Mike in Real Life

 

Tattoo gone wrong: Stars and gripes forever?

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Belgian teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlor with 56 stars over one side of her face, rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

“I said this part, the top, is ok, but not the rest,” Kimberley Vlaeminck from the city of Kortrijk, 90 km (56 miles) northwest of Brussels, told Belgian broadcaster VRT. The 18-year-old said she fell asleep during the procedure, and woke up in pain when her nose was being tattooed.

Tattoos are a hell of a lot of fun. I have two of them, but they are certainly not somewhere stupid, like on my face.

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For almost three months now, or basically since the realization was reached that my marriage was totally over (still need to get that totally resolved) I have been seeing one of the women I work with.

While I have heard people say this is a bad thing, and have always thought it was myself, it has actually been working out very well.

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How do the two of these go together?  Why is there a picture of an Ohio State University Medical Center cup at the top of this page?  Good questions, all of these.

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Why is there a picture of VCF here? A wonderful question, I must say.

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http://www.onpointnews.com/NEWS/Will-Hell-Freeze-Over-if-Satanist-Inmate-Wins-Suit.html

Will Hell Freeze Over if Satanist Inmate Wins Suit?

The heightened protections under a federal law for the religious exercise of prisoners may not extend to the case of a Montana inmate who has sued Yellowstone County jail officials for restricting his practice of Satanism.

Jason Indreland

Jason Indreland’s case is very similar to McCorkle v. Johnson, 881 F.2d 993 (1989), in which the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Alabama state prison system did not violate the free exercise rights of an inmate by denying his requests for items including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Book of Rituals, and a Satanic medallion.
“The restrictions challenged by the plaintiff are reasonably related to valid penological interests,” the court said, applying the rational basis standard of Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78 (1987).
Indreland, 35, is now serving five years in a Montana state prison, with two years suspended, for felony drug possession. In a pro se complaint, he says he “has been a practicing Satanist for the past 10 years” but was unable to freely exercise his rights while he resided at the Yellowstone County Detention Facility between March 2007 and July 2008.
When he was booked into the jail, he alleges, guards stripped him of his medallion — “a protective symbol in his religion and belief system” — and on “numerous occasions” during his confinement denied his requests for “a Satanic Bible or Book of Satanic Rituals to practice his chosen religion.”

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Let me get started with my thoughts on this by saying that I am an atheist who hates religion with an extreme passion. 

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Sometime in the near future, I need to get a transcript of Obama’s speech from last night, and insert my tweets from last night in there as well, then post it all up here so it makes a bit of sense.  Maybe that will be my weekend project.  Stay tuned.

 

From CNET:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/20/internet.records.bill/index.html

Bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police

(CNET) — Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, supporter of a bill that would require Internet user records to be saved for police.

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