ladykatza

This year, I believe the revolution was televised. Mine is a generation that has seen the expansion of comunications go from the Daily News and Morning Television to tiny computers that fit our pocket. Computers that can send sound, images, and text almost instantly across the globe. Where the generation before would stage their protests in the hope that it would be filmed, or photographed and end up on the cover of Newsweek, ours can take the footage with a small handheld device and have it up on the internet, viewed by MILLIONS, in the matter of hours.

We missed the Industrial Revolution. Many of us watched The Cold War end and the Berlin Wall come down. I have a piece of that wall on my mantel. It was brought to me by our foreign exchange student, whom to this day, is still one of my closest and most dearest friends. But even still, there was a sense of fear in our government. An Old Guard that still remembered Pearl Harbor being bomded. That felt the cold chill of nuclear attack looming over them. A mentality that prevented an honest and open dialoug between countries different from ours.

Then there were those that came out of the Civil Rights and Anti-War movement of the Sixties. They looked toward D.C. with the idea that they could make things better. They could make things different. But the road was long and it was hard, because the Old Guard feared them too. Many were convinced to take the same stance, or the Old Guard’s progeny replaced them and perpetuated that fear.

But along comes a new generation. One that looks restless, aimless, and disinfranchised. A generation that has not known a Cold War because it has ended. Instead we see our parents who had accomplished so many things they set out to do, but once they accomplished those goals, what then? Well, we have Prosperity. We have Growth and Innovation. We have a technological revolution that was the breaking tide after landing on the moon. We consumed, but we felt empty.
To fill that emptiness, we turned toward new forms of communications. Phone, and then email, and then chat rooms, and then massive online communities that span the globe. We learned that there were things for which to fight. Innovations that haven’t worked as planned, such as agriculture, or energy, or ways of governance. But yet we floundered.

Almost every day I‘ve talk to peopl e from all over the globe. People who see the world differently. People that have a different type of government and yet still thrive and are happy. I’v talked to people who have witnessed immense atrocities in places like Africa and the Middle East. I talk to people who have seen terrible things here in our own country. We talked and discussed and have seen and thought of better ways to do things. But it was just talk, because we didn’t know where to start.

The Old Guard has accomplished many things, and Their Progeny have done more. Much of it was good, or with good intent. But after their goals were accomplished they floundered. They lost direction, and our generation floundered with them. But then, we started to Communicate. We became active, we started to think and discuss. We had information and each other at the touch of a button. We became The Age of Communication.

The only thing missing was inspiration. A good swift Kick in the Pants. Someone who saw this new communications as the tool needed to bring a aimless generation together. To make us step out and blink our eyes against the sunlight. To realize that action is required to make the communication worth something.

This year, my country did not elect a single person to fix all the problems. We elected a leader that inspires us out of apathy. A leader that has convinced not only our country that we can make a difference, but that this large, and shrinking, world can communicate to make a difference. We COMMUNICATED a revolution and the Old Guard and their Progeny have been found lacking.

They heard our message from the ivory tower.

We cannot look to one person and one government to solve the world’s problems. That has been put in our hands. We must look around and say “What do I want my world to look like in 100 years?”

And then, we must roll up our sleeves and get to work.

I wrote the following letter in response to the emails of fear that I got from some in my family. Written a bit in haste, so excuse grammatical errors.

I think its silly to be fearful. There was a lot at stake no matter WHO won. IF one looks at this with the eyes of history, this is what America is about. Almost all of us were immigrants at one time or another. Not less than 40 years ago a black men were beaten and killed and shot for trying to win the right to vote and less than 100 years ago, women did not have the right to vote. We have come far enough in our fight for “Truth, Justice, and Liberty for ALL” that a man of mixed heritage could be elected to office. A man that I feel is a great inspiration to what can be accomplished.

I would also like to remind everyone that its not just the President that makes all your decisions. There is congress, and local governments, and the judiciary system. Your representatives there have a lot more weight. Your voice and the ability to WRITE A LETTER or MAKE A PHONE CALL to your other elected representatives makes a difference.

