Prison Dancing

It appears that 'thriller' dancing in the Phillipines is different from dancing backwards with bubba in a U.S. prison.

Where's the karaoke?

VICK IS IN THE "DOG HOUSE"

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Religion of Peace of Update

. . . someone else had this story under the category of "not ready for civilization"! I guess there weren't any carpets or camels available for long distance travel.

Sheikh delays plane over seating

Fri Jul 27, 2:15 PM ET

MILAN (Reuters) - A Qatar sheikh held up a British Airways flight at Milan's Linate airport for nearly three hours after discovering three of his female relatives had been seated next to men they did not know.

When none of the other business class passengers agreed to swap seats, the sheikh, a member of Qatar's ruling family, went to the pilot, who had already started the engine, to complain, an airport official said.

But the pilot ordered him and his traveling companions, the three women, two men, a cook and a servant, off the plane.

The London-bound flight took off nearly three hours behind schedule Thursday evening and around 50 of the 115 passengers missed connecting flights.

Traditions in the conservative Gulf Arab region bar women from mixing with unrelated men.

Wonder what they show on that channel?

TheBuzz

Erika Engle


K-WHAT? Unbuilt Maui TV station lands questionable call letters
THE call letters KUNT have landed at a yet-unbuilt low-power digital television station in Wailuku, Maui.

Alarmingly similar to a word the dictionary says is obscene, the call letters were among a 15-page list of new call letters issued by the Federal Communications Commission and released this week.

The same station owner also received KWTF for a station in Arizona.

From Skokie, Ill., comes a sincere apology "to anyone that was offended," said Kevin Bae, vice president of KM Communications Inc., who requested and received KUNT and KWTF. It is "extremely embarrassing for me and my company and we will file to change those call letters immediately."

He thanked your columnist for bringing the matter to his attention and pledged to, "make sure I don't fall asleep on the job when selecting call signs again."

One might understand how Bae's eyes could glaze over during selection, as KM has some 80 sets of call letters and alpha-numeric callsigns for TV and radio stations in several states.

No KM station is yet on the air in Hawaii but its mainland TV stations carry programming from America One Network, My Network TV and the CW.

The call letter snafu was a source of great mirth for Bae's attorney.

"I can't tell you how long he laughed at me when he learned of my gaffe," Bae said.

Broadcasters for generations have joked among themselves about call letters resembling off-color words or acronyms knowing the FCC would never approve their assignment -- but that was before computerization.

KCUF-FM near Aspen, Colo. got its F-word-in-reverse call letters in August of 2005 and has been on the air since December, "Keeping Colorado Uniquely Free," its Web site says. Uh, yeah.

Station officials could not be reached, but the automated pop-music slinger has been written about twice in the Aspen Daily News. The paper said radio regulators "blessed the call letters."

However, assignment of call letters actually is an automated process, according to Mary Diamond of the FCC's Office of Media Relations. Broadcasters use the FCC Web site to request and receive call letters with no oversight from Beavis, his partner, or any FCC regulator.

Dude, seriously. Even after years of concerns over broadcast indecency and the debate about fines for fleeting profanities that hit the air.

The Code of Federal Regulations allows applicants to request call letters of their choice as long as the combination is available. Further, "objections to the assignment of requested call signs will not be entertained at the FCC," it states.



Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin. Call 529-4747, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., No. 7-210, Honolulu, HI 96813.

Duuuuude, get a shovel.....

...that dead girl looks hoooooottttt!


Court Tosses Sexual Assault Charges Against Accused Grave Robbers

POSTED: 1:35 pm CDT July 26, 2007
UPDATED: 2:31 pm CDT July 26, 2007


MADISON, Wis. -- A state appeals court has tossed out sexual assault charges against three men who allegedly tried to dig up a woman's corpse in Grant County.

The Fourth District court said a judge was correct in dismissing the charges against twin brothers, Nicholas and Alexander Grunke, and Dustin Radke, all 21. The appeals court said the Legislature never criminalized sex with a corpse.

Authorities said the three men tried digging up the body of 20-year-old Laura Tennessen at a Cassville cemetery last September. She had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash and they saw her obituary photo.

