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Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate'

"Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (in Swedish) reports that Henrik Pontén, a lawyer of Antipiratbyrån, a Swedish organization against file sharing, has received a notification from officials that an application for change of his name has been approved and a new first name 'Pirate' has been added to his name. Authorities do not check the identity of persons applying for name changes. Pirate Pontén now has to apply for another change in order to revert the change."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/08/1641237/Swedish-Anti-Piracy-Lawyer-Gets-New-Name-Pirate?himeobs=was+here

[Iason Ouabache]

Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate'

"Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (in Swedish) reports that Henrik Pontén, a lawyer of Antipiratbyrån, a Swedish organization against file sharing, has received a notification from officials that an application for change of his name has been approved and a new first name 'Pirate' has been added to his name. Authorities do not check the identity of persons applying for name changes. Pirate Pontén now has to apply for another change in order to revert the change."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/08/1641237/Swedish-Anti-Piracy-Lawyer-Gets-New-Name-Pirate?himeobs=was+here

LOL, Bureaucracy!

[Thurnez Isa]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090611/odds/odd_us_snakes

Police in Sierra Leone have called in the army and fire brigade to try to take back control of a police station which has been overrun by hundreds of venomous snakes.

Snake charmers have tried in vain to lure the beasts, mostly cobras and vipers, out of Gerihun police station in the southern district of Bo. Attempts to smoke them out also failed.

Officers and residents wanting to report crimes have grown too afraid to come to the building.

"Even during work time when statements are being taken, these snakes can come out in dozens. Inhabitants have found it difficult to report cases to the police," station spokesman Brima Kota said.

Soldiers and fire fighters had been dispatched from the capital Freetown and would try to flood out the snakes, believed to number as many as 400, he said.

Wild animals have regularly had run-ins with villagers in remote, thickly forested parts of Sierra Leone, particularly in settlements where humans have only recently returned after fleeing the country's 10-year civil war.

Paramilitary police were drafted in to protect villagers in Bo from wild bush cows after a farmer was gored to death a few years ago, while rampaging elephants killed eight people and chased 600 from their homes in the east not long before that.

[Thurnez Isa]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090617/national/oddity_gorilla_with_knife_3


THE PRIMATES ARE LEANING TO USE WEAPONS NOW

[AFK]

An explosion of exploding donation at Goodwill:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32088144/ns/us_news-weird_news/

ARVADA, Colorado - A land mine found in a suburban Denver Goodwill donation box forced the evacuation of a strip mall.

The rectangular, olive-green box with the words "Front Toward Enemy" raised the suspicions of Goodwill workers Tuesday.

Arvada police say the Claymore land mine didn't go off in the donation box and no one was hurt. A bomb squad disposed of the device.

Police Sgt. Jeff Monzingo says it's unclear whether the device was operational or where it came from. No suspects have been identified.

Claymore mines were widely used during the Vietnam war.

[Thurnez Isa]

http://www.theledger.com/article/20090721/NEWS/907215041/1374?Title=Ads-Tout-Religion-in-Government

A Hillsborough public policy group whose Christian platform included a push for a state ban on gay marriage has embraced a new attack on an old target: the separation of church and state.

Ten billboard advertisements against what activist Terry Kemple called the separation "lie" are being put up throughout Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. Seven or eight of the billboard messages already are in place, and the rest will be by the end of this week, Kemple said.

For the next six months, they'll be seen a million times a day, said retired businessman Gregg Smith, who rented the ad space for $50,000.

The message, as explained on www.noseparation.org , is that "America's government was made only for people who are moral and religious."

"The Judeo-Christian foundation that the Founding Fathers established when America began is the reason that this country has prospered for 200-plus years," said Kemple, president and sole employee of the local Community Issues Council, which paid for the Web site.

"The fact is, for the last 40 years, as anti-God activists have incrementally removed the recognition of God's place in the establishment of our country, we have gone downhill," he said.

Smith, 73, who spends half of the year at his Tampa home, brought the idea to Kemple's attention as a "separate ministry" needing local support.

For now, the initiative is just educational, though both men left open the opportunity for future work.

"Has the thought occurred that this may be the beginning of something bigger? Of course," Kemple said. "There is no next step.

"We'll just see what God ordains," he said.

The billboards showcase quotes from early American leaders like John Adams, James Madison and Benjamin Franklin. Most of the quotes portray a national need for Christian governance.

Others carry the same message but with fictional attribution, as with one billboard citing George Washington for the quote, "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.''

"I don't believe there's a document in Washington's handwriting that has those words in that specific form," Kemple said. "However, if you look at Washington's quotes, including his farewell address, about the place of religion in the political sphere, there's no question he could have said those exact words.''

[Iason Ouabache]

Once again, if you have to lie to support your cause then it isn't really worth supporting in the first place.

[Triple Zero]

"I am enquiring here about your plan to get my nose parated. My physician directed me to you."

[Cain]

http://wonkette.com/409987/fake-boobed-dingbat-homophobe-lands-book-deal

As Sarah Palin proved to a disgusted nation, you don't need to know how to write or even read to get a book deal in End Times America. All you need to be is a disgraced former beauty contestant who hates the same fruits and coloreds as Red State America, where illiteracy is no barrier to buying, say, a Glenn Beck book at the Wal-Mart. What do you call a dumb bigot with big hair, high heels and a few pounds of makeup? How about America's Next Top Author?

