Good morning to you, today
is Wednesday, January 18, 2012, and I am your humble host, the sultan of satire,
the purveyor of non-pertinent information, the troublemaker extraordinaire and
I am coming to you recorded from the Eagle’s nest here at wake up central with
news you can’t use here on the Wednesday edition of The Morning Wake Up Call.
Election
Huntsman is out of the race,
which is no real big loss. He has
however put his support behind Romney. I
just wonder how this is going to affect Romney’s popularity. Did you watch the debate last night? I was unable to as I was at work but from the
tweets I have seen Gingrich was the big winner.
Football
Ravens, Patriots, Giants and
49ers were the big winners this weekend in the NFL playoffs.
Celebrity
News
The
famous southern cook Paula Dean has announced yesterday that she has type 2
diabities.
WikiNoGo
– Fox News
SAN FRANCISCO – Can
the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the
Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer
editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation could threaten the
credibility of their work.
"My main concern is
that it puts the organization in the role of advocacy, and that's a slippery
slope," said editor Robert Lawton, a Michigan computer consultant who
would prefer that the encyclopedia stick to being a neutral repository of
knowledge. "Before we know it, we're blacked out because we want to save
the whales."
Wikipedia's English-language
site shut down at midnight Eastern Standard Time Tuesday and the organization
said it would stay down for 24 hours.
Instead of encyclopedia
articles, visitors to the site saw a stark black-and-white page with the
message: "Imagine a world without free knowledge." It carried a link
to information about the two congressional bills and details about how to reach
lawmakers.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/18/wikipedia-goes-dark-for-24-hours-to-protest-us-web-piracy-bills/#ixzz1jn6J36if
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/18/wikipedia-goes-dark-for-24-hours-to-protest-us-web-piracy-bills/#ixzz1jn6J36if
Can You Hear Me Now? – Fox News
BALTIMORE – Serious
injuries involving pedestrians wearing headphones have more than tripled since
2004, a U.S. study showed.
Researchers from the
University of Maryland found that people often were hit by vehicles because
their music blocked out horns or sirens alerting them to danger.
In 70 percent of cases,
the headphone-wearing pedestrians died as a result of the injuries they
sustained from being hit by traffic.
The researchers studied
the data of 116 accidents involving pedestrians wearing headphones between 2004
and 2011. The number of incidents rose from 16 in 2004 to 47 in 2011.
"Everybody is aware
of the risk of cell phones and texting in automobiles, but I see more and more
teens distracted with the latest devices and headphones in their ears,"
lead author Dr. Richard Lichenstein said. "Unfortunately, as we make more
and more enticing devices, the risk of injury from distraction and blocking out
other sounds increases."
The study, published in
the journal Injury Prevention, found that young men were most at risk, with 68
percent of the 116 victims being male and 67 percent under the age of 30.
Plastic Underwear – New York Times
KITZBĂHEL, Austria — The
latest front in nefarious performance enhancement in sports: underwear.
A fit of confusion has
spread through competitive skiing in recent days after a Slovene skier who
finished second at a major event in Austria was accused of wearing plastic
undergarments that might have given her an unfair aerodynamic advantage. The
Swiss ski federation lodged a complaint with the sport’s governing body, and an
examination of the skier’s underwear was conducted. Fruit of the Loom these were
not.
A ruling was made over the
weekend: the clothing was permissible, though officials advised female skiers
not to wear it because of health concerns. Apparently the amount of plastic in
the underwear might prevent a skier’s skin from breathing properly.
The ruling, however, did
not extinguish the dispute; it has merely moved to the men’s side of
professional skiing.
Chicken
Nuggets – Fox News
Burbank, Calif. –
A Los Angeles woman was arrested last week for offering sexual favors in
exchange for chicken McNuggets, according to Burbank police.
Khadijah Baseer of Los
Angeles allegedly opened customers’ car doors while they were in the drive-thru
of a Burbank McDonald's.
A witness reported
Baseer's activity to police and she was arrested on suspicion of
prostitution.
Burger
Delivery – USA Today
Burger
King, the No. 2 burger chain, has quietly begun testing home
delivery of its burgers, fries and other sandwiches since fall at four of its
restaurants in the greater Washington, D.C.,
area, with an eye on expanding beyond that.
Should
home delivery catch on for the burger giants — as it has for the pizza kingpins
— it could be an industry changer. But it runs counter to long-held consumer
perception that fast-food burgers and fries travel poorly — and don't warm up
well in the microwave. It also would require millions of hungry folks to change
their at-home eating habits. "There are some real food-quality issues
here," says Ron Paul,
president of research firm Technomic. "But there's no question that
consumer expectation for having things delivered has risen."
Quote of the Day
You have the right to remain silent, anything you say will be
misquoted, then used against you. – Brandon Sheets
Useless Facts
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Legal Mumbo Jumbo
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