Wow, they must be deluded.  Sometimes, Christian paranoia actually works in peoples favour.  Amazing.
and allow ideas rather than money to control what Americans can access on the Worldwide Web
The ousted president's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was decapitated by the noose.
scam letter in french???
Police are especially keen to trace the man with the sword who came to the aid of their officers, and have asked for anyone with information to call them.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/16/070116173159.3yvt2yr3.html?56In a related story,a first statue honoring pimps will be place near the statue of the prostitute.
Amsterdam to get statue to world's prostitutes
Amsterdam's red light district is reportedly to receive a bronze statue dedicated to prostitutes around the world.
According to the Dutch agency ANP, sculptress Els Rijerse made the statue at the request of a former prostitute Mariska Majoor, who a decade ago founded a centre on prostitution in the Dutch capital.
Majoor was quoted as saying by ANP that the statue would be a first of its kind and that it had received the blessing of the city authorities.
The statue represents a self-assured woman, her hands on her hips, looking sideways towards the sky, and standing on a doorstep, ANP said.
The precise place where the statue will be laid and its title have not yet been announced, it said.
Also,
http://www.fark.com/
She isn't so much a Dem hawk as a batshit insane reincarnation of Maggie Thatcher.
Hillary = Bush in a skirt. Seriously. She isn't so much a Dem hawk as a batshit insane reincarnation of Maggie Thatcher.
a batshit insane reincarnation of Maggie Thatcher.
No, the Dem governor of New Mexico, can't remember his name.  With him the Dem race is shaping up to be between a woman, a black guy and a latino.  Which will certainly make the election interesting.....
Personally, I vote based on die rolls. I feel its a rational response to idiocracy.
I genuinely don't care about immigration policy.
I'm just going to let someone else formulate my opinion on it.
Any takers? Next thing that sounds good is my new opinion on immigration.
I genuinely don't care about immigration policy.
I'm just going to let someone else formulate my opinion on it.
Any takers? Next thing that sounds good is my new opinion on immigration.
And Rupert Murdoch will turn that into a reality game show.
Quebec has held two referendums on independence -- in 1980 and 1995 -- and both times a majority was opposed.
"subverting our sovereignty", the Chinese Communist party code phrase for piss off.
Is Canada becoming as touchy as their Chinese overlords nowadays?  "Interferring in our affairs" sounds very close to "subverting our sovereignty", the Chinese Communist party code phrase for piss off.
I think you need nukes to make it work.
If I remember correctly that vote in 95 was really, really close.  Like 49/51 or something like that. 
I think you need nukes to make it work.
This is America! Someone is selling them SOMEWHERE.
If I remember correctly that vote in 95 was really, really close.  Like 49/51 or something like that. 
yes very close
remember watching when i was a teenager
strange thing being french and living in ontario
the "yes" side was winning half the night
it wasn't untill they counted the votes from the cities that the "no" side pulled ahead and kept the lead
the polls are far different now
most in quebec now dont want to seperate and the french population of quebec is one the decline
the seperatists are still very strong in the province but now have to play a role of pushing for seperation but not seeming they are pushing for one
Makes sense. It would be interesting to see a predominately English Quebec, especially Montreal and Quebec City. I really need to get back their some day. When I grew up in Northern Maine my family used to take quite a few trips to Quebec City. It was a long ass drive but it was cool to see the different, kind of European architecture. But yeah, it was tricky asking for directions when you could only say hello and goodbye in French.
Ou est la piscine?
I miss our old Prime Minister
"No, a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Jean Chretien
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aX6XMIldkRU
I miss our old Prime Minister
"No, a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Jean Chretien
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aX6XMIldkRU
That reminds me of Rummy's Known knowns quote:
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Ahh, well that makes sense then. I wonder if there is a Chinese HIMEOBS on their internets.
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2007/january/01_17_3.html
The United States has signaled to Gulf Arab allies that an attack on Iran could take place in 2007.
Diplomatic sources said the Bush administration has raised the prospect of a U.S. strike on Iran over the next few months. The sources said the discussions with Gulf Cooperation Council states have also been conducted by U.S. Central Command as well as the U.S. intelligence community.
"There has not been a U.S. commitment, but the discussions have been interpreted as an expression of intent," the source said. "Right now, the U.S. message is that the GCC must get ready for any contingency."
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets foreign ministers from the GCC states as well as Egypt and Jordan. The sources said Ms. Rice intends to brief the foreign ministers on U.S. strategy toward Iraq and Iran in a meeting scheduled to take place in Kuwait.
Schools in England should teach ‚Äúcore British values‚Äů alongside cultural diversity, a report says.
pupils should study free speech, the rule of law, mutual tolerance and respect for equal rights.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3354296,00.html
"UFO" spotted over Iran, firing a "yellow beam".   :|
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6306665.stm
Jane Fonda....what a way to shoot yourself in the foot as an anti-war protest....at least pick someone with some credibility as to the interests of the troops.
Jane Fonda....what a way to shoot yourself in the foot as an anti-war protest....at least pick someone with some credibility as to the interests of the troops.
What is a dittohead?
What is a dittohead?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6306665.stm
Jane Fonda....what a way to shoot yourself in the foot as an anti-war protest....at least pick someone with some credibility as to the interests of the troops.
Napalm delivery system = airplane.
And, just to remind everyone how threatening those Vietnamese kids were:
(http://www.roshangari.net/autosite/sitedata/20040516000000/napalm.jpg)
Damn... Suu, you're too deadpan sometimes.
Speaking of the Vietnam war, I only just found out the history of the below pic the other day:
(http://grampyshouse.net/cliches/images/saigonmurder.jpg)
Apparently, the guy on the right was a VietCong commander guilty of scores of civilian killings, but because of the chaos in the city in during the Tet Offensive, the officer had little choice but to execute him on the spot.
He later moved to the US and opened a restaurant, but because of his infamy due to that picture and repeat attacks on his premises, he had to close.
I think he had some good reviews at first though.  I think I read a review somewhere that said "The food will blow you away."
this one's for you then:
http://sulkyknowledge.su.funpic.de/slechte%20grappen.html
my personal collection of bad jokes
(sorry about the ad appearing, my old site got disconnected)
this one's for you then:
http://sulkyknowledge.su.funpic.de/slechte%20grappen.html
my personal collection of bad jokes
(sorry about the ad appearing, my old site got disconnected)
three guys and a gal stranded on a deserted island. After 1
week she's so ashamed of what they're doing she commits
suicide. After another week, they're so ashamed of what
they're doing they bury her. After another week they're so
ashamed of what they're doing they dig her back up.
Um, your school teachers obviously don't "do" the observation thing...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/02022007/356/sex-offender-posed-boy.html
Gorbachev to Gates: "Have Mercy!"
In an open letter to the former Microsoft CEO, the former Soviet Leader asks Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of software piracy.
By Tom LaSusa, Network Computing
In 1987, President Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall and made his impassioned request to then Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, "Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Nearly two decades later, it's Gorbachev's turn to reach out to a powerful world figure -- Bill Gates -- with his own emotional plea. The request: to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.
Prosecutors have accused Alexander Ponosov, headmaster of a middle school a remote Russian village, of violating Microsoft's intellectual property rules by using unlicensed copies of Microsoft software on his school's computers. Russia has been cracking down on piracy as part of its efforts to join the World Trade Organization. The punishment for this crime could be life in a Siberian prison.
In an open letter posted on the Internet site of Gorbachev's charitable foundation (www.gorby.ru), Gorbachev says that the teacher was totally unaware he was committing a crime, and therefore should be shown compassion. While recognizing the importance of punishing intentional piracy, Gorbachev pleads with the Microsoft mogul to show mercy and have the company withdraw its complaint against the teacher.
"This noble step will be enthusiastically received by all those in Russia who use Microsoft products." Gorbachev contends.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6352785.stm
Little Johnny Howard not only shows he has some semblance of a backbone, but he also has no compunction about interfering in US internal politics.
Christians have accused the artist Damien Hirst of exploiting religious imagery for the sake of controversy in a new exhibition, to be displayed in a working Anglican church.
QuoteChristians have accused the artist Damien Hirst of exploiting religious imagery for the sake of controversy in a new exhibition, to be displayed in a working Anglican church.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2281384.ece
And in other news, the pot called the kettle black.
"Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Sony claimed that Lik-Sang infringed its trade marks, copyright and registered design rights by selling Sony PSP consoles from Asia to European customers, and have recently obtained a judgment in the High Court of London (England) rendering Lik-Sang's sales of PSP consoles unlawful.
As of today, Lik-Sang.com will not be in the position to accept any new orders and will cancel and refund all existing orders that have already been placed. Furthermore, Lik-Sang is working closely with banks and PayPal to refund any store credits held by the company, and the customer support department is taking care of any open transactions such as pending RMAs or repairs and shipping related matters. The staff of Lik-Sang will make sure that nobody will get hurt in the crossfire of this ordeal."
The lawsuits they are talking about, by the way, involve Sony's attempts to make gray market imports of console systems illegal, especially in Europe. The way they did this was by filing a suit in every single frickin' EU country... essentially bleeding Lik Sang to death. You can see the writing on the wall in Lik Sang's statement:
"Fighting multiple lawsuits in different countries at the same time and paying high premiums to expensive lawyers is an overwhelming situation for a small company like Lik-Sang. Launching separate court actions with separate claims and different judges is completely unnecessary, except for the fact that it helps reaching one single target: outspend Lik-Sang to death. 'Pay Beyond.'"
"Furthermore, Sony have failed to disclose to the London High Court that not only the world wide gaming community in more than 100 countries relied on Lik-Sang for their gaming needs, but also Sony Europe's very own top directors repeatedly got their Sony PSP hard or software imports in nicely packed Lik-Sang parcels with free Lik-Sang Mugs or Lik-Sang Badge Holders, starting just two days after Japan's official release, as early as 14th of December 2004 (more than nine months earlier than the legal action). The list of PSP related Sony Europe orders reads like the who's who of the videogames industry, and includes Ray Maguire (Managing Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Alan Duncan (UK Marketing Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Chris Sorrell (Creative Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Rob Parkin (Development Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited), just to name a few."
I'm just stoked I've found Matt Taibbi again. I remember when he wrote for the eXile, back in the early days. He's kickass. I suppose it kinda sucks, the story, but I'm reading the rest of his stuff now.still its scary to see the idiots that care more about a dumb bitch going bald than the fact that we are constantly getting ass raped by the government while the richest of the rich get away with murder
Shit, when you think about it that way, why not steal from us? People that dumb don't deserve to have money.
Actually, under international law it was ethnic cleansing, no less reprehensible, but a different charge. 
Actually, under international law it was ethnic cleansing, no less reprehensible, but a different charge.
how does international law differentiate 'genocide' vs 'ethnic cleansing'?
http://somalinet.com/news/world/Somalia/7367
Guess which part of the world is not reporting this story...?
I don't know if this was posted yet, and it was a couple days ago,
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21075
Bloggers gotta watch their backs.
I don't know if this was posted yet, and it was a couple days ago,
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21075
Bloggers gotta watch their backs.
Not only in Egypt.
THE US GOVERNMENT is planning to force bloggers who criticise Congress and organise grassroot causes to register themselves or face jail time.
According to GrassrootsFreedom.com, under Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, bloggers who have more than 500 readers will have to register and report quarterly to Congress just like lobbiests or go to jail.
GrassrootsFreedom.com chairman Richard Viguerie said the new law would create the most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever.
The amendment was introduced by Senator David Vitter and is currently on hold as it seems to have got bogged down in the legislative process. It would be interesting to find a bog that is read by more than 500 people.
http://www.grassrootsfreedom.com/
oh yah and this one's for hunter
it was higher in the news so obviously far more important
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070302/tecnology/net_americanidol_dc
News time being taken up to ask "is Idols judging too harsh?" You've gotta be kidding me. It's not harsh enough. They should incorporate corporal punishment into the show.
that cinches it.Fucking Rah!
Anne Coulter is not only one of us, but possibly the single most brilliant one of us.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070306/world/international_iraq_prison_dc
"Qaeda-led militants storm Iraq jail, free 140
Tue Mar 6, 1:55 PM
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Dozens of al Qaeda-led militants stormed an Iraqi jail in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday and freed up to 140 prisoners in one of the biggest prison breaks since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, police said.
As many as 300 militants led by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, attacked Mosul's northwestern Badoush prison just after sunset in the ethnically mixed city and overwhelmed police, who were forced to call the U.S. military for backup, officials said.
Hisham al-Hamdani, a member of the Mosul provincial government, said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi took part in the attack himself. The Islamic State in Iraq is a body set up by al Qaeda's Iraq wing and other Sunni militant groups in October.
Most of the prisoners were believed to be insurgents, police said.
It was unclear if there were any clashes between gunmen and police during the incident.
Saddam Hussein's nephew, Ayham Sabawi, escaped the same prison in December after he was accused of financing the Sunni insurgency against U.S. forces and the Shi'ite-led government."
hummm...
thats quite a morale boast to the insurgence
In other news, Christianity is still popular.
It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.
With a click of the remote, fashioned from a car's keyless entry device, a small elevator inside the refrigerator lifts a beer can through a hole and loads it into the fridge's catapult arm. A second click fires the device, tossing the beer up to 20 feet - "far enough to get to the couch," he said.
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/APN/703072914QuoteIt took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.
With a click of the remote, fashioned from a car's keyless entry device, a small elevator inside the refrigerator lifts a beer can through a hole and loads it into the fridge's catapult arm. A second click fires the device, tossing the beer up to 20 feet - "far enough to get to the couch," he said.
High Court Takes "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Case, Toke Three
"Free Speech or Half Baked Lawsuit?"
When a joke is taken seriously, that's irony, but when it's taken so seriously that the Supreme Court is called upon to determine how future jokes can be made, that's meta-irony. And yet, there it was, a Borat-like moment in the most hallowed of judicial halls: the Morse V. Frederick case. At question in the narrow interpretation: Was it wrong for an Alaska high school principal to tear down her student's banner during an off-campus field trip because it read "Bong Hits 4 Jesus?" And, despite the absurdity of hearing justices parse the minutia of that "sophomoric" prank, what was at stake in the wider scope could not have been more serious: the regulation of free speech within America's public schools.
Further heightening the irony, though, is that no clear solution presented itself. In reviewing the Court's transcript and the multitude of reader comments from yesterday, there were two arguments that struck me as fundamental to this case broadly. First, since the Court's decision may set a precedent for the extent to which students can dissent with their schools, will a decision favoring student Frederick create a situation in which teachers are unable to keep order for fear they will be sued? Second, will a decision favoring Principal Morse create a situation in which schools can punish any student who openly disagrees with their "mission," no matter how oppressive that "mission" is?
Since neither option is appealing, a more narrow focus on the specifics of this case is necessary to further define what constitutes disruption and free speech. And this is where the oral arguments become really ironic. It appears that because Frederick's banner was a joke, and not a political statement (protected under Tinker V. Des Moines), he might be on shakier ground. The justices seemed to hint that if in the school's mind he was encouraging drug use rather than advocating its legalization, tearing down the banner may have been justified. That is to say, had it read "Vote Yes For Bong Hits" or "Give Pot A Chance" or "Make Marijuana Mandatory," he may have been better protected. However, as one reader noted -- and this case seems to exemplify -- humor and satire that point out absurdity are often vehicles for political statements. Take away students' capacity to mock authority, and you undermine political expression. Protect it, and every class clown will test and push the limits further. Therefore, it would seem no matter which way the Court leans, the joke's on them, and us.
By Emil Steiner | March 20, 2007; 11:42 AM ET
BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- Berlin Zoo's abandoned polar bear cub Knut looks cute, cuddly and has become a front-page media darling, but an animal rights activist insisted Monday he would have been better off dead than raised by humans.
"Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws," animal rights activist Frank Albrecht was quoted as saying by the mass-circulation Bild daily, which has featured regular photo spreads tracking fuzzy Knut's frolicking.
"The zoo must kill the bear."
When Knut -- or "Cute Knut," as the 8.7 kilogram (19 pound) bear has become known -- was born last December, his mother ignored him and his brother, who later died. Zoo officials intervened, choosing to raise the cub themselves.
The story prompted quick condemnations from the zoo, politicians and other animal rights groups.
"The killing of an animal has nothing to do with animal protection," said Wolfgang Apel, head of the German Federation for the Protection of Animals.
...
