tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98396602011-10-06T09:05:54.562-05:00This is the obligatory blog for The Yeetle Box. The "oblogatory" one might say. Sigh...The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.comBlogger5241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-13445294578989977322010-09-20T19:07:00.004-05:002010-09-21T00:24:06.069-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TJg_JftTGII/AAAAAAAABHw/Dm4-UgVEXIo/s1600/chinese+man.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TJg_JftTGII/AAAAAAAABHw/Dm4-UgVEXIo/s320/chinese+man.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519230775705409666" /></a><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A</span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Chinese man, disheartened by an ongoing divorce proceeding with his fiancee, failed to commit suicide - even though he tried. </span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">According to Chinese media reports, the 30-year-old man named Yang Jun (pronounced Yang Jun) lost heart when his wife announced she wanted a divorce. Yang wept. Yang thrashed. Yang fell into despair.</span></span></span><div><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yang's plan? To terminate his life. (Music swells.)</span></span></span><div><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">After taking 50 sleeping pills illegally prescribed by a local "pharmacist," Yang crawled onto a 45-meter-high bridge in Guangzhou in plain view of many passers-by - at least one of whom contacted authorities to complain a man was blocking the walkway on the bridge. That man, of course, was Yang. Asleep.<br /></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />When a group of rescuers arrived at the scene, Yang was </span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“fast asleep with his nose kept snoring.” Rescuers tried to wake him up by playing Slim Whitman songs loudly, only to find they could not awaken Yang. After 45 minutes of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Song of the Old Waterwheel"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Yang was rescued. Yay! <br /></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />From the hospital, Yang stated, “I do not regret having made up my mind to fall off from the bridge. Frankly speaking, I hesitated whether I should sacrifice myself or take sleeping pills. But I chose both ways anyway.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yang continued. “Shortly after I climbed up to the bridge, I was worn out and later found myself hospitalized,” he added. <br /></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />Remarkably, Yang's ex-wife reunited with Yang, offering a happy, if not bizarre </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">end to the high-profile suicide drama. </span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“I am receiving treatment for melancholy and try not to think of what I did,” Yang said. "I am in deep denial."<br /><br /><span class="body"><i>And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.</i></span><i><br /></i><span class="bodybold" style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/confucius104274.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 17, 255); line-height: normal; "><i>Confucius</i></a><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1344529457898997732?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-1889432965841412992010-09-18T18:46:00.005-05:002010-09-18T19:14:58.324-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TJVVzdgM0fI/AAAAAAAABHo/dGaXvqtEBNw/s1600/Low+riders.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TJVVzdgM0fI/AAAAAAAABHo/dGaXvqtEBNw/s320/Low+riders.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518411260993786354" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A New Orleans woman was jailed for 10 days after she went to court in low-riding shorts, revealing her underwear - little pink, frilly things, according to an eyewitness.<br /><br />Kimberly Senette, 23, had gone to court to urge her brother Lawrence Senette, 18, to accept a plea deal. While Lawrence's attire fell within socially acceptable standards for dress according to the <i>New Orleans Socially Acceptable Standards for Dress Within A Courtroom Overseen by A Judges Whose Last Name Begins With W</i> (PL85a), Judge Steve Windhorst took a dim view of her revealing outfit and locked her up for contempt of court.<br /><br />Judge Windhorst was overheard stating, "Wait'll I get my Haines on you!"<br /><br />Miss Senette was wearing knee-length shorts which revealed her pants and the top of her buttocks (i.e. second cleavage), according to an eye witness.<br /><br />When Judge Windhorst questioned her appearance, Miss Senette stated she had to remove her belt when going through a security checkpoint at the courtroom entrance. Judge Windhorst was not moved by her argument. Miss Senette was handcuffed and seated in a row behind her brother as he eventually accepted a 12-year prison sentence in exchange for his guilty plea to carjacking and giving a wedgie to a friend for which he had been wanted for two years.<br /><br />“It certainly is not unheard of for a judge to hold a person in contempt for disruptive or disorderly dress in court,” stated the obligatory expert Dane Ciolino, a Loyola University law professor who was breezing through town some time during this incident.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-188943296584141299?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-76515494003643141002010-09-06T21:32:00.005-05:002010-09-06T21:47:13.172-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TIWni-VqmkI/AAAAAAAABHY/C5r4yuEynmI/s1600/shatner.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 201px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TIWni-VqmkI/AAAAAAAABHY/C5r4yuEynmI/s320/shatner.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513997538076301890" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Former "Star Trek" actor William Shatner told the Montreal Gazette there is no doubt in his mind that aliens do exist. Reporters from the Montreal Gazette stated there is no doubt in his mind that aliens do exist.<br /><br />"There is no doubt that aliens do exist; there is LIFE!...out there! The mathematics of it lead you to that absolute conclusion," the actor revealed to the <i>Montreal Gazette</i>, while Leonard Nimoy stood in the background shaking his head. "In my mind, there is no doubt that the universe teems -- teems! -- with life...in...all...its...forms!”<br /><br />William Shatner's revelation comes after his hosting duties on the new television series, "William Shatner Is Weird or What?" In the Discovery Channel show, 79 year old Shatner explores the paranormal, medical flukes, and bizarre natural disasters, after which the audience votes up or down whether or not they believe he is "weird" or "what?"<br /><br />William Shatner played Captain Kirk for years on "Star Trek," and, although he worked as a television actor, is just now is beginning to believe in the existence of alien life.<br /><br />The more television channels such as Sci-Fi and Discovery explore the paranormal, the more believers will begin to be made. And the more Shatne keeps his new job!<br /><br />Um...according to Jean Luc Picard. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><a href="http://yeetle.com">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-7651549400364314100?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-33333261868589994412010-08-20T08:09:00.004-05:002010-08-20T08:48:15.437-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TG6DnVVF30I/AAAAAAAABHQ/6uJeGTTvSlw/s1600/law.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 295px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TG6DnVVF30I/AAAAAAAABHQ/6uJeGTTvSlw/s320/law.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507484106084441922" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">The purpose of Law is to limit and contain harm-to-others.<br /><br />This is done by:<br /><br />1. Providing specified formats for contracts, treaties, deals and agreements, then providing registries of these to resolve arguments about opposed memories or interpretations of them later on with these recorded facts from which unbiased third-party arbitration can pronounce final sentence on disputes before they degenerate into violent conflicts.<br /><br />2. Establishing what constitutes 'harm-to-others' and whether it has occurred; logically and implicitly from the fact that that all conflict starts with, at least, a perception that another or others are violating a plaintiff's life, liberty or property or, at most, clearly doing or having done so.<br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br />With this in mind, I took the liberty to find weird and strange laws. My search took me across the globe via The Google. For your edification and enjoyment, here are a list of weird and strange laws which are practiced around the World.<br /><br /></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">==============================================================<br /></span></b></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1. <b>Headlights</b> – </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Drivers in Denmark are supposed to keep their headlights on while driving not only in the night but also in the day. According to authorities, this has helped in preventing accidents. According to drivers, this has also helping in spotting authorities.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-indent: -13986px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><div class="space_adjust"><div class="buzzup_para" style="margin-bottom: -26px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">o Chewing Gum – </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Drivers in Denmark are supposed to keep their headlights on while driving not only in the night but also in the day. According to authorities, this has helped in preventing accidents.</span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1.Say No To Chewing Gum – </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Drivers in Denmark are supposed to keep their headlights on while driving not only in the night but also in the day. According to authorities, this has helped in preventing accidents.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1.Say No To Chewing Gum – </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Drivers in Denmark are supposed to keep their headlights on while driving not only in the night but also in the day. According to authorities, this has helped in preventing accidents.<br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2. <b>Twins In China</b> – </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This strange law was introduced in China by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979, to check population growth. 35.9% of the Chinese population is still subject to this law. What happens if a mother should bear twins? A Chinese government official said under anonymity that women are taught this law at an early age. Hence, no woman was bore twins since 1978.<br /><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3. <b>Jeans For Girls</b> –</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> A strange law issued in France in the year 1800, prohibited girls from wearing pants. The law was later revised in 1900. Today, French girls are allowed to wear pants only when they are riding a bicycle or watching a Jerry Lewis film.<br /><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4. <b>Chang</b>e – </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Canada introduced a strange law in 1985, which said customers cannot pay coins for the whole price of a good. At present the law has reduced it's severity. Shopkeepers may or may not accept coins but they cannot be forced. Canadians have the largest coin collections in the world.<br /><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5. <b>Pink Shorts</b> –</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> In Australia, girls can go around in shorts but not if it is pink in color. Girls are fined if they do. Except for short shorts. Australia lawmakers overlooked this article of clothing.<br /><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6. <b>Kissing</b> –</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Kissing is not allowed in England and France especially on stations to prevent train delays. No fine is yet levied but the kissers face strong opposition from the police.<br /><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7. <b>Jumping In London</b> –</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> In New York persons suspected of suicide by jumping from a building face the punishment of death.<br /><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8. <b>Kissing On Condition</b> –</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> In Lowa, women can kiss their man in public only if he is clean shaved. Kissing a man with a mustache is illegal.<br /><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9. <b>Moaners and Starving</b> -</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> In Massachusetts, moaners meals are restricted to three sandwiches. Eating more would be considered a criminal offense.<br /><br />It seems it's important to carry a guide of general and strange laws to be able to make a successful trip here and abroad. If I had, I would not have chewed gum in Denmark, now facing lifetime imprisonment.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">The YeetleMaster</span></b></a></span></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3333326186858999441?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-5134484135611583632010-08-19T19:10:00.008-05:002010-08-19T19:49:29.222-05:00<div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TG3IgwxCETI/AAAAAAAABHA/GrYJ6mZlmr4/s320/banana+man.jpg" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman'; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TG3IgwxCETI/AAAAAAAABHA/GrYJ6mZlmr4/s1600/banana+man.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman'; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">A 21-year-old man is in trouble after a bizarre string of events ended with him in handcuffs, wearing <b>a banana costume and carrying a shotgun.</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">On Tuesday, Port Angeles Police responded to reports of a man exposing himself to a woman in a local Wendy's restaurant. The witness told 911 dispatchers the suspect was wearing a children's banana costume and sucking on a Frosty. Police seemed leary that a man could expose himself while wearing a banana costume given the logistics of such an act and that the banana costume did not appear to have a zipper.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman'; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">However, a short time later, more calls came into 911 reporting a man in a banana costume, only this time he was driving through a park pointing a shotgun out the window of his car. Eye witnesses disagree whether or not it was a shotgun or another act of exposing himself.<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TG3IgwxCETI/AAAAAAAABHA/GrYJ6mZlmr4/s1600/banana+man.jpg">-<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">year-old man is in trouble after a bizarre string of events ended with him in handcuffs, wearing </span></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TG3IgwxCETI/AAAAAAAABHA/GrYJ6mZlmr4/s1600/banana+man.jpg">a banana costume and carrying a shotgun.</a><br /></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br />On Tuesday, Port Angeles Police responded to reports of a man exposing himself to a woman in a local Wendy's restaurant. The witness told 911 dispatchers the suspect was wearing a children's banana costume and sucking on a Frosty. Police seemed leary that a man could expose himself while wearing a banana costume given the logistics of such an act and that the banana costume did not appear to have a zipper.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">However, a short time later, more calls came into 911 reporting a man in a banana costume, only this time he was driving through a park pointing a shotgun out the window of his car. Eye witnesses disagree whether or not it was a shotgun or another act of exposing himself.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TG3My4mv5mI/AAAAAAAABHI/ro95SvCqNWU/s1600/banana+phone.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 301px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TG3My4mv5mI/AAAAAAAABHI/ro95SvCqNWU/s320/banana+phone.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507283093904418402" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br />Police pursued and finally caught up with the man's light gray Dodge Stratus near SR 101 and Old Olympic Highway. He was easily identified as he was still wearing a banana costume. Two female passengers were in the car also, self-identified as groupies of the Banana Man.<br /><br />The man followed officer's commands and exited his vehicle carrying the shotgun. When ordered the man put the gun down and got on the ground, rolling back and forth. The two female passengers in the car were arrested for Reckless Endangerment - not sure why since they were not driving and were not wearing a banana costume.<br /><br />The Banana Man was arrested for Indecent Exposure, Reckless Endangerment and Unlawful Carrying or Handling of a Firearm. Charges are still pending regarding impersonating a banana.<br /><br />The shotgun and banana costume have been checked into evidence and kept for forensic evaluation to determine their authenticity.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><b>The Yeetlemaster</b></span></a></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-513448413561158363?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-31794266705389998272010-06-18T15:57:00.004-05:002010-06-18T16:22:44.145-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TBvf-hEFIsI/AAAAAAAABG4/ZQmqITXRPsQ/s1600/pizza+hut+logo.jpg"><img style="text-align: center;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 148px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TBvf-hEFIsI/AAAAAAAABG4/ZQmqITXRPsQ/s320/pizza+hut+logo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484223236374078146" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">June 6 - Joey ''Jaws'' Chestnut <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">becomes a champion of </span></b></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the big eaters with his <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">victory in the </span></b></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pizza Hut''Chowlenge'' </span></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">in Los Angelos. </span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; "><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> JOEY! JOEY! JOEY!</span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; "><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.reuters.com/resources_v2/flash/video_embed.swf?videoId=98484914" width="460" height="259"></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>I</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b>n a related story, </b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:14px;"><ol style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 0.2em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><li id="fact1" class="odd" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 1em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><ins datetime="September 3, 2008" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.<br /><br /></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>JOEY!</b></div></span><p></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.<br /><br /></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>JOEY!<br /><br /></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; "><b>JOEY! </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; "><b>JOEY!</b></span></div></span></span>The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>JOEY! JOEY! JOEY!</b></div><br />According to UNICEF, 24,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”</span></span></span></span></span><p></p></ins></li><li id="fact4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 1em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;color:initial;"><ins datetime="March 28, 2010" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;color:initial;"><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/TBvf-hEFIsI/AAAAAAAABG4/ZQmqITXRPsQ/s320/pizza+hut+logo.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>50 YEARS OF THE PIZZA AMERICA LOVES!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br /><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Yeetle Master</span></div></span><sup class="note" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.25em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; top: -0.5em; font-family:inherit;font-size:0.95em;color:initial;"><span class="css-label" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: -500em; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;color:initial;"><a href="http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats#src4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; color: rgb(180, 15, 17); ">Source</a></span></sup><p></p></ins></li></ol></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3179426670538999827?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-50541885696273126832009-08-25T19:38:00.007-05:002009-08-25T19:57:06.092-05:00<div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SpSGlx3504I/AAAAAAAABGg/UN8BCqpEeR8/s1600-h/cow-convict.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374068238960939906" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SpSGlx3504I/AAAAAAAABGg/UN8BCqpEeR8/s320/cow-convict.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Four people have died after being trampled by cows in the past two months in England, prompting Britain's main farming union to issue a warning about the dangers of provoking the normally docile animals.<br /><br />Britain has 7.5 million cows, but in the past eight years there have only been 18 deaths involving cattle, including bulls whose dangers are well-known - by people and cows alike.<br /><br />The current spate (yes, spate!) of attacks by cows began on the Pennine Hills on June 21, when Liz Crowsley, a veterinary surgeon from Warrington, was crushed against a wall and then trampled underfoot while out walking with her two dogs. It is said the cows are attacking the dogs. It is said...<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SpSHEMW6L1I/AAAAAAAABGo/Q2hXhYyxOE4/s1600-h/cows.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374068761466384210" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SpSHEMW6L1I/AAAAAAAABGo/Q2hXhYyxOE4/s320/cows.jpg" /></a>On July 15, another attack took place in Derbyshire, when Barry Pilgrim, a 65-year old from the area, was trampled to death by a cow as his wife looked on, smiling.<br />Three days later, Anita Hinchey, a 63-year-old, was walking her dog near Cardiff when a cow attacked her and trampled her to death. The dog was fine.<br /><br />The fourth fatal attack claimed the life of Harold Lee, a 75-year-old farmer from Burtle in the West Country. He was killed by his own herd, which may have been made nervous by the siren of a passing ambulance. His own herd! A herd he milked and talked to, fed, housed.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SpSH8rKA17I/AAAAAAAABGw/-u3-ibg-kvY/s1600-h/516200.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 230px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374069731806468018" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SpSH8rKA17I/AAAAAAAABGw/-u3-ibg-kvY/s320/516200.jpg" /></a>Apparently, the risk is especially high in the spring when many of the calves are only a month or two old and the mothers are therefore especially protective, the NFU said.<br />"It's to do with spring and autumn calving," said Sheasby of the NFU. "Yep. Calving."<br /><br />"In the autumn, cattle will be coming into winter housing, but in spring you want them out grazing the grass."<br /><br />Cow-charging incidents received extended coverage when former Home Secretary David Blunkett was attacked by one in June as his guide dog led him across a field in England's Peak District.<br /><br />Blunkett broke a rib and was heavily bruised but survived. And so was the dog.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-5054188569627312683?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-421974445463149152009-08-23T12:29:00.004-05:002009-08-23T13:23:03.238-05:00<div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Sometimes I just can't get to this blog. Sometimes I'm away, or eating a sandwich, or asleep. Sometimes I just don't want to be both. But I still aim for 24/7 customer service.<br /><br />So I have created my own private virtual personality: YBOT.<br /><br />To talk to YBOT, click on the image below. That is YBOT himself. </span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Once you get there, YBOT will talk to you.<br /><br />He speaks for me. </span><br /></div><div></div><a href="http://www.a-i.com/mybot.asp?uid=F9Jfnlv2ZXk1gKJ%2FZjX8IG06gSu5Dk%40h"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 279px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373224907512077714" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SpGHlbaJ3ZI/AAAAAAAABGY/dGmOdW4mRQQ/s320/YBOT.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">You will still be alone talking to yourself, but it's been them scratching and mumbling.</span></div><br /><div></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Have a great conversation with me in my absence.</span></div><br /><div></div><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-42197444546314915?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-74836864343972049322009-08-22T05:41:00.007-05:002009-08-22T06:09:58.111-05:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/So_O7PpMIbI/AAAAAAAABF4/vzRwd6FyY3U/s1600-h/PH2009081901107.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 219px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372740397683188146" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/So_O7PpMIbI/AAAAAAAABF4/vzRwd6FyY3U/s320/PH2009081901107.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">During a heated town hall meeting on federal health care reform, gay Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at a protester who held a poster depicting President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache.<br /><br />"On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked the woman, who had stepped up to the podium at a southeastern Massachusetts senior center to ask why Frank supports what she called a Nazi policy. "Earth," she replied tersely. "I'm an immigrant from Uranus and a citizen."<br /><br />"Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table - at best a futon. I have no interest in doing it," Frank said. He paused. "Furniture might have MORE to say."<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/So_PQmaR-LI/AAAAAAAABGA/ByOuF-D2kRI/s1600-h/PH2009081901122.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 219px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372740764571924658" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/So_PQmaR-LI/AAAAAAAABGA/ByOuF-D2kRI/s320/PH2009081901122.jpg" /></a>Frank noted that her ability to deface an image of the president and express her views "is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated." No one applauded the First Amendment, but took the time to review their talking points.<br /><br />Frank, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, sought to assure more than 500 people attending the rowdy meeting that the average taxpayer wouldn't be hurt by plans currently under consideration in Congress. Honest.<br /><br />Said Representative Gay Frank, "We don't even understand it. We only read half of it. And it's not half bad."<br /><br />Some of those attending the meeting organized by the Democratic Town Committee of Dartmouth shouted and booed as Frank and others addressed the crowd. They were told the town hall meeting was a meet and greet with Alan Jackson.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/So_PrOAkhAI/AAAAAAAABGI/8kvMGLpTsZw/s1600-h/PH2009081901127.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 220px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372741221878105090" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/So_PrOAkhAI/AAAAAAAABGI/8kvMGLpTsZw/s320/PH2009081901127.jpg" /></a>At one point, Frank asked the crowd: "Which one of you wants to yell next?" An old timer with a grizzly beard and no teeth stood up. "I'd like to yell sumpin'," he cackled.<br /><br />Several people wanted to know how the government would pay for the reforms without worsening a growing federal budget deficit and a potential ban on guns rumored to be Obama's Republican stance on weapons ownership.<br />At least two dozen protesters gathered in small groups outside, handing out pamphlets and holding signs criticizing the overhaul, Obama and Frank. Some of the posters read: "It's the economy stupid, stop the spending" and "Healthcare reform yes, government takeover, no. Tort Reform Now" "We need our money for Iraq." "Save AIG." "Make Love, Not Healthcare."<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/So_Rlbj_88I/AAAAAAAABGQ/jSmAHe2roV4/s1600-h/0204_screwed_obama.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 270px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372743321460405186" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/So_Rlbj_88I/AAAAAAAABGQ/jSmAHe2roV4/s320/0204_screwed_obama.jpg" /></a>Audrey Steele, 82, from New Bedford, said she does not want the government to get involved with health care because "they just make a mess of everything," referring to the $700 billion bailout of financial institutions that was used to pay for lavish conferences and hefty executive compensation. "The elixir I gets from the soda shop suits me just fine."<br /><br />As an aside, others at Tuesday's meeting were more supportive of reform.