Dumb people in the news (part 3)

Honestly I think some of these are PR stunts, the journalist had no inspiration so he hired people to do something stupid or people are indeed idiots... Which if you think about it, the later seems more plausible... Again a special thanks to www.huffingtonpost.com for the news!

"George Washington Chicken Nugget: Bite-Size Shaped Like First President Sells For $8,100"

DAKOTA CITY, Neb. — Call it McWashington.

A Nebraska woman has sold a three-year-old McDonald's Chicken McNugget that resembles President George Washington for $8,100 on eBay.

Rebekah Speight of Dakota City sold the McNugget to raise money for a drive to raise $15,000 and send 50 children to summer church camp in Sioux City.

Speight says her children didn't eat the chicken during a McDonald's visit three years ago. She was about to toss it, then spotted Washington's resemblance. Speight stashed the McNugget in her freezer.

eBay had temporarily taken down the auction last month because it violated rules regulating expired food.

She later received an email saying the site was "willing to make exceptions to help your cause."

The resemblance is unmistakable... Ehm... This nugget looks exactly like .. a nugget! True Story. If not for the drive to raise the money I 'd empty my hatred to the generous people... *cough* *cough* that made this huge contribution to humankind... I mean I've never seen someone look so intensely at their food in case it looks like a celebrity... I am of to buy a hamburger... If I bite it right it might look like Lady Gaga and sell it, to make some bucks for the "Fight Stupidity LLC" I wanna create. Don't tell me it's not a noble cause?

"Dion Anthony, Memphis Cop, Allegedly Broadcast Sex Over Radio"

Here is some advice from Memphis, Tenn., Sergeant Karen Rudolph that might have saved a police officer accused of having sex in his squad car a bit of trouble:

"Anytime you communicate via a handheld or console microphone you want to remain professional."

That's what Rudolph told MyFox Memphis when asked about officer Dion Anthony, who is accused of broadcasting his on-duty sexual encounter over his police radio.

According to the station, not only could all on-duty officers hear what Anthony was allegedly doing, but so could anyone with a police scanner.

Anthony has been suspended and the audio recording has not been released.

ABC 24 in Memphis got reaction to the burgeoning scandal from local residents.

"I guess that's what they call working overtime,” quipped resident Denett Davis.

Never one to be out-snarked, Perez Hilton gave his take on his website:

"Hopefully he protected himself while serving his partner!" Hilton wrote.

Bro, seriously if you are about to have sex in the house do you leave the windows open? Do you call everyone and leave the phone open? Do you open your webcam so everyone can watch? (At least get paid to do it...). I was making fun of the dumb criminals in another post but to be fair some cops are just as stupid (every profession has them...). At least he is not as bad as this fellow:

Having sex with cows? Seriously? And then you *wink* *wink* milk them? Bring some more nuggets to buy this man a prostitute or a girlfriend... I can imagine him in a steak house crying and eating his girlfriend... OK, I will stop because I have way too many black humor jokes...

"Vibrating Tattoo Patented By Nokia Alerts Users When Phone Rings"

Finnish mobile phone developer Nokia has filed for a patent on a magnetic, vibrating tattoo or badge that alerts users when their phones are ringing.
According to the official patent filing, the apparatus would be able to detect a magnetic field and transfer a "perceivable stimulus" to users. The device could notify people about an incoming call, text or dead battery.
The Wall Street Journal obtained a copy of the patent application, which lists four inventors and a file date of Sept. 13, 2011.
The device could take different forms, including a visible tattoo, label or badge, that could be set to emit different vibration patterns -- much like customized ringtones -- to distinguish between different callers, according to the report.

Are people stupid? With so many magnetic fields your body will vibrate all the time... Not to mention the dudes with full body tattoos will go haywire... BUT I have something to suggest. And I want the patent for this. Tattoo on the clitoris or the penis or the nipples... With all the cell phones all over the place you'd break the world record on orgasms in a day, lifetime etc... Thank me later Nokia.

Green myths (part 2)

I bet most of you still can't believe how stupid recycling and hybrids were. But have no fear I have more to add to the list!

After I learned this I seriously started questioning the motives of all the green movement which is funded mostly by wait for it... large corporations. Who is dangerous to say but with some research you will find out. They are not really hiding it, they just hide the true motives behind it.

