Did you know you can subscribe to FBI tweets? I kid you not, the FBI has a twitter feed. I played around with twitter about a year ago an quickly discarded it as a huge time sucking monster. Do we really care that so and so has a hang nail? Do we really want to see photos a brain dead celebrity took of his wife in her underwear? This is how inane twitter is. I refer to the endless entries as twitter droppings and twitter twaddle.
Now, back to the FBI and Twitter – two words I’m sure J. Edgar never envisioned … Um … Well on second thought maybe he did, but not quite like this. Don’t you wish we could get the minutes to the high level executive meeting that made the decision to put the FBI on twitter. Did they discuss how Twitter would make them hip and cool? Wow maybe they could use it as a recruiting tool! Did one if the execs chime in, “I’ll bet the terrorists don’t use Twitter! We’ll finally be ahead of them in the information game”.
One of their latest entries tells us we can be special agents for the FBI, just contact them for details. Oohhhhh. I’m all a-twitter with anticipation.
I have this wonderful image in my head of a couple if suit and ties sitting around their cubicles trying to decide what to put on twitted. “I know Bob, how about Osama wears pantyhose. No, no the Director is a card carring member of the ACLU.”
All cynical comments aside, they are posting a lot of useful info about missing children. Nice to see Twitter might have some good uses.
Makes you stop and wonder, doesn’t it.
see more Fail Blog
Rhode Island Senator Rod Driver has offered to donate money for every second George Bush, Condoleeza Rice and Dick Cheney hold their breath while being waterboarded. He said he would donate $100 per second to whatever charity the unholy trinity chooses.
Nice to see American ideals of right and wrong creeping back into the political arena.
Waterboard for charity
The never ending UK MP expense saga just keeps giving and giving. One of the latest casualties of the public anger over the indulgences was Conservative MP Anthony Steen. He is stepping down and will not run again after it was revealed he dinged the public purse for £87,729 over a 4 year period. The expenses went to maintaining his estate in Devon, including maintaining the health of the 500 trees on the estate and ensuring there was no bunny damage to any of the estate shrubbery. No, I am not pulling your leg on this – this is what the beleaguered British public were paying for.
Mr. Steen is not at all happy. He claims the expense investigation has been an unwarranted invasion of his privacy. He labours under the illusion that the public should pay his private expenses and just shut up about it. Matter of fact, he believes he has been a model citizen:
I think I have behaved impeccably. I have done nothing criminal. And you know what it’s about? Jealousy. I have got a very, very large house. Some people say it looks like Balmoral, but it’s a merchant’s house from the 19th centur,…We have a wretched Government here that has completely mucked up the system and caused the resignation of me and many others, because it was this Government that introduced the Freedom of Information Act and it is this Government that insisted on the things which caught me on the wrong foot.
There you go! This has nothing to do with an inflated sense of entitlement and improper use of public money. It all comes down to the fact the public are just a bunch of petty, jealous plebs. How dare the public get between Mr. Steen and his tiny Balmoral-upon-Devon. Just pay his personal bills and shut up. He went further in his rant and said “What right does the public have to interfere in my private life?” Honey, if you take the public’s money to pay your personal upkeep, then your invoices are no longer private. The expenses system was meant to defray the cost of setting up a second residence when Parliament was in session. It was never meant to pay for rabbit removal. Last I checked Parliament is in London, and I don’t imagine there is a huge rabbit infestation there. Other rodents, yes, but bush nibbling rabbits? No.
So this mess is all the government’s fault. If they hadn’t been so careless and let the public know how much larceny had been going on then none of the MPs would be forced to resign. Perhaps the British public could bare to foot one more expense – the purchase of a bushel of moral compasses.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/anthony-steen-youre-all-just-jealous-1689211.html
I was wandering the Internet looking for funny things to write about and found an interesting bitlet. Remember Tonya Harding? Think real hard… think U.S. figure skating … think assault on an opponent … yea her. I found this on her website:
For good, for bad, depending on your point of view, Tonya Harding has been one of the most influential or perhaps controversial persons in Figure Skating history, and in all sports history…
Oh… I don’t think she was at all influential in world figure skating – more like a minor blip on the screen. No doubt she had talent, but ice rinks are littered with the remains of talented individuals. I wouldn’t even give her a controversial award. She simply flamed out in disgrace. Any controversy centered around the rough treatment she received because of her “trailer” living background. To the American press, Harding just couldn’t hold a candle to their middle class princess what’s her name… oh hell… I have to go look up the name…. Nancy Kerrigan, another candidate for the Inflated Ego Award.
I loved the ESPN networks collage of the most important moments in a century of sporting history. They include the attack on Kerrigan. This was a very sad moment in sport history, but hardly one of the most important moments and certainly not to be placed just after the Munich Olympics and the earth quake that rocked California during a baseball game. The clip should be relabeled American Sports History. Hardly any non-American moments made it. To be fair, it was made for an American audience, not a world audience.