Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
When children get lost in a mall, they're supposed to find a "low-risk adult" to help them. Guidelines issued by police departments and child-safety groups often encourage them to look for "a pregnant woman," "a mother pushing a stroller" or "a grandmother."
The implied message: Men, even dads pushing strollers, are "high-risk."
Are we teaching children that men are out to hurt them? The answer, on many fronts, is yes. Child advocate John Walsh advises parents to never hire a male babysitter. Airlines are placing unaccompanied minors with female passengers rather than male passengers. Soccer leagues are telling male coaches not to touch players.
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By Caitlin Millat
NBCWashington.com
updated 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Captain Save-a-Ho's skeezy ship has sunk.
A Washington, D.C., pimp who called himself "Captain Save-a-Ho" in an online prostitution ring he allegedly run was caught by cops this weekend, the Washington Post reported.
Cops believe Yul Na, 37, managed more than 400 hookers across the country, advertising them on Web sites like Craiglist and Adult Friend Finder.
Men who wanted to buy time with the ladies set up electronic accounts to transmit cash to Na.
Na's handle online was "CSH" - which stands for "Captain Save-a-Ho," Loudoun County Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson said.
The Captain is being held without bond in the Loudoun County jail on one count of procurement or receiving money for prostitution.
The implied message: Men, even dads pushing strollers, are "high-risk."
Are we teaching children that men are out to hurt them? The answer, on many fronts, is yes. Child advocate John Walsh advises parents to never hire a male babysitter. Airlines are placing unaccompanied minors with female passengers rather than male passengers. Soccer leagues are telling male coaches not to touch players.
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By Caitlin Millat
NBCWashington.com
updated 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Captain Save-a-Ho's skeezy ship has sunk.
A Washington, D.C., pimp who called himself "Captain Save-a-Ho" in an online prostitution ring he allegedly run was caught by cops this weekend, the Washington Post reported.
Cops believe Yul Na, 37, managed more than 400 hookers across the country, advertising them on Web sites like Craiglist and Adult Friend Finder.
Men who wanted to buy time with the ladies set up electronic accounts to transmit cash to Na.
Na's handle online was "CSH" - which stands for "Captain Save-a-Ho," Loudoun County Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson said.
The Captain is being held without bond in the Loudoun County jail on one count of procurement or receiving money for prostitution.
there was BOO-ING!
passed it without earmarks
obama congress -
fox coverage - like an old miss football game
pelosi keep reading the program within 20 seconds
i always feel like its my dad talking to me 'if you're honest with yourself we haven't meet these challenges' - ' i havent'
'you haven't meet those challanges have you'
'your not just quitting on yourself..you quitting on this country'
' turn off the tv put down teh video games'
tax credit on april first
passed it without earmarks
obama congress -
fox coverage - like an old miss football game
pelosi keep reading the program within 20 seconds
i always feel like its my dad talking to me 'if you're honest with yourself we haven't meet these challenges' - ' i havent'
'you haven't meet those challanges have you'
'your not just quitting on yourself..you quitting on this country'
' turn off the tv put down teh video games'
tax credit on april first
-When men don’t eat between meals, they get hungry, irritable and crabby. Today, Carl’s Jr. is pleased to announce that it has found the cure for these common crabs, the new Green Burrito Crisp Burritos.“The crabs have been plaguing hungry guys for many years, so we felt it was our civic duty to come up with a cure,” said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing at Carl’s Jr. “Our new Crisp Burritos are available without a prescription but, they are so tasty that they could become habit-forming. My only regret is that we were too late to help poor Christian Bale.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
i love you, so long
I spend some time today in a coffee shop with a woman who i assumed to have some sort of what would traditionally be called a mental disorder, all that she would do for about forty five minutes was look around while and say 'i love you, so long'.
i think she might have it all figured out.
i think she might have it all figured out.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Bride in a slowly deflating hovercraft. A wrecked Jet Ski floats beside it to simulate the moments after a collision. Groom was driving without insurance and the accident is his fault. Bride angrily flailing her arms. Groom in water, raising his hands forward in the air as if to say, "Calm down, we can work something out"
Political Correctness Update: In November, the student association at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, voted to eliminate a cystic fibrosis organization from the list of charities it supports, explaining that since the condition almost exclusively afflicts white people, it was not "inclusive" enough to merit student funding. [Vancouver Sun, 11-25-08]
Among the medical oddities mentioned in a December Wall Street Journal roundup was "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Disorder," in which a person, when startled, would "jump, twitch, flail their limbs and obey commands given suddenly, even if it means hurting themselves or a loved one." It was first observed in 1878 among lumberjacks in Maine but has been reported also among factory workers in Malaysia and Siberia. It is believed to result from a genetic mutation that blocks the calming of the central nervous system (but could be merely psychological, from the stress of working in close quarters). [Wall Street Journal, 12-30-08]
Not Ready for Prime Time: In January, police in Cape Coral, Fla., were seeking LaKeitha Watson-Atkinson for shoplifting from a TJ Maxx. The thief escaped after running from store security, but not before she was knocked down twice by her getaway car. In the commotion, a check made out to Watson-Atkinson fell to the ground. [Fort Myers News-Press, 1-14-09]
Luke Radick, 21, was charged with attempted robbery of the National Bank of Palmerton in Sciota, Pa., in January. Bank employees refused to buzz Radick in for the simple reason that he stood at the door, covering his face and holding a shotgun. [WNEP-TV (Moosic, Pa.), 1-8-09]
Ms. Courtney Mann, the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the white-supremacist National Association for the Advancement of White People, and who is a single mother who works as a tax preparer, was rebuffed in an attempt to join a Ku Klux Klan-sponsored march in Pittsburgh in April, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Though she has been in the NAAWP for at least four years, the Pennsylvania KKK Grand Dragon turned her down for the Klan march because Mann is black. "She wanted me to send transportation (to bring her to the rally)," said the Grand Dragon. "She wanted to stay at my house (during rally weekend). She's all confused, man. I don't think she knows she's black." [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4-13-97]
Smelly feet kid allowed back in class - A student who was banned from attending classes at a Netherlands university due to his foot odor has won the right to return after a decade-long legal fight.
