Transformers! Robots in Disguise!

I really hope they don't mess this up!


Of course, with the Japamation remakes I can't see them do any worse.

Supreme Court Ruling

The Kansas Death Penalty is Constitutional.

I am glad they ruled that way. Atleast the Carr Brothers will meet their fate much sooner.



The language was very ambigious, if I was the legislatures I would consider changing the law in Kansas incase someone finds a new way to challenge it. Of course a new law could also be miss-phrased and a new challenge could be found.

More Efficient Ways of Killing People

The Switchblade.

When completed (target date: 2020), it will
cruise with its 200-foot-long wing perpendicular to its engines like a normal
airplane. But just before the craft breaks the sound barrier, its single wing
will swivel around 60 degrees (hence the name) so that one end points forward
and the other back.

The concept art is pretty neat, too!

Missile Testing

It appears our allies from Japan are helping out on our anti missile test in the Pacific.

If I recall correct;y, we had a rape incident happen in Japan involving some U.S. Army personnel. I won't justify their actions. What those men did were wrong and are paying for it. But Japan and South Korea both wanted us out of their countries. And that year the North sent a Missile sailing over Japan. Japan shut up and S.K. did a 180 and started posting and writing and lavishing Americans and how awesome we were.


At that point I wanted to pull out. Because all they are are fair weather friends. And I still think that way.

Government Idiots!

Only the United States Government can turn a $5 debt into a 1.1 million dollar debt.

Why couldn't they just redeem it? Stupid morons!

Saber Rattling

North Korea Places Missile On Launch Pad. United States Activates Missile Defense System.

Bush: Rummy! Raise Shields!

Rumsfield: Aye Captin! The Klingons are massing at the border...




If anyone fired a missile over my territory, I think I'd be obliged to fire a few hundred over theirs.

The sky is blue, water is wet....

...And old people are more likely to get hurt on the job.

There are some problems with the Eternal Work Plan:
Working until you drop just isn't as much fun as it sounds.
You may have difficulty finding or keeping a job that you'd want to do at that age. The American Association of Retired Persons found in a recent survey that 80% of those responding had encountered age bias when job hunting.
You may not be able physically to work as long as you'd like. The number of disability claims rises sharply as people age. Data from the Social Security Administration indicates that 63% of disability claims were filed by those 50 and over.
According to Elise Gould, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute, many people stop or are forced to quit working long before so-called retirement age. Some people are wealthy enough to retire early voluntarily, Gould acknowledges, "but that's not true for the vast majority," she says.Rather, health problems and other life events, like needing to care for an aging relative or spouse, often prevent people from working. "There's also the fact of age discrimination in the market," she adds.

Duh! Could the possibility of one problem and one reason for that problem be found within a paragraph of each other? Let us be reasonable here. Even menial secretarial work can be very hard on a person who is over 70. Plus the fact that a lot of these people want to start out at a very high pay grade, and are highly medicated they can be rather costly to employ. It will be much harder to obtain a job in the far future so you need to find a good one and plan ahead from the get go. Another funny thig is people don't realise but when someone is disabled out of a ob that employer has to pay for an employee who is no longer at the company. That is what creates "age biase."

I am getting into a job that won't neccesarily be awesome for retirement, but I have guaranteed employment and the retirement benefits are the best for state workers. If I was really smart I'd get into a field in a higher value state where income is more and then retire in Kansas. But I don't want to move around a lot.

Boy 6, Falls from Ferris Wheel.

Bad parenting? Stupid employees? You decide.

STOCKTON, California (AP) -- A 6-year-old boy
plunged 90 feet to his death from the top of a Ferris wheel while his mother
watched from below at the San Joaquin County Fair, authorities said.
Ruben
Castillo was riding alone in his gondola, which was near the top of the 100-foot
Giant Wheel when he fell Sunday afternoon, authorities said.He was pronounced
dead at a hospital.
California Occupational Safety and Health Administration
officials, who are investigating the incident, were told that the boy tried to
climb out of his seat, said spokesman Dean Fryer. It was not immediately clear
why he climbed out or whether he was properly secured in the seat, Fryer said.
The fair's rides have no age restrictions, only a height requirement, which
Ruben met for the Giant Wheel, said Forrest White, the fair's executive
director.

