95 posts tagged “news”
Ted Kennedy diagnoed with brain tumor...
When they said he had a seizure over the weekend, not a stroke, I was so YaY!
So many things can cause seizures, hell flashing lights, meds, my own illness can...
This is the worst possible answer.
He's one of the best friends we democrats have.
Ugh.
His poor family, they seem to get dealt more crap than most.
Ted Kennedy is in the hospital with stroke like symptoms.
I hope he's ok.
*EDIT* Appears it was a seizure.
LA Federal Grand Jury indicted woman in cyber bully suicide case.
Brian doesn't like the legal implications of this case... In some ways, I agree, very slippery slope that I'm not sure I like. For example she's being accused of providing false information to MySpace (which she clearly did if they can prove she used the account -- she's not a teenage boy named Josh, I'm sure of that). But eh, some people might not want their real name on the net... some sites want home phone #s etc anymore. If they're saying THAT is a CRIME, well no... violation of MySpace's terms yeah...
I haven't read enough of what they're claiming and what the actual charges are yet... so I'm not sure what the actual LEGAL CHARGE is and what is just "facts of the case" so to speak. Basically if I'm not mistaken, as I said I didn't read up on it yet, they're basically charging her under hacking laws for the above mentioned stuff... hmm I really need to read up on this. If they are that's iffy. If Josh doesn't exist and they created the account... unauthorized access = well they made the account it's theirs, there is no Josh to authorize her to access it.
I think the main charge, if I'm not mistaken, is harassment and soliciting information from a minor. And I gotta say, that aspect I'm not only okay with, I'm glad they're charging her. This would be different somehow if she didn't know the girl and was just a bitch. But she knew they girl had a history of depression, administered her meds to her, and then tells her the world would be better without her minutes before she hangs herself. An ADULT harassing a KID they KNOW is that depressed to that point is wrong.
Sorry this post is random, I doubt I'll read up on it in a timely manner as I need to work on Misi's painting and wanted to semi rant but woah, so much to figure out before I have a clue...
The California Supreme Court has just overturned the ban on same sex marriages!!!
We're now the second state to have legalized gay marriages.
w00t!
Of course the news mentioned some organizations may try to get a measure on the ballot to re-write the state's constitution but meh, I still have faith my state will do the right thing and for now, gays and lesbians have the same rights to marry that I have... and if they're crazy enough to marry, more power to them ;)
As expected Hillary won West Virginia big. Good for her.
What's bad for America is that she and the press have essentially turned it into a purely racial / class issue. Basically Hillary and exit polls in nice and sometimes not so nice ways have painting this as a win because "white working class" voters won't vote for a black man. In fact in the ways I've seen it described they've all but said "uneducated old white hicks living in the country" won't vote him in the general election. Did they use those words? Not they used terms like "No college education" or "rural" or explained that it was the oldest block of voters we've seen this far. But repeating it over and over the implication to me did scream exactly what I said.
Well that's nice. And I don't care how loudly the Hillary crowd scream it. I don't care if old people living in the country are racists. That's not a reason to steal the nomination from him just to insure we get a nominee that can win those votes. That isn't what the Democratic Party is about. And to keep implying it is, it's offensive to me. I love the Democratic party and I don't like how this is going down, so please stop it. To imply the voters are voting on issues but if Hillary loses the nomination will stay home or vote McCain? Umm so Hillary's issues are most closely related to that of a Republican? Or these voter are too dumb to know Obama is most likely to have some of the same stand on issues she has? Or... ??? Yeah... Thought so back to race. Some of us weren't raised that way, and don't care if other voters were.
I don't remember the exact quote, but Chris Matthews said something like if Hillary uses the word White one more time they'll start calling her the White Al Sharpton and he's probably right.
Ok semi real update I suppose since movie update and the artlog on my site weren't exactly real updates.
First I don't think anyone who reads here regularly has any family in China, but if you do... family, friends, whatever, I hope they're ok. Holy... Watching news this morning was so sad. So many schools collapsed.
I was already kind of sad for My bot before bed... And of course there's a wave a storms, Burma/Myanmar (whatever we're supposed to call it). Seems like the world is having a tough time lately...
