[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Discord at the Amalgamated Order of Real-Bearded Santas

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline...reading-d.html

[ekim68]

Airline stabs javelin throwers in the wallet

So, you think you have it bad, what with new, increasingly painful airline baggage fees almost daily? Second-bag fees, first-bag fees, carry-on fees?

Quit your whining. I have to pay those fees and an extra $100 just to travel with my javelin.

OK, so I don't actually own a javelin, no less travel with one. But I know for sure that if I did, it would cost me a C-note to get one on an American Airlines plane. I know this because the airline has a policy for it. Really.

Under "Updated Checked Bag Fees" at the airline's Web site ( www.aa.com), there is a chart that details fees and policies for checked luggage that includes, among other things, a javelin. It states: "Javelin: $100 in addition to the applicable checked baggage fee, based on the number of checked bags."

Who knew? Are the members of the Association of Javelin Throwers Against Tremendous Expenses (AJITATE) aware of this hidden fee? (OK, there isn't really such an association, but if there were, I know its members would be outraged.)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TRLG11IPIH.DTL

[poochee]

Pastor lists himself, family on eBay Why not?
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 7/15/2008 8:00:00 AM

An Alabama pastor has listed himself and his family for sale on eBay.

Earlier this year, Chad Smith, a pastor from Tuscaloosa, and his wife, Marti, began looking for a non-denominational church to lead. However, Pastor Smith found that his résumé was one of hundreds that many churches were looking through. So Smith says he began praying, asking God for a novel way to get his name out there. "So I was riding my motorcycle – yes, I ride a Harley Davidson – was riding down the road, and came up with the idea of putting my wife, myself, and my kids for sale on eBay," Smith explains.

And that is what Smith has done. He will not disclose the reserve bid, but shipping costs are listed at $3,000 dollars. Smith says he has received emails from around the country -- some supportive, and some questioning his sincerity.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=174800

[Shadow Bea]

this is enjoyable especially the you tube video

Christian, the lion who lived in my London living room
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...ving-room.html
He travelled by Bentley, ate in fine London restaurants and spent his days lounging in a furniture shop. The story of Christian the pet lion - and his eventual release into the wild - is as moving as it is incredible.
The furniture shop was on the King's Road in London. It sold tables, wardrobes, chairs and desks - but anybody peering through its plate-glass window on a Sunday might have noticed something rather more unusual.

Amid all the pine and oak, stretched out languidly on a bench, there was a lion. And it wasn't stuffed........

read more here

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/christian.asp


You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNTd.../christian.asp

[poochee]

Originally Posted by Shadow Bea

this is enjoyable especially the you tube video

Christian, the lion who lived in my London living room
v=zVNTdWbVBgc&eurl=http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/christian.asp[/url]

Neat story!

[ekim68]

Fisherman hooks drowning man and reels him in

HALLOWELL, Maine -- A man who was drowning in a Maine river is recovering after someone reeled him in with a fishing rod.

Bob Greene of Hallowell says he heard what he thought was a bird early Thursday as he was having his morning coffee. He then realized there was a man bobbing in the Kennebec River.

He says a 911 dispatcher told him to throw something to the man. He snagged the man's shirt with a fishing lure and reeled him in.

The rescued man is in critical condition at a Portland hospital.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...mer_saved.html

[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Fisherman hooks drowning man and reels him in

HALLOWELL, Maine -- A man who was drowning in a Maine river is recovering after someone reeled him in with a fishing rod.

Bob Greene of Hallowell says he heard what he thought was a bird early Thursday as he was having his morning coffee. He then realized there was a man bobbing in the Kennebec River.

He says a 911 dispatcher told him to throw something to the man. He snagged the man's shirt with a fishing lure and reeled him in.

The rescued man is in critical condition at a Portland hospital.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...mer_saved.html

[Couriant]

Jim Smiths' day out

[poochee]

Originally Posted by Couriant

Jim Smiths' day out

A picture would be fun!

[ekim68]

Cool article Couriant, maybe I can do that....Hmm...ekim's day out...Has a ring...

[ekim68]

Disability coalition wants Savage fired

WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- ADA Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights is demanding U.S. talk radio host Michael Savage be fired for his recent remarks about the disabled.

Jim Ward, founder and president of ADA Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights, issued a statement Monday saying, "ADA Watch/NCDR calls on Talk Radio Network to fire Michael Savage.

"As America prepares to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, people with disabilities, parents, family members, friends and advocates across the nation are outraged over Savage's latest attack on people with disabilities," Ward said. "His despicable assault on children with autism -- calling them 'frauds' and 'brats' -- is rightly being condemned as hateful and bigoted. But it is just the latest of Savage's numerous and painful attempts to demean and disenfranchise people with disabilities."

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_New...1361216691864/

[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Disability coalition wants Savage fired

WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- ADA Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights is demanding U.S. talk radio host Michael Savage be fired for his recent remarks about the disabled.

Jim Ward, founder and president of ADA Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights, issued a statement Monday saying, "ADA Watch/NCDR calls on Talk Radio Network to fire Michael Savage.

"As America prepares to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, people with disabilities, parents, family members, friends and advocates across the nation are outraged over Savage's latest attack on people with disabilities," Ward said. "His despicable assault on children with autism -- calling them 'frauds' and 'brats' -- is rightly being condemned as hateful and bigoted. But it is just the latest of Savage's numerous and painful attempts to demean and disenfranchise people with disabilities."

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_New...1361216691864/

He goes too far many times. I don't listen to him. I put him in the same category as Limbaugh.

[ekim68]

Man blows up apartment spraying for bugs?

NEW YORK, July 21 - A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.

Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police told the newspaper.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...42142620080721

[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Man blows up apartment spraying for bugs?

NEW YORK, July 21 - A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.

Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police told the newspaper.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...42142620080721

[ekim68]

CNN reporter says bad things about the TSA, gets hassled every time he flies

CNN reporter Drew Griffin reported on the TSA's 1,000,000+ name watchlist of "potential terrorists," and now his name seems to have been added to the list. The TSA denies it, but Griffin is held up every time he flies, and the airlines tell his that it's because he's on the list:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/23...r-says-ba.html