Zoo Gives Car to Monkeys...Hilarity Ensues - UPDATED: Now with video link!

The Longleat Safari Park has banned cars from the monkey enclosure for close to two years while renovations were being completed. Before letting the tourists back with their own cars, the Park decided to give the monkeys a car to themselves to vent curiosity and frustrations. A car complete with rooftop luggage, stuffed animals and clothing.

Cue the laugh track because the pictures are hysterical.



Visit this LINK to see ALL the hilarious pictures...



VIDEO LINK

Another Baby Video

This one is so cute. Everytime the baby's mom sneezes the baby freaks out and then laughs his head off.




We're not sure why the internet was invented but this has to one of at least 2 reasons. Baby and animal videos.

You've Never Seen Anything Like This!

Think you've seen enough tsunami footage that you've seen it all?
We thought we did too. Until we saw this.

We had to watch it 3 times to fully grasp the scope of what we were seeing.

This video shot in Miyako, Japan shows the wave as it was hitting. You can see the vantage point from a rooftop where it was being taken. Clearly there are buildings around and what looks like an alley. Diagonally across you can see two people on another roof. In the span of less than 3 minutes it is all gone. Trees and power lines come down and there's not even a car to be seen.

Ultraman

What Japan needs now, isn't Superman...They need ULTRAMAN!
Kids of the 60's rejoice. You know you remember watching this stuff on 1970's Saturday morning TV...

Watch the intro:



A classic Ultraman fight:



What creepy but spectacular times!

A Mother's Loving Embrace

Look at the loving face of Comel the orangutan. Her baby, as yet unamed, was born at the Singapore Zoo recently. He is a newborn. AND SO CUTE! But not as pretty as mom, who's human eyes tell it all. "Look at my baby boy. I love him!"

The Zoo is sponsoring a naming contest for him.

"There are four choices - Ah Boy, Bino, Terang and Xing Xing.

Zookeepers say he is friendly and always has a smile and Ah Boy is a common term of endearment for boys in Singapore.

Bino means 'brave' in Bahasa Indonesia while Terang is Malayan for 'bright'. Finally, Xing Xing which is Chinese for both 'star' and 'ape'.

There are two weeks left to go and at the moment Bino is the most popular name."

Awww!

Our choice of the four is Xing Xing, (pronounced Zing Zing). He's a star and an ape. It's perfect.

Japan "On The Brink of CHAOS"

Ishinomaki today...

Another town is reporting ANOTHER 10,000 people missing.

"Officials from the coastal town of Ishinomaki confirmed that 10,000 of their citizens were missing. The unimaginable figure is the same given as in the town of Minamisanriku.

Ken Joseph, an associate professor at Chiba University, is in Ishinomaki with the Japan Emergency Team.

He told the Evening Standard: 'I think the death toll is going to be closer to 100,000 than 10,000.

'Why is there no food? I have been to every disaster zone in the last 20 years and I have never seen anything remotely like this. I think we’re on the brink of chaos.'

He said the Prime Minister was 'a wonderful man in many ways' but indecisive as a leader: 'In yesterday’s press conference on the nuclear reactor, he looked like he was going to cry, like a man having a nervous breakdown.

'Where is the sense of urgency? We need somebody to take charge. We’ve had an earthquake followed by fire, then a tsunami, then radiation, and now snow. It’s everything.

'There is nothing left. The world needs to step in. Where are the Americans? The Japanese are too proud to ask, but we need help and we need it now."

We've seem the Japanese PM on TV all week and yes, we agree, he looks like he is going to cry at any moment on live TV.

We wish we could do something besides donate to the Red Cross. We wish we could help. When you see the pictures of entire towns just...gone...it's like why are we at work today? We should be helping people. But there's nothing to do really. Our military needs to start getting food to them. ASAP.

Oh Superman where are you now?
When everything's gone wrong somehow...

We're Number 3!

Limerick Power Plant.
We see these plumes easily EVERY DAY OF OUR LIFE

Residents of Philadelphia and its suburbs number in the millions. And did any of you know that we were number 3?

Three in what, you ask?

NUMBER THREE AT RISK FOR A CORE MELTDOWN AT THE LIMERICK NUCLEAR PLANT. RANKED #3 IN RISK BY THE NRC (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission).

The risk of an earthquake hitting this region has gone up 141% since 1989 geological data was updated in 2008.

As a matter of fact, Pennsylvania has 3 nuclear power plants in the Top 10 MOST AT RISK of ALL United States power plants. See? We're 3 again!

3) Limerick, Limerick, PA - 34 miles away from Philadelphia and it's 5.4 million inhabitants. We are the 5th largest most populous region in the Country.

5) Beaver Valley, Shippingport, PA - 34 miles away from Pittsburgh and it's 2.3 million inhabitants. The second largest population in PA. The risk here has gone up 269%.

10) Three Mile Island, Middletown, PA - 10 miles from Harrisburg, the Capital of Pennsylvania. Population: half a million people. It's 311 miles from Pittsburgh and 102 miles from Philadelphia. The risk from this plant has gone up 82%.

We're not even talking human or mechanical error which can cause a meltdown event at any time regardless of natural disaster. Mechanical error is what caused the partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979, but was compounded by human error as operators failed to realize the initial problem.

READ THE NEWS ARTICLE WITH ALL THE DATA

R.I.P Nate Dogg

Nate Dogg passed away last night at 41 years of age. He had 2 strokes in the past couple of years that probably led to this untimely death.

