From the desk of Hawk

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Doctors at a Sri Lankan hospital operated for three hours Friday to remove 18 nails and metal particles allegedly hammered into the arms, legs and forehead of a maid by her Saudi employer.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/27/sri.lanka.maid.assault/index.html?hpt=T2

This is an officially state recognized domestic worker program gone bad. Evidently there are wide spread reports of abuse.

[Doktor Howl]

This has already been posted, I think.

Just saying.

I assume this will be a thread for the weird news you dig up?

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This has already been posted, I think.

Just saying.

I assume this will be a thread for the weird news you dig up?

Is that ok?

[East Coast Hustle]

better than OK, I'd say.

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Fire tornado in Hawaii. Wild crazy video.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/08/27/vo.hawaii.fire.tornado.kitv?hpt=T2

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

NPR interviewed a few people regarding this and apparently this is not unheard of... though more popular are locking up the house employees, beating them, using hot irons on them, cigars/cigarettes to burn them or just good old fashioned rape (the guy they interviewed was particularly upset because the employers weren't wearing condoms when they did the raping...)

[Nephew Twiddleton]

NPR interviewed a few people regarding this and apparently this is not unheard of... though more popular are locking up the house employees, beating them, using hot irons on them, cigars/cigarettes to burn them or just good old fashioned rape (the guy they interviewed was particularly upset because the employers weren't wearing condoms when they did the raping...)

How inconsiderate of those rapists. They could have given their victims herpes, syphilis or even zygote.

[Doktor Howl]

This has already been posted, I think.

Just saying.

I assume this will be a thread for the weird news you dig up?

Is that ok?

Absolutely.  I enjoy the links you post, but individual threads clutter things up.

This is much better.  Thanks.

[Doktor Howl]

Fire tornado in Hawaii. Wild crazy video.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/08/27/vo.hawaii.fire.tornado.kitv?hpt=T2

WEBSENSE!   

[LMNO]

Even reading the phrase "Fire Tornado" fills me with glee.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Even reading the phrase "Fire Tornado" fills me with glee.

Yeah It was pretty cool.

[Doktor Howl]

Even reading the phrase "Fire Tornado" fills me with glee.

YES.  I WANT ONE.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

NPR interviewed a few people regarding this and apparently this is not unheard of... though more popular are locking up the house employees, beating them, using hot irons on them, cigars/cigarettes to burn them or just good old fashioned rape (the guy they interviewed was particularly upset because the employers weren't wearing condoms when they did the raping...)

How inconsiderate of those rapists. They could have given their victims herpes, syphilis or even zygote.

That was his point "The women keep coming back infected with AIDS, Herpes and Syphilis because they rape them without the condom". (not a word for word quote but damn close)

[Cuddlefish]

inb4 OMG fucking fire tornado...

oh, nvrmnd

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Get Sarah Palin to speak! Only $75,000, uh, plus other considerations.

So just what does it take to get Sarah Palin to speak at your fundraising gala?

A "deluxe" hotel suite, a first class ticket or a private jet ("Lear 60 or larger"), pre-selected audience questions, and "bendable" straws – not to mention the $75,000 in cash.

That's according to Palin's speaking contract with Cal State Stanislaus – ordered to be released by a California judge this week after the state school refused to make the document public last June.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/