Poor parenting decision my ass.

I can't believe what I read in the paper at work tonight. The headline read, "Ridgefield woman gets year in jail for "poor parenting decision."

It sounded weird so I read on. The woman's lawyer called it a poor parenting decision. I call it just plain sick. The woman found a video tape of her husband raping her six year old daughter and didn't call the cops. I would have called the cops, but by the time they got there the fucker would be dead. How can anyone not protect their child in that situation? This woman should be in jail for the rest of her life. I think she should be charged as an acomplice to the crime at the very least.

Here is the link to the story:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/10/30/area_news/news04.txt

I can not believe the woman gave the tape to a friend and the friends room mate called the cops and turned it in.

That's it for tonight.

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This week shall suck ass.

I just got done grocery shopping tonight. Now I have just enough money to get the new storage unit on monday. Hopefully I'll have enough to pay my rent this month. I'm just really tired.

My b/f 's room mate is showing his house tomarrow. So, hopefully these people will buy it. It would take a month to get everything settled. Then we can see how things work out.

That's it for tonight.

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Weird News

More Spirits: (1) The grave of Pol Pot (one of the 20th century's most prodigious mass murderers) near Anlong Veng, Cambodia, is revered by local villagers who believe his ghost protects them and also provides winning lottery numbers, according to an August International Herald Tribune report. In fact, the government is building a casino nearby to serve those who feel lucky. (2) Of the 25,000 children homeless in the streets of Kinshasa, Kenya, more than half are believed to be there because their parents have disowned them as suspected "witches," according to an August Los Angeles Times dispatch. Said one 10-year-old: "They say I ate my father. But I didn't." [New York Times, 8-12-06] [Los Angeles Times, 8-29-06]

Questionable Judgments
Dutch transportation planner Hans Monderman has been pushing his innovative plans for improving traffic, and several towns in the Netherlands and Germany have already signed on, according to an August report by the German news organization Deutsche Welle. His proposals include eliminating traffic signs and street markings, which he believes will force drivers to be careful as they hunt for their destinations, and building children's playgrounds in median strips of roads, figuring that drivers would surely slow down. [DW- World.de (Bonn, Germany), 8-27-06]

Injudicious: In August, Lowell, Mass., judge James McGuinness Jr. quixotically relieved Ms. Grimary DeJesus of all responsibility for failure to pay earlier court fees (which followed four arrests in eight years), provided that she recite the Pledge of Allegiance. She was only 12 words into it before she faltered, but McGuinness said, "Congratulations, ma'am, never heard it said better," and released her anyway. [Boston Herald, 8-17-06]

The latest version of China's periodic Animal Olympic Games, with 300 hardly voluntary participants, was held at the Shanghai Wildlife Park in September, to the consternation of animal-rights activists around the world. London's Daily Mail reported that chimpanzees played basketball and lifted weights, a bear in a tutu navigated an obstacle course, sea lions high-jumped, and an elephant took on spectators in tug-of-war. Photographs of a kangaroo boxing a garishly-dressed man were posted on the Web sites of China Daily and CBS News. [Daily Mail (London), 9- 29-06]


Can you believe this shit.


At least three Christian wrestling associations are active in the southern United States, staging matches using traditional pro-wrestling gimmicks (angelic "babyfaces" vs. creepy "heels"; the "injured" star who gamely takes a mauling but wins through sheer determination). In one pointed adaptation, the bad guys strap "Wrestling for Jesus" star Chase Cliett onto a large cross in the ring and beat him bloody, but he is resurrected after a good-guys' "run-in" from the dressing room. Wrestling for Jesus and Ultimate Christian Wrestling (both based in Georgia), and Texas' Christian Wrestling Federation, set aside some time each show for their muscular roughnecks to evangelize among their rowdy fans, according to an Associated Press report. [Reading Eagle-AP, 3-23- 06]

New York filmmaker Andy Deemer, impressed by reports that 40 to 45 new religions emerge every year in America, offered a $5,000 fee earlier this year for a wannabe messiah to start one and let Deemer chronicle the formation step-by-step, from creation of the philosophy to the soliciting of disciples. Of 300 applicants, Deemer chose 35-year-old musician Joshua Boden, based on Boden's God-optional, feel-good narrative that he called "the Church of Now," based a bit on Buddhism and Taoism (according to an August New York Times profile). Among the prophets that Deemer passed by was Damian Phoenix, whose religion centers around an insect-like creature, "Arkon," and a world of alien parasites that negatively influence people (that is, until Phoenix heals them). [New York Times, 8-28-06]

