Day: April 12, 2009

US Navy 3–Pirates 0

Bravo!  Bravo!

An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday and three of his captors were killed in a daring rescue by U.S. Navy Seals that ended a five-day standoff between the world’s most powerful Navy and Somali pirates in a lifeboat far off the Horn of Africa.

Capt. Richard Phillips was in “imminent danger” of being killed before U.S. Special Operations forces shot the pirates in an operation personally approved by President Barack Obama, U.S. officials said.

But it should not have lasted this long.  The captain is alive and free…pirates are dead and floating….a new manual needs to be written and understood on this situation.  The situation should have never lasted 5 days.

The captain should be making his rounds very soon on the airwaves and we will hear the rest of the story……(thank you Paul Harvey for the line).

White Washing Tonsils

I have already posted on the pirates and there is a fire ….somewhere…and no doubt there is a car chase happening as I writing….Congress is on break…..sooooo….it is Sexy Sunday!

The incidence of tonsil cancer has tripled in the city of Stockholm since the 1970s and doctors at the world-famous Karolinska Institute there think they know why.

Oral sex. Or perhaps French kissing. And changes in sexual behavior that took place 20 or 30 years ago, says Tina Dalianis, a professor of tumor virology at Karolinska.

The study found that patients with HPV in their mouths are much more likely to get tonsil cancer than patients who don’t have it. In fact for patients who are HPV-positive, the rate of tonsil cancer has gone up seven times since the ’70s, Dalianis says. It takes between 20 and 30 years for an HPV infection to result in cancer, so the people getting sick now were infected in the ’70s and ’80s.

“It’s an epidemic,” she says.

Prior to this, the greatest risk factor for tonsil cancer was drinking and smoking. As smoking rates have dropped, the number of tobacco-linked tonsil cancers has declined.

Geez, these people can just suck (no pun intended) all the fun out of the party!  What a damn buzz kill!