Mission to Mars
A Dutch company is looking for four volunteers. No astronaut experience needed. But there is a catch. Their trip to Mars, tentatively scheduled for the year 2023 is a one-way journey. There are hundreds who have volunteered. What the heck are they thinking? Would you leave everyone behind for the rest of your life? Even if I would not be too old for something like this ten years now, there would be no way I'd consider leaving all of my family and friends here to fly off to Mars.
Internet cynics are trying to claim a heartwarming story posted on Reddit about a family who had their entire meal at Olive Garden comped. Seems the manager wandered by their table and asked how everything was and a three year old girl at the table replied "Grandpa's house burned down". The cynics claimed it was a marketing stunt. The man who posted a picture of the receipt to Reddit provided a link to an article about the house fire. I understand cynicism, but not everything on-line is faked or done for marketing. It just seems that way.
Zoogoers got an eyeful of something they didn't expect when a heron landed in the lion enclosure and was promptly killed and eaten by the lions. Some people were shocked. This happens every day in the wild, so why would people be surprised? Lions usually stalk and kill their food. Only in zoos do they get fed. Their instincts to hunt never go away.
McDonald's is worried about a rival that just doesn't come to mind when you think of their competition. They are focused on the Chicken McWrap to compete against Subway, who has experienced incredible growth and is closing in on having 40,000 locations worldwide. It boggles my mind how close to one another some Subway locations are and still doing big business. There are three Subway locations in tiny El Segundo. Three more in neighboring Manhattan Beach. That's six. There are two McDonald's locations in the same area.
Bad decision file: A man buys a ten foot python from a guy selling snakes out of a truck. First he has to save his sleeping friend from being eaten by the snake. Then he tries to sell it and finds out it is a stolen snake when he's arrested for possession of stolen goods. Buy your pets from legitimate sources, people.
Next time you watch the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice", pay closer attention to one of the men that Bond kills. In the scene where Bond pretends to be a thug that he just killed, the man who drives him back to their base of operations and then carries him inside happens to be the grandfather of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. That's a piece of Bond trivia I didn't know until today.
So if I were to not be happy at how I looked when a photographer snapped a picture of me and my reaction was to steal the memory card from the photographer's camera, would me shouting a promise to "pay for it later" mean something? I don't think so. The question is, now that Rob Kardashian of the Vapidashian family has done this, will be be prosecuted? He should be.
It's the law of economics. "Duck Dynasty", a reality-tv program about a family that became very wealthy manufacturing duck calls is drawing huge ratings. Now the "stars" want lots more money to continue the program. Supply and demand. They'll get paid. Count on it.
In the L.A. mayoral race, Bill Clinton is backing Wendy Gruel and Jan Perry is backing Eric Garcetti. Wonder which endorsement will bring more votes at the polls? The answer might be surprising.
Apparently the need to reduce the Secret Service's budget caused the Obama Administration to stop the very popular White House tours. Now Michelle Obama and her two daughters are vacationing in the Bahamas. Let's be clear that the Obama family pays their personal expenses for this trip. But the huge cost of moving Secret Service personnel and other support staff there during the vacation is paid by the taxpayers. Is it okay to stop White House tours and not cancel this vacation? The needs of the First Family outweigh the needs of the people?
This Date in History:
On this date in the year 37, Caligula accepts the title of the Principate.
On this date in the year 845, Paris is sacked by Viking raiders.
On this date in the year 1854, Britain and France declare war on Russia.
On this date in the year 1939, Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquered Madrid after a three-year siege. BTW, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
On this date in the year 1979, Three Mile Island nuclear plant suffers a coolant leak and as a result a partial meltdown.
On this date in the year 1990, President Bush posthumously awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Jesse Owens.
Famous Folk Born on this date:
Maxim Gorky
Ernst Lindemann
Marlin Perkins (now watch Jim stick his head in the lion's mouth on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Uh Jim? Jim? We'll be right back.)
