A future convict in the making. How would five year old know or want to stab people? Must be a great new way of raising and rearing children that I have never heard of. JD

GREENE COUNTY, Va. – A 5 year-old is accused of stabbing three people in Virginia.

It happened Monday afternoon at a mobile home park in Greene County.

Police say the little boy used some sort of edged weapon.

Neighbors believe the incident started over a juice box.

Two children and one adult were taken to the hospital with non- life threatening injuries.

Once again Dave Hester shows the world that he is nothing more than an arrogant selfish little boy lost in the world of greed and egomania.

Hester was out in L.A. this weekend … sporting a hat with his signature catchphrase on it … when he told a TMZ photographer he hasn’t locked up a deal to return to the show next season.

To me this would be a good thing because although Hester mixes it up with the other people on Storage Wars, he also makes you want to reach into your TV set and strangle him because he is such an arrogant prick.

Enter Nabila Hannis. A&E is playing Nabila as a rival of Dave Hester because I am sure they have seen this coming with Hester being so egocentric that he probably believes that he is the only reason anyone watches the show.

Earth to Dave, Earth to Dave. I have asked many of my friends at work and read the comments on this site and many others, and here is the real reason people watch the show. Men watch to leer at Brandi Passante and see what is found in the lockers, and women seem to like the treasure hunt aspect of the show.

That’s it. Nothing more. Its not you acting like a moron and bidding up lockers against your own perceived enemies, although its funny at times. Its not your dopey hat and stupid truck.

Okay it might be a little to watch the back of your neck because when you look up the back of your neck looks like a pack of hot dogs.

Nabila Hannis is attractive, funny and competitive, has a lot of appeal to a broader audience than you and will hook old geezers like me into watching the show. That’s exactly what A&E wants.

Dave Hester should think that perhaps they have done some internal polling and are finding that he is actually driving viewers away and they don’t want him back.

Dave if your reading this, and I know you are, look up “Jackie The Jokeman Martling” from the Howard Stern Show. Jackie had a great gig with Howard Stern. He made good money, he got free plugs everyday on Howards show, he was on top of the comedy world.

Where is he now? Faded into obscurity just like you will Dave if you leave Storage Wars.

Nice to meet you Nabila. You are a wonderful addition to Storage Wars and pleasing to the eyes as well. JD

A tree trimmer was decapitated after getting sucked head first into an industrial wood chipper in a freak accident.

Martin Lara, 50, of Applegate, California, died Thursday morning after getting dragged by a rope as he fed branches and debris into the chipper.
Lara’s company, Bushwackers, had been hired to clear brush from a rural home outside of Nevada City when the line became wrapped around the professional landscaper’s neck.

The rope was attached to some wood and was dragged by the chipper, beheading him, CBS Sacramento reported.
His body was pulled towards the cone of the wood chipper, but a colleague stopped the machine before his body was dragged inside the rotors.

Fellow crew members heard the man scream but could not help him in time.Sheriff’s Sgt. Hap Penaluna called it ‘a freak accident.’
‘It was a huge chipper capable of processing full-size trees,’ Penaluna told the Union of Grass Valley ‘It’s just a tragic accident.’

Okay I will not defend the deputy for punching the woman, but there are a few details that seem to have been left out of the story of the deputy that punches a handicapped woman on a bus in Bellflower on Monday.

First, watch the video below. After you have watched it, watch it again and watch the handicapped woman’s legs. She tries not once but three times to knee the deputy in the balls, the third time appearing to land a knee to the old jewelry bag. All the while the deputies are trying to calm her down and throughout the whole ordeal she is becoming more and more combative.

But our media won’t mention that little tidbit. NBC news even froze the video of the deputy in mid swing to make it more dramatic.

NBC also left out the obvious. That would be that the woman is so fat that it takes five deputies to subdue and arrest her. They don’t ever in the article make mention of why the deputies were removing her from the bus in the first place.

This is what the American media calls “Objective Journalism.” JD

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I am telling you right now that I will not fly on any Airbus product. They are manufactured by lazy people in socialist nations that sleep more then they work. JD

The cracks in brackets inside the wings of the jumbo Airbus A380 “do not pose a safety risk,” the plane builder said Monday.

“We can confirm minor cracks have been found and these are in non-critical sections of the wing rib,” Airbus spokesman Justin Dubon told the Star from Toulouse, France.

