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Happy Labor Day!

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HAVE A VERY HAPPY AND SAFE LABOR DAY HOLIDAY!


(photos southwest side of chicago)

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Photo: Chicago Summer Sunset



Clearing neighborhood

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Labor Day Quiz: Grilling?



By the way.... is anyone else out here crazy like myself and BBQ in the winter? LOL

With Labor Day weekend ahead, gazillions of grills around the nation will undoubtedly be fired up for an all-out meat fest. But before we gorge on various cow, chicken, and other grillable meat parts (sorry, this quiz is NSFVegetarians), let's see how well you know your way around the barbie? Take the quiz! 



Take the quiz!  

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Photo: Times Square, New York



from our friend, photographer James McMillian

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The Under Sea Cemetery



When you think of dead people, concrete and underwater, you might be forgiven if your mind produces images of mafia gangsters and of their victims swimming with the fishes.  All that has changed - in the future what might spring to mind is a remarkable new underwater cemetery.


This is a cemetery under the sea...

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Photos: Colorado Balloon Classic 2010
















Thank you for the wonderful pictures to Sallie Knisley Learn

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Common Scene in Detroit



Common scene in Detroit where foreclosures are common. $500 for a deposit on this one. Then 250\mth




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Dennis Hopper Artwork

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'Dennis Hopper: Double Standard," at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles gathers together the contents of a unique American career that was as admirably persistent in its yearnings as it was crazily scattered and, it seems, oddly unfulfilled.

The more than 250 examples of Hopper's paintings, sculptures and photographs attest to artistic obsessions that developed before and ran parallel to a movie and TV career lasting 55 years. Hopper was unequaled in his ability to connect artists and actors in Los Angeles as it became a national capital of cool in the 1960s on par with New York. His taste as a collector of Pop Art was prescient; and his eagerness to befriend and collaborate with fellow unruly creative types, of any age, never flagged.


read more and view the art slideshow



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Illegal Immigration to U.S. Slowing




Illegal immigration to the U.S. has slowed sharply since 2007, with the bleak U.S. job market apparently discouraging people from heading north.


The influx of illegal immigrants plunged to an estimated 300,000 annually between March 2007 and 2009, from 850,000 a year between March 2000 and March 2005, according to new study released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group.

The decline contributed to a contraction in the overall size of the undocumented population to 11 million people in March 2009 from a peak of 12 million two years earlier, according to the Pew analysis, which is based on data from the Census Bureau.

Not only do we see flows down; its a steady downward trend in the last four years


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Real Transforming Military Truck Into Robot




Tekkaus has posted a video and images of a transforming truck similar in makeup to Movie Optimus Prime, as the posting says Kwansformer which is the "reincarnation" of China's arguably greatest warrior of all time-General Guan Yu!

Costing $43,000 and weighing in at two tonnes, the vehicle is based around one of the first autos ever built in China. This wasn't just your average art project from Bi Heng.

Take a look at a video below:

 

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Man Sees Jesus Christ On Utility Pole





A Hathaway, LA man recently came across a utility pole with a powerful image.

Rickey Navarre did a double take of the pole while driving along Highway 26, and said he sees what appears to be Jesus Christ hanging on the cross.

"It just caught my eye. I said to myself, that sure looks like an image of Jesus hanging from the telephone pole," said Navarre.

Navarre believes this is more than just a coincidence, and somewhere in the vines is a message from God. He said with the eight Jeff Davis murders, and some of the sickness in the world, it could be a sign of comfort.

"He might just be telling us something, you know. 'I'm looking over you. I'm going to answer your prayers'," said Navarre.


Source 7KPLC

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Disturbed - Another Way To Die



Chicago's own Disturbed rolls out Another Way To Die.

Excellent way to begin this song with great vocals and drums launching into heavy metal with grinding guitars...


 

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Weird Woman Describes Robbery Attempt




A woman getting coffee tells KMBC-TV what happened when two would-be robbers walked in...


