Set afire, teen now struggles for survival

First of all, I don't know if I agree with the new CNN.com layout, I can't find the top 10 anywhere. Anyway, here is a crazy sad story about a kid who was doused with alcohol and lit on fire, because of some tit for tat story of thievery.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/02/teen.burned.recovery/index.html

Now I don't know what the law is for 15 year olds, but I hope these kids get everything that is coming to them. I remember when I was 15 and I knew what was wrong and what was right. They should be tried as adults. Also I am noticing a huge increase of "mob mentality" crimes. Those boys who gang raped the 15 year old girl, also this story, etc. etc. Maybe its a whole process of kids not thinking for themselves any more.

These kids are NOT good kids...

Good kids do not gang up and beat the life out of another human being. Unless there was some ulterior motive that no one else knows about. Which there wasn't.

Check out this article.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/22/lia.shenandoah.killing/index.html?iref=newssearch

There have been similar instances where the kids were "honor students" or some such crap. All that shows is that school is just one big popularity contest that has nothing to do with actual merit.

Russian human rights activist kidnapped, killed

Well just when you think your country may not be that cool anymore, at least Human Rights Activists in this country aren't killed for their beliefs. Well at least none publicly. This poor woman was taken by force outside of her home, and later found dead in a neighboring country according to CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/15/russia.estmirova.killing/index.html
Every time I see stories like this I am reminded how nice it is to be able to speak one's mind here in the USA. Sure nobody may listen for a long time, but as long as you aren't pissing off the wrong people you will not be shot, or kidnapped. This excludes big oil, I think they would do anything to keep alternative fuels out of the mix.
Check out this guy who made an electrolysis generator for his Dune Buggy.
http://www.waterpoweredcar.com/stanmeyer.html
He was found dead under suspicious circumstances. I guess speaking your mind is the ultimate right, but be careful because no matter how stable a country is, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

I just cannot stop laughing about this one...

The video should read "Idiot Teen Unaware of Gaping Manhole, because of Disconnect with Reality."


She could have stepped out into oncoming traffic and the effects would have been a lot worse.

Baby Licenses, Baby Licenses, Baby Licenses

Hey look, here is another case where "baby licenses" would have kept this poor newborn from being born in a port-o-potty. And then thrown in said portable toilet. And how, I mean really how can someone not know their pregnant?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/02/maryland.toilet.birth/index.html

How can you not agree with baby licensing? Make it a world wide thing too, imagine 3rd world country families with 1-2 children instead of 9. No more "feed these poor children...they have no food." Because they would actually have enough food and the population wouldn't be growing out of control. Ah but who cares, I mean earth has infinite resources and food and energy. Oh, whats that you say? It doesn't? Oh. Maybe I should rethink my selfish, self serving, over consuming. Nah, let the next generation worry about it.

Airline policies juggle larger passengers

Another story off of CNN.com. YES, arlines should charge people for 2 seats if they are overweight. These poor folks need all the motivation they can get to cut that weight. They obviously don't pay very much attention to their health. They are charging for everything now, extra bags, carry on bags. They charge for bags that weigh over 40lbs, why wouldn't they charge for people that weigh over Another thing overweight people are directly contributing to is our health insurance premiums. 1/3 of people in America are overweight. Its easy to conclude that some of these people have insurance, and they will be using it for all their diabetic problems that are associated with their overweight lifestyle.
'"The airlines need to be making bigger seats," said Peggy Howell, a spokeswoman for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, a group based in San Francisco, California. "It's not safe to be cramming us into two seats."' I feel sorry for the flight attendants that have to deal with this every day. I cannot believe there is an "association to advance fat acceptance." This kind of goes back to my whole argument about overpopulation. Just like people that have too many babies when they can't afford it, obese people are using a little more than their fair share. You have the right to do whatever you want, until that right infringes onto someone else's rights. And when you have to "squeeze" into a seat, and your body is hanging into my seat, that is infringement on my rights. Everyone should be treated with respect, do onto others....as they say. But just like smoking, or drinking too much, there has to be consequences for over indulgence. This new airline seat policy is one of them. Just think of it this way: Do you pay the same price for one plate of Pad Thai and one plate of Pad Thai with spring rolls? No you don't. Another way to look at it: Is it the same price to ship a CD USPS, as it is to ship an Entire season of Friends? Nope. Also who is supposed to pay for all those Seat Belt Extenders? Me? I don't think so.

Woman FINED 1.9 million dollars for 24 songs

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/18/minnesota.music.download.fine/index.html
I understand where the Recording industry is coming from when they say downloading illegal songs is like stealing. But if it is like stealing it should be treated as such. I am pretty sure if you walked out of Payless with 24$ worth of footwear, your fine would not be 1.9 million dollars. I believe the RIAA is once again trying to make an example of someone. So lets see what the actual maximum punishment in my state is for stealing under $50. Less than $50 is considered a Class C Misdemeanor here, with maximum fine of $500 and no jail time. Wow I really don't understand how it could go from $500 to 1.9 million dollars. Did she murder the lead singer of Linkin Park while she was downloading the songs? I THINK NOT.
DO YOU THINK THIS KIND OF PUNISHMENT IS JUSTIFIED?

