Anybody else having troubles with the Internet today and yesterday? All sorts of pages refuse to load and my connection keeps going down, at least at home, where I use Mozilla's Firefox. Everyone I know says Firefox is the greatest, but I'm beginning to think it's not so great. This isn't the first time I've had troubles surfing with it.
Anyway, I don't have much time to put together a morning post and my materials are limited due to my surfing disability, but I have a few things:
Looking for a new drug? Say "cheese." It's potent and can kill ya:
Cheese is made by grinding up cold medication and mixing it with black-tar heroin, which is typically smuggled in by Mexican drug cartels. A $30 purchase of heroin can yield 40 to 50 cheese hits, each costing about $2–more affordable for users and more profitable for mixers. The drug, which is snorted, derives its name from a supposedly Parmesan-like appearance, though in reality, it looks more like coarse sand. Because the amount of heroin in cheese is sometimes small–as little as 3 percent–the drug rarely shows up in field tests. But the heroin quantity can be inconsistent. "Kids will be scoring 3 percent and all of a sudden, they get 9 or 10 percent, and you are dead," says James Capra, Special Agent in charge of the DEA's Dallas field division.
I just wonder what troglodytes came up with this. "Hey Jim Bob, remember that great buzz got last week after polishing off that quart of Robitussin DM? What if . . . .".
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This might be the sickest story of the week (that's a pretty high standard, so let's just say it might be the sickest story of the hour): A Fort Worth pastor accused of paddling and raping women under the guise of scriptural teaching has been suspended by the national body of the Church of God in Christ.
What adults fall for such stuff? The way such stories read, the adults are simply normal people who fell under a pastor's psychological control and then did stuff that's clearly un-Christian . . . and sick. It's something I simply don't understand.
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The cell phone haters return: Geese mug boy of his cell phone, then eat it.
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Theft update: My son's backpack has been recovered. We still don't know what happened, but a friend found it stashed away in another part of the school. Everything was still in it. Something doesn't add up. I would think my son isn't telling me the whole story, but the teacher has corroborated it (another student admitted to putting the backpack in the hallway as a prank and then it was gone). Someone apparently took it, but decided not to steal it. Heck if I know. I'll understand middle school students about the time I understand adult women who allow pastors to spank them.