No final decision has been made on how to defrost the colossal squid, which has eyes as big as a dinner plate. If anyone made squid rings from the beast, they would be as big as tractor tires.
But there are no plans to eat the beast, partly because the flesh contains so much ammonia it would taste like floor cleaner.
Wow, that is quite the story. It makes me think of things that make me laugh. :lol:
Colossal Squid May Go Into Microwave
thats so stupid, some people need to get a life. if my profile gets deleted or something though i will personally hunt these guys down and slay them
http://www.bumbinorn.ru/2007/02/22/hambo_lama_48654.html
:eek: an 80 year old dead Buddhist corpse has no decay
I'm gonna get cremated - One last laugh at the expense of the maggots
I'm gonna get cremated - One last laugh at the expense of the maggots
from ign (http://ps2.ign.com/articles/755/755900p1.html)
'Sephiroth' and 'Reno', arrested for Murder in germany
January 16, 2007 - It seems that flavour of the week right now is covering videogame-related injuries, deaths and misdemeanours. Now, according to a translated report by Expatica, two 15 year old teenagers in Germany have been arrested for murder.
Although not mentioned in the initial translation, it has now been revealed that the two teens used the aliases 'Sepheroth' and 'Reno' - taken from the iconic Final Fantasy VII characters. They allegedly stabbed a couple to death in their home. They were arrested after kidnapping a female friend and holding her hostage for an hour before giving themselves up.
The damning part of this whole incident, beyond the tragic and gruesome nature of the crimes, is that the broader media caught wind that the teens had a copy of Final Fantasy VII installed on their computer.
In Germany, Final Fantasy VII is now being referred to as a 'Killerspiele'; which translates as 'killer game'. Now not even the sacred Final Fantasy brand name is free from the taint of violent crime.
Founded by Congressman Randy Forbes (R-Virginia) in 2005, the Prayer Caucus -- an official caucus of the U.S. House -- meets every week that Congress is in session. According to Forbes, members of the Caucus gather together in Room 219 of the Capitol and "lay aside party affiliations, political agendas, and individual schedules" to pray together, focusing on God's promise found in 2 Chronicles 7:14: "If my people, who are called by my Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and heal their land."
Not sure if you guys have seen this yet but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw
Not sure if you guys have seen this yet but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw
Not sure if you guys have seen this yet but:Nope. No words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw
I am INSANELY curious as to why the principal threw the feces at the kid.
"I just couldn't take it anymore."
Take WHAT anymore?
The Associated Press reports: METALLICA may work as a name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to persuade authorities it's also suitable for a baby girl.
Sweden's tax agency rejected Michael and Karolina Tomaro's application to name their 6-month-old daughter (photo) after the legendary rock band. [See previous BLABBERMOUTH.NET report.]
"It suits her," Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday (April 3) of the name. "She's decisive and she knows what she wants."
Although little METALLICA has already been baptized, the Swedish National Tax Board refused to register the name, saying it was associated with both the rock group and the word "metal."
In Sweden, parents must get the names of their children approved by the tax authority, which is in charge of the population registry and issues personal identification numbers, similar to Social Security numbers in the United States.
Tomaro, who has appealed the decision, said the official handling the case also called the name "ugly."
The couple was backed by the County Administrative Court in Gothenburg, which ruled on March 13 that there was no reason to block the name. It also noted that there already is a woman in Sweden with METALLICA as a middle name.
The tax agency appealed to a higher court, frustrating the family's foreign travel plans.
"We've had to cancel trips and can't get anywhere because we can't get her a passport without an approved name," Tomaro said.
HIMEOBS INSANITY CAMPAIGN HAVING EFFECT IN CANADA (http://www.thestar.com/News/article/198600)
The forums do not have the proper emoticon to respond to this.
BREAKING NEWS: VAPID POP STAR DOES SOMETHING!
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:nigel:
April 10th, 2007 at 5:49 am
I’m looking at the Senate site, and it looks to me like this was passed in the House, placed on the Senate calendar in July of last year, and has not had any action since.
Which means it’s not law.
i dunno, i'm hardly the expert on american politics law passing stuff.
(http://obama.senate.gov/img/pic_obama_bio.jpg)
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Also, needs more tentacles.
(http://obama.senate.gov/img/pic_obama_bio.jpg)
/
Also, needs more tentacles.
:mittens:
Obama lurves teh tentacles.
Freedom Of Religion Means Freedom For All Of Them
Back in August of 2003 the town fathers of Duchesne, Utah transferred a piece of a town park over to the local Lions Club. The expressed purpose for the transfer was to allow a Ten Commandments monument to remain standing on the 10' by 11' site. The monument had stood in this park for over 25 years. The town also passed an ordinance which banned the erection of any other religious monument in the park. In September of 2003, town fathers heard from the Church of Summum, a 30-year-old religion which espouses that "the voice of wisdom is silent, except to the OPEN MIND."
http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=07/04/19/08263085;cmt=70
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2007/04/24/real-id-a-threat-to-security/
US ID laws are going to create a virtual"African diamond war for the digital age" where anyone's ID may be up for grabs, totally destroying your life.
"A nationwide study found that people of below average intelligence were, overall, just about as wealthy as those in similar circumstances but with higher scores on an IQ test."*wipes sweat off brow*
“Your IQ has really no relationship to your wealth."
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2007/04/24/real-id-a-threat-to-security/
US ID laws are going to create a virtual"African diamond war for the digital age" where anyone's ID may be up for grabs, totally destroying your life.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=46457&in_page_id=2
Drunken German man rode a horse into a bank
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2007/04/24/real-id-a-threat-to-security/
US ID laws are going to create a virtual"African diamond war for the digital age" where anyone's ID may be up for grabs, totally destroying your life.
BTW, this makes me sick and want to move Canada or Cuba even more.
Beware the thought police!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/27/student.essay.arrest.ap/index.html
Student Arrested For Making Video Game Map of School
http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2847/chinese-community-rallies-behind-student-removed-from-clements-over-pc-game-map
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186)
New research on death.
summary if anyone asks.
Also, for those of you that eat transfats, the reason they build up in your arteries is because they are fats that your body has a hard time breaking down, possibly cannot break down very much at all. So it just precipitates into your circulatory system.
Yeah, I'll be glad when they are gone. Its like feeding yourself heavy metals, except in this case its more legal.
Man widowed after his goat 'wife' chokes to death (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=452655&in_page_id=1770)
Not only is it the most popular story on bbc news site - it's the most popular story here too.
Every second or third thread by the looks of it.
Proof that goat fucking stories never get old
I think Sarkozy is going to win the French Presidential elections tomorrow. Which will be very bad news. He was the jackbooted Minister of the Interior when all the riots kicked off last year - caused indirectly by his policies.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186)
New research on death.
summary if anyone asks.
Also, for those of you that eat transfats, the reason they build up in your arteries is because they are fats that your body has a hard time breaking down, possibly cannot break down very much at all. So it just precipitates into your circulatory system.
Yeah, I'll be glad when they are gone. Its like feeding yourself heavy metals, except in this case its more legal.
holy fuk
after some googling i found the dutch term for this, "transvetzuren", trans fatty acids.
that's a lot of products, it's in.
gonna pay some attention to this in the future.
(ah a quick check in my kitchen cupboards shows that at least one of my usual supermarkets puts the amount of trans-fat on their items. this also tells me to use real cream butter in the future instead of that plant-oil-fat produced stuff, so it doesn't seem too bad for me yet .. apparently according to some site NL was in 1996 the top 2 of most transfat intake, together with iceland, at 1.4g a day)
Roman-appointed King of Judea from around 37 BC to 4 BC
A bloody ruler who killed political rivals
Ordered the Massacre of Innocents to protect his throne, the New Testament says
Behind ambitious building projects including expanding Second Jewish Temple and walls around Jerusalem
Yeah, but with a Spanish accent.
Don't you guys play 'Thelemite Matador'?
You wave a cloth at Thelemites, bait them about how stupid they are and when they lunge at you, jump aside and yell 'Cr-Ole!'
Damn.
US troops get YouTube banUS Pentagon officials have revealed they are set to ban overseas soldiers from accessing social networking sites and video sites.
The Department of Defence (DoD) has revealed that 13 sites, including YouTube, MySpace and Photobucket, slow down the military computer network.
It is also thought that the DoD has moved to protect information, after the recent announcement that the US military will censor the content of soldiers' electronic communication.
US Korea Forces general B.B Bell said in an army memo: "This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network and bandwidth ability, while posing a significant operational security challenge."
Service men will be able to visit the sites on their own personal computers, but access in areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan is limited mainly to Defence Department machines.
Yeah, the sites they've blocked are basically bandwidth killers.
I mean, they could have done a China-esque lockdown, but they basically said, "dudes, stop posting videos of you shooting camel spiders."
(http://www.whatsthatbug.com/images/camel_spider_sandoval.jpg)
srael pounds Gaza, Palestinian attack kills 1
GAZA (Reuters) - At least five Palestinians and an Israeli woman were killed on Monday in fresh attacks by both sides and a senior Israeli cabinet minister said all Hamas leaders involved in cross-border rocket fire could be targeted.
The woman's death in the southern Israeli town of Sderot marked the first fatality in a Palestinian rocket attack since November and is likely to stoke further Israeli anger at what Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called an "intolerable" situation.
Israeli-Palestinian violence has surged in recent days, while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction and the militant Hamas group have struggled to maintain calm between their own fighters following weeks of internal fighting.
Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance Committees and Hamas all claimed responsibility for the rocket attack. Hamas had avoided such strikes after most militant groups declared a truce months ago but had renewed them following Israeli violence.
Abbas said Israel's attacks would have "grave consequences for the entire region" and that militants should stop their rocket fire "so as not to give the Israelis the excuse they use to justify their attacks that have killed innocent victims," said the Palestinian president's spokesman, Nabil Amr.
Israel's security cabinet decided on Sunday to escalate military action in response to some 150 rockets fired from Gaza since last week, which have put political pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
"It is our obligation to harm the rocket launchers and our obligation is to continue to harm Hamas," Livni said during a news conference in Sderot with European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana.
Dozens of Israelis burned tires on a street in Sderot following the deadly rocket attack. The crowd scattered when a siren wailed that signals incoming rocket attacks.
Palestinians fear Israel may soon raid Gaza should the violence continue. Several vehicles and artillery batteries have been stationed near the northern border for days.
FEMALE WOULD-BE BOMBERS READY
In Gaza, Palestinian women dressed in black, donning masks with the words "al-Aqsa Brigades," which is part of Fatah, and clutching rifles told reporters they were ready to commit suicide bombings against any Israeli troops who entered Gaza.
An Israeli air strike killed at least four members of Islamic Jihad on their way to launch rockets at the Jewish state. Israeli National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Israel should target all militant leaders.
"I don't distinguish between those who carry out the (rocket) attacks and those who give the orders. I say we have to put them all in the crosshairs," he told Israel Radio.
Israel's internal security minister, Avi Dichter, said Hamas's leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal, whom Israel tried to assassinate in Jordan in 1997, and Haniyeh, who lives in Gaza, could be targeted.
Thousands of Hamas supporters had earlier taken to the streets of Gaza City and gunmen fired into the air, vowing revenge, one day after an Israeli air strike on the home of Hamas politician Khalil al-Hayya.
"We will keep to the same path until we win one of two goals: victory or martyrdom," Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, said at the funeral service.
One man was killed in an earlier Israeli air strike on what the Jewish state called a rocket manufacturing facility and Palestinians described as a stonemason's shop. The air strikes also cut electricity to about 50,000 people.
Abbas will go to Gaza on Tuesday to speak to leaders about maintaining law and order, following weeks of internal fighting, and perhaps renewing a truce with Israel, Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr said.
(Additional reporting by Ari Rabinovitch and Corinne Heller in Jerusalem and Ali Sawafta in Ramallah)
No shit. You keep your troops in those sort of conditions long enough and they turn into throat-slitting, nasty business types themselves.
No shit. You keep your troops in those sort of conditions long enough and they turn into throat-slitting, nasty business types themselves.
I really wish I could record and stream some of the early morning phone in shows for you...
there is this impression, and I would say the majority or close to, that our troops, not only can do no wrong, but they are the carriers of cvilization to the oppressed ignorant masses
I could only imagine that there are some places in the states that are probably worse
fucking gorillas!
President to become Dictator in face of a crisis
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=22081
Read it and weep. Got passed over a week ago, too.
*blinks*
They did this in STAR WARS! Jar-Jar gave emergency powers to Chancellor Palpatine, the rest is history.
Oh snap. Thread ruined. :lulz:
This has been a while coming, actually, but where it'll backfire on the assholes is when their "learned colleague" from across the aisle is in power. Then the shit will come a-flying.
Ain't nobody from the red states wants Dictator Hillary.
This has been a while coming, actually, but where it'll backfire on the assholes is when their "learned colleague" from across the aisle is in power. Then the shit will come a-flying.
Ain't nobody from the red states wants Dictator Hillary.
President to become Dictator in face of a crisis
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=22081
Read it and weep. Got passed over a week ago, too.
*blinks*
They did this in STAR WARS! Jar-Jar gave emergency powers to Chancellor Palpatine, the rest is history.
Oh snap. Thread ruined. :lulz:
They may have also done it in a well known blockbuster film called The Rise of Nazi Germany, which not many people know is based on Star Wars. 8)
Also, in general, that link is pretty fantastic and has some of the most well-balanced and thought out current affairs articles I have seen on the net.
This has been a while coming, actually, but where it'll backfire on the assholes is when their "learned colleague" from across the aisle is in power. Then the shit will come a-flying.
Ain't nobody from the red states wants Dictator Hillary.
Unless of course they shoe-horn some random "crisis" that can trigger those powers before the next election. Hmmmm ... didn't they "release" info regarding plans for another Al-Qaida attack on the US?
:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:
wait, did that get passed?President to become Dictator in face of a crisis
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=22081
Read it and weep. Got passed over a week ago, too.
Thank god for that. Now the missing kid story is making sense to me.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/ThornIs/bush-1.jpg)
before anyone asks
no, I dont know why I put a bond villian in there
Two BNP councillors staged an impromptu walkout from Sandwell Council last night in protest at Sikh becoming mayor. They claim his appointment breaches the Magna Carta - but now face an enquiry by the local government standards board.
Simon Smith (who represents Great Bridge) and Carl Butler (Tividale) insist that they didn‚Äôt leave the chamber during the vote to appoint Gurcharan ‚ÄúSid‚Äů Sidhu as first citizen ‚Äě but Butler admits they did retire to an area close to the public gallery for a ‚Äúcoffee break‚Äů.
He claims that under the Magna Carta ‚Äě which was written in 1215 and forms the basis of England‚Äôs constitution - ‚Äúforeigners‚Äů are banned from holding public office.
Quite how this applies to ‚ÄúSid‚Äů, who‚Äôs been a British citizen for 44 years ‚Äě isn‚Äôt clear, but as Butler is happy to explain, he believes that even people who are born in this country should be disqualified from public life if they are of African or Asian heritage.
‚ÄúThat‚Äôs not racist it‚Äôs realist‚Äů, he told us.
‚ÄúThe Magna Carta states that no foreigner should take public office and that‚Äôs our view. There‚Äôs no personal animosity, he just shouldn‚Äôt be mayor‚Äů.
‚ÄúThat‚Äôs not racist it‚Äôs realist‚Äů, he told us.
‚ÄúThat‚Äôs not racist it‚Äôs realist‚Äů, he told us.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
:lulz: :lulz:
Someone hand that man a dictionary, preferably an unabridged, in as violent a manner as possible.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/ThornIs/bush-1.jpg)
heh orang cutang :)
do they all look like this? or is this an especially fat one?
lotsa apes escaping and mauling people these days .. I WONDER IF THEY'RE UP TO SOMETHING
"Contrary to ancient lore and popular belief, the smoke that emerges from a water pipe contains numerous toxicants known to cause lung cancer, heart disease and other diseases."
"It feels really good," Jamison said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."
Where the fuck do hogs that big actually live without being commonly seen?
Where the fuck do hogs that big actually live without being commonly seen?
Holy shit.
Speaking of shit...that pig would fucking ruin any forest he was in just from one giant dump! WTF does it EAT? Log cabins full of lumberjacks? Fuck me running. Wow.
You've heard of sleep walking, how about sleep fucking?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18999826/site/newsweek/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18999826/site/newsweek/)
Quote from: Jamieson Stone
"It feels really good," Jamison said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."
