Archive for November, 2008
Posted on November 26, 2008 - by reallyrotten
Recent Joel Osteen article
Below is a recent article from Portfolio.com. I wanted to post it and see how like, or dislike, some of the comments to the article would show. Some readers seem to think the article goes to great length to show God’s grace, while others…just the opposite. Have your say after reading the article.
Who will save us? Who will lift us up from crushing credit-card debt and resetting mortgage payments and impending foreclosure, from increasing gas prices and decreasing health-insurance coverage? We are a nation stumbling through our worst financial crisis in a generation and our worst housing market in a lifetime. And so we come, seeking gentle salvation, inspiring prayers, steadying words, soothing notions, and calming thoughts that will allow us to become, in Joel Osteen’s words, “victors, not victims.”
We are in Greensboro, North Carolina, making our way into the downtown arena through the hot, buggy air, to worship with the pastor who will save us, the man anointed, by one of his congregants, as “Reverend Feelgood.” Sixteen thousand will file in this evening, as have millions more to coliseums, concert venues, and baseball stadiums around the country—all, in a way, his churches.
We are a diverse, representative swath of troubled America: families struggling under debt, husbands and wives seeking reconciliation, young couples on first dates, children dragged by pious grandparents who promise (more…)
Posted on November 23, 2008 - by magician
Wife’s Nude Pix on Cellphone…Lost…now online.
No, I don’t have a link to the pictures!
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Here’s some food for thought: If you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, hang onto it.
Phillip Sherman of Arkansas learned that lesson after he left his phone behind at a McDonald’s restaurant and the photos ended up online. Now he and his wife, Tina, are suing the McDonald’s Corp., the franchise owner and the store manager.
The suit was filed Friday and seeks a jury trial and $3 million in damages for suffering, embarrassment and the cost of having to move to a new home.
The suit says that Phillip Sherman left the phone the Fayetteville store in July and that employees promised to secure it until he returned.
Manager Aaron Brummley declined to comment, and other company officials didn’t return messages.
Posted on November 22, 2008 - by reallyrotten
Why did the chicken cross the road?
I just wish this was the answer to the age-old question!!! Maybe it is. The answer: to hide from the other chickens!
Posted on November 22, 2008 - by reallyrotten
World Record for Number of People in Underwear
Now, some serious stuff!
Posted on November 22, 2008 - by magician
Home Wrecker!
Woman accuses local Sheriff of wrecking home…literally!
CARLISLE — There’s little undisputed in this story, the tale of the tipped trailer.
Frances Barton’s single-wide, the one she had fully paid $5,000 for and was hoping to move to a little piece of land she was buying on a $250-a-month land contract, is now literally in pieces on Jim Gaunce’s front lawn.
Frances Barton cried Tuesday as she watched cleanup on what’s left of her single-wide mobile home four days after it was overturned while it was being moved along U.S. 68 in Nicholas County near Carlisle.
And, everyone agrees, that leaves some 12 people — four adults and eight children ranging from 3 months to 12 years — facing Thanksgiving with no place to live.
How, exactly, the mobile home came to this odd resting place is where the story gets complicated. On Friday, Barton hired a guy to put her house on a trailer and move it up U.S. 68 in Nicholas County. When the trailer broke down and the house blocked the highway for hours on end, the sheriff got involved.
Barton, and the extended web of friends and family who lived with her, claim authorities didn’t give them time to clear out a house full of furniture, much less clothing and the things that can’t be replaced such as pictures, favorite toys and baseball card collections.
Barton’s boyfriend, Alan Gaunce, no relation to Jim, said somebody — he’s not sure who — told him he’d be shot if he didn’t get out of the trailer before it was toppled. Barton, a grandma at 35 with gold streaks in red hair, tearfully contends that Nicholas County Sheriff Dick Garrett “showed no respect for my home” when he ultimately ordered two tractors to ram the thing and set it on its side.
On the other hand, Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of “More ‘Dick’ in 2006,” maintains that anybody who thinks it’s a fine plan to pay somebody $200 to move their 25-year-old home, all their belongings, and a passel of pets with a farm tractor can’t exactly complain when things go wrong.