Which makes me not want to complain, but I will :P
I wish the MS Brain aliens would take a vacation. I know it's not a full on exacerbation. Same old symptoms. Just ugh. Pain alien isn't controlled as he had been (though in fairness he's not as active as he used to be either so still somewhat controlled, err.. yeah just even a few stabs to my head that make me stop everything to grab it and make me feel all twitchy = feels uncontrolled, heh). The alien that controls sleep, well he's on crack. He has be so tired that while talking to MY bot I was so out of it between tired brain fog and pain alien I was correcting words I typed right and then having to correct that and fix which ones I meant to fix in the first place. I can't fall asleep, can only pass out -- today that was at at around 1-2 pm. Then am so tired and in pain when I wake up I don't feel alert enough to do anything.
I have been working on painting for Misi but it's been going like this, do some, err looks wrong, erase, redo, err wtf? not right, erase... etc. Good thing I'm painting it digitally ;)
Viddler appears to like me better than YouTube. A - I played around with the idea of making videos not art private on YouTube, and setting friends could see (small friends list there) but then I found if you do that you can only set up to 25 friends so if your list gets bigger later too bad AND when you set them that way it spams them with you've been sent a video AND it spams your own outbox, not once with a cc, but for each person you sent it to *blinks*. YouTube = inefficient. *nods* Haven't really used the feature yet, but on Viddler you can comment on a moment of a video so instead of people saying, as they do on YouTube @ 1:22 look for this, they can just comment at that time of the video pointing out whatever right then). Interesting. Thankie to Miss A.. for showing me the site, I could tell you her name, but then I'd have to kill you *nods*
Err my wrist hurts. My eyes hurt. Waaaaaaahhhhh! But yeah I ranted enough. Oh for the first time ever I made money with Google Ad Sense today, w00t!
News:
Nick Bollea aka Nick Hogan was sentenced to 8 months in jail + 5 years probation + lost his license for 3 years for the accident that left his friend John Graziano brain damaged. Good. He's lucky he didn't kill him or himself. Hopefully he learns something and stops driving like he's on the track when on the road.
Sleep:
Couldn't sleep until 1. Slept til 8 which is good I guess. Hate though hours for sleep but nice amount since I haven't been sleeping straight through and it's only been 5 or 6 hours tops lately. Lister was laying on my chest when I was falling asleep and I pissed him off because my head was some mutant form of pain alien just stabbing in pain almost causing me to twitch when I reacted he looked at me like stop it, I'm trying to sleep here. Rude cat :P
Brian/Plans:
Brian was talking about picking up dinner after work, then after we eat going to a 10 o'clock show of Iron Man. I'm not usually a comic book super hero kind of girl believe it or not. Just ther Superman ones and now SuperGirl and Batman. Still haven't seen Spiderman, Fantastic 4, etc and no interest But Iron Man looks good and well Robert Downey Jr. can usually make even the worst role seem good. But it's 9:40 and Brian still not home from work with dinner so think that will be tomorrow.
We had talked about Disneyland this weekend as they have the 2fer deal going on and it's only good if you use one by the 22nd and Brian wants to force me to see the Whoopi California thing before they remove it for the park makeover (if it's not gone already). So I suspect we'll go next weekend maybe because I'm pretty sure we'll never pay for CA Adventure (unless the makeover is really good, but that will be years from now). And with the 2fer specials we pay for Disneyland and then during the next month can go to CA Adventure once for free.
Hmm so that means this weekend is dentist (1 filling scheduled, still gotta figure out the others), Fry's, Iron Man, refill Topamax, and really finish Misi's mail I hope.
Dunno why my brain aliens are so busy lately. The one that controls sleep is a mess. Pain alien a mess. General brain alien too my thoughts keep getting all muddled up and I type wrong words and yeah... argh.
So Deborah Jeane Palfrey aka the "DC Madam" committed suicide after being convicted of crimes that she'd not have had to commit if prostitution were legal. While her clients are out living their lives... Right Senator Vitter? I feel so sorry for this woman's mother who had to find her daughter hanging, dead. I'd assume because she'd rather die than face prison. If prostitution is going to be illegal why don't the men get the same blame. Get put through the same shame, legal process, etc. I know she had to "launder the money" etc. But they aided in that didn't they by paying her? Why do they get to go on to stay *cough* well respected *cough* businessmen or politicians while the women are always dragged through the mud publicly?
Meh we're such a stupid society. Why should we care if some guy wants to pay someone for sex. If they're of age to consent who are we to say they cannot work out deals. Let's see legal = less court cases aka costs the government less. Can collect tax money on the earnings = makes the government money. Legalized like in Nevada = health regulations = safer. Legalized = no need for the women to launder the money. Legalized = instead of investigating people's sex lives of consenting adults all of these agents could be, I dunno looking for child molesters, rapists, murderers, real criminals?
