but I'm not afraid to open up a dictionary (online naturally) and verify if a word is spelled or used properly. Hubris is your enemy, not your friend.Man Sues Airline After Flying to Grenada Instead of Granada
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Okay I know the airline screwed up and I do think they should reimburse the guy but some of this is on him too. No way he didn't get emails for the ticket confirmation or look at the ticket when he was at the airport. Seems like stupidity on both parties here
I can only imagine how arrogant some customers are when you try to clarify these things with them. "Of course I know where I want to go!"
And that is a reason I have autocorrect disabled, except to suggest a correction. Sometimes it comes in handy and you really did misspell a word.
) but like most in this day and age I rely too much on tech.

Rule number one of home invasion in 2014: Don't check your Facebook while you're on a job. Rule number two: If the urge to look becomes insatiable, allow yourself a peek at your iPhone, but do not attempt to use the target's computer. Number three: if all else fails, just make sure you log out before you leave.
Nicholas Wig, a 26-year-old Minnesota man, was arrested recently for breaking into the St. Paul home of James Wood stealing cash, credit cards, a watch, and a cell phone and failing to follow any of the guidelines set out above.
Upon arriving home after the burglary, Wood noticed a few articles of clothing that weren't his, then checked his computer and found it was logged into Wig's Facebook account. That's when he set his trap.
CBS News reports:
Wood posted to Facebook using Wig's profile, saying Wig had burglarized his home. He even shared his phone number to see if someone would call with information. Wig texted him later that day.
"I replied you left a few things at my house last night, how can I get them back to you," Wood said.
Wig agreed to meet with Wood later that night. Wood believes Wig was under the impression he would give him back some of his clothes he had left at his home in exchange for a recycled cell phone Wig had stolen.
Traveling home from a friend's house, Wood saw Wig walking down the street and called the police. The burglar was wearing Woods's watch when cops arrested him. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail.
"World's dumbest criminal," Woods told CBS of the events. "I don't know."
On Sunday, an all-male panel of church judges convicted Mormon activist Kate Kelly of apostasy and punished her with excommunication from the Mormon church. Kelly founded the group Ordain Women in 2013, which advocates opening the male-only priesthood to women.
Before the verdict was handed down, Kelly actively defended herself, telling The New York Times, "I am not an apostate, unless every single person who has questions to ask out loud is an apostate. I am a faithful, active Mormon woman who has never spoken anything against the leaders of the church, and that's not my definition of an apostate." In a letter to the judges who decided her fate, she wrote, "I was raised in a home with parents who loved the gospel and also taught me that men and women are equal."
Despite Kelly's excommunication, Ordain Women is not backing down. The group has been posting on its website throughout Kelly's ordeal. On Monday, communications chair Debra Jenson wrote, "We are deeply saddened by this news. As Mormons we recognize the gravity of this action. ... We regret that there is no way to predict how local leaders will react to conversations about gender inequality in the Church many have been supportive in these discussions, others have not. Ordain Women will continue." Mormons believe that excommunication breaks eternal ties with one's spouse and family.
The church has insisted that the excommunication was done out of love, and that if Kelly repents, she may eventually rejoin the community. Kelly, a human rights lawyer, told the Times, "That's classic language of an abusive relationship, where a person abusing and hurting you says that they're doing it out of love."
Another Ordain Women member, "Dana," voluntarily resigned from the church this month to avoid dealing with church leaders. She's remained anonymous because she still has family members in the faith.
Ordain Women's leaders explain their mission this way:
The fundamental tenets of Mormonism support gender equality: God is male and female, father and mother, and all of us can progress to be like them someday. Priesthood, we are taught, is essential to this process. Ordain Women believes women must be ordained in order for our faith to reflect the equity and expansiveness of these teachings.
The fact that so many Christian organizations act like only men can have a "real" relationship with God and that they are the only ones worthy of preaching the gospel is laughable. Of course this is too be expected from a religion that wouldn't allow black people to be priest until 1978
KFC donated $30,000 to the family of three-year-old Victoria Wilcher after they claimed an employee at a store in Jackson, Miss. asked them to leave because Victoria's scarsleftover from an attack by her grandfather's pit bullswere scaring customers. But according to a new report in the Laurel Leader-Call, the whole thing was a hoax and never happened.
The company publicly apologized for the incident and donated the money to help with the cost Victoria's medical bills. Apparently, the entire incident in the restaurant was cooked up as an elaborate publicity stunt to raise money. After the KFC franchise where the incident allegedly took place became suspicious of the timeline presented by Victoria's family, they hired an independent investigator, who has yet to release their final report.
But a source tells the Laurel Leader-Call that the story completely falls apart upon basic fact-checking: Security footage does not put Victoria or her grandmother, who claimed to be with her, in the KFC (or even another KFC) the day the incident supposedly occurred. And apparently, no one made their orderfor mashed potatoes and sweet teathat day, either. No one even ordered mashed potatoes and sweet tea as part of a larger order.