P.s. Isn't that feather accessory in her hair from the early 80's? WOW

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Photo: Summer Isn't Over Yet






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A Deer That Loves Beer




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Young Goats Get Stuck On Bridge Ledge

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Here is the perfect example of how a moonlight stroll can go horribly wrong.

Two young goats that wandered onto the thin ledge of a 60ft railway bridge had to be rescued by a crane after two days high above a remote highway.

The poor animals' plight was only discovered when a passing motorist contacted a local charity and alerted them to the situation.



Silly billies: Two young goats get stuck on six-inch ledge of railway bridge for two days

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12 Coolest Police Cars

Chevrolet Camaro
There's something weird about police cars. No matter where you go, they all look somewhat the same, yet still completely different. It's one of those strange travel gems -- like grocery stores and candy bars -- that seem so familiar yet remain absolutely different and strangely interesting. Here's a whole boat-load of police cars in different shapes, sizes, colors, and flavors from different corners of the globe. Enjoy!


Who Else Made The Cut?



Mitsubishi Lancer


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Fireflies turn woods into an enchanted forest

Using a slow shutter speed on the camera makes the fireflies appear to leave ghostly phosphorescent trails between the trees

No, these aren't deleted scenes from James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar - these spectacular images show mesmerising phosphorescent patterns swirling through a forest that are all produced by earthbound insects.

Amateur photographer and full time physicist Kristian Cvecek spends nights in woodlands waiting for fireflies to come out so he can capture them on camera.  

German Kristian, 31, from Erlangan, near Nuremburg, photographs the creatures near his home. He uses slow shutter speeds to capture on camera their movements between the trees and ferns.


See the other cool pictures here

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Ticklish Camel



Jesse Jackson's car was stolen while he was in Detroit. This news is sponsored by the...

Laughing Camel!!!!



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Interactive Super Mario Mural




A team of students at the Columbus College of Art & Design painted a mural to the Super Marios Bros. Nintendo game theme.

The interactive mural is 16 feet tall, 38 feet wide and took 12 students 8 days to create.  It is visible on CCAD’s administration building located at 107 N. Ninth Street for the month of September.

CCAD student and fellow painter Ken Aschliman says the mural was created to advertise CCAD’s inaugural Town Hall meeting.  CCAD’s student government group says the Town Hall meeting will be the first of many events where students can voice their concerns and have questions answered.

The student painters include Aschliman, Chavilah Bennett, Jennifer Sands, Michael Smith, Dion Utt, Walker Crane, Greg Reyes, Dillon Sirimongkhon, Alex Trimpe, Pallavi Sen, Jessica Braunschweiger and Emily Rickard.

Students and groups can propose to paint a new mural every month to be placed on the mural wall.

Source NBC Columbus


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Video - 9/11 Tour of Duty in Chicago!



Getting this video to you is a miracle in itself. I was on my bicycle and stopped by an approx. 3+ mile Burlington Northern freight for a long time at 63rd & Harlem. Then I had to speed down Harlem until I got to Archer... with no 9/11 runners in site as it was past noon now - the time they were supposed to come by.

My instinct told me to pedal down Archer and sure enough I found a nice couple around Narragansett who told me that the runners had long passed them and were most likely way past Cicero at this point and had emergency escort. Determined, I hauled ass down Archer and the extreme traffic.

Finally, caught up to them around Halsted or so... explaining how it took me miles to catch up and why it was so instrumental to speak to them.

VERY AMAZING PEOPLE. This was videotaped while I rode on my bicycle, no flip screen out and pretty much ready to fall over. But it was all worth it meeting them...


Patrick Maloney a Chicago Firefighter was running, also a Chicago Police Officer, a New York Port Authority Officer and Firefighters from Australia. It was difficult seeing the Port Authority Officer as they were entirely wiped out on 9/11


 



THE 9/11 TOUR OF DUTY WEBSITE


Update! Photos taken by my friend Greg, CPD.... beautiful job 













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Police Department: Serve Military Duty, Be Punished




We're continuing with the story about how the Chicago Police Department are punishing some officers for having to serve in military duty.

