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, July 7, 2009

Bizarre Florida

Man's 120th arrest is no bologna

LARGO — When police arrested Richard Harvey Warren on Thursday night on an accusation of stealing bologna from a local convenience store, it wasn't the Largo man's first brush with the law. Or even his second, third or fourth. Nope, according to records, Warren, 50, of 1201 Seminole Blvd., has been arrested an astounding 120 times in Florida since 1987. Through the years, he has been charged with everything from shoplifting and disorderly intoxication to indecent exposure.
Full story here.

Monday, July 6, 2009

State of the Union: Powell 'concerned' about Obama's agenda

WASHINGTON (CNN) – In a wide-ranging interview set to air Sunday on CNN's State of the Union, one of President Barack Obama's most prominent Republican supporters says he is 'concerned' about the new president's ambitious agenda and the high price tags accompanying many of Obama's initiatives. "I'm a little concerned," former Secretary of State Colin Powell says. "I'm concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them." Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Well this sure is an interesting development and state of affairs. Colin Powell waited until late in the election season to endorse President Obama after having earlier contributed financially the maximum personal amount allowed by law to the McCain campaign. Knowing that there is such a thing as Black Politics because of things like the Congressional Black Caucus and the personal stories and biographies of some Black celebrities, there was little doubt in my mind that there was a lot of behind the scenes political pressure on Powell to endorse Obama. Now with Obama in office, facing the magnitude of what the socialist leaning young and some would say overly ambitious President is actually doing in the Oval Office Powell’s actual endorsement is anything but and has turned to a serious statement of concern.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

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Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution"

"At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information. But what distinguishes us from our cave man ancestors is the knowledge that we have accumulated over the last ten thousand years, and particularly, Hawking points out, over the last three hundred. "I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race," Hawking said. In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, "an external transmission phase," where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. "But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage," Hawking says, "has grown enormously. Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes."

Sadly, our species won't make it for much longer at the rate we'll going. There' so many things in humanity's way in these coming years that I want to believe we, as species will be able to make it through all this... but at this point in time, and the type of world we sadly live in, I don't see it happening unfortunately. To come all this way and for nothing... we'll not even going to be able to make it off this planet, let alone colonize space and other planets... What a shame. God help us all.

Prince Charles can be even more funny than he is…

This caricature of Prince Charles can prove it…

My favorite ghost footage

WARNING - one of the better 'scare' videos on youtube - don't have the sound turned up. Will still scare the crap out of you even on mute!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

This is a good and funny fake picture

I think this guy is the real pig… He eats so much and it is so fat…

Inglourious Basterds Trailer

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA

The Fourth of July 1776 is our special day... "God Bless America"

Professional helmet

This guy has a very professional helmet…He was very creative when he made it…It is simply hilarious…

Need a summer job?


Bizarre In Florida

Man reacts to job loss with baseball bat
Every day, more people lose their jobs. Most do not react quite like this. Larry Dale Hummel, 43, of 8505 N Mitchell St., was reacting to being fired from Family Mattress on Thursday by luring his supervisor back to the 8518 Nebraska Ave. store later that evening and threatening to kill him with a baseball bat, according to an arrest affidavit. The supervisor told police he feared for his life. No other details were available. Hummel was charged with aggravated assault and taken to the Hillsborough County Jail, where he remains in lieu of $2,000 bail.
Parolee picks wrong victim
The car was running, while the owner popped into a gas station, so the target was too tempting for a parolee from Chicago who was in Lakeland. But there were a couple of details that Abel Angel Mena didn’t know before he jumped into the car and drove off, TheLedger.com reports. One was that the victim’s girlfriend was accompanying him in a different car. The other was that the victim, 33-year-old Frank Scianimanico, was a Winter Have police detective. So not only did Scianimanico immediately give chase, he called Lakeland police. Mena drove only a mile, then tried to escape on foot. He didn’t get far.

New life form living in sewers?

Yeah, I know it is the question horrible B-movies are based on... but check this out.. What is that? Never seen anything like it before... and notice the 3rd one they film, it has an odd protrusion it retracts back into itself. I was hungry before running across this clip.... That looks very weird! I wonder what it is... Source: http://www.youtube.com.../

Just maybe it's an extraterrestrial - if you don't believe read "Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King

Breaking News BULLETIN-YONHAP: NORTH KOREA FIRES TWO SCUD MISSILES

The latest missiles were fired from a base near Wonsan into the Sea of Japan, South Korea's defense ministry said. One is believed to be a Scud with a range of 500km (312 miles).
See post July 2, 2009.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Funny Fart

The fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia. According to Reuters, the remains of the two plant-eating dinosaurs and one carnivore were found in Queensland and date back 98 million years. "Australia is one of the great untapped resources in our current understanding of life from the Age of Dinosaurs. The discoveries...will definitely reinvigorate interest in the hitherto tantalizingly incomplete, but globally significant record from this continent," paleontologist Ben Kear said.

