CNN as reported on June 3, 2009 by Madison Park(CNN) --
If your pinkie and ring fingers tingle or feel numb, you might not want to pick up that cell phone to call the doctor.Orthopedic specialists are reporting cases of "cell phone elbow," in which patients damage an essential nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too tightly for too long. When cell phone users hold the phone to their ears, they stretch a nerve that extends underneath the funny bone and controls the smallest fingers. When talkers chat for a long time in that position, it "chokes the blood supply to the nerves. It makes the nerves short-circuit. The next thing you know, there's tingling in the ring and small finger," said Dr. Peter J. Evans, the director of the Hand and Upper Extremity Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.
Editor Rozek’s Note: If you are talking on the phone so much that you get cell phone elbow, it may be time to consider what you could possibly need to be talking about for that amount of time?? Everyone I know says that they “hate the phone”…and yet, everywhere I go, I almost get driven off the road by someone holding their phone, or get pushed out of an aisle at the grocery store by someone who is having trouble steering their cart while they are balancing a conversation with their shopping list. One day, I even ran into a girl who was going out with my ex, who instantly picked up the phone when she saw me and started pretending to talk to him! I’m not sure what that was about…probably just insecure I guess. Who knows?? People do use their cell phone as a security blanket. Have you ever watched someone sitting in a restaurant all alone talking on the phone or texting the entire time? I view this as one of two things: either the person is a cardiac surgeon, or he/she is having a self-image issue with sitting there alone. I can’t think of anything that is important enough to say before I get somewhere out of the public eye. Why don’t we take a hint from teenagers (who, by the way can’t have a conversation without using only the first letter of each word they mean to say… or even better- keep texting someone else while they are talking to you- That’s my favorite!). They don’t ever “talk” on the phone anymore… but I bet they are going to have a whole knew thumb ailment from texting. It will be called “C.R.A.P" (Communication Rendered Aggravatingly Passé).
Friday, June 5, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
US Mistakenly Releases Nuclear Site List
As published By EILEEN SULLIVAN and H. JOSEF HEBERT- AP on June 3, 2009 on aol.com
WASHINGTON (June 3) -- The government accidentally posted on the Internet a list of government and civilian nuclear facilities and their activities in the United States, but a U.S. official said Wednesday the posting included no information that compromised national security.
The 266-page document was published on May 6 as a transmission from President Barack Obama to Congress. …Some of the pages are marked "highly confidential safeguards sensitive."...Included in the report are details on a storage facility for highly enriched uranium at the Y-12 complex at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and some sites at the Energy Department's Hanford nuclear site in Washington state.
The document includes both government and civilian nuclear facilities, all of which have various levels of security, including details and location of nation's 103 commercial nuclear power reactors, information readily available from various sources.
…There are "zero" national security implications to the publication of this document, said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Government's Project on Government Secrecy. Aftergood found the document on the GPO Web site and highlighted it in Secrecy News.
"I regret that some people are painting it as a roadmap for terrorists because that's not what it is," Aftergood said.
Editor Rozek’s Notes:...I’m not sure that it was exactly “painted” as a road-map. It was more like a GPS device…that targets uranium…and nuclear power reactors… No biggie. If I worked for the government, and had just accidentally clicked “publish” instead of handing the document to one of my secret service guys with the dark glasses to walk the copy over to congress in person, before I told someone what had happened, I would’ve released about 50 other documents with all different addresses on them. I can hear the president now:
Obama: “Crap! Crap! Crap. Darn computers! I hate these things”…
(he hits the monitor and formulates a plan…)
Obama: “Michelle! Do we have any white-out?”
Michelle: “Yes, it’s under the phone bill and the copy of the Constitution of the United States in the bottom drawer….Why?”
Obama: “No reason honey! I’m gonna be up late!”
If there were many other documents, it would’ve at least slowed down the protestors from getting to these newly published locations. I’m sure anyone who really wanted to hurt us already had the list saved on his IPhone.
