Starbucks, Bennigans...no mas?

Bennigan's Restaurants Shut Down Nationwide
Customers showing up for lunch at Bennigan's restaurants across the country yesterday found quite a surprise...all the corporate-owned locations had signs on display reading "closed for business."

Bennigan's Grill and Tavern closed all of its corporate-owned locations nationwide after filing for bankruptcy. That amounts to 160 locations, and about 10,000 employees are out of work. Independent franchises remain open for business as usual.

Some managers and some employees say they were called in the middle of the night. People got the calls at the stores, others were called at 1:00 in the morning at their homes. No one expected it.
The corporate-owned locations comprise about half the entire chain.

Starbucks to shut majority of its Australian stores
Starbucks said Tuesday it would shut most of its Australian stores within a week, having already taken the axe to hundreds of US outlets as an economic downturn bites.

The company said it would shut 61 "underperforming" stores from a total 84 in Australia because it was refocusing to concentrate on the major cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and surrounding areas.

Schultz said in a statement the decision to shut the stores reflected problems specific to the country and did not reflect "the strong state of Starbucks business in countries outside of the United States."

"There are no other international markets that need to be addressed in this manner," he said.

Can cuil outdo Google?

Google may be in the dictionary, but Cuil is attempting to take the search giant head on. Cuil("cool") is a new search engine founded by ex-google engineers. They claim that they can index faster and more cheaply than their behemouth older step brother.

The difference? Cuilers claim that rather than searches focused on web links and traffic patterns, Cuil will analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request.

"Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user," Tom Costello, Cuil co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.

Cuil was founded by a group of search pioneers, including Costello, who built a prototype of Web Fountain, IBM's Web search analytics tool, and his wife, Anna Patterson, the architect of Google Inc's massive TeraGoogle index of Web pages. Patterson also designed the search system for global corporate document storage company Recall, a unit of Australia's Brambles Ltd.

Important Editorials in Northern Pennsylvania

Editor, the Record:

I would like to know why none of our local grocery stores in Stroudsburg carry my favorite frozen potatoes. When I asked about them, I was told at the store they could not get them.

Only one local store carries this item. I had to go out of town for an appointment and stopped at a supermarket in Wind Gap and was able to get this product.

Why do people here have to shop out of town to get things they want?

If the stores want you to shop locally, then they should carry items people want. This doesn't include the family-owned stores.

WALDRON H. SMITH

Stroudsburg

IMPORTANT HOLIDAY ALERT!!!

Today is National Sleepy Head Day in Naantali, Finland. Traditionally on this day the last person in the house still sleeping is woken up using water, either by being thrown into a lake or the sea or by having water thrown on them.

[This day is based on the story of the Seven Sleepers, the Saints of Ephesus who slept in a cave for some two to three hundred years during the Middle Ages to avoid persecution by Decius, the Roman emperor at the time. The story of the Seven Sleepers is told in the Quran and other Muslim texts.]

Google Earth Gate crashing!

Would-be revellers are using satellite images on the internet to find houses with swimming pools - and then turning up uninvited for an impromptu dip.

The craze involves using the Google Earth programme, which provides high-quality aerial photos of Britain and other countries.

Once a target is chosen, the organisers use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo to arrange to meet, say police.

Officers said that residents have woken up to find youngsters 'dipping' in their back gardens, or have come home from work to a swimming pool full of beer cans.

One group has already boasted on the internet that it held an event earlier this week. Sixteen people are said to have gatecrashed two pools near Bournemouth.

The rules of 'dipping' often include wearing fancy dress and participants are urged to 'bring a bike' to escape if discovered.

There are fears that the craze could spread across the UK as the weather improves and pool owners leave their homes unattended while on holiday.

A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said yesterday: 'We are advising owners of swimming pools to be on their guard.

'We would also warn prospective swimmers that using someone else's pool is trespassing and therefore illegal.'

fake nurses steal floridians shit.

SANFORD, Fla. -- A gang of female bandits dressed in nursing costumes is stalking and targeting women and elderly shoppers at Central Florida businesses.

Investigators said the band of women has been active in several communities, with the latest attack happening at a Sanford Wal-Mart located on 17-92.

In the most recent case, a 74-year-old woman was leaving a store and a group of women were spotted following her. One of the women then grabbed the victim's purse and jumped into a silver four-door car.

"These women have been striking in Altamonte Springs and in Orlando," Sanford police Jeffery Sabounji said. "They target elderly people and other females. They even dressed up as nurses to get people to relax so they think they are not going to do anything."

Investigators said several women are involved in the theft ring but they are looking for one specific woman. She is a heavy-set woman with very short hair and can be mistaken for a man, detectives said.

Officers also said the woman is around 21 years old and apparently lives in Sanford.

Strange Asteroid Shapes Explained

Gyula Szabó from the University of Szeged [Hungary] is the lead author of the study, which was published in the July edition of Icarus. He explains, "There are several hundred thousand asteroids in our solar system. They orbit the sun, but because they are small their surface gravity is low. This means that many have strange, irregular shapes."

The most accurate data about asteroids comes from spacecraft fly-bys, but only a few asteroids have been examined that way. Radar observations can only be made of objects that get close to the Earth. Telescopes produce detailed images, but only for the largest asteroids.

Another option for obtaining information about asteroids is called "time-resolved photometry." The technique is surprisingly simple: By observing asteroids as they spin in space and then studying the amount of light reflected, scientists can get an idea of their shape. Getting accurate results from this method can take a long time, but the researchers realised that digital sky surveys could speed up the process. Such projects study thousands of objects every night. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, for instance, mainly looks at stars and galaxies, but it also has gathered data on asteroids.

"This procedure was very economical," says Gyula. "Using photometry, astronomers have determined shapes for about 1,200 asteroids in the past 30 to 40 years. We derived the shapes for ten times more asteroids, but in half an hour!"

"The results were really surprising," says Gyula. "We saw there were families that included many elongated asteroids, and there were other ones which consisted of mostly spheroidal bodies."

But what changes the asteroids' shape? Gyula and his team have shown that asteroids change shape from elongated to roughly spherical due to being impacted during their lifetimes. They are like pebbles on the beach that become worn smooth over many years -- only in space, erosion is caused by small impacts as rocks knock into each other and chip pieces off.

THE EDGE of the solar system!

Voyager 2's journey toward interstellar space has revealed surprising insights into the energy and magnetic forces at the solar system's outer edge, and confirmed the solar system's squashed shape.

Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to send data to Earth more than 30 years after they first launched. During the 1990s, Voyager 1 became the farthest manmade object in space.

Each spacecraft has now crossed the edge of the solar system, known as termination shock, where the outbound solar wind collides with inbound energetic particles from interstellar space. The termination shock surrounds the solar system and encloses a bubble called the heliosphere.

"The solar wind is blowing outward trying to inflate this bubble, and the pressure from interstellar wind is coming in," said Edward Stone, physicist and Voyager project scientist at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif. He and other researchers published a series of studies in the journal Nature this week that detail the Voyager findings.

Voyager 2 reached the southern edge of the solar system 7.8 billion miles (84 AU) from the sun, closer than Voyager 1 which had reached the northern edge 8.7 billion miles (94 AU) from the sun. That confirms earlier suspicions about the heliosphere bubble being squashed at its southern region.

The reason for that asymmetrical shape rests with an interstellar magnetic field that puts more pressure on the southern region of the solar system — something that may change over 100,000 years as that magnetic field experiences turbulence, Stone said.

"We're actually seeing the shock for the first time," said John Richardson, principal scientist for Voyager's Plasma Physics instrument at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.


An added mystery remains as to why the solar wind slows down early, as though anticipating running headlong into the termination shock. Researchers have begun looking into whether the solar wind somehow sheds energy ahead of time.

"Somehow the solar wind knows the shock is coming before it gets there, and theory says that shouldn't be," Richardson noted, adding that the solar wind speed drops from its supersonic speed of about 248 miles per second (400 km/s) to 186 miles per second (300 km/s) even before hitting the edge of the solar system. That speed falls more noticeably to about 93 miles per second (150 km/s) after the termination shock.

What your nation does behing your back.

New Yorker - Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to 400 million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.

Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of “high-value targets” in the President’s war on terror, who may be captured or killed. But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded, according to the current and former officials. Many of these activities are not specified in the new Finding, and some congressional leaders have had serious questions about their nature.

Under federal law, a Presidential Finding, which is highly classified, must be issued when a covert intelligence operation gets under way and, at a minimum, must be made known to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and the Senate and to the ranking members of their respective intelligence committees—the so-called Gang of Eight. Money for the operation can then be reprogrammed from previous appropriations, as needed, by the relevant congressional committees, which also can be briefed.

