Thing that make you go hmmmmm........

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Plans for 50-foot tall Michael Jackson robot

A 50-foot robotic replica of Michael Jackson is planned for the desert surrounding Las Vegas, according to reports. The self-proclaimed king of pop is currently in talks to sign a long-term concert deal in Nevada's Sin City and local businessmen claim the huge Jackson likeness is among the proposals. "It would be the first thing that anyone would see as they approached Las Vegas from that direction."

Consultant Mike Luckman of Luckman Van Pier, tells the New York Daily News, "It would be in the desert sands. Laser beams would shoot out of its eyes, so it would be the first thing people on incoming aircraft would see. Neon is wonderful, but it's old school."

Luckman's partner, designer Andre Van Pier, adds, "Michael's looked at the sketches and likes them ..."

Or as MSNBC's Countdown news anchor Keith Olbermann reported: "Run for your lives!"

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index....ael_jackson_ro


Will you be the first to submit a correct answer for my new OptiBoard brain teaser? See Werewolf Test.

[rinselberg]

Yo' Sailor . . . Are you a Type O ..?


An Arizona woman is under arrest, accused of tying up her lover on Valentine's Day in order to drink his blood.

Police in Tempe, Ariz., said the 23-year-old woman allegedly tricked her 43-year-old victim with an offer of kinky sex.

After tying him up, police said that she pulled out a knife and cut the man on the leg. She then told him that she likes to drink blood and proceeded to drink from his leg.

The woman allegedly also made several cuts to the victim's upper body.

The victim managed to break free from his restraints and run from the bedroom.

The woman then chased him with a pickax, according to police.

Officials said the man passed out a short time later and was found covered in blood by a friend. The friend also saw the woman covered in a blanket with no apparent injuries. The man was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The woman was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of aggravated assault.

NBC 5 Dallas



On tap at Beer Of The Day.

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Mixed salads on al-Qaida's hit list ...

Baqouba, Iraq. U.S. soldiers here have little trouble knowing when al-Qaida is exerting its influence in this city that was once the lush, orange-growing capital of the Mideast. Sometimes it's the subtle signs - when tomatoes and cucumbers start disappearing from the markets, deemed too sexually suggestive, soldiers say, by Sunni extremists ...

U.S. News & World Report; January 7, 2007.

American commanders cite al-Qaida's severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders ...

MSNBC; April 20, 2007.


And I thought I knew what "getting fresh" was ... Time to up-armor the salad bar? ... It may be worse than the Islamic extremists think: As one Internet blogger has remarked, tomatoes are self-pollinating ... Would it be OK if the asparagus volunteered to chaperon? ... Waiter, cancel that salad. Just bring me a glass of V8 ...





Seattle-based physicist poses a $20,000 question involving light ...

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Police Officer Not Punished For Marijuana Brownies
Allowed to resign after calling 911

POSTED: 7:31 am EDT May 10, 2007
DEARBORN, Mich. -- Police commanders in Dearborn, Mich., are taking heat for not prosecuting a police officer caught spiking brownies with pot and eating them.

The Detroit Free Press reports that Cpl. Edward Sanchez was allowed to resign last year after admitting he and his wife baked brownies with marijuana he had taken from a drug suspect. The officer's troubles began with an April 2006 call to 911 where he told the operator he thought he was overdosing on marijuana. On the tape, he's heard saying, "I think we're dying. We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do."

During the call, he asked the score of the Red Wings game that night, saying, "I just want to make sure this isn't some type of, like, hallucination that I'm having ..."

MSNBC reported that during the 911 call, the pair remarked that after eating the brownies, it seemed that "time had slowed down ... almost coming to a complete stop."

The officer's wife also confessed to a three-week cocaine binge, using cocaine that was intended for training the department's drug sniffing dogs.


When global warming hands you a melting polar ice sheet, use it to brew beer and pour yourself that ever more urgently needed cold one. "When beer starts out this cold ..." Oh, wait - that's the Coors slogan. Greenland Brewhouse is definitely "going with the flow" ... read about it at Beer Of The Day.

[DragonLensmanWV]

[quote=rinselberg;188611]Police Officer Not Punished For Marijuana Brownies
Allowed to resign after calling 911

POSTED: 7:31 am EDT May 10, 2007
DEARBORN, Mich. -- Police commanders in Dearborn, Mich., are taking heat for not prosecuting a police officer caught spiking brownies with pot and eating them.