A judge ruled to allow Teunis Tenbrook, who was banned from attending classes at Erasmus University in Rotterdam after administrators said his foot odor was distracting to professors and students, to resume his education at the school after a 10-year lapse, The Sun reported Tuesday.
The judge said professors and students would "just have to hold their noses and bear it" if the smell of Tenbrook's feet bothers them in the future.
The school said its new policy is to fine smelly students rather than ban them from classes.
Aki Sinkkonen at the University of Helsinki in Finland thinks the belly button, aka the umbilicus, serves a greater purpose than mere cosmetics: It may be an indicator of mating potential in fertile women.
"I propose that umbilicus, together with the surrounding skin area, is an honest signal of individual vigor," Sinkkonen wrote in the latest issue of The FASEB Journal. "More precisely, I suggest that the symmetry, shape, and position of umbilicus can be used to estimate the reproductive potential of fertile females, including risks of certain genetically and maternally inherited fetal anomalies
This may sound like a joke, but it's not: researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have found that too much Facebook usage can leave you more prone to anxiety and depression...that is, if you're a teenage girl. In a study, a group of 13-year old girls were evaluated by psychology professor Dr. Joanne Davila and her colleague, Lisa Starr. A year later, the researchers followed up with the girls, testing them for depressive symptoms...Apparently, the problem with these electronic tools du jour is that they allowed the girls to discuss the same problems over and over again. This caused them to get stuck obsessing over a particular emotional setback, unable to move forward.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Police in Cleveland say a man called 911 because he felt he was in danger - then asked the dispatcher to hold on while he made a drug deal. Police Lt. Thomas Stacho said Tuesday that Alejandro Melendez was arrested after the call and was charged with possessing cocaine.
An Australian traveller was caught with two live pigeons stuffed down his trousers following a trip to the Middle East, customs officers said today.The 23-year-old man was searched after authorities discovered two eggs in a vitamin container in his luggage, said Richard Janeczko, national investigations manager for the Customs Service.They found the pigeons wrapped in padded envelopes and held to each of the man's legs with a pair of tights, according to a statement released by the agency. Officials also seized seeds in his money belt and an undeclared eggplant.
If a normal 23-year-old gets caught smoking marijuana these days, it's a misdemeanor and, if you're a first-time offender, you're apt to get fined and told not to do it again. Phelps doing it becomes a story heard round the world.
It would be nice to report that the people who represent Phelps rode to the rescue and minimized the damage. Unfortunately, that's not the case. According to the story in the London tabloid that bought the photo, an employee of Octagon -- the firm that represents Phelps -- attempted to bribe the newspaper into not running the photo.
The paper, The News of the World, reported that Octagon's Clifford Boxham offered the paper Phelps's services as a columnist for the next three years and as a host at events on behalf of the newspaper and also offered to get some of Phelps's sponsors to buy advertising in the newspaper.
Many New Species Discovered In Hidden Mozambique Oasis With Help Of Google Earth
ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2009) — Space may be the final frontier, but scientists who recently discovered a hidden forest in Mozambique show the uncharted can still be under our noses. BirdLife were part of a team of scientists who used Google Earth to identify a remote patch of pristine forest. An expedition to the site discovered new species of butterfly and snake, along with seven Globally Threatened birds.
The team were browsing Google Earth – freely available software providing global satellite photography – to search for potential wildlife hotspots. A nearby road provided the first glimpses of a wooded mountain topped by bare rock
Our image of the mother of our country, vague and insubstantial as it is, is drawn from portraits painted after her death showing a frumpy, dumpy, plump old lady, a fussy jumble of needlework in her lap, wearing what could pass for a shower cap with pink sponge rollers rolled too tight underneath.
But today, 250 years after Martha and George tied the knot, a handful of historians are seeking to revamp the former first lady's fusty image, using the few surviving records of things she wrote, asking forensic anthropologists to do a computerized age-regression portrait of her in her mid-20s and, perhaps most importantly, displaying for the first time in decades the avant-garde deep purple silk high heels studded with silver sequins that she wore on her wedding day.
Every so often a poor, misunderstood word in our language gets a junior-high-school hazing. The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (SPOGG) hates that, and proclaims it's time to take the KICK ME sign off of got.Let's invite got (and its milk carton) back to the lunch table. We need to release all that pent-up irritation at the "got milk?" campaign to fully appreciate the wonders of the word, which has gotten us through language mazes for more than 800 years.While it's true that have got is often flabby, the got is sometimes a good addition to the mix -- even if it's redundant. My evidence of that is subjective, but then, assessing style in language is largely that,,,,
I'll illustrate this with an example from my former life as a cross-country runner. A group of us were running through the woods one day when someone stepped on a yellow-jacket nest. Angry bees streamed out, and the boy in front of me yelled, "I've got to get out of here!" The hard "t" ending on got really captured the urgency we were all feeling.
A 24-year-old Salt Lake City man faces charges in 3rd District Court in connection with firing a gun at a locked refrigerator case to steal beer over the weekend.
Police say the man walked into a 7-Eleven at 1353 W. Indiana Avenue (830 South) just before 6 a.m. on Sunday and walked back to the cooler.
When the suspect noticed the cooler was locked he pointed a handgun at the glass front and fired two shots, according to charging documents. He took a 30-pack of Busch beer and left the store running, court documents state.
