Bag of Randomness

  • I had a friend who told me that back when he was in college he would add additional toppings to his Totino’s pizza.  Heck, I wondered why he would ruin such a thing.
  • Yup, those things aren’t healthy, but they’re under a buck and taste great.
  • I remember when I was a young little Geeding and my mother telling me there will be a day when I dread what I get in the mail.  That thought ran across my mind as I got four medical bills totaling over $1600 yesterday.
  • Until all medical bills come in, I don’t plan on renewing this domain that expires next month.
  • One of the best burgers you will ever eat can be found at Maple and Motor, located at Maple and Denton Drive in Dallas.
  • They also serve Jolly Rancher ice-tea, and it’s Bille Dee Williams approved.
  • There were lots of pics of local celebs with the owner on the wall, such as Mike Modano and Gene and Jerry Jones.  To be honest, it was hard for me to imagine Gene in such a place since it’s a hole-in-a-wall, but it’s one fine hole-in-the-wall.
  • But be sure to come early, there’s little room and the lines get long, and they don’t like you hogging the seats very long.
  • And after typing all of that I just saw a segment on Nightline in which a 31-year-old man was having a heart attack, and he appeared to be healthy.
  • The actual segment was about how doctors have to deliver bad news, and it was absolutely fascinating and heart breaking.  One doctor admitted that he’s just a cold and detached, but as I saw him deliver the news to a man who just became a widow, he was actually did so with grace.
  • That night, he had to deliver that kind of news five times.
  • I’m going to have to test my lawn for steroids because it just keeps growing at a crazy rate.
  • The last several times when someone gave me directions via email to their house they never included that actual house number and street name, they just gave step-by-step directions.  I guess the address is actually hidden within the message, but as a general rule, the  actual address should be given so we all can just look it up on Google Maps or our GPS device.
  • Jesus running late for his crucifixion
  • ‘Twilight’ has Mormon themes?
  • I hear Glenn Beck is starting some kind of university.  Oh, boy.
  • Someone thinks if you play I Can Only Imagine backwards that it’s actually Satan worship.
  • Grace
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Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells

More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one — not industry, not government — is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The oldest of these wells were abandoned in the late 1940s, raising the prospect that many deteriorating sealing jobs are already failing.

The AP investigation uncovered particular concern with 3,500 of the neglected wells — those characterized in federal government records as “temporarily abandoned.”

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It’s hard to believe this happens

A veteran Iranian human rights activist has warned that Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, could be stoned to death at any moment under the terms of a death sentence handed down by Iranian authorities.

Only an international campaign designed to pressure the regime in Tehran can save her life, according to Mina Ahadi, head of the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty.

“Legally it’s all over,” Ahadi said Sunday. “It’s a done deal. Sakineh can be stoned at any minute.”

Her crime?  Adultery.

She was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes, human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei said Thursday in a telephone interview from Tehran.

And this is how her punishment will be carried out.

Ashtiani, 42, will be buried up to her chest, according to an Amnesty International report citing the Iranian penal code. The stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately.

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