They’re two of the biggest stars in fashion, double-billing on the covers of Sports Illustrated, Vogue and Vanity Fair and lusted over by countless admirers — still, Kate Upton can’t stand them.Sorry, Kate, but we all have crosses to bear...
“I wish I had smaller boobs every day of my life...
If only they were a little more like . . . earrings, the covergirl muses of her natural-born 34-D’s.
“If I could just take them off like they were clip-ons...”
It's tax time. I know this because I'm staring at documents that make no sense to me, no matter how many beers I drink. -- Dave Barry
The study started out like any barbecue—with pork chops, charcoal, and beer. Researchers marinated the chops for four hours in either regular or nonalcoholic pilsner, or a dark ale. Then they fired up the grill. After cooking, they analyzed the chops for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which are found in smoked and grilled meats, and may up your risk of cancer.
Turns out dark ale cut PAH levels in half, compared to unmarinated meat. The extra antioxidants in dark beer may be the trick, researchers say. Because PAHs form with the help of free radicals, and antioxidants could slow down that process. So if you're health-conscious, but love to grill? A simple beer marinade might let you have your steak…and eat it, too.
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced that Iran retains the right to enrich uranium to weapons grade, and said that Iran will build four new nuclear power plants with Russian assistance...
Iran has no plans to relinquish the construction or operation of its heavy water reactor...
The Iranian armed forces emphasized today that the army will not accept an “irrational” agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear capabilities...Also, notice how silent the mainstream media has been on the Ukraine situation. Here's an update on that:
Yesterday there was violence in eastern Ukraine, as armed men loyal to Russia seized police stations in several cities, and the Russian flag was raised in some locations...
Obama has shown that he doesn’t know when to avoid non-credible bluster (Syria) and yet he doesn’t seem reluctant, surprisingly, to threaten force when in a (political) jam; it’s a dangerous combination. He has now walked into a potentially devastating trap in eastern Europe and allowed a crisis to develop in which we have no good options...I remember when America was a country to be respected and feared. Now we are laughed at and mocked, thanks to obama.
An airline had a flight scheduled from Seattle to San Francisco . Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sacramento along the way.
The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.
Everybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind.
A man had noticed her as he walked by and could tell the lady was blind because her guide dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight.
He could also tell she had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached her, and calling her by name, said, "Kathy, we are in Sacramento for almost an hour. Would you like to get off and stretch your legs?"
The blind lady said, "No thanks, but maybe Buddy would like to stretch his legs."
Picture this:
All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a guide dog for the blind! Even worse, the pilot was wearing sunglasses!
People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!
Glen Meadow Middle School seventh grader, Ethan Chaplin, was recently suspended after, he says, he was simply twirling a pencil in math class. News 12 New Jersey reported that the Vernon Township, New Jersey teenager was twirling a pencil with a pen cap on top when another student yelled, “He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie.”Sounds like the typical seventh-grade male sense of juvenile humor. But in today's hyper-sensitive world, any hint of anything remotely related to a gun is cause for massive over-reaction.
The interim superintendent of the Vernon Township School District says reports a middle school student was suspended last week for twirling a pencil are untrue...Ah, it wasn't a suspension. The boy was simply 'excluded' from school until he was examined by a shrink. He also had to pass a physical exam and drug test.
"The story that we expelled or suspended a student is partially not true ... We did exclude" the student from attending until a proper psychological evaluation was done, interim Vernon Superintendent Charles Maranzano told the newspaper.
If a student "demonstrates odd behaviors, non-conforming behaviors, it causes us to take a closer look," he told the newspaper. "If a student gestures or demonstrates behavior that could be construed as a threat to others in a classroom ... then that's also a trigger for us."Setting aside for the moment the idea that "non-conforming behaviors" can get a kid suspended (under that rubric I never would have graduated from elementary school, much less more advanced grades), I still fail to see how twirling a pencil can possibly be considered as a threat to others. Keep in mind that the only witness to the alleged threatening behavior is another seventh grade boy - not exactly the most reliable category of witnesses.
Some classmates at Franklin Regional Senior High School describe (the attacker) as having few friends and being quiet, but also as a "really nice kid."
"This is not a dysfunctional family," Hribal's lawyer, Patrick Thomassey, told CNN on Thursday. "They're like the Brady Bunch. These parents are active with their two sons, and we're trying to figure out what happened."Speaking of that incident, the American Thinker had an interesting article about it. If you're a parent, you may want to share it with your kids.