If you want smaller government, the fight to take back some of the States rights of governance. If the government is too big, it is because we have become too complacent in speaking up and becoming involved. This is not a time to sit back and wring our hands. There are many MANY things that need to be fixed. So pick what you believe in. Be it better education, sustainable agriculture, or taking the control of government OUT of the Corporate Oligarchy. Whatever it may be, ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVE AND DO SOMETHING.

And no matter what, you are still family and welcome to eat at my table.

With Love and Respect,

Ladykatza

–
Jesus was a community organizer.

Google announces an agreement with The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP)

Of the official announcement on their blog, here is my favorite paragraphs.

With this agreement, in-copyright, out-of-print books will now be available for readers in the U.S. to search, preview and buy online — something that was simply unavailable to date. Most of these books are difficult, if not impossible, to find. They are not sold through bookstores or held on most library shelves, yet they make up the vast majority of books in existence. Today, Google only shows snippets of text from the books where we don’t have copyright holder permission. This agreement enables people to preview up to 20% of the book.

What makes this settlement so powerful is that in addition to being able to find and preview books more easily, users will also be able to read them. And when people read them, authors and publishers of in-copyright works will be compensated. If a reader in the U.S. finds an in-copyright book through Google Book Search, he or she will be able to pay to see the entire book online. Also, academic, library, corporate and government organizations will be able to purchase institutional subscriptions to make these books available to their members. For out-of-print books that in most cases do not have a commercial market, this opens a new revenue opportunity that didn’t exist before.

OOO OOO, and…

As part of the agreement, Google is also funding the establishment of a Book Rights Registry, managed by authors and publishers, that will work to locate and represent copyright holders. We think the Registry will help address the “orphan” works problem for books in the U.S., making it easier for people who want to use older books. Since the Book Rights Registry will also be responsible for distributing the money Google collects to authors and publishers, there will be a strong incentive for rights-holders to come forward and claim their works.

Georgia is YELLOW! Seriously. I don’t think we’ve had an even close race since the sixties ’round here.

*mind boggles*

“I have to say if there’s a prettier state than North Carolina, I have not seen it yet,” [Obama] said at a Democratic dinner [in N.C.] Saturday night. “I confess that I haven’t been to Alaska.”

The assembled Democrats lapped it up, cheering wildly as a man in the back of the room shouted, “You can see it from Russia.”

Ok, I’m actually just re-posting an opinion piece from NY Times. However, he stated eloquently what I’ve been thinking as well. I’ve been struggling for some time. Part of the reason is I made mistakes with credit early. I had that moment of clarity as I went “This is a trap, and if I don’t get out now, its only going to get worse”. I’m right, and millions of Americans just don’t see it. The only thing we’ve bought on credit in the past five years is our car and our house. Both times they were willing to give us more than we asked for but we looked at the numbers and said “If something happens, we can’t afford this” so we went with what we could afford. We try to live slightly below our means. What I would be putting toward savings is instead going toward paying off credit card debt. It amounts to the same thing in the long run.

Article Here

The Borrowers
On Monday, in a vote that will go down in history, the House of Representatives said no to a $700 billion plan to bail out the teetering financial system. Members of Congress chalked the rejection up to populist rage over the idea of rescuing Wall Street while helpless homeowners flail, and some representatives who voted no say they’ll vote no again when the version of the bailout passed by the Senate on Wednesday comes up in the House.

I’ll say this upfront: I hope the titans of finance who expect us little people to save them are ashamed of themselves. But at the same time, in painting Main Street solely as a victim of a rapacious Wall Street, we are being hypocritical.

We are all to blame.

Step back. The securities that are poisoning the financial system are made up of mortgages and home equity lines that are going sour. They may soon consist of sick credit card and automobile debt as well. “Innovation” on Wall Street meant that the institution that made the loans could sell them off, and bankers could carve up those loans into new instruments, which they in turn sold to investors around the globe, with the result being that no one felt responsible for ensuring that the person who got the mortgage or the credit card or the home equity loan could actually pay for it.

But who made the decision to take on that mortgage she couldn’t really afford? Who lied about her income or assets in order to qualify for a mortgage? Who used the proceeds of a home equity line to pay for an elaborate vacation? Who used credit cards to live a lifestyle that was well beyond her means? Well, you and I did. (Or at least, our neighbors did.)

