Yes, it's the one we've all been waiting for ... the Darwin Awards. The candidates have finally been released! For those not familiar with the Darwin Award, It's an annual honor given to the person who provided the Universal human gene pool the biggest service by getting KILLED in the most extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition again this year has been keen.
DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES
* In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
* In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran," accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff on his daily run.
* Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the h ole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
* In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.
* According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was trying to prove that a knife c ould not penetrate the flak vest Berrena was wearing.
* Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in February in Selbyville, Del, as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.
* In February, according to police in Windsor, Ontario, Daniel Kolta, 27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a tie in the game of chicken they were playing with their snowmobiles.
DARWIN AWARD HONORABLE MENTIONS
* In Guthrie, Okla, in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede with a shot from his 22 caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head, fracturing his skull.
* In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean out cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a broom in favor of a propane torch and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his house.
* Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, NJ, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently failed to notice the window was closed.
RUNNER UP....
TACOMA, WA
Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 am. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay nearby. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham's leg and the oth er end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy river water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. "All I can say, " said Bingham, "is that God was watching out for me on that night." "There's just no other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located.
AND THE WINNER....
PADERBORN, GERMANY
Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him. "The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him" said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. 'with no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that "$hit happens."
I helped my 12 yr old son do a good deed yesterday. He found a baby sparrow that was still alive. It had a lot of its feathers, so we called around to see if we could find a bird rescue're we where able to and we got it over to her.
A horse and a chicken were playing in a meadow. The horse fell into a mud hole and is started to sink. The horse instructed the chicken to get the farmer so that he could be pulled to safety. The chicken ran to the farm but the farmer was nowhere to be found. Without a moment to spare, the chicken got into the farmer's BMW and drove back to the mud hole. Then, the chicken tied some rope around the bumper, threw the other end of the rope to her friend, the horse, and proceeded to pull the horse to safety.
A few days later, the chicken and the horse were playing in the meadow again. This time around, the chicken fell into the mud hole. The chicken instructed the horse to get the farmer so that she could be pulled to safety.
Replied the horse, "Here's the plan... I'll stand over the hole..." The horse stretched over the length of the hole and continued, "Now, just grab for my penis and pull yourself to saftey."
The chicken obliged reluctantly and pulled herself to safety.
The moral of the story: If you're hung like a horse, you don't need a BMW to pick up chicks.
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A hillbilly was in jail serving 30 years for robbing banks. After serving about 12, he's notified that his Uncle Joe from Chicago has died and left him over $100,000.
The hillbilly was so happy when the warden gave him the news, that he made a promise to put the money in a trust fund until he was released. The warden asked him if there was anything he wanted to buy before tying up the money.
The hillbilly said he had read a lot about computers and wanted a PC. The warden agreed and got him a computer -- a brand new Compaq. After a few weeks, the warden visited him in his cell to see how he was doing. To his amazement, he saw the computer smashed on the floor.
The warden asked the hillbilly what happened and the prisoner said it didn't work properly and that it wouldn't even complete the simplest of tasks.
The warden asked him what he wanted the computer to do, so the hillbilly replied, "I hit the Escape key and nuthin' happened!"
I quoted the following from a foxnews.com news article about women in the military(and Im sure I will get heat for what I say after this quote):
[LINE] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,123011,00.html [i]Members of Congress got an eyeful last month when they reviewed the hundreds of photos at the center of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, and reported seeing images of sexual activity between American men and women.
The number of pregnancies occurring in the theater of Operation Iraqi Freedom are difficult to track, mainly because, according to the Pentagon and the individual branches of service, no one is collecting the data. But for months, soldiers and officials have been quietly reporting that the pregnancies are growing in number.[/i][LINE]
I can tell you why this is happening. In any other part of the world where our military has been stationed there wasn’t a problem of Female American military personal getting pregnant for two reasons.
1. They had readably accessible birth control whether it is the pill or condoms
2. There are local prostitutes that male military members can frequent.
But being as they are in an Arab world supposedly there aren’t any prostitutes so where to the men go; well they go to the American women.
The women are afraid to ask for birth control pills or condoms...not because of being ashamed about their sexuality, it’s because the brass would look down on the fact they are dealing with human beings and they have urges.
Soooo....they take chances and they end up getting pregnant.
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When I was in the Marines years ago I went to Japan in '87. Two (I think it was just two) Airforce women and one female Marine were convicted of prostitution. According to the article if I remember correctly they had started a side business where they were making good money. The only reason they got caught was because some guy got to drunk and at a unit function that one of the gals happened to be part of and he let slip what she did on the side.
But I wonder if any of the gals over there are doing the same? I’m not condemning it or condoning it, just wondering if it’s happening.
The Problem with having an affair is the possible emotional involvment. Sure it might start out just as sex, but then it will get all emotional which just makes hard to with draw from the affair.
The problem with hiring an escort of course is the cost. Not only that its going to cost you money for her services. But what if she isnt very good? Then you have spent well earned money on a bad experience.
But sometimes you have to deal with that.
So you tell me which would be better, an affair or hiring an escort.
PASSIONATE LOVER. You love to love, always looking for a relationship. You cannot live without it. Your lover must be passionate and you want that you and your partner melt into each other. He/She should not try to take the domination . You dont want a relationship without passion, and the sexuality plays a big part. The first moment you meet him/her is one of the most important. There has to be something between you , you cannot explain. From the first moment on everything must fix. But when this passion disappears you disappear to. For you it is better to leave than to see your love restrained.
PLEASE VOTE, I want to know what you think about my quiz, I worked hard on it.You can always message me or tell me how I can improve that quiz. Ill sure write back.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - News reports that the last widow of a Civil War soldier had died last month in Alabama prompted relatives of an Arkansas woman to verify her claims, kept private for decades, that her late husband also was a veteran of that conflict.