“The Finding was focussed on undermining Iran’s nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change,” a person familiar with its contents said, and involved “working with opposition groups and passing money.” The Finding provided for a whole new range of activities in southern Iran and in the areas, in the east, where Baluchi political opposition is strong, he said.

Some members of the Democratic leadership were willing, in secret, to go along with the Administration in expanding covert activities directed at Iran, while the Party’s presumptive candidate for President, Barack Obama, has said that he favors direct talks and diplomacy.

The request for funding came in the same period in which the Administration was coming to terms with a National Intelligence Estimate, released in December, that concluded that Iran had halted its work on nuclear weapons in 2003. The Administration downplayed the significance of the N.I.E., and, while saying that it was committed to diplomacy, continued to emphasize that urgent action was essential to counter the Iranian nuclear threat. President Bush questioned the N.I.E.’s conclusions, and senior national-security officials, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, made similar statements. (So did Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee.)
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SEATTLE (AP) - critical mass. critical breakdown.

A mob of bicyclists riding in Seattle with the monthly Critical Mass demonstration injured a motorist after an altercation.

Seattle Police spokesman Mark Jamieson says that on Friday between 100 and 300 bicyclists were riding down a street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, blocking traffic on both lanes, when a man and a woman in a Subaru station wagon tried to pull out of a parking spot.

But some of the bicyclists blocked them, sat on the car and began banging on the vehicle. Words were exchanged between the male driver and the bicyclists.

The driver feared being assaulted and backed up, but bumped a biker and enraged the group. In response, some of the bikers smashed the windshield and rear window. He tried to drive away but hit another bicyclist.

The car stopped a block down and the bicyclists surrounded the car. One biker punched the driver through an open window and another used a knife to slash the tires.

When the driver got out of the car a male suspect struck him with an unknown object in the back of the head. The driver was later taken to the hospital. His female companion was not injured.

According to the Critical Mass web site, every month, bicyclists ride to promote bicycle use and assert cyclists' right to the road among many reasons.

My main man, Jake Perry....

Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil

By MICHAEL ASTOR RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.

More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state over the past two months, according to Eduardo Pimenta, superintendent for the state coastal protection and environment agency in the resort city of Cabo Frio.

While it is common here to find some penguins — both dead and alive — swept by strong ocean currents from the Strait of Magellan, Pimenta said there have been more this year than at any time in recent memory.

Rescuers and those who treat penguins are divided over the possible causes.
Thiago Muniz, a veterinarian at the Niteroi Zoo, said he believed overfishing has forced the penguins to swim further from shore to find fish to eat "and that leaves them more vulnerable to getting caught up in the strong ocean currents."

Niteroi, the state's biggest zoo, already has already received about 100 penguins for treatment this year and many are drenched in petroleum, Muniz said. The Campos oil field that supplies most of Brazil's oil lies offshore.

Muniz said he hadn't seen penguins suffering from the effects of other pollutants, but he pointed out that already dead penguins aren't brought in for treatment.

Pimenta suggested pollution is to blame.

"Aside from the oil in the Campos basin, the pollution is lowering the animals' immunity, leaving them vulnerable to funguses and bacteria that attack their lungs," Pimenta said, quoting biologists who work with him.

But biologist Erli Costa of Rio de Janeiro's Federal University suggested weather patterns could be involved.

"I don't think the levels of pollution are high enough to affect the birds so quickly. I think instead we're seeing more young and sick penguins because of global warming, which affects ocean currents and creates more cyclones, making the seas rougher," Costa said.

Costa said the vast majority of penguins turning up are baby birds that have just left the nest and are unable to out-swim the strong ocean currents they encounter while searching for food.

Every year, Brazil airlifts dozens of penguins back to Antarctica or Patagonia.

Scholars to rebuild ancient Egyptian boat

CAIRO, Egypt -- Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.

The 4,500-year-old vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces from another pit in 1954 and painstakingly reconstructed.

Experts believe the boats were meant to ferry Pharaoh Khufu, who built the Great Pyramid, in the afterlife.

Starting Saturday, tourists were allowed to view images of the inside of the second boat pit from a camera inserted through the a hole in the chamber's limestone ceiling.

The video image, transmitted onto a small TV monitor at the site, showed layers of crisscrossing beams and planks on the floor of the dark pit.
"You can smell the past," said Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Experts will begin removing around 600 pieces of timber in November, said professor Sakuji Yoshimura, of Japan's Waseda University, who is helping lead the restoration effort with the antiquities council.

The discovery of the boat pits more than 50 years ago by workmen clearing a large mound of wind-blown debris from the south side of the Great Pyramid is considered one of the most significant finds on the plateau.

They are the oldest vessels to have survived from antiquity.

The reconstructed ship is on display in a museum built above the pit where it was discovered.

It is a narrow vessel measuring 142 feet with a rectangular deckhouse and long, interlocking oars that soar overhead.

The cedar timbers of its curved hull are lashed together with hemp rope in a technique used until recent times by traditional shipbuilders along the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

The unexcavated boat, made from Lebanese cedar and Egyptian acacia trees, is thought to be of similar design but smaller and less well preserved.

John Darnell, an Egyptologist at Yale University, said new research into the second boat could help determine if the vessels plied Nile River or were of purely spiritual import.

"There's a lot of debate as to whether these vessels ever were used or not," Darnell said.

Composer Introduces A 'Dead' Symphony

Weekend Edition Saturday, July 26, 2008 - What will symphony orchestras think of next? Next Friday, Aug. 1, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will feature the music of — or, at any rate, the music derived from — the Grateful Dead. On what would have been Jerry Garcia's 66th birthday, the BSO will perform an orchestral tribute by composer Lee Johnson. With each movement based on a Grateful Dead song, the work is titled Dead Symphony No. 6.

"There's more than one that has participated in this tradition of exploring your time, your place," Johnson says. "I think what the Grateful Dead did is such a part of more than one generation. It's long overdue to be taken as a phenomenon beyond the music itself, and in my case, out came a symphony.

"I didn't start as a Deadhead," Johnson adds. "I just started off working with dead composers of other names."

Johnson says he was initially unfamiliar with the Dead — and knew the group by name only — but he took his time to study the band's music. It was a 10-year process from the original commission to the recording session in Moscow with the Russian National Orchestra, as well as another two years before the premiere.

Much of that time, Johnson says, was spent combing through the Dead's massive repertoire of songs and recordings. "The list was hard to even begin with," Johnson says. "It had to be something that would be flattered by the use of the orchestra, or just fit for further exploration by a composer who had to become a Deadhead through the process of meeting the music first."

Ultimately, Johnson found certain qualities that matched what he was looking for.
What I found by studying Jerry Garcia's songs is that there was a master craftsman at work; with the lyrics and with the message of the song, it would embody enough asymmetry or turns of melody or harmony that left the door open for someone to come in and redirect it."

to read more and hear the tunes, npr.org

The New Italian Holocaust

Italian sunbathers IGNORE dead gipsy children on the beach.

Under the watchful eye of new Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, the countries hundreds of thousands of gipsies lined up to have their fingerprints taken. It's part of his new plan to have every gipsy in the land registered....and those that don't belong sent out.
In addition to performing health checks on the nomads, Red Cross officials are finding out the ethnic backround, age, place of birth, and more to put on a national computer system set up to organize the Romas.

Thousands of migrants have stormed the Italian border since 2004, when border access greatly increased due to the EU expansion.

This is scary not because they want to identify the Romas, but because Berlusconi warns of a "Roma Emergency" in the ex-fascist nation. He goes further, attributing half of Italy's attempted murders, muggings, and robberies to the Gipsies.

Interior Minister Roberto Maroni was quoted as saying the fingerprinting census is essential to discover 'who is entitled to be here and who is not'.

Observers including the Roman Catholic Church, the United Nations, Roma and Jewish leaders condemned Berlusconi's actions. The registry is a chilling reminder of the Nazi registration of Jews and gipsies introduced by Adolf Hitler, with the support of Mussolini.

Maroni went on to say that those Romas who are Italian will be given better living situations, "away from rats." Nothing was said of those not entitled to be in Italy, but rumor has it that the new right-wing government is looking to destroy non-sanctioned Roma camps.

Most of the Gipsys without Italian citizenship are not citizens....anywhere.
A Gipsy elder at a camp in Naples, 48-year-old Nihad Sajovic, said 'We want to put down roots; we want to stop fleeing because our people have been doing that since the War began in 1939. At the end, the Jews were given money and a new land. We still have nothing.'

The Red Cross's Mr Barra said: 'We know that people are pointing and saying that this is reminiscent of the Nazis. But that is collective paranoia.
'We want to get these children vaccinated, give them health checks and medical cards.
'That is all this census is about. We are building bridges and not walls.'

