Park's 2 bears killed after bite

TimesDispatch.com

This is unacceptable and ridiculous. This is none of the bears' fault, yet the bears had to pay with their lives for the child's (and his monther's) choice to disobey rules. How disgraceful.

Vandal Trapped By Tombstone

NBC5.com

Instead of inconveniencing four firefighters in this cold weather, they should've left it to God's holy wishes. If God wanted to punish a little longer this brat, he'd stayed pinned down there until God himself removed the stone with a blink of his eye.

Paycheck

I just finished watching Paycheck, with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman.  Quite entertaining, although not really an Earth shattering story line.  I think the story develops in California, although for a sec. I thought I saw this funny tower of Seattle.  There're a lot of people of different ethnicities appearing in the film.  But shamefully, the only Latino is a robber in a bus!!!  Well, to tell the truth, a good deal of the Latinos I know are crooks, unfortunately.

Baghdad daytime curfew ordered

Scotsman.com

This is really awful. I've experienced nighttime curfews, even on my own Prom night! But daytime curfew is really something very exceptional. Sounds almost like a desperate move.

I'm still convinced that it was a poor thing to go invade Iraq in the name of protecting the lives of American citizens (so the war won't have to be fought in American soil). Or was it to bring democracy to the oppressed people of Iraq? Huh, who cares!

The thing is that the people of Iraq were living under oppression, poorly, unsafely, etc. even without the Americans having to spend their federal taxes at a rate of US$1 Billion a week. Why spend all that money just to see that they'll still live oppressed, poorly, unsafely, etc.?

This is senseless.

I have some American friends who are nice people, really nice people I should point, but they tell me that their adult son doesn't have medical insurance. How about spending half billion dollars a week ensuring everybody in the States gets health insurance? And how about using the other half a billion dollars per week on better education for all?

Yahoo! mail sucks

A little while ago I was writing a long e-mail to a friend from whom I hadn't heard of for quite a while.  When I click on "Send", instead of getting the mail sent confirmation screen, I get the please logon again screen.  I figure after I put in my password the mail will be sent... but I'm wrong!  The mail I wrote is nowhere to be found!

Electricity bill

I don't understand this.  Now I live in a smaller apartment than before, and since here I have an electric fan, I'm not using the aircon at all, yet my electricity bill is about twice as much as before coming here.

Yesterday I got my electricity bill, and this is the first time I'm living here from begining till end of the billing cycle.  I can't believe, and I don't see how somebody would be stealing electricity from my apartment.  Is it that the water heater for the shower here consumes even more than the aircon at my previous apartment?  Unthinkable.  The fridge here is also much nicer than the previous place, but it can't be.  Then the cooking range is also a lot more powerful than at the old apartment, but I use it only a few minutes each time I cook, it's not on for hours on end.

Is it possible to somehow have a "leak" of electricity?  This just doesn't make sense.

The previous tenant was a total ass

Today I came back to my new apartment and found in my mailbox his unpaid telephone bill.  I opened the envelope without noticing it was not for me, just my correct address.  He has certainly already cancelled his old phone number (I dialed it, and got the recording from the telco).  But he has neglected paying his last bill, and it is more than 10 times what I usually pay on my own phone bills!!!

Also, he didn't pay for the cable television for a couple of months before he left, and the service was cut one day after I moved in!!!  And he didn't pay for his last electricity nor water bill either.  I wonder if this is very common in this country.  Then that would explain how come this country is underdeveloped in spite of being so blessed by nature.

Moronic comments on CNN

This afternoon I was flipping the channels, and I happen to catch some comments by CNN viewers who phoned the station and left their thoughts to its answering machine.  The topic was the demonstrations taking place in many Muslim majority countries against the insulting cartoons published in Denmark and other countries.  I heard two comments complete, and both were idiotic:

1.  A lady calling from Greece, but speaking with a mild American accent was opposed to the angry mobs, and in order to show her support for "free expression", she said she's gonna buy three times as much Danish products as before.  I think she's missing the point that the poor dairy product manufacturers in Denmark are simply some innocent bystanders.  Buying more danish milk or quitting buying it won't affect at all the guys working at the paper that commissioned and published the cartoons.  Silly lady.

