Yeah. So?
NEW YORK - Bill Clinton said he felt others' pain. But a new brain-scanning study suggests that when guys see a cheater get a mild electric shock, they don't feel his pain much at all. In fact, they rather enjoy it. Clinton? They could've used a better example here.
In contrast, women's brains showed they do empathize with the cheater's pain and don't get a kick out it. I see they haven't got around to testing my wife yet...
It's not clear whether this difference in schadenfreude â enjoyment of another's misfortune â results from basic biology or sex roles learned during life, researchers say. But it could help explain why men have historically taken charge of punishing criminals and others who violate societal rules, said researcher Dr. Klaas Stephan. Hey! Now I know what "schadenfreude" means!
Stephan, a senior research fellow at the University College London, is co-author of a study led by Tania Singer at the college and published online Wednesday by the journal Nature. Singer, in an e-mail message, said the sex difference in results was a surprise and must be confirmed by larger studies. The researchers said women might have reacted like men if the cheater suffered psychological or financial pain instead. Tania will suffer some financial pain if they don't continue to fund this study. Hence the need for "larger studies".
The scientists scanned the brains of 16 men and 16 women after the volunteers played a game with what they thought were other volunteers, but who in fact were actors. The actors either played the game fairly or obviously cheated. During the brain scans, each volunteer watched as the hands of a "fair" player and a cheater received a mild electrical shock. When it came to the fair-player, both men's and women's brains showed activation in pain-related areas, indicating that they empathized with that player's pain. Woah, that's gotta hurt...
But for the cheater, while the women's brains still showed a response, men's brains showed virtually no specific reaction. Also, in another brain area associated with feelings of reward, men's brains showed a greater average response to the cheater's shock than to the fair player's shock, while women's brains did not. Die you cheatin bastard! Die! Die! Die!
Shut up, Hillary! You're screwing up the experiment!
A questionnaire revealed that the men expressed a stronger desire than women did for revenge against the cheater. The more a man said he wanted revenge, the higher his jump in the brain's reward area when the cheater got a shock. No such correlation showed up in women. They haven't tested any women I know.
Philip Jackson, who studies brain systems responsible for empathy at the University of Laval in Quebec City in Canada, said he found the sex differences intriguing and worth following up on. Which is what those doing studies always say. He's probably filling out the paper work right now...
The overall results elegantly tie together "a lot of things we either knew or suspected strongly" about how social interaction can affect the brain's activity, he said. ...but first, more, bigger and more expensive studies.
I'll buy into the idea that if the pain had been psychological, rather than physical, the wymyns would've responded more like the myns.
There is nothing on this Earth capable of more cruelty than a teen-aged femalian. Myns just beat each other up, heal, and prolly have a beer and laugh about it a week later. Hell, they can end up best friends if neither gives up too quickly and there's no "face" loss (only teeth and blood) involved. Femalians are very different. They say things to each other that penetrate all defenses - and never heal. Like rubber hoses delivered at light speed... the marks are all invisible, but they're there and they're mean brutal hurts. And worse - 30 years later the pain is as fresh as Day One. Vicious little shits, they are. I be sooooo glad to be a myn.
I've always figured that this difference in the socialization process was part of why myns and wymyns are always talking past each other. We don't have all that much of an overlap when it comes to fears and pains, and only slightly more when it comes to rewards and joys. Long-time unfinished theory...
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Hmmmmmmm.....I don't buy it. I've seen woman savage their cheatin' husbands for years, never letting go. Proving you can indeed get blood from a rock. She didn't feel his pain, she insured he'd feel it. Oh, and they share the moment for years and years with their cabal of friends. On the other hand, I've seen husbands just write it off [and write a number of child support checks] concerning cheating spouses. Now not every time, but certainly enough to question this study.
Hyper - Ah, I get it, lol. Thx! I always thought it would have been a hoot to help invent the lexicon for such movies, heh. Z-Z does hit the spot, lol.
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But a new brain-scanning study suggests that when guys see a cheater get a mild electric shock, they don't feel his pain much at all. In fact, they rather enjoy it.
Enjoy it? Hell, I'd like to be the one to push the button. Repeatedly.
Another BGO (Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious). It must have something to do with spending the past gazillion years being the one who has to go out and open up a can of whup@ss on the vermin who harm our women and children. F&%k with my loved ones even a tiny bit and only your hair won't hurt.
