Joe Paterno needs to be in prison

Pennsylvania doesn’t dick around with rape:

§ 3121. Rape

(a)Offense defined.–A person commits a felony of the first degree when the person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant:

  • (1) By forcible compulsion.
  • (2) By threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution.
  • (3) Who is unconscious or where the person knows that the complainant is unaware that the sexual intercourse is occurring.
  • (4) Where the person has substantially impaired the complainant’s power to appraise or control his or her conduct by administering or employing, without the knowledge of the complainant, drugs, intoxicants or other means for the purpose of preventing resistance.
  • (5) Who suffers from a mental disability which renders the complainant incapable of consent.
  • (6) (Deleted by amendment)

(b) Additional penalties.–In addition to the penalty provided for by subsection (a), a person may be sentenced to an additional term not to exceed ten years’ confinement and an additional amount not to exceed $100,000 where the person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant and has substantially impaired the complainant’s power to appraise or control his or her conduct by administering or employing, without the knowledge of the complainant, any substance for the purpose of preventing resistance through the inducement of euphoria, memory loss and any other effect of this substance.

 

(c) Rape of a child.–  A person commits the offense of rape of a child, a felony of the first degree, when the person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant who is less than 13 years of age.

(d) Rape of a child with serious bodily injury.–A person commits the offense of rape of a child resulting in serious bodily injury, a felony of the first degree, when the person violates this section and the complainant is under 13 years of age and suffers serious bodily injury in the course of the offense.

 

(e) Sentences.–Notwithstanding the provisions of section  1103 (relating to sentence of imprisonment for felony), a person convicted of an offense under:

  • (1) Subsection (c) shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which shall be fixed by the court at not more than 40 years.
  • (2) Subsection (d) shall be sentenced up to a maximum term of life imprisonment.

(Dec. 21, 1984, P.L.1210, No.230, eff. 60 days; Mar. 31, 1995, 1st Sp.Sess., P.L.985, No.10, eff. 60 days; Dec. 19, 1997, P.L.621, No.65, eff. 60 days; Dec. 9, 2002, P.L.1350, No.162, eff. 60 days; Dec. 16, 2002, P.L.1953, No.226, eff. 60 days)

Guess you know my feeling.  What’s yours?

Should Joe Paterno be in prison?

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Joe Frazier

Joe Frazier passed away last night.  Watching him and Muhammed Ali go at it decades ago was some of the most thrilling competition I can remember.  This begs the obligatory question tho:

Frazier or Ali?

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I’m a Kentucky boy, I’m biased. Regardless tho, boxing has not been quite the same since those two monsters went at it in the 70′s.  One or the other might argue to be the “greatest”, but they were both the greatest in my book in the excitement they brought to their sport.

Apollo 18

I waited a long time to see this.  I’m a sci-fi junkie with precious little content lately to sate my appetite.  This looked like something to sink my teeth into.  It became obvious very early this wasn’t it.

A few years ago I did a list of Top Sci-Fi films of all-time.  This won’t be on it.  It might be on one of the worst lists.

OK, spoiler alert.  Skip it from here if you plan on watching it any time soon.

My main gripe with most sci-fi movies of late is they usually feature super-intelligent bugs.  These mindless creatures fly all over the universe in search of food or whatever.  Folks, that is just stupid plot design.  This movie takes that to a whole new level.

Would you believe the culprits that have mysteriously inhabited a crater in the Moon for an unknown period of time are rock-bugs?  Yup.  These tiny rock-bugs possibly block out communications, tip over lunar rovers, rip up the lander, creep inside space suits, and just make a bunch of astronauts lives a living hell ultimately defeating their human visitors for no logical reason other than I suppose that’s what rock-bugs living on a dead rock in space with absolutely nothing to live on would do.

Other things got on my nerves as well.  The fake 8mm film was logical enough, but using modern drunk-camera work was too much.  People didn’t do that then, really.  Knowing some tricks of NASA didn’t help with the experience either.  They didn’t waste a lot of battery juice broadcasting video 24/7.  Most of what happened in the lander would not have been broadcast.  They just didn’t have the juice to spare back then.  The only way most of what was recorded would have ever been seen would be if they had gotten it on a later trip.  But, it was destroyed at the end of the movie.  And, why didn’t they just turn off the transmitters that were supposedly causing the problem?  They could have plugged them back in if they weren’t the problem.

