...and in the news

You gotta wonder about the state of the world when this is a front page headline in our local Florida paper:

GUNS ARE RIDING HIGH ON HOLIDAY GIFT LISTS by Drew Harwell (take note especially of the last 7 paragraphs!!)

Then...
Female whooping crane shot in Indiana - story by Barbara Behrendt The cranes are half way in their journey south to Florida...I wish them Godspeed and good luck. Pray no idiot interferes.

As for the concept of being here first...wanna know what happens to wandering gators? According to Rita Farlow’s article(St. Pete Times), trapper Charles Carpenter, who corraled a reptile on someone's patio and loaded it onto a trailer, said the gator weighed "a couple hundred pounds" and likely came from nearby Lake Tarpon.
Carpenter said he wasn't sure of the alligator's gender.
"I asked it how much it weighed and it wouldn't tell me, so it was probably a girl," he said.
Nuisance gators are "processed for their meat and hide," said commission spokesman Gary Morse. Or, as Carpenter put it: "It's headed to the restaurant prep area."

So now you’re hungry...according to this book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer’s latest book: “On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime—one for every letter on the last five pages.”

Kinda turns you off, eh?

And if you’re a golfer...my bad! This article reveals he true nature of the loch Ness monster:

"In November, researchers roaming the depths of Scotland's Loch Ness in a submarine, looking for the legendary monster, reported finding mainly "hundreds of thousands" of golf balls at the bottom, from popular use of the lake as a driving range. A recent Danish Golf Association report lamented the slow decomposition of golf balls (taking 100 to 1,000 years), and one U.K. legislator has called golf balls "humanity's signature litter." [CNN, 11-10-09]

So if we can create bio-degradable tees why the heck can't we do something similar with golf balls!!???

That was an excerpt from "News of the Weird". Read more of Chuck Shepherd’s news of the weird.

And finally, someone getting the Christmas spirit a tad wrong: this article by Mike Morris of the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution describing an Elf who caused a mall evacuation...yeah, Santa's not really into bombs!

What a world!!! But there is some good news...kids and dogs still love to play. Catch this cute video from the Dec. 11/09 Bonnie Hunt show