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Surviving a deadly hike on a trail with no name
A cautionary column on hiking. It can make your life richer, and it can take your life if you aren’t careful.
I loved the Soupy Sales program growing up. I really got a kick out of White Fang and Black Tooth, his two crazy dogs who spoke in grunts that he translated for viewers.
Then there was that famous (I think last episode) show where he flipped off the producers! With his demise, slapstick is officially gone. RIP…
“Soupy Sales, he of the crumpled hat and droopy bowtie, whose raucous in-your-face daily kids show was an iconic hit of the '50s and '60s, died Thursday at the age of 83.”
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Looks like his works are making a comeback…
H.P. Lovecraft and Hollywood, an unholy alliance?
EXCLUSIVE: Ron Howard and his plans for "Lovecraft"
Guillermo del Toro and his impassioned Lovecraft project
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The Associated Press recently ran the following news story and it got me to thinking.
What’s more important? To preserve and protect national monuments to wars, or helping live veterans today?
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the private organization that built the memorial, is in the process of raising funds to take care of the monument’s needs because the federal funding is drying up.
My challenge to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is to consider the live veterans that need help in this country and to start fundraising for them along with their other efforts.
As a Vietnam veteran I think symbols are fine, but I also believe veterans are better served while their still alive and have needs right now.
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
“Repair work was underway Wednesday at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall as a private memorial fund took over landscaping and maintenance of 13 acres from the National Park Service.” Click here to read the whole article.
Photo by By J. David Ake, AP
Well, the folks at the always funny site Holy Taco have actually uncovered that there were several other female cartoon characters who posed for Playboy's cover, such as 101 Dalmations' Cruella de Vil, Popeye's Olive Oyl andSouth Park's Mr. Garrison. Yes, he's a girl. Unfortunately, none of them made the cut.
P.S. These are fake. Just making sure you knew that. Except that Marge Simpson REALLY posed for Playboy. I know, I know.
photo courtesy of Holy Taco
Rejected Playboy Cartoon Cover Girls originally appeared on About.com Web Humor on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Here are five weird Texas laws. Why Texas? All the states have weird laws right? My wife is from there and I like picking on the state of Texas! For a lot more go to weirdfacts
It is illegal for children to have unusual haircuts.
A recently passed anti-crime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and explain to the nature of the crime about to be committed.
It is illegal to milk another persons' cow.
One must acknowledge a supreme being before being able to hold public office.
It is illegal to sell ones eyes.
Lately it seems that a lot of people with money to invest are loosing their shirts to scam artists like Madoff, or this Schneider character.
The owner of a Long Island janitorial-supply company -- under investigation for cleaning out scores of investors -- is known as a "Ponzi princess" for pulling off a scheme that destroyed families while she lived the good life, sources said.
The US Bankruptcy Court trustee in the case, lawyer Kenneth Barnard, estimates the alleged fraud by businesswoman Laurie Schneider has hit as many as 50 victims and losses may rise to $30 million.
"Madoff is the king. She is like a little Ponzi princess," said one distraught victim, who says he lost $200,000. "And no one has done anything about it." Read the rest at The New York Post
There's no low that Trump won't go. Now he's holding up funds for crime victims, which just happens to include Epstein's nu...
