Straight from the South Seas

Straight from the South Seas
Retired Expat living the Philippines

Augustus Summerfield Merrimon

This Blog is dedicated to my great-great-grand uncle who was a Democratic US Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1873 and 1879.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Victoria’s Secrets models better hold on to their panties

Times are tough out there. The recession is making everyone resort to really desperate acts and this one is up there. Police are looking for two men and a woman they say snatched $3,400 worth of panties from a Victoria’s Secret in a Texas suburb of Hurst. The police report says the thieves took 100 panties valued at $14 each and 125 valued at $16 each. No idea why they did not take more of the pricey ones but to each his/her own. The suspects removed the panties from drawers opened at the front of the store and started placing them into a bag while most of the employees were in the rear of Victoria’s Secret. No arrests have been made in the March 9 theft.


So be on the look out for someone who has an endless supply of Victoria’s Secrets panties. To help you know what to look for exactly we have provided some material for closer study.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Are Crop Circles Created By UFOs?


Crop circles first became a widely known phenomenon in the 1970s with most discoveries are centered on wheat fields in Britain. Those with a conspiratorial mind are inclined to believe that crop circles are either some sort of mystical communication from aliens or that they are caused by UFOs either landing on or hovering above the wheat. They may believe that common sense suggestions as to the origin of crop circles are, in fact, an attempt by the government to conceal their real meaning. Scientists believe that these particular circles may be caused by eddies in the Earth’s magnetic field or concentrations of electrically charged gas.

Do you believe that scientists can explain the non-hoaxed crop circles or do they really have a deeper extra-terrestrial meaning?


scary movie

A sweet innocent looking girl can get real scary

Sunday, March 29, 2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer [True HD]

Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed (who will later become Sabretooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up...

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Woman accused of sex with dogs

I had a hard time deciding to post the following - even if its bad - very bad. You be the judge.

A Sarasota County woman videotaped herself having sex with two dogs and watching child pornography with a friend, authorities say. Caroline Willette, 53, gave a CD with the images to an acquaintance, who turned it over to police, according to HeraldTribune.com. Because sex with animals isn’t illegal in Florida, Willette has been charged with three counts of possessing child porn. FYI read.

Pointed Ears



This guy had surgical procedure to make human ears pointed, like a mythological creature. Or maybe like Mr. Spock of Star Trek.

Maybe he’s wanta be Vulcan.

Antelope Canyon



The most visited and photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest, the Antelope Canyon is located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona. It includes two separate, photogenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as Upper Antelope Canyon or “The Crack” - and Lower Antelope Canyon or “The Corkscrew.”
BEAUTIFUL

Friday, March 27, 2009

Witnesses Claim They Saw Aliens at US Military Bases



It has been rumored that the U.S. government has a close working relationship with alien beings; three unnamed witnesses told a California radio station in a program aired in June. The four-hour program, produced and broadcast by KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Calif., ranged widely over the UFO topic, but the most explosive segments were the testimony of a construction contractor who said he saw aliens at Edwards Air Force Base and at the China Lake Naval Weapons facility in California; the testimony of a man who described "saucers" being launched from a Northrop facility near Edwards; and a woman's second-hand account of a meeting between aliens and U.S. military officers.

It’s unbelievable that the US government goes to extreme lengths to hide aliens from the public. They build complex underground bases, spend trillions of dollars, Manipulate the media and politicians, they are behind the largest cover-up in history of mankind. Just unbelievable!

NASA Crawler-transporter


I thought I’d pass these this along to you folks – since I worked the Space Shuttle Launch Pad in 1983-85.
The crawler – transporter is a tracked vehicle used to transport the Saturn V rocket, the Saturn IB rocket during Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, and now the Space Shuttle, from NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building to the Launch pad on a Mobile Launcher Platform. The crawler-transporter, built by the Marion Power Shovel Co. at a cost of $14 million, was once the largest tracked vehicle in the world; it has since been surpassed by the German Bagger 288 excavator.














PRETTY COOL

Ghost caught on security tape at gas station

People looking to fill up their gas tanks in Parma Ohio got an eyeful, but no one's exactly sure what they were looking at.

