Arby’s Sandwich Incident; Its Skin Deep

Not again? This time from Tipp City, OH where a man claims he bit into an Arby’s sandwich and found a piece of flesh about three-fourths of an inch long. This time it looks like the story is legitimate as compared to the recent Wendy’s finger incident.

Scheiding said he realized something wasn’t right when he bit into the sandwich on June 18 and found a piece of flesh about three-fourths of an inch long.

“It looked like I was seeing fingerprints on it,” he said. “I got sick and went to the bathroom.”

Miami County (search) health investigators talked to the restaurant manager, who had a bandage on his right thumb and wore a latex glove, according to a health district report. The manager said he sliced skin from the thumb while shredding lettuce, and sanitized the area but didn’t throw away the bin of lettuce, the report said. Scheiding’s sandwich contained lettuce.

“Why wasn’t the food searched, and why wasn’t it thrown away?” said Scheiding’s lawyer, Hank Hyde.

Happy Birthday Hubble!

From Wired Magazine:

Fifteen years ago Monday, at 12:38 p.m. Pacific Time, astronaut Steven Hawley directed the space shuttle’s robotic arm to release the Hubble Space Telescope 381 miles above the Earth, launching an era of unprecedented scientific discoveries.

Since that day in 1990, the bus-sized telescope has taken more than 700,000 photos of planets, stars and other celestial bodies. The images have helped astronomers see deeper into space than ever before — a feat that has allowed them to prove the existence of super-massive black holes and even calculate the age of the universe, among other things.

In honor of the 15th anniversary of Hubble’s delivery into space, NASA and the European Space Agency have released new photos of two of the telescope’s most popular targets: the M51 Whirlpool Galaxy and the Eagle Nebula. The photos are among the largest and sharpest Hubble has ever taken and could be enlarged to the size of a billboard without losing clarity, according to the ESA.

In the first photo, long arms of stars and gas swirl around the glowing center of the M51 galaxy, 31 million light-years from Earth. One arm appears to touch a smaller, yellow galaxy, though the galaxy is actually passing behind M51. Some astronomers believe gravitational waves from the smaller galaxy are responsible for the prominence of M51′s arms.

For more Pics, visit here.

Happy Birthday, Hubble! You have done us proud in your service to our country. Your images will be normal to my children, and a wonder to myself.

via Wired

San Diego Mayor Resigns due to Corruption

A reader pointed out that this story by the AP did not name the party of the mayor accused of corruption. Earlier I wrote a story that called out the AP for doing the same thing with the Orlando Mayor.

So I will reiterate my call:

The AP will not tell you that Orlando’s Mayor Buddy Dyer is a Democrat, but Scared Monkeys will.

just kidding, Marshall

The AP will not tell you that San Diego’s Mayor is a Republican, but Scared Monkeys will.

And now my question is why the AP does not add this information to their stories? I think in City politics party affiliation is a part of the story. If a party puts a corrupt person into power, the public should be made aware of it and the media is typically the vehicle to do so.

Here is the story from the AP:

SAN DIEGO (AP) – Mayor Dick Murphy announced his resignation Monday amid a widening federal investigation into the handling of the city’s deficit-riddled pension fund.

“It’s clear to me that the city needs a fresh start,” Murphy said, holding back emotion as he made the surprise announcement at City Hall while surrounded by his staff and family.

Murphy, a 62-year-old former judge who has served 4 1/2 years as mayor, said he will step down on July 15 as leader of the nation’s seventh-largest city.

The announcement comes just months after a bruising re-election battle in which Murphy pulled out a 2,108-vote victory over a maverick city councilwoman who waged a surprisingly strong write-in campaign. The councilwoman, surf shop owner Donna Frye, said she would run again in a special election to replace Murphy.

Jacko Case; This Can’t be Good

With all the spinning from the legal pundits from the 24-7 News outlets who are rarely right; I have grown absolutely tired of the Jacko Case and have put a self ban on myself until the case is over.

However, with all the roller-coaster, day to day, up and down spinning by all sides in this matter; THIS IS NEVER A GOOD SIGN.

Brian Oxman, who has long represented other members of the singer’s clan, was dumped effective last Friday, according to a “notice of disassociation” filed today by Mesereau in Santa Barbara Superior Court.

Never a good sign when your Council is seen fighting with each other, oops.

Pope Benedict XVI ; MSM Misleads Us Again

Since the election of Pope Benedict XVI the media has done nothing but print negative stories even comparing the Pope to Nazi’s. The MSM in the United States would have had us believe that a majority of Americans were against the Pope’s election. They claimed that Americans wanted a moderate or liberal Pope that was going to make the Catholic Church more user friendly. The media claimed that Americans were against Pope Benedict XVI.

A funny thing happened on the way to printing more negative and bias stories. A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that 81% of American Catholics approve of the pope’s election.

American Catholics are responding with support if not great enthusiasm to the selection of Pope Benedict XVI, and with a clear message on his first priority: addressing the issue of sexual abuse of children by priests.

Eighty-one percent of Catholics in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of the pope’s election; a quarter call themselves “very enthusiastic” about it.

His reputation as a traditionalist may be one reason: The vast majority, 80 percent, think Benedict will work to maintain church traditions — while nearly half would prefer, instead, that he modernize church policies to reflect the attitudes and lifestyles of Catholics today.

Indeed, given a list of issues, 71 percent of Catholics cite “addressing the issue of sexual abuse by priests” as the highest priority for the new pope; fewer, 41 percent, say “preserving the church’s traditions” should be among Benedict’s highest priorities.

Last on the priorities list, at 22 percent, is “responding to the concerns of women in the church.”

Seems to me that the MSM was telling us just the opposite. How could a Pope be such a popular pick if American Catholics wanted the new Pope to change all the old policies? Like here, here, and here.