1638 - Airplane carry ons

Here's an article from the Kansas City Star.


Passenger detained, KCI operations snarled after suspicious item found

Flights to and from Kansas City International Airport were thrown into disarray today when security agents found a suspicious item in a passenger’s carry-on luggage. The airport closed part of Terminal B after something in a Southwest Airlines passenger’s bag triggered an alert about 9:30 a.m.

Airport police detained the man after he refused to let agents examine the item. Investigators later determined that the item wasn’t explosive, said FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton.

About 1:30 p.m., a robot carried the item to a container in front of the terminal, where it was blown up.

The terminal reopened at 3 p.m. after dogs searched the area.

Most Southwest departures from KCI came to a standstill and many flights that were supposed to be headed to Kansas City were instead held in other cities after agents found the suspicious item. By 2:30 p.m., some Southwest flights were departing from other gates, but with a backlog of passengers, travel would continue to be difficult.

“This is the craziest day we’ve ever had here,” said a TSA agent who refused to give his name.

You know, if your going to carry your sex toys on the plane with you, you shouldn't be embarrassed to show them to people. Otherwise they may get blown up. (And on 9/11. Come on!!!!)


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Bonus - Animal human attraction.

 

1289 - Ledasha

I got an email with seven or eight "jokes" in it. They were all written as to make them sound as if they really happened. Sort of like a "not always right" segment.

Well the last one caught my attention enough that I checked it out at Snopes. Here's the joke....

How would you pronounce this child's name?

"Le-a"

Leah??......NO
Lee - A??...NOPE
Lay - a??...NO
Lei??.......Guess Again.

This child attends a school in Kansas City, Mo.

Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong.

It's pronounced "Ledasha".

When the mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "The dash don't be silent."


There were a few obvious add on lines to make it even more racist than it sounds already. And the city has been changed 4 times according to Snopes. Snopes says 'undetermined' for factual. They even checked the Census database and came up with no matches. (Although they did come up with the actual spelled out name "Ledasha".)

So if you get this in your email all of the 'jokes' are not true. Can you believe it? Something on the internet not being true?

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And then I was thinking about posting another article but I wasn't sure if I should. But then I thought about it and thought maybe I really should. But then I didn't think anyone would care about it but then thought they might. Go HERE and see what you think about it, or not. You don't have to.

1249 - Butter my Butt

"Don't pee down my back and tell me it's raining."
"He's as country as cornflakes."
"This is gooder'n grits."
"Busier than a cat covering crap on a marble floor."
"If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it."
"It's so dry, the trees are bribing the dogs."
"My cow died last night so I don't need your bull."
"It's been hotter'n a goat's butt in a pepper patch."
"He fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down."

"Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit."


The last one is the one I was looking for on the google when I found that little group of sayings. What did I want to butter my butt over? Well remember the post on Westboro Baptist Church? I thought (I know I shouldn't do that) I might be able to find something on their antics posted on the internets. I WAS RIGHT! They actually have their schedule for an upcoming hate tour posted. Their website? http://www.godhatesfags.com/schedule.html

I know I'm just giving them publicity but .... guess where they're coming. St. Louis, Chicago, Dayton, PA, and VA. That's right, almost EVERYONE will get a chance to see these pinheads. Go to the site to see the schedule and the comments about the different sites they are visiting. God bless everyone, except Westboro BC. I know I know, that's not nice. But you have to get their attention somehow. Maybe a little smite from God might?

 

1239 - Fake or not?

A friend sent this to me. I watched it and thought something was wrong. Watch it and see what you think.



Here's what I think. She doesn't drive far enough to really hear the cans. The car is to well positioned in the frame. She doesn't drive out of the frame. When she gets out of the car she does a really bad acting job of looking around the car. She doesn't act like her car is being stolen.

My vote - fake. What's your vote?

1153 - Depends

I just went out out a bought some ..... WAIT! .... That's a different post.

You know how two news organizations can take the same information and make a totally different story out of it? Well here's a good example of that premise. You'll be especially interested in it if you live in the DC area and drink water.

