Charlie Sheen Morning News edition-as seen by cats!

http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/cats-quote-charlie-sheen-morning-news-edition/

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#OnlyinNorthernMIchigan

Plunging in Icy Waters to Raise Money for the Special Olympics

How many times you gonna do this? I'm beginning to think you may like it too much....

Plumber franchises for better service
 Have two toilets unplugged and get the third one free....

The rules for The Great Twitter Contest!

Must not use hash tag #OnlyinNorthernMichigan

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http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/https.asp
Don't put in your credit card number on a http:
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp
Communion on the Moon.

My Phone can do anything.....

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011, 4:05 pm by Brad Linder 

Motorola Atrix 4G demo video: Could be the only mobile device you need?

Motorola has released a demo video for the upcoming Atrix 4G smartphone — you know, the one with the optional $150 Webtop docking station that effectively turns the phone into a notebook computer? It looks like there will also be a media dock which will allow you to connect the phone to a big screen TV and use a remote to control media playback.

I have to say, I really like the idea of a single device which you carry in your pocket — thus keeping all of your important data and apps with you wherever you go, which then serves multiple functions around the house or on the go depending on the docking station.

While I hear a lot of chatter that tablets are killing netbooks, I don't think that's true. While there's certainly some overlap in functionality, netbooks and tablets are different product categories and while some netbook customers might decide that tablets better meet their needs, others will prefer devices with QWERTY keyboards. The Atrix 4G, on the other hand, really could replace the need for a netbook or notebook computer for some people.

Update: AT&T has unveiled the official pricing for the Atrix 4G and Webtop, and I'm suddenly a lot less excited. The phone will run just $199.99 on contract, but the phone + laptop dock will run $499.99. On top of that, you'll have to pay for a tethering add-on to use your phone's 4G internet connection with the Webtop.

via Engadget

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Review: Motorola Atrix a powerful smart phone

By RACHEL METZ

SAN FRANCISCO -- As smart phones get an increasing array of features, they need faster processors. The Motorola Atrix 4G, billed as "the world's most powerful smart phone," arrives with 2 gigahertz of processing power- the kind you're more likely to find on a laptop than a phone.

Do you love D.C.? Get the insider's guide to where to stay, what to do and where to eat. Go to www.washingtonpost.com/gog for your guide to D.C. now.

© 2011 The Washington Post Company | Privacy Policy

Time to take Dad's computer away....And From the Desk of:

Desperate to believe: One man even borrows money to send to scammers
Con artists keep on infiltrating the Gratiot County area and stunningly, a surprising number of people keep sending their money off to strangers.

From the Desk of Pete Yates:
it's been a long time since Pete posted here, and mostly it's because Pete has a life....And I don't....

From the Desk of Enapov:
I'm bored, entertain me....

This is what happens when snow falls in parts of the country that don't have removal equipment.

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Snow, thy name is "PAIN IN THE ASS!"

Woman Throws a Towing Tantrum

Police in Mecosta County say a woman threw a massive tantrum Monday afternoon when she saw her towing bill. They say she did more than $3,000 worth of damage over a $225 bill. Deputies say the woman attacked an employee at Weeks Towing in Morley and then pulled a baseball bat off the wall smashing everything in sight. The employee waiting on the woman says she shattered windows, knocked holes in the walls, and destroyed a computer. 9 and 10's Kyle Mitchell and Photojournalist Corey Petee have more on the attack and how it was all caught on tape.

Wow! Just goes to show you that if you want to throw a fit and vandalize something, go and break in - in the middle of the night and do it like everyone else. Not in the day time. And don't forget that the first thing to go needs to be that pesky camera. And as far as the camera goes, it's always a good idea to kill the power before taking a baseball bat to the place. No one wants to end up on the evening news in the midst of a meltdown.
However, if she didn't have towing on her insurance I imagine a bill like that would be like a shaft up the ole' rectum, depending on where she had to get it towed from. It's really important to realize if your having towed just a few miles then sympathy abounds. But if you were in the middle of a field and had to be drug out and dragged thirty miles then, well, you need to take your medication. That's a similiar pain in the rectum for the other side.

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Disney Junior programming is revamped
Wow, they actually finally admitted to it...Disney has been programming the young for years.....

