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Today in History

Last night Teddy pulled an all-nighter in the Senate. I wonder if he remembers today's anniversary.

From History.com for July 18th:

1969 : Incident on Chappaquiddick Island

Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours.

On the evening of July 18, 1969, while most Americans were home watching television reports on the progress of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, Kennedy and his cousin Joe Gargan were hosting a cookout and party at a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick Island, an affluent island near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The party was planned as a reunion for Kopechne and five other women, all veterans of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. Bobby Kennedy was Ted Kennedy's older brother, and following Bobby's assassination in June 1968 Ted took up his family's political torch. In 1969, Ted Kennedy was elected majority whip in the U.S. Senate, and he seemed an early front-runner for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.

Just after 11 p.m., Kennedy left the party with Kopechne, by his account to drive to the ferry slip where they would catch a boat back to their respective lodgings in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. While driving down the main roadway, Kennedy took a sharp turn onto the unpaved Dike Road, drove for a short distance, and then missed the ramp to a narrow wooden bridge and drove into Poucha Pond. Kennedy, a married man, claimed the Dike Road excursion was a wrong turn. However, both he and Kopechne had previously driven down the same road, which led to a secluded ocean beach just beyond the bridge. In addition, Kopechne had left both her purse and room key at the party.

Kennedy escaped the car and then dove down in an attempt to retrieve Kopechne from the sunken Oldsmobile. Failing, he stumbled back to the cottage, where he enlisted Gargan and another friend in a second attempt to save Kopechne. The three men were unsuccessful; her body was not recovered. The trio then went to the ferry slip, where Kennedy dove into the water and swam back to Edgartown, about a mile away. He returned to his room at the Shiretown Inn, changed his clothes, and at 2:25 a.m. stepped out of his room when he spotted the innkeeper, Russell Peachey. He told Peachey that he been awakened by noise next door and asked what time it was. He then returned to his room.

Was Kennedy trying to establish an alibi? In Leo Damore's Senatorial Privilege--the Chappaquiddick Cover-up (1988), the author recounts an interview with Joe Gargan in which Gargan claimed that Kennedy had plotted to make Kopechne the driver and sole occupant of the automobile. Whatever Kennedy's intentions, on the morning of July 19 he went back to Chappaquiddick Island and then returned to Edgartown. At 9:45 a.m., 10 hours after driving off Dike Road bridge, Kennedy reported the accident to Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena and admitted that he was the driver.

On July 25, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, received a two-month suspended sentence, and had his license suspended for a year. That evening, in a televised statement, he called the delayed reporting of the accident "indefensible" but vehemently denied that he been involved in any improprieties with Kopeche. He also asked his constituents to help him decide whether to continue his political career. Receiving a positive response, he resumed his senatorial duties at the end of a month.

There is speculation that he used his considerable influence to avoid more serious charges that could have resulted from the episode. Although the incident on Chappaquiddick Island derailed his presidential hopes, Kennedy continued to serve as a U.S. senator of Massachusetts into the 21st century.

Do as I say, not as I do

That is one ugly ... fish, but yummm, tasty. I love eating endangered species

Gore's message loses bite

Article from:

By Rebecca Keeble

July 18, 2007 12:00am

ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore's green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter's wedding in Beverly Hills.

Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world's most threatened fish species.

Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks.

The species is currently managed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, the body which introduced a catch and trade documentation scheme as an attempt to tackle illegal poaching of this species.

Working with non-government organisations, the Humane Society International's focus is now on pursuit of illegal fishing operators who, in the rush to cash in on the highly valued species, plunder stocks with no regard for sustainability.

It has been estimated that more than 50 per cent of toothfish traded is illegally caught, and includes juveniles vital to the ongoing toothfish population.

For many years HSI has expressed concern over the huge numbers of seabirds that die each year on the hooks of illegally set demersal longlines, threatening the long-term viability of those populations.

Yet, while legal operators in the Southern Ocean are obliged to follow strict environmental rules, illegal operators undermine the sustainability of their fishing operations.