A prosecutor said Tuesday that a dominatrix waited too long to call for help as a client died of a heart attack during a bondage session, then dismembered and disposed of the body rather than report the death.
But the woman's lawyer said in her opening statement that the man never visited Barbara Asher's makeshift dungeon and that police made up the story and bullied Asher into confessing. "No body, no blood, no DNA evidence," defense attorney Stephanie Page said. "Barbara Asher is here because of a theory." If the dog collar don't fit, you must acquit.
Asher, who went by the name Mistress Lauren M, has pleaded innocent to charges of manslaughter and dismemberment in the death of Michael Lord. The retired telephone company worker from North Hampton, N.H., died in July 2000 while strapped to a rack in Asher's Quincy condominium, according to police.
Prosecutor Robert Nelson said Asher was getting into her dominatrix outfit when she heard a commotion coming from the "dungeon" where Lord was waiting, naked, tied by his wrists to the rack, a replica of a medieval torture device. She entered the room to find Lord in his death throes, Nelson said. "His arms are flailing about," Nelson said. "There was a gasp, and his head went forward."
Asher waited five minutes before calling her boyfriend to come help, the prosecutor said. Miguel Ferrer, who is charged as an accomplice, arrived 10 minutes later. "During that time, Mr. Lord continued to hang there, and she did nothing," Nelson said.
Asher and Ferrer took Lord down from the rack and tied to revive him, but by then it was too late, Nelson said. Ferrer suggested they call for help, but Asher refused because she was worried the police would find out about her operation, according to the prosecutor. So they put the body in the bathtub and left for the night, he said.
The next day, Nelson said, Ferrer dismembered the body of the 280-pound Lord with a hacksaw and they divided his remains into eight trash bags. The day after that, they drove to Augusta, Maine, where they dumped the remains behind a restaurant which had a carnitas special the next day, the prosecutor said. His remains have never been found.
A month later, Asher confessed to police following a two-hour interrogation using equipment from her own dungeon, and that confession forms the basis for much of the state's case. But the interview was not taped, Page said, and the investigators bullied her into saying things that conformed to their theory of what happened.
"Michael Lord was never at Barbara Asher's place in July 2000," the defense lawyer said, "and certainly she didn't decide to chop up a body in a bathtub." Forensic testing of the tub and Asher's car turned up none of Lord's DNA, Page said, nor did they reveal the presence of bleach or any other cleaning agent.
She said investigators failed to follow through on possible leads in the case, including that Lord had a 20-year affair with a married woman. "That woman's husband had threatened to kill Michael Lord," Page said.
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tu3031, I think you kinda have it. However, on another message board I frequent a poster said that it sounds like "hotel death" (old geezer has heart attack at no-tell motel with younger partner, usually of the adultery sort), but...
Where she (and her boyfriend) stepped over the line was in failing to seek medical assistance and in hiding the body.
The fact that the dungeon is described as "makeshift" only sets off further alarm bells in my mind. And while I'm not into the scene myself, the folks I know who are or have been have always harped on the idea of consent, limits, and sanity. Tying someone up then leaving the room is not cool (unless, perhaps, this is a "game" arranged beforehand with lots of safey precautions, use of "safe" signals, and so forth.) It does make me wonder if there was something going on here beyond what is stated and if, perhaps, the woman actually was contributing to the man's demise in some manner or something else illegal was going on at the time.
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I knew a femalian who was into the oxygen deprivation (strangling) thing. I was not. I figure she was lowering her IQ (picture the dying brain cells) with every orgasm...
Thatcher's gvt in the 70's? I'm not very british-knowledgeable, but that would be a very short decade IIRC.
THE Thatcher government concocted a plan in the 1970s to search for the Loch Ness monster using a team of bottle-nosed dolphins. Whitehall mandarins planned to import the highly intelligent mammals from America to establish once and for all whether Nessie existed. The scheme followed years of inter-departmental discussion about the possible tourism benefits if the fabled creature was ever discovered.
Last week The Sunday Times revealed how civil servants had obsessed about whether there would be legal protection from poachers and bounty hunters if Nessie were to emerge from the depths. Now declassified government files, released under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that the government was prepared to incur the wrath of animal rights groups in its quest to establish the truth about the monster.
A letter written in May 1979 from David Waymouth, a civil servant at the Department of the Environment, to Stewart Walker at the Scottish Home and Health Department states: âThis department is presently considering the issue of a licence to import two bottle-nosed dolphins from America for the purpose of exploring Loch Ness, a scheme which has already resulted in opposition from the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. âInquiries have been made with the mammal experts on the Scientific Authority for Animals and their advice is that there are no conservation, or indeed welfare, reasons for refusing a licence.
