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• Strike : Its over for the TV Studios

From the Big Picture blog. (a truly excellent blog, I must say)

• Skate Comp and Slam Contest (#13)

This is really weird, I found some videos of myself on the Internet today. Luckily, it was just skateboarding videos from when I was a sophomore in high school and not some other indiscretion. I recognize one other name on that site but most people seem to be minnesotans. Anybody have a clue how these got their?

Update:

Ryan Peterson
Co-founder & Director of Inline Services
Email: ryan@sponsorsnag.com

• Visit Sierra Leone Blog

I also found this blog and some others from across south Asia using my last name as some sort of slang but this one finally sheds some light on the meaning (At the bottom in comments). Guess I won’t be traveling to Africa or Asia with my new wife.

Richard Jeni, a standup comedian who played to sold-out crowds and was a regular on the “Tonight Show,” died from a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide, police said Sunday.

Police found Jeni alive but gravely injured in a home here after responding to a call Saturday morning from Jeni’s girlfriend reporting the comic had shot himself, Los Angeles Police Officer Norma Eisenman said.

He died after being rushed to a nearby hospital.

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I hope this “rear-end” isn’t attractive to any of my readers, but if thats your thing - be my guest.

MECHANIC Chris Donald loves his work — he has sex with CARS.
And he admitted last night: “Some men like boobs and bums, but I much prefer curvy bodywork.”

Chris, 38, has a recognized psychological condition that makes him physically attracted to motors. He has had sex with more than 30 different models in 20 years — plus two motorboats and a pal’s JETSKI.

I have a friend who told me about something like this happening to his car. I guess a few years ago his car was accosted by an old friend who at the time maybe had a little too much to drink. He said, “The old girl was never the same. Sure she still brought him to the story for groceries, but she always wore the scar of what happened that spring night.” From what I have been able to gather, our very own BiggPappa knows a little about what happened that night. My sources tell me he was there to witness this horrible event.

News: Mechanic: I have sex with cars

If looks like someone beat me to this, bottled holy drinking water. Now here is an untapped market.

To that end, Wayne Enterprises is distributing Holy Drinking Water - a half-liter of reverse-osmosis purified water bottled by a Stockton company and blessed by clergy. So far, the blessings have come from Catholic and Anglican priests, but the plan is for clergy from any faith that honors holy water to offer blessings.

Wayne Enterprises, now that sounds real holy. They could have at least come up with a religious sounding corporate name, but who really reads the fine print on bottled water anyway I guess. Now here is the best part….

The label on Holy Drink Water includes a warning to sinners: If you are a sinner or evil in nature, this product may cause burning, intense heat, sweating, skin irritations, rashes, itchiness, vomiting, bloodshot and watery eyes, pale skin color and oral irritations.

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For all of you Onion fans out there, which is pretty much my entire readerbase, good news is coming in the form of video.

In late March, the company will launch The Onion News Network, a service that will stream original clips every week produced by a team of 15 new hires, including an entire production team. (That pushes the Onion empire to roughly 145 staffers.)

Footage is based on the premise that the paper has been running a 24-hour news service for the past 75 years, only no one knew about it. Clips will cover the past seven decades, as well as current events. “We’re not taking things we’ve done on the site or in print and applying video to them. This is its own enterprise,” says Mills.

I tell you a few people’s vision has turned into a marketing empire and a creative dream. Think about how cool it would be to work for The Onion. This is just another step forward in the destruction of cable television. Who wants to watch crappy sitcoms or “reality tv” anymore when we can tap into this. The sad thing is this new “News Service” will probably be more realistic than all the majors out there now.

Wired News: The Onion Goes Viral With Video

This story comes in from the “what is wrong with people today” file. This is just too sick to make up.

As authorities stormed into a middle school office to arrest an alleged meth-dealing principal inside, they found an even more surprising scene inside.

Sources said 50-year-old John Acerra, of Allentown, was naked and watching gay pornography when they arrived at Nitschmann Middle School in Bethlehem to arrest him on Tuesday.

Acerra also had sex toys, drugs, cash and a pipe in his school office when authorities stormed his office, the sources added.

What is wrong with this man. If he wants to watch gay porn and do drugs, more power to him, but do it in the privacy of your own home. Why in the hell would he even try to do this at work, especially since he is a principle AT A SCHOOL. I say throw this guy to the wolves. He is obviously not right in the head to begin with. What if a child walked into his office? That poor kid would be scarred forever.