Recently, HSI petitioned the US Government asking that they certify and sanction Spain for allowing Spanish nationals known to engage in pirate fishing operations to continue to harvest toothfish in a declared conservation area.

Success would allow the US Government to embargo Spanish toothfish imports until such time as Spain demonstrates compliance of its nationals with international law and agreements.

As we await a response from the US, thousands of endangered seabirds die, while the sustainability of the Patagonian toothfish and the legal fishing industry inches closer to the brink of extinction.

A strong and concerted effort by Governments, the fishing industry, the conservation community and by the public which drives consumer demand, is required to put an end to pirate fishing operations in the Southern Ocean - otherwise the ecological sustainability of the toothfish is at risk.

And Al Gore could choose something else to eat.

* Rebecca Keeble is program manager for Humane Society International.

Live Earth audiences urged to go 'green'

Live Earth audiences urged to go 'green' - USATODAY.com
Al Gore invents (becomes) the First Virtual Dufus !!
More Ozone destroying methane is produced by this concert than all of the cow flatulance combined !!

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Live Earth started in Asia with an ancient Aboriginal instrument, toured through rehashed 1970s rock, 1980s pop and laid-back surfer music, and touched the future with a holographic appearance by Al Gore.

Spain's running of the bulls begins; 7 injured

Spain's running of the bulls begins; 7 injured - USATODAY.com
Is this a coincidence that this is at the same time as Al Gore's Global Warming Concert , "RUNNING OF THE BULL SH**.....

How much methane is being produced by all of this BullSh** ???

Step away from the Prius

at least he was saving the planet when he was driving around drunk and high!

Al Gore's son busted for drugs in hybrid car

Wed Jul 4, 2007 10:22PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 24-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was stopped for speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff's official said.

Al Gore III -- whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight global warming -- was driving his environmentally friendly car at about 100 miles per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he was pulled over by an Orange County sheriff's deputy at about 2:15 a.m.

The deputy smelled marijuana and searched the car, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. The search turned up a small amount of marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, Adderall and Soma. There were no prescriptions found, he said.

Gore was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and booked into the Inmate Reception Center in Santa Ana, about 34 miles south of Los Angeles, on $20,000 bail. Although he quickly identified himself as the son of the former vice president, Amormino said Gore received no special privileges.

Gore made bail and was released at 2 p.m., Amormino said. He will receive notice of a court date within 30 days.

The youngest child and only son of the former vice president, Gore has had previous brushes with the law. He was arrested in 2003 for marijuana possession and in 2002 for suspected drunken-driving.

In 1989, aged six, Gore almost died when he was hit by a car, and required extensive surgery and physical therapy.

A spokesman for the elder Gore said he was traveling and could not immediately be reached for comment. The one-time presidential candidate is one of the organizers of the Live Earth concerts taking place around the world on July 7. The concerts are designed to raise awareness of global warming.

Another sign of the Apocalypse

The spice Girls Reunite!

Booty calls in the bunkers

Again people outside of South Carolina appear to be able to get their freak on without killing anyone in the process. However, that is one scary looking lap dance!


Lap dancing on golf course angers neighbors

HOWARD FRANK
Pocono Record Writer
June 26, 2007

Stroudsburg Area Regional Police are investigating complaints of a private golf outing featuring lap dance stations, threesomes and naked women at the Cherry Valley Golf Course on Monday.

Neighbors called police after Dave Gold, 20, and a 17-year-old female were denied access to the road shared by the golf course and the home of Gold's friend, Will Croasdale, 19.

Gold said an employee of the course told him a private golf tournament was taking place, and the road was closed.

When Gold argued, he said he was first told by the employee "I'll kick your ass," followed by "I'll break your neck."

Gold and Croasdale shot videotape and still photos of the activities on the course from Cherry Valley Road, which showed partially clothed females performing lap dances for golfers and sex acts on each other.

Golfers were seen taking photos of the performances.

"They had stations around the course, with lawn chairs and blankets laid out," Croasdale said.