It seems as if that some upper brass are unaware of policies and procedures on how to handle police officers who have to serve military duty. We could possibly understand that however this is a huge city and would think that this would be the norm especially with the Gulf Wars, 9/11, etc.

What we also do NOT understand is not only the negative attitude toward officers who serve in our military, but why exactly are some getting harassed, written up, etc.?


Here are some comments: 

 

  • I got my AT orders via email on ten minutes before roll. A visiting WC gave me a hard time because they didn't know how to handle it. I walked out after giving them my PAR form. 
  • We have a new watch commander from 35th & Michigan (CPD Headquarters). Nobody knows their new policies. However I'm getting counseled and was written up because I told the watch secretary that I was going to be on military duty & they forgot to tell the Watch Commander. I was told my military duty effected the sheets since we're short officers on the streets.
  • A police captain gave me grief about serving in military duty.
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      WE also hear that some upper brass should also review harrasment against employees of the opposite sex.  

       

     




     

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    Chicago Terror: Clueless Altogether




    Official: It's unlikely 2 on Chicago flight were plotting terror -

    It was then they discovered suspicious items in his bag, a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, multiple cell phones and watches taped together, and a knife and box cutter.

    Naturally, they left out of Chicago. Gotta love that one. I always pack shit that way. Don't you?


    Do they think we are that dumb????

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    The Titanic Is Falling Apart




    Slipping beneath the waves on April 15, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic famously disappeared from view until 1985, when it was rediscovered on the bottom of the North Atlantic (pictures of Titanic's rediscovery).

    Now, scientists say, the legendary liner—beset by metal-eating life-forms, powerful currents, and possibly even human negligence—could be vanishing for good.


    Suspended from Titanics bow railing, rust icicles eat away at the decaying wreck (file photo).


    thanks to photog jim macmillian

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    Cocaine Given To Teller With Deposit



    SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. -- A Wethersfield woman was arrested after police said a bag of cocaine was given to a South Windsor bank teller along with her deposit.

    Officers were called to Rockville Bank on Ellington Road at about 4 p.m. on Thursday for reports of a bag of white powder inside a deposit envelope given to a drive-up teller at the bank.

    Police said bank staff asked the customer, identified as Kendl Murphy, 43, to wait for her transaction to be completed and then notified police.

    A bad deposit!

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    Lady Asked Bank To Change Fake $1 Million Bills




    ABU DHABI // A man has been arrested after a woman was tricked into trying to change two souvenir US$1 million notes at the UAE Central Bank.

    The 44-year-old suspect, AB, from Ivory Coast, convinced the woman that the notes were being used in currency markets and told her to exchange them in return for 30 per cent of their value, police sources said.

    The notes were, in fact, issued by the US-based World’s Millionaires Club as a souvenir for selected members and are sold at nominal prices. They do not have a value of US$1m.

    The case was brought to light after the counter-money laundering and suspicious cases unit at the bank reviewed two notes presented to it to verify their authenticity.

    Col Hammad Ahmed al Hammadi, the director of the criminal investigation department (CID) at Abu Dhabi Police, said the man had been living illegally in the UAE and was trying to cash the notes through the woman.


    He was arrested in a police trap following investigations.


    “The suspect claimed that he was not aware that the notes do not have any value and that he is a mere mediator for a diamond trader from Belgium who asked him to exchange the notes in exchange of money,” said Col Dr Rashid Mohammed Bursheed, the head of the CID’s organised crime unit. “He also said the diamond trader was supposed to send him an 154 additional notes from the same category.”


    Source Got change?

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    Video - Grasshoppers Make Love



    ...and they stay balanced on the damn stem...

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    Grandma Gets Down To Kid Rock



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    Best Action Scene Ever!



    LOL!

