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James Michael Tait, 54, of Enumclaw, was accused of entering a barn without the owner’s permission. Tait admitted to officers that he entered a neighboring barn last July with friend Kenneth Pinyan to have sex with a horse, charging papers said. Tait was videotaping the episode when Pinyan suffered internal injuries that led to his death.

I’m gonna bet that’s not what you had in mind.  Darwin’s Law strikes again.

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You have GOT to see this.  The all time greatest Christmas lights show.  Ever.

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Christopher Noteboom, of Tempe, Ariz., ran onto the field holding a plastic bag, leaving a cloud of fine powder behind.

For that alone, Noteboom gets idiot of the day.  In this post 9/11 era, I am sure more than a handfull of people were terrified for a little bit.

"She never cared for any other team except the Eagles," Noteboom told WPVI-TV after he was released from custody Monday. "I know that the last handful of ashes I had are laying on the field, and will never be taken away. She’ll always be part of Lincoln Financial Field and of the Eagles."

Now, although Lincoln Field features natural grass, the fact the building is fully enclosed means I bet that natural grass is replaced at least annually.  Given they’re playing football, I bet it’s replaced more often than that.

Clue here for others thinking this is a pretty cool idea: it’s not.  Someone might get shot pulling a stunt like that.  In reality, Noteboom should have the moment he started tossing powder.

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“To endanger the lives of these kids is not our way. Always remember, stupid is forever. You can’t change stupidity. So if somebody’s sitting next to you, make them recognize that we do not allow that here at Temple.”

John Chaney chastising the Temple crowd for throwing something on the court.  Good for him too.

Now, John has been a source of many quotes.  Most of them not so nice.  However, he apparently took that into consideration when chastising the stupid person who threw whatever it was on the court:

“I might do a lot of dumb things, but I don’t tolerate them."

It’s a good thing Temple tolerates dumb things but not stupid.

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That right there, ( or something that looked exactly like it ), was my first car. Now, you gotta understand that this was around 1978 or so. In those days, cars were huge, they were ugly, and most got about 15 miles to the gallon. For reasons unknown, my dad decided to buy my mom one of those. She refused to drive it. So, as soon as I got my license, I was the PROUD owner of a 1974 Gremlin. Upon assuming ownership ( I never did it legally own it ), I sat two 18 inch bass speakers in the back, swiped the 8-track from my mom’s Buick, and installed two Lab Series tweaters in the front. In those days, they didn’t go for quality, they went for volume. There was nothing louder in my town. Not even close. You could hear me coming for a city block. And, it wasn’t that silly thump-thump year hear today, it was Angus Young’s guitar screaming. I was also the only 16 year old who could completely recline in his car. On slow nights when no babes were to be found ( most every weekend ), me and Aaron could take the Gremlin into the middle of a field and fish out the back end. It was unstoppable as well. Driving as any typical 16 year old does, it survived three collisions and a night stuck in a cave. Some of the casualties it did inflict were taking out seven mailboxes on wooden posts, getting stuck in a cave, getting stuck in a six foot deep ditch, one guardrail, and, a two-ton pickup truck. Oh, and besides being a good ride on the road, I took it four wheeling on more than one occasion. And, drag raced a 1979 Trans Am. The car would do anything. It was the All Purpose Vehicle for any teen boy. I loved my Gremlin.

However, many people apparently didn’t. The Gremlin has been routinely trashed as one of the ugliest cars ever made. A recent poll on MSNBC listed the Gremlin as one of the most unloved cars of all time, right behind the Vega, Pacer, and Horizon. I find that hard to believe. I think, people just love to hate the Gremlin. Some cars had no special features to it, making them forgettable. There was nothing forgettable about MY Gremlin.

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Agents had to use a 20-foot truck to cart away the evidence from a suspect’s house — mountains of Lego bricks.

William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nev., is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks.

