SYDNEY: A man faced an Australian court yesterday charged with having sexual relations with a rabbit and the sadistic killing of 17 other rabbits whose carcasses were found dumped in a lane.
Brendan Francis McMahon, 36, North Sydney, appeared briefly before Central Local Court Magistrate Allan Moore yesterday charged with having allegedly committed the offences over the past three weeks.
McMahon, a New Zealand born finance company director, sat quietly in the dock during the hearing at which he was represented by barrister Doug Marr.
No plea was entered to a total of 21 charges laid by polcie against McMahon, a business partner with Jason Meares, the former brother-in-law of James Packer.
McMahon, who's company website claims he is a former Bachelor of the Year winner, was arrested by detectives at a house in Tamarama early yesterday.
The investigation began after skinned and partially-skinned dead and dying rabbits began to appear in a laneway off York Street, near Circular Quay in late July.
The laneway adjoined a building in which McMahon occupied a first floor office from which he ran a financial planning and mortgage brokerage company.
Before McMahon was charged police alleged some of the rabbits had been thrown from some height into the laneway.
In addition to 17 rabbits, police also found a dead guinea pig in the lane.
Alarmed at the continuing discovery of freshly killed rabbits, some whose genitalia had allegedly been mutilated, detectives began contacting city pet stores to determine who had been buying rabbits.
Police found that a credit card in McMahon's name had been used to purchase the animals at a number of pet shops. Police also seized a security video showing a man buying a pet.
In all McMahon was charged with 17 counts of acts of aggravated cruelty upon an animal between July 20 and August 11.
He was further charged with committing an act of bestiality with an animal between 3am and 4am on August 1.
McMahon was further charged with two counts of possession of cannabis.
His barrister, Mr Marr, told Mr Moore that McMahon would not be applying for bail today but would make a formal application next Friday, August 19.
Mr Moore formally refused McMahon bail and ordered him to reappear before the court via a prison video link next week.
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I have to admit I was attracted to Jessica Rabbit but this is a bit much.
The writers of profanity-laden "Jerry Springer - The Opera" are angry. The creators of the show that caused a record number of complaints when aired on British television say religious censorship is in danger of strangling the arts. "The arts" being a subjective term.
"I am angry that 60,000 people made a judgment without even bothering to see it," said composer Richard Thomas. Comedian Stewart Lee, who wrote the script, is also fuming because a British provincial stage tour was postponed after a third of the venues pulled out due to fears about protests. The musical is based on Jerry Springer's brash American talk show whose lurid topics include "Honey I'm a Call Girl" and "Bring on the Bisexuals." I say, old chap, do bring on the bisexuals. Then, we shall retire for tea.
In the show which was garlanded with theater awards, viewers could watch a diaper fetishist confess all to his true love, catch a tap dance routine by the Ku Klux Klan and see Jesus and the Devil launch into a swearing tirade against each other. As Christian protesters set fire to their television licenses outside the BBC, the publicly funded broadcaster defended its right to air the show on television earlier this year despite being inundated with complaints. "Television licenses". Brits get taxed to watch TV, don't you know. Sucks to be them.
Lee, at the Edinburgh Fringe to do a show with Thomas about the trials and tribulations of staging the opera, said: "At the time the Christian right were feeling a bit left out as the Sikhs had managed to get a play banned. "They wanted a political football to kick around." The censorship row came less than a month after hundreds of angry Sikhs stormed a theater in the central England city of Birmingham and forced it to scrap a play depicting sexual abuse in a Sikh temple.
British Christian pressure groups have less political clout than their counterparts in the American Christian right, but Lee and Thomas think the chances of the opera now making it to Broadway are slim. "The Americans are more nervous than before," Thomas said, adding: "When the Right in America protest, it ends in a global conflict with thousands of civilian deaths. Yup, I remember all those protest marches in 2002 declaring that there just wasn't enough killing of innocent civilians, and whammo! Iraq war one year later. Nothing like a good, right-wing protest.
"I am going to write a show about the Taliban called The Taliban Can Can." Oh, that dry, British humor! Hilarious!