Among the medical oddities mentioned in a December Wall Street Journal roundup was "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Disorder," in which a person, when startled, would "jump, twitch, flail their limbs and obey commands given suddenly, even if it means hurting themselves or a loved one." It was first observed in 1878 among lumberjacks in Maine but has been reported also among factory workers in Malaysia and Siberia. It is believed to result from a genetic mutation that blocks the calming of the central nervous system (but could be merely psychological, from the stress of working in close quarters). [Wall Street Journal, 12-30-08]
Not Ready for Prime Time: In January, police in Cape Coral, Fla., were seeking LaKeitha Watson-Atkinson for shoplifting from a TJ Maxx. The thief escaped after running from store security, but not before she was knocked down twice by her getaway car. In the commotion, a check made out to Watson-Atkinson fell to the ground. [Fort Myers News-Press, 1-14-09]
Luke Radick, 21, was charged with attempted robbery of the National Bank of Palmerton in Sciota, Pa., in January. Bank employees refused to buzz Radick in for the simple reason that he stood at the door, covering his face and holding a shotgun. [WNEP-TV (Moosic, Pa.), 1-8-09]
Ms. Courtney Mann, the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the white-supremacist National Association for the Advancement of White People, and who is a single mother who works as a tax preparer, was rebuffed in an attempt to join a Ku Klux Klan-sponsored march in Pittsburgh in April, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Though she has been in the NAAWP for at least four years, the Pennsylvania KKK Grand Dragon turned her down for the Klan march because Mann is black. "She wanted me to send transportation (to bring her to the rally)," said the Grand Dragon. "She wanted to stay at my house (during rally weekend). She's all confused, man. I don't think she knows she's black." [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4-13-97]
Smelly feet kid allowed back in class - A student who was banned from attending classes at a Netherlands university due to his foot odor has won the right to return after a decade-long legal fight.
A judge ruled to allow Teunis Tenbrook, who was banned from attending classes at Erasmus University in Rotterdam after administrators said his foot odor was distracting to professors and students, to resume his education at the school after a 10-year lapse, The Sun reported Tuesday.
The judge said professors and students would "just have to hold their noses and bear it" if the smell of Tenbrook's feet bothers them in the future.
The school said its new policy is to fine smelly students rather than ban them from classes.
Aki Sinkkonen at the University of Helsinki in Finland thinks the belly button, aka the umbilicus, serves a greater purpose than mere cosmetics: It may be an indicator of mating potential in fertile women.
"I propose that umbilicus, together with the surrounding skin area, is an honest signal of individual vigor," Sinkkonen wrote in the latest issue of The FASEB Journal. "More precisely, I suggest that the symmetry, shape, and position of umbilicus can be used to estimate the reproductive potential of fertile females, including risks of certain genetically and maternally inherited fetal anomalies
This may sound like a joke, but it's not: researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have found that too much Facebook usage can leave you more prone to anxiety and depression...that is, if you're a teenage girl. In a study, a group of 13-year old girls were evaluated by psychology professor Dr. Joanne Davila and her colleague, Lisa Starr. A year later, the researchers followed up with the girls, testing them for depressive symptoms...Apparently, the problem with these electronic tools du jour is that they allowed the girls to discuss the same problems over and over again. This caused them to get stuck obsessing over a particular emotional setback, unable to move forward.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Police in Cleveland say a man called 911 because he felt he was in danger - then asked the dispatcher to hold on while he made a drug deal. Police Lt. Thomas Stacho said Tuesday that Alejandro Melendez was arrested after the call and was charged with possessing cocaine.
An Australian traveller was caught with two live pigeons stuffed down his trousers following a trip to the Middle East, customs officers said today.The 23-year-old man was searched after authorities discovered two eggs in a vitamin container in his luggage, said Richard Janeczko, national investigations manager for the Customs Service.They found the pigeons wrapped in padded envelopes and held to each of the man's legs with a pair of tights, according to a statement released by the agency. Officials also seized seeds in his money belt and an undeclared eggplant.
If a normal 23-year-old gets caught smoking marijuana these days, it's a misdemeanor and, if you're a first-time offender, you're apt to get fined and told not to do it again. Phelps doing it becomes a story heard round the world.
It would be nice to report that the people who represent Phelps rode to the rescue and minimized the damage. Unfortunately, that's not the case. According to the story in the London tabloid that bought the photo, an employee of Octagon -- the firm that represents Phelps -- attempted to bribe the newspaper into not running the photo.
The paper, The News of the World, reported that Octagon's Clifford Boxham offered the paper Phelps's services as a columnist for the next three years and as a host at events on behalf of the newspaper and also offered to get some of Phelps's sponsors to buy advertising in the newspaper.
Many New Species Discovered In Hidden Mozambique Oasis With Help Of Google Earth
ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2009) — Space may be the final frontier, but scientists who recently discovered a hidden forest in Mozambique show the uncharted can still be under our noses. BirdLife were part of a team of scientists who used Google Earth to identify a remote patch of pristine forest. An expedition to the site discovered new species of butterfly and snake, along with seven Globally Threatened birds.
The team were browsing Google Earth – freely available software providing global satellite photography – to search for potential wildlife hotspots. A nearby road provided the first glimpses of a wooded mountain topped by bare rock
Our image of the mother of our country, vague and insubstantial as it is, is drawn from portraits painted after her death showing a frumpy, dumpy, plump old lady, a fussy jumble of needlework in her lap, wearing what could pass for a shower cap with pink sponge rollers rolled too tight underneath.
But today, 250 years after Martha and George tied the knot, a handful of historians are seeking to revamp the former first lady's fusty image, using the few surviving records of things she wrote, asking forensic anthropologists to do a computerized age-regression portrait of her in her mid-20s and, perhaps most importantly, displaying for the first time in decades the avant-garde deep purple silk high heels studded with silver sequins that she wore on her wedding day.
