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‘Abby Sunderland was in great spirits after being spotted’ say rescue members.

 SEARCH and rescue crew members have described how stricken 16-year-old yachtswoman Abby Sunderland remained “in good spirits” after being spotted from the air yesterday.

A crew of 11 SES and FESA volunteers that were on board the ‘spotter’ airbus returned to Perth just after 7:30pm last night after successfully locating the troubled vessel in the Indian Ocean.
FESA taskforce leader Will Blackshaw said the crew had a very brief period of contact with the young sailor, but said she remained positive despite the setback.
“Abby is in very good spirits,” he said.
“She’s obviously keen to have some assistance, but she is in very good spirits.
“The window of opportunity to speak to her was very short, so we had very brief, direct conversations about her health, the condition of the vessel, and her communications.
“The seas are very rough indeed, and there is a lot of wind, and she is obviously going to have a very uncomfortable night of sleep.
“He said the plane was conducting its first pass of the area and had been searching for Abby for only 10 minutes when she was spotted from the air.
“It was a very happy moment for all of the people on board the plane,” he said.
“However, it was a very serious moment as well, and we were all concentrating on the job at task which was to make contact with Abby.
“The crew then made radio contact with the young sailor, with the first words conveyed being “This is Abby”.
Mr Blackshaw said the crew instructed Abby to activate two further EPIRB devices tomorrow afternoon to ensure a continuous signal for rescue crews to spot her.
FESA spokesman Chris Lawson confirmed a second, smaller plane would leave Perth Airport early this morning to conduct another sighting and ensure Abby was okay.SES volunteer Michael Wood, who spotted Abby’s vessel from the airbus, said he had been excited to locate the boat.
“Because I was at the front of the plane, I just happened to spot Abby as she came into the field of view,” he said.
“It was very nervy at first, but very exciting that positive contact had been made.”
We’re all mindful that Abby’s got a number of hours left so we’ve all got our fingers crossed.”
Sgt Mike Wear, from WA Water Police, said Abby sounded “very upbeat and very strong” during the brief contact.
“It certainly was a very emotional event to be able to speak to the young girl Abby today and see her in that predicament out there,” he said.
“It was just a very small dot on the ocean – she was on the back deck (and) she was very hard to see.

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Another BLITHERING IDIOT Moment In History

A neutral America is prodded in World War One by this telegram to von Eckhardt, the German Ambassador to Mexico:

“To the German Minister to Mexico

Berlin, January 19, 1917

On the first of February we intend to begin submarine warfare unrestricted.  In spite of this, it is our intention to endeavour to keep neutral the United States of America.

If this attempt is not successful, we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico: That we shall make war together and together make peace.  We shall give general financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona.  The details are left to you for settlement…

You are instructed to inform the President of Mexico of the above in the greatest confidence as soon as it is certain that there will be an outbreak of war with the United States and suggest that the President of Mexico, on his own initiative, should communicate with Japan suggesting adherence at once to this plan; at the same time, offer to mediate between Germany and Japan.

Please call to the attention of the President of Mexico that the employment of ruthless submarine warfare now promises to compel England to make peace in a few months.

Zimmermann”
(Secretary of State)

Zimmerman, imbecile

The British intercepted the message and presented it to Woodrow Wilson. Next stop, Hun Country.

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“Margaret Grey’s A Little Bird Told Me” Limbaugh Calls O’Reilly “Ted Baxter

June 11, 2010

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Lightweights

I must have been too busy last week with my Jason Jay Delmonico’s exploding acting career because I. guilty as charged,  missed this story.

The first shot was fired in a possible civil war among conservative media “giants” although I doubt it’ll last long if it happens at all. In a new biography on sale Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh calls fellow conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly a “Ted Baxter” — after the fictional character on the “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” who was portrayed as a vain, shallow, buffoonish, stupid ass of a TV newsman. “Sorry but somebody’s gotta say it,” Limbaugh says in Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One by Zev Chafets. At press time, O’Reilly was too frightened to comment for fear his wit would be rapidly gutted by Limbaugh’s. He was said to have been drinking heavier than usual at Noney’s, a New York media saloon, as the week wore on. But it wasn’t just Bilbo who took grief from the Big Wind. Limbaugh said he doesn’t consider any of his fellow conservative talk show hosts to be in his league. “Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are protégés,” writes Chafets, charitably “and [Limbaugh] has defended Glenn Beck.” But Limbaugh “doesn’t really consider them, or anyone else, in his league.” He didn’t mention Phil Hendrie because a hack like Chafets isn’t that clued in.  But Bill O’Reilly as Ted Baxter? Baxter was way sexier, a much better dresser, had good, clean breath and most likely never passed an STD. But other than that!! Bwahahahaha!

