Archive for August, 2008

“This is right out of a Thirties’ cartoon or a W.C. Fields’ movie!”

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

That’s what Vincenzo Kolchak said about this item advertised on Sam’sClub.com.

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Kalorik Toaster Oven/Coffee Maker/Griddle

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After a bit of research…

Who doesn’t recall this scene?

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Images: (Kaloric) via samsclub.com; (Fields) via comedylegends.org.uk; (beer tap & glass) via popsci.com;

Hopefully, the whale will have a better chance.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

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In this framegrab image taken off from Channel Nine television, a lost humpback whale calf swims around a yacht in the Pittwater, north of Sydney Harbour Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. The calf seems to think the yacht is its mother and will likely die within days if it doesn’t find another mother to adopt it, […]

Abandoned Pools At Foreclosed Homes Spur West Nile Fears–Yahoo headline

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Talk about avarice in biblical terms; this is the Trifecta!
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Images:(folks) affiliaterewardsprogram.com; (grassy pool) onebrick.org +(skeeters) left-img.dailymail.co.uk via richarddawkins.net; –right-oregonstate.edu; (slime pool) lakeelsinore.org + (mosquito) Photograph by Darlyne A. Murawski via animals.nationalgeographic.com

Please find the CNN story and video at Yahoo.com/news

In the Soviet era, that award weighed 2.3 tons.

Monday, August 18th, 2008

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The story is here.

NASCAR Finds Magnets Under Pedals On 2 Gibbs Cars–AP headline

Monday, August 18th, 2008

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The field begins racing on the first lap during the NASCAR 3M Performance 400 auto race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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By MIKE HARRIS, AP Auto Racing Writer
Sun Aug 17, 10:37 PM ET
BROOKLYN, Mich. - The two Joe Gibbs Racing cars that have dominated the Nationwide Series […]

They’ve proven it was not a reproduction from the Middle Ages…

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

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Ellen Jaskol / For The Times

From the Los Angeles Times
Shroud of Turin stirs new controversy
A Colorado couple researching the shroud dispute radiocarbon dating of the alleged burial cloth of Jesus, and Oxford has agreed to help them reexamine the findings.
By DeeDee Correll
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 17, 2008
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — The tie that binds […]

Woman Recalls Strange Date With Rockefeller–WCVB-5, The Boston Channel

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Rockefeller Claimed Royal Heritage
UPDATED: 2:07 pm EDT August 16, 2008
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Images: 1-brooklynmuseum.org; 2-John D. Rockefeller via chelationtherapyonline.com; miniature golf-kiesters.com; 3-JDR via wrhs.org; 4-JDR via bp1.blogger.com via old-photos.blogspot.com

Another snapshot of Yahoo Headlines…

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

As of 8:13 a.m. EDT 
• Russian president says troop pullback to begin Monday
• French president Sarkozy demands Russia comply with truce
• Obama and McCain compete for evangelical vote ‘08 race
• Visitors asked to leave Florida Keys ahead of tropical storm

• 37 die in Afghan four-hour gunbattle amid surging violence

• Mummified remains identified from 1948 plane crash in Alaska

• Ellen DeGeneres marries […]

“When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started.”–Superintendent, Harrold , Tx. school district, to the Fort Worth Star Telegram.

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Is he saying that all of those nuns were carrying heat in the 1950s?

ocal6.com
EDUCATION
School District Allowing Teachers To Carry Guns
Employees Must Have License To Carry Concealed Handgun
POSTED: 7:55 am EDT August 16, 2008
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HARROLD, Texas — The tiny Harrold, Texas, school district will allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms when they return to […]

Olympic Ticket Black Market Thriving Despite ‘Crackdown’–Agence France-Presse headline

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

So far, no one has blamed the U.S. which
supposedly introduced prostitution and gambling to Vietnam.
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by Charles Whelan Sat Aug 16, 3:34 AM ET
BEIJING(AFP) - A thriving black market in tickets was operating Saturday outside the main Olympic venues with money openly changing hands despite China’s claim of a crackdown on scalpers

