Big Time Sissyass Stuff: Georgia Parents Pimp Their Daughter To Make Used Minivan Payments

Well, of all the recent big time sissyass moments this one really takes the cake. Everyone knows what a fine vehicle those 1998 Dodge Caravan minivans are. Those are a vehicle that dreams are made of for sure. Who hasn't spent all day dreaming of tooling around in one of those beautiful vehicles? And you also know what a piece of crap many used car dealers are.

Well guess what, Georgia law enforcement authorities discovered an awful car payment plan that involved the couple's 14 year old daughter being traded for sex with the used car salesman in exchange for the $281 a month car payments. Now, wait a minute! The child's welfare and well being were being traded for the car payments on some lousy used minivan? WTF! There has to a be a special place in Hell for people that do stuff like that.

Naturally, the parents and car salesman were all arrested and only recently convicted. Both the father, 39 and the car salesman, 67, were recently sentenced to ten years in prison, if not daily anal rape from other inmates as additional punishment who will be totally outraged at their sick scheme to make the car payments by exploiting the young girl. The mother, 37, was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Well, here's to those folks in Georgia for hatching their sick little scheme to pay for some crappy minivan by trading their daughter to some old used car salesman for the payments. That's one hell of a twisted scheme and thinking. Just when you think an all-time Big Time Sissyass Stuff champ has been crowned, a new one comes along and knocks them right off the top.

(BTW-While this isn't the exact same 1998 minivan in question, it's a pretty good example of what fine transportation we're looking at here).

Ice Bear's New 2011 Trike

Chinese motorcycle manufacturer Ice Bear is back with a new 2011 model trike. Snow Leopard is similar to many ways to a 150cc model that was previously offered, except for the addition of the larger Lifan motorcycle engine with a trick new dual exhaust system. But, the addition of the extra power does boost performance for this cool, but still somewhat underpowered brand of motorcycles. At some point, Ice Bear needs to learn that Americans would gladly pay more for their trikes with even larger engines that have true highway horsepower. But, for a city dweller trike, the new model still provides lots of entertainment for a price around $3500. And the gas mileage might even put those hybrid cars to shame, returning around 70 or more miles per gallon besides looking cool.

Snow Leopard features 13 inch 165/65 automobile type tires on the back, yet has a low seat height just under 24inches. But, with a more conventional front forks than the springer front end of the larger $4500 Road Warrior model, the Snow Leopard model is more like most other motorcycles with the exception of a trike design. Ice Bear specializes in trike designs, making it unique among other Chinese motorcycle brands. The conventional forks should give this trike steering much more like any normal two-wheeled motorcycle. Yet, the springer model has a definite cool factor that can't be matched by this more conventional trike.

Trikes have some advantages and some disadvantages. They are open like other motorcycles and offer a thrill better than an convertible auto can ever offer. Cornering can be interesting, though. But, with no having to put your legs out each time you stop, trikes can be easier to ride, especially for older bikers. In addition, trikes let you carry more gear as well. In the city, trikes offer you a lot more stability in emergency stops. Other bikes could leave all over the street if you to "lay it down". With appropriate care and safety, trikes can be far safer to ride than two wheelers.

Like it's big brother, the Road Warrior, the slightly smaller Snow Leopard model has a 5 speed manual wet clutch gearbox system. However, there is no reverse gear shifter like the larger Road Warrior model has. The Road Warrior still remains the top of the line Harley-styled trike that Ice Bear builds. Both feature a Harley-inspired gas tank with inset mph gauge. Both feature only this very basic instrumentation.

While Ice Bear continues to build these interesting trike frames, it looks like they might be using the Lifan motorcycle engines for some time. Lifan is one of the big three motorcycle manufacturers in China and has established a reputation for good quality engines that offer reliability if properly maintained such as oil changes every 1,000 miles. The high quality of the Lifan engines make a purchase of an Ice Bear motorcycle a safe choice among the many Chinese brands sold in the U.S. In addition, the Chinese government has been urging better and better quality control standards, where at some point in the near future Chinese motorcycles should be comparable with many other world brands.

Chinese motorcycles still have a ways to go with quality. But, Ice Bear continues to offer some very offerings with high quality and reliable engines. Now, all they need is some horsepower to go with all those cool trike frames they build.