In other words, without the complicity of Main Street, Wall Street’s scheme never would have flowered. Some would argue that the modern sales machinery — remember those ads telling you to let your home take you on vacation? — is to blame. And it is.

But we’re supposed to be adults, not children who can’t keep our hands out of the cookie jar. (Those who were lied to by brokers about the reset rates on adjustable-rate mortgages and other elements of their loans are in a different category.)

Just as many of us deserve a share of the blame, many of us also got a share of the profits. No, not the kind of profits that Wall Streeters got, at least individually. But if you sold your house over, say, the last five years, you got an inflated price because of the proliferation of credit made possible by the Street’s practices.

If you bought a house, then you got a lower mortgage rate than you would have if it weren’t for Wall Street.

If you made money on the shares of Merrill Lynch or Lehman Brothers or another participant in this mess, then you shared in the profits. One could even argue that the overall stock market wouldn’t have achieved the heights it did were it not for our housing and debt-fueled economy. So if you cashed out at all, then you got some of the profits.

This isn’t an argument in favor of the bailout plan. There are big questions that need to be answered. When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson argues that the plan can’t impose onerous requirements on financial institutions because otherwise they won’t participate, I think, “Well, if they are in good enough shape that they actually have a choice, then why are we offering them a costly lifeline?”

This also isn’t an argument that a bailout would be fair to ordinary Americans. We are to blame, but we don’t deserve all the blame. We profited, but we didn’t get anywhere near the lion’s share of the profits — and from the sound of things, a bailout would stick us with a disproportionate amount of the bill.

But it’s also true that if the experts are right, a failure to act will stick us with most of the pain as the economy seizes up. The Wall Streeters who pocketed million-dollar bonuses can handle a layoff. Most Americans can’t.

Didn’t your parents teach you that life isn’t fair?

Bethany McLean, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, is the co-author of “The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and the Scandalous Fall of Enron.”

Yes, I’m cross-posting this everywhere. Why? I think its important to look at it from every angle.

So one of the things that has been pointed out to me by some arm-chair economists: Its not the actual debt, but the debt to gross domestic product we need to worry about. I found this chart that is of great interest to me.

Ok, so I found it on the internet. I’m often skeptical of information found on the internet so I went digging. The site the graph came from listed their sources, so I went to them myself. I found the 357 page PDF file posted for the 2009 Fiscal Year Budget on www.whitehouse.gov . The table in section 7.1 is the one that is where this data comes from.

Right, so now I’ve gotten myself worked up a bit more. Yay.

Link to full article here.

The quoted paragraph in the article:

I am now even more firmly convinced that there really is a predator class. The people responsible for creating and bingeing on the mortgage junk bonds, derivatives and financial insurance scams that are now being bailed out are our society’s most educated, highly trained and wealthiest professionals. The Meltdown of ‘08 was not caused by con men, crazed moguls and panicked masses. It was caused by financial bureaucrats of the baby boom generation who were paid megabucks for office jobs, who wear Patagonia fleece, $12,000 Brioni suits and read books about “reinventing the Self.”

And probably my favorite paragraph, as yes, this is EXACTLY how I feel:

Already Americans broadly believe politics is low-rent at best, corrupt at worst. Confidence in the news media is a relic of the Cronkite era, even among practicing journalists. Americans are suspicious of lawyers, doctors and the clergy.

Venezuela and Bolivia Ask U.S. Ambassadors to leave.

A few days later:

Russian Bombers land in Venezuela as part of training exercises being carried out in “neutral waters”. PROBABLY unrelated.

The world stage of politics has me very worried as of late. Developments here in the presidential race have me almost frothing at the mouth. There just seems to be a complete void of common sense coming from, well, anywhere.

A very interesting article outlining her time as Mayor and Governor in Alaska.

Among Some of my Favorites

Ms. Palin ordered city employees not to talk to the press. And she used city money to buy a white Suburban for the mayor’s use — employees sarcastically called it the mayor-mobile.

The new mayor also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral.

“People would bring books back censored,” recalled former Mayor John Stein, Ms. Palin’s predecessor. “Pages would get marked up or torn out.

Yet recent controversy has marred Ms. Palin’s reform credentials. In addition to the trooper investigation, lawmakers in April accused her of improperly culling thousands of e-mail addresses from a state database for a mass mailing to rally support for a policy initiative.