âClearly, however, there are other factors, mainly political, that you might wish to consider before the licence is issued.â
Like the fact that bottle-nosed dolphins are salt water mammals and Loch Ness is a fresh water lake
The National Archive of Scotland contains no record of a response to the letter.
However, Adrian Shine, a naturalist who has been investigating the Loch Ness mystery for several decades, said he believed the dolphin plan was the brainchild of veteran monster hunter Dr Robert Rines, founder of the American-based Academy of Applied Science who took a now famous underwater photograph, in 1972, which appeared to show a large flipper in the Loch.
Which later was found to be a "enhanced" photo of a log
The Academy of Applied Science in New Hampshire confirmed that dolphins were being trained with mini cameras and strobe lights that would have been activated if they encountered any large objects.
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I'm really not sure, but since dolphins are mammals, I would presume they wouldn't mind fresh water, after all there are dolphins in the Amazon river IIRC.
But, I agree, this is not very realistical.
I much prefer the krazed killer dolphins with neurotoxin-tipped dartguns on their back who went hunting for humans (most of them black people forced to feed on the dead) after the NO levees were blown up by Halliburton.
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Plus they're crazy American cowboy dolphins. They might've *started* to look for Nessie and then swam off to call in a airstike on the Firth of Forth, before heading to the Glasgow Starbucks...
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This was all before the guy admitted his famous photo was a hoax but still its pathetic. The UK government was going to spend money on something every scientist could easily discount.
How many Nessies would be required to keep a viable population alive? How long could a single Nessie live? We've ether got an eternally lasting Nessie or they are all over the place underfoot. The beast does not exist.
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Let me break in a moment and tell of my own Nessie sighting. Summer 87 I'm messing around on the Urqheart castle ruins with friends. Taking pictures and swordfighting with sticks. When the film was developed we saw in the background a distinct silouette of a neck and beak coming out of the water with a wake trailing behind it.
Damn we were excited. Big money, fame, fortune. HOw did we not see it while we were there? We dug through other photos until we found it again. This time with a bit better lighting. This time we could see the boat. You see the beak was the outstretched arms of a waterskier.
How many Nessie sitings didn't have the second photo for comparison? Or had the second photo hidden from prying eyes?
I'd love to believe in Nessie, or Tahoe Tessie and all the other Dilophosauri out there but I can't. Bigfoot ate them all long ago and that is all there is too it.
Last week, Japanese scientists explaced... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water. Sir Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its local residents and all those who seek for the peaceful existence of our underwater ally.
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Yet more papparazzi stalking innocent cryptids. Don't we have enough problems as it is, with the declining breeding pools and vanishing food sources?
I just wish people would leave our stealth subs alone , we have only just managed to make it stream-line in water ... the paddles were the issue if anyone is slighly interested
Boston Herald gossip column, reporting on a story in the National Enquirer. EFL. Salt recommended. On the other hand, the Enquirer has a better fact-checking unit than CBS News. On the other other hand, my son's goldfish are better at fact-checking than CBS. . . . Okay, I'll shut up now.
The National Enquirer splashes this week with a shocking story about Sen. Ted Kennedyâs secret love child with a Cape Cod woman whom the mag says he dated during his days as a swinging single. According to the tabloidâs source, the boy, named Christopher, just celebrated his 21st birthday and is âmature enough to make his own choices about his background and biological father.â "He's my dad? Him? Ted Kennedy! Eeeewww, ick, I'm registering Republican and joining a health club!"
"Mom! How could you!"
"Well, it was dark, and the moon was bright ..."
"... and I wasn't..."
. . . As for the senator, his spokesgal Melissa Wagoner last night called the tabloid tale âirresponsible fiction.â "It's no more true than that scurrilous tale about the bridge and the car that the right-wing conspiracy keeps peddling. Oh, Ted, not again! I feel so dirty when I have to do this denial crap."
Hereâs the story according to the Enquirer: Back in 1983, Kennedy, then 51, started humping took up with Caroline Bilodeau, an attractive brunette, several months before divorcing Joan, the mother of his three kids â Kara, Ted Jr. and Patrick. Bilodeauâs friends told the Enquirer the local lass became so smitten with the senator, she âhad dreams about being the next Mrs. Ted Kennedy.â
Isn't that what Mary Jo wondered?
