Seems those who watch the Vice Presidential debate this Thursday will have a little help determining if either candidate is lying:

Have you ever wanted to know when politicians are lying? A startup called RealScoop thinks it can nail it down for you in real-time with the help of voice analysis technology that it claims is used widely in law enforcement and fraud prevention.

Dubbed the Believability Meter, RealScoop’s analysis technology analyzes over 100 vocal elements of the human voice and performs over 1,000 calculations per second to find out if a politician or celebrity is telling the truth. On Tuesday, RealScoop will cover the Vice Presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, putting each one’s statements to its Believability test.

Technology is great but I like my common sense and gut instincts a whole lot better. I suppose that means I concur with Mr. Reisinger when he states:

I’m sure the highly political among us will find value in this to help prove their point that the candidates they support are telling the truth and those they do not are lying, but the more objective among us will see this for what it is: pure rubbish.

HT: Instapundit

The headline on this post really says it all for me.

Three funeral directors sold hundreds of bodies to a former oral surgeon who allegedly collected the bones, tissue and skin from the corpses to be used in transplants, a grand jury charged Thursday after a 16-month investigation.

The 244 bodies fetched about $1,000 each, the grand jury found, with the body parts being transplanted in unsuspecting medical patients worldwide.

Michael Mastromarino, who operated the now-defunct Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, N.J., ran the scheme with help from a team of “cutters” who stole the body parts, authorities said. Mastromarino is already facing charges in New York for allegedly plundering 1,077 bodies, including those from Philadelphia.

“No penalty is too harsh for these guys, for the just unbelievably craven nature of what they did,” Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham said at a news conference.

Funeral directors Louis Garzone, 65, of Philadelphia, Gerald Garzone, 47, of North Wales, and James McCafferty, 37, of Philadelphia, were arrested Thursday on thousands of counts, ranging from running a corrupt organization to forgery and theft of body parts.

Indicted on similar counts were Brooklyn residents Mastromarino, who lost his oral surgery license amid unrelated drug charges, and Lee Cruceta, a former nurse who allegedly ran the cutting crew. Mastromarino plans to surrender Tuesday in Philadelphia and will fight the charges, his lawyer said.

When a loved one dies people put their full faith and confidence in the funeral director to treat the remains of their loved ones with reverence and respect.

To hear that a funeral director your family has used is involved in something like this has to be devastating. No punishment is too harsh if these people are found guilty.