Man Saws Weenie Off: How He Did It

I will be the first to state, I am not the least bit competent when it comes to carpentry or woodworking.  However, I have sawed a piece of wood, without slicing my wee wee off.

WANTAGE, England, July 5 (UPI) — A 54-year-old carpenter in Wantage, England, accidentally cut off his own penis while working with a saw, his mother says.

Stuart Keen’s mother, Edna, told The Sunday Telegraph her son had been cutting wood for a cabinet when the saw inflicted the horrific injury. Surgeons were able to reattach the severed appendage, she said.

“Stuart is a carpenter and uses sharp and sometimes dangerous tools,” Keen’s mother said.

“This was an unfortunate accident but these things happen all the time to people in his profession.”

A South Central Ambulance Service spokesman said paramedics found him bleeding in his bathtub.

“I have spoken to him and he is quite embarrassed about the whole incident,” Keen’s mother told the Telegraph.

Seriously, how does this happen? And, why get your mother involved?  I mean, if I had the unfortunate misfortune of slicing my Mr. Happy off, I do not think I would tell my mother!

“This was an unfortunate accident, but these things happen all the time to people in his profession.”

I don’t know?  I don’t know too many wangless carpenters.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/05/Man-accidentally-cuts-off-own-penis/UPI-78371246823079/

Hubble Deep Field: How They Did It!

I have often wondered how the Hubble Telescope was able to image the region of sky that has come to be known as the Hubble Deep Field.  This short video answers that question!  Enjoy!

Michael Jackson, a True Hero?

I tried to hold off this as long as possible.  I am simply overwhelmed by the reporting of the MSM of the death of Michael Jackson. It seems that it wasn’t too long ago, that the same media organizations that are now apparently leading the way in calling for the Sainthood of Michael Jackson, were crucifying him as a child molester and all round general freak.

There’s no question that the self anointed “King of Pop” was a man with immense talent.  Personally, I could not stand his music, but, even I recognize that he did have an amazing talent.  Too bad it was wasted.  Yes, you heard it right.  Too bad this douche-bag wasted his immense talent in self grandiosity that left himself half a BILLION dollars in debt, with a trail of questionable legal matters open to interpretation. (OK, he’s a pedophile that slept with little boys.)

Michael jackson IS NOT A HERO!  Can I show you the real heroes that we need to show our children?

I am a Canadian.  We have troops in Afghanistan, fighting for the men, women and most of all CHILDREN of Afghanistan, so that they may enjoy the freedoms we do.  These men and women are the real heroes:

