the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[MDS]

I learned from my idiot roomate last night that because illegal (mexican) immigrants don't pay taxes, America will be a proverbial shteinland in 20 years.

I guess you learn new things everyday.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I learned from my idiot roomate last night that because illegal (mexican) immigrants don't pay taxes, America will be a proverbial shteinland in 20 years.

I guess you learn new things everyday.

The more I look at that situation versus the other shtein going on, the more I say "meh".

[Seabiscuit36]

Big 10 Companies to put cap on Carbon outputs

[PhillyPhreak54]

So I started school last week...I hate Philosophy class. I've never heard so much useless shtein in my life.

[BigEd76]

nice 

which school?

Half of my college courses were useless...

[PhillyPhreak54]

Immaculata

Going full time (15 credits)

The chick to guy ratio is like 3-1. Its like heaven.

[MDS]

I'm taking Econ51 from some 75 year old guy with band aids on his head. He just heard of Lost and was confused about the plot. Should be fun.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Don't farg with an eagle...

[hbionic]

baby born with brain outside his skull

Is this watchable or one of those things that will haunt while having bacon?

[BigEd76]

sure

[Sgt PSN]

baby born with brain outside his skull

(yes, it's a foreign country that lacks the medical expertise to diagnose this stuff before it happens)

That gives new meaning to the term "hairy brain."  Speaking of which, it looked like my hairy brain......only smaller. 

[Sgt PSN]

This made me laugh. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Missing Teen Met With Police To Report Bike Stolen

(AP) ST. LOUIS Ten months after Shawn Hornbeck's disappearance, he spoke with police to report his bike had been stolen but gave no clue that he was a missing child, a newspaper reported Saturday.

That apparently was the first of two encounters Shawn had with police after his 2002 disappearance, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The boy also may have placed a message on the Web site created by his parents during their search for him.

Shawn was missing more than four years before he was discovered Jan. 12 with 13-year-old Ben Ownby, who had been reported missing four days earlier. Michael Devlin, 41, has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping Ben and has been charged with kidnapping Shawn.

The Post-Dispatch said that on August 15, 2003, when Shawn was 12, he introduced himself to police in suburban Kirkwood as Shawn Devlin and gave no clue that he was a missing child being held captive. Shawn reported that his bike had been stolen from outside the apartment he shared with Devlin, according to the police report.

"I spoke with Shawn Devlin and his father Michael Devlin," Officer Christopher Moss wrote in the report, which the newspaper obtained through a public records request.

There was no immediate response to calls seeking comment Saturday from Moss, now an officer in nearby Overland. Kirkwood police also did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Kim Evans, a friend of Shawn's family who has been speaking for them, said she was "speechless" that Shawn was seen by police 10 months after his kidnapping.

"You would think someone would have recognized him," she said. "But it's hard to say."

The Post-Dispatch previously reported that on Sept. 29, 2006, a police officer in suburban Glendale stopped Shawn late at night because he was wearing dark clothes and didn't have reflectors on his bike.

According to the police report on that encounter, Shawn told the officer his name was Shawn Devlin and gave him the birth date July 7, 1991, 10 days off his true date of birth. Shawn told the officer he was riding his bike to his apartment in Kirkwood after visiting a friend's home.

Glendale police have said the officer had no reason to suspect Shawn Devlin was someone else.

[Father Demon]

This has been a non-stop story here, pretty much 24 hours a day.

And it gets stranger and stranger with each passing day.

[Geowhizzer]

California lawmaker proposes no-spanking law

Excerpt:

The bill, backed by Democrat Sally Lieber of San Francisco, a member of the state legislature, would outlaw spanking children three years old or younger and carry a possible penalty of jail time or a 1,000-dollar fine.