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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Students in ‘Weird Science’ Halloween party arrested under anti-terror laws
From the "Oh, My Aching Head" Department:
A group of students had their ‘Mad Scientist’ party brought to an abrupt end when police mistook them for terrorists.
The private party, held in Hackney, north London, was organised by a group of friends dressed in white laboratory coats and wigs, who put on a display of theatrical ‘experiments’ to entertain guests.
But when police entered the building for a routine check in the early hours of Sunday morning, they discovered scientific debris and plastic skeletons and mistook it for terrorist paraphernalia or drug-making equipment.
Full story in
The Daily Mail
Potential AIDS cure?
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease.The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days.
“I was very surprised,” said the doctor, Gero Hütter.
The breakthrough appears to be that Dr. Hütter, a soft-spoken hematologist who isn’t an AIDS specialist, deliberately replaced the patient’s bone marrow cells with those from a donor who has a naturally occurring genetic mutation that render his cells immune to almost all strains of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Read the full story in
The Wall Street Journal
It's a little early don't ya think
Es así no un poco temprano ser jugando musica de Navidad por el teinda orador?
I stopped by a local C-Store today and shocked the clerks behind the counter when I uttered the sentence above - The Little Drummer Boy was playing over the speakers and it is only Veteran's day!
You see the clerks were Hispanic and like most every Hispanic you come across they assume you cannot speak their language and these two were chatterboxes going on about the older one's boyfriend ... that is until I spoke to them in Spanish - then you could have heard sweat, it was so quiet.
I did not get an answer to my question all I got was a 'oh shit' smile and a deer in the headlight look from both of them as I paid for my soda and left. I didn't even get the 'Thank you come again' line.
Now, it is well known that most Americans can't speak their own language much less another but the utter shock I get from anyone not a native American-English speaker is getting a bit tiresome. So how about folks ... learn a new language why don't ya.
And I still think it is too early to be playing xmas music over the store speakers!
I stopped by a local C-Store today and shocked the clerks behind the counter when I uttered the sentence above - The Little Drummer Boy was playing over the speakers and it is only Veteran's day!
You see the clerks were Hispanic and like most every Hispanic you come across they assume you cannot speak their language and these two were chatterboxes going on about the older one's boyfriend ... that is until I spoke to them in Spanish - then you could have heard sweat, it was so quiet.
I did not get an answer to my question all I got was a 'oh shit' smile and a deer in the headlight look from both of them as I paid for my soda and left. I didn't even get the 'Thank you come again' line.
Now, it is well known that most Americans can't speak their own language much less another but the utter shock I get from anyone not a native American-English speaker is getting a bit tiresome. So how about folks ... learn a new language why don't ya.
And I still think it is too early to be playing xmas music over the store speakers!
Burmese blogger receives 20-years prison for poem about dictator
From the "They're full of shit!" department:
A blogger, a poet, and a lawyer from Burma (in what the junta calls Myanmar) all received prison sentences for a poem that contained a hidden message criticizing Burmese dictator Senior General Than Shwe.
Mr Saw Wai’s poem, entitled ‘14th February’, was ostensibly a Valentine’s Day verse published last January in a popular weekly magazine. “You have to be in love truly, madly, deeply and then you can call it real love,” it read. “Millions of people who know how to love, please clap your hands of gilded gold and laugh out loud.”But the first word of each line spelled out a pithier message about the leader of the country’s military government: “Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe”. Mr Saw Wai was arrested the next day and charged with harming “public tranquility”.
He's joking, right?!
As his failed presidency nears its end, a reflective shrub suggested Tuesday that he regrets some of his more blunt statements on the war on terrorism over the last eight years and said he wishes he had not spoken in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner only a month after U.S. troops in Iraq were deployed. "I regret saying some things I shouldn't have said."
Like, Duh!
And he is thinking of writing a book, no less!
Monosyllables do not a book there make, shrubbie!
Like, Duh!
And he is thinking of writing a book, no less!
Monosyllables do not a book there make, shrubbie!
Daily Funny
Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company.
One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, 'Father, my dog is dead. Could ya' be saying' a mass for the poor creature?'
