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Baby Daddy

If there is any phrase in modern slang that makes me cringe more than "Baby Daddy", I don't know what it could be.

When I hear those words come out of a person's mouth, my immediate reaction is revulsion. I am convinced that the person who uses that phrase not only uneducated but also unrepentantly ignorant. The use of that phrase is tantamount to admitting that you are incapable of independent thought, doomed to die pennyless, unmarried, with 6 kids and at least one venereal disease.

In closing, if you should find yourself using that phrase in normal conversation, please kill yourself.

Really.

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Student Sentenced to 15 Years for YouTube Terror Video

Wired.com had this fascinating story.

By David Kravets December 18, 2008 | 5:46:24 PMCategories: Crime

An Egyptian engineering student was sentenced in the United States on Thursday to 15 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to uploading a 12-minute video to YouTube that demonstrated how to convert a remote-control toy car into a bomb detonator.

In June, Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 27, pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to one count of providing material support to terrorists. He was a student at the University of South Florida. South Carolina authorities said they found various bomb-making materials in the vehicle he was driving when he was pulled over last year.

The video, with his voice in Arabic, was discovered during a search of his laptop computer, the authorities said. In the video, which the authorities said was viewed by the public hundreds of times, shows how to make a remote-control toy car from Walmart into a bomb detonator.

In court documents, (.pdf) he said "he intended the technology demonstrated in his audio-video recording to be used against those who fight for the United States." He said he considered them and their allies fighting in Arab countries to be "invaders." The United States, he said, was a "vile nation."

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While I do not support the type of actions taken by the California government during the opening days of WWII, I do think that we need to stop bending over backward to make sure that we do not offend the delicate sensibilities of visitors to our country.

Political Correctness be damned!

It should be understood that any visitor with a valid Visa will be scrutinized and watched during their time inside our country. We need to start policing the Visa holders and, when needed, eject those

Call it profiling, or call it enlightened self interest, we need to spend some of the federal pork on issues that really matter.

Wang explodes in Crematory oven!

Original story here.

A Chinese man originally thought to have been struck by lightning was in fact killed by a small weather rocket whose existence was only discovered when his body exploded during his cremation.

By Richard Spencer in Beijing
Last Updated: 10:38PM GMT 16 Dec 2008

The body of Wang Diange, from the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, was found in the wreckage of a house where he had been overseeing the wake of a previous family funeral, after mourners felt a loud explosion which took off half the roof.

As it was raining and thundery, they decided that the house, and Mr Wang in particular, had been struck by lightning. The police came to the same conclusion.

Further inquiries were made a few days later after Mr Wang's own funeral. As his body was being put into the cremation chamber, it blew up spectacularly, bursting the doors off the oven.

When the fire had been put out, the only clue as to what had happened was a small twisted piece of metal, which seemed to be the glowing remnants of a screw.

At first, local metallurgists were unable to determine what it was, though they noted it bore a military serial number. After a lengthy investigation, however, it was suggested it might be part of a shell casing.

Inquiries revealed that the rainfall on the day of the original disaster was triggered by the local weather bureau, which had been firing shells into the atmosphere to break up hail in order to protect the local tobacco crop.

Inside the shells were silver iodide, a chemical that helps to break up hail into rain.

Their own investigators concluded that one shell must have failed to explode, hit the house, and lodged in Mr Wang's body. There it passed unnoticed because of his extensive injuries, according to local newspaper reports.

As a result, and three years after Mr Wang died, his family have now received 80,000 yuan (£8,000) in compensation from the weather bureau.

Jingle Bells... the hard way.

This takes some serious planning!

Flip Mino HD

Bought a Flip Mino HD video camera for my wife. Heard good things about it and the price was right.

The Chassis brace that goes behind the seats on my Vette has a camera mount that I have never used. I grabbed a 1/4 coarse thread bolt a mounted the Mino on the bar and went for a drive.



Youtube really compressed the video as the native format is like 1280x720!

Go HERE and then click the link under the video window to watch it in higher definition.