The men began digging, but abandoned their plan and were eventually arrested after a vehicle drove into the cemetery and reported suspicious behavior, authorities said.

The men were charged with attempted sexual assault and attempted theft for trying to steal the body. Grant County Circuit Judge George Curry dismissed the sexual assault charges, saying no Wisconsin law addressed necrophilia. Prosecutors appealed his ruling.

Another Sign of the Apocalypse

Swiss to soon vote on introduction of lawyers for animals
Jul 26 10:47 AM US/Eastern


BERN, Switzerland (AP) - The Swiss could soon be voting on whether lawyers should be allowed to defend animals in court.

The Swiss agency for the protection of animals (PSA) submitted a petition today to the federal government to introduce state lawyers for animals.

It made the request after having collected about 150,000 signatures, more than the 100,000 needed to prompt a referendum to introduce a new law.

The aim is to further crack down on the mistreatment of animals.

PSA said in a statement that while anyone who mistreats an animal can hire a defence lawyer, there is nobody to represent martyred or dead creatures.

The initiative proposes establishing animal lawyers in each state to investigate and represent the victims in cases going to court.

The work of the lawyers will be backed by higher fines for violations of animal protection laws.

Referendums are the cornerstone of Switzerland's system of direct democracy, and citizens cast ballots several times a year on a wide variety of questions.

Now this is baaaaaa d

I'm guessing his parents wish he wasn't released to their custody...

Sherborn teen charged with bestiality

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Photo by Ken McGagh/Daily News staff
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Photo by Ken McGagh/Daily News staff

Roger Henderson II is led out of Natick court.

By Peter Reuell/Daily News Staff

GHS

Tue Jul 03, 2007, 11:11 PM EDT

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Sherborn -

A Sherborn teen was charged yesterday with having sex with sheep at a farm near his home, and police reports suggest the encounters may have gone on for nearly a year.

Roger Henderson II, 18, was arraigned yesterday in Natick District Court on charges of bestiality, cruelty to animals and breaking and entering in connection with an incident police say took place at Boggastow Farm on June 27.

According to a police report, the farm's barn had been the target of at least a dozen break-ins between August 2006 and June 2007, prompting the property owner to install surveillance cameras.

Between 3 and 4 a.m. on June 27, according to police, the camera captured and filmed a person identified as Roger Henderson II.

The man grabbed a sheep by its hind legs and dragged it to the corner of the stall, according to police. The man removed his clothes and appeared to have sexual relations with the sheep. After finishing, the man put his pants back on and left the barn with his shirt in his hand, according to the report.

Following his arraignment yesterday, Henderson was released to the custody of his parents, on the condition he stay at least 30 yards away from the farm, and animals in general.

The teen also was ordered to "report immediately to Leonard Morse (Hospital) to continue current mental health treatment," according to court documents.

A woman at Boggastow Farm yesterday shouted, "no comment" to reporters before later threatening to call police.

Those crazy Nipponese

Watch out for your boss's cell phone camera

FIRED EXEC'S 'BEEF'

'HUNG' OUT TO DRY

By RODDY BOYD

JAMES BONOMO
Slings "sausage" suit.

July 23, 2007 -- A former Mitsubishi executive is suing his ex-em ployer because a co-worker allegedly took a picture of his penis after a booze-fueled karaoke bash - and his boss compared it to an "Italian sausage."

In his suit filed in Manhattan federal court last month, James Bonomo, a former paper sales manager for Mitsubishi International Corp., alleged that his career effectively ended after the humiliating incident during what should have been a routine business trip to China in April 2005.

Bonomo joined MIC's New York office in 1999, and his suit said that during his tenure, annual sales grew tenfold, from $3.5 million to $39 million.

The suit also says that during a trip to Beijing, Bonomo and his Tokyo-based superior, Tetsuya Furuichi, and a China-based Mitsubishi exec had dinner with a potential customer.

Afterward, Furuichi took everyone to a bar for some liquor-fueled karaoke, telling Bonomo beforehand, "You will be the target tonight," the suit charges.

