You know your TV needs to go away when...

You get so mad at a TV show that you shoot the television set.

(Pauses to let that sink in...)

Yeah, that's right, a man in Wisconsin shot his TV. Just got out his shotgun and blew it away. Why? Because he was mad that Bristol Palin, the daughter of politician Sarah Palin, is still dancing on ABC's hit show "Dancing With The Stars".

When Palin, the 20-year-old daughter of tea party favorite Sarah Palin, began her routine, Cowan jumped up and began swearing, saying something like "The (expletive) politics." His wife said he was upset that a political figure's daughter was dancing on TV even though he felt she didn't have talent.

Then he left the room, got his gun, came back ""raging" with his face bright red, and blasted the TV". His wife ran to a lawyer's office and called the police. Why she didn't just go to the police station is another thing that makes me say huh? about this story, but then again, these are TV shootin' kind of folks.

Did I say another thing that makes me say huh??

Yeah, I did.

The other moments I had to stop and think about:

1. He shot his TV because a politician's daughter was on a show? I very rarely discuss politics. I pretty much keep my opinions on that subject to myself. There are a lot of crazy people involved in politics. And even crazier ones that get very loud about their political opinions. Apparently there are crazy ones that will shoot TV's over politics too. I really don't want any part of that kind of crazy, thank you very much.

2. It's a reality TV show right? I love my reality TV. Y'all know Survivor, Big Brother, The Amazing Race & Hell's Kitchen are on my never-miss-it-list. But I don't watch "Dancing With The Stars" (don't hate me DWTS fans!) and have no idea if Bristol Palin can dance or not. I just can not imagine flipping out over a TV show. I mean, if I shot my TV because Johnny Fairplay lied about his grandma, I would never get to see Jeff busting him out on the finale.

3. He shot his TV?? TV's are expensive these days. Ours is being paid in installments. I ain't shootin' that sucker before it's paid off!

Ut oh, I sounded like a shootin' the TV kind of gal in that last part. Maybe I better hush before I start raging & shoot my computer!

Eccentric, Weird or Just plain crazy?

Randy and Evi Quaid

P.J. Heller/ZUMA

What is the deal with Randy & Evi Quaid? Seriously. Are they trying to get attention or have they both lost their minds?

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Odds & ends

Several news stories caught my eye this afternoon so I decided to just tell you about all of them.

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Tidbits

I thought today I'd just give you a few tidbits that are crossing my mind.

First, we lost two actors on the 11th: Kevin McCarthy and Harold Gould. 

Kevin McCarthy was 96. He died of natural causes. He acted in several movies including Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Death of a Salesman, The Misfits and Innerspace. He also appeared in several television shows. 

Photo courtesy ABC News

Harold Gould was 86. He died from prostate cancer. He was a television actor known mainly as his roles of Martin Morgenstern on Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Miles Webber on The Golden Girls.

Photo courtesy CBS News

May they both Rest In Peace.

Speaking of television, it is the season for several of my favorite shows. 

Big Brother's season finale was on last Wednesday. Hayden, the 24 year old college student from Arizona, won the half million dollars. I wanted Lane to win but eh, what can I do? Nada! Actually if we really got honest, I would have liked to have seen Lane and Enzo in the final two and possibly Enzo winning. Ok, honesty, I slipped there for a minute...I wanted Lane to win it all!! Since I didn't talk about Big Brother this year, I guess I should leave it at that.

                                 Hayden                                                         Enzo

Lane

That same night, Season 21 of Survivor premiered. Woohoo! I really enjoyed it. They have the tribes separated into old (40 and over) and young (30 and under) and guess who is on the old tribe....

C'mon, guess...

I'll bet you'll never get it. 

Well, maybe if you're a big fan like I am you WILL...

It's JIMMY JOHNSON!!! Yes, the famous football coach Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy Johnson who coached both the Dallas Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins. Jimmy Johnson who is one of only two coaches to win both a college national championship AND a Super Bowl! I am psyched and can't wait to see how he does on the show! Although he is an older man now (67) and wasn't doing too well physically after setting up camp, I'm still hoping he does a great job! I'll just have to keep watching and see for myself. 