The family had been raising money on GoFundMe for Victoria's medical bills, and as The Clarion-Ledger reports, their widely-reported story gave a serious boost to donations:
More than $135,000 has been raised through the online donation site, gofundme.com, since June 13. The fund was created by Bates on April 28. The funding before the chicken caper came from seven donors for a total of $595.
Doctors have even agreed to waive their feesa Las Vegas surgeon offered Victoria's family free plastic surgery. And the Frank L. Stiles Foundation has pledged to cover all the costs of reconstructing Victoria's face.
According to Bill Kellum, the lawyer representing Kelly Mullins, Victoria's grandmother, said that the family has not decided whether or not to take the money from KFC. But apparently, KFC will honor the donation even if the incident is proven to have been faked:
Dick West, who is the president of West Quality Food, one of the largest franchisees in the KFC chain and the owner of the local KFCs, also declined comment. However, on Saturday night, he made his feelings quite clear on the Facebook page of a Jackson television station when he posted "When the allegation was first made, KFC pledged $30,000 to go to medical expenses and started an investigation to find the truth. They have pledged the money even if it is proven that the incident never happened. At this point their story is full of holes. Any thinking person who follows their timeline can see it. The event at KFC never happened."
The NY Post reported this week that money-hungry professionals are starting to reject advice meetings with under-experienced subordinates unless they're paid for their time. Keep in mind that these people likely had meetings with their superiors when they were starting out, and that advice was probably free.
The article, written by Anna Davies, begins by disparaging a young writer for wanting to pick Davies' brain. She then discovers from her colleagues and friends that having to help a young professional with advice is the frequent complaint of many who think they are more important than other people.
"I offer free advice, when appropriate, but I feel it should be my call, not theirs," says Steve Cony, president of Communications Counselors, a full-service marketing consulting firm based in Croton-on-Hudson, NY. "When someone asks to pick my brain, I bristle. My brain is how I earn my living would you ask a plumber to unclog a drain for free?"
No, Mr. Cony, you would not. But if you were a young plumber looking to getting into the drain-clearing business, you might reach out to a skilled plumber yourself and ask her what path she took to get there.
The speculation is that, since there are more freelancers than ever before, and since everyone is flat broke and both power-and-money hungry, the opportunity to make some green off of already cash-strapped beginning professionals is not to be missed.
From the NY Post:
Additionally, creative freelancers are finding that adding consulting to their list of marketable skills can boost their cash flow. Social media makes it easier than ever to find and contact potential mentors, and what may have been a polite phone call from a friend-of-a-friend two decades ago becomes a "Can you give me advice?" tweet from a stranger. Both factors influence how mentors perceive the task and, experts agree, has led to the trend of monetizing the act.
As if networking and the premium put on "making connections" weren't already playing roles in proliferating the unchecked importance of hierarchical value and grandfathered creative skills, this supposed enterprising is only going to make things worse.
But don't let me tell you that. Here's Anne Chertoff:
The eponymous creator of Anne Chertoff Media, a boutique marketing agency that caters to the wedding industry, found a similar niche.
"I honestly got annoyed with people taking me to lunch and thinking that the cost of a meal could equal my contacts, expertise and advice, so I created a service called 'Pick My Brain' on my Web site. For $500, I give 90 or so minutes of whatever advice the customer needs," she explains.
Thankfullyand in an unlikely twistKate White, a former editor at Cosmopolitan comes to the rescue with some sage advice for anyone who is collecting money from their underlings: simply create an "exempt list."
"These might be relatives, or people you've worked with in the past, or people you know will return the favor," she advises. "When you know your list, it's easier to create guidelines for how to handle those who aren't on it. Maybe it's denying the request, maybe it's changing the coffee date to an e-mail back-and-forth."
As Davies' puts it, this could be where you find that "feel-good factor" in your life, the one these networking money-grabbers have long since been missing.
People like them are why other people are reluctant to donate to any charities or causes. Too many fraudsters are trying to swindle well-meaning people.Little Girl Getting Kicked Out of KFC Was Reportedly a Huge Hoax
http://leader-call.com/2014/06/23/kentucky-fried-hoax/
I reported on this and it pissed me off, now I'm even more pissed that these people tried to swindle everyone. I understand medical bills are insane in this country but the way they went about it is despicable. Good on KFC for finding out the truth and still honoring their donation. I just hope these people realize that although the masses of the internet can be awesome and do great things for unlucky children, when people get on their bad side it can turn ugly very quickly. Especially when people feel taken advantage of. Regardless of what I happens I wish the little girl a speedy recovery since it's obvious that she had nothing to do with this idiocy
A drunk 25-year-old who broke into a couple's new home outside Boise, Idaho, took a dump on the floor of the house and nearly got shot before receiving a free ride home from policea move the homeowners say is a load of crap.
