Would you really want to be known as one of the guys who literally beat someone to death because of an accident?

I mean really now. If you did this:

The van jumped the curb and ran up the steps of the three-story building, striking the women.

it would be bad enough, but imagine if:

She said she saw five or six men pull the driver and passenger out of the van’s passenger side and then punch, kick and beat the two men with bricks.

All of the women hit by the van are in serious or fair condition. The men driving in the van are in the cooler. Who wins this time?

Okay, I wanna know. When something like this happens:

An argument over who was going to heaven and who was going to hell ended with one Texas man shooting another to death with a shotgun, police said on Monday.

who wins? It’s not like the guy who shot him will know where he ended up!

But then again, if you did this:

“The victim Joslin then took the gun out of Stokers mouth, saying, ‘If you have to shoot somebody, shoot me,’” Alford said, citing the witness report. The shotgun went off, hitting Joslin in the chest and killing him.

I think you would already know.

Happiness is the success of Potty Training. One down, two to go.

9 for 9. Enough said.

As you know I am a huge Wal-Mart fan, but I think they are crossing the line here.

Wal-Mart sued Union County on Friday, alleging that its refusal to consider the company’s application to build a supercenter amounts to stonewalling.

The fact of the matter is:

In January, county commissioners imposed a special-use permit requirement for stores bigger than 50,000 square feet. The county’s Board of Adjustment must approve those permits.

and:

The company wants to build a controversial 206,000-square-foot store on 31 acres at Rea and Tom Short roads near Marvin and Weddington.

Therefore, they should have to follow the rules, just like everyone else.

Could you imagine being pulled off of a plane, and asked to empty your CHECKED baggage on the tarmac? What if the “suspicious” item that was vibrating in your bag was an adult “sex toy”?

Yes, it happened to Renee Koutsouradis while waiting on their flight from Dallas back in February.

She said she was met by a Delta security agent who told her something was vibrating in one of her bags. She said she explained it was an adult toy that she and her husband had just bought on a trip to Las Vegas.

She said the agent took her to the bag on the tarmac and made her remove the toy and hold it up, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday. Some passengers on the plane saw everything, and three male Delta employees “began laughing hysterically” and made “obnoxious and sexually harassing comments.”

Doesn’t Everyone Love This Attitude.

In case you missed my post the other day, today is System Administrator Day!

So, to all of you SysAdmins I have worked for or with in the past, HAPPY DAY!

Oh yeah, and Happy SysAdmin Day to ME!

1. How long have you had a weblog? Since July 10, 1997. Of course, everything from January 1998 through December of 2001 was lost in a horrific hard drive crash. Okay, okay, I might be able to find some more of the old posts, but honestly, I have not looked for them.

2. What was your first post about? It was a welcome to everyone. (All three people that usually read it).

3. How many changes (name, location, etc.) of your weblog have there been, if more than one? Lets, see there was the commentary page, then the site o’ schtuff, so two names, and two locations, woohoo.com and now slobokan.com

4. What CMS (content management system) do you use? Do you like it or do you want to try something else? I currently use Movable Type and would not use anything else, at this point.

5. Do you read people who have both a journal and a weblog? Or do you prefer to read people who have all of their writing in one central place? One central place is nice, but it does not matter to me.

Leave it to Helen Thomas to bring this to our attention. I love Helen.

President Bush won worldwide acclaim when he spotlighted the ruthless treatment of women by the Taliban regime. His bold stance on the issue contributed heavily to the international backing he received when he decided to attack terrorists in Afghanistan and elsewhere. But now he risks losing much of that support by withdrawing his earlier approval of an international women’s rights treaty.

This pact was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979, and was signed by then President, Jimmy Carter. It has been sitting in wait, in the Senate, ever since.

The pact, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, is expected to be discussed Wednesday by the committee, and Helms is expected to block it.

Again? Isn’t it time we stood up and declared that discrimination against women in education, employment, politics, finances, health care, and such is totally wrong?

Standing with the United States in failing to ratify the convention are nations known for their oppressive treatment of women, such as Afghanistan under the Taliban, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

I would not exactly be proud of the company we are keeping.

I think this story will eventually be considered more hype than reality, but in today’s world you never know.

A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political effort to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt peer-to-peer networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat to their bottom line.

I have yet to see any REAL evidence that music downloads are in fact a “dire threat” to any of these companies bottom lines.

“It’s a good bill,” Gene Smith, a spokeswoman for Berman, said on Monday. “It’s always hard to defend theft and piracy–this bill just puts into the hands of the copyright owners technologies that are already being used by the pirates.”

Sounds like vigilante justice to me.