Pop Culture-Bedbugs Are Back; Where Are the Toads?

The liberals in California built this fabulous toad crossing but the toads refuse to use it.

Also in this Pop Culture post we've got the next blockbuster movie "The Return of the Bedbugs".

Also a fellow with green blood, "Britain's Got Talent", blind items and human interest and gossip tidbits as required.

Pic of the Day

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Quote of the Day In Bill Gates' book (Business @ The Speed of Thought), he lays out 11 rules that students do not learn in high school or college. He argues that our feel good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for failure in the real world. RULE 1 - Life is not fair; get used to it. RULE 2 - The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. RULE 3 - You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both. RULE 4 - If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. RULE 5 - Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. RULE 6 - If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. RULE 7 - Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room. RULE 8 - Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. RULE 9 - Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. RULE 10 - Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Web Site Worth the Visit Coke Addicts Convention Really....they had a convention. Check the site below for some pics. ABOVE SITE HERE

TIDBITS 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. 2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. 3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles. 4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts. 5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it. 6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much. 7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train. 8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated. 9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores. 10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country . . . Or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any another country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans. 11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store. 12. The New Orleans Times-Picayune is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something in which to wrap it.

 


"Britain's Got Talent"

The winner of this show has received national attention in America. I'm reviewing its sister show, "America's Got Talent", America's Got Talent Premiers 6/5/07

The tenor who won Britain's show does have an amazing voice.

From ITV:

Two million votes were cast by the British public. For the big winner, Welshman Paul Potts, tonight starts a week of newspaper interviews, magazine features and TV appearances. Life won't be quite the same ever again.

As Ant and Dec congratulated the singer - or was that held him up? - he told them, "I can't believe I've won it, I'm like jelly. Performing for The Queen means absolutely everything. Thank you for believing in me".

The man Simon Cowell described as "a shy and humble guy with a great talent" will now "be in the recording studio next week making his first album".

As well as the £100,000 prize cheque, the Britain's Got Talent winner will perform at the Royal Variety Performance, by invitation of Her Majesty The Queen.

Click here to listen to this fellow's incredible voice. And tune into my review's of "America's Got Talent". It's a hoot.



They're Baaaaaack....

When I was about five years old, we had bedbugs. Yes we did. In fact, we had a terrible case of bedbugs in my Baltimore city tract house.

Our bedbug infestation was not helped by our tendency, particularly the tendency of my brother, to wet the bed.

Yes my mother fought the things. She regularly stripped all of our sheets and washed them in a wringer washer with almost an entire bottle of bleach. The infestation would die down for a while but soon they'd be right back.

I hated getting up in the morning because my body would be covered with bumps from the bedbug bites. It was a terrible, terrible way to live.

From KNOXNEWS.com:

Decidedly creepy and the very definition of crawly, an army of tiny insects is on the march, infiltrating hidden corners across the country in its insatiable quest to feast on your blood while you sleep. Yes, America, bed bugs are back.

Largely absent, or at least little noticed, for more than 50 years, these little suckers have now been detected making people miserable in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since the new millennium began, pest-control companies have reported a 70 percent or higher uptick in bed-bug calls, and some entomologists predict that rate to continue or even grow.

Yet as I remember, the bedbug problem only lasted about two years and then boom, they were gone, never to return. I don't know what made them go away as the bedwetting did not stop until we were ten years old. But we moved from house to house as a result of my parents' divorce and at times even lived in tiny apartments. Still we had no more bedbugs.

Now I know that I'm not nuts, there really is such a thing as bedbugs. According to the article above, bedbugs haven't been seen in any quantity in America for over 50 years. Well I am 57 years old, so the timing is right.

And it would sure be unkind to mention that this resurrection of the bedbug is coincidentally a problem in proportion to the growth of our illegal alien population.

So I won't mention it.

Seinfeld's Rape Joke Raising Hackles

First, it's that time of year when movies are the big thing. I do not go to movie theaters and have not for over thirty years. I'm not particularly proud of that factoid but not ashamed either. But I've sure noticed all the movie hyping and that one with yet another mere mortal charged with a mighty task by none other than God Himself is really getting old. You'd think "Evan Almighty" was the 2007 version of Ben Hur.