Whatever the truth of this, Italy's history cannot be forgotten. It was as early as 1926 that Mussolini first expelled gipsies, calling them 'sub humans'.
It is thought that in the next 20 years, more than one million Roma people were killed in the extermination camps of Europe, alongside the Jews.

Holy crap, Alan, there's a FOX in the WC!

After a long night of scavenging and arousing the ladies, our red socked friend decide to head in and wash up. So that Mrs. Fox would not be suspicious.

Mrs Heard was in bed when she heard scratching and went to investigate, thinking her cats were having one of their regular squabbles.
Instead, she found Basil Brush Junior perched on the window ledge staring at her.

'Some towels had been strewn around the floor, but aside from that the fox did no damage and made no mess,' said Mrs Heard, 64, from Ilford, Essex.
'He was good-natured and appeared very nervous.'

Mr Heard, 72, scooped up the cub in his arms and took it out to the garden where it disappeared into the undergrowth.
Before it departed, however, it took a last backwards glance. 'It was as if he was saying goodbye,' said Mrs Heard.

The fox came in through the Heard's cat door.

A wildlife expert for the RSPCA said: 'It is exceedingly rare for a fox to enter a house.
'Foxes generally avoid human contact, and although those living in urban areas may be less timid than those in the countryside, they are still cautious of people.'

Father of three drowns in front of his family after ignoring signs warning not to swim in sea

A father-of-three drowned in front of his family after ignoring warnings not to swim in treacherous seas at a British holiday resort.
The 42-year-old holidaymaker and his son went for a dip in Teignmouth, Devon, despite red flags advising beach-goers not to enter the water.

They were hit by an 'extreme' tide and strong rip-currents and were dragged under as the man's terrified wife and two other children watched in horror.

She raised the alarm at around 4pm on Thursday and a police helicopter spotted her husband's body floating in the sea.

He was dragged back onto Pole Sands beach by lifeguards and was airlifted to Torbay Hospital, but he died before arriving.

moral of the story: DON'T swim when the COAST GUARD advises you NOT to!

Key Fob gun downright SCARY.

from daily mail
Pictured: The terrifying 4-inch key fob gun used to shoot clubber 'in row over girls'
By COLIN FERNANDEZ

At just four inches long, it fits easily in the hand and could be a key fob of the type used to open car doors by remote control.
But this tiny device is in fact a lethal weapon - a gun capable of firing two 0.25-inch bullets.
Yesterday, a thug was jailed for nine years for using one like it to shoot a man for 'disrespecting' him in a nightclub.


Marcus Henry's weapon was converted from a pocket gun designed to fire miniature flares, a gadget which is legal in Bulgaria where they cost £15.

Naked in the Woods?

A leading lawyer with the Crown Prosecution Service is offering his services as a nude model while on long-term sick leave for stress.
Clifford Allison, 56, who handles sensitive cases in the organisation's Special Crime Division, has advertised his services as a semi-professional 'erotic' actor on the internet.

The 17-stone married father of three says his work preferences include 'lingerie, glamour, implied nude, adult and topless'.
It is understood he has told them that his doctor regards his work as ' therapeutic' and is helping him recover.

Mr Allison earns about £80,000 a year and advises on complex high-profile prosecutions.

For the first six months of his absence, he was on full pay. In line with CPS policy, his payments were then reduced and Mr Allison has thrown himself into his new line of work - listing his achievements in great detail on the internet.

A former treasurer of the Bar Council, he describes himself as a registered English barrister 'with curly hair looking to diversify with good voice and presence'.
He continues: 'Well-spoken, tall, bespectacled and not traditionally good-looking. I do not restrict myself to any social group.
'I have always wanted to try acting/modelling/voice work and would regret letting the opportunity pass without having a go!
'My appearance is quite "WASP" (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) at present, as required by the day job. That does not however mean that I can only do WASPish things.

Sandwiches.....not healthier than a Big Mac?

They are widely believed to be the healthy alternative to fast food for those eating on the go.
But sandwiches and rolls sold by chains can contain as much salt as 18 bags of chips and 80 per cent more saturated fat than a Big Mac, a British investigation claims today.

Secret filming at a factory making sandwiches for convenience stores and garages from London to Manchester showed rubbish apparently falling into a bucket of fillings and stale pittas taken from a bin to be filled and sent out.
Staff seemingly failed to wash their hands, food was thrown on the floor and the factory had a problem with mice.

Subway's six inch Meatball Marinara contains 4.7g of salt - the equivalent of 11.75 packs of ready salted crisps.

But its 12inch version contains a staggering 7.2g of salt - as much as is found in 18 packs of salted crips and 20 per cent more than an adult should eat in an entire day.

Compare this to the 9g of saturated fat in a Big Mac, and 2.27g of salt.

The Food Standards Agency has been calling on the catering industry to change recipes to cut down on salt and saturated fat. The nation's average daily salt intake is 8.6g - 43per cent above the recommended limit of 6g.
[Wonder that the American is? 4 g. American standards say to limit sat intake to 2.3 grams, WAY lower than 6. So I am confused. But hey, just reportin what I find. Not a scientist. YET.]

High salt intake is linked to high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks.

Which are the worst contributors on your 'wich? Cheese, bacon, ham, butter and mayonnaise

The only Hot Ginger gets his Phone Stolen.

Dark Nightclub.
Small town South Africa.
Cell Phone.
[Shazaam! No cell phone.]

Prince Harry's phone was pickpocketed at a club in Maseru, Lesotho.

‘Harry was at a nightclub in a town called Butha Buthe when the thug stole his phone and ran away with it,’ a source from the Lesotho Defence Force said.

'When we eventually found the culprit it took quite some time to explain to him that he had stolen from the prince. To him Prince Harry was just one of those white guys.'

The prince decided not to press charges and was said to be relieved that his contacts list had not gone astray.

Freegans die when trash falls on them.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - At least four people died and some 20 were missing in a Guatemalan garbage dump on Friday when a mountain of trash, including human remains, collapsed on people foraging there, emergency workers said.

As night fell, dangerous rain forced hundreds of police and bystanders to call off the search for the missing under an avalanche of old tires, broken glass, rotting food and human remains, rescue worker Jose Victor Chavez said from the scene.

Dozens of people come every day to the scrapheap to take jewelry from the bodies of Guatemala's poor dumped in the landfill when their relatives cannot afford to maintain their graves in the neighboring cemetery, Chavez said.

At least six children working alongside relatives to search for valuables in the trash were among the missing, he said.

Scores of Guatemala's poor search for scrap metal and other recyclables to scrape out a living in the sprawling dump despite dangers of landslides during the rainy season.

ebay rip-off. jokes on you, dude.

from consumerist.com. very funny.

Pat won an auction for an RV on eBay last week. He bid a little over $15,000 for a vehicle that was listed for sale by the RV company for $29,999 on other sites. Pat was worried that Nelson's RV might try to find a loophole to cancel the auction since he'd scored such a great deal, so he immediately sent his required $250 deposit to them and asked for someone at Nelson's RV to contact him. Eventually, after some run around, he got the following email—with one of the ballsiest excuses we've ever seen.

We are devastated with our discovery this morning of a swarm of Africanized killer bees in the 2007 Sandpiper 325RG 5th wheel that you have a deposit on. We have used multiple poisons in an attempt eradicate them. We have vacuumed up the bees that covered the floors, cabinets, and furniture. We tried to clean the traces of honey on the countertops and cabinet tops as completely as possible. This is one of the terrible acts of Mother Nature we have in Arizona. As best we can determine, the bees entered from the door that had been left opened yesterday morning. The interior of this trailer does have a strong chemical odor from the poison and is TOXIC. Our insurance regulations prohibit us from selling this 5th wheel at this time.

Pat writes,
The two cans of “TOXIC” chemicals pictured in the second picture are indoor household foggers manufactured by Hot Shot and Ortho. Both were designed to be used, and are safe, for indoor use.

Within a few minutes of receiving the e-mail, I received another from PayPal indicating that my deposit had been refunded by Nelson RV.

My attorney advised me that he felt all the elements were in place for a contract and that even if their story were true, it should be my decision as to whether I wanted to accept the trailer in that condition. If a product that has been offered for sale does not turn out to be as advertised, then the buyer can decide to not go through with the sale. He told me that if I wanted it, I should send them an E-mail explaining my position and see how they respond.

So Pat resubmitted his $250 deposit and sent Nelson RV the following email:

After discussions with my attorney today and reviewing material safety data sheets of both the Ortho and Hot Shot brand indoor foggers that you used, I have decided that I will still take the 5th wheel. Thank you for disclosing the unfortunate event.