It was about 6:30 a.m. two Sundays ago when Jake and Tricia Gillaspy awoke in the Kuna home they'd just moved into, only to find an inebriated and stark naked Matthew Coomes standing over them in their bed, according to KTVB-TV:
"My husband grabs the gun because we have no idea who this guy is," said Tricia. "He's like, 'Get out of my house, now!' But the guy wouldn't leave. So, he puts the gun to his head, and says, 'I said, get out!'"
Tricia says Coomes eventually started to walk out at gunpoint while her husband was calling 911.
"He's like, 'There's a guy in my house. I'm going to shoot him, you better get a cop here now,'" she said.
Around the same time the police arrived, the Gillaspies surveyed their home and realized they were going to have a $1,000 cleaning bill, on account of all that poop on the carpet and walls:
"He took this sink sprayer out and this drawer was in there. He put it in the drawer, turned it on full blast hot water, it filled that entire drawer full. It flooded my entire kitchen," said Tricia. "He craps on my floor, and he must have been playing in it because he streaked it down the side of my walls. The stain is gone finally, thank goodness."
Coomes, who apparently slipped in through an open back door, "told police he didn't remember going into the home or using a spray nozzle in the kitchen":
He said he also didn't know how feces got on the carpet or why a t-shirt and a pair of underwear he was wearing ended up on the floor of the home.
The family was doubly insulted when, instead of dragging Coomes off to the hoosegow, police wrote him up for a pair of misdemeanors and gave him a lift home. Police later opened an internal affairs investigation on why he didn't face stiffer charges, and county prosecutors are now expected to pin a felony count on him, too.
Pressed to describe the entire affair, Tricia Gillaspy told KTVB: "It's just a mess."
Silvestre Varela's final goal against the U.S. in Sunday evening's World Cup match was a heartbreaker. And none were as banged-up about it as Eric Corey, a Miami soccer fan who toppled out of a bar window as soon as Portugal scored.
By tying the match in the final minute of stoppage time, Portugal made the U.S.'s shot at moving past group play more difficult (they'll now need a draw against Germany to advance). By falling out a window at an emotionally charged moment during a sporting event, Corey surely caused himself considerable shame and embarrassment (he was taken away by paramedics but not seriously injured).
Corey leader of a fan group called the American Outlaws reportedly made a habit of perching on a ledge near the window of Fado's Irish Pub. Said fellow American Outlaw West Kraemer:
He's always up there. He stood where he's stood a million times before.
Kevin Yombor, another fan, caught the moment after the U.S. team's downfall and the moment before Corey's. From the Miami Herald:
"Eric looked heartbroken," said fellow super-fan fan Kenin Yombor, explaining that as Corey reacted to the Portugal goal, he began to lose his balance. "I saw that he knew he spread his arms to stop himself from falling out, but he saw that he was going out the window."
And while Yombor felt for his friend, his heart was with the team:
"It just hit me," Yombor said to Kraemer. "We tied. After all that, we tied."
In today's edition of why'd you do that?, a woman at the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee has been officially banned from returning after foolishly climbing into the lion enclosure to feed the animals cookies. Do lions even like cookies?
According to the Associated Press, zoo patrons witnessed the woman singing to the lions, as well. And now she will never be allowed back to the facility, a spokesperson for the zoo told local TV station WMC-TV.
The Houston chapter of Open Carry Texas, a gun rights advocacy group, postponed an event that was scheduled for this past Sunday where their members were going to walk through the streets of the Fifth Ward in Houston openly carrying assault rifles and handguns. The event, which has not been cancelled but merely moved to another date, was ostensibly also going to be a canned food drive organized with a local church. The Fifth Ward is a predominantly black neighborhood and the event was originally scheduled to take place shortly after the celebration of Juneteenth.
Per event organizers, the march has been moved to another date because one of the main organizers, C.J. Grisham, was unable to attend this past Sunday, as he was scheduled to appear somewhere else where open carry enthusiasts were appearing in public with guns. Per Grisham, the neighborhood march is meant to be a community outreach attempt by Open Carry as well as a charitable affair. If you are to ask the group, Open Carrys purpose in doing this isnt to antagonize and intimidate, but merely to educate others and let them know that they all have the right to carry around scary-looking assault weapons everywhere they go. Texas laws now make it perfectly legal to openly carry long assault rifles, such as an AR-15.
Joe Deshotel at Burnt Orange Report, upon learning of the original event, checked with the local church that the events organizers stated they had coordinated with to do the canned food drive portion of the march. As one would suspect, the church had no idea what was going on and confirmed that they had not discussed any such drive with Open Carry Texas. It appears that the group was caught in a lie, as they were merely trying to create the illusion that this event was something more than just a bunch of nut jobs marching through a neighborhood carrying guns.