Asked to comment on the affair, portly pepperpot Monica Lewisky was quoted as saying, "Dated a pig politician, did ya? Been there, done that. It is, like, so embarassing! I feel for ya, girlfriend!" But the love affair came crashing down when Bilodeau told Ted a baby was on the way, the mag reports. âCaroline announced to the family that she was two months pregnant around May 1984,â blabbed a Bilodeau confidante. âTed was not happy about the news. He already had three kids with Joan and knew a baby out of wedlock could hurt him politically.â According to the Enquirer, the scandal-scarred senator begged Bilodeau to have an abortion, but she refused. Now we know why he's so attached to Roe v. Wade.
âHe told her he couldnât undergo another scandal â not after Chappaquiddick, not so close to his divorce from Joanâ said the source. âHe was very angry when she defied him and had the child.â
It would have driven him to drink, but he was already there...
During her pregnancy, Carolineâs friends noticed the unemployed young woman who lived with her parents bought a black Mustang convertible, an expensive Shar-pei puppy and moved into her own apartment. âLater we learned she received about $15,000 from someone in the Kennedy camp,â said the friend.
Shucks. That's never happened before, has it?
When Christopher was born in a Cape Cod hospital in December 1984, Kennedy was nowhere near the delivery room. Surprise meter reads "off-scale low."
But he did, according to the Enquirer, take a paternity test shortly thereafter to determine if the child was his. Thereby demonstrating what Ted thinks of the women he sleeps with.
After Bilodeau got the results, she moved back in with her parents but âalways seemed to have money,â said the source. Kennedyâs former flame did eventually find love with a man she met in a pizzeria. They married and he legally adopted Christopher and raised him as his own son, sources said. âShe has always been very protective of Christopher and wanted him to have a normal life, not the life a Kennedy lives,â said the friend. Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
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âTed was not happy about the news.... and wanted to go out and get something to eat and take me on a loooooooooong drive in the country to discuss it. I wasn't hungry at the time, so I stayed at home and later ordered a Papa Johns Pizza.
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I can't opine as to the veracity of the article, but its timing is certainly interesting. Teddy was an embarrassment at the Alito hearings. And the Owl Club item is a howler. Sensing vulnerability, the Herals prints a slime job like this. It might be taken with less salt than normal by the Baystaters. Perhaps the Senile Senator from Taxachusetts will not get to die in office.
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Of course the Ted wouldn't marry her -- he's a Kennedy, she's just a local girl, the kind that make good servants. Should he marry again, it'll be to an appropriate female of his class who'll fit in at D.C. parties. Someone whose wardrobe Robin G., Washington Post fashion/politics commentator would approve of.
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I'm going to have to take issue with the main rantburgian stream here.
Even a jerk like Sen Kennedy is entitled to a zone of private life and I don't think the Boston Herald should be reporting on what the Natl Enquirer says in such an extensive way (it would be different to have a 1 sentence blurb that the Natl Enq says 'Ted K may have fathered a child out-of-wedlock in the 80s').
What is really bad is that if Caroline B and Christopher really want a normal life, the Boston Herald is messing it up.
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St. Johns' Knitwear, tu? I really should pay more attention to such things, but there's this War on Terror thingy, and the trailing daughters to rear, and I just get so distracted from what's important...
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mhw, when one demands the perks of Royalty, one gets the annoyances of Royalty as well. If the honourable Senator and a goodly portion of his clan didn't throw their considerable weight around so, and with hypocrisy aforethought, nobody would care how often his belt failed to hold up his trousers in his private life.
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Danielle, it's the Patrick Kennedy who's a Congresscritter from Rhode Island (BTW - he moved to RI so he wouldn't go against his cousin Joe in Mass). Local radio jocks parody him as "The Beav" in a running gag - funny as hell, but too kind to him by half.
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mhw: Part of me wants to agree with you on principle, but this is the same Ted Kennedy who subpoenaed Robert Bork's video rentals at Blockbuster, and who publicized the sexual history of the woman his nephew raped. Sauce for the goose, as they say . . . .
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That picture . . . . AAAAAAAAAGHGHGHGHGH, my eyes............!
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According to the tabloidâs source, the boy, named Christopher, just celebrated his 21st birthday and is âmature enough to make his own choices about his background and biological father.â
Unfortunately for this kid, he has no choice about his biological father.
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Jeez, youse guys are vicious. This is definitely a take-no-prisoners thread.