Time to call GhostBusters

Hard Times

With the economy picture now is so tough and people hurting and struggling to meet make ends met I decide to add a job search on the side bar for you readers. I know things are hard for most since I’ve been there too. Should you have a particular job in mind please let me know and I will go my sources and see if I can find it.

Look on the sidebar

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Attacks on US Border Patrol Agents in San Diego, CA

NOT GOOD

The world’s biggest bucket-wheel excavator



This machine is 984 feet long, the equivalent of about six Olympic-sized swimming pools in length. It weighs about 91 million pounds, the size of about 380 Blue Whales, which is the largest animal on the planet Bagger 288 constructed by German company Krupp for Rheinbraun, is the world’s largest land vehicle. If you want to get the ore, dirt out, or move a mountain, it’s what you need. Bagger 288 removes 100,000 cubic yards per day. The Biggest bucket-wheel excavator in the World Cost: $100 million… It took 5 years to design and manufacture plus another 5 years to assemble.
VERY BIG

Alexandria library



The myth goes that there were great secrets within the Alexandrian Library. It seems we all forgot one critical thing: Everything within the walls of the Library was copied from other sources. Everything. When the library was founded during third century BC by the Ptolemy's, it was part of their taxation strategy, or more precisely a "toll road". Everyone who wanted to reach beyond Egypt to the Red Sea, or the other way around to the Mediterranean ships docking in Egypt, with people wanting to pass through, well, they had to hand over everything written onboard for copying by Alexandrian scholars and writers. Maps, logs, literature, diaries and so on, and everything were gathered in the Library of Alexandria.
I am intrigued by the library of Alexandria because of the vast amount of ancient knowledge that was apparently kept there. I am not really looking for any secrets myself, but could you imagine what could be learned from a database of the world’s history.
Did the Alexandria library hold lost secrets?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Woman tossed from balcony during domestic dispute



A 26-year-old woman was tossed off the balcony of a second floor apartment Saturday night during a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, police said. The boyfriend, Brett Picciotti, 26, of Dover Avenue, was charged with attempted murder in connection with the incident, police said. The woman was not identified. Investigators said the two began arguing in the Woodhollow Drive apartment of a mutual friend’s at around 6:30 p.m. Saturday. During the dispute, Picciotti is alleged to have tried to strangle the woman and then pick her up and throw her off a second story balcony, police said. The woman landed on the ground outside her apartment building and was then assisted by two pedestrians who called 911, police said. The woman was taken to Cooper University Hospital in Camden for treatment of unspecified injuries. She was reported in fair condition on Monday, police said. Picciotti fled the apartment building immediately after throwing his girlfriend off the balcony, police said. He was arrested later that evening at a home of a family member in Brigantine and then lodged in Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly on $250,000.
Mount Holly isn’t it in New Jersey?

Neverland to go



HEY BIG SPENDER

On April 22nd, approximately 2,000 items belonging to Michael Jackson will be auctioned off in Beverly Hills. Jackson picked the items, but he’s now suing to stop the sale, though Julien’s Auctions’ CEO says it will go on regardless. Jackson recently sold out 50 concerts at London’s O2 Arena, a lengthy run that he’ll need to defray his mounting financial woes. According to the new issue of Rolling Stone, Jackson’s attorney’s fees and the $250,000 per month cost of maintaining his beloved Neverland Ranch have left the singer in millions of dollars of debt. Jackson’s manager, Dr. Tohme Tohme, and Randy Phillips, the CEO of AIG Live (the company promoting MJ’s London gigs) say the pop star’s stake in Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which owns the Beatles catalog, is keeping Jackson financially afloat, but he has borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars against that investment.

Mutilations



Fact, fiction or cover-up? You be the judge.

