Signs the world is ending

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This is a new sticky thread to post up signs the world is ending. They can be serious or funny it is up to you.

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A chaplain at a Florida hospice says she has resigned due to a ban on use of the words "God" or "Lord" in certain public settings.

The Rev. Mirta Signorelli said that Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton told her and other chaplains on Feb. 23 to "cease and desist from using God in prayers," the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.

That ban on religious references, she said, rendered her incapable of doing her job.

"I can't do chaplain's work if I can't say 'God' — if I'm scripted," Signorelli told the Sentinel.

Hospice by the Sea CEO Paula Alderson said the restriction applies only to staff meetings. Ministers, priests and rabbis still are free to speak about God when counseling patients or families in private.

"I was sensitive to the fact that we don't impose religion on our staff, and that it is not appropriate in the context of a staff meeting to use certain phrases or 'God' or 'Holy Father,' because some of our staff don't believe at all," she told the Sentinel.

But Signorelli said the policy also forced her to watch her language when leading prayer in the hospice chapel, and when meeting patients in public settings like nursing homes or weekly patient conferences with doctors, nurses and social workers, the Sentinel reported.

"If you take God away from me, it's like taking a medical tool away from a nurse,” she told the paper.

[mneptune]

Here's a WTF for you.....


Some Guantanamo Prisoners May Be Released Into The US

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some of the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prisoners could be released into the United States while others could be put on trial in the American court system, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday.

Holder, who was chosen by President Barack Obama to lead the administration's efforts to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba within a year, said the review of what to do with each of the prisoners had begun.

Holder told reporters at the Justice Department that the administration's review, made on a case-by-case basis, would determine whether the prisoners need to be put on trial or whether they can be released. "For those who are in that second category, who can be released, there are a variety of options that we have. Among them is the possibility that we could release them into this country," he said.

Holder said it was possible the 17 Chinese Muslims who have been held for years at Guantanamo, and two or three others prisoners, could be freed in the United States. The 17 members of the Uighur ethic group have been cleared for release but have nonetheless remained at Guantanamo while the United States tries to find a country willing to take them. The U.S. government has said it cannot return them to China because they would face persecution there.

"We've been trying to come up with places for them," Holder said of the Uighurs. Their lawyers have asked Obama to bring them to the United States.


Does anybody else see the madness in this? We capture terrorists who want to do everything in their power to kill Americans and now the administration wants to free some of them to roam free on our streets.

[Certifiable]

Get rid of the lawyers first, and your problems will resolve themselves more timely and efficiently.
A little Johanasburg cool aid should solve the Gitmo problem quickly and effieciently.
"Free Cool Aid for all of the prisoners that believe thier rights have been violated". "a second glass for those lawyers representing them".

[Tackle Engineer]

WTF ???

Move them into the whitehouse with Obama why dont they. This is completly outrageous

I need my boat back , This kind of crap raises my blood pressure

[Jesslyn]

How about our new President saying to a crowd of supporters yesterday that they could blame him for AIG giving out the 165 million dollars in bonuses and everyone cheering.

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They drank the Obama koolaid.

[Disco Lady]

COÑO!!!!!!!! I grew up on that Koollaid......: drink:


DL,

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A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.

Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations "information note" on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an "effective framework" for dealing with global warming.

[DonK]

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Where dreams become heart attacks"





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Baconnaise:



Fried Chicken Skin on a Stick:


Sausage, Egg, and Cheese on a Chocolate Glazed Donut:



And my favorite heart stopper:
Country Fried Bacon with Cream Gravy

[DonK]

Deep Fried White Castle Burgers..aka "Friders"



This one earns honorable mention:
The McGang-Bang...a McChicken Sandwich stuffed into a dbl quarter-pounder with cheese!

[mneptune]

Hmmmm, I'm getting hungry. Gonna fix a nice big Liposuction Milkshake

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SALT LAKE CITY — Police said a customer fired one or two shots into a Salt Lake City McDonald's after the driver of the car he was in was told the restaurant was not serving lunch yet.

Police said the female driver of a white Dodge Intrepid pulled up to the drive-thru and ordered from the lunch menu early Sunday but was told only breakfast was available.

Police said two men then got out of the car and one pulled a sawed-off shotgun from the trunk, shooting into the drive-thru window once or twice, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Monday. No one was injured.

The car then left the scene.

This is in Utah!!!

[Uncle Buck]

You know how it is, you can’t always get to the strip clubs as often as you’d like. So you wish and wish, and yet somehow a pole dancer has never appeared in your workspace to shake her stuff at you. Until now.

Just plug this baby into your USB port and watch her twirl as you type faster and faster. She’s awesome because she’ll shake her money maker and never ask for a single dollar bill in her G-String. Lonely nerds everywhere will be abusing their keyboards and buying replacements in no time. It’s almost too much fun for $29.25. The only way it gets better is if she stopped to windex the pole so another girl could begin.

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Wacky warnings. Are people really this stupid? Yes they are!!

