undergo testing for STDs and those results will be made public.

The Scent of Rage

According to the principal deputy director of intelligence, Donald Kerr, the American people need to reconsider what they consider to be known as "privacy." This, of course, follows in the wake of the revelation of AT&T's involvement in the terrorist surveillance program. This week is the week to pressure your Senator, especially if they are on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Of course, he is an appointed official who has to worry about his superiors above in producing quotes. Otherwise, he might have said something rational. Stranger things have happened.