But their bitterness is not confined to the religious right. The British government is trying to pass through parliament legislation to stamp out religious hatred with a bill that gives all faiths equal protection. Muslims welcomed it as long overdue but critics saw it as a threat to civil liberties. Comedians say it smacks of political correctness and will stop them making religious jokes. "I think it is unenforceable," Lee said. "And if you say to comedians you can't do something, they go ahead and do it." Guffaw! Yuk yuk yuk.
British Indian comedian Paul Chowdhry, also performing in Edinburgh, complained: "That means I would get locked up with hardened criminals just for making a joke." Lee argued that such legislation could even end up discouraging funding for stage or film projects with religious themes.
At the Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, comedians have not shied away from talking about last month's London bomb attacks by four British Muslim suicide bombers that killed 52 people. "A lot of the young Muslim comedians are discussing it," Lee said. "That is really great because they have an interesting perspective as a result of the fact that anywhere they go in London, people are now frightened of them." Everybody Loves Al-Raymond - coming soon to CBS!
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This is pure xenophobia, plain an simple. Anyone with control of that sector of the domestic market wants no competition. The Americans have their Springer and the Brits have their Royal Family. Now bugger off.
MANAMAâ Sixty-four woman candidates officially announced their participation in Bahrain's municipal council and parliamentary elections next year.
The announcement was made by the Supreme Council for Women (SCW) to mark the beginning of a $600,000 programme to empower women politically. The programme, in association with the United Nations, aims to enhance the political and leadership skills of candidates and prepare them to face competition.
Women will undergo a series of training and improvement courses as well as be informed on the political history of Bahrain and the Arab world and the purposes and missions of the municipal councils and the Chamber of Deputies.
And the inappropriateness of their candidacies.
The programme comes in line with Bahrain's gender equality that is highlighted in the constitution. It is also part of the SCW's keenness to empower women in different areas.
The programme aims at motivating women to play an active role in the decision-making and support candidates to fulfil their dreams of winning seats at the municipal councils and the Chamber. It also stresses the importance of enhancing women's involvement in development and changing social misconceptions about women.
The programme will continue until 2010 to motivate women to stand for elections and the public to vote for them. It will be run in association with civic organisations and international establishments concern about empowering women politically. Training in the constitution and election principles, the duties of candidates and the balance between family obligations and political work will be offered as well as time management and communication skills. Candidates will also be informed about important skills required to find sponsors for their election campaigns, fostering teamwork and interacting with the public.
Learning to take bribes, learning to stay bought, ...
"We are looking forward to the coming elections but we fear that women will meet with the same fate of the 2002 elections," SCW's general secretary Lulwa Al Awadi said.
Hey, they did better than the Democratic Senatorial candidates ...
She said the influence of Islamic societies might curb the winning chances of female candidates, especially that the public values their opinions. She said Al Menbar Islamic Society's decision to include two female candidates in its electoral list came as an encouragement to all candidates.
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JEDDAH â A mother and her 17-year-old daughter fought over a groom, with the former winning the argument and the young man.
Lucky for both of them that the woman's 9-year old didn't intervene.
The quarrel started between the mother and the daughter after a young man came to ask for the daughterâs hand in marriage and later changed his mind in favour of the mother instead, according to a report in Al Madinah Arabic daily on Thursday.
When he sat âinterviewingâ her, he was so impressed by the beauty of the mother that he immediately changed his mind and asked the mother for her hand in marriage. The daughter got upset and demanded that her mother refuse the man because he had originally come for her. The mother, however, told her daughter to look for someone else.
"Take a jump, missy, he's mine!"
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Didn't Jack Nicholson end up with Diane Keaton instead of Amanda Peet with a story very similar to this on "Something's Gotta Give".
This happened in real life? wow.
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Quite likely the mother's clan is more powerful or better connected than the daughter's deceased father's clan.
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Don't you get it? This way he gets to have the mother and [his new] daughter.....
One of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders said he would be willing to surrender if U.N. peacekeepers guarantee his safety. Armed gang members controlled by the man known as General Toutou are believed to be behind many of the kidnappings and killings that have added to the instability in Haiti as the country prepares for fall elections to replace the interim government. Toutou, in an interview Friday with The Associated Press, said he has begun talks on a possible surrender with the U.N. peacekeeping mission that came to Haiti to restore order following the ouster of the country's first freely elected leader, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in February 2004. "If the (U.N. mission) is ready to guarantee our security, we'd be ready to give up the fight," said Toutou, whose real name is unknown.