You will boy, come the apocalypse!
LONDON (Reuters) - Parents are stopping their children going out to play on their own because of safety fears, potentially restricting their future development, according to a report on Tuesday.
The Children's Society survey found that 43 percent of adults thought children should not go out unsupervised until they were 14.
That is despite the fact that in their own youth most had been allowed out on their own at the age of 10 or younger.
"Children have told us loud and clear that friendship matters and yet this is an area in which we appear to be failing them," said Bob Reitemeier, chief executive of the society.
"On the one hand we want freedom for our children but on the other we are becoming increasingly frightened to let them out."
Fears over children's safety have been exacerbated by stories in the media of youngsters being attacked by predatory paedophiles, such as the murders of Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002 and the abduction and killing of Sarah Payne in 2000.
However experts say high profile incidents are still rare and there is no evidence to suggest there has been an increase in the number of youngsters murdered by strangers.
The study, carried out as part of the society's Good Childhood Inquiry, suggested that early friendships were very important and often lasted a lifetime, with 69 percent of respondents saying they were still in contact with a childhood friend.
It added that its inquiry had found that children rate having friends as the most important factor in their lives.
But the report said there was research to suggest that since 1986 the number of teenagers with no friends has increased from one in eight to nearly one in five.
"All the research shows that spending time with friends is fundamental to children's wellbeing and development which means it is crucial that we resolve this contradiction," said Reitemeier.
:argh!:
They had this crap in the UK. It doesn't, it has been proven by numerous scientific papers and research. There is just one guy, one scientist, who thinks it is, and he feeds the parents false hope and fears about the truth of their child's condition.
I had the same vaccinations, as did everyone of my age that I know. Yet, in all my life, I've only known one autistic person of my age. Hmmmm........
And earlier this year his campaign was widely criticised for seizing control over a MySpace group where an enthusiastic supporter, Joe Anthony, had amassed a list of 160,000 friends for Mr Obama.
Paul wassisname
With Paul wassisname on vocals?
Paul wassisname
never heard of the guy, but if that's really Rev's brother, it must be PWHNage
:rimshot:
"In the absence of movie piracy, video retailers would sell and rent more titles. Movie theaters would sell more tickets and popcorn. Corn growers would earn greater profits and buy more farm equipment."
BERLIN (Reuters) - German workaholics may be suffering from a lack of sex, according to a university study published Friday.
A survey of 32,000 men and women by researchers at the University of Goettingen found over 35 percent of those reporting unsatisfying sex lives tended to use hard work as a diversion.
Some 36 percent of men and 35 percent of women surveyed for the "Apotheken Umschau" newsletter said they were likely to put in extra time at the office and volunteer for extra assignments.
The hard work ethic was even more pronounced among those who reported having no sex -- 45 percent of men and 46 percent of women said they voluntarily took on more responsibilities.
"These findings are worrying," the leader of the study, Ragnar Beer, was quoted as saying.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/aug/07/man-claims-have-magical-sword-during-heist-deputie/?news-breaking
Fossils challenge old evoluton theory
WASHINGTON - Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved.
The discovery by Meave Leakey, a member of a famous family of paleontologists, shows that two species of early human ancestors lived at the same time in Kenya. That pokes holes in the chief theory of man's early evolution — that one of those species evolved from the other.
And it further discredits that iconic illustration of human evolution that begins with a knuckle-dragging ape and ends with a briefcase-carrying man.
The old theory is that the first and oldest species in our family tree, Homo habilis, evolved into Homo erectus, which then became human, Homo sapiens. But Leakey's find suggests those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya for at least half a million years. She and her research colleagues report the discovery in a paper published in Thursday's journal Nature.
The paper is based on fossilized bones found in 2000. The complete skull of Homo erectus was found within walking distance of an upper jaw of Homo habilis, and both dated from the same general time period. That makes it unlikely that Homo erectus evolved from Homo habilis, researchers said.
It's the equivalent of finding that your grandmother and great-grandmother were sisters rather than mother-daughter, said study co-author Fred Spoor, a professor of evolutionary anatomy at the University College in London.
The two species lived near each other, but probably didn't interact, each having its own "ecological niche," Spoor said. Homo habilis was likely more vegetarian while Homo erectus ate some meat, he said. Like chimps and apes, "they'd just avoid each other, they don't feel comfortable in each other's company," he said.
There remains some still-undiscovered common ancestor that probably lived 2 million to 3 million years ago, a time that has not left much fossil record, Spoor said.
Overall what it paints for human evolution is a "chaotic kind of looking evolutionary tree rather than this heroic march that you see with the cartoons of an early ancestor evolving into some intermediate and eventually unto us," Spoor said in a phone interview from a field office of the Koobi Fora Research Project in northern Kenya.
That old evolutionary cartoon, while popular with the general public, is just too simple and keeps getting revised, said Bill Kimbel, who praised the latest findings. He is science director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and wasn't part of the Leakey team.
"The more we know, the more complex the story gets," he said. Scientists used to think Homo sapiens evolved from Neanderthals, he said. But now we know that both species lived during the same time period and that we did not come from Neanderthals.
Now a similar discovery applies further back in time.
Susan Anton, a New York University anthropologist and co-author of the Leakey work, said she expects anti-evolution proponents to seize on the new research, but said it would be a mistake to try to use the new work to show flaws in evolution theory.
"This is not questioning the idea at all of evolution; it is refining some of the specific points," Anton said. "This is a great example of what science does and religion doesn't do. It's a continous self-testing process."
For the past few years there has been growing doubt and debate about whether Homo habilis evolved into Homo erectus. One of the major proponents of the more linear, or ladder-like evolution that this evidence weakens, called Leakey's findings important, but he wasn't ready to concede defeat.
Dr. Bernard Wood, a surgeon-turned-professor of human origins at George Washington University, said in an e-mail Wednesday that "this is only a skirmish in the protracted 'war' between the people who like a bushy interpretation and those who like a more ladder-like interpretation of early human evolution."
Leakey's team spent seven years analyzing the fossils before announcing it was time to redraw the family tree — and rethink other ideas about human evolutionary history. That's especially true of most immediate ancestor, Homo erectus.
Because the Homo erectus skull Leakey recovered was much smaller than others, scientists had to first prove that it was erectus and not another species nor a genetic freak. The jaw, probably from an 18- or 19-year-old female, was adult and showed no signs of malformation or genetic mutations, Spoor said. The scientists also know it isn't Homo habilis from several distinct features on the jaw.
That caused researchers to re-examine the 30 other erectus skulls they have and the dozens of partial fossils. They realized that the females of that species are much smaller than the males — something different from modern man, but similar to other animals, said Anton. Scientists hadn't looked carefully enough before to see that there was a distinct difference in males and females.
Difference in size between males and females seem to be related to monogamy, the researchers said. Primates that have same-sized males and females, such as gibbons, tend to be more monogamous. Species that are not monogamous, such as gorillas and baboons, have much bigger males.
This suggests that our ancestor Homo erectus reproduced with multiple partners.
The Homo habilis jaw was dated at 1.44 million years ago. That is the youngest ever found from a species that scientists originally figured died off somewhere between 1.7 and 2 million years ago, Spoor said. It enabled scientists to say that Homo erectus and Homo habilis lived at the same time.
Toronto: A metaphor for a country in decline
Christopher Hume
Now that we've finished venting about councillors' refusal to cut their salaries, their perks and all the rest of that nonsense, let's all take a deep breath and remember who's to blame for the mess Toronto is in: we are.
That's right, it's us. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
We're the ones who vote – those of us who bother – for the Denzil Minnan-Wongs, the Dalton McGuintys, the Mike Harrises, the Stephen Harpers and the rest.
We're the ones who reward politicians who tell us the fantasies we want to hear, not the truths we need to hear. We're the ones who have made it impossible for leaders to talk about anything much more substantial than tax cuts.
Aided and abetted by the media, we ask the wrong questions and get angry when we don't hear the wrong answers.
We're the ones who vote for the Mel Lastmans and the David Millers because they promise they won't raise taxes. Then when the spit finally hits the fan, we turn around and scream bloody murder.
Democracy boasts many virtues, but it also has serious weaknesses, including the fact that it allows citizens to vote thoughtlessly and without regard to reality. Indeed, look at who gets elected to see just how irrational, even moronic, the process has become. How else does a George W. Bush end up the most powerful person on Earth?
One of the truths the politicians would like us to forget is that you get what you pay for. Civilization costs money. If the city's going to remove snow, pick up garbage, pay the province's social services bill, fill potholes and so on, it must be able to cover these costs.
Instead of voting for councillors who promise we can remain forever in dreamland, where taxes never go up and roads are free, we should think first and ask whether they are able to do the opposite, i.e., insist we return to the real world. It, of course, is not such a nice place.
Toronto, like all of Canada, is based largely on myths that border on lies. We like to think that the city is among the greatest and the country a respected world citizen. We may be a middling power, but always sensible and responsible.
In fact, we grow increasingly irrelevant. And although Canada still ranks among the most desirable places on the planet, by any measure – productivity, innovation, wealth creation, education, environmental integrity, tolerance – we are slipping. This was confirmed most recently by the Conference Board of Canada in a massive three-volume report that took three years to prepare.
Like all Canadian cities, Toronto is chronically and systemically underfunded. This is built into the very governance structure of the nation, which undervalues urban centres. We have set it up that way.
Toronto isn't just Canada's largest and most important city; it has become a metaphor for a country in decline. Our administratively burdened federation has reached a point of fragmentation where the premiers fail miserably when it comes to dealing with the most urgent issue facing us and the rest of the planet: global warming. This isn't just worrisome, it's immoral.
Because they fear reality, Canadians are terrified of change. The idea of reducing the role of the provinces and empowering cities isn't taken seriously. Yet it's something that must happen if we are to achieve the nimbleness we need to keep up with the wholesale transformation of Asia and Europe.
Instead, we grow slow and complacent, content to rely on resource exploitation rather than the value-added approach of leading economies.
In the meantime, we continue to demand European-style public services on American-level taxes.
As we Torontonians are finding out, it doesn't work that way.
Democrat party
Somebody using a computer inside Democrat HQ edited a page on conservative American radio host Rush Limbaugh, calling him "idiotic", "ridiculous" and labelling his 20 million listeners as "legally retarded".
Although Elden said he feels "pretty normal" about his famous photo, he did add that it occasionally helped him with girls, explaining, "I have to use stupid pickup lines like, 'You want to see my penis again.'"
I remember hearing about this guy a few months ago, actually.
I should write him a letter and tell him that his penis got the CD taken away from me in 3rd grade for bringing it in for Show and Tell.
Home computer?
I know the Times one does, because I saw it only half an hour ago...
Proposals to ban saggy pants are starting to ride up in several places. At the extreme end, wearing pants low enough to show boxers or bare buttocks in one small Louisiana town means six months in jail and a $500 fine. A crackdown also is being pushed in Atlanta. And in Trenton, getting caught with your pants down may soon result in not only a fine, but a city worker assessing where your life is headed.
Proposals to ban saggy pants are starting to ride up in several places. At the extreme end, wearing pants low enough to show boxers or bare buttocks in one small Louisiana town means six months in jail and a $500 fine. A crackdown also is being pushed in Atlanta. And in Trenton, getting caught with your pants down may soon result in not only a fine, but a city worker assessing where your life is headed.
ERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.
John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.
The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.
The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.
The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy said.
"This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills."
Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding.
The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the burning hydrogen — which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit — would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery.
"We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."
Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water (http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570)QuoteERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.
John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.
The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.
The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.
The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy said.
"This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills."
Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding.
The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the burning hydrogen — which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit — would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery.
"We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."
...well this is potentially really cool...
I want to see a video though.
Welcome to Davy Jones' Sauna.
I just started on "Eye of the World", courtesy of D-Cup.
We'll see if they write up the last one, they say he left extensive notes.
Also: Dead Mummified Baby.
http://www.wmur.com/news/14157668/detail.html
At the behest of my friends, some of whom are fanatic Robert Jordan fans, I read Eye of the World. I didn't really like it.
I might have liked it if he resolved at least 30% of the plot threads he started.
I might have liked it if any of the female characters in the book weren't sooo irritating.
I do appreciate that Jordan was making a push to write non-Tolkien fantasy. (ie no Elves, Dwarves, & Orcs)
I think Jordan was really good at writing characters,
but I didn't think his storytelling had good "flow".
Stephen Colbert considering running for US Presidency on both tickets
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003657754
Is Huckabee the new breed of Republican religious fundamentalist, breaking with pro-corporate sentiment?
http://www.alternet.org/story/68057/
Santa is Turkish.
Srsly.
Breaking News: 13% of Dutch people are idiots who need to die in a fire.
Problem is that they then claim to live by the Bible's rules.
...which is based on poorly written, poorly translated Greek. Not to mention subsequent interpretations add ons, and concepts from theologicians several thousand years after the fact.
Want a story.....
I'm high...
And mad....
Want a story.....
I'm high...
And mad....
Update on man/bike sex arrest:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7098116.stm
"This is not the first legal case involving someone simulating sex with an inanimate object.
* In 1997 Robert Watt, 38, was fined Ł100 for trying to have sex with a shoe in an Edinburgh street
* In 2002 the same man was arrested for simulating sex with a traffic cone in front of a crowd of people"
:lulz:
AUSTRALIANS will be forced to contact their internet service provider to avoid having their access to the web restricted.
[...]
Under the plan, all internet service providers will be required to provide a "clean" feed to households and schools, free of pornography and other inappropriate material.
"The logic goes that we ought not to complain about ubiquitous ads from drug companies because they spend so much on research. If those Big Pharma researchers weren't relentlessly pursuing cures for today's maladies, we'd be screwed. That's why we should all just smile and live with the onslaught of ads on the latest breakthroughs in erectile dysfunction, anxiety, hair loss, or restless sleep disorder medication. But, a recent study reveals the shabby truth about the ratio of research to advertising done by Big Pharma (http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050001&ct=1) and it's not like they're spending a little bit more on the ads. In fact, they are spending almost twice as much shilling their products as they are in developing them."
Before police took her outside, they wanted to cover her with a sweater, and she screamed, "Don't cover me up. I'm f***ing hot."
Fucking insane retards, the lot of them.
"The FBI has been accused of covering up a file detailing government dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece
Australia's government announced Wednesday it will issue its first formal apology to country's indigenous people next month for past policies that forcibly removed generations of Aboriginal children from their families.
The apology would be a milestone on an issue that has divided Australians for decades.
The Feb. 13 apology to the so-called "stolen generations" of Aborigines will be the first item of business for the new Parliament, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin said.
"The apology will be made on behalf of the Australian government and does not attribute guilt to the current generation of Australian people," Macklin said in a statement.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/08/sad.shopping.ap/?iref=mpstoryview
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- If you're sad and shopping, watch your wallet: A new study shows people's spending judgment goes out the window when they're down, especially if they're a bit self-absorbed.
Study participants who watched a sadness-inducing video clip offered to pay nearly four times as much money to buy a water bottle than a group that watched an emotionally neutral clip.
The chief songwriter and founder of the band Boston has more than a feeling that he’s being ripped off by Mike Huckabee.
In a letter to the Republican presidential hopeful, Tom Scholz complains that Huckabee is using his 1970s smash hit song “More Than a Feeling” without his permission. A former member of the band, Barry Goudreau, has appeared with Huckabee at campaign events, and they have played the song with Huckabee’s band, Capitol Offense.
Scholz, who said Goudreau left the band more than 25 years ago after a three-year stint, objects to the implication that the band and one of its members has endorsed Huckabee’s candidacy.
As far as you know, what specific historical event is celebrated on July 4th?
Signing of the Declaration of Independence/day it was signed 55%
Independence Day 32
Birth of United States 1
Other 6
No opinion 6
100%
As far as you know, from what country did America gain its independence following the Revolutionary War?
England/Great Britain/United Kingdom 76%
France 2
Other 3
No opinion 19
100%
As far as you know, does the earth revolve around the sun, or does the sun revolve around the earth?
Earth revolves around the sun 79%
Sun revolves around the earth 18
No opinion 3
100%
Oh sweet baby jesus in heaven.
http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/02/27/bacon-cups/
the funny thing is, if you were to post these links over the course of a week or two, i might have actually clicked most of them. now i'm not going to look at any.
