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Email Of The Day: 320 Pound Woman…Yuck!

What does a 320 pound woman look like?
Now, before you scroll down to look at her pictures,
get a mental image of what you think a woman who weighs 320 looks like…

GOT IT?

OK, Now Scroll Down….

The tallest and best proportioned woman
in the world lives in Holland. She is 7’4″ and weighs 320 lbs.

Phew!  What a relief!

Now we ALL know we aren’t overweight;
we’re just too short!

Have A Great Day

Texas Fishermen Survive 8-Day Ordeal In Gulf Of Mexico After Their Boat Capsized

James Phillips, right, and Curt Hall, left, two of three fisherman rescued after eight days adrift in Gulf of Mexico.

BLESSING, Texas (AP) — Three Texas fishermen who spent eight days stranded in the Gulf of Mexico atop their capsized boat endured hunger, blistering heat, scares from sharks and hallucinations, but they never gave up hope they’d be rescued.

“It was on a day-to-day basis that everybody had their breakdown,” Tressel Hawkins told NBC’s “Today Show” Monday. “The power of prayer had us feeling safe as far as knowing that we were going to make it out of it, but didn’t know how long that we were going to have to endure this.”

The men were reunited with their families early Sunday after they were found sitting on their 23-foot catamaran 180 miles from land. They were identified as Hawkins, 43, of Markham; James Phillips, 30, of Blessing; and Curtis Hall, 28, of Palacios.

“I knew we were coming home; I never had a doubt,” Phillips, the boat owner, told the Houston Chronicle.

The crew of a sport fishing boat spotted the men waving their white T-shirts near Port Aransas and rescued them Saturday. The three were reported missing Aug. 22 after they left Matagorda, about 90 miles southwest of Houston, on a fishing trip and never returned. Port Aransas is about 130 miles from Matagorda.

The three were asleep that Friday night and were awakened by water coming in the boat, Hawkins said.

“Once we were awake and saw what happened, it flipped over in one minute,” Phillips told the Chronicle. “Then us country boys went into survival mode. That’s all we could do.”‘

The men rationed their salvaged bubble gum, crackers, beer and chips, and used a hose to suck fresh water out of the internal “washdown” tank. Fishermen often keep such a tank to wash fish slime off their boat when they are out in the salt water.

“We’d eat crackers one day, and then a handful of chips,” Phillips said. “Everything tasted like gasoline and saltwater.”

Hall and Haskins both said they saw U.S. Coast Guard helicopters and rescue planes fly over. The Coast Guard, which gave up the search after the men had been missing a week, never saw them.

Phillips said the roughest time was during the heat of the day, when they would try to endure the sun’s rays and keep up their spirits. The men also started seeing things.

“About the fourth or fifth day we started hallucinating about people dropping off food and water,” Phillips said. “And we were talking to them, but they weren’t there,” Phillips said.

One thing the men saw that wasn’t a hallucination was sharks.

“We had a bunch of black-tipped sharks schooling up under the boat,” Phillips said. “One of them jumped across the back of the boat.”

Finally, they were spotted by Eddie Yaklin, a Corpus Christi car dealer who was fishing on his 75-foot yacht. Yaklin told NBC the boat went right past the men while heading to a nearby oil rig to fish. But then after about an hour he spotted them. They were atop their boat when Yaklin arrived.

Hawkins said he initially wondered if his rescuers were another figment of his imagination.

” My first reaction was, ‘Is this really real?’ You just have to kind of sit back and say is this real or hallucination,” he said. “You have to wake yourself up three or four times to make sure it is real.”

Model Naomi Campbell Says Black Models Are Being Dropped During Recession

From the UK Telegraph

Never afraid of speaking her mind, Naomi Campbell has accused the advertising business of using the recession as an excuse to drop black models.

The 39-year-old supermodel, who is a close friend of Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister’s wife, claims that major companies are refusing to use non-white women to promote their products.

“This year, we have gone back all the way that we had advanced,” she says. “I don’t see any black woman, or of any other race, in big advertising campaigns.”

The 39-year-old supermodel, who is a close friend of Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister’s wife, claims that major companies are refusing to use non-white women to promote their products.

“This year, we have gone back all the way that we had advanced,” she says. “I don’t see any black woman, or of any other race, in big advertising campaigns.”  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Maybe she’s right, I have no idea.  But in my opinion, she has always come off as one of the most arrogant, self-centered models that I’ve heard speak.  This cause may have merit, it’s not what I’m referring to.

I don’t understand why she’s always so angry.  She seems so unappreciative of the enormous success and wealth that she has achieved simply because of her ability to look good in an outfit.  She has not achieved anything based on her talent–she’s a beautiful woman.  She’s basically a piece of art.  To listen to her speak as if her life has been such a struggle is insulting to anyone that actually works for a living.

Report: Macaulay Culkin Fathered Michael Jackson’s Son “Blanket”

From the UK Sun

Jackson with the future father of his child?...

Actor Macaulay Culkin is the mystery father of Michael Jackson’s son Blanket, it was claimed last night.

The Home Alone film star is said to have donated sperm to help Jacko create his seven-year-old offspring – real name Prince Michael II – with an unknown surrogate mum.

The two celebrities became firm friends after Culkin, now 29, shot to fame as a child in the 1990 box office smash.

He went on to star alongside Jackson in the video for his hit song Black or White in 1991, regularly visited the singer’s Neverland ranch, and took the witness stand to defend him at his 2005 child molestation trial.

One source said: “It is well known Jackson and Macaulay shared a unique bond.

“Now rumours are spreading like wildfire that Macaulay, who Jackson nicknamed Mack, is actually Blanket’s biological dad.”

Close pals say Jacko, who died aged 50 at his Los Angeles home in June, is not the natural dad of Blanket, his brother Michael, 12, or their 11-year-old sister Paris.