Swanberg is accused of switching the bar codes on Lego boxes, replacing an expensive one with a cheaper label, said Detective Troy Dolyniuk, a member of the Washington County fraud and identity theft enforcement team.

I just wonder how people come up with these ideas.  It would seem to me robbing a bank would be a lot easier.

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This post was crafted by my friend Stormwarning.

On this Thanksgiving morning, I believe that we should all give thanks that our Founding Fathers chose the Bald Eagle as our National Bird, instead of going along with Ben Franklin who wanted it to be the (wild) turkey.

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Ben Franklin once wrote: “I wish that the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country, he is a bird of bad moral character, he does not get his living honestly, you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing-hawk, and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to its nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him…. Besides he is a rank coward; the little kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest. . . of America.. . . For a truth, the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America . . . a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British guards, who should presume to invade his farmyard with a red coat on.”

Can you imagine what we’d all be eating today if the turkey had been chosen as our National Bird? I doubt that it would be roasted turkey with “all of the fixin’s” as my Texan wife says. I also suspect that we (the pro-libationists) would not have the ability to sip some Wild Turkey as we watch one of the football games today either.

I’d much rather be eating turkey today. Thankfully, in this case, I’m glad that Jefferson and Adams told Franklin to “go fly a kite” when it came to the choice of National Bird.

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A while back I did a little piece on the demise of the kid that killed a famous lawyer’s wife and how obvious it was from the way the kid dressed to see he was having serious issues. He dressed Goth, he listened to Goth. He thought he was Goth. He wasn’t. Now, we have another situation where a kid kills his girlfriend’s parents. His appearance wasn’t all that big a deal. But, the music he listened to had similar recurring themes apparently:

I know where I stand and what’ll happen if you try it

I am FIREPROOF

I know my heart and I just can’t deny it

I am FIREPROOF

I tried to tell you but you wouldn’t be quiet

I am FIREPROOF

I’ll never bow down and you won’t buy it

I am FIREPROOF

Once again, lyrics telling a kid they can get away with anything. Lyrics that tell them that no matter what they do, they’ll be OK. Only after the kid follows these misguided words of advice that are produced by entertainment whores saying anything that rhymes to a rhythmic beat just to sell their wares do the kids realize it is what it is. Entertainment. A product.

These words that motivated Ludwig were not produced by a Goth band. They weren’t thrashers. They weren’t rappers. They weren’t even Satanic heavy metal. There were……

A Christian rock band.

So, parents, do you know what your kids are listening to? More importantly, do you know how they interpret it?

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It’s apparently official, the best pair of 2005 are back on the market. Shortly after receiving the award for best cleavage of 2005, Jessica has decided to take them on the road.

What is Nick thinking?

I am pondering how this will affect Jessica ‘08. More than likely, it will garner more male votes for sure.

Will she now do another MTV special? Divorcees?

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I have been as fascinated with the Debra Lafave shenanigans as anyone else. The end result of this is Debra is spending the next few years confined to her home, and the next seven years after that watched carefully by a parole officer. Her ex-husband doesn’t think this is right:

“She is a sexual offender and if it were a male she would have definitely gotten jail time,” he said in a television interview Wednesday.

Sounds to me like he’s having issues with this. Lafave seems pretty relieved that this is all over. The boy’s mother seems to think the boy is not traumatized ( well, DUH! ). However, according to the ex:

Lafave’s ex-husband, Owen Lafave, said Wednesday that she was being treated for mental problems when she committed the crime…

I just wonder, was she being treated for this:

This sorta reminds me of Kate Moss being treated for “sexual orientation“. In the case of Kate, getting her boyfriend straightened out ( or out of the picture ), seems to have done her some good. In the case of Debra, I’m thinking the same thing.

The defense of “being too pretty for prison” IMO is a CLASSIC!

As far as Debra’s future, am I the only one thinking a voyeur cam during that home incarceration would make her RICH?

Sounds to me like the only true loser in this whole charade is the ex. He needs to lighten up some.

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