Durex has launched its first UK recruitment drive for thousands of condom testers. The condom maker wants a panel of 5,000 people who are single, married, or in couples to report their experiences of using its condoms and lubricants. Men and women of all ages, ethnic groups or sexual orientation have been asked to apply on its website. Durex was inundated with 14,000 applicants on the first day it started a similar scheme in France.
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Apparently the test market results from reported 00's or 000-persons Brit sex orgies were inconclusive???
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That's a pretty funny ad. Reminds me of Woody Allen's sperm paratroopers in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex. It was one of the things they were worried about.
His serious aviation habit means he is hardly the best person to lecture others on the environment. But John Travolta went ahead and did it anyway. The 53-year-old actor, a passionate pilot, encouraged his fans to "do their bit" to tackle global warming. But although he readily admitted: "I fly jets", he failed to mention he actually owns five, along with his own private runway. Clocking up at least 30,000 flying miles in the past 12 months means he has produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions nearly 100 times the average Briton's tally.
Travolta made his comments this week at the British premiere of his movie, Wild Hogs. He spoke of the importance of helping the environment by using "alternative methods of fuel" after driving down the red carpet on a Harley Davidson.
Travolta, a Scientologist, claimed the solution to global warming could be found in outer space and blamed his hefty flying mileage on the nature of the movie business. But his appointment as a "serving ambassador" for the Australian airline Qantas doesn't seem to have much to do with the movies. Nor does a recent, two-month round-the-world flying trip. "It [global warming] is a very valid issue," Travolta declared. "I'm wondering if we need to think about other planets and dome cities.
"Everyone can do their bit. But I don't know if it's not too late already. We have to think about alternative methods of fuel. "I'm probably not the best candidate to ask about global warming because I fly jets. "I use them as a business tool though, as others do. I think it's part of this industry otherwise I couldn't be here doing this and I wouldn't be here now."
Travolta's five private planes a customised £2million Boeing 707, three Gulfstream jets and a Lear jet are kept at the bottom of his garden in the US next to a private runway.
There is a picture of the house and his jets parked outside at the link. Just make sure to keep the drool off your keyboards
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But, but... I'm SURE he only uses them one at a time.
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I gave up my five jets for global warming. Next I'm going to give up my mansion. Got to get my carbon credits in line. Going to follow the penguin leader--Al Gore.
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Well, let's talk about planes, one of his planes, say the Learjet. Now a Lear at cruise burns about 1119 lb per hour of Jet-A or about 167 gallons per hour. This does not include Taxi and runup, or takeoff running. So let's say our great Greenie-man puts on 200 hours per year, or 33,400 gallons per year. Now say an average trip is about 4 hours, so we have about 50 takeoffs and landings. At 50 gallons per runup, taxi, and takeoff, we are talking another 2500 gallons. So we are talking about 36,000 gallons of fuel for this one alone.
Now take my little Chickenhawk, the Cessna 172, to wit:
Now she burns 8 gallons per hour, block to block. When I lived up north, I would put on 200 hours a year, easy. Total fuel consumption was 1600 gallons per year. If I had 36,000 gallons of fuel, I could fly for 22 years.
These Global Warming clowns just knock me out. I do not have a problem with Mr. Travolta buying his toys to excess and setting up his little private Walter Mitty airline. This is still a free country---for now. I have a real problem with him lecturing us about global warming⢠and telling us to change our lifestyles while he does the conspicuous consumption thing.
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A little slack y'all; i bet he doesn't sit in traffic and let any of the jets idle........
i agree w/ AP: if you want to have a lot of toys that's ok, but then don't tell me I can't have my toys or how to use them...
Southern African leaders Thursday emerged from a conference in Tanzania's capital allied with embattled Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and calling for the lifting of all sanctions against his government. Mugabe maintains a tight grip on power as his country spirals into economic disaster.
After the Southern Africa Development Community emergency summit, Mugabe described the meeting as "excellent." "We are one with our neighbors," he said.
Mugabe has been condemned by the West and human rights groups for arrests and reported intimidation and beatings of his political opponents. His forces have been accused of severely beating opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara on March 11.