Trusted

Fevered speculation gripped the US after repeated claims that a “well-known Hollywood actor” donated the sperm for Blanket.

Now sources close to Jackson say the Thriller star asked Culkin for the donation to help him complete his “perfect” family.

The source added: “This isn’t just chitter-chatter, even Culkin suspects he’s Blanket’s father.

“So many names have been mentioned as prospective dads, and this is probably the wackiest yet.

“But Jackson and Culkin were best friends. He was one of the few people Jackson really trusted and Mack never let him down.

“Really, Jackson idolised him – that’s why he asked Mack to donate sperm.

“Deep down, I think he always wished Mack was his son. Creating Blanket was the next best thing.”  (Read more.)

La Canada Fire Raging In Los Angeles Area; Threatening Mt. Wilson Communications Center

From the Los Angeles Daily News

MOUNT WILSON – With flames about a half-mile away from the communications and astronomy centers on Mount Wilson, crews planned to set more backfires and planes dropped fire retardant around the mountaintop complex, which hold transmitters for more than 20 television stations, many radio stations and cell phone providers.

Television stations said if the antennas burn, broadcast signals would be affected but satellite and cable transmissions would not be.

“Our original plan was to pull all firefighters off of it now,” said Mark Savage of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

“Right now, a strike team of engines is seeing if they can find a safe place to shelter up there. We are concerned that it will be overrun and we think it will burn, but we are not sure if the communication facilities will be overrun.”

By late afternoon, a huge plume of smoke rose from the western side of the peak, and the fire was creating winds pushing it to the east up the peak.

“It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,” Savage said earlier.

Dozens of TV technicians are normally are stationed at Mount Wilson to keep 22 Los Angeles TV stations operating, along with about 25 fm radio stations and vital police and fire radio dispatch equipment functioning.

“Everybody is off the mountain — there was one last caretaker, but they took him off,” said fire info officer Larry Marinas.

Fire officials were huddling at the command post in Lakeview Terrace, and an update on the blaze was expected around 7:30 p.m.

Most electronic operations on the mountain can be run by remote control, but power and communication lines are vulnerable.

Most satellite and cable companies have direct feeds from major TV stations to bypass a failure on Mount Wilson, but over the air TV and FM signals could be lost, along with hundreds of public safety radio repeaters that amplify signals from Tijuana to Santa Barbara.

B.S. Report–Not too far away from B.S. Report’s main headquarters…you’ll know how close if we stop posting…

2009…Rough Job Market

Swine Flu Said To Have Infected 10% Of New Yorkers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The new H1N1 swine flu is estimated to have infected about 800,000 people in New York City in the spring, a top U.S. health official said on Sunday, citing a study due to be released later this week.

"I'm coming to get you!"

Dr. Thomas Frieden, who heads the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said surveys suggested the virus was widely spread around the city. Frieden was New York City’s health commissioner before taking the top CDC job in June.

“In New York City where we had a lot of H1N1 this last spring the estimate is about 800,000 people, about 10 percent of New York City residents, got infected with the flu,” Frieden said in an interview with C-SPAN television aired on Sunday.

“That’s a lot of people.”

New York City health department officials say the full study is being finished and will be released within days.

Frieden said there had been a twenty-fold variation in influenza infections around the country. “We expect that some places will have more flu. Some places will have less,” he said.

Swine flu has infected well over 1 million people in the United States, and is now the CDC’s No. 1 priority. Other research also shows that older children and young adults are by far the most likely to be infected with the new virus.

The World Health Organization predicts a third of the world’s population will eventually be infected.

The virus is still circulating and most health experts expect a resurgence in the northern hemisphere’s autumn as temperatures cool and schools, traditional breeding grounds for infection, reopen after summer holidays.

Detailed reports on outbreaks can help health officials prepare for epidemics in their communities.

Every year, seasonal flu infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of a given population and kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people globally. Because hardly anyone has immunity to the new H1N1 virus, experts believe it will infect far more people than usual, as much as a third of the population.

It also disproportionately affects younger people, unlike seasonal flu which mainly burdens the elderly, and as a result may cause more severe illness and deaths among young adults and children than seasonal flu.

Chicago health authorities said last week that the pandemic H1N1 flu infected 14 times as many children as adults over 60 there, and also disproportionately affected blacks and Hispanics.

WHO said pregnant women and people with asthma, diabetes and heart diseases are at special risk of severe complications of death from H1N1 flu.

Some countries are reporting that as many as 15 percent of patients hospitalized with the new H1N1 pandemic virus have needed intensive care, further straining already overburdened healthcare systems, WHO said on Friday.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–So 10% of New Yorkers can expect to get the flu–even a serious case of the flu.  I believe that.  What I didn’t believe was the early reports that this strain was going to cause massive amounts of deaths here in the United States.  And I still don’t.  And the reporting about this flu has changed to reflect a less hysterical viewpoint.

Are Cell Phone Towers Killing Off Honey Bees?

From PTI News

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 31 (PTI) Mobile towers are posing a threat to honey bees in Kerala withe electromagnetic radiation from mobile towers and cell phones having the potential to kill worker bees that go out to collect nectar from flowers, says a study.

A plunge in beehive population has been reported from different parts of Kerala and if measures are not taken to check mushrooming of mobile powers, bees could be wiped out from Kerala within a decade, environmentalist and Reader in Zoology, Dr Sainudeen Pattazhy says in his study.

In one of his experiments he found that when a mobile phone was kept near a beehive it resulted in collapse of the colony in five to 10 days, with the worker bees failing to return home, leaving the hives with just queens, eggs and hive-bound immature bees.

"Oh no, is that a cell phone? Okay, I'll leave!"