Of course, there is no problem with my continuing to watch. I've been a loyal fan since Season 1. I'll just have to remember that they've moved to Wednesday's.

Coaching

     On Survivor          

I guess that's about all the rambling I'm going to do today. I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend!

From my backyard

Y'all know how much I love odd news. You know what's better than odd news? Odd news that happens in the county I live in! The following stories were reported in the Barrow Journal (my sarcastic replies thoughts are in italics):

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Man threatens men who got him out of jail

Two men contacted authorities after the man they bonded out of jail threatened them.

The men said they went to the Barrow County Detention Center to bond Randy Burton out of jail. Burton had been arrested after a fight which took place on July 28.

As soon as the paperwork was completed, Burton met the two men in the lobby of the jail.

According to the men, Burton said “I will kill you both and take a bat to you.”

The men said Burton continued to yell and said they would both “get what’s coming to you.”

Both men said they felt threatened by the comments.

Warrants were issued for Burton’s arrest.

1. You should have known he has anger issues since he was arrested for fighting.

2. Dude. You were in the lobby of the jail...hello? At least wait until you get home to threaten someone's life.

Bear found on deck, goat missing

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A man contacted the Sheriff’s Office after a close encounter with a bear.

The man said his dogs were acting “crazy,” so he opened the back door to let them go outside. When he opened the door, he noticed a black bear walking up his staircase to the back deck.

The man said he quickly closed the door.

The deputy found tracks in the back yard which appeared to have been made by a large animal. The deputy searched the property, but did not find the bear.

The complainant further advised that a neighbor’s goat had gone missing a few days earlier.

1. "He quickly closed the door." I'm right there with ya buddy!

2. A neighbor's goat had gone missing....mmm hmm, that was a hungry bear!

Red haired lady targets clothing store


A deputy was dispatched to a Loganville Highway clothing store in response to a complaint by a sales associate.

The sales associate said a red haired lady comes into the store on Fridays with her two small children.

The children are allowed to make a mess in the store while the red haired lady tries on clothes.

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The sales associate said sometimes the woman buys clothes, but often she does not. The associate said she has entered the dressing room several times after the red-haired woman has been there and found store security tags on top of the partition.

When asked why she had not called 911 before to report the shoplifting, the associate said it was against store policy to prosecute shoplifters.

The associate requested that a deputy occasionally walk through the store on Friday evenings.

1. Using your children as a distraction? That's either genius or insane. I'm voting for insane but I'm right on the fence...

2. It's against store policy to prosecute shoplifters??? I bet Target is super happy that that got published!

3. You should never trust a mysterious red haired lady...wait, my hair is red...but I'm not mysterious so I think I'm safe!

Have a great day everyone! 

Obsession for Jaguars

Er, um, I mean Obsession for Men. 

Well, it COULD be called Obsession for Jaguars. The signature Calvin Klein cologne is being used by biologists in Guatemala to attract jaguars in order to observe and track them. Really, it is.

"The method we are using to study the jaguars here in Guatemala is a non-invasive method which is based on photographing the individuals by using camera traps," Moreira told Reuters Television.

"It has been very useful using Obsession (for Men) to get the jaguars in front of these camera traps ... and that allows us to estimate with greater confidence the genders and the numbers that live in each studied site."

The big cats love of the scent was first discovered at the Bronx Zoo in New York where they wanted to capture their tigers on camera. The experiment was so successful that the cologne is now being used around the world to attract big cats. 

I don't know about you, but I think that's pretty cool. It's also a little scary.. that is, if you're a man (or with a man) wearing that cologne and you are at the zoo, a circus or in the jungle. In that case, you might end up seeing more of the big cat then you planned! 

A hodgepodge of subjects

I'm throwing myself back into the blogging world today. That means a couple of things. 

1. It means that I haven't talked to you about much lately 

and

2. It means that I have several things that I want to talk to you about.

I figure the best way to do that is just to do it. So... you're getting a random assortment of things that pop into my head this morning. I'm sorry ahead of time.

