An Oklahoma senator hopes to revive cockfighting in the state by putting tiny boxing gloves on the roosters instead of razors. The Oklahoma legislature outlawed the blood sport in 2002 because of its cruelty to the roosters, which are slashed and pecked to death while human spectators bet on the outcome.
But State Sen. Frank Shurden, a Democrat from Henryetta and a long-time defender of cockfighting, said the ban had wiped out a $100-million business.
To try to revive it, he has proposed that roosters wear little boxing gloves attached to their spurs, as well as lightweight, chicken-sized vests configured with electronic sensors to record hits and help keep score.
I think we need a vest for Sen. Shurden, the one with the arms that tie behind the back
"It's like the fencing that you see on the Olympics, you know, where they have little balls on the ends of the swords and the fencers wear vests," said Shurden. "That's the same application that would be applied to the roosters."
Ok, but where are you going to get the little tiny cut-doctor?
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This still won't pass muster with the PETA types.
Fido, the lead dog of an Iditarod musher was stomped to death by a charging moose along the Denali Highway in Alaska. Ramey Smyth said that a few years ago Fido led Smyth's team to a significant victory in the Tustumena 200 Sled Dog Race on the Kenai Peninsula. Fido, who was killed earlier this month, was behind the leaders in a team of 20 dogs when the moose appeared and for reasons no human can know, the moose charged the dog, reported the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News. Smyth says he wishes he'd kept the gun he had loaned to another musher, who was having trouble with a moose on the trails around Talkeetna. He said all the mushers training in the Cantwell area had been having troubles with a moose. It's always better to have a gun and not need it than not have one and need one!
Fido's friend Bowser was coincidentally done in by a squirrel recently...
Moose, why do they hate us dogs?
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The CIA Cat Desk's Daily Brief indicates that the Cats, still smarting from their recent unsuccessful plots against the Dogs, might have begun meeting secretly with other species. The Moose Desk confirms that Bullwinkle has dropped off their radar.
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Yet another example of more anger converts to islam. The angry and disenfranchised will always take any alternative no matter what it happens to be. They swallow hook line and sinker the first alternative to come along. Such is the case here. If these folks had come in contact with Moonie missionaries or any other kind of missionary first, they would have converted to that instead of islam and would have claimed to have found complete satisfaction in those faiths too. The point is rebellion from the culture. As long as the convert feels they are sticking it in the eye of the culture they have rejected, they are happy. Although islam seems to be particularly attractive to the angry people of this world maybe thats because it is so angry at the non-islamic world all the time.
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Founded by a Scotsman who turned to Islam during a stay in Morocco in the 1960s, the Murabitun are from the orthodox Sunni branch of Islam but have incorporated some mystical Sufi practices. They are highly critical of the charging of interest rates as un-Islamic and advocate scrapping currencies, taxes and the nation state, to be replaced with Islamic emirates trading in gold coins. "Our model is not ideological or utopian but is based on the life of our Prophet Mohammad," reads a statement on the group's Mexican web site.
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Peggy, Islam differs from such cults as the Moonies and the CNN audience in that allegiance will bring a continuing flow of arms, money, trained terrorists, money, international status and, we shouldn't forget, money.
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I almost mentioned the continuous supply of wide-eyed hippy activist chicks as another benefit of Islamo-fascist allegiance, but the Moonies and Chomskyites (though not CNN) can supply those as well.
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I think you understated the amount of money they can bring in by converting to Islam.
And, seriously, I'd rather they returned to their old gods. Less destructive, more civilized.
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With Islamo-fascist resources added to those of the established Zapatista guerrilla movement, the potential for widely expanded violence is very high.
In particular, the Zapatistas have an experienced and active support network among the usual suspects in this country (campus commies, lefty churches, ANSWER, etc.).
This is already cross-linked with the Islamic fifth column and would provide a very dangerous terror/subversion network once the two are fully integrated.
We are seeing more and more of this kind of alliance, not just the "Red-Brown" type, but increasing integration among various lefty causes themselves. The eventual result will be a kind of Grand Unified Moonbat (G.U.M.) network.
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During the initial Zapatista uprising in 1994, there were verified reports that several captured guerrillas had been beaten and shot in cold blood by Mexican troops. The global media made much of this, and there is no excuse for it, but they left out some background. During the initial counter-attack, the first army unit to reach the area was driven back. Unfortunately, a wounded soldier (a 19 year old conscript) was left behind and hideously tortured to death by the guerrillas. The army held back on orders from Mexico City. Their positions were close enough for the soldiers to to see the guerrillas taunting them with their comrade's mutilated remains. This went on for a couple of days before another attack was launched, the body was recovered and the young conscripts took revenge. Again, this is inexcusable but so was leaving out this background information.
My source for this is a former Mexican infantryman who was there, and it has been verified by others, including civilian witnesses.
