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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Australia rocked by 'lesbian' koala revelation
Female koalas indulge in lesbian "sex sessions", rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers.
Hot girl koala - on girl koala action!
The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual.
Anyone who's watched enough women's prison movies could'a told you that.
Posted by: Mike || 02/26/2007 17:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Our female dog uses a large stuffed Teddy Bear. (actually she's used several, they don't last too long)
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/26/2007 18:08 Comments || Top||

#2  One word: sororities
Posted by: John J. Simmins || 02/26/2007 19:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Trying to save the specias wid no men = un-acceptable males, ergo prefer themselves. What was that Brit TV series on women's prison > WHITE HEAT = CHAINED HEAT = RAGE???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/26/2007 21:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Hmmm.

http://www.sapphickoalaerotica.com ?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/26/2007 21:25 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
A Galactic Tsunami Is Going To Wipe All Life On Earth
Funny thing is, it's probably true. Oh, well, I had an easy life.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 02/26/2007 07:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Heh, psuedo science mumbo jumbo.
Pass me the salt.
Posted by: DanNY || 02/26/2007 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Who will Al Gore blame this on? 1, 2, 3, 4...
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2007 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  So long, and thanks for all the fish
Posted by: Ebbavimble Glineger1405 || 02/26/2007 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  The authorities always ask for a "ballpark" number whenever faced with an unknown, but it really does remain unknown.

At least this is a known unknown.
Posted by: Excalibur || 02/26/2007 9:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Although the ESA does not specialise in seismic phenomena, few of my colleagues believe that the December 2005 Tsunami was natural.

BWAHAHAHAHA!

This guy is dribbling on about how it's going to wipe out all life on Earth, "tear[ing] our atmosphere to shreds", but his job is hardening satellites against it.

Riiiiight.

Be sure to enjoy the part about the underground cities in the southern hemisphere.
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 02/26/2007 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Crab people. I should have known. This is the 3rd itme they've tried this.
Posted by: mhw || 02/26/2007 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7  If only Bush hadn't rejected the Kyoto Treaty . . . .
Posted by: Mike || 02/26/2007 9:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Shut up, bitch!
Posted by: Halliburton: Galactic Tsunami Division || 02/26/2007 9:34 Comments || Top||

#9  You would prefer another target? A military target? Then just name the system!
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/26/2007 9:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Most of my work involves writing reports appended to requests for greater funding, so I have to know just as much about the way in which the EU Commission works as I do about satellite communications.

Well, well, that sums it up right there! Grant money whore!
Posted by: BA || 02/26/2007 10:11 Comments || Top||

#11  Well, I guess she won't have to worry about that shit anymore...
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/26/2007 10:17 Comments || Top||

#12  HeidiLore (moderator) confirmed that his IP address was out of Germany and belonging to the same ISP as ESA DE. The style of writing is very different. On the whole, he is very forthright and even names a BND agent recently assassinated for trying to blow the whistle on the ESA/tsunami cover-up.

Plots. Deep laid plots. LOL.
Posted by: Seafarious || 02/26/2007 10:47 Comments || Top||

#13  Damnit , and I just ordered my yearly subscription of National Geographic ,and pre paid for all my papers and magazines and most importantly milk . On top of that I dont get paid till the end of the month .. How damn inconsiderate. Any chance they could avery disaster for a month or so ? Thats not too much to ask surely :P
Posted by: MacNails || 02/26/2007 11:24 Comments || Top||

#14  Thanks for all the fish.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2007 11:32 Comments || Top||

#15  ...I'm good with this either way - if it doesn't happen, I'm still alive, if it does my ex won't get a dime from our divorce settlement.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 02/26/2007 11:39 Comments || Top||

#16  Theres always something positive to be taken Mike :)
Posted by: MacNails || 02/26/2007 11:43 Comments || Top||

#17  mhw - Do you mean the Crab Nebula people?
Anyone know of a sale on tinfoil hats?
Posted by: Spot || 02/26/2007 11:54 Comments || Top||

#18  So this is the modern version of "The Sky is Falling"? Sounds like fun to me!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/26/2007 12:16 Comments || Top||

#19  Tsunami from outer space? How does that work? Global warming is going to get us first--I heard it last night on the telly.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/26/2007 12:43 Comments || Top||

#20  I would also like to tell you my name, but I cant. What I can say is this: I dont know ESA DE personally, but I do have a pretty good idea as to who he is; so in a convoluted way, we are.

Yeah. Convoluted. I understand...
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/26/2007 12:45 Comments || Top||

#21  What I find amusing are all the posters who say that they know more, but can't say because they might end up-*gulp*-DEAD. What the hell? If we're all gonna die anyway, who cares? What can they (the ESA and the Illuminati in the sceret underground cities in Tierra del Fuego) do to you that's worse than standing with your family when the energy band hits, watching them all fry or freeze or get ripped apart by space weasels or whatever it is that giant galactic energy tsunamis do to you? Is getting offed by an EU hit man really a worse fate than crawling across the blasted ruins, pursued by mutant cockroaches?
Posted by: Mike || 02/26/2007 13:03 Comments || Top||

#22  Is getting offed by an EU hit man having to watch Al Gore blather on about global warming really a worse fate than crawling across the blasted ruins, pursued by mutant cockroaches?