Anyway, Jerry Seinfeld is evidently involved in producing an animated film about Bees and on that topic, he made a comment about rape.
From Radaronline:

People who combat rape for a living were less than amused by Jerry Seinfeld's uncharacteristic foray into shock humor today.
Promoting his new animated film, Bee Movie, in the New York Daily News today, the usually family-friendly comic quipped, "Bees have the only perfect society on earth ... They have no crime, they have no drugs, they have no rape. A little rape, but it's not that bad."

So okay, I don't know enough about bees to understand how they have "a little rape" so maybe the joke's lost on me.

But there are plenty out there who are NOT laughing.

Yes, I know rape isn't a joke subject. But if Chrystal Magnum of Duke fame can cry a rape that didn't happen and suffer no punishment for it, that fact alone belittles the horror that is rape. Why aren't all these organizations boo-hooing about Jerry Seinfeld's rather harmless joke down in Durham and marching for the most well known fake rape-accuser ....ever....to be punished for casting future doubt on future REAL rape victims who dare to report the crime?

The Toads Won't Use the Toad Crossing

Okay, here's something I seldom do but darn it I read all about it and I got the cutest picture below. So I'm reporting this story with no links, quotes or anything but my ageing memory as a source.

It seems the liberals in California got it into their head that some toads would be greatly bothered by a new road so they built a special toad crossing for the little critters.

Only the toads wouldn't use the special toad crossing because animals, hey they understand quite well what they need to survive and be comfortable while doing it. Those animal rights activists so often look like real fools when they humanly intercede with nature.



Yes I know building a road interferes with nature in that before the road there were probably trees or such in the same spot. But God provided the materials to make an asphalt road and gave mankind the brains to do it and hey, humans are people too. As most animal lovers know, and I include myself in this category, the critters find a way to survive. It's rare, extremely rare, for humankind to eliminate a species. No matter what the animal rights kooks tell you.

We have a regular little toad factory here in Serendipity Shore in the swamps of Delaware. We have toads everywhere. Granddaughter Kaitlyn Mae regularly catches toads and she will carry them around the yard in her hand so that they may enjoy our morning exercise. Kaitlyn maintains that the toads too enjoy the benefits of our morning exercise and she names her toad friends. We've had toads named Bruce, Dennis and one female Kaitlyn named Melinda.

Our dog also has been known to find a toad to two and our dog has discovered they don't taste very good.

Toads know how to get around and a big road isn't going to stop them. I could have told those California toad activists that a toad crossing was a waste of time.

There is no shortage of toads in the world. There will always be plenty of toads. Which is a good thing because they eat the bugs in our gardens.

Heh.

Man Bleeds Green Blood

From Fox News.com:

Canadian surgeons received the shock of their careers while trying to insert an arterial line into a man who was suffering from compartment syndrome and needed an urgent procedure to save his legs from permanent damage.

Surgeons were having trouble inserting the line, but what happened next seemed like science fiction. The man began oozing dark green blood out of the catheter, not unlike Mr. Spock might have done if he was on the operating table.

It would turn out that the above is a true story. As it turned out, the fellow in question was taking a medicine for migraine headaches that included sulphur as a component. Sulphur molecules that attach to hemoglobin cause the blood to turn green because they reduce the blood's ability to carry oxygen. This particular patient was taking this medication in amounts way above that prescribed and he was a smoker.

Kristy Swanson's Weird Complaint

I covered the reality series "Skating With Celebrities" the year Kristy met Lloyd Eisler. It was almost a romance made for a Lifetime movie. Kristy was a contender and Eisler was the professional skater partner to Kristy.

From Yahoo.com:

Kristy Swanson pressed assault charges Sunday against the ex-wife of her companion and former "Skating With Celebrities" partner, Lloyd Eisler, the actress' representative said.

Police took pictures of bruises on her back and other parts of her body to document injuries Swanson claimed she got during a scuffle with Eisler's ex-wife, Marcia O'Brien, on Friday in Canada, said Swanson spokesman Michael Sands.

Only Lloyd was still married to hiw wife when Kristy got pregnant with Eisler's child. Now this story above is confusing as all get out. For it turns out that Eisler's ex-wife filed charges against Kristy FIRST.

Okay, ladies, play nice. Now WHO hit WHO first?

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