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A very dangerous and somewhat new drug is causing police to send a warning to local parents. Investigators say kids are getting high off a drug called Jenkem. The drug, made from fermented feces and urine, hasn’t been found in our area yet, but police think it could be here soon.

Police say Jenkem is a fad they’re hearing about from other law enforcement agencies. It starts as an attempt to get high.

“It’s basically someone taking raw sewage and letting it ferment,” explained Metro Special Operations Police Captain Robert Hammer. “Then there’s a gas that expels off of that and they inhale that gas.”

That gas causes hallucinations. Dr. Tom Sweeny works in the ER at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center. He says the typical hallucinogen gives a sense of euphoria and a heightened sense of awareness. The rush is followed by sedation.

Sounds like a crappy high to me! (*rimshot*)



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The Smoking Gun got the drop on this New Year’s Day mishap at Colorado’s Vail ski resort, which the cheeky site says “will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement)”. An unidentified 48-year-old man riding the lift at Blue Sky Basin wound up dangling by one ski, naked from the waist down, when the chair malfunctioned. A child riding with him had to cling to the upended seat until workers reversed the lift and rescued them several minutes later. TSG has photos taken by other skiers, one of whom may lose his job as a photographer, the Vail Daily reports. The paper ran a revealing photo that has since gone viral on the Net, and many readers have complained.

I’m certain the lift operators suppressed their laughter for a minute or so. More embarrassing moments from The Smoking Gun.





Doctor Batista ponders

A Long Island surgeon embroiled in a nearly four-year divorce proceeding wants his estranged wife to return the kidney he donated to her – although he says he’ll settle for $1.5 million.

Dr. Richard Batista, a surgeon at Nassau University Medical Center, said he decided to go public with his demand for kidney compensation because he has grown frustrated with the negotiations.

Batista said he gave his kidney to Dawnell Batista, now 44, in 2001. She filed for divorce in 2005, although he claims she began having an extramarital affair 18 months to two years after receiving his kidney, his lawyer said. Her lawyer could not be reached for comment.

Maybe they should divide the kidney. What do you think?


If I didn’t know better I’d think this was a scam. Ain’t modern technologicality great?

Use the Stirwand for great tasting, super-hydrating, energized water for you and your family. Great for all of your pets’ water and watering livestock and for farm and agricultural applications.

Easy to use . . . just stir for 10 to 15 seconds and drink!

Stirwands are simple constructions of granulated rock, encapsulated within fountain pen sized enclosures of medical grade polycarbonate plastic. Their primary function is to increase the hydration potential of water. Convention will debate this, as inert objects traditionally do not produce substantial results in water. In this case however, a quantum phenomenon trumps a Newtonian fundamental; Stirwands effects are varied, significant and thought provoking.
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Consider an ordinary rock for example. Pick it up. Feel its weight and hardness. All indications would suggest the rock is a dense and solid object, when in actuality, it is almost entirely empty space. The few bits of matter that do exist, are self defined by their points of focus within an endless matrix of potential.

These various manifestations of matter exist because their individual consciousness identify with different points within the matrix, those specifically which they consider to be real. If an individual consciousness of matter were to change its point of focus, its outward manifestation would change as well. Consciousness precedes form, and by this process, our reality is manifest via concentrations of consciousness contained within a matrix of potential. Contrary to appearances, our solid and stable world more closely resembles a holographic projection than one might think.

In parallel co-existence with the aforementioned matrix, is another completely separate matrix, which is a simultaneous realty potential. This can be referred to as the “High Matrix” because matter is remarkably transformed when its consciousness migrates to a point within the High Matrix lattice. Through this method, the minerals of the Stirwands have elevated themselves and consequently exhibit their exceptional qualities.

[…]You may notice: Water tastes better, smoother, and seems “wetter” with a slightly thicker consistency

Now who among us hasn’t wanted their water to be wetter? Finally!



General Casey gets to send another letter, now

The U.S. Army is apologizing to thousands of Army families who received letters beginning “Dear John Doe” after losing a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Some 7,000 letters were sent in late December to notify families of services or gifts surviving family members can receive from nonprofit organizations that help families of fallen soldiers. The letters also had improper address information at the top of the correspondence. Instead of the receiving family’s name and home address, the letters said “Army Long Term Case Management.”

