An American legal resident, who could have lost his status, was given unsupervised probation for stomping a kitten to death. 

Prosecutors said that Salomon Velazquez Diaz, 46, repeatedly stepped on the black kitten's head on the front stoop of his apartment until it was dead on June 18.

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Coalter said Diaz is a lawful permanent resident of the United States. The conviction could result in his deportation.

Asked afterward about his client's motives in killing the cat, Coalter said, "He just didn't think it was wrong."

Let's see.  The FBI says that many serial killers start with killing animals for senseless reasons (i.e. in non-hunting or non-farming situations).  The guy has no remorse for his actions.  Do we really want this guy in the US?

No, I am not making this up.  Don't feel bad for Santa, though; the Danish Air Force (they have an Air Force!?! Oh, yeah, two F-16s.  I guess that qualifies as a force...but I digress...) paid up and Santa will have a new reindeer in time for Christmas.

Danish Santa with his reindeer

from Yahoo

And it didn't actually even come in the review, but in the advisory afterwords:

-- Advisory: This film contains violence, gore and profanity. By watching high-quality geek filmmaking, you run the risk of turning into a geek, which can be very expensive. (Did you think video cards were cheap? And did you think Adam West just gives away his autograph?)

(Emphasis mine.)

Of course it's expensive!  Everyone wants to be a geek these days, but not everyone has the discipline to achieve total geekiness.  Most just can't budget their money for the necessities of life as a geek.

A true geek, I would much rather have my computer, a stack of science fiction books from Half Price Books*, and the Sci-Fi Channel over new clothes or a new car.  Seriously.  Heck, all new clothes will do is get muddified by the dogs, and the car would get scratched to hell and gone by those selfsame dogs. 

Most geeks can't even claim to have spent rent and food money back in the day of Heathkits and Timex Sinclair 1000's......nor of waiting in a line over a mile long to see Star Trek the Motion Picture--three times in one weekend (yeah, I know, but it was so good to see them together again).  Of course, I used scholarship money for it.  After all, I could always buy used books.

Like geeks everywhere, Serenity is definitely on my weekend to do list.

*Real geeks actually read a lot of science fiction books, and then lend them to family or friends and then have lots of great discussions about them. Wannabees run off to Barnes and Noble and spend too much and keep the books to themselves like the books are made of gold.  It's like the difference between Trekkers and Trekkies.  And if you have to ask what the difference is, dang are you reading the wrong post!

I have been reading stupid stories about the GOP being in trouble nationally because of DeLay's and Frist's problems.  Somehow, most of these stories forget that Roberts was confirmed...and he will have more of an effect on the future than DeLay and Frist together.

The idiots who write this tripe also forget the majority that the GOP holds in both houses.  But then, most journalists probably never passed math classes and that's how they ended up as journalists....

Gross story about 100 dead cats in Leeds.  Cats stuffed behind radiators, in the freezer, and in other places.  Since the electricity had been off, even the ones in the freezer were decomposed.  No info on previous owner(s) or renter(s) of the apartment in the story.