Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
NHL Star Called Up To Big Leagues To Play For NFL Team
Speaking of hockey, in case you’re stranded someplace and unable to watch the game, Canada is leading Slovenia 4-1 at the beginning of the 3rd.
And for anybody who is watching, is the sound messed up on TSN or is there really nobody in the crowd? It sounds like some of those weeknight Bruins games from early in the season. Yeah, it’s that bad.
Activists on the Greek island of Lesbos have filed a lawsuit against the Greek Gay and Lesbian Union in the hopes that a judge will ban the group from using the term lesbians to describe themselves.
Residents of Lesbos now suffer “psychological and moral rape” from the “seizure” of their island’s name by gays, according to the complaint by Dimitris Lambrou, a local activist.
He has set out his argument in “The Misfortune of Being Lesbian”, published on his website, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Mr Lambrou, who has the support of a member of a nationalist pagan association, said that the case was likely to come before a court in Athens in June.
But Evangelia Vlam, a spokesman for Olke, dismissed the claim.
“This affair is totally ridiculous,” she said. “But if we are summoned by the courts, we will be heard.”
The article goes on to note that the island is known for poetry written by Sappho in the 6th century BC. The subject of the poetry was her love for other women, so I’m not sure why we can’t all just get along here.
So let me get this straight. It’s perfectly ok to bring men with bad knees and hearing trouble back into combat, but heaven forbid you have completely able and willing women in there! If you have one, when she gets decorated with the silver star for being a fine medic, too much attention is being attracted, and you have to pull her.
What the fuck? If she’s willing to fight and help the wounded, let her stay. If she’s good at what she does, let her stay. What does it matter if she’s a woman? In fact, it matters very much. She was providing help to local women who, due to cultural reasons, were more comfortable with a woman treating them. So she’s doing a better job than a man. So let her stay! She enlisted, she wants to be there, you were fine with her being there until she won a medal, now maybe it’s time to change some policies instead of removing her from the area.
Hey there Massimo Romano, director of Italy’s tax office, what were you smoking when you decided to post everyone’s tax info on a site that anyone could look at? In an era of identity theft, in what universe did you think this was a good idea?
Even without identity theft, since when was posting people’s addresses along with their incomes a safe thing to do? That’s like broadcasting someone’s address and what expensive good stuff they have in their house so people can come rob them.
And how does this prevent tax-evasion? I think it would encourage it. If I knew that all my info was going to be hung out on some public site for all to see, I’d decide maybe I’d be safer not to file.
And with what privacy policy was this in line? I have my suspicions that it wasn’t in line with any of them, and the tax office director simply has a lot of balls to claim it was and hope that would do as an explanation.
Thank god privacy groups were watching and had the site shut down. But I wonder what damage has already been done, and a cynical part of me wonders what its true purpose was, even though officials keep claiming that it was some kind of attempt to encourage transparency and the free circulation of information. Whatever. That was a little too transparent.
I think this is a really nice idea, so I thought I’d spread the word. But before I can even spread the word about the cool thing, I have to explain how I found it.
A couple of years ago, we stumbled across Thordora’s blog. She has a blogroll that’s a mile long, and around this time last year, she drew her readers’ attention to Sweet Salty. Why? Because the author, Kate, was having twins, but wway, way, way premature, and she wanted people to lend support to her. I started reading, and I loved her writing. In fact, I read everything on that blog back to its first posts because I loved her writing so much. It’s not every author who has the ability to make you laugh, cry, laugh when you should cry, be so completely honest about things a lot of people don’t want to discuss, much less put down in black and white, and make a point so clear it wacks you over the head.
To make a long story short, one of her twins didn’t make it, and she’s been dealing with that loss, as well as still going on with life and raising her two kids that she does have. She, and five other women who have lost babies, have decided to come together and make a support site for all the mothers who are going through it, so they don’t have to feel so alone. It’s called Glow In The Woods.
I think that is truly awesome. I’m sure they will help countless people going through the grieving process, lots of whom they will never know they’ve helped. I remember mom talking about when I was a baby, and how when she found out I was going to be blind, it was like going through the grieving process, even though I wasn’t dead. If there was something like this site out there for her, if the internet existed back then, I’m sure it would have helped. Eventually, she found supports in other parents of blind kids, but it was a slow process, built contact by contact.
So, there it is. If you’re interested, drop by and say hello. She, and the others there, would be glad to see you.
Here’s a sad note for Nancy Crockett, or is it Rochelle Crocket. Whatever your name is, going to college won’t prevent crappy treatment from coworkers. They may not lock you in a shed and hammer on it like these ones did, but they can still be assholes. At any rate, I’m glad you’re not working for these people anymore. The second story is full of quotes of people going out of their way to describe how much of a joke it was, but I don’t buy it. that’s just weird.
If you were compiling a list of people who should be prepared and unharmed in case of a fall, you’d probably put somebody from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics right near the top. Unfortunately,
you would be wrong.
Yes, it’s a slow news week, why do you ask?
If you have any information on the string of tire slashings in Guelph over the weekend, the aptly named
Constable Ashley Carr
would like to hear from you.
According to this report, one of the newest crazes for kids is going online, pretending to be sex offenders and scaring the shit out of other kids. I’m sure some of them do it to be funny, but the focus here is on the ones who are doing it as a way to get revenge or try to settle a dispute.
I’m not sure how exactly to react to this. On one hand it’s easy to flip out and play the we need laws to protect them and civilization is doomed when are children resort to this kind of immoral behaviour cards, but on the other it sort of shows that maybe kids aren’t as blind to the tricks of pedophiles as we’ve been lead to believe by governments and lobby groups.
Before anybody decides to flip out on me, I’m not saying that we shouldn’t try to protect kids from predators on the internet. All I’m saying is that sometimes kids are smarter than we give them credit for. They are after all the internet generation, and the smart ones know when something is wrong, just like they do in the offline world when a stranger asks one of them to help find his puppy in exchange for some chocolate. Maybe instead of coming up with brilliant stuff like the “unbreakable internet filter” that some 12-year-old will crack in 20 minutes and legislating that all sex offenders provide their email addresses for a database [yeah, that’ll work], governments and parents should take some time to figure out how things on the internet function. And maybe while they’re at it they could even take some time to talk to a few kids and see what they actually know and don’t know. The results might be surprising, especially the revelation that most of them are probably smarter than you are.
Are all these folks related? There’s 19-year-old Kevin J. Diaz, who after clubbing a passing cyclist in the head with an ice-scraper, said “I just got out of jail. I’m just trying to have fun and whoop some ass.”
Next is Saeko Yoda, who happens to have a fine name. But the point is she killed her sister by beating her to death with a rock. When asked why she did it, she said, “I figured I’d be happier if I killed her, so I killed her.”
Last but not least, seven-year-old Latarian Milton stole his grandmother’s car. His reason? “I wanted to do it because it’s fun to do bad things.”
Well, at least they were honest. Weird, but honest.