From 1960 onward, rumors began to be surface about findings of mutilated human corpses; these corpses followed the disturbing pattern and traits of the cattle mutilations that have spread across the world since the 1970's. This matter, generally considered to be of very bad taste, surfaced again in 1988 when the Skywatch International open list published a short text purported to be based on a secret report relating the death of an Air Force Sgt (E-6) by the name Jonathan P. Louette, abducted at the White Sands missile test range in March of 1976. Jonathan Louette who was serving at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, a vast remote base where the latest US technology is tested. There are many stories linking White Sands to alien contact and captured alien craft. The Sergeant and a senior officer were detailed to travel several miles down the missile range in a military vehicle to find and recover any debris from spent missiles. At one point they left their vehicle to scout the desert. They separated in order to cover a wider area of the sand dunes more quickly. Suddenly the officer heard screams in the area of the dunes where the sergeant was searching. He ran towards the noise thinking that a rattlesnake had bitten the sergeant and as he reached the top of the dune, he saw a disc shaped craft hovering low above the ground. A long tentacle coming from the underside of the craft was wrapped around the sergeant. It dragged the screaming man into the craft and then shot away at great speed. The officer returned to base in a state of shock. When he reported what had happened he was not believed and was arrested for murder. An immediate search of the area failed to find any sign of the sergeant. Three days later Sergeant Louette's mutilated body was found twenty miles down the range. The mutilations were clinical and precise and involved the removal of the genitals, the rectum and the eyes. Typically there was no blood on the body, but the cardiovascular organs had not collapsed. The officer was released without charge. Although the story was leaked out by people involved in the incident, the military refused to confirm or deny that such an incident had taken place.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Plastic Surgery Disaster



Michaela Romanini: Italian socialite, famous for her collagen abuse: Meet Italian socialite Michaela Romanini. This lip collagen abuser is only 40 years old, and became famous after her many surgeries.
Duh!

Dispute over dog poop lands neighbor in jail

An argument between neighbors over dog poop ended with a bat-wielding man in jail on a charge of aggravated assault on a person 65 or older. Here's what happened, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office report:
Patrick Hampson, who lives at 11808 Castine St., spotted the dog feces in his yard about 11:30 a.m. Sunday and figured the neighbor's dog was to blame. So the 68-year-old retiree went over to his neighbors' house at 11806 Castine St. to ask whether their dog was the culprit. He began arguing with Alycia Carrier, 30, while other neighbors watched. Brandon White, 28, Carrier's boyfriend, overheard the argument. He came out of the house carrying a black wooden baseball bat from his son's bedroom. Hampson says White raised the bat over his head and told him to get off of the property. Hampson says Carrier told her boyfriend to go back into the house, and he complied. Soon after, though, White came back outside holding the bat. Hampson says while White held the bat over his head, he told Hampson, "I wasn't going to hurt you before, but now, I will." FYI read.

Tata’s $2,000 Nano Car Hits the Market Next Month

Tata will start taking orders shortly for the world’s cheapest car, the Nano. The car retails for just over $2,000 and will be accessible to people living in India. The cars will actually begin shipping in July. Why is the car so cheap? There is no air conditioning, the steering is manual, the car doesn’t have any airbags, the body of the car is made of sheet-metal and plastic, and the engine is a 624cc two-cylinder. The car maxes out at about 43MPH.
Tata is hoping that people would rather buy this car than motorcycles.

Markus Rühl: some of the biggest shoulders in history



This guy is well known for his freakish size, German Markus Rühl who is a former IFBB professional bodybuilder. He possesses some of the biggest shoulders in bodybuilding history, and is one of the strongest bodybuilders alive!
Boy oh boy, isn't he BIG!

Ghost Car - Caught On Tape

WARNING: This is a scary video and it will scare you.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Battlestar Galactica Series Finale

Battlestar Galactica Series – So Long.

U.S. Dollar Biggest Decline in Quarter Century on Fed Bond Buying



“Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised on March 19 the target on its bet against the dollar to $1.40 per euro, and Citigroup Inc. recommended on the same day that its clients buy the euro versus the dollar.”

By no means assume that the reaction to the Fed’s quantitative-easing announcement has run its course. Fed purchases of Treasuries are likely to be quite problematic for the U.S. dollar, particularly given large foreign holdings of Treasuries and the loss of yield support for the dollar that Fed purchases have caused.

