July 03, 2009
Snake's In The Cradle
I've heard they like to suck the breath out of a baby. No, wait; that's cats and it's a myth. Pythons, however, like to squeeze the breath out of a baby:
A 2-year-old Florida girl died after being strangled by a pet python that escaped from its aquarium and attacked her in her crib, police said.Shaiunna Hare was strangled early Wednesday morning by the 8-foot, 5-inch snake as she slept after it got out of its tank in another room of the house, according to Sumter County Sheriff's Lt. Steve Binegar.
Paramedics said the little girl was dead when they arrived at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the central Florida home in Oxford, about 50 miles northwest of Orlando.
Deputies told FOX Tampa affiliate WTVT that the live-in boyfriend of the little girl's mother may face charges for not having a permit for the snake, a Burmese python.
Jaren Ashley Hare, 21, and her daughter shared the home with Hare's boyfriend, 32-year-old Charles Jason Darnell, deputies said.
"The baby's dead!" a sobbing caller from the house screamed to a 911 dispatcher in a recording. "Our stupid snake got out in the middle of the night and strangled the baby."
There's probably a moral to this story somewhere but I can't find it.
Ducking The Lame Duck
An interesting turn of events:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race.The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement from her home in suburban Wasilla on Friday morning. She said she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans.
"Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional Lame Duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose," Palin said in a statement released by her office.
"It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success," she said.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the governor's picnic in Fairbanks at the end of the month, Palin spokesman Dave Murrow said.
Palin was first elected in 2006 on a populist platform. But her popularity has waned as she waged in partisan politics following her return from the presidential campaign. Her term would have ended in 2010.
I appreciate what she's trying to do. Everyone complains about the governors and senators who are absent from their posts as they campaign for yet a higher chair. It seems to me though that the next presidential election's a long way away and it's good to finish what you start.
July 01, 2009
Wednesday's Duane Allman Pic
"To get to the other side?! Kekekekeke. Hey, pass me back that hash."
Caption a reposted laughing Duane.
Wail on, Skydog!
June 25, 2009
Oh Martha, Talk To Me
Dried on the line, starched and ironed, cool bedding for a sweet nap.
The choice of reading material by the bed let's you know you're chez Cracker.
Collector's Pruritus III: cobalt and tangerine.
Michael Jackson Dead
Death did what the law failed to do: get those three kids away from that freakish man-child. Hopefully the equally repugnant mother of two of the children stays out of the picture.
Somebody get a child psychologist in there stat.
June 24, 2009
Wednesday's Duane Allman Pic
Some lucky cat got to snap a pic from the final Fillmore show, June 26, 1971.
Wail on, Skydog!
June 17, 2009