On NBC nightly news!

Doesn't this look vaguely like a kid holding this sign? I could be wrong (and often am....)
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Grave Digger

Grave digger's job is challenging
Grave digging is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.

♫ Grave digger-When you dig my grave....Will you make it shallow-so that I can feel the rain.....♫ - Dave Matthews "Some Devil"

Sim Man....Oh what a work is he.....

'Sim Man' helps nursing students learn skills at MMCC
With the click of a mouse, Rhonda Wezensky on Thursday gave a patient pneumonia.

Then later on, keeping him up for more than seventy-two hours she made him pass out on the floor because of exhaustion- impregnate the neighbor-and wee all over the floor because he didn't get a chance to go to the bathroom. However she did build him a two story house and increased his pay structure by getting him a new job.

Chocolate Onion

Perfect Soup Weather Coming 02.16.11

SILVER SPRING, MD—Meteorologists at the National Weather Service announced Monday that Americans should begin preparing for perfect soup weather, which will hit many parts of the country as early as midweek.

Nation Somehow Shocked By Human Nature Again

Clothing Prices Expected To Rise 10%

'You don't scare me, clothing. You need me. You depend on me. Without me, you don't make any sense.'

What's This Nonsense About Being Able To Laugh At One's Self?

by Albert Humphrey

I am not a humorless man. I've laughed heartily at skits constructed around the most ridiculous scenarios, and I myself am known for the occasional well-placed quip.

Sixth-Grader's Family Tree Fails To Hold Up To Scrutiny

...As does mine.....

From those wiley Cappers!

Michigan's a mystery....

Early start for maple tapping in Shepherd

Polar Plunge benefits coaches, athletes of Special Olympics MichiganThey'll descend eventually....Don't you worry....
 
medical marijuana regulation will have to come from local governments (35)
Dammit!

Happy Friggin Valentines Day!!! and WORLD OF WARCRAP kills more!!!

Boy jumped to his death whilst re-enacting a scene from the game.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/wow-player-dies-jumping-off-building-221372/

The parents of a 13 year-old boy who died falling from a building are suing World of Warcraft developer Blizzard, claiming that the massively-multiplayer online game is to blame for their son's death.

According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the parents, who reside in the city of Tianjin, claim the boy jumped to his death whilst re-enacting a scene from the game. They are supported by Zhang Chunliang, a well-known activist whose campaign seeks to highlight the dangers of Internet addiction.

Chunliang, who says he has talked to more than 60 parents whose children have become addicted to online gaming, is now set to file suit against Blizzard over the boy's death.

There are more than 1.5 million World of Warcraft players in China - making up more than a third of the game's worldwide subscriber base, even though the game only went on sale there in June. The9 acts as Blizzard's partner in the region, providing localisation and support services for the game.

Neither Blizzard nor The9 were available for comment.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=13128

And their methods are downright creepy.
So, the headlines say somebody else has died due to video game addiction. Yes, it's Korea again.

What the hell? Look, I'm not saying video games are heroin. I totally get that the victims had other shit going on in their lives. But, half of you reading this know a World of Warcraft addict and experts say video game addiction is a thing. So here's the big question: Are some games intentionally designed to keep you compulsively playing, even when you're not enjoying it?

Oh, hell yes. And their methods are downright creepy.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html#ixzz1DuPxxMcy

Snopes!

Glurge:http://www.snopes.com/glurge/milk.asp   A doctor operated for free on a girl who years earlier had given him a glass of milk.

Status:   True. Example:   [Collected via e-mail, 2005]

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly, and then asked, How much do I owe you?"

You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness."

He said ... "Then I thank you from my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Many year's later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.

Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words ...

"Paid in full with one glass of milk"

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands."

Origins:   The above-quoted account has been showing up in the snopes.com inbox since 2000. It has appeared in any number of collections of inspirational tales and self-help books, including Ruth Fishel's 2004 Living Light as a Feather: How to Find Joy in Every Day and a Purpose in Every Problem, Viola Walden's 1994 Pardon the Mess: A Collection of Family-Building Thoughts, Benjamin Blech's 2003 Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs, and John Mark Templeton's 2002 Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Towards Heaven on Earth.