Both Croasdale and Gold saw several golfers give money to the women.

At one station, the two men overheard the women say "this is a pay to play station."

Four SARP officers were met in the golf course parking lot by course owner Gene Percudani, who said the course was closed for a private party.

He added that if the men saw anything it was because they were on the course without permission.

The men said they were on the public road when they took the video and pictures.

The police asked to speak with the women who were allegedly having sex. A tense exchange between the police and Percudani followed, with Percudani saying he wanted to call his attorney.

About 30 minutes later, Marshall Anders, a local attorney who represents Percudani, arrived at the course and disappeared into the clubhouse.

Two officers were also taken inside the clubhouse.

Several moments later, a woman who identified herself as being in charge of the women on the course was summoned into the clubhouse to meet with police.

The group consisted of dancers and customers of CR Fannys Gentlemen's Club in Wilson, according to one of the women present.

The Web site stripclubcentral.com lists CR Fanny's as featuring female dancers in pasties and a minimum guest age of 21 and over.

One guest of the party said he was a friend of one of the club's clients.

Some guests left in an oversized black stretch limo.

Others boarded a charter bus waiting in the parking lot.

"It's not clear whether any laws were broken," according to SARP officer Paul Gasper.

Officer Ruben Torres, another one of the responding officers wouldn't comment further, saying "this is an ongoing investigation."

Neighbors said this wasn't the first time the course closed for one of these private parties.

Red Featherman, whose property borders Cherry Valley Golf Course, said he isn't very happy about the day's activities.

"My granddaughter rides her bike in the woods on our property and I don't want here to be exposed to that kind of thing."

Attempts to speak to Percudani at the scene and to contact him afterward were unsuccessful.

He sold seal WHAT? to Koreans????!!

From the Anchorage Daily news (I don't know how Ice missed this), how do you think they harvest these?

St. Paul man faces prison, fine for selling seal oosiks

GUILTY PLEA: He had been a signer of an agreement to manage depleted species.

By MEGAN HOLLAND
mholland@adn.com

Published: June 20, 2007
Last Modified: June 20, 2007 at 04:16 AM

A former president of the St. Paul Island Tribal Government who co-signed an agreement to protect northern fur seals pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally selling seal oosiks to a Korean health store in Anchorage.

Michael Richard Zacharof, 49, was a signer on a National Marine Fisheries Service agreement in 2000 to help manage the depleted species.

"He was one of the folks who negotiated to help Alaskan Natives take advantage of an opportunity, but he turned around and did something illegal," said Andrea Steward, assistant U.S. Attorney. "It makes it especially offensive for those involved with the program."

Zacharof faces up to one year in prison and a $20,000 fine for violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Oosiks are the penis bones of seals and walrus. Under the marine mammal act, Alaska Natives are allowed to harvest seals for subsistence and to create artworks and handicrafts for sale from other parts of the animals, including oosiks. But it is illegal for Natives to sell raw, unworked oosiks to non-Natives.

Prosecutors say Zacharof sold 100 raw oosiks to Lotte Health International, owned by Yong Taik Chung, in 2005.

Zacharof is expected to be sentenced this fall.

Chung was also charged with illegally buying, then reselling the oosiks for about $100 each. In May, he pleaded guilty to two felony charges. He also agreed to cooperate with authorities and testify against those who sold him the illegal wildlife products, said his lawyer Brent Cole on Tuesday.

Chung's store on Fourth Avenue, now called Lotte Market, was selling legal wildlife parts, such as reindeer antlers. But it was also selling illegal wildlife parts, like the seal parts and black bear gall bladders, prosecutors said.

Investigators first uncovered the illegal trade in 2004 and 2005, when they intercepted two packages of gall bladders and oosiks in Massachusetts and traced them back to Chung's business. From there, the seal parts were traced back to Zacharof.

The seal penis bones, also known as seal sticks, are considered aphrodisiacs, Steward said: "In this instance, I believe it was for Korean medicinal purposes. My understanding was that it's similar to a Viagra product."

