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  • Squirrels on Crack

    The idea of a squirrel on crack scares the crap out of me.

    Squirrels go nuts on crack

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    squirrels, digging up stashes

    SQUIRRELS are getting hooked on crack cocaine — hidden by addicts in gardens.

    They are digging up the stashes and eating the mega-addictive drug, which comes in small chunks.

    Several have been spotted behaving bizarrely in Brixton, South London, since a police blitz against pushers and users.

    One resident said: “My neighbour said dealers had used my garden to hide crack.

    “Just an hour earlier I’d seen a squirrel digging in the flower-beds.

    “It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot, but it kept on desperately digging. It seems a strange thing to say, but it seemed to know what it was looking for.”

    …

    Crack squirrels are a recognised problem in America. They are common in parks used by addicts in New York and Washington DC. [The Sun Online]

    Has anyone else heard of this problem with crack squirrels in America? Should I be frightened? The squirrels in my backyard always look a bit crazed and hyper. I’ll have to start carrying a bat to fend them off when I go out to the car.

  • Idiot Teachers

    Thank god this substitute teacher was fired.

    Teacher Mistakes Boy’s Insulin Pump For Phone, Rips It Out

    CLERMONT, Fla. — A substitute teacher in Lake County, Fla., was terminated and banned from teaching in the county after he ripped out a student’s insulin pump during class apparently thinking it was a ringing cell phone, according to a Local 6 News report.

    Officials said a ninth-grade student at East Ridge High School, who is a Type I diabetic, was in class Monday when his insulin pump began to beep, indicating he was low on insulin. [local6.com]

    A friend of mine has an insulin pump, there’s no way I’d think someone could confuse it with a cell phone. I mean, the tube running from it to his body would be a dead giveaway I’d think.

  • Wow. Just Wow

    My mom posted a link to a post at nola.com which has an account of the hurricane and its aftermath at Tenet’s Memorial Medical Center. Rene Goux, the CEO of Tenet’s Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, writes about hurricane and the flooding of the hospital (it’s pretty much at the bottom of the bowl that is New Orleans).

    Conditions at the hospital deteriorated rapidly. There was no plumbing; the toilets were overflowing. The stench was overwhelming. None of us had been able to bathe for four or five days. The smell of sewage was nauseating and it was unbearably hot. We started breaking windows to give our patients some ventilation. At the end, we were reduced to one meal a day. We had no power at all for the last two days. None of the elevators were working, so we had to carry patients up as many as eight floors to the helipad or down to the boats. [nola.com: Memorial Medical Center Evacuation]

    The people working at that hospital deserve some kind of recognition for the work they did. They work in an intense environment as it is and this just sounds insane.

  • New Orleans Photos

    My mom’s been pretty much glued to the computer every spare moment she has trying to figure out just how bad the flooding is by my sister’s apartment. She came across some pictures taken by someone taking a boat ride through areas near the apartment. There’s something really eerie about it all. It made me realize that most of the pictures I’ve seen of New Orleans on the news are focusing on places with people. There’s a link to a slide show of pictures at the nola.com link.

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    My neighbour and I took a boat ride through Uptown flooded flooded streets yesterday morning. Our route was as follows:boat launch at Nashville and Freret. Travel north on Nashville to cross Claiborne into Broadmoor. Right on Rocheblave. Return through Robert and Octavia back on Nashville. I took over 120 pics of the streets. Overall impression: news aren’t good. Water 5-6 feet high on the street, every home is affected starting two blocks past Freret. Dead body floating at the corner of Octavia and Rocheblave. Our house at 4900 block of Rocheblave has 3 feet of water. We didn’t even go into it. Pictures cover our route:Boat launch at Nashville and Freret. Travel north on Nashville, cross claiborne. Go into broadmoor, take a right on S. Rocheblave (we live on that street). Head out back on Robert, Octavia and Nashville. [nola.com]

  • Just When You Thought Things Couldn’t Get Any Worse

    CNN reports that Chief Justice William Rehnquist has died at the age of 80. Time for even more chaos.

  • NASA Violates Spiritual Rights

    Those damn people at NASA! How dare they? 🙂

    Russian astrologer sues NASA over comet experiment

    MOSCOW (AFP) – A Russian astrologer has taken legal action against NASA for compensation, claiming that the US space agency’s bombardment of the Tempel 1 comet will upset her horoscope and violates her spiritual rights.

    The experiment, in which NASA fired a projectile the size of a fridge at the comet Monday, was an attack on “the holy of holies,” Marina Bai’s law suit claims, according to Russian press reports. Her suit, filed at a Moscow court, claims violation of her “life and spiritual values.” [Yahoo! News]

  • Deep Throat Steps Forward

    MSNBC has an article up reporting the identity of the infamous Deep Throat.

    >Ex-FBI official says he’s ‘Deep Throat’

    Magazine quotes him as saying he was ‘doing his duty’

    Updated: 12:01 p.m. ET May 31, 2005

    W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the “Deep Throat” source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday.

    “I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat,” he told John D. O’Connor, the author of Vanity Fair’s exclusive that appears in its July issue. [MSNBC]

    No word yet from Woodward and Bernstein, who have pledged not to reveal the identity until the person has died.

  • Gotta Find One of Those Caps

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    Google has announced their latest project: Google gulp! (with auto-drink(tm)).

    Think fruity. Think refreshing.
    Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our patented Auto-Drinkâ„¢ technology, and slamming a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your soon-to-be-grateful cerebral cortex. Plus, it’s low in carbs! And with flavors ranging from Beta Carroty to Glutamate Grape, you’ll never run out of ways to quench your thirst for knowledge.

    I’m still unsure about the bottles reporting information about me to Google, but the Sero-Tonic Water sounds tasty. They are also rolling this out slowly, as they did with Gmail. You can only get some if a friend of yours gives you a bottle cap for it. Hopefully I’m cool enough that I can get one.

  • Would You Let Your Kid Go?

    From CNN.com:

    Jackson hosts 200 kids at Neverland party

    LOS OLIVOS, California (AP) — Christmas came early for some 200 children who got to play at Michael Jackson’s amusement park and meet Santa Claus.

    “I hope you have a wonderful day. Merry Christmas. I love you,” the pop singer called out to the children Friday from the driveway of his estate.

    Jackson, who faces trial next year on child molestation charges, appeared happy during the few minutes he spoke to the arriving throng.

    One of the youngsters shouted, “We love you.”

    “I love you more,” Jackson replied before putting an umbrella over his head and walking back toward his house. [cnn.com]

    If I was a parent I’m not sure I’d want my kids going anywhere near him.

  • I Just Can’t Think of a Title for This One

    In the world of bizzare news:

    Pickled cats thrown at police

    Hamilton woman angry at police confiscation of pickled snakes so threw a jar of pickled kittens at them

    It has been revealed a Hamilton woman was so angry about police taking her three preserved snakes that she stormed into the station and threw a jar of pickled kittens at the counter.

    The jar shattered. [NZCity News]

    I personally think the sentence “It has been revealed a Hamilton woman was so angry about police taking her three preserved snakes that she stormed into the station and threw a jar of pickled kittens at the counter.” would make a great entry into the Bulwer-Lytton Contest.