Do you know who Chace Crawford is? Me either. I guess he's an actor but honestly I've never heard of him. He made it onto E! Online for being busted for smoking pot outside of a club. I wasn't really interested in the story but I had a little time to kill so I read it.

I'm also a link addict (I bet you already knew that about me) and I'm pretty nosy, so when I got to the link that said View the police report I had to click it. Was I surprised? Yep. Wanna know why? Ok, I'll tell you.


You can read all the dudes personal information! No lie. It's a PDF document and if you make it just a little bigger you can read his address, his social security number and his phone number. Actually, you didn't even have to make it bigger to read the phone number. They did a horrible job blacking out the stuff most people don't want to be public information PLUS they didn't even bother to black out his drivers license number. Wow.

(OK, I know you're dying to look for yourself so go ahead and click the link above and I'll wait for you...)


See? That just totally blows me away. They had no regard for this guys privacy. (Yes, I realize that it's hypocritical of me to say that when I myself have posted a link to the report. I apologize for that.) I hope he doesn't get a bunch of crazies showing up at his house and/or ringing his phone off the hook but I bet he has. 

Speaking of crazy (how do you like that segue?), what is up with all this Gary Coleman drama? He was married. He was divorced. They were going to get remarried. This guy is in charge of his will. That guy is in charge of his will. There is a secret will. His parents want to bury him. His ex-wife wants to bury him. Nobody is going to bury him. Pictures were allegedly taken of his dead body and are now up for sale. Please. Just let the poor guy rest in peace already.


Charlie Sheen agreed to go to jail for assault but decided at the last minute that they needed to go over "some of the finer points of the plea deal". What? Did the jail cell not meet Hollywood standards? That's just ridiculous to me. I don't care who you are, if you commit a crime you should go to jail. End of story.

Alright, I only have one more thing I want to mention. It's disgusting though so if you want to leave me now I'll understand. You have a great day and I'll see you soon.


Still here? Wow, you're brave!

I warned you though.


A man in Wisconsin was arrested for stealing dirty diapers. He said he wanted them. He broke into a home for the sole purpose of stealing diapers to wear. He was sentenced to 30 months of probation and 200 hours of community service. He also has to have a psycho-sexual examination. Psycho-sexual? Well, if you get off on wearing dirty diapers you're definitely psycho. I say give him a job in sanitation and that way he can have free access to all the crap he wants.

The toilet paper thief

I bet you think this is going to be a story about someone stealing toilet paper. Or maybe someone using all the toilet paper and not replacing it. Nope. But it is about toilet paper.

A man in Lincoln Nebraska decided he wanted to rob a local convenience store. Of course to do that he needed a disguise. What could be better than toilet paper to disguise your identity right?

He wrapped his head in the toilet paper, armed himself with a knife and robbed the store on Saturday night. He then ran away on foot with his loot. He hasn't been captured yet. You would think they could follow his paper trail...  

Face On

You've seen the movie Face-Off right? I always had trouble believing in that movie. If they only switched faces then Nicholas Cage should have had John Travolta's body and vica versa correct? Anyway, I digress.

A Spanish farmer accidentally shot himself in the face five years ago and has undergone nine surgeries but still had to breathe with a ventilator and eat through a feeding tube. Basically his whole face was gone from the eye sockets down. He could still see but the rest of his face was blown off in the accident. 

Today 30 doctors in Madrid made history during a 24-hour surgery in which they gave him an entirely new face. 

During the 24-hour surgery, doctors lifted an entire face, including jaw, nose, cheekbones, muscles, teeth and eyelids, and placed it masklike onto the man, Dr. Joan Pere Barret told The Associated Press on Friday.

That is totally amazing to me! They say he should be able to eat and breathe on his own in about a week. The only danger is his body rejecting the new face. I hope that doesn't happen and he gets to have a normal life again.

Say it ain't so Russell!

Photo by Monty Brinton/CBS©

I know Russell is a bully on Survivor. I know he's scheming and manipulating and sneaky. I know most people hate him. I'm not one of those people. Unless the story I read on E! Online is true.