A spokesman for Australian aircraft engineers has demanded that the entire Qantas fleet be grounded for a thorough inspection. The cracks on a Qantas Airbus A380 were found during a major overhaul in Singapore that followed a mid-flight engine blowout last November, Qantas said. The cracks were repaired.

“We can’t continue to gamble with people’s lives and hope they make it until their four-year inspection,” said Steve Purvinas, federal secretary for the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association.

“It sounds dramatic, but they’re not on the wing,” said Dubon. “They’re on a little L-shaped bracket inside the wing. It’s a hairline crack, but the bracket is still intact and still doing its job. They’re not load-bearing.”

Air France flies its A380 planes into Montreal; Air Canada has none in its fleet.

Dubon emphasized that the European aviation safety authority had supported Airbus’s decision to deal with the cracks during the aircrafts’ routine maintenance every four years.

Singapore International Airlines also discovered the cracks last year and has repaired them, a company spokesman said.

“These pose no safety issue and repairs were carried out on the aircraft,” SIA spokesman Nicholas Ionides said in an email to Reuters.

Purvinas’s ALAEA has been campaigning against Qantas’s decision in August to outsource some work, including maintenance jobs, to other plants in Asia.

A series of rolling strikes and refused overtime by Qantas employees last fall exploded on Oct. 29 when the airline stranded thousands of passengers by grounding its fleet in response. A court order a day later got the airline flying again.

ALAEA’s “Keep Qantas Australian” campaign uses Qantas’s safety record, the best in the industry, as a rallying point.

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma, according to a statement on his website on Monday.

The British heavy metal group’s original lineup is writing and recording its first album in 33 years, and the band members will move from Los Angeles to London in order to work with Iommi while he undergoes treatment.

“His bandmates would like everyone to send positive vibes to the guitarist at this time,” the statement read, adding that the new album was still scheduled for release in the autumn.

“Iommi is currently working with his doctors to establish the best treatment plan — the ‘Iron Man’ of Rock & Roll remains upbeat and determined to make a full and successful recovery.”

Iommi, 63, is a founding member of Black Sabbath, one of the most successful hard rock acts in history who have sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide.

The veterans announced in November that they were reuniting in their original four man line-up, including Ozzy Osbourne on vocals, for their first new album in more than three decades and a 2012 world tour.

The quartet released their last studio album of all original material in 1978 with “Never Say Die.”

Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979, leading to changing lineups for several years. The original foursome reunited for a 1998 release and played sporadically together in the early 2000s.

I have this rule of thumb when it comes to thrill seeking. I look in the mirror. When I think about jumping from a perfectly good airplane with a parachute or hot air ballooning, I look in the mirror. You know what I see? A man that doesn’t have any feathers, therefore I cannot fly should the need arise. So I don’t do it. JD

A hot air balloon carrying 11 people turned into a tower of “sheer flame” Saturday after hitting power lines in a rural area of New Zealand, killing everyone aboard and horrifying residents.

“It’s a tragedy as bad as tragedies get,” local police commander Brent Register said.

It was New Zealand’s deadliest air accident in nearly 50 years. Two of those killed jumped out of the basket in desperation before the fiery balloon hit the ground with a loud bang. It crashed into farmland near the township of Carterton, a region well known for its hot air ballooning.

The pilot and five couples were killed. Some of the bodies were badly burned, said Superintendent Mike Rusbatch, a police district commander in Wellington, the capital. The early morning weather was clear and bright with minimal wind.

Rusbatch said it appeared the balloon’s basket struck power lines that ignited a fire on board. Witnesses told local media they saw 32-foot high flames rising from the basket.

The burning balloon was just above the trees when David McKinlay saw it as he watered his garden.

“It looked like he (the pilot) tried to raise it a bit higher … all of a sudden there was just 10 meters of flames,” he said.

The balloon rose to 500 feet before dropping quickly and turned into “just a sheer flame as it hit the ground” with a big bang, McKinlay said.

Rusbatch, the police commander, said two people jumped from the basket before it hit the ground, but did not survive.

The only victim publicly identified so far is the pilot and balloon owner, Lance Hopping. He was safety officer for the Balloons over Wairarapa annual event, and was considered an experienced and safety-conscious pilot.

New Zealand’s Transport Accident Investigation Commission opened an immediate inquiry.