Now the United Daughters of the Confederacy recognizes Maudie Celia Hopkins as a surviving widow of a Civil War soldier - and the group says there may be others like her still alive.
Hopkins married 86-year-old William M. Cantrell on Feb. 2, 1934, after he hired the 19-year-old to clean his house. But she says she never talked about it much.
"I thought people would gossip about it and say, 'Oh, she married an old man, she married an old man.' I thought that if I didn't talk about it, people would keep their mouths shut," Hopkins, 89, of Lexa, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview on Monday.
Last month, Alberta Martin of Elba, Ala., died at age 97. News reports, including those of the AP, described her as the last widow of a Civil War veteran.
Dr. Kenneth Chancey, an Alabama dentist who was Alberta Martin's caretaker, said Tuesday he was unaware of Hopkins' claim until Sunday, when he received an e-mail from a friend. He said a number of Confederate heritage groups all believed Martin was the last surviving widow based on research and the lack of similar claims from anyone else.
"It was really a shocker to me, but a delightful shock that there's another one," Chancey said.
When Hopkins' relatives heard the reports, they talked to Confederate historians, who researched Hopkins' story through the UDC research library, Arkansas pension records and U.S. Census Bureau data.
"It was an easy thing to prove. The only thing was proving the links by finding her marriage licenses and other records," said Glenn Railsback, president of the Arkansas Society of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars.
Patsy Limpus, president general of the Richmond, Va.,-based UDC, said her organization is processing paperwork to make Hopkins a member and possibly qualify her for survivor's benefits.
"The proof is there that she was a Confederate widow," she said.
Hopkins told the AP she married Cantrell to escape poverty.
"My mother and daddy had a bunch of kids and it was hard times back then. My daddy couldn't make a living for us and I didn't have no shoes," she said.
She said Cantrell supported her with his Confederate pension of "$25 every two or three months" and that Cantrell left her his home when he died in 1937.
"After Mr. Cantrell died I took a little old mule he had and plowed me a vegetable garden and had plenty of vegetables to eat. It was hard times; you had to work to eat," she said.
The pension benefits ended at Cantrell's death, according to Baxter County records filed with the state Pension Board.
Railsback said it wasn't uncommon for young women in Arkansas to marry Confederate veterans with military pensions - until the state Legislature passed laws restricting and then prohibiting delivery of pension benefits to young women who quickly became widows.
Railsback traced Cantrell's military service to Company A, French's Battalion, of the Virginia Infantry. Cantrell enlisted at age 16 in Pikeville, Ky., and was captured at Piketon, Ky., in 1863, and sent to Ohio where he was later exchanged for a Northern prisoner.
Hopkins said she had fond memories of her first husband.
"I sure took care of him like he was a baby and he was as good to me as I was him. He was lonely and that's the reason he wanted to get married," she said.
I[i] hope when he gets in prison they put him in general population by mistake. So the sorry son of bitch can be raped and beaten for doing what he did to his daughter.
I hate fucking assholes like this. I personally feel that with people like this, they have no rights at all. To abuse a child like that is horrible enough, but then for it to be your own daughter. He deserves what he gets in prison and much more. He hopefully won't live to see 25 years in prison.[/i] [LINE]
SYRACUSE, New York (AP) -- A man was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for raping his 11-year-old daughter, who hanged herself shortly afterward.
Timothy Lucie, 46, was convicted last month of rape, sodomy and child endangerment.
He stood stoically as Onondaga County Judge William Walsh imposed the maximum back-to-back sentences of 25 years to life for the rape and sodomy charges.
He was accused of sexually assaulting his daughter, Valerie, in the shower at their Syracuse home on September 30.
Hours later, her 8-year-old brother found her hanging from her bedpost by a dog collar and leash in what police said was an apparent suicide.
A furniture business owner, Lucie confessed to the rape after a six-hour interrogation on October 13.
He then recanted as police prepared to put the confession on videotape.
Lucie claimed his confession was coerced by police, who he said threatened to arrest his wife and take away his four younger sons if he didn't admit to the sexual attack.
Marine Hero Dies by Lance Cpl. Adam J. Tustin Marine Corps News June 09, 2004
MARINE FORCES RESERVE, New Orleans -- Raymond M. Clausen, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, passed away at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas May 30 at the age of 56 due to liver failure.
A funeral service for Clausen was held at the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Ponchatoula, La. June 7. A military burial with 21-gun salute and a fly-over by CH-46 helicopters followed the service at Ponchatoula City Cemetery, where old and young Marines gathered to honor their fallen comrade.
The Louisiana native enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves on May 27, 1966. He served as a helicopter crew chief in Vietnam with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. On Jan. 31, 1970 Pfc. Clausen participated in the rescue of a Marine platoon that had been stranded in a minefield. Once Clausen's helicopter had safely landed, and against orders from his superior officer, Clausen ventured into the minefield six times, bringing 18 Marines to safety.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, President Richard M. Nixon awarded Clausen the Congressional Medal of Honor on June 15, 1971. As Nixon presented the medal to Clausen, he shook his hand and said, "Well done Marine." Clausen was the only aviation Marine to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor for service during Vietnam.
Clausen was one of the remaining 132 veterans alive today who received a Congressional Medal of Honor. A complete list of his medals and decorations include: Congressional Medal of Honor, the Air Crewman Insignia with three Gold Stars; and 98 Strike Flights Awards of the Air Medal, The Combat Action Ribbon, the Purple Heart, the Presidential Unit Citation, the Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal with one silver and one bronze star, the Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, the Vietnam Campaign Medal with device, and the Rifle Sharpshooter Badge.
Clausen is survived by his wife of 28 years, Lois Clausen. Donations may be made to the Mike Clausen Memorial Fund at the First Community Bank in Hammond, La. For more information contact Vivian Brown at 985-429-9899.
