http://bangordailynews.com/2013/08/09/politics/lepage-in-fighter-jet-simulator-i-want-to-find-the-press-herald-building-and-blow-it-up/

A great story about a governor with a wicked sense of humor wanting to blow up a virtual buiilding in a virtual reality to let off some very real stress. Awesome story. We should all blow shit up in virtual reality. I know I love blowing up Borg Cubes in VR.

@Draug,
John 11:35 - "Jesus wept."

Hecks - my family foster kittens for the shelter. We often get them at about 4 weeks...we've had to hand/bottle feed some back to health because they were too weak, having been abandoned by their mothers or dropped off at the shelter for whatever reason. It's tough, because I've had kittens die in my arms as we try to nurse them to health. But, most of them make it, and we socialize them, teach them to play, they learn to cope with other animals (our "regular" cats and our dogs) and then we take them back to the shelter for adoption by their Forever Families.

Got 4 of them right now. My favorite is a fluffy gray fellow I cann "Eyegore" 'cause he kind of has bug eyes...

Luke 11:8 (Jesus on praying to the father incessantly)

8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.

Even Jesus had a wicked sense of humor. Pester God the Father till he finally gives in is what he is saying here.

krells - you really need to post some pictures of the kitties, 'specially eyegore. This is the second time we have talked about him.

We adopted a little girl, does that count?
(Did I mention I'm very happily married to a Zimbabwean, I did, oh ok....)

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20130717/NEWS0103/307170174/

It's a sad yet uplifting story of horses helping those suffering from loss and grief.

Nigee - that's awesome! How old?

How old is which? His wife or the little girl?

adopted her at 2, she is now 5

He said he wants to hear stories about nice people doing good things for their fellow humanity. Animals are not humanity. Take your horses and kittens and go drown them!

The more I get to know other people, the more I love my pets. Humanity is best found in their lives and the way they love us.

That's great, Nigee. I foster parented for a while, and we adopted one boy. He was 4 when he came here, 6 when we adopted him, and is turning 11 later this month.

Our girl is one of 14 her mum had, she can't keep any of them because she is a butane addict and all the children are immediately handed over to social services. We do not have a law that would force her to get sterilised and she is not interested in contraception

Did you have to arm wrestle with Madonna for pick of the litter? (jk...no offense, Nigee..)

Gen Lee, actually, if you look at the way people treat animals, it is often reflective of their treatment of humans.

http://jaapl.org/content/30/2/257.full.pdf
"A history of animal cruelty during childhood was significantly associated with APD, antisocial personality traits, and polysubstance abuse."

I will point out that YJ has mocked me for fostering kittens in the past...is it any wonder??? sigh....lol

Madonna hasn't made it to Tower Hamlets yet .... I appreciate that loses a lot in translation but it is a deprived part of London where our little one comes from

I cleaned the toilet before my wife's girlfriend came over.

Yeah, but you did that so your wife will have sex with you later.

Or is it so that his wife could have se with the girlfriend? GF hates a dirty bowl...

Today in Senegal it's Eid al-Fitr, or the end of Ramadan.

An already unusually hospitable country is today even more hospitable as neighbors circle around the neighborhood paying each other visits and asking for forgiveness for all the wrongs they did them in the past year.

And at every house they feed you a meal. Every. Single. House.

I'm endlessly blown away by the people of Senegal's capacity to be so bottomlessly gracious and kind.

Eid Mubarak - Did I mention I'm very happily married to a Bangladeshi woman

I am not married and have no children.does it count as helping humanity?

I followed a suspicios black man in a hoodie and didn't shoot him ... Yeah me!

I worked another full week to support my family so the government wouldn't have to

I just started working on a scholarship for my old HS Robotics team.

This is older but pretty cool.

http://gimundo.com/news/article/homeless-man-curtis-jackson-gives-thousands-to-single-mom-who-helped-him/

I mowed the yard to help maintain property values in the neighborhood.

^That's what I did tonight as well!

The property tax assessors can't live without us!

Now seriously, humanity is a piece of shit.most of them(us) remind me monkeys or dogs, it is not clear to me at all how come we developed our society so far. People are bad to each other most of the time, and i am not talking about thiefs,rapers, killers,Muslims, just about the simple ordinary daily behavior.the big majority doesn't have any good intentions towards others and stupidity seems to be pop.

+1 Taos for correctly identifying the 4 worst criminal types. Theives, rapists, murderers and ... Muslims

He forgot bankers. They are in a class of criminal all their own. :-)

Great thread! It reflects Philippians 4:8-9:8 "And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9 Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you."

Taos, check out the love chapter in the Bible: First Corinthians 13. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20corinthians%2013&version=NLT

Sorry guys. I forgot about lawyers ,but i am not sure if they are humans.

Thanks Mujus!
I am atheist jew but i like the new testament,it is very naive but cute.