The SADC meeting comes a day after Zimbabwean forces raided the Harare headquarters of the opposition, Movement for Democratic Change, the country's main opposition group, and detained about 10 MDC staff and officials. Police said the raid was part of an overall initiative to arrest people responsible for throwing petrol bombs around Harare.
MDC officials said it was just another attempt to intimidate the opposition group. Tsvangirai was among those detained, just before he was to hold a news conference from the headquarters, MDC officials said. Government police denied that Tsvangirai was among those arrested.
A joint communique issued by the 14 SADC leaders reaffirmed the group's solidarity with Zimbabwe's government and people, and mandated that South African President Thabo Mbeki continue his efforts to facilitate dialogue between Zimbabwe's opposition groups and the government. In the communique, the SADC leaders also encouraged better diplomatic contacts to resolve the situation in Zimbabwe and called for the lifting of all economic sanctions.
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Cripes, between African nations and the ROP'ers, especially in the ME, it makes one want to pull up the tent stakes and return to fortress America. Africa is a mess and will remain a mess until the AFRICANS get a friggin clue. Sorry for the people who live there but screw them. It should be one large game park free of the savages.
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If one reads the Zim-based blogs they either agree that Bob is a gold-plated bastard, but he's a Zimbabwean gold-plated bastard, or that maybe with a round of 'Kumbaya' and a good group-encounter, everything will turn out alright.
Nine Zimbabwean opposition activists were charged in connection with a series of fire bombings and with weapons violations Thursday, as the main opposition party denied waging an armed terror campaign and said it was being demonized by the government.
Also Thursday, the South African president was appointed to mediate in a crisis that the southern African nation's neighbors worry will spill across borders. Lawyer Alec Mmuchadehama told The Associated Press that seven Movement for Democratic Change officials or members were charged with attempted murder in connection with nine petrol bombings this month; one was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and one with possession of explosives without a license.
Mmuchadehama said none of those charged were asked to plead and a hearing was set for Friday to allow them time to consult with lawyers who previously denied access. It was not clear what punishment they faced if convicted.
President Robert Mugabe's government alleges the opposition Movement for Democratic Change is stockpiling weapons and is responsible for the petrol bomb attacks, the latest near the eastern town of Mutare on Wednesday. They said petrol bombs were hurled at two gasoline tankers, but the tankers failed to ignite.
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Three more high profile corruption suspects yesterday submitted wealth statements to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) through their representatives following a High Court (HC) order. They had defied the ACC's instructions to submit wealth statements in person within the stipulated time.
Representatives of Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan (Shah Alam), Awami League (AL) leader Jahangir Kabir Nanak and former AL lawmaker Mirza Azam submitted the statements. On February 18, the ACC asked 50 high profile graft suspects including these three to submit wealth statements within 72 hours. The commission categorically instructed those who were not in jail to submit those in person. Fifteen out of the 50 people did not submit their statements, and some of them sought the HC's directive to allow them to submit those through their representatives.
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The extortion trial of Tareque Rahman, a son of former Bangladeshi prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, opened on Thursday amid a nationwide crackdown on graft. Tareque, eldest son of the countrys last prime minister, was produced before quick-trial court judge Abdur Rouf Khan, who asked prosecutors for evidence to substantiate their charges. After hearing lawyers from both sides, the judge set the next date for hearing on April 5, with a target to complete the trial by late May, a court registrar said.
Quick-trial courts are expected to complete trials within 60 days. Khaleda ended her five-year term as prime minister in October and handed power to an interim authority which is now headed by former central bank chief Fakhruddin Ahmed. Tareque was among more than 160 senior political figures to be arrested.
Witnesses said police escorted a pale-looking Tareque, joint secretary-general of Khaledas Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and her heir-apparent, into the packed court. He has been charged with illegally taking 10 million taka ($145,000) in January from the owner of a construction firm.
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The latest FOX News poll finds that Americans think the next person to move into the White House will be a Democrat, and while many voters would be enthusiastic or pleased if any one of the current front-runners were to win, one candidate scares more people than the others Sen. Hillary Clinton.