Father Patrick replied, 'I'm afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal in the church.
But there are some Baptists down the lane, and there's no tellin' what they believe.
Maybe they'll do something for the creature.'
Muldoon said, 'I'll go right away Father. Do ya' think $5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?'
Father Patrick exclaimed, 'Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn't ya tell me the dog was Catholic?
One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, 'Father, my dog is dead. Could ya' be saying' a mass for the poor creature?'
Father Patrick replied, 'I'm afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal in the church.
But there are some Baptists down the lane, and there's no tellin' what they believe.
Maybe they'll do something for the creature.'
Muldoon said, 'I'll go right away Father. Do ya' think $5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?'
Father Patrick exclaimed, 'Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn't ya tell me the dog was Catholic?
The exclusive Yellowstone Club files for bankruptcy
The Yellowstone Club, an exclusive mountain retreat for the ultra-rich, said it filed for bankruptcy Monday after failing to secure new financing - underscoring that even the elite can't escape the country's current economic troubles.
Spokesman Bill Keegan said the club filed for Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court in Montana.
The move came just two months after the club announced an ambitious expansion plan through a partnership with the Arizona-based Discovery Land Company.
The gated, millionaires-only club on 13,400 acres in Montana's Gallatin Mountains boasts a private ski hill and golf course.
Opened in 1999, it counts former Vice President Dan Quayle and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates among its 340 members.
Spokesman Bill Keegan said the club filed for Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court in Montana.
The move came just two months after the club announced an ambitious expansion plan through a partnership with the Arizona-based Discovery Land Company.
The gated, millionaires-only club on 13,400 acres in Montana's Gallatin Mountains boasts a private ski hill and golf course.
Opened in 1999, it counts former Vice President Dan Quayle and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates among its 340 members.
Buddha re-emerges
A teenage boy who many believe is the reincarnation of Buddha has re-emerged from the jungle in southern Nepal, attracting thousands of devotees, officials said Tuesday.
After retreating into the jungle for more than a year, Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 18, re-emerged Monday near Nijgadh town, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of the capital, Katmandu.
Upon hearing the news, thousands of Bamjan's followers, some from as far away as India, traveled to the site Tuesday to see him, police official Abhaya Joshi said.
There has been no formal declaration by Buddhist authorities that Bamjan is the reincarnation of the Buddha. But people have worshipped the teenager since he was first seen in 2005 meditating in the jungle, where he sat for months, motionless with his eyes closed among the roots of a tree.
After retreating into the jungle for more than a year, Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 18, re-emerged Monday near Nijgadh town, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of the capital, Katmandu.
Upon hearing the news, thousands of Bamjan's followers, some from as far away as India, traveled to the site Tuesday to see him, police official Abhaya Joshi said.
There has been no formal declaration by Buddhist authorities that Bamjan is the reincarnation of the Buddha. But people have worshipped the teenager since he was first seen in 2005 meditating in the jungle, where he sat for months, motionless with his eyes closed among the roots of a tree.
Let there be a 'resistance'
You want to talk about Nazis and Fascists and the neo-con wing-nuts denial that they are just that ... well take a gander at this:
Having lost their minds long ago and now losing an election that they could not steal/suppress/disenfranchise enough votes to 'win' the Haters are whining all the more and calling for formation of a "resistance" movement to the will of the people of the United States.
No further proof is needed as to their un-American-ness ... however I am sure they will keep providing more - they always do.
They call for resistance - resistance to what exactly?
Democracy - that's a given, they never want a Democracy, they want a theocracy with them as sole/soul arbiters of everything.
A non-'White' man as the leader - that too is a given ... something they made very loudly and starkly obvious during the campaign.
The Rule of Law - again a given ... as they have shown the world for the last eight years.
Economic Equability - also given ... something that is so abhorrent to them that they steal from the poor to give to the rich while raising taxes on the poor and middle class the most they have ever been raised in history all the while screaming it is the 'other' guys who raise taxes.
Education - given ... they do not want an educated and informed populous - they could not function as they pleased with a populous that had functioning brains (as evidenced by their election loss).
