Author: Richard

Woman Burns Down Friend’s House For Defriending Her on Facebook

The Des Moins Register reports that a 30 year old woman in Des Moins has been charged with arson after she set her friends house ablaze at 1am while the friend was sleeping in it.

They managed to escape as the siding on their house began to melt from the heat of the fire in the detached garage.

The roof of the garage collapsed on cars stored in the garage. Other stored property also was lost in the blaze.

Officers asked Jim Rasmussen if anyone would want to harm him of his family and he provided the name Jennifer “Jen” Harris. He said Harris was a long-time friend of his wife but they were now involved in a dispute.

A police report says that when an officer asked Nikki Rasmussen about Jen Harris, Rasmussen said “… the two are no longer friends due to a dispute over Facebook. According to Nikki, Jen is angry with her because she ended their friendship on Facebook.”

The report goes on to mention a “fake Facebook account.” But Police Detective Jack Kamerick said only that it involved “Facebook issues and kept building and building and text messages that were sent.”

“Things were posted on Facebook,” Kamerick said. “Jen asked Nikki to create an event on Facebook for a party. Nikki did that. As the date for the party approached “there were a lot of ‘declines,’ on Facebook, the detective said. It was looking like the party might be a bust. The dispute apparently blossomed. So when the garage went up in flames, Harris became the first name that occurred to the victims.

Cover image (and hat tip for this story) via Gawker.

Legal vs Illegal


My recommended uses for the items above range from “sparingly” to “none at all”.

Not that I wanna rain on the parade of the joke being made. but still: Guns, prescriptions, beer, fast food, marriage (lol) and yes – even marijuana are all okay in small doses. Cigarettes – never. And while it’s not logical that the plant that makes you feel good is illegal vs the more mixed bag of the others – that in itself isnt an argument for completely legalizing it.

To avoid confusion:

Moon Mining

It’s come to this?
Dozens of companies hoping to earn $20 million prize in race to mine the moon for elements, including water

“We are in the first three months of a two-year contract,” David Gump, president of Astrobotic, told FoxNews.com. “We’ll have a field-tested robot that will be able to go to the poles” on the moon to extract water, methane and more, he said.

Astrobotic isn’t the only company that hopes to dig up the moon. Last week, FoxNews.com revealed the story of Moon Express, which sees greenbacks in all that lunar “green cheese.” In all, 26 companies are in the race, many fueled by the Google Lunar X Prize, a $20 million contract to put men back on the moon.

But a contract with the California company SpaceX to hitch a ride to the moon on its Falcon 9 rockets sets Astrobotic apart, the company argues. On board the rocket, which is planned to launch in late 2014 or early 2015, will be Astrobotic’s own lunar lander, which will take the company’s mining robot to the moon’s surface.

SpaceX spokeswoman Kirstin Brost Grantham confirmed to FoxNews.com that the contract does in fact exist.

Even NASA has a stake in the company, having negotiated seven contracts with Astrobotic, the company claims: one to develop an excavator and others to give NASA information on how the company will carry out its mission at a low cost.

Potential targets include water, methane, and ammonia, hidden in pockets within the moon. Scientists are certain these elements exist beneath the lunar surface, but are unsure about the quantities and in what form they reside.

Kardashians Divorce and the Gays

I dont think either cheapens marriage but idk anyone whose against same sex marriage that also thinks divorce is awesome and there should be more of it. do you? the “people get divorced after not being married long, so people of the same sex should marry” argument doesnt make sense to me and i think its a losing line for the cause.

I get bein annoyed with someone whose a famous millionaire cuz she made a porn but im just sayin that the “divorce is a reason same sex couples should marry” isnt a good argument only cuz it doesnt change minds. i mean, if thats the argument then no same sex couples can get divorced. Rosie Odonnel and her lady were together for a decade before they got married and then they divorced within a year. if someone told me that is a mockery of marriage i would say theyre being silly but the same applies to heteros who find their love isnt sustainable after a short time as well.

Would you find the same valid point (whether you agree with it or not) in a picture showing Rosie Odonnel making the reverse point? That’s how you know this is a non-argument.

Meanwhile, on twitter:

All in all idk why people care about this.

An Update on my Bieber Fever…

As many of you have noticed, my absence of Bieber posting has been interrupted by a return of JustinLuvin.

I officially ended my BiebFeev when he cut his hair cuz then he was just a guy… like – its just a dude who sings then. it was hilarious when he was a lesbian haircut wearing 11 year old looking preppy wannabe thug who sang about love – THAT was hilarious – but now he’s just another teenager with a girlfriend in the music biz and its like, yawn. however i recently re-started my Fever, partially in response to people being disappointed that they couldnt share BiebLove jokes with me as a thing anymore and partially because when i see fans still go ridiculous-obsessy over him it still makes me laugh and gets me going back into my “i luv him MOARRRR” groove.

and also cuz i still wanna hit that (even if he IS getting to be too old for me)

Before we know it he’ll be another 20something tattooed jerk and there will be no humor in faux-adoration of his flagrant douchery.