In addition, voters are twice as likely to say that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards made the right decision to stay in the race despite his wife Elizabeths recent cancer diagnosis. President Bushs job approval rating dips a point this week to 33 percent, matching a previous low in approval almost a year ago (33 percent, April 18-19, 2006). Disapproval of the presidents performance has increased to 61 percent the highest disapproval rating of his presidency.
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DRUDGE > HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN. Ahhhh, good ole' SECULAR ETHICS, where one doesn't have to believe in GOD or even MORALISM/ETHICISM to tell the truth - you know, USURPATION, PLAGIARISM, etc.
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I can't wait for that other 'shoe to drop'!!! Super "W" will have to be dragged kicking and screaming from the White House, why...because Iraq still won't be a stroll in the park by then, coming January 22nd 2009!! And he may not hand over the scepter without fanfare either! It's so hard to convince a man (Iraqi/Al Qaeda)not to splode, when that man (Iraqi/Al Qaeda) feels he's sploding for allah. "W" should let them splode, and deal with the "last sploder standing"! So simple!
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So who do they give me to pick from? An Illinois State Rep, Eva Braun, the Breck Girl, Mr. Carbon Assprint, KUCINICH/SHARPTON 2008, and God knows what else crawls out from under a rock.
Wouldn't chalk this one up just yet...
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I'm going to have to go and try to recover what's left of a rather nice Friday. TU3031 has it right referring to this bunch of morons as having climbed out from underneath the rocks. Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Edwards, etc., etc. Bunch of "sell out for a vote" traitors--all of them. If they continue, the country is in big trouble. So is the rest of the world.
... And with the public so soured on the Republican in the White House, and so many other trends working against them, including an uptick in the percentage of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats, it's hard to find any good news for Republicans these days. So why, in poll after poll, including the new TIME poll, does that advantage seem to disappear whenever voters are asked to pick a President in hypothetical head-to-head matchups among front-runners with solid name recognition. In our poll, Hillary Clinton loses to John McCain, 42%-48%, and to Rudy Giuliani 41%-50%. Even though Clinton maintains a 7% edge over Obama among Democratic respondents, Obama fares better in the general election matchups. It's so close that it's a statistical dead heat, but Obama still loses: 43%-45% to McCain, 44%-45% to Giuliani...
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Dem candidates are defini getting more exposure than Repubs via the MSM - IMO, 2007-Summer 2008 for Dems = RACE TO BE VEEP.
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skewed polls are just that : polls.... nothing more, you can use them to delude yourselves all you like, it makes no difference. The elections in this country are all electronic with no checks, so of course the republicans will win, by small margins spread out across the board, cant have another Florida fiasco, almost got caught, '04 was better but they still saw through Illinois, this election will be perfect... no suspicions will be raised as they've had 2 elections to hone their craft.
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And why have many voting machines gone electronic? Because illiterate and Alzheimer's ridden voters (whom the Democrats claim as their very own) can't be bothered to properly fill out paper ballots. In the same breath, the very same Democrats worked tirelessly to throw out properly filled military ballots.
The Democrats also knew about the sordid saga of Hugo Chavez stealing elections with rigged electronic voting machines, yet they pushed for just such a system. Perhaps they were hoping to duplicate El Gordo's success?
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Wholuck Henbane4439, you must be joking. Don't you remember the hanging chad? Oh, the humanity!!! Frickin' morons. It's like the ballot is a mini IQ test and if you can't figure it out your vote doesn't count because you are too frickin' STOOOOPPPPIIDDD!!!! Yeah, and I bet you think Chicago in 1960 was all on the up and up too.
The problem isn't mechanical or electronic, it's mental. There are just too many loonie liberals is all.
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On the electronic voting issue: I don't have much good to say about Massachusetts, but the voting system here (at least in the town where I vote) is the best I've ever seen. The ballot is clearly written on paper with each option next to an incomplete arrow. Using a marker pen you simply connect the arrows next to your choices then you insert the ballot into a scanner that reads your votes and drops your ballot into a secure container.
It seems to be the best of both worlds: you get instant electronic tabulation with a hard copy of the actual ballot in case of recount, and the technology is not that sophisticated. I'd like to see more places adopt it.
