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IS THE UNIVERSE INTELLIGENT?

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:57:00 GMT

GOD IS HIDING FROM US....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

Okay Doc?.....So What's The Good News?

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:08:00 GMT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339270,00.html

A German retiree is taking a hospital to court after she went in for a leg operation and got a new anus instead, the Daily Telegraph is reporting.

The woman woke up to find she had been mixed up with another patient suffering from incontinence who was to have surgery on her sphincter.

The clinic in Hochfranken, Bavaria, has since suspended the surgical team.

Now the woman is planning to sue the hospital. She still needs the leg operation and is searching for another hospital to do it.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:02:00 GMT

Arrested in October for vehicular assault after he told a police officer that he had "definitely had a few".

Mr. Glen Alan Casebeer. [Tacoma News Tribune, 10-2-07]

The victim of a vehicular assault in Tenn. (his wife allegedly tried to run him over).

Mr. King Money Tarzan Jenkins. [WRCB-TV (Chattanooga), 1-11-08]

Arrested for DUI near Burleson, Texas, (after crashing into a house).

Mr. Bryan Scott Moron. [Fox News, 1-8-08]

Falsely accused of kidnapping a 17-year-old girl in Oshkosh, a previously convicted sex offender.

Mr. Pheuk Kue. [Sheboygan Press, 11-17-07]

"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" ~G. W. Bush

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:10:00 GMT

Several Duke University campus organizations, including the Women's Center, the Student Health Center and the Women's Studies Department, sponsored a "Sex Workers Art Show" on Feb. 3, at which nearly nude "artists" danced for students and others while vulgarly criticizing America via acts such as a woman's pretending to eat excreted dollar bills and a man's kneeling with an American flag inserted in his rear end.

Two years ago, Duke's men's lacrosse team was vilified by the Duke administration and faculty merely for hiring two female strippers for a party (from which emanated false charges of rape and the eventual disbarment of the local district attorney).

A university spokesman explained to a National Journal reporter that the recent show was acceptable because it was "art" and "social commentary," rather than male-bonding entertainment.

Raleigh News & Observer, 2-6-08

Hiring the Best Happens Before the Interview

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:41:00 GMT

Suitor Selection - Hiring the Best Happens Before the Interview!

I love to teach about hiring and you will see my passion reflected on the page “Suitor Selection” at http://www.walterkeener.com/.

A few months ago, we decided to run an experiment. There were several candidates that I would not interview. However, many of these had strong advocates among our workforce. So we ran a 5 day training session (3 hours per session). At the end I conducted personal interviews with each person who graduated. Here are some of my favorite applicant comments:

“Is the drug test… like, uh… hard?”

“So what if I bit the guy? It’s not as if I had AIDS.”

“How much would it take to just pretend you didn’t find out about my prison record? I’ll tell you what, if you give me the job I will slip you a 20 each time I get paid.”

And my favorite. Me to applicant, “What kinda drugs are you on?”

Applicant, “Just marijuana.”

Me, “How much do you smoke?”

Applicant, “As much as I can but I ran out last night.”

Me, “There is no way I can hire you.”

Applicant, “Huh? I got the stuff in my pocket so I can pass the pee test!”

If you are wondering if the experiment worked, here is some information. We had 20 in the class and extended job offers to 11. After one month only 3 are still employed. Our turnover is normally under 20% and this experience will definately drive it up a little. So we will return to our former due diligence.

Conduct reference checks before the interview process!

Have a great day! Walter

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BEER

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:47:00 GMT

On Nov. 18, two inebriated men in separate cars, driving by the Carpet Classic Floor Studio in Highland Township, Mich., lost control at the same time, and both smashed into the store. [AP, 11-19-07]

Christopher Dougherty, 22, the subject of a "drunk pedestrian" police call in Kingsport, Tenn., on Oct. 14, was tracked to a Hardee's restaurant, where he was face-down in a plate of gravy. [Kingsport Times-News, 10-17-07]

Tina Williams was arrested in St. Augustine, Fla., on Super Bowl Sunday, charged with DUI and failure to have her 1-year-old daughter seat-belted or in a car seat. However, a case of Busch beer was safely buckled up in the front seat. [FirstCoast News, 2-4-08]

It's the "holy grail" of beers, said a Boston pub manager, but, still, only 60,000 cases a year of Westvleteren are brewed because the Belgian Trappist monks with the centuries-old recipe refuse to expand their business (and even get on the phone to harass black-marketers). Westvleteren is sold only at the monastery gate, by appointment, with a two-case-a-month limit, at a price that's reasonable for retail beer, but anyone who gets it from a re-seller will pay 10 times that much. Producing more, said Brother Joris, to a Wall Street Journal reporter in November, "would interfere with our job of being a monk." Furthermore, said Brother Joris, referencing the Bible, "(I)f you can't have it, possibly you do not really need it." [Wall Street Journal, 11-29-07]

WE FINALLY GOT HIM !