A U.N. official declined to discuss any possible deal to guarantee the Toutou's safety, but said the peacekeeping mission was negotiating with gangs in Bel-Air, the sprawling slum where the gang leader commands a well-armed force of street fighters. "A window of opportunity is opening for us to reduce violence ahead of the elections," said Desmond Molloy, head of the U.N. disarmament program in Haiti.
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To remember: some of our citizens and how they fared in WWII.
MERIZO, Guam, Aug. 11 - In July 1944, American warships were bobbing on the Pacific horizon when a squad of Japanese soldiers swept through this old Spanish fishing port. Jogging down sandy alleys and bursting into stucco homes, they rounded up 30 villagers, all known for their ties to the United States. "They didn't want any leaders to be around when the military landed," Ignacio Cruz said as he recalled the roundup he watched as a 17-year-old. "Then, they machine-gunned them, they grenaded them, and if they found them surviving, they bayoneted them."
"Dad got killed, and a lot of young babies were brought up without fathers," continued Mr. Cruz, who grew up, joined the Marines and became the village mayor, the post his father once held. "I managed to survive, and go to school, and build a house for my mother and continue my education."
With the 60th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender on Monday, Mr. Cruz, who is now 78, and other elderly Guam residents hope American politicians will go beyond solemn speeches and act to compensate them for abuses they suffered under Japan's 32-month occupation.
Often overshadowed by the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan's occupation of this American island started Dec. 10 and continued until American soldiers returned to Guam on July 21, 1944, a date celebrated as Liberation Day.
With 83 Congressional sponsors supporting the Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act, a House bill introduced in April, momentum for compensation is building. A 1951 treaty between the United States and Japan absolved Japan of future individual American war claims, which means American taxpayers would be asked to pay for abuses committed by Japanese soldiers on American nationals on American territory.
The bill was introduced by Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo, a Democrat, who is Guam's nonvoting representative in Congress. Compensation for the Guamanians would be roughly comparable to the compensation paid to Japanese-Americans who were interned in the United States during the war. Under that program, each claimant was paid $20,000. Over the program's 10-year span, 82,250 Japanese-Americans were paid a total of $1.65 billion.
The Guam compensation program would cost about $135 million: $12,000 to each of the roughly 9,000 survivors of the occupation, and lump sums of $25,000 to children of about 1,000 Guam residents killed by Japanese occupation forces. "It has been 60 years," Ms. Bordallo said Wednesday in an interview. Hers is the latest of 11 bills submitted on the issue since 1983. "We have tried time and time again."
The Bush administration has not taken a public position on the bill. But David B. Cohen, deputy assistant secretary of the interior for insular affairs, the only administration official to have testified at Congressional hearings on the issue, was not encouraging in testimony last summer. "Reasonable people might disagree in good faith, however, about the appropriate level of financial compensation to be paid by the federal government for damages that were caused not by the fault of the United States, but rather by the fault of a foreign occupying power," he said. "Reasonable people might also disagree in good faith about what is prudent in light of our current circumstances. There are many worthy programs competing now for limited federal dollars."
Mr. Cohen, who arrived on Guam on Thursday for other business, would only say this on the bill's prospects: "It is a challenging issue, especially in this fiscal environment."
Guam officials have asked the State Department to ask Japan for a formal apology. They did not include the request in the bill for fear of creating diplomatic problems.
In 2003, President Bush signed legislation authorizing the appointment of the Guam War Claims Review Commission. The result was a collective convulsion for older residents, people newspapers here now call Guam's "greatest generation." On an island of 160,000, 8,300 people petitioned to testify before the commission.
Often speaking in Chamorro, the Spanish-influenced dialect of Guam's native people, elderly witnesses painted a picture of Japanese colonial occupation that turned progressively violent against anyone suspected of sympathies with the United States. At the time of the Japanese occupation, the United States had governed Guam as an unincorporated territory for four decades.
Initially, Japan treated Guam as its latest Pacific colony, renaming it Omiya Jima, or Great Shrine Island, and seeking to turn the 22,000 islanders, all American nationals, into Japanese subjects. Chamorros, as native residents are called, were forced to learn Japanese and to bow deeply to Japanese authorities. But as the American military's island-hopping campaign drew closer to Guam, Japanese officials suspected that Chamorros were spying for the Americans and were hiding fugitive American soldiers in the jungle.