Here are some "then somes" — the cases where they’ve gone above and beyond. Or have they?

A Cell Phone Manual Warns: Don't Try to Dry Your Phone in a Microwave Oven

"We wouldn't want anyone to make a sandwich out of them either," Motorola spokesman Rusty Brashear joked to FOXNews.com.

But it turns out that the microwave warning is no laughing matter.

"It's not quite as silly as it may sound," Brashear said. "The reason is not only would it [the microwave] melt some or most of the components in a phone, but you don't want to put lithium ion batteries in that kind of heat."

As for who made Motorola think anyone would ever try to microwave a cell phone in the first place, the answer is simple: the people who did.

"There's always an issue about how to dry out a phone if it's gotten wet ... and you can see where people might think the microwave is a good idea — so we had heard that it was being tried."

A Hair Dryer Warns: Never Use While Sleeping

Think it's impossible? Think again.

"Somebody did use a hair dryer while they were sleeping and it caused a fire in the bed," Jones said.

As result, there's a label on a number of hair appliances that warns against the practice.


"It pumps hot air up a hose into a bonnet that's over your head," UL Consumer Safety Director John Drengenberg told FOXNews.com. "You've got this nice warm air blowing on your head and you're reading and you might nod off."

"Although we don't have a lot of statistics showing people doing this, ever so often you get someone who falls asleep," he said.

A Curling Iron Warns: Do Not Use While Bathing or in Shower

What is it about hair care?

The same manual that tells you not to use your hair dryer or curling iron while sleeping gives a similar warning about bathing, and for good reason.

"The reality is that, yeah, we get reports ever so often of strange things happening with products, and it's the kinds of things that you probably wouldn't even consider doing — like taking your hair dryer or curling iron into the shower with you — but it happens," Drengenberg said. "That fact is, yeah, people have done that."

And in case common sense AND the warning aren't enough, UL has taken things a step further.

"Hair dryers have a special plug on them," Drengenberg said. "It's a fat little box and inside that box is a high tech device called a GFCI that will turn off the power if you take that hair dryer into the shower with you."

Phew!

A Watercraft Warns: Never Use Lit Match or Open Flame to Check Fuel Level

So, you're in a dark place, trying to see if you have to put gasoline in your watercraft before you take it for a spin. Who has time to look for a flashlight?

"It's happened where people have said, 'I can't see in the tank and see how much fuel there is and the only thing they have is a lighter,'" Drengenberg explained.

"And then they sue you for not warning," he added. "It's just the world we live in."

But it might actually just be the country we live in.

"The thing that is I think most revealing about all these different labels, this one in particular, is you don't see that warning label on products in Europe or Asia or any other part of the world," Jones said.

The same goes for many others Jones sees in the Wacky Warning Labels contest he runs through the Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch.

"We had a fountain pen where the warning label in English said: Do not swallow the pen cap," Jones recalled. "But it didn't say that in any of the other translations, and that's because they don't worry about frivolous pen-cap lawsuits there."

Two-Pronged Fishing Hook Warns: Harmful If Swallowed

All this talk of pen caps might be making you hungry, but try to avoid the temptation to eat your fishing hook. Apparently, the jagged piece of metal can be harmful.

"The fishing hook contains a trace amount of lead and under California law if you have any amount of lead in a product you have to have a warning on it that says harmful if swallowed," Jones explained. "So the attorneys advised that they put it on the box, even though no one would ever consider swallowing this thing."

"It didn't used to be this way," he added. "Our grandparents didn't need to be told not to swallow a fishing lure."

Bet the fish wish someone would tell them.

iPod Shuffle Warns: Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle

Here's another warning our grandparents never needed. Maybe because they didn't have iPod Shuffles, or maybe because they would have known that the same machine that the plays their favorite dinner music probably isn't meant to also be their dinner.

We apparently don't deserve the same benefit of the doubt.

"There was a shot where the iPod was next to a pack of gum to show its size," iPod spokesperson Christine Monaghan told FOXNews.com. "So that's why the warning was there, because we said that it was smaller than a pack of gum."

For over $100, that doesn't sound like a very satisfying meal — not nearly as filling as, say, an LCD TV.

Too bad they’re also "not for personal consumption."

ExtenZe Male Enhancement Pill: Do Not Use While Pregnant or Nursing

Luckily ExtenZe is for personal consumption, but ... sorry, ladies ... it will not enlarge your penis and it's definitely off-limits if you're pregnant or nursing.

"That falls in the category of we have so many warning labels we'll slap it on everything we make to cover ourselves," Jones said.

But the alert not only made it on the box, it is one of the only two warnings printed in capital letters.

"It's like the box of PMS Midol that says 'do not use if you have an enlarged prostate' — chances are if you have PMS is you're not going to have a prostate," Jones said. "But we figured there might be some guy out there one night who might have such a bad headache, he might be willing to take his wife's Midol. You never know."

Still, FOX News Legal Analyst Bob Massi says it "just doesn't make sense."