Please call me to arrange a time for closing as I intend on traveling to Arizona to pick up the Sandpiper within the next week.

This seemed to push Nelson RV to the breaking point, because they dropped the killer bees story and have turned to a new tactic, saying Pat was mistaken and never bought a trailer from them, and in fact there is no trailer anymore, so quit bothering them.

I received a call from Jim Nelson. Jim said that he understood that I “think” I have bought a trailer from Nelson RV and that it was just EBay and Bee’s nonsense that I was talking to James Nelson about. But that he had the owner there, Angelita Nelson, and that he was going to put her on the phone.

Angelita got on the phone and said “You did not buy a trailer from us and to quit calling and e-mailing us.” I Responded that the trailer was offered to the highest bidder in an auction, and that I was the highest bidder. Therefore I believe we have a contract for the sale. Angelina replied forcefully, “There is no contract! And we don’t even have the trailer anymore.” I responded by saying, that is not what the e-mails I have from you say, and I hope you still have the trailer because we have a deal. She then said in a very angry tone, “We do not have a deal! And we will not allow you to swindle us out of $15,000.” At which point the phone went dead.

GIT OUTA HERE MOWER OR I IS GONNA SHOOT YOU.

A man from Milwaukee is facing criminal charges after he solved a problem with his lawnmower by shooting it.

According to a criminal complaint, on Wednesday Keith Walendowski got drunk early in the morning. He decided to mow his lawn on the 3500 block of South Austin Street in Milwaukee.

He couldn't get the lawnmower to start. His solution? Prosecutors say Walendowski went to his basement and grabbed a sawed off shotgun, and he fired twice at the lawnmower.

"I'll tell you the truth. I got pissed because my lawn mower wouldn't start, so I got my shotgun and shot it," Walendowski said to an officer. "I can do that, it's my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want."

If convicted, Walendowski faces up to six years and 90 days behind bars and fines of $11,000.

A local lawnmower repairman tells the Journal Sentinel that Walendowski may have trouble fixing the mower noting that anything not factory recommended voids the warranty.

falsely being accused of touching kids has GOT to suck

TAMPA - A former school aid who was cleared of charges she molested a 6-year-old is suing the Tampa Police Department, charging that officials violated her rights and cast her in a false light when speaking to the media about the case.

Tamika Lane-Gardner's life was shattered two years ago after she was charged with felony sexual battery and charged with molesting the girl in a bathroom at Walton Academy for the Performance Arts, a Central Tampa charter school where Lane- Gardner worked as an office assistant.

Lane-Gardner spent 10 days in jail – most of that in solitary confinement – after her arrest before she was able to post bail, according to a lawsuit filed in Hillsborough Circuit Court last week and transferred to federal court this week.

Charges were later dropped by the state attorney's office after Lane-Gardner passed a lie-detector test and officials said there was no evidence to prove the charge. The state attorney's office also said there were credibility problems with the alleged victim.

Lane-Gardner's criminal defense attorneys informed the state attorney's office that in fall 2004 the child's mother had made "a strikingly similar accusation of sexual impropriety against a woman at a day care facility to whom the mother owed money." The state attorney's office was also informed that "the godmother of the alleged victim had firsthand knowledge of the alleged victim's mother coaching the alleged victim as to what to say happened" at the day care center.

By the time the charge was dropped, Lane-Gardner, the mother of two young children, "had incurred thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees and costs in defending herself from the sexual battery charge," the lawsuit states. She also suffered "severe emotional damages, damage to her reputation" and was "socially isolated and ostracized" because of statements made to the media by police spokesman Larry McKinnon, the lawsuit states.

Rooftop gas theft schemes around the nation.

How to disable a credit card satellite transmitter:wrap foil around it -- a low-tech way to rip off a high-tech system.

With the computer connection between the gas station and the credit card company down, the thief apparently hopes to charge items with an invalid credit card the old-fashioned way -- having employees make an imprint of the card and then send the charge in later. By then, the thief would be gone.

Dane Cook has value. To MORONS.

LITCHFIELD, Conn. - Four Connecticut teenagers have pleaded guilty to going on a three-town crime spree that authorities say was inspired by a joke by comedian Dane Cook.

Prosecutor David Shepack says the teens smashed mail boxes at 14 homes in Norfolk, Colebrook and Winsted and threw rocks through some windows. He says the crimes escalated to two home invasions.

Officials say the defendants were enacting a joke Cook made on an HBO special about committing a "B&E," or breaking and entering.

A lawyer for one of the defendants says all four have accepted responsibility for the crimes and agreed to begin serving jail terms immediately. They are scheduled to be sentenced in November. A case against a fifth man is pending.

ARE YOU KIDDING? Bury Your Dead.

Office clerks and salespeople took over the graveyard shift at several cemeteries across the region yesterday to make sure no caskets were left unburied when gravediggers hit the picket lines.

Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries rolled out its backup plan after 230 unionized workers at nine properties from Brampton to Oshawa walked off the job Wednesday night.

Union leader Willie Wham expressed his doubts at the skills of the replacement workers.
"They're not very good at it," said Wham, president of the Canadian Service Workers Union. "They don't have the experience that the cemetery service workers do. They won't be providing decent, dignified, respectful funerals the same way that our guys do."

Company spokesperson Rick Cowan said non-unionized workers and managers have been training on the backhoe for several months in case negotiations fell through.

"We are conducting the burials," Cowan said. Fourteen funerals are expected today at Mount Pleasant Cemetery alone.

Striking workers allowed funeral processions to pass through picket lines set up early yesterday at Beechwood Cemetery, Elgin Mills Cemetery, Meadowvale Cemetery, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Pine Hills Cemetery, Prospect Cemetery, Thornton Cemetery, Toronto Necropolis and York Cemetery.

million dollar banana?

"Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane ... no wait, it's a giant banana ... from Canada!"

Some befuddled Texan may have uttered those words had Montreal artist Cesar Saez been able to turn his dream into reality. The dream? To build a 300-metre yellow banana and float it in geostationary orbit above Texas.

Think that's funny? Get this: Canadian tax dollars went to the project. Saez got a $55,000 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to.....barely begin to fund his project. He says it cost over $1 million.
Unfortunately, he could not find enough investors to get the banana off the ground.

When asked about this failed banana investment, Carole Breton, of the Canada Council, explained, "We understand that sometimes, for all sorts of reasons, there is no creation at the end . . . this is money for research, not for results."

UFOs, Aliens, and Christianity

Former Apollo 14 astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, has recently stated *on the books* that ALIENS are REAL, and the United States Government has gone to great lengths to cover up this reality.
He says that they look similar to the images we're familiar with; smal grey bodies with HUGE WHOPPERS of heads.
The kicker is the christian response that came out. ["www.theconservativevoice.com">theconservativevoice.com

Alien beings cannot wait millions of years to evolve complex and necessary organs for survival anymore than species on earth. Imagine a species waiting millions of years for reproductive organs to evolve so that it can finally reproduce!

Then, how do we explain aliens if they are for real? The Bible teaches that Satan and his demons (the fallen angels) can take on take all sorts of shapes and perform all sorts of miracles in order to deceive mankind. In fact, some who have been claimed to be abducted by aliens say that these aliens have told them things that undermine the truth of the Christian Scriptures and the Person and work of Jesus Christ.

This is not say that God cannot create life on other planets, but the point being made here is that the supposed alien contacts popularly mentioned are not actual alien beings at all but the work of dark supernatural forces.

The Christian Gospel is unique, unlike any other religious teaching. That in itself is powerful evidence of its true and divine origin. The Christian Scriptures teach that man can never earn his salvation and that salvation is only by the grace (undeserved act) of God through faith in Jesus Christ, God's eternal and only begotten Son Who paid for our sins on the Cross through His suffering and death and Who rose bodily from the grave after three days.

Just as a co-signer to a loan takes the legal responsibility of paying for the loan should the borrower of the loan be unable to pay , Jesus Christ, because He was both divine and human and sinless, was able to take the responsibility to pay mankind's moral and spiritual debt to God. Through His suffering, shed blood on the Cross, and death He paid for our sins by taking the punishment for our sins upon Himself that we may be freely forgiven through faith in Him.

All other religions, no matter how different they may be from each other, teach basically the same thing, that man can save himself through his own good deeds. The Christian Gospel, however, teaches that man is completely fallen and can never be good enough to earn salvation, indeed cannot even be spiritually good at all in God's eyes apart from Christ. For God only sees what is done for His glory as being good. God is not being egotistical. By the very nature of things, truth demands that God be the reason and motive for our deeds and the object of our life and worship. God Himself would be sinning if He demanded anything less that Himself as the reason and motive behind our life and deeds!

