Don't bother me....

If I don't post tomorrow, it's because I'm still waiting...for when he comes The Great Pumpkin.

Wikipedia is a wonderful thing! Have a happy & safe Halloween!

Pa. Gas Company Callers Get Sex-Talk Line

Maybe if they offered perks like this more often, people wouldn't complain about the high costs of natural gas. I know I wouldn't ;)


HAPPYHALLOWEEN!

WARNING!

Should you pick up this woman in a bar, DO NOT have sex with her! She kills and eats her mates afterwards!!! Awww wasn't he cute!?
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What will they think of next?

A little down and out? Thinking about the worst case scenario of the flu pandemic? Aunt Edna not feeling well and on the verge of kicking the bucket? Are you a very anal person and like to take care of every last detail? Need a little something to make that Halloween Party extra special? Well, just stop by Costco!! They apparently can take care of everything from birth to death. I would have expected something like this from the retail Gods Walmart/SamsClub, but Costco?
Yay, and I live in Pennsylvania where I can get one of these things!

Creeping me out...

Ok. I just came across this information yesterday. Not sure if anyone else is aware of this. As you've read, I hate the media especially in regards to the avian H5N1 flu issue. Are we on the brink of a pandemic or are we pawns in a get rich quick scheme? With my background, I'm somewhat sure we are not on the brink...at least this year. Lets see how this influences your opinions....some IMO important info that does not seem to be common knowledge.

Do you know who discovered/developed Tamiflu?
If you said Gilead Sciences, you're correct.

Do you know who used to be Chairman of Gilead Sciences as recently as 1997?
If you said Donald Rumsfeld, you're correct.

DefenseSecretary Donald Rumsfeld will likely profit handsomely from the announcement the government is purchasing $2 billion of Tamiflu, the drug developed by Gilead Sciences when Rumsfeld was president of the company. He is reported to hold major portions of stock in Gilead


No I'm not a believer in Dr Mercola either, although he does make some very good points. Just referencing where I first acquired this info. Why is it everywhere we turn around, these a-holes have their grubby hands in something? I would like to think that most if not all conspiracy theories are just that. But this information has me that much more skeptical.
Just a little fat for everyone to chew on before we all die of the flu!

Humpty dumpty...

This is great. It's all crumbling down around him as it should. Iraq, Halliburton, Social Security, Katrina, Delay, CIA, Job approval rating, Wilma, and now poor Harriet.
Just like Humpty Dumpty, it's getting to the point where no one can save his ass again. All he has done the last several months is backpedal and put out fires. The history books will have a picture of a circus when it covers his administration with GWB as the head Clown! Sorry for the causticity, but I feel like I'm in a McDonalds commercial because "I'm Lovin It"!!!!!
(P.S. make sure you click on the pic and go to BuckFush.com, some hilarious stuff there)

Avian Flu Timeline

Nature.com Avian Flu Timeline
Check out the timeline. You'll be suprised at how long H5N1 has actually been around and spreading.

Chart Courtesy of NIAID

Hold on...

to your blankets and your wallets, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Just when the price of gas was becoming more realistic. Our economy sucks!!!!!
Natural gas up 10% to record close
Oil tops $62; heating oil up 5% on winter weather worry

This is not George Carlin on New Orleans...

Received this email from my brother, and after a little digging found that this actually was not written by good old George. I love Carlin's material and feel he should get credit where credit is due and vice versa. Anyway, it sounds like a typical Carlin rant. I enjoyed it and wanted to share it with fellow bloggers who may not have seen it yet...

Been sitting here with my ass in a wad, wanting to speak out about the bullshit going on in New Orleans. For the people of New Orleans...First we would like to say,sorry for your loss. With that said, lets go through a few hurricane rules:
(Unlike an earthquake, we know it's coming)

#1. A mandatory evacuation means just that..Get the hell out. Don't blame the Government after they tell you to go. If they hadn't said anything, I can see the argument. They said get out... if you didn't, it's your fault, not theirs. (We don't want to hear it, even if you don't have a car, you can get out.)

