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1967 Patterson-Gimlin film

The thawing process was sped up and the exposed head was found to be “unusually hollow in one small section.” An hour of thawing later and the feet were exposed - and they were found to be made of rubber.

First, the hair sample was burned and “melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair,” Kulls said in the posting.

 Steve Kulls, executive director of squatchdetective.com and host of Squatchdetective Radio, says in a posting on a Web site run by Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi that as the “evidence” was thawed, the claim began to unravel as a giant hoax.

Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice - handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it - was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit. The revelation comes just days after a much ballyhooed news conference was held in California to proclaim that the remains of the creature were found in the North Georgia mountains was the legendary man-ape.

Mayor Taylor’s response to Alderman Sohn’s letter



Mayor Taylor Calls for Alderman Sohn’s Resignation - In The Race

No kidding.

The mayor of an Australian outback mining town has come under fire for urging unattractive women to move in, assuring them they will find a man because there is a shortage of women. John Moloney, mayor of Mount Isa in northwestern Queensland, told a newspaper his town was a place for “ugly ducklings to flourish into beautiful swans” and called on the “beauty-disadvantaged” to flock .

Sounds like it’s right out of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers…some hick mining town with deprived, lonely men.  Why do they feel in order to get women to come to the town they must recruit “”beauty-disadvantged” women?  What’s the matter?  A pretty woman can’t learn to live in plain areas of a country?

The operations manager of the city’s popular Irish club, Bernard Gillick, said he sees the gender imbalance daily but suggests the mayor’s solution might not be the right one.

“Anyone who moves to Mount Isa, beautiful or not so beautiful, they have a great chance to make a great life here. It is a fantastic town.” he said.

Sounds fantastic to me. 

So, who will be the first to admit they’re ugly?  Anyone?  Anyone?

Remember those Wheaties commericals with the cereal box, “Breakfast of Champions?”

The best of the best athletes would adorn the box cover.

Do kids (and adults) still read cereal boxes while they eat breakfast? 

Or are we all in too much of a hurry?

Speaking of being in a hurry, how about those Jamaicans?  They sure can run like the wind…both males and females. 

And Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has his own version of a breakfast of champions….

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt prepared for the men’s 100-meter final by waking up about 11 a.m. He watched TV for a while in his room at the Athletes’ Village, then went downstairs and ate some chicken nuggets at McDonald’s.

SEAN M. HAFFEY / Union-Tribune Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates his world record of 9.69 in the 100 meters.

He returned to his room, took a three-hour nap, woke up and ate some more chicken nuggets.

“Then,” Bolt said, “I came to the track.”

Where he took the 100 meters into a new galaxy, into a completely new dimension.

What was so stunning about Bolt’s gold-medal performance amid the popping flash bulbs at the Bird’s Nest stadium was not that he lowered his own world record to 9.69 seconds. Or that he did it with zero tailwind or that he had the second slowest reaction time from the starting blocks or that at 6-foot-5 he’s supposed to be too tall for an elite sprinter or that at age 21 he was the youngest Olympic champion since American Bob Hayes in 1964.

Front page of the New York Times;  there is trouble in paradise as party leaders are finally realizing that Obama’s fight may be a little tougher than they anticipated. 

They have seen the light (not the halo around him) and some of them think that “empty suit” needs to be inflated.”  It’s time to find out just who Barack Obama is.

Mr. Obama has run for the last 18 months as the candidate of hope. Yet party leaders — while enthusiastic about Mr. Obama and his state-by-state campaign operations — say he must do more to convince the many undecided Democrats and independents that he would address their financial anxieties rather than run, by and large, as an agent of change — given that change, they note, is not an issue.

“Or, in the blunter words of Gov. Phil Bredesen, Democrat of Tennessee: “Instead of giving big speeches at big stadiums, he needs to give straight-up 10-word answers to people at Wal-Mart about how he would improve their lives.”

“I particularly hope he strengthens his economic message — even Senator Obama can speak more clearly and specifically about the kitchen-table, bread-and-butter issues like high energy costs,” said Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio. “It’s fine to tell people about hope and change, but you have to have plenty of concrete, pragmatic ideas that bring hope and change to life.”

 

Will the real Barack Obama please stand up?

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Palestinian artist Walid Ayyub makes the final touches on a portrait for US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at his shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 22, 2008. Obama will pay a lightning visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank for talks tomorrow, where he will seek to prove his foreign policy mettle in one of the world’s hotspots.

The German government made the all important decision to crash test the Segway.  They crash tested it with an automobile….

Now we’ve seen crash tests of automobiles where they take the car and run it full speed into a brick wall.   That’s the crash test.  So why are they not taking the Segway and running it into a brick wall?  Or how about a sign post?  I can see someone driving a Segway down the sidewalk and not paying attention and running into a building wall.  But, okay…they went with an auto…I guess I can see that happening too.

Surprise…

CLICK HERE to watch the video of the crash test

So, considering how may Segways I see on the streets on a daily basis, I’m not going to be too concerned…

Maybe they will make a helmet law for Segway users?

The video is so horriffic…I know some politician will want helmets.

Have we crash tested bicycles yet?

It’s true…my future grandchildren or great grandchildren could very well be the new minority of the United States.

I don’t mean to make light of it…but will there be any benefits with that?

I ask, because my family has never received any benefits.  We’ve always been right in the middle, so to speak.

So, if Caucasions became a minority, will they be given special aid and privilages for, say, education? 

The Census Bureau projects that minorities, now roughly one-third of the nation’s population, will become the majority by 2042, and grow to 54 percent by 2050. Hispanics are projected to nearly triple their numbers — rising from an estimated 46.7 million today to just under 133 million by 2050, out of a projected total U.S. population of 439 million.

Experts said the emerging demographic shift had social, economic and political implications.

The black population is expected to rise from 41.1 million, or 14 percent of the nation’s population today, to 65.7 million, or 15 percent by 2050. The Asian population is projected to rise from 15.5 million people now, or 5.1 percent of the U.S. population, to 40.6 million, or 9.2 percent, by 2050.

By contrast, non-Hispanic whites’ share of the nation’s population is projected to drop from 66 percent currently to 46 percent by 2050. Their population numbers are projected to remain stable, going from an estimated 199.8 million today, to 203.3 million by 2050.

Census officials also expect the nation’s population to grow older, projecting that by 2050 one in five Americans will be age 65 and older.

 I’m feeling special already…

Most major U.S. carriers waive baggage fees for up to two bags for military members traveling under orders, Mr. Lisicki said. However, a $100 fee for checking a third bag appears to be the industry norm, except for first-class passengers or elite frequent fliers.

US Airways allows military personnel with identification free luggage up to 100 pounds, and Delta allows two bags up to 70 pounds in the cargo hold, as does Northwest.

That sounds right to me…

Why is it then that American Airlines can’t do the same thing?

Why is it that American Airlines charges military personnel for their extra bags?

Why is American Airlines just plain….UnAmerican?

American Airlines is charging troops for their extra baggage, a practice that forces soldiers heading for a war zone in Iraq to try to get reimbursement from the military. One of the country’s largest veterans groups is asking the aviation industry to drop the practice immediately.

American, which recently charged two soldiers from Texas $100 and $300 for their extra duffel bags, said it gives the military a break on the cost for excess luggage and that the soldiers who incur the fees are reimbursed.

“Because the soldiers don’t pay a dime, our waiver of the fees amounts to a discount to the military, not a discount to soldiers,” said Tim Wagner, spokesman for American Airlines. “Soldiers should not have to pay a penny of it.”

 

 Soldiers pay enough already….