The real cause of climate changes, volcanoes activity, intensification of the seismic activity etc., is the planet Eris's getting closer to our solar system, intermediary named 2003-UB-313 and known in Antiquity under various names as: Nibiru, Marduk, Nemesis, Hercolubus, The Gods Planet, the Planet of the Empire, the Planet of the Cross, the Red Planet.
:news:QuoteThe real cause of climate changes, volcanoes activity, intensification of the seismic activity etc., is the planet Eris's getting closer to our solar system, intermediary named 2003-UB-313 and known in Antiquity under various names as: Nibiru, Marduk, Nemesis, Hercolubus, The Gods Planet, the Planet of the Empire, the Planet of the Cross, the Red Planet.
from http://beyondouterspace.blogspot.com/2007/07/planet-eris-and-global-warming.html
(AP) -- A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
But the presence of so many prescription drugs -- and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen -- in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.
In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas -- from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit, Michigan, to Louisville, Kentucky.
edit* disregard, repost.
Drugs found in drinking water across U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1.ap/index.html
At first I thought, "Hey, free drugs!"
Then I thought, "zomg! conspiracy!"
So I had to look...come to find out, we are drinking our bodily waste and it turns out it isn't purified near as much as we would like to think.
This reminds me, flouride in our drinking water?? OK, I know, but flouride in baby water from Wal-Mart??? By the time they have teeth, aren't they ready for tap water??? And what about the over-usage of question marks in this post?????
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080325/world/britain_internet_health
LONDON (AFP) - An online game that encourages prepubescent girls to contemplate breast enlargement surgery and extreme crash diets to achieve a 'perfect figure' has been criticised by worried parent groups and health experts.
The 'Miss Bimbo' game is aimed at girls aged 9 to 16 and has attracted 200,000 members since opening its British site in February. The website sparked controversy when it was introduced in France, where it attracted 1.2 million players.
The young girls are encouraged to monitor the weight, wardrobe, wealth and happiness of their virtual character to create "the coolest, richest and most famous bimbo in the world." The girls compete to earn "bimbo dollars" which can use to buy larger breasts, diet pills, nip-and-tuck surgery, sexy lingerie and nightclub outfits.
Healthcare professionals have warned that website encourages anorexia and bulimia by advising the girls to remain "waif thin".
"A lot of children will get caught up with the extremely damaging and appalling messages." Dee Dawson -- the medical director of the Rhodes Farm Clinic, which treats girls who suffer eating disorders -- told The Times.
The Parentkind group also condemned the site and warned that "Childrens innocence should be protected as far as possible "
A spokesman for the parents' group added: "It depends on the mindset of the child but the danger is that after playing the game , some will then aspire to have breast operations and take diet pills.
The Miss Bimbo site was created by French entrepreneur Nicholas Jacquart, who has moved to South London to promote the website in Britain.
www.missbimbo.com
:lol:
You would think that the fact that "bimbo" is plastered all over the site would have provided a clue...
This reminds me, flouride in our drinking water?? OK, I know, but flouride in baby water from Wal-Mart??? By the time they have teeth, aren't they ready for tap water???
But William Unruh, of the University of British Columbia, whose paper exploring the limits of Dr. Hawking’s radiation process was referenced on Mr. Wagner’s Web site, said they had missed his point. “Maybe physics really is so weird as to not have black holes evaporate,” he said. “But it would really, really have to be weird.”
Dr. Arkani-Hamed said concerning worries about the death of the Earth or universe, “Neither has any merit.” He pointed out that because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, “the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.”
ATHENS, Greece - A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.
Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more than two inches) long.
"They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo," hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.
The girl has made a full recovery, he said.
Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.
Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births.
The girl's family did not want to be identified, hospital officials said.
At the Erez border crossing in Gaza, Israeli troops opened fire towards [Palestinian] demonstrators.
There was no immediate word of any casualties. There were also clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops near the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank.
n Jerusalem, Mr Bush received a standing ovation from MPs at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.
Mr Bush said: "Israel's population may be just over seven million.
"But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307m strong, because the United States of America stands with you."
Israeli PM Ehud Olmert said there should be a different Middle East over the next 60 years that would include a democratic homeland for Palestinians.
He also said he thought the Israeli people and parliament would overwhelmingly back a peace agreement with the Palestinians
Palestine's population may be just over a million.
"But when you confront terror and evil, you are 200m strong, because the Revolutionary Guard and our allies stand with you.
That sounds more like a slander issue than a rights issue. They make a big deal over here too about what we can/can't have on signs to avoid complications such as these.
A spokeswoman for City of London Police said they had received complaints about the use of the words "cult" and "scientology kills" and warned protestors their signs breached the Public Order Act.
Chief Supt Rob Bastable said: "City of London Police upholds the right to demonstrate lawfully, but we have to balance that with the right of all sections of community not to be alarmed, harassed or distressed as a result of other people's behaviour."
That sounds more like a slander issue than a rights issue. They make a big deal over here too about what we can/can't have on signs to avoid complications such as these.
I don't care if its slander, because its true.
That sounds more like a slander issue than a rights issue. They make a big deal over here too about what we can/can't have on signs to avoid complications such as these.
I don't care if its slander, because its true.
it's not slander if it's true, right?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1%2C000-cars.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1%2C000-cars.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1%2C000-cars.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1%2C000-cars.html
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ALLOW CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS! MEN WITH MEN. WOMEN WITH WOMEN! MEN WITH CARS! WOMEN WITH DOPLHINS! DOGS WITH CATS! PRIME MINISTERS WITH FOREIGN HEADS OF STATE! WHERE WILL THIS MADNESS END?
[/Torygraph editorial]
SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian governor gave a posthumous pardon Tuesday to a man hanged 86 years ago for the rape and murder of a young girl, after new research discredited the evidence used for his conviction.
Colin Campbell Ross, who was hanged in 1922 at the age of 28, was pardoned Tuesday by Victoria state Gov. David de Kretser.
Descendants of Ross and the 12-year-old victim, Alma Tirtschke, petitioned for the pardon.
Prosecutors alleged that Ross, who ran a wine saloon in Melbourne, gave Tirschke alcohol before raping and strangling her on New Year's Eve 1921. The only physical evidence connecting him to the crime were hairs on a blanket; prosecutors said the hairs were Tirtschke's.
While witnesses gave alibis for Ross, he was convicted and hanged four months later, protesting his innocence.
The pardon petition built on research by Kevin Morgan, who wrote a book about the case called "Gun Alley (Murder, Lies and the Failure of Justice)." Morgan arranged for forensic tests on the original hair samples and showed that the ones on Ross' blanket did not match Tirtschke's. He also gave new character evidence about the prosecution's main witness.
Man who was hanged 86 years ago, pardoned by Austrailian governor.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24835639/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24835639/)QuoteSYDNEY, Australia - An Australian governor gave a posthumous pardon Tuesday to a man hanged 86 years ago for the rape and murder of a young girl, after new research discredited the evidence used for his conviction.
Colin Campbell Ross, who was hanged in 1922 at the age of 28, was pardoned Tuesday by Victoria state Gov. David de Kretser.
Descendants of Ross and the 12-year-old victim, Alma Tirtschke, petitioned for the pardon.
Better late than never?
Heh, I didn't catch that awkward phrasing.
Heh, I didn't catch that awkward phrasing.
even then, how could she have descendants?
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has again coming down firmly against the notion of women priests.
A decree clearly stating the church's opposition to women priests has been published in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano under a headline that calls the ordination of women a "crime."
The decree, published Thursday, was signed by William Cardinal Levada, the American head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
It says that anyone involved in trying ordain a woman and any woman who attempts to receive ordination is automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
A top Vatican official said in a statement Friday that the church decided to act after what it described as "so-called ordinations" in various parts of the world.
Msgr. Angelo Amato of the doctrinal office says the Vatican wants to provide bishops with a clear response on the issue.
The church has always banned the ordination of women, stating that the priesthood is reserved for males. The new decree is explicit in its reference to women.
In March, the archbishop of St. Louis excommunicated three women - two Americans and a South African - for participating in a woman's ordination. They were part of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement, which began in 2002.
Pope Benedict led the doctrinal office before becoming pontiff in 2005. Like his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, he has consistently rebuffed calls to change traditional church teachings on divorce, abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage and the requirement that priests be male and celibate.
Rev. Thomas Reese, a U.S.-based Jesuit theologian, said he believed the decree was an attempt by the Vatican to emphasize the rule.
"This is another opportunity to send the signal that it's a no-no," he said.
In Friday's statement, Amato said the Vatican felt "in good company" with the Orthodox and ancient eastern churches that maintain an all-male clergy, saying that Protestant churches have been the ones to break tradition.
Amato said the church does not feel authorized to change the will of Christ, who chose only men as his Apostles.
Catholics who are excommunicated cannot receive the sacraments. Amato said the penalty can be lifted if those so punished are sincerely repentant.
That and I don't want my name in the big book of Confirmations in the Vatican anymore. The stupid Holy Vaseline gave me a forehead of zits when I was 13. :argh!:
Amato said the church does not feel authorized to change the will of Christ,
QuoteAmato said the church does not feel authorized to change the will of Christ,
This one will never cease to amuse me.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences in those countries make sex with girls more acceptable.
Gons G. Nachman, 42, pleaded guilty in April to possessing child pornography after admitting that he had sex with 14- to 17-year-old girls while serving as a consular officer in Brazil and Congo and documenting the encounters in pictures and videos.
Ex-diplomat: Sex with teens OK in foreign cultures
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/ex-diplomat-sex-with-teens-ok-in-foreign/n20080710153009990029?ecid=RSS0001 (http://news.aol.com/story/_a/ex-diplomat-sex-with-teens-ok-in-foreign/n20080710153009990029?ecid=RSS0001)QuoteALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences in those countries make sex with girls more acceptable.
Gons G. Nachman, 42, pleaded guilty in April to possessing child pornography after admitting that he had sex with 14- to 17-year-old girls while serving as a consular officer in Brazil and Congo and documenting the encounters in pictures and videos.
And yes, I am curious about a certain poster's response to this story. So what say you?
ATTN: WOMEN
Ditch the condoms! Semen is an antidepressant!
http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/08/does-semen-have-antidepressant.php
:lulz:
News Americas
US 'escalates covert Iran missions'
US congressional leaders have agreed to a presidential request for up to $400 million in funding for covert operations against Iran, according to a report in the New Yorker magazine.
Previous cross-border operations have included the capture of Iranian security officers and the backing of anti-Tehran armed groups, said the report by Seymour Hersh, the investigative reporter.
The operations have been taking place since last year, the article said.
Bush's request, made through a Presidential Finding document, was approved by US congressional leaders, including Democrats, late last year, the report said.
Cross-border US operations against Iran include seizing members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and taking them across the border to Iraq for interrogation, the report said.
But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which include the CIA, have now been significantly expanded, the New Yorker said, citing current and former officials.
Armed Sunni groups
The operations also include providing support to armed Sunni Muslim groups opposed to the Iranian government, which is Shia.
Among groups inside Iran benefiting from US support is the Jundallah, also known as the Iranian People's Resistance Movement, according to Robert Baer, a former CIA officer cited by the article.
Vali Nasr, an Iran analyst, told Hersh that the group was a vicious organisation suspected of links to al-Qaeda.
The article said US support for the dissident groups could prompt a violent crackdown by Iran, which could give the Bush administration a reason to intervene.
US denial
Ryan Crocker, the US amabassador to Iraq, told the CNN news channel that he had not read the article, but denied the allegations of cross-border operations.
"I'll tell you flatly that US forces are not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran, in the south or anywhere else," he said in an interview from Baghdad on Sunday.
Hersh has written previously about possible administration plans to go to war to stop Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
An April 2006 article in the New Yorker that suggested "regime change" in Iran, whether by diplomatic or military means, was Bush's ultimate goal.
Iran maintains that its nuclear activities are for peaceful energy purposes only.
Election battle
Hersh told Al Jazeera that he believed the US was planning for a possible strike against Iran, something that was being pushed by Bush and Dick Cheney.
"The president and the vice-president truly believe that the Iranians have [nuclear]bombs or will have them soon, no matter what their own intelligence says."
In December, a joint report by US intelligence agencies found that Iran was less determined to develop nuclear weapons than was previously thought.
Hersh said he also believed a strike was more likely if Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, became favourite to win November's presidential poll.
Howeever Hersh said he thought that Bush and Cheney believed their policies would be safe in the hands of John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate.
Page, 38, of Toronto, was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of up to 15 years in prison, Manlius police Capt. Bill Bleyle said Wednesday.
The arrest comes as the band, known for its clean image and cross-generational appeal, recently released a new album for children titled, “Snacktime,” a collection of two dozen original children’s songs.
'Our kinky games with Max Mosley': Girls tell of sex session with Grand Prix boss - but deny Nazi orgy (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033319/Our-kinky-games-Max-Mosley-Girls-tell-sex-session-Grand-Prix-boss--deny-Nazi-orgy.html)
'Our kinky games with Max Mosley': Girls tell of sex session with Grand Prix boss - but deny Nazi orgy (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033319/Our-kinky-games-Max-Mosley-Girls-tell-sex-session-Grand-Prix-boss--deny-Nazi-orgy.html)
Why the fuck was Woman-D questioned before woman-b and woman-c???
was there no order in this court?
Dude, by that guy's logic (this is OK in their culture of origin, therefore it's OK for me while I'm there) it's also OK to have sex with 8-year-old boys in Thailand.
Slippery slope, ya know?
My thought is that if he wants to do things that are acceptable in the Congo but not in his own culture of origin, he should go right ahead and emigrate. Once he's a citizen of the Congo, he can fully enjoy the benefits of that culture.
Dude, by that guy's logic (this is OK in their culture of origin, therefore it's OK for me while I'm there) it's also OK to have sex with 8-year-old boys in Thailand.
Slippery slope, ya know?
My thought is that if he wants to do things that are acceptable in the Congo but not in his own culture of origin, he should go right ahead and emigrate. Once he's a citizen of the Congo, he can fully enjoy the benefits of that culture.
So you're saying that the morality of individuals should be based on their passport?
It seems to me, that an individual is free to do whatever they want. If society has passed some law against it, then he might have to deal with the consequences of the act. If society has placed a taboo on the act (such as this one), then he might have to deal with being seen as a pariah and maybe lose his job.
If I go to Amsterdam and smoke a joint, American courts should not be able to try me for breaking the law. The law is not tied to where I'm from, but rather, where I am. As much as this guy may be an asshole, weirdo, freak... I don't think he should be tried here for something he did elsewhere. HOWEVER, in this case, he videotaped the acts and brought the videos back here. THAT is illegal and I think he should be fully prosecuted for it.
Dude, by that guy's logic (this is OK in their culture of origin, therefore it's OK for me while I'm there) it's also OK to have sex with 8-year-old boys in Thailand.
Slippery slope, ya know?
My thought is that if he wants to do things that are acceptable in the Congo but not in his own culture of origin, he should go right ahead and emigrate. Once he's a citizen of the Congo, he can fully enjoy the benefits of that culture.
So you're saying that the morality of individuals should be based on their passport?
It seems to me, that an individual is free to do whatever they want. If society has passed some law against it, then he might have to deal with the consequences of the act. If society has placed a taboo on the act (such as this one), then he might have to deal with being seen as a pariah and maybe lose his job.
If I go to Amsterdam and smoke a joint, American courts should not be able to try me for breaking the law. The law is not tied to where I'm from, but rather, where I am. As much as this guy may be an asshole, weirdo, freak... I don't think he should be tried here for something he did elsewhere. HOWEVER, in this case, he videotaped the acts and brought the videos back here. THAT is illegal and I think he should be fully prosecuted for it.
As an ambassador, the laws apply differently to him because his embassy is, legally, part of he country he represents, and he is bound by the laws of his country.
And yes, if the crime is severe enough, the law DOES provide that he be tried on his home soil for crimes committed abroad.
And while people's morality is not dependent upon the country that issued their passport, it does provide a cultural context by which that morality can be judged. If he wants the cultural context of the Congo, he should adopt it. Fully. Not enjoy the benefits of British citizenship while claiming a loophole provided by Congo culture.
This post 100% pedo free! Despite involving the Catholic Church!
Italian monk releases second heavy metal album: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7513571.stm
Only 12 years overdue.
I want bat-dogs!
