Starting March 11, 2007, Southern Skyways will begin offering direct 757 airline service from West Virginia, to Las Vegas. The planes will be configured to carry 176 Hee-Haw cast members each way.

Apparently, there was a huge demand to speed up shotgun weddings between brothers and sisters, and Southern Skyways stepped in quickly to fill the void.

What remains to be seen is whether local casinos intend to accommodate this new group by offering up a diverse selection of moonshine and Skoal, and if the local farmers have the foresight to reserve a few of their prettier livestock for “escorts”.

If you see a goat in the Wynn elevators this March … you’ll know what’s going on.

I’m also pretty sure that Harrah’s properties will be rolling out 100/99 Blackjack tables to capitalize on the folks who think mathematical division is for “high-falutin city folk who is a puttin on airs”, and “the bigger numbers must pay better than them little 6 and 5 numbers”.

Let VegasRex be the first to welcome our new visitors from West Virginia, where the definition of a virgin is a girl who can run faster than her father, and the state where you can always tell when a girl is on her period by the number of socks she is wearing.

Now that they have gotten rid of Bikini Blackjack, thong-wearing waitresses, the Bikini club, and Prince … the Rio is looking to fill the void.

And what could possibly fill that void better than a back-flipping road racing truck?

Dare I opine that a back-flipping road racing truck is exactly what Vegas needs to ring in 2008, and thank goodness the Rio is bringing it to us.

Robbie Maddison and Rhys Millen will be spending their New Years Eve at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, but they will not be partying, they will be working.

Two experiments will take place, put together by The Red Bull Experiment. Maddison will be attempting to jump the length of a football field to set a new motorcycle distance jumping world record.

Millen, who has worked as a movie stunt driver, will try a back flip in an off road racing truck, a feat that has never been accomplished.

Representatives from the Guinness Book of World Records will be on hand to witness the two historical feats.

The first experiment will take place when the clock strikes midnight in the East, while the other one will happen three hours later, when the New Year begins in the West.

Honestly, I don’t get it. I don’t think anyone spending New Years in Vegas is going to want to be watching an upside-down truck in the air when the clock strikes midnight … but what the hell do I know …

Good luck to these guys. I guess.

According to Clifford Martin (aka BigRedDogATL), our go-to guy for Vegas news stories and the maker of these incredible photos, the Palazzo “soft opening” has been pushed back from December 20th to December 28th.

I personally wouldn’t be surprised if they push it back even further given its current state of readiness. I swung by yesterday and there is still a whole lot left to finish.

That’s going to be a very busy week here in town, so hopefully they will have everything firing on all cylinders.

This is getting far too common. It’s tragic. That’s really all I have to say about it.

Source: http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/14708995/detail.html

LAS VEGAS — Clark County fire officials have confirmed that the man who fell from a construction project Tuesday died of his injuries.

The incident happened after 9 a.m. at the Cosmopolitan construction project near the Jockey Club on the Strip.

Police said David Rabun was wearing his safety harness, but the beam it was connected to gave way, causing him to fall 50 feet. Rabun suffered a significant head injury and was been transported to University Medical Center where he later died, police said.

Don’t you just love what they’ve done with the place?

I went to cash out my Patriots/Eagles ticket today, and got this grainy cellphone shot.

It is now “Wheel of Fortune World”. I kid you not.

I tried to take another one where the “Wheel of Fortune” is lit up (it lights on and off from left to right), but the security lady came over and started screaming at me for aiming my camera at the thing.

Something about Bin Laden using Wheel of Fortune slot machines to take over the world.

I always thought those things were evil.

Seriously, I don’t know what the lady was babbling about other than “you can’t take pictures here!”

Obviously … I can (see photo above).

One short month ago it was a nice poker room, this month it is several banks of “Wheel of Fortune” slot machines.

I think I spotted two people in there. Both elderly.

Make of it what you will.

Update: I took this one last night with the sign lit up. VegasRex: 2, Security Biyatch: 0