#2. If there is an emergency, stock up on water and non-perishables. If you didn't do this, it's not the Government's fault you're starving.

#2a. If you run out of food and water, find a store that has some. (Remember, shoes, TV's, DVD's and CD's are not edible. Leave them alone.)

#2b.If the local store has been looted of food or water, leave your neighbor's TV and stereo alone. (See # 2a) They worked hard to get their stuff. Just because they were smart enough to leave during a mandatory evacuation, doesn't give you the right to take their stuff...it's theirs, not yours.

#3. If someone comes in to help you, don't shoot at them and then complain no one is helping you. I'm not getting shot to help save some dumbass who didn't leave when told to do so.

#4. If you are in your house that is completely under water, your
belongings are probably too far gone for anyone to want them. If someone does want them, let them have them and hopefully they'll die in the filth. Just leave! (It's New Orleans, find a voodoo warrior and put a curse on them)

#5. My tax money should not pay to rebuild a 2 million dollar house,
a sports stadium or a floating casino. Also, my tax money shouldn't go to rebuild a city that is under sea level. You wouldn't build your house on quicksand would you? You want to live below sea-level, do your country some good and join the Navy.

#6. Regardless of what the Poverty Pimps Jessie Jackson and Al
Sharpton want you to believe,the US Government didn't create the Hurricane as a
way to eradicate the black people of New Orleans; (Neither did Russia as a way to destroy America). The US Government didn't cause global warming that caused the hurricane (We've been coming out of an ice age for over a million years).

#7. The government isn't responsible for giving you anything. This
is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you want. McDonalds and Wal-Mart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop spooning off the people who are actually working for a living.
President Kennedy said it best..."Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".

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I can't believe this?!

You won't believe this!!! This is upsetting and thought I should pass it along.

Check your driver's license... Now you can see anyone's Driver's License on the Internet, including your own! I just searched for mine and there it was...picture and all!

Thanks Homeland Security! Privacy, where is our right to it?

I definitely removed mine, I suggest you all do the same.... Go to the website and check it out. Just enter your name, City and state to see if yours is on file. After your license comes on the screen, click the box marked "Please Remove".

This will remove it from public viewing, but not from law enforcement.

Go to this site:
Drivers License

It doesn't take a rocket scientist...

USAToday
At this time, the import and export of any avian other than for food should be banned. I'm sure it will continue until the H5N1 virus spreads even further and kills million more birds and hundreds of people. "Britain is also urging the EU to ban imports of wild birds into the 25-nation bloc." They shouldn't have to urge. It should have been done weeks ago, but parrots are a necessity and very important to the economy.


Flocking : A flock of starlings over downtown Milan.(AFP/Filipo Monteforte)

OMG, it's heading for Milan, Italy!!!! (just kidding)

93-year-old drove 3 miles with body through windshield

I bet he used up all the windshield washer fluid to try and get him off the window too! Come on now. For everyone's safety, we as a nation need to stop being so PC and start testing elderly drivers at a certain age. No one has the balls to do it as they are the majority of voters in this nation and have a strong voice. We have rules in place for teens, and are trying to pass stronger laws, why not for seniors?

I see you're nuts!

While surfing, I came across this cool link at cojoescookbook.
Click on the link below the pic to take the test and see which lunatic you might be!


Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.
You are Charles VI of France, also known as Charles the Mad or Charles the Well-Beloved!
A fine, amiable and dreamy young man, skilled in horsemanship and archery, you were also from a long line of dribbling madmen. King at 12 and quickly married to your sweetheart, Bavarian Princess Isabeau, you enjoyed many happy months together before either of you could speak anything of the other's language. However, after illness you became a tad unstable. When a raving lunatic ran up to your entourage spouting an incoherent prophecy of doom, you were unsettled enough to slaughter four of your best men when a page dropped a lance. Your hair and nails fell out. At a royal masquerade, you and your courtiers dressed as wild men, ending in tragedy when four of them accidentally caught fire and burned to death. You were saved by the timely intervention of the Duchess of Berry's underskirts.

