other odd stuff
(In highschool we would cut class and we used to run all over the woods in Whiskeytown and there was a giant ropeshwing into Whiskeytown Lake…but we never found no 400 foot falls…just beer and women….cd) Giant Waterfall Discovered in Calif. Park – Yahoo! News WHISKEYTOWN, Calif. – Dick McDermott knows these parts as well…
Save as PDF(Isn’t this ironic?–cd) The creators of a television show, first broadcast in Minneapolis, that pits would-be inventors against each other for prizes, filed suit yesterday against ABC television, as well as a producer of “American Idol” and Simon Cowell, the outspoken “Idol” judge, for preparing a similar show with the same title: “Million Dollar Idea.”…
Save as PDF(Maybe next time he’ll call first and not let dinner get cold…cd) Woman allegedly threatens husband (Honolulu) Police arrested a 34-year-old Palolo woman who allegedly hit her husband with a flashlight and threatened to kill him with a knife after he came home late on Tuesday night. Police said the 40-year-old man reported that he…
Save as PDF(Grab a blanket, head to the beach, and enjoy!!! –cd) Good show expected from meteor shower By Helen Altonn haltonn@starbulletin.com The annual Perseid meteor shower is worth staying up for tonight if it is not cloudy, says Carolyn Kaichi, Bishop Museum Planetarium manager. That is because the moon will only be in the first quarter…
Save as PDF(Hey if GW can work from Texas, why shouldn’t this guy do it…this is just wrong for some reason though….cd) The mayor of Whistler, British Columbia, a ski resort town and key site for the 2010 Winter Olympics, says he needs a mid-life change from mountains and snow and will do his mayoral work at…
Save as PDFWife frees inmate husband, kills guard in Tenn. – Yahoo! News KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – A former prison nurse opened fire on guards escorting her shackled husband from a Tennessee courthouse on Tuesday, killing one guard and escaping with her husband in a sport utility vehicle, authorities said. Convict George Hyatte, 34, shouted “shoot ’em”…
Save as PDF(Do something nice for the indigenous people around you. If you are indigenous…try to not be too indignant. It’s your day!–cd) (I realize that the above picture is outrageous…please read the comment I’ve posted at the bottom of this story…the outrageous thing is that atrocities like that above are being committed every day in our…
Save as PDF(I’ve got a new spot on my nose…maybe I should get screened?–cd) Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It? – New York Times The nation is in the grip of what looks like a terrifying melanoma epidemic: melanoma is being diagnosed at more than double the rate it was in 1986, increasing faster than any other…
Save as PDF(LOL…I am the same height as Tom Cruise and Tupac….taller than Stalin, Ghandi, and Churchill and shorter than Elvis and Erik Estrada….this is fun…cd) TallOrNot.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Save as PDF
Save as PDF(Okay, maybe the headline is crass…I just can’t resist. He didn’t die. Funny, I drove Elizabeth Vargas around not too long ago when she was doing a story on Lost. One degree of seperation….cd) Singer Marc Cohn, best known for his 1991 hit “Walking in Memphis,” was shot Sunday in Denver, according to the Denver…
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