Margaret Grey Reporting

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I got a Charlie Horse in my left calf this afternoon that….

….almost had me crying, the pain was so intense. And those things you always make worse before you make them better because you always wind up moving your body to the wrong position to alleviate the pain. In my case today, I couldn’t flatten my foot on the floor so when I went to relax my leg and not force my foot down, the pain intensified. I was literally on the verge of tears until I located the spot on the back of my leg where the spasm was and started pounding my fist into it. Literally. I started punching the back of my calf and the pain began to ease. The only thing left of it now is soreness above my ankle, for some reason. That was the worst pain from one of those I’ve ever felt.

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Kat Stacks and Friends

I would have no problem driving right into the middle of this, get out of my car, go inside for a Big Gulp, come out, stand there staring at it while sucking on the straw and then get back into my car and drive out, slowly, staring at everyone including Kat and her ass so that Youg whatever-his-name-is sees me do it.

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Show Log For Thursday, June 10, 2010

Tonight, Rich Butler, a financial management guy in Boston who aspires to sail solo around the world, came on our show to apologize for saying he hoped Abby Sunderland drowned. Ms. Sunderland is the 16 year old girl who was attempting to be the youngest person to sail around the world solo before she hit rough seas near Australia. She is now awaiting rescue. Once Mr. Butler realized Ms. Sunderland was going to be okay, he came back on the show to say he didn’t mean the apology…he really did want her to drown because he wanted to be on “the Wheaties box” and not her. Later Doug Dannger, gay man and gay journalist, joined the show to express his opinion that Helen Thomas was set-up. She was baited into saying those anti-semitic things by a Washington establishment that wanted to see her ruined. They wanted to stop her from publishing  a book on how she slept with Bush Sr., Reagan and Carter in exchange for giving them sound advice and being a good friend and confidante.

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Margeret Grey: “Abby Sunderland is believed to be ‘alive’ and ‘most likely floating’ in the Indian Ocean”

The engineer behind Abby Sunderland’s solo trip around the world says he believes the 16-year-old Thousand Oaks sailor is “alive” and “most likely floating” in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Isn’ that a comfort? If it were Jason Jay Delmonico I’d shit cement.

Speaking to a throng of reporters outside the family’s home, Jeff Casher said he spoke to her at 3:45 a.m. Thursday, then lost contact after she went to check on some equipment on her boat. About an hour later, she apparently activated her emergency beacons – devices that sent automatic alerts to the Coast Guard and her family.

Casher said the family is looking at five possible scenarios. They should have killed him, that is Mr. Casher; the boat’s mast came down, giving her no ability to sail the vessel; the keel hit something and possibly flipped the boat upside down; she may have broken an arm or leg while being whipsawed about in violent waters; some kind of thing that lives under sea rose up and ate her and the boat

“She set this off not because she lost communication, but because something else was wrong,” Casher said in a glorious example of stating the obvious. They had set very clear guidelines for when to activate emergency beacons – and losing communication alone was not enough, he blathered

Casher said the high school junior has the mental fitness to make it through this. Her brother, Zac, made a solo trip around the world when he was 17. Casher himself has entered toy boats in pond races.

La-me-sunderland11-new Abby Sunderland apparently was a little rattled when the boat’s motor wouldn’t work Thursday morning. No shit. But, Casher said, “The moment the engine started, she was her same old self – perky and tough.… She’s just as tough, or tougher, as most of the cruisers we’ve met.” Well, I think we’re all mentally tough when things go well. When they don’t, we worry. If we’re at sea with a boat motor that doesn’t work, we stain ourselves.

The family is hopeful that a Qantas Airbus, commissioned by the Australian government, will be able to spot her at daylight – about 10 or 11 p.m. Pacific time. Right about now, in other words…

Water temperatures are about 54 or 55 degrees, Cash said, describing it as cold, but survivable. Sunderland had equipment on board to survive a crisis, including a dry suit, life boat and three bopttles of Gordon’s Gin.

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Chris Norton asks:…”Do you bleash it?”

Chris Norton says: “A lotta people ass me wha’ is b***hole bleashing? Okay, fair enuff. I know a lotta people don’t get out mush. In the ‘dult film business there’s a lotta bleashing goin’ on. Because of the ac’resses that have to show it. There lotta bleashes you can buy but my favorite is Sess Bleash whish is particular made for those of us who work in tha’ ‘dult film business. Sess is my business and projec’ing my sessuality and sessual energy is what is it are about. Thas’ why I use Sess Bleash…nashurlly”