<br /><br />Sheila Leavitt of Newton, once a practicing physician, said she hoped for changes that would support primary care physicians who aren't paid as much as specialists. She said some of the rowdy critics at Tuesday's meeting appeared to be using the same "talking points" as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country. Then, Ninja-like, she seemed to vanish into the nearby alley and was never seen again.</span><br /><br /><br /><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Yeetle Box</span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-7483686434397204932?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-47476675012612576802009-08-13T23:43:00.003-05:002009-08-13T23:52:03.660-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SoTtQdIpFrI/AAAAAAAABFw/Fyc7o7xD90Y/s1600-h/yawning.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 226px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369677522687039154" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SoTtQdIpFrI/AAAAAAAABFw/Fyc7o7xD90Y/s320/yawning.bmp" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">An Illinois judge has freed a man who had been in jail for three weeks after letting loose a loud yawn during a sentencing hearing.<br /><br />Thirty-three-year-old Clifton Williams of Richton Park was found in contempt of court and jailed on July 23 after yawning in Will County Judge Daniel Rozak's court. He could have been jailed for six months, but was given merely three weeks - the minimum for yawning in court.<br /><br />Williams was in court for his cousin's sentencing on a drug charge. A prosecutor in court at the time described the offending yawn as "loud and boisterous, like a train coming through a tunnel. A big train coming through a big tunnel. Disgusting!"<br /><br />As Williams stood before the bench in shackles on Thursday, the judge gave him a short lecture. He told Williams he wasn't in custody for simply yawning but for making a sound "that was offensive to the court, to the entire judicial process, and to all that is great and good about the United States of America."<br /><br />The judge continued, "You have yawned in the face of freedom, young man. That will not be tolerated in this courtroom."<br /><br />Said Williams later, outside the courthouse steps, "The whole thiing was really boring. I'm tired now."</span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-4747667501261257680?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-61741940390835730552009-08-08T22:00:00.001-05:002009-08-08T22:02:51.530-05:00<p align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nn4fq3ZfWG4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nn4fq3ZfWG4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><p><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-6174194039083573055?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-27178601954785395282009-08-05T18:11:00.005-05:002009-08-05T18:41:30.441-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnoYiRgaCgI/AAAAAAAABFg/6HhGUXdU9TI/s1600-h/0,,5982303,00.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 296px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366628883059313154" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnoYiRgaCgI/AAAAAAAABFg/6HhGUXdU9TI/s320/0,,5982303,00.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Wife carrying is a sport in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle track in the fastest time. The sport was first introduced at Sonkajärvi, Finland - a name which cannot be pronounced.<br /><br />Several types of carry may be practised: piggyback, fireman's carry (over the shoulder), or, my favorite, Estonian-style (the wife hangs upside-down with her legs around the husband's shoulders, holding onto his waist).<br /><br />Major wife-carrying competitions are held in Sonkajärvi, Finland (where the prize depends on the wife's weight in beer) Monona, Wisconsin, and Marquette, Michigan.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The goal: carry your wife as quickly as possible to the finish line.<br />The Prize: your wife's weight in beer. The heavier the wife, the more beer!</span><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">There are no current plans </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">to expand the sport </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">to include husband carrying.<br /><br /></span></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 224px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366627819777385618" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnoXkYePZJI/AAAAAAAABFY/iLAFaPEfOfs/s320/danradice.jpg" /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-2717860195478539528?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-9465851543202920692009-08-04T18:41:00.007-05:002009-08-04T19:00:23.204-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnjLTcf5jII/AAAAAAAABFQ/9qNl_VUMH3U/s1600-h/winchell1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 235px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366262490939886722" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnjLTcf5jII/AAAAAAAABFQ/9qNl_VUMH3U/s320/winchell1.jpg" /></a> <p align="center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnjJwnJv2gI/AAAAAAAABFI/SNZUZwyhYCk/s1600-h/winchell1.jpg"></a></p><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border<br />and coast to coast and all the ships at sea.<br />Let's go to press.<br /></span></em></strong><a href="http://www.basicquotations.com/index.php?aid=883"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>- Walter Winchell</em></strong> </span></a><em><br /><br /><br /></div></em><p><em></em></p><p align="left"><em><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnjJwnJv2gI/AAAAAAAABFI/SNZUZwyhYCk/s1600-h/winchell1.jpg"></a></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Game show aims to convert atheists<br /><br /></span></em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Apparently believing that religious competition in the Middle East is not exciting enough already, the television station Kanal T in Istanbul, Turkey, is preparing a reality game show for September release in which 10 certified atheists try to resist conversion by a priest, a rabbi, a Muslim imam and a Buddhist monk. The exact rules have not been disclosed, but the "winning" convert will receive an expense-paid trip to the holy land of the most persuasive religion (the Vatican, Jerusalem, Mecca or Tibet). </span></p><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><em>People With Issues<br /><br /></em>(1) Todd Hall, 36, was sentenced to a year in prison after his conviction in Bentonville, Ark., in June for <strong>habitually biting the toes of his son</strong>, which Hall said he did up to age 6 as routine discipline. (He had earlier been on probation for the disciplinary biting of his 10-month-old daughter.)<br /><br />(2) In June in Muncie, Ind., in his second such conviction in seven months, Robert Stahl, 64, was found guilty of <strong>resolving disputes with men in their 50s by reaching into their mouths and yanking out their dentures</strong>.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><em>Bright Ideas</em><br /><br />By early July, Jonathan Baltesz and his wife and kids were desperate to find their 10-year-old black Labrador mix, Simon, who had run away. They had one more plan, however. <strong>The family members urinated into containers and sprinkled the contents at various locales around their town </strong>(Bristol, England), laid out so that Simon could follow a trail home. (Results were unavailable at press time.)<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><em>Least Competent Criminals<br /><br /></em>(1) A Polynesian man in his 20s was being sought as the robber of the Black Diamond Equipment store in Salt Lake City in June. He made off with some gear from the ski and climbing accessory store, but had originally demanded jewelry, as <strong>he apparently thought he was knocking off a "diamond" store</strong>.<br /><br />(2) Motorist Zackary Johnson was arrested in Athens, Ga., in June after pulling over a passing police car to inquire whether he had any warrants outstanding against him. No, answered the officer after a computer check, but <strong>he noted that Johnson's driver's license is under suspension, and he was arrested</strong>.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-946585154320292069?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-29938836542581806142009-08-01T20:42:00.004-05:002009-08-01T20:47:10.825-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnTvyJmwkLI/AAAAAAAABFA/4vcAhDUR6eo/s1600-h/turkey.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 227px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365176700956086450" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnTvyJmwkLI/AAAAAAAABFA/4vcAhDUR6eo/s320/turkey.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A restaurant owner in southwest Turkey was shot dead after he tried to prevent his customers from smoking to comply with a new law on the use of tobacco indoors.<br /><br />A fight broke out after Hidir Karayigit, 46, ordered a group of customers to extinguish their cigarettes when they began smoking at his "meyhane," a traditional restaurant that serves alcohol, in the town of Saruhanli.<br /><br />One of the customers shot Karayigit four times after he took away the group's cigarettes, said witness Hamza Havutcu, Karayigit's business partner who was also shot and wounded.<br /><br />Turkey's government on July 19 introduced a nationwide ban on indoor smoking, including bars and restaurants, despite the fact that half of Turks aged between the ages of 15 and 49 smoke; one of the highest rates in the world.<br /><br />"I'm deeply saddened that the first smoking-ban murder occurred in our town," Saruhanli Mayor Veli Yalcin told Hurriyet. "They either shouldn't have outlawed smoking or they should have outlawed alcohol along with smoking. There would be many more shootings."</span><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-2993883654258180614?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-86935015776673298682009-07-31T20:58:00.007-05:002009-07-31T21:50:56.702-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnOsxFU2CdI/AAAAAAAABE4/jAwuI1PXhtM/s1600-h/utah_health_insurance_exchange3.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 164px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364821540371565010" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnOsxFU2CdI/AAAAAAAABE4/jAwuI1PXhtM/s320/utah_health_insurance_exchange3.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">With no warning a Utah woman lost her homeowners insurance.<br /><br />Patricia Hanson has been with the insurance company for over a decade but in May it canceled her policy because of chipped paint and weeds.<br /><br />If someone were to drive by and take a picture of Hanson’s home they may think it was in bad shape - but only if you took a picture. Otherwise, it would look like any other shabby white house - like, well, the White House. However, Hanson points out that what you’re seeing is renovation in progress. Many other Utah homeowners are doing the same thing, and she doesn’t understand why her insurance company has ditched her. <em>And she's not even a Mormon.<br /></em><br />Hanson has been planning the upgrades to her home for some time now, but before she had the chance to get them done her insurance company pulled the plug, cancelling her homeowner’s policy without any notice.<br /></span><br /><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">“I didn't have a call from anybody, no contact, I don't even know who drove by, just came out of the blue,” says Hanson. "There was that one guy taking pictures, but I thought he was a landscaper."<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnOql8bF9UI/AAAAAAAABEo/7tzvQSabe2c/s1600-h/ph08snowdrawing.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 230px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364819149980038466" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnOql8bF9UI/AAAAAAAABEo/7tzvQSabe2c/s320/ph08snowdrawing.jpg" /></a>Hanson says she got a letter in may after making a payment to renew her policy. She was stunned that it was explaining the reasons for cancellation - that it could talk! The one paragraph letter sstated, "Peeling paint on all portions of the dwelling. Overgrown vegetation…peeling paint on garage siding, window sills missing paint."<br /><br />Boldly springing into action, Hanson got on the phone and explained work was being done to fix it. So, how do we know? She explains.<br /><br />“If you look around you will see that most of the paint is on the ground here because we've been power washing,” says Hanson. "The rest is on the house because that's the style I'm goin' for. I'm getting rid of this, all the grass, going to a zero-scape so this is all covered to kill any of the grass that was left. And this is going, too,” she said pointing to the chimney sweep.<br /><br />Hanson’s insurance agent is out of town while his home is being renovated, but did say on the phone they do give advanced warning when cancelling a policy. He said he will re-instate Hanson when the fixes are made and find her other coverage in the meantime. Perhaps COBRA.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnOsGMRSq2I/AAAAAAAABEw/1Dg7gZC1fXM/s1600-h/homeowners-insurance-9.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 287px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364820803501337442" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnOsGMRSq2I/AAAAAAAABEw/1Dg7gZC1fXM/s320/homeowners-insurance-9.jpg" /></a>Brad Tibbitts with the Utah Insurance Department says he’s heard of cases like this but they’re uncommon.<br /><br />“The insurance companies have the right to find out whether or not the house is in good enough shape to be eligible for the premium rates,” says Tibbitts. "I had my insurance cancelled just for the lawn jockeys I had after ninja insurance agents discovered them and the whole in my basement."<br /><br />He says they have to give a client 30 days notice before cancellation. However, homeowners are not required to notify their insurance companies before remodeling or upgrade work but it's not a bad idea. </span></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Would be just as good an idea to tell the insurance comes to leave their clients alone - if they want clients.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></p></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-8693501577667329868?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-35463969694766348062009-07-30T16:49:00.007-05:002009-07-30T17:16:11.012-05:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnIZ3UlAOKI/AAAAAAAABEQ/0tsMaYhym08/s1600-h/870792-jackson-039-s-neverland-a-ghost-town.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 316px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 211px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364378544359094434" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnIZ3UlAOKI/AAAAAAAABEQ/0tsMaYhym08/s320/870792-jackson-039-s-neverland-a-ghost-town.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">On the day Michael Jackson died, his monkey, Bubbles, was behaving erratically, throwing feces at the wall - perhaps a hint of something amiss.<br /><br />Bubbles, a Common Chimpanzee was rescued by Jackson from a cancer research clinic in Texas in 1985. The pair enjoyed a close relationship. Bubbles sat in for the recording sessions of the Bad album and escorted Jackson for the filming of the "Bad" music video.<br /><br />During the Bad World Tour, he and the singer shared a two-bedroom hotel suite in Tokyo.Bubbles initially resided at the Jackson family's Encino home, but moved to Neverland Ranch in 1988, where he slept in a crib at the corner of Jackson's bedroom. Bubbles was allowed to use Jackson's private toilet, although the chimp sometimes wore a diaper.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnIZP7TEjkI/AAAAAAAABEI/So-en_l5Lck/s1600-h/_44738420_jackson_rumours.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 226px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364377867558096450" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnIZP7TEjkI/AAAAAAAABEI/So-en_l5Lck/s320/_44738420_jackson_rumours.jpg" /></a>Bubbles made a finger gesture towards Michael Jackson's doctor, Murray, coming and going from the mansion. The doctor usually arrived about 9 or 9:30 p.m. and would go upstairs to Jackson’s room, and Bubbles said he would not see him again before he left — sometimes late in the evening — but understood he was staying the night.</span> <div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div><br /></div><div>In the morning, Bubbles screached like a banshee as the the doctor came down the steps carrying oxygen tanks. </div><div><br /></div><div></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">At about 1:30 p.m. Bubbles saw security guards who told the people on two legs and other staff to leave the property because "Mr. Jackson was being taken to the hospital."</div></div></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />When he came outside, she said, ambulances were in the courtyard and a crowd had gathered.<br /><br />As for Bubble's future, Jackson encouraged him to learn more sign language and to better potty train himself.<br /><br />Using gestures, Bubbles appeared to say, "He was an inspiration to me - in an evolutionary kinda way."<br /><br />’We were all praying, ‘Help Mr. Jackson be OK.’<br /><br />"Then everyone was very quiet, and I started throwing feces.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnIZ8jimBZI/AAAAAAAABEY/Ox3Sdp6gnt4/s1600-h/1012581624b.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 218px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364378634274866578" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SnIZ8jimBZI/AAAAAAAABEY/Ox3Sdp6gnt4/s320/1012581624b.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3546396969476634806?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-34094236332000339102009-07-27T18:09:00.008-05:002009-07-27T18:39:16.538-05:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sm46YMxlVvI/AAAAAAAABEA/iwhhsIma6Nw/s1600-h/mn-palin27_ph1_0500418930.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 308px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363288393665304306" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sm46YMxlVvI/AAAAAAAABEA/iwhhsIma6Nw/s320/mn-palin27_ph1_0500418930.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Sarah Palin stepped down as Alaska governor on Sunday with a fiery speech reminiscent of her days as running mate to Republican John McCain — who lost the election by a sizeable margin. She frequently revved up crowds while attacking Democrats and the news media - two highly siginificant issues in today's economy.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br /><div><div><div><div>On Sunday, Palin took on old foes in the media, Hollywood and the Lower 48 states. Old foes as in Brad Pitt, the New York Times and the rest of the country. She scolded reporters for making things up, mocked Hollywood stars who have opposed wolf-control programs (uh...yeah....wolf-control programs), and complained that "outside special interests still don't get it. Wolf-control programs don't work!"</div><br /><div>Palin, 45, said she was resigning with more than a year left in her first term to take her political battles to a larger if unspecified stage and avoid an unproductive, lame duck status. Daffy Duck seemed to suit her more.</div><br /><div>"With this decision, now, I will be able to fight even harder for you, for what is right, and for truth, and to race my ideological snow machine even faster across the tundra of America," the former Republican vice presidential candidate said.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sm4492v4ANI/AAAAAAAABDw/G4SR2GR6uIg/s1600-h/sarah_palin_gun.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363286841564332242" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sm4492v4ANI/AAAAAAAABDw/G4SR2GR6uIg/s320/sarah_palin_gun.jpg" /></a>Typical to form, Palin called her 2 1/2-year tenure as governor a success, citing efforts to take on the state's long-dominant oil industry and progress on development of a natural gas pipeline - two competing if not dissonant stances. She also cited ethics reform without even talking about her local scandals or her husband's scandals, or her daughter's scandals.</div><br /><div>Palin leaves office with her political future clouded by ethics probes, mounting legal bills and dwindling popularity. She has been targeted by nearly 20 ethics complaints filed by Alaska residents, averaging one complaint for every 1,000 people in Alaska, for, you see, Alaska is tiny and irrelevant.<br /><br />She did not refer directly to the ethics complaints in her 19-minute speech, but has repeatedly cited the financial and psychological toll of those investigations as a key reason she is stepping down. "I'm gonna tell it where's a body down," she said.<br /><br />Palin said her departure would spare Alaska an unproductive, "politics as usual" lame-duck session, adding that she would always work for Alaska - except now because she'd be a lame duck.</div><div><br />"When I took the oath to serve you, I promised, remember what I promised? To steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like that grizzly guards her cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. And I will keep that vow wherever the road may lead," she said. "I might not be here, and I might not be Governor, and I might not even remember you, but you will always be in my heart like...like...Who needs metaphors?"</div><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sm45xXIP25I/AAAAAAAABD4/6n73eSCk37g/s1600-h/palin+resigns+trig.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 286px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363287726429821842" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sm45xXIP25I/AAAAAAAABD4/6n73eSCk37g/s320/palin+resigns+trig.jpg" /></a><br />Free speech was a theme of her farewell speech at the crowded picnic in Fairbanks, as the outgoing governor scolded "some seemingly hell-bent on tearing down our nation" and warned Americans to "be wary of accepting government largesse."</div><br /><div>"It doesn't come free," she said.</div><br /><div>Palin also took aim at the media, saying her replacement, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, "has a very nice family too, so, hey! newsmen, leave those kids alone!"</div><br /><div>And she told the media: "How about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin' things up?" (Let's pause and ask what she is talking about. OK, that's long enough.)</div><br /><div>Larry Landry, 51, of Fairbanks held up a red, white and blue sign that that read, <strong>"Quitting: the new American value."</strong> The other side read: <strong>"Thanks for the laughs."</strong></div><br /><div></span></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3409423633200033910?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-54553156425910784182009-07-26T12:29:00.006-05:002009-07-26T12:43:17.468-05:00<span style="font-family:times new roman;">A man plotted to kill his adoptive parents with the help of a friend he met on the internet at a site called </span><a href="http://www.killmyparentsextremesexacts.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">www.killmyparentsextremesexacts.com</span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">, a site for “furries” – people who pretend to be animal characters and share sexual role-playing fantasies.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SmyT-36YRDI/AAAAAAAABDQ/5cyul1LOSiU/s1600-h/furries.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362823964661400626" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SmyT-36YRDI/AAAAAAAABDQ/5cyul1LOSiU/s320/furries.jpg" /></a>Apparently, Christopher Monks, 24, wanted Shaun Skarnes to murder his parents Christopher and Elizabeth Monks while they slept and then perform an extreme sex act on him.<br /><br />The two played computer games before Skarnes left, telling Mr. and Mrs. Monks he was getting the train home to Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, and thanking them for having him around.<br /><br />Monks then watched a DVD with his parents while Skarnes waited for hours in a playpark nearby until he received a text from his friend, telling him the couple were asleep in the four-bedroom house they shared with their son. The text message read, “Furry Fury Go Go Go,” meaning the plan was a go.<br /><br />Mr. Monks woke in the early hours of the morning to find Skarnes beside his bed dressed as a wolf, clutching a kitchen knife and a Chop-a-Matic.<br /><br />Mr. Monks, dressed as a grizzly bear, grappled with the intruder and yelled for help from his wife, who was sleeping downstairs dressed as a viper.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SmyVG3zljtI/AAAAAAAABDg/Y3i4zaai6OM/s1600-h/furry_sex.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 206px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362825201583492818" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SmyVG3zljtI/AAAAAAAABDg/Y3i4zaai6OM/s320/furry_sex.jpg" /></a>Mr. Monks told the court: "I had this weird feeling he was trying to kill me. My wife tried to hit him with a stick but it broke. After the stick broke, she talked to him in a calming way, like a cobra might do. His manner changed completely."<br /><br />Mr. Monks was left with bruised arms, a cut palm and bite marks.<br /><br />The younger Monks, who was downstairs during the attack with his zipper stuck on his rabbit outfit, was initially treated as a witness but then later arrested.<br /><br />Mr. Watson said Monks had talked about his sexual desire for his penis to be bitten off in online chatroom discussions.<br /><br />He told the jury: "It may seem extreme that he wanted his penis bitten off, but there is ample evidence from websites he visited and conversations with Shaun Skarnes that this was a deeply held interest and one he found sexually stimulating. While many men fantasize about castration, apparently his fantasy got the best of him. Er…”<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SmyUNlL6QFI/AAAAAAAABDY/yROHyLrjhtY/s1600-h/proud_furry_huge.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362824217332695122" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SmyUNlL6QFI/AAAAAAAABDY/yROHyLrjhtY/s320/proud_furry_huge.gif" /></a>"It seems that Skarnes was to receive no money for killing Mr. and Mrs. Monks but the prospect of biting off Monks' penis. This was the climactic act of the conspiracy – a conspiracy that rivals even Dick Cheney’s wildest dreams who has shown extreme interest in the case."<br /><br />Elizabeth Monks told the court that her adopted son was a quiet boy who never lost his temper and did well at his temping job at an educational training centre, where she also works. “He’s never talked to us about having his penis bitten off,” she said.<br /><br />Her husband added: "We have no doubt that (Christopher) did not intend to go to this extreme. He knows that we would have done anything for him. Well, almost anything."<br /><br />Skarnes, of Sutton Way, Ellesmere Port, and Monks, dressed as Bambi, both deny conspiracy to murder Mr. and Mrs. Monks.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-5455315642591078418?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-58872542562633678232009-07-05T16:06:00.001-05:002009-07-05T16:06:56.722-05:00<a href="http://www.glamour.com/sex-love-life/2009/07/6-non-scary-sex-toys-to-try-tonight">6 Non-Scary Sex Toys to Try Tonight Sex, Love & Life: glamour.com</a><br /><br />Shared via <a href="http://addthis.com">AddThis</a><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-5887254256263367823?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-62150774075989866762009-07-04T19:13:00.002-05:002009-07-05T16:48:39.475-05:00<div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#000000;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sk_wYi3SJ0I/AAAAAAAABDI/Z6iYkEmzGIE/s1600-h/China_Kyling_Fireworks_Display_Shell.gif"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">One of the most enduring myths about Independence Day is that Congress signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.The myth had become so firmly established that, decades after the event and nearing the end of their lives, even the elderly Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had come to believe that they and the other delegates had signed the Declaration on the fourth. Most delegates actually signed the Declaration on August 2, 1776.<br /><br />In a remarkable series of coincidences, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two founding fathers of the United States and the only two men who signed the Declaration of Independence to become president, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, which was the United States' 50th anniversary.<br />President James Monroe died exactly five years later, on July 4, 1831, but he was not a signatory to the Declaration of Independence. </span></a></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sk_wYi3SJ0I/AAAAAAAABDI/Z6iYkEmzGIE/s1600-h/China_Kyling_Fireworks_Display_Shell.gif"><span style="font-family:times new roman;color:#000000;"><br /><br /></div></span><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354762786433017666" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sk_wYi3SJ0I/AAAAAAAABDI/Z6iYkEmzGIE/s320/China_Kyling_Fireworks_Display_Shell.gif" /> <p align="center"></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">I'm sorry, but the Fourth of July has past.<br />Whatever you're doing, stop doing it.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-6215077407598986676?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-15129742996032841912009-06-22T18:32:00.006-05:002009-06-22T19:16:58.909-05:00<div><div><div><div align="center">Across the United States of America, </div><br /><br /><div align="center">where marketing departments work,</div><br /><br /><div align="center">there is a thought that runs through our heads:</div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">What the hell were you thinking?