Jun 18, 2010

Campbell Soup Recalls SpaghettiOs

Spaghetti no-nos!

Varieties of SpaghettiOs with meatballs may contain undercooked meat.

The recall includes SpaghettiOs with Meatballs, SpaghettiOs A to Z with Meatballs, and SpaghettiOs Fun Shapes with Meatballs (Cars).

Campbell Soup Co. is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs with meatballs after a cooker malfunctioned at one of the company's plants in Texas and left the meat undercooked.

More here.

Oil-sucking barges stopped by Coast Guard

Who is in charge in the Gulf? Didn’t the White House say Mr. Obama was in charge?

Why did the Coast Guard order the oil-sucking barges stopped?

Were the oil-sucking barges stopped to make BP look even worse so Americans will cheer the White House shakedown of British Petroleum?

Link here and here.

This guy wants to be first in line for the iPhone 4

Apparently someone is eager to be first in line for the iPhone 4. Eager enough to pitch a tent one week early!

Endgadget reports:

Let's hope he got his preorder in, and that he's not waiting for the white one. Otherwise, he's going to be one unhappy camper.

Link

Strange White House photos from the past

These photos were plucked from a Washington Post “Picture This” gallery.

President Richard Nixon meets with Elvis Presley in this 1970 photo. Elvis, said to be a hard drug user in the 1960’s and an abuser of prescription drugs in the 1970’s, wanted to be designated a federal agent at large for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs - oops.

This photo taken in May 1978 was signed: "To John Gacy. Best Wishes. Rosalynn Carter." It was found at Gacy's house in suburban Chicago -- along with 33 bodies of dead boys -- later that year - oops.

Senator Chris Dodd’s ‘parting shot’

With the help of Democrat Senator Chris Dodd (pictured), the federal government has awarded $54 million to Connecticut’s politically well-connected Mohegan Indian tribe, which operates one of the highest grossing casinos in the U.S.

The casino earns $1 billion-plus per year and now is $54 million richer thanks to Chris Dodd’s generosity with taxpayer money.

Chris Dodd was pressured into not running for re-election enhancing the chance for a Democrat to win the seat held by Dodd for nearly 30 years.

Is the gift to the Indian Casino Dodd’s ‘parting shot’ for being forced out of the Senate by the Obama administration?

Link

Jun 17, 2010

American Airlines to charge for early boarding

Just when we thought airlines had run out of new ways to charge passenger, American Airlines discovered another.

The new assault on travelers wallets is a service American Airlines calls a “Boarding and Flexibility Package” that charges $9 and up each way for earlier boarding, the right to stand by for an earlier flight and a discount on change fees.

More here.

The Apple that fell far from the tree

The often used idiom, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” does not apply to Apple Computer co-founder Ronald Wayne.

Ronald Wayne (pictured), one of the three co-founders of Apple Computer, sold out early for hundreds rather than millions yet refuses to submit to regrets.

The 76-year-old Wayne is two decades older than Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Photo above shows Ron Wayne walking near his Nevada home.

Mr. Wayne lives in remote Pahrump, Nevada. It is a place so near the middle of nowhere that it didn’t get telephones until the 1960s.

He was 42 and chief draftsman at Atari when he first encountered 21-year-old Steve Jobs. It was Wayne who designed the original Apple logo and wrote the original manual.

More here.

Charles winces as Camilla ogles his knees

Penguins in the Gulf?

A 14-year-old goes on joy ride in stolen bus

From a report at the link below:

A 14-year-old boy who was suspended from school decided to steal a bus and take it for a joy ride.

The Milwaukee teen went for a walk and saw a school bus parked with its engine running near 90th Street and Capitol Drive. The driver had gotten out of the vehicle to help a special-needs student to his front door.

Wrestling with his conscience, the boy walked past the bus numerous times and debated whether to get inside. The falling rain helped him make up his mind, however, and he jumped into the driver's seat and drove away.

The first stop was his grandmother's house near 45th Street and Concordia Avenue, where he parked the vehicle for a few hours. Then he took the bus to Mayfair Mall, where he was seen driving recklessly and not obeying stop signs.

