see ya, reader(s)
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i’m sad to write that after a couple years and close to 1,200 posts today is the last day of delivering the news you can use here at sacred bird. while i’ve loved posting here about news you can use, 630 and i think it’s time to pack it in. from our first post, to the beijing olympics, to our coverage of politics and fashion, we’ve tried to give a lighter side of the news and to keep you informed and sounding brilliant at work or at your next “whatever.” i wish i could say that i’ve parlayed my love of news into a gig at the daily show, or even better, a stint alongside anderson cooper but that hasn’t happened yet–i’ll be back though, just you wait and see. so in parting, i’ll leave you with one of the ultimate goodbyes–the one where k-k-k-katie says ’see ya’ to her one true love hubbell. the memories of sacred bird will, um, continue to light the corners of my mind. thank you, dear reader (not plural) for keeping an eye on the news you can use.
sincerely,
[image courtesy of wordle]
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travis wright, a money manager in utah, apparently believes in the idea of food in a can so much that he took his clients’ money that, which was suppose to have gone towards real estate investments, and put it toward his food in a can concept – peanut butter and jelly “candwich, bbq chicken”, pizza pocket and french toast. too bad his clients didn’t believe his idea enough to believe they would get the 24% return on investment he had promised on the real estate investments when they gave him the money. wright is currently being sued by the securities and exchange commission. mark kirkland, the president of mark one foods and the patent holder of the food in the can concept, still believes his idea will work. he already has a slogan “Quick & Tasty, Ready to Eat”, now he’ll just need to find another investor. frankly, i’m surprised canned sandwiches don’t already exist in the market already.
[nytimes]
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here’s one from jolly old england that most likely would have celebrity chef gordon ramsay of kitchen nightmares cursing up a storm and saying ‘you’ve got to be *&^% kidding me.’ a pub chain in england is adding menu items to their repertoire–for dogs. butcher’s pet care is teaming up with brakspear to offer delectable items that are designed to increase family bonding with their dogs. according to butcher’s pet care’s brand manager caroline coombs “We’ve built our business on feeding generations of family dogs and all our recipes are naturally nutritious and contain all of the vitamins and minerals your dog needs to keep him healthy, happy and fit as a Butcher’s dog…Now dog owners can sit down to lunch happy in the knowledge their dog is enjoying their meal as much as they are is adding a menu for dogs.” when the family sits down eat, fido can enjoy a bowl of liver and garden veg chunks in gravy and chicken and beef chunks in jelly.
cue the jokes about bad british food…..now.
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of course i’m referring to that movie with meryl streep where she proclaimed “the dingo ate my baby” in the movie a cry in the dark about missing baby azaria chamberlain. american tourist jean barnard would have been happy to have had a dingo to whisk away the toddler that she claimed screamed so loud in her ear that the three year old loud speaker made her ears bleed and caused permanent damage. according to the story in time magazine, barnard sued qantas for negligence and failing to protect passengers. of the incident, settled out of court, qantas said “Plaintiff’s injuries, if any, were caused by the arbitrary and volitional act of a three-year-old child. Flight attendants cannot predict when children aboard an aircraft are about to scream. There is no evidence that the child was screaming in the terminal, or on board the aircraft prior to the particular scream which allegedly caused the damage.”
barnard has no love for this kid, she said “The pain was so excruciating that I didn’t even know I was deaf” and in emails she is said to have written “I guess we are simply fortunate that my eardrum was exploding and I was swallowing blood…Had it not been for that, I would have dragged that kid out of his mother’s arms and stomped him to death.”
i’m sure she meant that in the nicest of ways.
[time, photo via djabonillojr.2008, azaria chamberlain story]
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this is what it would’ve looked like if star wars had taken place in 2010, nyc
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there was a lot of speculation about fraud and other such nonsense when alvin greene won the democratic nomination for us senate in south carolina beating out a former judge who had been considered a shoo-in. no one knew anything about greene except that we was an unemployed veteran. greene has been a little more visible these past couple of weeks with his first public speech the other day and today we find out more about why he left the military. in a military performance report , a reviewer wrote that green was “”usually capable of handling mundane tasks with supervision” but is “not able to adapt to any changes to daily routine”. greene “required a daily to-do list” to perform his regular duties and had a “consistent inability to follow instructions or maintain basic job knowledge”. greene of course is refuting what was written saying problems with his computer “can often make it impossible for me to accomplish tasks in a timely fashion” and that it was a “hostile work environment”. i don’t know what he’s complaining about. sounds like his personality is perfect for the senate.
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the national association for the advancement of colored people (n.a.a.c.p.), the champion of civil rights can now take responsibility for the limiting of one colored person named shirley sherrod. ms. sherrod, up until yesterday, worked for the department of agriculture. she was forced to resign because a video of her giving a speech about the perils of racism was edited to look like she was a racist. in reality in the speech she gave last winter to the n.a.a.c.p. ms. sherrod explained that her work more than two decades ago with a white farmer taught her overcome her discriminatory beliefs and made her realize that there was no place in the world for racism in editing, it was made to look like she was denying service to or was providing a lower level of service based on the fact that the white farmer was white.
the n.a.a.c.p., wanting to look good, called her out and said something about a yardstick and civil rights. fox news, wanting to look like, fox news, wanted to make her, the government, and the n.a.a.c.p. look bad. and the federal government, wanting to look decisive, pressured her to resign and so she did.*
fast forward less than 24 hours and the real tape revealed that she was making an anti-racism speech. secretary of agriculture vilsack has called her back and offered her her new job. i’m guessing she’s going to look for employment elsewhere.**
* it’s got to be said that the feds acted faster on firing this poor lady than they did fix the oil spill.
** one that offers mutual respect and common civility.
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