funny photo and caption

"Take THAT" you stupid piece of ground!

"obama feels the heat, changes the play"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090719/pl_politico/25114

Heh heh heh you gotta read this

went to the movies

with mom, dad and T. Saw the new Harry Potter flick. As I am a fan of the fantasy/wizard type genre, I enjoyed the movie. Especially when mom jumped and uttered a sound like a mouse being held too tight! lol. I was disappointed at the end though. There was no anticlimax. It just ended as if in the middle of a chapter. I guess that is leaving the door WIDE open for the next movie, hmm? 

one more reason I dislike people in general....

NYC teen admits to leaving kitten in oven to die

NEW YORK – A New York City teenager has admitted that she failed to let a kitten out of an oven after a friend put the animal inside and left it to roast to death.

After pleading guilty to charges of animal cruelty and attempted burglary on Wednesday, 17-year-old Cheyenne Cherry confronted a row of animal activists outside the courtroom. Cherry stuck out her tongue and told the activists that the kitten named Tiger Lily was "dead."

Authorities say Cherry and a 14-year-old friend ransacked a Bronx apartment before putting the cat in the oven, where it cried and scratched before dying.

The 14-year-old was charged with aggravated animal cruelty and burglary in the May 6 incident.

Cherry will serve a year in jail under a plea bargain.

PLEA BARGAIN?!!! Next time it will be an infant! Stuff her in an oven and leave her there to roast I say!

another for the "WTF???" file

entrapment or not entrapment.....that is the question. 

Wisconsin court praises drunken concert goer

By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 15, 6:22 pm ET

MADISON, Wis. – An Illinois teen knew he was too drunk to drive home after a Dave Matthews Band concert south of Milwaukee. So he fell asleep in his car, only to be awoken by a state trooper. Travis Peterson, 19, of Dixon, Ill., said even though he told the officer he was drunk and sleeping it off, the trooper ordered him to leave because the lot was being cleared. Once out of the parking lot, Peterson was arrested for drunken driving. He was subsequently found guilty and ordered to spend 60 days in jail.A Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday commended Peterson for doing the right thing by trying to sleep it off, and said the trial court was wrong not to let him argue that police had entrapped him. The state had argued successfully at trial that people who choose to drink too much can't argue they've been entrapped when stopped for drunken driving. The 2nd District Court of Appeals disagreed. "Drinking alcohol to excess, while inadvisable and unhealthy, is not unlawful by itself," the appeals court said.

It did not address the fact that Peterson was underage. Peterson's attorney, Andrew Mishlove, said that was irrelevant given the other issues at stake.

VACATION!

Well, I am now on vacation. I had hoped to be in Virginia meeting my new nephew, but finances dictated otherwise. I suppose it is a good thing though. I have had a terrible headache for the past few days and on Sunday morning, THE ATTACK OF THE GALLBLADDER (insert scary music here) happened, and I was not in shape to get out of bed. 

Today though mom, T and I are gonna go see the new Harry Potter movie. I am feeling much better, and need to get out and DO something. 

 I'll let you know how the movie was.....

cool picture!

I'm sure R has seen this many times, but us earthbound folks find this stuff fascinating!!! 

Robert Roy Britt
Editorial Director
LiveScience.com – Tue Jun 30, 9:35 am ET

The breaking of the sound barrier is not just an audible phenomenon. As a new picture from the U.S. military shows, Mach 1 can be quite visual.

This widely circulated new photo shows a Air Force F-22 Raptoraircraft participating in an exercise in the Gulf of Alaska June 22, 2009 as it executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.

The visual phenomenon, which sometimes but not always accompanies the breaking of the sound barrier, has also been seen with nuclear blasts and just after space shuttles launches, too. A vapor cone was photographed as the Apollo 11 moon-landing missionrocketed skyward in 1969.

The phenomenon is not well studied. Scientists refer to it as a vapor cone, shock collar, or shock egg, and it's thought to be created by what's called a Prandtl-Glauert singularity.

Here's what scientists think happens:

A layer of water droplets gets trapped between two high-pressure surfaces of air. In humid conditions, condensation can gather in the trough between two crests of the sound waves produced by the jet. This effect does not necessarily coincide with the breaking of the sound barrier, although it can.