It would appear that way, anyway. Some jerk ended up tossed from a baseball game in Winnipeg for pretty much being an irritating asshole. Of course, he called it just heckling, but enough people obviously disagreed with him that he ended up arrested and tossed in the tank for the night. So now, the genius is suing the baseball team, the Winnipeg police chief, the officers that arrested him, *and* the drunk tank that held him for damages and such. Yeah, that’s nice. He gets plastered and gets to be a real shit disturber at a ball game, then thinks he has the right to sue people when he gets tossed for being a shit disturber at a ball game. I dunno, if that many people could tell he was drunk, he definitely had more than one beer, even though he’s insisting to the contrary. Ah, stupid people. Pissing the world off one enjoyable pass-time at a time.
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From the drunk tank to the court room?
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So *that’s* how you catch people’s attention.
Who’d of thunk it? Write a post about the shuttle launch on Saturday, and 2 days later, get a visit to the site by someone from NASA. Now *that* is targetted viewing, even if unintentional.
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In China, car drives you.
Or tries to, anyway. A Chinese company demoed a driverless car that topped out at 37 MPH without leaving the road, or hitting anything. Small progress, but ’tis still progress. Some people may not think all too highly of a driverless car, but hey, as long as it knows where it’s going, and has a proven safety feature or 6, I don’t see how it’d be so bad. But then, a small part of me is still holding out for that tiny chance that it becomes so easy, a blind man could do it. Because, as much as I don’t like taking handouts from people, I don’t like not having a choice but to hitch a ride, either. It’s inconvenient for me, and I’m sure it’s inconvenient for the borrowed driver. And Pembroke’s rather pathetic transit system means you either drive, go with someone who’s driving, or stay home–there are no grocery stores, or anything of the sort in walking distance. Hell, it’s a half-hour walk to the cool aunt’s place. Try doing that in 20 below.
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What’s your personality cluster?
Your Personality Cluster is Introverted Thinking
You are:Objective, honest, and credible
Intellectually curious, with many diverse interests
More inclined toward ideas than people
Fiercely independent and unapologetically unconventional
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Due to sympatico’s complete and utter stupidity…
I’ve begun the process of phasing out that email address. Also, due to the fact I’ll hopefully be moving at some not too distant point, pending job prospects. For those of you curious to contact me, my MSN is the most recent thing to get a changing. The old address is done, in favour of msn$the%jdh#com (munged purposely). Alternatively, email and comments still work. No longer shall I be given headaches by my ISP. Yay.
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Ever been medicated without your knowledge?
More than a few nurses in an Alberta hospital can certainly answer yes to that one. And one nurse can certainly admit to having actually done it. In fact, she already has. Pled guilty to drugging her co-workers, and a few creditcard offenses on top of that… a regular bundle of trouble, that one. Almost makes ya wanna let her fill your prescription, don’t it just?
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I guess they *can* lead by example.
And it only took them a small eternity. Canada’s minister of foreign affairs jumped on the other NATO countries involved in the afganistan mission saying they needed to contribute more troops than they currently are to the issue. Of course, then he was quick to add Canada’s already doing its fair share, if not more. I guess someone disagreed, because now, they’re setting an example. I dunno, I don’t much care for the fact Canada’s pretty much just becoming an extension of the US, at least so far as the current policies go, but at least the government’s actually following through on something for once. Now if they could follow through on something locally that’d be awesome.
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Liberals: check your reality at the door.
As if we needed a report by a panel of ethicists to prove it, the liberals have absolutely no credibility in the eyes of the Canadian public. And why the hell would they? They’ve been screwing us over for years, and when people finally called them on it, they spent the last year or so passing the buck. Oh, almost forgot about the ever so famous “I had no idea” response. How the hell does a finance minister not know what’s going on with the country’s finances? Was he on vacation for 95% of his time in cabbinet. And this is just too good to pass up.
Steven MacKinnon, national director of the Liberal Party of Canada, said Sunday that the party has been working on a code of ethics since last year, although it won’t apply to MPs or senators.
So who *will* it apply to, then? The guy that brings the coffee? I don’t see statements like that changing a damn thing. Except, maybe, people’s opinions about the liberals. Now, instead of being lying, cheating good-for-nothings, they’ll be lying, cheating good-for-nothings with no support. Oh, wait… they’re already there. Guess they’ve got nothing to lose.
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If my relatives had blogs…
I think, for the most part, I would be quite… frightened. Although, I’ve given some thought to twisting my cousin and her husband’s arm to get themselves one… those two would, at the least, be extremely amusing to read. And I’ve got the space for it… hmmm. *ponders* But, anywho. Outside of those two, I think I’d be afraid to learn anyone in my family actually kept one of these. They scare me in person… I don’t wanna know what the hell goes through their heads on a daily basis. This of course assuming they actually bothered to update the thing, or didn’t break it inside of 3 minutes. Technically inept is the family’s bigest understatement.
What got me on that train of thought was my cousin and her husband stopped by for about 15 minutes, before they headed back to Ottawa, just for the sake of shooting the shit. I hadn’t actually heard from them in a few months, so it was nice. Now, if we can just get them to remember my phone number *can* be called from Ottawa… 😛 -
People are sometimes amusing.
And reasons like this are why I say so. And, of course, why I read that particular blog. But that’s beside the point.