This brought on another bout of sickness, which surgeons countered by drilling holes in your skull. The following months saw you suffer an exorcism, beg your friends to kill you, go into hyperactive fits of gaiety, run through your rooms to the point of exhaustion, hide from imaginary assassins, claim your name was Georges, deny that you were King and fail to recognise your family. You smashed furniture and wet yourself at regular intervals. Passing briefly into erratic genius, you believed yourself to be made of glass and demanded iron rods in your attire to prevent you breaking.

In 1405 you stopped bathing, shaving or changing your clothes. This went on until several men were hired to blacken their faces, hide, jump out and shout "boo!", upon which you resumed basic hygiene. Despite this, your wife continued sleeping with you until 1407, when she hired a young beauty, Odette de Champdivers, to take her place. Isabeau then consoled herself, as it were, with your brother. Her lovers followed thick and fast while you became a pawn of your court, until you had her latest beau strangled and drowned.

A severe fever was fended off with oranges and pomegranates in vast quantities, but you succumbed again in 1422 and died. Your disease was most likely hereditary. Unfortunately, you had anywhere up to eleven children, who variously went on to develop capriciousness, great cruelty, insecurity, paranoia, revulsion towards food and, in one case, a phobia of bridges.

Wilma! I'm home....

Now our nation will get to see how fast and accurately our government responds to brother Jeb's plight. Unless she makes a turn for NOLA.
I've read that forecasters are amazed at how quickly the strength of this storm has escalated. MattandRiver came across this ConspiracyTheory. Click on the link in his post.
I think someone finally found the right button to push ;)

'Bud Pong' pulled; brewer shocked beer used in game

Well, what the hell were they supposed to use? A brewer promoting a drinking game in bars utilizing water? Yeah right. Especially when it's roots originated as a BEER drinking game!!!! The marketer of this promotion should be taken outside and given 50 lashes with a beer hose...oops WATER hose. See they're not interchangeable.
It has been and always will be...BEER PONG!

WHO warns against bird flu 'scaremongering'

It's about time someone listens to me! ;)

Important information for air travelers...

Do you believe?

Do you believe in Sasquatch a.k.a. Bigfoot?

Time is on their side...

Two nationally ranked teams lost yesterday. Notre Dame and Penn State. Why did they lose? Because the coaches of the opposing teams pleaded to the zebras for more time to be added to the clock. Both teams lost on last second plays that never should have occured had it not been for the extra time. There are circumstances when time should be added, but from what I can see both of these were inappropriate. Penn State lost with one second left in the game. A few plays earlier, the opposing teams coach complained that his time out was not called as quickly as he would have liked. The zebras added 2 seconds to the game, 2 seconds that cost a team a loss. I was always taught that the coach should have someone next to the side judge to make sure the time out was heard and if not, then the time out is called as soon as someone notices it. Literally everyone in college sports could argue a time out call and now have time added to the clock.
At Notre Dame a fumble went out of bounds at the 1 yard line. The clock ticked to zero. The opposing teams coach complained, and 7 seconds were added to the clock. 7 seconds to score a touchdown, win the game and save a number one ranking. I did not personally see this game, but the time added here is possibly valid. It was based on a play, and not an assumption that your wishes weren't carried out as expediantly as you would have liked. I feel the NCAA should look into adding time onto the clock very closely as this weekend it cost two teams heavily. Giving someone extra time to make a play and possibly win a game is not to be taken lightly, especially when bowl games and thousands of dollars for those institutions are on the line.

Mind your manners, & stop being rude!

Americans' fast-paced, high-tech existence has taken a toll on the civil in society. USAToday.com

So it's not just me and I'm not seeing things. We are becoming a rude society. My friend Michael over at Smoke & Mirrors would agree, I'm sure.