ROME, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Italian police are searching for a serial bomber responsible for planting tiny charges inside children's candy, The Independent said Thursday. The most recent incident by the person Italian media has dubbed the "Unabomber" struck Wednesday in the town of Treviso, where schoolchildren found a Kinder Surprise sitting on a low wall. The chocolate covering had been removed, and the children were kicking the yellow plastic egg-shaped toy around when it exploded. There were no injuries and police found a second similar device nearby.
Bet he was hoping they would try to open it to get the little toy inside. I know my Kinder Eggs.
The first of the serial attacks came in August 1994, when a pipe-bomb exploded at a country fair. Then in 2000 the tactics changed, when tiny bombs began turning up in supermarket products, such as a tube of tomato puree, mayonnaise, a candle and sandwich spread. No one has been killed in the spree, although several people have been maimed, including one woman who lost an arm.
Bastard
The Italian media named the bomber after Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the murderous U.S. mail bomber who was tracked down after a 17-year hunt and is serving four life sentences.
Find him, shove one of his little "surprises" up his butt, then kick him around the schoolyard for awhile
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ONLY a skunk smells his/her own hole. To pray on children is unwarrented, uncalled for. Unabomber is an appropriate name- but why pray on children?? The individual at large will get caught...the sooner the better.
Andrea Jackson
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I (heart) Kinder Eggs. Fie on a-holes that mess with 'em.
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Must have learned his trade from the Soviets during the occupation of Afghanistan. They used to put explosives in toys and drop them to the Afghan kiddies. St. Leonid, Yuri and Constantine was what the kids got to bad their religon prevents them from experiencing St. Nick.
The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned the indecency conviction of a man from B.C. seen masturbating near a window in his own home.
The court acquitted Daryl Clark of Nanaimo on Thursday, ruling that his living room could not be considered a public place under the Criminal Code even though he could be partially viewed from outside.
* FROM NOV. 2, 2004: Privacy case goes to highest court
The decision is sure to be celebrated by civil rights groups, which argued the conviction eroded privacy rights.
More than four years ago, neighbours in an apartment about 30 metres from Clark's home looked through his window and saw him touching himself. They called the police.
When officers arrived, they shone a flashlight at the house and Clark jumped back from the window, turning off the lights.
In the court's judgment, it said the police officers could see Clark "from about maybe the neck or the shoulders up" when they were on the street.
A provincial court convicted him of wilfully committing an indecent act in a public place and sentenced him to four months in jail.
The province's Court of Appeal and Supreme Court upheld the conviction.
Clark's lawyer had asked the Supreme Court of Canada to reject the conviction and appeals, arguing that Clark never meant to be observed and that a living room can't be considered a public place.
A tribal jirga in Sindh has decided to kill a woman doctor who was allegedly gang raped in Sui to restore the "lost honour" of her tribe, a Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) official told a press conference on Wednesday.
Really, I think it's not connected with religion or culture or something like that. I think it's a function of marrying close relatives for generation after generation.
PMA President Dr Umer Ayub said the husband and in-laws of the doctor had told him of the jirga or local council's decision in Gumbat Khairpur. He demanded the members of the jirga be arrested, and the alleged rapists of the doctor be hanged at Minar-e-Pakistan to deter such crimes. He criticised the federal interior minister for not visiting the woman doctor and her family. He also slammed the NWFP Assembly for not condemning the alleged rape. Ayub said a tribunal formed by the Balochistan government to investigate the incident should be given a one-month deadline. "It has been 24 days since the incident and not one of the accused has appeared before the tribunal. The culprits should appear before the tribunal and not on television," he said. Ayub said the woman doctor had given her statement to the tribunal a couple of days ago, naming her alleged attackers and outlining the incident in detail. He said DNA tests should be used to identify the culprits. He said the PMA central council would meet on February 13 to discuss its future line.
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Pigs. If she isn't out by now, she'll be dead before the tribunal reaches a conclusion.
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Not sure if they are talking about the husband or Dr.Umer,but I find it surprising that someone is calling for the arrest of the Jirga,and hanging the perps.
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Fido, the lead dog of an Iditarod musher was stomped to death by a charging moose along the Denali Highway in Alaska. Ramey Smyth said that a few years ago Fido led Smyth's team to a significant victory in the Tustumena 200 Sled Dog Race on the Kenai Peninsula. Fido, who was killed earlier this month, was behind the leaders in a team of 20 dogs when the moose appeared and for reasons no human can know, the moose charged the dog, reported the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News. Smyth says he wishes he'd kept the gun he had loaned to another musher, who was having trouble with a moose on the trails around Talkeetna. He said all the mushers training in the Cantwell area had been having troubles with a moose.
A tribal jirga in Sindh has decided to kill a woman doctor who was allegedly gang raped in Sui to restore the "lost honour" of her tribe, a Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) official told a press conference on Wednesday. 
