Jury: A lingerie-wearing man in closet not guilty
Friday, April 11, 2008A Beaverton man was found not guilty of burglary Friday, despite admitting he was wearing lacy lingerie while hiding in a closet in the home of a woman he didn’t know.
Eric Kincaid, 29, said he had mistaken her apartment for that of a woman who had invited him by phone to have sex with her. He said he ran away when the strange woman screamed.
The Washington County District Attorney’s office said it was more likely that Kincaid, high on methamphetamines, just tried all the doors he could until he found one that was open.
In December, police arrested Kincaid after technicians matched his DNA to a meth pipe he inadvertently left behind in the closet, along with other items.
A jury believed Kincaid’s story, and found him not guilty on all counts.
Kincade shown here at the courthouse after being found not-guilty
Article from: Hillsboro Argus, Hillsboro, Oregon
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You might wander on over to the Pillage Idiot blog
If you are interested in a satire on WJ Clinton that sounds disturbingly like it might be the truth.
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I am NOT making this up.
You just can’t make this stuff up… An electric grill powered by… yeah, a USB connection. It can’t draw a lot of current so your burger-jerky ought to be done in 12-15 hours.
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I would have said you couldn’t make THIS up either, but somebody did, and thanks to McGoo for finding it. Now when I have a need for a Twisted Turd (Turd Twister™)I know how to go about it. Just bounce around on his page until you find a blue button thingy with a star on it.
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Then, too, you have to wonder… in the US it is illegal to smoke pot (and I haven’t an issue with that at all) but at the same time alcohol is legal. Just an observation: I never saw two stoned dudes try to bash each other’s skulls in.
Ok, so about alcohol…
This time it was a car. A bad car. A very bad car that stole his dog. Oops. Wrong car. Bad car over there… <CRASH>
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Why Conservatives are Happier than Liberals
- Guns, we have lots of guns
- We are Vast Right Wing Conspiratorialists
- We eat meat
- We seem to function quite well in a meritocracy
- Guns, did I mention guns?
- Liberals are easy (metaphorically) targets
- Our talk radio hosts beat their talk radio hosts – and they speak english, too
- We don’t feel a need to justify jack… it’s just right
- We don’t believe that people are all the same, and realize that laws won’t change that
- Oppression of the masses, lead pipe cruelty, and obscene profit margins – all in a day’s work
- Special subset:Actually being The Man, keeping the masses down
- We don’t actually believe in #2 and #10 but liberals think we do
Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.
Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found.
Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person’s tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.
The rationalization measure included statements such as: “It is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others,” and “This country would be better off if we worried less about how equal people are.”
To justify economic inequalities, a person could support the idea of meritocracy, in which people supposedly move up their economic status in society based on hard work and good performance.
In that way, one’s social class attainment, whether upper, middle or lower, would be perceived as totally fair and justified.
If your beliefs don’t justify gaps in status, you could be left frustrated and disheartened, according to the researchers, Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University. They conducted both a U.S.-centric survey and a more internationally focused one to arrive at the findings.
“Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives,” the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, “apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light.”
The results support and further explain a Pew Research Center survey from 2006, in which 47 percent of conservative Republicans in the U.S. described themselves as “very happy,” while only 28 percent of liberal Democrats indicated such cheer.
The same rationalizing phenomena could apply to personal situations as well.
“There is no reason to think that the effects we have identified here are unique to economic forms of inequality,” the researchers write. “Research suggests that highly egalitarian women are less happy in their marriages compared with their more traditional counterparts, apparently because they are more troubled by disparities in domestic labor.”
The current study was funded by the National Science Foundation.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354424,00.html
(Please people, recognize that this is satirical, ok?)
Argh.
I have the same on the “Cons are happier than Libs” post, but I kinda went interpretive on it. Does that make it mine as well? You did trumph me with a list though….
Double-argh.
I’m not the kind of guy to get upset just ’cause another guy wears the same dress to a party. Errr… uh… well you get the idea. Everyone has different takes on news so you mix your interpretive stance with my “it all sounds like bullshit” stance and you’ve got “Siskel and Ebert Ride Again”.
You didn’t cover FrnakJ’s reason conservatives are happier than liberals.
When people talk about The Man keeping them down, you know they’re talking about you.
Hi Veeshir, pleased to meet you!
It seems to me that “Oppression of the masses, lead pipe cruelty” kind of include The Man keeping them down, but you’re right, if we’re focusing on “Being The Man” Hmmm. I’ll sneak that in as #10a
I remember when that iGrill was first post on ThnkGeek… on April 1st. Sorry, but it’s a joke. I wish it was real.
Bummer, but it was also a lot of fun. Thanks for the tip, and you don’t have to apologize!
At 1:45AM last night it did seem to be way too good to be true, as I posted “It can’t draw a lot of current so your burger-jerky ought to be done in 12-15 hours.”
Although, that does leave the possibility… perhaps if we hook up a regular AC power source, and use the USB port to set the time on it, for “Moo”, “Rare”, “Medium”,”Well Done”, and “Carbon”. We should patent this right away.
About Update on the post: and now my guys are giving me hell for actually posting something that was directly newsworthy. I am telling you that there are some fickle poeple on these here iterwebs.
My my, this implies you are “A Total Bastard” and “Not A Team Player”. How DARE you post newsworthy stuff?
Meh.
Tell ‘em to go stuff themselves. But say it in a non-threatening, supportive, and “Sensitive To Gender/Race/Sexual-Orientation Bias Awareness” way.
By the by – the Goth chick reading Poe and then licking the computer screen… damn was that disturbing. http://barslavesandbananas.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/fun-in-africa-hard-core-gangsta/