Category: Stupid

What’s the perfect place for a high school for troubled teens? Right between a strip club and an adult video store.

Their reasoning? To “fight terrorists.”

President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said Wednesday.

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The GPS system is vital to commercial aviation and marine shipping.

So if you use GPS to get yourself to work, out of a jam when you’re lost, or out of the woods when you’re hunting (and don’t even think about Geocaching), this could really screw you over. And not to mention that if you’re flying on a plane, this could make it so the pilot suddenly has no idea where he’s going or where he is.

Isn’t that nice? Thanks, Bush. Quoting this BB post: “Nice one, George: why not shut down the fire-departments, too, so that ‘terrorists won’t be able to survive fires started by careless smoking?'”

Expect to see cameos from other annoying Disney characters. This movie will suck compared to the two originals. Full story (yes, I know, old link, but it’s been sitting here waiting to be posted for a while).

Unions have their good qualities, but sometimes they’re a bit ridiculous (don’t get me started about the most powerful union in the world, the Major League Baseball Player’s Union). For an example, a 600,000 member union in England may strike because one member of the union is being forced to tuck his shirt in. Full Story.

New York City is hoarding them all.

Update: Fixed Link.

Only in Nebraska would thieves try to remove a night deposit box with a backhoe. Or would somebody joke to a checker at a store about having a gun, have somebody overhear it, and then the guy get arrested for the stash of pot in his car. And the guy’s girlfriend tried to claim that it was hers, to cover her boyfriend’s butt, and she got arrested, too.

Only in New York City. Link via Kottke.

If you haven’t already heard, a school district in Georgia is putting the following stickers in their science books: “This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.” Here’s a JPEG of the sticker.

I can’t believe this is being done thanks to some loud-mouth folks who are against evolution (and yes, it is possible to believe in both creationism and evolution — we’re starting to see a two-party system like we are in politics, but I digress). The folks who are against evolution are generally religious folks, and are we supposed to keep religion out of public schools?

Anyway, Davezilla has a great rant on the topic where he suggests some other stickers as well:

This textbook contains material on carpentry. Woodworking is a theory, practiced by Jesus of Nazareth, not a fact, regarding the creation of wooden furniture. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and not undertaken without OSHA-approved safety glasses.

His commenters also have some good contributions. There are some humorous ones (and good discussion on this topic) over at this site.

Thanks to about 400 sites for the link.

Apparently if somebody steals your drug money, you can claim a massive tax deduction (why this link came to me on a Canadian web site, I have no idea — you have to love news wire services).

Apparently the Canadian government is pretty good at it, too:

Ottawa may have paid tens of thousands of dollars more than it should have for golf balls and other souvenirs to promote Canadian unity, during visits that a witness at the Gomery inquiry described as a “garage sale.”

Inquiry co-counsel Guy Cournoyea read from an advertising company invoice the government paid in 1997. The invoice was for books on Rideau Hall, Christmas tree ornaments and 1,200 golf balls, costing more than $100,000.

Another invoice for more knick-knacks topped $600,000.