Prince Waleed of Saudi Arabia got a new car. When you’re filling up your gas tank, give a thought to Prince Waleed’s needs! See photos below.

Prince Waleed’s Car

Saudi Prince Waleed Bin Talal got himself his 38th car. He personalized it a little, just a few add-ons. You know, to give it some bling-bling. The Mercedes SL600 is diamond-studded, mink-furnished and cost him a mere $4.8 million. Pocket change!

Can you imagine what the Prince looks like driving down the road in that? Does he drive it down the road? I just know I’d be standing on the sidewalk hoping a diamond would come loose and fall off about the time he drove past me.

Give this a thought when you are filling up your gas tank …. I’m sure he appreciates your contribution to his wealth.

Prince Waleed’s Car - Photos

The Battle At Kruger is an internet sensation. See the video below.

If you aren’t one of the 30 million people who have viewed the Battle At Kruger video on YouTube then you can see it here. Its been on YouTube for over a year and now the two men who filmed the battle are the subject of a new documentary that will be premiering Sunday, May 11th on the National Geographic Channel.

The video was shot at Transport Dam in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. It was filmed in 2004 by videographer David “Buzz” Budzinski and photographer Jason Schlosberg who watched as a pack of lions gathered on one side of the watering hole and a herd of buffalo were grazing on the other side. The video shows the outcome of the battle over a baby buffalo is captured and fought over by lions and crocodiles. The buffalo eventually fight off the predators and rescue the baby buffalo.

Its a rare opportunity for us to experience nature vicariously through the lens of YouTube!

Enjoy

This video has been viewed something like 300,000 times since it was uploaded a few days ago. It seems that Nicholas White was working late one Friday night. About 11 p.m. that night he went out for some cigarettes and got trapped in the elevator on his way back to his office. He says that once he realized he was stuck, he knew he was in for a long wait since it was the weekend.

This all happened in 1999 and I guess Mr. White didn’t have a cell phone with him.

The The video was uploaded as an accompaniment to is a piece by Nick Pumgarten, Up and then Down in the April 21st issue of The New Yorker.

Nicholas White is pretty good humored about the popularity of the video. I don’t know why he wouldn’t be. He won his lawsuit against the McGraw-Hill Building and the elevator company.

Prince William, second in line for the British throne, seems to think what belongs to Britain belongs to him and apparently doesn’t understand the meaning of military discipline.

Prince Charles and Prince William

I’m not a critic of the British royal family. In fact, I think they are kind of interesting. Its cool that there is still a European royal family that at least pretend to be enthroned. Its a throw-back to days long gone and all that. Still, sometimes their complete lack of having any limits in their lives is pretty astounding.

As I understand it, since Prince William will undoubtedly be King one day, he is supposed to get training in every branch of the military service. His most recent training has been with the Air Force. He’s been learning to fly planes and helicopters and the like. He was awarded his wings recently.

In the past month there have been two incidents (that people know about) of Prince William using Chinook helicopters for his own pleasure. Prince William flew a Chinook to London to pick up his brother, Prince Harry. Then he flew the two of them to the Isle of Wight for a weekend of partying with their cousin, Peter Phillips who is Princess Anne’s son. Another time he took a Chinook he was training in to his girlfriend, Kate Middleton’s house. He practiced landing and taking off from a field behind her house.

The problem is that he seems to think that the military vehicles that are acquired at the expense of the tax paying citizens of the United Kingdom are his very own personal play things. Or perhaps its that his superior officers are either afraid to tell the future King that he can’t do these things or are so enamored with his royalty that they approve such misuse of military vehicles. Either way, there’s something terribly wrong when Prince William is allowed to use helicopters and airplanes for his personal use.

Meanwhile, British troops in Afghanistan are dealing with a shortage of Chinooks and other equipment. But why should a little thing like that bother a future King. He’ll never have to deal with shortages when he’s deployed. Oh wait. He won’t be deployed so there really isn’t a need to worry about it at all!!!!

I do think it would do him a world of good to have to actually do something with all the training he is getting. He should have to be deployed. It would help him grow up and certainly would help him get a better understanding of what the troops, who will one day be under his command, have to deal with. A callus or two on those perfectly manicured hands would make him feel better about himself as a man.

After all, that’s how his ancestors became Kings in the first place.

Mitt Romney spoke at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner tonight. Whoops, last night - 4/16/08. I thought this was hilarious and was glad to see it on YouTube so soon!!

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Of course, I could have not waited till the last minute, but this is REALLY not the right time to remind me of that …. !!!!

I hate the AMOUNT of taxes we have to pay.
I hate having to DO taxes and I’m masochistic enough that I actually do them myself.
I hate what our lawmakers SPEND our tax dollars on.
I hate that the democrats think it is actually THEIR money!
I HATE TAX DAY.
I HATE TAX DAY.
I HATE TAX DAY.