SCARY STORY

DON'T WORRY STORY



BONUS FACEBOOK CRAP
 

1093 - Water Intoxication

Water intoxication - Water what? I knew it. Drinking to much water can kill you. Don't take any chances. Read this first before you drink another glass of killer water.

KILLER WATER
(It's a legal brief. You don't have to read the whole thing to get the story)


 

1016 - Merry Christm.... read this first

The Post-Dispatch ran an editorial back in 2004. They reran it a few days ago. It's about the history of Christmas and the Christmas tree. But before we get to the editorial, here's a few words from dictionary.com.

Cultural Dictionary

Christmas

A festival commemorating the birth of Jesus, traditionally celebrated on December 25 by most Western Christian churches. Although dating to probably as early as a.d. 200, the feast of Christmas did not become widespread until the Middle Ages. Today, Christmas is largely secularized and dominated by gifts, decorated trees, and a jolly Santa Claus.

So now with that bit of knowledge, here's the editorial. I copied it here so that if it becomes inaccessible later it won't disappear from the blog. But if you want to see all the politicized comments, you can go to THIS LINK to read everything. (I waited until after Christmas to post this. I didn't want to be scrooge. Until now)


There’s a heavy load of irony under America’s Christmas tree this year. In this season of peace on Earth and good will toward men, some Americans are wasting a lot of breath arguing about Christmas itself.

On one side of the room are conservative Christians, perhaps newly emboldened by last month’s election results, who are taking a stand against what they see as society’s efforts to “take Christ out of Christmas.”Christian talk radio and Web sites are buzzing with such talk. Conservative columnists and commentators lash out against the dark forces of liberalism who want to get rid of Christmas by turning it into generic “holidays” or “winter festivals.”

On the other side of the room are the ever-vigilant defenders of inclusiveness, who would not see anyone’s feelings be bruised. “Happy Holidays,’’ they say, lest anyone be offended by religious implications of Christmas’ first syllable.

Some mayors and school officials, in panicky fear of lawsuits, impose restrictions on Christmas carols and civic creches. “Silent Night,’’ bad. “Jingle Bell Rock,’’ good. Baby-in-manger with donkey, bad. Baby-in-manger with reindeer, good.

Examples from both sides pop up all around the country. The Wichita Eagle ran a correction, apologizing for referring to the city “Christmas tree” rather than the city “community tree.” The mayor then apologized for unwarranted political correctness.

In Maplewood, N.J., the school district banned carols that mentioned the “C” word, even “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, “ who swung into action “one foggy C—–mas Eve.” In Chicago, one school choir serenaded parents with the traditional favorite, “We Wish You a Swingin’ Holiday.”

And on Fox News, commentator Bill O’Reilly, who never met an issue he couldn’t exaggerate, proclaimed that when store clerks eschew “Merry Christmas” for “Happy Holidays, “ it means that gay marriage, partial-birth abortion and legalized drugs are just around the corner.
We’re inclined to believe that both sides should just calm down. The majority of Americans, blue-state and red-state, Christian and non-Christian, have enough good sense to respect each other’s beliefs — although those beliefs haven’t always been what you might think.

Christmas was illegal for America’s first Christians. Historian Stephen Nissenbaum, in “The Battle for Christmas, “ writes that “the holiday was systematically suppressed by Puritans during the colonial period and largely ignored by their descendants. It was actually illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681. (The fine was five shillings.)”

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Christmas was celebrated much as Mardi Gras is celebrated today: Young people used it as an excuse to get stinking drunk. “The Feast of Christ’s Nativity is spent in Reveling, Dicing, Carding, Masking and in all Licentious Liberty,’’ thundered the Rev. Cotton Mather of Boston in 1712, “by Mad Mirth, by long Eating, by hard Drinking, by lewd Gaming, by rude Reveling.”

The early church had set up this problem by scheduling the feast of the Nativity on Dec. 25 to counter the pagan solar feast of Natalis Invicti. In agrarian societies of northern Europe, Dec. 25 happened to coincide with long nights and the end of the harvest. There was lots of wine around and plenty of time to drink it.