Nate Dogg was a West Coast Hip Hop Legend. He was high school friends with Snoop Dogg and the two were very close and collaborated on alot of music together. He rapped with Ludacris and Warren G regularly.

Snoop Dogg had this to say via Twitter today: "We lost a true legend n hip hop n rnb. One of my best friends n a brother to me since 1986 when I was a sophomore at poly high where we met," tweeted Snoop Dogg, who continued on for several tweets before concluding, "RIP NATE DOGG."

Nate Dogg Gone But Never Forgotten

Turn it up and enjoy this classic - Regulate

Happy Belated Birthday to Giorgio Tsoukalos!

Sorry we missed his birthday on March 14th!

Giorgio runs the magazine Legendary Times and is a huge supporter of the Ancient Astronaut Theory. He counts Erich Von Daniken as a close friend and is the Director of Erich's Center for Ancient Astronaut Research. He writes amazing articles regarding the Theory.

Giorgio came to our attention during the History Channel's series Ancient Aliens. His enthusiasm for the show (he is the producer after all) is contagious.

He is known for his crazy hair, which has it's own fan page on Facebook. However, it is his unwavering faith in the Theory which makes us love him. Someday, people will accept this as fact and not fiction and people like us will be vindicated. Until then, we have Giorgio to keep publishing great articles with all the facts about it.

You can find Giorgio on Facebook and Twitter.

Here is a link to The Legendary Times Bookstore.

In Defense of Gilbert Gott-Fired - UPDATED

We've always liked Gilbert. His stuff on The Howard Stern Show was always hilarious. He's always, always, always been politically incorrect and inappropriate. It's his schtick.

Gilbert violated 2 rules:
1) It really was too soon. Maybe in few weeks when the situation is under control it would've maybe still not been funny, but okay.

2) 75% of Aflac's business is in Japan! That was a Major Fuck Up. We'd have to fire him too if we ran that company. Of all the companies in the world to represent and then tweet jokes about...

Bad timing, bad judgement.

However, we thought they were almost funny. Of course it's too soon and were we rolling on the floor thinking we just heard the funniest thing ever...NO. But we did chuckle a bit.

Anyway, comedians are coming out of the woodwork to defend Gilbert and we join them. Joan Rivers, Howard Stern, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar have all expressed solidarity for Gilbert.

Joy summed it up: "Comics have never been appropriate".

We'd like to add, "It's what they do."

Gilbert was trying to take the edge off. There's worse in the world and he doesn't deserve to be crucified over it. Shunned for a week or two maybe, but not crucified.

He'll never get his job back with Aflac though. And that was his only gig. Why else do you think he was twittering jokes instead of doing them at a club? Poor Gilbert. We feel sorry for him. Not as sorry as we do for the poor people of Japan... but you know what we mean, right?

UPDATE: We are taking flak for this. To clarify, we don't agree with what he said or did. We only think he shouldn't be raked over the coals. Was he rude? YES. Insensitive and a jerk? YES! Okay. We're over it.

ACTION ALERT

Undercover pictures and video like this one..
of pig abuse in Iowa will soon be illegal

The Agriculture Industry is trying to make it illegal for animal rights activists to make undercover videos of factory farm abuse.

"They're trying to intimidate whistleblowers and put a chill on legitimate anti-cruelty investigations. Clearly the industry feels that it has something to hide or it wouldn't be going to these extreme and absurd lengths," said Bradley Miller, national director of the Humane Farming Association.

Jeff Kerr, general counsel for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, agrees. He says the Iowa legislation is misguided, at best. They're trying to criminalize someone being an eye witness to a crime. The people who do the very difficult job of documenting that criminal conduct should be applauded."

Agriculture committees in the Iowa House and Senate have approved a bill that would prohibit such recordings and punish people who take agriculture jobs only to gain access to animals to record their treatment."

Proposed penalties? Fines of up to $7,500 and up to five years in prison

WE MUST ENSURE THAT THIS BILL DOES NOT PASS!

The animals deserve better treatment. Of course humanity will never completely go vegetarian, but that does not mean that these living breathing beings need to be tortured and live in inhumane conditions during their lifetime.

This is unconscionable. Iowa lawmakers should be ashamed of themselves if they allow this to pass.

We don't care what state you are from, START CALLING IOWA NOW!

Call newspapers, senators, congressmen. Call the governor, call the farms themselves. Call the USDA, call the Agriculture Department and BITCH.

Call animal rights groups and give them your support.

Iowa Legislator Info

Iowa Senators

Iowa State Reps.

USDA Contact Page

Iowa Dept. Of Agriculture Contact Page

Governor Branstad Contact Page

Iowa Newspaper and TV Directory

Iowa Farm Info

Humane Farming.org

The Lazy Vegan Animal Rights Blog

NEWS LINK

Thank you! We need to stand up and fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.

Now It's Blizzards...

Earthquake
Tsunami
Nuclear Meltdown and Radiation Exposure
Erupting Volcano in the South
Economic Collapse
Food, Water and Shelter Shortages
Humanitarian Crisis nearing Epic Proportions
Freezing temperatures
NOW A FUCKING BLIZZARD!

Poor Japan!

Besides a tornado which will probably hit any minute now, is there any other thing that can go wrong?

Not even Godzilla could have wreaked more havoc on this poor country. As a matter of fact, Godzilla is the only thing left to strike! If he surfaces next week, we wouldn't be surprised. What else is left, really?