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It always cracked me up that in Florida they can can track ten Bingo cards at the same time or figure out four quinellas on the same dog race, but they couldn't figure out how to punch a hole in a piece of paper next to a name.
The test launch was conducted from INS Subhadra , about 40 nautical miles from Chandipur-on-sea, at around 2.30 pm, sources said.
Dhanush , considered the naval version of surface-to-surface missile Prithvi, was being exclusively developed for the Indian Navy and has a striking range of 250 km to 350 km. The 8.56 metre long missile had a launch weight of 4,600 kg and uses a single stage liquid propellant engine.
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Assembling Of Moon Mission Spacecraft Begins
India has begun assembling the spacecraft for Chandrayaan-I, its first unmanned mission to the moon scheduled for 2008, a top space agency official said today. "We have begun the integration process for the spacecraft structure and are putting in place the antennae required for tracking data from this month," S Krishnamurthy, Director of Publicity for the Indian Space Research Organisation, told PTI from Bangalore.
The spacecraft structure has arrived at the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and the integration work has begun, he said.
ISRO's deep space tracking network system is being established for the moon mission at Byalalu village, 40 km from Bangalore, and its first 18-metre antenna has been erected, he said.
A 32-metre antenna built by the Electronic Corporation of India and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre is currently being erected at the site.
Krishnamurthy said instruments from various collaborators, including the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA of the US, have also started coming in.
Though scientists first conceived India's moon mission in 1999, it was officially announced by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on August 15, 2003 and finally approved in November 2003. The mission is scheduled for launch in March-April 2008.
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The Subhadra is an offshore patrol vessel. The ballistic missiles are kept in a hangar and brought out to the stabilized launcher.
With a 20kT nuclear warhead, these OPVs punch way above their weight.
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India periodically sends an OPV, a destroyer and a fleet replenishment tanker into the South China Sea to show the flag.
Vietnam has extended an open invitation for Indian ships to make port calls.
The Chinese are not amused...
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...What they came up with was SLAM, for Supersonic Low-Altitude Missile. SLAM was to use a revolutionary new type of propulsion: nuclear ramjet power. The project to build the weapon's nuclear reactor was given the code name "Pluto," which also came to refer to the weapon itself.
Pluto's namesake was Roman mythology's ruler of the underworld -- seemingly an apt inspiration for a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto's designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground.
Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto's nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. (One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs...) More details and illustrations at link.
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See also SPACEWAR > Uranium + vital NucMaterials shortages = lack of viable availabilities is hampering badly needed modernization of US nuclear power plants.
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The Peak Oil people are now on about Peak Uranium. Which BTW, I give more credence to, since unlike petrol, diesel etc, you can't make uranium out of something else.
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a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead.
We're talking about a serious "Shock and Awe" factor here!
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Although Pluto never flew, the exotic materials developed for the nuclear ramjet find application today in ceramic turbines and space-based power reactors.
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Something else developed for Pluto was called "digital scene matching area correlation" (DSMAC). This was a navigation device that used the primitive digital technology of the time to compare the missile's own radar generated image of the terrain under its flightpath to stored computer maps of its course. An earlier version, Goodyear ATRAN (Automatic Terrain Recognition And Navigation), used a now quite arcane analog technology. It had actual microfilm maps, with a microscopically precise light sensor and all sorts of other gizmos, with nary a digit in sight. It had been deployed operationally in the AF's Mace cruise missile.
The digital version was saved after Pluto's cancellation and developed further. It was the key technology that made the ALCM and Tomahawk precision cruise missiles possible before the advent of GPS. It is still used in many of these cruise missiles since nuclear war conditions could easily take GPS out of the picture (so to speak). DSMAC is also known as TERCOM (terrain comparison matching) or TERPROM (Terrain profile matching).
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Who cares if the nuclear ramjet is unshielded? Tossing hydrogen bombs about enroute makes the issue moot.
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. . . and best of all, there's no carbon emissions, so it doesn't contribute to global warmering.
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Wholuck - blow me.
