Fighting and arguing while someone is alive is one thing, but to desecrate a grave is another.  Daniel McColgan’s grave, along with thirty others were desecrated over the weekend. 

The devastated mother of a UDA murder victim has spoken of her disgust after sick vandals desecrated his grave.

Up to 30 plots were attacked in a weekend wrecking spree in
Carnmoney Cemetery in Newtownabbey – many of them the graves of
children and babies.

Trinkets, vases, ornaments and flower displays were destroyed in the
cemetery. Security patrols are now set to be stepped up by Newtownabbey
council.

Carnmoney Cemetery has been the focus of simmering sectarian
tensions in Newtownabbey in recent years. The annual Catholic Blessing
of the Graves service has sparked loyalist rioting in the past and
previous years have also seen headstones smashed.

One of the graves targeted on Saturday was that of Daniel McColgan.
The 20-year-old Catholic postman was shot dead by the UDA as he arrived
for work in January 2002.

His mother Marie told the Belfast Telegraph that his grave had now been violated on at least three occasions.

In 2002 his headstone had to be replaced after it was completely destroyed.

"To be honest it is just so much to take in at the minute," said Ms McColgan

"I went up to the grave on Saturday night and noticed that all the
wee trinkets and flowers had been smashed against the headstone. I
looked around and saw that there was stuff scattered around the ground
from lots of other graves.

"The people who did this have no respect for people whether they are
dead or living. When we were kids we would not have gone anywhere near
a grave."

"We just have to tidy up once more and try to move on. It is
heartbreaking everytime this happens because it is such an insult to
Daniel."

Now don’t get me wrong, we have a plethora of problems here in the states, but I had to speak out about this, because it disturbed me.  In my area we’ve got murderers, rapist (plenty of those, unfortunately), Bank Robbers (a ton of these idiots), Drug Users and Sellers, and many, many more.

I was reading multiple blogs yesturday, when I ran across a hilarious fact.  If you type Failure into Google, the first site to pop up is President Bush’s Biography.  I perceived this to be a prank, so I tried it at Google.CA, Google.co.uk, and Google.ie with the same results.  Someone is snickering loudly in a cramped Google Headquarters Office.  I thought I would share it with you all, because it really gave me a good laugh. 

OK-OK, before you start screaming bloody murder for my use of words, read the rest of the post.  It appears that scientist have proven that the male obsession with size is universal.  Yep, you’ve got it right, Humans down to chickens are self-conscious about size.  What’s your say? 

The male obsession with size appears to be universal, according to a
new survey of animal species where males use ornamental body parts to
attract females. The study showed that sexual ornaments – such as
antlers or a peacock’s feathery display – become disproportionately
large as body size increases.

Most
body parts grow proportionally with the rest of the body as individuals
of a species become larger, although scientists have long known that
visual cues of reproductive prowess are a special case.

Now,
in the largest survey to date, James Brown at the University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, US, and his colleagues have examined the
proportions of 284 ornament-bearing species to see whether the tendency
was truly universal. They found that in virtually every case, ornament
size grew by roughly the square of the overall growth rate.

Surprisingly,
whether the ornament also functioned as a weapon made little difference
to its size. But even for purely decorative ornaments, dedicating
energy and nutrients to growing larger ornaments rather than overall
body size makes good evolutionary sense, Brown says.

Large
ornaments are more effective at attracting females than a slight
increase in body size. "It indicates that the male with the bigger
trait had more resources," he says