Saturday, October 18, 2003
College student admits planting box cutters on planes
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A 20-year-old North Carolina student has admitted placing box cutters and other suspicious materials aboard two Southwest Airlines planes, law enforcement sources told CNN Friday.
Great - so now we know we can fool our own asses...
Thursday, October 16, 2003
Apple - iTunes
Allow me to be the first one to personally endorse this service.
It's not free - but it's time to tell the music industry they're on the right track...
(99 cents a song, burn the disc full of the songs, and rip 'em back in as mp3's if you want)
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
China claims its place in space
China's first astronaut Yang Liwei is in orbit following a successful launch Wednesday morning from the Jiuquan launch site in the western Gobi Desert, state media reports.
Yah know... If you look at the size difference, specifically width, wouldn't you say there's some (perverted) symbolic referencing here?
China, left; US, right
Divorced? Blame your daughter....
Dahl and Moretti insist that American parents have a strong preference for sons over daughters. This is the evidence they offer:
Mothers of daughters who are divorced are far less likely to remarry than divorced mothers of sons, suggesting that daughters are a liability.
Parents who have only girls are more likely than parents who have only boys to try yet again for a child of the opposite gender.
When an unmarried couple is expecting a baby, they are more likely to get married if the ultrasound shows that the child is a boy.
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Corporate Ass-Kissing 101:
AOL Apologizes to Boise, Holds Free Concert to Make Up
Internet provider America Online has apologized to state and local officials for a newspaper ad that suggested Idaho's capital city wasn't a fit place to launch a new product.
To make up for it, America Online set up a free concert Wednesday featuring the Counting Crows. The company also donated $25,000 to the Boise School District for music programs.
[Commence ass-kissing in....3...2...1:]
"I've actually been to Boise many times," Richard Taylor, AOL senior vice president, said Tuesday. "I love this city."
Gov. Dirk Kempthorne had fired off a note to AOL after seeing the ad in a New York newspaper touting a new service and declaring, "You didn't think we'd launch something like this in Boise, did you?"
AOL: So Easy to Hate, No Wonder It's Falling from #1!
WTOPNEWS.com:
VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) - More than 800 people have signed up for a lottery to win a seat for a day in the courtroom with sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, whose capital murder trial starts Tuesday in Virginia Beach.
God Bless Democracy.
[Wait - can I still say god?]
Nebraska Player Caught On Video Assaulting Mizzou Fan
A Nebraska player is seen hitting and knocking down a Missouri fan when the two crossed paths on the field in Columbia, Mo. Fans swarmed the field after the Tigers beat the Cornhuskers 41-24.
Damn Cornhuskers....
I wonder if this isn't a preview of what's to come for that Cubs fan who decided he wanted the ball over the left fielder tonight.
KOBTV.com - Girl scores first touchdown in 67-0 rout
(Las Vegas, New Mexico-AP) -- Freshman tailback Vanessa Lucero scored the opening touchdown Saturday in West Las Vegas High School’s 67-0 rout of Pojoaque—and was homecoming princess to boot.
Just wait until you hear what else she got in the locker room after the game...
From the "More Proof That Kids Need Licenses for Anything with Wheels" Department:
Teen dies on scooter in accident with truck
13-year-old Scottsdale boy was killed Monday when a dump truck hit him as he rode his motorized scooter on a street.
Wade Hileman was riding alone, wearing a baseball helmet and motoring north in a residential neighborhood on 115th Street near Desert Cove Avenue around 1 p.m., said Sgt. Doug Dirren, a spokesman for the Scottsdale Police Department. The driver of a truck, owned by M & R Service of Phoenix, turned into a construction site and ran over Hileman, Dirren said.
Your Teddy Bear is now a threat to national security....
Pillow bombs feared on planes
Oct. 14 — Airport screeners in this country and overseas are on the lookout for suspicious pillows, coats and even stuffed animals after U.S. intelligence concluded that al Qaeda operatives are being trained to apply special chemicals to the material inside to transform them into bombs.
As seen above the mailboxes of a hall in an honors dorm here at BSU:
"NO MAIL TODAY!
IT'S COLOMBUS DAY!"
Yes, I said honors dorm.
Monday, October 13, 2003
Yahoo! News - Identical soldier letters to US newspapers describe accomplishments in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Identical letters signed by different soldiers describing their accomplishments in Iraq (news - web sites) have been appearing in newspapers across the United States.
It was unclear who wrote the letter or organized sending it, USA Today reported. The letter-writing campaign could violate military ethics if it was intended to sway public opinion.
...but if it was just for the hell of it, they don't have a problem?
Wedding guests 'shoot down plane'
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- A small plane crashed near a wedding party in central Serbia, and local media said it was apparently brought down by celebratory rounds fired by wedding guests. [Seems like rednecks like doin' that, too.]
"Shortly before the crash I saw the plane flying at a very low altitude over a wedding party when guests started firing their handguns and other weapons," eyewitness Zoran Vukadinovic told FoNet, a private news agency.
The left wing of the aircraft subsequently caught fire, and the plane crashed, he said.
Shootings and fatalities are frequent at Serbian weddings because of the centuries-long tradition of blasting away with firearms in celebration.
See - we don't need terrorists to take down planes - we got hicks and Serbs!
Sunday, October 12, 2003
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91-Year-Old Pleads Guilty in Bank Robbery
LUBBOCK, Texas - A 91-year-old man who walks with a cane and is hard of hearing pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing nearly $2,000 from a bank, his third such robbery in less than five years.
Leaning on his cane and wearing a headset to listen to the judge, J.L. Hunter "Red" Rountree initially responded "not guilty" when asked for his plea.
"I mean, `Guilty,'" Rountree later said. "I'm sorry."
Really... he just likes the attention...
In August, Rountree handed a First American Bank teller in Abilene an envelope with "Robbery" written on it in red marker, prosecutors said. He gave her a second envelope, telling her to put money in it. Twice the teller asked if he was kidding. After the first time, Rountree said, "Hurry up or you will get hurt."
So - let me get this straight: A 91-year-old man hands a piece of paper saying "robbery" to a teller and she asks if he's joking...twice.
And she still gives him the money?
Authorities say Rountree's crime spree began in 1998, a week before his 87th birthday. He was arrested in Biloxi, Miss., minutes after robbing a bank. He was given three years' probation, fined $260 and told to leave Mississippi.
Yes... Just.. um, Leave. Now! Go!
The Winchester Star-Reported Shoplifting a Comedy of Errors
Despite having just been approved for a line of credit at the store, a Front Royal man allegedly attempted to shoplift Thursday night at Sears in the Apple Blossom Mall.
He applied and was approved for a store credit card, then was apparently going to do some shopping.
The man allegedly picked up and tried to leave with a portable DVD player, a product that would sell for $450 had it been an actual DVD player and not a mock-up display unit.
Watson stopped the man and took him into an office for questioning.
Shortly thereafter, the man left the office, saying he wanted to find his wife and child, Watson said. After locating his family, the man allegedly tried to flee the scene.
Watson stopped the man and reminded him that the store had all of his personal information, since he had applied for a line of credit there.
“At that point, he got nervous realizing that I knew who he was,” Watson said.
The man, who Watson believes was intoxicated, allegedly pulled a small pocket knife and spouted profanity.
Yeah - he's a real winner...
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