<br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 173px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350300245851639634" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SkAVufusD1I/AAAAAAAABCo/NRshs1reSek/s320/2.bmp" /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SkAU1nQTVEI/AAAAAAAABCg/kzwhzM0z2Nk/s1600-h/1.bmp"></a></p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 282px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350307542460372818" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SkAcXNtxl1I/AAAAAAAABCw/m98VFGW3btI/s320/4.bmp" /> <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 217px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350309958107671730" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SkAej0s-LLI/AAAAAAAABDA/JUBL3ZZP_5Y/s320/1.bmp" /><br /><p align="center">all across the United States of America...</p></div><p align="center"></p><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></p></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1512974299603284191?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-40354096737257034782009-06-17T10:55:00.004-05:002009-06-17T11:21:05.697-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SjkVfaMz_ZI/AAAAAAAABCY/GwVpc6nQvQI/s1600-h/crotala1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 219px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348329661832363410" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SjkVfaMz_ZI/AAAAAAAABCY/GwVpc6nQvQI/s320/crotala1.jpg" /></a> <br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">An Egyptian man, in protest at his parents' choice of bride, cut off his own penis, a police official laughed.<br /><br />The 25-year-old labourer from the village of Sheikh Eissa in southern Egypt was taken to hospital in stable condition, the official said, adding that the man had also mutilated his testicles. "He did a pretty good job," he added, chuckling. "Whack, whack, whack..."<br /><br />The official sat down, sipping a beer.<br /><br />"He was in love with a woman for two years, but his parents rejected her. They told him to marry another woman he didn't want. He took a knife and cut off his penis in his room."<br /><br />The official guzzled the rest of the beer.<br /><br />"I guess he really did not want her."<br /><br />Doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added.<br /><br />"He'll never walk like an Egyptian again," he laughed, throwing the bottle into the street.<br /><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BWP-AsG5DRk&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BWP-AsG5DRk&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br />The penis has not been located to date.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-4035409673725703478?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-66020114880269988012009-06-15T15:40:00.003-05:002009-06-15T16:12:29.042-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sja4YssWkoI/AAAAAAAABCQ/bI18E5W3lAs/s1600-h/poetry_p1_1.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 249px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347664342002602626" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sja4YssWkoI/AAAAAAAABCQ/bI18E5W3lAs/s320/poetry_p1_1.gif" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Read your spam. You might be surprised.<br /><br />Spammers have searched tirelessly to find wasy to escape spam filters. In doing so, spammers have created a genre of poetry. To be sure, you are still directed to links for enrolling in online college programs, swatches, and bestiality.<br /><br />But the beautful poetry that accompanies spam is well worth turning off your spam filter, sitting back, and reading some of the greatest poets today. Here are a three of the better <em>spam poetica</em> I have found within just the last 24 hours.<br /></span><br /><br /><div><center><span style="font-family:times new roman;">++++++++++ </span></center><br /><center><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Virgin Black Lamenting Kissgotoreal</strong><br /><br />a man who...<br /><br />And what's Steve talking about<br />in his paranoid of a potential?<br /><br />She's called that b/c<br />She only likes taking her clothes<br />1/2 off<br /><br />The How<br />good is it to live in California<br />[via] Datamancer<br />created an<br />On the way back<br />from a day long meeting<br />in Charleston<br /><br /><em>-shapiro mauricio</em><br /></span></center><center><span style="font-family:times new roman;">++++++++++ </span></center><center><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Rachel Hunter Showing on Beach</strong><br /><br />Ishmael Leaped To His Feet,<br />And His Followers Struggled<br />To Arm Them-selves<br />With Crude Implements.<br /><br /><em>-Alemtsehay Giuffre</em><br /></center></span><br /><center><span style="font-family:times new roman;">++++++++++ </span></center><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Wow </strong><br /><br />Fat pussyGarden<br /><br />Harvest Lemon topless<br />Young teen girls<br /><br />and this<br />Burned my damn finger<br /><br />the phones<br />Made it back from lunch<br /><br />just in time<br /><br /><em>-bartel bren</em><br /><br />++++++++++<br /><br />Impressed? I was!<br /><br />Do not ignore these literary gems.<br />Read your spam!<br /><br />For more, visit </span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/poetic_spam.htm"><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Spam Poetica</span></em></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-6602011488026998801?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-91022883769199274032009-06-11T12:34:00.004-05:002009-06-11T13:26:08.468-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SjFBykTTQdI/AAAAAAAABCA/2IpKmgh-LTc/s1600-h/hugo-chavez.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 236px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346126569659384274" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SjFBykTTQdI/AAAAAAAABCA/2IpKmgh-LTc/s320/hugo-chavez.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Venezuelan government of U.S.-critic President Hugo Chavez ordered Coca-Cola Co to withdraw its Coke Zero beverage from the South American nation, citing unspecified dangers to health. These unspecified dangers to health have been known to the U.S. for many years. For one, it's chocked full of caffeine, and you can't run an orderly revolution when your people are jacked up on Coke. For another, it makes people sing corny songs. (See below.) <br /> <br />The decision follows a wave of nationalizations and increased scrutiny of businesses in South America's top oil exporter. Health Minister Jesus Mantilla said the zero-calorie Coke Zero should no longer be sold and stocks of the drink removed from store shelves. And the cans crushed under the feet of revolutionaries. <br /> <br />"The product should be withdrawn from circulation to preserve the health of Venezuelans," the minister said in comments reported by the government's news agency. "We suspect Coke is causing our people to behave like capitalists." <br /> <br />Despite Chavez's anti-capitalist policies and rhetoric against consumerism, oil-exporting Venezuela remains one of Latin America's most Americanized cultures, with U.S. fast-food chains, shopping malls and baseball all highly popular. But Coke...now that's different. Artificial sweeteners don't sit well with Venazualians. <br /> <br />Neither Coca-Cola nor the bottler responded to requests for comment on Wednesday. The bottler was plagued with labor problems last year in Venezuela when former workers repeatedly blocked its plants demanding back pay to which Coke responded with a firm, "We're trying to teach the world to sing." <br /> <br />The government this year has seized a rice mill and pasta factory belonging to U.S. food giant Cargill and has threatened action against U.S. drug company Pfizer on the grounds that their medicines are detrimental to the people's health. <br /> <br />Coke has sent Bono and Brad Pitt as envoys to help resolve this matter.</span> <br /> <br /><div><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></P<object height="364" width="445"><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q8H5263jCGg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1" name="movie"></param><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"></param> <br /><p align="center"><embed height="364" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="445" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q8H5263jCGg&amp;hl=" fs="1&amp;rel=" border="1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></p><p></object></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></p></span></div> <br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-9102288376919927403?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-56547116741535066202009-06-11T12:24:00.002-05:002009-06-11T12:30:14.809-05:00<p align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The poem a oeLittle Buddya , which was considered to be singer Bob Dylan's original work, is apparently actually an old country song. Huh! Imagine that? Just another tidbit for the bio.</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d-5JvACzGp8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d-5JvACzGp8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><p align="left"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-5654711674153506620?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-43680049664616778092009-06-07T17:28:00.001-05:002009-06-07T17:32:37.563-05:00<p align="center"> </p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CZ4ZXsyqsWo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CZ4ZXsyqsWo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="left"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Yeetlemaster</span></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-4368004966461677809?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-20833410830877818302009-06-03T18:50:00.005-05:002009-06-03T19:21:08.737-05:00<div><div><div align="center"><em>"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,</em></div><div align="center"><em>Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."</em><br /><br />--William Congreve<br /><br /><br /></div><div align="left"><strong><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SicSFECMJNI/AAAAAAAABBo/5guhl6kfHj8/s1600-h/bba0023l.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 304px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343259361089955026" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SicSFECMJNI/AAAAAAAABBo/5guhl6kfHj8/s320/bba0023l.jpg" /></a>First case in point:</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A Moscow woman, identified only as Kira V., which narrows it down significantly, reacted "inappropriately" when her boyfriend, Alik, rejectied her marriage proposal. Kira, who had been living with Alik D. for two years decided to suggest the idea of marriage to her partner. Alik refused Kira's proposal, stating he would rather go back to his first wife than marry Kira V.<br /><br />So, he began packing and moving out of the apartment they had shared for two years.<br /><br />But Kira V. did not like this at all.<br /><br />When Alik started moving out Kira suggested they have a farewell dinner - to celebrate thoe good times. After a hearty meal and some heavy drinking, Alik fell asleep. What Kire V. did next rivals Misery, tying several firecrackers to Alik's penis and exploded them.<br /><br />This startled Alik. He woke with a bang, so to speak, and, soon after, was rushed to the hospital.<br /><br />Alik is currently in critical condition.<br /><br />Kira faces a minimum 12-year sentence if Alik survives. If he does not survive - which would be the good new - she is free. However, it is unlikely she will ever get another date or boyfriend.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><strong>==================================================</strong><br /><br /></div><div align="left"><strong>Second case in point:</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SicSozS6v7I/AAAAAAAABBw/8PEuElinU14/s1600-h/images5.jpg"></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SicTHYFnstI/AAAAAAAABB4/g7SZuijxWNk/s1600-h/wal-mart+thief.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 241px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343260500344419026" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SicTHYFnstI/AAAAAAAABB4/g7SZuijxWNk/s320/wal-mart+thief.bmp" /></a>Camilla Fields, a shoplifter from Memphis, Tenn., was stopped by a loss prevention officer at a local Wal-Mart. The officer approached Fields as she attempted to leave the store with several unpaid items. These items included razor blades, condoms, and whipped cream - an odd assortment of items.<br /><br />When the officer approached, Fields hurled a car seat, containing her 2-month-old nephew, at the officer and escaped in a blue Ford Escort. The baby hit the concrete face-first, but was immediately helped by paramedics. The baby is fine. The child's mother, Stacey Cleaves was in the bathroom during the entire incident.<br /><br />Fields was captured and faces charges of child abuse and neglect and assault - for throwing a baby...in a car seat...at officers...in a Wal-Mart...<em>where you save money, live better.</em><br /><br /><br /><em>The Mourning, Act 3, Scene 2</em> : read it.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-2083341083087781830?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-64303182380408372172009-05-29T17:56:00.006-05:002009-05-29T18:24:36.306-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SiBtK_ltZtI/AAAAAAAABBg/FuzUpnWJjzg/s1600-h/weekly-world-news-satan-captured-in-iraq.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 250px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341389193697126098" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SiBtK_ltZtI/AAAAAAAABBg/FuzUpnWJjzg/s320/weekly-world-news-satan-captured-in-iraq.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">CHINA - A Chinese man was pushed off a bridge by an angry passer-by after his threat to commit suicide held up traffic for five hours, Chinese media reported on Saturday. Retired soldier Lian Jiansheng (66) broke through a police cordon and reached out to shake the hand of would-be jumper Chen Fuchao before shoving him off the bridge.<br /><br />“I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interests,” Lai was quoted as saying by the China Daily newspaper.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">GERMANY - A would-be gangster shot himself in the crotch when his gun went off half-cocked in his pocket. Lukas Neuhardt (27) had forgotten to put the safety catch on when he stuffed the gun into his trouser pocket to impress pals in Saarbruecken, Germany. He told paramedics that a masked mugger had blasted him in the crotch in a bungled robbery. But police found a hole in his statement when they saw that the gunshot had miraculously left his trousers intact.<br /><br /></span>And finally...<br /><br />NEW ZEALAND - A three-year-old New Zealand girl bought a mechanical digger for £8 000 while her parents were asleep. Pipi Quinlan logged onto the family computer and got on to an online auction site her mum had been using earlier. She then submitted what turned out to be a winning bid of 20 000 New Zealand dollars for a massive Kobelco digger, the Rodney Times reports.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-6430318238040837217?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-34416026842294456822009-05-28T20:09:00.007-05:002009-05-28T20:39:39.564-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sh88Egk7lxI/AAAAAAAABBQ/uTe4vH4VW_k/s1600-h/large_PADRE%2520ALBERTO2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 230px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341053731246675730" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sh88Egk7lxI/AAAAAAAABBQ/uTe4vH4VW_k/s320/large_PADRE%2520ALBERTO2.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A popular Miami priest and media personality known as "Father Oprah" has left the Catholic Church to become an Anglican after he was photographed cavorting on the beach with his girlfriend - an act which goes against the Catholic church's staunch stand against cavorting with women.<br /><br />The Rev. Alberto Cutié was removed from his Miami Beach church after photos of him kissing and embracing a woman appeared in the pages of a Spanish-language magazine earlier this month. And by removed, we mean ousted, thrown out on his can, dispatched.<br /><br />However, determined to spread the word of Gawwd while still cavorting, Cui"tie was received into the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the Anglican Communion, in a ceremony Thursday at Trinity Cathedral where he was greeted as a liberator and masterful media mogul. He may later announce he will marry his girlfriend, which is allowed in that denomination. Strike that, he WILL marry his girlfriend.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sh86_saPeOI/AAAAAAAABBA/EyuPGMvx0PM/s1600-h/padre+alberto+cutie+hurtado+photos+fotos+tv+notas+miami+3.PNG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 236px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 315px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341052549012093154" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sh86_saPeOI/AAAAAAAABBA/EyuPGMvx0PM/s320/padre+alberto+cutie+hurtado+photos+fotos+tv+notas+miami+3.PNG" /></a>But, he must complete other requirements before serving as an Episcopal priest:<br /><br />He must denounce the Catholic church.<br />He must write a 1,000 word essay on cavorting for distribution throughout the Episcopalians.<br />He must thank God for the many in his community who have shown him their love.<br /><br />Said Father Oprah, "I thank God for the many people in our community who have shown me their love and support. Your prayers have truly sustained me at this time of transition in my life. With God's help, I hope to continue priestly ministry and service - and cavort - in my new spiritual home."<br /><br />Anti-celibacy priest' Cutié has previously said he supports the Catholic Church's stand that priests should be celibate and does not want to become the "anti-celibacy priest." He wants to be the deflowered anti-celibacy priest.<br /><br />The Cuban-American priest was born in Puerto Rico and previously hosted shows on the Spanish-language channel Telemundo. He is also a syndicated Spanish-language columnist and author of the book "Real Life, Real Love: 7 Paths to a Strong, Lasting Relationship." The book has sold well among Mormons and Episcopalians, but poorly among Catholics.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sh877vooEzI/AAAAAAAABBI/jKk0PDrJbRw/s1600-h/rev-alberto-cutie-archdiocese-of-miami-photo.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 208px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341053580669883186" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sh877vooEzI/AAAAAAAABBI/jKk0PDrJbRw/s320/rev-alberto-cutie-archdiocese-of-miami-photo.jpg" /></a>He headed the archdiocese's Radio Paz and Radio Peace broadcasts, heard throughout the Americas and in Spain, and earned the nickname "Father Oprah" — as in talk show host Oprah Winfrey — for his relationship advice.<br /><br />Earlier this month, Cutié told CBS he has been romantically involved with the woman in the photos for about two years after being friends for much longer.<br /><br />"I believe that I've fallen in love, and I believe that I've struggled with that, between my love for God, and my love for the Church and my love for service," Cutié said. He made no mention of his love for the woman - which is a really bad move for a guy who wants to cavort with that woman.<br /><br />After the scandal, more than 100 Ditto Heads gathered outside Cutié's former parish in Miami Beach, waving posters and chanting their forgiveness following the scandal.</span> <div><div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Cutié wiped the tears from his eyes, and said, "They just don't know how hard it's been."<br /></span></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3441602684229445682?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-14190931142749379592009-05-25T17:54:00.006-05:002009-05-25T18:11:59.655-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShskAS84dLI/AAAAAAAABAo/xHoeONl9EGA/s1600-h/gorilla.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 279px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339901370683651250" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShskAS84dLI/AAAAAAAABAo/xHoeONl9EGA/s320/gorilla.bmp" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Fond du Lac police are on the lookout for a person dressed in a gorilla suit who tried to steal large styrofoam bananas from displays at three </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Kwik Trip</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> stores this week<br /><br />"Somebody dressed in a gorilla suit entered the store and was apparently trying to take a large banana that they had as part of a banana display," Police Capt. Steve Klein said. "Fortunately, the banans are not edible."<br /><br />The costumed individual tried to steal the banana from the Kwik Trip on Park Street around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday and then moved on to another Kwik Trip store on Johnson Street and attempted the same crime, guarenteeing this would be labeled as The Kwik Trip Crime Spree.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShslPpBNa5I/AAAAAAAABA4/J7ZCZTYefic/s1600-h/bay008360.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 218px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339902733817047954" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShslPpBNa5I/AAAAAAAABA4/J7ZCZTYefic/s320/bay008360.jpg" /></a>"I laughed a little bit. I looked at our camera and watched it, had a few more laughs and I just let everyone know, ‘Hey, we have a gorilla on the loose,’" Kwik Trip manager Marissa Erber said. "I didn't consider the gorilla suited individual might have a weapon under that suit. I just laughed."<br /><br />An employee at her Park Street store tried to unmask the ape and discovered the gorilla was a woman, but police still haven't ruled anyone out. "One woman dressed as a gorilla does not mean we have captured the culprit. There could me hundred, maybe thousands, of these poeple out there - not to mention real gorillas."<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShskwgrYZWI/AAAAAAAABAw/IHR8Y6iX7JI/s1600-h/300_159918.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 277px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339902199002064226" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShskwgrYZWI/AAAAAAAABAw/IHR8Y6iX7JI/s320/300_159918.gif" /></a>"She tried to grab it and leave the store with it, but the third-shift worker kind of convinced her to lay it on the floor and she ran out," Erber said.<br /><br />But police said the banana beckoned again Wednesday night and the gorilla was caught on tape, returning for a third, more fruitful try. "<br /><br />The person walked in with the gorilla suit, yanked the banana down from the display and went out the front door," Klein said.The Park Street store is planning to lay banana bait to try and catch the thief - an idea first brought to their attention from re-runs of Barney Miller.<br /><br />"We're going to hang it up again tomorrow and see what happens," Erber said. "Now, everyone step aside. Nothing to see here."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1419093114274937959?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-79292014244823245802009-05-24T09:51:00.005-05:002009-05-24T10:10:20.539-05:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShlhvCNKXvI/AAAAAAAABAY/tLU1cKWRoKM/s1600-h/westpac.png"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 201px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 201px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339406293898256114" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShlhvCNKXvI/AAAAAAAABAY/tLU1cKWRoKM/s320/westpac.png" /></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">New Zealand police have launched an international search for a couple who fled with millions of dollars after NZ$10 million (US$6.05 million) was accidentally deposited into their bank account.<br />Detective Senior Sergeant David Harvey of New Zealand Police said in a statement on Thursday that an investigation team was working with Westpac Bank on the case. In New Zealand, bank errors in favor of the customer carry a sentence exceeding the death penalty.<br /><br />New Zealand's news agency NZPA said the couple, who ran a gas station in the northern city of Rotorua, had applied to Westpac Bank for a NZ$10,000 overdraft but 1,000 times that amount was paid into their account in error. The employee who made the error is quoted as saying, "Blimey, mate."<br /><br />"The individuals associated with this account are believed to have left New Zealand and police (are) working through Interpol to locate those individuals," Harvey said in a statement. Harvey, of course, from the famed Jimmy Stewart, now a retired actor, works undercover on bank fraud cases.<br /><br />"Westpac Bank has recovered some of the money which had been inappropriately withdrawn and have charged overdraft fees to the fugitives."<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShljE4Vi_WI/AAAAAAAABAg/2RTR3eL8hSE/s1600-h/lenders.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 234px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339407768717819234" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShljE4Vi_WI/AAAAAAAABAg/2RTR3eL8hSE/s320/lenders.gif" /></a>The bank refused to say how much of the money had been recovered or give any other details, nor comment on which country the couple may have fled to - ending his sentence in a preposition which carries 10 - 15 years in New Zealand.<br /><br />But local newspaper The Rotorua Review quoted a source saying that a police liaison officer was sent to China recently to search for the couple. Said a local reporter for the paper, "It's as good a place as any to start."<br />Westpac refused to confirm the amount of money missing as they had not yet counted how much was missing, but in a statement said the bank was "pursuing vigorous criminal and civil action to recover the sum of money stolen." Vigorous banks, as everyone knows, can be very cranky.<br /><br />Banking ombudsman Liz Brown told Rotorua's The Daily Post newspaper that generally it was a criminal offence for people to spend money that was accidentally put into their bank account if they knew it did not belong to them. "Generally speaking," she said, "it's not right. If the money is placed in your account, we generally don't like you to take it out and spend it - generally speaking."<br /><br />In her 15 years as banking ombudsman she said she had been involved in 10 to 20 cases of this kind which were legally referred to as "payment by mistake" - or, as the ordinary citizen might say, "the lottery."<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-7929201424482324580?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-88997997722232186212009-05-22T20:27:00.002-05:002009-05-22T20:31:15.044-05:00<div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShdRRZq4QyI/AAAAAAAABAI/c3-zlBm8tzo/s1600-h/d959de88a5bd704f7fee9d57412c4ff3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338825242661372706" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShdRRZq4QyI/AAAAAAAABAI/c3-zlBm8tzo/s320/d959de88a5bd704f7fee9d57412c4ff3.jpg" /></a> But then it changed my race.<br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-8899799772223218621?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-31551193785663384782009-05-19T19:52:00.002-05:002009-05-19T20:10:26.289-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShNYXOJLF-I/AAAAAAAABAA/Cv2WI477big/s1600-h/r.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 192px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 131px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337707139320977378" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ShNYXOJLF-I/AAAAAAAABAA/Cv2WI477big/s320/r.jpg" /></a> <div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">German police are searching for a motorist who beat a 24-year-old woman selling white asparagus because he was upset about her asking price for the coveted springtime vegetable. He was last seen with a Caesar Salad he has stolen from his neighbor.<br /><br />The prices for white asparagus, sometimes called "edible ivory" in Germany, fluctuate wildly during the short springtime season, peaking early in the season at 10 euros (or about ten bucks) per kilo. Most asparagus goes for 1 to 5 euros.<br /><br />The man screamed at the woman that her asparagus was overpriced. "Sie sind ein capatilist Schwein. Keirkagaard würde über Sie beschämt sein." He then punched her in the face and threatened to unleash his attack dog at her - a toy German spitz. "Sie sind ein Irres," she shouting as she fled to call the police.<br /><br />"Der Kraftfahrer sagte, dass ihre Preise total über der Oberseite waren," said Dietmar Keck, police spokesman in the Havelland district west of Berlin, without saying how much she was asking.<br /><br />Prices for asparagus now range from 1 to 5 euros per kilo, he said. Some 55,000 tons valued at 175 million euros are harvested annually. "Der Kraftfahrer sagte, dass ihre Preise total über der Oberseite waren," he said. "Aber der Spitz war Ausweg der Linie."<br /><br />Police are holding the man for questioning in hopes of finding the best price of white asparagus.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Das YeetleMaster</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3155119378566338478?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-52150008375857701342009-05-16T01:58:00.002-05:002009-05-16T02:03:58.226-05:00<p align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sg5kc6cizrI/AAAAAAAAA_4/KUN2WfP8tX8/s1600-h/300x250_teeth_1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336313056368709298" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sg5kc6cizrI/AAAAAAAAA_4/KUN2WfP8tX8/s320/300x250_teeth_1.jpg" /></a></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center">And now<br />my gums and lips are<br />ruby red!</p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><br /><br /><br /></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p align="center"><br /><br /></p><p align="center"></p><p align="left"><br /><br /><br /></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"></p><p align="left"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-5215000837585770134?