Later that same night, Furuichi allegedly pressured Bonomo into visiting a bathhouse for what he said would be "a non-sexual massage" with the clients. En route, Bonomo's boss regaled him with an analysis of his admiration for the purported genital size of Italian-Americans, he said.

Despite Bonomo's discomfort, Furuichi continued on in that vein, allegedly saying, "Italian men have penises 'down to here,' gesturing to his knees." The suit noted that Bonomo is both Italian-American and gay.

At the bathhouse, a colleague from Mitsubishi's Beijing office, Yue Zhibo, took a picture of Bonomo's penis on his cellphone and then "refused to delete the picture" when Bonomo demanded he do so, the suit states.

After the incident, Bonomo's boss, Furuichi, compared Bonomo's penis to an "Italian sausage," the plaintiff said.

Not long after the trip, Bonomo's suit claims, his work environment became abusive and hostile. Also, the suit says, his sales targets were "set unreasonably high" in an effort to force him out of his job.

The suit asks for the court to assign compensatory damages and lawyers' fees.

Mitsubishi denied all of the charges to The Post.

"We investigated these claims and found them to be baseless," a Mitsubishi spokeswoman said. "No one involved in Bonomo's [Beijing trip] said that anything like what is alleged in his suit occurred."

She added that at no point before he left the company did Bonomo ever file a complaint, mention it to his supervisors or call the company's anonymous tip line.

Bonomo told The Post that he stands by his story but referred all other questions to his lawyer, Jeffrey Liddle of Liddle & Robinson, who declined to comment.

roddy.boyd@nypost.com

What are these guys doing

Please keep your comments as clean as you can

The new canon: AC/DC, Metallica stay strong

Dude, He's playing MY guitar!!!!

The new canon: AC/DC, Metallica stay strong - CNN.com

Story Highlights
AC/DC's "Back in Black" still a big seller
Greatest-hits collections do well
Boy bands, classic rap don't sell in large numbers now

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.

I'm sorry, but did that fool anybody

I mean, really, could anyone not know what they were getting into??!!

Male prostitute held in HIV case

Suspect allegedly admitted he was infected with AIDS

Darren Garcia has five previous prostitution cases.

By Marilyn Robinson, Special To The Rocky
July 18, 2007

A 27-year-old man who was posing as a woman when he was arrested by Denver police during a prostitution sting has been charged with prostitution with knowledge of being infected with HIV or AIDS.

Darren Garcia is being held in lieu of $50,000 bond on the felony charge.

If convicted, he could face up to three years in prison.

According to a police probable-cause statement, officers were running a sting Thursday night because of community complaints when an undercover officer stopped at East Colfax Avenue and Josephine Street. Garcia climbed into the officer's car and offered to perform a sex act for $30, police said.

Garcia had long hair and makeup and was wearing an Avalanche jersey, according to authorities.

He allegedly told detectives he was infected with AIDS after he was taken into custody, said Lynn Kimbrough of the Denver district attorney's office.

Authorities said they couldn't discuss Garcia's medical history or verify his statement.

Garcia has had five previous prostitution cases in Denver County Court.

Records show he was sentenced to 45 days in jail and fined $999 in 2005 after he pleaded guilty to prostitution.

In 2004, one prostitution case was dismissed but in another he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 50 days in jail.

In 2003, he pleaded guilty to prostitution and received 90 days in jail. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to prostitution and got 10 days in jail and a $500 fine, records show.

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.

Now, why are my shares worthless?

Isn't $1B how much they took from their pilots? How do you come out of bankruptcy one day and then just 1 quarter later show that much profit? Can those guys do my books for me?

Delta Air Lines Posts $1.77B Profit
Jul 18, 8:21 AM (ET)
By HARRY R. WEBER

ATLANTA (AP) - Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) (DAL), the nation's third-largest carrier, cited a 5.5 percent gain in sales as it reported Wednesday that it swung to a profit in the second quarter, which saw it emerge from bankruptcy after shaving billions of dollars in costs.

The Atlanta-based company's results beat Wall Street expectations when one-time items are excluded.

