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*Fireworks, Shmireworks*
LOL! Just kidding!
I have been up since 5am and running around all morning. There is never enough time in my days. Whew!
My weekend is going to be alot of fun I am looking forward to it. I will blog about that at a later time ;)
I won't be posting tomorrow so I just wanted to wish everyone an early Happy 4th of July! Have a great time and be safe!
Tonight the fireworks are going on in Downtown Chicago, Over a million people are expected to show. I didn't learn from the pride parade. I guess that I am a glutton for punishment. lol I will be down there with a group of friends. Enjoying what our awesome city has to offer.
Ciao for now! Gotta run!
 
*Yes, I Am Easily Amused*
and I have decided that once or twice a week I will set my alarm to radio and crank it to see what scares me awake in the A.M. LOL. I hate to say this out loud for I fear that I may jinx myself but I have been sleeping and quite well I might add. Since the arrival of my turtles the sound of their filter has been helping me sleep. Funny, that is all that it took. It should have made sense since I have a thing for water(showers, the ocean, the lake), go figure! This morning I woke up to Eric Clapton, saying "her name is Aphrodite"...
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Tales Of Brave Ulysses
You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever,
But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun.
And the colors of the sea blind your eyes with trembling mermaids,
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave ulysses:
How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing,
For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.
And you see a girls brown body dancing through the turquoise,
And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea.
And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.
The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.
Her name is aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell,
And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands
With tales of brave ulysses; how his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing.
The tiny purple fishes run lauging through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter
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Happy Happy Humpday! XOXO
*News Of The Wierd *
Lead Story
Faced with its Alzheimer's residents' tendency to wander away, the Benrath Senior Centre in Dusseldorf, Germany, came up with a novel approach: a fake bus stop (an exact replica of a real one) out front. Straying residents might be attracted to the familiar colors and design of the kiosk (because long-term memory is typically still robust) and wait there for a bus instead of trying to "go home" on foot. But short-term, the resident is typically unaware of how long he has been waiting and will remain until a Centre employee sees him and can guide him back into the home (which often is easy because the resident has by then forgotten why he is sitting there, according to a June dispatch from Berlin in London's Daily Telegraph). [Daily Telegraph (London), 6-3-08]
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Bright Ideas
Minor league pitcher John Odom was traded in May by the Calgary Vipers of the independent Golden Baseball League to the Laredo Broncos of the independent United League, but his exchanged counterpart balked at leaving the U.S. for the Canadian team. The clubs huddled and announced that Odom would still report to Laredo, which would send Calgary not a player in return, but 10 bats. [MSNBC-AP, 5-23-08]
Car dealer Walter Moore of Max Motors in Butler, Mo. (an hour south of Kansas City), announced in May a free premium to every car purchaser: either $250 worth of gasoline or a gift certificate for a handgun. He told KMBC-TV that 80 percent of customers choose the gun. [KMBC-TV (Kansas City), 5-20-08]
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Weird Science
Technically, Macie McCartney was born on May 3 of this year in Laredo, Texas, but that appearance outside the womb was actually her second. When a large tumor showed up on Macie six months into her mother's pregnancy, surgeons actually pulled the fetus almost completely out of the uterus so they could excise the growth and then re-inserted the fetus. Following that rare procedure, the birth was normal, according to Dr. Darrell Cass, who explained it in June to viewers of NBC's "Today" show. [KXAN-TV-NBC (Austin), 6-11-08]
Ironies: Evolution scientists at Switzerland's University of Lausanne reported in June that over the course of 30 to 40 generations, ordinary flies tend to live longer if they're stupid. The researchers guessed that heightened neural activity overtaxed their systems. [Agence France-Presse, 6-4-08]
Cardiologists at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, writing in the June Annals of Emergency Medicine, described a patient suffering from irregular heartbeat whose rhythm was restored to normal following a Tasering by police. [Medical News Today, 5-28-08]
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Animals Amok
BBC filmmakers announced in June that they had captured, for perhaps the first time ever, an episode of pandas mating in the wild, for the "Wild China" TV series. A male is shown fighting off other males to coax a female down from a tree. What follows that, said producer Glenn Maxwell, are "loud calls which will make viewers think instantly of the Wookie character from the 'Star Wars' movies. I liken it to Chewbaccas in a pub brawl." Eventually, the female descends, and the pair get to work, "breathing hard and panting," said Maxwell. "You can see the steam coming out of their mouths." [BBC News, 6-7-08]
Animals in Trouble: China's Xinhua news agency reported in March that a farmer in Jilin province had been found with a tortoise that is addicted to nicotine. The farmer, a smoker himself, said he was surprised when the pet puffed on a cigarette he had playfully stuck in its mouth, and since then, he occasionally shares smokes with it. [Agence France-Presse, 3-27-08]
Magistrates in Sunderland, England, accepted a guilty plea in June from Samantha Pearson and David Step for animal cruelty. The couple had relocated quarters last October but left behind a pet, Milly, to starve to death. Milly was a pet rat. [Sunderland Echo, 6-6-08]
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Coaches Gone Wild