"Let's assume that language is specifically for the guys. It's a confusing warning so it has no use anyway — it should make clear that guys shouldn't take it if their partner is pregnant or nursing," he told FOXNews.com. "And for it to be for a female doesn't make sense either unless they're going to explain why a female would take this stuff to begin with."

Maybe she's having a boy?

Children's Dimetapp Warns: Be Careful When Driving a Motor Vehicle

It makes perfect sense that children between the ages of 6 and 12 should be very, very careful the next time they take the family car out for a spin after taking Children's Dimetapp.

"Again, this is a case where they've got all these warnings so they're just going to throw them on everything they make," Jones said.

The kids should apparently also be careful when operating heavy machinery and ask a health professional before use if they're pregnant or breast-feeding.

Razor Scooter Warns: This Product Moves When Used

In case the cold medicine warning leads parents to restrict the car keys altogether, kids can always hop on a Razor scooter to get around. But they should pay very close attention to the warning smack dab in the middle of the handlebars lest they not realize: the scooter will move when used.

"That one is because of all the injuries that occur when kids use a product like that," Jones said. "The personal injury lawyers who bring these lawsuits will always say in lawsuits that the company failed to warn — even if it's it common sense."

"That's why every bag of peanuts warns: this bag contains nuts," he added.

Our next warning might benefit from a similar label.

Washing Machine Warns: Do Not Put Any Person in This Washer

Everyone knows that washing machines are made to wash your clothes, but apparently a college student missed the memo that he’s not supposed to be wearing them at the time.

"According to the manufacture, somebody at a college had a little too much to drink and decided to take a ride in the washing machine, got hurt, and sued," Jones said. "So something that should be common sense has to be slapped on every washing machine now made by that manufacturer."

Drengenberg said children are also a major concern when it comes to washing machine warnings.

"Ever so often you have a situation where one sibling puts the other in the dryer or they're playing hide and seek or something and somebody pushes the button," he explained.

The warning's effectiveness on children is debatable, Drengenberg admitted, since the small ones usually can't read.

"It's alerting the parents: keep your kids at a safe distance," he said.

Clorox Bleach Wipes: Do Not Use as Diaper Wipes or for Personal Cleansing

Now that you know you can’t throw the baby in the washing machine you might be at a loss for how you're ever going to clean up his latest disaster. But just in case you were thinking that this sounds like a job for Clorox, think again. The company’s disinfecting wipes may look a lot like diaper wipes, but, as the package points out in bold, they aren't.

"Ah yes, that's actually one of our past winners, too, along with the Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Brush that says: Do not use for personal hygiene," Jones said.

Luckily, he wasn't aware of any lawsuits where someone tried to shower with the toilet brush or use the Clorox wipes on their baby.

A Vanishing Fabric Marker Warns: Should Not Be Used as a Writing Instrument for Signing Checks or Any Legal Documents

Surprisingly, Jones also had no information on any lawsuits regarding this "Wacky Warning Labels" finalist either ... though it's possible the legal documents just disappeared.

"It should be common sense not to sign a contract with a vanishing marker, but you never know," he said.

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The rising number of fat people was blamed for global warming on Monday.

Scientists warned that the increase in big eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet.

Overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage.

Dr. Phil Edwards, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "Moving about in a heavy body is like driving in a gas guzzler."

Each fat person is said to be responsible for emitting a ton more of climate-warming carbon dioxide per year than a thin one.

It means an extra billion tons of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organization estimates of overweight people.

The scientists say providing extra grub for them to guzzle adds to carbon emissions that heat up the world, melting polar ice caps, raising sea levels and killing rain forests.

[mneptune]

Originally Posted by quack quack

The rising number of fat people was blamed for global warming on Monday. Scientists warned that the increase in big eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet.

Overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage. Dr. Phil Edwards, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "Moving about in a heavy body is like driving in a gas guzzler."
Each fat person is said to be responsible for emitting a ton more of climate-warming carbon dioxide per year than a thin one. It means an extra billion tons of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organization estimates of overweight people.

The scientists say providing extra grub for them to guzzle adds to carbon emissions that heat up the world, melting polar ice caps, raising sea levels and killing rain forests.

This doesn't surprise me. I used to be slightly overweight, I was determined to get back into shape so about a year ago I began an excersize regiment, eating healthier, lots of walking etc, etc. What a difference it has made in my life, I feel like a teenager again and have more energy now than I ever had.

Here is a picture of the new slimmer, trimmer me taken this past weekend. Now I am a real chick magnet......




Now admit it, have you ever seen such a fine specimen of a man...a real manly man, don't you agree????? The ladies are always after my tail now!!!!

[freezorburn]

1) Obama might go after Bush's cabinate for allowing tourcher To the human waste that attached us on sept 11

2)The Taliban Now live and operate freely in several town inthe middle east. (WTF never would have happened under Republican rule.)

3) President is going around the world appologizing for the US.... WTF!