As far as the cops from Metro Nashville homicide are concerned the case is closed. They’ve ruled the deaths as murder suicide despite the many inconsistencies.

But does this even make sense?

According to Kazemi’s nephew she didn’t own a gun. She told the nephew that McNair “has enough guns” if she needed one for protection. But according to Metro PD she bought a gun from “a guy” on July 2nd, the same day she got a DUI in Nashville, with McNair in the car.

Who is this guy that illegally sold Kazemi the gun? (You have to be 21 in TN, and Kazemi was only 20) How’d the cops find this guy? They’re not saying and they’re not releasing his name. They’re also not planning on charging him with a crime despite his admitting to selling to an underage girl.

Now having allegedly owned this gun less than 48 hours, and having never fired a shot before in her life, this 20 year old girl, described as always happy and never depressed, somehow manages to put 3 bullets into McNair from over a yard away? Then calmly walks over and, hitman style, puts one more in his temple just to make sure? Then takes a few steps away and simply shoots herself in the temple, collapsing on the handgun.

Ok, sure it’s possible she could have hit McNair twice in the chest and once in the head from that range. Beginners luck, if you will, with the handgun, but it’s not very likely. And if everything’s so neat and tidy, then why did McNair’s friend, and co-owner of the condo Wayne Neely not call the cops when he came in? He claims he didn’t notice the two dead bodies, one on the couch, one on the floor, but did call another McNair friend Robert Gaddy, who arrived arrived about 90 minutes later. Gaddy made the 911 call.

And what about Kazemi’s ex-boyfriend Keith Norfleet, who was still in love with her by his own admission, and wanted her back. Norfleet, an aspiring rapper, has a song called “Closed Casket” where he raps “about a cheating couple and putting bullets in both their heads.” More than a little odd to say the least. Kazemi had called 911 on Norfleet before, when they were dating, for hitting her with a cell phone in the face.

Tennessee’s own state medical examiner has questions:

Levy said while the case is certainly consistent with a murder-suicide scenario, there are several things that are atypical: men are usually the perpetrator, and there is typically a history of domestic violence in the relationship or mental issues in the shooter. So far, neither factor is present, Levy said.

Kazemi also apparently is accused of breaking the laws of physics, for how does a pistol held to her temple end up under her collapsed body? The laws of physics seem to make this very implausible, the body would be pushed away from the gun by the force of the bullet entering the temple and the gun would be pushed away from the body by the recoil. And finally why haven’t we heard about GSR found on Kazemi’s hand if she supposedly fired 5 shots she should have been covered in it?

Did Metro PD solve this case, or did they sweep all the inconsistencies under the rug in the name of expediency?

The only problem is Geek Dad is just way off base. So as a public service, I present to you the Geek Dad questions re-answered BubbleMixx style. Text in quotes is lifted from Geek Dad.

1. Leadership Style – “Kirk is brash; Picard is contemplative. Advantage: Picard.” Or so says Geek Dad. But consider this. Kirk was boldly going where no one had gone before, where as Picard was following dumbly along in his footsteps. Kirk had to deal with entire Klingon Empire, the Romulans, and more, while Picard had to deal with some cyborgs. Hell Picard got turned into a cyborg. Nobody ever turned Kirk into a Klingon, (except in disguise). Finally Kirk had military chain of command on the bridge, and listened only to his first officer. Picard had a kid on the bridge, the irritating Wesley Crusher, and if that’s not bad enough had a freakin’ ships counselor on the bridge too! Kirk would have blasted them both out the nearest airlock. Real Advantage: Kirk

2. Difficulty of Success – “I mean this from a character point of view: Captain Kirk only had to deal with being compared with Dr. Robinson from Lost in Space and captains from old sci-fi movies; Captain Picard had to handle being compared with Kirk. Advantage: Kirk” You’re damn right. Real Advantage: Kirk

3. Acting – “William Shatner is a lot of fun as an actor, but nobody can deny he’s a ham. Advantage: Picard.” Ok, while it is true that Patrick Stewart is a Shakespearean trained actor, couldn’t he at least do a freakin’ French accent? He’s supposed to be a French guy! I mean Peter Sellers and/or Steve Martin could do a French accent for crying out loud. Real Advantage: Kirk

