420FL versus NFL

I resemble that remark: "Nice work N.F.L., now you’ve given every dog and pony show blog a reason to show the offensive logo." HERE


SOURCE : The NFL has sent a cease and desist letter to the 420 Football League because their logo looks a little too much like the original.

According to the letter, the 420 FL logo will “tarnish the image of the NFL … and dilutes the strength and value of the NFL trademark.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaSE4YV1RLs

In case you don’t get it, the 420FL has to do with smoking weed. There’s a rapper you’ve never heard of involved and you advance the ball a yard for every second you hold in a “hit” of “pot.” Is there really a ball? Um, no.

Illegal Aliens :: North KOREA and Beyond

North Korea Sentences American Reporters to 12 Years Hard Labor
Laura Ling, the sister of former The View co-host Lisa Ling, and fellow Current TV journalist Euna Lee have been sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp by a North Korean court for crossing that country's border.

Calling it a "grave crime they committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing," the Central Court of North Korea convicted and sentenced the two reporters in a trial that began last Thursday. The U.S. State Department said that outside observers were not allowed to witness the trial's proceedings.

Friends and family of Ling and Lee insist that their border crossing was accidental and have been publicly pleading with the North Koreans for mercy in recent days. Reports CNN:

"When the girls left the United States, they never intended to cross into North Korean soil. And if they did at any point, we apologize," Lisa Ling, Laura Ling's sister, said on "Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday.
"And we know that they are very, very sorry. And we ask that you show mercy today," added Lisa Ling, a special correspondent for CNN.
Despite the limited communication, the families say they've heard enough to know the women are "terrified" and "extremely scared."
Current TV employees, including company Chairman Al Gore, had been ordered by their legal team to remain quiet about the situation with Ling and Lee, a stance that they held fast to both individually and as a company, despite some public outcry.

Obviously, this whole thing is a situation fraught with horrendous peril, not only for Ling and Lee, but for the United States in general. One can't escape the feeling that the convictions of Ling and Lee are less about North Korean law and more just another example of provocation by a renegade country led by a mad man. What Kim Jong Il and North Korea hope to gain by this situation is anyone's guess, but one can only imagine what sort of horrors take place inside a North Korean labor camp, and we certainly feel that it's time for the former two-term vice president of the United States to break his silence and start throwing his weight around to crack some serious skulls if he has to in order to get Ling and Lee freed. The Current TV strategy of silence has not worked up to this point and will only continue to reflect poorly on them and Gore going forward.

In the meantime, our thoughts are with Laura Ling and Euna Lee and their traumatized families.

Reporters Get 12-Year Terms in N. Korea [CNN]
Pic via Getty


David Smith "Let's compare the U.S.A. with some of the dictatorial regimes!
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you will get 12
years of hard labour.If you cross the Iranian border illegally you will be detained
indefinitely and/or declared a spy.If you cross the Afghan border illegally you are shot.
Check out the website ...
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO
POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET :
* A JOB,
* A DRIVERS LICENSE,
* SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
* WELFARE,
* FOOD STAMPS,
* CREDIT CARDS,
* SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
* FREE EDUCATION,
* FREE HEALTH CARE,
* A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON
* BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR
LANGUAGE
* THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY’S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON’T GET ENOUGH RESPECT
Calling an illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a drug dealer an umlicensed pharmacist.

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/illegal-immigration/863263-if-you-cross-border.html#ixzz0n6hlUZOw

Smith For U.S. House of Representatives
www.dsmithforcongress.com
content
___________________
Chris Thornton Enter Mexico illegally you get 2 years for first offense. 10 years for the second offense. Should be the same here in America.
Yesterday at 10:21pm
___________________
Patrick Darnell (from the LINK) As in USA when you cross the border; one gets --
-a job (pseudo-slavery)
-a drivers license?
-a social security card?
-welfare at the taxpayers expense
-subsidized rent, or even a loan to buy a house
-free education, often in your native tongue
-free health care, again, at the taxpayers expense
-a lobbyist in Washington D.C
-billions of dollars worth of public documents printed in your native language
-the right to carry your own country's flag while you protest --that you do not get enough respect in the country that you are in illegally.

some of this is questionable... to me.. SS Card? for real?

Illegal Immigration is a sick joke, and has very little credence as a "term"... my point is "if it is so commonplace, how then is it such an issue?" Yes, and no one is laughing.

The purpose of being a "Legal Alien" is to be something that can be taxed... nickel and dimes are needed from the millions of "illegal aliens" to pay for their overburdens... eh?

Hey Illegals -- if you want to hang with us Homies in this land of plenty, you have to pay the tolls just like we do. That's all this is about. Lost revenue... I say get the dough, Mr Smith. And I have best wishes for you in your campaign.
Yesterday at 10:26pm ·
___________________
David Smith Yes, You do and can get a SSN. The Gov always want them to pay their share. The thing is, they can be here for years and never pay taxes and turn around and draw Social Security. I wish I could do that!
Yesterday at 10:32pm
___________________
Jenna Marie Hughes Me, too!
about an hour ago

___________________
It is tough to make it in this country even if you are a patriot's son, or daughter. But not one of us was here "first." Not even the American Indians, if the fossil record is telling us the truth these days. We are all immigrants in this land. Shoot, man, if I am accurately reading birth certificates posted all over -- Barry our Prez is an illegal alien...

