RANDOM THOUGHTS #33
Steve Cole muses: Just thinking to himself.
1. Memo to self: Do not put that bottle of small white medication tablets on the shelf next to the bottle of small white airsoft pellets.
2. US Marshals caught the East Coast Rapist, who raped seventeen women in several states. Good for them! Now, taxpayers get to spend a million or two holding trials in several states. It seems to me that in the case of multiple-state crimes, you could have one Federal judge and one Federal jury listen to several state prosecutors each present their cases. He could then go to Federal prison with each state paying a share of the cost. None of the states wants to convict him and then let another state try him, and if they wait until he finishes one state's sentence, the witnesses and evidence for other states will be stale. Now, when Congress finds enough brain cells to elect me king, there is going to be a Federal death penalty for committing some number of rapes north of three. The execution will be conducted by a firing squad composed of one male relative (boyfriends included) nominated by each victim (who wants to). Before the execution, the rapist will be strung up naked by his ankles, and each victim (who wants to) will get one swing at his gonads with a baseball bat. The procedure will be videotaped for KingTube and all rapists in the country will be warned that this is what will happen to them when they're caught unless they march into a police station and surrender right away.
3. Mother's Day is the busiest long distance telephone day of the year. Why do so many people move so far away from their mothers?
4. Most of what you think you know about the dodo bird is wrong. They were actually a species of pigeon. They were not stupid, but were very defensive and could not realize that their world was no longer free of predators and that a human with a club was deadly. Dodo birds were not fat, at least not naturally, but the last dodos alive were in European royal zoos where they were overfed.
5. I read that the guest appearance of Adrian Pasdar as a Homeland Security agent on the television show Castle is an effort to launch a new series (staring him, about that). Besides being fed up with the Hollywood fantasy that US military veterans fake terrorist attacks in order to keep the public focused on the War on Terror, my concern is that such a series is not going to be believable as there just aren't that many terrorist attacks. One possibility would be to do the 22 episodes of the series as four or five "arcs" of multiple episodes so there are only a few attacks per year. Sort of a series of mini-series.
6. According to Bucky Kat, civilizations run at faster speeds in warmer climates. Thus, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Incas, and the Aztecs all reached civilization faster, then got tired and cranky and needed to take a break so they just collapsed. Same thing for Rome, which is a little cooler than Egypt. Temperate civilizations like England, France, Germany, and the US reached their peak next, and are about to run out of steam. Canada, on the other hand, hasn't even reached a point of civilization yet, since Canadians (according to Bucky Kat) spend half of each year frozen solid, so they'll peak sometime in about a hundred years. This actually seems to be a pretty good plan, as each civilization can start where the previous ones left off.
7. While Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is the most famous of US speeches, there is actually no copy of what he actually said. The various newspaper accounts are vary somewhat (as the reporters were writing the address down longhand in real time) and the only copy in Lincoln's handwriting clear consists of page 1 of one draft and page 2 of a different draft. (The two pages overlap by a sentence or so, proving each is part of a different draft and the combined total is obviously not the actual speech given.)
Well, that fills up the assigned space (Jean will be happy to have another blog in the file), and it's all non-political (so Jean will be twice as happy).
1. Memo to self: Do not put that bottle of small white medication tablets on the shelf next to the bottle of small white airsoft pellets.
2. US Marshals caught the East Coast Rapist, who raped seventeen women in several states. Good for them! Now, taxpayers get to spend a million or two holding trials in several states. It seems to me that in the case of multiple-state crimes, you could have one Federal judge and one Federal jury listen to several state prosecutors each present their cases. He could then go to Federal prison with each state paying a share of the cost. None of the states wants to convict him and then let another state try him, and if they wait until he finishes one state's sentence, the witnesses and evidence for other states will be stale. Now, when Congress finds enough brain cells to elect me king, there is going to be a Federal death penalty for committing some number of rapes north of three. The execution will be conducted by a firing squad composed of one male relative (boyfriends included) nominated by each victim (who wants to). Before the execution, the rapist will be strung up naked by his ankles, and each victim (who wants to) will get one swing at his gonads with a baseball bat. The procedure will be videotaped for KingTube and all rapists in the country will be warned that this is what will happen to them when they're caught unless they march into a police station and surrender right away.
3. Mother's Day is the busiest long distance telephone day of the year. Why do so many people move so far away from their mothers?
4. Most of what you think you know about the dodo bird is wrong. They were actually a species of pigeon. They were not stupid, but were very defensive and could not realize that their world was no longer free of predators and that a human with a club was deadly. Dodo birds were not fat, at least not naturally, but the last dodos alive were in European royal zoos where they were overfed.
5. I read that the guest appearance of Adrian Pasdar as a Homeland Security agent on the television show Castle is an effort to launch a new series (staring him, about that). Besides being fed up with the Hollywood fantasy that US military veterans fake terrorist attacks in order to keep the public focused on the War on Terror, my concern is that such a series is not going to be believable as there just aren't that many terrorist attacks. One possibility would be to do the 22 episodes of the series as four or five "arcs" of multiple episodes so there are only a few attacks per year. Sort of a series of mini-series.
6. According to Bucky Kat, civilizations run at faster speeds in warmer climates. Thus, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Incas, and the Aztecs all reached civilization faster, then got tired and cranky and needed to take a break so they just collapsed. Same thing for Rome, which is a little cooler than Egypt. Temperate civilizations like England, France, Germany, and the US reached their peak next, and are about to run out of steam. Canada, on the other hand, hasn't even reached a point of civilization yet, since Canadians (according to Bucky Kat) spend half of each year frozen solid, so they'll peak sometime in about a hundred years. This actually seems to be a pretty good plan, as each civilization can start where the previous ones left off.
7. While Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is the most famous of US speeches, there is actually no copy of what he actually said. The various newspaper accounts are vary somewhat (as the reporters were writing the address down longhand in real time) and the only copy in Lincoln's handwriting clear consists of page 1 of one draft and page 2 of a different draft. (The two pages overlap by a sentence or so, proving each is part of a different draft and the combined total is obviously not the actual speech given.)
Well, that fills up the assigned space (Jean will be happy to have another blog in the file), and it's all non-political (so Jean will be twice as happy).
posted by Federation Commander at 7:32 AM
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