- When stories of the world’s truly great parents spread
around the globe, it warms the hearts and inspires the souls of everyone who
hears these tales of greatness. Take, for example, Eva Cameron of Algonquin,
Ill. She is the mother of a mentally disabled daughter who decided to take her 19-year-old daughter
on a roadie to Tennessee, go to a bar and leave said mentally disabled daughter
alone outside that bad. According to police in Caryville, Tenn., Cameron
stopped at the Big Orange Bar in Caryville on June 28 when her daughter, Lynn,
needed to use the restroom. Before her daughter could get back to the car,
Cameron laid down treat and returned to her home in Algonquin, leaving her
daughter standing beside the road in an unfamiliar place. Unfortunately, Lynn
Cameron’s age means what her mother did is not a crime, even if it is a crime
against humanity. "As terrible as it is, unfortunately there is nothing we
can do," Assistant Police Chief Stephanie Smith said. "There is no
doubt we need a law for mental health rights, but pending this investigation,
we just don't know what else to do. (Lynn) didn't know her age, she didn't know
her address, she didn't know her phone number and she didn't even know her
name. Police released a picture and requested information from the public and received
an anonymous tip on Monday. Police detectives requested a meeting with Eva
Cameron on Tuesday and at that meeting, she signed a statement saying that Lynn
Cameron was now a ward of Tennessee, officials said. Back in Illinois, she told
a local newspaper that she brought Lynn to Caryville because of its
concentration of Baptists and because Tennessee has the "No. 1 health care
system in the United States of America." That, by the way, is a lie. Eva
Cameron dumped her daughter in another state because she is a failure as a
mother and a human being, doesn’t want the burden of dealing with a mentally
handicapped daughter with a basic vocabulary of 30-40 words and is too selfish
to have ever become a parent in the first place………..
- Pluto is no longer a planet, but it may deserve more
respect than most are giving it. A team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have
discovered a fifth moon orbiting the icy now-dwarf planet Pluto, with the team
admitting they were surprised because they did not expect such a complex system
surrounding such a small body. The new moon, unimaginatively named P5, is
thought to be irregular in shape and six to 15 miles across. It moves along a
59,000-mile-diameter circular orbit around Pluto, which was unceremoniously
demoted from its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006 following the
discovery of other similar-sized bodies in the Kuiper belt. The belt is a large
region of space located on the outer fringes of the solar system and sporting contains
many small icy objects and a number of dwarf planets. The five moons orbiting
Pluto "form a series of neatly nested orbits, a bit like Russian
dolls," said astronomer Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain
View, Calif., who led the team that discovered the new moon. His team believes
the moons are relics of a collision between Pluto and some other large object
in the Kuiper belt billions of years ago. Pluto’s largest moon remains Charon, discovered
in 1976. The second and third moons, Nix and Hydra, were located by Hubble
observations in 2006 and more observations in 2011 revealed the fourth moon,
known provisionally as P4. More will be known about Pluto and its moons after New
Horizons, a NASA space probe, completes its ongoing trip to Pluto for a high-speed
flyby in 2015. The flyby will produce return the first detailed images of the
system, whose components are so small and distant that even Hubble can barely
see the largest features on the dwarf planet's surface. Keep working out,
bulking up and adding moons, Pluto, and you just might become a planet again………..
- Auto racing drivers, either NASCAR or IndyCar, are still
not athletes. Even if they attempt to cheat and use performance-enhancing drugs
like real athletes, they are still not athletes and what they do is not a
sport. That memo goes out to suspended
NASCAR driver AJ Allmendinger, who revealed Wednesday that he had tested
positive for a stimulant and was collecting his medicines and supplements in an
attempt to figure out what happened. His business manager issued an official
statement in which he did not identify the stimulant and said the driver does
not know what caused him to fail the random test conducted June 29. NASCAR has
not revealed the substance, either, but suspended Allmendinger Saturday. "AJ
tested positive for a stimulant. He has no idea why the first test was
positive, and he has never knowingly taken any prohibited substance," Tara
Ragan, vice president of Allmendinger's Walldinger Racing Inc., said in the
statement. "AJ is collecting his medicines and supplements for testing to
determine whether an over-the-counter product caused his positive test."
Whatever the cause, Allmendinger is the second Sprint Cup Series driver to be
suspended under the NASCAR drug policy implemented in 2009. Just like a real
athlete would, he Allmendinger has requested his "B" urine sample be
tested, and it's not clear when that will occur. He also went with the go-to
defense for any athlete who tests positive for a PED or banned stimulant: that
he would never "knowingly" take a prohibited substance. "Obviously
I would never do anything to jeopardize my opportunity here at Penske Racing or
to my fellow drivers. I am very conscious about my training and health and
would never knowingly take a prohibited drug," he said. The suspension was
handed down ours before Saturday night's race at Daytona International Speedway
and Sam Hornish Jr. hurriedly took Allmendinger's place. For the record, NASCAR's
drug policy defines a stimulant as "amphetamine, methamphetamine, Ecstasy (MDMA),
Eve (MDEA), MDA, PMA, Phentermine, and other amphetamine derivatives and
related compounds." Meth head Jeremy Mayfield was the first driver to be
suspended under the policy, although he has continued to blame the positive
test on a mix of an over-the-counter allergy remedy and a prescription for
attention deficit disorder. Now if these guys could only cut holes in the
floors of their cars and go Fred Flintstone, they might actually become real
athletes………
- Charlie Sheen has a subpar new cable series no one watches
and his entire insanity act is fizzling out, so what can he do next to gain
attention? How about us the occasion of During Tuesday's ceremony honoring the placement
of guitarist Slash's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to take an unprovoked
run at Slash's former bandmate, Axl Rose? That’s right, Sheen showed up in
Hollywood for the event, where a slew of notables praised Slash, now a member
of Velvet Revolver as well as doing solo albums. It was Sheen who created the
fireworks, uncorking what was clearly some pent-up rage at the orca-FAT,
bombastic and egomaniacal Rose. "I think it's very appropriate that Slash
is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose may some day be sleeping
on," Sheen lampooned. He also made the requisite jokes about his time
spent with Slash doing cocaine in the 1980s, although Sheen could make that
joke in reference to just about anyone who was alive in the ‘80s and it was
seem at least slightly possible. Even though Sheen and Slash are Hollywood
neighbors, it still doesn’t fully explain Sheen’s outpouring of anger. Maybe he’s
pissed that his whose new show, "Anger Management," premiered last
month on FX and no one really cares. Either way, the GNR beef has never really
waned and this won't calm it down. Heck, the band was inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year and Rose declined, leaving the band to
play at the event without him and leaving nothing more than an angry public
letter to explain his absence. Ironically, the Walk of Fame event should have
been a chance for Slash to enjoy a GNR-related moment without Rose to hog the
spotlight, but Sheen just couldn’t resist………
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