The one thing we just cannot understand is the nuclear crisis. For a nation that knows first hand the suffering of radiation contamination, and for a nation that rises above all others in technological advancement, why did they build so many reactors? Why didn't they lead the world in Green Energy Technology? We cannot fathom the reason behind so many nuclear plants in Japan.

The Japanese people were so against these plants that the government was forced to build more and more reactors at existing sites. That's why each of these Fukushima plants have 6 or 7 reactors apiece. In the US each nuclear plant is regulated to have no more than 2 reactors per plant.

The group of workers that stayed behind to save Japan, The "Fukushima 50", as they are being called will forever be remembered.

Great News Article

This Cat Wears Her Heart on the Outside

This cat, named Bette Davis, was abandoned by heartless owners and was found dirty and emaciated by rescuers at a cat shelter.

They were astonished to see that she has a perfect heart mark on her side.

Could you imagine dumping such a nice kitty?

Bette is pictured here with Katie Barkell, one of the compassionate and wonderful people that volunteer at the Gables Farm Dogs' and Cats' Home in Devon, England.

Read more Here

Rainbow Clouds Over Everest

Oleg Bartunov, 51, who is a fellow at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute in Moscow, snapped these incredible pictures at Mount Everest.

"The phenomenon is caused by light reflecting off tiny ice crystals inside the body of the cloud's water vapour.

'I only took a couple of shots as I was overwhelmed with feelings and wanted to see everything with my eyes and prolong the moment,' Mr Bartunov said."


Beautiful!

A Dog is a Dog's Best Friend

If this video doesn't break your heart, then we regret to inform you that you have no heart.

You must click this Life With Dogs.tv VIDEO LINK and view this video coming from tsunami ravaged Japan this morning.

This dog refused to leave his injured buddy. You can see him implore for help at the :30 second mark from the cameraman.

News agencies are reporting that these dogs were rescued and the injured one is still under veterinary care.

Life With Dogs.tv VIDEO LINK

Big Splash is a Big Dog Worth Big Money

This dog was sold to a wealthy Chinese man for over $900,000 making him the world's most expensive dog.

Big Splash is a Tibetan Mastiff, a breed reputedly owned by Gengis Kahn and Lord Buddha. He and his kind are rare in Tibet now with only a reported 20 left, but are one of the world's oldest pure breeds.

Big Splash is still a puppy, weighs in at more than 180lbs and stands almost three feet high.

The new owner hopes to make money by using Big as a stud dog. The mastiffs have become a sought-after status symbol for China’s newest millionaires.

"Beware the Ides of March"

So said the Seer to Julius Ceasar. And lo and behold on that March 15th day in 44BC Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in front of a crowd of people 23 times right in his own Senate house.

5 Ways to Help the Animals of Japan

Thanks, Perez, we totally just took this off your site...

Here's the link at Teddyhilton.com

And again!
5 Ways to Help the Animals of Japan

Utter Ruin

The coastal cities of Northern Japan are decimated.
Total and complete destruction.
Houses sit on top of bridges.
Huge ships are parked on top of houses.
Rescue workers are dwarfed by wreckage many stories high.
It's unlike anything we've ever seen.
It's like 9/11, Katrina and Indonesia combined.
It's fucking awful.

This house is just floating in the Pacific Ocean.

Possible Location For Atlantis

As you all know, Atlantis is the lost city of antiquity, that may or may not be a myth.

The Greek philosopher Plato mentioned Atlantis in his works Timaeus and Critias, written in 360BC. Said to have been a "naval power", Atlantis was sunk in its entirety by a natural calamity in one single night over 9 or 10 thousand years ago.

Since Plato's time Atlantis has been largely ignored as a myth although many people, including ancient and modern scholars have thought it was real. It has been searched for for over a thousand years.

Many locations on Earth have been considered to be the actual site, including the island destroyed by volcano, Thera near Greece.

Edgar Cayce, the most accurate psychic prophet to ever live, mentioned Atlantis over 700 times (out of 14,000 readings) and said it was real and was located in the Atlantic Ocean. He also said that remnants of it would surface in 1968 or 1969.

The Bimini Road was discovered in 1968. The Bimini Road consists of rows of stone blocks off the coast of the Bahamas. The longest row is about 1600 feet long. There is an ongoing dispute over whether or not they are a natural phenomena or man made. Having seen pictures of them, they stand out like a sore thumb, very unlike any other rock formations in the area.

Curiously, Cayce added that it was 3 calamities that struck Atlantis. Residents started evacuating after the first incident and continued to flee as the third disaster completely destroyed the island and sunk it like a stone into the ocean.

"On Sunday, the National Geographic Channel aired a documentary called Finding Atlantis.

It chronicles the work of a team led by University of Hartford archaeologist Richard Freund, who believes he has found the mythical advanced society of antiquity in the muddy sediment of a Spanish marsh.

The lost city of Atlantis, according to the writing of Plato, was located on an island just past the Pillars of Hercules, known today as the Strait of Gibraltar, and was wiped out when an earthquake triggered a powerful wall of water that submerged it forever.

“It just so happens that just past the Straits of Gibraltar, there is a 250-square-kilometre marsh that was inundated by a tsunami in antiquity,” said Dr. Freund on Monday. “In light of what we’ve seen in Japan, you really can understand how the power of a tsunami could wipe a place off the face of the Earth.”