Rude Americans Article
Rudeness Poll

Silly games

I was tagged by Carnealian to play along. Read the rules, for you to may be tagged!! I hate these things & they annoy me to no end!!!!!!!! They're as bad as old fashioned chain letters!

The Rules:
1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five other people to do the same.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-2
I'm curious, what is the current prevailing wage there?

I'm tagging: ChaseDC

Will I miss it?...NO!

In February of this year, the only alternative/modern rock station in Philly (Y100) was taken off the air for no apparent reason. It had good ratings, raised money for charitable causes and was the only station playing this type of music in the area. It was replaced with a hip hop station of which there are several throughout the city. Listeners including myself and Melissa were furious. Petitions were signed, hundreds of emails were sent, tons of press coverage and a website was started Y100rocks. Thousands of people made their voices heard to no avail. The radio choices in this region sucked and became even worse after the removal of Y100.

For some time,I had been contemplating purchasing satellite radio. This issue pushed me to finally take that step. In July, I purchased XM radio. WE LOVE IT! It has something for everyone; rock, blues, jazz, alternative, punk, opera and on and on. The listening possibilities are almost endless. And no annoying commercials on most channels. XM also offers internet radio for free with a regular subscription so you don't have to have a separate radio for the house. I can honestly say I've probably listened to terrestrial radio for an hour at most since our purchase in July. When my subscripton expires, it will be renewed. Never again will I listen to radio that doesn't value it's listeners.

So if you're trying to figure out what to get that person who has everything for the holidays, go satellite radio!!!!

Avian flu fears spur Tamiflu demand

The panic has started and will only get worse.
People need to remember that this only decreases the severity of the flu, it does not prevent or cure it.
This is cracking me up!!! (rolling eyes & shaking head)

I'm Impressed...

New Orleans Beating

Finally, someone with a brain and not using that all too famous lame excuse.

WASH THOSE HANDS!

I wasn't kidding. Handwashing is very important.
Scrub-a-dub,dub

One of the biggest violators of this practice are physicians. This is a personal observation and there are a few studies that have actually looked at their practices.
Study

Don't be afraid to ask your doctor and any other healthcare provider if they've washed their hands!!!

Enough Already!!!

Have I told anyone lately that I hate the media? If I haven't lately, I still do. Last year they had the American public in an uproar over the supposed lack of flu vaccines. Their scare tactics lead to long lines and tense emotions. Yes, the supply was low because of a contaminated batch that needed to be disposed. In reality, there was plenty of vaccine left over at the end of the season. And it was not because of rationing. There WERE adequate supplies. We were led to believe that there were not.
Did you know:
When one gets a flu shot, you're taking a chance that the strain(s) you're receiving will be the infecting organism during the current flu season? ( I still recommend flu shots even though I, myself do not get one)
That there are no vaccines for the avian flu (Influenza A)?
Influenza A is primarily spread by droplet contact and that avians can act as a reservoir for viral influenza? It is there that the A viruses replicate and form new genetic combinations with possibilities of infecting humans.

Now we're seeing headlines like Officials race to head off a bird flu pandemic. Why do they feel the need to scare the general public? They always leave out important information and leave everyone "half" informed. They've conveniently forgotten the pandemics of 1957 and Hong Kong of 1968. Pandemics They say that we are seeing the flu leap from bird to humans like the pandemic of 1918. Hello??? It also did that in 1997!! The first case of H5N1 spread from a bird to a human was seen during an outbreak of bird flu in poultry in Hong Kong. But those pandemics aren't as scary or devastating as 1918, so they don't mention them.

Now, don't get me wrong. This shouldn't be taken lightly. The spread has been going on for a while now. The media just needs something to talk about and glamorize for ratings since Flu season is right around the corner. Notice they haven't been saying much about vaccine shortages this year. THAT'S BECAUSE IT BIT THEM IN THE ASS LAST YEAR! IMO, the news should be ten minutes of bad news, followed by ten minutes of investigative news, ending with ten minutes of good news. But, a recipe like that wouldn't get them ratings now would it????