2.  A guy calling from the US, and speaking with, huh, a Southern accent, claims the Muslims have no place complaining about defiling profets and other venerated characters because the Talibans blasted the Buddha statues at Bamiyan.  I'm like, dude, this is in the same league as thinking that Pat Robertson and the Saint Inquisition speak for all Christians of the world!  Please, use your head more often!!!

Brokeback Mountain

SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW

What kind of moron takes the time to write a report like this? And who in the world would find this useful? Just sit, relax, and enjoy the movie!

Overheard in New York

The Voice of the City

It all make sense now! After reading a few entries of this website, I can see how it was possible for George W Bush to be elected president of the US.

Millions in Kenya face starvation

CNN.com

What's up with Africa? How come they have starvation crises over and over again? Yes, I feel kind of sorry for them, but also it kind of wears thin if the same people need the same help again and again and again. I apologize for my ignorance, but I wonder why they don't have an irrigation system down there? They don't know what is a dam (like the Hoover Dam or the Three Gorges) which could store water and generate electricity to power their industries?

Low-Fat Diet's Benefits Rejected

The Washington Post

Okay, then the menu for tonight will be one think but lean pork chop, fried and seasoned with some black pepper, served with white rice and perhaps some green beans, and a sauce made of chopped garlic marinated in soybean oil, parsley, salt and MSG. For dessert one apple.

What a bunch of jerks...

I don't usually do this, but today I opened my spam mailbox, and found about 10 new spam mails arrived in the last 24 hours.

One of them claimed to be from Orkut.  Obviously, this is a scam cause I've never signed up for their service.  I opened to see what these morons had to say, and it was very interesting.

It was all in Portuguese, and it said that some lady Carol Acevedo had filed a complaint against me, and since I've been ignoring their rules and warnings and whatever, they were about to cancel my account.  And also, that if I don't want my Orkut account banned, then I should follow the instructions described in the following link.

Now when I hover my mouse on this link, does Firefox show the address of an innocent html or php page?  Surprise surprise!  The link leads to download an executable which who knows what problems might bring!

To satisfy your curiosity, this is where the link leads, but please, don't go there!  http://convite.smtp.ru/carol.exe

JeffCorwin.net

JeffCorwin.net - Biography

Whoever wrote this article is a clown. Whenever I read in the news something about "intelligent design", it sounds like a joke that somebody from another planet invented. But now that I see this website with my own eyes, I feel indignation at the ignorance and actions of the guy. How come he dare disguise his superstitious beliefs as scientific knowledge?

Cheated by Burger King

Yesterday on my way to get a hair cut, I saw a Burger King advertisement for a special hanburger, "double cheeseburger with mushroom sauce".  In the picture it looked really yummy, with many slabs of mushroom sticking out of the bun.  Oh man, I just got to try that, I love mushrooms!

So on my way back, I stopped by Burger King and ordered one of those.  When I got mine and took a seat, I opened my sandwich to look inside, and disappointment, instead of the many thick slices of mushroom, I only found two or three slivers of mushroom!!!  How they dare!!!  I ate it anyway, and sure enough, it tasted like heaven.  But just by tasting it, I would've never guessed this double cheeseburger had anything to do with mushrooms.

That was low from Burger King.  This kind of advertisement reminds me though of some other dirty trick in another third world country.  Once a posh department store got a fat fine for distributing catalogues that contained a picture of a sweater described as "100% cotton", and then a few pages later in the same issue of the catalogue, you see the same photograph, but this time the caption reads "100% acrylic".

Councillor's aide steps into fecal fracas

CBC Ottawa

Good for the councillor, and shame on those unionized workers!

Bush hopes for a democratic Iran

BBC

Huh? I thought Iran IS a democracy (they just elected a new president in June last year); as opposed to Pakistan (run by a military government), which is buddy buddy with the US.