	First name	Last name	Rank	Unit	Province	Date of incident
	Martin	Dubé	Corporal	5 Combat Engineer Regiment	Quebec	June 14, 2009
	Alexandre	Péloquin	Private	3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	June 8, 2009
	Michelle	Mendes	Major	Chief of Defence Intelligence	Ontario	April 23, 2009
	Karine	Blais	Trooper	12e Régiment blindé du Canada	Quebec	April 13, 2009
	Jack	Bouthillier	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	March 20, 2009
	Tyler	Crooks	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	March 20, 2009
	Corey	Hayes	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	New Brunswick	March 20, 2009
	Scott	Vernelli	Master corporal	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	March 20, 2009
	Marc	Diab	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	March 8, 2009
	Dennis	Brown	Warrant officer	The Lincoln and Welland Regiment	Ontario	March 3, 2009
	Dany	Fortin	Corporal	425 Tactical Fighter Squadron	Quebec	March 3, 2009
	Kenneth	O’Quinn	Corporal	2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signals Squadron	Newfoundland and Labrador	March 3, 2009
	Sean	Greenfield	Sapper	2 Combat Engineer Regiment	Manitoba	January 31, 2009
	Brian	Good	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	January 7, 2009
	Gregory	Kruse	Sergeant	2 Combat Engineer Regiment	Ontario	December 27, 2008
	Gaetan	Roberge	Warrant officer	Royal 22nd Regiment	Ontario	December 27, 2008
	Michael	Freeman	Private	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	December 26, 2008
	John	Curwin	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Nova Scotia	December 13, 2008
	Thomas	Hamilton	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Nova Scotia	December 13, 2008
	Justin	Jones	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	December 13, 2008
	Demetrios	Diplaros	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	December 5, 2008
	Mark	McLaren	Corporal	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	December 5, 2008
	Robert	Wilson	Warrant officer	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	December 5, 2008
	Prescott	Shipway	Sergeant	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	September 7, 2008
	Andrew	Grenon	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	September 3, 2008
	Chad	Horn	Private	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	September 3, 2008
	Mike	Seggie	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	September 3, 2008
	Shawn	Eades	Sergeant	1 Combat Engineer Regiment	Ontario	August 20, 2008
	Stephan	Stock	Sapper	1 Combat Engineer Regiment	British Columbia	August 20, 2008
	Dustin	Wasden	Corporal	1 Combat Engineer Regiment	Saskatchewan	August 20, 2008
	Erin	Doyle	Master corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	British Columbia	August 11, 2008
	Josh	Roberts	Master corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	August 9, 2008
	James	Arnal	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	July 18, 2008
	Colin	Wilmot	Private	1 Field Ambulance	Alberta	July 6, 2008
	Brendan	Downey	Corporal	Military Police Detachment	Saskatchewan	July 4, 2008
	Jonathan	Snyder	Captain	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	British Columbia	June 7, 2008
	Richard	Leary	Captain	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	June 3, 2008
	Michael	Starker	Corporal	15th Field Ambulance	Alberta	May 6, 2008
	Terry	Street	Private	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Quebec	April 4, 2008
	Jason	Boyes	Sergeant	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	March 16, 2008
	Jérémie	Ouellet	Bombardier	1st Royal Canadian Horse Artillery	Quebec	March 11, 2008
	Michael	Hayakaze	Trooper	Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians)	Alberta	March 2, 2008
	Étienne	Gonthier	Corporal	5e Régiment du génie de combat	Quebec	January 23, 2008
	Richard	Renaud	Trooper	12e Régiment blindé du Canada	Quebec	January 15, 2008
	Eric	Labbé	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	January 6, 2008
	Hani	Massouh	Warrant officer	2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	January 6, 2008
	Jonathan	Dion	Gunner	5e Régiment d’artillerie légère du Canada	Quebec	December 30, 2007
	Nicolas	Beauchamp	Corporal	5th Field Ambulance, 5 Area Support Group	Quebec	November 17, 2007
	Michel	Lévesque	Private	3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	November 17, 2007
	Nathan	Hornburg	Corporal	The King’s Own Calgary Regiment	Alberta	September 24, 2007
	Raymond	Ruckpaul	Major	Armoured Corps, The Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	August 29, 2007
	Christian	Duchesne	Master corporal	5th Field Ambulance, 5 Area Support Group	Quebec	August 22, 2007
	Mario	Mercier	Master warrant officer	2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	August 22, 2007
	Simon	Longtin	Private	3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment	Quebec	August 19, 2007
	Jordan	Anderson	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Nunavut	July 4, 2007
	Cole	Bartsch	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	July 4, 2007
	Colin	Bason	Master corporal	The Royal Westminster Regiment	British Columbia	July 4, 2007
	Matthew	Dawe	Captain	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	July 4, 2007
	Jefferson	Francis	Captain	1st Royal Canadian Horse Artillery	New Brunswick	July 4, 2007
	Lane	Watkins	Private	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	July 4, 2007
	Stephen	Bouzane	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Newfoundland and Labrador	June 20, 2007
	Christos	Karigiannis	Sergeant	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Quebec	June 20, 2007
	Joel	Wiebe	Private	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	June 20, 2007
	Darryl	Caswell	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	June 11, 2007
	Darrell	Priede	Master corporal	Army News Team, 3 Area Support Group	Ontario	May 30, 2007
	Matthew	McCully	Corporal	2nd Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron	Ontario	May 25, 2007
	Anthony	Klumpenhouwer	Master corporal	Canadian Special Operations Forces Command	Ontario	April 18, 2007
	Patrick	Pentland	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	New Brunswick	April 11, 2007
	Allan	Stewart	Master corporal	Royal Canadian Dragoons	New Brunswick	April 11, 2007
	David	Greenslade	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	New Brunswick	April 8, 2007
	Kevin	Kennedy	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	April 8, 2007
	Donald	Lucas	Sergeant	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	April 8, 2007
	Brent	Poland	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	April 8, 2007
	Christopher	Stannix	Corporal	Princess Louise Fusiliers	Nova Scotia	April 8, 2007
	Aaron	Williams	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	New Brunswick	April 8, 2007
	Kevin	Megeney	Corporal	1st Battalion, The Nova Scotia Highlanders (North)	Nova Scotia	March 6, 2007
	Robert	Girouard	Chief warrant officer	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	New Brunswick	November 27, 2006
	Albert	Storm	Corporal	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	November 27, 2006
	Darcy	Tedford	Sergeant	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Alberta	October 14, 2006
	Blake	Williamson	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	October 14, 2006
	Mark	Wilson	Trooper	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	October 7, 2006
	Craig	Gillam	Sergeant	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Newfoundland and Labrador	October 3, 2006
	Robert	Mitchell	Corporal	Royal Canadian Dragoons	Ontario	October 3, 2006
	Josh	Klukie	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	September 29, 2006
	Glen	Arnold	Corporal	2nd Field Ambulance	Ontario	September 18, 2006
	David	Byers	Private	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	September 18, 2006
	Shane	Keating	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	September 18, 2006
	Keith	Morley	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Manitoba	September 18, 2006
	Mark	Graham	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	September 4, 2006
	William	Cushley	Private	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	September 3, 2006
	Frank	Mellish	Warrant officer	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Nova Scotia	September 3, 2006
	Richard	Nolan	Warrant officer	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	September 3, 2006
	Shane	Stachnik	Sergeant	2nd Combat Engineer Regiment	Alberta	September 3, 2006
	David	Braun	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	August 22, 2006
	Andrew	Eykelenboom	Corporal	1st Field Ambulance	British Columbia	August 11, 2006
	Jeffrey	Walsh	Master corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	August 9, 2006
	Raymond	Arndt	Master corporal	The Loyal Edmonton Regiment	Alberta	August 5, 2006
	Kevin	Dallaire	Private	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	August 3, 2006
	Vaughan	Ingram	Sergeant	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Newfoundland and Labrador	August 3, 2006
	Bryce	Keller	Corporal	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Saskatchewan	August 3, 2006
	Christopher	Reid	Corporal	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Nova Scotia	August 3, 2006
	Francisco	Gomez	Corporal	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	July 22, 2006
	Jason	Warren	Corporal	The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada	Quebec	July 22, 2006
	Anthony	Boneca	Corporal	Lake Superior Scottish Regiment	Ontario	July 9, 2006
	Nichola	Goddard	Captain	1st Royal Canadian Horse Artillery	Alberta	May 17, 2006
	Matthew	Dinning	Corporal	2nd Military Police Platoon	Ontario	April 22, 2006
	Myles	Mansell	Bombardier	5th (British Columbia) Field Artillery Regiment	British Columbia	April 22, 2006
	Randy	Payne	Corporal	CFB/ASU Wainwright Military Police Platoon	Ontario	April 22, 2006
	William	Turner	Lieutenant	Land Force Western Area Headquarters	Ontario	April 22, 2006
	Robert	Costall	Private	1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	March 29, 2006
	Paul	Davis	Corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Nova Scotia	March 2, 2006
	Timothy	Wilson	Master corporal	2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Alberta	March 2, 2006
	Glyn	Berry	Diplomat	Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada	Wales	January 15, 2006
	Braun	Woodfield	Private	2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Nova Scotia	November 24, 2005
	Jamie	Murphy	Corporal	1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Newfoundland and Labrador	January 27, 2004
	Robbie	Beerenfenger	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	Ontario	October 2, 2003
	Robert	Short	Sergeant	3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	New Brunswick	October 2, 2003
	Ainsworth	Dyer	Corporal	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Quebec	April 18, 2002
	Richard	Green	Private	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Nova Scotia	April 18, 2002
	Marc	Léger	Sergeant	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Ontario	April 18, 2002
	Nathan	Smith	Private	3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry	Nova Scotia	April 18, 2002

