- I don’t know Fiona Apple’s music at all. But I expect I’d like her as a person. And I’m not the only one. (Beware: sad dog stories.)
- Much happier animal (and cop) story. (H/T JG)
- Texas high school trying to expel student for refusing to wear a spychip. It’s all about money and control, of course. (Tip o’ hat to H)
- How many more of these stories are we going to see? Anti-gay lawyer arrested for kiddie porn (and more).
- And here’s another completely unsurprising story: Detroit will run out of money by January.
- And another non-surprise! Senate bill touted as improving online privacy gets rewritten to favor warrantless searches.
- Mark/Greylocke has updated his KTD Project page with a couple of new videos (scroll down) showing how the Knoppix Thumb Drive works — even on computers with dead hard drives — to give access to more than 600 survival/preparedness texts. Earlier post on the project here. (I want one of these, and it looks as if I’ll get one; some friendly Santa — thanks, Santa! — ordered me the needed 32GB USB stick.)
Having shared the last moments of far too many beloved canine companions I grok what Fiona Apple is going through as I sit here with a tear in my eye. Fiona shows us that she gets it.
Regarding anti-gay Christian lawyers:
“Lisa Biron, a Manchester, N.H., lawyer associated with the Christian litigation group, Alliance Defending Freedom, was arrested by FBI agents on Friday morning on charges of transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, possession of child pornography and five counts of sexual exploitation of children, according to the Concord Monitor. ”
You fail to understand that none of the above matters. Lisa Biron has been born again and accepted Jesus as her personal Lord & Savior and therefore is going to heaven despite her despicable behavior. Amazing what some people can rationalize, isn’t it?
I thought Detroit had already ran out of money. I used to work with a guy from Detroit, and by the way he described it, the place looked like a ghost city or something from a post-nuclear war movie. Never been there myself. I;ve heard stories of scrappers disassembling parts of the city for scrap metal/materials, but I don’t know if that’s true or not.
“You fail to understand that none of the above matters. Lisa Biron has been born again and accepted Jesus as her personal Lord & Savior and therefore is going to heaven despite her despicable behavior. Amazing what some people can rationalize, isn’t it?”
It think it is rather a demonstration of how perverts can hide anywhere.
Here in the UK we have a report out this week showing how 25% of child sex abuse rings comprise of Muslim men despite the Muslim population only making up 4% of the whole of the UK pop, and half that 4% are women. As a number of these men were imams too we can therefore conclude that the majority of Muslim men especially imams are pedophiles? Off the cuff statistics and comments are tricky things.
The truth is abusers such as these hide themselves well and among every profession and faith. Their faith and morals are those that suit themselves for their own agendas, not those of any organisation they belong too.
Fiona Apple has shown herself to be at least a thousand times a better person than that Congresscritter that hauled a poor dog in a kennel on top of an SUV, stopping once to hose off the dog and the vomit off his precious SUV.
There is probably more to the story of the lawyer with the child porn than what is reported. When a person who causes trouble for a political lobby gets arrested for something, you can’t be sure that the charges are legitimate. It might be a simple case of that person angering people in power, who then planted evidence. Its a great way to get rid of people, as even the accusation of being in possession of child porn will ruin a person’s reputation beyond repair. Even people who are skeptical of police will believe stories when child abuse is involved.
@JWG Wasn’t there an article in BHM a few years ago about a guy whose computer had a virus or something that downloaded the kiddie porn without his knowledge? If memory serves, it took a pretty tech-savvy lawyer to prove he didn’t do it.
Required spy chips, required flu shots or they fire their employees ( http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121123/NEWS/311230086/?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|NEWS&nclick_check=1 ) it just gets creepier and creepier out there…….
“TriHealth required all 10,800 employees to get flu shots. This is the third year it’s issued terminations for failure to get vaccinations.”
TriHealth must get a nice discount from the drug company.