High school soccer coach Sanford Kaplan, 57, was arrested in Lincoln, Neb., in May and charged with having imprisoned several underage boys in sessions in his garage in which they were bound, gagged and suspended from the rafters. [KMTV (Omaha), 5-14-08]
Track coach Lawrence "Poppy" Vincent, 74, of Bracken Christian School in Bulverde, Texas, was arrested in May and charged with indecent exposure to an undercover police officer; Vincent was wearing floral women's panties and a bra. [WOAI-TV (San Antonio), 5-6-08]
Football coach Steve Halpin, 52, was permitted to retire quietly in June from Mesquite High School near Dallas after officials discovered that he had pawned 270 items since January 2007, including school equipment (which, in each case, he had later retrieved from the pawnshop). [Dallas Morning News, 6-12-08]
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District of Calamity (continued)
Washington, D.C., police chief Cathy Lanier decided in May to rehire 17 cops who had been fired for misconduct. The cases against the officers were solid, she noted, except that their hearings before a police trial board had not been held within the required 55 days after the charges were filed. D.C. courts and arbitrators had previously reinstated officers where the 55-day deadline was not met, and Lanier felt she had no choice. (However, the following week, Lanier announced she was beginning the process of re-firing the 17 officers, this time because they would be unable to perform their jobs since they could not be credible witnesses in criminal cases because of their records.) [Washington Post, 5-20-08, 5-24- 08]
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Fetishes on Parade
"There's really no way to explain people's fetishes," said University of Cincinnati campus police Capt. Karen Patterson, describing the arrest of Dwight Pannell, 43, for allegedly crawling under a library table, squirting liquid from a syringe on a female student's shoe, and photographing it. Pannell told police he was just trying out his new camera. [Cincinnati Enquirer, 5-29-08]
In February, police officer Michael Curtin, 36, was removed from the force in Munhall, Pa., and in April was charged with offering two underage girls $1,000 each to let him suck their toes. [Philly.com-AP, 5-1-08]
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Least Competent Criminals
Not Ready for Prime Time: Sharon Platt allegedly stole about $5,000 from her employer, Murphy Motors of Williston, N.D., recently and left town. She was apprehended in Pittsburgh in May after she applied for a job and listed Murphy Motors as a reference, and her old employer alerted Pittsburgh police. [Grand Forks Herald, 5-23-08]
Charles Ray Fuller, 21, was arrested in Fort Worth, Texas, in April after he took a blank check belonging to his girlfriend and wrote it out to himself for $360,000,000,000.00, which he presented to Chase Bank. He remained in character after his arrest, assuring police that the check was legitimate, offered by the girlfriend's mother to help him start a record label. [Star-Telegram (Fort Worth), 4-29-08]
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Update
Methane's longstanding menace as a climate-altering greenhouse gas is closer than ever to being controlled, said New Zealand scientists in June after genome-mapping found the source of flatulence in ruminant animals, and the researchers said they thought they could vaccinate against it. While livestock accounts for only 2 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas, it causes over half of New Zealand's. Unless the vaccination is successful, farmers will face a huge tax on methane by 2012 brought on by the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. [Daily Telegraph (London), 6-5-08]
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News That Sounds Like a Joke
When a big storm came through Alma, Ark., on the evening of May 7, residents rushed out to secure themselves inside the brand-new community shelter the town had just built with great fanfare. However, as the winds raged, the 20 people who showed up had to sprawl on the ground because the shelter was locked, and the deputy with the key was busy on a call. [KHBS-TV (Fort Smith), 5-8-08]
In January, Dr. Steve Paulk announced that he would commence offering breast augmentation procedures and would be working out of Moundview Memorial Hospital in Friendship, Wis. [Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, 1-25-08]
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Another gorgeous day in the Chi! Happy Happy Tuesday! XOXO
*So Much For That*
I started going to the Gay Pride Parade in Chicago at about age 12. I have a gay family member that I started going with and went with her for quite a few years. I have been going for over 2 decades now. Over the years I have watched it change some good ways, some bad.
I went yesterday like I do every year. It was an absolute circus. I mean it is definitely changing for the worse. People were hostile, impatient trying to cut in front of people when no one was moving, pushing, telling others to push. At one point it actually felt like they were going to start trampling. I was pushed up against a brick wall and could not move. For a split second, I felt that natural panicky feeling. There were more holey rollers than usual on corners telling people that they had to repent. People were passing out on the street. It was terrible. I barely got to see the parade. I do believe that I will not be going anymore. You could see the looks of disgust on some faces, faces that you could tell have been attending for years. I mean they even had the mounted police out in case they were needed for crowd control. I have never seen that there. It is sad that it has turned into a complete circus. I really can't stand it when wonderful, positive things turn into some kind of a freak show with negativity all around. We had a great time once we were away from the Ringling bros. scene. We went to an after party and then hit a fun spot ;)
I am not bitching just telling it how it is, unfortunately, regardless of the topic, at times you can't just state the truth without certain people thinking that you are bitching or trying to start drama. Funny, maybe they are the ones trying to stir it up a bit lol. God forbid you say anything, it is normally taken way out of context. Maybe I should start walking on my tippy toes on the little eggie shells around them. lol. anyway...
I am off to do my thang! Happy, Happy Monday!
XOXO
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