Angry beavers have managed to successfully scare off the locals after taking over a bathing area in Lindesberg in central Sweden. But local authorities have vowed to exterminate the current batch of river-dwelling rodents. I'd like to see that "vow" on video"
The most recent incident came at the weekend as three generations of the same family were out enjoying a swim in the Bottenån river.
A mother and her two children could only look on in horror as a beaver went on the attack, biting the children's grandmother until she bled. The older woman was also struck by the beaver's tail and was left needing hospital treatment, Nerikes Allehanda reports.
There have previously also been reports of a beaver attacking a child on the same stretch of water. Not everybody is prepared for attacks of this kind, as beavers are generally regarded as being somewhat shy animals.
"But if you're in the water and see a beaver you should watch out. In the water they see you as their enemy and will attack," said Leif Linder, who is responsible for curbing the beaver population in the area. On weekends, he's a sorcerer and answers to the name "Tim"
Linder assured bathers that they would soon be able to breathe a sigh of relief: the entire beaver colony is to be wiped out. Four of the beavers in the area have already been shot.
"Then we also have to destroy the lodge. Otherwise there is a risk that other beavers will move in. We're probably going to blow it up," said Linder. Yep, they're gonna blow it up, real good.
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A Reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:
Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
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Meanwhile in other news... Angry jihadis have managed to successfully scare off the locals after taking over 2/3 of Malmö in southern Sweden. But local authorities have vowed to accomodate the current batch of city-dwelling rodents.
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Karl Spacklerson:
License to kill beavers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill beavers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort on Tuesday.
Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 2.5-meter (8-foot) tall model with a yellow head and blue torso. "We saw something bobbing about in the sea and we decided to take it out of the water," said a stall worker. "It was a life-sized Lego toy."
A woman nearby added: "I saw the Lego toy floating toward the beach from the direction of England."
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Giant Lego men swimming ashore at Zandvoort...beavers attacking in Lindesberg...? No Panzer IV's reported yet correct?
This guy is huge. And what's the meaning of his curiously ambiguous slogan? "NO REAL THAN YOU ARE"? And why is the vise-like grip of his hand the perfect fit for a small child's torso? Tomorrow morning, we'll be waking up to "Giant Lego Man Eats The Hague". Or, alternatively, "Giant Lego Man's Giant Koran Also Found In Dutch Sea".
Researchers at the European Southern Observatory suggested that planets could go splat against their stars like bugs on a windshield. The researchers put forth their theory after examining the spectrum of the stellar systems located next to the Sun.
The planets orbits are upset by gravitational disturbances caused by the impact of parent stars. The disturbances may as well be due to other reasons that remain to be seen. As a result, the planets fall into the fiery pits of hell. The majority of planets in the vicinity of their parent stars are doomed for destruction.
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Notify Halliburton's "Space-Time Relativity & Attraction Division" in regards to this, please.
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WE'RE DOOMED! DOOMED!
Oh, well, that means I can gorge on food as much as I want, and revel in self-indulgence even more than today, because there is no tomorrow. That is actually kinda sweet. Thanks, pravda!
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I was saddened when I heard that Weekly World News was shutting down, but then I remembered, "Oh, yeah. Pravda's still around!"
Made me feel better...
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Blowing up unstable planets was the job of the space ship in the movie Dark Star.
Pinback: All right, bomb. Prepare to receive new orders.
Bomb#20: You are false data.
Pinback: Hmmm?
Bomb #20: Therefore I shall ignore you.
Pinback: Hello... bomb?
Bomb #20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive.
Pinback: Hey, bomb?
Bomb #20: The only thing that exists is myself.
Pinback: Snap out of it, bomb.
Here's the ESO press release. They're only talking about giant stars, not stars like the Sun, and in the last paragraph they get around to mentioning that this "pollution" occurs as the planetary system is forming. That is, when any actual planets are probably still cooling.
If you look at the actual paper, (I only read the abstract), it seems as if their main result was to find that planet-hosting giants have a lower metal[1] content than planet-hosting dwarfs (i.e. Sun-like stars). Their explanation is that the metals are there, they're just diluted in the larger stars.
"In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with Bomb #20, and the Word was Boom."
"That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle...