This is a storm whose clouds we all can see over the horizon. And everyone knew, except of course for those of us living life and trying to get by the best we can. And now here we are two years into a largely ignored recession, now turned into a depression, and our dollar is dying on top of that. This is no Great Depression; this is a Great Decline, and a steep one. We will NOT crawl out of this for generations to come and we will be relegated to "Developing Country" status, and soon thereafter, Undeveloped. FYI read.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Britney Spears Miami Tour - Video

UFO Haiti Video

Is it fake or is the truth out there?

No one can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009? Rumor or fact?

Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009… It has already started.... Ammunition Accountability Legislation Remember how Obama said that he wasn't going to take your guns? Well, it seems that his allies in the anti-gun world have no problem with taking your ammo! The bill 20 that is being pushed in 18 states (including Illinois and Indiana) requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacture a data base of all ammunition sales. So they will know how much you buy and what calibers. Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded. Any privately held un-coded ammunition must be destroyed by July 1, 2011. (Including hand loaded ammo.) They will also charge a .05 cent tax on every round so every box of ammo you buy will go up at least $2.50 or more! If they can deprive you of ammo they do not need to take your gun! This legislation is currently pending in 18 states: Alabama , Arizona , California , Connecticut , Hawaii , Illinois , Indiana , Kentucky , Maryland , Mississippi , Missouri , New Jersey , New York , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Carolina , Tennessee , and Washington … To find more about the anti-gun group that is sponsoring this legislation and the specific legislation for each state. Rumor or fact?? FYI read.

Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden?


For the old Kurdish shepherd, it was just another burning hot day in the rolling plains of eastern Turkey. Following his flock over the arid hillsides, he passed the single mulberry tree, which the locals regarded as 'sacred'. The bells on his sheep tinkled in the stillness. Then he spotted something. Crouching down, he brushed away the dust, and exposed a strange, large, oblong stone. The man looked left and right: there were similar stone rectangles, peeping from the sands. Calling his dog to heel, the shepherd resolved to inform someone of his finds when he got back to the village. Maybe the stones were important. They certainly were important. The solitary Kurdish man, on that summer's day in 1994, had made the greatest archaeological discovery in 50 years. Others would say he'd made the greatest archaeological discovery ever: a site that has revolutionized the way we look at human history, the origin of religion - and perhaps even the truth behind the Garden of Eden. FYI read.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Transgender wife gets 4 years for husband's death

MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio – James M. Mason knew his wife since she was born a boy. The janitor and former military man was a boarder in the child's home and was treated like family. Many were surprised when he married Chris nearly three years ago, not just because he knew she underwent sex-change surgery 13 years before, temporarily calling herself Christine Newton-John after the pop singer with the same last name. He was in his 70s, she in her 30s. He was mild-mannered; she had a domineering personality. FYI – read.

Loves His Marriage...Enough to Strangle His Wife



Florida man was arrested and charged with felony domestic battery last night after attempting to strangle his wife. The couple was fighting over drugs.

"Tampa, Florida - An Apollo Beach man wearing an "I ♥ My Marriage" t-shirt was arrested Monday night, charged with choking his wife during an argument. Hillsborough deputies booked 32-year-old Bradley Gellert into jail on charges of a felony domestic battery by strangulation. According to the arrest report, Gellert works for Ameriprise, a financial consulting company. The arrest report says that the couple were arguing over drugs and during the fight at their home, Gellert screamed in his wife's face, threw things, grabbed her neck and strangled her, and knocked her to the ground. Gellert followed the victim as fled the home and reported the incident in person at the closest sheriff's office."

Elderly Charles Manson Photo Released by California Correctional Authorities



California corrections officials have released a new photograph of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, who is now bald with a thick gray beard and a swastika scar in the middle of his forehead. The photo of the 74-year-old Manson was taken Wednesday as part of a routine update of files on inmates at Corcoran State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder seven people, said Seth Unger, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The cult leader was first sentenced to death for the 1969 murders of movie star Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and three others stabbed and shot to death at Tate’s home in Los Angeles. The next night, two others were stabbed to death at their homes.