Every so often a poor, misunderstood word in our language gets a junior-high-school hazing. The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (SPOGG) hates that, and proclaims it's time to take the KICK ME sign off of got.Let's invite got (and its milk carton) back to the lunch table. We need to release all that pent-up irritation at the "got milk?" campaign to fully appreciate the wonders of the word, which has gotten us through language mazes for more than 800 years.While it's true that have got is often flabby, the got is sometimes a good addition to the mix -- even if it's redundant. My evidence of that is subjective, but then, assessing style in language is largely that,,,,
I'll illustrate this with an example from my former life as a cross-country runner. A group of us were running through the woods one day when someone stepped on a yellow-jacket nest. Angry bees streamed out, and the boy in front of me yelled, "I've got to get out of here!" The hard "t" ending on got really captured the urgency we were all feeling.
A 24-year-old Salt Lake City man faces charges in 3rd District Court in connection with firing a gun at a locked refrigerator case to steal beer over the weekend.
Police say the man walked into a 7-Eleven at 1353 W. Indiana Avenue (830 South) just before 6 a.m. on Sunday and walked back to the cooler.
When the suspect noticed the cooler was locked he pointed a handgun at the glass front and fired two shots, according to charging documents. He took a 30-pack of Busch beer and left the store running, court documents state.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
I'm sorry i missed last show
Christian Bale
- sounds like ted stevens getting convicted
30 seconds
- you're a nice guy
- the sound guy had the most pathetic excuse - 'i was looking at the light'
- everyone is taking his side /the fix was in
I feel like we're doing ET
'Britney Spears' if you seek amy
geraldo rivera the mustache guy defends blagoyovich, AND michael jackson.
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WALLA WALLA NEWS
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yammy teriyaki is now yummi teriyaki
walla, walla where men are really hung
WESTERN WASHINGTON NEWS
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Seduced DJ marsh boa to come to bellingham
1st - got pulled over by the cops
that is the second time that i got pulled over - tacoma police
2nd - almost killed a guy - cut him off and then got called
3rd - went to a weird party
then i went to tacoma -
Hotel Murano -
every floor is a dedicatoin adn gallery to a different artist
pillow order form
spiritual library
built in iPOd and ihome
Tacoma is impossible to drive in all one way and the monorail
ALSO there is a class war - the murano is a second away from a HOUSE FULL OF GARBAGE
my computer is broken if DOWNGRADED ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pc4cChm3yY
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Art bell
New Time Slot - Just like the old days AND we can drink on the show
this is also our first show after the winter break
christmas
went home and my sister had to go to rehab - had christmas there - i tried to joke about meth - didn't work out
went to MEXICAN christmas - like immigrants - sit with THE MEN
also ate every part of a pig
iTouch - check email complusively
but the best best part is internet on the toilter
i saw like every holiday movie ever
- the spirit
- valykerie
- seven pounds
- slumbog millionaire
-still not benjamin button
new years
dick van dyke is getting old
Topeka
Mad Marlin - gave us his CD Wandat - highest tax rate smallest population
asked the employee 'that is a CD'
asked if we'd be on televsion
Brown v Board memorial cite NAACP stragized
CHURCH TV - which was tithing
Other
'do it for the show'
look how big it is
dream tricked me
restuarants taht are angry with you
i am having trouble not beign nice - 'haven't showered today eitehr', 'yeah well you need it'
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And in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sydney Teerhuis, on trial for killing a man, claimed self-defense even though he admitted not only stabbing the man 68 times but having sex with the dead body. [Vancouver Sun, 12-4-08]
As the British government was poised in November to re-classify lap-dancing clubs from "entertainment" to "sexual encounter establishments" (thus imposing tougher licensing standards), the industry's trade association insisted to a Parliamentary committee that the clubs are not sexual. "(T)he entertainment may be in the form of nude ... performers, but it's not sexually stimulating," said the chairman of the Lap Dancing Association. That would be "contrary to our business plan." [The Guardian, 11-26-08]
Not My Fault: Bruce George, 20, admitted to police that he had molested a 6-year-old girl in Anchorage, Alaska, in October but said he needed to do it to acquire the courage to kill himself. He said he needed motivation for suicide by doing something that totally disgusted him. [Anchorage Daily News, 10-8-08]
Poor at Multitasking: In Britain's Manchester Crown Court in December, Imran Hussain, 32, was sentenced to eight years in prison for his DUI-related crash that killed two people in August. (Hussain was also masturbating at the time.) [BBC News, 12-8-08]
In September, after a Chinese Shandong airline flight landed safely in Zhengzhou, the engine died, and the airline was forced to enlist some of the 69 passengers to help employees push the plane to the gate. [Daily Mail (London), 9-27-08]
Willie Windsor, 54, of Phoenix has for several years lived as a full-time baby, wearing frilly dresses, diapers and bonnets, sucking on a pacifier, eating Gerber cuisine and habitually clutching a rag doll, in a home filled with oversized baby furniture. According to a long Phoenix New Times profile in June, the diaper is not just a prop. Windsor said he worked hard to learn to become incontinent, even chaining the commode shut to avoid temptation, and the reporter admitted feeling "disconcert(ed)" that Windsor might be relieving himself at the very moment he was describing his un-toilet training. Apparently, Windsor's brother, ex-wife, girlfriend and a neighbor tolerate his lifestyle (though no girlfriend has yet been willing to change his diapers). Windsor is a semi-retired singer-actor and said he's been celibate for nine years. [Phoenix New Times, 6-9-05]
Indicted for cocaine possession in Montgomery County, Ohio, in November: Mr. Dalcapone Alpaccino 20. [TheSmokingGun.com, 11- 18-08] Charged in Columbia, S.C., in November with running down her boyfriend with her car and breaking his leg: Ms. Princess Killingsworth. [WIS-TV (Columbia), 11-24-08]