The boy told police he "had no intention of shopping, but wanted to be seen by others driving the bus through the lot."

Link

Al Gore says stop censoring Gulf news

The Al Gore ‘real’ inconvenient truth.

Mr. Gore made a posting on his personal web site titled “stop censoring news from the Gulf.”

It’s akin to the pot calling the kettle sooty.

Al Gore’s accusation here.

Al Gore banning the media from his speech in 2009 here.

Al Gore banning the media from his speech in 2008 here.

Al Gore banning the media from his speech in 2007 here.

Police in Russia seize 100,000 anti-Vladimir Putin books

The old photo below shows a Nazi book burning in 1930’s Germany.


Will there be a similar book burning in Russia?

If not, they will be missing a good chance.

Russian police seized 100,000 copies of a book critical of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (pictured) that activists planned to hand out at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Copies of 'Putin. The Results. 10 Years on', written by opposition politicians Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov were "intended for participants of the forum", starting Thursday, according to Olga Kurnosova, head of the city's branch of the opposition United Civic Front, said.

Link

Jun 16, 2010

Dirty money

A St. Louis worker found $58 - packed in dog poop. Steve Wilson works for DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal. On a recent call, he noticed money sticking out from doggie doo. Wilson wasn't sure what to do, but eventually pulled out the bills, sanitized them, placed them in a plastic zip-locked bag and returned them to the customer. It turned out to be $58.

The company said the money was torn, but the serial numbers were identifiable, which means the bills could be returned to a bank and replaced with new money.

The Association of Professional Animal Waste Specialists says Wilson is the first person in his profession to find and report money in dog poop.

Link

Did anyone in the media like the spill speech?

Examples of media reaction to the Obama spill speech:

Obama left blanks in spill speech that did not stand up to fact checking. Link

Obama's Curiously Flat Gulf Speech. Link

Obama's Speech: Calling for Courage, but Showing Little. Link

The thorough trashing of spill speech by MSNBC. Link

Obama's address: grand setting, weak policies. Link

That Stench of Rotting Bull is Just Obama’s Oval Office Speech. Link

Obama fried in oil. Link

Where Does He Get the Authority to ‘Inform’ a Private CompanyThat It Must Surrender Its Money? Link

Obama's speech: There's a pipe spewinga gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more windmills. Link

Obama’s first Oval Office speech a flop. Link

Obamas' Long Nose. Link

Thwack! Take that you pesky fruit fly!

Poll: Presidential Approval hits new low

Link

Airliner silhouetted against a full moon

Time Magazine criticizes Obama’s spill speech

Time Magazine has been an avid supporter of Barack Obama. A reliable cheerleader for the president no matter how much he stumbled -- until now.

From a Time report titled, “Obama's Spill Speech: Calling for Courage, but Showing Little.”

As a candidate, Obama repeatedly promised to tell Americans what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. That was among his most invigorating promises: a pledge to lead, to cast aside the poll-driven positioning that prevented America from solving its most persistent problems.

In the first Oval Office address of his presidency, Obama didn't do that, and he must know it. Which must be the most frustrating thing of all.

Link

Rickshaw barrel hauler

A rickshaw driver hauls empty drums in New Delhi, India.

Americans heightened anger with the media

Americans have spoken and they are livid with the media.

A new Rasmussen poll found an astonishing two thirds of American voters are at least somewhat angry at the media, including an entire one third who said they are ‘very angry.’

That’s disturbing but unfortunately, not surprising.

The liberal media lost touch with the public and fair reporting long ago, and Americans are sick of their lavish praise for a President that is leading our country and economy into a disastrous state.

The American people are abandoning the old media by the millions because they are simply fed up.

Now is the time for the national, so-called "news" media to Tell The Truth! and report the facts. The American people are furious and are demanding answers.

Most in the media report what liberal politicians say without fact checking.

One example was when Obama said he was on the oil spill from day one. The liberal media quickly reported it as fact.

Link