Eight McIntosh High School cheerleaders have been suspended for being drunk while performing during a varsity football game on Oct. 10, Fayette County schools spokeswoman Melinda Berry-Dreisbach confirmed Friday afternoon.

For more than 60 years Britain's Bomber Command led by Arthur 'Bomber' Harris has been vilified for causing up to 500,000 deaths in the carpet bombing of Dresden during World War II.

But now, after a four-year investigation, a panel of German historians has said that the true number of dead from the Allied air raids in January 1945 was between 18,000 and 25,000.

They reached the figure after combing through death certificates, hitherto sealed eyewitness reports, registration cards for people made homeless and hospital records.

It now emerges that the high number of deaths from 'Operation Thunderclap' was a myth invented by the Nazis, perpetuated by Communists and re-born in the past decade to serve the aims of ultra-nationalists

But she had no idea that her father had won more than 100 medals and awards until this year — 26 years after he died when his helicopter crashed in Malaysia while he was flying for a private medical rescue company.

On Saturday, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., will present Tilgner and her two sons — both in the Army — with the awards won by her father http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081017/NEWS/810170382/-1/NEWS01

A decade ago Raul Cano, now a scientist at the California Polytechnic State University, drilled a tiny hole into the amber and extracted more than 2,000 different kinds of microscopic creatures.

Activating the ancient yeast, Cano now brews barrels (not bottles) of pale ale and German wheat beer through the Fossil Fuels Brewing Company.

So, how does the beer taste? Suprisingly good:

The beer has received good reviews at the Russian River Beer Festival and from other reviewers. The Oakland Tribune beer critic, William Brand, says the beer has "a wierd spiciness at the finish," and The Washington Post said the beer was "smooth and spicy."  http://www.neatorama.com/

BIZARRO ELECTION 2008: What a strange and interesting world we live in. Liberals back giving hundreds of billions to a few companies, Republicans go socialist, socialists are against the bailout and I think I heard on the weather report that hell has frozen over!

One of the problems with being a Democrat now is that it is difficult to tow the party line- and ignore the fact that Obama did nothing to stop this bill, in fact, he spoke for it. McCain supporters can't say McCain broke from the pack on this one either. In fact, its fair to say that BOTH candidates failed on this bill and helped in the swindle.

http://civildefense.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-10_cy-2008_m-10_d-02_y-2008_o-0.html

Senators who voted No

Here's the quick list of the senators who voted NO on bailout/economic rescue.

Allard (R)
Barasso  (R)
Brownback  (R)
Bunning (R)
Cantwell (D)
Cochran (R)
Crapo (R)
DeMint (R)
Dole (R)
Dorgan (D)
Enzi (R)
Feingold (D) 
Inhofe (R)
Johnson (D)
Landrieu (D)
Nelson (FL) (D)
Roberts (R)
Sanders (I)
Sessions (R)
Shelby (R)
Stabenow (D)
Tester (D)
Vitter (R)
Wicker (R)

You can call it Jane Eyre meets the Addams family, but for the hundreds of Japanese girls who dress in Victorian dresses trimmed with lace, eyes rimmed with heavy black makeup, it's "Gothic-Lolita."

For on the encrypted computer system used by MI6 agents while conducting operations abroad. Some of the other images were related to this man, Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a top al Qaeda terrorist captured by the CIA in 2007. 

http://gizmodo.com/5056749/mi6-camera-with-secret-images-bought-on-ebay-for-30

However, the Senate did add a few winners to this new version:

New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill
- Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)
- Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)
- 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)

Tax earmark "extenders" in the bailout bill.
- Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308)
- American Samoa (Sec. 309)
- Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310)
- Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311)
- Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312)
- Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315)
- Railroads (Sec. 316)
- Auto Racing Tracks (317)
- District of Columbia  (Sec. 322)
- Wool Research (Sec. 325)

I love the auto racing tracks in particular.  I can see the headlines now: "Global financial markets melt down, NASCAR, Caribbean rum hardest hit".