Among the pious, a few people celebrated the Nativity as a quiet religious observance. But Christmas per se had a bad name. In England, the “mummers” originated Christmas carols by switching clothes between men and women, staggering from house to house and singing “in the midst of Rioting, Chambering (fornicating) and Wantonness, “ as the Rev. Henry Bourne put it. And Mr. O’Reilly thinks things are bad today.

It took commerce and poetry to change this. By the early 19th century, merchants in Philadelphia seized upon the idea of exchanging Christmas presents rather than passing out “wassails” — spiced ale or liquor and accompanying salutations — to drunken revelers. This brought Christmas indoors and took it out of the hands of the loutish lower classes.

In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore wrote his immortal “The Night Before Christmas, “ which quickly began to domesticate the holiday. The German tradition of the Christmas tree was imported as part of the new child-centric philosophy that grew up along with the Industrial Revolution. By the mid-19th century, Charles Dickens had written “A Christmas Carol” as part of his crusade to improve conditions for the poor and working classes.

That change happened more slowly in America — and more slowly in slave states than free ones. Missouri was one of the last states to make Christmas a secular holiday, wanting to squeeze as much labor as possible out of the poor.

By the end of the 1800s, Christmas had been established as a secular holiday, one complete with the exchange of gifts and its own mythology: St. Nicholas, trees, reindeer and “God bless us every one.” Only then, after Christmas had been tamed, did churches feel safe to expand the religious observances.

In some ways, then, Christ was an late addition to Christmas — not that he would have wanted much part of earlier celebrations. Dec. 25 was a pagan holiday before it was a Christian feast day, and Christmas was a wine-soaked secular and commercial holiday before it was a major religious holiday. Not until 1884 was Christmas decreed as a Holy Day of Obligation (obligatory Mass attendance) by Catholic bishops in the United States.

It is a day that can simultaneously bring out the best and worst instincts in all who celebrate it: grasping greed and profound acts of charity. Christmas is what we make of it.

It can be a battleground in the culture war. It can be a chance for religious conservatives to blast the American Civil Liberties Union (which, by the way, defends students’ right to pass out Christmas cards with religious symbols). It can be a chance for the overly earnest to mock the beliefs and practices of others.

Or it can be, in fact, a chance to practice a little kindness and a little tolerance, a chance to bring great tidings of comfort and joy, a little peace on Earth, good will to men. Dickens called it “keeping Christmas.”

999 - Wow

I should do a '9' post but I can't let this other one go. It was just dropped in my lap. For free. From my blogger email. I did a post on Chinese drywall on post 799. And along came Jack Reylan and left a comment (yesterday). So go to 799 and read the comments. Don't bother with the post (unless you've forgotten about the danger of Chinese drywall). Just go to the last comment.

Are you back? Now go to Jack Reylan's blog. Again don't worry to much about his two posts, just read the comments.

If you really want to keep youself busy, Google Jack Reylan. He's been busy leaving comments on blogs all over the place.

But alas, from anywho.com - 'We did not find any directory results for J Reylan '

 

994 - I don’t care about the Constitution.

No not me! Bill O'Reilly!



I find it hard to watch this idiot because he always cuts people off. He can't let anyone finish a thought without having to jump in with his own drivel.

 

929 - Welcome to America

One trouble with people coming to America from other countries is that they bring their culture with them. Most of the time good. But sometimes not. Mix the internet in and you can come up with some really bizarre stuff.

Two Bosnian guys in North Dakota decided to help the one's son fulfill an internet love quest. The problem was that the son was 14 and the girl was 14. And the girl was in another state, Kentucky. Problem? We ain't got no problem. Let's drive to Kentucky and pick her up and bring her back to North Dakota.

They drive to the girls school, go in during the school day and try to sign her out. Guess who's in jail.

Here's the best internet story that describes it the best that I could find.
14 YEAR OLD

To see all the stories do a google search on - "14 year old" "Kentucky" "North Dakota".

 

922 - Darwin Awards

How long has it been since you've been to the Darwin Awards site? I think the St. Louis area just came up with a leading candidate for the award winner this year. I think the conversation between the boy friend and girl friend went something like this -

Boy friend - You can never be to careful with guns.

