From the Peru Tribune website

Ken Roland

By NANCY BENDER, nbender@perutribune.com

I just found out tonight that a very good friend, a respected member of the community and a person I personally respected a great deal, has died.  Kenneth Roland, newly retired sheriff of Miami County in Indiana died of medical problems on Wednesday evening.

Kenny, you will be sorely missed.

My friends, I’m afraid this is not a laughing time for me.  I’m sorry.  I’m sure our dear friend Lethal will continue on in my place, but I will be taking a short break from the  laughter and talk to you again soon.

The man who was shot in the head but only found out 5 years later

A man living in Germany walked around and functioned normally for five years without noticing he had been shot in the head. The .22 caliber bullet was found when the man went to the doctor to have what he thought was a cyst removed. All he could remember was that he had received a blow to the head around midnight at a New Year’s party “in 2004 or 2005,” but had forgotten about it because he had been “very drunk.” The wound later healed around the bullet and it was not until the man decided to have the lump examined due to recurring pains that the discovery was made. (Link)

That tequilla will do it to you every time dude! It’s like liquid amnesia in a bottle.

‘Tis the likes o’ one o’ these a day for the next 10 days we’ll be featuring.

Ever wonder what you were like when you were growing up? Two 11-year-old sisters in England will have just that chance, thanks to the amazing birth of their newborn triplet who had been on ice since she was conceived more than a decade ago. When Adrian and Lisa Shepherd decided to start a family in 1998, they underwent in vitro fertilization at the Midland Fertility Clinic because Lisa suffered from fertility issues that made traditional conception difficult. Doctors obtained 24 eggs from the mother, 14 of which were successfully fertilized. Two of those embryos were then implanted in Lisa, who gave birth to twins Megan and Bethany in 1999.

The other 12 embryos were placed in cryogenic storage until the family started talking about having another child last year. The Shepherds returned to the clinic, where doctors implanted a third embryo in Lisa that had been conceived on the same day as Megan and Bethany. Ryleigh was born on November 2010 at 7 pounds 10 ounces — 11 years after her sisters. Experts told the paper it could be the longest age gap between siblings conceived during the same fertility treatment. (Link | Via)

See now this sort of thing concerns me gravely. Why you ask? Well depending upon which side  of the Debate on Evolution you come down on, religious or scientific, SOMEONE’S will is getting thwarted here, not once in fact but 3 times!

If ’tis cheering for religion ya are then God’s will that she be barren is being flaunted by this clinic’s action along with the parents. If you a man o’ science then it’s Darwin’s Laws and  the natural processes of natural selection/evolution, where only the best strongest and brightest conceive to further the evolution of the species, that’s getting short-changed here.

Either way we have 3 kids who should not be. Now ’tis nothing personal I have against the little buggers. It’s just that we ALL know, regardless of which section of the cheering stand we are in, that toying with Mother Nature’s OR God’s will is NEVER a bright idea. The backlash of unforseen consequences far outweigh any possible benefit for tempting fate!

My personal theory is this is how the whole issue of &/or problem with WalMartians started! They are the revenge being reaped on ALL us for this sort of thing!

A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted to Toronto this week after the pilot dumped a cup of coffee on the plane’s communication’s equipment. The unwanted liquid triggered a series of emergency codes, including one for a hijacking, according to Transport Canada, the agency that regulates transportation in Canada.

“With the help of their company dispatch staff, the flight crew was confirmed the problem to be a NAV(navigation)/communication issue and not a valid code 7500 (for a hijacking or unlawful interference),” Transport Canada said on its website.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/01/05/canada.flight.diverted/index.html

OK let me see if I have this right, for all intensive purposes you have two or three guys crammed in a walk in closet with about 50 mil in high-tech electronics which control and keep the plane aloft flying at 35,000 feet and drinking hot liquids in the crowded and sometimes turbulent environment yet one of the most critical systems isn’t even spill proofed let alone waterproofed??!!

However it’s US PASSENGERS that have to toss our liquids before getting on the plane??!! To paraphrase Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) in ‘Jerry Maguire’…”Show me the logic!”

If you ask me, there is too much attention and effort being wasted on groping passengers and divesting them of their dignity and practically everything else they carry on board when the actions of the idiots in the cockpit would seem to pose a greater threat!

My $22,000 GMC Yukon had 6 cup holders accessible from the driver’s seat, this double-digit multi-million dollar aircraft doesn’t have a single one? Spill proof beverage containers are not required or beverages are not prohibited by the FAA in an area where a spill can apparently cause such catastrophic damage?

Again I say,”Show me the logic!”