The Detroit Free Press reports that Cpl. Edward Sanchez was allowed to resign last year after admitting he and his wife baked brownies with marijuana he had taken from a drug suspect. The officer's troubles began with an April 2006 call to 911 where he told the operator he thought he was overdosing on marijuana. On the tape, he's heard saying, "I think we're dying. We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do."

During the call, he asked the score of the Red Wings game that night, saying, "I just want to make sure this isn't some type of, like, hallucination that I'm having ..."

MSNBC reported that during the 911 call, the pair remarked that after eating the brownies, it seemed that "time had slowed down ... almost coming to a complete stop."

The officer's wife also confessed to a three-week cocaine binge, using cocaine that was intended for training the department's drug sniffing dogs.


(Best Tommy Chong impression)
Oh, WOW man! Like, I thought that you could not OD on pot, man. Every time I tried - I just fell asleep, man.

[rinselberg]

Alligator Captured Near Los Angeles Lake
Gillian Flaccus; The Associated Press.
Friday, May 25, 2007.

LOS ANGELES -- For months, the city's most famous reptile eluded paparazzi and faithful fans who gathered at the edge of a park lake to catch a glimpse of the A-list alligator. But when "Reggie" decided to come out, the gator did it in true Hollywood style: Swarmed by fans and photographers as it sunned by the water, the reptile was whisked away with a police escort as TV helicopters gave chase and broadcast live footage of the cagey critter's freeway journey to the zoo.

The six and a half-foot alligator believed to be Reggie, who lurked in Harbor Regional Park's Lake Machado for two years, was wrestled into captivity Thursday. The wily beast became a celebrity as it eluded would-be wranglers and managed to disappear for 18 months until it recently resurfaced.


1,001 uses for duct tape ... and counting.

Reggie was spotted on land around 3:30 PM - just as officials and wildlife experts met nearby to discuss new ways of capturing the elusive alligator.

"We were about to talk about new strategies for catching him when somebody called and said 'He's out of the lake,'" ... "So we said, 'Let's go get him!'"

For the complete Washington Post report:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052500293.html

For more of what you most need to know, see the Laramy-K World News Forum - the optical world's most respected source for news.

[rinselberg]

You've heard of second-hand cigarette smoke - but what about second-hand marijuana, cocaine and even caffeine?

They're looking into this in Rome.

You may have to be careful about when and where you inhale ...


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18974208/

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Japanese authorities on Okinawa have a peculiar child-abuse case to investigate - a very peculiar case.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19350290




Who is this man? Find out at OptiBoard's Word Of The Day!

[rinselberg]

Story of non-traditional penguin family raises ire of parents, school officials ...


"And Tango Makes Three", published by Simon & Schuster, is ... a children's book based on a true story about two male penguins in NYC's Central Park Zoo that paired up and raised a baby penguin from a "donor egg". It tops the current American Library Association's list of books that draw the most complaints from parents and school officials. From MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20480366 ...

I hope they weren't smoking plankton or mainlining cod liver oil ...



Quantum physics: Backward in time research goes forward ...

[Grubendol]

God forbid that true stories be presented to children *roll eyes*

[drk]

I'm sure the authors had the utmost fidelity to reality in their little book. Just look at the cover and title.:hammer:

[drk]

Japanese authorities on Okinawa have a peculiar child-abuse case to investigate - a very peculiar case.

Rinsie, I had no idea manta rays could be so abusive and cruel to their own sons.

I'm not sure at what level this hurts me the worst:
1.) Saddened to know that we cannot trust these animals--innocent, natural, unpolluted by human vices. Who can we now turn to to show us the way?

2.) Saddened to have further evidence that males of every species are so violent and capable of domestic abuse. I'm seriously considering castration being put forth as a requirement for betterment of world peace.*

*That is, after the damned Bush administration gets out of the way and we can do stem cell research and cloning. Until then, sperm banks may be needed.

**Of course, I mean only heterosexual males. Non-breeder males would be exempt, naturally.

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Nepal Airlines sacrifices goats to appease "sky god"

The Electric Paper News of Singapore
September 7, 2007



Guess what they'll be having for their in-flight meal ...
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/st...141142,00.html



rinsel's latest OptiBoard Word of the Day! lets you experience a time when popular jazz tunes went to war for the "dark side" in a rare multimedia presentation.

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AP; Sept 18, 2007.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A university student ... was Tasered by campus police ... after loudly and repeatedly trying to ask John Kerry questions during a campus forum ...

As Tonight Show host Jay Leno observed (more or less), Senator Kerry finally electrifies an audience. Does this mean he'll consider trying to get into the 2008 presidential race?

