Pearly Gates welcoming committe?

Wilma really dumped on them!

Wilma goes #2 !

Fat Boy Butt Rub?

Good eatin. Nasty name.

How Good Can He Be???

Didn't even see it coming!

Mall Palm Reader Attacked For Being 'Psychic'

(WJZ/AP) Hanover, MD A woman who apparently had a grudge against self-professed psychics severely punished a mall palm reader who failed after being put to a test.Police say that around 4:30pm on Monday the woman approached 38 year-old Kevin Patrick Miles, who owns the Zodiac Zone kiosk at Arundel Mills, and said, "So, you're supposed to be a psychic?"Miles says the woman then pulled a soda bottle from her purse, threw it at his head, and asked "Did you see that coming?" before leaving.Miles immediately told mall security, but says they didn't call police until 8:30 p.m. when he asked to review the security tapes.The kiosk owner said the woman had begun making scenes two weeks ago and this was the third time within that period that she had stopped be his place of business. He said she tells him he's satanic and that his kiosk goes against the teachings of God. He went on to say that each time the woman had been becoming more aggressive. But, Monday was the first time she had assaulted him.The woman is described as Asian, in her early 40s, with a slim build.

Rest easy, though, the Mall Security guys are on the case.

Classic Commercial

"WHAT?! You're not crying, are you?"

"There's no CRYING in SHIPPING!"

Whoa!

Someone just bought a slightly used, but very fast carriage in the Twin Cities area.

A life worth celebrating

Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92.
Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
Mrs. Parks was 42 when she committed an act of defiance in 1955 that was to change the course of American history and earn her the title "mother of the civil rights movement."

Bet she's got a front seat on the bus to heaven.

Finlanders saying I may be at risk!

Unfair boss could shorten your life: study

CHICAGO (Reuters) - That crummy boss in the window office could be slowly killing you, according to a study of British workers published on Monday.

Researchers in Finland who did the study found that workers who felt they were being treated fairly had a much lower incidence of coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in all Western societies.

"Most people care deeply about just treatment by authorities," study author Mika Kivimaki of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health wrote in this week's Archives of Internal Medicine. "Lack of justice may be a source of oppression, deprivation and stress."

People consider that they are being treated fairly at work when they believe their supervisor considers their viewpoint, shares information about decision-making and treats individuals fairly and in a truthful manner, the study said.

The researchers tracked the 10-year incidence of heart disease in over 6,400 male civil servants in London who had been polled on their perceived level of justice and injustice in the workplace.

"In men who perceived a high level of justice, the risk of coronary heart disease was 30 percent lower than among those who perceived a low or an intermediate level of justice," the researchers said.

That finding was not accounted for by other risk factors, from age and socioeconomic status to cholesterol levels, alcohol consumption and physical activity, the authors said.

Rania Sedhom, a labor and employment attorney with Meyer Suozzi English & Klein in New York who commented on the research, said a parallel study in the United States could find even more dramatic results because of the longer American work day.

I MAY have to put that window in his office to good use soon.
Studies like these are also a good source of stress.

Medical Humor

An 86-year-old man walked into a crowded Doctor's Waiting Room. As he approached the desk, the Receptionist said, "Yes sir, what are you seeing the Doctor for today?""There's something wrong with my dick," he replied. The Receptionist became irritated and said, "You shouldn't come into a crowded Doctor's Room and say things like that." "Why not? You asked me what was wrong and I told you," he said.

The Receptionist replied, "You've obviously caused some embarrassment in this room full of people. You should have said there is something wrong with your ear or something and then discussed the problem further with the Doctor in private."The man replied, "You shouldn't ask people things in a room full of others, if the answer could embarrass anyone."

The man walked out, waited several minutes and then re-entered.

The Receptionist smiled smugly and asked, "Yes?""There's something wrong with my ear," he stated.

The Receptionist nodded approvingly and smiled, knowing he had taken her advice. "And what is wrong with your ear, Sir?""I can't piss out of it," the man replied.

The Waiting Room erupted in laughter

Let's see..... Mowing or Hunting?
Hmmm. .....

