So I won’t. Except congratulations to Pilot Chesley Sullenberger, for doing a phenomenal job.

Heard this guy has a glider expertise as well as being a regular pilot with a whole lot of varied experience. Find his data here

This story is more fun than Obama’s new pick for Treasury secretary, who apparently does not know how to file his taxes, nor what to do when the IRS informs him about his oversight.

On to Raccoon, the latest culinary rage…

If you need a little more excitement in your life than venison, and don’t mind soaking your meat in brine overnight, boiling it forever, then putting it out on the barbie, you might like raccoon.

Get the animals which have been trapped, however. Forget the road kill. Squishing the guts and scent glands won’t be good for the flavor of the meat.

The author of the reference, linked above, quotes assurances that the meat is healthy, and that the problem of raccoons being a reservoir for rabies is an isolated East Coast phenomenon.

As far as game goes, it seems that raccoon carcasses are fairly reasonable in price. One must be tolerant of the single remaining paw on the body, left as proof that it’s not a cat or dog.

This author really appreciated the cooking tips, since we have an over-abundance of raccoon Down on the Pharm. I’m needing good recipes for possum too, which exist here- in equal proportion to the raccoon.

Comments or advice?

A five foot, 275lb woman claims that she was advised at her hospital to try the Kansas City Zoo for her MRI, because she couldn’t fit in their apparatus.

After much searching and embarrassment, she finally located open sided equipment which would accomodate her girth, and allow scanning of a spinal injury.

“They should have machines that fit most everybody”, she said.

Helloooooooooooooooo

They should have people who fit most MRI apparatus.

It appears that inaugural festivities will not be quite as large as initially expected.

The original estimates were that 4 million visitors would clot the highways and byways of Washington DC for this big party. This is only one of the factors which caused me to scuttle the trip for which I had reserved vacation days.

The Washington Post (yes, I’m actually linking them because they need the help) tells of multitudinous prospective renters who still “have room in the inn” for inaugural partyers.

Maybe if you wait until the very last minute, you can get a great rental deal. I’m suspecting that festivities at this event are far out of the reach of the average Obama supporter, however.

Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight

Yep….. they intended to say that there are now more obese Americans than there are overweight Americans who are not yet obese. They needed to use the word “outnumber” instead of “outweigh”, but, being mainstream journalists, they didn’t have that simple word in their lexicon.

Instead, there’s this whacked out headline, stating that the obvious-by-definition is somehow a new occurrence.

Three cheers for Reuters!

Zeigler is putting out a film documentary about Media Malpractice. Expect Sarah Palin to figure large in this, due to her being prime target of the leftist misogyny.

Roland Burris was turned away, and not permitted to be seated with the U.S. Senate this morning.

I guess the fear of criticism for the corruption is a greater weight than the race issue for the Democrats this year.

It seems that the European Union top position migrates over to Czechoslovakia and to Vaclav Klaus, the perennially popular president of that country.

I’ve heard this guy before. He’s been featured on U.S. programs for opposing the religious concept of man made global warming, and his arguments are well researched and persuasive. So far as I know, the high priest of the global warming religion, Al Gore hasn’t been up to the challenge of debate with President Klaus.

Media acolytes of global warming-ism don’t exhibit a fondness for the Czech president as
made transparent in the Times Online.