Investigating officer Peter Williams said investigators had looked at the crash site but had yet to begin witness interviews. The investigation could take up to a year, he said.

The crash was the deadliest air disaster in New Zealand since 1963, when a DC-3 airliner crashed in the Kaimai Range, killing all 23 passengers and crew aboard, according to the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

In 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 airliner on a scenic flight slammed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board.

When will the madness end? At what point do we go from a nation looking out for the health and well being of their people to a bunch of Nazis? Smokers are people too. At this point I truly believe that our government, the same government that has grown heavily dependent on the taxes on tobacco are violating the civil rights of smokers.

I hear that next they are going to outlaw farting, burping, wearing cologne and perfume. JD

As bans on smoking sweep the USA, an increasing number of employers — primarily hospitals — are also imposing bans on smokers. They won’t hire applicants whose urine tests positive for nicotine use, whether cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or even patches.

Such tobacco-free hiring policies, designed to promote health and reduce insurance premiums, took effect this month at the Baylor Health Care System in Texas and will apply at the Hollywood Casino in Toledo, Ohio, when it opens this year.

“We have to walk the walk if we talk the talk,” says Dave Fotsch of Idaho’s Central District Health Department, which voted last month to stop hiring smokers.

Each year, smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke causes 443,000 premature deaths and costs the nation $193 billion in health bills and lost productivity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC says 19.3% of U.S. adults smoked last year, down from 42.4% in 1965.

“We’re trying to promote a complete culture of wellness,” says Marcy

Marshall of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., which begins its nicotine-free hiring next month. “We’re not denying smokers their right to tobacco products. We’re just choosing not to hire them.”
The policies stir outrage, even in the public health community.

“These policies represent employment discrimination. It’s a very dangerous precedent,” says Michael Siegel, a professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health. He says the restrictions punish smokers rather than helping them quit.

“What’s next? Are you not going to hire overly-caffeinated people?” asks Nate Shelman, a smoker and Boise’s KBOI radio talk show host whose listeners debated the topic last month. “I’m tired of people seeing smokers as an easy piñata.”

After several companies, including Alaska Airlines, adopted smoker-hiring bans a couple of decades ago, the tobacco industry and the

American Civil Liberties Union lobbied for smoker rights. As a result, 29 states and the District of Columbia passed smoker-protection laws.
Some laws exempt non-profit groups and the health care industry, and 21 states have no rules against nicotine-free hiring.

Federal laws allow nicotine-free hiring because they don’t recognize smokers as a protected class, says Chris Kuzynski with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

There’s no data on how many U.S. businesses won’t hire smokers, but the trend appears strongest with hospitals, says Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute, a non-profit offshoot of the ACLU that opposes the hiring bans.

Many of the new policies expand on smoke-free workplace rules. At Bon Secours Virginia Health System, more than 300 employees have kicked the habit since its campuses went smoke-free in 2009, and one applicant did so since it began nicotine-free hiring Nov. 30, says administrative director Kim Coleman.

The bottom line will benefit because health care costs for tobacco users are $3,000 to $4,000 more each year than for non-smokers, says Bon Secours’ Cindy Stutts. “There’s also an impact on productivity,” she says, because smokers take more breaks.

Paul Billings of the American Lung Association says he’s seen no data that prove nicotine-free hiring gets people to quit. He says cessation programs are a better bet. Still, his group won’t hire smokers: “We’re non-smoking exemplars.”

Milwaukee County, Wis., is taking a drastic step to identify dozens of those who died as John and Jane Doe’s.

As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, the photos on the Web site for the county Medical Examiner’s office are disturbing, showing bloated and discolored faces of the dead.

To get to the image, users must navigate a series of warnings about the images’ graphic nature.

Here is a link to theMilwaukee website where coroner photos can be viewed.

But Medical Examiner’s office forensic investigator Michael Simley defends the move, saying it is the most effective way to identify the dead.

“We’re not doing these people justice to let them go unidentified. These are family members, friends, people who are missed,” Simley told The Associated Press. “Everyone deserves to be recognized as who they were in life. Being buried as a Jane or John Doe doesn’t sit well with me.”

All the unidentified bodies were found in the Milwaukee area, in some cases years or even decades ago.

Simley says the photos, shocking as they are, are necessary to clear up cold cases and do justice to those who died.