WASHINGTON (June 3) -- The government accidentally posted on the Internet a list of government and civilian nuclear facilities and their activities in the United States, but a U.S. official said Wednesday the posting included no information that compromised national security.
The 266-page document was published on May 6 as a transmission from President Barack Obama to Congress. …Some of the pages are marked "highly confidential safeguards sensitive."...Included in the report are details on a storage facility for highly enriched uranium at the Y-12 complex at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and some sites at the Energy Department's Hanford nuclear site in Washington state.
The document includes both government and civilian nuclear facilities, all of which have various levels of security, including details and location of nation's 103 commercial nuclear power reactors, information readily available from various sources.
…There are "zero" national security implications to the publication of this document, said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Government's Project on Government Secrecy. Aftergood found the document on the GPO Web site and highlighted it in Secrecy News.
"I regret that some people are painting it as a roadmap for terrorists because that's not what it is," Aftergood said.
Editor Rozek’s Notes:...I’m not sure that it was exactly “painted” as a road-map. It was more like a GPS device…that targets uranium…and nuclear power reactors… No biggie. If I worked for the government, and had just accidentally clicked “publish” instead of handing the document to one of my secret service guys with the dark glasses to walk the copy over to congress in person, before I told someone what had happened, I would’ve released about 50 other documents with all different addresses on them. I can hear the president now:
Obama: “Crap! Crap! Crap. Darn computers! I hate these things”…
(he hits the monitor and formulates a plan…)
Obama: “Michelle! Do we have any white-out?”
Michelle: “Yes, it’s under the phone bill and the copy of the Constitution of the United States in the bottom drawer….Why?”
Obama: “No reason honey! I’m gonna be up late!”
If there were many other documents, it would’ve at least slowed down the protestors from getting to these newly published locations. I’m sure anyone who really wanted to hurt us already had the list saved on his IPhone.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Melissa Joan Hart Disses Cancer-Stricken Farrah Fawcett
As reported by the New York Post on Wednesday, June 03, 2009
The former "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" star was overheard off-camera at KTLA in Los Angeles on Friday saying how she'd been hoping last week that cancer- stricken Farrah Fawcett wouldn't die — and thus bump Hart off the cover of People magazine.
Editor Rozek’s Note: Oh my God Melissa! Who said that child actors are self absorbed and dysfunctional? Do you have anything in the world that matters to you more than yourself? It’s cancer! You’re the teenaged witch – She’s an Angel! Who do you think is more important? Geez…I hope there’s no terrorist attack so your big day in the news doesn’t get bumped for something trivial- like... say… something that matters?
The former "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" star was overheard off-camera at KTLA in Los Angeles on Friday saying how she'd been hoping last week that cancer- stricken Farrah Fawcett wouldn't die — and thus bump Hart off the cover of People magazine.
Editor Rozek’s Note: Oh my God Melissa! Who said that child actors are self absorbed and dysfunctional? Do you have anything in the world that matters to you more than yourself? It’s cancer! You’re the teenaged witch – She’s an Angel! Who do you think is more important? Geez…I hope there’s no terrorist attack so your big day in the news doesn’t get bumped for something trivial- like... say… something that matters?
Pink Floyd founder wants Israeli wall down
As reported by the AP on June 2, 2009 on msnbc.com
Roger Waters has harsh words for barrier during visit to Palestinian camp
AIDA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - The legendary rocker and co-founder of Pink Floyd says he would give a concert in a flash if Israel’s West Bank wall is torn down. Roger Waters made the promise Tuesday during a visit to a Palestinian refugee camp that is hemmed in by the separation barrier’s tall slabs of cement. The 65-year-old co-wrote Pink Floyd’s iconic “The Wall” album and performed music from it in 1990 at the site where the Berlin Wall once stood. Waters says the wall amounts to an oppressive grab of Palestinian land and that he hopes that “this thing, this awful thing, is destroyed soon.”