I love it! Keep up the good work. :-D
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I sure hope the kid takes after his mom in the looks department.
Fighting is being reported between Bangladeshi United Nations peacekeepers and supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo in the west of Ivory Coast. At least three people have been killed when the UN base in Guiglo, 300km from Abidjan, came under attack and UN staff are reportedly being evacuated.
"Run away!"
France has called for calm in towns and cities in the government-controlled south after three days of protests.
Ivorian muslim rebels, who control the north, say the country is on the brink of war. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has urged an immediate end to "orchestrated violence" in the divided nation. The country has been split in two since a failed coup attempt in 2002, with some 10,000 UN and French peacekeepers patrolling between the rebel-controlled and government areas.
Mr Gbagbo's supporters are angry at international mediators calling for the dissolution of the parliament, which largely backs him. The mediators were appointed by the UN to help steer the country towards elections, due this year. The ruling party subsequently pulled out of the transitional government and UN-backed peace talks and are calling on French and UN troops to leave.
"There is not a future for Ivory Coast if the FPI succeeds in making a putsch against the peace process. That means war," New Forces rebel spokesman Sidiki Konate told the BBC's Network Africa programme. Mr Konate said the rebels, who have controlled the north for three years, remained committed to the transitional government under the leadership of Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny.
Sure, since the UN-backed transitional government seems determined to put them in power.
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The title on the BBC site reads:
UN troops flee Ivory Coast town
ALKHOBAR, 18 January 2006 â Police officers in Alkhobar smashed the rear car window of a teenager because of an offensive sticker, Okaz daily reported. The teenager was cruising on Alkhobar streets proud of a sign in the back window that said âI Have Your Sister With Meâ.
Must have been out of those yellow "Sheep On Board" decals
He was stopped by police and was asked to take it out. The teenager refused to listen to police order saying it was a personal right. Police found no way but to totally smash the rear window. A large crowd gathered at the scene and was clapping at the police action urging the police to do more to stop teenage unruliness.
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Heh, that's where I lived - and I can guess where this happened.
BTW, the "cops" come in multiple flavors there, because of Aramco being nearby. You got your Tribe A (local city police), your Tribe B (Army / Emergency Forces), and your Tribe C (National Guard). And no, that's not a joke - each force is predominantly staffed by myns from a certain Tribe - and each has loyalty to either the al Sudairis (Nayef, Turki, et al) or al Shammaris (Kingy Thingy Abdullah). Within each force, they look alike. A LOT alike, lol. One of 'em, the Nat Guard guys, IIRC, seemingly all have an extremely hawkish-looking face - sharp aquiline noses and beady eyes, lol.
But when there's something going down, you end up with each force putting up its own checkpoints / traffic roadblocks - I used to go through 4 or 5 on the short trip home from Aramco when something was up - a Royal coming to town or some recent bombing or whatever.
I'll wager this stop was done by the Nat Guard guys. They were the most aggressive and most arrogant. The kid with the sticker was certainly asking for trouble - âI Have Your Sister With Meâ is waaay over the local line.
I'll also bet his Daddy is some sort of Aramco hotshot, else he wouldn't have done it in the first place or had the stones to argue. Lol. I'll bet he'll be grounded and limited to the Camp (Little America) for a few weeks.
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When I lived is Soddiland (left in 69), al-Khobar was the closest Arab town. It was a typical arab village: sewage flowing down the center of roads, broken pavement and sidewalks, locals with obvious glaucoma, shopkeeps pursuing you, men missing their hand, etc. NOT a happy place.
Now, I am sure, their is a sewer and the street and sidewalks are in good shape, but I m sure it still isn't a happy place.
SAUDI authorities are looking for Fatwa from scholars around the world concerning working out a new method for the symbolic stoning of the devil.
In a bid to avoid any deadly stampedes in future, the latest of which claimed the lives of 363 people last week, the authorities also unveiled plans to replace the current Jamarat passage with a 10-level structure, to ensure the safety of pilgrims on this site where incidents over the years marred one of the five pillars of Islam.
"Step right up! New and improved stoning of the devil to your right! Devil-stoning stones, SR1 each. Show us how holy you are, and don't throw like girls!"
According to Maj-Gen Eng. Mansour Al Turki, spokesman of the Saudi Ministry of Interior, the planned 10 levels would be built in the next 10 years. The first four will be completed within the next two years. Workers have reportedly begun work soon after the last day of Haj, tearing down a platform at the Jamarat on orders from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz in order to rebuild it with better access to prevent deadly stampedes.
