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News Headline:
Chinese Gymnasts' Ages Under Review

(Click here for a link to the article)

The first line of the article:
Two Chinese gymnasts suspected of being underage at the 2000 Olympics aren't off the hook yet.

Keep in mind, this is 2000 they are still talking about...

Easy answer... cut them open and count their rings. That will tell how old they are.

Grocery Shopping at Meijer

Surprisingly, I couldn't find the melted ice cream isle for some reason... I guess they were out of stock.

The Impressive Sights of Midland

I spent much of last weekend riding all over Midland on my bike. I know, I know... Midland's pretty boring... but I like to get out on my bike and explore. One of the places I checked out was Overlook Park on Poseyville Road. Someone had the great idea to build a park that gives a great scenic view of one of Midland's most beautiful landscapes... No, not the Chippewa Nature Center or the Tridge or even the Rail Trail. This park gives a "breathtaking" view of the Dow Chemical Company.

http://www.midlandonline.com/wwwroot/moladmin/articles/articledisplay.cfm?art_id=80

The park overlooks pretty much all of Dow's Midland production facilities as well as what I think was supposed to be the cooling pond for the nuclear power plant that was never completed. It was eventually converted over to natural gas.

No, I didn't see any three eyed fish, but I was looking. Anyways, this park has several little informational signs giving details about Dow and the park and the local environment.

As I was reading one of these signs I spotted a part of the text that my beautiful grammar ninja would love:

Nice proofreading job guys. It only takes one click to run that spell checker. And no, "amd" is NOT referring to the microprocessor company. I had to chuckle just a little...

An Example of Why I Can't Support The Death Penalty

"A Forensics Charlatan Gets Caught in the Act" as posted on Reason.com

http://reason.com/news/show/132574.html

The idea that things like this actually occur is seriously scary. This "Forensics Expert" should be prosecuted. People being stupid is one thing, but when stupid people cause this much damage it just pisses me off...

Too many blows to the head...

I know the Lions suck but they are still my team. It's pretty obvious they don't get the smartest players. A prime example is running back Kevin Smith, who writes on his blog:

"I won’t make a prediction about how many games we’re going to win, but I will say this: We will definitely make the playoffs this season."

He goes on to say:

"Believe it or not we weren’t far off last year. Almost every game we could have won, we were one play or one player short."

Was I watching the same games he was watching???

Knock Knock...

Who's there?

Owen...

Owen who?

Owen Sixteen...

I can't describe how much I'd LOVE to see a playoff run this year, but Kevin, Captain Obvious needs to point out how stupid you look saying stuff like this. How 'bout you guys start by winning a game this year before you start getting cocky.

Here's a link to Kevin Smith's entire blog entry:

http://smith34.com/blog.html

Today's Quote

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

~Bill Cosby

How the HELL can this be legal????

The following is part of an article published on www.journalgazette.net from Fort Wayne, Indiana...

"Going 62 in a 50-mph zone, a Jeep barreled west on a slippery, snow-covered Airport Expressway on Valentine’s Day and blew past an Allen County sheriff’s squad car. One traffic stop later, two men inside the Jeep were outside being patted down by officers. They acted nervous, according to a police report. At one point they looked as if they wanted to fight; at another they looked as if they wanted to flee. In the Jeep’s back seat, police found more than $26,000 in cash wrapped in a stocking cap. Though officers held the two men for a short time in squad cars, they were eventually released without charges, save for the driver receiving a citation for driving with a suspended license. And the money? The police kept it. Having that much cash is not a crime, but police have the right to seize it if they suspect it has been used or procured through criminal means. Most of the money seized comes from drug cases and can then be used by various law enforcement agencies."

A little father along in the article it states "How often money is confiscated from people not charged with crimes is hard to determine, Barile said, but his best guess for his department is that it happens “maybe 10 percent of the time” his department performs a seizure."

Maybe 10 percent of the time??? Am I the only one concerned that the government can seize personal property when no laws have been broken and no charges filed, just because someone decided that it "looks suspicious"? I don't care if these guys did look suspicious. If there is not enough evidence to arrest these guys or file charges, how can the cops just sieze their property? Is there no such thing as personal rights anymore? If I get pulled over carrying a couple hundred bucks and the cops think that's more than I should have in my wallet is it ok for them to just take it??? Wow this is a slippery slope...

Here's a link to the full article...

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20090322/LOCAL/303229940/-1/LOCAL11