Editor Rozek’s Notes:…I like Pink Floyd. What an amazing band – probably of all time! The trouble is that I’m not sure that they weren’t completely stoned when they wrote “The Wall.” His efforts in Israel are definitely a nice try and I admire the fact that he cares about world issues…and, come to think of it… I’m also a little amazed that he can still form a sentence at all… but I guess I look at it this way; I’m definitely not Roger Waters but I wrote a song once called “Liar”…well actually it was called “Liar, Stinkin, Ridiculous Puke, I can’t believe you did that, Nobody Likes You Anymore”, but I just called it “Liar” for short. Anyway…you don’t see me going up to Bill Clinton and saying “Hey. I’ll sing you this song if you admit you cheated on Hillary.” … Pretty much cause…well…he wouldn’t care…and the song really wasn’t my best work!...and ...he really wouldn't care...
Roger Waters has harsh words for barrier during visit to Palestinian camp
AIDA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - The legendary rocker and co-founder of Pink Floyd says he would give a concert in a flash if Israel’s West Bank wall is torn down. Roger Waters made the promise Tuesday during a visit to a Palestinian refugee camp that is hemmed in by the separation barrier’s tall slabs of cement. The 65-year-old co-wrote Pink Floyd’s iconic “The Wall” album and performed music from it in 1990 at the site where the Berlin Wall once stood. Waters says the wall amounts to an oppressive grab of Palestinian land and that he hopes that “this thing, this awful thing, is destroyed soon.”
Editor Rozek’s Notes:…I like Pink Floyd. What an amazing band – probably of all time! The trouble is that I’m not sure that they weren’t completely stoned when they wrote “The Wall.” His efforts in Israel are definitely a nice try and I admire the fact that he cares about world issues…and, come to think of it… I’m also a little amazed that he can still form a sentence at all… but I guess I look at it this way; I’m definitely not Roger Waters but I wrote a song once called “Liar”…well actually it was called “Liar, Stinkin, Ridiculous Puke, I can’t believe you did that, Nobody Likes You Anymore”, but I just called it “Liar” for short. Anyway…you don’t see me going up to Bill Clinton and saying “Hey. I’ll sing you this song if you admit you cheated on Hillary.” … Pretty much cause…well…he wouldn’t care…and the song really wasn’t my best work!...and ...he really wouldn't care...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Octuplets' mom signs TV show deal
As reported on Mon, June 1, 2009 by Alan Duke on CNN.com
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets in January, will star in a reality television series about her family, a TV executive said.
Eyeworks' British division will produce the show, the Eyeworks executive said. "There is a story to be told" about the family, he said. " Though he said the show has not been named, Suleman has sought to trademark her media nickname -- Octomom -- for a TV show and a line of diapers.
Suleman has six other children. All 14 were conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
Editor Rozek’s Notes: This is the ‘feel-good’ story of the year! I laughed, I cried, I called social services!
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets in January, will star in a reality television series about her family, a TV executive said.
Eyeworks' British division will produce the show, the Eyeworks executive said. "There is a story to be told" about the family, he said. " Though he said the show has not been named, Suleman has sought to trademark her media nickname -- Octomom -- for a TV show and a line of diapers.
Suleman has six other children. All 14 were conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
Editor Rozek’s Notes: This is the ‘feel-good’ story of the year! I laughed, I cried, I called social services!
Monday, June 1, 2009
Victorville parolee having sex with teen had mother's permission
as reported by Melissa Pinion-Whitt on June 1, 2009 on the dailybulletin.com
A man who was having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl with the permission of the girl's mother was arrested by sheriff's deputies in Victorville on Sunday. Anthony Vaux, 25, a parolee, had been having sex with the girl several times during the past few weeks, San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said. Deputies received an anonymous tip at 6:21 p.m. Sunday that he and the girl were in a Travelodge hotel room in the 12100 block of Mariposa Road. Sheriff's investigators said the girl's mother was aware of the relationship and allowed it to occur. Vaux was booked into jail on suspicion of unlawful sex with a minor and was held without bail. Sheriff's investigators planned to submit a case to prosecutors regarding the actions of the victim's mother.