Influencing Judges?

RIM ruling risks US Blackberry shutdown
By Jeffrey Hodgson

TORONTO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied a motion to stay a patent case against Research In Motion Ltd. (Toronto:RIM.TO - news) (Nasdaq:RIMM - news), bringing RIM closer to an injunction that could shut down its popular BlackBerry email service in the United States.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied RIM's motion to suspend the case pending RIM's request for a U.S. Supreme Court review.
The case goes back to 2002, when patent holding company NTP successfully sued RIM in a lower court. It won an injunction in 2003 to halt U.S. sales of the BlackBerry and shut down its service, although that ruling was stayed pending appeal.
NTP said on Friday it will ask that the injunction be confirmed. The closely held firm said the injunction would not affect BlackBerry products used by U.S. federal, state, or local governments, where the wireless email device has become increasingly popular.

Because if it did affect those government functions/employees, like say maybe judges, then THAT would be a bad thing. Unlike the affect it would have on tax-paying businesses which might use these devices.

Youth Hunting Patch

We'll probably be awarding this patch to someone on Monday.
Stay tuned.

This blogging's hard.

You do your best to think up a witty name.
You post a couple of interesting places for others to visit/read, in case they don't know about them, yet,
You post a couple pictures for the more visual types who might run by.
You even throw in the obligatory, always-a-hit, toilet picture and then a funny story or two.
And you get one stinkin non-spam comment and then the author of said comment goes ahead and deletes it like some big internet blog-readin lurkin-chicken.
This is hard!

WHAT?!!!!

Hey there, Early Morning Working Dude!
Sorry you have to be up and on the road to work at 3:30 a.m. in the morning and really, really sorry that your route takes you past my neighborhood, but has it ever occurred to you that all those quiet, dark houses within say 2,000 feet on either side of that road your travelling just might contain common, ordinary hard working people who need a little sleep before they get up to slog their way into work, which is so not happening when the dog is barking and the lamp and clock radio are vibrating off the bed stand from the sound waves generated by the 4,000 watt base-booster amplifier in your pimped-up ride, which by the way, if your ear drums weren’t all scarred, it’d be as obvious to you as it is the rest of the hearing public, is in dire need of a functioning muffler. Sure the dog quit barking and only really whined for five or ten minutes following your drive-by assault, and the snoring resumed from other side of the bed indicating others fell back to sleep, but some of us lay awake wondering just what the hell went wrong in your life that causes you to have so little, if any, empathy or concern for those who happen to share this world with you.
And then you wonder why the customers going through the drive-up lane at Donut World seem so like cranky.

Read this guy's Blog!

Understand who he is and what he's doing.
And send him something, if you can.
It's the REST of the story that he's trying to get out to us.
Here's his latest post. I, for one, can hardly wait for his next.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Update on Operation Rhma
Witnessing the critical Iraqi referendum Saturday, I saw such a breadth of events that some time is required to compose a dispatch equal to those historic proceedings. Accurately capturing the experience is more important than quickly delivering a statistical summary. The newspapers can handle the summaries. A surplus of reporters has kept an ongoing tally of high voter turnout and low insurgent activity. By now most people know that the voting was extraordinarily successful. But there’s more to say than that it was a success. This milestone deserves careful consideration and writing. With that in mind, please be patient for a dispatch covering the historical voting that occurred in Iraq on 15 October 2005.

http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/

Connecting to the past

And then there was Grandpa... Always the best humor.

Laugh at it all.

Grandma's favorite poet.
Mine, too.
I can still hear her reading this out loud.

Laughter
Robert Service

I Laugh at Life: its antics make for me a giddy game,
Where only foolish fellows take themselves with solemn aim.
I laugh at pomp and vanity, at riches, rank and pride;
At social inanity, at swagger, swank and side.
At poets, pastry-cooks and kings, at folk sublime and small,
Who fuss about a thousand things that matter not at all;
At those who dream of name and fame, at those who scheme for pelf. . . .
But best of all the laughing game - is laughing at myself.