Bad movie, really, really, bad.

Bar Rafaeli

Was doing a post on wifi connections on my space blog.  Exciting, I know.  Stumbled on this pic totally accidentally.  Had no intentions of seeing anything like this at all:

For some reason I felt that pic belonged here.

Keith Richards the Great?

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Amazing Spider-Man, reboot

I never liked the Spider-Man series that much.  Just never got me.  So, imagine my, well, glee’s not the word I’m looking for here, help me.  OK, how’s about annoyance? To find out they’re making a new one.  It’s a little different than the others tho:

Spider-man Reboot

It’s a little more than the suit tho.  Since most of the actors balked at Spidey Four, they decided to restart the whole thing from scratch ala Star Trek without the time warp.  This could be the worst idea of all time.  Well, Footloose will forever hold that honor with me.  But, it’s still awful.  Why would anyone want to see what they already own with different actors?  I mean, the series isn’t even OLD yet.

What do you think?

Amazing Spider-Man. Gonna watch the reboot?

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Fast and Furious Six

While I’m at it.  Fast and Furious Six?  Really? Fast Five was awful. My guess is this can only be worse.

Gonna see Fast and Furious Six?

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Footloose

Now, I’ve never been a fan of dance flicks.  Music flicks are usually bad enough, dance flicks make me very nervous.  One of the worst dance flicks I ever had to endure as a kid was Footloose.  This was the teaser:

A city boy comes to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned.

OK, I’m “small town” guy.  The idea that a real pretty little “city boy” was going to enlighten me about “rock music” pissed me off.  And, in order to become enlightened, I would have to dance like a ballerina nailed it.  This movie had no chance.  In order to get some, I did have to watch it a time or to. I went in hating it, I left hating it.  0 thumbs up.  No quantifying ifs.  It just sucked.  Kevin Bacon had a rough time recovering with me.  Not really sure he ever did. Right up there with “Fame”, always a staple on my all time worst movie lists.

So, you wanna guess what’s going to be released very, very, soon?

So, I really gotta know?

WATCH > New ‘Footloose’ Trailer: Are You Planning to See the Dance Flick?

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Pattinson Loops

While browsing a discussion of all-time worst actors, some funny guy put these Robert Pattinson loops up that I thought were just, well, funny!

Robert cruising:

Robert laughing:

Robert getting humped!

And of course, Robert acting!

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Wonder Woman gets a makeover

Wonder Woman made her introduction in December of 1941.

Wonder Woman originally

Got that whole Betty Boop look goin.  She very quickly morphed into:

wonder woman comic

Originally created and designed by William Moulton Marston, a psychologist, Wonder Woman was supposed to be an inspiration for young women.  As such, she was intentionally designed to be edgier, healthier, assertive, and sexier.  She was everything a young woman could be.  By the time Wonder Woman originally made it to tv, she was a little less edgier and sexier:

wonder woman tv 60's

Yeah, she’s wearing boxers, or pj’s.  The boobs are gone as well.  Rather than looking like a very assertive young woman, she looked and acted like a seven year old.  This was the early 60′s.  Fortunately, it didn’t make it past the pilot.

wonder woman tv

In the 70′s we had a new Wonder Woman.  Lynda Carter looked the part.  Big, physical, big boobs, confident, and showing lots of flesh.  The show lasted a few years, Lynda Carter would be forever remembered.

Now we got some peeps making a new Wonder Woman.  Megan Fox was immediately cast the role.  She has the whole Lynda Carter thing going plus some.

wonder woman movie take 1

A little less flesh, but since it’s painted on, looked OK.  Kinda a cross between the Betty Boop pouty look and the physical Lynda Carter thing.  This could work.  It apparently worked so well it got some complaints.  So, from what I hear, this is the newest Wonder Woman look:

wonder woman movie take 2

This looks more like something The Monkees would wear than a super-hero.  I really don’t even care to see the movie now.  No flesh at all, no course, no suggestion, and somehow managing to get that very bitter Rosie O’Donnell look going on.  This is awful.  So tell me, which would you prefer to see?

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