We agree. This still might not be the actual city of Atlantis, for it is thought to be a continent or island located in the Atlantic Ocean and not just a city, but it's still plausible.

Now that we understand the mighty destructive forces of a tsunami, it is not without reason to finally be able to realize that an entire city COULD VERY WELL disappear overnight. And, taking it further, considering that a larger tsunami could have conceivably wiped out the entire island of Japan, that a island sized nation could be sunk overnight as well.

We do not think that Atlantis is a myth. Plato may have been drawing on earlier accounts of a nation for which Atlantis stands in, but very much a REAL civilization that was wiped out by a natural disaster and disappeared virtually overnight. Its more than just plausible or conceivable it's a statistical probability.

The Good News Is...

As of right now 90 countries have donated money or sent supplies and manpower to Japan to help.

90! That is a really good thing.

Even Afghanistan and Sri Lanka have sent money and we know they have their own problems as well.

Text "redcross" to 90999 to make an automatic $10 donation.

Donate:
Red Cross.org

Nate Berkus survivor of the Asian Tsunami in 2004 said that after 3 days of no food, water or shelter when the red cross trucks showed up, it was such an emotional relief. They didn't even get a chance to unload or do anything yet, but just seeing the red cross on the truck was an immense emotional rush like no other. He knew he'd been saved.

Personally, we KNOW the red cross helps. When our townhouse complex went up in flames and we were scrambling to save our pets, a red cross vounteer came right up to us and asked if we needed: food, water, shelter, clothes or someone to talk to. We were in shock and thanked them and thanked them and thanked them. We were lucky enough to escape without loss of life, limb or home - and our pets were ok - so we didn't need anything. But knowing they were there even on such a small local level was amazing.

Donate
Red Cross.org

Also, some miracle stories are starting to surface from Japan. A woman was reunited with her dog. She walked into the rubble that was her home town and there he was just sitting on the ground, waiting for someone to come and get him. A 4 month old baby was found, just lying in the rubble. You heard about the man found 10 miles out to sea. Hopefully in the days to come we will hear many such stories of miracle survivors.

The Real March Madness

Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdowns in Japan.

Earth's rotation altered by Japan earthquake.

Middle East uprisings.

Libyan revolt Fail.

New Zealand, Chile and Australia still trying to recover from natural disasters.

Ivory Coast massacre.

Massive flooding in Kentucky and New Jersey.

Union demonstrations and law maker debacles in Wisconsin.

Ongoing "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan.

NPR and Planned Parenthood undercover stings and possible shut downs.

US Budget Battles.

Somali terrorists.

Chemical plant explosion in Massachusetts.

Al Queda and terrorist nuclear threat.

Earthquake threat to Pacific Coast (and its nuclear plants).

Mexican drug cartel massacres.

Stock market collapse.

Massive sea life die offs.

Suicide bombers.

Catholic priest molestation criminal suits.

Atlantis is FOUND.

Rising food, oil, gas and airline prices.

Global food and water shortages.

Haiti.

The shocking indifference to most or all of the above by obsession over Charlie Sheen, the royal wedding, the NFL lockout, NCAA March Madness, the new iPad2 and the next season of Dancing with the Stars on Monday is appalling.

We understand that due to the overwhelming list of global and local events that we would want to bury our collective heads in the sand and just tune into Tom Bergeron next Monday and FORGET about what is going on in the world. But now is the time to tune in and NOT tune out.

The implications of all of this are shockingly clear. The Human Race needs To GET IT TOGETHER NOW. We need to start acting like a team. It shouldn't take the Japanese crisis to get 67 countries to work together. Thankfully that is the case but we need to start working on quite a few other things TOGETHER before it's too late.

The first thing we need to do is stop the global threat of random nuclear attacks by small minded terrorist groups like Al Queda and kibosh the nuclear threats by Iran. This is paramount. If suicide bombing terrorists blow up Washington DC or New York the retaliation will be immediate and lead to the real end of life as we know it. Global thermonuclear war.

We all know the rest of the drill. End hunger. Stop global pollution. Find a common language. Stop overpopulation. Rebuild disaster ravaged countries. Focus our energies on saving the Earth by creating and funding green technologies and energy policies. We could go on and on.

We as a race can do anything we set our minds to. Greed has to be overcome, at all costs, if we are to survive. Are you familiar with the Cree Indian prophecy?

Only after the last tree has been cut down;
Only after the last fish has been caught;
Only after the last river has been poisoned;
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.

We need to realize RIGHT NOW that not only is the Earth one large playing field and that we are on all the same team but that it's Game Time.

It's PI Day...Everyone Celebrate The Greatest Mathematical Number

PI is the most recognizable number to non-mathematicians. It is ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter and has been calculated to 5 trillion digits.

PI is easy to remember. Here it is to 50 digits. Memorize just 3 to 5 digits at a time and you'll get it.

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

The Guinness-recognized record for remembered digits of PI is 67,890 digits, held by Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student from China. It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite to the 67,890th decimal place without an error.

Damn! That's awesome!

Nobel prize winning poet Wisława Szymborska wrote a poem about PI:

The caravan of digits that is pi
does not stop at the edge of the page,
but runs off the table and into the air,
over the wall, a leaf, a bird's nest, the clouds, straight into the sky,
through all the bloatedness and bottomlessness.
Oh how short, all but mouse-like is the comet's tail!

Here's another one:
Just for fun...