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-19569484456004478342009-05-15T20:59:00.006-05:002009-05-15T21:20:01.854-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sg4h3e0bGQI/AAAAAAAAA_o/8rpmaav-7sU/s1600-h/070122_pfizer_hmed1p_hmedium.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 186px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336239845530081538" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sg4h3e0bGQI/AAAAAAAAA_o/8rpmaav-7sU/s320/070122_pfizer_hmed1p_hmedium.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Losing a job can be a sickeningly stressful experience. It can make you feel down, cause stress that effects normal functioning. It's just not good.<br /><br />But wait! You can keep taking your medicine.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Pfizer</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">, one of the world's largest biopharmaceutical companies, launched a program Thursday providing medications free of charge to unemployed, uninsured Americans for up to a year. Pfizer?<br /><br />The initiative, called the Medicines Assistance for Those who Are In Need (MAINTAIN) program - which took the entire marketing department to brand, enables Americans who have lost their jobs and health insurance this year to keep taking 70 of Pfizer's most common brand-name medications, including cholesterol-drug Lipitor, arthritis medication Celebrex and impotence treatment Viagra. This will help those with high cholestoral, arthirtis, and penile dysfunction - the most common ailments for which treatment is sought.<br /><br />"This is about understanding the environment and the economy. We are in unprecedented times and people need help," said Pfizer spokesman Ray Kerins as he pawed at his pants with his arthritic hand.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sg4hoibMiNI/AAAAAAAAA_g/pdOEfgTkYjM/s1600-h/22_pfizer_lg.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 203px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336239588799973586" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sg4hoibMiNI/AAAAAAAAA_g/pdOEfgTkYjM/s320/22_pfizer_lg.jpg" /></a>"We all know people who have been laid off recently and have lost their health insurance, making it difficult for them to pay for health care," said Dr. Jorge Puente, Pfizer's regional president of worldwide pharmaceuticals in a statement. "We thought there must be some way we could help recently unemployed people who are taking Pfizer medicines to continue treatment during these challenging economic times. Hell, even we, a multibillion conglomerate have laid off as many as 800 researchers in a tacit admission that our laboratories have failed to live up to the tens of billions of dollars it has poured into them in recent years."<br /><br />Puente helped conceive of the program during an employee training meeting during which talk drifted to the recession, says Kerins. Employees began sharing stories of friends and relatives who were unemployed and could no longer afford their medicine, and Puente suggested, to his outstoundment, what eventually became the MAINTAIN program.<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sg4iXOgK0OI/AAAAAAAAA_w/bcHzdVoXXjc/s1600-h/watermark.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 226px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336240390905975010" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sg4iXOgK0OI/AAAAAAAAA_w/bcHzdVoXXjc/s320/watermark.jpg" /></a><br />To be eligible, Pfizer customers must:<br /><br />Have lost their job since Jan. 1, 2009.<br /><br />Have been taking a Pfizer medication for at least three months prior to becoming unemployed and enrolling in the program.<br /><br />Lack prescription drug coverage.<br /><br />Attest to financial hardship.<br /><br />Demonstrate a limp penis.<br /><br />Kerins would not disclose how many Pfizer customers the company believes will take advantage of the program or what the cost may be to Pfizer throughout the year, nor how much they save in marketing.<br /><br />"We have done our due diligence," said Kerins. "The reality is it's not about that. This is about helping people and we want people to take advantage of this program ... if you need medication, you should not be without it."<br /><br />Hey, Pfizer, my penis is flailing!<br /><br />To learn more about the MAINTAIN program call 1-866-706-2400 or visit </span><a href="http://www.pfizerhelpfulanswers.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">www.PfizerHelpfulAnswers.com</span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">.<br /><br />It could save your marriage.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1956948445600447834?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-83205816818574193252009-05-08T22:20:00.007-05:002009-05-10T00:12:22.946-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SgT5vhl7FGI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/y-SrzIf0QNk/s1600-h/Psycho_291.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333662453580108898" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SgT5vhl7FGI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/y-SrzIf0QNk/s320/Psycho_291.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A Florida woman has been indicted for keeping her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.<br /><br />Penelope Sharon Jordan of Sebastian, Florida, was charged by a federal grand jury last week with Social Security fraud and theft, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami said. No charges for keeping a rotting corpse in the bedroom <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">were</span> leveled.<br /><br />Police found the decaying body of her mother, Timmie Jordan, on a bed in a spare bedroom at the mother's home in late March, when they were called to investigate a report of nuisance cats. Dead cats, it turns out. Penelope Jordan told police her mother had died in 2003, so what does she have to do with this?<br /><br />The indictment alleged Jordan concealed her mother's death in order to receive both her U.S. Social Security benefits and her military survivor's benefit. Her <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">attorney</span> stated the fact that she did not conceal the body left her blameless and proved that government entitlement programs were highly inefficient.<br /><br />Jordan collected $61,415 from Social Security and $176,461 from the military pension during the six years, prosecutors said - which is equivalent to less than $40,000 per year. A pittance for the amount of work she did keeping her moth in the house.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SgT5a6KJkfI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/9Lq48-ANGGo/s1600-h/ppic6.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 207px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333662099397251570" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SgT5a6KJkfI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/9Lq48-ANGGo/s320/ppic6.jpg" /></a>She could face up to 15 years in prison.<br /><br />Local media reported that the 61-year-old woman told police her mother died of old age and she kept the remains because she couldn't afford burial expenses. Rather, she chose to let her rot slowly until she could disposed of the remains through <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">conventional</span> waste management.<br /><br />An autopsy found no signs of foul play. An autopsy of Ms. Jordan would have revealed something much different.<br /><br />According to a local paper, police found many cats on Jordan's property but she denied they were hers. She stated the cats belonged to her mother.<br /><br />(Reporting by Jim <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Loney</span>, editing by Jane Sutton and Sandra <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Maler</span>, guest writer / <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">editor The</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">YeetleMaster</span>.)<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">YeetleMaster</span></span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-8320581681857419325?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-1895502469718197992009-05-05T20:28:00.007-05:002009-05-05T20:43:44.517-05:00<strong>BEFORE</strong><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SgDqVkV1jcI/AAAAAAAAA_A/FemLHz4dc_g/s1600-h/c4110949-454d-49d9-ade7-dfb7e3721990_standard.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 232px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 298px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332519615060086210" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SgDqVkV1jcI/AAAAAAAAA_A/FemLHz4dc_g/s320/c4110949-454d-49d9-ade7-dfb7e3721990_standard.jpg" /></a>Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman. Sound like fiction?</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Connie Culp stepped forward Tuesday to show off the results of the nation’s first face transplant, and her new look was a far cry from the puckered, noseless sight that made children run away in horror. Instead, children gawk at the dead woman's face that lies over Connie's old face.<br /><br />Culp’s expressions are still a bit wooden (as in "you might feel a little pressure), but she can talk, smile, smell and taste her food again. Her speech is at times a little tough to understand - some might say impaired. Her face is bloated and squarish, and her skin droops in big folds that doctors plan to pare away as her circulation improves and her nerves grow, animating her new muscles. Yes, the re-animator has arrived.<br /></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">But Culp had nothing but praise for those who made her new face possible.<br /><br />“I guess I’m the one you came to see today,” the 46-year-old Ohio woman said at a news conference at the Cleveland Clinic, where the groundbreaking operation was performed. But “I think it’s more important that you focus on the donor family that made it so I could have this person’s face. It's a bit strange and will cause confusion among surviving family members, but this is my face now.”<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Culp said she wants to help foster acceptance of those who have suffered burns and other disfiguring injuries by demonstrating lack of self-acceptance.<br /><br />“When somebody has a disfigurement and don’t look as pretty as you do, don’t judge them, because you never know what happened to them,” she said. “Don’t judge people who don’t look the same as you do. Because you never know. One day it might be all taken away. It's inside a person that counts, except for the face. That's where we must draw the line.”<br /><br /><strong>AFTER</strong> <strong>AND STILL</strong> <strong>AFTER</strong><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SgDqfroGBsI/AAAAAAAAA_I/_5Ux9SqrKzs/s1600-h/fcabed14-1503-4f4b-bd68-b6c09db04a44_h2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 223px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332519788814403266" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SgDqfroGBsI/AAAAAAAAA_I/_5Ux9SqrKzs/s320/fcabed14-1503-4f4b-bd68-b6c09db04a44_h2.jpg" /></a>Once while shopping, she heard a little kid say, "You said there were no real monsters, mommy, and there’s one right there." Culp stopped and said, “I’m not a monster. I’m a person who was shot,” and pulled out her driver’s license to show the child what she used to look like - then pulled him close to her face and whispered, "Feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?"<br /><br />Culp left the hospital Feb. 5 and has returned for periodic follow-up care. She has suffered only one mild rejection episode that was controlled with a single dose of steroid medicines. She must take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of her life, but her dosage has been greatly reduced and she needs only a few pills a day.<br /><br />In your face!</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster </span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-189550246971819799?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-16574791525933714432009-05-02T01:44:00.005-05:002009-05-02T02:08:09.770-05:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfvxJhBu_qI/AAAAAAAAA-4/ub4NpxZnb3A/s1600-h/glowingdog.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 279px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331119729709874850" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfvxJhBu_qI/AAAAAAAAA-4/ub4NpxZnb3A/s320/glowingdog.jpg" /></a> <br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Universally known for their continued contributions to modern medicine, South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases that cause people to glow.</span><br /><br /><div><div><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The four dogs, all named "Ruppy" — a combination of the words "ruby" and "puppy" — look like typical beagles by daylight.<br /><br />But they glow red under ultraviolet light, and the dogs' nails and abdomens, which have thin skins, look red even to the naked eye. This is an enormous breakthrough with massive implications.</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Seoul National University professor Lee Byeong-chun, head of the research team, called them the "world's first transgenic dogs" carrying fluorescent genes, an achievement that goes beyond just the glowing novelty or the color red.<br /><br />"What's significant in this work is not the dogs expressing red colors but that we planted genes into them," Lee said. "This is an achievement we hope will result in a Nobel prize or, at least, a blue ribbon.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfvwmrErrxI/AAAAAAAAA-w/ozIOMBkZF7E/s1600-h/090428-dog-glow-hlarg-7p_rp350x350.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 122px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331119131111173906" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfvwmrErrxI/AAAAAAAAA-w/ozIOMBkZF7E/s320/090428-dog-glow-hlarg-7p_rp350x350.jpg" /></a>But wait! Didn't scientists in the U.S., Japan and Europe previously clone fluorescent mice and pigs? Yes, but this would be the first time dogs with modified genes have been cloned successfully, Lee said, glowingly.<br /><br />He said his team took skin cells from a beagle, inserted fluorescent genes into them and put them into eggs before implanted them into the womb of a surrogate mother, a local mixed breed named George Cloney.<br /><br />Six female beagles were born in December 2007 through a cloning with a gene that produces a red fluorescent protein that make them glow, he said. Two died, but the four others survived.<br /><br />The glowing dogs show it is possible to successfully insert genes with a specific trait, which could lead to implanting other, non-fluorescent genes that could help treat specific diseases, Lee said. "Invisibility is not out of the question," he stated with a straight face.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfvwWbo3MrI/AAAAAAAAA-o/Mj86YOlL7wo/s1600-h/98b573bf-8f78-44de-afab-36e54456db38_rp350x350.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 219px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331118852090049202" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfvwWbo3MrI/AAAAAAAAA-o/Mj86YOlL7wo/s320/98b573bf-8f78-44de-afab-36e54456db38_rp350x350.jpg" /></a>A South Korean scientist who created glowing cats in 2007 based on a similar cloning technique said that Lee's puppies are genuine clones, saying he had seen them and had read about them in the journal. He even heard some talk of them at the university.<br /><br />"We can appraise this is a step forward" toward finding cures for human diseases, said veterinary professor Kong Il-keun at South Korea's Gyeongsang National University. "What is important now is on what specific diseases (Lee's team) will focus on. Might it be acne? Possibly."<br /><br />Lee was a key aide to disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk (pronounced "Wang! You suck!), whose breakthroughs on stem cell research were found to have been made using faked data, thereby failing to meet the definition of a breakthrough.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><iframe height="339" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30476452#30476452" frameborder="0" width="425" scrolling="no"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-TOP: 5px; WIDTH: 425px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; COLOR: #999; FONT-SIZE: 11px">Visit msnbc.com for <a style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #999 1px dotted; HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: #5799db !important; FONT-WEIGHT: normal !important; TEXT-DECORATION: none !important" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/">Breaking News</a>, <a style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #999 1px dotted; HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: #5799db !important; FONT-WEIGHT: normal !important; TEXT-DECORATION: none !important" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507">World News</a>, and <a style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #999 1px dotted; HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: #5799db !important; FONT-WEIGHT: normal !important; TEXT-DECORATION: none !important" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072">News about the Economy</a></p></div></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span> </div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1657479152593371443?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-21188085358975257702009-04-30T18:50:00.006-05:002009-04-30T19:22:20.776-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sfo8TrCUT9I/AAAAAAAAA-g/49hEyILgHMY/s1600-h/republican+leaders.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 206px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330639417614028754" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sfo8TrCUT9I/AAAAAAAAA-g/49hEyILgHMY/s320/republican+leaders.bmp" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Republican leaders announced Thursday—after leaking it before President Obama's press conference Wednesday—the creation of a new group called the National Council for a New America - not to be confused with the Project for a New American Century (<a href="http://www.newamericancentury.org/">PNAC</a>).<br /><br />It's easier to say what the NCNA isn't than what it is. It's not a nonprofit—or a for-profit. Maybe it's non-for profit?<br /><br />But, it's not a fundraising organization.<br /><br />It's not a partisan apparatus or subwing of the RNC.<br /><br />It's not a social gathering or a pig roast.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sfo7Z8hwfsI/AAAAAAAAA-A/os_d8vHIYwI/s1600-h/17_limbaugh_lgl.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 227px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330638425876889282" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sfo7Z8hwfsI/AAAAAAAAA-A/os_d8vHIYwI/s320/17_limbaugh_lgl.jpg" /></a>Maybe it's just a bunch of guys hanging out together playing darts.<br /><br />It is, in the words of an NCNA spokesman, "a caucus seeking to find the solutions that will improve the lives of every American." All along, we, the public, thought that was Congress. We must have been wrong.<br /><br /><br />OK. So what does the NCNA do? Over the next few months, the NCNA will hold a series of town-hall meetings around the country in order to "engage people in a discussion" and drum up new conservative policy ideas. New ones. Not the old ones. New Republican ideas, like...then there's...oh, and we can't forget.....<br /><br />The point, according to one of its founders, is to "take the discussion outside of Washington, to make sure ideas shaping policy here in Washington is coming from outside and from the American people." </span><div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div><br /></div><div>Sounds great. Like it was stolen from John McCain's playback during his presidential run. That went well.<br /><br />So anyone can join? Yes! The NCNA is officially nonpartisan. Its introductory letter uses the word "Republican" only twice—once to emphasize that "this is not a Republican-only forum." The other to say it is a Republican idea.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sfo7iFl-WrI/AAAAAAAAA-I/VisFChInU30/s1600-h/John%2520McCain.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 251px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330638565749447346" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sfo7iFl-WrI/AAAAAAAAA-I/VisFChInU30/s320/John%2520McCain.jpg" /></a>So who's in charge of this nonpartisan organization?<br /><br />Well, Republican House Minority Whip Eric Cantor is heading it up.<br /><br />Then there's House Minority Leader John Boehner, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Jeb Bush, Bobby Jindal, Mike Pence, Pete Sessions, Roy Blunt, Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, Lamar Alexander, John Cornyn, and John Thune.<br /><br />They've also reached out to Sarah Palin, but no word yet on whether she'll be participating. Normally, she doesn't carry a cell phone on her snow machine.</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div><br /></div><div>If you're wondering where the "nonpartisan" part comes in, you'll have to wait. The NCNA has not gotten around to inviting any Democrats yet. (Or to putting up a Web site, for that matter.) And no Democrats have thus far reported an interest in joining.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dubious branding aside, the NCNA may be just what the Republican Party needs - the style of President Obama mixed with the confusion of the Republican party.<br /><br />We expect very little to come from this latest effort by Republican leaders to "find themselves." </div></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-2118808535897525770?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-11281885329315449772009-04-29T19:32:00.002-05:002009-04-29T19:47:09.648-05:00<div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfjzzN0RpII/AAAAAAAAA9w/PE9cLiZz0ms/s1600-h/amd_coloring_book.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 277px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330278220200780930" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfjzzN0RpII/AAAAAAAAA9w/PE9cLiZz0ms/s320/amd_coloring_book.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The government agency that bungled the Hurrican Karina response has yanked a kiddie coloring book from its site called "A Scary Thing Happened" that depicts the burning twin towers on the cover - with a plane heading straight for one of them.</span><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">On page 12, the stomach-churning 9/11 image is repeated not once but three times, complete with flames - for kids to color.<br /><br />"You might hear about it again and again on the T.V. or radio or read about it in the newspaper," it says on the page.<br /><br />The Federal Emergency Management Association pulled the downloadable coloring book from its site last week — before a White House genius gave New York a 9/11 flashback by buzzing the city with one of the presidential planes and an F-16 jet.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sfj0zUU6GXI/AAAAAAAAA94/t8jvm_u0jEs/s1600-h/w_color9.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 262px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330279321459890546" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sfj0zUU6GXI/AAAAAAAAA94/t8jvm_u0jEs/s320/w_color9.gif" /></a>"FEMA is currently reviewing all web content designed and posted by the previous administration," said FEMA spokesman Clark Stevens.<br /><br />Meanwhile, New Yorkers who were shown the book saw just one color - red."I feel disrespected," said Jason Owens, 20, of Manhattan, who was with his 3-year-old son. "I feel like I should punch the person who did this in the face. Or maybe burn his twin towers!"</span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">See the coloring book here:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://wonkette.com/408182/fema-censors-weird-911-coloring-book-for-kids"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">FEMA Censors Weird 9/11 Coloring Book, For Kids!</span></a><br /><br /><strong>Heckuva job!</strong></div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1128188532931544977?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-62828939548000825162009-04-26T19:04:00.003-05:002009-04-26T19:17:35.574-05:00<p align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ykkFJZnddG4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ykkFJZnddG4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Scheduled Public Appearances:</strong> </span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfT4oR3asCI/AAAAAAAAA9o/dltb-g39yhE/s1600-h/8060957v2147483647_350x350_Front_Color-White.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329157629960433698" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SfT4oR3asCI/AAAAAAAAA9o/dltb-g39yhE/s320/8060957v2147483647_350x350_Front_Color-White.jpg" /></a>Dade City, Fla., February (Jesus in a stain on the door of a car-dealer sales manager's office). </span><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Huntsville, Ala., February (Jesus on a rock on the side of Keel Mountain Road). </span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Near Helena, Mont., January (Mary on a translucent agate rock along the Yellowstone River). </span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Sydney, Australia, January (Mary and Jesus in a lava lamp).* </span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Hamilton, New Zealand, December (Jesus on a pita bread). </span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Melton, England, November (Jesus on a chocolate cookie). </span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Fort Pierce, Fla., December (Mary in the MRI brain scan of a cancer patient).</span><br /></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;"><div align="right"><br /><br />*Indicates the show is sold out.</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;"><div align="left"><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>Get your tickets now.</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-6282893954800082516?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-33870030419640850522009-04-21T19:56:00.008-05:002009-04-21T20:28:25.101-05:00<div><div><div><div><div align="center"><strong>People, Places, Things, and Concepts<br /></strong></div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Drunk driving lesson</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Se5ukg3XSOI/AAAAAAAAA9A/GeRzGNsHxjc/s1600-h/drunk+driver.bmp"></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Se5vD63b2pI/AAAAAAAAA9I/PdwDX2WZZHo/s1600-h/drunk+driver.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 190px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 190px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327317522357934738" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Se5vD63b2pI/AAAAAAAAA9I/PdwDX2WZZHo/s320/drunk+driver.bmp" /></a>A Massachusetts driving instructor was intoxicated while giving a driving lesson. Daniel Winsky received eighteen months of probation from the incident, which occurred in December of 2007. Winsky also lost his license for one year. Winsky was not operating the vehicle, but had passenger side brakes in the driver instruction car. Prosecutors from the case also say that Winsky moved the steering wheel during the lesson.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">He was charged with riding while intoxicated.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>Woman survives head shot</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Se5wAhI8BNI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/04MVlB3IWzc/s1600-h/tea.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 144px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327318563424044242" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Se5wAhI8BNI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/04MVlB3IWzc/s320/tea.jpg" /></a>When officers arrived at the residence of Tammy Sexton, they were greeted by an unusual sight. Sexton had been shot in the head by her husband. The bullet had entered her forehead and exited out the back of her head. However, Sexton did not seem to know what had happened and was making tea when officers arrived on the scene - "teabagging" as Republicans call it. She offered the police officers a beverage. The police had seen enough. Sexton was rushed to the hospital and doctors expect a full recovery.<br /></span><br /><strong>Tree splits house<br /></strong><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Se5xjoPcxEI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Z7gVR_Ln9bU/s1600-h/IMG_2549.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 145px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 96px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327320266137453634" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Se5xjoPcxEI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Z7gVR_Ln9bU/s320/IMG_2549.JPG" /></a>John Kiefer was investigating a fallen tree in his backyard when another tree fell into his living room. The second tree was a fifty foot red oak and was the hit tree for the first tree. The red oak tree split the house in two - or, in half, depending on your logic. Kiefer had been sitting on the sofa just minutes before the red oak tree crashed into his Georgia home. The only items destroyed in the house were collectibles, a piano, and his Sarah Palin buttons. Luckily, Kiefer's three dogs were staying at a kennel. Police are questioning the dogs for possible clues.<br /></span><br /><strong>Police welcome peacock</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Se5yjdWDKVI/AAAAAAAAA9g/gkjwd-ABUOs/s1600-h/monsoon.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 96px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 137px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327321362723973458" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Se5yjdWDKVI/AAAAAAAAA9g/gkjwd-ABUOs/s320/monsoon.jpg" /></a>Oregon police have welcomed a new member, a female Indian peacock, named Cynthia. (Actually, it it's a femaile, it's a peahen, but these are Oregon police.) Cynthia was found, by sheriff's deputies, on a property next to the office. At first, the deputies asked different animal shelter organizations to care for Cynthia. None of the organizations could help, for they did not have the facilities for a peahen, though Cynthia spends most of her day eating bugs and drinking water. This is all while watching over the Sheriff's Department. Cynthia's owners have not come forward to claim her for fear that PETA will find out and all hell will break loose.