Russell Hantz was allegedly arrested in Lafayette Louisiana for battery. Against a woman. 

According to a spokesman for the Lafayette Police Department, Hantz, 37, was partying at a local nightclub during the street festival when he allegedly got into an altercation with an unidentified woman, then shoved her to the ground.

Dammit Russell. Don't tell me you're one of those men. That makes me so mad. In the comment section there's this comment:

Melanie Hantz: (on facebook) Of course but I know what really happened, he didn't hit anyone police heard that by word of mouth. The person they say he supposedly hit said she don't know what the **** that came from cause he didn't do anything. There are witnesses. He didnt' even go to jail,they took him to the station and them let him go.

Of course that's what his wife says. Every wife of a low-down, wife-beating husband that I've ever met wants to defend her husband and talk about how great he is and how much he loves her and how it's not his fault.

The story from The Daily Advertiser out of Louisiana says this:

According to Cpl. Paul Mouton, spokesman for the Lafayette Police Department, officers were working downtown when they were flagged down in the 500 block of Jefferson Street about a disturbance between a man and a woman.

The 18-year-old woman and a witness told officers that the woman was in a verbal argument with Hantz, during which he allegedly pushed her to the ground. The woman suffered minor injuries, Mouton said.

Hantz was arrested a short time later and was cooperative with police, Mouton said. He has since been released from the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center.

I'm torn between believing the story and thinking that maybe the 18 year old made it up thinking she could get something out of it. I can't wait to see what the outcome is and what the truth is in reality. REAL reality...not reality TV.

Don't mess with me!

I have a snake and I'm not afraid to use it!

Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Well a South Carolina man didn't think so. After an argument over his music being too loud in his hotel room, he decided to show the complaining man that he meant business. He hit him in the head with his 4-foot python. You've just been snake slapped! 

He was arrested but not before making sure his snake was safe with family members. Shouldn't the snake be in police custody too? It was the weapon after all. That makes it evidence. At least I think so.

Oh my aching head

The skies have been yellow here recently. Along with the car, the bbq pit, the dog, the grandchildren...basically everything that is outside. It's pollen and it's everywhere. 

I was reading a story that's headline was Achoo! Pollen at its worst in years in many areas. Yes it is.

I was shaking my head in agreement as I read along. Finding myself seeing our yard in the descriptions they gave. Finding myself seeing my head, nose and throat in those descriptions too. It's pretty bad. 

Here's part of the story from Yahoo News:

The words "pollen" and "allergy" are among the top 10 trending topics on Twitter in several U.S. cities. Everywhere, it seems, is covered in a fine yellow dust that irritates our lives. Experts say it's the worst they've seen in years in many areas.

"It's wicked bad this year," said Dr. Mona Mangat, an allergy specialist in St. Petersburg, Fla., who can't recall a worse year in the six she's worked there. "We're just overwhelmed with patients right now. We're double- and triple-booked with new patients, trying to work people in because we know how much people are suffering."

This year is especially bad in the Southeast, weather experts say, likely due to winter's unseasonably cold weather.

"That may have helped delay some of the plants from blooming as early as they may have wanted to," said John Feerick, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather. "It's the fact that everything is coming out all at once."

Do you see the words I made bold? ESPECIALLY BAD IN THE SOUTHEAST. You don't have to tell me that. We live in Georgia. That's on the Southeast coast just in case you didn't know that. 

I went to pollen.com for an allergy forecast to see how much longer it's going to be like this. This is what I found when I clicked on Georgia and then entered our zip code:

 

Lovely. I guess I better buy some more Benedryl.

Oops!

The police are chasing you! Where should you go? Oh, look! There's a fence! Get over it quick! Oops...dang.

It's a prison yard. 

Yep. That's just what a dumb criminal in Cleveland did. After leading police through a suburb and several communities the goober decided to exit his car and jump a fence to try to escape. The fence surrounded a state women's prison. I bet that was a shock to him!

He was arrested and so were his buddies that were with him. He deserves this award...

Another animal ruled by human laws

First a monkey got sentenced to rehab. Now a dog is being sentenced to good citizen classes. Yes he is. I swear. 