And the Lord spake thus, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'"
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Euros + Anti-Stalinist Stalinist PRAVDA must have read my posts on what would happen iff God really Really REALLY REEEAAALLLY... got pissed off and ordered GABRIEL'S SWORD to destroy the Sun [expansion + nova], ergo never appeared on the Net no matter how many times tried to modify andor post. *D *** ng it, Lenin, don't I get even a Russian = Commie bikini babe(s)??? PRINCE/ARTIST KNOWN AS PRINCE > "Purple Rain, Purple Rain ....." > despite heavy rains and lousy weather, a Madonna fan on Guam sees an explosion in the skies. 1980's = 2007, ergo Secularists-Atheists say "GOD/RELIGION IS FAKE", " GOD DOES NOT EXIST", correct. GUMMINT CONTROLS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE + IS THE SOLE BE-ALL, END-ALL, ALPHA-OMEGA OF EXISTENCE AND REALITY, LIFE AND DEATH, ETC. GOD HAS DECIDED TO PICK UP THE GAUNTLET OF CHALLENGE Humanity had better pray it has the tech, the will, the unity, and the global-space firepower to avoid - stop whats coming. *FIFTH ELEMENT [paraphrased] > RESPONSIVENESS, RETALIATION, ESCALATION, etal. IMPLIES EXISTENCE AND SENTIENCE,... REALITY WILL AND RESOLVE.
The deliberate release of viral material, possibly in an act of sabotage, may have caused the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, officials said last night.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said in a report ordered by the Prime Minister that release by human movement [of the FMD virus] must be considered a real possibility. Inspectors all but discounted theories that the virus escaped by air or water from the laboratory complex close to where the outbreak started, although they are continuing to investigate the possibility of equipment failure or a security breach.
The HSE concluded in the report which was sent to Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, last night that there was a strong probability that the virus came from the research centre three miles from the first outbreak in a herd of cattle in Surrey. Mr Benn said that sabotage could not be ruled out. The truth is we do not know. That is why further investigations need to take place. The last FMD outbreak in England cost the economy billions of pounds - if I was a terrorist (Muslim or Peta) I would consider that evidence of an extremely attractive target.
The finding strengthens suspicions raised at the weekend when it was discovered that the strain of virus was one found only in laboratories. Investigators were unable, however, to decide whether the foot-and-mouth contamination escaped from the Institute of Animal Health, the government-funded body that first identified the virus, or Merial, a private company that shares the same site at Pirbright.
Further genetic analysis of the virus is being carried out to determine from which of the laboratory units the virus originated. Any security breach could have been either deliberate or accidental and it was confirmed last night that government scientists have been inspecting allotments close to the first outbreak which are used by Pirbright workers to grow vegetables. Did anybody named Mohammed have access?
Should investigators find that biosecurity systems or equipment at IAH were in any way to blame for the outbreak, ministers would face allegations that the failure was caused by years of underfunding. It's Bush's fault!
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I doubt any raging British Islamist would be satisfied with killing cattle, which aren't even infidels.
I am now having highly inappropriate amusing thoughts about Islamists driving car bombs into herds of cattle, or five of them wielding AKs and firing into a pasture cutting down cows left and right.
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It would make little sense for animal rights advocates to take an action that would likely result in the extermination of a large number of animals. That said, not everything that animal rights advocates do is rational, consistent or coherent.
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Super Hose, when ARists released show dogs from their crates in the 1990s, and shoo'd them into oncoming traffic, their justification was that it was better for the dogs to die than to live in captivity.
After laying low for a while, they're prowling dog show sites again, the sons of ... well, not bitches, since female dogs are much better inhabitants of the earth than this scum.
I've heard similar rationales for doing 'whatever it takes' to end the production of meat and dairy products.
The number of reports of honour-related violence in the Rotterdam region increased in the first half of this year. The regional health authorities (GGD) in Rotterdam-Rijmond say they have received more than 70 reports since January, compared to only 30 for the whole of 2006. The project leader on honour-related violence at the GGD announced these numbers on Monday.
All reports proved to be serious threats of honour-related violence. The fact that more of this crime is now being reported is thanks to a pilot project introduced by the Rotterdam municipality, the project leader said. Since 1 January the municipality, GGD, police and emergency services have been working closely to chart out and tackle the situation of honour-related violence. The close cooperation is already yielding results, the project leader said. "This is just the tip of the iceberg," she said.
The first step in fixing a problem is acknowleging that there *is* a problem. This looks like a good first step.
Late yesterday, CAP Maj. Gen, Antonio J. Pineda violated the orders of the organization's Board of Governors (BoG) and wrote an e-mail to all members of the CAP's National Board, reminding the members that the CAP has rules and regulations. He said that the BoG had no right to suspend him and cited Article 15, Section 8 of the CAP Constitution and By-Laws, which does appear to make a clear statement of how cases against a national commander are to be handled.
The BoG was put in place by the Secretary of the Air Force to help govern its Auxiliary, so it appears, then, that Pineda's disregard of the BoG's orders is a direct affront to the secretary. Pineda claims these issues are not being handled properly.
Maj. Gen. Pineda was ordered by the BoG to have no contact with any Civil Air Patrol members during the period of his 180-day suspension.
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