A night out on the town…humor…joke

Mom’s Time Out

My Parents had not been out together in quite some time.

One Saturday, as Mom was finishing the dinner dishes, my father stepped up behind her.

“Would you like to go out, girl?” he asked.

Not even turning around, my mother quickly replied, “Oh, yes, I’d love to!”

They had a wonderful evening, and it wasn’t until the end of it that Dad confessed.

His question had actually been directed to the family dog, lying near Mom’s feet on the kitchen floor.

HAMBURGER PATTIES may be contaminated with E. Coli…MEAT RECALL…

OH yes, from NEW YORK, Topps Meat Co. on Saturday expanded a recall of ground beef from about 300,000 pounds to 21.7 million pounds, one of the largest meat recalls in U.S. history.

The recalled products are all ground beef patties with various brand names.

In a statement, the Elizabeth, New Jersey, company said the hamburger patties may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, a bacterium that can cause severe diarrhea and cramps, as well as other complications.

A statement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture said 25 illnesses are under investigation in Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The ground beef products being recalled have a “sell by date” or a “best if used by date” between September 25, 2007, and September 25, 2008, Topps’ statement said.

The packages also have the marking “Est. 9748″ inside the USDA mark of inspection.

Tuesday, the company announced a recall of about 331,000 pounds of hamburger meat, according to the USDA.

“Because the health and safety of our consumers is our top priority, we are taking these expansive measures,” said Vice President of Operations Geoffrey Livermore in the statement.

“Topps is continuing to work with the USDA, state departments of health, retailers and distributors to ensure the safety of our consumers. Additionally, we have augmented our internal quality control procedures with microbiologists and food safety experts. We sincerely regret any inconvenience and concerns this may cause our consumers,” Livermore said.

Consumers who find the products at home are asked to cut off the UPC code and return it to Topps for a full refund, then dispose of the product immediately, Topps spokeswoman Michelle Williams said.

The company said to avoid E. coli, consumers should wash hands thoroughly after handling the beef.

Topps set up a toll-free recall help line at (888) 734-0451.

Williams said because the products may have been produced up to a year ago, many of them have already been safely consumed.

Production in the ground beef area of the company’s plant in Elizabeth has been shut down until all the investigations are complete, Williams said in a phone interview.

“We’re working with the USDA and the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and conducting our own investigation,” she added.

The products, all ground beef patties and hamburgers with various brand names, were distributed mainly in the northeastern United States, but went to retailers in many other areas of the country as well, Williams said.

While the sheer size of the recall is large, two other companies have been involved in larger recalls.

In 2002, Pilgrim’s Pride recalled more than 27 million pounds of poultry, and Hudson Foods recalled 25 million pounds of ground beef in 1997.
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This sounds so yummy for a person who doesn’t eat red meat.

What about people who eat this product and do not have a computer or a TV to see about it…and it is sitting in their refrigerator waiting to make them ill or kill them…YIPES!

~The

What happened to MONA LISA’s eyelashed and eye brows???

In SAN FRANCISCO, California, The “Mona Lisa” has long been shrouded in mystery, including one long standing question about the famous lady: What happened to her eyebrows and eyelashes?

A French engineer and inventor examined the famous painting with a camera of his own design.

Now, a French engineer and inventor says he’s uncovered part of the enigma.

Pascal Cotte announced at a press conference Wednesday that he has found definitive proof that when Leonardo da Vinci painted the original portrait he included “Mona Lisa’s” lashes and brows.

Cotte examined the world’s most famous painting using a high definition camera of his own design.

The device scanned a 240 million pixel image using 13 light spectrums, including ultra violet and infrared.

The resulting ultra high resolution photograph of 150,000 dots per inch yielded a reproduction of the “Mona Lisa’s” face magnified 24 times. And there Cotte found the evidence he sought, a single brushstroke of a single hair above the left brow.

“One day I say, if I can find only one hair, only one hair of the eyebrow, I will have definitively the proof that originally Leonardo da Vinci had painted eyelash and eyebrow,” said Cotte.

So, if she once had lashes, where did they go? Possibly faded pigment, Cotte suggested, or possibly a poor attempt to clean the painting.

“And if you look closely at the eye of ‘Mona Lisa’ you can clearly see that the cracks around the eye have slightly disappeared, and that may be explained that one day a curator or restorer cleaned the eye, and cleaning the eye, removed, probably removed the eyelashes and eyebrow,” he said.

Cotte’s high resolution camera led him to numerous additional discoveries about the enigmatic artwork.

The infrared layer of the image shows that the fingers of the “Mona Lisa’s” left hand were originally painted in a slightly different position than in the final portrait.

Cotte said the change in position was the result of a lap blanket held by Leonardo’s model. In today’s faded image the blanket is all but obscured, but the highly detailed camera detected the faded pigment.

“It was really the first time that we have this kind of position of the arm,” Cotte said, “and after Leonardo da Vinci, thousands of painters have made a copy of this position but without understanding why we have this position. The real justification of the position of the wrist is to hold the blanket on her stomach. It’s really a great, for me, it’s really a great discovery.”