Editor Rozek’s Note: Remember when we used to get our mother’s permission to go to a friend’s house when we were in high school? I used to have to call when I left one place and then again when I got to the next one. I don’t ever remember calling my mom and saying: “Hi Mom! It’s me. I’m going to leave the bowling alley now and then stop off for a quickie with a my parolee."
I can just hear her mother at dinner with the ladies:
Mother: My daughter has the nicest boyfriend now! He is on parole. It was all a big misunderstanding though. His ridiculous ex girlfriend turned him in for having sex with her. You know how these 11 year old girls get! She was just jealous that he liked my daughter better. I’m so proud of her.
(phone rings…)
Mother: Oh! It's her..."Hello girlfriend!... uh huh…okay…be safe…what room are you guys in?…great…12100. Thanks honey! Enjoy yourself and call me if you need a ride home later!"
Mother: (to ladies again) She is such a good girl! We’re like best friends. I’m sort of known as the cool mom around her school.
He is being booked on "suspicion?" Nice...I suspect that mommy should try not to be so close to her little girl and take her over her knee instead of letting her little girl spend so much time on hers!
A man who was having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl with the permission of the girl's mother was arrested by sheriff's deputies in Victorville on Sunday. Anthony Vaux, 25, a parolee, had been having sex with the girl several times during the past few weeks, San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said. Deputies received an anonymous tip at 6:21 p.m. Sunday that he and the girl were in a Travelodge hotel room in the 12100 block of Mariposa Road. Sheriff's investigators said the girl's mother was aware of the relationship and allowed it to occur. Vaux was booked into jail on suspicion of unlawful sex with a minor and was held without bail. Sheriff's investigators planned to submit a case to prosecutors regarding the actions of the victim's mother.
Editor Rozek’s Note: Remember when we used to get our mother’s permission to go to a friend’s house when we were in high school? I used to have to call when I left one place and then again when I got to the next one. I don’t ever remember calling my mom and saying: “Hi Mom! It’s me. I’m going to leave the bowling alley now and then stop off for a quickie with a my parolee."
I can just hear her mother at dinner with the ladies:
Mother: My daughter has the nicest boyfriend now! He is on parole. It was all a big misunderstanding though. His ridiculous ex girlfriend turned him in for having sex with her. You know how these 11 year old girls get! She was just jealous that he liked my daughter better. I’m so proud of her.
(phone rings…)
Mother: Oh! It's her..."Hello girlfriend!... uh huh…okay…be safe…what room are you guys in?…great…12100. Thanks honey! Enjoy yourself and call me if you need a ride home later!"
Mother: (to ladies again) She is such a good girl! We’re like best friends. I’m sort of known as the cool mom around her school.
He is being booked on "suspicion?" Nice...I suspect that mommy should try not to be so close to her little girl and take her over her knee instead of letting her little girl spend so much time on hers!
Cop says he wants to 'beat' Atlanta mayor with bat, apologizes
As reported on 5/28/09 by Ashley Fantz, CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --.It probably would have been just another ho-hum city council budget meeting. Except that the leader of Atlanta's police union, and second-highest ranking member of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, said he wanted to beat Atlanta's mayor with a bat.
"I want to beat her [Mayor Shirley Franklin] in the head with a baseball bat sometimes when I think about it," Sgt. Scott Kreher said into a microphone earlier this month in an apparent off-hand remark during a presentation he was giving to the council. Within days, the 17-year department veteran was suspended.
Kreher said the "it" that made him want to club the mayor was that, despite repeated complaints, the police union contends the city is not honoring workers' compensation claims for cops whose careers ended when they were seriously injured on the job.
