Saturday, March 29, 2008

THIS JUST IN!

News you need to know, or not!

My home town of Marion, Indiana is like most small industrial towns in the midwest. The downtown is always struggling to get businesses to move downtown to the abandoned stores. The Marion Chronicle reported the following news.

"Everything clicked for Jak Christeon and Josh Perin when they looked at the Grant County Courthouse square as a potential site for their new tattoo business.

They had been scouting several Indiana communities, including Marion. After a morning looking at locations on the Bypass, they went downtown to check out the square “almost as an afterthought,” Christeon said.

As luck would have it, the building’s previous occupant had been a jeweler, and the ceilings and walls already had the artistic decor the duo sought."

“It had that feeling,” Perin said. “Somehow we just knew.”

It is a pretty sad state of affairs when a tattoo parlor is hailed as an improvement.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.

Hamlin said she told the woman she was wearing nipple piercings. The women then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the jewelry, Hamlin said. Oh! Yeah!

She was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring.

"Still crying, she informed the TSA officer that she could not remove it without the help of pliers, and the officer gave a pair to her," The TSA is prepared for this sort of thing.

Hamlin was publicly humiliated and has "undergone an enormous amount of physical pain to have the nipple rings reinserted" because of scar tissue,

OUCH!

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The head of the top U.S. phone company AT&T said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United States from India.

"We're having trouble finding the numbers that we need with the skills that are required to do these jobs," AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told a business group in San Antonio, where the company's headquarters is located.

So far, only around 1,400 jobs have been returned to the United States of 5,000, a target it set in 2006, the company said, adding that it maintains the target.

A sad state of affairs for America. It is like building the border fence with illegal Mexicans because Americans won't do the work.

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Larry King has been named "least sexy talk show host" in a new AOL poll.

Finally an accurate poll.

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People who send excessive texts and emails may have a mental illness, according to an article in a leading psychiatric journal.

What about bloggers?

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune

MANATEE COUNTY - Prosecutors are moving ahead with a case against one of two 93-year-old men picked up during undercover prostitution stings.

Milio, according to police records, tried to pay $20 in November to an undercover officer on 14th Street West.

Milio recently told the Herald-Tribune he was only flirting with the woman.

"I haven't had that in years," he said. "Ninety-three is kind of old."

Carlos Underhill, 93, will not be charged, although he does not deny stopping to chat with the "good-looking girl" who made eyes at him and turned out to be an undercover officer.

Police say Underhill was willing to pay $30 for sex and that he promised to come back a few hours later to consummate the deal.

Prosecutors say that they cannot move ahead with the criminal case because there is no way to prove Underhill planned to come back.

"All I was going to do was talk," he said Monday. "It wasn't for sex. I am 93, you know."

I had better watch it! I'm seventy you know and have had prostate cancer and like to talk to young women.

It was twenty-six years ago today that I suffered a heart attack. Take a lickin' and still tickin'. I will always remember this date not because of the heart attack, but because it was also the day we introduced mozzarella sticks to the world.

Have a nice day!

Sammy Carl







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