When I get to work, with access to high speed internet I'll be checking on the Mom's reasoning. To be honest, I don't know why you would let a 6-year-old alone on a Ferris wheel. I imagine she'll sue for $8 million, they'll find her half negligent and the company half negligent and she'll get half the payout.

This is why no one under 15 can go on one in most areas. Because of socialite stupidity on the part of others.

Hobbits are Real?

Hmmmm.......


Could the genetic trait have nothing to do with intelligence? I have heard in class that one person had half her brain removed and the rest of her brain took over all functions. Brain size is not necessarily a sign of intelligence. Albeit that it helps!

STUPID STUPID PEOPLE!

Look! A footprint on Mars!


Idiots!




Is there intelligent life on Mars? Well we are gaining more evidence that Earth is quite lacking.

Who says there's not one around when you need 'em?

An officer patrolling a neighborhood finds lady under attack by pit bulls. Tasers dogs and saves lady.

Reporter Doesn't Know Firearms.

Who calls a bullet a "pellet?"

Police arrived at the scene were inhumanoids were having pit bulls fight when they got out of control. When the police arrived to find the animals attacking people one dog charged the three officers and the officers opened fire. Sadly, in the heat if battle someone wasn't taking care of their aim and an officer received a ricochet.

Assistant Chief of Police Charged with Fatal Accident

That flush is his career going down the drain.

Supreme Court on Knock and Announce.

There is a lot of bruhaha on this ruling.

I am conflicted on it. As I was trained in CJ at a Juko we are not to kick anyone's door in at every opportunity. He said if he sees any of us on cops with battering ram in hand, taps the door and knocks it in, then he'd hunt us down and beat our brains in. I agree.

But as Scalia said, I agree with him on it, too.

Scalia added that police might put their lives in danger
if they were uncertain when and if entry was legally permissible. "If the
consequences of running afoul of the law were so massive, officers would be
inclined to wait longer than the law requires -- producing inevitable violence
against officers in some cases, and the destruction of evidence in many
others."

I think it can be helpful to have police discretion. But I think that every agency needs to train the way I was trained. That everyone is a human being and everyone has a right to privacy and only to use no knocks if you have an articulable reason.

Supreme Court Issues 2 Death Penalty Rulings.

No word yet on my interest in Kansas.

Supreme Court Ruling News.

One ruling is based on DNA evidence that may help exonerate or release a man.

The other has to do with the painfulness of lethal injection. It might be a valid complaint. But my solution is dump 10 times the pain killer needed to numb a criminal. That way no doctor needs to be on hand to see if that person is unconscious,(a big stickler because a doctor cannot ethically assist a execution.) It will be less painful than the suspect caused the victim and he'll still die. All parties happy!. /cynism.

Judge: Baldwin For Psych Exam

This will be an interesting interview.

Court Rules That 12-year-olds Can Marry

I find this ruling a bit over-reaching. The whole thing was over-reacted by the prosecution because mommy had already consented and the 15-year-old daughter had already established legal separation from her parents. (Whatever the heck that means!) I don't see why the courts had to rule that any girl 12 and any boy 15 years of age can be legally wed by living together.

For the definition of "Common Law" it basically means that nothing is set in writing, but that traditionally you are allowed or not allowed to do this or that. For instance, it is common law not to bring a weapon in church out of respect. A stational scenario on this is one of the FBI not arresting someone inside a church but rather waiting until they leave the church. Of course that historic precedence has changed and nothing is ever set in stone. I recall stories of the early American settlers bringing firearms to church In case of Native American attacks. Plus, my Criminal Justice instructor has stated when I posed such a question that he would not hesitate to arrest someone in church and had done so in the past. In fact, he stated: "Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're not an @** ****!" So the court system did not have to go so broad.

Pursuit Ends When Dog Bites.

A poor pit bull owned by a man who decided to evade the police via vehicle decided that he had had enough of the ride and bit into the nose of his owner.


I wonder if the po-po gave poochy a treat.