The Al Jamarat platform, where three pillars representing the devil are located, will be rebuilt with one underground level and four 100-metre wide ramps that can accommodate 250,000 pilgrims per hour, said Osama Al Bar, Head of Haj Research Centre. There will be 12 entrances and 12 exits. The current site has just two levels, including one 80-metre wide ramp leading to a platform from which pilgrims pelt stones at the pillars.
They'll stone the devil from an underground level?
On Thursday, some 600,000 pilgrims were squeezed in at the ramp when about a dozen people stumbled over baggage, tripping others behind them and causing the deadly crush. The disaster happened as pilgrims flocked to the Jamarat Bridge in Mina to hurl stones at a pillar representing the devil.
He said the construction, which aims at both preventing accidents and accommodate the expected increase in pilgrims, would be completed within two years. Other improvements being made include multiple vehicle tunnels to facilitate traffic flow and a landing area for helicopters that might be required to rush in medical aid.
Haj Minister Fouad Al Farsy thanked King Abdullah for sanctioning the SR4 billion project. The first phase of the project , which is a four-floor facility, will allow 500,000 pilgrims to perform the ritual in one hour. This will accommodate three to five million pilgrims per year. This year around three million pilgrims performed haj.
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We can't be so lucky to use the Iranians for contractors?
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I envision a sort of multi-tier golf driving range sort of devil-stoning structure. Despite all sorts of advance civil engineering and all the fatwas in the world, I'm also confident they'll still figure out some way to trample the sh!t out of each other.
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My guess is that the 10 level stoning platform will end up not supporting the weight of 250,000 eager devil hating rock tossers and... well, you know.
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Call me dense but 10 levels would let a missed rock reach near terminal velocity as it arcs downward. The folk on the lower levels are going to be creamed by all the rocks heading their way.
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Rather simple, really, 3dc. Adulterers, political prisoners and rapist stabbers will all be assigned tethered positions on the lowest floors in order to make best use of those errant missiles.
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much simpler... forget about the ramps. Change pebbles to AK47's (in far greater abundance in the neighbourhood than stones) or suicide belts. Why should the 3 stone devils get softer treatment the the Greater and Lesser Satans?
2 ramps - facing each other and everybody takes home 76 virgins. The details, of course, lie in the Cleaning Detail.
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Shit. Why spoil a good thing? This has been going just fine for hundreds of years. We can count on these dumb asses stomping several hundred to death each year, as it is. I laugh for days every time it happens.
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Is it just me, or did anyone else think of Dante's Inferno (the book, not the party club) with the different levels all leading down to....the devil at the bottom?
How do they assign who gets what level, anyway? Money, how "sinful" you are, what's the criteria?
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This is a 12-story group access block combining classical devil-stoning features with the efficiency of modern fatwas. The pilgrims arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt with extreme piety, past murals depicting Arabic scenes, towards the rotating tramplers. The last twenty feet of the ramp is heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the trampled flesh slurps into these â¦
SCIENTISTS in Ireland may have found the countryâs most fertile male, with more than three million men worldwide among his offspring.
The scientists, from Trinity College Dublin, have discovered that as many as one in 12 Irish men could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, a fifth-century warlord and head of the most powerful dynasty in ancient Ireland.
His genetic legacy is almost as impressive as Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor who conquered most of Asia in the 13th century and has nearly 16m descendants, said Dan Bradley, who supervised the research.
âItâs another link between profligacy and power,â Bradley said.
âWeâre the first generation on the planet where if youâre successful you donât (always) have more children.â
The research was carried out by PhD student Laoise Moore, at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at Trinity. Moore, testing the Y chromosome which is passed on from fathers to sons, examined DNA samples from 800 males across Ireland.
The results - which have been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics - showed the highest concentration of related males in northwest Ireland, where one in five males had the same Y chromosome.
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Millions of descendents - wow, that's called fucking power, heh. Sorry, bad pun. Hmmm, I wonder if they tested for Big Willy of the publicity-shy BackDoorMan Tribe how many hits they'd get...
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This speaks less to his, uh, productivity than to the dominance of the Y gene in heredity and the testosterone it delivers.
If there have been 80 generations since this fellow was around it takes only 1.2 males per generation to reach 3 million today. What this speaks to is how many didn't make it in the past.
