From BBC world news:

Pizza rage lands US woman in jail

Instead of a pizza delivery, Mrs Densmore got a different caller
An 86-year-old US woman arrested for incessantly calling the emergency services to complain about a pizza parlour has spent two nights in prison.

Dorothy Densmore of Charlotte, North Carolina, called the emergency 911 service 20 times in 38 minutes.

Angry she could not get the meal delivered to her home, she demanded police arrest the pizza proprietors.

But when she refused to stop calling, police arrived with their own delivery, arresting her for abusing the hotline.

She told police that she had been called a “crazy old coot” by someone at the pizza shop.

Mrs Densmore – who is 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall and weighs 45kg (98 lbs) – has also been charged with resisting arrest.

A police spokeswoman said the octogenarian scratched, kicked and bit the hand of the officer who didn’t feed her, after her repeated calls provoked a police response.

She has now been released from jail, pending a court appearance in July, after a judge ordered a medical evaluation.

Crazy lady… just leave her alone… :p

I just finished Tara’s project from Pineapple’s Post, and I must say it was a pleasure working with her! I could hope that all of my customers will be as kind and enthusiastic as she was! I actually learned a lot from just coding her design, and tried out some new WordPress plugins I have never used before. In my next design for this blog, I’ll be sure to use a lot of the excellent plugins I learned about.

Here is the post, plublished on the design blog at E.Webscapes:

Tara (a.k.a. Pineapple) over at Pineapple’s Post has her new design for her blog up and running with full force! She wanted something fresh and tropical, so we emailed her a picture spread and she immediatly fell in love with the vector illustration that is the centerpiece of her design now.

It was lovely working with Tara, and I insist you go check out her personal blog and its new tropical makeover now!

http://pineapplespost.com

Everyone in hollywood is entirely too skiny these days! Do Lindsey and Nicole think they look pretty when they’re skin and bones? What is the obsession? These girls need some serious help with self confidence.

Check out these other funny illustrations from: Gallery of the Absurd.

“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” – Kay Knudsen

“May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.” – Anonymous

“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Anonymous

“Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.” – Anonymous

From MoveonPAC.org:

Watch the commercial set to air tomorrow here.

An exerpt off their page, please be aware that what ever is in bold face was added by myself, and that it is NOT included in their original description.

This week, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith opens in theaters nation-wide. And weirdly enough, the plot of what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest films in movie history revolves around a scheming senator who, seduced by visions of absolute power, transforms a democratic republic into an empire.

The movie’s opening buzz and its parallel theme to our current judicial fight present a great opportunity to educate the public (or spread propoganda in very public places) – and have some fun (the people at MoveOn PAC like to have fun playing with people’s minds eh?). So we’ve put together a flyer that draws on themes from the Revenge of the Sith story to explain the very real (not just real, but very real!) threat to democracy posed by the nuclear option. Any chance you can take half an hour tonight or tomorrow to pass out some of these flyers at your local theater? Just follow the simple directions below. They then proceed to display directions on how where to download the flier (below) and a form to tell them which theatre you are displaying and distributing the propoganda at.

Click on the thumbnail above to see the .pdf file. Here is what it says:

Entiled: Revenge of the Frist

The Republic stands at the brink of chaos. Seduced by a dark vision of ultimate power, one Senator schemes to destroy all opposition, replacing the old guardians of peace and justice with his own loyal minions. Sound farmiliar? We’re not talking about a galaxy far, far away.

Right now, Washington, D.C., Senator Bill Frist and radical Republicans are preparing to seize total control over our independent courts, long the defenders of freedom in our republic. To dominate the courts, Sentator Frist is threatening to use the ulitmate weapon, the “nuclear option,” breaking senate rules to elminate the right to filibuster – giving absolute power over judicial nominations to one party for the first time ever.

Then extremist judges from the far right could rule the highest courts in the land – even the Supreme Court – where their power would last a lifetime. Our enviroment, our labor laws, our privacy – all would be in terrible danger.

DON’T LET THEM SEIZE ABSOLUTE POWER
STOP THE “NUCLEAR OPTION”
SAVE THE REPUBLIC
CALL YOUR SENTAOR (202) 224-3121

Well you known, the Republicans are out to throw the entire enviroment down a black hole, want to send little 6 year olds to work again, and would love to have everyone live in a Big Brother atmosphere…. right…

If you didn’t catch my sarcasm, I think this entire propogandist movement by MoveOn is pathetic.

MoveOn, when will you just get over yourselves?

Netscape News:

With thanks to two former colleagues who left CBS in the wake of a scandal, CBS News’ Dan Rather accepted broadcast journalism’s most prestigious honor on Monday for the “60 Minutes Wednesday” story that exposed the shocking conditions inside Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.