Pet python strangles two-year-old girl

A pet python has strangled a 2-year-old girl in the bedroom of her Florida home after it broke out of its enclosure.

Reports from the US say the snake's owner, boyfriend to the girl's mother, discovered the 2.5 metre snake was missing from its aquarium before finding it on the girl who had bite marks on her head.
He then stabbed the snake and removed the child from its grasp, AP said.
The snake was still alive when it was removed by the authorities.
The man did not have a permit for the snake and investigators are reported to be looking into whether any laws have been broken or any child neglect has occurred.
The Humane Society of the United States says up to 12 people have been killed in the US by pet pythons since 1980.

The Last Legion Trailer

Bizarre Florida

Seat-belt stop snags kidnapping suspect

A seat-belt stop in Palm Bay netted a man who is wanted on kidnapping and carjacking charges in Georgia, according to floridatoday.com..
That wasn’t Travis Lee Brown’s only problem. After the seat-belt stop, Brown, who was a passenger, attempted to flee when an officer spotted a plastic bag in his hand. That caused officers to use a Taser on him.
Police charged Brown with possession of cocaine, possession of a controlled substance (Oxycodone) and resisting arrest. The driver was not charged.

Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer, Don Phillips Says UFOs are Real

“These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60 degree, 45 degree, 10 degree turn, and then immediately reverse this action.” During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, "They’re here. They are right over there and look at the size of those ships. And, it is obvious they don’t like us being here.” When I was working with the Skunkworks with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this. Anti-gravitational research was going….We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work….We knew each other from what we call unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden. The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn’t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did. There was no question that there are beings from outside the planet. Are these ET people hostile? Well, if they were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago….We got these things that are handheld scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner. I can tell you personally that we’ve been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998 was to bring forth these technologies that that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins, and help get rid of the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started. Source: www.nationalufocenter.com...

Alien footage released from someone in Colorado. I want to note that I am a FIRM believer!

NYPD rookie makes arrest moments after graduation

NEW YORK – A New York Police Department rookie just couldn't wait to get started.
One of the NYPD's newest officers made his first arrest Thursday just minutes after graduating from the Police Academy in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden.
Officer Dariel Firpo, 23, was leaving the midtown Manhattan ceremony when he saw a 79-year-old man being robbed of his wallet and thrown to the ground by a mugger, police said.
The mugger tried to run away, but Firpo caught him without incident, they said. "Officer Firpo made us all proud," police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "He's off to a great start."
The man Firpo arrested, Jeffrey Grant, was being charged with robbery. Grant, 47, has 48 previous arrests and was just released last week from Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y., after serving time for a robbery conviction, police said.

North Korean Rocket Capable Of Hitting Half the U.S: Scientists

Quoting MIT professor Theodore Postol and a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) David Wright, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday that the rocket - could fly even further as of over 10,000 kilometers, turning into a missile. "We estimate that it could have a range of 10,000-10,500 kilometers, allowing it to reach Alaska, Hawaii, and roughly half of the lower 48 states," they said in an article posted this week on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Source: www.bernama.com

If this is true that NK missiles could reach not only Alaska but about half of the lower U.S. states, I think that the U.S. will use military action against NK. The article also states in detail how the scientists reached this conclusion. I do not want the U.S. to get involved in another war, and I have stated in the past that the U.S. will be lured into another war to separate us more from our allies, and to plant even more seeds of hatred against the U.S. We might not have any other alternative than to attack NK unfortunately, but I hope this situation can be solved before any military action is taken.

Bizarre Florida

73-year-old Largo woman charged in assault on neighbor over dog
LARGO — A 73-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday, accused of punching a neighbor because she believed the man had stolen her dog, police said.
Neva Crowder Rootes was charged with burglary with assault in the incident, which happened around 11:30 p.m.
According to arrest reports, Rootes and 46-year-old Mark Andrew Baird, both of 616 Second Ave. NW, forced their way into the home of their neighbor, Richard Wilson, because they thought Wilson had taken their dog.
Rootes, who is 4-foot-11 and 123 pounds, punched Wilson in the nose and face, drawing blood, before Baird jumped on Wilson and began choking him, the reports said.
Baird was also charged with burglary with assault. They were both taken to the Pinellas County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail each.
Wilson did not have the dog, which remains missing, Largo police said.
The report does not state the nature of the relationship between Rootes and Baird.