A sixth foot found in June in British Columbia was determined to be an animal paw that had been shoved inside a shoe as a hoax.Clearly this needed a troll. I mean, really. :lulz:
A little bird told me that this is the work of Discordians:Obviously someone mixed up "conservation" and "conservatory".
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g0Qse_bPFqZms857O_uj-_wHZk7gD94LGGP83
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_100_MPH_WRECK
In commercials for Domino's Pizza, the chain's employees wage a never ending battle against the Noid, a gremlin who delays deliveries and carries a gun that can turn a pizza ice cold. Many viewers are amused by the Noid, Domino's says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel about secret societies in an 18th century Parisian prison.
All Noid got was the pizza he ordered. After a five-hour siege, the two employees slipped away and Noid gave himself up. According to police, Noid has "psychological problems" and believes that he has an "ongoing dispute with Tom Monaghan," the head of the Detroit-based Domino's chain.
Hah. You think that's bad, look at this Greyfaced behavior:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6150136.html (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6150136.html)
Hah. You think that's bad, look at this Greyfaced behavior:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6150136.html (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6150136.html)
Hah. You think that's bad, look at this Greyfaced behavior:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6150136.html (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6150136.html)
ATTN TEXAS:
You are no longer allowed to associate yourselves with the rest of the United States of America. Please hand over all your non-Christians and minorities, and detach your state from the North American continent within the next three months.
Hah. You think that's bad, look at this Greyfaced behavior:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6150136.html (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6150136.html)
CLEVELAND — Five years ago, young Muslims across the United States began reading and passing along a blurry, photocopied novel called “The Taqwacores,” about imaginary punk rock Muslims in Buffalo.
Noureen DeWulf and Bobby Naderi, both actors, with Jay Verkamp, center, the sound mixer for the film version of Mr. Knight’s novel. The film was shot in Cleveland.
“This book helped me create my identity,” said Naina Syed, 14, a high school freshman in Coventry, Conn.
A Muslim born in Pakistan, Naina said she spent hours on the phone listening to her older sister read the novel to her. “When I finally read the book for myself,” she said, “it was an amazing experience.”
Joe the Journalist:facepalm:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28542733/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28542733/)
Joe the Plumber is going to Israel for 10 days to cover the "Average Joes" of Israel and how the military action is impacting them, or something.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7812875.stm :lulz:
if i read this article correctly, it was someone's job to rub a salve on rat dicks
Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate'
"Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (in Swedish) reports that Henrik Pontén, a lawyer of Antipiratbyrĺn, 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
Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate':mittens: :mittens: :mittens:
"Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (in Swedish) reports that Henrik Pontén, a lawyer of Antipiratbyrĺn, 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
Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate'LOL, Bureaucracy!
"Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (in Swedish) reports that Henrik Pontén, a lawyer of Antipiratbyrĺn, 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
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.''
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.
source (http://www.theonion.com/articles/average-time-spent-being-happy-drops-to-13-seconds,17258/)
:news:
Earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-promiscuous-women-case-earthquakes/
There are some ladies out there willing to test this theory::news:
Earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-promiscuous-women-case-earthquakes/
so by that logic, there are higher concentrations of promiscuous women in areas that have more earthquakes.
also, by that logic, there should be earthquakes IN MY PANCE.
On Monday, April 26th, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own. Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town. I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that's your preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake. If not, I'm sure Sedighi can come up with a rational explanation for why the ground didn't rumble. And if we really get through to him, maybe it'll be one involving plate tectonics.
:news:
Earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-promiscuous-women-case-earthquakes/
so by that logic, there are higher concentrations of promiscuous women in areas that have more earthquakes.
also, by that logic, there should be earthquakes IN MY PANCE.
Yvonne Mayer: I thought I was blowing it right, but perhaps I was trying too hard... [M]y experience has proven they can be dangerous if underestimated.
If you happen to be going to Cannes this summer (and, really, if you aren't, you should be) mega-conglomerate Unilever is ready to tempt you with a treat straight out of Minority Report. The company has set up a vending machine that lets anyone who walks by score some free ice cream. The price? Just smile for the machine's facial recognition software, which will determine your age, gender and emotion. Only the most happy will get ice cream. The rest? We don't really know, but we seem to remember something having to do with stolen eyeballs that can be used to trick such systems.
The "Share Happy" machine can sense when it's being approached, and "captures and measures your smile 15 times a second, and when it's wide enough, rewards you with ice cream." Once you hit the jackpot, you can share your winning smile with friends via Facebook. As to who Unilever's sharing it with, and what they're doing with it, we can only imagine. But, hey, free ice cream seems like a fair price for helping educate the smart machines and help them build their dossier, right?
Have your face recorded and logged by Unilever, and they will give you ice cream (http://consumerist.com/2010/06/big-brother-is-watching-you----and-he-has-ice-cream.html)QuoteIf you happen to be going to Cannes this summer (and, really, if you aren't, you should be) mega-conglomerate Unilever is ready to tempt you with a treat straight out of Minority Report. The company has set up a vending machine that lets anyone who walks by score some free ice cream. The price? Just smile for the machine's facial recognition software, which will determine your age, gender and emotion. Only the most happy will get ice cream. The rest? We don't really know, but we seem to remember something having to do with stolen eyeballs that can be used to trick such systems.
The "Share Happy" machine can sense when it's being approached, and "captures and measures your smile 15 times a second, and when it's wide enough, rewards you with ice cream." Once you hit the jackpot, you can share your winning smile with friends via Facebook. As to who Unilever's sharing it with, and what they're doing with it, we can only imagine. But, hey, free ice cream seems like a fair price for helping educate the smart machines and help them build their dossier, right?
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I, for one, am glad the canadian government has taken a stand against prayer candles and jacking off to squiggles.
Can I be in favor of a dollar redesign without thinking it will fix anything?
Oh, dang. Out of luck I guess.
Still, prettier money would make me less likely to get rid of it. As it is, I can't stand the sight of the stuff.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/01/spain.breastfeeding.fathers/index.html?hpt=T2
jesus. fucking. christ.
Hee hee!I always assumed that the money went the other direction in that relationship. That's what I get for being naive.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42989.html
Rush Limbaugh calls President Barack Obama “imam,” even though he knows the president isn’t a Muslim. Sarah Palin has openly doubted the president’s “cojones.”
Turns out these two conservative firebrands have been dissin’ their own cousin.
The online genealogy service Ancestry.com now reports that Obama and Palin are 10th cousins, and Obama and Limbaugh are 10th cousins once removed.
No words. This is just too frigging useful... :lol:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/874330--obama-related-to-limbaugh-palinQuoteRush Limbaugh calls President Barack Obama “imam,” even though he knows the president isn’t a Muslim. Sarah Palin has openly doubted the president’s “cojones.”
Turns out these two conservative firebrands have been dissin’ their own cousin.
The online genealogy service Ancestry.com now reports that Obama and Palin are 10th cousins, and Obama and Limbaugh are 10th cousins once removed.
(apologies if this is a repost)
That must be equally embarassing for all three of them.
That must be equally embarassing for all three of them.
Probably. :lol:
I'm just happy I finally have the proof I need: this obviously means that Sarah Palin is Muslim.
Of course, it gets less fun as you go. I don't actually care about which people with too much money are related to which people with too much money. Just thinking the story's useful for making certain heads explode.
Meh. Anything past third cousin is worthless. I'm willing to bet that if you picked any 2 Americans at random they will be 10th or better cousins. I'm too lazy to do the math though.No words. This is just too frigging useful... :lol:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/874330--obama-related-to-limbaugh-palinQuoteRush Limbaugh calls President Barack Obama “imam,” even though he knows the president isn’t a Muslim. Sarah Palin has openly doubted the president’s “cojones.”
Turns out these two conservative firebrands have been dissin’ their own cousin.
The online genealogy service Ancestry.com now reports that Obama and Palin are 10th cousins, and Obama and Limbaugh are 10th cousins once removed.
(apologies if this is a repost)
That must be equally embarassing for all three of them.
Meh. Anything past third cousin is worthless. I'm willing to bet that if you picked any 2 Americans at random they will be 10th or better cousins. I'm too lazy to do the math though.No words. This is just too frigging useful... :lol:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/874330--obama-related-to-limbaugh-palinQuoteRush Limbaugh calls President Barack Obama “imam,” even though he knows the president isn’t a Muslim. Sarah Palin has openly doubted the president’s “cojones.”
Turns out these two conservative firebrands have been dissin’ their own cousin.
The online genealogy service Ancestry.com now reports that Obama and Palin are 10th cousins, and Obama and Limbaugh are 10th cousins once removed.
(apologies if this is a repost)
That must be equally embarassing for all three of them.
Meh. Anything past third cousin is worthless. I'm willing to bet that if you picked any 2 Americans at random they will be 10th or better cousins. I'm too lazy to do the math though.No words. This is just too frigging useful... :lol:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/874330--obama-related-to-limbaugh-palinQuoteRush Limbaugh calls President Barack Obama “imam,” even though he knows the president isn’t a Muslim. Sarah Palin has openly doubted the president’s “cojones.”
Turns out these two conservative firebrands have been dissin’ their own cousin.
The online genealogy service Ancestry.com now reports that Obama and Palin are 10th cousins, and Obama and Limbaugh are 10th cousins once removed.
(apologies if this is a repost)
That must be equally embarassing for all three of them.
oh lord.... :lulz::horrormirth:
American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress
http://www.theonion.com/articles/american-people-hire-highpowered-lobbyist-to-push,18204/?utm_source=recentnews
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WASHINGTON—Citing a desire to gain influence in Washington, the American people confirmed Friday that they have hired high-powered D.C. lobbyist Jack Weldon of the firm Patton Boggs to help advance their agenda in Congress.
Known among Beltway insiders for his ability to sway public policy on behalf of massive corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto, and AT&T, Weldon, 53, is expected to use his vast network of political connections to give his new client a voice in the legislative process.
Weldon is reportedly charging the American people $795 an hour.
"Unlike R.J. Reynolds, Pfizer, or Bank of America, the U.S. populace lacks the access to public officials required to further its legislative goals," a statement from the nation read in part. "Jack Weldon gives us that access."
"His daily presence in the Capitol will ensure the American people finally get a seat at the table," the statement continued. "And it will allow him to advance our message that everyone, including Americans, deserves to be represented in Washington."
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Weldon says he hopes to spin the American public, above, as a group worth Congress' time.
The 310-million-member group said it will rely on Weldon's considerable clout to ensure its concerns are taken into account when Congress addresses issues such as education, immigration, national security, health care, transportation, the economy, affordable college tuition, infrastructure, jobs, equal rights, taxes, Social Security, the environment, housing, the national debt, agriculture, energy, alternative energy, nutrition, imports, exports, foreign relations, the arts, and crime.
Sources confirmed that Weldon is already scheduled to have drinks Monday with several members of the Senate Appropriations Committee to discuss saving the middle class.
"If you have a problem, say, with America's atrocious treatment of its veterans, you can't just pick up a phone and call your local congressman," Weldon told reporters from his office on K Street Monday. "You need someone on the inside who understands how democracy works; someone who knows how to grease the wheels a little."
Weldon said that after successfully advocating on behalf of Goldman Sachs and BP, he is relishing the opportunity to lobby for the American people, calling it the "challenge of a lifetime." The veteran D.C. power player admitted that his new client is at a disadvantage because it lacks the money and power of other groups.
"The goal is to make it seem politically advantageous for legislators to keep the American people in mind when making laws," Weldon said. "Lawmakers are going to ask me, 'Why should I care about the American people? What's in it for me?' And it will be up to me and my team to find some reason why they should consider putting poverty and medical care for children on the legislative docket."
"To be honest," Weldon added, "the American people have always been perceived as a little naďve when it comes to their representative government. But having me on their side sends a clear message that they're finally serious and want to play ball."
According to Washington heavyweights, hiring Weldon is an immediate game changer and should force politicians to take citizens' concerns seriously for the first time in decades. Moreover, sources said, Weldon will be able to help lawmakers see the American people as more than just a low-priority fringe group.
"Jack is very good at what he does," said Joseph Pearlman, a headhunter for the McCormick Group who specializes in placing lobbyists. "He can take an issue that is nowhere on the congressional radar, like the pursuit of happiness, for example, and make it politically relevant. The next time Congress passes a bill dealing with civil rights or taxes, I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. populace is mentioned somewhere in the final language."
Though Weldon has only been on the job for three days, legislators have already seemed to take notice.
"Before today, I'd actually never heard of this group," Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) told reporters. "But if Jack says they're worth my time, I'll take a look and see if maybe there are some areas where our interests overlap."
"But I'm not making any promises," he added. "I'm a very busy man."
More bullets struck the Pentagon in a shooting Tuesday than initially thought, officials said.
"It has been determined that at least six shots were fired," Steven Calvery, director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, said in a statement Wednesday. "As previously stated, two exterior windows were impacted by bullets. Upon investigation, it has been determined that four other bullets hit the Pentagon's facade."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/20/dc.pentagon.shots.fired/index.html?hpt=T2
:lulz:
WHERE IS THE "T" WORD, DAMMIT?
More bullets struck the Pentagon in a shooting Tuesday than initially thought, officials said.
"It has been determined that at least six shots were fired," Steven Calvery, director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, said in a statement Wednesday. "As previously stated, two exterior windows were impacted by bullets. Upon investigation, it has been determined that four other bullets hit the Pentagon's facade."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/20/dc.pentagon.shots.fired/index.html?hpt=T2
:lulz:
WHERE IS THE "T" WORD, DAMMIT?
We don't use the T word anymore. This is the era of HOPE dammit! :lulz:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice on Tuesday approved -- with several conditions -- a merger of the country's largest cable operator, Comcast, and broadcasting company NBC Universal.
The FCC voted 4-1 in favor of the deal.
"After a thorough review, we have adopted strong and fair merger conditions to ensure this transaction serves the public interest," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement.
The FCC said the Comcast-NBC Universal combination will be required to take steps to increase competition in the video marketplace. The merger will also require Comcast to expand local news coverage, expand programs for Spanish-speaking viewers and offer Internet access to schools and libraries.
The lone dissenter, Commissioner Michael Copps, expressed concern that the merger will limit communications choices and drive up costs to consumers.
"At the end of the day, the public interest requires more -- much more -- than it is receiving," Copps said in a statement
Heloooo, netflix queue.
"At the end of the day, the public interest requires more -- much more -- than it is receiving," Copps said in a statement
If comcast controls my cable, and also owns NBC, one way to deprive them of money while keeping the glowing box is to use alternate forms of visual media not directly associated with either. Hence, netflix.
Comcast ok'd to buy majority stake in NBC from General Electric
http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/18/technology/fcc_comcast_nbc/QuoteNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice on Tuesday approved -- with several conditions -- a merger of the country's largest cable operator, Comcast, and broadcasting company NBC Universal.
The FCC voted 4-1 in favor of the deal.
"After a thorough review, we have adopted strong and fair merger conditions to ensure this transaction serves the public interest," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement.
The FCC said the Comcast-NBC Universal combination will be required to take steps to increase competition in the video marketplace. The merger will also require Comcast to expand local news coverage, expand programs for Spanish-speaking viewers and offer Internet access to schools and libraries.
The lone dissenter, Commissioner Michael Copps, expressed concern that the merger will limit communications choices and drive up costs to consumers.
"At the end of the day, the public interest requires more -- much more -- than it is receiving," Copps said in a statement
Doesn't it violate pretty much every anti trust law ever written for them to own both the television station and the delivery network?
A couple of blocks from Villager's apartment:
http://www.dotnews.com/2011/man-sponge-bob-hat-charged-exposing-himself-ashmont-t-stop
I'd also like to point out that this man pulled it out outside in Boston in January. Deduce.
A couple of blocks from Villager's apartment:
http://www.dotnews.com/2011/man-sponge-bob-hat-charged-exposing-himself-ashmont-t-stop
I'd also like to point out that this man pulled it out outside in Boston in January. Deduce.
He was probably looking to make sure it was still even there.
It's probably a bad thing that I kind of respect that, isn't it?