Although good deeds cannot save us, once a person is saved in Christ he can and will begin to perform good deeds out of true love for God and his fellow man because of the Holy Spirit of God in his life Who has changed him. Good deeds do not produce salvation but salvation will produce good deeds.

The Christian is not perfect in this life or fully saved yet in this life. A Christian, in this life, will not always do good deeds because he still possess a sin nature, but, at least, the Christian will have a new heart and will always perform some, if not many, good deeds that are truly and spiritually good from God's point of view, the only view that counts!

The Christian Gospel is an offense to the natural thinking of man. Unfortunately, sometimes we Christians unnecessarily add to this offense by the way we share the Gospel and/or by some erroneous doctrine that we attach to it.

The uniqueness of the Christian Gospel shows that it could not have originated from fallen man or aliens. To Christ be all the victory!

'For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves: It is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9).

'For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life' (John 3:16).

For those not familiar with the Bible, the above quotations are from chapters and verses of two books (the book of Ephesians and the book of John) in the New Testament part of the King James Version Christian Bible or Scripture.

Now I Ain't Sayin she a Gold-Digger....

GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- A Gainesville woman has successfully sued her ex-fiancé after he called off their wedding. A jury ruled it was a breach of contract and ordered him to pay $150,000 in damages.

Rosemary Shell holds a large, glittering engagement ring in her hands. She no longer wears it on her ring finger, but instead keeps it in the box it came in. She says it's a reminder of what could have been.

"He changed his mind for no good reason," said Shell.

She's talking about Wayne Gibbs- a man she dated for five years. Shell says when he said he wasn't interested in marriage she moved to Pensacola, Florida and started a lucrative new job earning $81,000 a year plus bonuses and benefits. Then Gibbs showed up.

"He asked me to marry him. He gave me a ring and I gave up my life and my career and I came back to Gainesville. He told me he would pay my bills, that we would be married by the holidays and we would live happily ever after. I believed him," said Shell.

But two days before the wedding, she says Gibbs left her a goodbye note saying he couldn't go through with the wedding. He also wrote her a $5,000 dollar check. She says she tore up both and instead sued him for breach of contract.

After just a day of testimony, the jury sided with Shell and ordered Gibbs to pay $150,000 dollars in damages.

new life goal.

start being the leopard.
not the crocodile.

Kidd is ok, but some baby names just won't do.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.

Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.

Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.

The new name was not made public to protect the girl's privacy.

"The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," he wrote. "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."

The girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she had never told her closest friends what it was. She told people to call her "K" instead, the girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.

In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate names.

Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter "and tragically, Violence," he said.

New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Clarke said officials usually talked to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them about the potential for embarrassment.

Dave Barry on Colonoscopies.

Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald.

... I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis . Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!'

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor.
Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose watery bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by Abba. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' has to be the least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me. 'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, Abba was shrieking 'Dancing Queen! Feel the beat from the tambourine ...'
.. and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that it was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I hav e never been prouder of an internal organ.

quote of the day.

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." -- Maria Robinson

a better driver than me!

this guy is either the worst or the greatest, i can't decide.
thoughts?

excellent news...FCC comes to senses.

Court Tosses FCC 'Wardrobe Malfunction' Fine

A federal appeals court has thrown out a $550,000 fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction." The three-judge panel in Philly ruled today that the FCC "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" in issuing the fine for the fleeting image of nudity.

Fire department spends THOUSANDS to save air rat.

A British fire brigade has been accused of wasting taxpayers' money after seven firefighters took two hours to rescue a seagull.
One crew was called to the roof of a sausage factory after reports a bird was trapped under netting.

The RSPCA called Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service on Wednesday to free the bird. But when they discovered they could not reach it, they called for back-up. A second crew with a hydraulic aerial platform was then dispatched by fire service headquarters.

It travelled 12 miles from its base in Taunton to the sausage factory in Bridgwater. The estimated cost of the rescue operation was £800.

pastor pretends to work at gym to score the ladies.

The Second Baptist Church of Wheaton is now one pastor less. Rev. Andre Allen finds himself out of a job after pleading guilty to false representation, battery, and disorderly conduct. Allen pretended to be an employee of a local gym, so as to touch the ladies.
Allen offered to demonstrate martial arts moves to the women, but then grabbed them, threw them down, and began the hump-fest.
class act.

great w00k job from higheredjobs.com

Head Bowling Coach
Institution: Western New England College
Location: Springfield, MA
Category: Admin - Athletics/Coaching

Posted: 07/11/2008
Application Due: Open Until Filled
Type: Full Time

Western New England College seeks an applicant who has a strong background as a player and/or coach and who can develop and maintain a recruiting process consistent with the College's academic and athletic philosophies. Must possess excellent communication skills. Candidate must have a playing or coaching experience. Send letter of interest and resume to:
Mr. Gregory C. Michael, Director of Career and Human Resources, Western New England College, 1215 Wilbraham Road, Springfield, MA 01119. Applicants accepted until position is filled. Western New England College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Western New England College is a private, independent, coeducational institution founded in 1919. Located on an attractive 215-acre suburban campus in Springfield, Massachusetts, the College serves approximately 4,000 students (including a full-time undergraduate enrollment of 2500) on its main campus and at six sites throughout the Commonwealth. Undergraduate and graduate programs are offered through the College's Schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Law. The 2008 edition of U.S. News' America's Best Colleges ranks the College among the top tier in the north region's Best Universities - Master's category.
Application Information
Apply for this Position through My HigherEdJobs Postal Address: Rosa Arce
Human Resources
Western New England College
1215 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01119-2684

Phone: 413-782-1268
Fax: 413-782-1546
Email Address: rarce@wnec.edu

Please, New Yorkers, Go to the Chipotle Underwear Run for me.

Chipotle Underwear Run
Friday, July 20, 2007, 07:30 PM
Central Park
Dead Rd 72nd St Transverse

Brief Description:
Finish the 1.7 mile warm-up run and enjoy a Chipotle Burrito bowl and wash it down with a bottle of Accelerade ready-to-drink!
Fees:
Free
Website:
http://www.nyctri.com
Dress Code
Boxers, boxer briefs, or tighty whities allowed; sports bras or full coverage bras - no thongs thank you
Eligibility
Registered NYC triathletes, family members, friends

UMDNJ Fires Paramedics Over Alleged KKK Hazing

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has fired three paramedics over an apparent hazing incident involving KKK-style robes and crosses.

The incident was recorded on a cel lcamera. Photos show trainees wearing KKK robes this past Sunday.

UMDNJ President William Owen told the Star-Ledger that the incident was some kind of hazing of the trainees, who are students from Northeastern University in Boston. Officials from both institutions condemned the act and the photos.

"UMDNJ has never and will never tolerate attitudes and behaviors that discriminate against any individual or group. The actions taken by the individuals in this instance are appalling. Nonetheless, the investigation is still ongoing. The institution has an aggressive zero-tolerance philosophy for wrongdoing and is committed to fostering an environment that protects and supports all of its workforce," university officials said in a statement.

Maine Burglar hops in Taxi, goes home.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - Police say a 29-year-old Maine man called a taxi to take him home while police were searching for him with a dog and a search plane following a burglary at a golf course pro shop.

Andrew Gerrish of Sanford is being held on $5,000 bail on a burglary charge.

Police say Gerrish and a 17-year-old juvenile fled on foot when officers responded to a silent alarm at the Links at Outlook Golf Course in South Berwick in May.

The juvenile was caught a short time later, but police say Gerrish made a getaway despite a police manhunt that involved a K-9 unit and a Maine State Police airplane.

Police say at some point during the chase, Gerrish called a taxi that picked him up and drove him to Sanford.

A police investigation later led to Gerrish, resulting in his arrest last weekend.

Man dies after swallowing evidence in drug bust

PITTSBURG, Maine — A Groveton man has died after swallowing suspected cocaine during a police car stop.

Twenty-nine-year-old Christopher Weaver died Monday, more than a week after U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped a car near the Canadian border.

Pittsburg Police Chief Richard Lapoint said agents found illegal drugs in the car. He said Weaver told the agents he had swallowed some drugs, which they believe was cocaine.

The car's driver, 25-year-old Amanda Parker of West Stewartstown, was charged with possession and illegal transportation of a controlled substance.

Pack Rat finds $400,000. CASH.

Craig Sexton of 1-800-Got Junk has seen all kinds of weird things in the many estate clean-ups he's done. There was a fridge of rotted cheese and rotted cans of salmon.

But nothing prepared Sexton for what he found in the suite above an old deli called the Lido in east Vancouver in February.

"Under a rug we found a thousand dollars," he said. But that's not all, a caretaker discovered a paper bag in a closet was filled with $400,000 in cash.