The whole idea of this abominable thing flying back and forth above Russia spewing radiactives and turning the whole area into a wasteland amuses me somehow...
Federal health advisers have endorsed an experimental vaccine to treat advanced prostate cancer as safe and effective.
The Food and Drug Administration advisers voted unanimously Thursday to say Provenge is safe. They then voted 13-4 to say there is substantial evidence that it works in treating advanced prostate cancer that no longer responds to hormone treatment.
The FDA isn't required to follow the advice of its advisory committees, but it usually does. A final FDA decision on whether to approve Provenge, also called sipuleucel-T, is expected May 15. The vaccine is made by Seattle-based Dendreon Corp.
If approved, Provenge would become the third cancer vaccine but the first that is therapeutic. FDA-approved vaccines against liver and cervical cancer are both preventive.
Neither of two studies Dendreon submitted to the FDA in support of its application achieved their primary goal in showing Provenge delayed the progress of the disease, according to the agency.
However, the results of the first study suggested the vaccine could extend the lives of patients by 4.5 months compared to those given only dummy treatment. The only other prostate cancer drug shown to prolong the lives of patients is Taxotere, also called docetaxel.
A larger, ongoing study of Provenge is looking specifically at whether it increases longevity of prostate cancer patients.
If ultimately approved, Provenge would become the first of a new class of therapies designed to stimulate a patient's own immune system against cancer, according to Dendreon.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men, other than skin cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates there will be about 220,000 new cases this year, and about 27,000 deaths.
The vaccine combines a protein found in most prostate cancers with a substance that helps specialized immune system cells recognize cancer as a threat, just as they recognize and confront germs that enter the body.
The treatment is customized for each patient. Doctors collect these cells from a patient's blood, mix them with the vaccine, and then give the concoction back to the patient.
Dendreon also is testing Provenge for less serious cases of prostate cancer.
The panelists also recommended that an increased risk of stroke in patients receiving the vaccine be monitored.
NEW YORK -- World renowned artist Cosimo Cavallaro unveils his latest and most striking installation at the Lab Gallery (at the Roger Smith Hotel, 47th and Lexington avenue) in the early morning hours of April 1st.
Cavallaro's work, entitled "My Sweet Lord" is a 6 foot tall, anatomically correct sculpture of Jesus Christ in milk chocolate. Pic at the link.
"I'm truly thrilled to be working with Cosimo again," says Matt Semler Creative Director of the Lab. "The sign of any great artist is how their work affects the observer. His art always gets a reaction, but this is the most dramatic piece of his career. It is absolutely amazing." It's just faaaaabulous!
The exhibit can be viewed from the street when the velvet curtains of the gallery open from midnight to 1 AM and 6 PM to 7PM (starting April 1st and closing April 7th).
Although Cavallaro has work in permanent collections of museums world-wide, he is best remembered for covering a New York City hotel room in melted cheese (1999). It wasn't a chocolate Jesus, but it was faaaaabulous! Act 2: Catholic League gets wind of it. Not happy...
NAKED JESUSGENITALS EXPOSEDCRUCIFIED
From April 1 to April 7, the Roger Smith Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City will display a 6-foot tall anatomically correct sculpture of Jesus in milk chocolate; the figure is depicted as crucified. Artist Cosimo Cavallaro titles his work My Sweet Lord. A picture is available on the Internet.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue outlined his game plan today:The Roger Smith Hotel is located in the heart of New York City, and it boasts on its website that its Lab Gallery is a high traffic, fast paced venue. Indeed it is: the gallery is located on street level, easily accessible to the public. But it is sure bet that in the years to come there will be little in the way of high traffic coming from the Christian community.
As Ive said many times before, Lent is the season for non-believers to sow seeds of doubt about Jesus. Whats scheduled to go on at the Roger Smith Hotel, however, is of a different genre: this is hate speech. And choosing Holy Weekthe display opens on Palm Sunday and ends on Holy Saturdaymakes it a direct in-your-face assault on Christians.