On the first day of college, the Dean addressed the students, pointing out some of the rules:
"The female dormitory will be out-of-bounds for all male students, and the male dormitory to the female students. Anybody caught breaking this rule will be fined $20 the first time." He continued, "Anybody caught breaking this rule the second time will be fined $60. Being caught a third time will cost you a fine of $180. Are there any questions?" At this point, a male student in the crowd inquired:
The other day I posted an article I found on the net about a food fight that happened in Woodbury, New York. http://www.tblog.com/template... Well it seems like some students in Waterbury Conn. had the same Idea. Read it and shake your head. Next thing you know they are going to start chargeing kids with being terrorists.
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Food Fight Leads to Riot, Then Jail, for Seventh-Graders
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A food fight that started with a fruit cup turned into a mealtime melee, serving up a full plate of arrests and injuries.
Seven seventh-graders were arrested after a spat in a middle school cafeteria left two teachers and a detective with injuries Wednesday.
The incident began at West Side Middle School (search) after a girl dumped a fruit cup over a boy's head, police said. The two started fighting, then other students joined in, some jumping on tables and throwing food, police said.
"What was described as a riot situation developed in the cafeteria," Sgt. Christopher Corbett said.
A detective and two teachers suffered minor injuries breaking up the melee.
Three girls and fours boys ranging in age from 12 to 14 were arrested on charges including breach of peace, assault and inciting a riot. All seven were released to their parents after promising to appear in juvenile court.
This would cover some of the gals at where I work.
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A well-stacked young advertising secretary wore tight knit dresses that showed off her figure, especially when she walked.
Her young, aggressive boss motioned her into his office one afternoon and closed the door. Pointing to her tightly covered derriere, he asked, "Is that for sale?"
"Of course not!" she snapped angrily, blushing furiously. Unchanged, he replied quietly, "Then, I suggest you quit advertising it."
WOODBURY, New York -- (AP) -- Some 300 teenagers waged a food fight in their school cafeteria so fierce that educators had to call police to help them restore order.
The students at Monroe-Woodbury High School, about 40 miles north of New York City, had ignored school officials' attempts to end the disturbance.
With officers standing by, the teens were ushered out of the cafeteria and into the gymnasium, where school officials tried to determine who instigated the melee. A surveillance video also was being reviewed to determine those responsible.
Nine police cruisers from three agencies, including state police, responded to the call , the Times Herald Record of Middletown reported Friday.
No one was injured during the fight.
When asked by the newspaper what was on the menu, district Superintendent Terrence Olivo replied, "Whatever's on the floor."
On Wednesday, at a middle school in Waterbury, Connecticut, seven seventh-graders -- three girls and four boys -- were arrested after a food fight in a middle school cafeteria left two teachers and a detective with minor injuries. The charges included breach of peace, assault and inciting a riot. All were released to their parents after promising to appear in juvenile court.
Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/06/ 12/food.fight/index.html" title="http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/06/ 12/food.fight/index.html" target="_blank"http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/No...
AUGUST: Loves to joke. Attractive. Suave and caring. Brave and fearless. Firm and has leadership qualities. Knows how to console others. Too generous and egoistic. Takes high pride of oneself. Thirsty for praises. Extraordinary spirit. Easily angered. Angry when provoked. Easily jealous. Observant. Careful and cautious. Thinks quickly. Independent thoughts. Loves to lead and to be led. Loves to dream. Talented in the arts, music and defense. Sensitive but not petty. Poor resistance against illnesses. Learns to relax. Hasty and trusty. Romantic. Loving and caring. Loves to make friends .
WASHINGTON - Mike Clausen Jr., 56, who died in a Dallas hospital May 30 of liver failure, received the Medal of Honor, the highest military award for valor, for rescuing a platoon of Marines trapped in a minefield during the Vietnam War.
In the Marine Corps, Clausen liked to disobey authority; he had repeatedly been demoted after every promotion.
"I will come home a live private before coming home as a dead sergeant," he had said.
On Jan. 31, 1970, he seemed to have forgotten his credo.
That day, he was serving with Medium Helicopter Squadron 263.
He was part of a mission to extract members of a Marine platoon near Da Nang who had wandered into a minefield while attacking the enemy.
They were under heavy fire and frozen in their places, fearing that they would trip a mine.
Clausen was crew chief of his CH-46 helicopter and guided the pilot to a safe landing in a spot that had been cleared by a mine explosion.
The pilot told him not to leave, but Clausen ignored him - six times, as he repeatedly left the safety of the helicopter to help carry back one dead and 11 wounded Marines to the aircraft.
He then tried to lead the eight remaining Marines to the copter.
On one trip, while he carried a wounded man, a mine went off, killing a corpsman and wounding three other Marines.
"Only when he was certain that all Marines were safely aboard did he signal the pilot to lift the helicopter," read his Medal of Honor citation.
His other decorations included the Purple Heart and the Air Medal.
He once told an interviewer that the Americans pinned down in the minefield mistakenly thought he knew where he was going.
A newlywed couple had only been married for two weeks. The husband, although very much in love, couldn't wait to go out on the town and party with his old buddies.
So, he said to his new wife, "Honey, I'll be right back." "Where are you going, coochy coo?" asked the wife. "I'm going to the bar, pretty face. I'm going to have a beer."
The wife said, "You want a beer, my love?" She opened the door to the refrigerator and showed him 25 different kinds of beer, brands from 12 different countries: Germany, Holland, Japan, India, etc.
The husband didn't know what to do, and the only thing that he could think of saying was, "Yes,lolly pop...but at the bar...you know..they have frozen glasses..." He didn't get to finish the sentence, because the wife interrupted him by saying, "You want a frozen glass, puppy face?" She took a huge beer mug out of the freezer, so frozen that she was getting chills just holding it.
The husband, looking a bit pale, said, "Yes, tootsie roll, but at the bar they have those hors d'oeuvres that are really delicious... I won't be long, I'll be right back. I promise. OK?" "You want hors d'oeuvres, poochi pooh?" She opened the oven and took out 5 dishes of different hors d'oeuvres: chicken wings, pigs in blankets, mushroom caps, pork strips, etc.