Britain's association of police officers complained to the Daily Telegraph in November that bureaucratic requirements are "emasculating" law enforcement, offering as one example the Home Affairs Department's insistence that a seven-page form be submitted for any surveillance work, even if the "work" is merely observing via human eyeballs. [Daily Telegraph, 11-8-08]
And in December, the Daily Telegraph reported that 45 officers from the Lancashire county police were assigned to help install speed indicator signs but only after being sent to a two-hour class that included safety instructions on climbing a 3-foot ladder. Said a spokesman, "If we didn't do it and people were falling off ladders, we would be criticized." [Daily Telegraph, 12-22-08]
In November, a judge at Killorglin District Court in Kerry, Ireland, dismissed two DUI cases because the blood-alcohol readings were not administered properly. The suspects should have been isolated for 20 minutes before the test but had been permitted to use urinals, and the judge accepted lawyers' arguments that "steam" from the urine might have wafted into the men's noses and raised their readings. [Belfast Telegraph, 12-1-08]
Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission announced plans in December to create a third official gender for government identification: "intersex," for transsexuals, whether or not they have had surgery. Immediately, activists from Sex and Gender Education Australia called the proposal inadequate, demanding a fourth gender, also, for people who feel that "gender" is either "undefinable" or subject to daily changes of attitude. [Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 12-6-08]
Officials in South Africa, where government only recently came to accept the connection between HIV and AIDS after years of denial that provoked the country's epidemic of cases, revealed in December that supplies of retroviral drugs are being used recreationally as hallucinogens smoked by schoolchildren. Health officials told BBC News that the drugs are prescribed to those at risk for AIDS, but are not taken seriously by symptom-free, HIV-diagnosed South Africans who are just now starting to understand the decades-old disease. [BBC News, 12-8-08]
Might As Well Reserve Him a Death-Row Cell Right Now: According to a November sheriff's department report, an 11-year-old, Fort Pierce, Fla., boy hit his mother with a saw during an argument, lacerating her skull, and then, as she threatened to call police, offered her a $5 bribe not to. [Scripps TCPalm (Stuart, Fla.), 11-13-08]
In November, British Justice Minister Jack Straw discovered, and immediately canceled,a 10-year-old program tap dancing club for inmates at Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire for "workshops" in comedy. [BBC News, 11-21-08]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reporting the latest of 10 lawsuits against dentist Thomas Laney, 55, found "flaws" in Washington state's medical disciplinary system, in that Laney was apparently doing "full-body cosmetic surgeries." Laney was being sued this time by a woman for allegedly botching her breast-reduction. His attorney told a reporter that negative outcomes happen, but that Laney should not be held responsible unless the patient suffers deformities that are "terribly, terribly wrong." (When an earlier patient of his died after surgery, Laney was "disciplined" with a fine and an order to get additional training.) [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11-9-08]
When Arien O'Connell posted the fastest time in October's Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco, she expected of course to be declared the winner, but the shoe company apparently had promised a group of elite runners (to attract them to enter the race) that one of them would be the "winner," and consequently, first place went to a woman who ran 11 minutes behind O'Connell. After a storm of complaints, Nike reluctantly settled on calling both women "winners" and said next year it would scrap the two-tier system. [San Francisco Chronicle, 10-23-08]
One of the world's best-known strategists on the game of checkers passed away in November. Richard Fortman was Illinois state champion six times, and in the 1970s and 1980s published a seven-volume handbook on rules and tactics. Many people now considering the game would be astonished to know that, as in chess, there are masters and grandmasters, and international rankings, that experts actually study historical opening moves and endgames, and that some play, move-by-move, via the U.S. Mail. A New York Times obituary noted that Fortman played as many as 100 games simultaneously, and won games blindfolded. Until the end, according to his daughter, Fortman spent "hours each day" playing checkers online. [New York Times, 11-30-08]
Serbians, who have previously, bafflingly, constructed large, reverential public statues of martial-arts actor Bruce Lee and movie characters Tarzan and Rocky Balboa, built one of reggae musician Bob Marley in August in the village of Banatski Sokolac. Also planned was a statue of British singer Samantha Fox, but that project fell through. One Serbian artist who helped raise money for the Rocky statue told The New York Times, "My generation can't find role models (at home) so we have to look elsewhere." [New York Times, 8-25-08]
An administrative court in Sweden overruled a government agency in November, thus requiring that the Madonna of Orgasm Church founded by artist Carlos Bebeacua be registered as a legitimate religious community. "The orgasm is God," he said, and "should be worshipped" as a "metaphor of life." It should not be limited to ejaculation but can be taught "through art or by looking at a landscape and thinking, 'Wow!'" Bebeacua already claims "a few hundred" followers. [The Local (Stockholm), 11-19-08]
The streak for the longest continuous chanting (already noted twice in the Guinness Book of World Records) is still active, according to an August Indo-Asian News Service dispatch from Ahmedabad, India. Clerics at the Shri Bala Hanuman temple started intoning "Shri Ram Jay Ram Jay Jay Ram" on Aug. 1, 1964 (more than 23 million minutes ago). [Daily News & Analysis (Mumbai) Indo-Asian News Service, 8-2-08]
It seemed like an obviously good decision by the Toronto Transit Commission in 2006 to curb counterfeiting of its aluminum coins and paper tickets by phasing in larger metal-alloy tokens as substitutes. By earlier this year, when the tokens had completely replaced the lighter coins and paper, the commission realized that its fare-sorting room was beginning to crack at the foundations because the tokens to be counted weigh about 60 tons more than pre-2006 aluminum and paper. A commission spokesman told the Toronto Sun in November that engineers were working on a solution. [Toronto Sun, 11-18-08]