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:19:00 GMT

No, Not Osama....SILLY! Of course not!

Just some nutball with internet access. Sounds like he needza quit tryin' to bee sumbuddy and get on board with my new MISSION STATEMENT (above). ~Tracy

McGREGOR W. SCOTT

501 I Street, Suite 10-100 Sacramento, CA95814

United States Attorney- Eastern District of California

Docket #: 2:07-CR-00443-EJG

2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4401 Fresno , CA93721

February 15, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae

SACRAMENTO MAN CONVICTED OF USING THE INTERNET TO THREATEN TO KILL MEMBERS OF HEAVY METAL GROUP, KORN

SACRAMENTO—United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that ADRIAN J. C. McCOY, 23, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to a single count of making interstate threats to injure another. McCOY entered his guilty plea before United States District Court Judge Edward J. Garcia.

The case is a product of an investigation by the Sacramento Violent Crimes Task Force, which includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the SacramentoCounty Sheriff’s Office.

According to Assistant United States Attorney Michelle Rodriguez, who prosecuted this case, McCOY threatened to kill members of a heavy metal rock band residing in the Eastern District of California and in the Southern California area. Specifically, on September 20, 2007, via Internet from Sacramento, McCOY sent threatening communications to the FBI’s Web site in Washington, D.C. In the communications, McCOY stated that in addition to his plan to harm the rock band members, he intended to kill the band’s family and FBI agents responding to his acts of violence.

McCOY faces a sentence of up to five years imprisonment, a fine of up to $250,000, and a three year term of federal supervised release. McCOY is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Garcia on April 25, 2008, at 10:00 a.m.

A PROLIFIC PILFERER IN PARADISE / WHERE DOES HE FIND THIS STUFF?

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:29:00 GMT

From the “Honolulu Advertiser” Jan-08

According to police in Honolulu, Ellis Cleveland robbed four banks in a five-day period, and that's what the arresting officer said to him while cuffin’ and stuffin’ this genius.

Well, Cleveland took exception to this outrageous statement and responds in kind, "Four? I didn't do four. I only robbed three banks. But it doesn't matter because I'm not talking to you guys. I want a lawyer."

Police later said that Cleveland was not counting the attempted robbery on Dec. 31 of the Bank of Hawaii because, after three different tellers tried unsuccessfully to read the awful spelling on his holdup note, Cleveland gave up and walked out empty-handed.

The "ButtCheek Bandit" from VALENTINE....coincidence, I think NOT !

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:34:00 GMT

Authorities in Valentine, Neb., have been on the lookout since November for the vandal who has approached several storefronts at night and, apparently with Vaseline smeared over his nude body, pressed himself against windows and doors. A radio station called the person "the buttcheek bandit" (although some speculate there may also be a copycat). Asked Valentine police chief Ben McBride, "Who in their right mind would do something like that?"

You smell great...wanna catch a movie?

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:36:00 GMT

A startup Massachusetts dating service has the usual questionnaires about likes and dislikes, but bases compatibility specifically on how one person smells to another (straights and gays accommodated). Eric Holzle's ScientificMatch.com tests each person's "major histocompatibility complex" (MHC) genes, the science behind which dictates how one person will translate the scent of another (with similar-processing people less compatible). (In one famous study, women preferred the smell of T-shirts from men whose MHC was the most different from their own.) Holzle predicts a higher success rate than for ordinary dating agencies, but at a fee of $1,995 per client.

Can't Possibly Be True

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:33:00 GMT

Mr. Coll Bell, a New Zealander who invented a composting toilet supposedly superior to a septic system and who wanted permission from the Auckland Regional Council to install one at a campground, said an ARC bureaucrat had queried him on whether the worms he uses would be traumatized by the volume of work required in the annual two-week period of intensive campground use. Coll told Agence France-Presse in December that vermiculture expert Patricia Naidu had assured him that the worms would be "happy." [Agence France-Presse, 12-16-07]

Convenience-store manager Carol Mendenhall told reporters in December that among the police citations she had recently received for a disturbance at her home in Dibble, Okla. (pop. 282), was one for allowing her four goats to have sex in her front yard in public view, which was illegal in Dibble. She admitted that her billy goat, Adam, had been attending to three females who were in heat at the same time. (The city council has since repealed the ordinance, following a campaign Mendenhall conducted.) [Austin American-Statesman, 12-30-07]

WELCOME TO MEDIOCRITY

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:02:00 GMT

Entry Word: mediocre

Function: adjective

1) of average to below average quality <your grades are mediocre and barely acceptable>

2) Synonyms: common, fair, indifferent, medium, middling, ordinary, passable, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so

3) Related Words: acceptable, adequate, all right, alright, decent, OK (or okay), reasonable, satisfactory, sufficient, sufficing, tolerable; moderate, modest; presentable, respectable; minimal, unexceptional; fine, good, nice

I'm still looking for you! ~Tracy