Olympic organisers have said […]

Georgia Men Claim Hairy, Frozen Corpse Is Bigfoot–AP headline

Friday, August 15th, 2008

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(Kimberly White/Reuters)

First, don’t these guys know their country was just at war?
Second, don’t they realize that wearing hats which state:

(Kimberly White/Reuters)
“Best Trackers In The World
Bigfoottracker.com”
may leave more than a few people skeptical.
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Bigfoot stored in a 1955 Amana Sasquatch Ice King Deep Freeze

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By MALIA WOLLAN, Associated Press Writer
August 15, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bigfoot […]

Johnny may not have been there, but “the rotting fish stinks from the head.”

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Besides, wasting food is almost quaint
when placed against Mac’s Chelsea Clinton joke.

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August 14, 2008
POLITICO
Jonathan Martin
Oh, to have been present for this
I think this speaks for itself:
Albuquerque, NM- Today, the Democratic Party of New Mexico were joined by Patsy Trujillo, the Deputy Secretary of Aging and Long Term Care as well as Victor Raigoza, State […]

“In the 21st Century, Nations don’t invade other nations”–John Metternich McCain shares his views on contemporary history.

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

The man who would be president continues to astound listeners
with his hare-brained statements.
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Image: (The Kiss) thewashingtonnote.com via journals.democraticunderground.com; (poster) classicfilm.about.com via z.about.com

Mary Matalin? Who would have conceived it?

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

August 13, 2008
Book on Obama Hopes to Repeat Anti-Kerry Feat
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By JIM RUTENBERG and JULIE BOSMAN
In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of “Unfit for Command,” the book attacking Senator John Kerry’s record on a Vietnam War Swift boat […]

We couldn’t use Barbra Streisand after hearing rumors that she would demand that no seal look her in the eye.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Bush Seeks to Limit Species Law
Plan to Help Speed
Some Development
Draws Activists’ Ire
By STEPHEN POWER
WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 12, 2008; Page A3
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is proposing to reduce the environmental reviews federal agencies must undertake as part of the Endangered Species Act.
The proposal could speed up commercial development, but environmentalists said the changes could threaten […]

One wonders if Diane and Chucky have finally awakened to smell the coffee?

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice hiring scandal
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago
NEW YORK - No criminal prosecutions are planned for former Justice Department officials accused of allowing politics to influence the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
Mukasey used his sharpest words yet […]

“You don’t go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am…”I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That’s almost demeaning to me. It is not almost—it is.”–Mark Spitz on not being invited to the Beijing Olympics.

Monday, August 11th, 2008

If no one else will honor Mark, we shall!

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Spitz, once the star, upset over Beijing snub
by Polly Hui Aug 11, 2:23 am EDT
HONG KONG (AFP) - US swim legend Mark Spitz won’t be on hand in Beijing if Michael Phelps breaks his record of seven gold medals at a single Olympics—because, he says, no […]

I liked the squash court in the Morgan Aero 8.

Monday, August 11th, 2008

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Images: (Ferrari) via Yahoo; (floor mats) westwindeuropean.com; (radio-controller etc) (sign) tagsandflags.com; (gifts) ferrarigifts.com; (yacht) newluxuryitems.com;

Cheney: “Russian Aggression Must Not Go Unanswered”–Reuters headline, 8/11/2008

Monday, August 11th, 2008

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Image: (Dick) dailykos.com via img.photobucket.com; (White House) visitingdc.com; (hat) 1st-for-halloween-costumes.com via buycostumes.com;

Reuters story.

Priests Should Not Wrestle Children!–Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Monday, August 11th, 2008

What about an alligator?

Russian bear?

A conscience?

AP.

We owe a debt of appreciation to Vincenzo Kolchak for his reading William Kristol so that we my continue to avoid the NEW YORK TIMES columnist.

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I think this may be the second column I have scanned Kristol’s column (I can’t bear to read every word). It’s really the height of chutzpah, to push Russia on areas clearly within their geographical bailiwick (and clearly, from a military point of view, way out of ours) and to screw around with things like […]