For the three months ending June 30, Delta said it recorded net income of $1.77 billion, or $4.49 a share, compared to a loss of $2.21 billion in the same period a year earlier. The corresponding per-share figure for the year-ago loss was not provided in Delta's balance sheet.

Excluding reorganization and related one-time items, Delta said it had a profit of $274 million, or 70 cents a share, in the second quarter. On a comparable basis, analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were expecting a profit of 59 cents a share.

The reorganization and related one-time items Delta accounted for in the second quarter of this year stemmed from $1.5 billion of income primarily due to the discharge of claims and liabilities in connection with its bankruptcy proceedings and the adoption of fresh-start reporting..

Revenue in the April-June quarter rose to $5 billion, compared to $4.74 billion recorded in the same period a year earlier.

At the end of the quarter, Delta had $3.7 billion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, of which $3.4 billion was unrestricted. Delta also has an additional $1 billion in unrestricted liquidity available under its undrawn revolving credit facility.

Delta recorded roughly $40 million in cash gains on fuel hedge contracts settled during the quarter.

For the first six months of the year, Delta said its net income was $1.64 billion, compared to a loss of $4.28 billion for the same period a year earlier. Per-share figures were not given. Six-month revenue rose to $9.24 billion, compared to revenue of $8.54 billion in the same period a year earlier.

The collective IQ of the human race has just gone up a little

Brandon Reed does his part in improving the gene pool

Electric current kills man on pole

Police: Trying to steal copper wire

BY WILLIAM A. WEATHERS

ST. CLAIR TWP. - A 22-year-old Hamilton man convicted last year of stealing copper wire from utility poles was electrocuted on a utility pole Monday, authorities said.

The Butler County Sheriff's Office said Brandon Reed was attempting to steal copper wire from the pole when he was hit by the electric current. Reed's body was discovered about 25 feet up the pole. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

"He had spikes like a lineman from the utility company," Butler County Coroner Dr. Richard P. Burkhardt said. "Unfortunately, that was his downfall."

Marks on Reed's body indicate that the current entered Reed's left hand and exited through the sole of his shoe, Burkhardt said.

An autopsy confirmed the cause of death as "accidental electrocution."

Reed's body was found shortly after the sheriff's office received a 911 call at 2:52 a.m. A man said that while driving on U.S. 127, just outside the village of New Miami, he heard a loud bang and a person scream.

The sheriff's office said it determined that the caller, Josh Snyder, 24, drove Reed to the utility pole and was going to return for him once he had stolen the copper. Snyder was charged with complicity to attempted theft and held at the Butler County jail.

Reed also was due in court in September on charges that he used a deputy's uniform to get into two homes in Hamilton to steal the prescription drug OxyContin, a powerful painkiller.

Reed was convicted of stealing copper wire last year, Hamilton police records show.

Reed was arrested in August on charges that he stole 2,200 feet of copper wire from utility poles on North Third Street. He was placed on probation.

Reed's death is the second in the area in which a man was attempting to steal metal, which is sold as scrap, police said.

David Mossman, 25, died July 12, 2006, when he touched a live wire while attempting to steal sheet metal from a large air-conditioning unit in Westwood, Cincinnati police said.

Reporter Janice Morse contributed.

Ron Mexico Update

Michael Vick Indicted

Feds: Falcons QB, cohorts executed pit bulls that failed fight tests

JULY 17--NFL star Michael Vick was indicted today on a federal conspiracy charge for his alleged role in a dog fighting venture that operated from a Virginia property owned by the Atlanta Falcons quarterback. A copy of the indictment, filed today in U.S. District Court in Richmond, can be found below. The 27-year-old Vick, whose nickname is listed as "Ookie" in the indictment, allegedly established the Bad Newz Kennels in early-2001 in Smithfield, Virginia. It was this property, for which Vick paid $34,000, that the star athlete and his codefendants used as the "main staging area for housing and training the pit bulls involved in the dog fighting venture and hosting dog fights." According to prosecutors, Vick and his cohorts began purchasing pit bull puppies in late-2001 and would eventually "sponsor" individual dog fights with purses as high as $26,000. In the indictment's most harrowing parts, federal investigators describe what happened to some Bad Newz Kennels dogs that either lost matches or did not perform well in test fights. After a March 2003 loss by a female pit bull, codefendant Purnell Peace, "after consulting with Vick," electrocuted the animal. In April, prosecutors allege, Vick, Peace, and Quanis Phillips, "executed approximately 8 dogs that did not perform well in 'testing' sessions." These animals, the indictment claims, were killed "by various methods, including hanging, drowning, and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground."