A multiple stabbing attack by a lone perpetrator in a Pennsylvania school, in which more than 20 were wounded, has everyone crying for more metal detectors in schools, and for more guns in the hands of teachers, other school personnel and even students.
Now, I’m a big proponent of an armed citizenry. I think an armed citizenry is one of the greatest, most effective deterrents to crime.
But when I heard about this incident, my first thought was, “Whatsamatta, weren’t there any chairs in that school?”
I believe this particular attack could have been curtailed without a single gun. In a school setting, the key to defense against a knife-wielder is in your head and under your butt.
The “under your butt” part is the chair ... Four or five students wielding chairs can fairly easily neutralize and detain a single knife attacker. And a classroom is chock-full of any number of other objects that can be used as defensive (or even offensive) weapons.
But this is where the “in your head” part comes in.
Imagine, if you will, such a knife attack taking place in a room full of Spartan children, or Viking children, or Zulu children? How about Gurkha children, or Apache children? Or, if you still don’t get where I’m going with this, how about a room full of Klingon children?
Because those are all great warrior cultures. And I guarantee you that in none of them would children be trained and encouraged -- make that indoctrinated -- to be passive and non-combative the way that “modern” American children are...
Rather than pick up their chairs to use against the attacker the way a circus lion-tamer uses a chair to keep a 400 lb. mass of teeth, claws and muscle at bay, these kids probably froze, or cowered, or reached for their cellphones to dial 9-1-1 (as they’d undoubtedly been trained to do no matter what the crisis) and then waited for the authorities to ride to their rescue.
Thank God not all Americans are now steeped in passivity. Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer and his fellow passengers on Flight 93 realized that there is a time to fight, even if you’re up against a deadly weapon and you have little more than seat cushions and rolled-up magazines. What would have happened had they all just cowered in their seats?
Just as our kids are taught to scan a room for the fire exits, they should be taught to scan for objects that can be utilized for self-defense. For example, the flagpole at the front of the classroom could be very handy in keeping an attacker at a distance. Or do they not have flagpoles in classrooms anymore, because the flag might be “offensive” to illegal aliens?
A lot of attitudes are going to have to change.
1. Bug out.I'm not sure how effective the above might be, but it's better than cowering in place hoping the shooter runs out of ammunition before he gets to you.
If at all possible, get away from the situation. Use any available exit, including windows
2. Hide Out.
In a classroom, this basically consists of turning off the lights, locking the doors, and making sure everyone is out of sight
3. Fight back.
This is the last resort, because you are basically going after an armed attacker with your bare hands. We were taught to use whatever is at hand as a weapon or distraction. One technique is to have the less physically imposing students throw erasers, books, staplers, or whatever else is available at the shooter while the rest of the class rushes him en masse.
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There is yet another ObamaCare surprise waiting for consumers: from now until the next open enrollment at the end of this year, most people will simply not be able to buy any health insurance at all, even outside the exchanges.
"It's all closed down. You cannot buy a policy that is a qualified policy for the purpose of the ACA (the Affordable Care Act) until next year on January 1," says John DiVito, president of Flexbenefit which has 2,500 brokers.
John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas adds, "People are not going to be able to buy individual and family policies, and that's part of ObamaCare. And what makes it so surprising is the whole point of ObamaCare was to encourage people to get insurance, and now the market has been completely closed down for the next seven months."
That means that with few exceptions, tens of millions of people will be locked out of the health insurance market for the rest of this year.You can read more about the implications of that particular 'feature' of obamacare at the linked article.
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He was a man of many interests; hockey, snowbording, hiking, horseback riding, kayaking, shooting, and so much more. But his most overwhelming passion was his family. He loved them all fiercly, and would do anything for them. That love overrode all his other passions.Let your family and frineds know how much they mean to you.
He wasn't in the least bit shy about telling his wife and kids that he loved them. While that may have embarassed them at the time, they all universally said at the service how much that meant to them now.Leave things better than you found them.
I mentioned how informative the service was. A couple of the things I learned about him was that (1) he was a devoted volunteer coach and board member for a youth hockey team for kids that were developmentally challenged; and (2) he tutored and mentored inner city youths. He did all this - and much more - for the last 20 years without letting anyone outside of his close inner circle know about it. The whole point is to do what I learned as a Boy Scout: leave things better than you found them. If more of us would do this (the over-hyped "make a difference") the world would be a much better place.So go out and do something that excites you. Hug your spouse and kids. Volunteer for a worthy cause. Do all these things in the name of a man who you've never met, but who left the world a better place for his having passed through it.
