The Evil Atheist Bastard

This Just in: Man finds Boobs sell better than Bibles

So what happens when you open a sex shop in religious Eastern Kentucky town?  Well, the good christian folks flock, in secret of course, to the store for porn, sex toys, and what-not, and then come out in droves to protest the store and it's racy goods.

Well, an Putney Kentucky man, Michael Braithwaite did just that.  He opened up a racy sex shop in a religious town and did good enough business to warrant a $10,000 inventory, but the church and the local Sheriff didn't like the idea of a booming sex shop in their towns and set out to close it down.

Never mind the fact that Braithwaite was making money in the small town selling a retail service or product that the PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY WANTED since he did relatively well until the church and the sheriff organized to bring him down.

$1,200,000,000,000 Wasted on Foreign Aid

Here's a problem that is a lot bigger than I had believed.  It turns out that American Foreign Aid money has been pretty much thrown away:  It turns out that we've thrown away over $1.2 TRILLION (with a T) in foreign aid!

So How Bad is Global Warming?

All the protests, all the calls for punitive legislation and regulation of free markets, all of the calls for the abandonment of gas powered vehicles...  How bad is Global Warming, really?  Junkscience.com has the verdict...

Thought For The Week:

Earth is believed to have warmed approximately 0.6 °C (about 1.1 °F) since 1880.

Earth's estimated absolute global mean temperature is 14 °C ± 0.7 °C (roughly between 56 °F and 58 °F).

The estimate of total global warming since 1880 is less than the error margin of averaged measured temperatures for the period 1951-1980. 

Is planet Earth warming? Well, we think so...

That's it?  All this fuss over a possible 1.1 degrees which could simply be a statistical anomaly?

Common sense confuses media outlets, liberals

This is too good to be true.

Crime Rate Drops, But Florida's Prison Population Exploding

The national crime rate has fallen over the past decade, but the government reports the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released and Florida's growth rate is outpacing most other states.

The population of the nation's prisons and jails grew by about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004. By last June, the system held 2.1 million people. That is one in every 138 U.S. residents.

In Florida, the one-year growth rate in state prisoners stood at 5.5 percent, and the prison population rose by about 4,300 inmates.

California and Texas are the only states with bigger prison systems. Both had much lower growth in the same year.

So how are any of these stories newsworthy?  Seriously, If you put and keep criminals in jail, there are less criminals on the streets and thus crime goes down.  In typical liberal/progressive media practice though, any good news must be offset with something bad/evil/conservative.

In this case we're told "While crime is down, prison crowding is quickly becoming a crisis!"  Oh NO!  Not that!  Why, if we keep locking prisoners up, then they won't be comfortable while they are being punished for violating the law and the rights of their victims.

Okay, I'm going to say something very UN-PC and very controversial.  I just really do not give a damn.  I don't care.  There, I said it.

Why is it that the comfort and care of criminals in today's society is so important that the very fact that locking criminals up, taking them off the streets and there-by reducing crime is only okay if the criminals are coddled and comfortable?  They are in jail for the love of god.  It's not a summer retreat or a vacation home.  It's prison.  The idea is punishment and rehabilitation.

If you really want to do something about prison over-crowding, then you might want to curb the countless appeals, actually put the criminals on death row to death, and process non-violent drug offenders through drug treatment programs instead of jailing them.

The judicial system is in need of an overhaul, that much is certain.

But I, for one, think that it is a good thing that we're actually locking up more criminals and thus making it harder for criminals to ply their trade.  Why should we care if the criminals are packed into their cells like sardines in a can, so long as they aren't continuing to commit crime on the streets of America?  If they wanted to be comfortable and free, they shouldn't have broken the law or violated the rights of the rest of us.