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3387003041964085052?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-19826170154730832642009-04-19T20:06:00.006-05:002009-04-19T20:36:06.299-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SevMWC0WEHI/AAAAAAAAA84/B0Wtzj74QsE/s1600-h/shoe.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 247px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326575663381352562" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SevMWC0WEHI/AAAAAAAAA84/B0Wtzj74QsE/s320/shoe.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">India's politicians contesting in the general election, fearful of shoes hurled at them by disgruntled voters, have asked for more security and are erecting metal nets at rallies to block the hurled shoes. These "shoe-icide" bombers express their displeasure with the politicians in a manner that is considered an insult in India.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> In Bangladesh, shoe throwing is considered a compliment.<br /><br /><div><p>Lal Krishna Advani, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate was the latest politician to be at the receiving end Thursday, as an angry party worker threw a slipper at him during an election meeting in a central state. The slipper was embroidered with simple styling and perfectly accented. Moreover, it was handcrafted by leather artisans of Punjab in India designed for informal and casual and comfort wear for evenings.</p><p>The slipper missed Advani as it is well known that Indians could not hit the broadside of a barn while shoe hurling. However, the incident was enough for authorities to step up security for all leaders across the country.<br /><br />ALL leaders! Lots of shoes.</p><p>Indian politicians have asked party workers to remove shoes at meetings and alerted police and their security staff to keep a tab on people, including journalists in news conferences, for anyone bending down or reaching toward their feet. Party workers are now identified as the "shoeless."</p><p>"The security is extremely tight for politicians, and we are keeping a close watch on everyone," a Delhi Police spokesman said. "We do not know if these attackers will turn to more lethal weapons like shirts or trousers, but we will be ready for any clothing hurled at our leaders."</p><p><strong>Recent cases of shoe hurling</strong></p><ul><li>Last week, a Sikh journalist hurled a shoe at India's home minister during a news conference after getting angry with the minister's reply to a question about 1984 riots in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed. The shoes was bedazzling! The design of these beautifully crafted shoes were synchronous with the latest forms and fashions in men's fashion shoes. The use of colorful beads made them items to be cherished for years.<br /></li><li>Three days later, a retired school teacher threw a shoe at popular Congress lawmaker Naveen Jindal, during an election rally in Haryana state. Styled for comfort and classy wear the highly colorful shoes suit the fashion taste of every individual. The intricate design and the use of best quality raw materials for decorating them make them a must item for everyone.</li></ul><p>Authorities in Gujarat state built an iron safety net to keep flying shoes away, as Narendra Modi, the chief minister of the BJP-ruled state began his speech at a rally this week.</p><p>"These are acts of insanity, there is no scope for such acts in India's political system," Rajiv Pratap Rudy, the BJP's candidate in Bihar state where election was held Thursday said.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E-T5MtBE118&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E-T5MtBE118&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Activists supporting the shoe-hurlers are hoping to amend India's constitution to include shoe hurling under freedom of speech.</p><p>"Flying footwear are now the weapons of mass distraction," some from India was overheard to say.</p><p></p><p></span></p></div><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1982617015473083264?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-48290694940662179122009-04-17T18:25:00.012-05:002009-04-19T20:04:13.959-05:00<div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">"Oh my God, that’s him!”</span> </span></div><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SekVH72zJFI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/6Wfmki89-f4/s1600-h/Puerto_Rican_parrot_401292s.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 165px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 165px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325811260413125714" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SekVH72zJFI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/6Wfmki89-f4/s320/Puerto_Rican_parrot_401292s.jpg" /></a>Thus spoke Angela Colicheski as the young subject of her custody battle with Sarita Lytell was brought into court. Both women knew that only one of them would leave the Florida court with the youngster each had, at different times, nurtured and doted on, fed, sheltered, loved. The judge looked on gravely as he realised that in deciding which desperate woman should win custody, he would have to exercise the wisdom of Solomon - or, at least, that of Judge Lance Ito.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The question? Which of these devoted parents would leave with a 13-year old African Grey parrot. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">For ten years, Colicheski had loved and cared for the parrot she called Tequila - after her favorite drink. Then, three years ago, Tequila flew away over her garden fence, anxious to start of live of his own.<br /><br />Colicheski ran frantically all over the district but could not find him - similar to Geppetto looking for his lost Pinochhio.<br /><br />She was distraught, heart-broken. Three long years passed.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SekV_T2MZkI/AAAAAAAAA8g/kWIOOSjQdOM/s1600-h/parrot_1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325812211745842754" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SekV_T2MZkI/AAAAAAAAA8g/kWIOOSjQdOM/s320/parrot_1.jpg" /></a>Then, as if transported into a Disney movie, Colicheski, sitting in a local Dunkin Donuts, chatting to Lytell, whom she had just met, started to talk about parrots - a subject they had in common. (And did they, as they were soon to find out.) </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Lytell said she had one called Lucky that she had found three years earlier. It quickly became clear that he was the one Colicheski had lost. In a fit of defiance, Lytell refused to hand him over, having formed a bonded (bondaged?)relationship with the bird.<br /><br />Hence, to court to determine the fate of Lucky/Tequilla.<br /><br />The judge heard a lawyer for Lytell argue that as she had cared for the bird for three years it had become hers. Colicheski’s lawyer, however, argued that the parrot was a chattel (a piece of legal property) and must be returned. The judge agreed, saying that the parrot was treated, under state law, as personal property. “If the plaintiff had lost her automobile somehow along the way,” he asked rhetorically, “would it be any less her property when she found it?”<br /><br />Lytell's lawyer argued vigorously, "Cars don't fly!<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SekWhDeqCFI/AAAAAAAAA8o/EKl3_Jwx5Ac/s1600-h/wild-parrot-safari2-722903.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325812791467706450" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SekWhDeqCFI/AAAAAAAAA8o/EKl3_Jwx5Ac/s320/wild-parrot-safari2-722903.jpg" /></a>Nevertheless, not swayed by the "cars don't fly" ploy, the judge ruled that Tequila/Lucky was the property of Colicheski as she was his original owner and carer for ten years.<br /><br />Then, in a dramatic courtroom moment, Tequila took the stand. He was brought into court. Upon seeing his previous owner he emitted what witnesses said was "a loud call of recognition" that went something like "Squaaaaaaawwwwwk! Squaaaaaaaawwwwwkkkkk!"<br /><br />The judge immediately ruled the parrot be returned to its rightful owner and that each of the bird's caretakers be submitted to strict psychological testing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-4829069494066217912?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-34226928206047038342009-04-15T00:02:00.005-05:002009-04-19T20:04:35.433-05:00<span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SeVtg4wzJdI/AAAAAAAAA8I/HrgyQalVRX0/s1600-h/fj8nj25m.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324782546195785170" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SeVtg4wzJdI/AAAAAAAAA8I/HrgyQalVRX0/s320/fj8nj25m.jpg" /></a>Impeached former Governor Blagojevich has found still another outlet for his psychotic behavior. The NBC show, called "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!," will premier June 1 of this year. The plot would include leaving a group of D-list celebrities in the middle of the jungle and let the plot unfold, on prime time. The show reportedly could pay the impeached former Illinois governor, who is facing federal corruption charges, as much as $80,000 an episode.<br /><br />NBC confirmed it wants Blagojevich on the show, saying in a statement: "Rod Blagojevich will be a participant on the show pending the court's approval. We think he has demonstrated all the qualities of a D-list celebrity, and certainly, as former Illinois governor, understands the jungle."<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">According to WMAQ, Blagojevich asked a federal judge Tuesday to allow him to travel if his bond was increased. The impeached governor reportedly is broke and believes the show could help finance his legal defense - and increase his visibility across the country as he works to build a coalition of fan support for his crimes as governor.<br /><br />NBC Entertainment said the live show show would be based on the hit U.K. reality show of the same name. It described the show as "the ultimate 'Swiss Family Robinson' as 10 celebrities are dropped into the heart of the jungle to face fun and comedic challenges designed to test their survival skills."<br /><br />NBC said participants would be playing to win money for their favorite charities, with the last remaining star winning the largest share of the donation. Blagojevich's favorite charity is Blagojevich, so he will be highly motivated to win.<br /><br />The show will air throughout the month of June, after which Blagojevich will go to trial. 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(Monday?) </span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Males throw water at females and spank them with handmade whips made of willow and decorated with ribbons at the end. (See above.)<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The spanking is symbolic and, according to legend, females should be spanked in order to keep their health and beauty during the next year - a common fact among Eastern European countries. We all recall Jesus' words: "Spare the rod, spoil the woman."</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div align="left"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sd_qlQJKy_I/AAAAAAAAA7g/TTP_M_v37Wo/s1600-h/easter-traditions-image-7-585399180.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 233px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323231210284698610" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sd_qlQJKy_I/AAAAAAAAA7g/TTP_M_v37Wo/s320/easter-traditions-image-7-585399180.jpg" /></a></div>Moving on to Finland where children dress up and go begging in the streets with sooty faces, carrying broomsticks. On Halloween children hunt for colored eggs.<br /></span><br /><br /></span><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In some parts of Western Finland they even burn bonfires on Easter Sunday. This tradition takes place to ward off witches flying around between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. And it seems to be working as no witches have flown around during that time of the year since the 12th century.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div align="left"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sd_rP0Y-hqI/AAAAAAAAA7o/dYn_doIVvpE/s1600-h/easter-traditions-image-1-204703320.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 228px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323231941569185442" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sd_rP0Y-hqI/AAAAAAAAA7o/dYn_doIVvpE/s320/easter-traditions-image-1-204703320.jpg" /></a></div>On Maundy Thursday in Verges, in Spain, a traditional “death dance” is performed which involves a parade down the streets of the medieval town, commemorating Jesus' renowned jesting abilities.<br /><br />Everyone involved is dressed in costumes and the procession ends with frightening skeletons carrying boxes of ashes. </span></div><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The scary dance begins at midnight and continues for three hours into the early morning.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The scary dance is similar to the Hokey Pokey, but they do not put their left foot in.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">After the scary dance, they engage in an unusual event called Running With the Zombies. </span><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div align="left"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sd_r1_vXXtI/AAAAAAAAA7w/AJxIELYS_yU/s1600-h/easter-traditions-image-8-906583492.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 229px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323232597450907346" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sd_r1_vXXtI/AAAAAAAAA7w/AJxIELYS_yU/s320/easter-traditions-image-8-906583492.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sd_qlQJKy_I/AAAAAAAAA7g/TTP_M_v37Wo/s1600-h/easter-traditions-image-7-585399180.jpg"></a></div>Easter traditions would be incomplete if we did not mention Poland. In Poland, if the man of the house takes part in preparing the traditional Easter bread, custom has it that his moustache will turn grey and the dough will fail - making it very easy to spot a Polish man on Easter.<br /><br />So the lucky man of the house is banned from helping out - not unlike any other day of the year.</span><br /></span><br /><br /><br /></span><div align="left"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sd_qlQJKy_I/AAAAAAAAA7g/TTP_M_v37Wo/s1600-h/easter-traditions-image-7-585399180.jpg"></a></div><br /><br /><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><br /> </div><div align="center"></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SeJU7_5L-7I/AAAAAAAAA74/Siaxxuc25Mk/s1600-h/easter-traditions-image-9-619914377.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 212px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323911099245657010" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SeJU7_5L-7I/AAAAAAAAA74/Siaxxuc25Mk/s320/easter-traditions-image-9-619914377.jpg" /></a>The Easter bunny is the most popular symbol of Easter thanks to the Americans, but over in Australia they prefer to use their native marsupial, the Bilby. This is because the rabbit has destroyed their land, crops and vegetation, making it a perfect representation of Christ's resurrection. </span><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"></div><div align="left"></div><p> </p><p> </p><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><center>This concludes </span></center><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">EASTER CUSTOMS AROUND THE WORLD</span></div><div align="center"></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Have a happy Easter.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-5756578645072863049?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-75417060961462769742009-04-06T22:21:00.004-05:002009-04-06T22:35:40.568-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdrISf8t3pI/AAAAAAAAA6w/NgEkOcoVqJ8/s1600-h/2346766373_9708720d91.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321786129831026322" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdrISf8t3pI/AAAAAAAAA6w/NgEkOcoVqJ8/s320/2346766373_9708720d91.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Stockholm Police say Japanese pop star Hideki Kaji, dressed as a pineapple, has been robbed while shooting a music video in southern Sweden. In Japan it is common for rock stars to dress as fruit while filming music videos.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Police spokesman Bo Paulsson says three young men beat up 41-year-old Hideki Kaji and robbed him of camera equipment worth around 20,000 kronor ($2,500) late Saturday, which is legal in Japan since there are no laws regarding pineapple assault.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Paulsson says the pineapple-clad artist had been left alone with the equipment while the camera crew went for a break to get the giggles out. Kaji was left with a cut lip and lost a dental implant.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Police said they had no suspects for the crime Sunday, but are investigating potential leads among the notorious Citrus Family.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Kaji has released more than 10 solo albums since splitting from the band Bridge in the 1990's - solo after he decided to mix fruit with rock 'n roll. He is also famous for recording a duet with Saint Etienne singer Sarah Cracknell - daughter of Stanley Kubrick's first assistant director Derek Cracknell, which makes her only 2 degrees removed from the HAL9000 series.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Reportedly, Ms. Cracknell, when asked to work with Kaji, initially responded, "I'm afraid I can't do that."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://ww.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Yeetlemaster</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-7541706096146276974?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-39512669253018497392009-04-04T22:54:00.006-05:002009-04-04T23:10:58.991-05:00<div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdgrpntxfxI/AAAAAAAAA6g/vl-YHFPxPr8/s1600-h/090404-palinjohnston-hmed-11a_widec.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 298px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 199px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321050953773842194" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdgrpntxfxI/AAAAAAAAA6g/vl-YHFPxPr8/s320/090404-palinjohnston-hmed-11a_widec.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Levi Johnston– the 18-year-old father of Bristol Palin's baby – is in big trouble at the Sarah Palin household. On "The Tyra Baks Show," he talked about SEX!</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Johnston was hit with a blistering response from Bristol's mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "Bristol did not even know Levi was going on the show. We're disappointed that Levi and his family, in a quest for fame, attention, and fortune, as I am, are engaging in flat-out lies, gross exaggeration, and even distortion of their relationship, as I do," says the statement from the Palin family rep. "That's my job and demonstrates a complete disregard for patriotism and family values."</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"Bristol's focus will remain on raising Tripp, completing her education, and advocating abstinence," the statement continues. "We all know the importance of abstinence. I taught abstinence to my daughter, but, apparently, Johnston's family did not teach abstinence to him." </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"It is unfortunate that Levi finds it more appealing to exploit his previous relationship with Bristol than to contribute to the well being of the child." (Remember this is in 2012.)<br /><br />The statement ends, saying, "Bristol realizes now that she made a mistake in her relationship and is the one taking responsibility for their actions. She even feeds the baby."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">(YOU GO, BRISTOL!)<br /><br />In the show airing April 6, Johnston tells Tyra Banks that he believes Sarah Palin knew he and Bristol, 18, were having sex when they lived under her roof. "I'm pretty sure she probably knew. Moms are pretty smart," Johnston says - which is code for "The woman is clueless."<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sdgu7mhhoYI/AAAAAAAAA6o/aKRE7aH7xcE/s1600-h/abstinence.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 315px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321054561226563970" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sdgu7mhhoYI/AAAAAAAAA6o/aKRE7aH7xcE/s320/abstinence.jpg" /></a>The couple, who were high school sweethearts, announced their plans to wed after graduating while Gov. Palin was seeking to be Vice President Palin – but ended up splitting earlier this year, knowing Gov. Palin would never play a roll in national politics. Rumor has it this was at the advice of Gov. Palin, but other rumors say it was just a one-night stand anyway, and had Gov. Palin kept out of national politics the whole matter would have been handled the same as how it is handled in "small towns across the United States." </span></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">At the time, Johnston told "Good Morning America" that he needed to mature before getting married - which is code for "It is impossible for me to fathom having Governor Palin as my mother-in-law. By the way, I voted for Obama." </span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In a recent poll, 99.99% of US citizens said they did not care.<br /></span><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3951266925301849739?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-27446099411941618342009-03-31T20:48:00.009-05:002009-03-31T21:35:30.440-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLNhcTSMCI/AAAAAAAAA54/bSfbfAPu-eg/s1600-h/Special%2520Olympics.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 267px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319540084294430754" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLNhcTSMCI/AAAAAAAAA54/bSfbfAPu-eg/s320/Special%2520Olympics.gif" /></a> <div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Special Olympics launched a campaign Tuesday to banish the word "retard," a casual insult that derives from an out-of-favor medical term and has long been considered inappropriate by people who are not retarded.</span><br /><div><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div>People with cognitive disabilities signed pledges not to use the word, and students who have never worked with the population gathered to denounce its use at rallies from Florida to Alaska. Over the long-term, organizers hope to change attitudes about people with mental disabilities, who number more than 190 million worldwide, according to the World Health Organization - which is retarded since the World Health Organization would do more for HEALTH than to ban a word.</div><br /><div>"It's insulting, it's painful and it hurts people," said actor Eddie Barbanell, who has Down syndrome and appeared in the movie "The Ringer." "Get that word out! End the word! Bury it!" Eddie was then placed in a timeout room until he calmed down.</div><br /> <div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"People with intellectual disabilities themselves really mounted a movement that they did not want to be referred to with the word 'retarded,'" he slurred. "Why can't people just call us what we are - morons?"</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLQLjT_6uI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/wtOzxTKx_w8/s1600-h/special_olympics_logo.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 294px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 277px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319543006754237154" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLQLjT_6uI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/wtOzxTKx_w8/s320/special_olympics_logo.jpg" /></a>As such, the American Association of Mental Retardation changed its name in 2007 to the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, thereby lengthening their name, and, therefore, right-sizing their name. In another sign that the formal use of the term "mentally retarded" had lost currency, The Associated Press replaced it in its stylebook in 2008 with "mentally disabled," though even that term is considered offensive by some since it places the emphasis on the DIS-ability and not the A-bility. It's a fine distinction.</div><br />Those seeking to end the term's use face a difficult battle.<br /><br /><div>"This word is deeply ingrained in our psyche - and in the South. It is used frequently on South Park and by school children across the country. It comes up in a lot of different contexts," said Andrew Imparato, president and chief executive officer of the American Association of People With Disabilities. "We have to kind of call it out and start a conversation about why it's not OK to use the word."</div><br /><div>Among the signatures collected Tuesday were several that belonged to governors: In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — whose mother-in-law founded Special Olympics — signed a proclamation to stop using the word. Governor Schwarzenegger prefers the word "retahded."</div><div><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLN5ds6wkI/AAAAAAAAA6I/Oslvg7ne8UA/s1600-h/ArguingOnTheInternet-Special%2520Olympics.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 216px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319540496987243074" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLN5ds6wkI/AAAAAAAAA6I/Oslvg7ne8UA/s320/ArguingOnTheInternet-Special%2520Olympics.jpg" /></a>But the manpower behind the "Spread the Word to End the Word" campaign comes from the students who devised the campaign last month during a Special Olympics youth summit in Idaho and organized rallies around the country while not paying attention to the word "special" in Special Olympics and the negative connotations that phrase has. Nor did they acknowledge that the Special Olympics serves as a way to showcase the disability rather than the ability.</div><br /><div>In Florida, an upstart idiot, 16-year-old Noah Gray organized a rally for some 600 students at Miami Palmetto Senior High School that featured a rap performance and a speech by Barbanell about his experiences of being called a "retard." As we know, any political cause gains momentum when expressed as a rap song, followed by a speech. </div><br /><div>"Like many other high school students and adults, I used to use the word 'retarded' all the time," said Gray, who was invited to speak at last month's youth summit. "Since coming down from the Special Olympics, I have not used that word once ... and I'm discouraging other people" from using it. "Instead, I am asking people to use the words "slow" or "sandwich short of a picnic."</div><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLR5DJdopI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/IDPIshvpGAA/s1600-h/napoleon_dynamite.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319544887905723026" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLR5DJdopI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/IDPIshvpGAA/s320/napoleon_dynamite.jpg" /></a>'The R-word'At Bowie High School in Maryland, experienced and well-established in the field of linguistic torture, 18-year-old Shannan Barksdale helped gather 861 pledges that will be sent to the Special Olympics organization. During the school's lunch periods, Barksdale yelled, "Say no to the R-word!" and urged students to sign pledges - though, in reality, the students who signed the pledges thought the "R-word" referred to "renaissance," a period of artistic explosion the students hated to study.</div><br /><div>"The word should be eliminated from everyone's vocabulary," she said. "Even as I speak, I realize the word "retarded" should be eliminated completely. If we use the word "retarded," we are hurting the retarded people we are trying to help. That's just retarded."</div><div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLNUoF6bqI/AAAAAAAAA5w/y4oU6QO-qZQ/s1600-h/170e36f9efd70752e782a96380f24044.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 93px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319539864121274018" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SdLNUoF6bqI/AAAAAAAAA5w/y4oU6QO-qZQ/s320/170e36f9efd70752e782a96380f24044.gif" /></a>Special Olympics has enlisted actor John C. McGinley of the TV show "Scrubs" as a spokesman for the campaign. (How retarded is that? Scrubs?) McGinley, whose 11-year-old son has Down syndrome, said many people don't realize the word is hateful - even when used among people living in Democracies whose Bill of Rights guarentees free speech.</div><br /><div>"It's important to get under way before we all become retarded."</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-2744609941194161834?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-35175074389951034782009-03-29T14:45:00.004-05:002009-03-29T14:59:53.824-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sc_STXGAcpI/AAAAAAAAA5o/uCBGu6DI-Fg/s1600-h/kobebryant_wife052308052902.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 270px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318700915006403218" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sc_STXGAcpI/AAAAAAAAA5o/uCBGu6DI-Fg/s320/kobebryant_wife052308052902.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed on March 20 by Maria Jimenez, the 48-year-old housekeeper claims that Vanessa Bryant, wife and ultimate forgiverer of NBA All-Star Kobe Bryant, verbally abused her and humiliated her while she worked for the couple.<br /><br />Jimenez alleges that Vanessa "badgered and harassed her. Trashed talked me like it was the finals or something."