Yankee Ingenuity...

If only these guys used their energy for good.

They are indeed pretty resourceful. While Invisi-Gal does not in anyway support what they did, one must applaud their stealth-like genius:

Retrofitted truck used to steal diesel fuel from gas station
Thursday, May 29, 2008
By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
This photo from a surveillance camera shows the truck and trailer suspected in the fuel thefts.
Talk about a gas guzzler.
Police believe an Ohio asphalt contractor used a retrofitted pickup truck and trailer to steal thousands of gallons of diesel fuel from a Mercer County gas station.
Heritage Deputy Police Chief Edward Holiga said yesterday that the truck and trailer were used in three thefts dating to last year.
He said the truck was parked above the BP gas underground storage tanks at a convenience store. The trailer was rigged with a trap door along with rubber flaps to conceal the operation.
Someone inside the trailer would siphon diesel fuel from the storage tanks using the pickup truck's engine as a vacuum to pump it into a rigged propane tank inside the trailer.
The last incident was reported April 28. All three incidents were captured on surveillance cameras.
Acting on a tip, police found the pickup and trailer on the property of Larry Donaldson, owner of a small asphalt and trucking company in rural Trumbull County.
Officers observed the truck and trailer around 7 p.m. Tuesday on the property. Armed with a search warrant early yesterday morning, Heritage officers and Trumbull County sheriff's deputies found a wall of straw from the ceiling to the floor of the trailer. It concealed a wooden partition, behind which officers found the siphoning apparatus, along with an empty propane cylinder about 15 feet long. According to Chief Holiga, the tank smelled of diesel fuel.
Officers searching Mr. Donaldson's property found numerous fuel tanks, including a 5,000-gallon storage hold with about 500 gallons of diesel fuel inside.
At least $4,500 worth of diesel fuel was reported stolen after the convenience store checked its electronic measuring devices, police said.
No charges have been filed but authorities continue to investigate.

My Jewishgolferactor perfect man....

Many times I have been asked, "Invisi-Gal, what is your vision of the perfect man?".

Well that's a tough one, it actually takes 3 men to complete the vision.... and I have always fessed up to my dear husband that there are only 3 people he needs to worry about...Steve Ames, Lewis Black and Harrison Ford.

He laughs at the notion that any one of these men would give me a tumble.

But then again, I don't see a crowd around him either...

guess our marriage remains safe....

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I'll give ya something to be scared of....

Um, what?

Shark attacks boy in his bedroomTuesday, May 27, 2008
Jaws: Sam Hawthorne
Anyone involved in a shark attack would be considered unlucky – but few could claim to have been as luckless as Sam Hawthorne.
The teenager survived a terrifying ordeal when he was bitten in the face by one of the killer beasts – in his own bedroom.
The 'attack' happened when the 14-year-old sleepwalked into a long-dead souvenir shark hanging on the wall of his nautical-themed room.

He was left with the creature embedded in his cheek and blood pouring from a wound. His mother, Susan, said: 'It was like something out of a horror film.'
Jaws struck in the middle of the night at the family home in Dudley, West Midlands.
Mrs Hawthorne was woken by her son's screams but arrived too late to fend off the deadly fish – a holiday souvenir.
'The shark must have been embedded in Sam's cheek for about 15 minutes and he was in a lot of pain,' she said.
Fortunately, Sam escaped with just a small scar. 'It was the most frightening experience of my life,' he said.

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YES!!!!

Here is the website where you can monitor the amazing Phoenix as she roams Mars. I am in awe of the folks at NASA. Truly in awe.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/main.php

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My New Career

Juliet Lee won the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest here in the Iron City, she is referred to as a "competitive eater"...I want that as my new career:

Mother, 42, wins Iron City hot dog eating championship
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A 42-year-old mother of two from Maryland downed 29 hotdogs in 10 minutes yesterday to win the Iron City hot dog eating championship.
Juliet Lee, who weighs 105 pounds, bested competitors named Steak-bellie and Wing Kong for the title in Greensburg. They may have had the names but she had the cred: She is nationally ranked in competitive eating.
She will compete in the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest at Coney Island on July 4.