“I know I wouldn’t pay somebody $200 to move my house and everything in it,” said Garrett, noting that the group didn’t have a required permit or escort. Basically, he said, he could have arrested the lot of them: Barton, her brood and the hauler. The charge, he said: “being ignorant.”
To be fair, the partial closing of U.S. 68 for some nine hours on a Friday night is pretty major in Nicholas County, where Garrett Tuesday was reviewing a Mayberry-like constituent call concerning a thwarted attempt to snatch a fresh cherry pie from a kitchen.
He said he did all he could think of to salvage the mobile home, but had to get the road clear. “It’s a federal highway,” said Garrett, who stood in the rain from roughly 4:30 p.m. Friday until 2 a.m. directing traffic with the rest of his force, a single deputy.
“I’m sorry it happened,” he said, “I really am.”
But, asked what he would have done differently, Garrett said, “I’d have knocked it over sooner.”
Barton spent more than an hour Tuesday standing and crying next to a 10-foot-high pile of wooden walls and pink insulation, sometimes cradling her daughter’s doll, one starting to show signs of black mildew after sitting in the damp remnants of the house. Over and over, she said, “Everything is gone. I’ve lost everything. It’s all I had.”
Barton, who helps manage the mobile park where she lived, paid for her home with a settlement from an automobile accident. It’s the first home she’s owned by herself.
She said she thought the man she hired to move her home knew what he was doing. Chris “Pancake” Meyers told her, she said, that he had more than 13 years’ experience in hauling things and that he had the proper permits and insurance for the move. (She didn’t ask to see proof of insurance or a permit, she said. Meyers could not be reached for comment Tuesday by the Herald-Leader.)
About 1½ miles into the move, the tires popped off. Sheriff Garrett said he’s heard that somebody warned the group the tires would be loose and they should stop the move. He said Barton insisted on going ahead.
And soon found herself in front of Jim Gaunce’s house on U.S. 68. Garrett said over the course of the evening, he did everything he could think of to get the house unstuck so it could be salvaged. But, he said, several of the well-intentioned efforts did significant damage to the house. For example, trying to push with one truck from behind while pulling from the front resulted in the hitch coming off and Barton’s blue-walled bedroom being crushed.
Lee Roberts, owner of Roberts Heavy-Duty Towing in Lexington, said his company was called in to help. “We tried to pull the trailer back on the road but couldn’t without tearing it to pieces.”
When asked to push it off the road to clear the traffic flow, Roberts said he declined to do so.
That’s when, Garrett said, he called on Meyers and another farmer with a tractor to tip the trailer.
He said he gave Barton and her friends and family at least two hours to get out what they needed and asked more than once if they had everything they wanted before he issued the order to push. Garrett said he didn’t know how badly damaged the trailer might be, but thought he had no other choice.
Barton said she collapsed before the final destruction and was taken away by a friend, but Alan Gaunce said Garrett told him the cleanup was “all up to you, baby.”
Garret said he has given Barton 10 days to clean up the mess. He’s already talked to the county attorney about charges if the debris hasn’t been removed. Even as looky-loos slowed while driving by the wrecked house and an increasing number of clumps of insulation littered Jim Gaunce’s yard, Garrett said it’s not the responsibility of the county to do the demolition or removal.
Without money, Barton said, she’s relying on friends to dismantle and move the trash. At least two of the men working Tuesday said they took off time from their jobs on horse farms to help and are working with hammers, a sledge hammer and a chain saw. The Red Cross paid for a hotel room for a few days, but now Barton is on her own. The family, a mishmash of real kin and unofficially adopted kids, teens and young adults, are crammed into a smaller trailer while Barton tries to sort through it all.
Jim Gaunce, an amiable great-grandfather, watched most of it unfold from his rocker in a sunny living room with windows so spotless birds frequently thud into the glass while trying to fly through.
He’s sympathetic to both sides and willing, he said, to be patient as the mess is cleaned up. He worries that the insulation might blow into nearby farms, get eaten by cattle and do some major internal organ damage, putting a dent in someone’s livelihood.
