Another Reason I Don’t Drink Coffee

This Coffee Tastes Like Poo … And That’s the Way They Like It

Monday, November 06, 2006

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If you’re in Australia and your coffee tastes like … well … poo, don’t complain. Just hand over your $50 and enjoy it, lest you be considered uncouth.Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms in Queensland will soon become the latest to jump on the Kopi Luwak coffee bandwagon, and they seem to think this strange brew will be a hit with those seeking more than just your average cuppa joe.

You see, Kopi Luwak coffee beans are collected exclusively from the doodie left behind by the luwak, a cat-like critter that lives in the Indonesian jungle, News.com.au reports.

Apparently, luwaks like to eat ripe coffee cherries, but they will only eat the most mouth-watering of the bunch. After nature takes its course, lucky harvesters come along and collect the undigested inner beans from the dung.

But it gets even better.

The beans are then washed and just lightly roasted so as to avoid destroying all of the, uh, nuances of flavor created by the beans’ magical digestive journey. They’re then sold for big bucks to high-end retailers chomping at the bit for a pricey cup of poopy beans.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227787,00.html

All this obsession with coffee has officially gone too far. I’ve never been a coffee drinker and I know that everyone has their own taste, but I just can’t wrap my head around this.  Do you really need caffeine that bad?  Why not just pop a couple no-dose pills when you wake up in the morning.  I will say this about coffee though; it is one thing that brings the extreme opposites of yuppies and hippies together in Starbucks all over the country.  Whether that’s a good, or bad thing I don’t know, nor do I care since I happen to be neither.  In fact, maybe that’s why I don’t enjoy coffee.  Whatever the reason is I just have never been a big coffee person like everyone else on the planet seems to be.  I wonder how many coffee drinkers out there would give this particular coffee a try considering the process of how it is made.  I bet I would be somewhat surprised to find that many coffee drinkers would at least try it  just to see how good it really is (probably more hippies than yuppies).

Whopper of a Story

N.M. Cops Sue Burger King Over Marijuana-Laced Hamburgers

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

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ALBUQUERQUE —  Two police officers have sued Burger King Corp., claiming they were served hamburgers that had been sprinkled with marijuana.The lawsuit says Mark Landavazo and Henry Gabaldon, officers for the Isleta Pueblo tribal police, were in uniform and riding in a marked patrol car when they bought meals at the drive-through lane Oct. 8 of a Burger King restaurant in Los Lunas, N.M.The officers ate about half of their burgers before discovering marijuana on the meat, the lawsuit said. They used a field test kit to confirm the substance was pot, then went to a hospital for medical evaluations.

“It gives a whole new meaning to the word ‘Whopper,”‘ the officers’ attorney, Sam Bregman, said Monday. “The idea that these hoodlums would put marijuana into a hamburger and therefore attempt to impair law enforcement officers trying to do their jobs is outrageous.”

Three Burger King employees were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and aggravated battery on an officer, a felony. They later were indicted.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227858,00.html

This is a crazy story.  I think it was somewhat funny what these kids tried to get away with, but also pretty dumb.  I don’t know how they figured they would get away with doing such a thing, but I’m glad they tried because I was laughing pretty hard when I heard about this.  I can’t understand why the officers were so upset. It’s not like they got charged extra or anything.  They should have been happy with the free extra ingredients.  I do think that filing a lawsuit is a little over the top.  The employees who did this will lose their jobs and have now been indicted.  I think that’s punishment enough, but of course the officers see a chance to make money off of a big corporation like Burger King and that’s what they’ll try to do.  After all that’s probably what most people would do given this situation, but shouldn’t police officers be held to a higher standard. Shouldn’t they just drop the lawsuit and be fine with the way they handled the case. I don’t know, maybe you don’t agree.

What A Show

Calling All Mrs. Robinsons

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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If you’re a hot mama and you know it, get in line.Decked-out ladies anxiously crowded into a Los Angeles theater with babies in tow may be housewives and they may be desperate, but they’re not heading for Wisteria Lane … they’re heading for reality TV, L.A.’s Daily News reports.

Producers for the “Hottest Mom in America” have been searching the country for … well … the hottest moms in America to compete to be the queen bee of maternal beauties.

“When you see a woman in her early 40s at the supermarket with a little kid and some super-low-rise jeans, she might be better looking than your 22-year-old girlfriend,” executive producer Jeff Greenfield said. “Your girlfriend looks good because she’s young. The 40-year-old looks good because she works at it. And that’s hot.”

