Man vs. Booze

Move out of the way Adam Richman because The Lifer has taken your food challenges to a new level.  Last year, to celebrate 11/11/11, The Lifer decided to take 11 shots of Rumplemintz at 11 p.m.  Yes, that's right, 11 shots of Rumple all within the time span of about two minutes.  And get this, afterwards, he still had to bartend for over 3 hours. 

Well, today is 12/12/12 and in attempt to entice The Lifer to down 12 shots of Rumple at midnight, The Warden went deep into the LBB vault to find the incredible video footage from last year.  If you haven't seen this yet, you won't believe your eyes.  And if you've seen it before, you'll be just as impressed as you were the first time.  Have a look...

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqiPDkIEF94

Unfortunately, The Lifer has proclaimed that he will not succumb to the pressure of taking 12 shots tonight.  Apparently, his liver retired shortly after the video was made and The Lifer is now a Type 2 Diabetic.  Call us selfish, but The Warden and I till think he should top last year's feat.  Perhaps with enough comments to the video on our YouTube channel, Life Behind Bars News, he will accept the challenge.   

Save the Internet!

INMATES, it's time to make your voice heard.  Once again, your freedom of speech on the internet is at risk of being severely restricted.  If you recall, several months ago I wrote an article about this issue and asked you to take action - and many of you answered the call.  Well, it's that time again.

This month, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is holding meetings with representatives from countries across the globe to re-negotiate how we communicate on the internet.  Attendees of the meetings will be select government officials from several countries.  The issue here is that many of the representatives at the ITU conference reside in countries that are against the internet and especially sharing your thoughts openly.

Some of the proposals before the ITU could impede our your ability to speak your mind.  Additionally, services like YouTube and FaceBook would have to pay fees in order to operate in certain places.  What does this mean?  It means that our society will not be able to enjoy the infinite sharing of information that we are so accustomed to.  Also, it means that FaceBook, YouTube and other social media sites might start charging users to help mitigate these new operational fees.  Needless to say, this is not good.

Please take action and make your voice heard.  Let's keep the internet functioning as the ultimate mechanism that facilitates free speech for everyone.  Click the link below to learn more and to be a part of the solution.  Toast!

http://www.google.com/intl/en/takeaction/       

DAMN THE MAN!

INMATES - Congress is attempting to pass legislation that, despite it's plausible good intentions, could affect freedom of speech on the internet. If passed, the bills would make unauthorized media streaming a felony and hold the web publishers and hosting services responsible for curbing their users from posting copyright-infringed content.

What this means is that a wide range of online communities like YouTube, Twitter,Facebook and Life Behind Bars would have to censor users or get shut down and ordinary users could be imprisoned for five years for posting any copyrighted work.

Considering how much we value our ability to speak our minds, especially within this forum, I highly recommend you read more about this and if you decide you are against this legislation, click the link below and sign the petition (it takes less than 30 seconds).  Make your voice heard.

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/