One of the results of Cotte’s work is a “virtual” restoration of the painting, an exact replica showing the original colors as they would have looked when the painting was new.

The skin tones of Leonardo’s model appear as a warm pink and the sky behind her is a glowing blue, far different from the gray-green tint that covers the artwork today. That dark patina is the result of 500 years of aging, according to Cotte.

Cotte presented numerous other findings within the infrared layer he photographed.

The researcher said the “Mona Lisa’s” smile was originally slightly wider than it appears today, and, in fact, so was her entire face.

Leonardo kept this painting with him for more than a decade, and is said to have worked on it up until his death. The Renaissance artist once said, “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

The results of Cotte’s study are on display at the Metreon in San Francisco, as part of the exhibit “Da Vinci: An Exhibition of Genius.”
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DISCUSSION…joke…humor

Discussion

A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Bob Dylan…1966…LIKE a ROLLING STONE…you tube…

If you don’t like Bob Dylan…you werent in the 60’s!

This is from 1966…LIKE A ROLLING STONE…enjoy Baby Boomers…

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Nations FIRST BAby Boomer applies for Social Security Benifits…

In from WASHINGTON…The nation’s first baby boomer applied for Social Security benefits Monday, signaling the start of an expected avalanche of applications from the post World War II war generation.

Kathleen Casey~Kirschling, a former teacher from New Jersey, applied for benefits over the Internet at an event attended by Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue. Casey-Kirschling, who now lives in Maryland, was born one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946, making her the first baby boomer, a generation of nearly 80 million born from 1946 to 1964, Astrue said.

Casey~Kirschling will be eligible for benefits after she turns 62 next year.

An estimated 10,000 people a day will become eligible for Social Security benefits over the next two decades, Astrue said.

The Social Security trust fund, if left alone, is projected to go broke in 2041, though Astrue said he hopes Congress will address the issue, perhaps after the 2008 presidential election.
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What did they do with all of the money we have been putting into the system????

DO NOT GET ME STARTED!!!

~The Baby Boomner Queen~

Idaho Hall of Fame names Senator Larry Craig…

Craig named to Idaho Hall of Fame

BOISE, Idaho - Sen. Larry Craig was named Saturday night to the Idaho Hall of Fame, marking the Republican lawmaker’s first ceremonial appearance back in his home state since his arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting became public in August.

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Craig, 62, seated near the front of the banquet room, received polite applause and a few encouraging hoots when he was introduced.

“I hope in a very sincere way that the attention that’s been brought to me has not lessened the honor you receive,” Craig told the other nominees and about 200 people who attended the dinner.

He was chosen for induction last spring, well before his arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport in June. Among the other inductees are Chris Petersen, coach of the Boise State football team, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, who is vying to replace Craig in 2008.

Before he was honored, Craig entered the Boise convention center through its front doors, accompanied by family members including his wife, Suzanne Craig, and mother, Dorothy Craig. They walked through a crowd of about a dozen photographers, TV cameras and reporters.

“I’m doing very well,” Craig said, responding to a question. “I’ve got my whole family with me.”

Before the event, Michael Ritz, an Idaho Hall of Fame board member, said he had been bombarded with calls from national media outlets wanting to know whether they could set up cameras at the $50-a-head function. And while even some Republican Party members suggested withdrawing or delaying Craig’s nomination until another year, Ritz said the 12-member board opted to go ahead.

“We thought, ‘It’s kind of going back on your word,’” he said before the event. “Once a person has been sent a letter and voted into the Hall of Fame, it would be kind of like breaking a promise.”

Idaho’s senior Republican lawmaker pleaded guilty in August to disorderly conduct, then unsuccessfully tried to withdraw his plea after the episode became painfully public.

He initially said he intended to resign but now vows to serve out the last 15 months of his term.

The master of ceremonies for the event, former Republican Lt. Gov. David Leroy, acknowledged that attention on the senator and his arrest had raised the profile of the private, nonprofit Idaho Hall of Fame. Since 1995, it has inducted some 113 members, but before 2007 hadn’t made any new nominations for four years.

“As the cameras outside testify, this banquet is a hot ticket,” Leroy joked.

He then offered a quote that he attributed to actor Brad Pitt on the subject of fame: “Fame’s a bitch, man.”

Craig later quipped: “My fame of the last month, I would liken to the definition Brad Pitt gave it.”
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Thank you JOHN MILLER, Associated Press Writer, AP News and for the photos from Buddy Stone.
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Well, Baby Boomers…I don’t care what two consenting adults do as long as they have the common sense to use protection.

But the only Hall of Fame…I would put Senator Larry Craig in would be “The Sen. Potato Head Hall of Flam”

Come on, those of you who are in office…have you no decorum?

Malvolio’s tirade in Twelfth Night, “My masters, are you mad, or what are you? Have you no wit, manners nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?…Is there no respect of persons, place nor time in you?

~The Baby Boomer Queen~

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