This list comes from the CBC news.

These men and women may have never “Moon-walked.  They may have never worn a white, sequined glove.  BUT, they did lay their lives down for the freedom of you and I, and the people of Afghanistan.  Instead of thinking of Michael Jackson, who cannot compare to these men and women, let’s think of our Canadian (and American) soldiers who gave their lives for an oh so worthy cause!

A Space Milestone!

Have you ever wondered how many humans have traveled to the final frontier?  I know that with all of the Shuttle flights, and Soyuz flights to the International Space Station, it might seem like a couple of thousand people have made that trek!  But, that would be wrong!  More?  Less?

When the Shuttle Endeavour blasts off this Wednesday morning, it will be marking two space milestones.  First, it will be carrying seven astronauts to the ISS to join the six that are already there. This will set the record for the most people at one time at the ISS. (Tying the record for the most people in space at one time – thirteen.)

Secondly, this mission will be carrying the 500th human to venture into space since Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in 1961!  In the almost fifty years men and women have been going to space, only five hundred have ever made that amazing journey!

First Planet Discovered… Outside Our GALAXY!? (Maybe…)

I’m sure that many people are aware that astronomers are scouring our own Milky Way Galaxy looking for evidence of planets orbiting other stars.  So far, they have discovered over 300 planets orbiting stars other than the Sun.  These planets are known as  extra-solar planets, or, exo-planets.  They range in size from a few times the mass of Earth, to several times the mass of Jupiter.  Recently, NASA launched the Kepler Mission, which is a telescope that will scan 100,000 nearby stars to find evidence of more exo-planets, hopefully down to the size of Earth.  If any planet transits, or passes in front of its parent star, the light from that star will slightly dim, and Kepler will be able to detect that.  From that information, astronomers will be able to determine the mass of the planet, or object passing in front of the star.