It is a well-traveled and much beloved tale. And yet, while at its heart it is a true story, it has been so greatly exaggerated that it is now only a caricature of itself, having been distorted in numerous ways to better tell the story of a doctor who wouldn't accept a fee for his services from a gal who once gave him a glass of
milk.

Dr. Howard Kelly (1858-1943) was a distinguished physician who was one of the four founding doctors of Johns Hopkins, the first medical research university in the U.S. and arguably one of the finest hospitals anywhere. In 1895 he established the department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at that school. Over the course of his career, he advanced the sciences of gynecology and surgery, both as a teacher and as a practitioner.

It is not his skills as a healer or accomplishments as a medical pioneer that concern us in this tale, though, but rather the account of a years-previous kindness repaid.

According to the biography written by Audrey Davis from knowledge she gained of the doctor through her 20-year friendship with him and through the notebooks and journals he left her upon his death (Dr. Kelly began keeping a diary at the age of 17 while in his junior year of college), the story of the bill paid in full by the glass of milk is true:



On a walking trip up through Northern Pennsylvania one spring, Kelly stopped by a small farm house for a drink of cool spring water. A little girl answered his knock and instead of water brought him a glass of fresh milk. After a short friendly visit, he went on his way. Some years later, that same little girl came to him for an operation. Just before she left for home, her bill was brought into the room and across its face was written in a bold hand, "Paid in full with one glass of milk."

However, it should be noted that while the story itself is true, it has been greatly embellished to make it a more touching tale. Dr. Kelly was never an impoverished student who ruefully eyed his last dime as hunger set in and he resolved to beg a meal at the next farm house. He was the scion of a relatively well-to-do family, and he did not have to work to put himself through school, let alone by peddling goods door to door. Over and above his education and living expenses, the young scholar received from his family a monthly allowance of $5 for pocket money, his biographer noting of his bank account in those days: "It is amazing how many items of necessity and pleasure those $5 deposits accounted for, and yet there was always an unexpended balance." On his 21st birthday, the future doctor received "checks for $100 from his father and from several aunts," which would have been considered astronomical sums in those days (1879).

The young man did not hold a job, in fact, until the age of 22 — upon being sent to Colorado Springs for his health (he stayed there for a year) and purchasing a horse for $40, he carried the mail for a week to relieve the regular mailman.

The future Dr. Kelly came to be tramping about the farmland and woods of Pennsylvania and put himself at that farm house door through his love of nature. His special joy was to hike great distances and study animals in the wild, and indeed he had been headed for a career as a naturalist until his father insisted during his final year of college (1877) that he "divert his talents into a field that offered greater certainty of a livelihood and promised fair financial return." Dr. Kelly did retain his interest in the natural world throughout his life, though, and so he continued to go on such walking trips.

On the day described in the "milk" anecdote, he hadn't been "ready to give up and quit," nor had he been experiencing a spiritual crisis that caused him to doubt the nature of man or God. Throughout his life Howard Kelly was a devout Christian whose faith was as natural to him as breathing. He was neither financially nor spiritually beaten down that day; he was merely a thirsty hiker who thought to ask for a glass of water at a farm he passed.

The Davis biography of Dr. Kelly contains no mention of the "glass of milk" girl's being "critically ill," of her local doctors being "baffled," or of her being sent to Baltimore because she had fallen victim to a "rare disease," as the much-embroidered version of the tale would have it. Indeed, nothing is said of her case to indicate that it was at all unusual, or that her life was in any way in jeopardy. Other than for Dr. Kelly's writing off her bill for that long-ago glass of milk, her case was not remarkable in the least.

As regards his writing off that bill, while Dr. Kelly did charge very high fees for his work (and "suffered extreme criticism" for it, says his biographer), he did so only with patients who could afford it, their payments underwriting the medical care he provided free-of-charge to the less fortunate. By his conservative estimate, in 75% of his cases he neither sought nor received a fee. Moreover, for years he paid the salary of a nurse to visit and care for those of his patients who could not otherwise afford such treatment, thereby providing them with both doctor and nurse without charge.

So, to sum up:

Howard Kelly wasn't a destitute young scholar peddling goods door to door in furtherance of his dream of someday becoming a doctor and so was rescued from overwhelming hunger by a fortuitous glass of milk. He was a thirsty hiker out on one of his many rambles about the countryside to study wildlife. He asked for water at a farm house and was instead given milk.

