Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Friday, Jan20 / Cougars, Drunk Police, McMouse
Good
morning to you, today is Friday, January 20, 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 TGI Friday edition of The
Morning Wake Up Call.
Let’s Go Cougars! –
Fox News, Todd Starns
A Utah school district
decided not to select a cougar as the mascot of a new high school partly
because school officials and some parents believed the word is disrespectful to
women.
Students in the
Canyons School District named the cougar their top choice to become the mascot
of the new Corner Canyon High School. The school is expected to open in 2013.
However, district
officials overrode the student vote after complaints that that the word
“cougar” is offensive and derogatory towards women.
“We heard from folks
who were worried about the connotation of the word ‘cougar’ as it pertains to
the current vernacular — in a derogatory manner,” Jennifer Toomer-Cook, a
spokesperson for the school district told Fox News & Commentary.
In pop culture, the
term “cougar” refers to a sexually aggressive middle-aged woman who attracts younger
men.
However, the cougar is
also a large mountain cat — that also happens to be the mascot for Brigham
Young University — along with three other Utah high schools.
Toomer-Cook said that
was the chief reason the district decided to override the students’ vote — even
though it was the highest vote-getter out of more than 1,000 suggestions.
Instead, school
officials decided to select the “Chargers” as the new mascot. Toomer-Cook said
they wanted to have a unique mascot name.
“Instead of going to a
place where people were seeing something potentially divisive, go to a mascot
that could more easily unify,” she said. “No other Utah school has Chargers as
its mascot. The board members were also saying this presents an image of
strength and captures a little bit of the area’s culture.”
Drunken Experiment –
The Blaze
Typically, employers discourage inebriation in the workplace.
But in this case, Florida law enforcement officials actually paid for employees to get drunk. The Florida
Department of Law Enforcement (the state’s version of the FBI) apparently
shelled out $330 on Jim Beam whiskey, booze and Doritos back in October.
Now, before you get too frustrated,
you should know that reports claim the fiesta was thrown in an effort to test
out the reliability of an alcohol breathalyzer machine (even with that
description some of you may still be frustrated — especially after you read the
read of the story). In sum, 15 employees attended the shindig to
test out the Intoxilyzer 8000, a tool that has come under fire as being
unreliable.
The group, which included crime
analysts, staff assistants and police officers consumed the alcohol, was
recorded as members blew into three of the units. Additionally, they had their
blood drawn and sent to a lab. The Herald Tribune:
The $8,000 study, put together in
three days, was part of a broader push to save the reputation of the embattled
Intoxilyzer 8000, FDLE records show. And in December, FDLE’s alcohol testing
guru Laura Barfield came to a Sarasota County courtroom for a hearing and
presented results of the drunken employee experiment to a panel of judges,
saying it proved the machines were accurate.
But the study might not even be worth
the $330 bar bill.
At the hearing, judges deciding the
fate of the machine in Sarasota and Manatee counties seemed skeptical of even
considering the study, in part because bloodwork was still at the lab and the
examination was not yet finalized.
McMouse in the McBuns! – Huffington Post
Karruim Demaio, a former McDonald's
employee, shot a cell phone video of a mouse trapped in a bag of Big Mac buns at a Philadelphia McDonald's. In the
video below, the frantic mouse tramples across many different buns. According
to the Demaio, the manager ordered the employees to serve the buns, and has
previously wiped off mouse droppings from buns and then served them. When Fox
29 asked the manager, she denied the claims.
"I was working there from October
of 2010 to January of this year. There hasn't been a time when we couldn't go
in the back and see mouse droppings on the bread," Demaio told Fox 29.
According to the Philadelphia Health
Department, this particular McDonald's is not in satisfactory compliance with health standards; the owner is
investigating the claims.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Thursday, Jan19, Witchy Woman Soapbox
Good morning to you, today
is Thursday, January 19, 2012, and I am your humble host, the sultan of
sarcasm, 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 Thursday edition of The
Morning Wake Up Call.
Witchy Woman – Fox News
WEAVERVILLE,
N.C. – A
pagan mother's challenge to the distribution of donated Bibles at a local
school has prompted the Buncombe County Board of Education to reevaluate its
policies regarding religious texts.
Ginger Strivelli, who
practices Witchcraft, a form of Paganism, said she was upset when her
12-year-old son came home from North Windy Ridge intermediate school with a
Bible.
The Gideons International
had delivered several boxes of the sacred books to the school office. The staff
allowed interested students to stop by and pick them up.
"Schools should not
be giving out one religion's materials and not others," Strivelli said.
According to Strivelli,
the principal assured her the school would make available religious texts
donated by any group. But when Strivelli showed up at the school with pagan
spell books, she was turned away.
"Buncombe County
School officials are currently reviewing relevant policies and practices with
school board attorneys," the district announced in a written statement.
"During this review period, no school in the system will be accepting
donations of materials that could be viewed as advocating a particular religion
or belief."
I
don’t want to get on a soapbox here, but this chaps my hide and it is about
high time that we stand up for what WE believe in and quit bowing down to the
liberal, left wing, donkeys and the ACLU.