In September, Atlanta-area educator Phillippia Faust, working on a $455,000 annual federal sex education grant, offered a $10,000 contest prize for an engaged local couple who had so far abstained from sex and would continue to do so until the wedding. (Any sex would be "risky behavior," said Faust, but worst of all would be living together before marriage, which is a "set up for the kill.") However, despite the large population of the area, she had no takers, and as the deadline approached, she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she even considered opening the contest to engaged couples who had had sex but regretted it.[Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10-23-08, 11-8-08]
In a recent report of DUI excuses in the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda, a 56-year-old woman had asserted that, though she had been drinking, her driving was not affected because she had remembered to keep one eye closed
For 15 years, Eduardo Arrocha, 46, was different from us, as "Eak the Geek," the "Pain-Proof Man" at New York's Coney Island Sideshow, where he lay on nails, walked on glass, ate lightbulbs, and put his tongue in a mousetrap.for a spot in the class at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich., where he is in his second year ("from one freak show to another," he said, "it's the most bizarre thing I've ever done in my life"). Job interviews may be tough because a three-piece suit will hide only his chest-to-toe tattoos; recruiters can't miss the stars and planets that cover his face. [Bizarre Magazine, October 2008; Los Angeles Times, 9-4-07]
British Muslim convert Nicky Reilly, 22, pleaded guilty in October in Exeter, England, to attempted terrorism for detonating a homemade nail bomb in the Giraffe restaurant. The plan failed when Reilly triggered the bomb in the men's room, intending to take it into the dining area, but then could not unlock the men's room door to get out. (His lawyer called him perhaps the "least cunning" person ever to be charged with terrorism in Britain.) [Reuters, 11-22-08]
In Toronto in March 1994, Sajid Rhatti, then 23, and his 20-year-old wife brawled over whether Katey Sagal, who plays Peg Bundy on the "Married with Children" TV show, is prettier than Christina Applegate, who plays her daughter. First, the wife slashed Rhatti in the groin with a wine bottle as they scuffled, but, remorseful, she dressed his wounds, and the couple sat down again to watch a second episode of the show. Moments later, the brawl erupted again, and Rhatti, who suffered a broken arm and shoulder, stabbed his wife in the chest, back, and legs before the couple begged neighbors to call an ambulance. [Edmonton Journal-Canadian Press 3-18-94]
A group of recently published cookbooks touting imaginative dishes served by world-renowned chefs includes Ferran Adria's volume on just his everyday fare at the world's top-rated elBulli in Spain. Probably too complex for home cooking are the parmesan ice cream sandwiches, quail eggs with crispy caramel coating, calamari tube ravioli with coconut gel, and especially the preserved tuna-oil air (to create foam).
Latest Off-Label Uses of Viagra: Britain's The Sun reported in November that Calvin Muteesa, 2, of South London has been forced to take Viagra four times a day since he was 3 months old to stave off a potentially fatal case of pulmonary arterial hypertension. [The Sun, 11-21-08]
In October, ABC News profiled a 6-year-old boy with a rare coordination disorder called Angelman syndrome, which makes the afflicted seem stiff and jerky, but which also fosters a cheerful, gregarious (though non-verbal) personality, leading the disorder to be known as the "happy puppet syndrome." Seizures are a consequence, but so is excessive laughter, which is a major hindrance to early diagnosis, according to a pediatrics professor. [ABC News, 10-22-08]
Saskatchewan physician John Schneeberger, then 31, implanted a thin, 6-inch tube of someone else's blood in his own arm in order to beat a DNA test after two female patients had accused him of rape. He cut open his bicep, inserted the tube, and pushed it down to the crook of the arm from which blood is usually drawn. Thus, "his" DNA didn't match the rapist's, and the cases were closed. However, one victim later hired a private detective, who exposed the scam, and Schneeberger was convicted in 1999 (though he maintained that he was forced into the deception because someone had framed him by breaking into his house and stealing a used condom). (Update: Schneeberger served four years in prison and was deported to his native South Africa.) [National Post, 9-29-99]
New Time Slot - Just like the old days AND we can drink on the show
this is also our first show after the winter break
christmas
went home and my sister had to go to rehab - had christmas there - i tried to joke about meth - didn't work out
went to MEXICAN christmas - like immigrants - sit with THE MEN
also ate every part of a pig
iTouch - check email complusively
but the best best part is internet on the toilter
i saw like every holiday movie ever
- the spirit
- valykerie
- seven pounds
- slumbog millionaire
-still not benjamin button
new years
dick van dyke is getting old
Topeka
Mad Marlin - gave us his CD Wandat - highest tax rate smallest population
asked the employee 'that is a CD'
asked if we'd be on televsion
Brown v Board memorial cite NAACP stragized
CHURCH TV - which was tithing
Other
'do it for the show'
look how big it is
dream tricked me
restuarants taht are angry with you
i am having trouble not beign nice - 'haven't showered today eitehr', 'yeah well you need it'
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And in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sydney Teerhuis, on trial for killing a man, claimed self-defense even though he admitted not only stabbing the man 68 times but having sex with the dead body. [Vancouver Sun, 12-4-08]
As the British government was poised in November to re-classify lap-dancing clubs from "entertainment" to "sexual encounter establishments" (thus imposing tougher licensing standards), the industry's trade association insisted to a Parliamentary committee that the clubs are not sexual. "(T)he entertainment may be in the form of nude ... performers, but it's not sexually stimulating," said the chairman of the Lap Dancing Association. That would be "contrary to our business plan." [The Guardian, 11-26-08]