The bills date back to the 1930s depression era, making them worth over $50 million in today's dollars.

Kerridge and his business partner Paul Murrary have imagined all kinds of scenarios about where the money came from: bank robberies, Bootlegging, Nazi war criminals.

"All us Rothweilers always hang onto our bucks eh?," said Jack Rothweiler, the nephew of Margaret and her late husband, Chris.

The money at the Lido has gone to Margaret's side of the family. Much of it was made from playing the ponies and investing in real estate in the neighbourhood.

"Margaret knew how to hold on to a buck. (I'll say) Yeah,'' said Rothweiler "That's a family trait. I've got some squirreled away too."

Restaurant bans disabled artist for 'putting off' diners

A disabled woman has been barred from her favourite restaurant for allegedly 'putting off' other customers.
Artist Catherine Blow, 47, had eaten there six or seven days a week for the past two years.

But last week the restaurant's owner, Francisco Conde, declared that he was losing trade because of her presence - and said he would not serve her there again.
Mr Conde said she could only have takeaways. He said: 'She might spend up to £400 a month here, but I lose more money because of the people who have been disgusted by her spitting on the floor.'

He could now face legal action for discrimination.

Miss Blow, who counts the artist David Hockney among her friends, has the degenerative Huntington's disease, and faces ever-increasing difficulties in moving and talking.

She was a 'brilliant' painter before the inherited condition began to take hold ten years ago.

Despite physical difficulties, she could still walk to the Galo D'Ouro in Battersea, and since it opened two years ago had been a loyal customer. She was said to be devastated when Mr Conde asked a friend to tell Miss Blow that he would no longer serve her in the restaurant.

read more @ daily mail...

Fights over the kids religion just got more interesting.

Constitutional issues have been raised in a custody battle between a Satanist and Christian in Indiana.
They are both fighting for the right to raise their three children in their own respective religions.

Kristie Meyer has cited the religious beliefs of her former husband, Jamie, as the main reason why an Indiana judge should restrict his visitation rights. She wants the kids to go to church every sunday --- which is when teh children are with Jamie, per the divorce rights granted to him.

In a forthcoming court case in Fulton, Indiana, Mr Meyer may now be asked to prove that Satanism, which he says is about celebrating man's desires rather than worshipping the devil, is a real faith.

Meanwhile, legal observers say his former wife may have to show that Satanism - which is recognised as a religion by the US Internal Revenue Service - is harmful to their daughters' upbringing.

Mrs Meyer has argued that her ex-husband's public expression of satanic beliefs has embarrassed their children.

Autistic kids tears....deemed unacceptable.

JACKSON, SC- Gail Martin heard the shouts, but was not sure who was ordering her to leave the Buckhead Cafe.
Turns out, it was Jackson Police Chief Dennis Rushton.
He was upset that the AUTISTIC 4 year old Alyssa was crying, and asked them to "pick her up and get out of here now."

"I didn't know what he was doing," Gail's daughter Lauren said, adding "That was very mean to say -- just very mean."

Embarassed by their treatment, Gail and her daughters soon left the restaurant. "I wasn't embarrassed of Alyssa's behavior, I was embarrassed of the way it was handled," Gail said.

Chief Rushton would not make a statement, but he did say he felt Mrs. Martin's daughter was being extremely loud and bothering other customers. He admits to knowing that Alyssa is autistic. [douche]

brace face saved by mouth jewels.

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Eighteen-year-old Anthony Pittman was shot in the mouth Wednesday night during a gun battle in Pontiac.

Police say the bullet, fired from a .45 caliber weapon, was fragmented by Pittman's braces, which may have saved his life.

The Oakland Press reports Pittman was taken by friends to an area hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
An argument spurred the gunfire, but police say they do not know why someone would want to shoot Pittman. Bullet casings from at least three different weapons were found at the scene.

Plane come THISCLOSE to Crashing and Burning!!!

For the second time in a week, there is a near collision at JFK airport.
A Delta 757 crossed the path of another jetliner "while aborting a landing," says the FAA.
Delta Flight 123 missed a landing approach and needed to go around the path of Comair Flight 1520, which was taking off perpendicularly.
this part lifted from CNN:
Brown said the two aircraft were more than a half mile away from each other and weren't at the same altitude. Air traffic controllers safely separated the two aircraft, she said.

National Air Traffic Controllers Association JFK Tower Facility representative Barrett Byrnes, however, said the two planes came within 600 feet of each other.

On Saturday night, Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile Flight 533, which was departing the airport, came close to Cayman Airways Flight 792 as it was landing, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which is conducting an investigation.

There were conflicting reports of how close the planes were in that incident as well.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said that although the flights crossed paths, there was a vertical distance of 100 feet between them. The FAA said the planes were 300 vertical feet apart and half a mile apart horizontally.

Priest Dresses as Hobo to Prove Point

Reverend Rigby, who preaches at a Methodist church in Prestatyn, N Wales wanted to teach his congregation a lesson about being kind to others.
So he bought clothes at a thrift shop, doused them in beer, but holes in all the right places, got a wig, and drew tattoos on himself. He then sat on the front stoop as the 70 churchgoers silently walked past and took their seats in the pews.

Rev Rigby said: ‘I went to great lengths to be as convincing as possible.
‘I didn’t shave for three days, made my hands and face dirty and drew on tattoos. I looked in the mirror before the service and I didn't recognise myself.’

Before being ordained, Rigby was a cop for 15 years.


‘It was interesting to see the reaction from people - I was totally ignored. It showed that we don’t recognise God at work and in each other.’
"In other places I was given as much as £4.50, a packet of biscuits and a blanket - but in Prestatyn I got nothing. I told the congregation they are a stingy lot.

Rachel Paiste....Londoner? Prob not...

Tens of thousands of migrants will be offered 'fast-track' British passports every year in return for doing voluntary work.

The new rule will shed two years from the time it takes to get citizenship. The full plan will be rolled out next week, following up PM Brown's declaration that citizenship is not to be given, but "earned."

What's tricky though is this: it doesn't actually speed up the process. English speaking, volunteering non-citizens with an already long track record of working and paying taxes are eligible.
They are LENGHTENING the stay from five to eight years to be eligible for a passport. The new volunteer reduction will allow active members of the community to get passports in only 6 years.

turns out, I WONT be going to England.

She May be Old and semi-Jiggly, but Sligs still got it.

oh, pammy. will you ever close your legs?

Fave Dykexor

weeeeee!!!

You can Have Bit tits in Britain, but It'll cost Ya!

The Marks & Spencer chain does something that few places do.....levees fees for DD bras. Protest groups have already formed to force the chain to return to selling all bras, all sizes, for one price.
M&S put a 2 pound surcharge on bras sizes DD-G.

At least they sell bras that big. And lets be real, there is a LOT more fabric used.
M&S says that thier construction is expensive, because extra "innovation and technology" is necessary to support massive tits.

A spokesman says: 'There are 25 to 30 components in every single bra, and so there might be more in those for bigger-busted women and they also need stronger straps.
'Larger breasted women want to buy the same pretty bras that their friends who are a different size can buy, and to make this possible-the bra needs to be made in a slightly different way.'

Most British women wear bras of a DD size or larger. M&S sells some designs in sizes ranging from a 30DD to 42J cup. WHAT? How fat are they?!?

Queen Victoria was HUGE

Knickers fit for a Queen-----won't fit many people, other than fat 'Mericans.

Queen Victoria's "panties," with a whopping FIFTY INCH waist, will be sold at auction in short order. Just how much will a pair of bloomers for the late, 5 foot tall fattie go for? Guesses are coming in at around £500, but you never know if it won't go higher.
They also are auctioning a chemise--66" across the bust.

Auctioneer Charles Hanson said yesterday: 'Some accounts claim Victoria had a waist measurement of up to 60 inches by the 1890s, and these items certainly suggest a fair girth.'

The knickers are very plain, save for a tiny embroidered crown and the initials 'VR'.
'They are made of a soft, fine cotton and sewn by hand, with fine attention to stitchwork, and the minute sewing would have taken days.'

Fit for a... giant: Auctioneers' assistant Sam Rhodes models a Queen Victoria's giant 50-inch waist bloomers

Shirtless Mormons....for a short time only.

Lifetime member of the church of LDS Chad Hardy had an idea that many have had before him: put hot dudes in no shirts into a calendar. Sell, make money. But his calendar wound up leaving him with a looming excommunication hearing, because releasing "Men on a Mission" was deemd unacceptable conduct by the church elders.

Already having sold 10,000 copies, "Men on a Mission" features recently returned Mormon missionaries, sans their white shirts and ties. They were all posed in fairly modest positions.