We have become so desensitized as a nation and culture that we do not
stand up for what we believe in anymore yet we let the rest of the world tell
us what we are going to tolerate in the name of “equality”. Look here Ms Strivelli, if you do not want
your son reading the Bible, fine, tell him not to read it, burn it, shred it,
cast a spell on it whatever you want because I don’t care. I’ll make a deal with you, I will not force
your kids to read the Bible if you do not force my kids to read spell
books. It is really that simple, there
is absolutely no need for “laws”, “regulations”, “policies” or whatever to
determine what our kids do and don’t, participate in.
I am
a religious man, I am a Christian in its truest a purest meaning, I attend
worship services as well do my wife and kids.
I firmly believe in practicing my religion in the way I live my life and
am more than happy to share my beliefs with you and will listen to you as you
share your beliefs with me. Again, I do
not force my feelings on anyone, but if you want to learn more about my beliefs
I will freely lay it on ya.
Just
because you do not like what I do does not make it OK for you to try to make it
not legal so you do not have to come in contact with it. We all share this globe and have to live on
it together. My advice to you is to suck
it up and get on with your life and I will get on with my life and I will have
my Bible in hand while I am doing it.
But
of course that is just my 2 cents worth, I could be wrong.
Useless Facts
Al Capone's business card said he was a used
furniture dealer.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Wednesday, Jan18
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.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Thursday, Jan12 / Big Bang Wish / Sex Study / Deer Birth Control / Breastfeeding on Sesame Street
Good
morning to you, today is Thursday, January 12, 2012, and I am your humble host,
the sultan of sarcasm, the purveyor of non-pertinent information, the troublemaker
extraordinaire and I are coming to you recorded from the Eagle’s nest here at
wake up central with news you can’t use here on the Thursday edition of The
Morning Wake Up Call.
Big Bang Wish –
Huffington Post
Like most seven-year-old boys, Maxwell
Hinton enjoys explosions. Unlike most seven-year-old boys, he was able to set
one into motion himself. Through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the organization
that grants wishes to young people with life-threatening diseases, Hinton
pushed the button that set a series of detonations, which took down an enormous
ConAgra grain mill in Huron, Ohio, reports Fox Toledo. (Although such an event is often
referred to as an implosion, the term is "actually a misnomer because that
would require an inverse explosion," according toThe Daily Mail.)
Hinton, who lives in Fresno, CA,
gained his passion for explosions through television. "I watch
'MythBusters' and they inspired me to blow a building up," he explained.
The boy suffers from neuro-blastoma, a malignant cancerous tumor that that commonly affects young children. The Daily Mail reports that Hinton "has undergone
treatment and is now recovering from the condition." The mill needed to be
razed in order to make room for a long-planned riverfront development project.
Grain silos, also attached to the structure, will be knocked down in the coming
weeks.
30,000-40,000 people turned out for the
event. ABC-7 reports that
after the dust had settled, and the applause died down, Maxwell simply said,
"I had a great time."
Sex Study in an MRI
Machine – ABC News
Kayt Sukel was
an undergraduate research assistant in a neuroscience lab at Harvard University
before she decided to jump right into science -- literally.
She crawled inside a functional MRI
machine, where she was tethered with a mesh net harness to hold her head still,
and sexually stimulated herself to climax in that awkward setting -- not just
once, but twice, so researchers could measure
her brain activity.
It was a scene even she admits felt
straight out of a porno film, but Sukel said she knew she was contributing to
the scientific understanding ofwhat happens to the brain during orgasm. And it made great fodder for a book.
"I did it," she writes.
"I now had a great story if anyone ever asked me to name the strangest
place I'd had an orgasm. And I had helped science while doing it. Triumph for
all parties concerned!"
Sukel, 37, writes about that and much
more in her new book, "Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and
Relationships," which
examines how neurobiology shapes how we love and bond with others.
Other books have been written about
"the nether regions and what is going on downstairs," but this
well-researched book helps readers find out "what's going on
upstairs."
"Sex is between your ears,"
Sukel said. "Our brain is really an important part of orgasm."
Deer and Birth Control
The
National Park Service is considering sharpshooting and euthanasia to reduce
Rock Creek Park’s growing deer population. White-tailed deer are overgrazing on the
park’s tree seedlings and native plants, keeping the forest from regenerating,
the officials said. The National Park Service released the latest version of its deer
control plan on
Tuesday. In
addition to sharpshooting and euthanasia, birth control is an alternative Though they have yet to officially
decide, park officials prefer a combination of lethal and non-lethal options
instead of a single method, the report said.
The National Park Service plans to donate the resulting deer meat to
local food banks. A Montgomery County deer sharpshooting programdonated about 17,500 pounds of food to the Capital Area Food Bank last
November.
Breastfeeding on Sesame Street – Time
What’s not to like about lovable furry old Grover and his pals
Elmo, Zoe and Oscar the Grouch? If you’re a member of the robust movement
that saucily refers to itself as NIP — “nursing in public,” natch — the answer
is plenty.
