Happy new year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Say good bye to year 2007 and welcome in 2008. Here are videos of past new years parties
The Baltimore Ravens coach, Brian Billick, is fired less then a day after his team won against the Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-27. The Ravens will not be in the playoffs after a terrible season, scoring 5 wins and 11 losses. Brian led his team to the 2001 Super Bowl and won in his second season. Brian was with the Ravens for 9 seasons.
A Vancouver McDonald’s employee gives birth in the restroom of the McDonalds. Danielle Miller was working at McDonald’s on Gher Road and state route 500 on December 21 when she suddenly felt ill and ran into the bathroom. Danielle’s friend and co-worker followed her into the bathroom and asked if she was pregnant. Danielle said no. But only moments later, 911 was called to help Danielle deliver her baby.
Hannah Montana news
A little 6 year old girl wrote an essay that won her 4 Hannah Montana concert tickets. The essay started with “my dad died in Iraq this year.” While you may think “oh poor girl”, think again. Her mother acknowledged to contest organizers that it wasn’t true. And now the girl from Texas may lose her tickets. This all began Friday with company officials surprising the girl at a club Libby Lu at a mall in Garland. The girl won a makeover contest that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig as well as the grand prize: airfare for 4 to Albany, New York, and 4 tickets to the sold-out concert January 9th. The mother had told the company officials that the girls father died in Iraq April 17th in a roadside bomb. Priscilla Ceballos told a news station in Dallas that Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar was the father. But the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq. Robyn Caulfield said the mother has admitted to the description. Mary Drolet said the company is reviewing the matter and is thinking about taking away the girls tickets.
Stuff
The death of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto seems not to have died from a gun shot wound. Apparently, she wasn’t even hit. A video tape of that day shows a man firing a pistol 3 times. But Bhutto was standing through her sunroof of her car, was not hit. People have now confirmed that Bhutto died from a skull fracture after bumping her head on a part of her car. After the gunfire, a suicide bomber ignited explosives near Bhutto’s car. Bhutto has apparently fell or ducked while the gun was being fired. When she fell or ducked, she hit her head on a lever connected to the cars sunroof. An Interior Ministry spokesman said when they looked, they noticed that the lever was covered with blood. Bhutto died just weeks before the election. Tell me what you think. Video
An endangered northern right whale was spotted of the coast of Florida Friday. The whale is only one of about 400 left of its species. The whale was spotted at about 8 am about 2 miles south of Ocean Avenue in Melbourne Beach. Julie Albert said quote”Shes not surfacing much.”Albert coordinates a right whale monitoring program for the Marine Resources council, an environmental group based in Palm Bay. Albert estimates the whale to be 40 feet long, and at noontime was as close as 200 to 300 yards offshore of Aquarina, swimming south and rolling over several times. Also, apparently was traveling with dolphins. Right whales got their name because the fishermen hunted the whale for its oil and called it the right whale to hunt because they were slow and easy to harpoon. The leading cause of right whale deaths are colliding with ships.
Lots a stuff
Sorry I wasn’t posting for a while. My computer had some problems but is alright now. So here we go!
Dozens of flights have been canceled in the mid west, the second storm since Christmas threatened to dump 20 inches of snow in the state of Colorado. I sure that much snow fell here in Washington. 8 more inches were expected to fall in Denver, which sets a record of snowiest x-mas with nearly 8 inches. United Airlines canceled 168 flights nation wide on Thursday mostly because of Denver weather, the second largest hit.
Pakistan opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto was killed Thursday by someone who shot her after a campaign rally then killed himself. At least 20 other people were shot and killed. Bhutto’s death made chaos across Pakistan. Angry supporters rioted in the southern port city of Karachi, firing shots at police, setting tires and cars on fire, and even burning a gas station. She had died in a hospital.
At a San Francisco zoo where a teenager was killed by a 350 pound Siberian tiger that escaped its cage, the director of the zoo had said today that the wall of the tigers pen was only 12 1/2 feet high- way below the recommended height of 16.4 feet. The tiger might have climbed out or jumped out of the open roof enclosure, perhaps by grabbing a ledge. How in the hell can a tiger jump 12 feet high is my question. Manuel Mollinedo said that the nearly 70 year old wall was 12 1/2 feet with a 33 foot “moat”. He also says that safety inspectors had examined the wall three years ago and they said nothing was wrong. The moat also does not contain water, and never did. But what does it matter that there is water in it. Tigers are some of the only cat swimmers and are the best at it. Why does it matter if there is water in it or not? On Wednesday he claimed the wall was 18 feet high and a 20 foot moat.