4. Number of Lives Saved – “Since they each saved whole worlds on a fairly regular basis, though, I’m going to go by the amount of time they’ve spent on screen: Kirk was in 79 TV episodes and six-plus movies; Picard was in 176 TV episodes” ok, Geek Dad, that would be a valid point. But wait, almost half of Picards 176 episodes took place in the Holodeck, and of the remaining 88 episodes fully 1/3 were about not hurting someones feelings, a la Counselor Troi’s role. That makes it 79 for Kirk, 62 for Picard. Real Advantage: Kirk

5. Story Quality – “This may not seem like a fair comparison, because it’s a cinch that the number of talented writers wanting to work on TNG was much higher than the number who wanted to work on TOS. Advantage: Picard” Geek Dad goes on to list some less than stellar episodes of the orignial series, but does admit that there are some bad TNG episodes too. So taking that premise, if less than 1/2 of the TNG episodes are bad, say 45% (see my mathematical proof above), then that means Picard made 79 stinkers, compared to the 4 episodes that Geek Dad names. Assuming that Geek Dad only named 45% of the bad episodes, that means Kirk made 6 stinkers to Picard’s 79. Wow. You can’t argue with math folks. Real Advantage: Kirk

So there you have it, Kirk, is the clear winner. Hell the man doesn’t even believe in a no-win situation! He’s not going to get pushed around by some lanky bald Anglo-French guy.

That’s just not logical.

The Associated Press reported that Capt. Phillips’ crew, “who said they had escaped after he offered himself as a hostage, erupted in cheers aboard their ship docked in Mombasa, Kenya. Some waved an American flag and fired flares in celebration.”(Source)

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become epidemic, and even now the Pirates hold over 200 ships from varoius nations including China, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Taiwan and numerouis others.

Unfortunately the boneyard has been compromised by person or persons unknown stealing skulls and other body parts. (Source) Authorities think the thefts occurred around 20th, but weren’t discovered for several days.

The Body Farm, and it’s founder, professor emeritus William Bass, have been the subject of many books, TV shows, and were the subject of Patricia Cornwell’s betselling novel “The Body Farm”.

I love the old guy in the shorts in this pic!

Ok, that should get you started. Now we need your help. We need pictures of Blocos, the neighborhood parties of Carnival in Rio. If you have pics of Blocos, please email them and we’ll feature them here!

Additionally President Obama intends to ask for a further $1 Billion a year for high speed rail in his budget request to congress, starting with the 2010 budget.

High speed rail was one of Obama’s campaign pledges, speaking in Indiana during the campaign he said:

“The time is right now for us to start thinking about high-speed rail as an alternative to air transportation connecting all these cities. And think about what a great project that would be in terms of rebuilding America.”(Source)

Despite this campaign pledge apparently Congressional Republicans apparently overlooked the importance of High Speed Rail to the president as they tried to stymie all the major projects that the President was looking for such as building new schools, or modernizing the energy grid.

Senators Snowe and Collins of Maine and Specter of Pennsylvania, Republican moderates who had criticized Obama’s school construction program were more accepting of the rail funds, since the Northeast corridor is a major beneficiary of rail improvements.

Rahm Emanuel said of the rail provision, “the president wanted to have a signature issue in the bill, his commitment for the future.” (Source)

Happy Valentines Day

Photo from the Telegraph.co.uk

You remember PCA right? They’re the guys that recently came under fire for shipping from PCA’s processing plant in Blakely, Georgia, peanut butter that was tainted with salmonella resulting in 501 people infected in 43 states. Addtionally one person was reported ill in Canada from the salmonella. PCA’s own tests showed that the peanut butter in question was tainted but they shipped it anyway. (Source)

The FDA website says PCA distributed potentially contaminated product to more than 70 consignee firms, for use as an ingredient in hundreds of different products, such as cookies, crackers, cereal, candy and ice cream. The FDA also emphasizes that major national brands of jarred peanut butter found in grocery stores are not affected by the PCA recall.

I just wonder who’s behind PCA and how they can do business like this? Shouldn’t the FDA do a complete examination of all PCA facilities immediately? Also shouldn’t there be criminal penalties for those who knowingly shipped tainted food? The US Justice Department needs to launch a criminal investigation.