Big Time Sissyass Stuff: BYU Bans Top Basketball Player For Having Sex

BYU that bastion of fine Mormonist education, has decided to ban a top basketball player only days into the huge March Madness basketball season because he had premarital sex with a girlfriend. The school claims that this is to uphold some sort of "honor code". Honor code? Isn't this the same cult church where members once disguised themselves as Paiute Indians and participated in the Mountain Meadows Massacre of about 120 settlers, only leaving just 17 children under the age of 7 alive? Maybe according to Mormonist reasoning leaving a few small children alive ranked as "honor" of some sort?

Interesting, the suspension only came after BYU Cougars player Brandon Davies admitted having sex with his girlfriend who attends college in Arizona, and is an athlete herself. Why someone thinks that it's school business that he's having sex sounds big time sissyass in itself. It shouldn't be any darn business of any school who's having sex with who. That's private stuff. Yet, Davies felt compared to share it with school officials. Oh, great. That was real smart.

At any rate, BYU seems more interested in upholding some wacky church rules than winning basketball games it seems. And, at 6 foot 9 Brandon Davies found out about this the hard way. He was one of the team's stars leading the team to a #3 ranking. Now he's off the team, and any potential future career in the NBA could be put on cold ice as well. Not only were his dreams trash-canned by the school, but the BYU team got trash-canned by New Mexico in a whopping 82-64 loss, only proving the school's stupidity here. The same conduct code also bans the BYU kids from drinking coffee or drinks with caffeine. One Pepsi or Coke could have got the kid kicked off the sports team as well. Every church attempts to ban something it seems, so Mormons long ago randomly picked coffee to ban. Why not pick something almost no one wants, like let's say Pauly Shore movies?

BYU's "honor code" also bans beards as well. Well, that would be real bullshit to any real biker guy right there. You can't look real badass looking like some accountant on a mean looking chopper.

Sleeveless shirts are another no-no at BYU. Yet, I always thought that's pretty much a given what those BYU basketball uniforms look like, isn't it? Even their enforcement of rules is selective here, isn't it. Yet, strangely that sacred temple underwear that Mormons wear to get into Heaven look strangely like a basketball uniform circa late 1888 style.

The BYU honor code also bans unclean language. Oh, you're shittin' me here! What no expletives when you accidentally drop something heavy on your toes like an anvil! Bright colors are banned as well, maybe because BYU thinks they might look a little bit too Hollywood gay or something?

Hey, remember how Fred Flintstone belonged to the Grand Order Of Water Buffaloes lodge, which has their own secret rituals. Well, guess what? Mormons have a secret handshake they learn so they gain entrance into Heaven. It's like Free Masonry gone wild here passed off as religion!

So you have to ask whether a religious cult church operated school has gained anything at all here. Sponsors and donors to the colleges are often attracted by winning sports teams. Does a school that deliberately throws games deserve their financial support?

Well, here's one collective Big Time Sissyass Award to BYU for throwing an important game just to uphold some funky old church rules. Mormon religion founder Joseph Smith and other major church founders were well known for not always keeping church rules very well themselves. Yet, the school decided to screw up their March Madness hopes and any good publicity they could have by going to extremes and suspending a star player for what could have been handled as a minor internal college matter. If that isn't the Webster Dictionary definition of the Big Time Sissyass, then nothing is my friend. BYU, you earned your award here.

BTW, strangely the loss of BYU to New Mexico is a sort of rough poetic justice for the suspension of New Mexico's Elizabeth Lambert for unsportsmanlike like conduct(read rough shoving) during a women's soccer game in 2009. Maybe, this is the nature of college sports.

Supreme Court Upholds Westboro Baptist Church's Protests

Westboro Baptist Church, the outrageous personality cult church of founder Fred Phelps, got a big seal of approval from the U.S. Supreme Court to continue their offensive protests at military funerals. The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that their protests, although very hurtful and offensive, are constitutionally protected political or religious speech. However, the very same U.S. Supreme Court has a history of upholding laws against commercial speech that some find offensive such as obscenity or broadcast indecency.

Fred Phelps bizarre cult church organizes political protests at the funerals of servicepersons killed in peace police actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, claiming that such deaths are God's punishment for the U.S. tolerating homosexuality. The estranged daughter of Phelps claims the radical church leader has always been filled with hate.

The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the protests by Phelps cult church was hailed by the ACLU as a correct victory for free expression. The issue revolved around the issue of whether the church could be sued for damages because their manner of speech was offensive and hurtful to families of dead servicepersons.