Besides, when talking about consenting adults it's really difficult for me to see an issue with things like prostitution, gay marriages, etc. All of these taboo, ev0l, horrible things that will ruin society -- that involve people of age to make legally binding contracts for themselves (no things like gay marriage don't open the doors to sex or marriage with animals - they can't legally consent) - the objections against them always come from people who get caught DOING them. PROSTITUTION IS BAD... really why'd you go to one? GAYS ARE BAD... really why did you have sex with one? Flipping hypocrites, just make all CONSENSUAL SEX LEGAL WHEN IT INVOLVES ADULTS AND NO ONE WILL CARE ABOUT YOU DOING IT ANYMORE. You made it taboo. Yet somehow, you go on with your nice happy little lives and the women pay.
Mijn Favoriet and I had a chat and decided that today I am not an American, so just in time for Koninginnedag, I must unofficially denounce my American citizenship (sorry can't do it officially, there IS an election this year) just so no opponents can try to cause me any grief -- I DENOUNCE AND REJECT YOU ALL. I'm now a non-Dutch-Speaking Dutchie so as not to be tainted by you back baring ev0l corrupt sinners! Once you clean up your act and stop being so disgusting I'll consider rejoining you! Sorry but if Mijn Favoriet has lost his faith in American girls, I cannot be one. Really, showing skin... is nothing sacred anymore? YOU ARE RUINING THE WORLD! NOTHING IS MORE URGENT THAN THIS, COVER UP!
[Mijn Favoriet] ohhh
[Mijn Favoriet] but that Miley Cyrus had bad pics before!
[Mijn Favoriet] one showing her stomach :o
[Mijn Favoriet] and one showing a part of her bra!!!
[Mijn Favoriet] BAD BAD GIRL!
[Me] lol
[Me] wow she's like one bra strap away from.... uhh working the streets! or uhh being EVERYONE in summer :P
[Mijn Favoriet] yes!
[Mijn Favoriet] now my faith in all american girls is lost
[Me] :(
[Me] Yeah Dutchies would NEVER show a BRA STRAP let alone their tummy!!!
[Me] probably wear hoodies and jeans to the beach
* Mijn Favoriet nods
[Mijn Favoriet] not to mention our backs
[Mijn Favoriet] we don't ever show those
[Mijn Favoriet] to nobody!
[Mijn Favoriet] that's just disgusting!
[Me] must be tough playing f00tball, bet you get really hot!
[Mijn Favoriet] we wear shirts and shorts during matches!
[Me] so it's ok to show *gasp* legs!
[Me] and arms!
[Mijn Favoriet] Famous ex-cheerleaders
[Mijn Favoriet] Many prominent people have been cheerleaders, including: Madonna, Paula Abdul, Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George W. Bush[16], Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Halle Berry, Teri Hatcher,Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, Hilarie Burton, Miley Cyrus etc.
[Mijn Favoriet] :/
[Me] she's just like Bush!!! of course she's ev0l
[Mijn Favoriet] bad bad americans!
* Me is now known as NotAmericanNow
[NotAmericanNow] there
[NotAmericanNow] now it's ok
[Mijn Favoriet] yeah now it is
Officers in Bell shooting acquitted. I'm curious as how to New Yorkers will respond. If you don't know of or don't remember the case, Sean Bell was at his bachelor party just hours before he was to be married. The party was at a strip club that was under investigation for suspicion of drugs, etc. So basically we have a group of black men in a "bad" part of town late at night in a club full of undercover cops. One gets in a fight. They leave. A cop assumes they're leaving to get guns. The cops pulled their guns on them (in plain clothes) they freak and try to get away. Cops shoot at Bell and his friends apparently 50 times, 31 by one cop.
After the acquittals today the cops did the usual, thanks to my lawyers, family, friends, fellow cops, blah blah for supporting me... and apparently, according to
Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a statement saying, "An innocent man lost his life, a bride lost her groom, two daughters lost their father, and a mother and a father lost their son. No verdict could ever end the grief that those who knew and loved Sean Bell suffer."
The mayor called Bell an "INNOCENT MAN", and frankly if men in plain clothes pulled guns on me I think the flight reaction would kick in for me too. One of the