But he knows one thing for sure. “Somebody,” he said, sitting calmly as a chain saw roared, “is going to have to clean that thing up.”
Article Source: www.kentucky.com
Posted on November 22, 2008 - by clklink
Prisoners whoopie!
Inmates accused of escaping for sex
Sheriff embarrassed by the encounters
GREENE COUNTY, Ind. (WTHI) – Inmates at the Greene County Jail are accused of sneaking around for midnight visits together.
“Obviously this is embarrassing for us,” Greene County Sheriff Terry Pierce said.
Six inmates – Nicole Haldeman, Misty Moore, Kay Snyder, William Hutcherson, Alex Rathburn and Jesse Ross – have been accused of escaping their cells for secret sexual meetings.
Officials said the three women used a shower drain to pry open the ceiling tiles. Then they traveled from their cell block to the cell where the males were housed. Once the females were inside the males’ dorm, officials say they did everything from playing cards to sexual activity.
Jail officials estimate the encounters happened about 15 times.
The nighttime escapes were discovered last week when jailers found notes detailing the encounters in the women’s cell.
Sheriff Pierce said the escapes prove the jail is outdated.
“We need a new camera system. I don’t think in the years we’ve been here there’s been a sufficient camera system,” he said.
There is a camera in the women’s cell, but the inmates were able to sneak through the ceiling in the corner, out of the camera’s view.
“If there is a design flaw and you house inmates, they will find it,” Sheriff Pierce explained.
In the meantime, the men have been moved and felony charges are pending against all six.
Sheriff Pierce said this isn’t the first time inmates have escaped from their cells. The sheriff is planning on talking to county commissioners about adding more preventive measures.
Source: www.wishtv.com
Posted on November 22, 2008 - by reallyrotten
Killed by Husband’s Coffin
A widow has been killed by her late husband’s coffin in a freak accident on the way to his funeral.
Widow Killed By Husband’s Coffin
Brazilian Marciana Silva Barcelos, 67, was on her way to the cemetery when the hearse she was travelling in was hit by another car.
The coffin was thrown forward by the impact and slammed into her head, killing her instantly.
Her husband Josi Silveira Coimbra, 76, had died the night before from a heart attack at a dance.
The driver of the hearse and Barcelos’ son suffered minor injuries.
The accident occured in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s Southernmost state.
Posted on November 21, 2008 - by Alan Bellows
A Series of Unfortunate Hacks
A Series of Unfortunate Hacks:
For the past several weeks, Damn Interesting has been repeatedly violated by a gaggle of Russian hackers. Their strange probes sought out all unprotected orifices of our elderly version of WordPress, and injected each one with a caustic slurry of pharmaceutical links and online casino spam. We erected a brisk and makeshift defense, only to [...]
Posted on November 10, 2008 - by reallyrotten
Ways to Change the World you live in
Here are twenty things that you can do to change people’s lives, yourself, and the world. These are in no particular order.
1 – Adopt – Adopting someone is one of the greatest things you can do. You’ll change your life and someone else’s. Adopt a baby, a child, or a teen. By being adopted they’ll always know that there is truly kind people in the world and they’ll pay it back to society. (more…)
Posted on November 10, 2008 - by reallyrotten
Websites That Can Change Your Life
The internet has changed all of our lives, hopefully in a more positive direction. You can use these sites just for entertainment or you can use them to change your life. Many of them you visit all the time but it’s time to look at them another way and harness their power.
*These are in no particular order.
1 – Facebook – Facebook allows you to reconnect with old and new friends. In the case of Lori Haas, facebook helped Lori reunite with her son that she gave up for adoption when she was just 17. (Full Story)
2 – Myspace – This is the most popular social network on the web, even though it has the most spam. Some absolutely hate myspace, but others have used it to launch their careers. Many singers and musicians have achieved “overnight” success using the network. Like facebook you can connect with friends but myspace makes it easier for networking with people you don’t know and create new business contacts.
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