In one of his first public appearances since leaving the network’s anchor chair in March, Rather and Mary Mapes received the Peabody Award at a luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria in Midtown Manhattan.

Rather took pains to acknowledge Mapes and former CBS News senior vp Betsy West (who also attended the ceremony), among others. Mapes was fired by CBS News, and West was forced to resign in the wake of another “60 Minutes Wednesday” report, which aired in September and used questionable documents as part of the sourcing for a highly critical report on President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard.

“They did most of the work, bore the heaviest burdens and took most of the criticism,” Rather said of Mapes and the other producers who did the front-line reporting on the Abu Ghraib story. “It took guts, and they had them.”

Rather received extended applause after telling the crowd, “Never give up, never back up, never give in while pursuing the dream of integrity filled journalism that matters.”

Questionable documents?! How about down right FALSE documents. For those unaware, Rather used documents that a source of his had typed up, and photocopied multiple times to create the look that an old type writer would create. It was later proven that the documents were not written when they were dated, simply through aligning the false document with a Window’s Office document and seeing that the characters lined up perfectly!

Rather’s journalism isn’t too integrity filled, so I guess his journalism really didn’t matter that much ;)

Good riddance, and stop trying to push yourself into the public light Dan Rather, you’ve lost.

From AP:

Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.

Earlier Monday, Bush administration officials had brushed off an apology that Newsweek’s editor Mark Whitaker had made in an editor’s note and criticized the magazine’s handling of the story.

“It’s appalling that this story got out there,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said as she traveled home from Iraq.

“People lost their lives. People are dead,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. “People need to be very careful about what they say, just as they need to be careful about what they do.”

Following the criticism, Whitaker released a statement through a spokesman later Monday saying the magazine was retracting the article.

“Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Quran abuse at Guantanamo Bay,” Whitaker said.

Newsweek had reported in its issue dated May 9 that U.S. military investigators had found evidence that interrogators placed copies of Islam’s holy book in washrooms and had flushed one down the toilet to get inmates to talk.

Whitaker wrote in his note to readers that “We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst.”

Maybe you’ll think twice now about publishing things that aren’t true.

I am proud to announce that I have joined the team at E.Webscapes as an associate designer! Here’s my tiny bio on their about page:

We are thrilled to welcome Lara Chelak to the team here at E.Webscapes. Don’t be fooled by her age, at only 16 years old this girl knows her stuff! Lara stands on the bleeding edge of web design. She contributes a special flair to her designs you won’t find anywhere else! Lara has taught herself everything she knows (from the most advanced CSS to XHTML & PHP); plus, she is constantly looking for and adapting new ideas and ways to her style. Lara is a self proclaimed perfectionist and won’t be content with anything less than the best for her designs.

I have already started with my first project, and I am escatic I have found a job doing what I love to do! Thank-you for this oppertunity Lisa.

Here’s an interview from The Post, asking Jane Fonda about her views on religion and some other lovely subjects that make me want to gag. I’ve bolded and italicized some statements in the interview for you’re reading pleasure, and have not included all of the interview. You probably see Ms. Fonda plastered on billboards with J.Lo for her starring role in “Monster-in-Law,” … yes, monster indeed.

May 13, 2005 — ‘TRYING TO define yourself is like try ing to bite your own teeth,” said Alan Watts.

And here we continue our talk with the incredible Jane Fonda.

LIZ: Jane, many people are interested in your having become a Christian after being an agnostic most of your life. What kind of church do you go to in Atlanta?

Jane: I am searching for one, but have not found one yet. And, Liz, I am a feminist Christian.

Liz: So maybe you see Christianity in a broader sense than the fundamentalists?

Jane: I don’t want to offend anyone. But I believe people have different ways of approaching The Word. For me, it’s metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died. And interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren’t included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian. What we are seeing today are policymakers who say they’re Christians.

Budgets are a religious matter. War is. Poverty is. Health care is. Jesus said, “Look after the least of us.” But there is a separation between professed faith and the practice, and I’m not seeing too many policies coming out of Washington that are, in my opinion, informed by the teachings of Jesus.”

Liz: It seems Jesus surrounded himself with women and depended on them.

Jane: Real women . . . and prostitutes. Samaritans and outcasts.

Liz: Yes, publicans and sinners. Or was that Republicans and sinners?

Jane: (Laughter) I was at the White House correspondents’ dinner the other night, and Laura Bush was really funny. Her approval rating is way up, as it should be.

Liz: Did you see the president’s press conference before that; I thought he was floundering.

Jane: No, I thought he was very impressive. I don’t know him, but I have always thought if I were alone in a room with him, I would really like him.