In hearings here, Manuel Merfalen testified that he watched the Japanese police whip his older sister, who was married to a sailor in the United States Navy. When she fell unconscious, he said, police interrogators revived her by pouring gasoline on her wounds.
"One witness recalled that, as an 8-year-old boy, he watched as his father was repeatedly beaten and paraded naked through the village for his loyalty to America and as a warning to the others that they should be loyal to Japan," the Guam commission report said.
With American connections potentially fatal, Antonio Lizama recalled in testimony that he rubbed mud on his baby sister, fearing that her fair skin would arouse suspicions of Japanese soldiers seeking to purge all traces of the American past.
Ten days before the American attack, Japanese troops herded most of the island's civilian population into three concentration camps in the island's interior, a move that spared many from the fighting.
After Japan's surrender, the Navy Department, which had administered Guam before the war, started to judge damage claims filed under the Guam Meritorious Claims Act of 1945. At a time of high illiteracy rates, no newspapers or telephones, and a language barrier between Navy administrators and the largely Chamorro-speaking population, many claimants missed what amounted to a six-month window to file claims. In the testimony, many older residents said they were never aware in 1946 of the claims system. "In 1946, I went to Hawaii for one and a half years, and I never got any money," Cecilia Yatar said in her home in Santa Rita. Repeatedly clubbed on the back by the Japanese as a girl, Mrs. Yatar, now 80, said she has had back problems all her life.
The family had come under suspicion because the Japanese police believed that a brother, a crab fisherman, was spying for the Americans. Mrs. Yatar said her mother was tortured, her brother and an uncle were beheaded, and surviving family members were thrown into a hard labor camp reserved for natives who were considered pro-American.
Last year, the review commission studied the 1946 claims process. Although $8 million was paid at the time, largely for property damages, the report said that the 1946 process was hurried and missed many claims. "This is about a group of Americans who were authorized to make claims against the U.S. government, but were not treated fairly by the U.S. government," said Robert A. Underwood, who fought to win compensation during the decade from 1983 to 1993, when he was Guam's delegate. "It is not a question of Japanese brutality, but a question of whether the U.S. government treated its own nationals fairly."
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The effort to seize the vacation home of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is moving ahead toward the goal of a public vote in March.
That according to John Babiarz, chairman of the New Hampshire's Libertarian Party, who appeared tonight on the Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" program.
"We have every intention of doing the proper petitioning and have the people of Plainfield make the decision," Babiarz said. "We're in the petition-gathering stage right now."
Babiarz, a 2002 candidate for governor in the Granite State, stressed the seriousness of the issue in the wake of the high court's recent ruling on eminent domain, giving governments the power to transfer private property from one private party to another. The decision ignited a firestorm of outrage across the political spectrum.
"Property rights are very important," said Babiarz, who would like Breyer's land to become a public park. "It's got to go from talk to action. ... I think the justices don't realize the impact [of their decision]."
Justice Breyer, who owns 167 acres in the Connecticut River Valley in Plainfield, N.H., is the second Supreme Court justice to be targeted for property seizure.
Justice David Souter's home is also in the crosshairs of a California entrepreneur who's looking to build the "Lost Liberty Hotel" on Souter's land in the town of Weare, N.H.
As WND exclusively reported this week, Breyer made news beyond eminent domain by saying not all rulings from America's highest court are correct, admitting judges don't have "some great special insight," and he defended the practice of studying courts in foreign countries to help decide cases in the United States. Breyer's an even better target than Souter. Let's hope that both of them have to start home hunting soon.
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3 more to go.
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Ain't it grand.Betcha it never occured to these nitwits they would be a target for Eminent Domain.I wish somebody would interview one of these judges,sure would love to hear what they have to say now.Now that's a fine idea,DanNy
From Compass Direct, following up an earlier article.
Hostile spectators filled a courtroom in West Java, Indonesia on July 28 as the fifth hearing in a controversial trial against three Christian women began. The women were accused of attempting to convert Muslim children through a Christian education program. Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti and Ratna Bangun insisted in court that the children had attended the classes with their parentsâ consent.
At the close of the hearing, the lead prosecutor announced that the case would be transferred to the High Court. This move could considerably lengthen the trial process. The judge has scheduled the next hearing for August 11.
During court proceedings, the prosecutor questioned the women about the activities and materials used in their âHappy Sundayâ classes for children from Babakan Jati elementary school. Bangun explained that the children prayed, read the Bible, sang and sometimes colored pictures. In response, Judge Hasby J. Tholib said the women should never have allowed Muslim children to attend the program. The three women are formally charged with breaching Indonesiaâs Child Protection Act.
Bangun and Zakaria replied that they had been completely honest with the parents of children attending the program, and that there was no hidden agenda. .... Muslim hecklers in the courtroom shouted, âLiar! Liar!â ....
The women launched the Minggu Ceria (Happy Sunday) program on Sept. 9, 2003, providing education for 10 Christian children. Within weeks, several Muslim children had asked to join the program. Zakaria said that the Muslim children attended with the verbal consent of their parents, and that most of the children had photos taken with their parents for church records.
When Muslim leaders lodged an official complaint, however, these parents refused to testify in support of the women. A source who prefers to remain anonymous told Compass, âNone of them dare to come forward to say that they personally allowed their children to attend the program out of fear from their own Muslim brethren, especially now that the trial has started.â
The morning of the most recent hearing, two truckloads of Muslim youth arrived. As the women left the courtroom, according to one observer, the youths shouted insults at them and called for the judge not to be âfooledâ by their testimony. Four truckloads of Muslim youth were also present at the first hearing on June 30. Students from a nearby Islamic boarding school stood in front of the courtroom shouting âAllahu akbar! (God is great!)â and âDeath to Christianity!â They also demanded a guilty verdict and the maximum penalty for the accused.
That's the kind of 'discussion' I was expecting ...
Anyone found guilty of attempting to convert children under the Child Protection Act of 2002 may be imprisoned for up to five years, and/or fined up to 100 million rupiah ($10,226) .... West Java is known as a staunchly Muslim province. Christian communities are often refused permits to build churches or to worship in rented facilities -- and therefore meet together in private homes. Muslim leaders have forced many of these âhouse fellowshipsâ -- including the GKKD church run by Zakaria -- to close. Just last week, Muslim leaders forced six house churches in the sub-district of Cimahi, West Java, to cease meeting for worship. ....
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Indonesian police say they have arrested a new suspect in the murder of a leading human rights activist, who died of poisoning on a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam. Activist Munir died in the business-class cabin of a flight by national carrier Garuda Indonesian September last year. A Dutch autopsy found a lethal dose of arsenic in his body.
Munir's case is seen as a test of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's commitment to the rule of law. The head of the police team investigating the case, Brigadier General Marsudhi Hanafi, said the new suspect, Ery Bunyamin, was a late booking on the same flight and travelled using a forged and expired passport. "He was the 15th passenger in the business class and was not listed in the flight manifest. He took the flight at the last minute," Brig Gen Hanafi told reporters. He said the addresses in Bunyamin's two passports were also fictitious. Brig Gen Hanafi said Bunyamin left the plane hurriedly as it made a stop-over in Singapore, his destination. When asked what he did in Singapore, he told investigators he was "shopping for t-shirts and perfume," Brig Gen Hanafi said.
Bunyamin's lawyer Amir Syamsuddin said his client was a high-profile lawyer and had been arrested because he used a dubious passport. "It would be laughable if investigators are trying to link him to the murder case simply because he was on the same flight as Munir," Mr Syamsuddin told AFP. He said that in 2000 Bunyamin applied for a passport in Jakarta using a fake identity card to avoid the hassle of going back to his home town on Bangka island off Sumatra. The practice is common among people who live and work in Jakarta but are not residents of the capital.
Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto, who was travelling off duty on the same flight as Munir, went on trial on Tuesday as a key suspect in the murder. Two cabin crew members have been detained as suspects but have not been indicted. Prosecutors said poisoned orange juice served during the flight was used to kill the activist and described Priyanto as a staunch nationalist who saw Munir as "a hindrance to the implementation of the Government's programs". Independent investigators have said the case showed signs of involvement by the state intelligence agency. The pilot has also been accused by human rights activists of being an intelligence agent.
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Bunyamin's lawyer Amir Syamsuddin said his client was a high-profile lawyer and had been arrested because he used a dubious passport.
Sounds like one of Indonesia's finest legal minds at work. (Have to give him some credit, though. At least he's not dumb enough to represent himself.)
This was at Yahoo! Sports, but there was no indication of who wrote the story.
EFL
This time, Rush Limbaugh wants to help Donovan McNabb, not criticize him.
Limbaugh, who once said the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed, wants to help McNabb and wide receiver Terrell Owens settle their differences on his radio show.
``I am here to offer and to assist. I can,'' Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated radio show Friday, according to a transcript on his Web site. ``I could bring these two guys together. I've been there, folks, and I could do this, and I'm serious in my desire to do it.''
Owens has been unhappy with the Eagles over his contract and took some of his frustration out at McNabb, calling the quarterback a hypocrite and saying the two of them could not be successful together.
Rantburg just isn't Rantburg without a good corpse-as-artwork story.
A decision by Florida's attorney general Friday could scuttle plans for a controversial museum exhibit featuring human bodies preserved and posed to reveal their inner workings. The board that oversees the use of human specimens at Florida's medical schools wants proof that the deceased or their families authorized the use of the bodies. The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry argues that the Anatomical Board doesn't have jurisdiction. Attorney General Charlie Crist weighed in Friday, writing that because the purpose of "BODIES: The Exhibition" is educational, "it is my opinion that the approval of the Anatomical Board of the State of Florida is required." What that means for the future of the Tampa exhibit, scheduled to open Aug. 20, remains to be seen. We want corpses! We want corpses!
Museum President Wit Ostrenko said Friday the exhibition would open as scheduled. "It is our intention to continue to have a constructive dialogue in an attempt to resolve our differences," he said. But on Thursday, Arnie Geller, president and CEO of Premier Exhibitions, the Atlanta promoter of the exhibit, said the documentation the board wants would be impossible to obtain because the identities are unknown.
The bodies were obtained legally but belonged to Chinese people who died unidentified or unclaimed by family members and were preserved at the Dalian Medical University of Plastination Laboratories in China, according to the exhibition's medical director, Roy Glover. That's how I want to go. Mummify me and send my body on a world tour.
"BODIES: The Exhibition" features 20 cadavers and 260 other parts preserved with a process that replaces human tissue with silicone rubber. Skin is removed, exposing muscles, bones, organs, tendons, blood vessels and brains. Tampa is to be the U.S. debut for the exhibit. A similar human anatomy exhibit called "Body Worlds" is now showing in the United States and has drawn more than 15 million visitors since its debut in Tokyo in 1996. It has also drawn criticism from medical ethicists, however, and the condemnation of religious groups that claim it violates the sanctity of the human body. Violate, schmiolate. Bring on the gory, skinless mummies!
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It's actually pretty neat, sorta like a petrified tree is only the form of a tree.
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Don't bother with the museum. You can get your fill just by visiting concourse A of Midway Airport in Chicago. I am not kidding. You're walking to your gate and notice a curtained display. You wonder what's behind that curtain. You go behind it and there he/she is in all his/her glory. I literally can not remember what sex he/she was though. I guess I was too dumbfounded/horrified/shocked/fascinated/titillated to think to check. My only memory is the arm bones looked so breakable and you can't make sense of the guts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
MANAMAâ Sixty-four woman candidates officially announced their participation in Bahrain's municipal council and parliamentary elections next year.
JEDDAH â A mother and her 17-year-old daughter fought over a groom, with the former winning the argument and the young man.
One of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders said he would be willing to surrender if U.N. peacekeepers guarantee his safety. Armed gang members controlled by the man known as General Toutou are believed to be behind many of the kidnappings and killings that have added to the instability in Haiti as the country prepares for fall elections to replace the interim government. Toutou, in an interview Friday with The Associated Press, said he has begun talks on a possible surrender with the U.N. peacekeeping mission that came to Haiti to restore order following the ouster of the country's first freely elected leader, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in February 2004. "If the (U.N. mission) is ready to guarantee our security, we'd be ready to give up the fight," said Toutou, whose real name is unknown.
Indonesian police say they have arrested a new suspect in the murder of a leading human rights activist, who died of poisoning on a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam. Activist Munir died in the business-class cabin of a flight by national carrier Garuda Indonesian September last year. A Dutch autopsy found a lethal dose of arsenic in his body. 
