We ran a story a while back about Apollo XIV astronaut Edgar Mitchell raving about UFO's, ESP and aliens, and now we have a former pole jockey running around claiming aliens deactivated a Minuteman missile site back in 1967.

Speaking at the National Press Club today, Capt Robert Salas, a former USAF missile officer at Malmstrom AFB, MT, claimed that on the night of March 16, 1967 an unidentified flying object hovered over his launch control facility and deactivated ten of his Minuteman missiles.

Salas, a graduate of the Air Force Academy who also holds a MS in Aerospace Engineering, first went public about the incident in 1994. Since then, he has become a minor celebrity in the CUFON and MUFON circles, and has appeared on such heavy-hitting science forums as Larry King Live and Art Bell's radio show. He is also the author of "Faded Giant," a  book about (what else?) aliens messin' with our nukes.

I wonder if Capt. Salas ever met Mr. Seven, the alien from the Star Trek episode "Assignment Earth" who showed up in a human costume and saved Earth from a nuclear holocaust. This was also the episode that you might recall featured, ahem, a very-porkable Teri Garr :-)

We try to stay away from celebrity scandal here at the Dooferbook, as worship of famous people is a completely mind-numbing pursuit that takes away from normal everyday activities like sleeping late and drinking beer. In case you aren't up to speed with the leading news story in the world, it seems Tiger Woods has been busy putting that big fat wallet to work, laying miles and miles of pipe along the lonely road of the PGA tour. As all his conquests of Christmases past began oozing from the woodwork, his wife got wind of  his romps and did what no other player on the PGA tour has been able to do: beat the snot out of him with a golf club. While I'll leave it to the mainstream press to keep you up to date on the latest misdeeds of Tiger, I thought I'd share a clip from a Chinese news station covering the big story. Not content with simply reporting the news, these guys created a 3D re-enactment of the events of  last weekend, complete with some pretty nifty CGI that makes the animation efforts of our global warming friends (The Deadly Consequence of Global Warming) look even further amateurish. How long until we see this kind of reporting in our media? Has China ushered in a new era of newspeak?

Russian carrier Aeroflot has never been known for their  impeccable customer service - nor their safety record - but new CEO Vitaly Savelyev is out to change all that. First up? Stews. He promised that all new flight attendants from hereon out will be ‘very striking, very eye-catching girls’, and promised to rid their ranks of all rude, overweight ones. Maximum dress size allowed will be US size 8 (compare that with some US flight attendants who are lobbying to make size 28 the norm!), and they've enlisted Singapore Airlines to help teach their girls some manners. Suck it EEOC!

Ah, the eternal enigmatic question... with no right answer. You probably haven't given either of them much of a thought lately, and neither had I until my wife showed me something shocking this morning...

Here's a couple of recent photos of Tina Louise (age 75) and Dawn Wells (now 70). After all these years,  did you make the right choice? Which one chose to age gracefully and which one tried to extend her youth with some really bad plastic surgery?

And check out the pics below. I can see aging, insecure Hollywood actresses  desperate to hold onto a career undergoing these kinds of procedures. But Bruce Jenner, Olympic gold medalist, Wheaties spokesman and the guy Sports Illustrated described as having  "All-American good looks"? Buffoon, or mental case?

Times certainly have changed under the new Administration - especially when the President of France is dissing the POTUS for being a wimp. Pres. Sarkozy went on a rant about Obama yesterday, issuing a scathing quote:

 "But he was elected two months ago and had never run a ministry. There are a certain number of things on which he has no position. And he is not always up to standard on decision-making and efficiency."

Sarkozy is of course just a politician, and there's rarely any real meat behind what a politician says these days. Some see such comments as an end to the Obama honeymoon, others as evidence that the US is in certain decline. Liberals were aghast that their man was insulted and conservatives cheered the remarks; but what the news wiresle left out was the real meat behind the Sarkozy story - his wife! Esp. compared to FLOTUS!

Great Fun Behind the Wheel!

Times are tough these days for teenage boys looking for a little extracurricular activity with a teacher, as evidenced by the picture at left. Rosanna Brown, an English teacher at a Phoenix elementary school, was recently arrested on three counts of crimes against children for banging a 14 year old boy at a suburban hotel.  But wait, it gets weird...

Posing as a 'sexually active' teenage girl, the 49-year old Brown sent text messages from the boy's girlfriend's phone to lure the boy to a hotel room to have sex.  Seems the girlfriend was also Brown's godchild, and had tried to get Brown to rent a hotel room for the underage couple so they could 'hang out' together on a Saturday night. Brown, not wanting to contribute to the loss of her beloved goddaughter's virginity, decided that if there was going to be any porking going on, she'd be the one doing it.   

The boy claimed that because the room was dark, he thought he was having sex with his teenage girlfriend. It was only after he finished - and turned the lights on  -  that he realized he had just nailed his English teacher. Quite a tale, but the one piece of absolute, incontrovertible truth in this whole mess is that it proves, once again, that adolescent boys will hit anything that moves. And now that the whole world knows about it, a paycheck says he's wishing his English teacher looked like this:

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Outrage over 'chastity belt' lingerie fitted with GPS tracking system
By Daily Mail Reporter
 

Controversial: Critics have said underwear featuring a tracking system is the high-tech equivalent of a chastity belt

Feminists around the world have reacted with horror to a new line of lingerie that comes equipped with a GPS tracking system.

The 'find me if you can' range of underwear has been described as a modern-day, high-tech chastity belt.

'It is outrageous to think that men can buy this, programme it and give it to their partners and then monitor them,' said Claudia Burghart, leader of a Berlin feminist group.

'It is nothing more than a chastity belt for insecure men.'

Lingerie maker Lucia Lorio of Brazil says her design targets the 'modern, techno-savvy woman'.

The lingerie combination set consists of lace bodice, bikini bottom and faux pearl collar, with the GPS device nestled in the see-through part of the bodice next to the waist.

'This collection... is a wink to women and a challenge to men because, even if she gives him the password to her GPS, she can always turn it off,' Lorio said.
 

'It's not a modern chastity belt. Some men think they can keep tabs on their girlfriends with it, but they're wrong,' she added.

Unconcerned with the controversy her collection has raised, Lorio is also dismissive of the global financial crisis and its adverse impact on luxury items sales.

The GPS lingerie sells from a cool £500, complete with a standard Global Positioning System, to £700 with a more advanced model.

'Some women are now interested in buying it for protection,' she said, programming it for partners themselves so they are safe on a night out alone.

'In London, New York, Rio de Janiero - wherever there is danger, the underwear may prove to be a lifesaver,' she added.
 

But feminists in her homeland have called her a modern-day slaver and urged women to boycott the GPS underwear.

 Why Bridgette Bardot? Well, besides the obvious, seems she shares a lot in common with what this site stands for -- free speech and lack of political correctness. Right now she is on trial in France for "inciting racial hatred" for claiming the Muslim immigrant community was "destroying our country and imposing its acts". She earlier said, "I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country ..."

I'm willing to overlook her anti-fur PETA activity (but just barely) because of her willingness to stand up and call a spade a spade. Personally, I see her comments as a straight-up freedom of speech issue vs. political correctness - replace "Muslim" with "American" and then ask yourself if French prosecutors would still be pursuing this case...

Link to News Article (with less than flattering current photo of Ms. Bardot)

Why didn't they pick Spike to play 'Captain' for the opening lines as "Deltalino?"

It's a sad day when a Delta Safety Video is a top viewed video on You Tube...