You should at least make it a true dilemma.

However, that having been said, I'll take mutant cockroaches for 200, Alex.
Posted by: Dreadnought || 02/26/2007 13:15 Comments || Top||

#23  Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Super Saiyan Al Goku will save us.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/26/2007 13:28 Comments || Top||

#24  Energy moves at the speed of light.

You couldn't bounce a signal off it.

what a joke.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 02/26/2007 14:02 Comments || Top||

#25  Well at least the deck will finally get cleared off.
Posted by: Icerigger || 02/26/2007 14:51 Comments || Top||

#26 
What can they (the ESA and the Illuminati in the sceret underground cities in Tierra del Fuego) do to you that's worse than standing with your family when the energy band hits, watching them all fry or freeze or get ripped apart by space weasels or whatever it is that giant galactic energy tsunamis do to you?


They can force you to watch while the EU hit man reads the EU constitution to your family.
Posted by: JFM || 02/26/2007 16:53 Comments || Top||

#27  Nah. South Park reference.....
Posted by: OyVey1 || 02/26/2007 17:03 Comments || Top||

#28  I'm praying for rain,
I'm praying for tidal waves.
I want to see the ground give way,
I want to watch it all go right down.

/MJK
Posted by: xbalanke || 02/26/2007 17:06 Comments || Top||

#29  Ah yes, March. In like a lion, out like a tsunami of unimaginable scale.... Talk about a short month!
Posted by: WhatDaF? || 02/26/2007 17:07 Comments || Top||

#30  Is the Silver Surfer gonna be ridin' it?
Posted by: mojo || 02/26/2007 17:45 Comments || Top||

#31  Yeah, it's gonna be worse than a nuclear blast and the ESA is hardening their satelites? I could be wrong here but I don't think you harden satelites with software and the ESA hasn't really got much of a manned space program. Guess they are SOL.

Oh, and 300 mile an hour winds blowing through vacuum would hardly cause any problem on Earth. The Sun is blasting us with particles travelling the speed of light, all day, every day (during the day) Even if there is science behind the 300 mile an hour winds (which I doubt) the effect on Earth would be the loss of tv and communications for a short while. This is just rubbish.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/26/2007 18:39 Comments || Top||

#32  ManBearPig's gonna git you!
Posted by: Frank G || 02/26/2007 18:54 Comments || Top||

#33  World to End Tomorrow
Women and Poor Hardest Hit
Posted by: John J. Simmins || 02/26/2007 19:08 Comments || Top||

#34  This is actually a guerilla marketing ploy by the producers of Ghost Rider.
Posted by: Brett || 02/26/2007 20:20 Comments || Top||

#35  I call Bullshit, If this supposedly comes from the center of the galaxy, just look that way for any nova or supernova, None, Then it's Bullshit Electromagnetic Radiation falls off at the square of distance, no disturbances closer to supposed source? no problems.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/26/2007 21:34 Comments || Top||


Arabia
97-year-old man on death row in soody arabia
RIYADH: A 97-year-old Saudi man waiting to be beheaded for murder has launched an appeal for donations of blood money in order to spare him from the death sentence, a local newspaper reported yesterday. H al-Zahrani, who has been imprisoned for several years, made his plea to raise 2.6mn riyals (approximately $700,000) for paying damages to his victim’s family in the Al-Madina daily. The paper said Zahrani is being detained in Al-Baha, western Saudi Arabia, but did not disclose the date of his sentence or any details on the murder, saying only that the victim’s family had agreed to pardon Zahrani in exchange for financial compensation. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. But a condemned person can earn a reprieve if the family of their victim agrees to accept money as compensation.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 02/26/2007 07:27 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

"I is innercent, I tells ya!"
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/26/2007 11:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Could ya....hurry it up? I ain't getting any younger here...
Posted by: H al-Zahrani || 02/26/2007 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  he can tie it up in the courts and prolly get off in 10 or 20 years or so. A free man!

;o)
Posted by: PlanetDan || 02/26/2007 13:40 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Woman linked to Nepal royal massacre weds in India
Devyani Rana, once the girlfriend of Nepal’s crown prince Dipendra who killed himself and nine relatives in a 2001 palace bloodbath, wed an Indian politician’s son in New Delhi, reports said Sunday. Rana, 34, who is related on her mother’s side to India’s aristocratic Scindia family, fled Nepal after an intoxicated Dipendra shot his parents, King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, and seven other royals, before killing himself. Unofficial reports said the crown prince’s shooting spree was probably triggered by his parents’ opposition to his plans to marry Rana, whose family had been at loggerheads with the kingdom’s monarchs.