Some poet chap had labeled man the noblest work of God:
I see myself a charlatan, a humbug and a fraud.
Yea, 'spite of show and shallow wit, and sentimental drool,
I know myself a hypocrite, a coward and a fool.
And though I kick myself with glee profoundly on the pants,
I'm little worse, it seems to me, than other human ants.
For if you probe your private mind, impervious to shame,
Oh, Gentle Reader, you may find you're much about the same.

Then let us mock with ancient mirth this comic, cosmic plan;
The stars are laughing at the earth; God's greatest joke is man.
For laughter is a buckler bright, and scorn a shining spear;
So let us laugh with all our might at folly, fraud and fear.
Yet on our sorry selves be spent our most sardonic glee.
Oh don't pay life a compliment to take it seriously.
For he who can himself despise, be surgeon to the bone,
May win to worth in others' eyes, to wisdom in his own.

How true.

She's apparently had ENOUGH!

"Keep the lid DOWN!"

Those darn kids!

Sure it's fun, until someone loses an eye or gets eaten by a shark or swallows a bunch of water and it comes shooting through your nose and you're coughing so badly you have to stop swimming for a minute.
Then what, Mr. Alcatraz Swimmer?

Boy, 9, Swims From Alcatraz to San Fran

Mon Oct 10, 4:49 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO - A nine-year-old boy has just finished a pretty tough morning swim — from Alcatraz to San Francisco.

Johnny Wilson, from Hillsborough, made the 1.4-mile swim in under two hours, braving choppy morning waters and rough winds in a portion of the San Francisco bay known to have sharks as well.

Wilson's classmates were waiting for him on shore, cheering as he made it all the way to Aquatic Park.

His effort raised about $30,000 for the Red Cross Katrina Hurricane Victims Fund.

Wilson said the toughest part of the swim was the beginning, because it was cold and windy.

What kind of example is he setting for convicts?
A good cause, though.

That's just wrong

Sure, our new dog (thanks, kids, for the Christmas present) is a pain in the ass once in awhile, with the puking on the carpet and the constant ass rubbing on the rugs and the barking at absolutely nothing, and I swear she's autistic, but I'd never, ever do THIS:

WINTON, N.C. — The cats and dogs two PETA employees have been charged with euthanizing and dumping in an Ahoskie garbage bin were killed by injections of pentobarbital, a barbiturate commonly used to put down animals, according to new warrants issued and served on Friday.
Additionally, the two employees were charged with three felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. The charges allege that they euthanized three cats from an Ahoskie veterinarian after promising to find the animals new homes, according to the new warrants.
PETA employees Andrew B. Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, and Adria J. Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, were served with warrants on 22 felony charges of animal cruelty and the three felony charges of obtaining property by false pretense in court on Friday.

Some good reading

If you looked up "connected" in your dictionary, there'd be a picture and link to this guy's Private Papers. Hope he doesn't mind a mention here.


October 14, 2005
An American “Debacle”?
More unjustified negativity on the war in Iraq.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online

We have made plenty of mistakes since September 11, often failed to articulate our goals and values, and turned on each other in perpetual acrimony. Federal spending is out of control, and our present energy policy won’t wean us off Middle Eastern petroleum for years. But still lost in all this conundrum is that the old appeasement of the 1990s is over, the terrorists are losing both tactically and strategically, and, as Tony Blair said of the evolving Western mentality, “The rules of the game are changing.”

http://victorhanson.com/index.html

Summer day in Ely.
A neat webcam can be found at http://www.elyminnesota.com/cams/csp/index.php

What is Disunreconnected?

Breaking it down and working it backwards, which is often better for me, "Disunreconnected" can more easily be understood.
Reconnected = I was once connected, but apparently got disconnected, so now I'm being connected again.
Unreconnected = all of the above, but different and opposite, meaning unconnected once more again.
Disunreconnected = After all of that, I'm finally once more again connected.
Hopefully, the following, future posts of general interest to me, will prove this out.
Some will probably leave us wondering whether I'm connected or unconnected or somewhere in between.

Disunreconnected in 1000 words.