"But my sweet honey... at the bar... you know... there's swearing, dirty words and all that..." You want dirty words, cutie pie?..
"LISTEN UP, DICKHEAD! DRINK YOUR FUCKING BEER IN YOUR GODDAMN FROZEN MUG AND EAT YOUR MOTHERFUCKING SNACKS, BECAUSE YOU ARE MARRIED NOW, YOU AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE! GOT IT, ASSHOLE?"
and, they lived happily ever after. Isn't that a sweet story?
Its nice to know that this doesnt only happen to men. LOLOL
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Aberdeen, Scotland, Jun. 9 (UPI) -- A woman, whose clothes were stolen while she was having sex in a park, had to walk through downtown Aberdeen, Scotland, covered in only a newspaper.
The Daily Record reported Wednesday that once the woman reached her apartment she had to call police to gain entry, because her roommate was out. However, her roommate is also her boyfriend and once he returned, the 23-year-old woman had to explain how she lost her clothes and the key that was in her jacket pocket.
A source told the Record the couple had a fight earlier in the evening and the woman had gone to a club where she met the man she had been with in the park.
Can a couple enjoy a steak dinner in a topless club?
Managua - A Nicaraguan man, despondent over his wife who abandoned him, severed his penis with a machete after failing to cut his throat and his wrists, local news media reported on Tuesday.
Thirty-five-year-old Jose Castillo entered a hospital emergency room in Jinotepe, south of Managua with his severed penis in hand, but surgeons could not reattach it, family members told local media.
Family members said Castillo attempted suicide after is wife abandoned him for another man.
He remains in serious condition and under suicide watch after telling relatives that he would try again if he gets the chance.
After SheSpecies mentioned that I was basically embalming my body by drinking Diet Soda, I went to a web site for a magazine that I received a solication for last night.
This website purports to debunk bad science so I did a search on aspartame and here is what I found.
NutraSweet and Brain Tumors John W. Olney, Nuri B. Farber, Edward Spitznagel and Lee N. Robins J Neuropath Exp Neuro 1996;55(11):1115-1123
In Science Without Sense, I said that to assess [risk] for success, the cardinal rule is always PICK THE RIGHT RISK.
Moreover, in the Chapter 1 section titled "Reducing or Eliminating Risk Should Involve No Perceptible Personal Sacrifice," I specifically stated Don't pick a risk that would require people to sacrifice something near and dear to them. That means fast food, sweets or artificial sweeteners.
I guess Olney et al.'s copies of the book must have gotten lost in the mail or they didn't read them carefully enough. Boy, did they pick the WRONG risk.
Olney et al. have attempted to set off a scare about aspartame, the artificial sweetner known commonly as NutraSweet.
Olney et al. correlate an increase in brain tumor incidence during the 1980s with the increased use of aspartame in diet foods. They claim this correlation is biologically plausible because laboratory rats fed aspartame (in toxicology studies done for the FDA approval process) had an increased incidence of brain tumors. They also claim that aspartame can be changed chemically (nitrosylated) into chemical compounds that are associated with producing brain tumors in animals. Now, as I said, if you pick the wrong risk, you can count on your scare (and your career) going nowhere. Olney et al.'s NutraSweet scare will soon be heading into the junk science annals of oblivion. Here are some of the reasons why.
It is physiologically impossible for aspartame to be a carcinogen. Asparatame is metabolized by the body into comon dietary components, including amino acids. Aspartame never enters the blood stream.
No exposure data. Olney et al. have no data that show that any of the people who got brain cancer during the 1980s consumed any aspartame.
Faulty correlation between brain cancer incidence and aspartame consumption increase. The increase in brain cancer since 1973 has since been leveling off. In contrast, since 1981, consumption of aspartame has skyrocketed. (I had two Diet Cokes while writing this!). Rats! The laboratory rats used to test aspartame were Sprague-Dawley rats — rats that are genetically programmed to get cancer just by living. According to Dr. Adalbert Koestner, an expert in brain tumor pathology from Ohio State University, the reported incidence in brain tumors among the rats was "well within the range of spontaneous brain tumors" normally experienced by Sprague-Dawley rats.
As if the facts weren't enough, the public health research community is now piling on the battered Olney et al. study. Dr. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, and Dr. Paul Levy, Professor and Director, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, are just two of those piling on.
Like the 1993 cellular telephone scare, the aspartame scare will fade away. Although the public is susceptible to some junk science, NutraSweet is too near-and-dear to our hearts. We like that we can eat and drink things with low or no calories. It keeps us slim. Obesity is a far greater health problem than brain cancer will ever be. Finally, NutraSweet permits diabetics to enjoy sweets. Shame on Olney et al. for not heeding Science Without Sense. But maybe it's not their fault. After all, I did run out of copies of my book.
Aspartame and the internet Correspondence Copyright 1999 The Lancet July 3, 1999
Sir--Patients at our diabetes clinic have raised concerns about information on the internet about a link between the artificial sweetener aspartame and various diseases. Our research revealed over 6000 websites that mention aspartame, with many hundreds alleging aspartame to be the cause of multiple sclerosis, lupus erythematosis, Gulf War syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, brain tumours, and diabetes mellitus, among many others. Virtually all of the information offered is anecdotal, from anonymous sources and is scientifically implausible.
Aspartame, a dipeptide composed of phenylalanine and aspartic acid linked by a methyl ester bond, is not absorbed, and is completely hydrolysed in the intestine to yield the two constituent aminoacids and free methanol. Opponents of aspartame suggest that the phenylalanine and methanol so released are dangerous. In particular, they assert that methanol can be converted to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, and thus cause metabolic acidosis and neurotoxicity.