Greenfield and company have scoured Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles in search of the sexiest moms around and evaluated them on their looks, poise, grace and charm to see who would make the cut.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,224561,00.html

Forget Deal Or No Deal. This is a game show my friends. Traveling America in search of the hottest mom must be an idea that Fox came up with. Well even if they didn’t come up with it, they’re going to be the one’s who bring it to us, and who better. As stupid and ridiculous as this concept may seem to you now as you’re reading about it, I will guarantee that this becomes one of the highest rated shows on television. All the men will watch to see all the beautiful women and all the women will watch to see what men find attractive and how they compare to the country’s hottest moms. To quote the infamous Don King, “Only in America folks.”

Sorry this is the best I could come up with. Yet again I have let down my fellow clasmates in their such for humor and escape from all that is wrong with the world today. I vow to never again allow such useless dribble to surface on my incredibly important and necessary blogsite. I am obviously being sarcastic to those of you who are slightly mentally handicapped.

Priceless

Urinals Shaped Like Woman’s Mouth Cause Stir in Vienna

Thursday, October 19, 2006

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VIENNA, Austria —  An Austrian businessman announced Thursday that he would get rid of urinals shaped like a woman’s mouth from a public toilet near Vienna’s national opera, after facing pressure from politicians who demanded their removal.The urinals, which are located in the “Opera Toilet,” a lavishly decorated public restroom, feature thick, lipsticked lips, a set of teeth and a bright red tongue.“We think that it’s tasteless, misogynistic and offensive,” Marianne Lackner, media spokeswoman for the Vienna Department of Women’s Affairs told The Associated Press.

The department, headed by Social Democrat Sonja Wehsely, said it was appealing to the owner’s good will, but was also exploring the possibility of legal action.

Monika Vana, the Green Party’s spokeswoman for women’s affairs, also denounced the toilets, telling the Austria Press Agency that they are “sexist and inappropriate.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222427,00.html

Sorry guys, gut this is the best I could come up with for last week. I don’t know why this didn’t publish when i wrote it, but here it is anyway.  I apologize to anyone if this story may be offensive in some regard to them.  I just think it’s somewhat surprising to hear about the uproar of something like this happening in Europe.  I could see this kind of an uproar if this had taken place in a midwestern town in our country, but I thought things like this in Europe were considered artistic and comical. Although I’m speaking out of ignorance since I’ve never been east of Nantucket, I would have never imagined something like this in Italy being such a big deal. Anyway I’ll try to come up with something a little better for this week and look forward to your comments.

Achievement of Desire

Let me first just say that I didn’t particularly find this reading all that interesting.  In fact, its probably the least interesting thing we have read thus far in class.  With that said, this reading did have some points that I feel are valid.  I feel that Rodriguez did most likely distance himself from his family and others, but his excuse that it was because he felt more educated than them and that he was ashamed of their lack of education is pretty weak. He was basically as I see it just an anti-social type of person.  He even makes reference to this while discussing how he and his “community of scholars” would regularly gather to read, but were still basically strangers due to their lack of social or communicative skills.

One point I found interesting is when Rodriguez makes mention of how a “scholarship boy” is the worst student because he just imitates and repeats whatever he is taught by his teacher.  Rodriguez claims that this desire to be like his teacher prevents the “scholarship boy” from ever becoming a “thinker” and create ideas of his own.  This I found interesting only because of the several references to Hoggart’s book.  The whole reading seems like it is an imitation of what was written by Hoggart.  This makes me wonder what Rodriguez would consider himself today; a great thinker, or a great imitator.

Love Letters

“Love Letters” by Megan Foss is one that I couldn’t stop reading.  The honesty of this writer is what kept my interest.    Her experiences on the street didn’t make me feel uncomfortable like they may have made others feel.  I admired her sincerety and straight up bluntness about the things she did for 15 years of her life.  In a way I was able to relate to her writing “habit”.   Writing has always been something I did without real purpose behind it.  I would write in notebooks about random thoughts or experiences with no intentions of having anyone ever read them.   Megan Foss wrote because there were too many things going on in her mind.  She didn’t have a priest or a therapist to analyze her.  No family to go and talk to.  She had a pen and paper.   By pouring things onto paper, it was like releasing the pain they were causing in her head.  The further along I read, I realized this wasn’t about just overcoming a drug addiction or showing how people that grew up on the streets could adapt to the “mainstream”.  This story was  about how intelligence isn’t defined by the way one speaks or writes.  She was able to teach herself how to adapt to society without letting go of everything from her past.  She embaced what she was and still uses it in her work today.  I think her obsession with writing is what saved her life.    

Remember this nut?

