Police name suspect in Ohio highway shootings

They say that police believe he has acquired another gun. Oh joy. The superintendent of the school district where the school was shot at is the bell choir director at the church where Jon did his internship. This wasn’t just a random thing that happened in central Ohio — it affected a lot of people.

CNN.Com: RNC tells TV stations not to run anti-Bush ads.

I think we’re scaring them. Who’s afraid of a few $50 donations to the opposing side? After all, the ads are being financed by 160,000 people who donated small amounts of money to run them, not simply the big donations of a few.

Mike: I found my copy of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them and I’ll post the rebuttal for the 9/11 entries’ comments tomorrow.

CNN.Com: Martha Stewart found guilty on all counts.

Can’t say I’m terribly surprised. She’s made so many enemies that I really doubted she was going to be let off. I’m not a fan (my mother-in-law is threatening to make WWMSD bracelets — What Would Martha Stewart Do — she’s a big Martha fan) and I didn’t really care all that much about following the trial. I have enough to think about with unpacking the rest of the house (no… we’re not completely unpacked yet — if you want to help me haul books upstairs and unpack and live near me, let me know) without having to consider how to arrange flowers for March, especially with four creatures who live to destroy anything that moves. I’m still trying to figure out how to decorate the house let alone make centerpieces for fancy dinners that I’m not currently having. I’ve heard rumors about how badly she treats her people and I have no desire to associate myself with any of that. Add on that we’re still paying off student loans and I can’t afford to do most of the stuff she does.

The reason that she was tried and even charged is that there has been a white collar crime wave lately and the federal government is making an example of her. She’s in the public eye and her actions are watched a little more closely as a result. She may have had an agreement with her broker to sell the stock or she may have lied — I don’t know and I don’t care. The government basically used her to prove the point that they will prosecute those who commit white collar crime.

The only thing that really disturbed me was the juror that claimed that “this was a victory for the little people”. ‘Scuse me? How is this a victory for the little people? Martha is a self-made woman. She was poor as a child and built her empire as an adult — if anything, she showed that one can make themself into something if they’re tenacious enough. THAT is a victory for “the little people”. Having her found guilty does nothing for “the little people” — she’s already ruined because she was even charged and put on trial. If only people weren’t so media-hungry that they had to give stupid soundbytes!

For those who have seen The Passion:

Read this and tell me if I’m right in thinking that this guy is a putz. I sent this email to him after reading the review:

You are probably going to get people calling for your resignation because of how poorly you reviewed “The Passion”. Heck… you might even get people emailing you to convert you to Christianity (it’s pretty clear that you aren’t a believer from the utter obliviousness to the plot) and tell you of your sinfulness. I’m not going to do either. I’m simply going to say this about your feeble attempt at reviewing this film:

I really wonder if you even attempted to understand the mindset of many of the people watching the film with you. Maybe it’s too much for me to expect an objective review of the film from a critic in the Bay Area. If nothing else, your callousness is a reminder of why I moved away 3 years ago.

Attention:

The Passion is not anti-semitic. It tells the story of Christ’s last 12 hours on earth… which means Jesus is going to be hauled in front of the Sanhedrin and the Jews are going to want to kill him. The Romans are going to wash their hands of it. If you don’t believe me, there are accounts of this in all 4 Gospels.

Anyone who feels it is necessary to go an perpetrate violence against Jews because of what is depicted in The Passion has probably already got the idea in their heads and knows fully well that doing it “because of X movie” is on par with the Twinkie Defense in terms of stupidity.

That is all.

Someone emailed me the link to the story in the rubbish pile waste of webspace tabloid known as the Drudge Report about John Kerry’s alledged affair. My thought: are their scum so desperate that they’re ripping stories of the National Enquirer? If his marital infidelities were such a horrifying issue, they probably would have surfaced somewhere around… New Hampshire? I mean, for goodness sake, he’s a P-O-L-I-T-I-C-I-A-N. It’s not like his life is all that private. Wouldn’t something like this be kind of public knowledge early on?

I think someone is really scared of how well he’s doing and wants him out. Why else would this crap be drudged up dredged up now unless there’s someone who wants him down?

Even if it’s true, I’d still take him over Bush. His lies haven’t shed the blood of thousands of innocent people or ruined the reputation of a country in the world.

**UPDATE: Guess which of the following newspapers reported on the alleged John Kerry affair:

If you guessed “NONE OF THEM”, you’re right. I guess there are more important things than the trash ordure slander libel gossip produced by the idiots at the Drudge Report.**