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Flight 1549 passengers get baggage back after Hudson splash down

By Marilyn Adams, USA Today

It wasn’t until after US Airways Flight 1549 had landed in the Hudson River, and passenger Karin Hill was stepping through an emergency exit onto the wing, that it hit her.

“I thought, ‘My coat! My purse!’ ” she recalls. They were both back at seat 18E, where she was sitting Jan. 15 when the jetliner hit birds, destroying its engines and forcing it to ditch in the Hudson.

Then logic returned. “I can’t get them,” she thought. “I’m not going back there.”

The 150 passengers left their belongings behind for the Hudson to claim as they scrambled onto life rafts and rescue boats and the jet sank beneath 50 feet of dirty water.

Hill, 24, a college student from Boulder, Colo., was flying home with boyfriend Chris Rooney after visiting friends and seeing the sights in New York City. She hurried off the plane wearing blue jeans, a sweater and boots, leaving her purse, backpack and a coat in the cabin and a suitcase in the cargo compartment.

Hill and other passengers never dreamed they would see their possessions again. But this month, Flight 1549 passengers are starting to get special deliveries: FedEx boxes containing dried and cleaned wallets, handbags, coats, cameras, jewelry, clothing, important papers, even toothbrushes — rescued from a watery grave.

In a large, complex effort, US Airways has with the help of a Texas-based company spent four months recovering, sorting, cleaning and restoring 36,000 passenger belongings pulled from the plane.

Inside Hill’s FedEx box were her wallet and everything in it, a Swarovski crystal bracelet Rooney gave her for Christmas, a digital camera and souvenirs including a Playbill from the Broadway showWicked.

Seeing her things again “was bittersweet, because it brought back memories,” she says. Although the camera broke, “I never thought I’d get those pictures back, and they were fine.”

She was stunned to see clear images of the Empire State Building, Ellis Island, Central Park and Tiffany, where she tried on engagement rings.

And there was a shot of her and Rooney smiling at the gate, waiting to board Flight 1549…

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Kanye West “Humbled” by South Park

From HuffingtonPost.com…

NEW YORK — “South Park” may have accomplished the impossible _ getting Kanye West to check his ego. The Comedy Central show skewered the famously self-important rapper on its show Wednesday night, painting him as a narcissistic figure so out of touch with reality he couldn’t even take a (very politically incorrect) joke.

West’s love of himself and his work has been almost as integral to his image as his music: Just last year, he told The Associated Press that he was the “voice of this generation.” Also recently, he was quoted as saying his greatest regret was not being able to see himself perform live.

Yet, on his blog Thursday, West appeared chastened, and ready to turn over a new leaf.

In typical all-caps mode, he wrote: “SOUTH PARK MURDERED ME LAST NIGHT AND IT’S PRETTY FUNNY. IT HURTS MY FEELINGS BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM SOUTH PARK! I ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MY EGO THOUGH. HAVING THE CRAZY EGO IS PLAYED OUT IN MY LIFE AND CAREER.”

West said that he started stroking his ego long ago to build up his self esteem _ but he now realizes he needs to “GET PAST MYSELF.”

In the self-reflective post, he said that people won’t take him seriously if he keeps it up (perhaps referring to his well-documented meltdowns at awards shows when he didn’t win what he expected).

“I JUST WANT TO BE A DOPER PERSON WHICH STARTS WITH ME NOT ALWAYS TELLING PEOPLE HOW DOPE I THINK I AM,” he said.

And perhaps to show that he’s really serious about making that change, he provided a link to one of the most biting moments from the “South Park” show, and thanked the writers as well…

Click here to see the newest episode of South Park, “Fishsticks”

Kenny Powers is SO IN…

From LATimesBlogs.LATimes.com…

Kenny Powers may not have made it back to the big leagues last year, but he’ll be returning to HBO.

The network has renewed the comedy starring Danny McBride as a has-been pitcher who, after being booted from Major League Baseball, winds up back home in North Carolina teaching Phys Ed. Production on Season 2 will begin later this year for a premiere in 2010.

The show averaged 3.7 million viewers, cumulatively, per episode, according to HBO. Its Sunday-night airings, meanwhile, grew 35% over its six-episode run (617,000 viewers for the premiere vs. 904,000 for the finale.)

“‘Eastbound & Down’ is a raucous comedy that sparked a loyal and enthusiastic following that grew throughout the season, and we’re happy to bring the show back for more innings,” HBO programming president Michael Lombardo said in a statement.

–Denise Martin

What is Drudge REALLY trying to tell us?