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/01/senate-bailout-bill-hits-the-internet/

Many women will tell you that one of the most irritating things about life is that alpha males - great silverbacked gorilla types - strike us, maddeningly, as being rather more attractive than their kinder, gentler, more considerate dwarf-monkey counterparts. We know intellectually that it shouldn’t be so, since the gorillas are often sexist pigs (just to mix the animal metaphors); but when push comes to shove and we’re picking a boyfriend rather than a friend, few of us find beta males especially appealing. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/india_knight/article4837668.ece 

George Clooney is reportedly set to star as The Lone Ranger in the upcoming film.

Clooney is now rumored to join Johnny Depp in the big screen adaptation of the long-running 1950s TV show. http://www.dailystab.com/george-clooney-taking-on-the-role-as-the-lone-ranger/

The ten worst songs that hit number 1

http://www.spike.com/blog/top-10-worst-songs/68721?spike=6506

Not getting along with your kid? TRADE THEM IN! Wait a second- WHAT?!?

 http://childtrader.com/

The creepy driftwood art of Mike Shine- is also a really cool website!

http://www.shinelounge.com/

Penn and Teller on why prostitution should be legalized. Not ok for work! http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/127511/detail/

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Perhaps nothing symbolizes Florida in the popular imagination more than the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). From the earliest Native American and European explorers to the present day, visitors have maintained a fascination with the cold-blooded, freshwater reptile. With a name derived from the Spanish word legarto (the lizard), alligators can grow to an average of 13 to 15 feet and weigh between 500 and 1,000 pounds. Once hunted and harvested to near extinction (from 1967 to 1987, it was a listed as an endangered species), the alligator has thrived in recent years, although its natural habitat has not. Nonetheless, “gators” can be found throughout Florida’s popular culture, from tourist attractions and alligator wrestlers to postcards and team mascots.

http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/photo_exhibits/alligators/index.cfm 

The British royal family is all about tradition. But even this august institution has to confront the realities of the 21st century. For more than 300 years, it has been an inviolable rule that neither monarchs nor their spouses can be Roman Catholic. The rules of succession also require that a first-born son gets the top job, bypassing any older sisters. Those restrictions could finally be history, according to a report today in London's Guardian newspaper.

The Guardian, which often advocates anti-monarchist positions, says advisers to Prime Minister Gordon Brown are currently reviewing proposals to abolish both these long-held rules. http://www.newsweek.com/id/160865

Prince is often chased through the streets by his fans - as he tries to convert them to the Bible.The singer, who became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001, goes house-to-house to preach about the faith. And fans are sometimes so stunned to find the rock legend on their doorstep that they don't want to let him go.

http://www.newswatch50.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=a20ce1e8-f4bb-4dfa-a24e-52987db21f22

Wild wedding notices!  http://www.flabber.nl/archief/025125.php

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Prom hairstyles!

http://www.2promhairstyles.com/prom-hairstyles.shtml

 

Equally inspired by comic books (his preferred reading selection), the Bible, booze, pills and those fancy country ladies, Hank possessed a Geiger counter-like ability to pen hit after hit drunk or sober but mostly drunk. Even his non-hits are some of the greatest songs ever written.

A traditional way that old-timers like to eat boiled peanuts is to drop the shelled peanuts into a bottle of cold RC Cola and gulp down the combo. Southerners will tell you boiled peanuts should always be accompanied by a beer, sweet tea, or a soft drink.

It was 1946 when an individual named Willie Forkner crashed through a fence during a race in El Cajon, California and joined in the fun. The club he was in did not find it funny so they kicked him out.

Well Willie took it in stride and went about finding other outcast veterans who found life back in the States overwhelmingly dull. He didn't have to look long or far. Fatboy Nelson, Dink Burns, George Menker and more than a few others were ready for a change in some of the formalities of the clubs at the time.

It is said that the club was actually formed at the All American Bar, in the blue-collar town of  South Gate in Los Angeles. A fitting name for a group that consisted of many Veterans of the great War, they had been there, done that so to speak and the quiet life just wasn't in them..

So "Wino" Willie Forkner joined these men together and formed "The Boozefighters" (BFMC). http://www.boozefighters.com/main.html