[rinselberg]

Bed and Beyond's new "NAZI" bedspread meets consumer resistance in India

Krittivas Mukherjee; Mumbai
September 30, 2007

India's small Jewish community is up in arms over a new line of home furnishings which includes a bedspread called "NAZI" and uses the [Nazi] swastika in its promotional brochures.

The furnishings dealer says the word "NAZI" stands for New Arrival Zone of India, but local Jewish leaders say the name rings of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic regime.

"We will ask him to stop this nonsense," Jonathan Solomon, head of the Indian Jewish Federation said today. "We don't want Nazism to arrive in any zone in India or the world."

The "NAZI" bedspread is being sold at stores in India's financial capital Mumbai.

The new product is promoted with a brochure that displays two red [Nazi] swastikas against a black background ...

For the complete Reuters report:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...l?from=mostpop



rinsel's latest OptiBoard Word of the Day! lets you experience a time when popular jazz tunes went to war for the "dark side" in a rare multimedia presentation.

[k12311997]

Dog Saves Family from Fire Blamed on Cat

Oct 11, 2007 08:20 AM EDT

GREENVILLE, Maine - Thumper, a black Labrador retriever, is getting credit for saving a Greenville man when a fire swept through his home.

Roland Cote said his wife and their 7-year-old grandson were away when the blaze started early Sunday in a converted two-story garage. He said Thumper grabbed him by the arm to wake him, leaving just enough time for him to dial 911 before fleeing the fast-moving fire.
While the dog is the hero, a cat is the bad guy in this story.
Cote said the fire marshal investigator believes the blaze was started when Princess, the family cat, tipped over a kerosene lantern. Cote says he and his pets escaped safely, but he says Princess did get her tail singed by the flames.

[rinselberg]

Is it the story itself ..? The comments from readers ..? Or is it the sun ..? The sun ..? Hmmmn. It's November ... All I can say is "Nuts!"


http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/imm...ief-in-ho.html

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/06/...oween-costume/

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/05/ice.costume/index.html

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1921608/posts

[rinselberg]

How would you like this dude for a neighbor? Has anyone reported this to Dr. Phil ..? He's not the first; there was this other dude: more reckless, not nearly as kinky ...

[MOVEL]More news headlines from rinselberg™ ...[/MOVEL]

Climate change
Michael Crichton's global warming bunkum goes for a bruise cruise ...




Countdown Iran
High profile OptiBoard poster rinselberg reports on the Pentagon's latest plans ...

[k12311997]

PITTSBURGH -- Polar bears at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium got an unexpected visitor when a deer jumped about 20 feet into their pool.

"One of the grounds keepers asked if we had seen the deer swim with the polar bears,” said Game Caldenron, a zoo visitor.

Surveillance video from the zoo shows the deer jumping into the pool. The animal nearly landed on a floating white block. One bear immediately dove in to check out his new pool partner.

Officials said the deer jumped an 8-foot fence to enter the zoo and had been wandering around for a while. After jumping into the pool, the deer made a couple of laps around the pool before climbing out with both bears following close behind.

Eventually zookeepers were able to corral the bears and deer inside.

Although the bears did not hurt the deer, it did receive some injuries and was in shock, so it had to be euthanized. The bears were not hurt and were allowed back into their habitat shortly after the incident was over.

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It's been one year (and one week) since Donald Rumsfeld resigned from his cabinet post as Secretary of Defense in the wake of the national midterm elections. His successor, Robert Gates, has been decidedly low-key by contrast. This brief video segment looks back at some highlights from DoD press briefings when Rummy had the floor ...

[youtube]c5P6MLiKEJI[/youtube]



From the Laramy-K Optical online forum.

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It's a familiar story that's happened many times, but once again the U.S. Postal Service comes through ... holiday postcard delivered to relative of deceased Kansas resident ... was mailed on December 23, 1914.

Don't ask me how they do it.


It's water, not beer, for thirsty inmates at Gitmo when OptiBoarders make the call ... "Git" the whole story here ...

[rinselberg]

NEW YORK - Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store Tuesday and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said . . .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22565251/

[1968]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22565251/

*lol* Great "Weekend at Bernie's" pick-up!

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An 81-year old man in Santiago, Chile was the "life of the party" when he regained consciousness as he lay in a coffin at his own wake.

His first request: a glass of water.

Get the complete report from Yahoo, reprinted from Agence France-Presse.

[k12311997]

before sliced bread what did people say was the best thing?

ie: this is the best thing since sliced bread.