Not sure if I mentioned this in previous entries or not, but we've been expecting a call for the last couple of weeks about my step grandfather.  He was having kidney trouble and they said the most they could do was make him feel more comfortable and it'd only be a matter of time before he passed on.  (If you're curious, the guy's was in his late ( Read more... )

Just once, I'd like to see a newcaster intro a frivolous lawsuit story like this,

"And coming up next: a complete idiot did something really stupid, got injured, and now, they want to sue.  Details when we come back."

Received this in my email box today, and, unlike most forwarded pieces of email, I did some research and found out it's true. It's an interesting story.

There recently was the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendler.

During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.

She had an ulterior motive ( Read more... )

So, apparently there's this small town in Japan that was facing bankruptcy and a huge economic slowdown when the people at the train station got this idea to promote a cat as the Station Master, and suddenly, BOOM, people came from miles and miles around to see this cat with a small conductors hat, and buy the various merchandise that bears it's ( Read more... )

This is hilarious.  I was reading an article over at Politico where basically they're mocking the idea that the media of today is biased in favor of Obama.  First they say admit that the number of articles in today's media have been overwhelmingly negative against McCain and positive for Obama, but they say it's NOT because of ideology.

They say, ( Read more... )

Remember over a YEAR ago there was an item it in the news about a judge in the DC area who was suing a local laundromat for $54 MILLION (yes, MILLION) dollars over a lost pair of pants.  Yes, you heard that right, a pair of pants.  Can't remember if I posted about it here on LJ or not, but I did post about it on the badmovies.org forum (we discuss ( Read more... )

So, I just looked at this article about a group of scientists doing a test run with a new form of encryption they claimscient is UNBREAKABLE.  Dunno, me I'd be hesitate to call any sort of security measure that I just created on a computer "unbreakable" cause that's like a open invitation for every fruitcake and nut hacker out there to try and ( Read more... )

10-05-08 1:03 am

So, I'm typing this at work right, it's about 1:00am in the morning.  I'm going to do the audit in about thirty minutes or so.  We've got ONE room left.  That's kind of interesting, although Saturday is usually our busiest night, we're entering our slow season, and we haven't been as packed as usual.  Well, last weekend the entire ( Read more... )

So, I was doing some research on Healthcare and I found this interesting series of videos from 20/20, gives a viewpoint you don't often see in the mainstream media.  He talks about doctors, healtcare, even interview Michael Moore about his film Sicko, and does a couple interview with various Health Insurance providers.

Anyway, agree or disagree, it ( Read more... )

In yet another segment filed under the "You Can't Make This Shit Up" folder, I found an article about a guy who drove his TRUCK onto a friend's house.  The house was going to be torn down anyway, and I guess this guy figured this would be a fun way to do it.

I think the picture from the article just about says it all...


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