Humanity: Good News, Bad News

[ZeaLitY]

Health Edition

Good News: EU throws down the gauntlet on breast cancer. http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/10/27/eu.breast.cancer.reut/index.html

Bad News: Cop chief gets sacked for logically and rationally pointing out why his police officers were a liability for being fat. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/01/jelly.belly.ap/index.html

[Radical_Dreamer]

Next at 11: Fire chief sacked for suggesting that firefighters should be strong enough to carry a limp adult out of a burning building in a timely fashion.

[Lord J Esq]

Good News: Wine extract keeps obese mice healthy

That ought to put a wrench in all of this anti-fat nonsense I've been hearing around here. Of course, the study only applies to mice at this time, so take it with a grain of salt...or a bucket of salty crackers and a bottle of red wine.

Bad News: Man meets horrible end at hands of insincere fiancee

A lonely California man went to Brazil to see his fiancee thinking he was going to make wedding plans. Instead, he was drugged and held captive for six days at his fiancee's home while she and another man emptied his bank accounts. Then they strangled him with copper wire and burned his corpse.

WTF News: Teen Yelling "I Want Jesus" Stun Gunned By Police Then Dies

A delirious 17-year-old kid shouting "I want Jesus" could not be calmed down by police and was Tasered. He eventually died, although the medical examiner suggested that his excited delirium was as likely a cause of his death as the Taser. I just have to pity people like him. I really do hope his short life was satisfying, because that kid is gone.

[ZeaLitY]

Never use a taser in the place of a left hook. I'm tired of hearing over-zealous cops whip out the taser at the first sign of confrontation. No one wants to physically restrain these days; instead, we'd rather gamble with heart conditions.

[Mavix]

what about sand guns thats not as deadly is it. I mean its more safe than getting your brain fried with a 1200 volt taser. I mean come on what more humane TASER or sandbag gun.

[grey_the_angel]

Next at 11: Fire chief sacked for suggesting that firefighters should be strong enough to carry a limp adult out of a burning building in a timely fashion.

my cousin's a firefighter. He says, you have to be able to lift at least 110 lbs. with your equipment on.... which is 100 lbs by itself.

[Radical_Dreamer]

Next at 11: Fire chief sacked for suggesting that firefighters should be strong enough to carry a limp adult out of a burning building in a timely fashion.

my cousin's a firefighter. He says, you have to be able to lift at least 110 lbs. with your equipment on.... which is 100 lbs by itself.

Note to self: Don't pass out in a burning building.

[ZeaLitY]

Good News: Heart failure out. http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/11/02/heart.fix.ap/index.html

Bad News: Aquatic life out. http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/11/02/seafood.crisis.ap/index.html

[grey_the_angel]

Next at 11: Fire chief sacked for suggesting that firefighters should be strong enough to carry a limp adult out of a burning building in a timely fashion.

my cousin's a firefighter. He says, you have to be able to lift at least 110 lbs. with your equipment on.... which is 100 lbs by itself.

Note to self: Don't pass out in a burning building.

why? Issac can bench 250.

[Radical_Dreamer]

Next at 11: Fire chief sacked for suggesting that firefighters should be strong enough to carry a limp adult out of a burning building in a timely fashion.

my cousin's a firefighter. He says, you have to be able to lift at least 110 lbs. with your equipment on.... which is 100 lbs by itself.

Note to self: Don't pass out in a burning building.

why? Issac can bench 250.

Great. So that's one firefighter that could save me. If the requirements are really as lax as you say, there could be a lot of firefighters out there who couldn't carry my passed out self.

[grey_the_angel]

Next at 11: Fire chief sacked for suggesting that firefighters should be strong enough to carry a limp adult out of a burning building in a timely fashion.

my cousin's a firefighter. He says, you have to be able to lift at least 110 lbs. with your equipment on.... which is 100 lbs by itself.

Note to self: Don't pass out in a burning building.

why? Issac can bench 250.

Great. So that's one firefighter that could save me. If the requirements are really as lax as you say, there could be a lot of firefighters out there who couldn't carry my passed out self.

not really, when consider the fact they all pretty much have to lift 210 lbs.

It adds up. They just didn't want the firefighters to strain themselves.

[ZeaLitY]

Good News: The Democrats have taken control of Congress. I'm not a radical liberal, but the Republican party needs to pay in full. They even violated the principles of conservatism by initiating the wiretapping and other symptoms of "big government."

Bad News: The same elections resulted in same-sex marriage getting banned in seven out of eight states (Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, with Arizona voting against the proposition). Welcome to the Stone Age of America, where love between two sentient beings is still only officially possible through religious institutions and their restrictive legacies and where theocrats impose their will upon all.

[Romana]

Bad News: The same elections resulted in same-sex marriage getting banned in seven out of eight states (Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, with Arizona voting against the proposition). Welcome to the Stone Age of America, where love between two sentient beings is still only officially possible through religious institutions and their restrictive legacies and where theocrats impose their will upon all.

So, they're still scared of anyone different, eh? How unfair. Love is supposed to be for anyone.

And that last line is fantastic.

[ZeaLitY]

BONUS ROUND

Good News: Jesus Camp is closed. http://www.torontodailynews.com/index.php/WorldNews/2006110814Kids-Camp

Bad News: Bush's push for wiretapping is open. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/09/election.main/index.html

AWESOME NEWS: The Sonic 2 Alpha has been found! Less complete than the beta, it illustrates how Sonic 2 was built off the original Sonic and proves that the Hidden Palace Zone was developed early on and therefore wasn't cut as a late development. http://www.hidden-palace.org/?news/c/9

[grey_the_angel]

BONUS ROUND

Good News: Jesus Camp is closed. http://www.torontodailynews.com/index.php/WorldNews/2006110814Kids-Camp

Bad News: Bush's push for wiretapping is open. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/09/election.main/index.html

AWESOME NEWS: The Sonic 2 Alpha has been found! Less complete than the beta, it illustrates how Sonic 2 was built off the original Sonic and proves that the Hidden Palace Zone was developed early on and therefore wasn't cut as a late development. http://www.hidden-palace.org/?news/c/9

I loved this line: Haggard has acknowledged that he paid Mike Jones of Denver for a massage and for methamphetamine, but said he didn't have sex with Jones and didn't take the drug.


.... right. cause lord know, I pay for meth, but I don't take it.