The Supreme Court has had a historically strange set of views on free speech issues. The court has been very tough on commercial speech of an offensive nature such as obscenity even allowing those that deal in obscenity to be prosecuted under very tough organized crime laws as racketeers, except in cases where obscene satire with some political intent could be found. The late Rev. Jerry Falwell once sued HUSTLER Magazine over an outrageous outhouse satire piece that the Supreme Court ruled had broader free speech protections because they ruled that even obscene satire had political or editorial opinion protections. And in the case of noncommercial offensive speech, controversial groups as diverse as the KKK, Nazis, and the Westboro Baptist Church have all found the Supreme Court accepting the notion that nonviolent speech is politically protected, no matter how outrageous.

Some of the messages of Westboro Baptist Church such as "Thank God For Sept 11" only have to sicken most Americans. And the Supreme Court says that's legal. But not some radio shock jocks who tell sex jokes on the airwaves.

At the same time that Westboro Baptist Church wackos are now only emboldened to hold more hateful and outrageous protests because of this new Supreme Court ruling, entertainers are still subject to severe FCC and state and federal indecency and obscenity regulations. Sometimes in justice there is no justice.

DVD Review: TAKERS

TAKERS is an acceptable good crime drama featuring actor Matt Dillion as a a hardboiled detective bent on bringing down a group of bank robbers who appear to be living a life of luxury based off their ill-gotten gains. As far as routine crime dramas go, TAKERS is a decent popcorn movie but hardly a classic. Other reviews of the film tended to be mixed as well.

Certainly the script has many cliché touches here, and the characters seem a little flat to me and sometimes uninteresting, however this was a former #1 at the box office movie when released and only recently has found it's way to home DVD. At the box office this crime drama did much better than many other crime titles did this past year. So it's worth a watch.

TAKERS was originally named BONE DEEP, but the title was changed at some point to make the film more descriptive of it's actual content, I guess. And all of the familiar elements in a good crime story are here the car chases, the crime attempts, and even a Mexican stand-off for good measure. However, the film never rises to the level of terrific. But, it's more than watchable fare by far.

Matt Dillion is always a decent second tier actor. He may never draw in the big theater numbers like a bigger name will, but he can act, and he did his best with what's here with this lukewarm script.

The Bottom Line: While far from the very best movie you'll see this year, TAKERS is a satisfactory, although largely forgettable crime drama. ++ 1/2(Two and a half stars, or a little bit better than fair).

Katie Holmes Suing STAR Magazine Over Outrageous Misleading Story

Lawyers for Katie Holmes have filed a $50 million dollar lawsuit against the STAR Magazine after it ran a front page feature intended to mislead readers into believing that the actress wife of Tom Cruise has a drug problem. It turns out that the story doesn't really address drugs at all, but instead talks about an E-meter device that scientologists use that has been the subject of FDA problems because of allegations that Scientologists practice medicine without a license with the device which they claim can cure most mental illness and other problems.

While many Scientologists use the E-meter, the STAR really stepped out on their own to claim that Katie Holmes has an addiction problem to it, or in misleading readers into believing that the actress might be possibly be abusing drugs. It was pretty irresponsible journalism at it's worst.

There were responsible ways for the STAR to do a story about the E-meter that Scientologists use, however for the sake of duping the public to buy their magazine, the magazine mislead to create purchases by using shocking headlines about Katie Holmes. That's playing dirty.

Magazine circulation as a whole continues to suffer because of the economy and the Internet. But, the STAR found an unethical way to attempt to boost their circulation here.

Charlie Sheen Introduces His Two New Girlfriends On TODAY

Charlie Sheen just keeps trying to top his outrageous behavior each day. Today, on NBC's TODAY Show, Sheen introduced two young women who he claims are his new live-in girlfriends. One is a porn star named "Rach" and the other a model named "Natty". Apparently, neither young woman watches the news or reads newspapers either, because they don't seem to be aware of little things, such as they're living with .....Charlie Sheen!!!

And apparently, neither girl seems concerned that this living arrangement involves three persons. Sure sounds like a menage a trois arrangement, doesn't it?.

With his outrageous and erratic behavior, the big question is how long can this living arrangement go on before Sheen goes ballistic and acts real crazy and one girl calls the 911 emergency line. Yesterday's performance by Sheen on the TODAY show was erratic and bizarre enough. Today was even more outlandish. If Sheen isn't on drugs and acted this strangely, then he's even worse off than first realized.

The final chapter of Charlie Sheen acting crazy sure hasn't been written yet.