It had to happen - Guitar Hero night at the bars,

It must be time to break out "Cherry Pie" at Club 51

Virtual Frets, Actual Sweat

By KATIE ZEZIMA

Published: July 15, 2007

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

Rahav Segev for The New York Times

Shandi Sullivan, right, and Blake Coleman preening and playing rock star at Pianos in Manhattan.

Guitar Haze

KEVIN Doyle and Ivan Wine strode to the front of River Gods and picked up the guitars with the confidence of two guys who had played this bar and those instruments many times before.

With their wives watching from a nearby table, Mr. Doyle, 30, a software consultant clad in a Dewar’s Scotch T-shirt, and Mr. Wine, 32, a graphic designer with an unruly goatee and thick black glasses, strapped on the guitars and chose a song from the list on a projection screen.

They planted themselves in position as the first plodding strains of Black Sabbath’s head-banging heavy-metal classic “War Pigs” emanated from the speakers. As the song’s tempo increased, they frantically fingered the multicolor buttons on the necks of the guitars, hitting them with authority in time to the song’s signature “dun-dun-dun” riffs.

But the two men were not showboating. They were actually concentrating, biting their lips and staring almost trancelike at the screen, watching colored balls falling toward them on an electronic fretboard.

When Mr. Doyle and Mr. Wine finished the last riff, the audience whooped and cheered. The newly minted music gods offered high fives as they returned to their seats.

“We rocked the song,” Mr. Wine said.

This is Guitar Hero night, where curious bar patrons, self-styled bad boys and video game addicts, all usually a drink or two deep, play the game Guitar Hero on a big screen, and fulfill their dreams of being a preening, prancing rock ’n’ roll frontman.

Bars from Roanoke, Va., to San Diego are offering Guitar Hero nights, some providing players with big-hair wigs, Viking helmets and other colorful garb to help them complete the momentary illusion of being Eric Clapton or Lenny Kravitz. Others serve as hosts of competitive tournaments where the winners receive real guitars.

Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair ...defies Al Gore And his Global Warming Storm Troopers

Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair - CNN.com

BEND, Oregon (AP) -- Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks -- and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.
Destination: Idaho.

Balloons suspend Kent Couch in a lawn chair as he floats in the skies near Bend, Oregon, on Saturday.

With instruments to measure his altitude and speed, a global positioning system device in his pocket, and about four plastic bags holding five gallons of water each to act as ballast -- he could turn a spigot, release water and rise -- Couch headed into the Oregon sky.
Nearly nine hours later, the 47-year-old gas station owner came back to earth in a farmer's field near Union, short of Idaho but about 193 miles from home.
"When you're a little kid and you're holding a helium balloon, it has to cross your mind," Couch told the Bend Bulletin.
This is a clear indication that Global Warming does not exist. For such a balloon chair to achieve such a feat, the atmospheric conditons have to be such as to not hinder the rise of a balloon. In othe words, a hot summer day has a negative effect on the performance of aircraft (whether, airplane, helocopter, hot air balloon, or ballon chair for that matter). Ever wonder why Hot Air Balloonist always launch in the morning, it's because of the cooler air. (okay, I know that the air is more stable with less thermals, but the performance factor still applies)
Larry Walters achieved cult status when he did the innaugural balloon chair flight back in 1982.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters
Stay tuned for the 1st 2GH2 contest: How many balloons would it take to hoist Rosie's Fat Ass just 100ft, better yet, how many balloons to get all the way over to North Korea?!?!?!

Huge squid washes up on beach

Huge squid washes up on beach - CNN.com
Where are Al Gore and his GLobal Warming Troopers during this environmental tragedy...off rockin' the free world

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.