I am so sick of this ‘Ron Paul’ bullshit

So, the best argument that you can make for him is that he has…nothing to show for himself? Let me clue you in – in the Real World, where the rest of us have to live, spending 20 years doing nothing but criticizing other people while they do things you “don’t believe in” has a consequence. And unless you work for the DMV that consequence is “fired”.

It’s not enough to sit on your moral high-horse, never taking any kind of positive action to affect change or learning how to garner support for your ideas. “Uselessness” is not a positive character trait, no matter how many sweet little Chinese tales you trot out. Continue reading »

This was some kinda bait and switch

Man-sized sea scorpion claw found

SO I got all “Whoa! If the claw was “man sized” how big was the the freaking scorpion?! But upon reading the article they clearly meant “Fossilized Claw of Man-sized Sea Scorpion Discovered”

Crap headline? You be the Judge.

STLtoday – News – Law & Order
Man dies after driving into lake in a field

Let me know what you think of this one, peeps. I say it’s crap.

This is Why I Don’t Even GO to Parties

Wow, I hate to call out my peeps at the BBC, but they need to check their writing for the sense-making before they post it. Because given what’s stated here (bolding by me) I would leave that fucking party too.

Woman raped after leaving party

A 22-year-old woman was raped after she left a party in Renfrewshire.Police said the woman was subjected to a serious indecent assault between 0430 GMT and 0500 GMT on Sunday in Whitehills, Erskine.

Detectives said she left a local party when a man walked up to her and then raped her.

Det Sgt Allan Muir said: “I would like to speak to anyone who may have heard or seen anything of significance in relation to this attack.”

Suggestion:

Detectives said the victim left a local party and was subsequently approached by a man who raped her.

Question:

What would be a “non-serious” indecent assault?

More Shootings in Unlikely Places

Damn, shot in the block – now that’s a shame.

ST. LOUIS: N. County teen seriously wounded in city shooting

11/14/2007

A north St. Louis County teen was clinging to life Tuesday night after being shot in the 2000 block of East Obear Avenue on Monday, police said.

Cortez Blanks, 17, of the 10000 block of Imperial Drive, suffered from wounds in the left and right side of his neck and was in serious and unstable condition at a hospital, police said.

There have been no arrests in the case, which remains under investigation, police said.

Anti-Choice Agenda Check!

OK, it’s amazing how warm and fuzzy this dead couple with the dead “unborn baby” are made to seem in this article – now that a drunk driver took them out. Had they been alive any article about them might have focused on how this 30-year-old statutory rapist guy impregnated his 18-year-old, high-school dropout girlfriend and didn’t marry her. But now that they’re all dead, it’s just warm fuzzy baby clothes stories and “Oh The Humanity!” of her “unborn baby” aka 2nd trimester fetus. Someone’s anti-choice agenda is showing…

Alleged drunken driver kills couple, unborn baby

By Leah Thorsen
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/14/2007

GRANITE CITY — A young couple killed by an alleged drunk driver as they walked on a Granite City street had been expecting their first child and had chosen the baby’s name, a family member said Tuesday.

Mary Drayton, 18, was six months pregnant, authorities said. She was walking with her boyfriend, Jerimiah Phelps, the baby’s father, on Monday night in the 3100 block of Missouri Avenue when they were struck by a car. They were on their way to a friend’s house.

Bolding mine:

Phelps, a 30-year-old construction worker, had moved in with the Drayton family in Granite City about 10 days before the fatal crash, she said. They had been dating on and off for about two years.

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“Rolling shootout?”

What, were they out of gas? I seriously don’t understand the term.

ST. LOUIS: Cars’ rolling shootout injures teen bystander

11/13/2007

St. Louis police were searching for two vehicles involved in a rolling shootout that injured a bystander Sunday night.

A dark van and dark green Chrysler Sebring drove down Maffitt Avenue near Newstead Avenue about 10 p.m., with occupants firing 12 to 14 shots at each other, police said.

A boy, 17, who lives in the neighborhood was hit in the leg by a stray bullet, police said.

Also, crap headline of the day “Politicians increase conduct state business on private e-mail accounts” Yeah, I know you meant “increasingly” – but should I have to interpret the headlines? Really?

*sigh*

More impossibilities happening in St. Louis recently. Lucky thing we have the fine folks at the PD (and don’t let’s forget their editors!) for reporting these bizarre happenings. Read the whole article if you’d like, but to get my point, just read the bolds.

Man, 28, charged in fatal STL shooting

By Susan Weich and Carolyn Tuft
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/07/2007

ST. LOUIS — A 28-year-old suspect has been charged today in connection with a shooting yesterday that fatally wounded a 30-year-old north St. Louis County man.
Police have identified the victim as Gregory Fields of the 11000 block of Sierra Vista Parkway.