Click the image for hi-res version…

Main Headline: Apocalyptic
Column One: Obama expresses deep appreciation for the Islamic faith [=antichrist]
Column Two: Natural disasters framed as seismic apocalyptic events [because volcanoes and earthquakes never happened under any other president’s watch..]
Column Three: One rich American says the American dollar is probably no longer going to be the world standard in currency, leading the sheeple to believe Obama wants one world currency [a biblical sign of the shmapocalypse]

What does it all mean?

According to the top stories posted on DrudgeReport.com right now, I guess I’m supposed to believe Barack Obama is the antichrist who will bring the apocalypse, who is an Islamic fundamentalist who wants to do everything wrong to America that he can…

Ugh.

If Obama gets assassinated ( I REALLY REALLY hope he does NOT ever ever EVER), I put full blame on people like Matt Drudge for adding fuel to the idiots’ ignorant anger who will end up causing it– NOT because of the type of news Drudge chose to cover– but because of the order in which it has been presented to the viewer. Remember: it’s not just what you say, it’s HOW you say it…

The 2001 Clear Channel memorandum

I love finding random cool articles on Wikipedia…

The 2001 Clear Channel memorandum is a document distributed by Clear Channel Communications to the over 1,200 radio stations they owned, shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, containing a list of a large number of what the memo termed “lyrically questionable” songs.^[1]

During the time immediately after the attacks, many television and radio stations altered normal programming in response to the events, and the rumor spread that Clear Channel and its subsidiaries had established a list of “songs with questionable lyrics” that stations might not want to play after the attacks. The list was made public by the independent newsletter Hits Daily Double, which is not affiliated with Clear Channel.^[2] Snopes did research on the subject and concluded that the list did exist as a suggestion for radio stations but noted that it was not an outright ban on the songs in question.^[3]

The list contains 166 songs, including “all songs” by Rage Against the Machine and songs recorded by multiple artists (for example “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” by Bob Dylan and the same song by Guns N’ Roses). In some cases, only certain versions of songs were included on the list—for example, the cover of “Smooth Criminal” by Alien Ant Farm is on the list despite the fact that the original version, sung by Michael Jackson, is not, while J. Frank Wilson’s version of “Last Kiss” is included but Pearl Jam‘s cover is not.^[4]

Clear Channel denied the existence of such a list in a press release to a radio industry trade publication, Radio Ink, although they had already admitted to distributing it.^[5]

The compiled list was the subject of much media attention around the time of its release.^[3]