Deshotel also highlighted past incidents from some of the groups members. He provided provided pictures and Facebook posts from some of the members showing quasi-racist behavior. One member took a picture of himself outside the office of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), who represents the ward, eating a piece of fried chicken. The Congresswoman is African American. Another person was shown holding a sign that stated that the Congresswoman supported slavery because shes for gun control. One Open Carry member posted to Facebook that most blacks are thugs and that going to prison is no different than living at home and leaching off of the government, only the address has changed.
Basically, the Houston chapter of Open Carry Texas was looking for a way to be provocative and step it up as a way of getting further press, which they have now received. I guess you can only go to so many chain restaurants and box stores in the suburbs before people stop paying attention to you. Considering that the NRA retracted their original admonishment of the groups activities, and have essentially endorsed what they are doing now, Open Carry now feels emboldened to push the envelope and organize more aggressively inappropriate demonstrations. It seems like race-baiting is the new direction.
I see this march with guns (if they still decide to go through with it) as a multi-front operation. One, considering that their membership is almost exclusively white, they are perhaps hoping to appeal to some people of color and add some diversity to their organization. Another reason to do this march is to garner some easy publicity. Finally, I think they are hoping that the antagonistic nature of the march will lead to a confrontation that could eventually lead to shots fired. Open carry enthusiasts and gun rights advocates constantly claim that they need their guns for self-defense and to fight off the bad guys. By purposely causing a tense and volatile situation, there might be some gun nuts in the crowd that are hoping they finally get a chance to be the good guy with a gun.
In a bizarre twist to a macabre story, Austin Flake, a son of Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, was supposed to be watching nearly 30 dogs in a sketchy-sounding Arizona canine boarding house when the AC broke down in the shed where the dogs were held, and 20 of them died from the heat.
The operators of that boarding house, which supposedly was meant to hold far fewer dogs, went on vacation and put Flake and his wife in charge over the weekendthen, when the dogs died, the boarding-house operators lied to the canines' owners, telling them that their loved ones had run away, according to comments by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, reported in the Washington Post:
Flake and his wife were put in charge of the Green Acre facility while the owners, Todd and MaLeisa Hughes, were out of town in Florida.
"I learned of this tragic accident yesterday. I can't imagine the devastating loss these families are experiencing. My heart goes out to the owners who lost their beloved pet," the Senator said in a statement.
On Saturday morning, pet owners, who had initially been told by the Hughes that their pets had gone missing, arrived at the facility to find a horrific scene of as many as 20 dogs dead or dying in a small shed next to the Hughes' home.
"That was a lie," Arpaio said. "They didn't run away. The dogs are dead."...
The Maricopa County Sheriff's office initially said that one of the dogs chewed through the air conditioning unit cord which caused the unit to stop working. The dogs, which were among 28 that were believed to have been in the small shed, died of heat exhaustion they said, according to KSAZ.
Arpaio's officers apparently didn't find any wrongdoing on first encountering the scene at the dog shed, but conflicting reports to the dogs' owners left them frustrated and clamoring for an investigation. Arpaio has pledged to determine whether criminal neglect or abuse charges are appropriate.
Many of those owners had picked Green Acres on the basis of its now-defunct website, where it reportedly promised "love, play time and attention" to no more than eight dogs at a time, who would supposedly have the run of the property and the operators' house.
ABC 15 Arizona posted a picture to Facebook purported to be the kennel area where the dogs were held, with the chewed electrical wire visible at left:
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This is not the first time one of Jeff Flake's sons has been under media scrutiny. Last summer, his youngest son Tanner came under fire for using the online screen name "n1****killer" to bash Jews, "f******," and Mexicans (whom he called the "scum of the earth"). The senator tersely and quickly apologized for that episode.
As for the owner of the boarding house who put Austin Flake in charge while she was away, she struck a defiant tone with the press. "The owners were full aware that these dogs would be in that room every single owner knew that. You guys understand this is a foster child I'm holding, right?" she said, outside her house in the raw interview from Fox 10 Phoenix.
After an exchange with one reporter, she added:
"You can take that up with Senator Flake and Governor Brewer, when her face is on TV you guys aren't gonna bully me. We provide an awesome business here. Nobody's reporting all our happy customers, all the customers who have come to our defense nobody has the backbone or the integrity to print anything that's true."
Meanwhile, families of the dogs have set up a Facebook page for support and information sharing, which includes a gallery showing dozens of photos of the dogs and their families. The gallery is titled "Innocent Victims."
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Please really do this...PLEASE
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06...ack-neighborhood-carrying-assault-rifles.html
White Gun Nuts Plan To March Through Black Neighborhood Carrying Assault Rifles
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Morons. Hopefully they only hurt themselves.