The girl who gave the milk to him later came to him as a patient, but likely not because she was dying or because her condition was unusual.

Dr. Kelly wrote off her bill, but he did so with three of every four patients he treated.

Barbara "skim milk" Mikkelson

Last updated:   27 January 2008

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Shrugging Oniony Shoulders.

U.S. Authorities Can't Really Fault Al-Qaeda For Deadly Bombing Of Carnival Cruise Ship 02.09.11

Library Of Congress Adds 3 Titles To List Of Films That Should Be Destroyed Forever

Kevin Durant Doomed To Walk The Earth In Unending Misery, Say Sports Analysts

	What's This Nonsense About Being Able To Laugh At One's Self?

CNN Introduces New Anchor-Bot

NASA Launches David Bowie Concept Mission

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Union Township could adopt medical marijuana moratorium

Dozens of snack food makers rejoice.

Plans unveiled for agricultural event at Silverdome

Bring you're big foam fingers!

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Michigan Weather

Today: crappy with a chance at shitacular.
Temps: far below well-diggers ass!
WindsW/SW 10-15WindsW/SW 10-1
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Mr. Cliche'

Desuko's Junk Drawer http://desuko.tumblr.com/post/3200575117/vintage-comics-retro-1960s-man-suit-fashion-comic-book
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News from an online Michigan news source?

All-you-can-eat breakfast set in Harrison http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2011/02/09/life/doc4d51e499b0df9727941054.txt. Garlic enhancing your love life? http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2011/02/09/life/doc4d50c10b6a50c607349647.txt. Swan problem? http://www.9and10news.com/Category/Story/?id=281133&cID=1. The mind giggles....
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News from a Michigan Online Newspaper

Great Lakes Region Facing Water Shortage?
Is that an oxymoron?

Major sewer main breaks in St. Louis
Residents aren't affected, but St. Louis will have to repair a major sewer main break
or
Shitty predicament in St.Louis....

Super Bowl connection keeps mid-Michigan fans glued to TV It's all we have.

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Snopes and Today in an online Michigan Newspaper

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/bottle.asp
It may or may not be the real thing....

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/kato.asp
It may or may not have anything to do with it....

http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/caraccidents.asp
Here's a clue....They've all been to a football game and been drinking beer....It's not brain surgery....

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RICK MILLS: How my wife became a cheesehead
Dude, really? It's like that question, "Do I look fat in these jeans?" Tread lightly.

Isabella County Trial Court, published Feb. 6
Okay, here's my thing...It's bad enough that you have the humiliation of going to court... It's bad enough that you have it published in the newspaper.
But seriously guys...The internet never dies.

More crap btw

Alma Scots hosting special double dip today

Uh, man that's disgusting....

Winds hampered road crews
Road crews complain that the wind is, "Doing it on purpose!"

SNOWZILLA : and other Northern Michigan misadventures! The Onion: Superbowl appetizers?

UPDATE-4: Colossal storm roars through nation's heartland
Millions of Japanese breathe a sigh of relief that "Snowzilla" did not target it's shores like so many monsters before.

Heavy, blowing snow shuts down mid-Michigan How is this different than any other day?

Isabella's pet adoption fees to increase
Because that is conducive to getting people to adopt a rescue.

Packers, Steelers feeling comfortable in cold conditions at Super Bowl
Truth be told they had to send away to get this weather.

Mom and Son Snow Tubing event planned for Saturday
Or aptly named: When Bad Things Happen To Good Mom's!


___________The Onion____________________
Republicans Vote To Repeal Obama-Backed Bill That Would Destroy Asteroid Headed For Earth
Why aren't we surprised?

Department Of Health And Human Services Recommends Standing At Least Once A Day

Reporter For High School Newspaper Most Professional Journalist In Nation

Highlights: Hallucinating Crystal Meth Addict Sprints 400 Yards To Meet With President

Anti-Spam Legislation Opposed By Powerful Penis-Enlargement Lobby

Tweet

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MUPPETS- I'M LOOKING THROUGH YOU is mysteriously unavailabe so it's so true...

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