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This has to be good, simply from the first few lines…

The minister has the number 666 tattooed on his arm.

But Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda is not your typical minister. De Jesus, or “Daddy” as his thousands of followers call him, does not merely pray to God: He says he is God.

De Jesus, 61, grew up poor in Puerto Rico. He says he served stints in prison there for petty theft and says he was a heroin addict.

De Jesus says he learned he was Jesus reincarnate when he was visited in a dream by angels.

“The prophets, they spoke about me. It took me time to learn that, but I am what they were expecting, what they have been expecting for 2,000 years,” de Jesus says.

The church that he began building 20 years ago in Miami resembles no other:

* Followers have protested Christian churches in Miami and Latin America, disrupting services and smashing crosses and statues of Jesus.

* De Jesus preaches there is no devil and no sin. His followers, he says, literally can do no wrong in God’s eyes.

* The church calls itself the “Government of God on Earth” and uses a seal similar to the United States.

He says he has a church-paid salary of $136,000 but lives more lavishly than that. During an interview, he showed off a diamond-encrusted Rolex to a CNN crew and said he has three just like them. He travels in armored Lexuses and BMWs, he says, for his safety. All are gifts from his devoted followers.

I’ll let you finish the article at your leisure, make sure to watch the video. Since I don’t have the proper tools I couldn’t view it, let me know if this guy is as crazy as he seems. And as far as the Rolex and BMWs go, when will Rev Gurt’s followers start buying me those kinds of things. You can skip the Rolex but send the cars. And NO, I’m not the son of God. I won’t make that claim again.

Pastor with 666 tattoo claims to be divine - CNN.com

UPDATE: Here is a video from last year where Jesus makes an appearance on the Today Show.

Maybe I missed something but what the hell is happening in the first wreck? Did that person really do just do that? I hope no one was hurt. And whats the story with this clip, is this old new or what? By today’s standard, everything is old as soon as its born.

How long until someone puts a video of some kids “sport killing” a homeless person on youtube? Sure they will fry for it and heck, every media outlet in the US will cover it, but it seems likely. If drug lords are using youtube to “show you what they will do to you if you don’t have their money”, then there has to be someone, somewhere that will do something like this. What about a serial killer who uploads his victims death videos. Think of all the people that would watch that, even though it is horrible. Maybe that will be on CSI or something, it seems fitting.

So CNN is claiming “teen sport killing of homeless on the rise“.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (CNN) — All Nathan Moore says he wanted to do was smoke pot and get drunk with his friends.

Well this story starts in Wisconsin, thats worth something since some of the most disturbed people of all time come from this wonderful land of…… tourism? Hey, and it’s even Dahmer’s hometown.

The 15-year-old and his friends were taunting the homeless man — throwing sticks and leaves — after having a couple of beers with him.

No big deal, Moore says, but he’s sorry for what came next.

It was a mistake, he said, a sudden primal surge that made him and his friends Luis Oyola, 16, and 17-year-old Andrew Ihrcke begin punching and kicking Baum.

“Luis says ‘I’m gonna go hit him,’ We’re all laughing, thought he was joking around,’” but he wasn’t, Moore concedes. “We just all started hitting him.”

They hurled anything they could find — rocks, bricks, even Baum’s barbecue grill — and pounded the 49-year-old with a pipe and with the baseball bat he kept at his campsite for protection.

Wow, this is pretty sick. I can’t imagine such a thing.

Ihrcke smeared his own feces on Baum’s face before cutting him with a knife “to see if he was alive,” Moore said.

After destroying Baum’s camp, the boys left the homeless man — head wedged in his own grill — under a piece of plastic where they hoped the “animals would eat” him.

Talk about troubled youth. And then the story goes on to talk about the stats. There was one more line that caught my attention, what I believe to be a “jab” at video games, an unnecessary jab.

Ihrcke told police that killing “the bum” reminded him of playing a violent video game, a police report shows.

Now I think there is more to blame here than video games. These children obviously are not functional members of society. To jump on the video game trend seems fishy. I say look at the numbers. If there are x million violent video games sold, shouldn’t we have more killers and killings? I do think it is important though to study the effects of video games on society. There are quite a few 5-30 year olds all of who grew up and are growing up with video games. Just like the telephone changed how people “are”, so will the video game.

I wonder how long until this is an epidemic.

This just in over the wire… children make coffin for dying teacher.

