Tonight’s Music Selection…The Doobie Brothers

Just Another Washed-Up Performer: Russian Chimp Enters Rehab

From the Montreal Gazette  (Bottom pic added by B.S. Report)

Ai Ai, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, enjoys a cigarette in her glass enclosure at the zoo in Xian, in this August, 2005 file photo. Photo: Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday. An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.

“The beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze,” the Komsomolskaya Pravda paper said.

It added he has now been transferred to the city of Kazan, about 800 km (500 miles) east of Moscow, for rehabilitation treatment.

B.S. Report–Be careful!  Taking away a chimp’s booze and cigarettes can make him violent…It sounds to me like Ai Ai is ready to snap!

Tonight’s Music Selection: Classical Gas

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Pic Of The Night: Wishful Thinking…

Woman Prisoner Uses Spoon To Dig Out Of Dutch Jail

From News.com.au  (Australia)  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

A VIOLENT criminal used a spoon to dig her way out of a Dutch prison, officials said today.

The 35-year-old woman, held for an unspecified “violent crime”, fled on Sunday through a tunnel she had dug with a spoon, prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin, said.

The tunnel linked the inside of the prison in Breda in the southern Netherlands to the outside world, he said, without specifying if it started in the woman’s cell.

Justice ministry spokesman Jochgem van Opstal would not say what sentence the woman was serving or for what specific crime. She was still on the run today.

B.S. Report–I remember seeing  a “Get Smart” episode where Maxwell Smart was trying to dig his way out of prison with a spoon–he was unsuccessful.  I guess they’re not building prisons like they used to…

Let's hope it wasn't a plastic "taster" spoon...

Man Hit By Train…Again, 2 Weeks Later

From the Orange County Register  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Jon Cassidy

IRVINE – A 57-year-old Costa Mesa man who had his hand severed by a Metrolink train two weeks ago was apparently hit by the same train again Tuesday morning, police said. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

Around 7:30 a.m., police and firefighters went to the Irvine Transportation Center after receiving a report of a man who had fallen onto the tracks.

Paramedics treated injuries to the man’s left arm and right hand. His left hand was severed two weeks ago in another incident.  (Read more.)

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Steve Wynn Blasts “Obamanomics”

B.S. Report–This is a small excerpt from a Steve Wynn conference call regarding his Q4 earnings for Wynn Resorts.  I grabbed just a short segment where he talks about how the President’s statements and policies have impacted his business, Las Vegas and the country as a whole. I pulled it from here.

Steve Wynn is no fan of Obama's economic policies

Wynn Resorts, Limited Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

I have more pessimism than I have had before. And it’s based upon the political environment in which we are living today. And it definitely is impacting Las Vegas. The President of the United States hasn’t missed one single opportunity to swelch [ph] Las Vegas.

In our particular case it’s cost us millions of dollars from companies affected by the President’s remarks that had no connection whatsoever to federal bailouts. But we get phone calls, and I am not going to mention the names of the companies, from Chairmen, who say we don’t want to appear to be profligate because Barack Obama said this or that about Las Vegas. But it’s had an effect on us.

The hospitality industry in the United States of America as a whole has suffered disproportionately during this recession. Maybe automobile workers got a break. But all of the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people that work in the hotels, restaurants, and bars in the United States of America have been totally and completely overlooked in this aborted rescue attempt that has squandered billions of dollars in the United States. And I am being very harsh about it. And I’ve got the data to back it up and so is everybody else in the hospitality industry.

Job formation and the kinds of companies that make jobs are under attack in the United States of America. You know, MGM – aside for a moment – in – last year we created almost 5000 jobs. And immediately became the target of the administration. Businesses that created jobs, little own gaming companies have created jobs, had to be no good. I mean, it is preposterous that businesses are under attack in the United States of America.

Anybody that makes over$250,000 in the form of a personal income tax return is now by Washington definition ‘a rich person’ when everybody who has got a college degree knows that the personal income tax rate in the United States of America is the business tax of America. Every subchapter S, every individual proprietorship, and every partnership in the United States of America files tax returns as individuals. And when they do, and they show that they made $2 million, or $3 million or God forbid $4 million, they pay the income tax rate. They deduct their working expenses, their living expenses and then they invest in a new store, a new shop, and most of the time 25% of their “profits” are tied up in accounts receivable or inventory.

But all of a sudden, all of those people who make over $250,000 are rich folks to be fleeced. And if that’s job formation stimulation in America, (inaudible) providence. And if I sound angry about it, and disgusted, I am disgusted and angry at the apparent ignorance of the administration and the Congress to recognize the fact that the individual tax rate in the United States of America is in fact the business tax of America. And if you keep banging on that, you will destroy in the incentive for job formation in the United States of America. And that’s simple truth. Simple truth. And whether politicians like it or don’t like it, it means nothing to me.

B.S. Report–Here are some comments Wynn made about Obama’s policies a few months back…