Video: Customer was wearing hot-pink panties on his head (lovely)

A man dressed in woman’s underwear and exposing himself drove up to a Parkland espresso stand three times before one of the baristas threw a cup of boiling water at him, said the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.

Jamae Feddock, a bikini clad barista at Java Girls, said she first thought the man dressed in women’s underwear and exposing himself was a sick joke, until the man came back several times.

The first time he came to the window Feddock said he was wearing a white bra and white panties and touching himself inappropriately.

Then he came back a second time.

“He has underwear over his face, he’s wearing hot pink panties now and the underwear that he was wearing is over his face and there’s a little peephole so he can see,” Feddock said.

Feddock and another barista were working around 5 a.m. last Thursday when the incident happened. They tried to get a look at the man’s license plate, but that too was covered up with women’s underwear.

When the man came back a third time one of the baristas took a cup of 220 degree water and doused him with it.

“Kylie opened the door and threw boiling hot water on his face and his chest and he said oooh yeah,” Feddock said.

Police agencies around Pierce County said they are seeing more and more incidents of indecent exposure — as more coffee stands open — many with women dressed provocatively — or barely dressed at all.

“I don’t think we can make a quid pro quo there that this is causing the effect, and they certainly don’t deserve that behavior, but we do have some of these stands that have been victimized by these activities,” said Det. Sgt. Jerry Bates a Pierce County Sheriff’s Deputy.

The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter.

Someone loved the people once, enough to have their bodies cremated, and then promptly forgot or decided they didn’t want them. “The fact is, if no one claims them, there’s nothing you can do with them,” said funeral director Peter Stefan of Worcester. “You can’t throw them away. They could be Uncle Freddy’s ashes. They could come and sue you.”

Storage or disposal of abandoned ashes is a growing national problem as the number of cremations is on the rise. Even in states that allow the burial or scattering of abandoned ashes, some funeral homes store them for years, hoping one day to place them in the hands of a relative.

Funeral directors worry that the regulations don’t carry the protections of a law, so they have been holding on to the ashes, just in case.

Although some of the forgotten ashes in the basement of his funeral home date to the 1890s, some are more recent, Stefan said.

You better eat your . . . Frosted Flakes? Olympic legend Michael Phelps will appear on boxes of the Kellogg’s brand sugar cereal, drawing sharp criticism from health experts worried about the message he’ll be sending to children across America. “I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian,” said nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sinai Medical Center.

“I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios.” The announcement yesterday that Phelps, 23, winner of a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, would grace Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes boxes instead of the traditional athlete’s choice of Wheaties left many perplexed. Frosted Flakes has three times the amount of sugar as Wheaties and 1/3rd the fiber. Still, in a country where childhood obesity is an alarming issue, Phelps’ iconic image sharing space with Tony the Tiger sends the wrong message, experts say. “For a guy like Michael Phelps who isn’t worried about obesity because he’s burning thousands of calories as an athlete…eating Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes every so often is not an issue,” Solomon said. The Phelps-emblazoned cereal boxes hit supermarket shelves in mid-September.

Anyone else reminded of an old SNL skit?

Terrorist Cell

Osama is a businessman who sees terrorism as a profit center, selling terrorism-themed T-shirts, caps and ballpoint pens. Abdul, a convert to Islam, acts as if he cannot kill enough people, or make bombs big enough. Ali, a Pakistani, has won a competition for the honor of avenging the cartoons published in Denmark that disparaged Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

Despite the threat they seem to present, the four men have so far eluded the Danish police — not because they run such a sophisticated operation, but because they are the principal characters in a situation comedy, “The Terror Cell.”

The show, about a bunch of losers in a gang that can’t shoot straight, is scheduled to make its debut on Danish television next year. Its creator, principal writer and star is Omar Marzouk, a Muslim and one of Denmark’s best-known stand-up comics…

Does he ever feel threatened? Mr. Marzouk is stoic. Anticipating attacks, he had a special death threat feature on his Web site, until he recently updated the site, by which visitors could choose among eight ways of having him assassinated, like by firing squad, by blowing up his car or by beheading.

“A majority chose beheading,” he said.

I hope it makes it to the Web and I can watch it there.

The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi. Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate’s half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender. “No-one knows who I am,” he told the magazine, before claiming: “I live here on less than a dollar a month.” According to Italy’s Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.

George Hussein Onyango Obama

Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael. He told the magazine: “I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist.” Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation. “If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed,” he said.

Vista’s death march picked up some pace after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP.

In a survey of more than 3,000 computers, performance testing software developer Devil Mountain Software estimated that more than one in three new machines had either been downgraded by vendors such as Dell, or by customers once they bought the PC…

That’s a damning verdict on an OS that Microsoft still wants frustrated customers to love.

The software beast has already admitted it made some pretty big mistakes with Vista. Now, after trying some heavy duty marketing, Microsoft has finally conceded it’s high time to move on by explaining how MS will engineer Windows 7.

I left the wonderful world of Microsoft OS’ three years ago. Never looked back.

From Werner Von Braun’s V2 and Robert Goddard’s liquid fueled rockets, through the X-aircraft like the X-1, the X-15 and the new X-34B, from the origins of the space race, Vostok and Mercury to Apollo and the Shuttle, from Sputnik to the Hubble and the Mars Phoenix, This Day in Space (TDIS) brings you the history and future of Man’s explorations of The Final Frontier.

TDIS features:

• High resolution photos
• Videos and video animations
• Audio presentations

TDIS also includes interesting anecdotes from authors such as the astronauts, NACA/NASA officials, famous historians like James Olberg and Andrew Chaikin, plus unique viewpoints from the author’s own experiences and research.

If you’re a fan of our Final Frontier or just want to see Man’s explorations of Space in a different way, don’t miss this daily feature, only on Cage Match.

PJB: Who Started Cold War II? ::: Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website — Again Pat Buchanan veers away from the litany and makes sense of the Russia-Georgia fiasco. Good essay.

Excerpt

The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO…The war in Georgia has exposed the dangerous overextension of U.S. power. There is no way America can fight a war with Russia in the Caucasus with our army tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nor should we. Hence, it is demented to be offering, as John McCain and Barack Obama are, NATO membership to Tbilisi.

The United States must decide whether it wants a partner in a flawed Russia or a second Cold War. For if we want another Cold War, we are, by cutting Russia out of the oil of the Caspian and pushing NATO into her face, going about it exactly the right way…As for Saakashvili, he’s probably toast in Tbilisi after this stunt. Let the neocons find him an endowed chair at the American Enterprise Institute.

Photo by correspondent Luke Rayner in the UK who says that the Brits are totally behind Obama. One bumper sticker says “Brits against Bush.” Someone should tell the Obama folks that people in the UK do not get to vote in American elections.

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To The Point News - THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW — Cripes, who hired these boneheads? And, but of course, it is not reported since it is an insult to someone.

The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit because they had all 4 engines at full power. The aircraft computers thought they were trying to takeoff but it had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc.) Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm.

This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air.

The computers automatically released all the brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward. The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can’t land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $80 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totaling it.

The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown, for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere. Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

I’m sure they can salvage the engines. Remind me never to fly on this carrier.

Found by Trevor Pressman.