Consider humble pi. It is a number never ending.
It never repeats itself as its value keeps ascending.
Based upon a circle, many men have tried
to calculate the ratio of its width to its outside.
It is called irrational because it can not be made a fraction.
The challenge of its nature has been a call to action.
The number pi has played a role in every life on earth.
From physics to statistics, its always proved its worth.
The tires that you ride on, the table where you dine,
little pi was there throughout its concept and design.
Humble pi is constant - its been a great addition
and quietly serves us each day without recognition.
If you can not appreciate why I hold this number high,
then shame! It is you that should be eating humble pie.

-- Ken Johnson



So everyone celebrate PI Day. At 3:14 pm start reciting numbers and amaze your friends, family and co-workers.

"Watashi-tachi wa anata no tame ni inotte iru"

"We are praying for you"
私たちはあなたのために祈りを捧げています

Our thoughts and prayers are with our Japanese friends on this desperate day. The Omni Report takes a strong stance against the Japanese Whalers and often ridicules the Japanese but would never wish this upon thousands of innocent people. We are devastated.

This earthquake at 8.9 was 8,000 stronger than the New Zealand earthquake. EIGHT THOUSAND TIMES STRONGER.

It stands now as the 5th largest ever recorded.

"Tonight, huge fires burned unabated across large parts of the country as damaged oil refineries and gas works billowed black smoke into the sky.

Half the country was understood to be without power, with four million homes in Tokyo alone being cut off, while the army has been deployed to the quake-hit areas to help relief efforts.

However those relief efforts were hampered by a number of aftershocks, including a 6.6 magnitude tremor which hit Tokyo and caused already damaged buildings to shake further.

Elsewhere, two high-speed bullet trains were missing alongside a cruise ship carrying 100 passengers that was swept away when the wave hit. One of the trains was reported to be carrying 400 passengers.

A state of emergency was declared at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima after the 8.9 quake caused the cooling system to fail"

The nuclear plant could cause a world-wide disaster ala Chernobyl if there is a radiation leak. We HOPE they can contain this admist all the other problems they are having.

Sigh of relief that the tsunami waves did not impact Hawaii, US or Central and South America as feared. Thank God for small or in this case BIG favors.

International Red Cross Donations

UPDATE: Kyodo wire is reporting 88,000 people MISSING.

Jon Cryer Kills It - He IS a Troll Afterall

Charlie Sheen lashed out at his co-star, Jon Cryer, the other day saying the following:

"Jon has not called me. He's a turncoat, a traitor, a troll. He shouldn't bother reaching out now. What's there to say? I'll tell him, 'You're a little late. Goodbye, troll,'" Sheen said.

Well, Sheen kind of recanted a little bit issuing a half-apology to Cryer, saying this:

"I'll apologize to Jon right now, I was in a mood and I threw that out to somebody. It's a little bit a half apology. An apol. The reason I was upset I didn't get a text or a phone call or anything saying, "Hey, dude, back off, I got your back, or you got my back or there's a back involved.' "

Last night, Cryer took it to Conan where he revealed he is indeed a troll. And he's not the only one...Helen Mirren anyone?

Antarctica

#28

Follow this link to see incredible pictures of Antarctica taken the last couple of years.

Some of these pics are MUST SEE...

Pics 1, 2, 11, 19, 24, 28, 37, 44, 45, 46 & 47 are our favorites!

PHOTO GALLERY HERE

Bruins Hit Causes Uproar

The Boston Bruins Montreal Canadiens game the other night turned serious when Zdeno Chara hit Max Pacioretty into a partition wall.

Max suffered terrible injuries, actually described as horrific. He has a neck fracture, a concussion and is still in the hospital.

The Montreal POLICE have opened a criminal investigation into the incident, but the NHL has declined any sort of penalty - pissing off the Canadiens to no end.

Said Max: "I am upset and disgusted that the league didn't think enough of (the hit) to suspend him," Pacioretty told told TSN's Bob McKenzie. "I'm not mad for myself, I'm mad because if other players see a hit like that and think it's okay, they won't be suspended, then other players will get hurt like I got hurt."

The hit drew criticism from Gary Lunn, the minister of state for sports, and others outside the league. Lunn called it unacceptable.

For the record Max Pacioretty is really really really angry at Zdeno Chara. If he was able to stand or walk or function he would kick his ass.

Also plaguing Hockey is the current state of players safety. We did an article last week regarding the concussions and life altering situations these brain injuries can cause. Well, commercial sponsors of the game are getting antsy.

"Air Canada released a letter Thursday where it threatened to withdraw its sponsorship following a violent headshot to Habs player Max Pacioretty by Zdeno Charo of the Boston Bruins.

All six Canadian teams and five U.S.-based teams charter Air Canada flights. In addition to charter contracts with teams, Air Canada has the naming rights in Toronto for the home of the Maple Leafs and NBA Raptors.

Air Canada may have been emboldened to act because of a groundswell of public concern resulting from a series of recent player concussions.

He said they also have more leverage than a standard sponsor like a beer company, which would be replaced by a rival in a heartbeat. Later Thursday, Habs (Canadiens)owner Geoff Molson issued a public letter expressing his, “frustration, disappointment and shock” over the issue — and he said NHL Commissioner Bettman had agreed to make safety a priority issue at next week’s league meetings."

See the hit for yourself. We've seen much much worse. But you can see in the slo-mo that Max was pushed into a partition and when he hit it literally broke his neck.

Oh Rafa!

Women all over the world (and some men) are swooning over you!