"The House failed to extend three key expiring provisions of the Patriot Act on Tuesday, elements granting the government broad and nearly unchecked surveillance power on its own public. The failure of the bill, sponsored by Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis), for the time being is likely to give airtime to competing measures in the Senate that would place limited checks on the act's broad surveillance powers. The White House, meanwhile, said it wanted the expiring measures extended through 2013."http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/09/0215243/House-Fails-To-Extend-Patriot-Act-Spy-Powers
Quote"The House failed to extend three key expiring provisions of the Patriot Act on Tuesday, elements granting the government broad and nearly unchecked surveillance power on its own public. The failure of the bill, sponsored by Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis), for the time being is likely to give airtime to competing measures in the Senate that would place limited checks on the act's broad surveillance powers. The White House, meanwhile, said it wanted the expiring measures extended through 2013."http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/09/0215243/House-Fails-To-Extend-Patriot-Act-Spy-Powers
A Florida inmate is in more trouble after jail deputies found out he was taking the term "fanny pack" a little too literally.
Neil Lansing, 33, was charged with drug possession and smuggling contraband in jail for having 30 items tucked up his anus, the Sarasota Herald Tribune reported.
Using a rectum as a smuggling compartment is nothing new in Florida, but this has to set some kind of world record, or at least a state jail system mark.
On top of 17 blue pills and a cigarette, Lansing was able to fit six matches, a flint, a syringe, some lip balm, an unused condom and a receipt from CVS just in case he wanted to return some of the items.
QuoteA Florida inmate is in more trouble after jail deputies found out he was taking the term "fanny pack" a little too literally.
Neil Lansing, 33, was charged with drug possession and smuggling contraband in jail for having 30 items tucked up his anus, the Sarasota Herald Tribune reported.
Using a rectum as a smuggling compartment is nothing new in Florida, but this has to set some kind of world record, or at least a state jail system mark.
On top of 17 blue pills and a cigarette, Lansing was able to fit six matches, a flint, a syringe, some lip balm, an unused condom and a receipt from CVS just in case he wanted to return some of the items.
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Fanny-Pack-Inmate-Stuffed-30-items-Up-Anus-116255314.html
Honestly... I can't actually think of much to say about this one.
QuoteA Florida inmate is in more trouble after jail deputies found out he was taking the term "fanny pack" a little too literally.
Neil Lansing, 33, was charged with drug possession and smuggling contraband in jail for having 30 items tucked up his anus, the Sarasota Herald Tribune reported.
Using a rectum as a smuggling compartment is nothing new in Florida, but this has to set some kind of world record, or at least a state jail system mark.
On top of 17 blue pills and a cigarette, Lansing was able to fit six matches, a flint, a syringe, some lip balm, an unused condom and a receipt from CVS just in case he wanted to return some of the items.
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Fanny-Pack-Inmate-Stuffed-30-items-Up-Anus-116255314.html
Honestly... I can't actually think of much to say about this one.
syringe? lip balm? RECEIPT?
QuoteA Florida inmate is in more trouble after jail deputies found out he was taking the term "fanny pack" a little too literally.
Neil Lansing, 33, was charged with drug possession and smuggling contraband in jail for having 30 items tucked up his anus, the Sarasota Herald Tribune reported.
Using a rectum as a smuggling compartment is nothing new in Florida, but this has to set some kind of world record, or at least a state jail system mark.
On top of 17 blue pills and a cigarette, Lansing was able to fit six matches, a flint, a syringe, some lip balm, an unused condom and a receipt from CVS just in case he wanted to return some of the items.
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Fanny-Pack-Inmate-Stuffed-30-items-Up-Anus-116255314.html
Honestly... I can't actually think of much to say about this one.
syringe? lip balm? RECEIPT?
I figure he'll want the lip balm for his ass after all that.
The receipt? I have no clue... Maybe somebody ordered that syringe, and he wanted the receipt to show what he paid for it? (See, it was $5.99, plus tax, that's worth either five cigarettes or a bj...)
It's the one, unused condom that I'm wondering about.
And the fact that, according to the article, he knew he was going to jail, and stood in court in front of the judge with all that... stored.
It's the one, unused condom that I'm wondering about.
And the fact that, according to the article, he knew he was going to jail, and stood in court in front of the judge with all that... stored.
i wonder if he got fidgetty
It's the one, unused condom that I'm wondering about.
And the fact that, according to the article, he knew he was going to jail, and stood in court in front of the judge with all that... stored.
i wonder if he got fidgetty
One would imagine that if one were carrying a sharp object there, one would fidget as little as possible. I mean, I'm sure it was capped, but...
It's the one, unused condom that I'm wondering about.
And the fact that, according to the article, he knew he was going to jail, and stood in court in front of the judge with all that... stored.
i wonder if he got fidgetty
One would imagine that if one were carrying a sharp object there, one would fidget as little as possible. I mean, I'm sure it was capped, but...
imagine trying to get all of that out too :lulz:
It's the one, unused condom that I'm wondering about.
And the fact that, according to the article, he knew he was going to jail, and stood in court in front of the judge with all that... stored.
i wonder if he got fidgetty
One would imagine that if one were carrying a sharp object there, one would fidget as little as possible. I mean, I'm sure it was capped, but...
imagine trying to get all of that out too :lulz:
Imagine being the sheriff who realized it was his job to take all of that out.
The religious right is going to have a collective shitfit.They'd be risking their Rapture Tickets if they didn't get all damp over stuff like this. They'll be picketing Pharmacists, and screeching their ignorant diatribe at any woman going in with a 'whiff of the slut' about her. It's what they do.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021804967.html
http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2011-03993_PI.pdf
On a quick read, they tightened up the "conscience law" so that pharmacists can no longer refuse to provide birth control based on moral objections, it looks like it now applies ONLY to sterilizations and abortions.
The religious right is going to have a collective shitfit.They'd be risking their Rapture Tickets if they didn't get all damp over stuff like this. They'll be picketing Pharmacists, and screeching their ignorant diatribe at any woman going in with a 'whiff of the slut' about her. It's what they do.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021804967.html
http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2011-03993_PI.pdf
On a quick read, they tightened up the "conscience law" so that pharmacists can no longer refuse to provide birth control based on moral objections, it looks like it now applies ONLY to sterilizations and abortions.
Anyway, it's ridiculous that Pharmacists can refuse to provide perfectly legal drugs on moral grounds. If they're that bent out of shape about people getting the Pill, then they need to find a different fucking job!
Here's a good one. Tory Politician A Member Of Feared Biker Gang.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110218/tuk-tory-politician-a-member-of-feared-b-45dbed5.html
At least. I bet he's A Mason too. P2, even, maybe. Although I'm actually finding it quite hard to picture him flying a full Patch, going toe to toe with some H.A Soldiers, carving up the territory between them in some gloomy New Forest glade.Here's a good one. Tory Politician A Member Of Feared Biker Gang.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110218/tuk-tory-politician-a-member-of-feared-b-45dbed5.html
So he's a member of two organized crime groups then.
:lulz:Here's a good one. Tory Politician A Member Of Feared Biker Gang.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110218/tuk-tory-politician-a-member-of-feared-b-45dbed5.html
So he's a member of two organized crime groups then.
Or what they were trying to achieve anyway?
How fucking dim do they think all that sounds to non-Chinese? Or what they were trying to achieve anyway? How are they going to enforce this then? Do they have Soul eating Devils in China? You're under arrest for attempting to reincarnate? Hmm, . . . .
Paging poptard... :lulz::facepalm:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229219056 (http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229219056)
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0411/GOP_lawyer_circulates_Obama_impeachment_articles.html:lulz:
:lulz:
They're turning Atlas Shrugged into a movie
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/atlas-shrugged-first-movie-target-175724
Can hollywood actually manage to make the movie suck even more then the book?
Time will tell.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0411/GOP_lawyer_circulates_Obama_impeachment_articles.html
:lulz:
Within hours of learning this, Anonymous infiltrated HBGary Federal's network and websites. Anonymous acquired the document with supposed personal details of anons, along with more than 50,000 company e-mails (~4.71GB) - all of which have now been distributed on the internet. Additionally, his associated websites and social media accounts were hijacked and manipulated to stress how poorly this 'security expert' handles matters of his own security ( http://imagebin.org/... ). Woe to his clients and others who invested in his confidence.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8ZIuaQwriWK5FnaeHGc9oLSDOnA?docId=CNG.bed48949978a3cf59e6ed8638cc60a46.591
It appears that the DPRK is heading into another famine.
In Soviet Russia, victims rape yuo!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013870/Robber-broke-hair-salon-beaten-black-belt-owner-kept-sex-slave-days--fed-Viagra.html
In Soviet Russia, victims rape yuo!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013870/Robber-broke-hair-salon-beaten-black-belt-owner-kept-sex-slave-days--fed-Viagra.html
Rep Joe Walsh apparently not only can't be bothered to pay child support (it's reported that he's apparently over $100,000 behind in payments), he's got the balls to sue his ex-wife over the case...
http://wonkette.com/452922/joe-walsh-heroically-sues-ex-wife-to-avoid-supporting-his-children
Rep Joe Walsh apparently not only can't be bothered to pay child support (it's reported that he's apparently over $100,000 behind in payments), he's got the balls to sue his ex-wife over the case...
http://wonkette.com/452922/joe-walsh-heroically-sues-ex-wife-to-avoid-supporting-his-children
Must be that "personal responsibility" thing he's always on about. :lulz:
Cook County Circuit Judge Raul Vega also wanted to know why Walsh wasn’t in court for the hearing — the McHenry Republican’s ex-wife, Laura Walsh was — and said he expects him to show up at the next hearing, in November.
Walsh’s new attorney, Janet Boyle, asked Vega “for what purpose” he wanted the congressman in court.
Vega gave her a puzzled look.
To which Boyle responded: “Mr. Walsh is a U.S. congressman.”
“Well, he’s no different than anyone else,” the judge said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/rick-santorum-asks-google-to-change-his-dan-savage-created-results/2011/09/21/gIQAvW19kK_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_politics
Hehehe! Santorum whines to Google that the interbutts is MEAN...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/rick-santorum-asks-google-to-change-his-dan-savage-created-results/2011/09/21/gIQAvW19kK_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_politics
Hehehe! Santorum whines to Google that the interbutts is MEAN...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Saudi women are being given the right to vote and run for office in municipal elections.^Mr Cynical.^. Saudi Women aren't all married you know!
No word yet on whether they have to vote the way their husband wants, or do as he says once in office, though.
I was thinking of Widows.
So basically, it's a sly trick to give the men with the most wives more votes, under the guise of emancipation?I bet David Cameron is taking notes.
Impressive.
Saudi women are being given the right to vote and run for office in municipal elections.
No word yet on whether they have to vote the way their husband wants, or do as he says once in office, though.
Growing pains.
People argued against giving women the vote here for similar reasons.
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for breaking the country's ban on female drivers.
The woman, identified only as Shema, was found guilty of driving in Jeddah in July.
Women2drive, which campaigns for women to be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, says she has already lodged an appeal.
In recent months, scores of women have driven vehicles in Saudi cities in an effort to put pressure on the monarchy to change the law.
A Financial Trader, on the News, telling even a little bit of the ugly truth does not bode well for the rest of us.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15078419
A Financial Trader, on the News, telling even a little bit of the ugly truth does not bode well for the rest of us.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15078419
Link to the video clip the article talks about:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15059135
(for some reason I couldnt find it in your article, but I only just read about it on HN)
The new meme that Fox News is moving to the middle because crazy doesn’t sell is a big con. This meme was started in a willfully blind article by Howard Kurtz for the Daily Beast’s Newsweek and has since been duly picked up by obedient media soldiers. The truth is that “crazy doesn’t win.” And the larger truth is that as Fox repositions itself, we will all now be treated to mea culpas by their colleagues in the press, at the same time as they dance around the elephant in the room that Fox News is not a news organization.
Has anybody heard anything about this?
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/09/republicans-introduce-legislation-that-would-imprison-americans/
"Joe the Plumber," who gained prominence during the 2008 presidential campaign, has filed papers to run for Congress in Ohio.
I approve of using mockery to keep people in line.
Kidnappers attempt to abduct Saddam Hussein look-alike in order to force him to do porn.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/mohamed-bishr-saddam-look-alike-porn_n_1004877.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/mohamed-bishr-saddam-look-alike-porn_n_1004877.html)
U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R) has been removed from his local Republican committee in Virginia.
So have state officials Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and House Speaker Bill Howell from theirs.
Every Republican who endorsed Del. Bill Janis, the Republican turned independent who is running for the post of commonwealth’s attorney in Henrico County next month, is out.
The Republican Party of Virginia’s party plan says any Republican who supports a non-Republican in a contested race will be automatically removed from the rolls of his or her local committee, according to the state party’s executive director, Dave Rexrode.
Interesting article on this blog, here:
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-republicans-hope-public-doesnt.html
As of Wednesday afternoon, authorities had killed 49 animals -- 18 tigers, 17 lions, six black bears, two grizzly bears, three mountain lions, two wolves and a baboon.
Authorities were waiting on the results of an autopsy to determine the exact cause of his death, but Lutz said Thompson shot himself just after releasing the animals.
What the fuck?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/20/us/ohio-animals-on-loose/QuoteAs of Wednesday afternoon, authorities had killed 49 animals -- 18 tigers, 17 lions, six black bears, two grizzly bears, three mountain lions, two wolves and a baboon.QuoteAuthorities were waiting on the results of an autopsy to determine the exact cause of his death, but Lutz said Thompson shot himself just after releasing the animals.
:argh!:
:cramstipated:
Yesterday the owner of an exotic-animal preserve near Zanesville, Ohio, set dozens of its occupants free before taking his own life. Much of the rogue menagerie, which included lions, tigers, and bears—yeah, yeah, oh my—has been shot and killed by local police. “We could not have animals running loose in this county,” a police sheriff said. Information about the escape is still coming in, but it’s not too early to guess how the situation will be addressed by the media. VF.com’s official predictions:
“Ohio Slaughter a Metaphor ... But for What? Several Possibilities Loom”
By Bill Keller
“CELEBRITIES WITH DEAD ANIMALS IN MOVIES: 10 FUNNIEST AND MOST UPSETTING MOMENTS”
By the Huffington Post
“Terrorist Lion Traced to Obama’s Kenyan Village”
By the National Review Online
“Ohio Animals, African Imports, and Globalization”
By Thomas Friedman
“OMFG So Sad!!!!!! R.I.P. Animals!!!
By Perez Hilton
“What the Animals Would Have Looked Like at 50, If They Had Lived and Known Kate Middleton”
By Newsweek
“Were the Animals Looking to Join Occupy Wall Street/Attend the World Series? Kim Kardashian Investigates”
The Daily Beast
“Gender Inequity for Female Animals?”
By Jezebel
“Where’s Ohio? Locating Animal Safari Some-Such on a Map”
By The Robb Report
“Israel’s Response to the Ohio Zoo Escape”
By The New Republic
“ABC to Have Moment of Silence During Dancing with the Stars for Animal Massacre”
By People
“The Separated Husband as Hunter”
A New York Times Modern Love column
“This Zoo Animal Slaughter, While Tragic, Gets Top Billing from ALL OF YOU, Even Though There’s Some VERY Important SHIT Going Down in Other Countries RIGHT NOW. GUYS.”
By The Atlantic
“Why Is My Kid Scared of Lions?”
By Slate
“Will Hillary Clinton Replace Joe Biden on the 2012 Ticket? Whispers Begin Anew in Light of Recent Wild-Animal Fracas”
By Politico
“New Animal-Sounds iPhone App Could Have Been Used to Humanely Round Up Ohio Zoo Escapees”
By Gizmodo
“A Rare Miss from Animal Collective”
By Pitchfork
Fuck, my government is evil.
So, it seems the house passed the NDAA with it's citizen indefinite detention provisions.
And Obama has turned back from his veto threat.
and the Senate passed the earlier version of the bill already, so when it goes to them, it should be a rubber stamp, i guess (?)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/congress-passes-662-billion-defense-bill-aka-ndaa
BREAKING NE--well, something broke ... :?
Barack Obama declares Iraq war a success
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/14/barack-obama-iraq-war-success (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/14/barack-obama-iraq-war-success)
:asplode:
I....
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/failed-tea-party-politician-posts-fac
"Failed Tea Party Politician Posts Facebook Page Calling For Obama Assassination"
I....
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/failed-tea-party-politician-posts-fac
"Failed Tea Party Politician Posts Facebook Page Calling For Obama Assassination"
There's so much in that that has me making "wha...buh....faugh...." sounds that I just can't form a coherent thought about it.
Other than, "Teabagger turns out to be racist big surprise." and "Why the hell the kids too?!?!"
I....
