Online headline: "High schools in Maryland's Prince George's County -- all 23 of them -- were forced to reprint nearly 8,000 diplomas after discovering a typo, MSNBC reports. * Last week, students were awarded diplomas stating they had completed their "progam of study," the Washington Post reports. The spelling error was apparently committed by the printing company and will be fixed at no additional charge to the county, which paid nearly $16,000 for the documents. * National Quality Products issued an apology to students and said the new certificates will be available in about a month. * Lynn Bryant, a recent Frederick Douglass High School graduate, noticed the error and had only one thing to say about it. * “That’s kind of embarrassing," Bryant told Hyattsville (MD) Patch. * Another recent graduate from Oxon Hill High School said he didn't quite understand how the typo got past officials." -- The printing company probably is taking the hit for fear of forever losing the business, but would bet the document had been 'proofed' and 'approved' by several County school district officials. Otherwise, the company would probably have replacement blanks within a few days. --- Online headline: "ll Clinton 'Very Sorry' For Flareup Over Bush Tax Cut Comments " -- Yeah, 'sorry' like a fox that was hired to guard a hen house. --- Online headline: "Toronto Votes To Ban Plastic Bags" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought Toronto had found a solution to hypocritical N.O.W. members. --- Online story: "When the tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents * But one made an incredible journey across 5,000 miles of ocean that ended this week on a popular Oregon beach. * Along for the ride were hundreds of millions of individual organisms, including a tiny species of crab, a species of algae, and a little starfish all native to Japan that have scientists concerned if they get a chance to spread out on the West Coast. * This is a very clear threat," said John Chapman, a research scientist at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore., where the dock washed up early Tuesday. "...It's incredibly difficult to predict what will happen next." * State officials were considering plans to scrape all the living organisms off the dock and bury them in the sand, so they would not spread, Chapman said." -- "State officials were considering plans to scrape all the living organisms off the dock and bury them in the sand, so they would not spread"? Excuse me, but wouldn't taking them to a sealed kiln, crematorium, or blast furnace give a little certainty of destroying non-indigenous life forms than burying such in the sand? Remember kudzu? --- Saw an older couple taking a break from their bicycling venture standing around in their cute, almost matching spandex bicycling outfits. If any of you are over 18, and ardent bicyclers, let me remind you that the cute little salesgirls and salesboys who compliment you on how good you look in a new spandex outfit, remember, those salespeople are on commission, and you may be the subject they video on their cellphones and post to YouTube/Facebook as the "Joke of the Day". -- You go Florida Governor Rick Scott! Purge those undocumented voters so the real non-criminal Floridians votes will have their say in who's elected, and in what laws/programs the Florida Congress passes. --- L-E story: "Jon Shirek, a reporter for Atlanta television station WXIA, 11Alive, reported on the Gwinnett Commission’s vote, but then said there is another Georgia city that is actually interested in being the host city. * “There is a city that is interested, and it’s not even in metropolitan Atlanta,” Shirek told his viewers. “Tonight I talked to the mayor of Columbus, Teresa Tomlinson, who is busy planning a high-speed rail between her city’s airport and Hartsfield-Jackson , so that Columbus’ airport could become Atlanta’s second airport.” * Shirek said Tomlinson hopes a high-speed rail could be in place by 2025, when the Atlanta airport is expected to hit its capacity." -- Why is it that politicians get so enthusiastic about projects private industry has rejected as non-viable (where are the current railways on passenger service) that will cost excessive tax dollar expenditures for something the politicians won't be around when completed to explain their great misjudgment? Simple... the development money keeps their friends happy and continually donating back. --- L-E headline/story: "Cars that avoid crashes by talking to each other * The display at a recent transportation conference was a peek into the future of automotive safety: cars that to talk to each other and warn drivers of impending collisions." -- Can't you see it now... a new way to steal cars.... a thug, by hacking into his own system can tell another car to either "open up" or simply, "follow me".