More information about how Kepler will be able to detect planets orbiting these stars can be found here:

http://kepler.nasa.gov/about/#anchor409142

However, today, thanks to Nancy Atkinson, over at Universe Today, I learned that a team of Astronomers in Italy may have taken this search for extra-solar planets to a whole new level!  They think they may have discovered a planet orbiting a star in the Andromeda Galaxy! (M 31) The Andromeda Galaxy is similar to ours, in that it’s a spiral galaxy, but it’s over 2 million light years away!

To find out how they did this, check out the story at the Universe Today website:

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/10/first-extra-galactic-planet-may-have-been-detected/

Why would a discovery like this be important? For one thing, it would mean that planetary formation around stars is not unique to our own galaxy.  (Not that we should expect it to be.)  It would also show that if  planets exist in other galaxies, then the opportunity for life to take hold and develop and evolve is also greatly increased.  Whether that life is intelligent or not, is another question.

All in all, this is incredibly exciting news!

That’s It! We’re Done!

I never really thought I would live to see the day human civilization collapsed.  Today is such a day.   As I roamed the blogosphere today, it just made me more firm in my belief that we as a species are devolving into something that a tree monkey would be embarrassed to associate with.

Do we really need to see all the YouTube clips, all the news stories, and all the blog chatter about how Sacha Baron Cohen made a grand entrance into the MTV Movie Awards flying from the rafters, and landing on Eminems lap.  Do we really need to see Baron Cohen’s puckered ass$#&% a foot away from a mock-surprised/angry ass$#&% rapper?  Have we sunk so low as to consider this ‘entertainment?’

What was the point?  Oh, yeah, “Bruno” was the point.  Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest ‘mockumentary’ style piece of crap highly offensive movie.  I’m convinced that millions will flock to the movie theaters to see this piece of crap.  And, I guess that was the point of the stunt to begin with.  After all, everyone is talking about it today.  Including me, sadly enough.

One more thing.  Where are the right wing religious zealot media watchdogs who screamed for U2 lead singer Bono’s head when he dropped an F-Bomb at the Grammy Awards years ago?  (Something I see they still go on about so many years later.)  Personally, I’m more offended by looking at some d-bag sticking his ass#$%& in some other d-bags face.  But, this is the same group of people who organized hundreds of tea-bagging parties recently.  Now you know what tea-bagging really is.

Where Was God Today?

This morning, I awoke to the sad news that an Air France, Airbus A-330, one of the most modern aircraft flying today, had vanished somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean.  The Flight left Rio on a routine 11 hour flight to Paris.  Some 3-4 hours after taking off, 12 messages were automatically sent to the Air France maintenance headquarters indicating that the aircraft was experiencing some type of electrical malfunction.  A further message indicated that the plane had experienced depressurization.

No Mayday was ever received from the crew.  No automatic distress beacons were activated by the aircraft.  Nothing. Flight 447 was carrying 126 men, 82 women, 7 children, and one baby.

Searches are underway several hundred kilometres off the coast of Brazil, as well as off the coast of Africa, since no one really knows where the aircraft was in its flight when it went missing.  It wasn’t being tracked on radar, the crew failed to check in at an appointed time, alerting Air Traffic Controllers that something was wrong.

My heart goes out to all of these victims and their families.  It is little consolation to those left behind, but from what I have read, it appears that whatever happened was sudden, since the crew obviously had no time to send out a Mayday.  If it was a sudden catastrophic failure, the passengers and crew would not have known what happened.  To those on board, that is a blessing in disguise.

I am sure, that in the coming days, we will learn about the people who lost their lives.  We will learn that they had families, loves, dreams, hopes, and that they mattered to those whose lives they touched.To those left behind, I would say, let those who were lost today, live on through you. Through your memories of them, and through the causes they supported.

As I thought about this tragedy today, I started to wonder, where was God today?

Turkish Star Wars! Awesomely Trash-tastic!

Decapitated Martian?

The intertoobs are abuzz with the latest image released by NASA, that some highly respected unnamed scientists are claiming as proof of past life on Mars.

They claim that this is obviously the head of a highly intelligent carnivorous being that more than likely lost his/her/it’s head when the Mars Spirit Rover jettisoned its heat shield as the rover made its way through the Martian atmosphere to its landing. Speculation is that this poor creature, or possible murderous alien that was on it’s way to its space ship to launch an attack, happened to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Personally, I’m not convinced.  Yes, I will admit that this object does resemble the skull of a highly advanced and intelligent being.  It looks like it has eyes, some type of nose holes, and what appear to be ear holes.  Here’s what I think it is:

Hello Kitty on Mars? The resemblance is uncatty!

The Harbinger of Death

The mystery of Kara Thrace solved!