Posts from the ‘what the hell’ Category

I am too late

According to CNN Lisa Loeb is looking for a mate on TV. Apparently I should have asked her if she wanted to go for ice cream or go for gingerbread pancakes…bummer for me. Maybe I can still move to New York and see if I can get in on the dating ring -HA! Not so much. I’ll keep my eyes out for this show…

Big mouth folks

So I was skimming some news and came across an article that made me laugh. Forget the topic, forget the subject…I don’t care what side you might be on or if you’re Republican or Democrat.

Author’s opening argument:
Fieger is most known for his mouth.
Author’s closing statement:
He’s poison, and we could kick his sorry rear end with two hands tied behind our backs.

Is it just me or is the pot calling the kettle black here? I just like it when outspoken people complain about outspoken people. It could be Satan vs. God in a thumb wrestling match and if God made a comment like “Dude, I’m God…he just can’t win.” I would root for Satan. Why? I like seeing pie thrown in cocky people’s faces.

Is political news boring or what?

Article snips pulled from: Geoffrey Fieger running for Attorney General (Michigan) @ RedState.org

The Post Office is great

Or they are terrible and just want excuses to charge more money for a service that is old and antiquated. What set me off today? “Snail mail: postcard lands 50 years later” @ Reuters.

A Swedish postcard bearing a lottery number arrived 50 years after being sent to a retirement home on the Baltic island of Gotland.
– – STOCKHOLM [Reuters]

Oh yea, they are on top of things…

Finding good employees

Looks like good help is hard to find no matter who you are or what cause you are fighting for. Looking for work? Consider Al Qaeda [Reuters].

The beauty of the internet! Even militant terrorist groups can post job openings. Maybe it’s a good sign that they can’t find good help. Maybe it’s a bad sign that they are growing and need more “employees”.

Gay priests are okay

Help explain this to me, if you can. An organization that says homosexual activity is bad -basically you’ll burn in hell for eternity- now says it’s okay for member of its organization to be homosexual and be leaders in the organization? Interesting.

You don’t need to get me started on the Catholic church screaming “being gay is a sin” yet they have protected many child molesting priests…we’ll just talk about what’s in the headlines today…

• Vatican’s gay rule [The Daily Record]
• Screening The Priests [TIME]
• Vatican may let celibate gays be ordained [Science Daily]
• Vatican To Allow Gay Men In Priesthood [The Huffington Post]

So, as long as celibacy (3 years since last encounter) is in tact, a gay person can be a priest? Cool, I can handle that AND I support that. However, does the Vatican then ask that same priest to tell his clergy that homosexual activity is a sin? Isn’t that a little weird? It seems like a “do as I say not as I do” philosophy that might get a few people at the top to burn long before someone in the clergy burns.

Supposedly the Vatican will still ban men who show an “overwhelming attraction” to homosexual culture “even if it is only intellectually.” So, you could have a straight priest that is gung ho on learning all there is to know about homosexuality just so he can focus on converting the masses away from gay activities as if he was part of a mission…but he can’t be a priest because he’s too obsessed with what he’s trying to fight against? Ooookay…

What a strange little group with funny rules. If the current Pope decides to support gay marriage will a new religion form in the wake of the changes? Maybe history will repeat itself with a new birth of Christianity…interesting.

Watch what you drink

According to Death By Caffeine: You could drink 175.50 cups of Starbucks Grande Caffe Mocha before croaking. Nice! What’s your favorite caffeinated beverage? Check out how much could kill you!

Now for the educational part.

About a year ago (or longer) I got in an argument with a close friend that you can drink too much water and die; this is called “water intoxication”. It came up in conversation with a few other people this month…so after looking up the caffeine-to-death link I figured I would do a little research.

Walah!

“Water intoxication was reported in 18% of marathon runners and in 29% of the finishers in a Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon in studies”
Published: Annals of Internal Medicine and in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Water intoxication [hyponatremia] has symptoms generally mirror those of dehydration (apathy, confusion, nausea, and fatigue), although some individuals show no symptoms at all. If untreated, hyponatremia can lead to coma and even death. Nice! This is a result of diluting the salt in your body and sweating salt out; thus why sport drinks have sodium in them.

Want more info? See WebMD