Although a 330 mL can of aspartame-sweetened soft drink will yield about 20 mg methanol, an equivalent volume of fruit juice produces 40 mg methanol, and an alcoholic beverage about 60-100 mg. The yield of phenylalanine is about 100 mg for a can of diet soft drink, compared with 300 mg for an egg, 500 mg for a glass of milk, and 900 mg for a large hamburger.1 Thus, the amount of phenylalanine or methanol ingested from consumption of aspartame is trivial, compared with other dietary sources. Clinical studies have shown no evidence of toxic effects and no increase in plasma concentrations of methanol, formic acid, or phenylalanine with daily consumption of 50 mg/kg aspartame (equivalent to 17 cans of diet soft drink daily for a 70 kg adult).1,2
The antiaspartame campaign purports to offer an explanation for illnesses that are prominent in the public eye. By targeting a manufactured chemical agent, and combining this with pseudoscience and selective reporting, the campaign makes complex issues deceptively simple. Sensational website names (eg, aspartamekills.com) grab the browser's attention and this misinformation is also widely disseminated via chat groups and chain e-mail.
People consult the internet about medical issues for various reasons and many users regard online sources as being authoritative and valid. The medical profession has a role in teaching our patients to be discriminating consumers of the information offered there. *Anthony Zehetner, Mark McLean
Department of Endocrinology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney NSW 2145, Australia 1 Aspartame. In: Gelman CR, Rumack BH, Hess AJ, eds. DRUGDEX® System. Englewood, Colorado: MICROMEDEX, 1998. Edition expires 1999. 2 Anon. ADA position statement: use of noncaloric sweeteners. Diabetes Care 1991; 14 (suppl 2): 28-29.
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Here is the link to the results of my search for aspartame on Junkscience.com
As he made his weekly trips to the veterans hospitals in Colorado and Wyoming, Howard Schnauber never mentioned the scar on his stomach made by a Japanese bayonet. Another bayonet scar was more noticeable - it wrapped around his hand. He still carried 50-year-old pieces of shrapnel in his head, and he was missing a kneecap.
But the old Marine's regular trips to the hospitals weren't for himself. Instead, the man with four Purple Hearts was inevitably the one driving someone else to the doctor, doing the same thing he learned during bloody island battles in the Pacific: watching out for his buddies.
"He was inside the (Disabled American Veterans) office one day, and they asked if anyone could drive another veteran to the hospital for an appointment," said Neva Schnauber, his wife of 50 years. "In the next 2 ½ years, he put more than 100,000 miles on his car."
For more than a decade longer - until he was unable to drive - Mr. Schnauber would regularly pick up ailing veterans in Estes Park, Fort Collins, Loveland and Berthoud and shuttle them to the Veterans Affairs hospitals in Denver and Cheyenne.
"He just saw the need. That's the way he was with everything. If there was need, he was there to fill it," his son Brian said. "He was never anyone to stand back and watch someone else take the lead."
Howard Schnauber died May 7 in Fort Collins of complications from a fall. He was 82.
He spent the first seven years of his life in an orphanage in New York. He spent the next seven years with an adoptive family.
At 14, he went to work on nearby farms and, soon after, for the Civilian Conservation Corps. The day after the Pearl Harbor attack, he joined the Marine Corps and soon was headed for some of the most brutal fighting of the war.
As part of the 1st Marine Division, he landed on Guadalcanal, where he was one of only two men from his platoon to survive.
He later landed at Peleliu, where the Marines suffered more than 6,000 casualties, many of them in fierce hand-to-hand combat. During the battle, Schnauber's head was peppered with shrapnel; after being sent back to the United States for recovery, he served for the remainder of the war as a Marine guard at the White House.
In a 1994 oral history interview for the Fort Collins Public Library Local History Archive, Mr. Schnauber opened up about some of the things he remembered, and some he wished he could forget.
"We saw a lot of things that a human body shouldn't see - the type of things that stay with you the rest of your life," he told interviewer Rheba Massey.
"Maybe God kind of messed up when he made the human body. Why didn't he put a device in there that would let you forget what happened 50 years ago? Today I don't even know what I did yesterday, but I can remember what happened. These are the things that, in later years in life, come back to bother you."
After World War II, he enlisted in the Army and was sent to Korea as a tank commander; during a battle, his kneecap was blown apart. He was sent to Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, where he saw the Colorado mountains for the first time, and he vowed never to leave.
In 1953 he married a young woman he met while working at a gas station, and who would help him escape from his recurring nightmares of the war. He found solace in the outdoors, where he hunted, fished and camped with Neva and their sons, Gary, Brian and Daniel. He found a job with the Colorado State Parks and worked his way up to park manager of Boyd Lake State Recreation Area.
Soon he had another passion to go with his fervent patriotism: protection of the environment and, especially, water resources. In his spare time, he spoke to schools about the war history none of them knew, and he helped start the program to transport veterans to doctors' appointments.
When he was alone, he retreated to Louis L'Amour novels. He read them in his home, under numerous pictures of wolves in the wild.
"He loved the wolf family," his wife said. "And I think part of that was the freedom."
As a young soldier, shortly after the war, Mr. Schnauber began a poem he called My Name is Old Glory. The poem, told from the point of view of the American flag, eventually found its way through military circles.
It was and is used frequently in military funeral services and was included recently in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul of America.
At his funeral last week at Fort Logan National Cemetery, his family brought the poem that has been repeated at so many funerals:
[b]"I have been a silent witness to all of America's finest hours," [/b]the poem reads. [b]"But my finest hour comes when I am torn into strips to be used for bandages for my wounded comrades on the field of battle/When I fly at half-mast to honor my soldiers/And when I lie in the trembling arms of a grieving mother at the graveside of her fallen son/I am proud/My name is Old Glory/Dear God - Long may I wave."[/b]
Copyright 2004, Rocky Mountain News. All Rights Reserved.
At the beginning of a safari in deep Africa, the grizzled tour guides could not help but notice a beautiful single woman join the group. At lunch the woman temptingly approached the three men and said, "You men must have some amazing stories to tell." The men quickly sought to impress the woman. The first stood up and in grand fashion said, "I once wandered upon a gorilla, a Silverback no less, as strong as five men. Somehow I had offended it and it came at me. My first thought was to flee but survival instincts kicked in. I became almost possessed and charged the beast with the power and strength of legend. I somehow grabbed the beast around the neck, it felt like a tree trunk but I snapped it like a twig!" The man then declared in a loud voice, "To this day I fear no animal in all of Africa!"
The second man stood up and said, "A Silverback I could only wish, no, I faced an ordeal much worse." He turned toward the woman and said quietly, "A few summers ago I was alone about 500 yards from a small village and my jeep had a flat, and I was fixing it. Suddenly I felt what I thought was an earthquake. I looked to the south and saw a cloud of dust, and instantly knew what it was. The African Bull elephant is the largest land animal in the world and about 50 of them were stampeding toward me!
With nowhere to go I climbed to the top of the jeep and waited. As they closed I thought of not myself but the small village of women and children nearby. With nerves of steel I waited until they got within range and leapt. With incredible luck I landed on the lead elephant."
The man knelt before the woman and continued, "With courage of my ancestors and the strength of Hercules himself, I wrapped my legs around the enormous mammal's upper body. I then grabbed his ears and somehow guided him slightly to the left. That was enough of a change to remove the village from his path. The other elephants followed his lead and the villagers were saved." The man then triumphantly said, "To this day I am a hero to all the people of that region!"
The third man looked at the ground for a few moments and then humbly said, "Those are truly stories of great heroism that I cannot best, but I will tell my story." He sat down and started, "On my first trip to Africa I was a tourist with three of my high school buddies. Somehow, after too much to drink, we got separated from the group.
For five days we wandered in the wild without food or water. Finally we came upon a river. We were so excited that we stripped down to our birthday suits and ran toward the river. Just as we were getting close to the water, a 25-foot crocodile came out and came after us. As the four of us ran we saw a tree with only one branch. I was the fastest and climbed up the best I could, and dangled from the branch. My buddies were bumping into each other and couldn't reach the branch, but luckily they were able to reach a vine and hang from it about two feet above the crocodile's open mouth. The three of them were hanging from a single vine -- they begged and pleaded for me to help them but all I could do was close my eyes and hang on for dear life. My friends cursed me but I could do nothing. Maybe it was luck or divine intervention, but the crocodile soon grew tired of waiting for us to drop and went back to the water." The man then looked at the woman and said gallantly, "To this day my friends thank me and have even named their first born sons after me."
The woman looking confused said, "I thought you ignored their pleas for help and that all you did was close your eyes and hold on for dear life?"
The man smiled and replied, "With the will power of no man before me and no man since, I held on to that branch. I was weak from no food or water I had no clothes on, yet I held on to that branch and supported the weight of four grown men for over 20 twenty minutes! You see ma'am, that tree was old and barren, and that was no vine they were hanging from!"
“The manner in which society treats people after their death is an indicator of its civility” that was said by Superintendent of Police, Pankaj Kumar Thakur. He is a Superintendent of Police in India.
Tom Grey http://wais.stanford.edu/USA/... wrote an article which in part says "Respect for the dead is among the activities that makes us most human; and implies respect for the human worth, value, and dignity of other human beings".
Some people can't do that when a person dies. All they can do it seems to me is bash what the person did when he or she was alive. What does it matter now that, that person is dead? Well for some it matters because of the fact how the person who is gone affected their life or the perceived effect they had on their life.
Because of these perceived slights to them or their beliefs they go on slamming a person after they are dead. They cannot out of human decency put aside their anger while the family mourns. They continue on their supposed mission of trying to bring the world to their way of thinking. And if you try to get them to see another side you are boorish or nasty. If you use the wrong wording on trying to get them to lighten up, they will spin on you and attack you because you are not like them. Because you will not see their way of thinking, all they can remember is how you spoke.
In an article written at the website Eleven Day Empire http://www.elevendayempire.co... the writer ponders what you should do if you are in a position where you do not like the person that has died. Its and interesting article and brings up some valid points. There is a comment though after the article that states something very simple and I quote “In a situation like that I think the noble and decent thing to do is to say as little as possible. Just say something like "I strongly disagreed with what he stood for but I offer my condolences to his family." That is honest without speaking ill of the dead” end quote.
Ok, you might be wondering why I have been posting pictures of girls in thongs tonight...well...a good friend of mine commented to me that she had to change her thong because of a conversation she had with another girl and guy got her excited. These pictures are dedicated to her. Thanks hon.
PS. This is not her...but this is as close as I can get because I havnt asked her for a picture of her in a thong.
Life's not fair! It's never been fair, but while adults might just accept that, I know something's gotta change. And it's gonna change, just as soon as I become an adult and get some power of my own.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/Chuck les/0" title="http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/Chuck les/0" target="_blank"http://www.news24.com/News24/...,,2-1343-1349_1538979,00.html London - A Danish IT company has given all its employees free subscriptions to internet pornography sites.
LL Media in Nordjylland introduced the idea to stop staff accessing adult material at work.
The company's director, Levi Nielsen, believes access to porn is a natural fringe benefit, like a free phone or a company car.
"We know that 80% of all hits on the internet are on porn sites. And we can see that people also surf porn pages during work," Nielsen told Danish broadcaster DR Nordjylland.
Nielsen hopes the move will make his staff more relaxed and more efficient on the job. - Ananova.com
Got home last night, went to try and log on to my computer, and it wouldnt start. my 13 yr old told me he was on the computer playing a game when it shut down on him. He thought it was just restarting because it had got hot in the tower compartment, but it never came back on.
So now I have to replace the power supply. Luckily I have an extra tower I had bought to build another computer (which I never did) and its the same type of tower I have now, so I dont have to fork out 30 or 50 bucks for a power supply.
But its like my mother said this morning on the way to work, its about time I built a new system anyways.
Oh on top of all that, I had to replace the toilet bowl in my bathroom because my 2yr likes to stuff things in them. I also have to do it in the guest bathroom.
Wow, I just checked the Hot-Blog list and I am twenty-three on the list...thats cool. I guess I am going to have to keep finding pictures to put on it.
Porn Switched With School's Announcement UPDATED - Tuesday May 18, 2004 2:24pm
CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) - Some Chamblee High School students expecting to see the usual morning announcements instead glimpsed a hard-core prank Tuesday morning.
School administrators were trying to determine who swapped a pornographic videotape for the school announcements tape, sending the images out to several classrooms.
"Our children in our news class do a tape each morning of the Chamblee morning news, and they bring it to the media center, and our media center specialist puts it into the machine," said assistant principal Becky Chambers.
Before the program is broadcast, the media specialist leaves the media center and goes to the main office, to turn on an audio feed to two or three places in the high school that do not have closed-circuit televisions, Chambers said.
"In the seconds that it took her to walk out of her office and head up the hall, some student - we don't know who - took the tape out of the machine and inserted a very inappropriate tape," Chambers said.
"A couple of the classrooms - fortunately not all of them had it on - got a very inappropriate feed for a matter of some seconds before a teacher could fly up here and alert us and we could fly back down the hall and pull the tape out," she said.
One parent who complained characterized the tape as hard-core pornography, but Chambers said she didn't view the tape and couldn't confirm its contents. Administrators were watching security camera tapes to try to determine who made the switch.
Chambers said that with this being the last week of school, a senior prank "would be my best guess at this point."
Yeah, I'm not seeing this happening at all. All the porn spam that ends up in my email isnt doing this at all.
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Porn Spammers Thumb Noses At CAN-SPAM http://www.securitypipeline.com/21400170" title="http://www.securitypipeline.com/21400170" target="_blank"http://www.securitypipeline.c...
By Gregg Keizer Spammers pitching pornography are largely ignoring the Federal Trade Commission's recent requirements, message-filtering firms said Thursday. Fewer than one in six pornographic unsolicited e-mails scanned by MX Logic complied with CAN-SPAM's new rules, said Scott Chasin, the Denver-based company's chief technology officer.
As part of the implementation of the CAN-SPAM Act, which went into effect Jan. 1, the FTC ruled last week that all pornographic e-mail must carry the label "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT" in the subject head. The notice is intended to warn recipients that a message contains sexually-oriented material, as well as to make it easier for users, businesses, and Internet providers to block such messages.
"We're not seeing a huge compliance with the new rulings," said Chasin, whose company scanned a sampling of 12,000 pornographic messages during the seven days since the FTC began requiring the label. Only 15.3 percent of the porn spam was properly labeled.
The result isn't surprising, said Chasin, since the porn industry makes even more use of underground spamming techniques -- including proxies and zombies, hijacked computers that spew spam unbeknownst to their owners -- than the spam business overall.
"Porn spam is usually the dirtiest, no pun intended, from the distribution method perspective," said Chasin.
What did make Chasin pause was that early compliance by the porn industry was significantly higher than general compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act.
"What really was surprising was that we're seeing less compliance with CAN-SPAM than with porn's new labeling."
In fact, compliance with CAN-SPAM slipped last month for the first time since the act was made law at the beginning of 2004. After a slow ramp-up, compliance with the anti-spam regulation plateaued around three percent, said Chasin, but in April, it dipped to an even more disappointing one percent.
"There's a decline in compliance across the board," he said, and added that it was "stating the obvious" to call CAN-SPAM a failure in its effort to stem spam. "Most consumers can recognize that just by looking in their inboxes."
Although it's difficult to tell why porn spammers are following the rules 15 times more often than other spammers, Chasin put forward several theories, ranging from the more specific FTC requirements for pornographic e-mails to the porn industry's habit of trying to follow the law knowing that if they don't, the hammer will fall.
Other messaging filtering firms have also done preliminary research into porn spam compliance with CAN-SPAM, but have come up with different results.
Brightmail, an acquisition target of security firm Symantec, reported that its analysis of mail during a 40-hour post-FTC ruling period showed about 40 percent of pornographic e-mail used the SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT label, or a variation of it. (MX Logic only counted those messages that used the exact label required by the FTC.)
However, Brightmail pooh-poohed the idea that porn spammers were making a sincere effort to comply. "This is an attempt by spammers to make their messages look as though they are in compliance with the law, when in most cases they are not," a Brightmail spokesperson said in an e-mail.
Whether more porn spammers, or spammers in general, will follow the letter of the law is unclear, added MX Logic's Chasin, and will likely depend on how aggressively the government continues its crackdown on spammers.
Last week, the FBI claimed it had identified over 100 significant spammers, and would target half of them for possible prosecution after investigations conclude.
"We've already seen some of the first prosecutions under CAN-SPAM, but I don't see any real deterrence aftershock," said Chasin.
"Maybe if the FBI leads a more aggressive investigation and prosecution, we might see some additional deterrence, but that's not likely until later in the year."
The porn industry is learning a lesson the music industry refuses to hear: Piracy doesn't have to be a dirty word.
As recording industry officials sing dirges over a 2002 music-business sales slump and press ahead with lawsuits against file-sharing network platforms such as Kazaa, pornographers see an opening.
"You can't beat them, so you ought to join them," said Exploit Systems CEO Scott Hunter. "These are your most valued customers, the people who come specifically into your arena and say they want X, Y and Z. This is the most inquisitive, most important community possibly in the history of business."
Hunter's company has developed software that helps content providers put their legitimate versions of material being pirated onto the file-share networks in such a way that it overwhelms the pirated versions of the same material.
The software also influences the search engines of Kazaa, Gnutella and Limewire so that if a user searches certain keywords, they'll be more likely to find the legitimate version of the file they're seeking and download that.