Girl friend - What do you mean?

BF - You should always have the safety on when you're handling a gun.

GF - Really?

BF - Yep, when you have the safety on you can put the gun up to your head, pull the trigger and noth... BLAM

914 - New world order

I was googling when an ad popped up on the side that caught my eye. I usually don't click on that stuff but .... Anyway, I found out that Barack Obama is trying to set up a new world order. Apparently he's made a deal with the guys that put the eye at the top of the pyramid on the one dollar bill. AND I THOUGHT THE CONSERVATIVES DID THAT! Now I'm really confused.

Next thing you know we'll find out that Obama has joined Opus Die. Unless ....... unless he was in it all along and he's just a part of the grand plot to control the world!

You can find out more HERE. But be warned! It's scary. It's one of those sites that won't let you leave. You know, where the back button just takes you to another sales page.

Oh, did I forget to mention that you can't find out about the conspiracy unless you buy the pamphlet? Or the book. Or other stuff they're trying to sell you? That's why I'm pretty sure these are right wing crazies. Because most left wingers usually give you their conspiracy stuff. The ring wingers want you to buy it. Its that capitalist thing. (Your going to die and for $9.99 you can find out how)

Speaking of buying things, have you ordered your new Dan Brown book yet? 40% off on preorders at Borders. I hear it's all true. The 40% anyway.


And Uncle Jay.

 

895 - Problems?

You think you got problems? You ain't got no problems. This person has problems. Lots of them. (my comments in red)

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ST. LOUIS — A woman who pleaded guilty Tuesday of possessing an unregistered live hand grenade at home in House Springs may face prison and a bill for bomb squad gear blown up while trying to disarm it.

On May 24, 2007, Jefferson County sheriff's deputies answered a call that claimed Thomas Hibdon had chased and threatened his then-wife with a sword and a spear.

Deputies said they found Hibdon carrying a military-style rifle and sheathed sword, with a loaded .40-caliber pistol in his pocket. He was pepper-sprayed in a confrontation, officials said.

A search of his home found 17 rifles and pistols and a live grenade with its safety pin secured in place with duct tape, court documents show.

By the time Hibdon was indicted in U.S. District Court here on a federal weapons charge, he had undergone a sex change overseas and assumed the name Rachel Ildeya Amratiel.

Amratiel pleaded guilty of state weapons charges in Jefferson County earlier this year and was sentenced in June to five years on probation.

On Tuesday, Amratiel, 38, pleaded guilty to a single federal felony count of possession of an unregistered grenade. (I can register my hand grenades??)

Amratiel's lawyer, Matthew Radefeld, said she disputes her now ex-wife's account of the 2007 disturbance. The lawyer said his client also challenged the legality of the discovery of the grenade, saying the wife did not have the authority to consent to the search.

If Amratiel is successful in appealing a judge's decision affirming the search, she could withdraw her plea, Radefeld said.

Radefeld also said that Amratiel thought the grenade was just an inert souvenir. Amratiel had served in the Army as Hibdon, but it was not clear where she got the grenade.

Under federal sentencing guidelines, she could face roughly two to four years in prison when sentenced in October. Radefeld said he will argue for probation

Amratiel also could be required to pay for the equipment that was damaged in detonating the grenade. When it went off, it left a crater and threw equipment 30 feet in the air, according to court documents that do not indicate where this occurred.

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Today's Claudia's birthday. Maybe I'll get her a new hand grenade!

 

859 - How old is too young?

I won't type too much here because this is a long article and there's links to look at. But first take a guess at how old your kid has to be before they can go hunting by themselves. Well in the US it depends on what state you're in. In Missouri it's 11.

HUNTING KIDS

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767 - Segway car

In case you have a death wish, here's your chance to fulfill it. Here's a product looking for a market. Why would anyone buy one of these rolling death traps? By a motorcycle. Buy a real 'small car'. But this thing?! Hey, maybe they can make one where you hang upside down in the little cabin, just for fun.



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691 - Fiona's meme

I was waiting for most people to respond to Fiona's meme so I could steal some ideas on what to talk about. It seems to have worked. I've got some comparisons that can tie us all together, a little bit.