The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office charged Willie Simpson, 28, of the 5400 block of Wilborn Drive, with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree assault and one count of armed criminal action. He is being held at the St. Louis city jail.

The deadly encounter happened Tuesday afternoon in the 5900 block of Cote Brilliante Avenue in the Wells/Goodfellow Neighborhood.

According to police, Fields and another man had been sitting in Fields’ car at that address when the shooting happened.

Fields was transported by ambulance to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis where he was pronounced dead. The passenger in his car was not injured.

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One for the DUH! files

Report: Abstinence not curbing teen sex – Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of millions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies.

“At present there does not exist any strong evidence that any abstinence program delays the initiation of sex, hastens the return to abstinence or reduces the number of sexual partners” among teenagers, the study concluded.

Although I have to make a comment for clarity’s sake – if actual abstinence was happening it would indeed be curbing teen sex. Abstinence curbs any sex, really. Severely. So obviously this crap headline should read “Abstinence-only education not curbing teen sex” However that doesn’t mean it’s not also cross-posted with the “ya think?” tag.

You Can Tell it’s Almost Halloween?

Investigators search for clues in S. Illinois woman’s death

10/22/2007

MARION COUNTY, ILL. — Detectives on Sunday were investigating the death of a woman whose body was found near a rural road outside of Centralia, Ill., police said.

Rita M. Cavaletto, 38, of Walnut Hill, Ill., was found dead Saturday evening off Copple Road outside of Centralia, Ill., authorities said. Her body was found about 5 p.m., but was last scene jogging about 9:30 a.m.

Investigators were calling her death a homicide and were asking anyone with information to call Illinois State Police at 217-347-2711.

Seriously, if I saw a body “scene jogging” at 9:30 a.m. I would be all “Zombie Attack!” and freak out – can’t wait to hear the rest of this story.

Stupid Headline of the Day

Storms bring needed rainfall, power outages

Yeah, we were running behind on power outages this year, it’s nice we’ve caught up.

Get Your Ass Inside

Further proof that sitting on a porch in St. Louis just doesn’t pay.

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All hell broke loose on a back porch in St. Louis Tuesday night, with three wounded men running for their lives.

Police say it all began about 9:20 p.m., when the three were seated on the porch, in the 3000 block of North Euclid Avenue, in the city’s Kingsway East neighborhood.

Suddenly, two young men popped out of the south gangway and opened fire.

Although the shots hit home, the three victims managed to flee.

One, 43 years old, ran into the house and collapsed in the kitchen with two wounds in his abdomen and two more in his upper left leg.

The second, 33, ran through the house and onto the front porch, despite a wound to his left ankle.

The third, 35, ran through the back yard and into a neighboring house. He had a gunshot wound in his right calf and also suffered a broken left ankle.

All three were taken to hospitals and were reported in stable condition,.

So far, nobody has been arrestd. (sic)

I particularly love the reporters use of  “All hell broke loose” at the beginning of the story, as well as the men “popping out” of the “gang”way (ha!) and the shots “hitting home.” I think I would like a little more melo with my drama, thanks.

And then this guy  ”The second, 33, ran through the house and onto the front porch…” Oh my freaking God does he have A) no sense or B) total brass balls? Shot on the back porch, ostensibly the less dangerous porch attached to any St. Louis home, and he runs to the front porch? Wow. Now that takes some cojones my friends. That or a lack of brain. One of those.

In other news, looks like St. Louis might be set to become only the 2nd most dangerous city in America. Whoo! Let the party start now! Just, you know, not on the porch.

Maybe it’s just my dirty mind

But I think this is a crap headline – it makes me feel like my tax money going to NASA isn’t being well spent:

Repairs weighed as NASA studies gash

I did have an Urban Decay lipgunk once called “Gash” which led to a funny conversation with a sales clerk who obviously didn’t know the other usage of the word. She said something to the effect of what a funny, aggressive name that was, like “Look out, or I will stab you with my gash!” And of course for weeks afterwards my friends and I would try to contort into various body positions to make such a thing possible. It only worked if the person getting stabbed was compliant, is what we finally determined.

The Budget Oreo Clip

Oreo Clip – True Majority

Do you people begin to realize what the fuck is happening?

Poor photo-editing decision

OK so this is tragic, and scary. I had no idea that this could even happen, and it’s one more reason that I am glad I am not a parent. But tell me that they couldn’t have used a better or at least more appropriate photo to accompany this article?

Pool-drain victim remains hospitalized

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