While Ms. Palin took office promising a more open government, her administration has battled to keep information secret. Her inner circle discussed the benefit of using private e-mail addresses. An assistant told her it appeared that such e-mail messages sent to a private address on a “personal device” like a Blackberry “would be confidential and not subject to subpoena.”

No? Ok, well it might be important. I’ve been following this along with the sub-prime crisis. In fact, I’ve been asking the question for years “where is all the money coming from”? Being that I and my husband work in the tech industry and that we got to ride the tail end of the dot com craze, we felt the burn when it crashed. But then we saw all these houses going up, big, expensive houses. And I kept asking the question “How are they paying for these?”.

Well, it looks like the answer was they weren’t. Not really. It was all numbers and paper pushing. Now we’re looking at food shortages. The price of staples such as wheat, rice, and corn have doubled, DOUBLED in the past couple of months alone. Riots are happening.

Which leads me to an article I read in the NY Times this morning.
Food shortages may lead to more acceptance of genetically modified crops. I’m still up in the air on how I feel about this.

Current Mood:  contemplative

Current Music: stomach rumbling

So, I’m sure that many of you have been following the “sub-prime mortgage crisis”. We’ve grinned to ourselves as billions of dollars have been lost by those rich bastards we all love to hate. What I find interesting is when you read news that is published in the US of A, you really get a feeling of “oh, its bad but we’ll be ok”. But an article that I ran across recently gives you pause. Europe and Asia are panicking. Bad choices starting with the de-regulation in the 1980’s have led to a melt down that is quickly reaching the levels of those in the 1930’s. Dejavu, anyone? Well, anyone that remembers the 1930’s, because we all know that nobody pays attention to history, its just boring old stuff, isn’t it?

Quote from a UK Publication linked here:

China cannot possibly step into the breach. Jahangir Aziz and Xiangming Li argue in a new IMF paper that China’s economy is now so geared to the US and EU markets that a 1pc fall in external demand will lead to a 4.5pc slide in exports and 0.75pc fall in GDP. Assumptions that it will weather a global shock are “likely to be wrong, perhaps dramatically”.
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China is gobbling up iron ore, soy beans and crude oil, but it accounts for less than 4pc of global consumption and is no longer adding to total demand. Imports have been flat since April. China is boosting GDP at the world’s expense, by snatching markets with a cheap yuan. It is beggar-thy-neighbour growth.

Note that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers have all begun to tear up the “decoupling” manual - the pre-crunch script assuring us that the world could get along fine as the US buckled. “What began as a US-specific shock is morphing into a global shock,” said Peter Berezin, a Goldman Sachs strategist. “There is a clear risk that some of the hot housing markets in Europe and some emerging markets will cool dramatically

I HIGHLY recommend reading the rest of this article, as it breaks down in good detail how this market can spiral even further downward. Its not pretty. NOT PRETTY AT ALL.

The good news is, for those of us in that middle class (that saw the writing on the wall and understood) and decided to go ahead and give up that credit addiction and were smart enough to read the fine print and go for the fixed loans, we’ll probably ride this out just fine. The one market that seems to have steadied out (knock on wood) is the tech market. When times get hard people fix things instead of buying new ones, they hang on to the things they need and the entertainment to make the time pass by.

Current Mood: chicken little

Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling

By David Michael Green

02/12/07 “ICH” — - So. You’ve built yourself an empire, eh?

Well, bully for you!

What’s next, you ask? Well, now you’ve got to do what everybody does when
they have an empire, of course. You’ve got to worry about it falling apart,
mate!

But how to tell for sure? Let me see if I can be helpful. Here are some
rules of thumb to keep in mind, thirty-six sure-fire indicators that your
empire is falling apart:

You know your empire’s crumbling when the folks who are gearing up their
empire to replace yours start blowing up satellites in space. And then they
don’t bother to return your phone calls when you ring up to ask why.

You know your empire’s crumbling when those same folks are cutting deals
left, right and center across Asia, Latin America and Africa, while you,
your lousy terms, and your arrogant attitude are no longer welcome.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending your grandchildren’s
money like a drunken sailor, and letting your soon-to-be rivals finance your
little splurge (i.e., letting them own your country).

