An 11-year-old girl on a school trip to a Jersey shore amusement park died Friday when she fell 100 feet from a moving Ferris wheel.
Link: 11-year-old Pleasantville girl dies after falling from Ferris wheel
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Free doughnuts! Mmm…
Today is National Donut Day. When is National Cheesesteak day?
In Memoriam
On Memorial Day we pause to acknowledge those who made the ultimate sacrifice protecting and defending our country.
Every fallen veteran had a family that made a sacrifice too. The empty seat at the table.
May God bless them all.
WDAS
Good time to be listening to Philly’s Best WDAS.
The E*TRADE Baby In Review
I ran into a really fun (for me anyway) place to go if you like those E-Trade baby commercials. The E-Trade website has all the commercials and some outtakes all but a click away. All on a single screen. For a pick-me-up, click HERE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owQBB6uNg64&feature=endscreen&NR=1
They have a page where you can send an E*Trade BabyMail which is also cool.
aSide Order
And for your browsing pleasure, you can listen to WDAS-FM 105.3 in Philadelphia while on The Lunch Counter.
Scroll down and hit the play button.
And take it with you. Minimize it and/or open a new window and continue listening.
It’s not what it looks like. It’s a new pre-flight “ID check” done by a specially trained TSA K-9.
This is new technology. A skin gun.
Some E-Trade Baby commercials that didn’t make the cut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itg2nAERlII&NR=1
Georgia Company Rescues TastyKake
Good news for the Tasty Baking Company and TastyKake lovers all over this land. Three months ago the company was facing bankruptcy. Late on their mortgage payment and $133 million in debt. The state of Pennsylvania loaned them about $40 million in one way or the other just to keep them going until a buyer could be found.
They found one. Flowers Foods, Thomasville, Georgia, bought the company for $4 a share. More than double what it was worth yesterday, and more than three dollars lower than the $7.73 per share high in the trailing 12 months. Too bad you didn’t buy any shares at the end of last month when it was at the low of $1.58. But at $4 now, it’s still a good buy now that they gain the distribution system of Flowers.
It looks like a good purchase. Flowers gains a popular and quality snack food line, and has the distribution system in the South that Tasty Baking Co. lacked. And Flowers picks up a northeast distribution system that they lacked.
Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to get my TastyKakes from the local Flowers distributor instead of having them shipped to me from Philadelphia. A three-week ordeal.
As a TastyKake lover myself, here’s hoping it all works out. Under the right management, it seems like a sure thing.
Reptile Show In Pensacola?
Who knew there was a reptile show at the Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds over the weekend? Well I didn’t. I went there to pick up a deal on a laptop, which I think I did. Turns out that ReptileCon was also there in a different building.
Curiosity getting the best of me I checked out what the heck that could be. If snakes, spiders, turtles, alligators, and lizards turn you off, you don’t want to be there. And of course, there were vendors selling food for same. From live worms and crickets to frozen mice, chicks, and rats.
If you ever wanted to buy some of these for pets, then this is the place that has a selection you probably won’t find anywhere else. All kinds of snakes, spiders, and turtles for sale, with or without tanks to house them.
Some people attending brought their pets with them to show them off.
All the vendors had their ‘merchandise’ out there for you to see, and hold.
There was a ‘demonstration’ area or more correctly an education area where people brought out some samples and discussed them. That was interesting and a favorite of the kids, of all ages.
Then there’s this 100 pound snapping turtle that could take a limb, or your whole head, in a flash.
Maybe it has something to do with the pets, but some of the people there were also free-spirited. Like this woman who showed off her tats for a picture.
Horse Molester Out Of Prison
A South Carolina man who twice pleaded guilty to having sex with a horse (the 
same horse) has been released from prison after 16 months and ordered to stay away from the stable where the animal lives.
It is not clear whether Vereen has to stay 1000 feet from barns, race tracks, and State and County Fairs.
Probation officials said Monday that Rodell Vereen, 51, was let out of prison March 1. He must continue to register as a sex offender.
Start Teaching Your Child, Today
I want to share with you a website that is centered around teaching your child, and teaching mothers how to teach their children. I know, it’s a far cry from the political food that is usually on the menu, but it’s no secret how important education, and educating children, is today. Especially when you look at teachers unions and Madison, Wisconsin. Ahh, there’s the connection.
So if this post just torques the NEA, then it becomes a two-fer.
The website is called The Mommy Teacher. This is a resource that young, new parents should not miss.