...(who) Captain America is fighting isn't some outside power but factions within the United States government. If you think of popular movies as takers of the national pulse, that's an interesting development.
Following 9/11, our action movies were authoritarian. Now with “Captain America,” as with “Robocop,” we're seeing a new strain...
These ideas make particular sense within the Captain America framework. For those who didn't see the first installment, he's an American soldier from World War II (scientifically enhanced but still human and vulnerable) who was frozen for almost 70 years. Now, at 95, he looks no more than 30, but he has the sensibility of a man from another generation. Coming from a world in which bad guys conveniently wore swastikas and goose-stepped down the street, he finds himself puzzled by modern shades of gray.Excellent points. I'm glad to see a film critic with a social conscience. And one who also asks what I think are insightful, relevant, and penetrating questions about these troubling times we find ourselves in. Regardless of your political leanings, I would hope that all true lovers of liberty find themselves concerned about the egregious invasion of privacy we're experiencing today.
How should he feel about people who tell him they just want to keep us safe? How should he feel about people scanning your emails, phone calls, SAT scores and employment history, all for the greater good? How should he feel about security technology that can predict dangerous activity before the perpetrator even gets the idea? And how should we feel about that?
Convicted serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells, who was sent to prison in 1999 and claimed responsibility for dozens of murders across the country, was executed Thursday in Texas.Now for the sad and horrifying part:
Sells, 49, was convicted of killing 13-year-old Katy Harris while she slept in her Del Rio, Texas, home. Her murder landed Sells on death row, but he has been linked to at least 17 other killings and claims he has killed as dozens more.Anyone who doesn't believe that evil stalks the earth should have spent some time with Tommy Lynn Sells. And anyone who doesn't believe that firearms play an invaluable role in self defense should spend some time discussing that with Tommy Lynn Sells' victims.
His drifter lifestyle helped him elude police for nearly 15 years as his victims turned up from coast to coast. Sells said his drug use fueled his killing sprees.
...Sells appeared nonchalant when asked about the victims he had slain, and spoke very matter-of-factly when recounting his killing methods: beatings, stabbings, strangling. He even raped many of his targets before slicing their throats.
"I like to watch the eyes fade, the pupil fade. It's just like setting their soul free," Sells said at the time, without showing emotion. "I don't have an on-and-off switch. I'm just after that drug. I'm after that feeling."
One of the more horrific crimes Sells has confessed to committing was the slaying of 30-year-old Eileen Dardeen and her family.
Dardeen was seven-and-a-half months pregnant when Sells allegedly beat her to death. During the attack, she went into premature labor and gave birth to a baby girl.
Investigators determined the newborn was alive when she was born, but was later found bludgeoned to death, as was Dardeen's 3-year-old son.
Her husband's body turned up a few days later. He had been shot three times in the head.
A San Antonian surfing the city's website for recycle drop-off locations and programs could easily find a mail-in program to recycle their “adult toys.” Not only could one recycle the item, but they were eligible to receive a $10 credit toward their next purchase from the online store that facilitates the program, ScarletGirl.com.Of course, if they really wanted to be green they could simply use a cucumber...
“Simply mail in your clean, dry adult toys and they will be disinfected and disassembled to remove and segregate all components and electronics,” the page said.
Tiffany Edmonds, public relations manager for the city's Solid Waste Management, said she was surprised to see the mail-in program on the city's website.
“We didn't even know this was on here,” she said Tuesday afternoon. “Now that I do, it may not be up there for long.”
Officials removed the recycling widget almost immediately after receiving a call from the Express-News on Tuesday. It is unclear how web-surfing San Antonians will find a resource to recycle their products now.
The app could have come in handy here in the Alamo City. In February, Amazon.com named San Antonio the most romantic city in the country, based on 2013 purchases per capita of romantic material ranging from Marvin Gaye albums to adult toys. Getting rid of the novelties in an environmental-friendly way is not as easy as purchasing them with a few clicks.
“Items submitted are never repaired or re-sold, they are disassembled, and the waste streams are recycled,” Vicki Kriner, of ScarletGirl, said in an email. “Like cell phones, most toys are generally composed of plastics, metals, and electronics, which can be recycled once disassembled. Our recycling program has kept thousands of pounds of non-biodegradable material out of landfills.”
I believe if they set aside their law, as and when they wish, their law no longer has rightful authority over us.Keep in mind that this is a movie made in 1992 about a book written in 1757. Yet those words ring truer than ever today...
All they have over us, then, is tyranny.
