The recent hostage taking at the Discovery Channel Headquarters has me completely stumped. I understand that the perpetrator was killed by the police. And that he was upset with the programming. Seems a little bit drastic to me, to go into a building and hold folks hostage at gunpoint. I wonder if this guy was hearing voices in his head.
The trainer of this dog deserves a lot of credit! This is a fantastic act!
There is a big push going on right now between, State Farm, Progressive, Geico, Allstate and Nationwide Insurance. The TV is flooded by their wacky and unusual commercials for home, auto and life insurance. Geico almost always gets me going, but some of them are totally off the wall! Let the insurance wars begin…..
All the information is there to see at http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ where all the Substance Abuse and Mental Health statistics that are showing us that there is a rise for the need of good drug rehabilitation programs. Of course there are various and numerous reasons that factor the increased need for addiction treatment centers. I do believe that this totally messed up economy is making us all crazy. It’s taking it’s toll on the general public, most of which see no indication of any type of light at the end of any tunnel that is going to pull us out of this crisis, no wonder we are getting addiction issues that are spiraling out of control.
It’s good to know that more attention is being paid to substance and mental health issues. There are some nice drug rehab centers and alcohol rehab centers to be found online. Using the Internet makes choosing the right treatment plans a much easier task to take on. There is a lot of information out there, and it does take time to weed through a ton of irrelevant pages and such nonsense, but it still is a valuable tool and should be utilized for all that it’s worth when you can. Can’t imagine life without Internet access all though I know that there is still a huge population that doesn’t have access for one reason or another. I do know that Bill Gates is doing an awesome job in helping folks hop on to the World Wide Web with all of his donations of computers and supplies.
I’ve never known anyone who has been inflicted with the Mesothelioma Disease that we are hearing, reading and seeing so much about these past of years. I do know that there seems to be a large amount of these Mesothelioma Lawyer Groups that are advertising that this is one of their specialties and are there to help folks who find themselves dealing with Mesothelioma Attorney issues.
I do know of one guy that I worked with several years back that told of a friend of his whoe’s uncle who thought he might have this type of cancer. Seems that he was in the Navy and spent a good amount of time on a submarine and that these guys (females aren’t allowed on submarines) are coming up with this type of cancer more and more these past few years. That is bad news for guys that did so much for their/our country, much like the soldiers that were exposed to Agent Orange back in the Vietnam days. Chemicals are definitely one of the worst man made silent killers that man has come up with to do to himself.
The news that grabbed my attention this week was the story about a German couple who placed an ad on E-Bay, offering their baby for sale! The couple now claims it was a “joke” but the baby has been placed in protective custody. The ad was only on “the air” for two hours before Ebay removed the ad, and no offers had been placed during those two hours. When Ebay removed the ad they assisted the police track down the couple. The ad claimed that the baby was being sold because it was “too loud.”
I have to say that this is another case where I think these people are NUTS! I’m glad that the baby was placed in protective custody and I hope the parents never get it back! And I hope that the parents are locked up for a very long time. This is a case when I think that the courts out to have the right to force sterilization on people, because in my own opinion people like this should never be allowed to have children again!
I’ve been reading, and watching articles about the lions mane jellyfish that was responsible for stinging a lot of people in New Hampshire this past week. There are so many conflicting reports about that simple incident that it makes me wonder what is the truth of it all. Some reports say that the jellyfish was angry and stinging people. Others say that most of the people were stung after it was ashore and already dead. If it’s already dead, how angry can it be? Some reports say it washed ashore, others say that the life guards brought it ashore.
If our reporters can’t report the actual truth about something this mundane, how can we expect the truth about really important political issues?
Was watching a show last night that was all about catching people on video. The funniest one, that just had me rolling, was of a newly hired Preacher who had a church full of his Youth Group, along with their parents and other folks as well. It was a full house (church). I found the video on YouTube.com along with several other Preacher Bloopers and just had to share a couple with you.
After checking my email this morning, my browser defaulted to a webpage that featured a story about tiny hotel rooms, complete with photos. Some of the rooms were so tiny that I am sure that I would get claustrophobic trying to sleep in one! One featured platform beds in some renovated drain pipes. That’s a novel idea indeed, but it only had a bed in it! What about temperature control? One of the hotels was in an airport and had no bathroom, saying that the customer could use the restrooms in the airport. I guess those folks aren’t supposed to need a shower or bath! And I had heard about the Japanese hotels where the rooms are only slightly bigger than a casket; this article had photographs of the rooms. Those rooms put me in mind of a sleeping berth in a sleeper car in a train.
Well, those are all novel ideas, but I’ll tell you this – give me a standard hotel room, complete with fancy bedroom sets that include a dresser and night stands, and a real bathroom with a shower in it! When I travel, I need room to stretch, and I don’t want to have to wait in line with a with a bunch of strangers to use a bathroom in the middle of the night!
I just finished watching a television show called Crime Inc. This episode was about the subject of counterfeiting. I found the subject very interesting, and the content quite scary. I can’t imagine buying a knock-off purse and then finding out later that the purse had unsafe levels of lead in it! Good grief!
And counterfeit drugs? People are actually naive enough to buy prescriptions online, thinking that they are getting the real thing? That can be so dangerous! The show had a small segment about a man and his wife that went for botox treatments and got counterfeit botox injections and almost died! Yikes! And now they are visually scarred for life! Scary stuff!
