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
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