- Adios, federales. Some 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption and I’m honestly stunned…..that the number isn’t much, much higher. Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas announced the figures Monday, also revealing that more than 1/8th of those officers fired - 465 to be exact - have been charged with crimes and another 1,020 officers face disciplinary proceedings for failing confidence exams. The startling number of dismissals stems from a national investigation that began in mid-May, said Marco Tulio Lopez of the federal police internal affairs department. "Investigations of our department began many months ago and this is the result," federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas stated. What I don’t get is how the good officers from Ciudad Juarez who were publicly accused by fellow officers of corruption several weeks ago could be included in the group of fired cops. After all, it’s not like two large groups of police officers eschewed their constitutional duties to serve, protect and uphold the law and get into a massive brawl outside police headquarters. Oh wait, that’s exactly what they did. These fools squared off with one another right outside the precinct, setting a solid example for all the citizens they are supposed to keep in line. Add all of the fired or dismissed officers up and you account for about nine percent of the federal police force, which has about 34,500 officials. The fired federales will also be blacklisted in Mexico, meaning they will not be eligible to be rehired on police forces at the local, state or federal levels, Rosas said. Great, that’s 3,200 fewer law enforcement officials for Mexico’s true rulers, the drug cartels, to corrupt and intimidate………
- Oy vey. Has anyone actually missed Chatroulette and its legions of self-pleasuring pervs? In case you missed it or have simply been trying to block out the memory that the random video chat site known more for users being subjected to unwanted images of naked losers doing ungodly things to themselves on camera, the site returned Monday after being down for more than a week for promised improvements. Those improvements must be unseen structural ones, because the site looks eerily similar to how it looked prior to its alleged renovation. It still offers random video chat with strangers and is still as bare-bones as ever. As for the promise to implement measures to prevent people from sexually servicing themselves on camera…..those must be coming in the next site upgrade, because Chatroulette seems as pervy and filthy as ever, with some users and tech sites reporting four or five minutes of refreshing chat windows to get a view of something other than someone’s private parts. But changes or not, the site was reportedly running at a snail’s pace Monday morning, indicating that fans were flocking back to it after a week away. The basic operation of the site remains unchanged, with users on their webcams interacting with other random freaks in live video chats. Also unchanged is the fact that the two parties can either choose to keep talking or move on to the next person exposing themselves on camera. The one change, albeit a curious and seemingly pointless one, that was immediately noticeable was the lack of identification for the site’s popular "next" button, which was unmarked. Expectations for Chatroulette were high (well, as high as they can be for a freak fest of this nature) in its re-launch, especially after site founder, Russian Andrey Ternovskiy, posted a note on a newly inactive site saying that "experiment #1 is over" and announcing "a renewed and updated version" that would be back up in one day. Maybe the Chatroulette that appeared Monday wasn’t the final product Ternovskiy promised, because if it is, then we’ve all been misled. No word on whether singer/songwriter Ben Folds plans to use the revamped Chatroulette during his concerts to write improv songs for the people who popped up on a projection of his computer screen, as he has previously done. The site became such a punchline because of its perverted users that even the new horror film "The Last Exorcism" took a run at it, showing an actress unbuttoning her blouse before transforming into a demonic beast. Perhaps inspired by jabs like that, last month Ternovskiy vowed to clean up the site and create a "perfect video world" where people can talk across borders and beyond cliques and traditional demographics. He followed that promise with a note on the site boasting of efforts were starting to track down, and possibly arrest, video-chat flashers. "With the help of a few good developers we've started collecting information, such as IP addresses, logs and screen captures of offenders who actually break US/UN laws by broadcasting innapropriate [sic] content in a specific situations," he wrote. "I hope that with help of a Criminal law we can finally get the problem out of our shoulders and get existing organizations which usually solve these kind of problems to help us." The final step in those efforts was an attempt to establish separate "adult" channels on Chatroulette for users 16 or older, but with no means of verifying the ages of users, that too seems like a big promise with no payoff……..
- How many people wasted three hours of their life watching NBC’s telecast of the 62nd Annual Emmys? According to early estimates from the network, some 13.5 million friendless losers watched Jimmy Fallon and the rest of that train wreck. That simply reaffirms my faith that approximately 13.5 million Americans are tasteless morons who will spend three-plus hours hanging breathlessly on what a bunch of self-important, self-aggrandizing, pompous and self-congratulating Hollywood types wear and say when they receive undeserved awards from their incestuous little group that exists merely to affirm how great its members are and hand them shiny little trophies of importance. The ratings for the show look great on the surface, as they represent the largest audience for any non-sports telecast this year since American Karaoke season finale on May 26. Additionally, the broadcast garnered the highest adults 18-49 rating (4.1) for any telecast since the Glee season finale on June 8. However, any excitement over those figures need to be tempered with the realization that even though it was the most-watched Emmy telecast in four years, the show only eclipsed last year’s ratings by 0.2 percent. What that means is 0.2 percent of Americans are either dumber or have even fewer friends than they had last year at this time………
- Exotic cat on the loose! Exotic cat on the loose! Look out, central Ohio, because a rare African cat known as a serval is running wild in your corner of the world and you could be next on its snack list. The serval is native to the plains of Africa, but one is apparently running loose in or around the town of Springfield, Ohio, located in Clark County. The serval’s appearance is very similar to that of a leopard or cheetah, and like those animals, authorities advise you not to approach the rogue serval even though it may seem friendly. The creature will likely bite and/or attack anyone who attempts to capture or hold it, so just steer clear and call the Clark County Sheriff is you spot the spotted creature, Springfield residents. An adult serval can weigh up to 40 pounds and measure up to three feet in body length with a shoulder height of about two feet. This particular cat escaped from its German Township home a few weeks ago and has been on the loose ever since, including several sightings near the Upper Valley Mall. Better keep your guard up, central Ohioans, because a cranky, homesick serval is on the prowl……..
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