Welcome to Modern nastiness... the illegal alien in Texas does all the shitty jobs. Small business Owners, city Employers cannot compete without the immigrant filling a spot on chain gangs, sweat shops, or in the field point-repairing sewers, like bonded slaves.

... gravy train, government cheese, a Cadillac in every carport ... why is the sewer all backed up? How come we have to ration water in New Mexico cities?

Hey: today, right now, Make everyone already here "legal" and make everyone pay their taxes. Pay or get a year in Leavenworth for tax evasion.

I sure get weary reading everyday some half-bent slippery slope argument about [wtf] "illegal aliens" -- what is this -- the GAZA strip? All this is about sealing fate of immigrants.

Here's another solution: Extend the American Indian territories to the Mexican-US border and let our Sioux, Comanche, and Apache brothers police the border ...

I hear a lot of complaining, but seldom do I hear any solution... why is that?
____________________
David Smith See, I have been offering. Just no one wants to listen. So I'm tired of the bitching and complaining. Feel free to make comments, but I would hope people would start paying attention.

http://www.dsmithforcongress.com/Immigration.php

Might I also mention, of all the Candidates and Current congressmen (Water walkers), I seem to be the ONLY one making any offers!

____________________
MooPig
I have read the processes you are suggesting there Dave. Believe me I agree with the process, only it will put a strain on prisons, creating a monster paper trail, for a country -- Mexico, -- who has no way of keeping a paper trail.

And I do understand you have a campaign to run, but this is fBook and in here if something pricks a finger, it is a possible source of viral mandates... the Houston Mayor won her election by being in fBook all during the campaign.

So essentially we are two people who just met on the street... And I don't even know who you are. So good luck with all that testing the waters in here. And I am sure I am not in your district...

And, many will avoid you due to the campaign... and not voice their opinions for what ever reason. But if you are going to be subversive to your opponents' mediocrity, and propose a track for illegals to become legals, remember you have to sell that one to the Mexican senators and police, as well as taxpayers like me..

After two paragraphs I can tell you this is too complicated for the average Mexican laborer trying to work in US.

Mexico has no rule of law, and it looks like in the fifty years I have been neighbors with Mexico, seems that they never intend to improve their system. So, heck no to imprisoning illegal aliens over here, I won't stand for that.

Now for instance:
Mexican Labor: Who do you think had last hand in the blow-out override system in the recent oil spill in the Gulf? Do you think NASA rocket scientists prepared the pipe and valves that go into that blowout preventer? Who do you think drove the Lull to pick up the valve, and who held the spigot that sandblasted the unit, and who powder coated that son of a gun? Who loaded it on the barge? It is done by the lowest bid contractors... who employ illegal aliens, period.

No? it is Mexican labor, legal or illegal... I know this first hand or I wouldn't bring it up. Having been supervisor of illegals, in and around all types of nutty situations... scooped day laborers off the curb in three states... Illinois, MO and Tx... yep

...And I can't get past the first two points of your "what you propose" as this twelve steps to become a legal... ?

So I get to point two: capture illegal using our military base personnel... finger print, photo, and buy them a ticket back to Yucatan, or Guatemala City... that's my tax dollars you are using there. I won't stand for that. My military -- until further notice -- is not a police force.

Why not just treat the border creepers like Loggerhead turtles... collar them, epoxy a GPS trans-ceiver on their backs, let them loose and use the data to empirically set up capture-free zones for staging claims. No more anchor babies? Try to put that one past the Loggerheads...!

I agree, but like all our laws today... the detention and release program is not something I am volunteering my paycheck to cover, Sorry.

That's why you turn it over to a third party, an agency, privatize this game... forggedda'bout using my cherished army folks, or any other Federal thing I pay through the nose for.
You are welcome for my comments.

AMERICANA

How's This For Nostalgia?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?


When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?


Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?


You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?


Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?


It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?


They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did it!


When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?


No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?


Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?


And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.


When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

.. .as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?


I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.

Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody andThe Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.

How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.


Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.


Newsreels before the movie.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.


Peashooters.

Howdy Doody.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.


78 RPM records!


Green Stamps.


Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do You Remember a Time When..
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?


Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?



It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?



Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?


'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?


Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?


Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?


If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!

Ziaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!

