You’re looking at a 345 horsepower, 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 engine powered Barbeque. Yes… you better have a man card to work this grill. This grill was one the top 5 finalists of a contest entitled “What Can You HEMI?” It has enough power and space to sizzle 240 hotdogs to perfection in less than three minutes. For added entertainment, there is even a gas pedal, which the motor-head chef can tap to hear the rumble of the big-bore V8.
Hat tip: Real Men’s Barbecue Grills
Speaking of Sharks; this video is obviously fake but it is funny none the less. It looks more like the surfer is being pulled by a motorized dorsal fin than an actual shark.
Well now a rise in shark attacks is being blamed on Global Warming. Everything is blamed on Global Warming. Just fill in the blank. __________ causes Global Warming!
In those most famous words of John Wayne “This is getting to be re-goddamn-diculous!”
Complete list of things caused by global warming
Surge in fatal shark attacks blamed on global warming
Three decades have passed since the movie Jaws sent terrified bathers scrambling out of the ocean. But as any beach lifeguard knows, there’s still nothing like a gory shark attack to stoke public hysteria and paranoia.
Two deaths in the waters off California and Mexico last week and a spate of shark-inflicted injuries to surfers off Florida’s Atlantic coast have left beachgoers seeking an explanation for a sudden surge in the number of strikes.
In the first four months of this year, there were four fatal shark attacks worldwide, compared with one in the whole of 2007, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.
‘The one thing that’s affecting shark attacks more than anything else is human activity,’ said Dr George Burgess of Florida University, a shark expert who maintains the database. ‘As the population continues to rise, so does the number of people in the water for recreation. And as long as we have an increase in human hours in the water, we will have an increase in shark bites.’
Some experts suggest that an abundance of seals has attracted high numbers of sharks, while others believe that overfishing has hit their food chain. ‘I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but it’s a convenient excuse,’ Burgess said. Another contributory factor to the location of shark attacks could be global warming and rising sea temperatures. ‘You’ll find that some species will begin to appear in places they didn’t in the past with some regularity,’ he said.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida, is called the shark attack capital of the world. It has had more recorded incidents per square mile than any beach on Earth. So far this year there have been 10 attacks on surfers, including three in three days last week, although officials say most of the wounded were able to make their own way to hospital.
‘It’s more like a vicious dog bite, half a dozen stitches, a few bandages, that sort of thing,’ said Scott Petersohn, a captain with the Volusia County Beach Patrol, which covers 47 miles of coastline including New Smyrna Beach.
‘The sharks that inflict the most damage here, the black tips, can be about two or three feet long. There are some bigger ones along our coast, tiger sharks and bull sharks, but there’s a sustainable food supply for them. People are not on the menu for sharks.’
At Solano Beach, California, where 66-year-old David Martin was killed last week by a great white shark estimated to be 4.5 metres long, and off the Mexican coast near Acapulco, where 25-year-old American tourist Adrian Ruiz fell victim to a suspected tiger shark, there were conflicting claims.
Meanwhile, the wildlife protection group Wildcoast has accused the Mexican authorities of ‘international shark hysteria’ over the slaughter of at least 10 near the beach at Troncones on the Pacific coast where Ruiz died. A navy spokesman said a 200-metre line with baited hooks was set up to catch any sharks threatening the beach.
‘They more than likely had nothing to do with the attack. Since sharks are threatened in Mexico, this is the worst type of vengeance security imaginable,’ said Aida Navarro, the group’s wildlife conservation programme manager.
‘It’s the equivalent of stepping on to the plains of the Serengeti when you step into the water,’ Burgess said. ‘It’s not like a swimming pool. This is a wilderness experience and with it comes a certain amount of risk.
‘What’s needed is some kind of system to prevent people and sharks coming together in a dangerous way.’
CLASSIFIED F.C.E.O. For Catholic Eyes Only
This information is for Catholics only. It must not be divulged to
non-Catholics. The less they know about our rituals and code
words, the better off they are.
AMEN: The only part of a prayer that everyone knows.
BULLETIN: Your receipt for attending Mass.
CHOIR: A group of people whose singing allows the rest of the Parish to
lip-sync.
HOLY WATER: A liquid whose chemical formula is H2OLY.
HYMN: A song of praise usually sung in a key three octaves higher than
that of the congregation’s range.
RECESSIONAL HYMN: The last song at Mass often sung a little more
quietly, since most of the people have already left.
INCENSE: Holy Smoke!
JESUITS: An order of priests known for their ability to find colleges
with good basketball teams.
JONAH: The original ‘Jaws’ story.
JUSTICE: When kids have kids of their own.
KYRIE ELEISON: The only Greek words that most Catholics can recognize
besides gyros and baklava. (For you non-Catholics it means Lord have
mercy.)
MAGI: The most famous trio to attend a baby shower.
MANGER: Where Mary gave birth to Jesus because Joseph wasn’t covered by
an HMO. (The Bible’s way of showing us that holiday travel has always
been rough.)
PEW: A medieval torture device still found in Catholic churches.
PROCESSION: The ceremonial formation at the beginning of Mass
consisting of altar servers, the celebrant, and late parishioners
looking for seats.
RECESSIONAL: The ceremonial procession at the conclusion of Mass led by
parishioners trying to beat the crowd to the parking lot.
RELICS: People who have been going to Mass for so long, they actually
know when to sit, kneel, and stand.
TEN COMMANDMENTS: The most important Top Ten list not given by David
Letterman.
USHERS: The only people in the parish who don’t know the seating
capacity of a pew.
We have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the “War on Terror” that is bankrupting us. The following 14 facts prove that to be ridiculous.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year by state governments.
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
English!
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens.
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s
two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the
US .
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border; also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth,
heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
12. The National Policy Institute, “estimated that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.”
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin.
14. “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex
Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .”
The total cost of all this is a whopping $338.3 billion dollars a year. Are we that stupid?
If this raises the hair on the back of your neck, send this link to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. – seven times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.