So how many times someone told you to turn off the light to save CO2... Kinda makes sense right? No. Why? it's worth bearing in mind that the total amount of CO2 that can be released by power plants and other industrial facilities across the EU between now and 2012 is fixed by the European Emissions Trading Scheme. This means that if the UK power sector reduces its emissions, extra carbon permits get freed up for use elsewhere, such as German power stations or French cement plants. In other words, the same amount of CO2 will be released, just from different sources.

Now after 2012 honestly I couldn't find if the European Emissions Trading Scheme has extended this but we will find out in the future. I know that by turning the lights off you save money but you don't do anything for the environment. Also the new type of bulbs do save money also but they have mercury inside so if they break they are dangerous to everyone around and the environment. They have to be recycled and disposed in a facility so that means more energy (unconfirmed). So try to understand what is good for the environment isn't most of the time good for your pocket. 

I forgot to mention in the previous post that according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, agriculture is responsible for 18% of the total release of greenhouse gases world-wide (this is more than the whole transportation sector). Now I know it might sound silly but cows farting and burping produce more greenhouse gases than your cars. I don't know the numbers but still... Feeling bad now for eating them? Eat a cow, save the planet!

A recent study brought to everyone's attention (at least those that bothered to research it) that air quality is getting better. One example is that it now takes 20 new cars to produce the same emissions as one car produced in the 1960s. A Gallup poll found that only 17 percent of the members of the Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Society think that the warming of the 20th century has been a result of greenhouse gas emissions — principally CO₂ from burning fossil fuels. 

More than 100 noted scientists, including the former president of the National Academy of Sciences, signed a letter declaring that costly actions to reduce greenhouse gases are NOT justified by the best available evidence. While atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by 28 percent over the past 150 years, human-generated carbon dioxide could have played only a small part in any warming, since most of the warming occurred prior to 1940 — before most human-caused carbon dioxide emissions. I think someone is playing with us here... And I d probably trust the dudes with the lab coats than the suits in any Government.

Christmas are behind us and I got tired listening to people that everyone should get plastic ones and not real ones so we save the trees... Sorry to break it to you my green dumbass friend but for the most part, Christmas trees are not simply cut down from the local forest where Bambi lives. The majority of sold Christmas trees are grown as crops and are therefore grown entirely for this purpose. Secondly, real Christmas trees are 100% biodegradable. Most fake Christmas trees are made from polyvinyl chloride aka PVC, a plastic that is non-renewable and does not degrade.

Lastly, real Christmas trees create insignificant amounts of CO2 in their production in comparison to fake Christmas trees. Real Christmas trees require no manufacturing processes and have relatively low shipping distances while the same cannot be said for fake ones. So if you are aiming to be more eco-friendly, keep going with the real deal and don’t buy a fake Christmas tree!

And of course I have to answer to the smartasses that say that the receding glaciers and the calving of ice shelves is proof of global warming. Here you got me you are... well wrong again but it's always fun to give false hopes to people that take no time to even do some basic research about stuff that they are interested in. I guess the same goes with religion... So what the truth is? 

Glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for hundred of years. Recent glacier melting is a consequence of coming out of the very cool period of the Little Ice Age. Ice shelves have been breaking for centuries. Scientists know of at least 33 periods of glaciers growing and then retreating. It's normal. Besides glacier's health depends as much on the precipitation as on temperature.

Another myth is that as for the earth’s poles are warming; polar ice caps are breaking up and melting and the sea level is rising. The answer to this is that the earth is variable. The western Arctic may be getting somewhat warmer, due to unrelated cyclic events in the Pacific Ocean, but the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are getting colder. The small Palmer Peninsula of Antarctica is getting warmer, while the main Antarctic continent is actually cooling. Ice thicknesses are increasing both on Greenland and in Antarctica. 

Sea level monitoring in the Pacific (Tuvalu) and Indian Oceans (Maldives) has shown no sign of any sea level rise. And don't tell me about the floods etc. People that build their houses in areas where stuff like that happened in the past and still happen need to move. Same with people that build their houses near active volcanoes and wonder why they have lava in their living room. (George Carlin)