Range Report

Well I have had range the past few saturdays. This passing one I finally qualified and will be able to ride soon. We have had causalties. The session before last I pinched my fingers in the gun while loading a magazine and it caused a bubbled up blood blister. Well the same week the other reservist scrapped off a small amount of flesh into the magazine while loading up. After a bit of doctering there were some pretty sick jokes made at his expense. (Off-color humor #1!)

I am signed up to go out for the Independence Day Celebration. We usually go to a smaller town to watch the fireworks show but this week I will be in my home town and I bet my family will go to that show too since I am working. We prefer the other town because we can shoot off, and watch others shoot off fireworks before the main show. In our town shooting fireworks is illegal. We live out in the country so we will be able to shoot them afterwards.

Triple Murderer Killed by Officers

Nothing to see here. A job well done and a free, fresh brew is what the officer should get.

Trooper Sprayed in Face With Ammonia

There's a special place in hell for people like that.

$$$$$$$

Well I found out I did a real stupid thing. Well, not stupid, but ignorance of mechanical issues and driving a vehicle before having it checked cost me a transmission. Part of it sucks because I asked several mechanic shops to look at it and either they were two weeks backlogged or they don't do transmissions. The kicker is anyone with a hint of mechanical prowless who would have looked at my problem could have saved me $800 by replacing an 80 cent piece of plastic.

So, to Ford, you guys really suck for making such a shitty design.

So, to local mechanics, you guys suck. I know you can't walk everyone over every little thing on the phone but the one mechanic I did ask about it diagnosed the problem in ten seconds and gave me the part I needed for free. May God Bless his family but if one of the mechanics I would have called would have asked a follow up question a week or two before I would be saved.

And to me, for being an idiot and following other peoples' advice and ignoring my gut instinct.

Luckily the job is now giving me a bit more hours. I need to drop a sheet to volunteer for more hours in hope that I can pay for a new transmission before I start doing reserve stuff.

Dispatchers Charged

Remember the five-year-old who called 911 about Mommy being passed out and was ignored? And how the mother died? Well both dispatchers involved are being charged with a crime that they may serve up to one year in jail.

I think that is a pretty fair way to handle it. Their careers are over, but their lives shouldn't. They should definitely feel bad about it.

Not Dead.....

No, not dead, just got busy putting off house hold work, actually getting in hours at work, and attempting to like Hitman Blood Money on X-Box 360.


My biggest complaint is the game is an exercise in tedious controls. You can do some neat things, but if you don't execute (heh) each operation perfectly things go bad. I think I'm going to stay away from the Hitman titles in the future.

It Could Always Be Worse!

Well I was out driving to work last night. I had my little sister with me since she wanted to see what I did for a living. Well I also found I was having car problems. So paying attention to both my sister and how the car sounded I accidently went over the center line. A deputy was assisting a city officer with someone pulled over so the deputy got behind me and pulled me over.

This is in my town, after the city officer was done he went to back the deputy. He was back there for about ten seconds and went on through. The deputy recognised me after seeing my DL, (I had done a ride-along with him 2 years prior.) I got a warning and was advised to drive more careful and was sent on my way.

My agency is very small. So small in fact I would not believe it if one person did not hear about me getting stopped. So this was the beginning of a not-s-good-evening.

On the way back from work I did hear about the female Salina officer accidently shooting a burglary suspect in the leg.

Grover was the first officer to respond to a burglar
alarm at the business. She checked the front of the building, then shined her
flashlight on the south side, where there are numerous garage doors. Her view of
the two doors closest to Ohio Street was obstructed because of pallets piled on
the parking, so she parked her patrol car, got out and approached the
building.
Grover saw a box on the ground and, above that, a hole about three
feet tall had been cut in the garage door. At that point, Grover didn't know
whether the damage had been done previously, or whether it was an entry point
for a burglar.
A stumble, a soft pop
Grover peered into the hole from a
few feet away and saw quick movement.
"She saw legs moving, and she saw a
gloved hand," Hill said, and she was "very startled."
Grover used her left
hand to push the button on her radio microphone, to tell dispatchers someone was
inside the building. At the same time, she stepped backward, away from the
building, and drew her gun from its holster.
She stumbled.
"At that time,
she heard what she described as a soft pop, and her weapon discharged," Hill
said.

It could always be worse! I felt a bit better.