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The Roman Catholic bishop of Breda in the Netherlands wants Christians to start praying to Allah. To promote healing and tolerance and worship of a pagan moon god.
The Bishop of Breda, Tiny Muskens, wants people to start calling God Allah. He says the Netherlands should look to Indonesia, where the Christian churches already pray to Allah. It is also common in the Arab world: Christian and Muslim Arabs use the words God and Allah interchangeably.
Speaking on the Dutch TV programme Network on Monday evening, Bishop Muskens says it could take another 100 years but eventually the name Allah will be used by Dutch churches. And that will promote rapprochement between the two religions. ...
Perhaps if Christians started practicing pedophilia it would happen sooner ...
More than 30 years ago Bishop Muskens worked in Indonesia and, there, God was called Allah, even in Catholic churches. The Dutch should learn to get on spontaneously with different cultures, religions and behaviour patterns: Someone like me has prayed to Allah yang maha kuasa (Almighty God) for eight years in Indonesia and other priests for 20 or 30 years. In the heart of the Eucharist, God is called Allah over there, so why cant we start doing that together? ... Dhimmitude is never pretty
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There's an active movement among a handful of bishops in several churches to do away with the scandal of the cross and resurrection. This is just one more instance of the rot within.
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Muskens is retiring in a month. This might be his flame out before he goes. The Pope should fire his ass before then.
Aparently he forgot about a book called the Bible.
And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM and WHAT I AM, and I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE; and He said, You shall say this to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you!
God said also to Moses, This shall you say to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your fathers, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you! This is My name forever, and by this name I am to be remembered to all generations.
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The actual pronunciation of the two Hebrew letter combinations in the Torah (the five books of Moses) has been lost, but in English Y-y is generally transliterated as "Yahweh" and Y-h-o[v]-h as Yehovah or Jehovah. In Hebrew we say Adonai (our Lord) and Elohenu (our God) as substitute for the unknown names. Perhaps Bishop Muskens might like to try that? It's what his Saviour used when He prayed, after all.
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This story has actually been posted here before Icerigger; however, I personally see no reason why we shouldn't hang him up here again and beat him like a pinata.
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Funny, he has lived a while in Indonesia (ex-Dutch colony) which when I lived there in the early 80's was pretty secular and not a rabid Islamic jihadi state like it is today. When I went to our "formalities and credentials" interview with the Indonesian version of Immigration (actually the secret police), the first question on the form was: "Where were you on June 19th (?) 1949". That was when the Indonesian insurgents rebelled against the Dutch master and there was blood.
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Just call all God, divine deity, or intelligent designer (computer programmer of massive simulation?) THE ONE.
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I think God prefers to deal with the "Fruit of the Spirit" and not the "Religious Nuts".
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Trailing wife: I really enjoyed Martin Buber's "I and Thou", a simple, easy to read book of amazing complexity and insight about the personal pronoun as applies to God-human and human-human relationships.
Ironically, throughout human history, what Buber wrote applies, except that were he still alive, he might need to add a revision specifically for Abigail and Brittany Hensel.
OT, but like the Brittney stories, it shows you the MSM focus. It sure isn't on terrorism.
From Channel 12-WWBT News - posted in its entirety since not sure how long the links last.
Michael Vicks remaining two co-defendants in a federal dogfighting case are scheduled to enter plea agreements this week. Oops.
Purnell Peace will appear in federal court in Richmond on Thursday and Quanis Phillips will appear in federal court in Richmond on Friday. Not the main circus around the Federal Courts Building, but certainly a sideshow.
Another of Vicks original co-defendants, Tony Taylor, pleaded guilty July 30 to his role in a dogfighting conspiracy he says was financed almost entirely by the Atlanta Falcons quarterback. That was the original oops. With sideshow.
As part of a plea agreement, Tony Taylor pledged to fully cooperate with the government in its prosecution of Vick, Peace and Phillips, who are accused of running an interstate dogfighting enterprise known as Bad Newz Kennels on Vicks property in rural Surry County. Looks like it's "bad newz" for somebody....
Calls to Peaces and Phillips attorneys were not immediately returned.
Collins Spencer III is a spokesman for Vicks defense team. He says the lawyers were surprised by the plea deals. I'll just bet they were.
I can't imagine Vick pleading, so I guess the circus is coming back to town just after Thanksgiving.
I work a couple of blocks from the courthouse, and thankfully can get to and from work without going near ground-zero the courthouse, unlike those who work - and park - on 10th, Main, and Bank Streets. Oy.
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Another of Vicks original co-defendants, Tony Taylor, pleaded guilty July 30 to his role in a dogfighting conspiracy he says was financed almost entirely by the Atlanta Falcons quarterback.
In other news, Nike and Reebok have announced a new line of Vick approved "Guncheck" apparel. This despite rumors that any reference to it as a "houndstooth" pattern is thoroughly discouraged..
2) Pray like hell, then plea Nolo/c and beg, snivel and snot the Judge for mercy.
3) Spend every last dime on Lawyers and pray like the fires of hell are burning your ass bum.
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4) Or he can conjure the ghost of Johnny Cochran:
"if the muzzle don't fit you must aquit."
*side note -- how soon will sharpton and the other victocrats get there with this is race thing? The man is just trying to keep a black athlete down will be an editorial in the Atlanta JC I guarantee.
Hand this scumbag over to a dozen randomly chosen show/performance dog breeders and trainers. No dogs, just us. Come back in an hour or two to collect what remains of him for disposal.
ESPN has already beat even the AJC (Atlanta Journal-Constipation) to the punch. Had an article last week, which interviewed the Rev. Joseph Lowery's widow and other Civil Rights activists (REAL activists, not the race-baiters) and went through Atlanta's ENTIRE racial history, including the "last lynching in the U.S." held in suburban Walton County.
Why this has ANYTHING to do with a multi-millionaire athlete who drowned, shot, beat and electrocuted dogs in rural Virginia, who knows? But, the race card has been (and will continue to be) played in this case. Personally, I'm betting he walks, much like O.J.
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Not so sure of that, BA. The Nike endorsement deals are over, the league's coming down on him, his co-defendants have turned state's evidence, and nobody's really sticking up for him. Thatks to OJ and the backlash against him, I think the race card is losing its power; and thanks to Paris and Britney and the backlash against them, the time when celebrities could get "celebrity justice" is ending.
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Falcons went from 30-1 odds in January to 80-1 today to win the SB. Vick's toast
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Vick's done.
Both as a free man and a football player.
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Good points, Mike, but you haven't seen the local support he's still getting here in the "da ATL." Arthur Blank and crew are shrewd businessmen and I think he's done here. But, someone somewhere will pick him up as a QB just for the business side of the show. He'll bring in money (ticket sales) and help a team needing him. Maybe Oakland or Baltimore.
I just can't believe how many people still support him BECAUSE he's black and BECAUSE he's the entire Falcons team (again, here locally). I've had educated folks I work with stating, "What's the difference between how he treated those dogs and how YOU whites treated us as slaves back in the day?" Again, I don't think the Falcons' owners want to touch him anymore, and he may very well do some time. But, it'll be a SLAP on the wrist compared to what he deserves and his "street cred" will have shot through the roof.
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Personally, I'm betting he walks
Yep. And for all the reasons mentioned above.
On the other hand, I'm a little surprised by the amount of vitriolic hate being poured on him. I'm a dog lover just like the next guy, but in the end, they're just dogs, not human beings. I'd save the pure hatred for those who harm their fellow man. Just sayin'.
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I'm a dog lover just like the next guy, but in the end, they're just dogs, not human beings. I'd save the pure hatred for those who harm their fellow man.
Anyone who can look a dog or cat in the eyes and then turn around and kill them for sport is quite capable of harming their fellow man.
I'm a dog lover just like the next guy, but in the end, they're just dogs, not human beings. I'd save the pure hatred for those who harm their fellow man. Just sayin'.
While I agree that the public often over-reacts to animal welfare issues and then remains silent about man's inhumanity to his fellow man, Crusader's point still stands:
Anyone who can look a dog or cat in the eyes and then turn around and kill them for sport is quite capable of harming their fellow man.
We had an incident at a local car wash whose decorative "lake" had a large family of resident ducks. Some assclown came by one night and repeatedly drove back and forth over a dozen fluffy baby ducklings. Community outrage pumped up the reward to over $20,000. That sort of intentional mayhem really pisses people off.
Vick's lawyers had better cherry pick a jury full of slaughter house operators and mink ranchers if he hopes to get off lightly. Regular folks aren't going to take very kindly to his cretinous behavior.
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Vick had better get the best legal team his money can buy. Even then, It doesn't look good for him. His case is in Federal Court as I understand it, Federal judges have such things as mandatory sentencing with defined stints in prison. Vick has to be one of the dumbest mothers in the history of pro football. He is probably tied with OJ and maybe a couple of others. Being a dog person, I don't really give a $hit if the guy does time and is out of football. He did it to himself.
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I'm a dog lover just like the next guy, but in the end, they're just dogs, not human beings. I'd save the pure hatred for those who harm their fellow man. Just sayin'.
I'll bite.
Agreed that dogs aren't human. I've been fighting the animal rights people for well over a decade on that one (and other issues).
However, they're like us in some pretty important ways. Dogs and the wolves from whom they descend have the most complex social skills, body language and societies of any animals except the great apes and us. Moreover, they're MORE flexible and adaptable than even the apes. The degree to which they can and will adapt to our ways of living, which are quite different from how they would live in the wild, is pretty amazing.
All this means they have a rich emotional life. They don't think like us, but they sure as hell feel, including the higher emotions like loyalty and grief.
To deliberately force these creatures to kill each other or be killed -- and to kill and torture them oneself -- really does stand right along with murdering humans on the "deliberately causing great pain and suffering" scale.
Not all dogs are the same, even within the same lines. I am a very low-scale show dog breeder (a hunting breed and a sighthound breed). Among the couple dozen dogs who've lived with me during the last decade there are a few who I'd keep over most humans any day. Bright, awesomely talented, independent-but-loving companions and friends, of a doggy sort.
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To deliberately force these creatures to kill each other or be killed
One of the horrific aspects of dog fighting is that it is so contrary to basic dog instincts.
I'm not denying aggression and territoriality, especially in some of the breeds like terriers where it has deliberately been selected for. But even in those breeds, as in the original wolf stock, there are strong instincts and behaviors that usually keep things short of actual violence.
All the body signals that negotiate pack leadership, territory ownership and submission ensure that dogs generally work those things out without bloodshed. The few exceptions are things like a leadership challenge when the alpha is aging or injured.
Breeding dogs to fight is bad. Taking dogs NOT bred to fight well and using them for bait is spit more than despicable. Torturing and killing a dog because you didn't make enough in bets on it in the bloody death ring is .....
OK, I'll just put my soapbox away here in the corner and make sure my dogs get an extra couple minutes of play time tonight. Sorry to rant on on this. But there's those that deserve killing and those that don't, and most dogs are in the latter and dogfighting types are in the former category as far as I'm concerned.
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I agree lotp, as one who is a big fan of canines and particularly my dobie I feel that there are no bad dogs only bad owners.
Vick's a clown w/a bad attitude just like his little brother who got kicked off his college team for his behavior (spiked another player while the guy was on the ground). Mike Vick is also possibly one of the dumbest multi-millionaires ever. Cruelty to animals will be the one big in-your-face charge but the gambling charges might actually cost him more fines.
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lotp, I agree with pretty much everything you said. I've been a dog owner as far back as I can remember. I currently have two. I personally can't imagine fighting dogs for money, and that people who do have something wrong with their wiring.
It's also a cultural and regional thing. Dog fighting in the deep south and the Southeast is and has been an all too common problem.
My original point had nothing to do with whether fighting dogs is wrong. It is. It's reprehensible. It's barbaric. It's disgusting. Vick deserves a good amount of prison time to figure that out. But again, in the end, I place a clear distinction between those who commit atrocities against animals, and those who do so against human beings. Our post-Christian post-modernist society often does not. "Animal Rights" is an oxymoron, because rights are a human concept. Of course, if one believes that he simply evolved and is of like kind with the animals, then one can naturally conclude that a crime against an animal is just as serious as that against a human being.
Whether one has the "potential" to commit violence against humans because he fights dogs is not the point either. We don't punish potential. We punish actions, and rightfully so.
I never liked Vick, and now I like him even less. Suspicions confimed. But I'm sorry, I can't shovel on him the pure unadulterated hatred that others seem so willing to do. Send him to jail, let him do his time and maybe he'll learn something.
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Vick attorneys negotiating plea
Falcons QB would serve prison time if agreement reached
If the announcement is that Vick has reached a plea agreement, the embattled star quarterback is expected to be sentenced to some time in prison, according to federal sentencing guidelines.
Vick's motivation to enter a guilty plea is likely fueled by the U.S. Attorney's Office announcement last month that it will seek a new "superseding" indictment against Vick by the end of August. With the cooperation of Vick's three co-defendants, there will likely be new, and more specific, allegations against Vick. The federal grand jury in Richmond is expected to hand up that indictment sometime early next week.
If Vick can reach an agreement by the end of this week, he would not have to answer to any additional charges.
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Word of advice to other athletes: If you manage to get out of the ghetto, don't take it with you.
Think what he threw away....
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Sorry to rant on on this.
Don't be. Any of the dogs I've ever owned had more character than a raft of the so-called friends that have passed through my life.
My first muttnamed Bear Dog, because he looked like a little polar bear when he was bornwas part Keeshond, Labrador, Shepherd and Coyote. Out of seven pups that were pitch black with white stars, blazes or boots Bear was snow white but not albino. He was a genetic "sport" and grew beautiful light brown feathers and a superb coat. He learned tricks without any rewards. Somewhere I have a list of all 60count 'em 60commands he could do. He smiled and sneezed on command plus responded to all the classic silent hunting hand signals. He even fished! I have pictures of him sticking his head underwater to bring up neutral bouyancy sticks and shake them "to death". My wolf hybrid, Zen, is the spitting image of Bear Dog save that Zen has erect ears.
Of course, if one believes that he simply evolved and is of like kind with the animals, then one can naturally conclude that a crime against an animal is just as serious as that against a human being.
mcsegeek1 makes a crucial point. Out of a weird sort of mammalian relativism, some people are willing to dismiss their own anthropic distinction. This suddenly allows for such absurdities as "animal rights", PETA and a host of other lunacies.
Finally, mojo really summarized this entire boondoggle quite well:
What, you couldn't dump your old dog-fightin' buddies for a 10 mil payout?
A lucrative career that a tiny percentage of those who pursue it ever get to realize and Vick cannot bring himself to merge with a society that criminalizes such cruelty. Go figure.
If Vick can reach an agreement by the end of this week, he would not have to answer to any additional charges.
If "superseding" charges await this cretin, it would be criminal to let this rectal cavity off of the hook by letting him plead down at this point. This bastard needs to face all counts for which he is indictable.
"Embattled NFL quarterback Michael Vick, facing federal charges related to his alleged participation in dogfighting, has been hit with a "$63,000,000,000 billion dollar" lawsuit filed by a South Carolina inmate who alleges the Atlanta Falcons star stole his pit bulls and sold them on eBay to buy "missiles from Iran," FOX News has learned.
Jonathan Lee Riches filed the handwritten complaint over "theft and abuse of my animals" on July 23 in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va."
The world's oldest person Yone Minagawa, who has died at age 114, was as sprightly as ever until the moment she got into bed for her eternal rest, her caretaker said Tuesday.
Minagawa, who enjoyed good food and a bit of alcohol, died Monday at a nursing home in Japan's southwestern Fukuoka prefecture. "She was sprightly until a day before," the caretaker told AFP. "When I found her, she looked as if she was sleeping peacefully."
Born on January 4, 1893, Minagawa was widowed at an early age. She raised her five children by selling flowers and vegetables in a coal mining town. Stout-hearted even after age 100, Minagawa would drink some Japanese sake or other alcoholic beverage every day. My kind of lady!
Rest in peace, Oba-san.
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That's the problem with being the world's oldest person - you usually die soon. And then someone else takes your place.
Fox is trying to find out who he is -- One Marine responded with a name.... soon to come to you, live on Fox. I didn't know this entire story.
He has inspired hundreds of thousands of people with his poetic, patriotic rhetoric about the United States, war and defending freedom. More than 300,000 people have seen him do his rap-style monologue on YouTube. Hes been given a nickname BadA** Marine and spawned a Web site and copycats, among them a student who performed the speech in a high-school talent contest and won.
The thing is, this isnt Cheers because nobody knows his name.
Researchers at California State University, Van Nuys, and Michigan Central Teacher College of Farwell reported this week that global warming is the primary cause of both declining academic performance among North American college undergraduates and the rising costs associated with a baccalaureate degree. The three-week-long multiple-perspective study was undertaken by assistants for the Senior-Level Sub-Dean of Diversity Quotas in Environmental Studies at CSUVN and four tenured members of the Alternative Literacies [sic] Program at MCTCF. The team systematically surveyed multiple self-evaluations and statistical-anecdotal probability memoranda culled from a wide variety of auto-probative and theosophical sources appearing in carefully vetted blogs posted on the Internet since February. This is one of the most exhaustive studies of its kind to be carried out by institutions of our accreditation-level, in California or Michigan, during the past seventeen and a half months, said Dr. Michelle Mausse, a CSUVN Diverse Arts Practical Instructor, who is acting co-chair of the project, and supervising gender-fairness editor of the semi-final quasi-executive summary of the projects yet-to-be-published report. Mausse also said that a surprising side-result of the consortiums monumental data-collection effort was a strong indication that an expected storm of irate denials inspired by and aimed at the report would almost certainly exacerbate global warming, thereby degrading student performance even further and raising the price of a college education even higher.
When a reporter asked why Mausse anticipated such a belligerent reception for her findings, she replied, Given the cutting-edge status of our conclusions and the transgressive methods employed during our strenuous three weeks of research, you can bet that Bill OReilly and Fox News will be working overtime to sap public confidence in our assertions. According to Mausse, the best way to prevent such obfuscation would be to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, ban SUVs, and approach North Korea with an environmentally friendly attitude. . . .
When the report sees print, it will include five key policy recommendations.
*Keep as much of Canada as possible frigid and uninhabitable for the next ten thousand years.
*Get people in Des Moines to act cooler like people in Portland, say, or Seattle.
*Reinstate Rosie ODonnell on The View.
*Use less toilet paper only one sheet per visit.
*Mandatory goddess-worship.
Mausse sees a connection between the problems she investigates and, perhaps surprisingly, the current debate over immigration. She even sees an opportunity to bring conservatives, who tend to take a skeptical position on global warming, to her point of view. Referring to the second-to-last policy recommendation, she says, As we learn to use less and less toilet paper per visit, there will be fewer and fewer people from foreign countries wanting to come to the United States and people born in this country will find more value than ever in the soft vellum of their expensively purchased college diplomas.
The blog this came from has no permalink to this item. To read the whole thing, which is screaming hilarious, scroll down to the first item under Monday, August 13.
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Must be the fat research grants. How can I git mah fair share?
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Some of you are not old enough to recall in the early 70s the big scare run by the MSM was a new cancer agent 'discovered' every week by some university/institute study. It began with a red dye used in food [that's why the red M&M disappeared for a while]. Like GW today, it was a relentless screed every week, every day on another substance in our food, clothes, etc that caused cancer in lab rats [ignoring the isolated nature of rats and the incredible amount of the particular matter being stuffed into the animal]. It wasn't science when the objective was to 'induce' cancer. Anyway the silliness went on for months, till some college researchers decided to have fun with the media and the pols trying to exploit the induced panic. Using the same methodology of the prior researchers, they were able to induce cancer in lab rats by implanting bits of coin and paper money. They then released the study with the 'recommendation' that all money be recalled. Shortly after that one hit the fan, the panic journalism significantly dropped. Of course, back then, some journalists and senior managers had some sense of responsibility. I think that is required to be removed prior to any employment today.
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The three-week-long multiple-perspective study was undertaken by assistants for the Senior-Level Sub-Dean of Diversity Quotas in Environmental Studies at CSUVN and four tenured members of the Alternative Literacies [sic] Program at MCTCF.
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I think I remember that one, Rambler, but on closer examination it was determined that the study rats developed cancer at the same rate as the rats in the placebo study. ;-)
Separately, I do hope you've recovered from asking trailing daughter #1 what I'd told her not to talk about. She wasn't sure you understood her explanations.
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I remember when I was growing up and it was always "...causes cancer in rats". And I'd be like "Good. They're rats. Give them more of it. Who cares about giving cancer to rats?"
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And the other thing that was big in the 70s was global COOLING. All the same articles, all the same doomsaying, all the same things to blame except we were going to have an ice age instead of all be on Miami beach.
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CSU Van Nuys is a parody in itself, doesn't exist :-)
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employed during our strenuous three weeks of research,
lol! This must be a parody.
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1990's redux > SAVE/HELP THE EARTH - Suppor your local Gulag and Death Camp! D *** ng it, the Sun will surrender iff only we Earth-icans will kill ourselves unto self-oblivion-extinction!
Now THIS is why we have the Short Attention Span Theatreâ¢
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2 km (1.2 miles), leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb. That's taking the expression 'what are friends for' to a whole new level.
The 54-year-old office worker was out on his motorcycle with a group of friends in the city of Hamamatsu, west of Tokyo, on Monday, when he was unable to negotiate a curve in the road and bumped into the central barrier, the Mainichi Shimbun said. Ouch, but ok...
He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was missing until he stopped at the next junction, the paper quoted local police as saying. "Dude, where's my leg??"
The man and his leg were taken to hospital, but the limb had been crushed in the collision, the paper said. At the risk of being incredibly heartless, I would say he kind of deserves it. Too bad the injury didn't go further up the leg so we wouldn't have to worry about him reproducing.
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Well, if you're too dumb or too drugged-up to notice your leg's been traumatically amputated, don't come running to me for help!
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I had my leg badly crushed in an industrial
accident and I didnt know it had happend
until i wondered why I couldnt move.
Looked down and worked out I was in trouble
but there was no pain.
The brain handles major trauma in funny ways
Fish have been smacking Chris Brackett in the head all day, but it's cool: That's just the life of a celebrity.
Brackett, 29, reigns as the godfather of "extreme aerial bowfishing," one of the Illinois River's newest pastimes in which boaters use bows and arrows to shoot leaping fish. Send him to Iraq - there've got to be some leaping jihadis.
Their specific target is the Asian silver carp, an invasive species remarkable for jumping into the air when disturbed by rumbling boat motors. The big fish -- they can weigh up to 60 pounds -- jump as high as 10 feet, and they'll smack you if you don't see them coming. Or even if you do. Check out the video at the link.
A woman was arrested after she called police to help "get her money back" after she was unhappy with the crack cocaine she purchased. Juanita Marie Jones, 53, called Rochelle Police late Thursday night after she purchased what she thought was a $20 piece of crack cocaine, according to police reports.
She told officers she broke the rock into three pieces and smoked one, only to discover the drugs were "fake." She took Officer Joel Quinn and Deputy John Shedd of the Wilcox County Sheriff's Office into her kitchen and showed them the drugs, police said.
She was promptly arrested on charges of possession of cocaine.
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Hmmm, a conundrum! Either the drugs were fake - in which case why was she arrested? - or the drugs were real - in which case she must have been mighty stoned not to notice. I vote for the second case;)
How about a suit is small claims court?
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Smoking soap. Where's the crime? Even if the prosecutor claims it was 99.7% pure.
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if you're that intellectually low on the totem pole you should be arrested anyway
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That almost ranks up there with the jihadis involved with the 1993 WTC bombing going back to the rental truck company and wanting their deposit money back.
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A 53 year old crackhead. Your life is goin places, honey...
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#7: "I guess the moral of the story is not to buy your oregano in a plastic bag."
Then I guess I'm in trouble, Spot - I get a lot of my herbs/spices for cooking in the bulk aisle at Good Food Grocery.... ;-p
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Then I guess I'm in trouble, Spot - I get a lot of my herbs/spices for cooking in the bulk aisle at Good Food Grocery.... ;-p
My mother-in-law once bought loads of herbs at a grocery co-op and mailed us several baggies of them. I was fully expecting a visit from the mail cops until the package arrived safely.
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high school is for buying oregano. You should know better after your first "burn". Smell test -....not that I would know...of course. I read it somewhere
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Smell test -....not that I would know...of course. I read it somewhere
You would think that after the movie "Snakes on a Plane", this guy would know that smuggling snakes on a plane never ends well.
Love the crocodiles bit. But how do you keep them quiet to transport them.
(AP) It was very nearly a real-life version of "Snakes on a Plane." A man was stopped at Cairo's airport just moments before he boarded a Saudi Arabia-bound plane with carry-on bags filled with live snakes, as well as a few baby crocodiles and chameleons.
Security officials became suspicious of the 22-year-old Saudi man's bags when the X-ray machine at the departure gate gave odd readings.
"Mahmoud, I don't understand this infidel X-ray machine. What's this?"
"Achmed, don't be an idiot. Those are snakes."
"Snakes. Hokay. .. .. .. SNAKES!!??!!"
Police said they opened the bags and found a large number of reptiles, including at least one cobra, squirming to escape. The animals were confiscated and turned over to the Cairo Zoo and the man was allowed to board his flight home.
Transporting live reptiles out of the country is illegal in Egypt, but the passenger said he was unaware of the ban and that the snakes, crocodiles and chameleons were needed by a Saudi university for scientific experiments, police said.
Why didn't they buy them from JAX like the rest of us?
In May, another Saudi man was caught at the Cairo airport carrying 700 live snakes in his carry-on luggage. He told authorities that snakes were often kept in Saudi Arabia by storekeepers in glass jars or used as pets.
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...Why did it have to be snakes?...I hate snakes...
-Professor Henry Jones, Jr.
Mike
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Why do I get the feeling that because he was a WOG they let him go?
If it was me they would have acted like I was trying to bring an atom bomb on the plane.
D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."
The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention "great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."
"This was one of several such articles I have found at the Library of Congress for the 1920s and 1930s," says Mr. Lockwood. "I had read of the just-released NASA estimates, that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all."
A wild storm triggered landslides and collapsed houses in the rugged Kohistan district early on Monday, killing 22 people, an official said. Many of the casualties were trapped inside collapsing buildings in Rano Mera village, according to Kohistan District Coordination Officer Saeed Khan Aurakzai. Relief and rescue teams, including doctors, were rushed to the remote village to treat the injured, whose numbers were not immediately known, Aurakzai said.
He said floods wreaked havoc in the area and a number of houses had been demolished. He feared the death toll could rise, adding that three mosques were also washed away. Karakoram Highway was closed for traffic at Patan, he said. Orakzai said locals were retrieving the bodies. So far 13 bodies have been recovered, he said. Some of those killed were identified as Jamdad, Abdul Rehman, Sikandar, Ishaq, Hajasab, Lado, Abdul Majeed and Abdul Qawi. NWFP Chief Minister Muhammad Akram Durrani has announced Rs 100,000 each in compensation for the heirs of deceased, and Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000 for those who sustained severe and minor injuries respectively. Heavy monsoon rains and storms lashed many parts of the country late on Sunday and early on Monday. In Islamabad, roads were cut by low-level flooding and falling tree branches. Parts of Karachi remained inundated on Monday, four days after a violent storm left at least 35 dead, most of whom were electrocuted or crushed by falling roofs or walls.
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Downing Street Monday warned campaigners at the controversial "climate change camp'' near Londons Heathrow Airport that any disruption to the running of the airport would be "unacceptable''.
An estimated 250 people were already in place at the camp for the week-long event due to start tomorrow. Dozens of police officers carried out an inspection of the site this morning, as it was claimed campaigners have not ruled out illegal protests this Sunday.
It was also alleged that negotiations had broken down between campaigners and police. More than 1,500 people from across the UK and other parts of Europe are expected to join the event against plans to expand the airport, say the organisers. A Downing Street spokesman said "People do have a right to protest in this country but the Government believes action that would disrupt the running of Heathrow would be unacceptable".
Chief Superintendent Ian Thomas said 25 officers inspected the site this morning at the landowner's request. He said police repeatedly asked to send in a small team of officers to check there had been no damage to the site or any illegal offences caused. Camp organisers have now agreed to allow four officers to remain on the site. Police said they made two arrests, before this morning's visit, one for suspected deception and another for an outstanding criminal warrant.
CAPE York stockman David George has spent seven nights up a tree in a crocodile-infested swamp, bleeding and with little food - and lived to tell the tale.
The father-of-one and co-manager at Silver Plains cattle station yesterday told his remarkable tale of survival and rescue by chopper in rugged bushland near Coen, in the state's remote far north. "Every night I was stalked by two crocs who would sit at the bottom of the tree staring up at me," Mr George recalled yesterday. All I could see was two sets of red eyes below me and all night I had to listen to a big bull croc bellowing a bit further out.
"I'd yell out at them, 'I'm not falling out of this tree for you bastards'."
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In case you're wondering "But what happened to the horse?"
From the London Times article on the same subject:
Mr George, a father of one, said that he spent a lot his time yelling in an attempt to keep the crocodiles away from his horse, which remained nearby until the day before he was found. His horse eventually wandered back alone, unharmed, to Silver Plains station.
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In case you're wondering "But what happened to the horse?"
Which I was. Hmmm. I think I would've found a way to get to the horse in daylight and ride off. Didn't know jackeroos carried toilet paper with them, either.
I went on a tour in Kakadu National Park, in the Northern Territory, and our guide was fond of telling us croc-related horror stories. One of those involved someone trapped in a tree for several days. In another one, a man freed himself from a crocodile by shoving his arm down its throat, which opened the valve that keeps water out. This caused the croc to take on water and drown, and the man was able to escape.
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Croc target spent week up tree (Quite a story to tell in the pub)
I am an animal enthusiast, plus a lover of my pets.
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Yesteryear I loved to hunt with a purple passion, today that purple passion has transmogrified into a drive to conserve animal & human habitat, for the purposes of us all having each other to frolic with in perpetuity forever.
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Within the entire human & animal kingdom there is a hierarchy of my favorites.
>>>BTW: Crocodiles, Mosquitoes, & Bott Flies ain't my favs.
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as mojo alluded to, plz add horses to that ain't list!
/so solly Mr. Deacon man
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Oh, wow, he's a Democrat...
That's okay. Joe Kennedy and most of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation wear their Chavez kneepads with pride. I even think they're autographed...
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The real story here is that the Islamicist / Chavez working coalition is out in the open so much that he can cultivate agents within the US, with impunity.
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Just a few years ago, Macon was a city full of "good ole boys" and fine pro baseball futures like Chipper and John Rocker.
But, it (like greater Atlanta) has changed so much over the last decade or so, it's almost unrecognizable as "the South." No one would've ever guessed we'd have a moonbat like Cynthia McKinney in office representing Georgia, much less this clown, but hey, it's the "new South."
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According to the article, he became a Sunni Muslim in December. Didn't the staff find his prayer breaks a bit strange? Anyway, Ellis demonstrated
remarkable self-discipline.
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cockroaches like this can only exist in teh dark. The bright light of national publicity should make him a hero to the Sheehans/Danny Glovers of the world and an unemployed commie pol to the citizens of Macon. Recall this POS!
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NEW DELHI - India announced Monday that it would free 72 jailed Pakistani nationals, mainly fishermen who had strayed across the maritime boundary, on Pakistans 60th Independence Day anniversary. These include 48 fishermen and 24 others, Indian foreign ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said, adding the release followed a decision taken by Indian and Pakistani home ministry officials last month.
Pakistan marks independence from Britain on August 14, while India marks it on the 15th.
Sarna said New Delhi had noted the release by Islamabad of 100 Indian fishermen and 35 prisoners on Monday. We had hoped ... that all the Indian fishermen in Pakistani custody as well as 327 boats would have been released, he added.
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WAGAH, Pakistan - Pakistan on Monday handed over 134 prisoners, mostly fishermen, to Indian authorities ahead of the South Asian neighbours 60th independence anniversaries, officials said.
The Indian fishermen and other prisoners, who mainly strayed over the border, were freed as a goodwill gesture as Pakistan and India prepare to mark the anniversaries respectively on Tuesday and Wednesday. The return of prisoners will further strengthen relations between the two countries, Pakistan border force colonel Tariq Janjua told reporters at a simple handover ceremony at the Wagah border crossing.
The group comprised 100 fishermen and 34 others including children who had inadvertently crossed the border into Pakistan and had spent from 10 months to two years in jail, he said.
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"strayed across the border"? No, more like "intentionally crossed the border to steal fish and didn't think they'd get caught."
KUALA TERENGGANU: PAS has issued a fatwa (religious edict) to punish those practising and preaching Islam Hadhari, deeming them infidels....
Islam Hadhari believe the practice of Islam should be related to cultural conditions (they are called moderate although they believe, for example, that no one is allowed to leave Islam).
PAS (a Pan Islamic Movement) believes the practice of Islam must include changing the culture to be more like the 12th Century.
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In my unqualified opinion, this is the best part of the WoT. The unexpected consequence of speeding up the inevitable internal conflict among Muslim sects.
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Oh, joy! Let the usual Muslim "more Islamic than thou" crapfest begin.*
*NOW WITH ADDED HIGHER CASUALTY RATES BROUGHT TO YOU BY AUTOMATIC WEAPONS!
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More like Cain vs Cain. As for ending well or not well... a matter of perspective, there may be some collateral effects, but over all, my Machiavellian side seems to be touched.
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.
A woman was arrested after she called police to help "get her money back" after she was unhappy with the crack cocaine she purchased. Juanita Marie Jones, 53, called Rochelle Police late Thursday night after she purchased what she thought was a $20 piece of crack cocaine, according to police reports.
A wild storm triggered landslides and collapsed houses in the rugged Kohistan district early on Monday, killing 22 people, an official said. Many of the casualties were trapped inside collapsing buildings in Rano Mera village, according to Kohistan District Coordination Officer Saeed Khan Aurakzai. Relief and rescue teams, including doctors, were rushed to the remote village to treat the injured, whose numbers were not immediately known, Aurakzai said. 
Downing Street Monday warned campaigners at the controversial "climate change camp'' near Londons Heathrow Airport that any disruption to the running of the airport would be "unacceptable''.