"You see more in a JCPenney catalog," said Hardy, 31, who has his own entertainment company. "I just feel like my right to free speech is being violated."

Hardy released the calendar to shake up Mormon stereotypes. In addition to the semi-nude shots, there are also photos of hte men in standard missionary outgits, and bios that explain each man's beliefs.

"It has created an interfaith dialogue," Hardy said. "People of all faiths have logged on and shared what they believe. They're talking about what's really important, not how bad it is that you took your shirt off."

Some of the missionaries in the calendar, many of whom were recruited by Hardy's friends at church events, have been asked by their church leaders about the project, but none has faced disciplinary action.
The 2009 calendar will be released in September.

Horrifying fact from Dan Rose

Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller fame has patented a "Hydro-Therapeutic Stimulator", which uses a hot tub for stimulation.
a what?
a sex tub. with jets in all the right places.

ugh.

porn car owner arrested, looks GREAT.

DENNIS TWP., N.J. - July 10, 2008 (WPVI) -- New Jersey State Police have filed charges against a man who allegedly used his car as a rolling pornography display.
Police say 47-year old Robert Joseph Martin of Cape May Court House parked his car at the Ocean View service area of the Garden State Parkway and deliberately left pornographic materials on the car's dashboard and seats.
Officials say among the items left in the 1989 Lincoln were magazines, sexually-explicit music discs, women's panties on a platter, and a naked Barbie doll.
Police arrested Martin Wednesday morning.
They say they had been getting complaints from motorists over the past few weeks.
Martin is free on $5,000 bail.

but the mugshot! The MUGSHOT!

Quotes of the Day

From: Why We run by Bernd Heinrich, very famous, very fast ultramarathoner.

...The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well. -Baron Pierre De Coubertin, on reviving the Olympics in 1896.

An anonymous runner: Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest antelope, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or an antelope- when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Video of the Day

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Zombie Fucking "Not OK"

Twin brothers Alexander and Nicholas Grunke, 20, of Ridgeway, Wis., and Dustin Radke, 20, of Dodgeville, Wis. have had charges reinstated after Wiscson Supreme Court officially banned sex with dead bodies.
The three had dug up a corpse to fuck in 2006.

Armed with shovels, a crowbar and a box of condoms, the men went to a cemetery in Cassville in southwestern Wisconsin in 2006 to remove the body of a 20-year-old woman killed the week before in a motorcycle crash, police said. Thankfully, they were not successful, but are charged with attempt....and face 10 years in jail.

Justice Patience Roggensack wrote the 5-2 majority opinion with three other justices. It said that one cannot have sexual intercourse with anyone who does not give consent: whether a victim is dead or alive at the time.
Wisconson joins about half of American states that have necrophilia laws on the books.

Video of the Day

Dallas police find cocaine in car used by officers

DALLAS (AP) -- Police didn't have to go far to find $400,000 worth of cocaine - it was in an undercover car they'd been driving for two months.

An officer cleaning the car at a patrol station Wednesday discovered the nearly 50 pounds of cocaine carefully hidden in hydraulically controlled compartments.

"These compartments have recently been more and more popular with drug operations," said Deputy Chief Julian Bernal, commander of the narcotics division.

Dallas police put the two-door 2004 black Infiniti into police service on May 7 after seizing it at a drug house. It had been found at a drug house earlier this year along with a 1999 Honda.

Bernal said the narcotics division searched both the vehicles and found nothing unusual after the seizure. The Honda was sold at auction.

Bernal said police plan to contact the person who bought the Honda to find out if drugs are hidden in that car, too. And, they are also trying to find out who owned the cocaine they have been secretly driving around with.

cops sell coke. done, get over it.

How to NOT get a 2nd date.

By Judy McGuire
The unholy trinity of Photoshop, spell check and the Internet mean that even the most illiterate, personality-deficient, hideous troll can land a first date, much to a lady's disappointment.
• "Forget" your wallet.
• Cry.
• Inappropriate disclosure of the personal kind.
• Inappropriate disclosure of the medical kind.
• Perplexing Puppetry.
• EXcessive EX Talk.

I add: fart a lot. No one wants that. NO ONE.

but actually, is this for real? can people really not figure this out themselves? maybe they don't deserve a second date. or to procreate at all. if you're a troglodyte, you should go the way of them.....no need to pass on stupid genes.

poop lagoon bubbling up in indiana

WINCHESTER, Ind. (AP) -- State environmental officials plan to visit a dairy farm next week as part of an effort to determine what is causing huge bubbles in the operation's manure lagoon.

Neighbors fear the bubbles are caused by methane gas getting under the liner of Union-Go Dairy's lagoon. Allen Hutchison, who lives nearby, said the biggest bubble was about 200 feet across and 20 feet above the top of the lagoon.

Rachel Carpenter, a member of a group that flew over the lagoon to take aerial photographs recently, said she fears if gas can create the bubbles it might be getting into the ground water.

But an Indiana Department of Environmental Management spokesman said that while gas may be making the bubbles, monitoring shows it isn't getting into the groundwater at the 1,650-cow operation.

Co-Ed Persons At Work

Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read "Men At Work" or "Men Working Ahead."
Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men.

Women's mag PINK editor Cynthia Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the signs and last week, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista agreed.

Score one for gender equality, Good said Wednesday.

Public Works officials are replacing 50 "Men Working" with signs that say "Workers Ahead." It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public Works spokeswoman Valerie Bell-Smith said.

Teenager finds baby bat in her bra

Abbie Hawkins, a hotel receptionist, thought her mobile phone was ringing when she felt vibrations coming from her clothes.

But she later discovered the tiny creature tucked away in the padded pocket of her underwear.

As staff and colleagues crowded around, Miss Hawkins, 19, produced the frightened bat, which was the size of her hand.

She said: "Once I realised it was a bat I was shocked, but then I felt quite sorry for it really.
"It looked very snug in there and I thought how mean I was for disturbing it."

Miss Hawkins said she got dressed at 7.30am and arrived for work at the Holiday Inn Norwich North, near Norwich International Airport without noticing anything unusual.

Jaime Eastham, of the Bat Conservation Trust, said they had never heard of a bat being found in a bra before.

But she said the animals roost anywhere that appears dark and safe.

Vid of the Day

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WORST.

You want a Slut? It'll cost you...BIG TIME

The city of Easton, Pa, is considering taking drastic measures to cut down on prostitution.

The city is looking to extend a law already on the books....that any car used in a drug deal can be seized by the cops.

It is unclear if a car used to solicit a prostitue can be seized in the same way, and there are questions over whether the law will stand up in cour.

Police Chief Larry Palmer said the law is worth trying, becuase once a few cars are seized, it will make people think twice about going into Easton to find a prostitute.

A reminder, the fourth amendment protects people from unnessary searches and seizures, which, clearly, this would be.

Good Quote from a few weeks ago

- Fussball ist wie Schach, nur ohne Würfel. (Football is like chess, only without the dice.)
Lukas Podolski, whilst playing on the German side in Euro 2008.

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Borat Returns from the Underground?

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing — a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame.

"We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived," said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month.

Matt Labov, a Los Angeles-based publicist for Baron Cohen, said he had no comment Monday about the faked fights. One of Baron Cohen's movies is due out next year. [not Borat, but Bruno, the gay fashionista]

The day after the June 5 Texarkana bout, Fort Smith's convention center hosted "Blue Collar Brawlin.'" Fort Smith police Sgt. Adam Holland said organizers told him a character named "Straight Dave" would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight.

An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600's reaction as the two men "went right up to the line" of the city's morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.

The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. "It set the crowd off lobbing beers," Holland said. "They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually."

sad lolita sotry:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1032029/Mummys-little-Lolita-The-11-year-old-girl-beauty-treatments-cost-300-month-make-look-like-Barbie.html

Tips from a professor on how to be drunk the RIGHT way:

PhD and Psychology professor at University of Wisconsin Kevin Strang
is lecturing across the country...about how to get the most out of
being drunk.
This nontraditional approach to teaching safe drinking to high school
students is gaining much attention. But Strang says that it's more
important to teach kisd what happens to the body when you drink,
rather than preaching abstinance to a group that is interested in
quite the opposite.
He figures they're gonna drink anyways, so let's just be honest with
the kids and make sure that theyr'e safe. In Strang's words, this
isn't a Just Say No lecture, but "Just say Know."

"I'm not anti-alcohol. This is not an anti-alcohol lecture," Strang
assured the students right away. "But alcohol does have some weird,
unpredictable effects."

With that, Strang took off on a science-heavy discourse that covered
cell structure, neuron signals and brain synapses.

