Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Organ Donors BEWARE!!!!!!


The question has long influenced decisions about when it's appropriate to end medical treatment for people who are hopelessly ill. However, a quieter debate has simmered for years about how the concept of death informs the practice of organ transplantation. Transplant surgeons rely on strict definitions of death to reassure would-be donors. Wary of the macabre suggestion that they are willing to exploit the dying for their organs, surgeons abide by a code known as the "dead donor rule," which forbids removing body parts from the living.


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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

They will tear yout heart out!


I found this Rocky Mountain News website. It has a collection of Pulitzer Prize winning photos depicting U.S. soldiers coming home from the war Iraq and Afghanistan. I dare you to look at the photos and not cry. How sad this war truly is.

Click here to view these beautifully sad photos.

Fire It Up Mary Ann!


News that Dawn Wells aka Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island got busted caring some weed has finally put the Mary Ann/Ginger debate to bed. At least for me. Ginger would have made a good one night stand, but required way too much maintenance. Mary Ann on the other hand was the keeper. She could cook and clean and had those solid midwest values not to mention the tight little jean shorts. And now knowing that she can twist up a nice fatty makes her even more desirable.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

ROAD RAGE! Fast Food Style.


Fast food attack on go slow doctor

An Austrian doctor lodged a complaint after a lorry driver threw a cheeseburger at him for driving too slowly.

But police told Hannes Kohl, from Vienna, that burger throwing was not an offence. He was hit on the head by the cheese burger thrown by an overtaking lorry driver through his open car window.

Dr Kohl, who was on his way to a medical congress in the Czech Republic, said: "I was going slowly but that was no excuse for this outrageous attack. "I complained to the police but they told me it was not an offence to throw a burger at someone, and my insurance company also refused to pay up even though there was melted cheese and ketchup on my suit and all over my car."

Monday, March 10, 2008

No Duh!!!!!


News Flash: Men Like Football and Sexy Women on TV

41% Would Subject Themselves to House Arrest Rather Than Miss a Football Game;
53% Would Stay Lost with Kate;
Nearly Half Would Risk Their Health to Get Probed by Grey's Anatomy's Dr.
Izzie Stevens

According to a national study of men by Spike TV and TVGuide.com, men are willing to subject themselves to all manner of unpleasantness for the sake of sports and their favorite female TV stars. The full results are posted on www.tvguide.com/spiketvmenstudy and www.spike.com/tvguidemenstudy and in the March 17th issue of TV Guide magazine (on newsstands Thursday, March 13).

Nearly half (41%) of respondents would subject themselves to a week of house arrest rather than miss the broadcast of an NFL game between two undefeated teams, while 53% would brave polar bears, creepy people and mysterious smoke monsters to stay stranded on the Lost island with Kate (Evangeline Lilly). Beyond freedom, they are also seemingly willing to risk their health, with 44% saying they would get sick on purpose for the chance to be examined by Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Isobel Stevens (Katherine Heigl).

Friday, March 7, 2008

Sheryl Crow, Fergie, The Black Crowes, John Legend, and Natasha Bedingfield Among National Acts to Perform at SunFest 2008


New Music Night features one night mini-festival of rising talent Early Bird, multi-day discount offers best music value of the year

SunFest, Florida's largest music, art and waterfront festival, will be held April 30-May 4, along one of the most scenic sections of Flagler Drive in downtown West Palm Beach. National headline entertainment scheduled to perform include Sheryl Crow, Fergie, The Black Crowes, John Legend, Natasha Bedingfield, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Steel Pulse, Hellogoodbye, Stephen Marley, The Academy Is, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Little Feat, Hot Tuna, The Rippingtons, Classic Albums Live, Little River Band, Mindi Abair, and Morris Day & the Time. Additional entertainment announcements will be made as they are confirmed.

"SunFest is a kick-off to the summer festival and touring season," said Paul Jamieson, Executive Director of SunFest. "We're excited about our line-up and believe it is one of the best in years."

SunFest 2008 will be held from April 30-May 4 along the Flagler Drive waterfront in West Palm Beach, Florida. SunFest of Palm Beach County, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in West Palm Beach, is a Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council Funded Project and is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs.

For more information about SunFest, visit www.sunfest.com or call (561) 659-5980 or 1-800-SUNFEST.

Monday, March 3, 2008

You had better really love "Friends"

$22,000 bill for downloading 4 episoes of "Friends" via Vodafone UK

0000001379_20060919145136.jpg The wife of a city executive cost her husband £11,000 ($22,000) after she downloaded four episodes of the sitcom "Friends" through his mobile phone while abroad. The Telegraph reports.

"The woman used the broadband package on his Vodafone mobile phone to order the programs, which would have been free had the download taken place in Britain.

However, her husband flew to Germany on business while the download was still in progress and it resumed after he touched down, incurring the massive fees.

The pair, who have not been named, discovered the unwelcome bill after the executive arrived back in the UK and Vodafone called his firm to alert him.

Ed Richards, the chief executive of industry regulator Ofcom, said it would investigate the huge fee. He said: "We will be looking to take action."