Even the great Jenjis Kahn is at 1.51 males per generation. Let's hope Jenjis Kerry doesn't have that type of persistence.
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A distant cousin decided to trace back our family tree and went as far as a bastard son of one of the pagan viking king Haralds. (There were several kings of the same name and she didn't know which..)
So I looked for the translated SAGAS on these guys and, after reading, told her to quit bragging. All of northern europe had to be decended from these "swingers".
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"In those days it really was good to be king."
Only if you, um, uh, get off on sex, lol. So many seem to be working so very very hard to deny that they do, or that they're permanently wired for it, these days, lol. Tip: Darwin 1001 sez abstract your animal drives into oblivion -- and fade out of existence accordingly... and the proof lies in the birth-rate articles we see so often...
Outgoing President Eduardo Rodriguez fired Bolivia's army chief on Tuesday over his decision to have 28 Chinese shoulder-launched missiles destroyed in the United States. Gen. Marcelo Antezana later appeared on Bolivian television to say Rodriguez had made a "bad interpretation" of his role in the October destruction of the missiles, which led to accusations of treason by Evo Morales, then a presidential candidate.
Morales â who later won elections in December â revealed the destruction of the missiles by the United States and said it had left Bolivia with almost no air defense. Rodriguez said he made the decision to destroy the missiles on the recommendation of the United Nations and the Organization of American States after receiving information from the army that they were obsolete and a safety hazard.
Morales' Movement Toward Socialism Party That's a bad sign, right there. filed a suit against Rodriguez in October, with some members claiming the missiles were in working condition. Party members have distanced themselves from the suit in recent weeks.
The United States has been campaigning to rid Latin America of portable arms that could fall into the hands of terrorists. A State Department spokesman earlier said Bolivia requested U.S. help in removing the deteriorating Chinese-made surface-to-air missiles. On Tuesday, government news agency ABI reported that Rodriguez would make a formal inquiry with the U.S. Embassy to investigate their role in the matter.
The firing comes as Rodriguez, a caretaker president appointed after the resignation of Carlos Mesa in June, prepares to hand power to Morales this Sunday.
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Exactly. Wonder why with all the world ablaze, no one likes to talk about the Chi-coms (and their "American" enablers) roles in all this recent unpleasantness.
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Gunmen killed two Jordanian U.N. peacekeepers and seriously wounded a third Tuesday at a checkpoint in a slum in Haiti's capital that is a stronghold for supporters of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a spokesman said. The three Jordanian peacekeepers were manning the checkpoint when they came under fire, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. One was apparently killed instantly while the other two were taken to a hospital where one died of his wounds. The other was listed in serious condition, he said.
The shootings came a day after Haitian politicians and business leaders rallied in front of U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince to press the peacekeepers to end violence jeopardizing the Feb. 7 presidential and legislative elections. The rally took place a week after a general strike was called to protest a wave of kidnappings by armed gangs that has terrified people and overshadowed efforts to restore democracy. Late last week, chanting protesters filled Cite Soleil's narrow streets to denounce violence and political chaos after clashes between gangs and U.N. peacekeepers reportedly left one person dead and at least 17 wounded.
I don't think that getting herds of chanting protesters together does anything particularly productive. Hunting the hard boyz down and killing them without mercy might work better.
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Canada's Conservative Party, which would be more in line with Bush administration policies, appeared to gain strength in its quest to end 13 years of Liberal Party rule as campaigning for national elections entered its final week. Opinion polls released Monday show that Stephen Harper's opposition Conservatives were holding an advantage of 8 to 13 percentage points over Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal Party â a gap that analysts say will be very difficult for the ruling party to overcome by Jan. 23, when voters will cast ballots for the 308-seat House of Commons.
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As per POLIPUNDIT.com the Conservatives reportedly are trying to collect NDP supp while the NDP wants Liberal supp - lets all hope and pray that the new elex don't result in Canadian versions of anti-Canadian Canadian, anti-Unitarian Unitarian, Treason = Patriotism, Capitalism = Socialism RINOS and CINOS, whom like America's Clinton-led/centric Dems will vote for a Canadian agenda before voting against it before......before.....before.............@. The Chicoms ala Defense Minister Hitian want to eliminate a mere 200M Americans out of America's 300M plus take over 1/2 of CONUS - dibs on how many Canadians and Western democratists get the honor and privelege of being righteously exterminated in OWG/State-planned holocaust/
genocide for the good of China, the CCP, enviro and the world, once America goes down for the count.