Irving "Swifty" Lazar
Nelson Algren
Edmund Muskie
Sir Dirk Bogarde
Zbiginew Brzezinsky
Neil Kinnock
Conchata Farrell
Ken Howard
Dianne Weist
Reba McEntire
Curt Henning
Bart Connor
Byron Scott
Brett Ratner
Vince Vaughn
Kate Gosselin
Shana Moakler
Luke Walton
Julia Stiles
Lady Gaga
Internet cynics are trying to claim a heartwarming story posted on Reddit about a family who had their entire meal at Olive Garden comped. Seems the manager wandered by their table and asked how everything was and a three year old girl at the table replied "Grandpa's house burned down". The cynics claimed it was a marketing stunt. The man who posted a picture of the receipt to Reddit provided a link to an article about the house fire. I understand cynicism, but not everything on-line is faked or done for marketing. It just seems that way.
Zoogoers got an eyeful of something they didn't expect when a heron landed in the lion enclosure and was promptly killed and eaten by the lions. Some people were shocked. This happens every day in the wild, so why would people be surprised? Lions usually stalk and kill their food. Only in zoos do they get fed. Their instincts to hunt never go away.
McDonald's is worried about a rival that just doesn't come to mind when you think of their competition. They are focused on the Chicken McWrap to compete against Subway, who has experienced incredible growth and is closing in on having 40,000 locations worldwide. It boggles my mind how close to one another some Subway locations are and still doing big business. There are three Subway locations in tiny El Segundo. Three more in neighboring Manhattan Beach. That's six. There are two McDonald's locations in the same area.
Bad decision file: A man buys a ten foot python from a guy selling snakes out of a truck. First he has to save his sleeping friend from being eaten by the snake. Then he tries to sell it and finds out it is a stolen snake when he's arrested for possession of stolen goods. Buy your pets from legitimate sources, people.
Next time you watch the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice", pay closer attention to one of the men that Bond kills. In the scene where Bond pretends to be a thug that he just killed, the man who drives him back to their base of operations and then carries him inside happens to be the grandfather of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. That's a piece of Bond trivia I didn't know until today.
So if I were to not be happy at how I looked when a photographer snapped a picture of me and my reaction was to steal the memory card from the photographer's camera, would me shouting a promise to "pay for it later" mean something? I don't think so. The question is, now that Rob Kardashian of the Vapidashian family has done this, will be be prosecuted? He should be.
It's the law of economics. "Duck Dynasty", a reality-tv program about a family that became very wealthy manufacturing duck calls is drawing huge ratings. Now the "stars" want lots more money to continue the program. Supply and demand. They'll get paid. Count on it.
In the L.A. mayoral race, Bill Clinton is backing Wendy Gruel and Jan Perry is backing Eric Garcetti. Wonder which endorsement will bring more votes at the polls? The answer might be surprising.
Apparently the need to reduce the Secret Service's budget caused the Obama Administration to stop the very popular White House tours. Now Michelle Obama and her two daughters are vacationing in the Bahamas. Let's be clear that the Obama family pays their personal expenses for this trip. But the huge cost of moving Secret Service personnel and other support staff there during the vacation is paid by the taxpayers. Is it okay to stop White House tours and not cancel this vacation? The needs of the First Family outweigh the needs of the people?
This Date in History:
On this date in the year 37, Caligula accepts the title of the Principate.
On this date in the year 845, Paris is sacked by Viking raiders.
On this date in the year 1854, Britain and France declare war on Russia.
On this date in the year 1939, Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquered Madrid after a three-year siege. BTW, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
On this date in the year 1979, Three Mile Island nuclear plant suffers a coolant leak and as a result a partial meltdown.
On this date in the year 1990, President Bush posthumously awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Jesse Owens.
Famous Folk Born on this date:
Maxim Gorky
Ernst Lindemann
Marlin Perkins (now watch Jim stick his head in the lion's mouth on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Uh Jim? Jim? We'll be right back.)
Irving "Swifty" Lazar
Nelson Algren
Edmund Muskie
Sir Dirk Bogarde
Zbiginew Brzezinsky
Neil Kinnock
Conchata Farrell
Ken Howard
Dianne Weist
Reba McEntire
Curt Henning
Bart Connor
Byron Scott
Brett Ratner
Vince Vaughn
Kate Gosselin
Shana Moakler
Luke Walton
Julia Stiles
Lady Gaga
posted by me at 7:00 AM
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