Franklin, one of the nation's high-profile mayors, told CNN on Tuesday that the officers' complaints are a "separate issue" from Kreher's comments. "Some people think I'll just shake it off," she said of the sergeant's threat. "I can't shake off an officer at City Hall -- not in his shower or in his front yard, but in official capacity -- threatening to hit me in the head with a bat. That is a severe act of violence. When you hit someone with a bat, you intend to kill them."…
A few days after the bat comment, Kreher apologized to Franklin in a letter, which was published on the union Web site. He called his remark "inexcusable," explaining that it sprung from "frustration and anger."
Editor Rozek’s Notes:…uh…don’t you think we are taking ourselves a little too seriously? Haven’t you ever been walking down the street and thought “Hey! You know what? I’d really like to poke that guy’s eyes out with sticks!”?? What exactly is the problem? He basically said that he is so frustrated that he’d like to “beat her in the head with a baseball bat.”…wait a minute…I guess that didn’t make it sound much better. Perhaps opening with a sentence that started with “I want to beat her” wasn’t going in the right direction…I would’ve eaten a twix and finished the sentence as… “a nice pan of brownies and serve it to her at a luncheon.” He must not have had a candy bar on him. The point is that no matter what he said, he wasn’t actually going to do it. I think that little Ms. Franklin was having a bad day and jumped on it a little too forcefully. What did she say about not being able to shake him off in the shower?” That may be the problem. I don’t know why she would’ve been in his shower to begin with… though a shower certainly seems like an unthreatening place to be if you need to fend someone off…I mean…where would he hide the baseball bat? Shower outfits never have good pockets! Why isn’t a heartfelt apology ever enough? He said he’s sorry…(and then his partner stuffed a candy bar in his mouth as they shuffled the Mayor out of the room…) Shake it off!
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --.It probably would have been just another ho-hum city council budget meeting. Except that the leader of Atlanta's police union, and second-highest ranking member of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, said he wanted to beat Atlanta's mayor with a bat.
"I want to beat her [Mayor Shirley Franklin] in the head with a baseball bat sometimes when I think about it," Sgt. Scott Kreher said into a microphone earlier this month in an apparent off-hand remark during a presentation he was giving to the council. Within days, the 17-year department veteran was suspended.
Kreher said the "it" that made him want to club the mayor was that, despite repeated complaints, the police union contends the city is not honoring workers' compensation claims for cops whose careers ended when they were seriously injured on the job.
Franklin, one of the nation's high-profile mayors, told CNN on Tuesday that the officers' complaints are a "separate issue" from Kreher's comments. "Some people think I'll just shake it off," she said of the sergeant's threat. "I can't shake off an officer at City Hall -- not in his shower or in his front yard, but in official capacity -- threatening to hit me in the head with a bat. That is a severe act of violence. When you hit someone with a bat, you intend to kill them."…
A few days after the bat comment, Kreher apologized to Franklin in a letter, which was published on the union Web site. He called his remark "inexcusable," explaining that it sprung from "frustration and anger."
Editor Rozek’s Notes:…uh…don’t you think we are taking ourselves a little too seriously? Haven’t you ever been walking down the street and thought “Hey! You know what? I’d really like to poke that guy’s eyes out with sticks!”?? What exactly is the problem? He basically said that he is so frustrated that he’d like to “beat her in the head with a baseball bat.”…wait a minute…I guess that didn’t make it sound much better. Perhaps opening with a sentence that started with “I want to beat her” wasn’t going in the right direction…I would’ve eaten a twix and finished the sentence as… “a nice pan of brownies and serve it to her at a luncheon.” He must not have had a candy bar on him. The point is that no matter what he said, he wasn’t actually going to do it. I think that little Ms. Franklin was having a bad day and jumped on it a little too forcefully. What did she say about not being able to shake him off in the shower?” That may be the problem. I don’t know why she would’ve been in his shower to begin with… though a shower certainly seems like an unthreatening place to be if you need to fend someone off…I mean…where would he hide the baseball bat? Shower outfits never have good pockets! Why isn’t a heartfelt apology ever enough? He said he’s sorry…(and then his partner stuffed a candy bar in his mouth as they shuffled the Mayor out of the room…) Shake it off!
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