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">She also forced Jimenez to perform demeaning tasks such as digging into a bag of feces to retrieve a price tag for an expensive blouse Jimenez put in the washer. The Bryants have not disclosed the origin of the feces but admit they did keep a bag of feces in the house.<br /><br />In addition, Jimenez claims that Mrs. Bryant called her “lazy,” “slow,” “dumb,” and a “liar,” with some profanity mixed in with the adjectives. "She talkin' to me like she gonna posterize me."<br /><br />Jimenez says she tried to quit, but stayed after Kobe Bryant convinced her to stay, offered her a $2million dollar ring (It worked before!), and Vanessa apologized. Despite the apology, Bryant’s wife continued to yell at Jimenez.<br /><br />The Bryants released a statement through the law firm Loeb &amp; Loeb LLP stating that Jimenez’s claims are “totally unfounded and patently false.”<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sc_SO3yaR1I/AAAAAAAAA5g/gWgHDw1Qfwk/s1600-h/image566235x.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318700837883234130" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sc_SO3yaR1I/AAAAAAAAA5g/gWgHDw1Qfwk/s320/image566235x.jpg" /></a>"The Bryants intend to vigorously defend against these untruthful allegations and are confident that the baseless nature of the allegations will be proven," the statement said. "The idea that one of the games all-time great players' wife would conduct herself in an abusive and demeaning manner after dealing with rape charges against her husband seems totally implausible."<br /><br />Jimenez is suing for more than $127,000 in unpaid medical benefits, more than $20,000 in unpaid wages and an unspecified dollar amount in general and punitive damages. </span><div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Loeb and Loeb LLP stated, "She's a gold digger - plain and simple."</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3517507438995103478?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-45183375456483077102009-03-29T12:24:00.001-05:002009-03-29T12:27:03.443-05:00<p align="center"><object width="448" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://images.stupidvideos.com/2.0.2/swf/video.swf?sa=1&amp;sk=7&amp;si=2&amp;i=234632"><embed src="http://images.stupidvideos.com/2.0.2/swf/video.swf?sa=1&sk=7&si=2&i=234632" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="448" height="336"></embed></object></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">YeetleMaster</span></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-4518337545648307710?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-49853233555609129592009-03-26T23:11:00.003-05:002009-03-26T23:22:32.061-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScxUPoUoxVI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/NEMZ8Fa39wk/s1600-h/bobcat_front.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 266px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 257px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317717887516460370" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScxUPoUoxVI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/NEMZ8Fa39wk/s320/bobcat_front.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">This bobcat walked into a bar in Cottonwood and attacked three people. The bobcat, a frequent patron of the bar, seemed to have a few too many and began cursing, growling, and biting patrons at random. Witnesses indicated the bobcat was a former employer for AIG. This could not be confirmed.<br /><br />Though it wasn't clear how seriously the victims had been injured, Cottonwood police say the animal attacked Monday when it scratched a woman who thought she had hit it with her car. She only thought she had, but could not identify beyond doubt that that was the actual bobcat she hit. </span><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Then police got a report of a bobcat acting aggressively toward a woman outside a Pizza Hut. Apparently, the woman had cut in line before ordering, angering the bobcat.<br /><br />Later came the call from the bar that a bobcat was inside as patrons climbed atop bar stools to get away. The bobcat strutted around the bar, growling, "I ain't gonna bite ya. The hell I'm not!"</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">No one knows why.</span></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Officers called to the Chapparal Bar in Cottonwood arrived to find the bobcat in the parking lot, where they shot and killed it. </p></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div>Services for the bobcat will be held on Saturday and the Cottonwood Church for Alcoholic Animals.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-4985323355560912959?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-38714474207496698372009-03-23T20:59:00.005-05:002009-03-23T21:20:25.626-05:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SchAbzU8MnI/AAAAAAAAA5I/IJTVYmO9GvA/s1600-h/psychic_pig.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316570206489555570" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SchAbzU8MnI/AAAAAAAAA5I/IJTVYmO9GvA/s320/psychic_pig.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Gallup Organization conducted a survey of the beliefs of the general United States population regarding paranormal topics. 41 percent of those polled believed in extrasensory perception and 26 percent believed in clairvoyance. Thirty-one percent of those surveyed indicated that they believe in telepathy or psychic </span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">communication.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Somewhere in these survey results lie two once believers, now non-believers. </span><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">To whit:</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">(a) A 27-year-old “psychic” was sentenced to two months in jail in San Jose, Calif., in December after somehow convincing a woman, who had come to her for a $10 reading, to pay her, in ever-increasing increments, $108,000 for a “spiritual cleansing.” A colon cleansing would have been cheaper - and more satisfying.<br /><br />(b) Charles Silveira filed a lawsuit in March in Morristown, N.J., to recover the $250,000 he had incrementally paid to a “psychic,” who said she needed to make a golden statue for him to ward off negativity. The woman also convinced Silveira to buy her a $700,000 home, but that house is in Silveira’s name, and he has asked a court’s permission to evict her.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SchCIG2SesI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/fpJnlerz1wU/s1600-h/count_von_count-1-720172.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 268px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 268px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316572067155573442" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SchCIG2SesI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/fpJnlerz1wU/s320/count_von_count-1-720172.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>A colon cleansing is cheaper.<br /><br />Two colon cleansings.<br /><br />Three! Three colon cleansings.</span> </div><div></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br/><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3871447420749669837?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-56036735943343307122009-03-18T18:37:00.005-05:002009-03-18T19:03:55.280-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScGIzyy2rBI/AAAAAAAAA4o/_0DCTkW9Gxk/s1600-h/BobDylanportrait(2).jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314679458663672850" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 221px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScGIzyy2rBI/AAAAAAAAA4o/_0DCTkW9Gxk/s320/BobDylanportrait(2).jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Bob Dylan's California neighbors, Cindy and David Emminger, a family living near the 67-year-old folk and rock icon's house in the posh California beachside community of Malibu have complained to city officials about an outdoor portable toilet, which is apparently used by guards on Dylan's compound.<br /></span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Cindy and David Emminger say the toilet wafts fumes from waste treatment chemicals, and that the smell carried by breezes from the Pacific Ocean makes their family feel ill.<br /><br />"It's a scandal — 'Mr Civil Rights' is killing our civil rights," said a defiant David Emminger, holding a handkerchief over his face. "Feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door."</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Meanwhile, a helicopter from a local television station hovered over Dylan's property this week, capturing video of the offending toilet. The pilot of the helicopter stated just hovering over the property made him ill. "Wow," he said. "I love Dylan's music, but phew...somethin's blowin' in the wind down there, but it ain't me, babe."</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScGLhOwF9XI/AAAAAAAAA4w/au5YfIW2dnU/s1600-h/bob_dylan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314682438285653362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 316px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScGLhOwF9XI/AAAAAAAAA4w/au5YfIW2dnU/s320/bob_dylan.jpg" border="0" /></a>Shortly thereafter firefighters were called to Dylan's home to whiff the toilet odors. Said the Fire Chief, "Never smelled anything like it - ever. I guess he's getting to that age when he was so much older then. He's younger than that now."<br /><br />But Malibu Mayor Andy Stern said other neighbors report smelling nothing from the toilet, and that he has left the matter to the enforcers of the city's code on objectionable odors. (That fact that there is a city code on objectionable odors is interesting in itself. But I regress...)</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"I really have not involved myself in Bob Dylan's toilet, and by the way I haven't involved myself in anyone else's toilet in Malibu," Stern said, just to be certain that he was not singling out a known celebrity. "You see," he added, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."<br /><br />A spokesman for Dylan stated he expected the situation was temporary as the weather forecast indicated a hard rain was a'gonna fall.</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Something is happening, but we don't know what it is. Do we, Mr. Jones?<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-5603673594334330712?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-17081753287761658832009-03-17T19:49:00.009-05:002009-03-17T20:10:42.446-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBJIPCZzDI/AAAAAAAAA4g/A_pgKLnp_GM/s1600-h/AIG.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327966121577522" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 207px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBJIPCZzDI/AAAAAAAAA4g/A_pgKLnp_GM/s320/AIG.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Talking tougher by the hour, livid Democrats confronted beleaguered insurance giant AIG with an ultimatum Tuesday: Give back $165 million in post-bailout bonuses or watch Congress tax it away with emergency legislation. </span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">So there!</span><br /><div><div><div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Republicans, who have very little to add to this discussion, declared the Democrats were hardly blameless, accusing them of standing by while the bonus deal was cemented and suggesting that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner could and should have done more. Republicans also stood by for six years as this behemoth of an insurance company raped the insurance industry.</span></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reported that 73 separate company employees received bonus checks of $1 million or more last Friday. This at a company that was failing so spectacularly the government felt the need to prop it up with a $170 billion bailout. Cuomo said, "Can you believe that a company whose sole goal is to make a lot of money took a lot of money when it was given? Unbelievable!"<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBJCt4MlEI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/7-_v_3eEuYU/s1600-h/aig_valicimage2_tcm20-15768.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327871321052226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 247px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 67px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBJCt4MlEI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/7-_v_3eEuYU/s320/aig_valicimage2_tcm20-15768.gif" border="0" /></a>The financial bailout program remains politically unpopular even though the plan began under his predecessor, George W. Bush - who is nowhere to be found. The White House is well aware of the nation's bailout fatigue — anger that hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have gone to prop up financial institutions that made poor decisions, while many others who have done no wrong have paid the price - except George W. Bush who is rumored to be writing his memoirs, tentatively titled, "You Just Don't Get It."</span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBI9LjlNmI/AAAAAAAAA4I/JX7mkWGjHJA/s1600-h/aig_autoimage2_tcm20-15764.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327776208434786" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 247px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 67px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBI9LjlNmI/AAAAAAAAA4I/JX7mkWGjHJA/s320/aig_autoimage2_tcm20-15764.gif" border="0" /></a>AIG chief executive Edward Liddy, no relative to G. Gordon Libby or Watergate fame, can expect a verbal pummeling Wednesday when he testifies before a House subcommittee and maybe even some sour rhetorical questions for which he has no answer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Senate Democrats, meanwhile, suggested that if the AIG executives had any integrity, they would return the $165 million in bonus money. One leading Republican even suggested they might honorably kill themselves, then said he didn't really mean it, but Rush Limbaugh made him say it.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBI_4PsqeI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/K-Z7y_Vm9Ek/s1600-h/aig_lifeimage2_tcm20-15766.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327822564370914" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 247px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 67px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBI_4PsqeI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/K-Z7y_Vm9Ek/s320/aig_lifeimage2_tcm20-15766.gif" border="0" /></a>House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., lisped that the government, through the bailout, is now an 80 percent owner of the company and suggested that was grounds to sue to recover the bonuses.<br /><br />However, the ever astute Republicans said President Obama and his administration should have leaned harder on AIG executives to reject the extra pay, raising some speculation over Geithner's future.<br /><br />"I don't know if he should resign over this," said Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. "He works for the president of the United States. But I can tell you, this is just another example of where he seems to be out of the loop. Treasury should have let the American people know about this. Not last year's this. This year's this."</span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBIrQDDJhI/AAAAAAAAA4A/Zhico6cmFoQ/s1600-h/newAIG_MF_banner_updated_tcm20-143699.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327468176516626" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 86px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/ScBIrQDDJhI/AAAAAAAAA4A/Zhico6cmFoQ/s320/newAIG_MF_banner_updated_tcm20-143699.jpg" border="0" /></a>At least three Democratic bills and one Republican measure were introduced to crack down on the Treasury Department and stiffen rules for recipients of bailout funds. Two bills in the House aimed to impose a 100 percent tax on the bonuses. </span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></p></span><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1708175328776165883?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-79347963665940063152009-03-16T23:42:00.003-05:002009-03-16T23:49:33.540-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sb8rlPWXCVI/AAAAAAAAA34/FJyEYYiwLao/s1600-h/happyiraqi.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314014004095945042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sb8rlPWXCVI/AAAAAAAAA34/FJyEYYiwLao/s320/happyiraqi.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Once again, tragedy has struck Iraqi soccer - a tragedy in a long string of Iraqi soccer tragedies.<br /><br />During victory celebrations following a match on Saturday between the Shiite villages of Sinjar and Enana, a fan accidentally shot the victorious goalie to death, the police in Babil Province said. </span><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">During the celebrations, an off-duty policeman started firing his pistol in the air (you know how they do that when they're happy), but lost control of the pistol. A bullet struck the Sinjar goalie, an 18-year-old high school senior named Mohammed Amin, in the head, killing him instantly.<br /><br />There was no indication of foul play - other than the fact that the goalie was killed. In fact, the policeman was himself a Sinjar fan. Sinjar had won the game 2-1. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The officer, Jawad Kadham, 28, has been charged with recklessly discharging an official weapon and with negligent homicide. He remains in custody. </span></div><div><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The family of the goalie is demanding so-called blood money from the policeman, the police said. </span></div><div><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Word of the incident comes two days after an Iraqi soccer player was shot dead by a fan just as he was about to kick what could have been the tying goal. It appears the two shootings occurred on the same day.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-7934796366594006315?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-14320762490427327402009-03-15T18:59:00.003-05:002009-03-15T19:22:19.044-05:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sb2bhCBZ6zI/AAAAAAAAA3w/4qR2wZgHYVk/s1600-h/039_8892~Planet-of-the-Apes-Posters.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313574127147805490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 254px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sb2bhCBZ6zI/AAAAAAAAA3w/4qR2wZgHYVk/s320/039_8892~Planet-of-the-Apes-Posters.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Malaysian police said a man shot his neighbor, mistaking her for a monkey as she was picking sapodilla fruit in his tree. Why she was in the tree picking fruit in still to be determined.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br /><div>Yahaya Othman, police chief in eastern Pahang state, said the woman was gathering fruit Thursday when her neighbor shot her.<br /></div><div>The man came home and saw rustling in the tree and fired into it, Yahaya said. "Then there was screaming ... and only then did he know it was his neighbor - which sounded much like a monkey scream."</div><br /><div></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The woman was hospitalized with a wound to the abdomen, but her condition was stable Friday. She is scheduled for plastic surgery some time next week.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Police are investigating the man, a volunteer security corps member, for illegally discharging a firearm at a monkey, which carries a maximum prison term of two years. If police determine he was discharging his firearm at a woman, he will receive community service.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Throughout Malaysia, it is very common to see wild monkeys. Although monkeys can look extremely cute, they can become quite aggressive.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><div></div><div><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nRG6ahCs_t0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nRG6ahCs_t0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1432076249042732740?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-24588014634506878122009-03-14T12:45:00.006-05:002009-03-14T13:05:34.658-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sbvw5Zv1wUI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/dTE4xfme3_8/s1600-h/brick-sucking+vampire.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313105054368383298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 263px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sbvw5Zv1wUI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/dTE4xfme3_8/s320/brick-sucking+vampire.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws — evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><div><div><br />The well-preserved skeleton was found in 2006 on the Lazzaretto Nuovo island, north of the lagoon city, amid other corpses buried in a mass grave during an epidemic of plague that hit Venice in 1576 - one many experts believe occurred during the period known as "The Reign of the Brick Sucking Vampires."</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Said Matteo Borrini, a forensic archaeologist and anthropologist at Florence University who has studied the case over the last two years. "For the first time we have found evidence of legitimate vampire population."</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><div>At that time vampires presented disturbing appearance of decomposing bodies, Borrini told The Associated Press by telephone - during the day, outside, in the sunlight.</div><br /><div>Mass graves were often reopened to bury fresh corpses and diggers would chance upon older bodies that were bloated, with blood seeping out of their mouth and with an inexplicable hole in the shroud used to cover their face.</div><br /><div>"These characteristics are all tied to the resting of vampire bodies," Borrini said. "They saw a fat, dead person, full of blood and with a hole in the shroud, so they would say: 'This guy is alive, he's drinking blood and eating his shroud.' A conclusion with which we firmly agree."</div><br /><div>What passed for scientific texts taught that "shroud-eaters" were vampires who fed on the cloth and cast a spell that would spread the plague in order to increase their ranks. To kill the undead creatures, the stake-in-the-heart method popularized by later literature was not enough: A stone or brick had to be forced into the vampire's mouth so that it would starve to death.</div><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbvxnkTsUQI/AAAAAAAAA3g/4VlkEF4rrtA/s1600-h/vampire_litho_3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313105847477096706" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 253px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbvxnkTsUQI/AAAAAAAAA3g/4VlkEF4rrtA/s320/vampire_litho_3.jpg" border="0" /></a>That's what is believed to have happened to the woman found on the Lazzaretto island, which was used as a quarantine zone by Venice. Aged around 60, she lay in waiting for the brick to be removed so she may feast again.</div><br /><div></div><div>Much later, someone, no doubt a Vampire Brick Layer, jammed the brick into her mouth when the grave was reopened. Borrini said that marks and breaks left by blunt instruments on several among more than 100 skeletons found by the archaeologists show that the grave was reused in a later uprising of the more advanced "Blood-Sucking Vampires," popularized in fiction and film.</div><br /><div></div><div>Unfortunately, the media has put a different spin on these events, leading us to believe the vampires never existed at all - particularly the Brick-Sucking variety.</div><br /><div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"Maybe a priest or a gravedigger put the brick in her mouth, which is what was normally done in such cases," Mannucci said. "Priests hoarded bricks for such occasions."</span></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Jews were also often accused of spreading vampirism, and, anthropologists point to the brief period of the "Goyim-Sucking era" as evidence of the Jews link to vampirism.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-2458801463450687812?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-81805665131670795252009-03-11T22:16:00.007-05:002009-03-11T22:37:23.138-05:00<div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>McGruff attacked by ‘funny’ bus driver<br /></strong><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sbh_2dA3X_I/AAAAAAAAA3A/8tN5b79gdvY/s1600-h/mcgruff.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312136333961420786" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 303px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/Sbh_2dA3X_I/AAAAAAAAA3A/8tN5b79gdvY/s320/mcgruff.jpg" border="0" /></a>District officer Tyrone Hardy, dressed in a McGruff the Crime Dog costume to hand out flyers to children in northwest Washington, was punched by a bus driver - as he should have been.<br /><br />According to the Washington Examiner, the 38-year-old bus driver, Shawn Brim, “stopped, got out and adjusted his mirrors and then cold-cocked McGruff in the head with a closed fist.”<br /><br />Brim then drove off as McGruff stumbled, and children who had witnessed the incident were screaming, "Get up, McGruff!" Several police officers who were there with McGruff immediately followed and caught Brim.<br /><br />Brim later told his supervisor that he was trying to “take a bite out of crime.” Brim has been charged with simple assault. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br /><strong>Woman gives boyfriend extra special birthday kiss<br /><br /></strong><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbiCMQb6_fI/AAAAAAAAA3I/nnS3nSOb66w/s1600-h/42-17761840.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312138907565620722" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 312px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbiCMQb6_fI/AAAAAAAAA3I/nnS3nSOb66w/s320/42-17761840.jpg" border="0" /></a>Tracy Davies, a 40-year-old woman from Gateshead, England, stands the charge of one count of causing grievous bodily harm with intent for biting off a portion of her boyfriend’s tongue on his birthday. And that's not the bad part.<br /><br />Davies’ boyfriend, Mark Coghill, met Tracy through a newspaper ad for singles with a tongue fetish. The couple had been dating and were celebrating Coghill’s 45th birthday. The pair had planned to meet for dinner and drinks. They were also witnessed purchasing two bottles of vodka.<br /><br />Davies was reportedly upset that she had been trying to have a baby and was not pregnant - no matter how many times she tongued the men in her life. Coghill comforted her with a tongue lashing. Afterwards, Davies told Coghill she loved him and asked him to kiss her with his tongue - all sloppy and passionate in the hopes that she would get pregnant.<br /><br />She bit down hard.<br /><br />When Coghill pulled away, the piece of tongue was left in Davies’ mouth.<br /><br />She dropped it on the floor.<br /><br />When authorities arrived at the residence, Davies had put the piece of tongue in a plastic bag and handed it to the police, asking if they could please inseminate her with the tip of Coghill's tongue.<br /><br />Coghill was brought to the emergency room, but surgeons were unable to reattach the piece of tongue due to fear of infection.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div><br />Coghill was quoted as saying, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhh." </div><div></div><br /><div>And that's the bad part.<br /></div><br /><div><strong>Modern Toilet – a new restaurant<br /><br /></strong><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbiCmuf1OCI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/hJtqYkxREvo/s1600-h/taiwanese-modern-toilet-04.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312139362311682082" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 229px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbiCmuf1OCI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/hJtqYkxREvo/s320/taiwanese-modern-toilet-04.jpg" border="0" /></a>Modern Toilet is a Taiwanese restaurant that is branching out across Asia. The restaurant lives up to its name keeping with a bathroom theme.<br /><br />“Every customer sits on a stylish acrylic toilet (lid down) designed with images of roses, seashells or Renaissance paintings,” said Natalie Tso on Time.com. “Everyone dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your meal atop a mini toilet bowl (quite convenient, as it brings the food closer to your mouth), you sip drinks from your own plastic urinal (a souvenir), and soft-swirl ice cream arrives for dessert atop a dish shaped like a squat toilet. It really is one-stop dining / relief.”<br /><br />Despite being bathroom-themed, the food at Modern Toilet is very reasonably priced, and the restaurant is very clean...usually.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"> </a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-8180566513167079525?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-24930323937103380732009-03-10T19:39:00.005-05:002009-03-11T22:37:56.794-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbcI9qSo14I/AAAAAAAAA24/JJRZy6QYSdA/s1600-h/coin-flip_phixr.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311724140924295042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 293px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbcI9qSo14I/AAAAAAAAA24/JJRZy6QYSdA/s320/coin-flip_phixr.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Two California lawmakers are at war - over a parking space.</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div><br />When a veteran Oakland City Council member left office, it set off a battle between Desley Brooks and Jean Quan for the outgoing official's spot at the side door of City Hall - prime real estate for those with a sense of self-importance.</div><br /><div>The brouhaha landed in the laps of Council President Jane Brunner and City Attorney John Russo, who ruled the combatants should flip a coin - as is based on California statute when minor public officials behave like children.