I could go on, but my fingers are tired of typing.
Suffice to say they are all about resistance to everything that America stands for no matter what they try and claim.
Americans stood up for what America stands for on November 4, 2008 and told them to go away - and they did/do not like it ... not one bit.
Facile, puerile, morally bankrupt and immaterial are the best terms to describe them and their dogmatic ideology along with infantile, immature, putrid and hate-filled ... and we might as well toss in bucolic, vile, ignorant and insane for good measure.
So yes, let there be a resistance - a resistance to the Hate of the resisters!
The rest of us and the world will move forward and leave the resisters even further out in the cold.
Having lost their minds long ago and now losing an election that they could not steal/suppress/disenfranchise enough votes to 'win' the Haters are whining all the more and calling for formation of a "resistance" movement to the will of the people of the United States.
No further proof is needed as to their un-American-ness ... however I am sure they will keep providing more - they always do.
They call for resistance - resistance to what exactly?
Democracy - that's a given, they never want a Democracy, they want a theocracy with them as sole/soul arbiters of everything.
A non-'White' man as the leader - that too is a given ... something they made very loudly and starkly obvious during the campaign.
The Rule of Law - again a given ... as they have shown the world for the last eight years.
Economic Equability - also given ... something that is so abhorrent to them that they steal from the poor to give to the rich while raising taxes on the poor and middle class the most they have ever been raised in history all the while screaming it is the 'other' guys who raise taxes.
Education - given ... they do not want an educated and informed populous - they could not function as they pleased with a populous that had functioning brains (as evidenced by their election loss).
I could go on, but my fingers are tired of typing.
Suffice to say they are all about resistance to everything that America stands for no matter what they try and claim.
Americans stood up for what America stands for on November 4, 2008 and told them to go away - and they did/do not like it ... not one bit.
Facile, puerile, morally bankrupt and immaterial are the best terms to describe them and their dogmatic ideology along with infantile, immature, putrid and hate-filled ... and we might as well toss in bucolic, vile, ignorant and insane for good measure.
So yes, let there be a resistance - a resistance to the Hate of the resisters!
The rest of us and the world will move forward and leave the resisters even further out in the cold.
And I Quote
“When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.“
~ Barbara Boxer
~ Barbara Boxer
Big purse stops bullet from hitting student
Don't knock those trendy, oversized purses - they could save your life, as one college student found out. Police say the contents in an oversized purse saved Elizabeth Pittenger, a 22-year-old Middle Tennessee State University student, by stopping a bullet during an attempted robbery.
Pittenger was walking to her car on campus Thursday evening when a man confronted her and demanded her purse, cell phone and laptop, university Police Chief Buddy Peaster said. She fought the man off, but he fired a gunshot before fleeing.
The bullet was found inside the purse, along with a calculator, umbrella and small case that had been punctured. Pittenger was not injured.
Police nearby heard the gunshot and arrested Orlando Edmiston, 20. Officers found a .38 caliber handgun beneath a parked van.
Edmiston was charged with attempted murder, attempted armed robbery and possession of a weapon on school property. He was being held at the Rutherford County jail on $32,500 bond.
Cops have tough time finding sober driver for boy
Indiana state police said that after a mother was arrested for drunken driving, the three relatives who came to pick up her 1-year-old son also had all been drinking.
A state trooper stopped a minivan for speeding early Saturday on U.S. 30 in Schererville in northwestern Indiana. He arrested the 24-year-old woman on a drunken driving charges.
A state trooper stopped a minivan for speeding early Saturday on U.S. 30 in Schererville in northwestern Indiana. He arrested the 24-year-old woman on a drunken driving charges.
The boy's father arrived later to pick him up, but officers determined he was intoxicated and also arrested him on a drunken driving charge.
Police said the boy's grandparents then arrived. Both of them also had been drinking, state police said, but the grandmother who was driving was not over the legal limit, so officers escorted them home with the child.
Busted drug dealers' bling being auctioned by NC
Daily Horoscope
The Daily Horoscope for today is:
Way Cool!
More money's waiting to come in, so do what you need to do to make that happen.
Way Cool!
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