That is all.

Baltimore teachers, including Jolita Berry, claim they are under attack by their students and the school system does nothing to stop it.

When I see videos and read stores like these I just think there HAS to be something done to bring values back into our society.

(CNN) — Two teachers at a Baltimore, Maryland, high school say they were attacked by students, and one says such assaults are commonplace, according to CNN affiliate WBAL.

The school district says it is investigating and will take appropriate action, but both art teacher Jolita Berry and English teacher Marc Standish say the administration has failed to protect and support them.

“I looked over, and her friends were cheering her on. And before I knew it, she hit me in the face,” Berry told WBAL after cell-phone video depicting what she said was a student beating her last Friday appeared on the social networking Web site MySpace.com.

This particular incident happened at Reginald F. Lewis High School in Baltimore. Unfortunately, its not isolated to that one area.

Jolita Berry goes on to talk about how frustrating it is to her that she can’t teach her students. She says that no place of learning should be that violent. She’s absolutely right.

At some point, some time down the road, we are going to have to come back to old fashioned ideas like ‘honor’, ‘integrity’, ‘honesty’. Meanwhile, our society is going down the toilet.

These kids actually get rewarded for this behavior. They videotape it, put it on YouTube or MySpace and get a lot of fans. The more outrageous their behavior, the more attention they get. They might even get to be on Oprah or some other television show and get to be really famous. There are NO consequences for bad behavior that really matter to these people!!

The last few decades seem to have been more about entitlements and not ever expecting anyone to suffer the consequences of their own behavior. We avoid testing so that students don’t feel bad if they aren’t as successful as another kid in their classroom. We avoid scores in sports because we want all the kids to be exactly equal in all things. The problem is that holds back kids who DO excel and doesn’t challenge anyone to try harder or do better. It also excuses VERY bad behavior.

Time to start having consequences for behavior. And consequences that actually MEAN something. If it doesn’t hurt there is no motivation to change. I have to live by the rules, you should too.

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On September 18, 2007 Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave what he expected to be his last lecture. You see, he’s dying of pancreatic cancer. He spoke to a packed auditorium on ‘Really Achieving your Childhood Dreams’. You can read more of the lecture at www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.

Since he gave this lecture the video of it has gone viral. Just today he talked about it again. He has lived longer than he expected when he gave that lecture last September. He says he has enjoyed the extra time he’s been granted. He’s spent more memorable time with his family and has testified before Congress requesting more funding for finding a cure for this deadly form of cancer.

Diane Sawyer of ABC News is doing a TV special on Wednesday, April 9th at 10pm. Click for promo.

h/t: PA Pundits

A civilian in Israel stopped a terrorist before he could harm anyone. How? Please read on. We really should learn from the Israelis who deal with terrorists on a daily basis.

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A Jamaican planning to board a flight at Orlando International Airport was detained and questioned by FBI agents Tuesday after they found components for pipe bombs and explosive and flammable liquids in his checked luggage.

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This time it’s our old friends in the International Solidarity Movement, the left-wing pro-terrorist group that spawned Rachel Corrie: Iraq war protesters disrupt Chicago Mass. CHICAGO - Six Iraq war protesters disrupted an Easter Mass on Sunday, shouting and squirting…

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I recently came accross the following cartoon by Clay Bennett (www.claybennett.com). It really spoke to me and inspired me to write a little piece.

This cartoon suggests that global warming and nuclear power are both monsters. However, as with anything in life, a choice must be made. In the case of this cartoon, the lesser evil is nuclear power. Why do I say that nuclear power is a monster? I say this simply because any time man creates electricity he does a little bit of environmental damage whether it be mining, clearing of land, affecting wildlife, etc… It just so happens that nuclear power’s monster lies with its nuclear waste. However, this nuclear waste is containable and can be seen as a small tolerable monster when its compared to the damage that global warming can do to our Earth. Some people think that global warming is completely made up. Of course these people don’t believe that humans can possibly hurt the Earth. However, we have seen it before with CFC’s in aerosol cans. We can hurt the Earth, especially when we do things in excess. Of course, burning millions of pounds of coal a year falls into the excessive category. Nuclear Power is not the evil that it was made out to be in the 80’s. Time has shown that. When one thinks about the technology that has been made availabe to the public in the last 20 to 30 years, one can only imagine the technologies new Nuclear Power plants will bring with it to ensure the safety of the public. Nuclear Power is ready and willing to show us a future that future generations can enjoy for many years. This cartoon is the perfect ice breaker for the start of my Nuclear Power Series.

Cross posted at Rant-It-Up