Free Drugs

The story about drugs in our water supply is still in the news.
Philadelphia is at the top of the 24 cities reported.
The trace amounts, however, are being measured in 'parts per billion'.

The Philly Water Department has tried to put it in perspective by stating -
A resident would have to drink 8 glasses of water every day for 40,000 years
to equal the dosage in 1 over the counter pain pill.

Good news for some, maybe not for others...




Story Link: Drugs in the water



Click a Label Name for more this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.

Red Light Cash

Red light cameras. A good idea, right?
Catch the guys that are running the lights.
Get folks to slow down at intersections.

Enter local officials and greed.

It's been found that some towns are dialing down the yellow light,
making the light turn red faster.
Less time to slow down = more cars running the light.
The result, more cash in local coffers.

Oh yeh, and more red light accidents too...





Story Link: Red Light Tampering



Click a Label Name for more this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.

Group protests cross-dressing in school.

Calling it cross-dressing might be stretching it a bit, though technically the term is correct.
The kids were taking part in a school function called Wacky Week.
The week before Wacky Week, the kids voted on how they should dress up each day.

The last day of Wacky Week, the vote was to dress as either Senior Citizens,
or have the boys dress as girls, and girls dress as boys.

It was Wacky Week, get it? A time for the kids to have fun.
It brought the whackos out instead.





Story Link: Playing dress-up



Click a Label Name for more this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.

Vodka ad redraws US map

The ad shows the US as it was before the Mexican-American War of 1848.
Prophetic?



Story Link: Los Angeles Times


Click a Label Name for more this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.

Man shoots cat to get even with wife.

Some moron actually did that.
We say turn-about is fair play...



Story Link: Getting even


Click a Label Name for more this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.

Scientists fear new experiment may create a black hole.

14 years and $8 billion later, there are now concerns
a new super-collider could actually suck the earth in.



Story Link: Black Hole


Click a Label Name for more this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.

Earth Hour - Lights Out

Story Link: Earth Hour


Click a Label Name for more this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.

Another conspiracy nut finds fame and fortune.

News Item:
Oscar winner says 9-11 attacks made up.

Ever heard of Marion Cotillard? Maye you have, and maybe you haven't. She recently won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in the film La Vie En Rose. Didn't see the flick? Neither did we, but it's a typical case of critics heaping praise on something the rest of us ignore. You will be seeing Ms Cotillard in the future though, she's slated to star opposite Johnny Depp in the upcoming big budget movie Public Enemy.

Chances are Public Enemy will be a pretty good gangster flick, so when you're watching the female lead on the screen, try to put it out of your mind that she believes the World Trade Center attacks were a hoax. The real reason the Twin Towers went down, according to her, was that the buildings needed a remodel. Yep, you read that right, she claims the buildings were outdated and needed an upgrade. Here's a quote...

"It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them."

Her conclusion is that 9-11 is just another example of the US concocting horror stories for political ends. How politics and building remodels go hand in hand, we're not really sure, but that's her idea. She also believes no one ever landed on the moon. No joke, honest, that's what she said. Although she wasn't alive at the time, she has seen the documentaries, and views them as more Hollywood magic.

Now before you start shouting things like "Moron!", "Idiot!", and "Whacko!", Cotillard may not be any of those things. She is, however, an actress, and actors live in make-believe worlds. She was also, by coincidence, born and raised in France, and that explains a lot.



News Link: The Daily Mail

Click a Label Name for more articles in this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.

2 down, 48 to go

News Item:
Catholics, Muslims, ink pact

Catholic and Muslim leaders in South Jersy signed an agreement yesterday, pledging cooperation and understanding of each other. It was the second such signing in the US. The first occured in 2003 in Rochester, New York. If the effort will now migrate to other states across the nation, and what impact, if any, it will have, remains to be seen. It is an effort, however, so that's a good thing, but radical factions from either side were notably absent.



News Link: Courier Post

Click a Label Name for more articles in this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.

The Nut-Bags are still among us.

News Item:
Danish police foil cartoon murder plot.

It's two years ago already that this cartoon

caused riots all over the Muslim world.

We thought the reaction was extreme, to say the least.
If, two years later, you think the foment has died down, you'd better look again.
Three suspects are, at present, sitting in a Danish jail cell, accused of plotting to murder the cartoonist. Not get mad at him, not call him names, not write him nasty letters, but cut off his head, with no qualms about it.

These individuals are described in the dictionary thusly -
rad·i·cal
adjective
1 - Marked by a considerable departure from the usual or traditional.
2 - Disposed to make extreme changes.

Concentrate on the extreme, because that's what these folks are.

It's not a religious issue here, has nothing to do with a belief in Allah, or Homer Simpson for that matter. It's about morons going off the deep end. It's about idiots still living in the Dark Ages. It's about grown men, real adults, actually believing that if they should die while committing murder for their cause, they'll be rewarded in heaven with 72 Virgins.

Now we're not here to mock anyone's religious beliefs, there's no point in that, but take a potshot at mental defectives like these? Oh yeh, we'll do that every time.



News Link: Bloomberg.com

Click a Label Name for more articles in this category.
Other categories are listed in the Sidebar.