May 18, 2014

Ragbag Headliners

Woman Joins Mile-High Club With Stranger As Parents Sit In Cabin

A boozy floozy flying Virgin Atlantic to Vegas with her parents joined the mile-high club with the man beside her — and the pair got so loud in the bathroom, flight attendants busted through the door.

The woman, a Brit in her 20s, then spewed profanities at the fuming crew members, who had to handcuff her to her seat for the rest of the flight.

“She was traveling with her mum and dad, and she started getting heated with the guy sitting next to her,’’ a passenger told London’s Sun newspaper.

“They went to the bathroom, and people could hear loud noises. The cabin crew forced the door open. Then she really kicked off, screaming drunken abuse. She was shackled to her seat.”

The tawdry tryst occurred on a nearly 11-hour London-to-Vegas flight last week, the Sun said.

The woman was hauled off the plane after landing, then given a warning by cops and let go, witnesses said.

Virgin’s CEO, Sir Richard Branson, once famously hinted that mile-high sex was OK by him, sniffing, “We’re not the type of airline that bangs on bathroom doors.” -NY Post

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Ann Coulter Turns Herself Into A Joke Mocking #BringBackOurGirls Campaign

Comedy is not Ann Coulter's forte.

The conservative commentator tried to humorously protest the #BringBackOurGirls movement Sunday by tweeting a photo of herself holding up a sign that read: "Bring Back Our Country." Her attempt at humor was poorly received, as dozens of memes proves. After all, First Lady  Michelle Obama and Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway are among the thousands who have been championing the #BringBackOurGirls cause, which was created earlier this month to draw support for the missing schoolgirls in Nigeria. Since Coulter published her picture, it's been retweeted more than 2,000 times.

"My hashtag contribution to world affairs..." Coulter tweeted. Twitter user @FullOfBalogna was the first to alter the image so that Coulter's paper appeared blank, writing, "I'm a miserable person who peddles hate to make money off dumb republicans." Needless to say, the polarizing political pundit's plan backfired spectacularly. –E

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Santa Maria Found? Wreck May Be Columbus' Sunken Flagship

The leader of an undersea expedition says a pile of wreckage on the bottom of the Caribbean Sea, off the north coast of Haiti, may well mark the spot where Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, sank in 1492.

"All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is Columbus’ famous flagship, the Santa Maria," team leader Barry Clifford is quoted as saying by The Independent, a British newspaper.

Clifford said the next step would be to work with the Haitian government on a detailed excavation of the wreck.

The claim is based on photographic documentation of the underwater site, plus Clifford's interpretation of previous research that identified the location of La Navidad, the fortified settlement that Columbus established on the coast of present-day Haiti after the Santa Maria ran aground on Christmas Day, 1492. The Independent quoted Clifford as saying that the location of the wreckage site was consistent with descriptions set down in Columbus' diary.

Columbus and his crew had set out from Spain earlier that year in the Santa Maria as well as two other ships, the Niña and the Pinta. He was searching for an easy trade route to Asia. Instead, he came upon the New World. The voyage set the stage for widespread European settlement of the Americas.

A week after the Santa Maria sank, Columbus left most of his crew behind in La Navidad and sailed back to Spain with the Niña and the Pinta. He came back to the Americas a year later with a 17-ship fleet — but when he returned to La Navidad, he found the fort in ruins, destroyed by the island's native inhabitants.

Eventually, La Navidad and the wreck of the Santa Maria became the focus of an archaeological mystery. –NBC News

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