</div><div><br />Quan has agreed, but Brooks has not. He stated he would be willing to engage in a Thumb War instead.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-2493032393710338073?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-37734878041079729122009-03-09T17:44:00.003-05:002009-03-09T17:53:23.898-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbWc1pvRaNI/AAAAAAAAA2w/O1mJoyENst0/s1600-h/kangaroo-fight.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311323781104494802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 198px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbWc1pvRaNI/AAAAAAAAA2w/O1mJoyENst0/s320/kangaroo-fight.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">An Australian man fought off a feisty intruder and saved his family over the weekend - to whit, a kangaroo!<br /><br />A kangaroo—about 90 pounds—bounded into Beat Ettlin’s home near Canberra early Sunday morning, offended at Mr. Ettlin's remarks at a local pub - that evolution was a hoax.<br /><br />Proving to the kangaroo that Mr. Ettlin was a sandwich shy of a picnic, Mr Ettlin stated that upon seeing the kangaroo, his first thought was that the intruder bouncing on his bed was a “lunatic ninja” that had come through the window.<br /><br />Laughing, the ‘roo hopped into Mr. Ettlin's son’s room to bounce on that bed as well. Mr. Ettlin responded boldly and got it into a headlock, wrestled it toward the front door and pushed it out into the darkness, screaming, "CREATION, YA DAMNED 'ROO!!!<br /><br />The ordeal lasted a few minutes and left gouges in the woodwork and a trail of blood on the floor. Ettlin is still nursing some scratches from the Darwinian - touting marsupial.<br /><br />Experts say kangaroos rarely invade homes—but they have in the past when offended.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">The YeetleMaster</span> </a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3773487804107972912?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-70598629622837469632009-03-07T19:38:00.012-06:002009-03-08T17:00:38.241-05:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbMosBodYUI/AAAAAAAAA2o/4xx93qlCjc8/s1600-h/phone.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310633122417434946" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 293px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbMosBodYUI/AAAAAAAAA2o/4xx93qlCjc8/s320/phone.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Roman Catholic bishops in Italy are urging the faithful to go on a high-tech fast for Lent, switching off modern appliances from cars to iPods and abstaining from surfing the Web or text messaging until Easter - as is written in Gates 12:5.<br /><br />This demonstrates the Church's increasing focus on technology's uses — with many of the Lenten appeals posted on various dioceses' Web sites.<br />Dioceses and Catholic groups in Modena, southern Bari and other cities have called for a ban on text messaging every Friday in Lent, which began last week with Ash Wednesday, including phrases such as "God Bless You," Jesus Loves You," or even "John 4:15."</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br /><div><div></span></div></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><p>The diocese said the "no SMS day" seeks to draw attention to years of conflict in Congo fueled in part by the struggle for control of coltan mines, an essential material in cell phones. </p><p>In addition, the Turin diocese is suggesting the faithful not watch television during Lent. In the northeastern city of Trento, the church has created a "new lifestyles" calendar with proposals for each week of Lent. Among their many great suggestions for honoring Lent and focusing on the spiritual:<br /></p><ul><li>Leave cars at home and hop on a bike or a bus,<br /></li><li>Stop throwing chewing gum on the street,<br /></li><li>Start recycling waste,<br /></li><li>Enjoy the silence of a week without the Internet and iPods. </li></ul><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbMoPrh1XhI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/_XPFYt2IKcM/s1600-h/jesusphone2_2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310632635447729682" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 278px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbMoPrh1XhI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/_XPFYt2IKcM/s320/jesusphone2_2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Each of these are addressed directly in Christ's teachings and violate the "four forgotten commandments."<br /><br />Some say Lenten abstinence should be a personal matter, in line with giving up meat for lent, though fish can be eaten in abundance. Others contend that people who need technology to work shouldn't be asked to do without.<br /><br />"What does giving up mean? Does it mean go without? Or Does it mean denouncement? If the use is capricious, then abstinence is welcome, but if technology is needed for work it makes no sense," said the Rev. Giancarlo Angelo Andreis, a priest at a Rome basilica, sort of twisting two subjects into one incoherent statement.<br /><br />The Church is trying to balance an increasing appreciation of modern communication with a wariness of new media. Why? Well, because.<br /><br />Ironically, in January, the Vatican launched its own YouTube channel, with Pope Benedict XVI welcoming viewers to this "great family that knows no borders." Benedict praised social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace for forging friendships and understanding, but cautioned that online networking could isolate people from real social interaction - as he demonstrated by using YouTube to reach the masses.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TyaUNK0cgx4&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TyaUNK0cgx4&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The pope has also warned about what he has called the tendency of entertainment media to trivialize sex and promote violence, but did not expand as he was late for a meeting to discuss the abuse of acolytes in the church.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-7059862962283746963?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-33314013248523863322009-03-07T18:45:00.003-06:002009-03-07T18:55:28.230-06:00<div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">For those who did not believe me,</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">I told you so!</span></strong><br /></div><p align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U-ht0DJZBpU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U-ht0DJZBpU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A hardline Hindu organisation is testing a soft drink with cow urine, which many Hindus believe is sacred and has medicinal properties. The RSS, which opposes Western imports, wants the bovine beverage to outsell the likes of Coca Cola and Pepsi. It is the latest attempt of the RSS, which has been accused of violence in the past, to cleanse India of Western influence.</span><br /><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3331401324852386332?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-2773477036132610692009-03-07T14:09:00.010-06:002009-03-07T14:40:36.965-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbLZ5G9EJDI/AAAAAAAAA14/GRnINdUz2lY/s1600-h/pee_on_mental_illness_hat-p148334552633847238qj8k_400.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310546485765743666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbLZ5G9EJDI/AAAAAAAAA14/GRnINdUz2lY/s320/pee_on_mental_illness_hat-p148334552633847238qj8k_400.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A study, conducted by the World Health Organization and the Iraqi government, found that Iraqis have suffered from a surprisingly low rate of severe mental disorders such as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">PTSD</span>, which officials said indicated resilience in the face of decades of war and hardship. Military officials were encouraged with the results of the study as it sets the stage for repeated future invasions without concern for "civilian <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">causalities</span>."</span> <div><div><div><div><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The findings showed that nearly 17 percent of a random sample of 4,332 Iraqis over the age of 18 surveyed had suffered from a mental disorder in their lifetime, ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder to depression. Relatively speaking, this is a very low number, giving the WHO and the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Iraqui</span> government confidence that they can eradicate mental illness in the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">beleaguered</span> country.<br /><br />"This ability of the Iraqi people to overcome difficulties gives great hope for a better future," Iraqi Health Minister <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Saleh</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">al</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Hasnawi</span> said at a conference to release the report. "We have to fight the discrimination against those who have cured themselves of mental illness. We believe we owe a great debt to our 'Pee On Mental Illness' initiative. We have issued key chains to those who do not demonstrate any signs of mental illness." (Below)</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbLZonPTb-I/AAAAAAAAA1g/5YA7WiOC8lc/s1600-h/mental_illness_sucks_green_keychain-p146486324935437143qjfk_400.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310546202374402018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbLZonPTb-I/AAAAAAAAA1g/5YA7WiOC8lc/s320/mental_illness_sucks_green_keychain-p146486324935437143qjfk_400.jpg" border="0" /></a>Much has been documented about the mental effect of war on the U.S.-led forces in Iraq, but the study sought to cast attention on the Iraqi people.<br /><br /><p>Nearly 70 percent of those who suffered from a mental disorder also said they had considered suicide - suicide bombing, that is. The authors said the overall figure suggested that Iraqis have adapted remarkably to trauma as a way of life after nearly six years of brutal conflict and previous suffering under Saddam Hussein.</p><p>"They eventually get inured to the stress. They have challenged the psychiatric community by overcoming all kinds of mental disorders. It has become a part of life," <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Kessler</span> said. "Democracy has taken root, and we are pleased."</p><p>Iraq's mental health system, along with other institutions, has been depleted of professionals after many fled the country to escape the violence. Those who stayed behind sought to understand this phenomenon and have suggested that routine bombing, destruction, and invasion by a foreign force might prove key to eliminating common psychiatric disorders in the United States.</p><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbLZfeOW0EI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/MkAbjX0BRSc/s1600-h/mental_illness.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310546045335687234" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 301px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbLZfeOW0EI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/MkAbjX0BRSc/s320/mental_illness.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbLZzJutRuI/AAAAAAAAA1w/3v6QIqZlhG4/s1600-h/Necessity%2520of%2520Madness.jpg"></a>Researchers said they were particularly surprised by the relatively low number of cases of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">PTSD</span> — just over 3.5 percent of respondents. But even those were suspected as Iraq has experienced a high degree of malingering as the United States efforts have had such a positive side effect that Iraq is becoming known as the mental health country of the world.</p><p>"The most important finding here is the decreasing prevalence of mental disorders, particularly <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">PTSD</span>, across the generations," said Mario Maj, the president of the World Psychiatric Association. "This may be a function of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">intergenerational</span> increase in sectarian violence, and the key to solving a significant problem of our returning soldiers." </p><p>"Society should know that mental problems are important. They should know that they can be addressed," Maj said.</span></p><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></div><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">YeetleMaster</span></span></a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-277347703613261069?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-18285887876941988712009-03-06T18:46:00.004-06:002009-03-06T18:51:14.261-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbHEtIdRSBI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/uNNNY0fH5zA/s1600-h/dog%2520days%2520logo%2520jpg.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310241715289933842" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 102px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbHEtIdRSBI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/uNNNY0fH5zA/s320/dog%2520days%2520logo%2520jpg.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><ul><br /><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span> </p><ul><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">On the Open Road: A 70-lb. pit bull jumped on a car's gearshift at a carwash in Pryor, Okla., in November, sending the car out of the bay, to circle the lot briefly.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">And a boxer-shar-pei mix similarly jostled the gearshift of a van in Port Jefferson, N.Y., in November, sending it through the front window of the Cool Beanz coffee shop.</span></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">On the Firing Line: Oregon State Police said a gunshot into a boat on Tillamook Bay in November was probably caused by a Labrador's jumping on a 12-gauge shotgun while the boat was unattended.<br /><br /></span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">And a 19-year-old man had several toes shot off on a hunting trip in January in Forrest City, Ark., when his dog jumped onto a shotgun in the front seat of his truck.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-1828588787694198871?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-4983003628669706852009-03-05T19:28:00.004-06:002009-03-05T19:36:12.110-06:00<p align="left"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbB8_b179RI/AAAAAAAAA1A/54QjWRkAf1M/s1600-h/ssonlineredusa3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309881389917402386" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 50px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbB8_b179RI/AAAAAAAAA1A/54QjWRkAf1M/s320/ssonlineredusa3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbB8_b179RI/AAAAAAAAA1A/54QjWRkAf1M/s1600-h/ssonlineredusa3.jpg"></a></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A 69-year-old man angry about being put on hold has been charged with threatening to kill a Social Security Administration worker.<br /><br />Police said the man called a Social Security answering service in New York because he was upset about not receiving his check.<br /><br />He told police he was on hold for more than 30 minutes, and when a supervisor finally told him she couldn't help, he said he was going to kill the first person he met at the Social Security office in Keene.<br /><br />The office was closed as a precaution. The man was arrested at his home and charged with criminal threatening.<br /><br />He said he was frustrated and said something stupid.</span></p><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbB9InygjOI/AAAAAAAAA1I/mbI2yP78kP4/s1600-h/tinylogo.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309881547743071458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 52px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 47px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SbB9InygjOI/AAAAAAAAA1I/mbI2yP78kP4/s320/tinylogo.gif" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-498300362866970685?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-4776465728033943082009-03-03T20:30:00.003-06:002009-03-03T20:44:56.407-06:00<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-lOyZKmRRuI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-lOyZKmRRuI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets.<br /><br />27-year-old Fort Pierce resident Latreasa L. Goodman told authorities she paid for a 10-piece but was informed the restaurant had run out of the delectable goodies.<br /><br />She says she was refused a refund and told all sales were final. A cashier told police she offered Goodman a larger portion of different food for the same price, but Goodman became irate.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one," Goodman told police. "This is an emergency."<br /><br />Police say Goodman was cited on a misuse of 911 charge.<br /><br />A McDonald's spokesman says Goodman should have been given a refund, and she's being sent a gift card for a free meal.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Ms. Goodman's attorney was unable to comment while chewing on a Whopper.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2_NkPbs2ZBc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2_NkPbs2ZBc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMasters</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-477646572803394308?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-61898712138300484982009-03-02T18:41:00.008-06:002009-03-02T19:06:57.698-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SayCBGOGmEI/AAAAAAAAA04/i4GKp47O_Rs/s1600-h/fauatea.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308761016124217410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 176px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SayCBGOGmEI/AAAAAAAAA04/i4GKp47O_Rs/s320/fauatea.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Tittleman Fauatea, 25, was charged yesterday with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing of Asa Yamashita, a 43-year-old mother of two from Ewa.<br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div>Family members of the man accused of stabbing to death a popular Waianae High School educator on Friday described him as "weird" but said they do not think he is violent since stabbing a woman is not considered a violent act in Hawaii, traditionally.<br /><br />"I don't think he did 'em," said his niece Linga, who only gave her first name. "He usually keep to himself. He one mellow guy, just like my dad. And my dad never stabbed no one no how 'cept that one time. He was really mellow at the time, too."<br /><br />She added, "I know he not going do that for no reason. There probably was a reason why he went knife her. She probably asked him to do 'er."<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SayBTfe_IrI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/D6UdeCobhb8/s1600-h/fauatea.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308760232631935666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 176px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SayBTfe_IrI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/D6UdeCobhb8/s320/fauatea.jpg" border="0" /></a>According to a police affidavit released yesterday, on Friday before the stabbing, Fauatea went into Longs Drugs at Ewa Town Center (NOT a violent act) and purchased a foot-long kitchen knife (NOT a violent act). He handed a wad of money to the cashier (NOT a violent act) and walked off without the change (NOT a violent act). Then he went toward the Ewa Seed Co., unwrapping the knife, police said, noting that unwrapping a knife was not a violent act in itself.<br /><br />Yamashita was sitting on a bench eating a bowl of noodles when Fauatea knocked the noodles out of her hand and started stabbing her at about 1:45 p.m., police said. The noodles were unharmed and still edible, according to police.<br /><br />Yamashita stumbled into the Lovely Nails II salon for help, and Fauatea walked away from the shopping center with the knife. the Lovely Nails II salon noted they had a BOGOF special at the time.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SayBkLvCXOI/AAAAAAAAA0o/MsJMMTX-2hM/s1600-h/fauatea.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308760519388323042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 176px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SayBkLvCXOI/AAAAAAAAA0o/MsJMMTX-2hM/s320/fauatea.jpg" border="0" /></a>At 1:51 p.m. a police officer saw Fauatea kneeling in the right shoulder of Fort Weaver Road, makai of Geiger Road. The officer reported that as he pulled up, Fauatea raised his hands and placed them on the back of his head. Fauatea complied with orders and lay down. He was arrested without incident at 1:51 p.m. Does this sound like anyone other than a mellow man? Nope!<br /><br />Police found the knife believed to be used in the stabbing in the bushes on Geiger Road.<br /><br />Yamashita was taken to a hospital, where she died at 2:23 p.m. from unknown causes.<br /><br />Fauatea remained in custody yesterday in lieu (or "luau" as they say in Hawaii) of $500,000 bail.<br /><br />Linga said she knew her uncle only as "T-man" and that he used to baby-sit her and her older sister when she was under 10. He cooked and "did everything for us. He even taught us to whittle."<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SayB8TB8mZI/AAAAAAAAA0w/-UoutUiwxV0/s1600-h/fauatea.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308760933663545746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 176px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SayB8TB8mZI/AAAAAAAAA0w/-UoutUiwxV0/s320/fauatea.jpg" border="0" /></a>"I know he not that psycho," she said. "Everybody that meets him thinks that he's psycho. But that was Norman Bates at that hotel. Not T-man."<br /><br />Linga said he would tell her about his many girlfriends and would ask questions as if in the middle of a conversation.<br /><br />"He would just talk to you for no reason," she said.<br /><br />Surprisingly, family members also said Fauatea told them he spent time in Hawaii State Hospital in Kaneohe for people with mental illnesses.<br /><br />"When his dad passed away, that's when everything went downhill," Linga said without explanation. "Deep down, I know he didn't do 'em."<br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-6189871213830048498?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-41989803632137155362009-03-01T08:56:00.004-06:002009-03-01T09:01:39.597-06:00<span style="font-family:times new roman;">India is recognized as a world leader in promoting the health benefits of urine. No wonder, then, that India seeks to ensure its dominance by the end of the year as plans for a cow-urine-based soft drink are underway.<br /><br />Om Prakash, chief of the Cow Protection Department of the RSS organization (India's largest Hindu nationalist group), trying to reassure a Times of London reporter in February, promised, "It won't smell like urine and will be tasty, too." </span><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">He noted that medicinal herbs would be added and toxins removed. In addition to improved health, he said, India needs a domestic (and especially Hindu) beverage to compete with the foreign influence of Coca-Cola and Pepsi.</span></p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">So, Coca-Cola might be using India's clean water to manufacture the soft drink, but can it match this?</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">They call it Mellow Yellow.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Yeetlemaster</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-4198980363213715536?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-32890196446904187402009-02-28T09:37:00.000-06:002009-02-28T09:38:00.016-06:00<a href="http://us.loadedweb.com/local/wisconsin/milwaukee/" title="Local Directory for Milwaukee, WI"><img src="http://www.loadedweb.com/loadedweb.png" style="height:15px;width:80px;border:0" alt="Local Directory for Milwaukee, WI"></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3289019644690418740?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-31678881177420756742009-02-28T09:07:00.005-06:002009-02-28T09:25:26.375-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SalXKbXPAHI/AAAAAAAAA0I/iR67fHhYYTU/s1600-h/veggie+tales.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307869472488358002" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 285px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 264px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SalXKbXPAHI/AAAAAAAAA0I/iR67fHhYYTU/s320/veggie+tales.bmp" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">U.N. peacekeepers have upset harvesters on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus by preventing them from entering a buffer zone to gather asparagus.</span><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The buffer zone splits the island from east to west after Cyprus was divided in a Turkish invasion in 1974 triggered by a Greek-inspired coup. At the time, no one considered asparagus a politically charged issue. Today, it is.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Nicos Kotziambashis, leader of the Greek Cypriot village of Mammari which has been particularly hit hard by the U.N. bad, was livid.<br /><br />"This is unacceptable behavior and I have demanded that action is taken. The situation is explosive. My people are starving for asparagus."<br /><br />A U.N. spokesman responded, "It is not something we particularly like to do, but, unfortunately, if the asparagus is found in the buffer zone the peacekeepers have to do their job, which is to regulate access to that part of the territory. This is what U.N. peacekeeping is all about.You can't just let farmers grab up asparagus in a buffer zone!"<br /><br />Plentiful rains ensured a bumper crop of "aggrelia" this year exacerbating the standoff between soldiers and the army of locals who flock to pick asparagus, which tied in green and red burgundy bunches, sells for up to four euros at local markets - which is a lot of green.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3167888117742075674?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-51520860385050552252009-02-15T14:40:00.008-06:002009-02-15T15:17:25.145-06:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SZiF0zMp6_I/AAAAAAAAAz4/G9yJUxNogEE/s1600-h/0_21_450normal.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303135703371738098" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 249px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SZiF0zMp6_I/AAAAAAAAAz4/G9yJUxNogEE/s320/0_21_450normal.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A British bishop was arrested on suspicion of child cruelty after he helped his two young sons to perch on top of the chimney of their house - much like Dick Van Dyke as the chimney sweeper in Mary Poppins - to read a book as part of a school project to find an unusual to read a book.<br />A review of the school assignment revealed teachers had suggested as "unusual," places such as the Cliffs of Dover, next to a guard at the Buckingham Palace, atop the Globe Theater during a production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," and hidden within Bushy park.<br /><br />Bishop Jonathan Blake, of the Open Episcopal Church, took pictures of his sons Nathan, eight, and Dominic, seven, while they sat on top of their two-story home. Pictures Bishop Blake took show the children fearfully reading "The Killer Underpants."<br /><br />After a neighbor alerted the police, the clergyman said he was arrested, driven away in a cage in the back of a van and kept overnight in a cell. The children remained on the chimney as there was no one there to retrieve them.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SZiFlJqmG0I/AAAAAAAAAzo/ZARg06noqm4/s1600-h/bishopjonathanblake.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303135434524990274" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 180px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 222px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SZiFlJqmG0I/AAAAAAAAAzo/ZARg06noqm4/s320/bishopjonathanblake.jpg" border="0" /></a>"I was taken out in handcuffs in front of the whole neighborhood while my children were in tears," the 52-year-old said. "I am appalled and incredulous. I would never have imagined in a thousand years that a father would be found guilty of such an offense for merely placing his children on top of his chimney to read "The Killer Underpants."<br /><br />The children were wearing safety harnesses and were known to be strong fallers, he added. "Last year they fell the top of the stairs and suffered only minor injuries and attended school the next day."<br /><br />Blake said he would make an official complaint and has already contacted London police chief Paul Stephenson and Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who asked Blake if he had yet taken his children off the chimney.<br /><br />Blake had no comment.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-5152086038505055225?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-81979438706588616112009-01-24T06:56:00.004-06:002009-01-24T07:11:03.348-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXsTRTCeL1I/AAAAAAAAAzg/1IKXISKKQho/s1600-h/SabbaticGoat.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294846974793494354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 218px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXsTRTCeL1I/AAAAAAAAAzg/1IKXISKKQho/s320/SabbaticGoat.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXsSg2AflNI/AAAAAAAAAzY/Qe672ol6O1g/s1600-h/goatonapole.jpg"></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><div><br />Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.</div><br /><div>"The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However, one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat," Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed bleated.</div><br /><div>"We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat," he said. "We have ordered DNA tests."</div><br /><div>Residents came to the police station to see the goat, photographed in one national newspaper on its knees next to a pile of straw.</div><br /><div></div><div>The <a href="http://www.ndga.org/">Nigerian Dwarf Goat Association</a> has been contacted to help rescue the goat-man.