The bear gall bladders are also used for medicinal purposes, she said.

Zacharof headed the seal hunt from which the parts were taken. And, as is traditional in his Native community of 500 in the Pribilof Islands, the meat was divided among community members, said his lawyer, assistant federal defender M.J. Haden.

She said the seals were taken for their meat and the oosiks would just have been thrown away if Zacharof hadn't sold them.

Chung is scheduled for sentencing in July.

"He's never had any problems in his life, hardly even a speeding ticket," said his attorney, Cole. "This has been a very difficult time for him."

Chung also agreed to a $15,000 fine and to take out a full-page ad in the local Korean newspaper to apologize to the community, Cole said.

The northern fur seal population has continued a marked decline this decade, federal biologists said earlier this year. Remote points of land in the Bering Sea are the breeding grounds for more than half the world's population.

MIT's inconvenient scientist

Here's the kind of information the ``scientific consensus" types don't want you to read. MIT's Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology Richard Lindzen recently complained about the ``shrill alarmism" of Gore's movie ``An Inconvenient Truth." Lindzen acknowledges that global warming is real, and he acknowledges that increased carbon emissions might be causing the warming -- but they also might not.
``We do not understand the natural internal variability of climate change" is one of Lindzen's many heresies, along with such zingers as ``the Arctic was as warm or warmer in 1940," ``the evidence so far suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average," and ``Alpine glaciers have been retreating since the early 19th century, and were advancing for several centuries before that. Since about 1970, many of the glaciers have stopped retreating and some are now advancing again. And, frankly, we don't know why."
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/08/30/mits_inconvenient_scientist/

Moving on, or, what were these guy's smoking?

I think it was Frued (or maybe Dan Ackroyd playing Frued in an SNL skit) who said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!

London, Friday 22.06.07

'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot

22.06.07

One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands.

An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine.

Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as "a cigar-shaped brilliant white light".

Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, described what he thought to be a UFO as 'a cigar-shaped brilliant white light', similar to the image supplied by Dennis Plunket of the British Flying Saucer bureau

As the plane got closer the captain viewed it through binoculars and said:

"It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area. It was 2,000ft up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realised it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a [Boeing] 737.

"But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide."

Continuing his approach to Guernsey, Bowyer then spied a "second identical object further to the west".

He said: "It was exactly the same but looked smaller because it was further away. It was closer to Guernsey. I can't explain it. This was clearly visual for about nine minutes.

"I'm certainly not saying that it was something of another world. All I'm saying is that I have never seen anything like it before in all my years of flying."

The sightings were confirmed by passengers Kate and John Russell. John, 74, said "I saw an orange light. It was like an elongated oval".

The sightings were also confirmed by an unnamed pilot with the Blue Islands airline.

The Civil Aviation Authority safety notice states that a Tri-Lander aircraft flying close to Alderney spotted the object.

"Certain parts of the report have not been published. I cannot say why," said a senior CAA source.

Earlier this year however, the MOD declared its intentions to open its UFO files to the public.

ANOTHER ROSIE SIGHTING

YUMMY....YUMMY.....YUMMY !!!!!

Another sign of the apocalypse

Is there no honor in strip clubs?

Lap dances prove to be arresting

By Christoph Trappe The Gazette christoph.trappe@gazettecommunications.com

CEDAR RAPIDS - Joseph T. Parrott, 20, is accused of receiving eight lap dances at The Lumberyard II in Cedar Rapids and then not paying for them, court records show.

Parrott of West Burlington was at the strip club at 5910 Fourth St. SW around 11 p.m. Saturday and got eight lap dances at $25 a piece from Laurie Stribling, records show.

He then failed to pay. Police were called. He was arrested.

Prosecutors formally charged him with fifth-degree theft and public intoxication -both simple misdemeanors.

