R. I. P. Mr. Fishy

I'm sorry for not getting the top for the tank. :(

Mr C's gone.

According to the Oz ABC News site:-

Tom Bosley, one of the stars of the long-running 1970s television series Happy Days, has died of heart failure aged 83.

For 11 seasons, Bosley played long-suffering, gravel-voiced father Howard Cunningham.

He was the perfect foil for the show's eternally cool Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, played by Henry Winkler, and Cunningham's less hip son Richie, played by Ron Howard.

Bosley earned an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor in 1978.

He went on to star in Murder She Wrote and The Father Dowling Mysteries.

Agent Sheryl Abrams says Bosley had been battling lung cancer and died of heart failure in hospital near his Palm Springs home.

Winkler has paid tribute to Bosley, saying he was his mentor.

"I'm in shock, I really am," Winkler told Los Angeles' KNX-1070 News Radio.

"I spoke to him just a few weeks ago and he seemed to be getting his strength back.

"We really were a family. Tom was not only the TV father, he was also one of the dads on the set," he added.

Scott Baio, who played Fonzie's cousin Chachi, paid tribute to Bosley on his Twitter page.

"Mr Tom Bosley will be missed by many," Baio wrote.

"He was a great actor, teacher and man."

It's Remembrance Day.

All those young lives gone to keep the wheels of politics grinding.

All the civilians caught in the middle.

All the politicians and leaders who haven't learned a fucking thing.

This is horrible.

From the Oz ABC News,

Amazon under fire over paedophile manual



Anger: The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure is on sale on Amazon (www.amazon.com)
Online retail giant Amazon is under fire for selling a self-published digital book called The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure.

The reviews' page for the book, by Phillip R Greaves and available for Amazon's Kindle electronic reader, was deluged with criticism after the Seattle-based company offered it for sale.

"This is a joke, right? What reputable business would even consider allowing this book to be sold from their website?" said a visitor identified as "Emerald Storm."

"This is absolutely despicable."

"Shame on Amazon for allowing such garbage to be sold on its site," said another with the handle "thirty something."

The book, whose full title is "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct," had received more than 305 "reviews", with 297 giving it a one-star rating, the lowest possible.

Most of the "reviews" were appeals to Amazon to remove the book.

"Amazon, you might want to consider taking this horrid book off your website if you want to have any business this holiday season," wrote "ecirtap."

"Shame on you, Amazon, for allowing a book like this to be uploaded for purchase! This book gives advice to people about something that is ILLEGAL in every state in this nation. It needs to be removed from the site immediately," wrote another customer.

In a statement distributed to TechCrunch and other technology blogs, Amazon said it "believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable.

"Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions," it said.

In a product description to sell the book, the author frames it as an attempt "to make paedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certain rules for these adults to follow.

"I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of paedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter [sic] sentences should they ever be caught," Greaves said.


We aren't allowed to beat these people to death, I have been reliably informed.

I saw that yesterday, it made me pretty sad too.

We know the Amazon whores sell their customer list to everyone anyway. I wonder how sales would be if it was known a list for just this item was going to be auctioned off to the public? :cool:

I hope the police are all over the sales of this book.

But Amazon later withdrew the book from its online store after a campaign against it spread on Twitter, Facebook and other media.

Commenting online, some people had said they planned to boycott the online store in protest.

The book title appeared on the company's website yesterday but a subsequent message read: "We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site".

There was no immediate comment from Amazon.

Sounds like the Publisher should be identified and a boycott of other books they publish would be in order. After all, they truly knew what they were doing. :(

It was a self published book, so there's no middle-censor.

Hubby made me sad today. Never in all my life have I met someone of his age who is so useless at taking care of themselves.

Well, it's obvious you haven't met one my cousins........

Visiting my just-turned 17 year-old daughter ~ and leaving her, on the opposite side of the country! :(

DM

Getting in only one of my two walks today. :(

Missing my grandmother.

Governments of supposedly democratic allies who brook no criticism.

British author jailed in Singapore
ABC News.


A Singapore court jailed a 75-year-old British author for six weeks for publishing a book critical of executions in the city-state.

Alan Shadrake was handed the prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 Singapore dollars ($15,000) for contempt of court over the book, which features an interview with a former chief executioner.

High Court Judge Quentin Loh dismissed a last-minute apology by Shadrake as "nothing more than a tactical ploy in court to obtain a reduced sentence" and ruled that the freelance journalist will have to serve two extra weeks in prison if he fails to pay the fine.

"A fine should be imposed to prevent Mr Shadrake from profiting from his contempt (of court)," the judge said.

The ruling said the sentence was the stiffest ever imposed for contempt of court in Singapore. The previous longest jail term was 15 days.

Shadrake, who lives in Malaysia and Britain, was arrested by Singapore police in July after launching the book Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock.

It includes a profile of Darshan Singh, the former chief executioner at Singapore's Changi Prison who, according to the author, executed about 1,000 men and women from 1959 until he retired in 2006.

It also features interviews with human rights activists, lawyers and former police officers on cases involving capital punishment.

In a November 3 ruling that found Shadrake guilty, the judge said: "Mr Shadrake's technique is to make or insinuate his claims against a dissembling and selective background of truths and half-truths, and sometimes outright falsehoods.

"A casual and unwary reader, who does not subject the book to detailed scrutiny, might well believe his claims... and in so doing would have lost confidence in the administration of justice in Singapore."

Sounds like a deal to me. I can't make $7.5k/wk. :shrug:

Damn that broken photocopier.

Can't afford to take the girl back for Grandmother's funeral.

That really sucks. *hugs

Thanks LS, least her dad isn't mad.

Dad couldn't visit. :(

The story about the 5 teens in Hialeah, Fl.

Just looked it up. Modern kids with no understanding of old hazards. Damn shame.

Just a stupid accident.

Not being in Seattle today.

My Lindor truffles are almost soupy inside.

Finding out how bad my best friend is, healthwise. She finally went in to the ER yesterday with what she thought was a bad case of the flu. Turns out it is a serious kidney infection, and she's probably gonna be hospitallized for a while longer

Major bummer man. Hope everything turns out okay.

Yeah me too, but it won't be a quick recovery from what I understand. She's a wonderful perosn, but just has the worst luck when it comes to her health (and she tries very hard to be as healthy as possible)

Some people just get the short end of the stick. I have cousin and an aunt like that. My aunt has rheumatoid arthritis and my cousin has to many issues to list.

Finding out that I once again will not be getting paid for the years that I have been teaching as per the negotiated salary schedule. I will be allowed to count 2 of the 5 years which means a $177 a year raise as opposed to the $1253 raise I have earned.

The joys of the free market, pity you don't have a negotiated salary structure. Oh, you do. How do they get away with that?

We are teachers.

Don't you then have the ability to subliminally implant your charges with an instruction to beat up, en masse, the makers of these decisions? It may not get you your raise, but satisfaction level is 870%.

I do have a biter :p

Sad today, Phoenix carnage.

Amazing act of hate and cowardice.

Arizona: Too much to deal with.

Today.