A pit bull named Winston in Chattanooga Tennessee decided he didn't like the way a police car looked and wasn't afraid of the consequences. He attacked the car, biting the bumper and tearing off a section of it and then went to work on the tires. 


He went to court where the judge declared him "a very bad dog" and sentenced him to obedience and canine good citizen classes. 


And don't think he'll get out of the prison uniform...he has to wear a tag now that declares him to be "potentially dangerous". Ya think?


The owner of the dog won't be penalized if Winston completes his classes successfully. Um, is there a test? I guess they could put him in the yard with another police car and see what happens.

Or maybe they could just hook him up as the new McGruff...

Ever thought of living on an island?

Have you ever even fantasized about living on an island?
 

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I know I have. Just me and my peoples and my animals living peacefully on an island all to ourselves without any outside interferences. Sounds like heaven doesn't it?

It probably would be too. At least until the island disappeared. 

Wait. That doesn't happen does it? Islands don't disappear. No way. Look at Hawaii and all their islands. They've been there a long time right?

Yes. They disappear. (You knew I was going to say that didn't you?)

The newest island to disappear is New Moore Island in the Bay of Bengal. The bad part ...well, besides the island disappearing... is that India and Bangladesh have been fighting over who owns that island for the past three decades. I guess that's one 30 year fight resolved. 

And where did the island go? Under the sea of course. Scientists say that global warming is causing the seas to rise and islands are being submerged. Another island in that same area became submerged in 1996 forcing it's inhabitants to move to the mainland and 10 other islands there are at risk of being submerged.

This totally messes up all the fantasies I've ever had of living on an island. Unless, of course, I built my house as a houseboat...then when the island disappeared I could live on the ocean. Hmmmm...that might work. 

I don't get it

I'm not going to say much today because if I do it will be bad stuff. I'll just leave it at men who can't be faithful to one woman are not men at all.

Here's what I don't get...

Jesse James had this:

 Photo source People

And decided he needed this too:

 Photo source E! online

Married means one at a time Jesse. It's called D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Be a man.

Peter Graves found dead at home

I was so sad to read about Peter Graves passing away. You know I just watched Airplane the other night. He died of natural causes. He was 83.

You're not supposed to eat that

 

Pretty isn't he? And sweet looking. Doesn't look like any trouble at all. Chewing happily on some bamboo. Bamboo is the food of choice for giant panda's you know. They rarely eat anything else. 

Well. They will eat honey. And eggs. And sometimes fish. And oranges and bananas if they can find them. But their main diet is bamboo. If they're really hungry they might eat some bones. 

Bones.

A giant panda in China was found doing just that. Apparently he was starving and came down from the mountain to find food. He ended up at a pig farm and was found in the pig pen chewing on the bones that were left for the pigs. He didn't care for the meat. He spit that out.

I really feel very sorry for the panda that made the trip down the mountain. Giant pandas are on the endangered species list. There are believed to be around 1600 of them living in the mountains of southwest China. 

I think that there should be some sort of program to help feed them in their natural habitat. We feed everything/one else it seems like. Why can't we help them? 1600 is not very many when you think about the big picture. In China alone there are 1.3 BILLION people. Surely a few of them could help their national icon. 

Andrew Koenig committed suicide

I don't know if you've been following the story about Andrew Koenig but I saw the other night that his body had been found in Canada. He apparently took his own life. The childhood actor from Growing Pains (he played Boner) was the son of original Star Trek actor Walter Koenig who played Chekov. Family and friends said that he had been depressed lately. He was 41.

Marmaduke would be jealous

You know who Marmaduke is right? The cartoon dog. Well, if you don't, he is a Great Dane. And very large. They can draw them as big as they want to ya know. A real dog would never be that big. No way. Well, maybe..

If he was a giant.

Or if he was named Giant. Giant George to be specific.

Photo source: AP Associated Press

Four year old Giant George is now listed as the Guinness Book of World Records tallest dog. He measures in at 3 feet, 7 inches tall from paw to shoulder and weighs 250 pounds. All I can think is WOW. That's a lot of dog.