Air Force One NYC Fly Over Claims Political Victim

That Infamous fly over of Air Force One in late April over the Statue of Liberty ended up claiming the career of the director of the White House Military office. Louis Caldera, 53, resigned on May 8th after taking responsibility for the event.
The "stunt" caused more than a little bit of panic in New York City when Air Force One was doing a low altitude flight over parts of Manhattan which ended up frightening more than a few wealthy manhattanites in their high rise condos. The plane was taking part in a photo op to update some publicity pics and Caldera wanted to get some shots of the plane flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty. The flight was unannounced and the public was unaware of it until they saw the plane flying low in the sky. It caused a little bit of a panic and some believed that it was another 9-11 type attack. The reason the flight was not announced to the public ahead of time was likely due to fears of a terrorist attack on the plane. You cant just come out and say ahead of time that yeah Air force One is going to be flying right over the Statue Of Liberty at say 10:00 a.m. on such and such a date without inviting the possibility that some terrorist or other kind of nut might just show up at the same time and try to take some shots at the plane or something. This was likely the reason it was kept quiet. Caldera took a lot of heat from critics anyway for not letting people know about the flight in advance. Once the reaction from the public was so negative it left little choice that he would have to go despite his legitimate reasons for doing it the way he did.

The Sleepiest Countries In The Whole Wide World

We all know that you have to get enough sleep in order to have a happy and healthy life. Most experts say about 8 hours a night is optimum. In some countries around the world the people who live there sleep more than in other countries. The O.E.C.D. (Organization for Economic Development) has put out a list of the countries in the world that get the most sleep on average. According to their list France is at the top with 8.8 hours a night. Second is The U.S. at 8.6 hours. Third is Mexico at 8.4. Fourth is Germany at 8.2 hours. Fifth is South Korea at 7.8 hours.
The list also included the number of Government mandated paid leave days per year in each country. France again in this department was at the top with 30 paid leave days for each worker every year in their country. The U.K. was next with 20 days per year. Japan was next with 10. The U.S. has zero.

Prince Gives Some Wild Views In New Interview

The world almost never hears him doing any talking, you usually hear from him only when he has a new album to sell, but in a new interview Prince reveals some views that can leave you scratching your head. In an interview that aired on the Tavis Smiley show He revealed for the first time that he had epilepsy as a child. He had the disease all through his youth and he said he got cured of it one day when an angel came to him and told him he was cured. From that moment on he says he had no more trouble with epilepsy.
One of the strangest parts of the interview occurs when he reveals that he believes in a theory about "Chem Trails." This is a theory that he got from the late comic Dick Gregory that states that The Vapor trails that are left in the sky after airplanes fly over a city are really chemical sprays that are designed to disrupt peoples lives and cause unrest, fighting, and violence. Well O.k. then answer this question then. Why were people fighting with each other thousands of years before airplanes were leaving "Chem Trails" in the sky?
Do not get me wrong, he is a good musician, but nobody ever said that musicians were good at figuring out anything other than music.

Horse Drawn Buggies In NYC Must Go!!!!!