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    Photo: No Smoking

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    !Human Hand Vs. Liquid Nitrogen



    When I first saw this photograph of a man’s hand submerged in liquid nitrogen at somewhere below -320° F, my immediate thought was, “That guy must be crazy! One second in that stuff, and you’re shopping for new skin!” My shock was tempered only slightly by the fact that it was my hand, and we’d taken the picture just a minute earlier.

    .Gray Matter: In Which I Fully Submerge My Hand in Liquid Nitrogen

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    15 Celebs Who Are Famous Thanks To Drugs



    Some people are famous for being great actors. Others become famous for being politicians, reality cooking stars or for just being plain ridiculous. Why people are famous, however, is not nearly as intriguing as what they do with this fame.
     
    Unfortunately, many celebrities wouldn’t have stayed in the spotlight without questionable (and salacious) lifestyles, like drug addiction and drug dealing. The KoldCast TV dramatic series,
    Luke 11:17, for instance, follows a famous inspirational speaker who copes with his own collection of addictions and demons. Now, let’s take a look at some “celebrities” who wouldn’t have experienced as much fame if it weren’t for their sordid, drug-addled past.


    See who cracked the top 15 list!

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    Photo: Naughty Monkey Hanging Out

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    New Restaurant: Deep Fried Anything

    New twist on a classic: A slice of New York cheesecake gets the fryer treatment

    A cafe run by a British couple is doing a sizzling trade in the US by putting high calorie American foods in a traditional fish and chip fryer.

    Americans are flocking to Park Slope Chip Shop in Brooklyn, New York, owned by Chris Sell from Rugby, Warwics, and run by Suzanne Hackett from Birmingham, West Midlands.

    The pair promise to fry anything you like in English batter and turn New York specialities into the most fattening take-aways on the planet.


    Purchase Also Comes With A Plunger For Your Arteries...

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    Video: Bum's Need Weed Sign




    Link to Video:

    Weed-Head Holds A Sign That Reads I Need Weed Spare $1.00

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    Would-be burglar gets stuck in grease vent




    Had to wait almost seven hours until he could be freed

    A would-be burglar who tried to break into a South Carolina restaurant found himself in a tight and a greasy situation. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported a man tried to break into a North Charleston restaurant by climbing down a grease vent. He got stuck and had to wait almost seven hours until he could be freed.

    North Charleston Police said the man was discovered shortly before 5 a.m. Monday when an employee heard someone calling for help. Police arrived to find a foot dangling in a vent above a stove.

    Kevin Michael Harley of North Charleston was charged with second-degree burglary. It could not immediately be determined if the 23-year-old Harley had an attorney.


    Source 
    PoliceOne  

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    Deep Fried Beer

    Fried Beer

    Mark Zable figured out a way to deep fry beer in batter pockets and will debut the results at the next Texas State Fair:

    “Someone needs to figure out a way to fry beer,” he thought.

    Zable started experimenting. But the beer-and-dough concoction kept exploding once it hit the fryer. He kept getting burned.

    So he consulted with a food scientist – still, no luck.

    Then, earlier this year, he finally found the recipe for success. Now Zable keeps the process shrouded in secrecy and has applied for a Fried Beer patent and trademark.

    What next? Deep Fried Diet Pepsi?



    Source
    Neatorama

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    Football Player Insures Hair?




    Head's up people. Head & Shoulder's bought a $1 million dollar insurance policy on NFL Pittsburgh Steeler Player Troy Polamula's hair. That's right. Lloyd's of London just wrote one hell of an expensive insurance policy on THE biggest cha cha chia pet....ever. 

    How the hell does he get a helmet over all THAT?






       

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    The Dancing Merengue Dog



    Ole!

     

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    Chicago Police Write Up Cop For Serving Military Duty?




    We hear that the Chicago Police Department wrote up an officer for "being on military duty and hence affecting manpower..."

    How bad is this place? Oh wait. The 'leader' is pulling down $310,000. They're doing a fabulous job!!  