The rules: I have to tell you ten honest things about myself in writing and then tag ten people to pass it on.

1. Chocolate, but not to much. I mentioned this in a comment on Fiona's blog. Hersey's Kisses in the fridge. Always ready (and cold) for a chocolate hit.

2. I think I can count on just over one hand the number of places I've lived. And if you could go to the top of the AT&T building in downtown St. Louis you could see them all (not counting college).

3. John, riding on the back of a truck isn't that much fun. Back in 'the day' St. Louis had two free newspapers delivered on Wednesday and Thursday. For a couple of years a friend and myself would get picked up by the carrier at 1AM, go to the newspaper plant; roll, deliver and throw 3000 papers from a platform on the back of a pickup truck, then get back home by 5AM for a little more sleep before school. The winters were the worst because your feet would freeze standing on that metal step for hours.

4. I can't stand spicy foods. Just being around spicy food makes my eyes water. Really.

5. I also wanted to be a vet. Then an architect. Wound up going to college to be a chemical engineer. Chemistry was easy for me. School was not. At the University of MO at Rolla it took most students five years to get out of there. It only took me a year and a half.

6. I still get together twice a year with the old high school football guys. And for the past few years I have been going to a once a month grade school group dinner.

7. I do habitat for humanity. And more than one Saturday of the build. Last year I made (guess here) 14 out of 17 build days.

8. I write letters to the editor like Bilbo. But it must be a lot easier to get published in the Midwest than on the East Coast. If I don't get published I feel I've failed. The local paper has a 60 day waiting period before they will publish you again so I pick my topics carefully. More than once I have written in only to regret that I was in my 60 day timeout period.

And just FYI what you see in the paper isn't necessarily what the person wrote. Letters to the editor get edited - a lot. I used the phrase 'bleeding wallet conservative' one time. They changed it to 'bleeding heart conservative'. Needless to say it changed the whole tone of the letter.

9. I had a new (demo) '68 Dodge Charger 383 4 barrel. That thing would get up and go. (9 mpg if I was lucky)

10. Also like Bilbo I don't particularly like doing these silly meme's. So as a pay back I've hacked into Fiona's computer cam. I'll start posting video's tomorrow. Honest! Trust me. Would I lie to you? Girl, you should get dressed before using the computer. You never know who's watching.

661 - English simplicity

So let's take a simple word like 'lay'. You would think the past participle would be 'layed'. Nope. No such word. You would think even further that a spell checker would know what you meant. Nope. How about 'clayed, played, flayed, rayed or payed"? No thanks. I was a bad speller to begin with. I think spell checkers are making me worse.

But back to getting layed. Like I said you can't get layed because it doesn't exist. And even dictionary.com doesn't want to guess what you're trying to say. The correct answer is the 38th guess for what you where trying to say. (And as I'm typing this I'm noticing 'say' and 'said'.)

So now you guessed. I'm trying to get 'laid'. Well after I did figure that out I double checked dictionary.com. When you look at this, think about this being the first word that somebody that was going learn when learning English. Go here to get 'laid'. (Yes that definition is there. It's number 58)

658 - Galileo and the church

Here's a few lines from the article about how the Catholic church is finally trying to admit that Galileo might have been right.

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The church denounced Galileo's theory as dangerous to the faith, but Galileo defied its warnings. Tried as a heretic in 1633 and forced to recant, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, later changed to house arrest.
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Here's the whole article. The church better be careful. Somebody from the church might actually admit that the earth is round!
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643 - Guys, don't do any of this stuff.

In trolling the net recently I ran across some links to a female magazines 'give your guy a test' articles. That lead to another and another and so on. So I'm giving the links to the guys so they know what not to do. Guys, the girls already have this stuff memorized. So the goal here is to know what they know. And then keep reminding me because I don't remember any of this stuff anymore.

So remember, to goal is to know your enem..... oppositiony.

First
Second
Third
Fourth
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636 - Monday extra

Fiona is talking about goo today. So I finally get around to the newspaper and what's on the front page? GOO And not just GOO, Golden GOO.