Saturday, July 15, 2006
North Carolinians On the Web
A citizen addresses the Rogue Helicopter Problem at a Charlotte City Council meeting.
More On the Carolina Cougar
More Mountain Lion Sightings Reported: Experts may remain skeptical, but the number of people reporting mountain lion sightings to The Pilot has now risen to more than half a dozen.
The four sightings reported since the publication of an article Sunday suggest there may even be more than one of the animals, which are known variously as cougars, pumas, panthers and catamounts.
Reports of big cats have come from Seven Lakes North, Seven Lakes West, Beacon Ridge, north of Seven Lakes and even in the back area of the Country Club of North Carolina.
Friday, July 14, 2006
You Just Don't Get It, Do You?
From Salon.com: In 1998, three Texas men attacked a 49-year-old African-American named James Byrd. They cut his throat, chained him to the back of a pickup truck, then dragged him along a road for several miles. Byrd was alive for at least part of the ordeal; a forensic pathologist said that Byrd lived until he hit a culvert and his arm and head were severed. His attackers dragged what was left of his body for at least an additional mile.
Gruesome? Yes, but it's apparently no worse than what happened to Ken Lay.
The former Enron chairman died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Aspen, Colo., last week. At a memorial service in Houston Wednesday -- with former President George H.W. Bush in attendance -- a local pastor likened Lay's prosecution in Enron's collapse to the attack on Byrd. 'Ken Lay was neither black nor poor, as James Byrd was,' said the Rev. William Lawson, pastor emeritus of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. 'But I'm angry because Ken was the victim of a lynching.'"
Actually, there are probably a lot of people who would have enjoyed seeing Ken Lay dragged to his death behind a pickup....but see, that didn't actually happen, because Ken Lay was rich, beyotch. But for other rich Republicans, Lay's trial --and conviction--for crimes that ruined the lives of hundreds of thousands was equivalent to being tortured to death.
John Edwards' "Two Americas" theory is begining to look more and more plausible every day.
Gruesome? Yes, but it's apparently no worse than what happened to Ken Lay.
The former Enron chairman died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Aspen, Colo., last week. At a memorial service in Houston Wednesday -- with former President George H.W. Bush in attendance -- a local pastor likened Lay's prosecution in Enron's collapse to the attack on Byrd. 'Ken Lay was neither black nor poor, as James Byrd was,' said the Rev. William Lawson, pastor emeritus of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. 'But I'm angry because Ken was the victim of a lynching.'"
Actually, there are probably a lot of people who would have enjoyed seeing Ken Lay dragged to his death behind a pickup....but see, that didn't actually happen, because Ken Lay was rich, beyotch. But for other rich Republicans, Lay's trial --and conviction--for crimes that ruined the lives of hundreds of thousands was equivalent to being tortured to death.
John Edwards' "Two Americas" theory is begining to look more and more plausible every day.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Coo Yah, Mon!
My good buddy Bob Morris, author of Bahamarama, Jamaica Me Dead, and the upcoming Bermuda Schwartz, joins the blogosphere with Surrounded on Three Sides. (I think the title has something to do with the fact that Bob's one of them Floridians).
Sorry you missed the bit where he was giving away free rum. But Bob's a great storyteller, a connoiseur of good food and drink, and a blast to hang out with. Check it out.
Sorry you missed the bit where he was giving away free rum. But Bob's a great storyteller, a connoiseur of good food and drink, and a blast to hang out with. Check it out.
DAMN IT!
Gandolfini knee surgery delays 'Sopranos'
PASADENA, Calif. - Fans of 'The Sopranos' will have to wait a bit longer for the mob drama's final chapter.
Because of 'unexpected' knee surgery for series star
James Gandolfini, the concluding episodes that were expected to begin in January will be delayed about two months, HBO Chairman Chris Albrecht said.
The surgery alone would have pushed the season start back just a few weeks, but that would have put 'The Sopranos' up against the football playoffs and the Super Bowl, Albrecht told a television critics' gathering Wednesday.
A specific air date for the Sunday-night series has yet to be determined but it's likely to be in early March 2007, he said.
First there was the half-baked "season" we just went through, now we have to wait till friggin' MARCH to see if the show rallies for its last hoorah.
I want my bloodbath, and I want it NOW!
PASADENA, Calif. - Fans of 'The Sopranos' will have to wait a bit longer for the mob drama's final chapter.
Because of 'unexpected' knee surgery for series star
James Gandolfini, the concluding episodes that were expected to begin in January will be delayed about two months, HBO Chairman Chris Albrecht said.
The surgery alone would have pushed the season start back just a few weeks, but that would have put 'The Sopranos' up against the football playoffs and the Super Bowl, Albrecht told a television critics' gathering Wednesday.
A specific air date for the Sunday-night series has yet to be determined but it's likely to be in early March 2007, he said.
First there was the half-baked "season" we just went through, now we have to wait till friggin' MARCH to see if the show rallies for its last hoorah.
I want my bloodbath, and I want it NOW!
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