They are a fixture in and around Central Park In NYC all year around. They are the little horse drawn carriages that take tourists mostly for a slow ride around the park and the surrounding city streets for a fee. There are about 175 of them registered in the city and about 350 or so horses to pull them in shifts. While it all looks so romantic to people as they ride by the part that most people never see is the toll that it takes on the horses that have to pull these things around the city and the harm it does to these usually shy and easily frightened animals. Horses are skittish even under the most serene circumstances but when they are placed in the middle of all that hectic traffic in Manhattan they can be easily rattled and there have been a number of incidents over the last several years where in horses have been spooked by ambulance sirens and horns and have bolted and caused injuries and even deaths to riders and pedestrians.
For the horse itself it is no easy life. They are forced to live literally in the middle of the street and pull a carriage behind other cars in traffic while breathing in the tail exhaust from the cars in front of them and living mostly a nose to tailpipe life which can cause them respiratory problems that can kill them. In the summertime the heat from the pavement on the city streets can reach in excess of 200 degrees while they are pulling their buggies and some horses have collapsed from heat stroke under these conditions. The hard pavement of the streets is also hard on their feet from the constant pounding and can do damage to their limbs and in some cases horses have had to be "Put Down" after suffering this kind of damage. In the wintertime the horses are forced to pull buggies through the snow and some have slipped and broken limbs which has lead to their deaths. Because real estate space in Manhattan is among the most expensive in the world the stables that the horses are kept in are only a little larger than their own bodies and in many cases the horses are forced to sleep standing up because there is no space for them to lay down to sleep. Their food in the stables is often thrown on the floor for them to eat and this causes it to be contaminated and they as a result sometimes get sick.
I have been a lifelong New York resident and I never have gone on one and i never will. I don't like the thought that i might be adding to the suffering of some poor animal and adding to their pain. There have been calls for years from animal rights groups in the city to ban these horses from the streets and convert the buggies to motorized ones and eliminate the suffering of these animals but so far the City Council and the Mayor have done almost nothing. Mayor Mike Bloomberg has said in the past that we need the horse and buggies in the city for tourism and as a result has been willing to do little to stop it.

Common Myth About Colon Health Exposed

Maybe you have seen the infomercial that runs usually in the middle of the night. The one with the two guys talking about colon health and about how your intestines are clogged with fecal matter (shit) that piles up inside your large intestines and stays there for years and that they have a pill that you can take to "clean out your system." Its a great little informercial especially if you happen to be having something to eat at the time. The one little problem with it is that its not true. Rest assured that you do not have any fecal matter stuck to the walls of your large intestine today that your digestive process converted from some sandwich that you ate in 1992. Fecal matter does not accumulate inside the walls of your large intestine, it moves through it. It does not get stuck to the walls of your intestines and stay stuck there for years and years and you dont need a pill to clean it out. At the most your body would require about three days from the moment you eat something to pass it through your entire digestive system and either use the food you ate for energy or remove it from your body as waste. Three days give or take.

Abandoned Yachts New Sign Of Economic Times

It is usually not one of the leading economic indicators that most analysts would look to but if you were anywhere near the coast of Florida these days you would not be able to miss it. There are dozens of Yachts literally bobbing in the waves off Florida that have been abandoned by their once wealthy owners. The economic downturn has hit many formerly wealthy people hard and they are shedding all of their toys too. It costs a fortune to keep a yacht and maintain it and many owners are simply putting the boats out to sea in order to get rid of them and the costs that go along with maintaining them. Some have even gone so far as to scrape off the names and serial numbers from the boats to prevent authorities from tracing them back to their owners. There are so many of them now in fact that they are causing a little bit of a maritime problem in that they drift aimlessly out at sea and sometimes can end up in busy shipping lanes and cause a hazard. There is a small fine and some jail time even if the boats can be successfully traced back and the owners found. It has become a last resort for any boat owner who has not been able to sell their once proud sailing vessel to just simply sail it out into the Florida keys and ditch it.

Cash For Gold Type Offers Usually Bad Deal For Customers

If the bad economy has got you in a financial hole then you may have been tempted by one of the many ads that are all over the TV about how you can make quick money fast by sending in your old unwanted gold. Its a good idea but for one little thing. Be prepared to get far less out of the deal than your gold is worth. Usually it is a standard in the industry to pay out somewhere around 30%, that is provided that the company you are dealing with is reputable in the first place. What 30% means is that your going to get about 30 cents for every dollar of gold you send in. For example if you were to send in $100 dollars worth of gold it would be a normal business practice for the company you are dealing with to send you back about $30. For $500 dollars of gold you would get back about $150 and so forth. The company would then melt down the gold and sell it for the full $500 and pocket the difference as profit.
Some of the companies in the industry are a little more reputable than others however and even this small return on your gold might be wishful thinking for customers. There have been incidents where in which some of the companies in the industry have been sent $1000 dollars worth of gold and they have returned less than $200 to their customers. The problem with the whole system is that the customer has to trust the company they are doing business with to be honest and provide them with a fair assessment of the value of their gold and that sometimes may be the biggest wishful thinking of all.