He encouraged students to admit that alcohol is a drug, saying it will
help them understand it better. It's not a negative approach, he said.
It simply acknowledges that, like other drugs, alcohol has an effect
we desire -- a mood upswing -- and side effects we want to avoid, such
as vomiting and loss of coordination and memory.

By sipping slowly, you will get just as much of a positive mood effect
as slamming drinks one after another, while reducing greatly the
letdown once you stop, he said. That's because of something called the
"rising phase effect. "

Alcohol lights up the brain's pleasure center, Strang said. So as long
as a person's blood-alcohol level is rising, the level of pleasure
will, too. But the minute the blood-alcohol level begins to drop, the
pleasure level plummets, triggering a craving for more alcohol. This
is why people binge drink, he said.

Sipping a drink allows a slow rise in blood-alcohol level and
sustained activation of the pleasure center, without reaching levels
at which unpleasant side effects occur, Strang said.

Mean or happy drunks: "It's a very simple idea, but very profound,"
Strang said. "The context of your drinking determines which aspect of
your personality is exaggerated."

This beervangelist hopes not to make decisions for students, just to
make sure that they have all the information possible to make the
right decision for themselves.

Chestnut wins in closest match in Nathan's history!

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. defending champion Joey Chestnut won the
annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Friday by downing 64
hot dogs in a competition that stretched into a first-ever overtime.

Chestnut, of San Jose, California, defeated six-time champion Takeru
Kobayashi of Japan in the annual event held at New York's Coney Island
beach.

The two were tied at 59 hot dogs a piece at the end of the regulation
10 minutes, forcing a sudden death overtime to determine which man
could eat five more hotdogs in the shortest time.

Organizers said it was the first overtime in the contest's history.

The winner receives $10,000, a mustard yellow belt and a year's supply
of hotdogs from Nathan's, which began in 1916 with a small Coney
Island hot dog stand and now sells food products globally.

Man, I gotta start competitive eating. It's def worth the 10,000 buckaroonees

Men in totally silly wigs rule that Pringles are more like "potato

LONDON - Britain's High Court has ruled that Pringles are not a potato
snack, and thus are not subject to value-added tax.

Friday's ruling by Justice Nicholas Warren is expected to save
millions for the manufacturer, Procter & Gamble Co.

Warren overruled a VAT Tribunal decision that Pringles should be
subject to the 17.5-percent tax because it met the definition of
"potato crisps, potato sticks, potato puffs and similar products made
from the potato, or from potato flour, or from potato starch."

The judge found that Pringles were only 42 percent potato, and thus exempt.

British paper eats shoe as reporters personal info is stolen

Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers has admitted that a laptop
containing financial and personal details of thousands of staff,
suppliers and contributors has been stolen.

After months of criticising "criminally careless" government
departments for losing confidential records, the company has been
forced to send out an embarrassing letter telling journalists they may
now be at risk of identity theft, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

Even those who no longer work for either Associated Newspapers, which
also publishes the Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard, and
regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media have been affected and
contacted.

Saskatoon zoo welcomes baby Bengal tigers

SASKATOON - Two furry bundles of joy have arrived at Saskatoon's zoo.
"It's not everyday that you get to help raise a Bengal tiger," said a
smiling Noreen Bomersbach, one of the zoo keepers who's helping to
care for the newborns at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo.
As the white cubs with black and grey stripes played under trees
Friday, zoo keepers were sounding like proud parents.

"They are right on schedule in terms of development," said John Moran,
zoo manager.
"They're perfect. You couldn't ask for better cubs. We are starting to
get tired though."
Jasmine and her brother, Jafarh, were born 36 days ago to Rani, a
tigress on loan from an Ontario zoo. She and her mate, Rajah, are from
the same zoo and have been in Saskatoon since April 2007.

First the Train workers are on strike now a state of emergency, wil i

The ancient city of Pompeii has fallen into such disrepair that the
Italian government has declared a "state of emergency" in a bid to
save the ruins.
Ministers intend to appoint a special commissioner to oversee the
site, and have earmarked extra funding for it.
According to analysts, the ruins have suffered from lack of
investment, mismanagement, litter and looting.
Pompeii was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79AD and was not
rediscovered until the 18th Century.
The volcanic debris preserved many of the city's buildings, frescos,
silverware, mosaics and other artefacts.
But experts complain that the relics are now in danger.
"Every year at least 150 sq m (1,600 sq ft) of fresco and plasterwork
are lost for lack of maintenance," Antonio Irlando, a regional
councillor responsible for artistic heritage, told the Corriere della
Sera newspaper.
"The same goes for stones: at least 3,000 pieces every year end up
disintegrating," he said.

The ruins are one of Italy's biggest tourist attractions, and the
newly-elected government has decided to act.
"To call the situation intolerable doesn't go far enough," Reuters
quoted Culture Minister Sandro Bondi as saying.
The "state of emergency" will last for a year

drunk bros step up to cops @ now defunct :( Good Times Emporium.

24 year old Michael Vaughan did what so many do on nights of
drinking.....took his bud light t the porch to enjoy alongside his
cigarette. When told that this went againts the Good Time policy, he
shouted at employees "Dude, get real. I'll do what I want," according
to police reports. He proceeded to make fun of the staff, calling the
messengers of bad news Nazis.
"Yeah, right, dude. Like I might leave," was Vaughan's response to
being banned from the bar.

Enter detail wokers Officer James Slattery and Sgt. John Vozella, who
tell Vaughan he will be arrested if he doesn't see himself out.
"Dude, are you for real?"
Turns out, they were. He left with a friend, but they came back a few
minutes later.
"Dude, I'm coming in. What are you going to do? Do you know who I am?
I'm from Pembroke, Massachusetts," Vaughn allegedly told Sgt.
Vozella.[HILARIOUS]
Vaughan and Tassinari(said friend) allegedly both live at 128 Pleasant
St. in Hanson, according to police reports.
Vaughan was arrested. Friend Tassinari got angry,a nd tried to free
Vaughan from his handcuffs.
Vaughan and Tassinari were both charged with disorderly conduct and
resisting arrest. Vaughan was also charged with trespassing.

EXCELLENT.

Mars Landers Easy Bake on it's last legs....

So far, no life has been found on Mars. Not even a minute trace of past possibility, really.
And though it saddens me (and astro's across the planet), the quest for life may end sooner than all had hoped.
Last month, there was a short circuit in the easy bake. Scientists and engineers are not sure if the problem will repeat the next time they bake Martian soil.

"Since there is no way to assess the probability of another short circuit occurring, we are taking the most conservative approach and treating the next sample ... as possibly our last," the NASA mission's chief scientist, Peter Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson, said in a statement Wednesday.

In the last experiment, the ice melted into VAPOR (skipping the liquid phase) and so the oven results found no traces of water (though we have photographic evidence).
Scientists want to bake another soil sample mixed with icy bits in another oven next week. Since this could be the last time researchers conduct this experiment, they planned extensive testing on Earth to make sure they can quickly get the icy soil into the oven before the ice evaporates.
heres hopin....

Volcanism on Mars: True story.

Andrea Thompson, for space.com

A NASA spacecraft's first flyby of Mercury has yielded a wealth of information about the inner-most planet, some of which confirms volcanism occurred there, settling a longstanding debate.

MESSENGER (short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) made its debut flyby of Mercury on Jan. 14, passing about 124 miles (200 kilometers) over the planet's surface. The spacecraft's instruments took a closer look at the areas seen by the Mariner 10 mission in 1974 and 1975, which imaged about 45 percent of the planet's surface, as well as an additional 21 percent of the surface never before seen by a spacecraft.

Volcanism or impact melt?
Volcanism has long been thought to be a major force in shaping the rocky, terrestrial planets. Volcanoes still ravage Earth. On Mars, subdued volcanism may still be alive. Venus is riddled with old volcanoes.

Images of Mercury from the Mariner 10 mission showed areas of smooth plains covering parts of the planet's surface. Scientists speculated that these could be volcanic deposits, similar to the basaltic maria (seas) on the Moon. But unlike the maria, these plains were lighter, not darker, than the surrounding landscape, and Apollo 16 astronauts had just discovered that similarly light plains on the Moon were actually impact breccia, or rock that was smashed apart and then re-welded together again.

MESSENGER images of the Caloris basin, the youngest known impact basin on Mercury, showed smaller craters within the impact basin that had been in-filled with material, "and if you had impact melt [as with the lunar breccia], that wouldn't happen," explained Scott Murchie, a co-investigator for the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), of Johns Hopkins University.

The small craters likely were the result of impacts in the basin long after it was formed and later still, volcanic eruptions spewed lava across the basin, all but erasing the smaller craters. Head says this is "clear evidence that you're looking at lava flows."