Son accused of mortgaging elderly mother's home for drugs, party
DADE CITY — Thomas Davis secured a $150,000 home equity line of credit on his elderly mother's home last year, authorities said.
Within seven months, he had spent it all — on drugs, on a hydroponic garden for growing marijuana, even on a $40,000 party that Davis, 47, threw for himself, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.
By March, the bank began foreclosure proceedings on the home of the woman, who has Alzheimer's. And Davis, who had power of attorney as his mother's live-in caretaker, told family members he had dug a financial hole from which he couldn't escape, the Sheriff's Office said.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

2012 Trailer #2

Search and Find Missing Money

You are probably not going to get rich finding money under the sofa or maybe even in a coat pocket, but there could be a chunk of change waiting for you; you just have to claim it. This video may be your ticket to finding owed to you. Good luck!

PS I know from own past experience this does work! Several years before moving from California I searched the Internet to find that State of California held several hundred dollars that belong to me. I immediately filed a claim and within a few weeks later a check was in my mail from the state.

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Flight diverted after passenger undresses in seat

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A passenger stripped naked during a US Airways flight and resisted a flight attendant's efforts to cover him with a blanket before two off-duty law enforcement officers on board subdued and handcuffed him, authorities said Wednesday.
Keith Wright, 50, of the Bronx in New York, was taken into custody after he disrobed while sitting in his seat in the back of Flight 705 on Tuesday evening, authorities said. The plane was carrying about 148 passengers from Charlotte to Los Angeles, the airline said.
Wright was unresponsive when a flight attendant asked him to put his clothes back on, said Dan Jiron, a spokesman for the Albuquerque airport. "She asked him on more than one occasion to put on his clothes. She covered him with a blanket and he took that off," Jiron said.
Wright punched and kicked the flight attendant, who asked two off-duty law officers for help, according to a criminal complaint. A Los Angeles police officer and sheriff's deputy helped the flight attendant subdue and handcuff Wright before the flight landed, Jiron said.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Launch Trailer (HD)

Is Swine Flu another Conspiracy?

I think the following might possibility prove the coming Swine Flu is an conspiracy, there is so many statements supporting the fact that this is an planned Bio Attack on the Populous of Earth… maybe it is and then maybe its not – who knows!
Two French biochemical students, Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, were murdered by Israeli Mossad-British intelligence assassination teams on June 29, 2008. Both Bonomo and Ferez were studying at the prestigious London Imperial College researching the origins of bird flu and the link to the alleged vaccines. The murders were first revealed by France’s Directorate for Internal Security, not by Britain’s Scotland Yard, making it likely that the students were French intelligence officers. London police arrested Daniel Sonnex, 23, and Nigel Edward Farmer in the killings. A joint French-U.S. Intelligence anti-terrorist task force in Paris, headed by former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former head of French intelligence Jean Crout, for years has monitored the activity of the Israeli mercenaries. The patriotic American-French team has allegedly prevented various scripted terrorist attacks, i.e. false flags, on both the United States and Europe, with the planning of the attacks actually originating inside the compromised intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and Germany, according to task force sources. The two researchers had discovered that the alleged bird flu vaccine, H-7, which was designed to neutralize and stop the H5N1 avian flu virus, had been spliced using DNA to actually create a vaccine and an illness producing virus at the same time. The French students had also discovered that the bird flu vaccine, i.e. a virus, had links to U.S., British and Israeli laboratories associated with the noted Mossad agent, Dr. Philip M. Zackerie.Israeli microbiologist Zackerie, known as “Dr. Zack,” worked for the U.S. bio-weapons lab at Ft. Detrick, Md., where he was photographed handling the strain of anthrax used in the post 9-11 attack according to published reports. He was a consultant at the FBI linked company Gilead Sciences Inc. of Boulder, Colo. Gilead Sciences has been linked to the 9-11 anthrax strain and to the bird flu vaccine. The two French students, who had their apartment broken into one week before their brutal assassination, also had their lap-top computer stolen and their apartment fire-bombed. Source: Two More Bio-Chemists Murdered
Is this yet another Conspiracy Theory dreamt-up by someone with too much time on their hands? Where’s Mel Gibson when you need him??

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Bizarre Florida

Guys ask deputy for ride after car burglaries

When two guys found wandering down a Deltona street at 4 in the morning asked a deputy for a ride home, he said sure, as long as he could search them for weapons and contraband first, news-journaloneline.com reports. The two agreed, and the deputy found an odd assortment of items, including cell phones and chargers, Global Positioning Systems, jewelry and even a package of strawberry Pop Tarts. None of that was a weapon or contraband, but they did match items that had been stolen from car in the neighborhood. So the deputy booked them into the Volusia County Jail instead of taking them home.