    How about hiring more officers, assholes? And it's time for Weis to go... and the FOP for making a good show of pretending to care. Yes, you Mark - shame on you for being from my neighborhood and home of our blue. What's going on with this story? Hmmm 




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    Damning Article About Police Shortage



    Hidden in a local newspaper is a very daming and eye opening article about our police shortage. Straight from the mouth of FOP President and southwest sider Mark Donahue:

    The subject of manning levels in the Chicago Police Department has been an issue that has received greater attention lately due in part to the recent rash of violence in some communties that also included the murders of three Chicago Police Officers. It's unfortunate that when these tragic events happen, it is only then that some law makers begin to listen.

    But the interesting part? Donahue continues:

    The Chicago FOP has addressed this issue for years only to have the city dismiss discussion outright because of an arbituary rule in the Illinois Labor Act which fails to mandate that the City discuss this issue with their Law Enforcement Employees.


    In other words, we will sum this up for you. Daley and other individuals spent their time and money to try to bring the Olympics here. They are more focused on taxing the hell out of all of us instead of trying to bring businesses here AKA corporations (not Walmarts, etc) so that a large amount of people can be employed. Other cities such as Bedford Park, Schaumburg, LaGrange, etc have successfully attained this goal and hence they have enough officers on patrol, top notch equipment and cars, etc.

    The businesses and corporations are NOT taxed to death so that a business-friendly environment is embraced and grown.

    Donahue goes on to state that our officers go from call to call as many of su already know, and have no time to do any proactive police work. In addition, battery on our officers is up 20% just from 3 years ago. We know this for a fact as our last job assisted injuried Chicago Police Officers. There was always a steady stream of injuried Police Officers. And ironically, urgency to "patch them up" to get back to work quickly.

    In a nutshell, Chicago Police Officers are dispoable to Mayor Daley and other leaders in our city with our current police Superintendent failing to remedy these matters of his men and women.

      

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    Interesting: This Month of August Fact



    This August has 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays, 5 Tuesdays, all in one month.

    It happens once in 823 years.


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    Photo: Midway Area Cicero Ave Construction



    The sign says it all..




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    I Miss You, Mike




    Cancer sucks..

    Kaufman County, TX Fire Marshal Mike "Ashdigger" Smith RIP
     

     



     

    Caleb and Ken, after we lost Mike...








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    21-year-old poses as pee wee football player




    Something wasn't right about Chad Jordan.

    He was perfectly nice at pee wee football practice, his coach said. He never made any trouble. But still, "There just was a lot of stuff that wasn't adding up, you know?" said Ray McCloud, coach of the Town 'N' Country Packers.

    McCloud's instincts were right.

    Julious Javone Threatts is 21 years old

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    Military Meal

    The Components

    Surprisingly, for as "Give 'em Hell! Be a man!" as the military is, you'd expect the food to be bland, nasty, and just plain unappealing. Granted, MRE stands for "Meal, Ready to Eat" (that's military for "shut up and eat it, I don't give a damn if it's cold"), and they're "shelf stable" (that's military for "several years old"), but they taste... awesome.

    The meal I'm about to enjoy, as you can see, is CHICKEN ALA KING. Side dishes include CRACKERS with PEANUT BUTTER and some PEACHES. For desert, there's some MAPLE NUT CAKE and CharmsTM candy. To drink, there's some "BEVERAGE BASE POWDER, LEMON LIME" (that's military for "Lemon/Lime Kool-Aid"), and COCOA BEVERAGE POWDER (that's military for Swiss Miss).

    Eat up!

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    The River That Turned Red

    Red river


    A lucky photographer captured the image of a lifetime - shooting the incredibly rare moment a waterfall turned tomato soup red.

    Rochelle Coffey was stunned when she saw the normally crystal-clear water turn deep red over the course of two hours.

    The mother-of-two had been visiting the impressive Cameron Falls, in Alberta, Canada, with her husband and had taken photos of the normally clear water for six years.


    River that turned red....

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    The $69 Hot Dog




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    Photo: Sunset

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    Undiscovered: The Next Top Model



    I see her being snapped up for modeling...


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