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A Medical Board investigator said, "When we read the chart notes and all that was written down there was, 'Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang', we knew something was wrong."
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In the UK no less. I'm thinking their glorious healthcare system has hit utter rock bottom now that they're using witch doctors and concerned about evil spirits. Perhaps a return to bleeding out evil 'humours'?
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What a dumb doctor. Everybody knows the cure for evil spirits is that you take her out to the marsh, bury her up to her neck and leave her over night.
And you call yourself a doctor...
I just had a rather disturbing email from a company advertising a new service called Buy Blog Comments (no follow tags used) promoting a new service offering to leave comment spam on blogs for those wanting to increase their SEO ranking.
The service offers to leave spam comments at a rate of 100 comments for $19.99, 500 comments for $99.99 and 1000 comments for $199.99.
They explain their service like this:
“Blog comments help your site rank better in the SERPs. We hired a few people who go through a list of blogs in a database we set up and pick out blogs that are in your niche. They then read through blog posts and leave a comment that has to do with the blog post they read, that way it wont get deleted. Your backlink will then be on a targeted blog, giving you more weight in the search engines. ”
The person behind the service is a guy called Jon Waraas (Jonwaraas.com) - a guy who owns a company called Developer Hut and a blog network called BuzzBums.
Isn't there a death penalty for this? If not, why not?
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07/10/2007 10:20 ||
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Wouldn't it be funny to spam all the Usenet groups with his home address?
Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds ||
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CBS EVENING NEWS anchor Katie Couric is being accused of slapping an editor -- after he injected a word she detested into a script!
"The stress has caused her to blow up at her staff for small infractions on the set," charges NEW YORK magazine reporter Joe Hagan, in a story set for publication on Monday.
"During the tuberculosis story in June, Couric got angry with news editor Jerry Cipriano for using a word she detested 'sputum' "Eeewww, ick, it's, like, icky! I'm pert, perky Katie, America's sweetheart, and I'm not going to say any icky words on TV!"
and the staff grew tense when she began slapping him 'over and over and over again' on the arm, according to a source familiar with the scene. It had seemed like a joke at first, but it quickly became clear that she wasnt kidding." . . .
"I sort of slapped him around, Couric admits to the magazine. I got mad at him and said, 'You cant do this to me. You have to tell me when youre going to use a word like that.' I was aggravated, there's no question about that.' But she says she outranks has a good relationship with Cipriano. 'We did ban the word sputum from all future broadcasts. It became kind of a joke." . . .
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07/10/2007 06:58 ||
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It would have been pretty hard not to laugh. I wonder if there relationship would still be good if he put the palm of his hand on her forward and held her at arm's length while her arms windmilled furiously.
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07/10/2007 17:19 Comments ||
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Banned the word "sputum" eh? How 'bout trying these: throat-oyster, horseneck, lungbutter, yellow neck-clam, steaming hocker. There that ought to do it.
I'm ready for my lesson now Mistress Katie.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
07/10/2007 18:16 Comments ||
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How 'bout something more honest and descriptive for the laypersons, like a bloody throat snake? Just a suggestion......
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
07/10/2007 18:31 Comments ||
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Bondage fantasies about Katie Couric?
Guys, that's just . . . wrong!
Posted by: Mike ||
07/10/2007 18:35 Comments ||
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Mike, I agree. It's kinda' like fantasizing about Mary Popins. Things that make you say ... "Yeeecchh"...
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- Former astronaut Lisa Nowak told a detective she came to Orlando to meet her rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut because she wanted to know where she stood in the bizarre love triangle, according to a police interview made public Monday.
Lisa Nowak was fired by NASA after she was charged with attacking a romantic rival. A 72-page transcript of the interview conducted after her February arrest, with portions redacted, was released by the State Attorney's Office.
In it, Orlando Police Detective Chris Becton asks Nowak about why she wanted to meet Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman in a parking lot at the Orlando International Airport.
Nowak, 44, is accused of attacking Shipman with pepper spray directed through the window of her car and trying to jump into the vehicle. She has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted kidnapping, battery and burglary with assault.
Nowak repeatedly asked to speak to Shipman and asked the detective if Shipman, who was interviewed before Nowak, knew who she was.
Nowak told Becton she wanted to tell Shipman of her involvement with Bill Oefelein, a colleague who told detectives he had a two-year relationship with Nowak but ended it some time after he started a relationship with Shipman.
"I thought it was important that she knew," Nowak told the detective. "I wanted her to have the same awareness, I guess, for my potential, or whatever."
But when asked if she intended to kill Shipman if she didn't talk, Nowak said no. Asked if it would have been acceptable for Oefelein to date both of them, she said "as long as everybody knows that that's the case."
She also said it was her husband, not Oefelein, who hurt her. "My husband is the only person who broke my heart ... over the years, I guess," she said. "It happened over time."
An attorney for Nowak, Donald Lykkebak, asked a judge last month to seal the transcript, but the judge took no action. Lykkebak also asked that the interview not be introduced as evidence during Nowak's trial, claiming she wasn't properly advised of her constitutional rights.
However, the transcript indicates that Becton told her she had the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney and that what she said could be used against her in court.
Nowak was dismissed from the astronaut corps a month after her arrest. Her trial is set for September. Oefelein was dismissed from the corps at the beginning of June.
AN American man has flown 300km by tying 105 large helium balloons to his lawn chair. Kent Couch used instruments to measure his altitude and speed, a global position device and about four plastic bags holding 19 litres of water each as a ballast to fly through the Oregon sky, Associated Press reported.
Mr Couch, 47, landed in a farmer's field after nine hours in the air.