Coming on the heels of a well-attended national “nurse-in”
that sought to normalize breast-feeding in Target stores, NIPers are now
lowering the boom on Sesame Street. Apparently a generation ago, the kiddie
show incorporated tasteful shots of nursing mothers who explained that
“lots of mothers feed their babies this way” and that breast milk was “warm and
natural.” More recently, however, when a baby gets fed on “The Street,” it
seems to be courtesy of a bottle. Not that there’s anything wrong with
bottle-feeding, the NIP moms are quick to point out. But bottle-feeding to the
exclusion of breast-feeding, especially at a time when even the U.S. Surgeon
General has called for more support for
breast-feeding mothers?
“You’re My Baby” from a 1980s segment of Sesame Street, which
includes a mother breast feeding
That doesn’t
make for particularly sunny days. And it’s prompted more than 5,600 people to
sign a petition to
“bring breastfeeding back to Sesame Street.”
http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/12/group-petitions-to-bring-breastfeeding-back-to-sesame-street/#ixzz1jFo3KWAS
http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/12/group-petitions-to-bring-breastfeeding-back-to-sesame-street/#ixzz1jFo3KWAS
Quote of the Day
He who is void of
virtuous Attachments in private Life, is, or very soon will be void of all
Regard for his Country. – Samuel Adams
Useless Facts
"101 Dalmations" and "Peter
Pan" are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are
present and don't die during the movie
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Wednesday, Jan11, UPS Crook, Binge Drinking, UFO's, Used Underwear
Good
morning to you, today is Wednesday, January 11, 2012, and I am your humble
host, the sultan of sarcasm, the purveyor of non-pertinent information, the troublemaker
extraordinaire and I are 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.
UPS Man – Fox News
GREENBELT, Md. – A
man awaiting trial in the deaths of a mother and her daughter has been
sentenced to 100 years in prison for crimes committed during dozens of armed
home invasions and burglaries.
Jason Scott was
sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. A judge said he'll be
remembered as one of the "most hated" people in the county and that
he was a "tsunami" of crime.
The 28-year-old was
convicted in July of crimes including armed carjacking, producing child
pornography and stealing firearms. Prosecutors say he admitted to dozens of
burglaries and other crimes.
Prosecutors say Scott
used a database at the UPS facility where he worked to target the homes.
Scott faces separate
murder charges in the deaths of a mother and her daughter in March 2009
Binge Drinking on the
Rise – Fox News
Binge drinking rates in
the U.S. are at a much higher rate than previously thought, according to a
report released Tuesday from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC found that more
than 38 million Americans binge drink four times a month—consuming an average
of eight drinks each time.
And it’s not just young
adults. Although it is more common between the ages of 18-34, those 65 and
older reportedly binge drink more often—five to six times a month.
The frequency of binge
drinking is higher in households with an income of $75,000 or more. But the
disturbing data found that the highest number of drinks consumed per occasion
is by people living just above or below the poverty line, with eight to nine
drinks per occasion.
Binge drinking is
defined by the CDC as consuming five or more drinks for men and four or more
drinks for women on a single occasion. Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing
health editor of FoxNews.com, said he thinks it is disturbing that Americans
are drinking nearly double the amount of what is already considered too much.
“It is alarming to me
that Americans are not being smart in knowing how to respect the effects of
alcohol,” Alvarez said, “it’s putting their health in jeopardy.”
According to the CDC,
binge drinkers are at a higher risk for many health and social problems,
including car accidents, violence, liver disease, certain cancers, heart
disease, sexually
transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancies.
Overconsumption of
alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of death, with more than 80,000
fatalities in the United States each
year.
UFO’s
During the first week of 2012, UFO
reports streamed in from around the world as numerous eyewitnesses described
and videotaped strange things in the sky.
Whether they were balloons,
conventional aircraft or misidentified astronomical objects, the new year of
UFO sightings is off and running as the worldwide proliferation of digital
video cameras and phone cams makes it easier than ever to photograph unusual
sights in the sky above us.
The Colorado-based Mutual UFO Network, the largest UFO investigative
organization in the world, received many reports of UFOs during the first week
of the year from eyewitnesses in 36 out of 50 states. The 14 states that haven't reported in so far
are Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming --
but the year is young.
Used Underwear –
Huffington Post
Zimbabwe may
have an 80% unemployment rate, but one thing the country absolutely won't stand
for is its impoverished citizens wearing used undergarments. According to the Zimbabwe Mail, the
country's finance minister Tendai Biti recently announced a total ban on the importation and sale of secondhand underwear. "If you are a husband and you see your
wife buying underwear from the flea market, you would have failed. If I was
your in-law, I would take my daughter and urge you to first put your house in
order if you still want her back," Biti told the paper. The law went into effect on Dec. 30, 2011
calling forthe Zimbabwe Revenue Authority to charge 40 percent duty, 15 percent value added tax and a $3
penalty for every kilogram (2.2 lbs) of imported underwear, according
to The Guardian.
It is believed the ban will help
address health concerns as well as work to protect the country's domestic
textile industry.
Quote of the Day
“All the responsibilities of an adult,
none of the benefits” – Paige Wyatt
Useless Facts
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push
your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
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