"Get to Work !!!"

by Pat2

Marinella Ruggiero Darnell, Supervisor 

"FA~MOKKKKKKKKKKKKKK !!!!!!!"

la Befana 2010

[[Click to Help]]

Project Global Cooling, by David Darnell

Please visit the Mystery Topic Challenge Blog to view all of the other entries. Once you've read them all, please be sure to vote HERE in the Sidebar for your favorite.
The BlogNinjas are raring to go with more Mystery Topic Challenge goodness. You don’t have to be a Blog Ninja to take part but if you want to read and then vote for your favorite, come by here.
March 2, 2008
Jamsheed Hakiim
Final entry: Project Global Cooling

When this project was born, the Shah was still in power and Iran was destined to become the model of the Mideast. My family was comprised of many engineers, geologists and petroleum geophysicists. They were mainly educated in Moscow, Beirut and even one young man, Dafya, went to Loyola College in Baltimore. He was the visionary and guiding light of the project, working diligently and pulling many strings to get to the U.S. to go to school. Dafya also, during this time, became a believer in Jesus and was baptized at the school chapel. Also while he was in Baltimore he discovered the charms of American women, one of them being my mother. Actually, they dated, fell in love and were married by a Jesuit priest. He was called back to Iran, under the pretenses of having an ill relative. When he arrived he was whisked away to one of the research compounds in Bushehr. He was working on his doctorate in computer aided seismography and physics.

After the Shah died, the Ayatollahs began pulling the veil over Iran and shutting them off completely from outside influences. They began using great oil-wealth to finance clandestine Islamic extremist goals all around the globe. Students abroad were coerced back into Iran, by any means necessary. What the world didn’t and still doesn’t know is that the shallow oilfields are not only close to the surface but the reservoirs are shallow and inconsistent themselves. The oil wealth is an illusion. Subsurface fault lines have caused the oil to pool beneath mountains of jack-knifed granite at depths of 5000 to 7000 feet. The great pools are out of easy reach. The Ayatollahs have turned away all of the major oil companies, who have the technology and capability to recover it. Many of my family have been locked –up for years in various compounds by the regime to try and find an answer to the dilemma. Maybe you have read, Japan is very interested in the Azaadegan region, pouring yens and technology here to try and find the oil.

With the international dialog about Iran’s nuclear reactor development, the perceived reason is for them to build a bomb. However, in reality they need the reactors to generate electricity. My dad, Dafya Jamsheed, has become a top developer of the Iran Project Global Cooling. His ticket back to the U. S. is tied to his ability to bring to fruition a nuclear power plant.

I recently received an e-mail which read: Dear Jamsheed, Our chance to meet in Baltimore seems to be not much of a chance at all, unless we are able to procure more funds and re-new our passports. The exit fees from Iran have become quite high and unreasonable. If you could open a bank account in your grandfather’s name, you know Grand-pa Raymond (Raymond had become our code word for uranium) However, it would be best if you took the funds from the Jamsheed Trust fund account and pay the penalty for early withdrawal and use the Visa Card in the safe deposit box. The card is in the trustees name and you have the security code. (We don’t have a trust fund, safe deposit or trustee). Once you have the card and funds, put the card back in the safe deposit. Contact your cousins in Fort Murray, Canada right outside of Alberta. There will be a truck there loaded with some artifacts and booty from Grand-pa Raymond’s warehouse. These are from some of the early days of traveling back and forth to Iran. (I knew from other communications that the researchers needed 1000 kilos of uranium hexafluoride to finish an important stage of enriching the uranium. Some smugglers had it in Canada.) Go and purchase what you need and bring the truck to Baltimore. Check with my Physics professor, he now owns La Dolce Vita Amusement Center near the Harbor Freeway. He will arrange a buyer for the rugs and artifacts. (La Dolce Vita was a hang-out for gamblers and nefarious characters). That should furnish enough funds to take care of my exit papers.”

I was able to make myself inconspicuous around the various registers in Nordstrom’s at Towson Town Center. I waited and shopped like all mall rats do, milling around the areas where women shop. My opportunity arose when you checked out with a leather jacket and gloves. I was behind you talking on my cell phone as you took out your card to pay and I snapped a photo of your card. Actually, I was shooting a video of your transaction. Your bad luck and my enabling providence to be a thief was that you require ID, so you also took out your drivers’ license, which showed up quite nicely on the video. The fumbling with your purse and wallet gave me time to really focus. I sent everything to my computer which had appraisal district software, state police files and typical rosters of residents and soon I had accessed some files from a transaction for a car loan at Bank of America. An inadvertent disclosure of social security got me in the system.

Your purchase was 1000 kilos of uranium hexafluoride; my fathers exit from Iran and hopefully someday a peaceful and maybe a little bit Christian Iran.

I stole your identification and card number and carried out this theft in order to help Iran build a nuclear reactor, hopefully for peaceful purposes.

My father made it out of Iran to Singapore and then L.A. So far no bombs have been detected but there seem to be fewer rolling black-outs across Iran.

I threw your ID in Chesapeake Bay tied to a tire tool.


> D2R2's MTC #8 article written March 1, 2008; posted on this site by moderator MooPigWisdom for author.

_____________________________
Like what you're seeing? There's more: The BlogNinjas are raring to go with more Mystery Topic Challenge goodness. You don’t have to be a Blog Ninja to take part but if you want to read and then vote for your favorite, come by here.

Across the Centuries: Art is

A Slice of Americana