Devyani, who belongs to the Rana clan that ruled Nepal until 1951, married Aishwarya Singh, grandson of India’s human resources development minister, senior Congress party politician Arjun Singh, according to media reports. The wedding took place Friday at the Scindia family home with a reception at the minister’s residence on Saturday, at which the bride wore an orange outfit embroidered with orange brocade, the Indian Express daily said.

The groom wore a pale blue traditional Indian suit and a multicoloured turban, pictures showed. He runs his own consultancy business while Devyani works for the United Nations in New Delhi, the Express said. Over 5,000 guests, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi, attended the high-society wedding.

Rana’s father, Pashupati Shamsher Rana, has been one of Nepal’s most influential politicians, heading a faction of the Rashtriya Prajatantrik Party. The June 1, 2001, killings threw Kathmandu into turmoil, and several people were injured in rioting. Dipendra, who studied at Britain’s exclusive Eton College, was proclaimed king while in a coma, before he succumbed to his self-inflicted gunshot injuries two days later.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Daughter lost in gamble seeks protection
A girl whose father lost her in a bet has demanded the government provide protection to herself and her family against threats from the winners of that bet several years.

Rasheeda Jogiani, along with her mother Nooran, told reporters outside the press club that her father had bet and lost her when she was an infant. She said the man who the bet now wanted to take possession of her and was threatening her mother. She said her father had died eight years ago and her mother had paid the bet winner a fine, but the man and his family still wanted custody of her. She said she did not want to go to them as they made their women work hard labour on farms and often beat them.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gee, sounds like Rasheeda fits the definition of a slave to a "T", no?

Maybe she should head for the underground railroad......or is that the one that blew up?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/26/2007 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Daddy should have known better than draw to an inside straight.
Posted by: Dar || 02/26/2007 12:56 Comments || Top||

#3  She said she did not want to go to them as they made their women work hard labour on farms and often beat them.

Yeah, I'm sure that's a real unique situation in Ramalamadingdong...
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/26/2007 13:19 Comments || Top||

#4  I just wonder if her father "Lost" on purpose?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/26/2007 21:37 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Remains found in cave hold ancient mystery
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 02/26/2007 06:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Gutted Indonesian ferry sinks with journalists and officials on board
An Indonesian ferry that caught fire last week, killing at least 42 people, sank yesterday as officials and journalists on board scrambled for safety. At least three people were missing after the incident off Jakarta, witnesses and Indonesian media said. Lativi television said one of its cameramen had been killed. The Levina I was on its way to Bangka island off Sumatra packed with hundreds of people when it caught fire soon after dawn on Thursday 80km from Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port.

On Saturday the scorched hulk was hauled to a point about 10 to 16 kilometres from the main port in Jakarta and put at anchor, said Lieutenant Colonel Hendra Pakan, spokesman of the Indonesian navy's western fleet. "It had been anchored at the time, but it was tilting on one side," he said.

More than 10 people - forensic police, transportation safety officials and journalists - had boarded the ship yesterday when it began to sink, media reports said. "Some of us were given life vests, but others were not wearing [them]. Three people have not been found, and two people are in critical condition," SCTV reporter Agus Faisal Karim said over his own broadcaster. "We are safe, we are not injured, but all of us panicked. Some of us were in the water for a long time," he added.

State news agency Antara put the number of missing at five, a journalist, two transportation safety officials and two forensic police staff, and said three others had been hospitalised. The known death toll from the original accident had jumped from 20 to 42 yesterday. "Fishermen found 21 bodies," said Panji Nirwana of the national search and rescue agency. Rescuers later found one more body, another search and rescue official said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Antara article was much better. It properly conveyed the stuff happened, the boat sank, we are not responsible, inshallah bollocks.
Posted by: phil_b || 02/26/2007 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  So, a boat full of journalists and politicians sinks. What's the downside?
Posted by: Formerly Dan || 02/26/2007 6:25 Comments || Top||

#3  If a boat full of journalists and politicians sinks who is saved? Answer: The country.
Posted by: JFM || 02/26/2007 6:48 Comments || Top||

#4  SCTV? Is Johnny LaRue okay?
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/26/2007 9:36 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm no "shipman", but why, oh why, would you not put this rusting hunk in dry dock to "investigate" the causes of the fire? Is it lack of $? Or, is Allan at the "root cause" of everything, so it's meant to be?
Posted by: BA || 02/26/2007 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  a good start.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 02/26/2007 12:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Stole the words right off my keyboard, A good start indeed.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/26/2007 13:17 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
French tourist pardoned in Iran
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 02/26/2007 13:54 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Photographing ships in the Gulf, eh? I thought maybe they passed gas in the general direction of Mecca.
Posted by: Dar || 02/26/2007 17:20 Comments || Top||



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