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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man got a big surprise on a commercial flight from Seattle to Anchorage, Alaska, when he was stung by a scorpion while sitting in his plane seat. Jeff Ellis of West Linn said he was trying to sleep on a red-eye Alaska Airlines flight June 17 when he felt something in his sleeve and tried to brush it away. He said he felt the crawling again, looked down and saw the culprit. "I picked my hand up and said, 'Oh, my God. Pandora Jewelry

That's a scorpion,'" Ellis told KPTV. He said he grabbed the scorpion with a napkin and showed it to his girlfriend, but not before it stung him on the elbow. "At first I didn't believe him," said Suzanne Foster, Ellis' girlfriend. "But then I saw it. He held the napkin up for me to see, and I saw the tail wiggling. I pretty much jumped out of my seat." Foster called for the flight attendant as Ellis noticed his elbow burning. He said it felt like a bee sting. Two doctors on board checked out Ellis, while the flight crew called for medics to meet the plane at the Anchorage airport. The flight originated from Austin, Texas, where Alaska Airlines officials believe the scorpion got on board. Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said the airline has never had a poisonous creature on one of its flights before. Pandora Beads

Based on photos he took of the arachnid, Ellis believes he was stung by a striped bark scorpion common in Texas. Marshall Brooks, assistant manager at House of Reptiles in Tigard, Ore., said bark scorpions are more venomous than emperor scorpions, which are the type commonly kept as pets. He said most people will experience minor pain from a bark scorpion unless they are allergic, in which case the sting might cause anaphylactic shock. "He got stung because he threatened it," Brooks said. Pandora Charms

"Had he used something else to get it off with or just calmly tried to move it onto something else, it probably wouldn't have stung him." Ellis said he is pleased with how the flight crew and the airline handled the situation. He said the airline has offered him 4,000 frequent-flier miles and two round-trip tickets. "Never in a million years, would I have thought a scorpion would have been on an Alaska Airlines flight headed to Alaska," Ellis said. "Everybody I've talked to thinks it was incredible, unbelievable. I'm here to tell you, it was definitely there." MSNBC has suspended political analyst and Time magazine writer Mark Halperin indefinitely over a remark he made about President Obama Thursday morning.

Cheap Pandora Charms "Mark Halperin's comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable," said MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines in a statement. "We apologize to the President, the White House and all of our viewers. We strive for a high level of discourse and comments like these have no place on our air." Appearing on "Morning Joe" this morning, Halperin, senior political analyst at Time and MSNBC and co-author of the 2008 election opus "Game Change," sought to characterize the president's demeanor at a press briefing the previous day. Pandora Bracelets

You can watch the video below--though the term Halperin uses to characterize the president is vulgar, as the partial transcript after the jump will also show: "Are we on the seven-second delay?" Halperin asked. "We have it. We can use it. Go for it. Let's see what happens," co-anchor Joe Scarborough replied. "I thought he was a dick yesterday," Halperin replied, sending the hosts into a brief moment of panic. Halperin apologized later on in the show and issued his own mea culpa hours later via MSNBC. "I completely agree with everything in MSNBC's statement about my remark," he said. Pandora Earrings

"I believe that the step they are taking in response is totally appropriate. Again, I want to offer a heartfelt and profound apology to the President, to my MSNBC colleagues, and to the viewers. My remark was unacceptable, and I deeply regret it." You can watch a clip of Halperin's apology here: Halperin is the latest in a string of MSNBC suspensions this past year. Scarborough himself was suspended last November for violating the network's campaign contribution policy, as was Keith Olbermann, who left MSNBC several months later. Pandora Earrings Silver

More recently, Ed Schultz was suspended in May for calling pundit Laura Ingraham a "slut." And former MSNBC dayside host David Schuster also got a suspension in 2008 for complaining that Hillary Clinton had "pimped out" her daughter, Chelsea, on the presidential campaign trail. UPDATE 12:30 pm: Time also has issued a statement reprimanding Halperin: "Mark Halperin's comments on air this morning were inappropriate and in no way reflective of TIME's views. We have issued a warning to him that such behavior is unacceptable. pandora sets