By popular demand

Ok, really only for ice

Study: Kilimanjaro's shrinking snow not sign of warming

Photo-1912 Photo - 2006

Study: Kilimanjaro's shrinking snow not sign of warming - CNN.com

It is certainly possible that the icecap has come and gone many times over hundreds of thousands of years," Mote, a climatologist, said in a statement.
"But for temperate glaciers, there is ample evidence that they are shrinking, in part because of warming from greenhouse gases."
Unlike mid-latitude glaciers, which are warmed and melted by surrounding air in the summer, the disappearance of Kilimanjaro's ice is driven by solar radiation, since the air around it is rarely above freezing, they wrote.
SO these geniuses admit that this is happening, but that it is an anomoly amongst all the other glaciers in the world. What ever happened to the scientific approach ?? This is the scientific world's equivalence to "Revisionist History" !!

Paris Hilton after a few weeks in Jail

Just kidding. It's from a new calendar

Elderly Pa. Women Pose for Risque Photos

(AP) - GREENSBORO, Pa. _ Giving sultry looks and sexy smiles to the camera, 12 Pittsburgh-area women recently posed at Monongahela historical sites, baring it all _ or almost all _ to create a charity-driven calendar. The catch?

The nearly nude ladies are all in their 70s and 80s,

Blog Updates

Made a few updates to the site, mostly to the right side info boxes. Look for further updates.

Baby Seal Flatulence: Friend or Foe???

Build up your Carbon Offsets with the help of this Pup!!

Alaska Imbedded Blog #2

Now we have evidence that the "Global Warming" threat in Alaska has actually been caused by the extreme flatulence of Baby Seal Pups. Indeed, the Baby Seal has a more concetrated amount of methane in it's anal gas due to the rich nature of the Seal mother's milk, that it consumes during the first year of its life. The question is...So why NOW????
As the environmental "do gooders" have been protesting the centuries old practice of clubbing baby seals, the baby seal population has been increasing at an alarming rate.
Soooo...less Pups being clubed = more pups sucking momma's tit=more baby seal pup farts.
Now as an advocate of the environmental balance equation, this Blog has introduced a way for you, the casual blogee, to GIVE BACK .

You can now play the link of the site below and build up your "Carbon Offsets/ Credits" by playing the "Club the Baby Seal" game. Whack as many pups as you need: driving the old lady out to dinner...whack about four pups....planning a family vacation to Tahiti, well you better get started then!!!

Not only will you feel better about your "Carbon Footprint", but you might get a nice fur coat out of it as well!

Club The Baby Seal

100th Post !!! Special Imbedded Blog From Alaska

Alaska is a "Carbon Neutral" State !!!!!


Yes, that's right. This is the 100th post on this Blog and I have the dubious honor to post it from Alaska. Since my arrival I have sensed something special about our 49th state. Indeed it came to me in a moment of clarity as I was bicycling along the coastal trail http://www.anchorage.net/651.cfm, in Anchorage....
...Alaska is our largest state
....Alaska has the most square miles of state parks , thus, the most in "Carbon Credits"
....Alaska has more oil, thus, the largest "Carbon Footprint" potential.
..soooooo it seems to me that it all balances out to TOTAL CARBON NEUTRALITY!!!
If you burn pure Alaskan Crude in your vehicle of choice, don't worry about buying into Al Gore's "Carbon Offsets", it's already been neutralized by the above logical conclusion!!!
NOW, if you choose to burn Middle East Oil, you're in a bit of a deficit, since the desert has no redeeming value to our environment (except for Camel Beauty Pagents)!!

San Francisco Update #3- by Embedded Blogger Iceman

I Found out where to find the hot women in SF. Just go to the Whole Foods Market at lunchtime...OHHHH, MY GOD !!!!! Just hanging out in the produce section by the cucumbers and using the old line from "Animal House"!!!

Anyway, as I'm in the check out line (the transvestite cashier that is normaly there must of had the day off) I see this magazine called "BARK!! Dog is my Co-pilot" And one of the headers on the cover says, "Is your dog being bullied???" I just started laughing so hard!!!

How many carbon credits were used to print that piece of crap???? I'm sure the folks that buy that garbage are into OWL Gore's Global Warming BS.

Next Stop...Anchorage