After seeing this, all I can say is that I hope that the person who wrote this article AND the person who is the editor of this newspaper lost their job. I mean come on… seriously? Since I didn’t see the article, I can’t say if this was meant as a joke, but if it wasn’t, then I have to say that someone should hide under a table or something.
Talk about making Mississippi (Yes, I spelled it correctly) look bad.
I was just watching a video on Fox News that was talking about Joran van der Sloot, who has yet again admitted to someone that he was responsible for getting rid of Natalie Holloway’s body when she was in Aruba. Apparently Joran, who is obviously a few fries short of a happy meal openly admitted to a German news show that he was involved with getting rid of her body.
A few weeks ago Joran’s dad died suddenly and some have said that they should have got life insurance quotes long before he passed away. One thing is certain, I feel that Joran is very mentally disturbed and I personally believe that he either killed Natalie Holloway or at least disposed of her body. I just wish he would lead the police to some evidence, so the poor Holloway family can find some peace and closure in this nightmare. It’s hard to believe it has been five years since that horrible tragedy.
Well, I noticed a few days ago that I had Spring Fever, and I guess with that came the urge to do some cleaning. I was going through some boxes yesterday and found literally hundreds of old books that I’ve read and really am not doing anything with. I was going to give them to the local thrift store, but instead I thought maybe I could sell books and see if it would maybe bring in some extra cash. After all, you know what they say- One man’s trash is another mans treasure.. although I can never really say that I consider books trash. I will probably have a difficult time parting with them, but they are just sitting there, so why not free the space and make a lil money in the process? Has anyone else ever done this?
I was reading the Fox News website a little while ago, which is what I do when I want to find out what’s going on in the world without having to hear all the negativity. This way, all I do is see the negative and sometimes more often than not, crazy titles that are making up today’s headlines.
Now one article that did catch my eye is that they is a group of physicians who are trying to get companies to come up with a safer hot dog. I decided to read the aritcle, since I definitely ate my share of them when I was younger and don’t ever recall choking on them.
The article talks about how in almost half of the choking deaths in the United States are related to food. Now, I don’t want to sound insensitive, because I know it’s horrible to lose a child regardless of the circumstances, but I am interested to know what the statistics were when I was a child compared to what they are today. There were no warning labels, but these days it seems everything comes with a warning label. Truth is, I don’t think it’s so much to really warn the people, but more as a disclaimer for the companies to avoid lawsuits.
What do you think?
Last night at around one in the morning the phone rang. Marcel had been in bed for about 45 minutes and I’d fallen asleep on the sofa watching Cold Case. After being jolted out of a sound sleep by the sound of the phone, my first thought was to grab it before it woke Marcel. My second thought was that it was the ringtone I have set for my mother and sister-in-law so I knew it was one of them. Third thought was that something was wrong.
Probably about the time I actually said hello was when the third thought kicked in. My heart was racing 100 miles an hour and all I could think about was how I was about to have to tell Marcel (who had just had a really bad day) that something was wrong with the family. Turns out that wouldn’t be the case.
His sister was calling to offer him an opportunity to go this morning to see a sporting event with one of his favorite teams. Seriously? Not only that, she wanted me to wake him up and ask him if he wanted to go. I told her that I didn’t think that was a good idea because 1- he doesn’t like to be awakened when he’s sleeping, and 2- he’d had a really bad day. She assured me that he wasn’t going to get mad at me, but insisted that I wake him up and get him to come to the phone.
Against my better judgement, I went in and gently woke him up. I explained what his sister wanted and he said tell her he didn’t want to go. That was that. She did apologize for calling, but it took me about an hour and a half before I could fall asleep again. Middle of the night calls being awakened from a dead sleep shake me up that bad.
This morning he called and asked if she’d lost her mind. Even though her intentions were good, he told her that she’d better never call here after 11 iin the evening anymore unless it was an emergency. Rather than apologizing, both she and Marcel’s mom tried to justify it. If it happens again, I’ll turn the ringer to the phone off, and if any emergencies occur most people know I have my cell phone on all the time. I’m not sure they have the number, and I think I’ll keep it that way.
Ok, I haven’t heard or read the Tiger Woods press conference yet, so I can’t make a statement, but I’m curious what y’all think.
Do you think he’s actually sorry for what he’s done to his family or do you think he’s just sorry he got caught?
My brother seems to think that he is genuinely sorry- at least now. I’ll have to watch it for myself and get back to y’all on my 2 pennies worth.
Until then- Fill me in on your thoughts.
If you haven’t seen it, visit Fox News to check it out.
I was surprised to hear the other night on the news that several countries, including the United States are banning together and removing the new Disney’s – Alice in Wonderland from their play list. Apparently they are doing it in protest to the fact that they have an agreement with Disney that they will wait at least 4 months before they release a movie on DVD after it has played in the theaters. The plan with Alice in Wonderland was to be released 3 months after appearing in the theaters.
Disney did something similar with UP, and the theaters have had enough. They feel that when the audiences know that a movie is going to be hitting the shelves in DVD form quickly, they tend to wait for it to come out on DVD as opposed to coming to see it in the theater.
What do y’all think about that?
I really wanted to see Alice in 3-D, but it looks like I may not have the chance. Personally, I can see the movie theaters point, but I honestly can’t see where one month would make a difference. After all, if you waited four months for a movie to come out and still went and saw it in the theater, would it coming out a month earlier keep you from going to see it? I wouldn’t think so, but then that’s just me.
I graduated high school in 1985. That year, We Are the World was my class song. Fast forward 25 years later, and a re-make has been made of We Are the World, to help raise money to help those in Haiti.
I loved the old version, and I love the new one. I think it’s so amazing that it happens to have been made in the year of my 25 year high school reunion.
As if I didn’t have enough irons in the fire these days, I’ve aquired (purchased) another domain name, and will be developing it over the next few weeks to month. I first need to find someone to create a blog layout for me, and I’ll go from there. It will be different, but I think it’s going to be a whole lot of fun.
If you know anyone who would be willing to do a layout for me for a little free advertising on my blogs, send em my way. Have them drop me a note or leave a comment here.
I’ve heard in recent news that the woman responsible for killing the people at Alabama this past week also killed her brother around 20 years ago. I don’t know about you, but is there not something wrong with this picture? Of course, it seems that they are now saying there was a cover up in the time of her brothers death and it was deemed an accident, but now all these questions are being raised. I wonder why they weren’t raised back then, and maybe then she wouldn’t have had the opportunity to kill those innocent people.
Marcel is very much against people being able to buy guns just because they want to, but I keep trying to explain to him that it isn’t the guns that’s the problem, it’s the people.
What do you think? Would stricter gun control laws make a difference? I don’t think so.