Carrie Prejean delighted Americans last year or whenever, because Perez Hilton made her say she simply does NOT care for the homosexuals doing the things white people do, such as have weddings. Then, of course, Miss Christianity was found to be a typical soft-porn Internet model, as most Christian teen-age girls turn out to be, if they're not too obese, which rules it out for about 96% of them. Then she got fired, by Donald Trump or California, we do not remember, and now she's got a book deal with esteemed wingnut publisher Regnery, which really needed a less used-up-looking Ann Coulter type to move units at CostCo.

Uh, let's see, Prejean's collection of ghost-written AM radio talking points will be called, sure, Still Standing. Because America's gay mafia hoped to cut off her legs and feed them to rats, but actually nobody wanted to do that at all, because who cares, right? So, there's the title. Pre-order now at World Net Daily or Human Events, we bet!

[Cramulus]

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Housing/idUSTRE59Q03Q20091027

Foreclosed Couple Detain, Torture Loan-Modification Agents

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Los Angeles housing advocates launched a campaign warning of mortgage rescue scams, a couple hit by foreclosure are charged with torturing two loan-modification agents they suspected of fraud, authorities said....

"The two allegedly sought loan modification assistance from the victims but believed that nothing was being done and wanted their money back," a statement from the district attorney's office said.

[DA mouthpiece Shiara] Davila-Morales added that the couple, according to investigators, believed they had been swindled.








these people are heroes!

[Remington]

Congress Approves $500 Billion For Monument To Human Folly

In recognition of mankind's inherent propensity for tragically foolish decisions, Congress allocated nearly $500 billion Monday for the construction of a new national monument honoring human folly.

"From Hannibal's disastrous crossing of the Alps to Custer's humiliating defeat at Little Bighorn, human history has been plagued by senseless mistakes, and it is high time we built a memorial to honor that history," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said of the expensive and ill-advised monument. "My deepest hope is that future generations of Americans will one day look upon this pointless edifice and be filled with a sense of awe and wonder at mankind's utter lack of foresight."

"To think of all the ways our time and money could have been better spent," Pelosi continued. "I can imagine no more fitting tribute."

According to the bipartisan plan, the proposed monument will be built precariously over a Washington freeway overpass, and will require as many as 30 years of grueling labor to complete. As a representation of humanity's failure to learn from past mistakes, the project is being designed by the architecture firm of Ganz & Weiss, best known for their work on a series of dangerously constructed St. Louis public housing projects that were condemned in the late 1990s.

"Our goal is to create a structure that, like the human race itself, is doomed from the outset and plagued by innate flaws that can never be corrected," Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) said of the monument, which he claimed would eventually sink into the federally protected wetlands that surround it.

[AFK]

With apologies to the man's family, this headline is just too funny:

'Strongest Man,' 104, dies after he's hit by car

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34818457/ns/us_news-life/

[Cainad (dec.)]

Oh, that took me a little while to get.

[Cramulus]

Average Time Spent Being Happy Drops To 13 Seconds Per Day

BERKELEY, CA—A study published in the latest issue of the Journal Of Social Sciences revealed that the amount of time spent being happy has dropped to an all-time low of 13 nonconsecutive seconds per day. "According to our data, the average American experiences a 0.8-second window of happiness upon awakening, before remembering that they're conscious beings in a relentlessly bleak and numbing world," said Dr. Derek Moore, lead author of the paper. "Other periods of happiness include 1.9 seconds after a good meal; 0.6 seconds upon receiving a paycheck; 1.1 seconds following completion of a scientific study; and the 2.5 seconds approaching orgasm, just before the guilt sets in." Researchers also recorded the smallest period of contentment yet, a 3.7-millisecond interval preceding the realization that one was experiencing happiness and that it could not possibly last.

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[Jenne]

From my email:

Sheriff warns against prescription drug scam

Friday, April 16, 2010

Sheriff Bill Gore warned Friday about a scam in San Diego County regarding the collection of prescription drugs.
An official "Prescription Take Back Day" is planned for Saturday, according to the sheriff's department. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., those with unused prescription drugs can drop them off at six locations around the county.
"Scammers have targeted some residents telling them if they are unable to make it to one of these locations their drugs can be left on the front porch and someone will come by to pick them up. That is simply not true," Gore said.

The Board of Supervisors is working on a ordinance to place permanent prescription drop boxes at sheriff''s stations around San Diego County.

Gore said those unable to make it to a drop-off site Saturday, should hold onto their prescriptions until the permanent boxes are in place.

According to the county's Oxy Task Force — a multi-agency effort that includes the sheriff's department — parents frequently unknowingly supply dangerous drugs to their children by leaving unused prescriptions in their medicine chests. The task force was formed to combat OxyContin use among young people.

Other prescription drugs often used for recreation include Vicodin, Adderall, Soma, Xanax, Ambien, codeine, methadone and fentanyl. Saturday's drop-off sites will be at the county's administration center on Pacific Highway, Tri-City Medical Center, Poway sheriff's substation, Scripps Memorial Hospital, and the El Cajon and South Bay courthouses.

This story was written and edited by City News Service.
Read more: http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-04-16/local-county-news/sheriff-warns-against-prescription-drug-scam#ixzz0lIJjt4n0