Cowardly Firebugs

Los Angeles (AP) --
A man suspected of starting a fire on a San Fernando Valley hillside has been charged with arson.
Catalino Pineda, a Guatemala native, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on one count of arson. He was being held on $75,000 bail.
Police say witnesses spotted Pineda, 41, starting a fire in the West Hills area and then walking away. Witnesses contacted authorities and followed him to a nearby restaurant where police arrested him.
Pineda is currently on probation for making excessive false emergency reports to law enforcement, police said.
If convicted of the arson count, he faces up to six years in prison.
Pineda is among five people who have been arrested for arson since wildfires broke out across Southern California this week, but none has been linked to any of the major blazes.

UNBELIEVABLE. What worms. I hope they track these vermin down. Kinda makes you feel real good about yourself while losing faith in humanity. No matter how much of a loser I may become in this lifetime, at least I can enjoy the towering view over pedophiles, junkies and these retarded, evil arsonists.

Please, let there be Karma, so that those that they love have to have skin grafts and sustain lung damage. As always, bless the first responders.

Speaking of which, how cool would it be if Fox Sports could take just a few seconds out of the hours of beer & car commercials to thank the amazing men & women of our armed forces for making it possible for everyone to lose themselves in a childs game?

Toxic Toys

This particular issue has me all raged up, and I'm without somewhere to direct it. Unseen greedy businessmen? Foreign slave owners? It's just that every once in a while there's a situation like this where you'd like to actually be able to create immediate action.

How messed up is this society when toys kill while people yawn?

Here's something from MotherJones.com - When the Danish government learned about toxic chemicals leaking from certain baby toys, it moved to get polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic out of teething rings, rubber ducks, and other toys kids can chew on. The Netherlands, Germany, and Austria followed suit, and the Spanish government even asked the European Union to ban PVC from such children's items. But last week the European Commission decided not to enact a temporary ban. Why not?
The answer is a little bit of science and a whole lot of economic diplomacy by the U.S. Department of Commerce, prodded by U.S. toy manufacturers like Mattel (maker of Barbie) and PVC producers like Exxon. In memos obtained by Greenpeace last month, the big corporations express their gratitude to the U.S. government for helping them to quash the European ban—never mind the question of whether their products are poisonous to children.

www.motherjones.com/.../columns/1998/07/pvc.html

Oh, brother.

Just one more Sox-related item.

Feels like the first time...

Well, actually, not at all. The first time sucked.

Idiots ran amuck and soured it for everyone.

Now, after it has all faded some, the Carmine Hose are in the big showyet again, and while an interesting diversion, will elicit very little commentary here.

As The Daily Crock is based in the vicinity of beantown, we have a plethora of pundits, legions of literary types, and a bevy of blowhards to do so.

But at least no innocents were killed in the post game celebration last night. That was friggin' horrifying.