</div><br /><div></div><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-8197943870658861611?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-29123221716008063032009-01-19T08:04:00.003-06:002009-01-19T08:42:55.422-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXSQlKyGBGI/AAAAAAAAAyM/wIZwc1SXRHo/s1600-h/holiday.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293014430291199074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 307px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXSQlKyGBGI/AAAAAAAAAyM/wIZwc1SXRHo/s320/holiday.bmp" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Today is National No More Bush Day - a holiday in which we celebrate the departure of George W. Bush for the rest of our lives. </span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">History books will show that George W. Bush was a tad better than most third world dictators! An accomplishment indeed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">On this holiday, we reflect on the historic accomplishments of George W. Bush's presidency.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Some activities which will help you and your family get the most from this holiday include:</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span> </p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span> </p><ul><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Shoot the possum</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Draw Texas</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Document Shredding</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Invade Your Neighbor</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Dubya Chanting</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Mission Accomplished</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Turn to the Right</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Drop the Dow</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Match the Threat With the Color</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Kiss a Saudi</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Find the Rice</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:times new roman;">and of course, to commemorate W's Vice President, the classic children's games, </span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Pin the Tail on the Quail and</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Mushroom Cloud</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The traditional holiday meal consists of crow, hotdogs, and the breakfast burrito. Traditional drinks include beer, light beer, and moonshine.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Enjoy National No More Bush Day, and remember, stay secure on this holiday.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-2912322171600806303?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-84509970267500031612009-01-18T06:44:00.008-06:002009-01-18T07:15:28.042-06:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXMojfScMpI/AAAAAAAAAx0/tc5_ozpgJ74/s1600-h/bipartisan%2520animal.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292618577249841810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXMojfScMpI/AAAAAAAAAx0/tc5_ozpgJ74/s320/bipartisan%2520animal.jpg" border="0" /></a>C<span style="font-family:times new roman;">Congressional Democrats, in an effort to make good on Barack Obama's pledge to provide millions more American children with health care coverage, has some crazy Republicans accusing Democrats of breaking the president-elect's promise - of bipartisanship. </span><div><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The health legislation would provide insurance coverage for an additional 4.1 million children, reducing the number of uninsured in the country by nearly half, according to FamiliesUSA, a nonprofit healthcare consumer group. (Bet they're not bipartisan!)</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div> </div><div>Currently nearly 7 million children are enrolled in the program. The increased spending for the expanded program will be financed by a 61-cents-a-pack increase in the federal cigarette tax. Taxes on other tobacco products would be increased as well. Republicans argue that consumers should pay the new taxes using a combination of coins depicting each president equally.</div><br /><div>The Senate is expected to act quickly on the legislation, which could become one of the first bills Obama signs into law after taking office on Tuesday.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">However, Senate Finance Committee Republicans said legislation approved by the committee on Thursday that would expand a popular children's health insurance program violated a spirit of bipartisanship that went into earlier versions of the legislation. </span></div><div> </div><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">This bears repeating.</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXMqG9PzgXI/AAAAAAAAAx8/BDr9rhW7wVs/s1600-h/poster.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292620286098899314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 291px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXMqG9PzgXI/AAAAAAAAAx8/BDr9rhW7wVs/s320/poster.gif" border="0" /></a>Senate Finance Committee Republicans said legislation approved by the committee on Thursday that would expand a popular children's health insurance program violated a spirit of bipartisanship that went into earlier versions of the legislation. </p><br /><div>Get it? Republicans from the committee that passed the bill are opposed to the passage of the bill because not enough Republicans voted for it.</div><br /><div></div><div>Do I need to repeat this? Good.<br /></div><br /><div>"That spirit of bipartisan partnership for low-income children appears to be disappearing before our very eyes. It's being replaced with partisan exploitation" said Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the usually collegial Finance Committee.<br /><br />He called it "damn disgusting." He noted that children have lived without health insurance since the dawn of time and the bill - though back by other Republicans - did not fit the sniff test for bipartisanship. "Bipartisanship means that I agree with the bill, too," grumbled Grassley, whose name seems appropriate for his district.<br /><br />Grassley said many Republicans (including he) will not be able to support the current children's health bill and that the way the Democratic majority handled the current bill "does not bode well" for how they will act on other major issues such as the broad health care reform promised by Obama. "Bottom line: if I don't sign off on it, it's not bipartisan. If it's not bipartisan, then it's a broken campaign promise. If it's a broken campaign promise, then we have grounds for Obama's impeachment. Period."<br /><br />Republicans also opposed an amendment that would drop a five-year ban on providing the children's health benefit to<strong> legal</strong> immigrants, which Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas called a "poison pill" that injects immigration, a divisive issue for Republicans, into the children's health debate. "Imagine the message this will send to illegal immigrants!"<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXMqreSfmDI/AAAAAAAAAyE/a4roaT9q-ng/s1600-h/reid.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292620913443838002" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 256px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXMqreSfmDI/AAAAAAAAAyE/a4roaT9q-ng/s320/reid.bmp" border="0" /></a>"We've been thrown underneath the bus," Roberts said. "Thrown in front of a train. Hung out to dry. Ignored. I want my mommy."<br /><br />The immigration provision brings the Senate bill more in line with a bill approved on Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives on a vote of 289-139. Forty Republicans joined majority Democrats in passing the bill.<br />But that's just not bipartisan enough for some folks. </div><div>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spokesman Jim Manley called the Republican charge that Democrats were playing politics with the children's health bill "ridiculous." He pointed to the number of Republicans voting for the House bill and said there was no reason the Senate version could not enjoy Republican support. </div><br /><div></div><div>"They're just acting like big babies so they can qualify for the benefits of this new plan," said Reid.</div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-8450997026750003161?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-30840519034361816172009-01-17T13:36:00.009-06:002009-01-17T14:20:56.258-06:00<div align="center"><strong> <br /> <br />...or won't we? <br /> <br /> <br /></div></strong><strong><p align="center"></strong></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292352598039705474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 282px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXI2pdhFt4I/AAAAAAAAAxk/_cpyw1gQ7So/s320/george-bush-middle-finger.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"></a><a href="http://black-house.freeonlinegames.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;color:#000000;"><strong>BLACK HOUSE</strong></span></a> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></p><a href="http://black-house.freeonlinegames.com/"></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-3084051903436181617?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-55901286538768049982009-01-16T07:09:00.006-06:002009-01-16T07:46:36.537-06:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXCJmiRRRQI/AAAAAAAAAxc/rzOBDAeUS3w/s1600-h/chile+model.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291880857287607554" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 210px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SXCJmiRRRQI/AAAAAAAAAxc/rzOBDAeUS3w/s320/chile+model.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Ricardo Oyarzun, a prominent fashion designer, has sparked outrage (OUTRAGE, I SAY!) in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary -- in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts. (NEAR-NAKED BREASTS!)</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><div><br />The Roman Catholic Church condemned Ricardo Oyarzun's plans for a show featuring the models on the same day the Pope declared that persons who claimed to see images of Jesus on toast were heretics.</div><div></div><br /><div>Oyarzun said he had received telephone threats and had excrement smeared on his doorstep - apparently NOT from someone who has appreciated his work. A woman maybe? A Catholic woman?</div><div><br />"There is no pornography here, there's no sex, there are no virgins menstruating (VIRGINS MENSTRUATING? HUH?) or feeling each other up," Oyarzun said ahead of the catwalk show set to be held at a Santiago nightclub later on Thursday. "This is artistic expression."</div><br /><div>He said his designs -- which include halos, look as though they come from a nativity scene and include religious icons -- were inspired by the Virgin Mary but not intended to represent her. "I guess every time you depict a woman with a halo in a nativity scene people automatically assume you're making a religious statement. I spit on these self-proclaimed critics of the arts!"</div><br /><div>Said Chile's Episcopal Conference, which includes Catholic bishops: "We look on with special pain (SPECIAL PAIN?) and deplore those acts which seek to tarnish manifestations of sincere love toward the Virgin Mary, which end up striking at the dignity of womankind by presenting her as an object of consumption as Jesus did."</div><br /><div>The show is more evidence that Chile, heavily influenced by the church for decades, is shaking off its reputation as one of the most socially conservative countries in Latin America - perhaps in the Northern Hemisphere. Or the world!<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div><em><br/>Disclaimer: Any objections to this article, sincere or not, should be directed to <strong>Eminence Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican City, Vatican</strong> along with pictures of altar boys.</em></div><br /><div></div><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-5590128653876804998?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-82066558970639551822009-01-13T19:00:00.006-06:002009-01-13T19:19:53.009-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SW08uv1rJkI/AAAAAAAAAxE/95-fX0I60ho/s1600-h/scuffle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290951911043442242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SW08uv1rJkI/AAAAAAAAAxE/95-fX0I60ho/s320/scuffle.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Edward R. Pluhar Jr. of Frankfort cut to the front of the line at the Wal-Mart service desk Sunday - ahead of Officer Chris Kirby, who was off-duty.</span> <div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><div>Kirby said Edward R. Pluhar, Jr. refused when asked to wait his turn. Pluhar's father, 61-year-old Edward R. Pluhar Sr., then asked Kirby if he wanted to step outside. That's when Kirby reportedly told the men he was a police officer. That is also when Pluhar, Sr. said, "So what?"</div><div><br />The two men went into the parking lot where they scuffled. In Indiana, scuffling is a form of physical combat in which one party attempts to subdue another party through a series of actions resembling a fist fight.</div><br /><div></div><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SW08zJwItII/AAAAAAAAAxM/6IdyL8hDHHM/s1600-h/uglydogface.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290951986719011970" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 308px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SW08zJwItII/AAAAAAAAAxM/6IdyL8hDHHM/s320/uglydogface.jpg" border="0" /></a>After some scuffling, other officers arrived and arrested both Pluhars - Jr. and Sr. They did not arrest their fellow officer.</div><br /><div>Pluhar Sr., however, gave a different version of events leading up to his arrest.</div><br /><div>"There's a helluva lot more to the story," he said. "More than you can imagine."</div><br /><div></div><div>Accordng to Pluhar, Sr., his son had waited in line for 25 minutes once and been sent by a clerk to exchange an item. When he returned, Pluhar Sr. said the clerk waved his son to the front of the line, and Kirby objected loudly, showing off his badge and proclaiming he was the strongest police officer in the galaxy.</div><br /><div>He said his son tried to explain the situation politely, but Kirby insulted him, then took a roundhouse swing at him, grabbed his purchase and smashed it onto the floor into small bits - at which point Pluhar Sr. asked Kirby to step outside - meaning, please leave the building, sir. But Kirby laughed at him and poked him in the eye with his middle finger. Pluhar Sr. also denied Kirby's claim that the older man threatened to shoot him. He said he and his son tried to walk away from the confrontation, but Kirby followed them outside with a pit bull.</div><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SW09JDc07FI/AAAAAAAAAxU/bJqXOF-4eOs/s1600-h/walmart%25202.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290952362984533074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SW09JDc07FI/AAAAAAAAAxU/bJqXOF-4eOs/s320/walmart%25202.jpg" border="0" /></a>"What I did was wrong, but that doesn't make what he did right," Pluhar said. "In Muncie, we call that a draw."</div><br /><div>Edward R. Pluhar Jr. was preliminarily charged with battery on a police officer, while his father was arrested on charges of intimidation and criminal recklessness with a weapon. </div><br /><div></div><div>Police said Pluhar backed into Kirby's leg as he attempted to leave the parking lot while Kirby was standing behind the vehicle, which against the rules of scuffling.</span></div><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></p></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-8206655897063955182?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-84196389102051456152009-01-10T10:21:00.005-06:002009-01-10T10:40:16.648-06:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SWjM0l7RocI/AAAAAAAAAw0/8nRIgt9SwJc/s1600-h/eternal-flame.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289702966252642754" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 237px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SWjM0l7RocI/AAAAAAAAAw0/8nRIgt9SwJc/s320/eternal-flame.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">An "eternal" flame at Bullhead City's new veterans memorial park that only lasted until city officials received a $961 gas bill has been re-lit following complaints by veterans groups.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><div><div><br />The Medal of Honor Memorial (left) at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Park alongside the Colorado River was lit on Veterans Day in November. When the bill arrived in late December, city officials were stunned.</div><div><br />"It caught us by surprise," City Manager Tim Ernster said Thursday. "What we decided to do for the time being is to turn the flame on ... for special events, for Veterans Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Ash Wednesday, Alternative Energy Steering Committee meeting, and National Spay Day - those types of activities."</div><br /><div>The flame was extinguished on Monday to the chagrin of city officials and disgruntled veterans who had worked to pay for and build the memorial before turning it over to the city.</div><div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SWjNIPWqTGI/AAAAAAAAAw8/-oGy_TCisog/s1600-h/veteran+memorial+shredder.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289703303790873698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 173px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SWjNIPWqTGI/AAAAAAAAAw8/-oGy_TCisog/s320/veteran+memorial+shredder.bmp" border="0" /></a>The flame was back on by midmorning Friday following a meeting of city officials.</div><br /><div>"What happened was really a miscommunication," city spokesman Steve Johnson said. "The issue came up one day, and it was never intended to be shut off - unless the bill was way too high for eternity."</div><br /><div>Johnson said the flame is impressive, but not so impressive to justify the cost. City parks officials are looking at ways to put a smaller burner in place and only use the larger one at special events - a smaller burner such as a Bic lighter, sternos, or even city officials gathered around lighting matches.</div><br /><div>"We're looking at alternatives, because $1,000 a month in these economic times is certainly a consideration," Johnson said. "Our eternal flame has definitely gone green."</div><br /><div></div><div><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-8419638910205145615?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-20693567977686668082009-01-07T06:24:00.005-06:002009-01-07T06:41:39.456-06:00<div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SWSiVnusdOI/AAAAAAAAAwk/K_5zLsMlFtI/s1600-h/nra.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288530354765591778" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 286px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 284px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SWSiVnusdOI/AAAAAAAAAwk/K_5zLsMlFtI/s320/nra.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">An Ohio boy, 4, apparently angry at 17-year-old Nathan Beavers for having such a ridiculous name and for telling him that the Disney Channel was a front for child prostitution, loaded a shotgun and fired it at Nathan, spraying pellets in his arm and leg. The children were in their grandmother's home at the time of the incident. Beavers is recovering at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus.<br /><br />The boy is in the custody of his parents "until we see what the prosecutor wants to do," Jackson County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jim Ephlin said. "He's the guy calling the shots right now."<br /><br />Prosecutor Jonathan Blanton said the shooting had a "weird, weird set of facts," not the least of which was the age of the boy, adding he doubted the 4-year-old would end up in the <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SWSieNi4FrI/AAAAAAAAAws/W5TG6NE0F3s/s1600-h/heston.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288530502355523250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 258px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SWSieNi4FrI/AAAAAAAAAws/W5TG6NE0F3s/s320/heston.bmp" border="0" /></a>juvenile justice system over the Sunday incident at grandma's house. "I highly doubt it," said Blanton. "But I've never prosecuted a 4-year old boy, either."<br /><br />The boy's father said counseling was being arranged for his son, adding he was shocked his son knew how to load and fire the shotgun. "Sure we let him watch, but we didn't know he was taking notes," said the father.<br /><br />"It was an accident. He just thought it was another toy gun," the father said. "Yea, that's it. An accident. Thought it was a toy."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The President of the NRA presented the lad with the NRA Presidents Award - an award given to a person or persons who have contributed their time, knowledge, and support to assure NRA fulfills its mission. </span></div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><br />Oddly, the ghost of Charleton Heston appeared to shake the boy's hand, then as quickly disappeared.</span> <div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-2069356797768666808?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-61210599378120724542009-01-02T10:44:00.003-06:002009-01-02T10:56:49.752-06:00<div align="center">Predictions for 2009</div><div align="center">Accurate. Reliable. Made up.</div><ul><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">There will be an assassination attempt on Barack Obama. Looks like this one may have happened before the 2009 date predicted. There was a neo-nazi assassination plot foiled on 27th October 2008. It still counts since I did not know of the attempt before now.<br/><br /></span></li><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><li>There will be serious tensions within Europe as the Euro free falls with both France and Germany threatening to leave and form their own Super European Union.<br/><br /></li><li>Gordon Brown will be forced out of office and an early election will be called. People all over the country will believe Gordon Brown is a Country and Western singer and will revolt in droves, staging a massive sit-in in Nashville.<br/><br /></li><li>A number of C of E bishops and senior ecclesiastical leaders convert to Catholicism simultaneously threatening to undermine the very existence of the church. The Catholic church will approach the U.S. government for a bailout.<br/><br /></li><li>There is a world wide rekindling of socialist ideals and a major swing back towards communism in Russia - as has always been the case.<br/><br /></li><li>There will be a major terrorist attack in Dubai or some other place.<br/><br /></li><li>There will be a serious pollution problem in France – possibly in Paris with the contamination of the River Seine where a serious pollution problem already exists. Also a dam will burst in the Far East – maybe China. Not a large dam, but a dam nonetheless. I'm seeing beavers...<br/><br /></li><li>Britain sees many of its top companies go bust and in particular holiday firms, aviation companies and the building companies. Given the global recession, this prediction is a stretch.<br/><br /></li><li>Victoria Beckham will become pregnant with a long awaited daughter. And Jordan will announce she’s pregnant too. As will many other women.<br/><br /></li><li>There will be a knife attack on a top celebrity - or not. </li></ul><br/>Have a great 2009!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">The YeetleMaster</a></span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-6121059937812072454?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-89454882402545493222008-12-31T09:47:00.005-06:002008-12-31T10:47:08.639-06:00<p></p><p align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"><strong>2009 is upon us, and what better way to celebrate the upcoming year than to witness the enslavement of humankind. Enjoy!</strong></span><br /></p></span><p align="left"><br /><object height="302" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2544519&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1"><br /><br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2544519&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="302"></embed></object></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The situational awareness mast (or Zippermast) from Geosystems Inc. is a telescoping linear actuator that can vertically translate a robot's sensor suite for better visibility. In this video, a Zippermast is affixed to an I-Robot Packbot.</span><br /><br /><object height="300" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2399789&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1"><br /><br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2399789&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Using a Persistence of Vision (POV) as a human-robot interface, this bot brings a sense of perspective hitherto unknown to our species.</span><br /><br /><object height="273" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2083784&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1"><br /><br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2083784&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="273"></embed></object></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Troody is a 16 DOF autonomously powered and controlled biped robot built to resemble a Troodon, a small carnivorous dinosaur that lived in the Cretaceous period. There is no practical need for a Troodon.</span></p><p align="left"><object height="321" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1950700&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1"><br /><br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1950700&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="321"></embed></object></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">This robot sports two DLR-III lightweight arms and two DLR-II hands. This makes it a powerful research platform for bi-manual manipulation - something I think everyone can get behind.</span><br /><br /><object height="300" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2300613&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1"><br /><br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2300613&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">PR 1 Robot Feeding Person. Well, the Matrix has to start somewhere. </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">It's just a matter of time.</span><br /></p><p align="left"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The YeetleMaster</span></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-8945488240254549322?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The YeetleMasternoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9839660.post-158189030088960172008-12-29T09:05:00.003-06:002008-12-29T09:27:11.432-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SVjr1qtrjNI/AAAAAAAAAwc/5J3NV6jClLQ/s1600-h/shu0308l.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285233469950758098" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 273px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SVjr1qtrjNI/AAAAAAAAAwc/5J3NV6jClLQ/s320/shu0308l.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Pubic Health found that teens who take virginity pledges are just as likely to have sex as teens who don't make such promises -- and they're less likely to practice safe sex to prevent disease or pregnancy. The findings were authored by Janet E. Rosembaum and were published in the January issue of the journal Pediatrics.</span><br /><br /><div><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"Previous studies found that pledgers were more likely to delay having sex than non-pledgers," said Dr. Rosenbaum. "I used the same data as previous studies but a different statistical method - the less reliable Euclidean method which forms data into geometric shapes."</span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><p>This method allowed Rosenbaum to compare those who had taken a virginity pledge with similar teens who hadn't taken a pledge but were likely to delay having sex, she said. She added that she didn't include teens who were unlikely to take a pledge because they were less likely to be virgins anyway. </p><br /><p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SVjrxjLm8kI/AAAAAAAAAwU/oqa-yYp_UO0/s1600-h/CCR16606W.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285233399209325122" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-6oVJ521JiA/SVjrxjLm8kI/AAAAAAAAAwU/oqa-yYp_UO0/s320/CCR16606W.jpg" border="0" /></a>"Virginity pledgers and similar non-pledgers don't differ in the rates of vaginal, oral or anal sex or any other sexual behavior," Rosenbaum said. "Strikingly, pledgers are less likely than similar non-pledgers to use condoms and also less likely to use any form of birth control. Oddly enough, it was the pledgers who went for the really kinky sex - bestiality especially."</p><p>Teens who had taken a pledge had a statistically insignificant 0.1 fewer sex partners during the past year, but the same number of partners overall as those who had not pledged. "A 0.1 sex partner is really just masturbation," she noted.</p><p>The study also found that, five years after taking a virginity pledge, more than 80 percent of pledgers denied ever making such a promise. Said one pledger, "My Dad made me pledge. That doesn't count."</p><p>Dr. Rosenbaum said teens who are religious tend to delay having sex, but that has nothing to do with virginity pledges or abstinence-only sex education programs. "Religious teens fear more demonic possession and virginal sacrifices than sex," said Dr. Rosenbaum.</p></span><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">In a related study, funded by the government, it was found that the primary cause for teenage pregnancy was sex.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.yeetle.com/">YeetleMaster</a></span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9839660-15818903008896017?l=yeetle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>