You know your empire’s crumbling when it’s considered an achievement to
pretend that you’ve halved the rate at which you’re adding to the massive
mountain of debt you’ve already accumulated.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you weaken your currency until it
looks as anemic as a Paris runway model, and you’re still setting record
trade deficits. (Hint: Because you’re not making anything anymore.)

You know your empire’s crumbling when “the little brown ones” (thank you
George H.W. Bush – certainly not me – for that lovely expression) in country
after country of “your backyard” blow you off and proudly elect
anti-imperialist leftist governments.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t topple those governments and
replace them with nice puppet regimes – like in the good old days – even if
you wanted to. And you badly want to.

You know your empire’s crumbling when one of their leaders comes to the
United Nations and makes fun of your emperor, calling him the devil, and
joking about smelling sulphur where he just stood. And though a few folks
cringe, everybody laughs.

You know your empire’s crumbling when just about your entire military land
force is tied up in a worse-than-useless war launched on the basis of
complete fabrications, that every day is actually making you less – not more
– secure from external threat.

You know your empire’s crumbling when almost half the soldiers in that war
are high-paid mercenaries, and you don’t dare institute a draft.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you send soldiers into war with two
weeks training and a lack of armor, and then you keep them there for three,
four and five rotations.

You know your empire’s crumbling when a member of the Axis of Evil can test
missiles and explode nuclear warheads, and all you can do about it is mumble
some pathetic warnings about how they better not do that again or there will
be consequences.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you even think that there is an Axis
of Evil.

You know your empire’s crumbling when a rag-tag military hodge-podge of
irregulars has you pinned down in an endless fight you can’t win, but also
can’t lose.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re too dumb to even ban Humvees as
a first step toward ending your dependency on a foreign-owned crucial
resource.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you trade your prior moral leadership
on human rights issues for global disgust at your torture, ‘extraordinary
rendition’ (a.k.a. kidnapping for torture) and the dismantling of nine
centuries worth of civil liberties progress.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you blow off international law that
you once helped create, and undermine the institutions of international
governance that you once helped build.

You know your empire’s crumbling when opinion polls confirm that every month
you’re more and more despised throughout the world.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t even pull off the hanging of
a tin-pot murderous former dictator without turning him into a hero.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re the richest country in the
world, but nearly 50 million of your people don’t have basic health care
coverage.

You know your empire’s crumbling when the World Health Organization ranks
your healthcare system 37th ‘best’ in the world, just above Slovenia, and
just below Costa Rica. (And far below Colombia, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and
Morocco.)

You know your empire’s crumbling when instead of making it easier for
citizens to obtain a higher education, you’re making it harder and more
expensive.

You know your empire’s crumbling when your government gives tax breaks to
industries as a reward for exporting your jobs elsewhere.

You know your empire’s crumbling when the so-called ‘opposition’ party can’t
even turn that obscenity into a viable campaign theme and use it to clobber
the worst emperor in your history.

You know your empire’s crumbling when your middle class has been stagnant
for three decades, while the wealth of the hyper-rich continues to climb
through the roof.

You know your empire’s crumbling when your reaction to that is to exacerbate
the problem by enacting tax policies that massively increase further still
the gap between the rich and the rest.

You know your empire’s crumbling when the predatory class has taken over
your government and is stripping the country of everything not bolted down
to the floor. And then it sells the floor itself, as well, to your rivals.

You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending tens of billions of
dollars you don’t own on new nuclear warheads and space weapons that don’t
work, to be used against an enemy you don’t have.

You know your empire’s crumbling when one of your cities drowns and your
government does next to nothing before, during and after.

You know your empire’s crumbling when a massive environmental nightmare is
looming around the corner, and your emperor not only ignores it, but claims
it isn’t real while taking steps to exacerbate it.

You know your empire’s crumbling when your emperor is warned by a CIA
briefer of an imminent terrorist attack of vast proportions, and responds by
remaining on vacation and dismissing the briefer with the words: “All right.
You’ve covered your ass, now.”

You know your empire’s crumbling when the same emperor drops everything to
fly across the country from his vacation home in order to sign a bill
intervening on the wrong side of a personal medical drama involving a single
family.

