The Garment Gestapo

Headline and Link from France24: Iran Warns Women Over Slack Dressing

Warnings given to women whose coats are seen as too tight, pants too short or headscarves overly loose. Officials say the crackdown was aimed at "improving the security of society with an approach of moral security." Well thank the Lord the clothing police are around to make sure we don't see the oh-so-seductive peeking of ankles and necks. Oh the humanity!

Just think, folks, if we ever end up like this, get ready to exchange your halters for hejabs and to line up to purchase your precious daughters the new "Burqua Bratz" dolls.

This immediately made me think of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale An extremely strict dress code was enforced for the Handmaids...who by the way pretty much existed for men to "procreate" with and that was it.

Even though I know America does not yet have a Garment Gestapo, nor Handmaids...if the fight between Extreme Left-Wing Nutcases and the Radical Religious Right (not to mention other extremist countries, too) gets any worse, we're going end up in a war like the one in Handmaid's Tale or 1984.

Either way...bye bye freedom.

Did We Really Need Scientists to Tell Us This?

The Headline and Link: Black holes exhale enormous gas cloud (MSNBC.com )

I don't know about y'all, but I pretty much learned about black holes and gas clouds the first time my brother belched in my face. Then the concept (not to mention the smell) was heavily reinforced during the near-fatal burrito fart massacre (again, brought to you by the letters B-R-O-T-H-E-R).

A Head Kick and It's All Over...

Just finished watching UFC 70 on Spike TV. They showed the PPV for free for some reason, I guess because it was in Manchester, England and didn't have most of the American or Canadian fighters UFC watchers are used to. The show was pretty good, but one particular scene stood out.

The main event was Mirko Cro Cop vs. Gabriel Gonzaga. Out of nowhere, close to the end of the first round, Gonzaga hits a wicked head kick pretty much wrapped around Cro Cop's head and knocked him out cold! And if that wasn't bad enough, the angle from which Crop Cop fell twisted his leg, ankle and foot underneath him, so who knows if the guy not only got knocked out, but he might have injured his leg.

Anyway...that one shot made the entire show.

I'm starting to like UFC more and more as I continue to watch it. Won't take the place of wrestling, but it makes a good companion show.

It Wasn't Cracker Jack in His Pocket

Comment on Foxnews.com article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266867,00.html

Holy crap...a 7-year-old finding 89 grams of CRACK in is jacket? How does that happen? Did momma or daddy (or baby-daddy) stash it and forgot they put it there? The rocks were the size of a LARGE COOKIE!

I would probably be angry at the danger the child was in if he had tasted it to see what it was, IF it wasn't just so absurdly funny. I'm sorry, but another example of stupid people (meaning the parent, relative or whomever) doing stupid things.

At least the boy was smart enough to go to his teacher.

It's obvious, due to the size, that that wasn't just for personal consumption. I haven't yet heard of the Costco Econo-Size Crack Bag.

Sleepaway Camp

I have now introduced another unwitting victim to the cheesefest that is "Sleepaway Camp." Muahahahahaha...the funniest, cheesiest piece of B-horror movie schlock known to man. But it an experience to watch, especially when a Sleepaway Camp Newbie is watching.

Angela's got a secret.....hahahhhahahahahaha.

Words and What-Ifs...

Another VA Tech post...

I'm sitting here watching The Today Show (God only knows why), and I'm starting to get annoyed at some of their coverage (gee, that never happens).

First off NBC News decided to go with "Massacre at Virginia Tech" as their tagline for coverage. I can't help but think that every time "massacre" is said, someone, especially anyone connected to the tragedy, gets a good swift punch to the stomach. I think NBC wants that to happen. Their choice of words is pretty obvious as you watch the coverage..."bloodbath", "carnage", etc. I have my theory as to why they choose these words, but that'll be another post.

Additionally, many of the stories play the "what-if" and "blame" games. That pretty much started by midday Monday. I know we need to understand what happened and the killer's motivation in order to hopefully avoid another horrible tragedy such as this one. However, the constant flood of reports on how this murderer should've been put into counseling, etc etc. just seems to play the blame game. As withdrawn as he was, as grotesque as his plays and writings were, apparently you can't FORCE an adult student to go into counseling unless he wants to. The professors and VA Tech did the best they could do within the parameters they could work with to try to help him and shouldn't be blamed for not stopping the attack beforehand. As far as the gun control debate being re-ignited, I'll save that for later.

The VA Tech Tragedy...

My heart goes out to all the Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff and families affected by Monday's tragedy. There is a special place in Hell for people like that killer. I don't care if he was troubled, depressed, etc. If you're not gonna get help for it, then kill your own damn self and leave innocent people alone. What happens in a person's mind that makes the connection to slaughter 32 people, injure dozens more, THEN decide to take his own life? How about skipping the first two steps, bypass GO, don't collect the $200, take that Glock you bought and glock yourself right in the temple. I'm not normally someone who advocates suicide, but if the choices are kill yourself or randomly kill 32 others, I say go for the first choice.

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