According to the Science Channel, the sun has been getting 10% hotter every billion years since it's creation. How does lil' tidbit factor into Al Gore's global warming theory? Do he and his lil' scientist friends blame that on civilization, too? When are they going to tell us that the sun will eventually vaporize the earth no matter how many aerosol products we use?
Is Al Gore's kid a pot head and prescription drug junkie?
Al Gore III, son of former US vice president Al Gore, is facing drug and traffic charges in California after being stopped for speeding and being in possession of marijuana.
A spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff's Department in suburban Los Angeles said that the 24-year-old was driving more than 160km/h, far above the legal speed limit, when he was stopped early yesterday in Laguna Hills, California.
The sheriff's deputy making the traffic stop smelled marijuana and conducted a search, which yielded a small amount of cannabis and several controlled medications, for which he had no prescriptions, authorities said.
The "several controlled medications for which he had no prescription, included drugs for ADD, Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall. Heh. Can you blame him? I'd need a helluva lot more than that to numb myself if Al Gore was my dad.
HIGHlarious.
Wait ... Prius's can go 160mph?
I don't have a problem that U.S. Open winner Angel Cabrera smokes. I don't even care that they showed him smoking on national television.
What I do care about is him tossing away his cigarette butts on the golf course--or anywhere else besides an ashtray or other appropriate receptacle.
I think the cigarette butt pet peeve of mine comes from the new Californian in me--cigarettes are the #1 littered item on California freeways.
But my issue with littering in general isn't anything new. Three years ago, Scarlett Johanssen broke my heart and my girl crush on her over some fast food trash.
I've been stewing about the Cabrera thing since I read it on The Fanhouse the other day, but I hadn't been inspired enough to post even though a lit cigarette on a golf course is what charred my favorite park last month.
Then tonight, I watched the premiere of "Heartland." The Treat Williams character pulled out a cigarette and his daughter called him out on it, something about treating people with lung cancer. So he thought better of it. Then he tossed the cigarette out of his car window into the street!
I was completely turned off and wrote the show off in that moment. TNT's audience services will be hearing from me
What's worse is that I see this every day on my 6-mile, 30-minute drive to work. Endless numbers of people who think that the streets of Los Angeles are they're personal ashtray. Do you know many smokers there are in LA? and how much time they spend in their cars? Any idea how many butts that adds up to?
Are cigarette butts trash?
Of course they're trash! And to litter them anywhere is positively rude, ugly and bad for the environment. And when they're lit, they're also unsafe.
Like, duh. I just have zero tolerance for it.
If you're random person who got cursed out by a crazy blonde in the car next to you, that might have been me. If only the City of Los Angeles would give me a citation book, I'd be passing out $1,000 fines on the regular to help the city pay for all the asses it has to clean up after.
There's nothing like bad parenting news to bring me out of a blogging coma.
Summer is upon us.
And would you believe that there are still people stupid enough to leave their young children alone in the car?
This kid almost died because mom and grams were getting their hair done and didn't want to be bothered by the kid. Oh... right. They thought gramps had him. Ok... so what's grandpa's excuse?
Somehow the three-year-old is smarter than his caretakers and started blaring on the horn when he got too hot after fifteen minutes of baking in the 100° Rancho Cucamonga sun. Alert passersby broke the window and rescued him from death.
How can parents be so stupid?
Note to all parents everywhere: It is not ok to leave a child that age in the car alone under ANY circumstances. If not death by heat suffocation it could be abduction by pedophile.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
More Stupid Parents
Toddler Takes Heroin To School, Says It's 'Candy
So... I get that something went horribly awry with the mental care provided to the Virginia Tech shooter. Sounds like he belonged in an institution, not a college.
But something has gone horribly awry with our legal system when a straight-A student is arrested for completing an assignment as instructed.
Allen Lee, 18, a student at Cary-Grove High School in Illinois has been charged with disorderly conduct for his thoughts on paper--after he was instructed to "write whatever comes to your mind. Do not judge or censor what you are writing."
He faces 30 days in jail, a $1,500 fine and a damaged reputation for doing as he was told.
Lee's essay reads in part, "Blood, sex and booze. Drugs, drugs, drugs are fun. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, s...t...a...b...puke. So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P90s and started shooting everyone, then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did."
"In creative writing, you're told to exaggerate," Lee said. "It was supposed to be just junk. ... There definitely is violent content, but they're taking it out of context and making it something it isn't."
Per usual, I'm not in favor of lawsuits. But I hope this student's family sues the asses off the school and law enforcement agency.
If they seriously think he needs mental help, they need to make sure he gets it.
But the day we start locking innocent people up for their thoughts is the day our streets are empty.
Update: If you'd like to share your safety concerns about the students at CGHS, they have a form on their website. I wonder if those get to anyone that matters though.
More contact info:
Cary Community Consolidated School District 26
400 Haber Road
Cary, IL 60013
847-639-7788
Village of Cary
655 Village Hall Drive
Cary, IL 60013
(847) 639-0003
(847) 639-2761 (fax)
villagehall@caryillinois.com
Village Administrator: Cameron Davis
Comments/Questions: stilton@caryillinois.com
NY Post: Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui's maternal grandfather says he'd rather be dead than see his progeny's shame - the first comments from a family member. "I should have died a long time ago and I would never have seen this!" Cho's 81-year-old grandpa told South Korea's Hankyoreh newspaper. The paper identified the grandfather as a resident of Go-yang City but declined to identify him. "Unlike his bright sister, we were worried that he would never learn to talk because he was so quiet as a young child," the heartbroken grandfather said. "And then this happens!"
At long last the voice of reason about Don Imus and the reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. It's random guy I've never heard of, but it's nice to know I'm not completely alone. Meet Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star columnist, who isn't afraid to state the obvious:
Money Quotes
"We keep deluding ourselves and getting caught up in distractions that have nothing at all to do with what is setting back, holding black people back and it's our own self-hatred. Don Imus is irrelevant to what is going on with black people. Don Imus is no threat to us. Don Imus will not shoot one of us in the street. He will not impregnate our daughter or our sister and abandon that kid and that woman."
"Two ministers, who have needed forgiveness in their own life, don't have the moral integrity to give this man the forgiveness he has asked for in a sincere fashion."
"They go around the country starting fires, dividing people and then start picking everyone's pocket. You never see them go back and apologize for the messes they make ... They're terrorists."
WTF is wrong with Tucker Carlson that he has to ask if Sharpton and Jackson are connected to this story?
The bad parenting stories are endless:
ALVARADO, Texas (AP) - A woman led police on a 25-mile high speed chase until she crashed into a concrete median, killing her 9-month-old daughter in the collision, authorities said.
Alexxus Riza was thrown Friday night from the SUV, which rolled several times under an Interstate 35 overpass, said Trooper Dub Gillum of the Texas Department of Public Safety. The vehicle struck a traffic light before hitting the concrete barrier, officials said.
Aimee Andrea Riza, 36, of Keene, sustained minor injuries and was charged with manslaughter, evading arrest, resisting arrest and reckless driving, Gillum said.
“She was combative after the crash when they tried to extract her out of the vehicle,” he said. “The officers had to wrestle her to get her under control.”
What the #$&* was she on?
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