You know your empire’s crumbling when gays and immigrants are used as
diversionary issues to keep people from thinking about the pillaging of
their country and their wallets actually taking place. And it works.

You know your empire’s crumbling when people are getting more religious and
less scientific, not the other way around.

You know your empire’s crumbling when your political leaders start to be
chosen by dynastic rules of succession.

And you especially know your empire’s crumbling when the most idiotic child
of one of the least accomplished leaders in its history is not only crowned
as the next emperor, but is even revered for a time by most of the public as
a great one.

Rome? Britain? Spain?

At this rate we’ll be lucky to end up like Belgium.

David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra
University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers’ reactions to his
articles (dmg@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that time constraints do
not always allow him to respond. More of his work can be found at his
website, www.regressiveantidote.net.

Current Mood: blah

Nine out of TEN criminals ate bread within 24 hours of commiting a crime?

BAN BREAD!

Current Mood:  devious

I don’t like most big news media stations, and I’m particularly disgusted with Fox news. Why? Well, Barrak Obama seems to be a likely candidate for 2008, and possibly has popular support. Already, Fox News has started dirty tricks like this here (click the link).

Did you see it? Yup, that’s right. Pictures of activists for Obama in the background while they talk about sex offenders. Um, excuse me?

Oh, by the way, do you know who Rupert Murdock is? If you don’t, I suggest you do a little research. For starters, he owns Fox News, along with about 43 or so other media outlets, INCLUDING Fox Studios. He’s a big supporter of the Ronald Reagan and other neo-conservatives.

Current Mood:  aggravated

Quote #1

“Bush admits owning stock in coffin and flag companies, deploys more troops.”

Quote #2

Embassy warz score so far:

America = Got some computers from a minor outpost. Probably netted some personal mail and Hamaad’s saved Starcraft games.

Iran sympathyzers = killed a toilet.

They just don’t violate sovereignty like they used to.

Current Mood: laughing

In the coming New Year, I present you with a challenge. I challenge you to participate. I challenge you to find a way to become more closely tied to the community in which you live or actively involved in. This is a challenge to myself as well, as I always feel that I would get satisfaction out of this. I want you to post ideas that you have for doing this.

Some of the ones I have thought of in the past:

Work at a Soup Kitchen
Read to children at a shelter
Read to kids at school (you can volunteer to be a “mystery reader”)
Help with a community clean-up project
Go to Town Meetings
If you are involved with a local religious organization, help them with charity work (just don’t preach to me)
Volunteer at a Home for the Elderly (some old people just like to talk)
Volunteer to help the local SPCA

Even if you do this only once the entire year, you can feel you did something more than you did the year before. If you already do these things, then good for you and keep it up! Giving money to a charity is never bad, but its hard to tell where its going or how its helping.

Current Mood: civic minded

Thanks to The Yellow King for pointing THIS ARTICLE out. It is actually something that has come to mind recently, about how intollerant people have become of children in the USA. I get flack from some of my liberal friends about living in a conservative county in a conservative state, but I at least I don’t get the “you are a horrible breeder” looks all the time. Cause really, I’ve gotten them elsewhere. There are many groups that can be found that are all in support of being “childless” and call children “crotch droppings” and other derogatory terms.

Well, you know, you had to come from somewhere, didn’t you? If you have that much of a problem with the human race and overpopulation and breeding, then do us all a favor and go take a long walk off of a short plank. If you have children, then stop buying into all this bullshit they are selling you of “spare the rod, spoil the child” and DISCIPLINE YOUR CHILDREN!! Oh, and set good examples. Children are little copycats and they look to their elders to learn behavior. If you act like an ass in public chances are they will too.

Current Mood:  angry

So I have recently discovered a blog of a judge in California that has, let us say, a very unique perspective on our legal system. His most recent post is about a case that was recently tried on the east coast, and has even been appealed. The article can be read here.

quote from the article:

Now wouldn’t you love to be the McKeesport, Pennsylvania cop who got this call? “One-Adam Twelve. See the man. Couple microwaving penis in convenience store.”

Go and read the rest for yourself, and many of his other entries. I don’t suggest eating or drinking while doing so.

Current Mood: *hurting from laughter*

An outsider’s perspective sums it up better than we ever could.

Current Mood:  aggravated