Adopt a Native American Elder

Native American activist and actor Jay Tavare is on board to help aid the most neediest of all America's population, the Native America senior citizens of Arizona and Southern Utah.

The Adopt An Elder program supports over 500 traditional Elders on the reservations that have no heat in the winter, except for the wood they have to chop themselves. They really rely on our kindness to help.

And have SO MUCH TO TEACH US!

These talented people weave authentic unique one-of-a-kind Navajo rugs and that is their only means of support. These spirit rugs are said to have a palpable energy.

"No two rugs are the same and each one is truly a piece of Sacred Art. The weavers are inspired by the spirit to weave the patterns that they see in their minds eye as they pray. Each rug carries positive vibrations and by taking one home, you raise the spiritual elevation of your home and feel the peace it brings to your family."

The Program has two food and medicine runs each year that depend on donations. And host the spectacular Annual Navajo Rug Show and Sale each November in Park City, Utah.

Please read about Jay and his hope to spread the word about this unique and wonderful program: Huff Post Article

To learn even more go to the official website. They need our help!
An Elder.org

This concept is so great and can be expanded though to all elders of our society. Please donate your time and energy and of course some funds to the following charities and organizations that help our senior citizens.

Dreams for Seniors

National Council on Aging

Twilight Wish

Healthy Years

We Still Miss Biggie

Biggie Smalls aka Notorious B.I.G. died March 9, 1997 and he's still missed. It's hard to believe it's been 14 years since he died.

He was killed in a drive by shooting in Los Angeles 15 days before the release of his best selling album - Life After Death. His murderer was never identified or caught and is still at large.

He is STILL ranked by MTV as the third best rapper of all time and was the recipient of many industry awards back in the day. His albums have sold over 17 million copies.

Here's a video of one of his hit songs, back in the gansta days with his best friend Sean "Puffy/PDiddy/Puff Daddy" Combs...

Oh Biggie, Biggie can't you see...
Sometimes your words just hypnotize me..

Mike Tyson: A Reformed Man

Mike Tyson appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres show the other day. He seems to be a changed man. He is promoting his new pigeon show on Animal Planet that is currently being protested by PETA. We're not sure about that.

What seems to be obvious though is that he is a changed man. Gone is the punk kid dominated by Don King. Gone is the violent punk that was convicted of rape and sentenced to prison. Gone is the raging man that chewed the ear off of Evander Holyfield in 2007.

Tyson is doing his best to change the public perceptions of him.

Here is what he had to say, in part, on Ellen, regarding the loss of his daughter.

"'I had a four-year-old daughter who, unfortunately, had an accident and died,' said the boxer.

I was pretty outraged, torn apart. When I went to the hospital when she was on the machine, I was anticipating, because I was probably coming down from a hangover, but I'm anticipating that I'm going to go to the hospital and raise hell. Once I got there and saw other people who had children who already died or were dying, they were handling it with dignity and I didn't want to be the psycho parent.'

'I wanted to handle it with dignity as well. Their kids were dying too so I didn't have any right to be a psycho. I just had to handle it like everyone else and be humble and be at ease.'

He has now been clean for over two years. Along with giving up alcohol and drugs, he also become a vegan. "

We do like the new Mike Tyson. He used to be the best boxer in the world. Now let's hope he can put his past behind him and be the best person he can be.

Going vegan is a hell of a start.

Did you catch him on SNL? Or in The Hangover? He was pretty good!

SURVIVOR: Russell's Last Chance

It's the end of an era. Russell Hantz is a Survivor no more. Many of you are rejoicing. We are sad. Russell was GREAT TV. Yes, he's a sexist ass, but you know what? He was fun to watch. We have been told that we could be duped by Russell into being one of his minion underlings and...we agree. If we were on Survivor we would have joined his "Dumb Bitch Alliance" in less than two seconds flat.

That being said, Russell and Matt "The Christian" battled it out on Redemption Island in a domino challenge and Russell lost.

Then...wait for it...wait for it...waaaaiiittt...For. It. HE CRIED. Bawled. Couldn't hold it back. Tears of frustration and anger and just plain old emotion. You see, Russell LOVES Survivor. He wasn't in it for the money. Or the Glory. He just wanted to play. And he lost. And he cried.

Then he "got his Russell on" and got mean. Ralph "The Sasquatch" said he had found the Immunity Idol and Russell was done anyway and that set 'ole Russ off.

You see, when a player gets voted off and sent to Redemption Island for a duel to remain in the game, the tribes get to send 2 witnesses. Russell's tribe send Ralph and some girl and Boston Rob's tribe sent "Secret Agent" Phillip and Kristina.

Ralph, like an idiot, flushed himself out as an Idol holder and tried to take it back sort of. Phillip, of course, being a Federal Agent had to let everyone know that it was too late. All those years of training lets him know when someone is lying.

Well, that's when Russell went off and spilled every bean the other tribe had. How his tribe threw the challenge just to vote him off, who's in charge of the tribe, who the alliances were, EVERYTHING. He said he would live on in the game through "them" - Phillip and Kristina.

To Jeff Probst's credit he just let Russell roll. Russell's Ravings = Ratings gold! "And, you know, people like my tribe that throws a challenge just to get rid of me because I’m Russell — not even worried about Boston Rob and his team and numbers. So it's hard to be a professional quarterback and have pee-wee leaguers on your team, because I gotta run the ball, I gotta catch the ball, I gotta throw the ball. I gotta do everything, " Russell said.