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Michelle Rowed the boat Ashore

These women are stupendous, makes me proud to be an Invisi-Gal.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08142/883363-13.stm

I have rowed on the Allegheny River, it takes courage (Eg,cojones) and tremendous strength.

The current is unbelievably strong and swift.

These women cut through it like (say like Streisand) BUTTER.....

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PinHeads of the Week Award

This shining example of diminished mental capacity made a 2 year old child sick by smoking crack in the same room. Her demented rationalization was that she didn't think it would affect him "because he was sleeping".

A second PinHead award goes to the actual mother of the child, a pillar of maternal love, who allowed her son to be in the company of this lowlife. Ironically the mother's last name is McCracken.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08144/884327-100.stm

Two PinHeads for the price of one, like shooting fish in a cup.

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Bad Apple

I really hated my Home Economics teacher, she was always keen on humiliating me and made my life miserable. But the most I ever wanted to do was soap her windows or TP her house (and only on Halloween)... but this kid really went too far...

High school teacher may have been poisoned
Friday, May 23, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Charges are pending against a student at Laurel High School in Hickory, Lawrence County, accused of poisoning a teacher by giving her food laced with a narcotic.
Yesterday morning the student, a white male, gave the 24-year-old teacher some food that she believed had been made in a home economics class, state police said.
A short time after eating the food the teacher fell ill and was taken to Jameson Hospital.

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Guilty Pleasures

I love my guilty pleasures and really want to take the word "guilty" out of the equation...mainly because I feel no guilt in the pursuit of said pleasures.

Here are a few:

1) Stuffed grape leaves, omigod so good so Greek...I am Onassis incarnate.

http://greekfood.about.com/od/greekcookinglessons/ss/foldleaves.htm

2) Brain Age Game on my Nintendo DS lite...perfect Mother's Day present. My initial brain age was 80 years old, get out the Depends! I have now worked my little noggin into the brain of a 31 year old, wish I had the hips to match!

http://www.brainage.com/launch/index.jsp

3) Peeking in at American Idol, I know it is such a sham but I can't help it. I think I really watch to see if Paula passes out during one of her freaky dances.

http://www.americanidol.com/

4) When I feed our goldfish, Sammy, I speak "I love you" into the water because of this study:

http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm

5) Edy's Peanut Butter Dibs. Okay, I can attach guilt to THIS one;

http://dibs.edys.com/

6) Oh, and I love to watch "Meet Joe Black " on a rainy Sunday.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.philipcoppens.com/mjb_04.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.philipcoppens.com/meetjoeblack.html&h=449&w=350&sz=45&hl=en&start=9&um=1&tbnid=W4fgI92rYiEFLM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmeet%2Bjoe%2Bblack%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-US

Alrighty then, I feel like I've had a mini-confessional here, guilt all gone.

I shall go and sin no more...than I usually do.

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Teed off...

Sometimes I wish I had never started playing golf again....even though I love to play when I stink...it's the best time in the world to spend with my son...and I love being outside...

HOWEVER, being a woman, it pains me to no end to have to buy golf shoes.

Can you believe it? Golf makes for a BAD SHOE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE...oh, I just threw up a little in my mouth saying those words.

Peruse any major golf retailer and there are usually 30 plus style selections in golf shoes for men...and for the women? 10 maybe 12 different styles.

Men can't even process 30 styles in their little non fashion consumer heads!

Hey golf people, women are major shoe buyers! DO the words Jimmy Choo mean anything to you? Women will spend $500.00 dollars on a shoe with one tiny strap on it....don't you get it?

Anything we can turn into a fashion extravaganza, we will.

Get with the plan and order some damn shoes, and they don't all have to be PINK...only Paris Hilton and Boo Boo Kitty wear PINK!

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Invisi-Gal just read an article on things NOT to do in a job interview and below are actual top ten gaffs that idiotic applicants made during an interview. These things really happened.

I am verklempt.

• Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a "private" conversation.
• Applicant told the interviewer he wouldn't be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died - and his uncle wasn't "looking too good."
• The job seeker asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.
• The applicant smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.
• Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was "classified."
• Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.
• When the applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn't want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.
• An applicant said she was a "people person" not a "numbers person" -- in her interview for an accounting position.
• During a phone interview the candidate flushed the toilet while talking to hiring manager.
• The applicant took out a hair brush and brushed her hair.

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Manorexia Alert...

What the heck happened to Colin Farrell? Reports are that he is losing weight for a movie role...my money is on something else...not as deliberate....

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Is this the picture of two running mates,

or two guys that showed up at the casting call for Lawyers Gone Wild (Washington edition)?

Invisi-Gal must apologize for the lack of postings. See the image above? That is the reason.

That is a photo of the bug that causes strep throat which I have.

It layed me low and all I could do for the past few days, was lay in bed and play with my Mother's Day present. It's a Nintendo DS Lite.

I have been coveting one for a long time now.

I know, I know what you're thinking, Nintendos are the toys of 11 year old boys , but they have this great game called Brian Age, which is a daily brain exerciser.

Apparently I was in dire need of it. It measures your brain age in a few exercises.

The first time I did the test, my brain age was 80 years old.

I blame it on the strep.

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Who Will Scold Me Now?

My mother is dead, there is no other way to say. It has been a little over a year.

And while I have been busy about her last business and my life, I have had little time to truly mourn her.

Today, after reading an article by my friend and gifted writer, Carol Caldwell http://www.oneforthetable.com/, I couldn't help but think about my mom.

Mother's Day is looming , and I, like many other Motherless children am reaching back into my memories in silent memorial.

I headed outside and decided to attack the Maiden grasses, they are in dire need of a good cutting and as always , my clearest thinking happens in the garden. I rolled my memories around in my head as I weeded the dandelions and cut back massive reeds of grass.

The yardwork was way overdue, I really had let it go.

Then the thought that had been crouching in the corner of my mind stood up and asked...."Who will scold me now?"

Who will make audible mention of the condition of this yard?

Now that my mother is gone, who will put me in my place when need be?

Who will tell me the muffin I'm eating is exactly why I look fat in my dress?

Who will remind me that she brought me into this world, and by God...well you know the rest.

Daughters know the razor edge scrutiny and subsequent scolding of their mothers (Sons are mostly exempt, especially boys of Southern mothers).

My mother never sugar coated her opinion, never held back, but most important of all, she never lied about what she thought.

A good scolding is all about the truth, the truth about yourself, and yes, it always hurts.

Your friends will lie, your siblings will lie, your co-workers will lie. But your mother, your mother will always deliver the truth, and depending on the severity of it, there may be a shopping trip in the apologetic offering.

The relationship of mother and daughter is a delicate balance. Statistics bear me out, it's usually the daughter who takes care of the aging parent (warning to all mothers). The son's wives want nothing to do with the mother who no doubt crippled his ability to "deal with his feelings about women", although as we get older and wiser, we understand this to just be the way men are.

My last years with my mom were tough, she was in constant pain and hypercritical of everything I did. She had lost her freedom (assisted living, no car) , her body was rapidly failing (chronic kidney failure, wheelchair bound) and I was the one helping her (jailkeeper)... I witnessed her frantic grasp on life in her last days. It was heartbreaking and frustrating and just plain sad.

I work diligently everyday to not let that be the foremost memory I hold of her.

Since she has been gone, I've slacked off on quite a few things, the garden, the housekeeping, exercising, even work...all the things I tightly ran about doing while taking care of her.

Now I know why I have been so delinquent, there is no one left to scold me.

She would have been the first to notice and comment on the status of my yard and the enlargement of my derriere.

So as I whack away at the long neglected grasses, I let the tears, that I have also neglected, drop on the hillside. The realization, that I have lost the one person in my life who always told me the truth is overwhelming.

And while it may have been wrapped in a scolding, it kept me honest with myself and that is what is missing from my life these days....

a good scolding from my mom.