Fetishes on Parade

In September, police in the Georgia towns of Perry and Americus were investigating incidents probably involving the same unnamed man, who provided an additional dimension to the typical foot-fetishist: religion. An 80-year-old Wal-Mart shopper in Perry reported that the man was sitting on the floor of an aisle and asked her for help with his "religious" ritual. The lady accommodated him by stepping on his hands and then spitting on him, but when he began to lick her feet, she called for help. [Macon Telegraph, 9- 20-06]

Least Competent People

(1) Least Competent Anti-Abortion Activist: David Robert McMenemy, 45, was arrested in Davenport, Iowa, in September after he drove his car into a women's clinic and then set it on fire to protest abortions. He was then informed that it is just a medical clinic, providing neither abortions nor abortion referrals. (2) Least Competent Drug Agents: Just after federal and local narcotics agents cut down and bundled for destruction massive quantities of marijuana plants at a site in California's Marin County in September, officials reported that, despite security, 1,200 of the plants had been stolen before they could be taken away. [Detroit Free Press, 9-14-06] [Marin Independent Journal, 9-2-06]

Damn that's shitty

The Latest News From Places That Lack Sunshine: According to a September Reuters report, four gang-member inmates at the maximum-security Zacatecoluca lockup in El Salvador were caught with "cell phones, a phone charger and spare chips" in their rectums, "far enough (in) to reach their intestines," according to prison official Ramon Arevalo. And in September, arrestee Melissa Roberge, 25, allegedly set fire to the mattress and blanket in her jail cell in Conway, N.H. She had earlier been frisked, but after the fire, a full-body search revealed a cigarette lighter in an unspecified "body cavity." [Reuters, 9-7-06] [Caledonian-Record (St. Johnsbury, Vt.)-AP, 9-2-06]

This is fucked up.

LaToya Joplin was arrested in July in Ypsilanti Township, Mich., and charged with killing her daughter, Kayla, 3, despite her statements to a sheriff's detective (read in court in an August hearing) that she, and not Kayla, was the real victim. The detective said Joplin told him "she was the one who was abused when she disciplined Kayla, because she would strike her to the point that her hand was throbbing." She was forced to keep hitting her, she said, because Kayla never said "ouch." [Ann Arbor News, 8-10-06]

Thanks This Week to Neil Gimon, John Votel, Elliott Shevin, Tom Barker, Frank Smith, and Bob McCabe, and to the News of the Weird Editorial Advisors.

I got this from msn's weird news.

Thank god for tevo.

Yeah so my spelling sucks ass. Bite me. I've found a tv show that's worth getting upset if my man doesn't tevo it for me. It's called Heroes. I don't know why I like it. I just do.I have theories all my own about this show. I think the cute little number that keeps showing up at Shereshes apartment is the serial killer, Syler. I know that peter is absorbing the other heroes' abilities when he's close to them. Kinda a little bit of an X-men, Rouge rip off. I don't know how the cheerleader fits into all this, but she's the key. I love the asian guy Hiro. He is the coolest and funniest character on this show. He's even better than the self healing cheerleader. How ironic is that the pretty blond cheerleader is the key to saving the world.

Ok enough about my favorite tv show. On to the week in review.I got promoted to a full time deli employee. Now if I could just wake up and not feel so tired all the time things would be a whole lot better. I'm going to get retro pay for the entire 4 months I've been in the deli. That's cool it will work out to around $65. Not much but more than I had before.

My darling Zevon may be living with me in a few months. That's cool. I'll get to see him a lot more often than I do right now. It will be a huge help with the boys. It will be his job to get them up for school. Since I work until 10 most nights that will help me out a lot.

I guess that's it for tonight.

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I hope this fucker goes on here this time.

Another reason why this town sucks ass.

I work with the mother of one of these students that organized this protest.

30 rally after teachers order gay student to remove skirt
By Stephanie Mathieu
Oct 19, 2006 - 06:51:02 am PDT

A group of about 30 young adults took to the streets Wednesday to protest what they consider discrimination against a gay Kelso High school sophomore.Two teachers on Oct. 10 ordered the student to remove a skirt he was wearing over long shorts during spirit week, according to school officials and students.