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/failed-tea-party-politician-posts-fac
"Failed Tea Party Politician Posts Facebook Page Calling For Obama Assassination"
There's so much in that that has me making "wha...buh....faugh...." sounds that I just can't form a coherent thought about it.
Other than, "Teabagger turns out to be racist big surprise." and "Why the hell the kids too?!?!"
I can not post coherently about calling for the murder of children.
I....
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/failed-tea-party-politician-posts-fac
"Failed Tea Party Politician Posts Facebook Page Calling For Obama Assassination"
There's so much in that that has me making "wha...buh....faugh...." sounds that I just can't form a coherent thought about it.
Other than, "Teabagger turns out to be racist big surprise." and "Why the hell the kids too?!?!"
I can not post coherently about calling for the murder of children.
Yeah, I'm not cool with this. At all.
I....
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/failed-tea-party-politician-posts-fac
"Failed Tea Party Politician Posts Facebook Page Calling For Obama Assassination"
There's so much in that that has me making "wha...buh....faugh...." sounds that I just can't form a coherent thought about it.
Other than, "Teabagger turns out to be racist big surprise." and "Why the hell the kids too?!?!"
I can not post coherently about calling for the murder of children.
Yeah, I'm not cool with this. At all.
I'm wondering what was going through his head at the time. That's on a level of fucked up that even if you were whipped up into some stupid frenzy and you start saying shit that's going to get you in a lot of trouble, you still wouldn't say that.
I....
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/failed-tea-party-politician-posts-fac
"Failed Tea Party Politician Posts Facebook Page Calling For Obama Assassination"
There's so much in that that has me making "wha...buh....faugh...." sounds that I just can't form a coherent thought about it.
Other than, "Teabagger turns out to be racist big surprise." and "Why the hell the kids too?!?!"
I can not post coherently about calling for the murder of children.
Yeah, I'm not cool with this. At all.
I'm wondering what was going through his head at the time. That's on a level of fucked up that even if you were whipped up into some stupid frenzy and you start saying shit that's going to get you in a lot of trouble, you still wouldn't say that.
Maybe it was, "gee, I REALLY want that body cavity search from the Secret Service."
White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars (http://m.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/obama-mars/)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/tibetans-shot-dead-for-failing-to-observe-chinese-new-year/story-fnb64oi6-1226252287686
China shoots people for not celebrating the New Year.
McDonald's Twitter Fail:
http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-twitter-campaign-goes-horribly-wrong-mcdstories-2012-1 (http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-twitter-campaign-goes-horribly-wrong-mcdstories-2012-1)
With all social media campaigns, we include contingency plans should the conversation not go as planned. The ability to change midstream helped this small blip from becoming something larger.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/mandatory-ultrasound-bill-virginia-anti-abortion_n_1242627.html
Janet Howell, Virginia State Senator, Attaches Rectal Exam Amendment To Anti-Abortion Bill
:lulz:
Unfortunate that the fetal seance bill passed anyway, but I applaud Howell's methods.
"After it passed, Rep. McMillin got pretty upset and pulled his bill," Dvorak said. "If anything, I think it points out some of the hypocrisy. ... If we're going to impose standards on drug testing, then it should apply to everybody who receives government money."
An undercover police officer in Sussex, England, shadowed a suspicious character through the streets a small market town for 20 minutes, following directions passed to him by a CCTV operator who guided him towards the suspect. After 20 minutes, the CCTV operator realized that the "suspicious character" was the police officer himself.
Critics often fail to consider the wacky hijinks that can result from living in a police state.QuoteAn undercover police officer in Sussex, England, shadowed a suspicious character through the streets a small market town for 20 minutes, following directions passed to him by a CCTV operator who guided him towards the suspect. After 20 minutes, the CCTV operator realized that the "suspicious character" was the police officer himself.
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/08/english-plainclothes-police-of.html (http://boingboing.net/2012/02/08/english-plainclothes-police-of.html)
I was all like, "Oh sHit!"
and then i saw it was just a soccer team...
:lol:
http://www.waka.com/home/top-stories/Holmes-Sagging-Pants-Bill-Passes-Alabama-House-59-0-139465303.html
Alabama has a bill which imposes a $100-$150 fine for wearing "saggy pants"
I hope they also appoint a hall monitor to enforce the new state dress code.
reminds me of Louisiana's "thong law"
Superbowl measles outbreak linked to anti-vaccination movement. (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/measles-outbreak-in-indiana.html)
Sometimes, you gotta love it when herd immunity breaks down.
Superbowl measles outbreak linked to anti-vaccination movement. (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/measles-outbreak-in-indiana.html)
Sometimes, you gotta love it when herd immunity breaks down.
Humans are a funny species. You can grind their noses in their own poop, and they will still side with superstition over reason any day of the week.
Superbowl measles outbreak linked to anti-vaccination movement. (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/measles-outbreak-in-indiana.html)
Sometimes, you gotta love it when herd immunity breaks down.
Superbowl measles outbreak linked to anti-vaccination movement. (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/measles-outbreak-in-indiana.html)
Sometimes, you gotta love it when herd immunity breaks down.
:lulz:
This is funny except for the inevitable deaths of the immunocompromised who rely on herd immunity because they can't get vaccinated.
I fucking hate those anti-vaccine fucks.
The Commons agreed on Monday evening, without a vote, to add a line to the code specifying that the standards commissioner "may not investigate a specific matter... which relates only to the conduct of a member in their private and personal lives".
Arguing in favour of the change, Mr Walker said "the bedroom and the bottle" were "the two weaknesses that seem most likely to compromise MPs in their private lives".
Without his amendment, he said, "every sexual peccadillo, domestic dispute or unguarded cross word will lead to tabloid calls for the commissioner to take action".
Police investigate attempted break-in at Parliament
The attempted break-in took place in the Norman Shaw Buildings where Ed Miliband's office is.
But it was not the Labour Party leader's suite which was targeted, sources have told the BBC.
Sources have told the BBC that the door of an office used by Labour staff was forced, and that it follows a spate of laptop thefts around the House of Commons.
The Metropolitan Police are investigating a spate of laptop thefts from Parliamentary buildings.
The news came as Labour MP Keith Vaz revealed he was the latest victim, when a laptop and iPad were stolen from his Westminster office on Thursday.
Mr Vaz's office is within the Norman Shaw North building on Victoria Embankment, close to the Palace of Westminster.
The MP for Leicester East told BBC Radio 5 live the equipment taken contained information relating "to the work I do as the chairman of the home affairs committee, which includes policing issues".
Mr Vaz said his office building was "supposed to be secure" and the thief "must" have full security clearance to move around.
"If this happened to a constituent, I would call a residents' meeting - which I am happy to do - and get more CCTV cameras in the corridors.
"Oddly enough, I could only find one, in the car park... pretty astonishing for an iconic building like Parliament."
Conservative Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas has resigned with immediate effect after a newspaper claimed he was prepared to arrange access to the prime minister and chancellor for Ł250,000
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has said the war on drugs has failed, and it is time to end the "taboo" on discussing decriminalisation.
Yeah, saw the Cruddas story. I have a friend who has been working on coding government lobbying and access for a while now...I wonder if his system predicted Cruddas as a player? Will have to shoot him off an email, see what he's got.
Three Christian MPs are trying to overturn an advertising ban on claiming that ‘God can heal’.
Gary Streeter (Con), Gavin Shuker (Lab) and Tim Farron (Lib Dem) say that they want the Advertising Standards Authority to produce "indisputable scientific evidence" to say that prayer does not work - otherwise they will raise the issue in Parliament.
The MPs wrote to dispute the ruling after the outpouring of support and prayer for football star Fabrice Muamba.
Given the remarks in the article in regard to CCTV, I have to find this somewhat strange. I walk past multiple cameras every day and I am not in an area that either needs or warrants them. I seem to have made the age old mistake of assuming buildings in need of good security would have basic security.Well, the Very Important People don't want to be watched all the time, so they won't have that much CCTV. Of course for the poor and powerless to ask for the same respect is too much, they need to be watched all the time.
An investigation is under way after indecent images were "inadvertently" shown by a Catholic priest during a presentation at a primary school in County Tyrone.
Father Martin McVeigh projected the images onto a screen during a meeting for parents in Pomeroy in preparation for First Holy Communion. One child was also present.
Parents said 16 indecent images of men were displayed. The priest said he had no knowledge of the offending imagery.
"He was visibly shaken and flustered," said the parents. "He gave no explanation or apology to the group and bolted out of the room. The co-ordinator and the teachers then continued with the presentation.
"Twenty minutes later he returned, he continued with the meeting and wrapped up by saying that the children get lots of money for their Holy Communion and should consider giving some of it to the church."
"The priest has stated that he had no knowledge of the offending imagery. The archdiocese immediately sought the advice of the PSNI who indicated that, on the basis of the evidence available, no crime had been committed.
The hacking group Anonymous is alleged to have blocked the Home Office website, apparently in protest at government policies.
Shortly before the website became inaccessible a message was posted blaming a "high volume of traffic".
Anonymous is a loose group of "hacktivists" who came to the fore in 2010 in the wake of the emergence of Julian Assange's Wikileaks website.
Anonymous began by aiming distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on websites, like the credit card firm Visa, who had withdrawn services from Wikileaks.
But it has gradually changed into a grouping which claims to battle government surveillance and attempts to police the internet.
David Cameron has said "gaps" in national security must be plugged as he defended plans for more secret court hearings and more internet monitoring.
It follows concerns raised by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and others about civil liberties implications.
By The Hollywood Reporter | Stop The Presses! – 3 hours ago
Getting the boot from Fort Knox is the latest wrinkle in a controversy that began last weekend at an NRA convention and led to a visit from the Secret Service.
Citing inflammatory language while expressing his displeasure with President Barack Obama, the military has uninvited rock star and conservative political activist Ted Nugent from performing at Fort Knox in Kentucky, according to the U.S. Army post's Facebook page.
"After learning of opening act Ted Nugent's recent public comments about the president of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his performance on the installation," it's Facebook posting says.
So far, the June 23 concert remains on the Fort Knox schedule, with REO Speedwagon and Styx listed as "co-headliners," but army personnel said they will grant requests for refunds in light of their decision to nix the opening act.
The cancellation is the latest wrinkle in a controversy that has engulfed Nugent since last weekend when, speaking at an NRA convention, the rocker said that he would be "dead or in jail" if Obama is reelected in November.
Also referring to Obama and Democratic candidates in general, he told the NRA faithful: "We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November."
Use of the violent metaphors earned Nugent a visit from Secret Service agents on Thursday. He said Friday on his website that he had with them a "good, solid professional meeting concluding that I have never made any threats of violence toward anyone."
A spokesman for Fort Knox told TheBlaze.com that having Nugent perform "would be a conflict of interest since the military has the obligation to be apolitical."
Such a claim, though, seems dubious when it comes to choosing entertainers, who oftentimes show their partisanship. At its website, for example, Fort Knox is touting an appearance this month by comedian Jay Phillips who is supportive of Obama through his Twitter activities. And Ludacris has performed at U.S. Army bases even after the 2008 release of his pro-Obama song "Politics As Usual," which calls Hillary Clinton, who was running against Obama at the time, a "bitch" who is "irrelevant." The ultra-partisan song also called President George W. Bush "mentally handicapped" and says that Sen. John McCain "don't belong in any chair unless he's paralyzed."
Fort Knox personnel did not return calls or emails requesting clarification on their "obligation to be apolitical" in their entertainment selections.
Comments at the Fort Knox Facebook page have been running about 3-1 against the decision to boot Nugent from the concert.
"He is such a supporter of the troops. Such a shame that he was canceled for expressing his freedom of speech. This is America, if you have not forgot," one commenter wrote.
"I thought that freedom of speech was one of the very same things that our military fought for. When Obama said he was going to change the military, he did. He made them cowards. Shame on you Fort Knox," said another.
And on the flip side: "Anyone who threatens a U.S. president like that should not be allowed on a military installation. No matter which party he affiliates himself with. Good decision."
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: Goddamn, what a Hail Eris moment. Thousands of people thought they were fired for a whole morning.....
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/04/23/2245250/company-accidentally-fires-entire-staff-via-email
Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced an extra Ł1.5m of funding focused on "promoting freedom of expression online".
It is part of a package of measures intended to "strengthen and develop" human rights around the world, he said.
Those numbers heavily include statutory rape, which is very common in the villages.
82. ACCALove
3RD MAY 2012 - 22:22
There should be a box at the bottom of all ballot papers that says:
"None of the above"
The number of votes for this should be published so that we know just how many people want to vote but just don't want any of the current parties.
160. Kevlar
3RD MAY 2012 - 23:20
I'm 34 and chose not to vote today. I've decided not to vote ever again. There will be some of you who will say, that I've lost my voice. But I've realised an uncomfortable truth- I never really had one to begin with. I saw the millions rally against the Iraq war. I watch politicians of every stripe on TV, and I almost throw up. And so do you, if you're honest.
296. Some Lingering Fog
5 HOURS AGO
While people argue on here about Left versus Right, you will end up being shafted by career politicians from the Centre.
There is no difference between Labour, Conservative and the Liberal Democrats so if you voted for any of them today you voted for the continuation of the existing political Establishment.
If you believe you have voted for change then you are sadly deluded.
I am in a frothing rage.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/30/four-year-old-sings-aint-no-homos-going-to-make-it-to-heaven-receives-standing-ovation-video/
I am in a frothing rage.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/30/four-year-old-sings-aint-no-homos-going-to-make-it-to-heaven-receives-standing-ovation-video/
If you get mad about shit like that, you're just gonna get ulcers.
The world is SWIMMING in stupid people. And they have stupid kids. Which they make even more stupid.
I mean, shit, where do you think stupid people come from?
I am in a frothing rage.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/30/four-year-old-sings-aint-no-homos-going-to-make-it-to-heaven-receives-standing-ovation-video/
If you get mad about shit like that, you're just gonna get ulcers.
The world is SWIMMING in stupid people. And they have stupid kids. Which they make even more stupid.
I mean, shit, where do you think stupid people come from?
Glarg. They make you take a test to drive a fucking car, I swear, some days I think you should have to take a test to breed.
I am in a frothing rage.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/30/four-year-old-sings-aint-no-homos-going-to-make-it-to-heaven-receives-standing-ovation-video/
If you get mad about shit like that, you're just gonna get ulcers.
The world is SWIMMING in stupid people. And they have stupid kids. Which they make even more stupid.
I mean, shit, where do you think stupid people come from?
Glarg. They make you take a test to drive a fucking car, I swear, some days I think you should have to take a test to breed.
And who would administer that test and determine which answers were the right ones?
I am in a frothing rage.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/30/four-year-old-sings-aint-no-homos-going-to-make-it-to-heaven-receives-standing-ovation-video/
If you get mad about shit like that, you're just gonna get ulcers.
The world is SWIMMING in stupid people. And they have stupid kids. Which they make even more stupid.
I mean, shit, where do you think stupid people come from?
Glarg. They make you take a test to drive a fucking car, I swear, some days I think you should have to take a test to breed.
And who would administer that test and determine which answers were the right ones?
Me.
A man who was shot dead in Miami at the weekend after he was found biting the face off another naked man has been identified by police.
Rudy Eugene, 31, reportedly growled at a police officer after he was warned to back away.
A witness said the aggressor continued to eat the victim, before the officer opened fire several times, killing him.
The attack next to a busy road on Saturday afternoon has been linked to a potent drug known as "bath salts".
About 75% of the victim's face was reportedly missing.
Miami police said they still do not know what prompted the bizarre and savage assault, which has been compared to a "zombie" attack.
Armando Aguilar, of Miami's Fraternal Order of Police, told the Associated Press: "He had his face eaten down to his goatee. The forehead was just bone. No nose, no mouth."
Mr Aguilar told a CNN affiliate he believed the suspect could have taken a type of drug known as "bath salts", citing four past overdoses in the Miami area where people had also removed their clothes and gone berserk.
"It causes them to go completely insane and become very violent," he said.
According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, users of the drug have reported experiencing agitation, paranoia, hallucinations and elevated body temperature.
Holy fuck. Can anyone enlighten me as to what the fuck "Bath Salts" actually are? If they are actual bath salts this could be a rather fragrant zombie apocalypse.
I wonder if that's what this guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32PBZ870ymg&skipcontrinter=1) got into? :p
An Egyptian court has sentenced ex-President Hosni Mubarak to life in prison for complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising.
