Archive for September, 2009
as i made my way through the sidestreets of draper this morning i had the misfortune of driving behind the most ridiculous truck EVER!!
and YES people that IS a shocker sticker!
My husband says I remind him of Katie from Horton hears a Who.
not a fan of evil corporations, global warming, pollution and toxic chemicals? well…put your money where your mouth is!
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1921444,00.html
i originally saw it on photobomb but just came across an article about it! check it ppl!

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/09/09/minnesota.crasher.squirrel/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
So I was addicted to watching this show called Ikea Heights. It’s a melodrama shot in an Ikea furniture store in Burbank, CA without the store knowing. The acting is bad, the script is bad, but the actual shoppers in the background are PRICELESS.
“IKEA Heights” is a melodrama from David Seger shot on the quick with wireless mics at the furniture giant’s location in Burbank, Calif.
“The store doesn’t know we’re there,” Seger told the Los Angeles Times. “We’ve had employees ask what we’re doing and we say were doing a photo series. They say, ‘OK, just make sure it doesn’t mention IKEA.’ We lie and say OK.”
That’s the problem with success and the subsequent media coverage: The jig is up.
IKEA’s director of public relations Mona Astra Liss told the Times that the project was “very playful and fun and complimentary to our brand.”
But, “We didn’t give [Seger] permission. People need to ask.”
Check out the 4 part series and cross your fingers there are more:
This video makes me feel…..well…. AWKWARD!
If you have time to kill then watch this video…. it has a stuff animal in it!!
IN MEMORY OF-
Ed. W Freeman – Medal of Honor
Captain, U.S. Army Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile)
By the time the Korean War broke out, Ed Freeman was a master sergeant in the Army Engineers, but he fought in Korea as an infantryman.
He took part in the bloody battle of Pork Chop Hill and was given a battlefield commission, which had the added advantage of making him eligible to fly, a dream of his since childhood. But flight school turned him down because of his height: At six foot four, he was “too tall” (a nickname that followed him throughout his military career). In 1955, however, the height limit was raised, and Freeman was able to enroll.
He began flying fixed-wing aircraft, then switched to helicopters. By 1965, when he was sent to Vietnam, he had thousands of hours’ flying time in choppers. He was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), second in command of a sixteen-helicopter unit responsible for carrying infantrymen into battle. On November 14, 1965, Freeman’s helicopters carried a battalion into the Ia Drang Valley for what became the first major confrontation between large forces of the American and North Vietnamese armies.
Back at base, Freeman and the other pilots received word that the GIs they had dropped off were taking heavy casualties and running low on supplies. In fact, the fighting was so fierce that medevac helicopters refused to pick up the wounded. When the commander of the helicopter unit asked for volunteers to fly into the battle zone, Freeman alone stepped forward. He was joined by his commander, and the two of them began several hours of flights into the contested area. Because their small emergency-landing zone was just one hundred yards away from the heaviest fighting, their unarmed and lightly armored helicopters took several hits. In all, Freeman carried out fourteen separate rescue missions, bringing in water and ammunition to the besieged soldiers and taking back dozens of wounded, some of whom wouldn’t have survived if they hadn’t been evacuated.
Freeman left Vietnam in 1966 and retired from the Army the following year. He flew helicopters another twenty years for the Department of the Interior, herding wild horses, fighting fires, and performing animal censuses. Then he retired altogether.
In the aftermath of the Ia Drang battle, his commanding officer, wanting to recognize Freeman’s valor, proposed him for the Medal of Honor. But the two-year statute of limitations on these kinds of recommendations had passed, and no action was taken. Congress did away with that statute in 1995, and Freeman was finally awarded the medal by President George W. Bush on July 16, 2001.
Freeman was back at the White House a few months later for the premiere of We Were Soldiers, a 2002 feature film that depicted his role in the Ia Drang battle. As he was filing out of the small White House theater, the president approached him, saluted, and shook his hand. “Good job, Too Tall,” he said.