3 Doors Down	“Duck and Run“
311	“Down“
AC/DC	“Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap“
	“Hells Bells“
	“Highway to Hell“
	“Safe in New York City“
	“Shoot to Thrill“
	“Shot Down in Flames“
	“T.N.T.“
The Ad Libs	“The Boy from New York City“
Afro Celt Sound System	“When You’re Falling“
Alice in Chains	“Down in a Hole“
	“Rooster“
	“Sea of Sorrow“
	“Them Bones“
Alien Ant Farm	“Smooth Criminal“
Animals	“We Gotta Get Out of This Place“
Louis Armstrong	“What a Wonderful World“
The Bangles	“Walk Like an Egyptian“
Barenaked Ladies	“Falling for the First Time“
Fontella Bass	“Rescue Me“
Beastie Boys	“Sabotage“
	“Sure Shot“
The Beatles	“A Day in the Life“
	“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds“
	“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da“
	“Ticket to Ride“
Pat Benatar	“Hit Me With Your Best Shot“
	“Love Is a Battlefield“
Black Sabbath	“Sabbath Bloody Sabbath“
	“War Pigs“
Blood, Sweat and Tears	“And When I Die“
Blue Öyster Cult	“Burnin’ for You“
Boston	“Smokin’“
David Bowie & Mick Jagger	“Dancing in the Street“
Arthur Brown	“Fire“
Jackson Browne	“Doctor My Eyes“
Buddy Holly and the Crickets	“That’ll Be the Day“
Bush	“The People That We Love“a
The Chi-Lites	“Have You Seen Her“
Petula Clark	“A Sign of the Times“
The Clash	“Rock the Casbah“
Phil Collins	“In the Air Tonight“
Sam Cooke	“Wonderful World“
Creedence Clearwater Revival	“Travelin’ Band“
The Cult	“Fire Woman“
Bobby Darin	“Mack the Knife“
Dave Clark Five	“Bits and Pieces“
Dave Matthews Band	“Crash into Me“
Skeeter Davis	“The End of the World“
Neil Diamond	“America“
Dio	“Holy Diver“
The Doors	“The End“
The Drifters	“On Broadway“
Drowning Pool	“Bodies“
Bob Dylan	“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door“
Everclear	“Santa Monica“
Shelley Fabares	“Johnny Angel“
Filter	“Hey Man, Nice Shot“
Foo Fighters	“Learn to Fly“
Fuel	“Bad Day“
Peter Gabriel	“When You’re Falling“b
The Gap Band	“You Dropped a Bomb on Me“
Godsmack	“Bad Religion“
Green Day	“Brain Stew“
Norman Greenbaum	“Spirit in the Sky“
Guns N’ Roses	“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door“
The Happenings	“See You in September“
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	“Hey Joe“
Herman’s Hermits	“Wonderful World“
The Hollies	“He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother“
Jan and Dean	“Dead Man’s Curve“
Billy Joel	“Only the Good Die Young“
Elton John	“Bennie and the Jets“
	“Daniel“
	“Rocket Man“
Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge	“The Worst That Could Happen“
Judas Priest	“Some Heads Are Gonna Roll“
Kansas	“Dust in the Wind“
Carole King	“I Feel the Earth Move“
Korn	“Falling Away from Me“
Lenny Kravitz	“Fly Away“
Led Zeppelin	“Stairway to Heaven“
John Lennon	“Imagine“
Jerry Lee Lewis	“Great Balls of Fire“
Limp Bizkit	“Break Stuff“
Local H	“Bound for the Floor“
Los Bravos	“Black Is Black“
Lynyrd Skynyrd	“Tuesday’s Gone“
Martha and the Vandellas	“Nowhere to Run“
	“Dancing in the Street“
Paul McCartney & Wings	“Live and Let Die“
MC Hammer	“Have You Seen Her“
Barry McGuire	“Eve of Destruction“
Don McLean	“American Pie“
Megadeth	“Dread and the Fugitive Mind“
	“Sweating Bullets“
John Mellencamp	“Crumblin’ Down” (as “Crumbling Down”)
	“Paper in Fire“
Metallica	“Enter Sandman“
	“Fade to Black“
	“Harvester of Sorrow“
	“Seek & Destroy“
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels	“Devil with a Blue Dress On“
Alanis Morissette	“Ironic“
Mudvayne	“Death Blooms“
Ricky Nelson	“Travelin’ Man“
Nena	“99 Luftballons“
Nine Inch Nails	“Head Like a Hole“
Oingo Boingo	“Dead Man’s Party“
Ozzy Osbourne	“Suicide Solution“
Paper Lace	“The Night Chicago Died“
John Parr	“St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)“
Peter and Gordon	“I Go to Pieces“
	“A World Without Love“
Peter, Paul and Mary	“Blowin’ in the Wind“
	“Leaving on a Jet Plane“
Tom Petty	“Free Fallin’“
Pink Floyd	“Mother“
	“Run Like Hell“
P.O.D.	“Boom“
Elvis Presley	“(You’re the) Devil in Disguise“
The Pretenders	“My City Was Gone“
Queen	“Another One Bites the Dust“
	“Killer Queen“
Rage Against the Machine	All songs by Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers	“Aeroplane“
	“Under the Bridge“
R.E.M.	“It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)“
The Rolling Stones	“Ruby Tuesday“
Saliva	“Click Click Boom“
Santana	“Evil Ways“
Savage Garden	“Crash and Burn“
Simon and Garfunkel	“Bridge Over Troubled Water“
Frank Sinatra	“New York, New York“
Slipknot	“Left Behind“
	“Wait and Bleed“
The Smashing Pumpkins	“Bullet with Butterfly Wings“
Soundgarden	“Black Hole Sun“
	“Blow Up the Outside World“
	“Fell on Black Days“
Bruce Springsteen	“I’m Goin’ Down“
	“I’m on Fire“
	“War“
Edwin Starr	“War“
Steam	“Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye“
Steve Miller Band	“Jet Airliner“
Cat Stevens	“Morning Has Broken“
	“Peace Train“
Stone Temple Pilots	“Big Bang Baby“
	“Dead & Bloated“
Sugar Ray	“Fly“
The Surfaris	“Wipeout“
System of a Down	“Chop Suey!“
Talking Heads	“Burning Down the House“
James Taylor	“Fire and Rain“
Temple of the Dog	“Say Hello 2 Heaven“
Third Eye Blind	“Jumper“
The Three Degrees	“When Will I See You Again“
Tool	“Intolerance“
The Trammps	“Disco Inferno“
U2	“Sunday Bloody Sunday“
Van Halen	“Jump“
	“Dancing in the Street“
J. Frank Wilson	“Last Kiss“
Yngwie Malmsteen	“Black Star“
The Youngbloods	“Get Together“
Zager and Evans	“In the Year 2525“
The Zombies	“She’s Not There“

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