‘Runaway Bride’ Sues Ex-Fiance for $500,000

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

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The “runaway bride,” who took off days before her lavish wedding in 2005, is suing her former fiance for $500,000, claiming he defrauded her out of her share of their assets, including a ladder, a gold sofa and gifts.

Jennifer Wilbanks is seeking $250,000 as her share of a home she says John C. Mason purchased through the partnership with proceeds from $500,000 received for selling their story to Regan Media in New York.

She also wants $250,000 in punitive damages for alleged abuse of the power of attorney she granted for Mason to handle their financial affairs.

In addition, she is seeking the return of personal property she claims he has kept, including the ladder that belonged to her father, a gold sofa and wedding shower gifts. Mason’s attorney in July wrote to Wilbanks attorney that his client had agreed to deliver those items.

Wilbanks and broke up for good in May, about a year after her excursion to Las Vegas and New Mexico made international headlines while hundreds of friends and family members searched for her back home in suburban Atlanta.

Mason has until Oct. 22 to respond to the lawsuit, filed last month in Gwinnett County’s Superior Court. The lawsuit, Wilbanks vs. JCM Consulting and Mason, was filed Sept. 13, according to court records.

Wilbanks’ attorney, Michael Wetzel, and Mason’s father, Claude, declined comment Tuesday morning. John Mason’s attorney, James C. Watkins, wasn’t immediately available for comment.

The lawsuit says the $500,000 was put into an account of JCM Consulting, based in Gwinnett County. After Wilbanks was “hospitalized and under medication,” Mason bought a home in Dacula in his name with the money, the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit claims that Wilbanks asked JCM Consulting during the summer for various documents, but the firm didn’t give her records of bank accounts. Through the lawsuit, she wants to inspect and copy those records.

Wilbanks also claims that Mason used the company to defraud her.

Wilbanks disappeared four days before her planned April 30, 2005, wedding. Hundreds of police and volunteers searched for her for three days before she called Mason from Albuquerque, N.M., claiming to have been abducted and sexually assaulted.

She later recanted, saying she fled because of unspecified personal issues, and pleaded no contest to telling police a phony story.

She was sentenced to two years’ probation and performed community service that included mowing the lawns of public buildings.

News of the lawsuit was first reported Monday night by WAGA-TV.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219125,00.html

After I first read this story I found it kind of funny that in  a $500,000 lawsuit this nut included a ladder and wedding gifts from her wedding that she never attended!  However after reading this again it makes me sick in a way.  I can’t believe these idiots, or at least one of them made $500,000 off of this stupid story.  We’re all here busting our ass to get through school and make a decent living and these idiots are getting paid $500,000 for this.  Anyone want to get engaged and leave me at the altar?  Anyone?

Are You Serious?

Saved by the Breast

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

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When you don’t have an airbag, it helps to have big breast implants.

All Headline News reports a 24-year-old Bulgarian woman’s life was spared by her super-sized silicone implants.

So much for boosting your bust for cosmetic purposes.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217597,00.html

I can’t make this stuff up people. Go ahead and click on the link to hear how this story could have possibly taken place.  This is just another amusing story I found and decided to share with the class. I’m sure there are enough stories about the amish school shootings and whatever other horrible things that may have taken place throughout the world this week. That is why I continue to post these types of stories. Enjoy.

Bear Bite

BEIJING —  A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, was bitten by the bear and retaliated by chomping down on the animal’s back, state media said Wednesday

I saw this and had to delve deeper into this crazy story.  I actually find it pretty amusing, but I have to wonder how big these “jugs” of beer were that he was drinking. Although after being treated and sobering up the man’s quotes sound as if he’s still shocked that this bear actually bit him. This just shows how clueless, or stupid, or perhaps drunk people can be. Check it out. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214650,00.html

who cares?

Britney Spears Gives Birth to Second Son

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 PHOTOS Click image to enlarge writeScroll(openTab1,’1′); LOS ANGELES — She did it again. Britney Spears gave birth to her second son early Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital, according to several entertainment magazines. The baby boy was delivered around 2 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Us Weekly reported on its Web site Wednesday, citing an unnamed family source. The child was delivered by a scheduled Cesarean section procedure, People.com reported. The newborn’s name wasn’t immediately released. Spears’ New York-based publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, did not return a call to the Associated Press seeking comments. It was the second child for Spears, 24, and her husband, Kevin Federline, 28. The baby arrived just days before their son Sean Preston’s first birthday on Thursday. Federline also has a daughter and a son with actress Shar Jackson.  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213590,00.html

I know this is a big story because she’such a popular figure, but i still can’t believe this is listed as a top story on foxnews.com. Everywhere i turn this morning all i hear is the news of this baby. This shows how truly pathetic some people’s lives are.