Movie leaves house a horror ( Kinda feel sorry for this lady but...)

If you watch the video she is an "out of work architect", just like me. And as an architect, if I was out of work and had nothing to do, the first thing I would do would be fix up my house. I would kill for a nice house like that. You can rest assured it wouldn't look unfinished for long. I don't care if I had to fix all the holes with soda cans, it would be livable and cheap! Haha. I bet she could fix her house herself, and send that movie place a bill for labor+parts. That would definitely stick in court. She definitely should get that 13k they promised her, because that is a contract and you can't break those. Another classic case of "If it sounds too good to be true...."

Grandma Gets Tasered! from CNN.com

I love the way CNN puts grandma on their title, instead of 72 year old lady. As soon as you see Grandma, you think, "oh man thats cruel." I have to say when I saw the original video of just the grandma talking about what happened, I was hoping the cops would prove her wrong. She looked kind of bitchy to me. Here is the original video before the dash cam footage came out:


And here is the cops side with the dash cam footage:


Yeah she doesn't seem too compliant to me. She sounds non-compliant. He repeatedly tries to get her back on to the shoulder so she doesn't get hit by a car. In the first video she says something about protecting her rights, I don't know if that means lawsuit, but after you see the dashcam video I hope you see he was justified. You also see that everything that she said she didn't do in the first video, she actually did in the dashcam video. Bottom line, you don't try to get away from cops, you don't cuss at cops, signing the bottom of the ticket is not an admission of guilt. It just says you read it. Wasn't it hilarious how polite "yes sir" she was after she got tased. I think she might have been a little buzzed when she got pulled over if you know what I am saying.

#1 Ms California Dethroned #2 Security Guard killed at Holocaust Museum

What the F is wrong with this? How can some stupid dethronement of a california nobody be more impornant than someone dying defending a museum full of at least 1000 people? I don't know how CNN comes up with their rating system that puts stories in the top 10 standings, but why wouldn't someone's death be more important than MISS USA politics. Whatever, I am sure its the people emailing these stories back and forth that influences the ratings. Shame on people!

Here is the current list as of 3:47 central time:

1. Miss California USA dethroned
2. 2 Police: 2 shot at Holocaust Museum
3. 3 Search on for missing chopper
4. 4 3rd-grader vanished after bus ride
5. 5 Search for mattress containing $1M
6. 6 Commentary: Iran gender gap
7. 7 Online reporting aids WWII legacy
8. 8 Crash bodies heading to DNA lab
9. 9 Equator breeds dangerous storms
10. 10 Dealing with tech fatigue

Son of american man REMAINS in Brazil after 11th try

I have been following this story loosely since before the mother of this child died in Brazil during child birth. Here is the short: This man and woman were married, she is Brazilian, she goes to Brazil with the child on a "2 week vacation". While she is down there, she divorces the american man and marries a Brazilian lawyer. According to Brazilian courts they don't know how this could have happened seeing as the husband was not in Brazil to sign the papers. So this was in 2004 I believe. The whole time the Dad is trying to get his son back, because what this woman did was dishonest. Then THANK GOD, this woman died in childbirth, trying to have the lawyer's devil spawn. This was 2008, but the Brazilian "relatives" if you could call them that, refuse to give up custody of the boy still. They now say that the boy is damaged, and letting him go home after all this time would not be good for him! HA. If this is the way the legal system works in Brazil, I never want to go there. Someone would accuse me of something with no proof and I would be in prison for the rest of my life.
Check out the newest of the story:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/03/new.jersey.brazil.custody/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

I hope the mom is burning right now, and I hope the lawyer joins her soon.

I watch CNN.com videos alot

I have 2 things. One is this stupid Duracell Battery commercial that comes on in between every clip that I watch on CNN.com.
Here is the commercial from the brickhouse company:

The first time you watch you are like "eh" but then after 3 or more times of watching, I am screaming at the computer, "why aren't you watching your kid lady?" And also it looked like she wasn't looking at him for maybe 5 seconds, yet he had time to get at least 100 yards away from her and find a balloon and also make his way back to her general direction? You know what costs less than that homing device? A piece of string on a belt loop. You know what costs less than that? Teaching your children that walking away from you can get them struck by a car, or molested, or murdered. Free.
The next thing was this that I saw on CNN.com about a girl that texts 303,000 times a month because "i'm popular, I can't help it."

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/05/07/pn.most.outrageous.texts.cnn

I would break that phone in half and say ,"guess what, now you aren't, deal with it." They say she gets straight A's and has a full time job? I might believe the straight A's part, but there is no way she has a job and texts that much. Also I just watched it for the second time now, and I noticed, instead of actually talking to the interviewer, she is texting someone about the interview while they are filming her. On the screen it says "what channel B" and she is replying "Kcra..." What the hell is wrong with people now a days? Why do they let their children get away with this stuff. I feel like a 50 year old dad, and I don't even have children. I can't wait for this girl to show up to her first Vector Based Physics class in college and flunk out because you actually have to pay attention. Or if she is getting straight A's now, then maybe basket weaving 101 is more her style. Bah!