Good-Bye, Russell! It was fun while it lasted.

Meanwhile, Rob snuck off and FOUND THE IMMUNITY IDOL. WAY TO GO, ROB! Russell's gone but at least we still have 'ole Boston Rob around. More Ratings Gold.

Back at camp, Phillip tried selling the intel to Rob, which pissed Rob off. "Don't you work for me", he said. "You're in my alliance!" Which meant, just tell me, dude. WTF?

The Immunity/Reward Challenge: A Toolbox Sears product placement challenge. Tribes had to use a crowbar, shovel, axe, saw and a hammer to...do stuff. The reward? Barbecue! Food is always a motivator on this show.

We finally noticed a player named Grant. Nice bod! Just lose the dreads, ok? Phillip is old and slow. But he does try. He's starting to grow on us. He does mean well, he just doesn't have people skills.

Rob's tribe loses AGAIN! They haven't won one challenge so far this season! And the one they did "win" was because the other tribe threw it to vote out Russell! OMG!

So once again, Phillip called a tribe meeting that no one wanted to hear or contribute to. We kind of feel sorry for him. Just kind of...in that underdog sort of way.

So as much as Phillip's tribe hates him, Boston Rob is threatened by Kristina and arranges to vote her out. It works and at Tribal, Kristina gets sent to Redemption Island.

At Tribal, Phillip and Kristina argued over who should be booted and Phillip regaled us with an enchantingly crazy story about a "Shepard Stamp" and to tell you the truth he lost us after the first sentence...but it basically meant he's a hard worker. Or Something.

We are loving...LOVING..the new Survivor format. The eps start with a duel at Redemption and halfway through is the R/I Challenge. It's pretty great and fast paced. The only thing missing is the video at the very end where they show who voted for who...so you know who's in whos alliance. We're getting over it though. Instead they show the new arrival at Redemption.

Stay tuned! This show is the BEST ON TV!

CBS just renewed Survivor for another 2 seasons with our boy Probst as host and executive producer. YAY!

CBS Executive Vice President of Alternative Programming Jennifer Bresnan:
“Survivor is a program franchise that continues to stand the test of time. Each season delivers new faces, exotic places, the ultimate social experiment combined with game play, and one of the most engaged audiences anywhere on primetime television"

We are certainly "engaged" and have been since we saw the promo for this show in 1999!

EW's Q & A with Jeff Probst

HE RESIGNED! THE PHARAOH IS GONE!

Oh my! There is much lamentation and sorrow right now. We are beating our chests, cutting our hair, going into mourning, wearing black and crying out to God "WHY!?"

Okay not really, but the shock hasn't worn off. It's only begun!

Our beloved/despised Dr. Zahi Hawass has quit! It's TRUE...

This is directly from his blog (Check for updates and video)

Dr. Hawass.com

Why Dr Hawass Resigned

Q: Dr. Hawass, for many years you have been the image of modern Egyptology. Why are you leaving now?

A: “I am leaving because of a variety of important reasons. The first reason is that, during the Revolution of January 25th, the Egyptian Army protected our heritage sites and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. However, in the last 10 days the army has left these posts because it has other tasks to do. The group now in charge of the protection of these sites is the Tourist Police, but there are no Tourist Police to do this either. Therefore, what happens? Egyptian criminals, thieves (you know, in every revolution bad people always appear…), have begun to destroy tombs. They damaged the tomb of Hetep-ka at Saqqara, the tomb of Petah-Shepses at Abu Sir and the tomb of a person called Em-pi at Giza. They attacked a storage magazine at Saqqara and we do not yet know how many artifacts are missing; they opened two storage magazines at Giza; one tomb dated to the 19th Dynasty, the only one in the Delta in fact, was damaged at Ismaïlia; and a store at El-Qantara East has been broken into and looted for antiquities. People have begun to build houses and to excavate at night, everywhere, putting heritage sites all over the country at risk. I had to write a report and I sent it to the Director of UNESCO. That is why at the meeting of the Egyptian cabinet yesterday I had my speech prepared already and I said: “I cannot stay in Egypt and see antiquities being stolen when I cannot do anything to stop it!” This situation is not for me! I have always fought to return stolen artifacts to Egypt. I did fight Ahmed Ezz as well, the man in the Parliament, who was the most powerful man, because he wanted to allow antiquities to be sold in Egypt again.

The second reason is that there are two crooks in the Antiquities Department, who have accused me of stealing antiquities and doing other illegal things all of the time. Their files talk about this. A third person started saying similar things, a university professor who was the Antiquities Director for almost 6 years before me, who never accomplished anything in that time. As a corrupt man, he even gave his signed permission to a rich lady from another Arabic country to take manuscripts out of Egypt! These three people encouraged young Egyptians to protest against me personally, to shout outside my office that they needed jobs. Sadly, I cannot give a job to everyone, but I did find funds to provide nearly 2000 training positions. In response to the horrible rumors that I am stealing antiquities. How could this be?! How could a man who has given his life to protecting and promoting antiquities, be accused later of stealing them?! Because of all of these things, I believe that if I stay in my position for another six months, I will never be able to protect the antiquities I love and I will never be able to work during this mess. All my life, I have been excavating, discovering, writing books and giving lectures all over the world. My work is responsible for bringing many tourists to Egypt, which helps our economy. But now I cannot do this! Therefore, I decided to resign”.