"When you're a little kid and you're holding a helium balloon, it has to cross your mind," Mr Couch said. "When you're laying in the grass on a summer day, and you see the clouds, you wish you could jump on them," he said. "This is as close as you can come to jumping on them. It's just like that."
Mr Couch begain his flight after kissing his wife, Susan, goodbye. As he made about 40km/h, a three-car caravan filled with friends, family and his dog followed him from below.
Mr Couch said he could hear cattle and children and even passed through clouds. "It was beautiful - beautiful," he said.
He popped enough balloons to set the lawn chair down, although he suffered rope burns. But after he jumped out, the wind grabbed his chair, with his video recorder and the remaining balloons, and swept it away.
Mr Couch is the latest American to follow Larry Walters, who in 1982 rose almost 5km above Los Angeles in a similar setup. Mr Walters was fined $1746 for violating air traffic rules after a surprised airline pilot contacted a control tower.
...It was a violent, fiery crash, and minutes after it happened, people immediately stopped to see how they could help the men trapped inside...
It was too late for the driver. Jerry Littleton was killed when his pickup caught fire after overturning and hitting a tree. The passenger, his cousin, 18-year-old Mitchell Hendrix, was still alive, but fire was racing through the vehicle.
James Burdette, and two other workers, were heading in for the day after making a service call. The septic company workers saw the wreck and turned around to help.
"We heard the man in there screaming, so we waited for the police to get there, and police showed up. We asked permission to put the fire out, with the pump truck, and they said 'Go ahead, and do that' so we backed the pump truck over there, and put the fire out."
As unconventional as it was, the men doused the fire with 1500 gallons of raw sewage for about ten minutes. It's illegal to release sewage on the ground, but the men say there was no other way to save him.
Firefighters had not yet arrived on the scene.
Hendrix was pulled from the wreckage, and airlifted to a Savannah hospital. Currently, he is in critical, but stable, condition at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta.
Despite the odds, the men say if faced with the same situation, they would do it over again.
Hendrix is still in the Burn Center this morning, and will likely be there for several more weeks. The raw sewage poses a major infection risk to Hendrix, due to his burns. The rescuers on scene were checked out at the hospital for similar reasons.
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Welcome to the future: a sea of graduated-from-kindergarten urban peasants who whisper horrified nightmares to each other over the trash fire about what turns out to be badgers. Oh, and police officials who twist the knife in their allies' back by saying that abandonment is their preferred retirement option for expensively-trained explosive-hunting dogs.
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a5089: I'm taking this seriously enough as a _phenomenon_ that I'm not making a we-don't-need-no-stinking-badgers quip, ok?
AS, I understand your point, though this was posted for its tongue-in-cheek value (hence the pic); regarding the potency of that uneducation/non-cartesian mindset mix, let me remind you of those famous fallujah spiders.
Possibly a Reed Cat - we had them in TQ along the water. Some can get up to 50-55 lbs. Though they are nocturnal and stay away from humans whenever possible.
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Interesting to note that the French president at the time was a Socialist, François Mitterrand. You'd think a Socialist would be a little more positively predisposed toward Greenpeace.
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This calls for a little piece I filmed up in Alaska last summer. A photo in the Sour Dough Bar in Ketchikan.
Manners aside, getting cows to burp less can help reduce global warming. Using modern plant-breeding methods to find new diets for cows that make them belch less is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Monday.
The key is developing new varieties of food that are easier for cattle to digest and also provide a proper balance of fiber, protein and sugar, said Michael Abberton, a scientist at the UK-based Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research. There is a common misperception about how methane gets into the atmosphere," he said. "It is actually through belching rather than the other end."
This could open up plant-based solutions as alternatives to reducing stock as farmers look for ways to cut methane emissions amid warming climates, he told a briefing on farming and climate change at London's Science Media Centre. He noted the average dairy cow belches out about 100 to 200 liters of methane each day, making diet changes a key potential factor in reducing this greenhouse gas.
What is next? Stopping chickens from burping?
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07/10/2007 00:00 ||
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Ahhh, the merciless, brutal, perennial war btwn belching cows versus the Sun. Compare to "BBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRPPPPPPP - Hi, I'm MADONNA"! Looks like someone in Hollywood managed to escape being arrested and sent to the Nuremburg Global Enviro Crimes Trials, didn't she!? HEY YOU ..............
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Global warming is a crime against humanity. The person who invented CO2 - presumably some dead white guy - should be thrown in jail for life and then executed.
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I'm sceptical that cows burp. Horses do not. I've been around cows for a good portion of my life and can't ever remember one burping. My dog does, though.
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07/10/2007 16:08 Comments ||
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This is deliberately misdirected, the Methane comes from Farts, not Burps, it's all bullshit anyway.
Consider the vast plains cobered with Buffalo, nobody died then, the Earth still exists, it's all Bull(Cow)shit.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
07/10/2007 17:53 Comments ||
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Well, when you analyze the digestive process in bovines, you have four stomachs with fermentation used to break down the cellulose from the feed. In the rumen compartment, primarily anaerobic bacteria do the work, with some aerobic bacteria present. The anaerobic bacteria produce stuff like methane as a byproduct, so everybody needs to get over it or design a methane recovery system for the herd. Try that one in India and Bangladesh. LOL!
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07/10/2007 18:41 Comments ||
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Ima thinkin' big ass rubber balloons one both ends of all farm animals. When they's get full, attach them to the intake manifolds of SUVs and make Arab princes cry.
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07/10/2007 18:47 Comments ||
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Not a bad idea ed. Just got to figure out how to mount Bossie on the top of the SUV. Anearobic digesters produce methane along with some other by-products. Also gets rid of stuff that might otherwise go into a landfill.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Manners aside, getting cows to burp less can help reduce global warming. Using modern plant-breeding methods to find new diets for cows that make them belch less is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Monday.