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Nothing like a good ol' "the Conservatives might win!" media scare tactic to rally the Liberal base. Same thing happened last time around, with polls showing a tiny Conservative lead. What ended up happening? The Liberals trounced everyone in Ontario, and the election was over by the time polls opened in Vancouver.
I'll wait until election day, thank you very much.
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The ordinary Canadian is more and more a kind of "real" conservative (note the lack of CAP) - sick to death of "hug a thug" mentality and tanking abilities.
I have no idea where the "death to American" mentality comes from and I'm getting tired of it.
A minority is all that's needed for a start to return the country to some sort of balance.
Despite the inherited Liberal infrastructure, common sense might return. A balanced Harper (need to pull him a little centre of the right tilt he's on), but the checks and balances of the infrastructure (civil servants, senate, judicial) quo may help.
The vagarities and stupidity of Toronto (my city, alas) may perpetuate the criminal machine.
Home of crime waved in on immigrants and illegals from the same area - cherished by Liberals, released by Liberals and set to continue killing with their blessing. Nothing loves a thug like a thug.
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"Canada's Conservative Party, which would be more in line with Bush administration policies..."
"More in line" is kinda relative here. I think it is worth pointing out that even our "right wing" Conservative party is more like the left wing of the US Democratic Party. So, American readers, don't expect us to shift too much to the right. Even when we had Mulroney with two massive majorities and Reagan and Thatcher out there, we didn't exactly become hawks....but I am hoping!
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I have no idea where the "death to American" mentality comes from and I'm getting tired of it.
Some of it comes from the immigrant population, some of it comes from America itself. I ran into one of those self-hating American types, now residing and working in Canada. Can't let 5 minutes go by without interjecting how she loves the fact that Canada isn't like the US. She can't vote yet, thank God.
BTW, a lot of it also comes from the Liberals and Martin himself. Wasn't it the other day when Martin said that Canadians and Americans don't share the same values? WTF??? That's a rather broad generalization, and if true, says more about Canada than the US.
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Here's wishing our Canadian cousins a good election -- it'll help us all.
(2006-01-17) â Former Vice President Al Gore, who won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election, yesterday made another in a series of speeches condemning the man he beat, President George Bush, and made a surprise announcement that he would add movie acting to his already diverse resume.
Mr. Gore told a tri-partisan gathering of political activists that heâs been cast in the lead role of Ang Leeâs sequel to âBrokeback Mountainâ, the Golden Globe-winning cowboy adultery story.
An unnamed spokesman for Mr. Lee said the film, âBrokerecord Mountainâ, âwill tell the heartbreaking story of a manâs love for the sound of his own voice, and his futile crusade to convince others to love it as well.â
So far, no one else has been cast for the movie, according to the source, adding that âperhaps we shouldnât have announced the deal with Al Gore until we got the rest of the actors under contract.â
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 prosecutor said Tuesday that a dominatrix waited too long to call for help as a client died of a heart attack during a bondage session, then dismembered and disposed of the body rather than report the death.
But the love affair came crashing down when Bilodeau told Ted a baby was on the way, the mag reports. âCaroline announced to the family that she was two months pregnant around May 1984,â blabbed a Bilodeau confidante. âTed was not happy about the news. He already had three kids with Joan and knew a baby out of wedlock could hurt him politically.â According to the Enquirer, the scandal-scarred senator begged Bilodeau to have an abortion, but she refused.
When Christopher was born in a Cape Cod hospital in December 1984, Kennedy was nowhere near the delivery room.
On Thursday, some 600,000 pilgrims were squeezed in at the ramp when about a dozen people stumbled over baggage, tripping others behind them and causing the deadly crush. The disaster happened as pilgrims flocked to the Jamarat Bridge in Mina to hurl stones at a pillar representing the devil.
Gunmen killed two Jordanian U.N. peacekeepers and seriously wounded a third Tuesday at a checkpoint in a slum in Haiti's capital that is a stronghold for supporters of former president 
Canada's Conservative Party, which would be more in line with Bush administration policies, appeared to gain strength in its quest to end 13 years of Liberal Party rule as campaigning for national elections entered its final week. Opinion polls released Monday show that Stephen Harper's opposition Conservatives were holding an advantage of 8 to 13 percentage points over Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal Party â a gap that analysts say will be very difficult for the ruling party to overcome by Jan. 23, when voters will cast ballots for the 308-seat House of Commons.