All those involved are lucky that angry Christians dont react the way extremist Muslims do when theyre offendedotherwise they may have more than their heads cut off. James Knowles, President and CEO of the Roger Smith Hotel (interestingly, he also calls himself Artist-in-Residence), should be especially grateful. And if he tries to spin this as reverential, then he should substitute Muhammad for Jesus and display him during Ramadan. I'd pay to see that...
I am contacting hundreds of organizations about this assault. Our allied list contains scores of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu organizations, as well as secular groups, that share our concerns about religious hate speech and the degradation of our culture. The only thing that those who operate the Roger Smith Hotel understand is when they get hit in the pocket book. So thats exactly where well hit them. The boycott is on.
Act 3: The happy ending...
Chocolate Jesus Easter Exhibit Cancelled, Hotel "Affirms Dignity" Yeah, our..."dignity"! That's the ticket!
In response to the public outcry over the life-sized 6-foot chocolate Jesus, naked and hanging on a cross, during the Catholic Lent week leading up to Easter, the Roger Smith Hotel has decided to cancel the exhibit. Damn! Get Chocolate Jesus outta here! Bring him to a homeless shelter or sumthin!
According to a press release from the hotel, James Knowles, the president of the Roger Smith Hotel, said the feelings of Catholics and Christians, who announced via the Catholic League their intentions to boycott the exhibit -- and the subsequent news media wall-to-wall coverage of the outraged citizens protesting the idea of a naked figure of Jesus in chocolate -- were "crystal clear". Knowles said they decided to "affirm the dignity and responsibility of the Hotel" by cancelling the controversial exhibit. Wow, we never knew this would happen...
The "My Sweet Lord" display was shut down by the hotel that houses the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan, said Matt Semler, the gallery's creative director. Semler said he submitted his resignation after officials at the Roger Smith Hotel shut down the show.
Very well, Matt. Enjoy your new career as a bike messenger...
The six-foot sculpture was the victim of "a strong-arming from people who haven't seen the show, seen what we're doing," Semler said. "They jumped to conclusions completely contrary to our intentions."
Oh, no! Hate mongering! Censorship! The Chill Wind of McCarthyism!
The hotel and the gallery were overrun Thursday with angry phone calls and e-mails about the exhibit. Semler said the calls included death threats over the work of artist Cosimo Cavallaro, who was described as disappointed by the decision to cancel the display.
What'd he do? Cover himself in ketchup?
"In this situation, the hotel couldn't continue to be supportive because of a fear for their own safety," Semler said.
Ya think we had Mohammed cartoons up or sumthin...
Cavallaro is best known for his quirky work with food as art: Past efforts include repainting a Manhattan hotel room in melted mozzarella, spraying five tons of pepper jack cheese on a Wyoming home, and festooning a four-poster bed with 312 pounds of processed ham.
"Quirky". I think that means "really fuckin stupid"...
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What I read in the New Testament said Jesus was crucified with no clothes on. What's wrong with a little realism?
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I spread the word among 5000 chocolate-lovers here in Colorado Springs. There's a 737 full of them ready to go at a moment's notice, with their chocolate picks and plastic bags. Three people are fighting over the ears alone...
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Which translation, Deacon Blues? There was a time when "unclothed" could mean either "not properly clothed for one's station in life and the situation", eg an aristocratic lady not in day gown, hat, gloves, and overcoat, followed by a suitably attired maid when calling on a lady friend, or "wearing only one's own skin with nothing between it and God's fresh air and sunshine". ;-)
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Ya got me, tw. In Luke the roman soldiers are said to have taken Jesus' clothes and "cast lots" for them. In the Baptist church this is taken to mean Jesus was naked. In Mathew the Roman soldiers stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, then put his own clothes back on him but there is no mention of the soldiers casting lots for Jesus' clothes. In Mark the robe is purple but Mark does tell of the soldiers crucifying him and taking his clothes and casting lots for them, this is before Jesus dies. John makes no mention of the purple or scarlet robe but does tell of the soldiers taking his garments, "also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout" wich implies the coat was valuable.
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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.
Southern African leaders Thursday emerged from a conference in Tanzania's capital allied with embattled Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and calling for the lifting of all sanctions against his government. Mugabe maintains a tight grip on power as his country spirals into economic disaster.