When users try to open up the legitimate editions, though, they may be forced to pay for it and be sent to the porn company's homepage, or they may be allowed to watch it for free provided they ask for identifying information the company can use later for marketing purposes.
"If 15 percent of the roughly 150 million people on these networks are willing to pay for the content, that's 20 million customers," Hunter said. "It's foolish of any business to deny themselves the opportunity to make that sale."
FalconFoto CEO Gail Harris sees the wisdom of this approach.
"We're willing to give away a few images, and then if you're interested in more, we have a whole archive of hundreds of thousands of images that you can subscribe to see," says Harris, whose company provides photos of naked people to several porn magazines including High Society and Barely Legal, and boasts an online library of more than 1 million adult images.
"What we have is a captive audience of people we know are interested in our product because they went out seeking it themselves. Many of them are willing to pay for it, too."
FalconFoto has aligned itself with Playa Solutions, a company that promises to "wrap" content that is posted on the Internet in such a way that the content provider can set the rules of how it is used. Playa's approach is to flood the file-share networks with the legitimate content on purpose in what is known as "viral marketing."
Playa Solutions founder Jason Tucker insists the music industry could easily apply this technology. For instance, a record label could spread a clip of the new Britney Spears single before it's released and force those who listen to it to visit the official Spears website -- where they can buy a copy of the album.
The Recording Industry Association of America refused to comment on the prospect of learning anything from the pornography business, a stance that reflects the business' uneasiness with anything that would legitimize the concept of copyright infringements. One music official said privately that porn customers are seeking an immediate gratification that they'll pay for, whereas music consumers aren't quite so desperate for their fix.
Hunter and Tucker disagree, noting that devotees of singers and bands would also be willing to pay for the material -- if only someone would ask them.
"What we have to do is to modify behavior so people will purchase this way, not take this way," Hunter said. "They don't pay because they've never had to. But now it's time to make some order out of the chaos -- and it's a wonderful chaos."
It is aggravating that I cant get musik to work on my blog. I keep trying it works for awhile and then it doesnt want to work for me. Pisses me the fuck off.
I re-read this and it is me!! I am exactly that person that the virtue says I am, and I am that person the vice says I am....so if you want to know what kind of person I am...there you go
[b]Tracking firm finds that 18.8% of all U.S. users went to 'adult' sites, 5.5% went to search engines.[/b] http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/04/technology /porn_search.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes" title="http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/04/technology /porn_search.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes" target="_blank"http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/...
June 4, 2004: 12:42 PM EDT
[i]SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online porn sites get about three times more visits than the top Web search engines, including market leader Google Inc., a research firm said Thursday. [/i] Web sites categorized as "adult" accounted for about 18.8 percent of all Internet visits by U.S. users in the week ending May 29.
Meanwhile, the category that contains search engines dominated by Yahoo, MSN and Google, accounted for about 5.5 percent, according to Hitwise Inc., a California-based company that tracks Web use.
During that time, Google garnered 2.7 percent of all Web visits while Yahoo Search and MSN Search received 1.7 percent and 1.1 percent respectively, Bill Tancer, vice president of research at Hitwise, told Reuters.
Other large Hitwise categories include "Entertainment" at 8.0 percent, "Business and Finance" at 7.4 percent and "Shopping and Classifieds" at 7 percent.
Google is moving toward an initial public offering that is expected to be a blockbuster.
The three leading search providers fall into a subcategory Hitwise calls "Search Engines and Directories," which covers 1,944 Web search and directory sites, which were not included in the top search category.
The subcategory, which accounted for 13.8 percent of all Internet visits, also includes AskJeeves.com, Yahoo.com and Microsoft's MSN.com. Yahoo.com is not included in the search category, but its search function is.
"Search Engines and Directories," along with the "Email Services," "Net Communities and Chat," "Software" and other subcategories, make up Hitwise's "Computers and Internet" category that pulled in almost one-third of all visits.
In a separate report published late last month, Hitwise said that between August and April, Google remained the most visited search site and was alone among the three sector players in gaining market share within its subcategory.
Hitwise also found that fast-growing comparison shopping sites such as Shopping.com, NexTag and Bizrate are getting fewer referrals from Web search providers -- meaning that users are either going directly to the niche sites or finding other routes to them, thereby cutting search engines out of lucrative shopping clicks.
The same appears to be true for top travel sites, Tancer said.
I just thought I would post this after someone informed me of concern about the pictures I post. Now I don't want to offend anyone, and I will remove stuff they are concerned about it and I am approached in the right way, but I have added a warning that must be clicked thru before going to my blog. Anyways here is the terms.
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Frustration at what I for a living, wishing for the capital to start a business, wishing for that though is like wishing for the sky to be green. It isn’t going to happen.
Most Men when they are in their late thirty’s, their sex drive has dropped to a minimal level. Not mine. Mine is as high as it was when I was 18. It’s just frustrating when the lady’s sex drive you are with doesn’t match yours. Most women would love to have a guy like me; anyways that’s what I think. Let me know if I am wrong lady’s.
A college professor, an avowed Atheist, was teaching his class. He shocked several of his students when he flatly stated he was going to prove there was no God. Addressing the ceiling he shouted:
"God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you 15 minutes!" The lecture room fell silent.
You could have heard a pin fall. Ten minutes went by. Again the professor taunted God, saying, "Here I am, God. I'm still waiting."
His count-down got down to the last couple of minutes when a Marine just released from active duty and newly registered in the class -- walked up to the professor, hit him full force in the face, and sent him tumbling from his lofty platform to the floor. The professor was out cold!
At first, the students were shocked and babbled in confusion. The young Marine took a seat in the front row and sat silent. The class fell silent...waiting.
Eventually, the professor came to, shaken. He looked at the young Marine in the front row. When the professor regained his senses and could speak he asked: "What's the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
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