[SF Gate]
A man wearing nothing except what looked like a nun’s habit on his head approached three young girls in a Union City church parking lot Saturday and ordered them into his car before they fled the scene, police reported.
Read about it here.
[From me]
Only in California. 
A New York company has angered anti-abortion activists by using the contentious issue to advertise its storage business, by showing a wire coat hanger and the slogan: “Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose.”
Read about it here.
[From me]
Why would a company want to anger potential customers?
What do you think?
[From Wall Street Journal]
Ric Hoogestraat sits at his computer with the blinds drawn, smoking a cigarette. While his wife, Sue, watches television in the living room, Mr. Hoogestraat chats online with what appears on the screen to be a tall, slim redhead. He’s never met the woman outside of the computer world of Second Life, a well-chronicled digital fantasyland with more than eight million registered “residents” who get jobs, attend concerts and date other users. Hoogestraat has never spoken to her on the telephone. But their relationship has taken on curiously real dimensions. They own two dogs, pay a mortgage together and spend hours shopping at the mall and taking long motorcycle rides. This May, when Mr. Hoogestraat, 53, needed real-life surgery, the redhead cheered him up with a private island that cost her $120,000 in the virtual world’s currency, or about $480 in real-world dollars. Their bond is so strong that three months ago, Mr. Hoogestraat asked Janet Spielman, the 38-year-old Canadian woman who controls the redhead, to become his virtual wife.
The woman he’s legally wed to is not amused. “It’s really devastating,” says Sue Hoogestraat, 58, an export agent for a shipping company, who has been married to Mr. Hoogestraat for seven months. “You try to talk to someone or bring them a drink, and they’ll be having sex with a cartoon.”
Read about it here.
[From me]
Sounds like there may be a virtual divorce. Why in the world would the man want a virtual mother-in-law?
Seriously, with all of the other dangers in marriage, this kind of technology can do nothing but destroy marriages.
What do you think?
[From Victoria Advocate]
A man arrested Saturday night after a routine traffic stop in Texas told deputies that the cocaine found in his vehicle was a graduation present for his son in Houston.
Read about it here.
[From me]
What happened to just getting laundered $$?
The highly misguided people from Westboro Baptist Church are at in again. Now in the midst of the worst school shooting our our nations history the folks at Westboro are planning to protest the funerals of the victims.
Read about it here.
When is does this go too far? Come on those students did nothing to deserve what happened to them. Now in the midst of this tragedy the Phelps gang is going to inflict more pain. If you have never watched my interview with Shirley Phelps-Roper you can watch it here.
To the Phelps family if you are looking for a place to protest I invite you to come to Charlotte. I would love to share with you the “TRUE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST.”
When does free speech go too far?
[From Christian Post]
So much for God and country, at least during some in-flight showings of the Oscar-nominated movie “The Queen.” That’s because all mentions of God are bleeped out of a version of the film given to some commercial airlines.
Even in these politically correct times, censoring references to God in the film wasn’t a statement of some kind. Rather, it was the mistake of an overzealous and inexperienced employee for a California company that edits movies selected for onboard entertainment.
The rookie censor was told to edit out all profanities _ including any blasphemy _ for the version of the movie distributed to Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, Air New Zealand, and other carriers.
So the new censor mistakenly bleeped out each time a character said “God,” instead of just when used as part of a profanity, said Jeff Klein, president of Jaguar Distribution, the company that distributed the movie to airlines this month.
Read about it here.
[From me]
I wish the same censor would make that mistake on every movie and TV show when it comes to profanity!
[From Key TV]
Two Christmas grinches were arrested Monday, accused of stabbing a 12-foot-tall inflatable Frosty the snowman with a screwdriver.
Read about it and watch the video here.
[From me]
confessions of others
