"Men Don't Get In Trouble There"

A British woman on Wednesday was facing six years in jail for allegedly having sex on a Dubai beach, the Times of London reported.

Publishing firm manager Michelle Palmer, 30, was charged with having sex outside of marriage, indecent behavior in public, being drunk in public and assaulting a police officer on Saturday on the United Arab Emirates' Jumeirah Beach, the Times reported.

Her alleged partner in the crime was unnamed in the story but is reported to be a British man on vacation. If convicted, Palmer could face three months to six years in jail.

Of course, only the woman has committed any sort of crime according to this tiny article...
Though, according to the London Times article linked below, the guy got in trouble too. They still don't name his name though, which certainly seems to be a double standard. They've all protected him from the backlash that this poor woman is going to suffer...

Read on.

Global...Warming?

I found this article interesting. As we know, Global Warming has conveniently become Climate Change which would encompass every contradiction that "scientists" can come up with.

I have to say, I'm getting quite tired of all this mumbo-jumbo.

More Crazy Cops

Reposting this video from another blog.

It contains examples of personal freedoms being walked on and also examples of police officers who don't know the law. I think I had a similar post in which the right to photograph was brought into question but I didn't have time to dig for it.

The subject is worth getting angry about.

Last Night

4th Of July

Yesterday was my favorite holiday. I love Independence Day.

I started out the day at work, and when I finally was off, I went to DJ's to take care of the kitties, then I hurried home so I could change and drive out to my sisters for a short BBQ. After that, my sister and her two friends M and B and I drove back into my neighborhood, where we hastily departed for downtown.

We arrived at Hawthorne Bridge at about 9 pm. The plan was to arrive early so we could get a decent viewing position. We were looking good until the authorities forced us all off so they could let the barge through. I'm telling you right now that the barge didn't need the bridge raised to get under, but whatever.

When they let us back on, we found a new place to stand, a bit closer to the extremity so that if they booted us for another boat, we would not have to go very far. Sure enough, at about 9:45 they kicked everyone off the bridge again. Then they put up police tape. We finally got fed up with all the pushing and shoving so we exited the bridge entirely. They weren't letting anyone view the show from the bridge. It wasn't until about 10:10 that we realized why.

There were two barges---one on each side of the bridge. Had we stayed in our places, we would only have been able to see one. The display was the best fireworks show I've ever seen. Each barge put on a 25 minute show. They were almost perfectly matched so from where we were standing, there were double the fireworks and since we ended up standing right about the bridge on ramp from Naito Parkway we had a perfect view of both barges.

I didn't take pictures because I admit I still don't know how to use my camera. However, B did take pictures and they plan on sending them to me. I'll post them upon receipt.

Wax Hitler Beheaded

I found this article amusing. It is about a wax Hitler which was beheaded by a German museum-goer.

I find it sort of odd that people would rather pretend that that era didn't happen than to acknowledge it and learn from it. Remembering an atrocity doesn't transform it into something good---it helps prevent it from happening again. I also disagree 100% with acts of vandalism. All it does is cost someone else.

Luckily, I'm not the only person who thinks that way.

As a side note, they could prevent further damage to it by putting up a piece of plexi-glass. Just a thought.

Sniffin' Roses

My sister and I were walking around the neighborhood recently, enjoying the nice weather. We were casually walking and smelling the roses in people's yards while we were talking about work, friends, school, etc. and the subject eventually turned to her thesis. It is 57 pages of what she essentially deemed to be nothing but a lot of words. I expressed that I prefer succinct writing and that I could probably never write 57 pages on one topic, but that even though my papers never met minimum page requirements, my teachers always loved them and I always got full credit.

Then she told me the title of her independent study (which she made up and there would be no way for me to remember and repeat) and I told her I could never come up with such a title. My titles are always short and to the point such as the action of smelling roses would simply be called "Smelling Roses." We agreed that her version of that title would be more along the lines of "A Study and Journey into the Fragrance Output of the Various Floral Species of the Greater Portland Area."