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Women Try To Sneak A Dead Man On Board A Plane

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Two women were stopped at the John Lennon Airport in Liverpool England after trying to sneak a dead relative on board a plane bound for Germany. The women were the dead man’s wife and step daughter who insisted that the man was merely asleep and not dead.

Maybe it’s more of a Monty Python scene than it is “Weekend at Bernie’s” alas, I digress.

What they should’ve have done is book the man as a “Jim Wilson,” which is what American Airlines calls all human remains flying on their planes and saved themselves the jail time. I’m not trying to be disrepectful, but c’mon, seriously how did they not know that the man was dead?

The BBC is now reporting that an airport worker that helped the ladies get the man out of the cab “knew” that the guy was dead.

I understand that flying a corpse is an expensive proposition, but what these ladies tried to do is just plain ridiculous. Can you imagine being seated next to a dead man? Yikes.

Venezuela in the news

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Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Chiquinquirá

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So, I was perusing the BBC this morning in my usual “what’s going on in the world” sort of mode when I came across this article.  It’s not the usual article that I’m so used to seeing about Venezuela, so I thought I’d share it on here.

The article was the featured “Today in pictures” article and it was about red devil festival.  No, not the vacuum cleaners, but a folkloric festival celebrating people laying down their sins before the church and the church forgiving them.  I won’t go into a whole deal about how it’s God and not the church that people should be seeking forgivness from, but anyway, it was a nice article.

Fat people are to blame

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You read the title right.  Next time you go get gas in your car, and you want to complain about the price of gas, blame fat people.

According to a report published in the BBC, obese people are responsible for the energy shortages, the food shortages, etc. on a global scale. No pun intended.

You see, the thing is, fat people eat more than skinny people do. In fact, they eat 25% more than skinny people. This of course puts pressure on producers to make more food, which means that they use more energy, which means that more energy is used for food production and since energy is a scarce commodity, well, there you have it.

So, the next time you go to the gas station, don’t think that gas is $4 a gallon because of a flawed energy policy, rising global demands thanks to rising global industrialization, or price gouging by big oil companies. Don’t try to think about all the terrorist regimes that are getting all of our money or about how much your fuel efficiency sucks, and how badly the gummint messed up the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) mandates etc, etc, etc.

The reason gas is $4 a gallon, is because of fat people and all their over eating.

That article really chaps my hide. I’m not some fancy doctor or anything remotely like that, but I bet that fat people are not to blame for the energy crisis. I can almost assure you, that increased global demand for fuel, urban sprawl, rising populations, with rising food demands, that little war in the middle east among other things are more likely culprits for the rise in fuel prices.

Just goes to show, you don’t have to be smart to be a doctor. Apparently, you just need to able to write grant proposals.