Q: Your decision could have a very negative impact on tourism in Egypt and on the image of the post-revolutionary Egypt…

A: “I know. I agree with you, but what can I do? I cannot work during this mess. Antiquities are my life. I cannot see with this mess in front of me. I cannot work with these dishonest people trying to tell everyone else that they are honest. I was writing an article before you came about a situation similar to this that happened 4000 ago in Egypt. A nice man, his name was Ipuwer, tells us on a papyrus what he saw when he took a look at the state of the country. He describes chaos - how the poor became rich and rich became poor. The lady who had a mirror before cannot find the mirror now. She looks at her face in the water. People robbed the pyramids, they robbed everything. That is what is happening now too! It is something I cannot stop! I can work if there is discipline and honesty, but dishonest people have begun to appear and to attack the honest people. I can stand against them if antiquities are safe, but at the moment antiquities are not safe!”

Q: What are the conditions under which you would come back to lead the Ministry of Antiquities?

A: “I will come back if there is stability at the sites and if there are police, as it was before, to protect the sites, but now people come to them with guns. They stand in front of my security people, who run away, because they are not armed. In the past, the police refused to give them weapons. Therefore, everyday, in the morning, I am waiting for news. What has been robbed today? What has been stolen today? Since I cannot stop this, I cannot come back.

Q: Recently, you issued an urgent appeal to the young Egyptians of the revolution to protect the sites. What was the reason behind this?

A: “It was wonderful. This is something that really everyone should know. On Saturday, January the 29th, I went to Tahrir Square at nine in the morning. I walked among the young people there. They came to me and explained how they put themselves in front of the Egyptian Museum to protect it. When I checked inside, I saw that all the masterpieces of the Museum’s collection were still there. That is why I originally announced that the Museum was safe. Sadly, we have since discovered that 18 objects were stolen and 70 were damaged, but the final report is still in preparation and we will know the real result soon. The Director of the Museum has told me that there are more missing artifacts, but none are major pieces. Thanks God, someone found a statue of Akhenaton giving an offering near a garbage can in Tahrir Square and returned it. The Egyptian Museum is open again now. I would like people to go to it and see that it is safe. I have also been arguing with people who are now trying to tell me, “How can you ask for the bust of Nefertiti to be returned to Egypt, if your own people are stealing and damaging the monuments?”. I say that if what happened in Egypt, with the police force abandoning the streets for two nights, had happened in Rome, for example, Rome too would be robbed, completely. Their museums would have been robbed as well. Thank God, all that happened that day here was not that bad.”

Q: Frankly, Dr. Hawass, are you encouraging tourists to come back to Cairo and to the archaeological sites, or is this still not safe?

A: “Honestly, I have to tell you that if the Ministers of Tourism and of the Interior make a statement to give back the police their power, tourists could come to visit Egypt again. Until now, however, they have not done this. This means that visitors from abroad will have to wait until police officers and Antiquities Police are at every archaeological site once more.”

Q: Until that moment, it is not safe?
A: “I can say this, yes.”

WHOA! Did you get all that? Dr. Hawass is resigning as a form of protest! The antiques are being looted at gunpoint and he can no longer protect anything. Rather than take the blame for that, he is heading to the hills!

We thought he'd be stronger than that. Either he's still really pissed that Mubarak got overthrown and along with it all his perks and privileges OR he wants the new government to beg him to stay.

Stay tuned...!

Read Robert Bauval's Blog: The Case of the Disappearing Ministry


Loyalists Beg Him to Stay - Article


USA TODAY.com - Article

What a Sight! A Starry Night!

Last night, we at The Omni Report, were treated to an astronomical treat.

At precisely 7:23 PM EST the Space Shuttle Discovery came barreling out of the Northwestern sky crossing overhead as a glaringly bright small white ball of light. It was beautiful to behold and we saluted our astronauts "friends" in the heavens as it was the last time we'll ever have a chance to see the Discovery overhead again.

THEN...

At precisely 7:25 PM EST, with Discovery still visible on the horizon a SECOND ball of bright light came into view. From virtually the same direction just a degree apart, the International Space Station started to pass overhead just as Discovery was disappearing into the horizon. The Space Station moved slower, although it was still moving at incredible speed, but the slower pace allowed us to enjoy it for a few seconds longer than Discovery.

It was a stellar event and one we will remember forever!

About 20 minutes later a most peculiar cloud formation came over the sky and we were left again breathless with awe. We can try to describe it but will utterly fail. It was as if the sky had morphed into long ghostly fingers, spaced precisely and evenly. Cloud, sky, cloud, sky - like a giant comb or fan. We've never seen anything like it in our lives and we are no spring chickens. It was fabulous, amazing and awesome.

All in all it was remarkable and marvelous night!

Great Article on Space Shuttle Discovery

Neil Young on Tour

Neil is promoting his new album, Le Noise. He also promising to play all his old hits as well.

And he's coming to Philly!

Here are the dates and venues released so far...

04/15 Durham, NC Durham PAC
04/17 Richmond, VA Landmark Theater
04/19 Boston, MA Wang Theatre
04/20 Boston, MA Wang Theatre
04/22 Providence, RI Providence PAC
04/24 New York, NY Avery Fisher Hall
04/25 New York, NY Avery Fisher Hall
04/27 Baltimore, MD Hippodrome
04/28 Baltimore, MD Hippodrome
04/30 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
05/01 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
05/03 Cincinnati, OH Aronoff Center
05/04 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
05/06 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
05/07 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre