One elephant trampled another to death at an Israeli nature park. Yossi, a 33-year-old, seven-ton bull elephant, charged and killed his herds matriarch Monday, a 46-year-old female named Atari, as visitors at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv watched in horror, according to Ha'aretz. "What happened to Yossi, who grew up all his life with Atari, and they always got along?" Yigal Horowitz, a veterinarian at the park, said to Israel Radio. "Here and there were small fights, but they never had a fight like this one." Prob'ly because one's more than enough.
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He couldn't stand that domineering bitch anymore. It was straw after straw, and the last one broke the elephant's back.
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Speaking as one with a Jewish background: all I can say is, Yossi probably had a lot of guilt because his mother really wanted him to go to med school. He just went meshuga, oh well.
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They were Paleostinians cruelly held captive in an Israeli jail to the point that they were psychologically devastated. One sided with Hamas, the other Fatah. He had no choice. It's all Israel's fault, too.
Wrestler Abe The Hebrew Hercules Coleman died Wednesday in New York at age 101. Coleman, also known as The Jewish Tarzan, was an early pioneer of the drop kick, which he claimed to have learned from watching kangaroos. Standing 5'3" tall and weighing 220 pounds, Coleman was never a champion, but was a fan favorite in new York and elsewhere.
Get my tights and jockstrap.
Born in Zychlin, Poland, Coleman he started wresting in 1925 and continued through his 50s, according to the New York Times. At his 100th birthday, according to the Queens Times, a nephew asked Coleman if he wanted to wrestle. His answer: Get my tights and jockstrap.
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Does this article really need any commentary? It's already been perfected for Rantburg. OK, fine I'll say it: the question is whether he was actually buried with his jockstrap.
BOGRA, Apr 6: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered two touchstone-made statues worth Tk 15 crore in Natore and Bogra districts on Tuesday and Thursday, reports UNB.
Our Desk adds: Touchstone statues and sculptures are frequently smuggled out of the country by the bond of thugs and smugglers. In the countryside there are temples and places where our ancient relics and heritage are lying uncared. The smugglers are always on the look out for an opportunity to steal the pieces of sculptures and relics brings them monetary fortune. The recovery of some statues and sculptures in rarely done and it is merely a tip of the iceberg.
Acting on a tip-off, RAB raided Kuri Papiya village under Singra upazila in Natore early Thursday and seized a Laxshmi Narayan statue, weighing around six maunds, worth Tk 10 crore. RAB said the statue was found while workers were digging out soil at a pond of Mofazzal Hossain. The valuable statue was later kept hidden, RAB said.
In another drive, the elite force recovered a 2.5-kg touchstone statue worth Tk 5 crore from Berabari village in Shajahanpur upazila early Tuesday. The rare statue was found abandoned during the drive.
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Must've prayed for guidance from Our Lady of the Shuttergun...
Islam's contributions to Western culture are many and varied, including setting high moral standards, asserting women's rights, and promoting good citizenship, according to Mashhad Al-Allaf. He added that unlike most Western religious leaders, Islamic clerics would have spoken out about the immorality of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes having a child out of wedlock.
And her appearing in public without wearing a burqa. And her appearing in public with an unmarried man. And her appearing in public period.
Mr. Al-Allaf, the University of Toledo's first professor of Islamic Studies, spoke to about 150 people in an hour-long lecture Wednesday night at UT's college of law. The professor, a native of Baghdad who received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Tennesse at Knoxville, cited numerous verses from the Qur'an, the Islamic holy book, to support his assertion that Islam has been a positive influence on culture.
Conveniently neglecting the verses that had a different spin ...
For example, he said, the Qur'an, written by the Prophet Mohammed in the 7th century as a claimed revelation from God, states in chapter 24, verse 31, that women should wear veils or head coverings, called hijabs, to assert their equality with men and keep them from becoming sexual objects. "These duties of women are based upon worshipping God, not in their being women," Mr. Al-Allaf said. "The rights of women and men are equal."
Like in Sharia, for example ...
He displayed a slide showing the visual similarities between Islamic women in hijabs and a portrait of the Virgin Mary with a head scarf and a photo of a Catholic nun in a habit. He added that Islam promotes reverence for Mary as "a woman obedient to God."
He said the West has put too much emphasis on materialism, and said it also has created a gap between science and religion that is not found in Islam. He cited the Roman Catholic Church's heresy trial of astronomer Galileo in the 17th century as an example. Islam, on the other hand, does not view science as a threat to religious beliefs and Islam, founded in Saudi Arabia, "easily blends with any culture," Mr. Al-Allaf said.
As long as you belong to the Master Race ...
The professor said Islam sets high moral standards that are beneficial to society, including a ban on sex outside of marriage. It makes a special point to ban adultery among neighbors, a sign of the importance Islam places on community.
He said religious leaders in the West should have criticized Cruise and Holmes for having a child born seven months before their November wedding. (During a question-and-answer session that followed the lecture, an audience member pointed out that Cruise is a Scientologist, not a Christian; there was no mention that Holmes, a Toledo native, was Catholic.)
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High moral standards? They beat their wives, and unless there are 4 adult male witnesses, may rape at will. They live in economic squalor because they don't believe in interest rates. They fight with neighboring countries and act like they own any country who has the misfortune of allowing residence to those slugs. Islam set back human development by hundreds of years.
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If Islam wanted to make a REALLY positive impact on the West, all the muzzies would go back to their hellholes of ancestral origin. That would be the best thing they could do for the West or anyplace else they infest.
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David Yonke: Good dhimmi. We will remember your name.
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He does have a point. The positive impact on the west is that it has started to make westerners realize that their current state of affairs will lead to their extinction.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
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Muslims put women in sacks so they won't be molested by their men who have no self-control.
Americans let their women wear whatever they want, including .38 S&W so they won't be molested by their men who have no self-control.
Muslims kill their women who commit adultery.
Americans kill the men who commit adultery with their women.
Which better asserts women's rights?
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Islam's contributions to Western culture are many and varied, including setting high moral standards, asserting women's rights, and promoting good citizenship, according to Mashhad Al-Allaf.
Aren't people's heads supposed to explode when they utter such blatant horseshit? If not, it needs to be arranged.
Islam's only positive impact on the West has been in the area of weapons design.
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Actually, the good doctor failed to note that the Islamic clergy would also have issued a fatwa allowing Katie's male relatives to kill her to preserve the family honor.
But he is correct that Islam offers women certain rights. The right to be considered some man's property for as long as she lives, the right to get raped if she goes out like "uncovered meat", the right to inherit half as much as her brothers, and the right to have her court testimony to be valued half as much as a man's.
I think I'll keep my infidel rights, thankyouverymuchsir.
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Redneck Jim, my great-grandpa was caught under a neighbor-lady's house when her husband arrived home unexpectedly and he fled. He was shot and killed with a 10 gage shotgun. Grand jury declined to indict. Rape was never an issue.
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Listen up Rantburgs, Listen to what the Lord says.
God tried to tell the world.
Many would not listen.
Do you think that it was an accident that Ishmael was kicked out of the family of Abraham for mocking Issaic the true heir of Abraham?
Do you think that it was an accident that the Lord said to Hagar (Ishmael mother) " his hand against every man, every man against his" ?
Do you think that it was an accident that the second son of Ishmael was the phrophet muhammed? Lower case int.
Do you think. Tap Tap Tap. Pay attention
Do you think that the words of the Almighty God to Ezeiekl about a coming battle against Israel
headed by Russia and with islamic nations in tow are an accident? Recorded 1,200 years before islam was invented.
Gods battle has always been between good and evil.
Bible study over, class dismissed.
PS word police and spelling Nazi please piss off.
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As a side note. Thank you Trailing Wife for your kind comment yesterday.. It is my faith in God Almighty that keeps me strong. The Holy Spirit is so strong inside me, you would be blown away at some things that have happened. God Bless all on this Holy of Holy days.
Amen.
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HARRY Potter fans take note: scientists in the US have finally come up with a workable design for an invisibility cloak.
Physicists figured out the complex mathematical equations for making objects invisible by bending light around them last year. Now a group of engineers at Purdue University in Indiana has used those calculations to design a relatively simple device that may one day be able to make objects as big as a plane disappear.
The design calls for tiny metal needles to be fitted into a cone like a hairbrush, at angles and lengths that would force light to pass around it. This would make everything inside the cone appear to vanish because the light would no longer reflect off it.
"It looks pretty much like fiction, I do realise, but it's completely in agreement with the laws of physics," said lead researcher Vladimir Shalaev, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue. "Ideally, if we make it real it would work exactly like Harry Potter's invisibility cloak," he said. "It's not going to be heavy because there's going to be very little metal in it."
The still-theoretical design will be published this month in the journal Nature Photonics.
Prof Shaleav said he needed to secure lots of funding to build the device and expected it would take two to three years to come up with a working prototype.
The major limitation is that the current design can only bend the light of a single wave-length at a time, and does not work with the entire frequency range of the visible spectrum. "How to create a design that works for all colours of visible light at the same time will be a big technical challenge, but we believe it's possible," Prof Shalaev said. "In principal [sic] it's do-able."
Even blocking a single frequency could lead to useful applications, Prof Shaleav said. The cloak could shield soldiers from night-vision goggles which use only one wavelength of light. It could also be used to hide objects from "laser designators" used by the military to illuminate a target, he said.
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Grunter, that was cheesy. Anybody got a story about projecting holograms to the enemy? Cool stuff I hear. Imagine the ways you could really mind-F the enemy by projecting flying ham sandwiches splattering themselves on Korans...
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I'm afraid Grunter's right, this is strictly lab fantasy, better to mirror polish your airplane, then it'll reflect the sky around it. Not exactly invisible, but close.
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You want to fuck with their minds? Project flying pigs, that'l do it.
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And here I was, thinking that someone had finally succeeded in harnessing the liberal left's ability to ignore Islam's terrorist threat.
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Their approach is interesting, but will never be very satisfactory, because it is attempting to fool our eyes, which are finely attuned to look for discrepancies.
They would have more luck ignoring the eyes and trying to deceive the brain. That is, there are some illusions that bypass the eyes and take place in the brain. A "color wheel" is one such:
A white disk with black markings is spun, and at a particular speed, it creates the illusion of color directly in the brain. They know this, because even people who are completely color blind can still see colors with a color wheel, which as you can imagine, they find utterly hypnotic.
There are three things the brain can do when it perceives such a thing: it can either intently focus on it; or it can rationalize it away with illusion, such as color; or it can totally ignore it--a mental "blind spot". And this is the desired effect.
An illusive appearance that is so irritating to the mind that the mind ignores it--and thus you are de facto invisible. If perfected, literally a person could be looking right at you and see everything around you, but not see you.
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.
One elephant trampled another to death at an Israeli nature park. Yossi, a 33-year-old, seven-ton bull elephant, charged and killed his herds matriarch Monday, a 46-year-old female named Atari, as visitors at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv watched in horror, according to Ha'aretz. "What happened to Yossi, who grew up all his life with Atari, and they always got along?" Yigal Horowitz, a veterinarian at the park, said to Israel Radio. "Here and there were small fights, but they never had a fight like this one."
Wrestler Abe The Hebrew Hercules Coleman died Wednesday in New York at age 101. Coleman, also known as The Jewish Tarzan, was an early pioneer of the drop kick, which he claimed to have learned from watching kangaroos. Standing 5'3" tall and weighing 220 pounds, Coleman was never a champion, but was a fan favorite in new York and elsewhere. 