[...]

Liz: The incident of your sitting on the gun, which you have apologized for — are you aware that even though it outraged a lot of people, it did not really affect your film career!

Jane: Not my career. It affected my heart. But I notice when I do radio shows, the interviewers tell the listeners that we’re not screening calls. And I swear to you, all of the calls seem to be positive.

[...]

End Interview

The following account is true:

“I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one year in a cage in Cambodia, and one year in a “black box” in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border.

At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda’s ‘war criminals.’

When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received different from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by Jane Fonda, as “humane and lenient.” Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a large amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane till my arms dipped. I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She did not answer me.” Source

And when the POW’s came home and recounted their experiences, Jane Fonda quickly told the country that they should:

“not hail the POWs as heroes, because they are hypocrites and liars.” Fonda said the idea that the POWs she had met in Vietnam had been tortured was “laughable,” claiming: “These were not men who had been tortured. These were not men who had been starved. These were not men who had been brainwashed.” The POWs who said they had been tortured were “exaggerating, probably for their own self-interest,” she asserted. She told audiences that “Never in the history of the United States have POWs come home looking like football players. These football players are no more heroes than Custer was. They’re military careerists and professional killers” who are “trying to make themselves look self-righteous, but they are war criminals according to law.”Source

Michelle Malkin perfectly says of Fonda currently:

There she is in the New York Times. And Time magazine. And on Good Morning America, blabbing about her bizarre trio of ex-husbands and their various pathologies. Adultery. Alcoholism. Prostitutes. Group sex. Blecchh. Aging hippies never learn. As college students, they had no appreciation of the value of self-restraint. Three decades later as senior citizens (Jane Fonda is a 67-year-old woman prattling on, Howard Stern-style, about threesomes, for heaven’s sake), they still have no appreciation of the value of discretion.

The bottom line? Henry Mark Holzer, co-author of “Aid and Comfort” says:

“She committed treason. She exploited and misused American POWs. She gave the North Vietnamese communists, with whom we were then at war, propaganda that American POWs endured unimaginable torture not to give them, she gave it to them for free. And, indeed, she caused the deaths of American fighting men and the deaths of our allies as well.”

Exactly.

I feel this would make a good story and adventure for Nancy Drew: The Case of the Soup Soaked Finger! *shudder*

Well, the finger HAS been traced to its owner! From Yahoo! News:

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The mysterious finger that a woman claimed to have found in a bowl of Wendy’s chili came from an associate of her husband who lost the finger in an industrial accident, police said Friday.
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“The jig is up. The puzzle pieces are beginning to fall into place, and the truth is being exposed,” Police Chief Rob Davis said.

The discovery of the finger’s owner marks a significant break in a case that has confounded authorities for nearly two months, ever since Anna Ayala claimed she bit down on the well-manicured, 1 1/2-inch finger in a mouthful of her steamy chili.

The case became the talk of the Internet and late-night talk shows and spawned numerous bizarre tips and theories about the source of the finger, including one about a woman whose fingertip was bitten off by a spotted leopard kept as a pet.

Authorities said last month that they believed the story was a hoax, and they arrested the 39-year-old Ayala at her home in Las Vegas and charged her with attempted grand larceny for allegedly trying to shake down Wendy’s. But whose finger was in the chili remained a mystery.

The owner was traced through a tip made to a Wendy’s hot line, Davis said. He said the man lost the finger in December, and authorities “positively confirmed that this subject was in fact the source of the fingertip.” The nature of the industrial accident was not disclosed.

Davis said the Nevada man, whose name was not released, is cooperating. The police chief would not say if the man was in on the alleged hoax.

Police believe the man gave the finger fragment to Ayala’s husband, Jaime Plascencia, who was arrested this month on identity-theft charges unrelated to the Wendy’s case.

During the investigation, Wendy’s said no employees at the San Jose store had missing fingers, and no suppliers of Wendy’s ingredients had reported any finger injuries. Authorities reported that there was no evidence the finger had been cooked, and also said Ayala had a history of filing claims against businesses.

Sgt. Nick Muyo said someone other than the man who lost the finger called in the tip to the hot line.

Calls to an attorney for Ayala and Plascencia were not immediately returned. Wendy’s did not immediately return a call to its Dublin, Ohio, headquarters.

Authorities are considering additional charges against Ayala and her husband, Davis said. “We are exploring all other options and avenues available to see that those involved in this charade will be investigated,” the police chief said.

Wendy’s has offered a $100,000 reward and has said it has lost millions in sales since Ayala made the claim while visiting her family in San Jose. Dozens of employees at the company’s Northern California franchises also have been laid off.

Hooray!