One Crazy Week

It's hell to get old and see the times changing around you.

My case in point is a story I'm sure by now you have all heard about unless you just got back from a deserted island somewhere.

Mel Gibson Charged with Drunken Driving!

That was the headline, but not the story we have been subjected to for a week. Every paper, every radio station, every TV station is reporting that Mel Gibson made anti-Semitic comments. For a week now the world has stood still because Mel Gibson made anti-Semitic comments.

In case you missed it Gibson is quoted as having said to the Malibu officer, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," and asking the arresting officer, "Are you a Jew?"

For that statement we have had a media blitz for a week.

As I said at the start, "the times they are changing" because to me his remarks are not the story. There is a bigger picture here that the media seems to have overlooked unless you read page 26 of a 25-page newspaper.

The story is drunk driving. The acceptable blood alcohol level in California is .08. Gibson's level was .12.

Why is no one outraged about this? Here is a drunk driver in a car doing 85 miles an hour with an open bottle of tequila in hand. Is the big picture to people in today's time the fact that Mel Gibson thinks the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world? Is that what should be learned from the media blitz?

I think the Jewish people can get over that statement. The media blitz should be drunk drivers KILL 70 people a day.

Mel Gibson wants to meet with the Jewish community for a better understanding and also to apologize for his statement. I for one think he should meet with victims and families of the death and destruction done to them by a drunk driver for a better understanding of driving drunk !!!!

To me, that is the story!!!!!!!!!!!!





Captain Pleads Guilty to Running Cruise Ship Drunk

SEATTLE - A cruise ship captain pleaded guilty Monday to operating a Celebrity Cruise Line vessel -- carrying 1,884 passengers -- while under the influence of alcohol.

Tests found Petridis, 47, with a blood alcohol level as high as 0.181, more than four times the federal maritime limit for operating a ship. The U.S. Coast Guard arrested Periklis Petridis, a Greek citizen in command of the Mercury cruise liner.

Officials discovered the captain had been drinking when he was quoted as saying, "What bridge?"















How Dry I am. How dry I am. I need a drink or two!!!








Man Jailed for Waving Old Glory While Naked

FORT PAYNE, Ala. - A man was arrested and charged with public lewdness for walking naked near a highway while waving an American flag. The DeKalb County Sheriff's Department arrested Gerald Lynn Kelley, 52, the Fort Payne Times-Journal reported Tuesday. Kelley, who was allegedly drunk, was wearing only a cowboy hat and boots. The other man, reportedly clad in the same attire and also carrying the American flag, could not be found.










Just a couple of good ol' patriotic boys headed home after the NASCAR race!!!







Wife Pulls Gun on Pastor in Church, Police Say

NEWPORT, Ark. - A preacher's wife was arrested after police say she pulled a gun on her husband because she allegedly was upset over text messages he had sent to a member of a church youth group.

Police say a church service had just begun when Estes pulled a gun on her husband, preacher Larry Estes, about 7 p.m. According to congregation members, she was upset over messages Larry Estes allegedly exchanged with a youth group member and she demanded he admit infidelity.

Larry Estes was hired as the church's minister more than a year ago. He also is the owner of DaBoyz Plumbing.

One has to wonder just who in a Youth group he was text messaging. His company name, DaBoyz Plumbing, would suggest to me he and Michael Jackson have something in common.









Honda wants me to do what?

Automaker lists salacious wrong number in a million owner manuals

WASHINGTON - A toll-free number listed in more than a million Honda owners' manuals was supposed to direct callers to a government hotline — not to another number where the conversation is probably about anything but auto safety.

Honda Motor Co. said it incorrectly published an 800 prefix, rather than an 888, on a toll-free vehicle safety telephone number in 1.2 million manuals for 2006 model year Honda and Acura vehicles and Honda motorcycles.


Owners who dial the 800 prefix hear a recorded message in which a woman's voice, speaking over a funky beat, urges them to call 1-800-918-TALK for "just 99 cents per minute."

Now there is the secret as to why Honda sells so many cars and motorcycles!!!







Border Agents Let Fake IDs Go Through

WASHINGTON - Undercover investigators entered the United States using fake documents repeatedly this year - including some cases in which Homeland Security Department agents didn't ask for identification.

At nine border crossings on the Mexico and Canadian borders, agents "never questioned the authenticity of the counterfeit documents," according to Government Accountability Office testimony to be released Wednesday.

"This vulnerability potentially allows terrorists or others involved in criminal activity to pass freely into the United States from Canada or Mexico with little or no chance of being detected," concluded the GAO, the investigative arm of Congress.

I stated in my blog on 8-1-06 and I will restate here, "Everyone knows Homeland Security is a government quagmire that is one more government agency created to make the citizens feel good." Now don't you feel warm and fuzzy all over knowing Homeland Security is on the job??







Bear Wanders Into 'Everything Wild' Casino

STATELINE, Nev. - A Lake Tahoe casino that promotes a "habitat for everything wild" found truth in advertising over the weekend when a wayward bear wandered in through a rear loading dock.

The 150 pound yearling walked around employee hallways at MontBleu Resort Casino and Spa early Saturday and sauntered toward a cafeteria before it scurried out the way it came in, apparently frightened off by several workers, employee Earl Zeller told the Tahoe Daily Tribune.

In one MontBleu television commercial, a cocktail waitress walks past urban-dressed guests in lounge, then throws a fresh fish to a waiting bear.

"Evidently the bears out there heard the story that bears can be fed at the nightclub at MontBleu," Zeller quipped. "I guess we reached our target audience."

Ah, the power of television ads, you never know who might be watching!! I wonder if this is the same bear shown in my 7-8-06 post sitting in the car eating pizza and drinking beer?

Another good bear story.



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