Not My Fault: Bruce George, 20, admitted to police that he had molested a 6-year-old girl in Anchorage, Alaska, in October but said he needed to do it to acquire the courage to kill himself. He said he needed motivation for suicide by doing something that totally disgusted him. [Anchorage Daily News, 10-8-08]
Poor at Multitasking: In Britain's Manchester Crown Court in December, Imran Hussain, 32, was sentenced to eight years in prison for his DUI-related crash that killed two people in August. (Hussain was also masturbating at the time.) [BBC News, 12-8-08]
In September, after a Chinese Shandong airline flight landed safely in Zhengzhou, the engine died, and the airline was forced to enlist some of the 69 passengers to help employees push the plane to the gate. [Daily Mail (London), 9-27-08]
Willie Windsor, 54, of Phoenix has for several years lived as a full-time baby, wearing frilly dresses, diapers and bonnets, sucking on a pacifier, eating Gerber cuisine and habitually clutching a rag doll, in a home filled with oversized baby furniture. According to a long Phoenix New Times profile in June, the diaper is not just a prop. Windsor said he worked hard to learn to become incontinent, even chaining the commode shut to avoid temptation, and the reporter admitted feeling "disconcert(ed)" that Windsor might be relieving himself at the very moment he was describing his un-toilet training. Apparently, Windsor's brother, ex-wife, girlfriend and a neighbor tolerate his lifestyle (though no girlfriend has yet been willing to change his diapers). Windsor is a semi-retired singer-actor and said he's been celibate for nine years. [Phoenix New Times, 6-9-05]
Indicted for cocaine possession in Montgomery County, Ohio, in November: Mr. Dalcapone Alpaccino 20. [TheSmokingGun.com, 11- 18-08] Charged in Columbia, S.C., in November with running down her boyfriend with her car and breaking his leg: Ms. Princess Killingsworth. [WIS-TV (Columbia), 11-24-08]
Britain's association of police officers complained to the Daily Telegraph in November that bureaucratic requirements are "emasculating" law enforcement, offering as one example the Home Affairs Department's insistence that a seven-page form be submitted for any surveillance work, even if the "work" is merely observing via human eyeballs. [Daily Telegraph, 11-8-08]
And in December, the Daily Telegraph reported that 45 officers from the Lancashire county police were assigned to help install speed indicator signs but only after being sent to a two-hour class that included safety instructions on climbing a 3-foot ladder. Said a spokesman, "If we didn't do it and people were falling off ladders, we would be criticized." [Daily Telegraph, 12-22-08]
In November, a judge at Killorglin District Court in Kerry, Ireland, dismissed two DUI cases because the blood-alcohol readings were not administered properly. The suspects should have been isolated for 20 minutes before the test but had been permitted to use urinals, and the judge accepted lawyers' arguments that "steam" from the urine might have wafted into the men's noses and raised their readings. [Belfast Telegraph, 12-1-08]
Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission announced plans in December to create a third official gender for government identification: "intersex," for transsexuals, whether or not they have had surgery. Immediately, activists from Sex and Gender Education Australia called the proposal inadequate, demanding a fourth gender, also, for people who feel that "gender" is either "undefinable" or subject to daily changes of attitude. [Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 12-6-08]
Officials in South Africa, where government only recently came to accept the connection between HIV and AIDS after years of denial that provoked the country's epidemic of cases, revealed in December that supplies of retroviral drugs are being used recreationally as hallucinogens smoked by schoolchildren. Health officials told BBC News that the drugs are prescribed to those at risk for AIDS, but are not taken seriously by symptom-free, HIV-diagnosed South Africans who are just now starting to understand the decades-old disease. [BBC News, 12-8-08]
Might As Well Reserve Him a Death-Row Cell Right Now: According to a November sheriff's department report, an 11-year-old, Fort Pierce, Fla., boy hit his mother with a saw during an argument, lacerating her skull, and then, as she threatened to call police, offered her a $5 bribe not to. [Scripps TCPalm (Stuart, Fla.), 11-13-08]
In November, British Justice Minister Jack Straw discovered, and immediately canceled,a 10-year-old program tap dancing club for inmates at Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire for "workshops" in comedy. [BBC News, 11-21-08]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reporting the latest of 10 lawsuits against dentist Thomas Laney, 55, found "flaws" in Washington state's medical disciplinary system, in that Laney was apparently doing "full-body cosmetic surgeries." Laney was being sued this time by a woman for allegedly botching her breast-reduction. His attorney told a reporter that negative outcomes happen, but that Laney should not be held responsible unless the patient suffers deformities that are "terribly, terribly wrong." (When an earlier patient of his died after surgery, Laney was "disciplined" with a fine and an order to get additional training.) [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11-9-08]
When Arien O'Connell posted the fastest time in October's Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco, she expected of course to be declared the winner, but the shoe company apparently had promised a group of elite runners (to attract them to enter the race) that one of them would be the "winner," and consequently, first place went to a woman who ran 11 minutes behind O'Connell. After a storm of complaints, Nike reluctantly settled on calling both women "winners" and said next year it would scrap the two-tier system. [San Francisco Chronicle, 10-23-08]
One of the world's best-known strategists on the game of checkers passed away in November. Richard Fortman was Illinois state champion six times, and in the 1970s and 1980s published a seven-volume handbook on rules and tactics. Many people now considering the game would be astonished to know that, as in chess, there are masters and grandmasters, and international rankings, that experts actually study historical opening moves and endgames, and that some play, move-by-move, via the U.S. Mail. A New York Times obituary noted that Fortman played as many as 100 games simultaneously, and won games blindfolded. Until the end, according to his daughter, Fortman spent "hours each day" playing checkers online. [New York Times, 11-30-08]
