Monday, April 19, 2004
Today in History: Apr 19 1993 More than 80 Branch Davidians burn to death in Waco, Texas as the FBI stages a disastrous final assault on their compound. This brings a sudden end to the 51-day siege.
And I would be remiss if I didn't at least mention...Apr 19 1995 Timothy McVeigh kills 168 Oklahomans when his truck bomb detonates in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building.
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Mom sues Coors over son's death in accident
19 year old Ryan Pisco drank some Coors beer at a party and slammed his girlfriend's car into a light pole, resulting in his ultimate demise. Sad and tragic, yes. However, his mom believes that she has good reason to sue Coors Brewing Company. She states that it promotes underage drinking and therefore is responsible for Ryan's death. She also is suing Ryan's girlfriend ('cause she let him drive the car) and Ryan's girlfriend's mother (because she gave her daughter the car). She is not, however, suing the trucking company that delivered the beer to the package store, nor is she suing the package store, the sales person, the company that paved the parking lot where the purchaser parked....
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Hey, Gang, Let's Promote Censorship!!!
Steven M. Weinstock is angry and offended, and he wants the world to know it! Steven just became aware of the fact that if one types 'Jew' in googlesearch, the search engine will direct the viewer to jewwatch.com, a site "Keeping a close watch on Jewish communities & organizations worldwide", purportedly with links to anti-Semitic research and such. (I checked it out and only found a banner page, but hey...let's be offended anyway, eh?)
Never mind the fact that it's been out there since 2001, and that google has a wholly objective hits-based ranking system for their top links (with the exception of kiddie porn, pedophilia and such illegal schtuff). Steven is mad. So he's sent out one of those chain emails asking people to assist him in forcing google to start censoring itself. Steven thinks that if he gets 50,000 people to beg google to remove that link the world will be a better place. (Never mind the fact that 50,000 is a magical number he made up and would not impact things anyway).
Google is standing by its policies. "We find this result offensive, but the objectivity of our ranking function prevents us from making any changes," said David Krane, a Google spokesman.
Steven can likely solve his problem by unplugging his computer and continuing to live in his homogenized world where everyone thinks just like him and he never ever is offended.
Here's some advice - whatcha do when you find that a link offends you is hit the freakin' back-button! Sheesh!
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It's Not What it Looks Like, I Swear!
Anthony Jablonowski, 69, has been sentenced to between 15 months and 7 years in prison as a result of what HE says was simply spiritual actions he took in the past with young men, back in the days when he was a Catholic priest. Specifically, he would take said men to the church basement and ask them to strip naked. Then in a highly reverent manner (undoubtedly), he would gag them, blindfold them, hang them upside down from the ceiling, and then manipulate their you-know-whats in a pain-inducing manner as they prayed.
Anthony says he can't talk about the rituals, what with the whole confidentiality thing involved in prayer and confession. Especially when hanging buck naked from the ceiling. His lawyer states that this wasn't sexual in nature, but rather a form of penance and redemptive suffering. "There are certain things that happen which are not sexual but could be interpreted that way," the lawyer said in statements to the press.
Oh, in case you're wondering, no - Anthony is not a priest anymore. Just a prisoner.
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Licorice Claim Whipped
Margit Kieske, 48, tried to jump on the litigious band wagon, but was pushed off by some judges who actually have common sense. See, Margit had been eating a pound of licorice every day for four months, and then developed heart problems presumably from ingestion of glycyrrhizin contained in said confection.
Margit figured that it must be candy maker Haribo's fault that she developed the heart problems because they didn't warn her that she shouldn't eat a pound of licorice per day. Judges determined that there was no error in the product labels and rejected the case.
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And I would be remiss if I didn't at least mention...Apr 19 1995 Timothy McVeigh kills 168 Oklahomans when his truck bomb detonates in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building.
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Mom sues Coors over son's death in accident
19 year old Ryan Pisco drank some Coors beer at a party and slammed his girlfriend's car into a light pole, resulting in his ultimate demise. Sad and tragic, yes. However, his mom believes that she has good reason to sue Coors Brewing Company. She states that it promotes underage drinking and therefore is responsible for Ryan's death. She also is suing Ryan's girlfriend ('cause she let him drive the car) and Ryan's girlfriend's mother (because she gave her daughter the car). She is not, however, suing the trucking company that delivered the beer to the package store, nor is she suing the package store, the sales person, the company that paved the parking lot where the purchaser parked....
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Hey, Gang, Let's Promote Censorship!!!
Steven M. Weinstock is angry and offended, and he wants the world to know it! Steven just became aware of the fact that if one types 'Jew' in googlesearch, the search engine will direct the viewer to jewwatch.com, a site "Keeping a close watch on Jewish communities & organizations worldwide", purportedly with links to anti-Semitic research and such. (I checked it out and only found a banner page, but hey...let's be offended anyway, eh?)
Never mind the fact that it's been out there since 2001, and that google has a wholly objective hits-based ranking system for their top links (with the exception of kiddie porn, pedophilia and such illegal schtuff). Steven is mad. So he's sent out one of those chain emails asking people to assist him in forcing google to start censoring itself. Steven thinks that if he gets 50,000 people to beg google to remove that link the world will be a better place. (Never mind the fact that 50,000 is a magical number he made up and would not impact things anyway).
Google is standing by its policies. "We find this result offensive, but the objectivity of our ranking function prevents us from making any changes," said David Krane, a Google spokesman.
Steven can likely solve his problem by unplugging his computer and continuing to live in his homogenized world where everyone thinks just like him and he never ever is offended.
Here's some advice - whatcha do when you find that a link offends you is hit the freakin' back-button! Sheesh!
******************************
It's Not What it Looks Like, I Swear!
Anthony Jablonowski, 69, has been sentenced to between 15 months and 7 years in prison as a result of what HE says was simply spiritual actions he took in the past with young men, back in the days when he was a Catholic priest. Specifically, he would take said men to the church basement and ask them to strip naked. Then in a highly reverent manner (undoubtedly), he would gag them, blindfold them, hang them upside down from the ceiling, and then manipulate their you-know-whats in a pain-inducing manner as they prayed.
Anthony says he can't talk about the rituals, what with the whole confidentiality thing involved in prayer and confession. Especially when hanging buck naked from the ceiling. His lawyer states that this wasn't sexual in nature, but rather a form of penance and redemptive suffering. "There are certain things that happen which are not sexual but could be interpreted that way," the lawyer said in statements to the press.
Oh, in case you're wondering, no - Anthony is not a priest anymore. Just a prisoner.
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Licorice Claim Whipped
Margit Kieske, 48, tried to jump on the litigious band wagon, but was pushed off by some judges who actually have common sense. See, Margit had been eating a pound of licorice every day for four months, and then developed heart problems presumably from ingestion of glycyrrhizin contained in said confection.
Margit figured that it must be candy maker Haribo's fault that she developed the heart problems because they didn't warn her that she shouldn't eat a pound of licorice per day. Judges determined that there was no error in the product labels and rejected the case.
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