Some Old Dude

Ok guys. How many of you read this as Erotica?

Only in Japan would you buy a fizzy yellow drink called Unagi Nobori (surging eel) without having everyone in the immediate vicinity start to feel nauseous.

Unagi Nobori is made from eel extract and vitamins that some people believe will boost energy during the summer’s hot and humid conditions.

Kazunori Hayashi, spokesman for Japan Tobacco Inc, the makers of the drink, said it is “mainly for men who are exhausted by the summer’s heat”.

It may seem like an odd niche market to foreigners, but in Japan demand for eel is so high during the season that some businesses have been caught importing eel from foreign sources and relabeling it as Japanese.

Watch only after you’ve taken your blood pressure:

ShaddapPlease — June 16, 2010 — Area is now dangerous for American citizens due to shortage of border patrol. Arizona is asking for at least 3,000 national guard to help them secure their border along with Mexico. Obama only offer 1,200 which is not enough. Obama remain passive over this issue which is a threat to our national security – this is invasion.

Meanwhile back at the hacienda, Obama and company are suing over Arizona’s immigration law. I never thought I’d miss Bush.

Based on a post on Outside the Beltway: — “Bureaucracy Standing In The Way Of Oil Spill Clean Up Efforts”

The governor of Louisiana sent out barges to suck up the oil and dump it into steel tanks then the bureaucratic buffoons from the Coast Guard made them stop.

According to the Coast Guard they needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life jackets on board. –So? They couldn’t just board each of the vessels check that they were in compliance and let them go back to work? Oh yes. The CG also said that they were having trouble contacting the manufacturer of the barges.

The Coast Guard seems to be in competition with FEMA for the biggest cluster fuck in history. First they help BP prevent reporters from accessing things BP didn’t want the world to see, now they are preventing any unauthorized cleanup.

This is exactly like the fire marshal making you stop spraying water on a smoldering roof because your hose hasn’t been inspected.

Once again the pencil pushers have proven that paperwork is more important than life, property, or even the planet.

The United States Coast Guard: Now less popular than the IRS.

Delta Airlines sent two children fling under the airline’s unaccompanied minors program two the wrong cities.

A boy destined for Boston wound up in Cleveland and a girl bound for Cleveland wound up in Boston. The airline said it was because of a paperwork mix up.

news.com.au: Delta said the children were connecting through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, US on Tuesday when they were put on the wrong connecting flights because of a “paperwork swap.”

Delta spokesman Paul Skrbec on Wednesday said a boy ended up in Cleveland instead of Boston while a girl was sent to Boston instead of Cleveland. He would not release information about the children, citing passenger privacy. [....]

Delta said it has apologized to the families, sent the children to their final destinations at no cost, arranged full refunds for the children’s tickets and provided credits to the families for future travel.

“A paperwork swap?” Does this mean the airlines put illiterates who couldn’t read the paperwork well enough to tell if it was for a boy or a girl in charge of these children, or was it the same baggage handler who sends my luggage to O’Hare when I’m headed to Dallas Fort Worth?

It also makes you wonder if they have a warehouse for unclaimed children?