Principal Adele Marshall said the student's behavior was disrupting lunch, but protesters who assembled at Allen Street and Kelso Drive -- one of Kelso's busiest intersections -- said the boy's rights were violated."He's being discriminated against at the high school," said James Mai, a 21-year-old Longview resident who organized Wednesday's protest. "We don't tolerate discrimination."Some of the protestors were students at Lower Columbia College or Kelso High School. Others were just friends in support of equal rights, Mai said. They held signs urging drivers to "honk 4 = rights."The gay student did not instigate or participate in the protest, but he supports the action, Mai said. When reached by The Daily News, he declined to comment.Cross dressing does not violate the school's dress code. Other male students wore skirts that day, several student protesters said. The boy's skirt hung below his knees. School officials have the right to ask student to change out of disruptive clothing, Marshall said. She said officials most commonly use that authority when students wear clothing sporting drug or alcohol themes, such as the names of beer brands."The adults in charge that day felt it was creating a nuisance in the lunchroom," Marshall said. "His behaviors were inviting a lot of negative energy."Marshall said she learned later -- administrators were away at a training workshop Oct. 10 -- that the student told her he wore the skirt on a dare.The protest got the attention of Chuck Wallace, who ran unsuccessfully for Cowlitz County commissioner this year."I'm absolutely thrilled," Wallace said. "It's good to see that young people have a pulse and want to get out and make a difference. That's exactly what we need in America."Since the student was asked to change out of his skirt, Kelso High School students have organized sit-ins at the school and passed out flyers in his support, some of the protesters said."We think it's wrong," Kelso ninth-grader Marion Bruner said. "He was acting how he usually acts."Explaining her reasons for joining the protest, ninth-grader Morgan Lewellen said homosexual students are often harassed at the school, and some are afraid to come out. Bruner and Lewellen were on their way to the protest with parental permission to leave school. Students without permission will have an unexcused absence and possibly face detention, Marshall said."Kids do have the right to do that, and it's a part of growing," Marshall said.The Kelso incident has some similarities to the case at R.A. Long High School in January last year in which an openly gay student was sent home for wearing a T-shirt sporting the words "Too Gay to Function." Officials said it was offensive to homosexuals.Before last week's incident, Marshall had been working with a few students to reinstate the school's diversity club, which fell apart last year after the adviser became ill.

I love the fact that so many of the parents of these kids were so supportive of the fact that thier children wanted to stand up for a friend. I can actually now believe that maybe the future generations won't turn out all that bad after all.

That's it for tonight.

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Harry Potter and the Smash Brothers Game

Ok so tonight I'm having a birthday party for Big C. We have decided to call the visitors for the night Harry, Neville, George/Fred, Then we have Big and Little C. Three of them are 11, Big C is 12, and Little C is 8. I cooked 4 frozen pizzas. They were no sooner on the table than they were gone. I think that I may run out of food soon.

This is the middle/end of my day. It started last night when I made the b-day cake. The reason I made it last night you may ask. I have an absessed tooth and I had to go to the dentist today. When I called for the appointment they told me that the insurance would cover it, and I didn't need to bring any cash. Well, I get done with the appointment and they tell me that will be $170. They then told me they would bill the insurance and send me a bill. I got a prescription for antibiotics and vicadin. This was at noon. Before that I went put my paycheck in the bank to pay rent, frosted and decorated the b-day cake, and took a shower. My day started at 7:30 am and is looking like it will keep going and going. Just like the energizer bunny.

Now. The kids have been fed, caked, and ice creamed. They are on the gamecube watching Super Smash Brothers Melee. Soon we shall watch all three of the X-Men movies. I've got them all here. They will all be gone by 2-2:30 tomarrow afternoon. Then I have to go back to work on Sunday. Then I work Monday and have Tuesday and Wendesday off. I need a nap. Like now.

These kids are quite insane. They all have gameboys that they have been playing off and on since they got here at about 4:30. Ok, I guess that's it for right now. Maybe pics later, Maybe not.

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Damnit I'm getting addicted to pokemon on the gameboy.

Ok, so my garnishment stopped and now I just have a buttload of bills. Though things will be better soon. I'm tired as hell but I might be getting a full time deli position. I don't know yet. Though I am supposed to get register numbers tomarrow. That was supposed to be today but we were too busy.

We went to Toys R Us on Saturday. It was Jeffory the Giraff's birthday so they were giving away the mew character for the gameboy advanced pokemon games. I didn't know that there were so many adult pokemon freaks out there. One group got kicked out because they were swearing and making asses of themselves. They were pissed off because they couldn't color pictures of hotwheel cars or make a strawberry shortcake picture frame. These guys were like 30 years old.

Damnit I have to go to work tomarrow. It's Big C's birthday tomarrow he will be 12.

He wants to have a sleepover on friday. I guess I might let him.

That's it for right now.

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