Serbians, who have previously, bafflingly, constructed large, reverential public statues of martial-arts actor Bruce Lee and movie characters Tarzan and Rocky Balboa, built one of reggae musician Bob Marley in August in the village of Banatski Sokolac. Also planned was a statue of British singer Samantha Fox, but that project fell through. One Serbian artist who helped raise money for the Rocky statue told The New York Times, "My generation can't find role models (at home) so we have to look elsewhere." [New York Times, 8-25-08]
An administrative court in Sweden overruled a government agency in November, thus requiring that the Madonna of Orgasm Church founded by artist Carlos Bebeacua be registered as a legitimate religious community. "The orgasm is God," he said, and "should be worshipped" as a "metaphor of life." It should not be limited to ejaculation but can be taught "through art or by looking at a landscape and thinking, 'Wow!'" Bebeacua already claims "a few hundred" followers. [The Local (Stockholm), 11-19-08]
The streak for the longest continuous chanting (already noted twice in the Guinness Book of World Records) is still active, according to an August Indo-Asian News Service dispatch from Ahmedabad, India. Clerics at the Shri Bala Hanuman temple started intoning "Shri Ram Jay Ram Jay Jay Ram" on Aug. 1, 1964 (more than 23 million minutes ago). [Daily News & Analysis (Mumbai) Indo-Asian News Service, 8-2-08]
It seemed like an obviously good decision by the Toronto Transit Commission in 2006 to curb counterfeiting of its aluminum coins and paper tickets by phasing in larger metal-alloy tokens as substitutes. By earlier this year, when the tokens had completely replaced the lighter coins and paper, the commission realized that its fare-sorting room was beginning to crack at the foundations because the tokens to be counted weigh about 60 tons more than pre-2006 aluminum and paper. A commission spokesman told the Toronto Sun in November that engineers were working on a solution. [Toronto Sun, 11-18-08]
In September, Atlanta-area educator Phillippia Faust, working on a $455,000 annual federal sex education grant, offered a $10,000 contest prize for an engaged local couple who had so far abstained from sex and would continue to do so until the wedding. (Any sex would be "risky behavior," said Faust, but worst of all would be living together before marriage, which is a "set up for the kill.") However, despite the large population of the area, she had no takers, and as the deadline approached, she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she even considered opening the contest to engaged couples who had had sex but regretted it.[Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10-23-08, 11-8-08]
In a recent report of DUI excuses in the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda, a 56-year-old woman had asserted that, though she had been drinking, her driving was not affected because she had remembered to keep one eye closed
For 15 years, Eduardo Arrocha, 46, was different from us, as "Eak the Geek," the "Pain-Proof Man" at New York's Coney Island Sideshow, where he lay on nails, walked on glass, ate lightbulbs, and put his tongue in a mousetrap.for a spot in the class at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich., where he is in his second year ("from one freak show to another," he said, "it's the most bizarre thing I've ever done in my life"). Job interviews may be tough because a three-piece suit will hide only his chest-to-toe tattoos; recruiters can't miss the stars and planets that cover his face. [Bizarre Magazine, October 2008; Los Angeles Times, 9-4-07]
British Muslim convert Nicky Reilly, 22, pleaded guilty in October in Exeter, England, to attempted terrorism for detonating a homemade nail bomb in the Giraffe restaurant. The plan failed when Reilly triggered the bomb in the men's room, intending to take it into the dining area, but then could not unlock the men's room door to get out. (His lawyer called him perhaps the "least cunning" person ever to be charged with terrorism in Britain.) [Reuters, 11-22-08]
In Toronto in March 1994, Sajid Rhatti, then 23, and his 20-year-old wife brawled over whether Katey Sagal, who plays Peg Bundy on the "Married with Children" TV show, is prettier than Christina Applegate, who plays her daughter. First, the wife slashed Rhatti in the groin with a wine bottle as they scuffled, but, remorseful, she dressed his wounds, and the couple sat down again to watch a second episode of the show. Moments later, the brawl erupted again, and Rhatti, who suffered a broken arm and shoulder, stabbed his wife in the chest, back, and legs before the couple begged neighbors to call an ambulance. [Edmonton Journal-Canadian Press 3-18-94]
A group of recently published cookbooks touting imaginative dishes served by world-renowned chefs includes Ferran Adria's volume on just his everyday fare at the world's top-rated elBulli in Spain. Probably too complex for home cooking are the parmesan ice cream sandwiches, quail eggs with crispy caramel coating, calamari tube ravioli with coconut gel, and especially the preserved tuna-oil air (to create foam).
Latest Off-Label Uses of Viagra: Britain's The Sun reported in November that Calvin Muteesa, 2, of South London has been forced to take Viagra four times a day since he was 3 months old to stave off a potentially fatal case of pulmonary arterial hypertension. [The Sun, 11-21-08]
In October, ABC News profiled a 6-year-old boy with a rare coordination disorder called Angelman syndrome, which makes the afflicted seem stiff and jerky, but which also fosters a cheerful, gregarious (though non-verbal) personality, leading the disorder to be known as the "happy puppet syndrome." Seizures are a consequence, but so is excessive laughter, which is a major hindrance to early diagnosis, according to a pediatrics professor. [ABC News, 10-22-08]
Saskatchewan physician John Schneeberger, then 31, implanted a thin, 6-inch tube of someone else's blood in his own arm in order to beat a DNA test after two female patients had accused him of rape. He cut open his bicep, inserted the tube, and pushed it down to the crook of the arm from which blood is usually drawn. Thus, "his" DNA didn't match the rapist's, and the cases were closed. However, one victim later hired a private detective, who exposed the scam, and Schneeberger was convicted in 1999 (though he maintained that he was forced into the deception because someone had framed him by breaking into his house and stealing a used condom). (Update: Schneeberger served four years in prison and was deported to his native South Africa.) [National Post, 9-29-99]
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