So what can the general public do? WASH YOUR HANDS! (not joking)and stay away from the news. If you truly want to be informed, talk to your doctor and educate yourself at reputable websites such as:

Centers for Disease Control
National Institutes of Health

Public service announcement brought to you by: SnotSucker!

Bleary & Dreary

0628 Saturday Morning: "Dad, I'm thirsty". At that moment, I knew I was in trouble and would be awake for the rest of the day. I got my daughter a drink and tried to encourage her to go back to sleep. She would have none of it. Her internal clock is obviously set to the "school zone", great for during the week, but really sucks for the weekend. Now she's watching cartoons and I'm obviously blogging. I'm sooo tired. Melissa is still sleeping so one of us will be bright eyed and bushy tailed. And it's one of those perfect days for sleeping in too. Rainy. It's been raining heavily since yesterday afternoon. We've received 2 inches so far and they are calling for another 2 inches on top of that. Flash flood warnings are flashing on my weather program. Remnants of the most recent tropical storm. I love hearing the pitter patter of raindrops on the roof. I find it very calming and enjoy sleeping in on days like this. But, NO SLEEP FOR ME! Oh well. We're going to visit grammy & pappy today. My daughter hasn't seen them since August. Looks like we'll be able to fire up the boat and get an early start. Hope everyone has a good weekend. WE ARE PENN STATE!! (Go Lions, but I'm anticipating their first loss today).

Save the Land

Each day our commute in the Lehigh Valley becomes longer. Daily, farmland is being gobbled up by developers who are building as many homes as they can on top of each other. It's a shame IMO to see this perfectly good land go to waste. What used to take me ten minutes, now takes me 20-25. I love the outdoors and the land. People do not value land anymore unless it has a house or shopping mall on it. I was reading on the forums of the Valley Mountain Bikers that a large chunk of land is being threatened by Military expansion.

Fort Indiantown Gap is proposing a possible 2100 acre expansion into the pristine forests along Stony Creek. This will affect hunting, fishing, mountainbiking, and possibly portions of the Appalachian Trail. The stony creek rail trail would also be within yards of this expansion. All of this for our National Security.
Please check out the website Save Stony Valley and if you feel stongly about the environment, recreation and land issues, please register to oppose the expansion.

Here is a Map of the area and the proposed changes.
That's my Greenpeace moment of the day!!

Oregon doctor sued for sex treatment for back pain

Don't get me started. What moron would actually believe that sex with their doctor would cure their back pain?????????????????????? Gimme a break.

Mental Illness Awareness Week October 2-8, 2005
Obviously this person is missing a few marbles. She should stay away from that leather couch this week because I hear sex can cure that too!

I'm sure she frequents this dentist because sex keeps the cavity creeps away. He better increase his malpractice insurance...

Katrina Evacuee Wins $1.6 Million

Sure I'm happy for them. But I'm wondering......was that $20 in FEMA money?? And if you already have nothing, is it a responsible way to be spending your money at this time? Definitely interesting, but we'll never know. And her first mistake is hiring an Attorney. Get a financial consultant, not someone looking to take a chunk of your winnings.

Experimenting

Yes, I've added some oommph to my blog. If you find it annoying, just hit "escape". I love it when I figure something out!

Whatever you do, don't read this...

I came across this picture today of Paris Hilton without clothes.
Imagine that.

Word of the Day

Cronyism is partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to public office without regard for their qualifications. The word "cronyism" is always used derogatorily.
See the full definition at Wikipedia

Harriet Miers, Mike Brown...this list is starting to look like Santa's naughty list.

Enjoy!

Here is some mindless humor to end your day. Type something in and see what Stewie has to say. Make sure you try poop and Meg. StewieLive

If Only...

If only this was ten years ago. They didn't have the technology back then to do stuff like this. The 3rd annual Duryea Downhill is being held in Reading, Pa today. If only I wasn't 36 and a Dad, I would sooo be there!
Here is a little clip from the course Airlines
Quicktime is needed to view.