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This is amazing stuff, colliding galaxies.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354273,00.html

All this talk about black holes merging...kind of reminds me of our taxes and PennDot.

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Police find missing elderly Fayette County couple
Monday, May 05, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
An elderly couple with dementia who had been missing since Saturday were found safe yesterday.
The couple, Francis and Anna Marie Shimko, left their home in the 300 block of Fourth Street in North Union between 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. Saturday, state police said.
Their car was spotted in New Freeport, Greene County, near the West Virginia line.
The Shimkos were examined and released to relatives, who drove them home.

What were they doing driving a car? They have DEMENTIA! Where are their children? Listen, I know it's tough, I had to fight (and I mean fight) my mother tooth and nail about not driving , BUT, how could you ever live with yourself if they get in a serious accident and harm themselves and others...here's a link to help with this sensitive issue:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/01/18/taking.keys.away/index.html

Do I really need another reason to hate ATV's and their ATV-tard riders?

Keep your white trash vehicles off private property.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08123/878597-100.stm

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I LOVE THIS DOG!!!!!

This video is what I love about boxers and caffeine and pure doofus dog stuff.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hly0vuXPG-M&feature=related

However, it would bug me to be their neighbors....

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Have you ever read Wonkette the DC Gossip? http://wonkette.com/

Love her stuff.

Here's a bit on her take on the DC Madam:

For the great crime of hooking up willing ladies with horny politicians, "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Paltry was facing four to six years in prison, and today she was found dead in a shed behind her mother's house in Florida. The men who paid for hookers through her service, such as Republican Senator David Vitter, have paid no price for their crimes, and they remain in power as the very people who make up the laws. Anyway, good-bye, Deborah Jeane. Though we didn't know you at all, you had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled. They crawled out of the woodwork, and they whispered into your brain. ...

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Who's screwing who?

Just in case dear female readers, that you have been lulled into thinking that in this day and age, you are on equal footing with your male counterparts, please read this article:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08122/878280-100.stm

None of the MEN who participated in this D.C. Madam's house have been prosecuted, and I am pretty sure they all still employable (one resignation that I know of), the rest are just fine. They just contritely apologize and all is forgiven. Oh, yeah and they are still alive.

Deborah Jeane Palfry lost her livelihood, and her future freedom. Now she is dead.

I don't care if prostitution illegal, everyone involved was aware of that and yet the dame gets thrown under the bus.

The inequity of this makes me shudder, both sides of the coin should pay, the prostitute and the Johns.

By the way, prostitution is not the oldest profession in the world, begging is, because someone had to ask for it.

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Porknoy's Complaint...

Police seek hog stolen from farm on Porky RoadAssociated Press

ALBION, Pa. — State police say someone stole a hog from an Erie County farm located on, no kidding, Porky Road.

The hog’s owner, 58-year-old Nancy Pena of Conneaut Township, says the animal is reddish with black spots and weighs between 30 and 40 pounds.

State police in Albion believe the hog was stolen sometime April 10 or 11.

———Information from: Erie Times-News, http://www.goerie.com/

Invisi-Gal smells a "senior prank" (among other things).

The Cost of Bad Taste....

Dear readers, I know we all have divergent political and spiritual beliefs, this is why it it so very important that we respect that fact.

Invisi-Gal was at a most casual party when a couple showed up with this T-Shirt on:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0423083soldier1.html

I found it disturbing and too distracting to enjoy my barbecue treats.

It was hard to have a conversation with this husband and wife protest team at this purely social gathering.

Once again, politics and religion...off limits for civil conversation at parties and especially the dinner table.

There are many forums for such discussions (blogs for example) , talk radio, rallies etc...these mediums are ELECTIVE, you turn them on or off by choice.

Whether or not I agree with your politics is moot. I will simply excuse you in my mind as someone who has very bad taste. And THAT is not a good starting point for socializing , is it?

The heart of the matter is, you may be offending someone for the wrong reason, as you will read in the article.

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