A Dutch primary school teacher who is dying of cancer is overseeing one last project among her beloved pupils - they are making a coffin for her.

The coffin is standing in the middle of one of the classrooms. Some of the children play with it, climbing into it and pretending to be U-boat captains.

Also catching our eye…. teacher arrested over using coke in front of children

In an incident that perhaps gives a new meaning to the phrase ’supply teacher’, a 59-year-old substitute teacher has been arrested on suspicion of repeatedly taking cocaine in front of the class she was teaching.

Police subsequently found traces of white powder in the classroom. When they confronted Donatelli at her home, she handed over a small green bag of powder and two pen caps – both of which tested positive for the drug - and admitting to using cocaine in front of the children.

And finally…. customize your car horn - make it play anything

The Horntones FX-550 system is the first mobile audio system that allows you to customize the sound of your vehicle’s horn function using virtually any standard audio file. Using the latest electronic device and communications technology, Horntones Audio products provide you with a unique capability to personalize your automobile experience with an unlimited variety of sound clips.

Now I don’t know if you understand how scary this idea really is. Imagine thousands of young children honking their horns, playing music to each other or just annoying the hell out of that bum that stands by the offramp on the interstate. Hey, maybe they do have a purpose. Lets clean up the streets by playing horrible music from our car horns. No more vagrants. Looking at it that probably isn’t that great of an idea. You would more-than-likely get shot if you rode around blasting Engelbert Humperdink from your car’s steering wheel.

No, this isn’t a pledge drive where Betty White and Fred Rogers chase after you in the PBS van to claim the money you pledged. This is far more serious. President Bush is proposing close to a 25% CUT in funding allocated to The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which I believe to be a very bad thing. Just like community access or public access is a dieing venue for people to share their views on the TV, I fear the same might happen to PBS. We cannot let huge corporations with their agendas dominate what we see and hear. We need to start filling the airwaves with our agendas too, hell its out right.

If any of you have or have not heard of the news program Frontline, I strongly urge you to check it out. It is in my opinion one of the best investigative news shows on the television today. Frontline’s coverage of important news stories seems real compared to the fluff broadcast and cable news spit out “on the our, every hour”. Frontline’s true journalistic integrity is something that is fading in the politically charged, commercially sponsored news that too many people accept today.

Any what about Sesame Street and Mr Rogers Neighborhood. These are not trashy cartoons filled with 10 minutes of commercials for toys or candy. These are truly educational programs that air without continual bombardment of commercial messages trying to turn young children into mindless consumers of mouth rotting, mind numbing garbage.

I urge you all to take interest in public programming before it is completely gone and all our children have left to watch is McDonald’s Brand Chicken Nuggets teach the ABC’s. I am sure glad that the internet is ushering in a new era for video broadcast and is opening doors for small companies to bring truly beneficial programming to today’s youth. Now we can only hope that the cable companies (also the people that provide access to the internet) don’t close the door before we get our feet in and block “certain video programs” that might undercut their revenue streams from advertisers. What happens when small broadcasters try to use the cable companies pipes to distribute video over the web that takes viewers away from the cable company’s programming? I hope nothing, but realistically know that probably won’t be the case.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines.

”You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario,” said Gayle Wood, an Alaska Electric Light & Power spokeswoman. ”This is the story of the overly ambitious eagle who evidently found a deer head in the landfill.”

The bird, weighed down by the deer head, apparently failed to clear the transmission lines, she said. A repair crew found the eagle dead, the deer head nearby.

The power was out for less than 45 minutes Sunday.

I know that eagles are big birds, but to see an eagle carrying a deer head would be pretty neat. I like big birds, just as long as they don’t carry my head off anywhere to pick it clean.

Eagle Lugging a Deer Head Causes Outage - New York Times

Smokie (pictured right) is pissed off that his children are now in your hair

The 45-minute intense conditioning treatment uses thoroughbred semen from Aberdeen Angus bulls in a farm in Cheshire.

It is said to offer the ultimate shine for £55.

‘I have been searching for an organic product with a lot of protein because that is what hair is made of and lacks when it is dry,’ he added. ‘All the best treatments are protein based. Synthetic treatments are good but they are heavy if you have fine hair and can make it look greasy. In the end, the bull’s sperm was the winner.

There you have it folks, its all about the protein. Goodbye Pantene, Hello Farmer Frank’s Herd! Hopefully this will be a boom for small beef farmers around the world. Now they can package haircare products with your 100% Angus Beef.

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