The letters were printed by a contracting company and sent by the U.S. Army Human Resources Command’s Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Center in Alexandria, Virginia. The center has issued a formal apology.

Ain’t outsourcing grand?


Odd how conservatives who rant about America becoming socialistic have no problem signing up for government run SS. What, you didn’t plan for your retirement properly and have to depend on others? Why should I, a hard working, self sufficient person, pay for you?

The Social Security Administration, bracing for the coming eligibility of 80 million baby boomers, is introducing an online application that will allow people to apply for retirement benefits in as little as 15 minutes.

Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue said in an interview the agency was completely overhauling its electronic services in recognition of the greater computer skills of future Social Security recipients and the need to more efficiently process the coming flood of applications.

“We just don’t have the infrastructure to handle that workload in the traditional fashion,” he said.

Astrue said a person who now goes to a Social Security office to apply spends about 45 minutes consulting with a field officer.

The agency says that over the next 20 years some 10,000 people a day will become eligible for retirement.
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Those wanting to use the new program can go to http://socialsecurity.gov and click on “Filing Online for Retirement Benefits.”

[Suggestion: Unlike some commenters, before making an embarrassing rant that I am wrong and your lifetime of payments into SS pay for your benefits, please do some research. — UD]


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More photos can be found here, from ‘The Sacramento Bee’.


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Today’s Guests:

  • Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank, PCMagCast.com
  • Demian Entrekin, Founder and CTO, Innotas
  • Dave Mathews, Inventor, Tech Journalist

The Topics:

  • Apple’s Biggest Macworld Surprise Isn’t a Product
  • Radio Shack to Offer $99 Netbooks
  • Beware the Netbook Hype Machine
  • Will Microsoft Buy RIM?
  • Cranky Geeks Promotions

Yes – it appears he did exist before 2004!



  • Intel sales take a nosedive.
  • Toshiba pounding the midrange DTVs.
  • Look for cell TV.
  • Microsoft will give free upgrades to certain Vista users.
  • Verizon is going with MSFT search engine.
  • Sun jumping into cloud computing.
  • 1UP sold, EGM shuttered.
  • 3G service killing 2G service.
  • Portland gets WiMax.
  • New SanDisk risky player.
  • Milky Way in the news.
  • Best of CES items announced. I discuss.

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Is the porn industry up next for a bailout? If porn titans Joe Francis and Larry Flynt have anything to do with it, it will.

Yes, ladies and gentleman, the titans of pornography are begging for a bailout.

Joe Francis, creator of the “Girl’s Gone Wild” video series, and Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler, will ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout, according to TMZ.

Why does the porn industry need a bailout? Because apparently even porn is getting smacked by the recession.

XXX DVD sales have taken a hit – about a 22% hit, according the TMZ.

“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” Flynt is quoted as saying on TMZ. “It’s time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”

Francis thinks that the porn industry deserves a bailout just like the auto and financial industries got, and he said he’ll go to DC to get it, according to TMZ.

“Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation’s most important businesses; we feel we deserve the same consideration,” Francis is quoted as saying on TMZ.


I guess if he can be a plumber, pretty much anyone can be a journalist.

The world’s most famous plumber will travel to Israel to report on the fighting.

snielson_theplumberOn the campaign trail he’s known as “Joe the Plumber.” When he heads to the Gaza Strip, he’ll be Joe Wurzelbacher, “War Correspondent.”

“If given the opportunity to do some good however minute it may be, or could be something really good, you gotta take that chance. You have to do it,” says Joe Wurzelbacher.

Wurzelbacher will travel to Israel to report for the conservative website, pjtv.com. He intends to get the, often lost, Israeli reason for the offensive against Hamas.

“It’s tragic, I mean it really is. I don’t say that in any little way. It’s very tragic, but at the same time what are the Israeli people suppose to do,” says Wurzelbacher.
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“I get to go over there and let their “Average Joes” share their story, what they think, how they feel, especially with world opinion, maybe get a real story out there,” says Wurzelbacher.


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