The 84-year-old is the first former leader to be tried in person since the start of the Arab Spring in early 2011.
But Mubarak suffered a "health crisis" as he was being transferred to prison, Egyptian state TV reported.
Former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly also got a life sentence, but the acquittal of four aides sparked fury.
Mubarak and his two sons were also acquitted on separate charges of corruption.
Shouting and scuffles erupted in court after the verdict was read out.
The verdicts and sentences
Hosni Mubarak: Guilty of conspiring in killing of protesters - life imprisonment; not guilty of corruption
Alaa and Gamal Mubarak: Not guilty of corruption
Former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly: Guilty of conspiring in killing of protesters - life imprisonment
Four aides of al-Adly: Not guilty of charges of complicity, instigation and providing assistance in the murder and attempted murder of protesters
Hussein Salem, business tycoon: Not guilty of corruption
rench police are hunting a Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is thought to have flown from Montreal to Paris last weekend, say French police officials.
The suspect's alleged victim was Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, Montreal police told the BBC.
A hand and a foot were posted to political parties in Ottawa on Tuesday and a headless torso was found behind Mr Magnotta's Montreal flat.
Also this, apologies if the tale is stale, it's a few days old
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18299896Quoterench police are hunting a Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is thought to have flown from Montreal to Paris last weekend, say French police officials.
The suspect's alleged victim was Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, Montreal police told the BBC.
A hand and a foot were posted to political parties in Ottawa on Tuesday and a headless torso was found behind Mr Magnotta's Montreal flat.
Same chap apparently wrote a blog post on "How to disappear". I guess we'll find out just how much he really knew about that kind of thing.
Thanks for the added info. Have you got any sources I can look through? Anything reliable saying hardened drug users are giving it a pass has got to be interesting reading.
Thanks for the added info. Have you got any sources I can look through? Anything reliable saying hardened drug users are giving it a pass has got to be interesting reading.
Here's an article you might be interested to read.
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/01/02/news/bangor/a-year-of-bath-salts-in-maine-users-getting-younger/
Also this, apologies if the tale is stale, it's a few days old
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18299896Quoterench police are hunting a Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is thought to have flown from Montreal to Paris last weekend, say French police officials.
The suspect's alleged victim was Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, Montreal police told the BBC.
A hand and a foot were posted to political parties in Ottawa on Tuesday and a headless torso was found behind Mr Magnotta's Montreal flat.
Same chap apparently wrote a blog post on "How to disappear". I guess we'll find out just how much he really knew about that kind of thing.
You might want to check "Or Kill Me".
Luka Magnotta posted here a few months back.
Whoooooo if we're gonna have that discussion here Imma request a thread split please (not yet, but you know, 30 pages and all that).
Also this, apologies if the tale is stale, it's a few days old
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18299896Quoterench police are hunting a Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is thought to have flown from Montreal to Paris last weekend, say French police officials.
The suspect's alleged victim was Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, Montreal police told the BBC.
A hand and a foot were posted to political parties in Ottawa on Tuesday and a headless torso was found behind Mr Magnotta's Montreal flat.
Same chap apparently wrote a blog post on "How to disappear". I guess we'll find out just how much he really knew about that kind of thing.
You might want to check "Or Kill Me".
Luka Magnotta posted here a few months back.
I wonder if that might be going to get us any "special attention"?
Also this, apologies if the tale is stale, it's a few days old
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18299896Quoterench police are hunting a Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is thought to have flown from Montreal to Paris last weekend, say French police officials.
The suspect's alleged victim was Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, Montreal police told the BBC.
A hand and a foot were posted to political parties in Ottawa on Tuesday and a headless torso was found behind Mr Magnotta's Montreal flat.
Same chap apparently wrote a blog post on "How to disappear". I guess we'll find out just how much he really knew about that kind of thing.
You might want to check "Or Kill Me".
Luka Magnotta posted here a few months back.
I wonder if that might be going to get us any "special attention"?
Whoooooo if we're gonna have that discussion here Imma request a thread split please (not yet, but you know, 30 pages and all that).
If it happens, maybe just merge it with the other crap thread like some chernobyl siamese twin.
Also, re: special attention: Possibly. It occurred to me too.
What did that sick fuck have to post here for, anyway?
Whoooooo if we're gonna have that discussion here Imma request a thread split please (not yet, but you know, 30 pages and all that).
If it happens, maybe just merge it with the other crap thread like some chernobyl siamese twin.
Also, re: special attention: Possibly. It occurred to me too.
What did that sick fuck have to post here for, anyway?
My guess it's because he wants to be famous and was trying to get exposure on a lot of bigger forums for his eventual ickyness. Betcha he posted once or twice on a shit ton of forums, anticipating exactly this kind of reaction.
AUGH AUGH AUGH AUGH. My skin is crawling.
Whoooooo if we're gonna have that discussion here Imma request a thread split please (not yet, but you know, 30 pages and all that).
If it happens, maybe just merge it with the other crap thread like some chernobyl siamese twin.
Also, re: special attention: Possibly. It occurred to me too.
What did that sick fuck have to post here for, anyway?
My guess it's because he wants to be famous and was trying to get exposure on a lot of bigger forums for his eventual ickyness. Betcha he posted once or twice on a shit ton of forums, anticipating exactly this kind of reaction.
AUGH AUGH AUGH AUGH. My skin is crawling.
Holy fuck. Can anyone enlighten me as to what the fuck "Bath Salts" actually are? If they are actual bath salts this could be a rather fragrant zombie apocalypse.
Bad shit! Mephedrone is a component, although there are about 4 different chemicals that have gone into bath salts in varying combinations. And no, they definitely aren't for bathing. They essentially provide an effect on the user that is like meth and cocaine combined. Causes wild hallucinations and breaks from reality while doing a number on the circulatory system.
There was an incident in Maine where a guy ran into the police HQ claiming the parking meters were chasing him.
Seasoned drug addicts are saying "no thanks" to this stuff, it's THAT BAD.
It's being banned in many states and it has been banned federally for a year while more research is conducted. I imagine there will eventually be a permanent ban.
This is part of the new trend of substance abuse,namely, the synthetics. We are seeing more and more of these substances enter into communities, such as the. synthetic cannibinoids like K2 and now K3. They get banned but the way they are banned is. by making certain chemicals or chemical "recipes" illegal. So all the drug pushers need to do is tweak the formula just a bit and they are back in business. And even then, these things can still easily be ordered over the internet.
It's really scary stuff.
The ECMDDA reported that mephedrone can cause various unintended side effects including: dilated pupils, poor concentration, teeth grinding, problems focusing visually, poor short-term memory, hallucinations, delusions, and erratic behaviour.
Almost nothing is known about the long-term effects of the drug due to the short history of its use. BBC News reported that one person who used the drug for 18 months became dependent on the drug, in the end using it twice a week, had to be admitted to a psychiatric unit after he started experiencing hallucinations, agitation, excitability and mania.
Besides being a somewhat less than ideal gift for your girlfriend on your second date, the synthetic drug known as "bath salts" can also be considered a screaming example of why drug prohibition doesn't work.
It would appear that every time you make something illegal and harder to get on the street, some asshole throws together his chemistry set and comes up with something at least five times worse than the thing you just prohibited.
Gee, it's almost like people are going to get high no matter how many times the government wags their finger at them. Go figure.
Thousands of Egyptians are continuing to protest against the verdicts in the trial of ex-President Hosni Mubarak.
Two runners-up in the presidential election first round joined the demonstration in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Mr Mubarak and his interior minister, Habib al-Adly, were sentenced to life in prison for not stopping the killing of protesters in last year's uprising.
But six security chiefs were acquitted. Mr Mubarak and his two sons were also cleared of separate corruption charges.
Thousands of protesters are staying in Tahrir Square overnight, urging a renewal of the revolution that toppled Mr Mubarak last year.
"We are now at a crossroad. It's either the revolution or back to the Mubarak regime," Abdellah Mahmoud, one of the demonstrators, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
Huge crowds took to the streets on Saturday and Sunday to express their outrage that no-one had been found guilty of ordering police to open fire in January and February 2011, in attacks which left more than 850 people dead.
Many people were also angry that Mr Mubarak did not receive the death penalty, as the prosecution had demanded. The 84-year-old and his sons were acquitted of corruption under the statute of limitations.
Senior al-Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan on Monday, US officials say.
US officials said Libi was the target of an attack which hit a volatile tribal area of Pakistan's north-west, killing 15 suspected militants.
But drone strikes have increased in frequency since President Barack Obama took office in 2009 and hundreds of people have been killed.
The dead include senior al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, as well as an unknown number of other militants and civilians, stoking public anger in Pakistan.
The US does not normally comment on individual drone operations, but this strike came after it emerged in the New York Times that the US president personally approves or vetoes each drone strike.
Malfunctioning Cake Ruins Party and Spews Liquor All Over Oil Tycoons
Sea-raping mega-oil firm Shell has a new rig to launch, and like any enormous company, it decided to celebrate with a private party atop Seattle's Space Needle. The crown jewel? An oil rig-shaped cake which sprays liquor! Into your face.
http://gizmodo.com/5916538/malfunctioning-cake-ruins-party-and-spews-liquor-all-over-rich-people
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/ (http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/)
No bathsalts.
But Miami police spokesman Detective William Moreno wasn’t giving up on the bath salts theory just yet.
“To the best of my knowledge, I’m being told we’re not in possession of any such report,” Moreno said. “It could be several months before the full toxicology report is released.”
kinda like these?
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/In_38e50d_351295.jpg
http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/zombies-20101219-095913.jpg
http://www.bestviral.com/i/images/513.jpg
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/71097_206481376675_1059278_n.jpg
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/ (http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/)
No bathsalts.
From your link:QuoteBut Miami police spokesman Detective William Moreno wasn’t giving up on the bath salts theory just yet.
“To the best of my knowledge, I’m being told we’re not in possession of any such report,” Moreno said. “It could be several months before the full toxicology report is released.”
LEARN TO READ, ASSHOLE.
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/ (http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/)
No bathsalts.
From your link:QuoteBut Miami police spokesman Detective William Moreno wasn’t giving up on the bath salts theory just yet.
“To the best of my knowledge, I’m being told we’re not in possession of any such report,” Moreno said. “It could be several months before the full toxicology report is released.”
LEARN TO READ, ASSHOLE.
The same police department that thinks bathsalts are "the new LSD"
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/ (http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/)
No bathsalts.
From your link:QuoteBut Miami police spokesman Detective William Moreno wasn’t giving up on the bath salts theory just yet.
“To the best of my knowledge, I’m being told we’re not in possession of any such report,” Moreno said. “It could be several months before the full toxicology report is released.”
LEARN TO READ, ASSHOLE.
The same police department that thinks bathsalts are "the new LSD"
Shut the fuck up.
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/ (http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/)
No bathsalts.
From your link:QuoteBut Miami police spokesman Detective William Moreno wasn’t giving up on the bath salts theory just yet.
“To the best of my knowledge, I’m being told we’re not in possession of any such report,” Moreno said. “It could be several months before the full toxicology report is released.”
LEARN TO READ, ASSHOLE.
The same police department that thinks bathsalts are "the new LSD"
Shut the fuck up.
Shouldn't he be down at the funeral home spooging on somebody's Meemaw? :x
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/ (http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/08/060812-news-miami-zombie/)
No bathsalts.
From your link:QuoteBut Miami police spokesman Detective William Moreno wasn’t giving up on the bath salts theory just yet.
“To the best of my knowledge, I’m being told we’re not in possession of any such report,” Moreno said. “It could be several months before the full toxicology report is released.”
LEARN TO READ, ASSHOLE.
The same police department that thinks bathsalts are "the new LSD"
Shut the fuck up.
Shouldn't he be down at the funeral home spooging on somebody's Meemaw? :x
Probably. That source was hilarious, though.
WE GOT TOXICOLOGY RESULTS!
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:hippie:
UM, NO WE DON'T.
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:hippie:
WE MAKE SHIT UP. YOU DECIDE.
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:hippie:
I'm not too worried about any bathsalt zombies anymore.
Because of THESE
http://www.hornady.com/ammunition/zombiemax
(http://accurateshooter.net/Blog/zombiemax02.jpg)
Yes, you can really buy some.
High School teacher goes crazy, senselessly attacks students at graduation ceremony (http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=_lfxYhtf8o4)
University of Chicago professor Luigi Zingales lays it out in a NYT op-ed today: instead of funding everyone's college education with debt that they may or may not be able to repay, let investors pay for the college education of promising kids. In return, the kid gives them a percentage of their future earnings (only the earnings above and beyond what they would have made without going to college). The lenders can pay the IRS a fee to do the collections. Students graduate without debt, and the amount they ultimately pay back is contingent on their actual earnings. It's a way for everyone to get in on a game that the elites have played for years:
In fact, top colleges like Yale are already — implicitly — using a form of equity contract. They charge the average student less than the average cost of educating each student, while financing the shortfall with donations from the wealthiest alumni. It is tantamount to an implicit stake on the wealthiest alumni’s income. This system works very well for the top schools, which produce at least a few multibillionaires. It is much less effective for normal, middle-of-the-road colleges. It is precisely for these colleges that a formal equity contract would work best.
You know that terrible feeling when you find something that something else you read was parodying?
http://gawker.com/5918385/would-you-like-to-buy-a-college-studentQuoteUniversity of Chicago professor Luigi Zingales lays it out in a NYT op-ed today: instead of funding everyone's college education with debt that they may or may not be able to repay, let investors pay for the college education of promising kids. In return, the kid gives them a percentage of their future earnings (only the earnings above and beyond what they would have made without going to college). The lenders can pay the IRS a fee to do the collections. Students graduate without debt, and the amount they ultimately pay back is contingent on their actual earnings. It's a way for everyone to get in on a game that the elites have played for years:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/opinion/the-college-graduate-as-collateral.html?_r=1&ref=opinionQuoteIn fact, top colleges like Yale are already — implicitly — using a form of equity contract. They charge the average student less than the average cost of educating each student, while financing the shortfall with donations from the wealthiest alumni. It is tantamount to an implicit stake on the wealthiest alumni’s income. This system works very well for the top schools, which produce at least a few multibillionaires. It is much less effective for normal, middle-of-the-road colleges. It is precisely for these colleges that a formal equity contract would work best.
UP NEXT JUST HOW MUCH OF A PERCENTAGE DO YOU HAVE IN YOURSELF!!!! :horrormirth:
Malfunctioning Cake Ruins Party and Spews Liquor All Over Oil Tycoons
Sea-raping mega-oil firm Shell has a new rig to launch, and like any enormous company, it decided to celebrate with a private party atop Seattle's Space Needle. The crown jewel? An oil rig-shaped cake which sprays liquor! Into your face.
http://gizmodo.com/5916538/malfunctioning-cake-ruins-party-and-spews-liquor-all-over-rich-people
HBO admits Game Of Thrones Bush blunder
http://za.omg.yahoo.com/news/hbo-admits-game-thrones-bush-blunder-080346397.html
HBO and the executive producers of Game Of Thrones owned up and apologised on Wednesday for showing a model of President George W Bush's head appearing on a spike in season 1 of the fantasy TV series
You know that terrible feeling when you find something that something else you read was parodying?
http://gawker.com/5918385/would-you-like-to-buy-a-college-studentQuoteUniversity of Chicago professor Luigi Zingales lays it out in a NYT op-ed today: instead of funding everyone's college education with debt that they may or may not be able to repay, let investors pay for the college education of promising kids. In return, the kid gives them a percentage of their future earnings (only the earnings above and beyond what they would have made without going to college). The lenders can pay the IRS a fee to do the collections. Students graduate without debt, and the amount they ultimately pay back is contingent on their actual earnings. It's a way for everyone to get in on a game that the elites have played for years:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/opinion/the-college-graduate-as-collateral.html?_r=1&ref=opinionQuoteIn fact, top colleges like Yale are already — implicitly — using a form of equity contract. They charge the average student less than the average cost of educating each student, while financing the shortfall with donations from the wealthiest alumni. It is tantamount to an implicit stake on the wealthiest alumni’s income. This system works very well for the top schools, which produce at least a few multibillionaires. It is much less effective for normal, middle-of-the-road colleges. It is precisely for these colleges that a formal equity contract would work best.
UP NEXT JUST HOW MUCH OF A PERCENTAGE DO YOU HAVE IN YOURSELF!!!! :horrormirth: