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After 15 years on this thing we call the Internet, it still gets to me. It shouldn't, but it still gets to me. Trolling. Fucking trolling. On the stupidest shit. I can still be baited and unnerved and it pisses me off! Namely - when it appears that the person has singled whatever it is I am involved in to point their snide little comments towards, without much in the way of legitimate beef.

The incident in question was over a bit of fluff I posted to my YouTube channel, which myself and some friends worked very hard on over a week-end of no sleep, no bathing and full on stress for a film contest. It was obviously an amature production, put together quickly and as best as could be. It's the nature of the contest.

So what do we get? Down ranked, and shat upon by random trolling user who seemingly created their YouTube login to specifically to dump on the production (account created 5 days ago - only activity was to dump on our video). Two comments that amounted to "well that sucked" and "this positive comment was obviously written by someone who worked on this video". Well no fucking shit!

Why? What's the purpose in that? What's the purpose in sniping at someone's hard work - especially hard work done for no reward? What's the purpose in random acts of anything malignant? Fuck 'em.

It's a dumb question, I know. And yes, I should know better. Anytime you put something out for public consumption, there's going to be some douchenozzle throwing rocks. I know this. But it doesn't stop things from wrinkling my skin.

And seriously - if you're going to troll ... FUCKING DO IT RIGHT! Have the balls to call out something specific! Call people by NAME and make them accountable for whatever crackpottery you've got going on. AT LEAST TRY!

So what'd I do? Enh. I blocked the user and removed the comments. What else is there to do? I'm guessing it was from someone who managed to get pissed off at someone else who was involved. Fuck, I don't know. I'll probably get trolled for this.

Hey - check it out... Oral Roberts died.

http://www.kspr.com/news/local/79335162.html

I believe I'd brought this up in a previous post, simply because it involved a cyclist. The long story short is that some nutjob decides he needs to shoot a cyclist IN THE FUCKING HEAD because the cyclist is riding with his child on a busy street. Evidently the nutjob felt the cyclist was being a bad parent.

So the judge gives the nutjob 120 days.

I can't honestly come up with much in the way of substance for this one. Here's my link to the left-wing media site where I read the follow-up to this outrageous display of barbarism.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/man-gets-120-days-shooting-cyclist-head.php

Nothing. I got nothing. That's what I got. Nothing.

Then why don't I have any free time?

And here's even more in the way of our elected officials chewing on the soles of their feet.

Not being the brightest bulb in the bunch, Rep Baron Hill (D) dressed down a young student and a crowd of registered voters concerning the right to visually document a townhall meeting by telling everyone "You're not going to tell me how to run my meetings".

Despite the respect and politeness exhibited by the student when asking why she could not "film" the meeting for her class project, Hill went on the defensive. He started out by saying "This is my townhall meeting" and backpedaled when the crowd began to boo. "This is my townhall meeting for you."

Is this the equivalent of "I hit you because I love you"?

Hill went on to say that the reason he does not allow visual recording (or "filming" as everyone keeps calling it) of his townhall meetings (for the people donchya know) is because "usually the films that are done wind up on YouTube in a compromising position".

Welcome to the Internet, Representative Hill. Enjoy your congressional office while it lasts.

Here are, of course, the links to just some of the YouTube recordings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtmgQ2W3lhM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdnijARV6QU

Check this out...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/rest-of-world/Top-Canadian-politician-kills-cyclist-in-road-rage/articleshow/4962455.cms

TORONTO: A top Canadian politician who served as Ontario's attorney general faces murder charges for killing a cyclist in the heart of Toronto on Monday night.

Forty-three-old Michael Bryant, who became the youngest attorney general - equivalent to home minister in India - of Canada's most powerful province of Ontario with Toronto as its capital, was on Tuesday charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving.

What'd he do? Accidentally hit the guy? Oh hell no...

The former attorney general, who was driving his Saab convertible in the congested traffic, and the cyclist reportedly bumped into each other. After the collision the cyclist lunged at the driver, leading to exchange of words.

As the politician tried to drive away, the cyclist grabbed the side of the car and was dragged along.

He didn't just get dragged along. Not by a long shot - not in todays world...

And then the driver of the car pushing up against the curb, trying to knock him off on the poles as he went down the opposite side of the road,'' the eyewitness said.

Police said the cyclist didn't let go of the politician's car till he was hit a mailbox on the roadside and then run over by back tires of the car.

The former attorney general stopped his car a short distance as paramedics arrived to take the injured cyclist to hospital where he was declared dead.

Fucking wow.

In the past 24 hours I've been accused of being hostile (with saved chat logs as whatever evidence of misinterpreted communication), had my own subconcious twist a few emotional knives, was told I was not just wrong - but really amazingly wrong - in class, and I got into a road rage screaming match with a jackass in a mini-van at a red light on the way in to work (the jackass was the one who accosted me).

These things only happen in threes, right?

Oh wait...

I'm so fucked.

So yeah - work has decided that World of Suck falls into the "tasteless" category and therefore I should not be allowed to read it. Is that a win? Getting blocked - maybe - but for being tasteless? Not quite. In fact, this is the kind of taste I appreciate.

To curb my need for vitrol, I've been hooked on reading a blog (http://bitchgoddessdm.livejournal.com), which was linked in the LiveJournal spotlight. While it is a personal blog, there are some great tales and rants.

Otherwise... life is life. Work is work. School starts next week, in which case I have elected to take a 7:30am class twice a week (Logic) and I'm attempting to test out of computer science web development course. How fitting that, as I submit the online Final Exam, the web service times out and my exam gets wiped.

These sorts of stories hit close to home. Almost literally. I've yet to be the target of someones outrage as I ride my bicycle to/from work, but I've definitely almost been hit a few times - thanks to people who think that signs like "No Turn On Red" is some weird gambling advice.

But these things take a different slant - police officers and now firemen are assaulting cyclists. Here's the latest one, culled from Boing Boing.

http://www.wyff4.com/news/20187786/detail.html

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- A driver, now identified as an Asheville firefighter, shot a bicycle rider because he was angry the man was riding with his child on a busy road, Asheville police said.

It smacks of irony. The fireman, upset that the parent would endanger the life of their child by riding on a road, shot the cyclist. In the head. The helmet was solid enough to stop the bullet (which is a fucking miracle in itself and I know about a dozen cyclists who want to know the brand of helmet the rider was wearing), but still... In. The fucking. Head.

That tops Patrick Pogan, the New York Times cop that went out of his way to tackle a cyclist during a Critical Mass bike ride, simply for the hell of it. See that story below. The video is unbelievable in light of the bullshit story to cop made up in order to arrest the cyclist.

http://animalnewyork.com/tag/patrick-pogan/

To protect and serve folks... what a fucking joke.

From news.com.au

A FRENCH Guiana court has jailed four church members for up to 12 years for the exorcism of an epileptic teenager who was found dead attached to a cross.

The members of the Celestial Church of Christ were jailed yesterday for terms of three to 12 years for "wilful violence that caused death'' for 15-year-old Roger Bosse in 2005 in the south American territory.

The court heard that the mother of the boy, who suffered from mental illness, had brought him to the church for help and was told he was possessed by the devil.

The church members beat the boy repeatedly over a three-day period with reeds and belts and attached him to a cross for the last two days, the position in which he died.

A post-mortem examination showed that he had probably died from suffocation.

The Celestial Church of Christ was founded in the west African state of Benin in 1947 and claims millions of adherents worldwide.

I wonder if News of The Weird has stats on this sort of thing.

Brilliant Comrade.

So let's see... you have two kids and want a third do you a) get knocked up the old fashioned way b) look into adoption or c) cut the fetus out of another woman...

I think you know the answer to this one.

The 27-year-old is charged with killing her pregnant friend, Heather Snively, and say she cut open the 21-year-old's abdomen to take her baby and pass it off as her own. Snively's body was found Friday in a crawl space of Roberts' suburban Hillsboro home.

This one is ... yeah. Check out this mug shot...

Let's hope that image stays up on the servers for a while, shall we?

So the story goes that Korena Roberts befriended Heather Snively via Craigslist. Craigslist, so well known for its positive social engagements lately, might as well be the 4chan of Internet psycho killers as far as I'm concerned.

The article isn't clear about how/why the police were knocking on Roberts door when they found Roberts boyfriend trying to revive the infant, but there's this tidbit...

Investigators were also awaiting details from the autopsy and other tests to determine whether the baby might have breathed even once before he died. If he did, Roberts can also be charged in his killing.

Here be dragons. With all of the debate about abortion, abortionist killers and killers who abort, there's a profound bit of black and white right there. I'm ignorant of the laws where this crime took place but I would presume from the above text that even though the baby was 8 months along, it wouldn't have been a double homicide if the baby had died as a result of Roberts conking Snively on the head (and not the subsequent removal, which was certainly NOT a choice).

The really weird thing is that this isn't the first time this has happened.

About this time last year, a Pennsylvania woman was charged with murder after she cut a baby from another's woman's body and tried to pass it off as her own. The mother died.

In 2004, a Missouri woman strangled another woman with a rope and then used a kitchen knife to cut a baby girl from her womb. She was arrested one day later after showing the child off as her own.

This is pretty interesting and it sure beats the hell out of the knot tying merit badge. If they'd had this back when I was a scout, I probably would have stuck with it.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/15/boy-scouts-training.html

The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence -- an intense ratcheting up of one of the group's longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters...

Man found guilty of battery in exorcism attempt on teen
A man who says he tried to cast demons from a 14-year-old autistic boy from Southern Indiana has been convicted on charges that he injured the teen during the exorcism.

A Monroe County jury on Tuesday found Eddie Uyesugi, 24, guilty of felony charges of battery and criminal confinement.
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Uyesugi testified during his trial that he was trying to help the Bloomington boy and punched him in the face and chest to restrain him during the 2007 ceremony.

I guess it's better than crucifying him or nailing the boy to the floor.

I don't mind saying that I haven't talked to my father in over ten years. I'm also not someone who will sob and cry that I "never had a 'father'" and use such a device as a crutch to pass the buck for my own faults like any number of Jerry Springer guests. My home was not broken. It was just different. I dealt with it and I moved on.

Even before 1997, I rarely spoke to the man. I did the week-end visits but as soon as I became a teenager, I suddenly had a life with new friends and new interests. A week-end father, who would shove money into my pocket to make up for whatever, really wasn't one of them.

Last time I talked to him, he was sporting a gold watch and suggesting that I have lunch with him at an exclusive club downtown. "You'd have to wear a jacket and tie," he said. Fuck that.

My step-mother had hit the state lottery for two million dollars a few years earlier. They moved out of their 1960s, stone block ranch house on the near east side and bought a home up on the far north-east side of town; an area that the poor criticize openly but secretly long for.

Imagine my amusement when I received a phone message from a collections agency looking for the man last night.

I called them back this morning and told them to remove my number from their records and to never call me again. "Do you know him?" they asked. Of course I do. I'm his son. "Do you know how we might get in contact with him?"

"I don't know. Try the phone book. That's what I'd do."

Women who play ska. This does not suck. I recently stumbled upon two acts from the British ska and 2 tone revival of the late '70s and early '80s.

The Selecter
Made up of mostly guys, The Selecter (slang for "DJ") was fronted by Pauline Black, who went on to have a successful career in jazz music and acting. Plus she rocked the androgynous look in her pork-pie hat and jacket. Not surprisingly, The Selecter folded when Pauline left the band.

Video for "Missing Words"
Video for "On My Radio"
Video for Too Much Pressure
Video for the 1991 remake of "On My Radio"

The Bodysnatchers
Here's an all female group that had a few singles and then moved on. They reformed as The Belle Stars, which was more of your typical '80s pop band. I can't help but love this song.

Video for "Do Rock Steady

Thanks for listening.

Teen burned after soaking hair in gasoline

EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- A teenager who soaked her hair in gasoline to try to kill head lice was critically burned when the gas fumes ignited and set her head ablaze, police said.

Jessica Brooks, 18, was in serious condition today at the burn unit at University Hospital in Louisville, Ky., after Sunday night's fire at her Evansville apartment.

Police said Brooks was in her apartment's bathroom letting her hair soak in gasoline just before a pilot light from a water heater ignited the gas fumes and her hair.

Investigator Richard Howard said Brooks suffered second- and third-degree burns over more than half of her body and that when firefighters arrived at her apartment they found her horribly burned, blood-covered and skin hanging off her body.

Wow.