Wednesday - January 24, 2007
Mummy Dearest
Whining Democrats, golfing parakeets, deported illegals, freed prisoners, John Kerry, greedy insurance companies and now ... baby mummys? I can see right now this day is going to hell in a handbasket at light-speed. Read this and the posts below at your own peril. I’m going back to bed until it all blows over ...
WOMAN FINDS BABY MUMMY
(NEW YORK POST) - January 24, 2007
A New Jersey woman cleaning out her parents’ rented Florida storage space made a chilling find: a partly mummified baby boy wrapped in a 1950s newspaper and hidden in a suitcase.
The child’s body was intact, with hair on his head and “fat little cheeks,” said Delray Beach police spokesman Jeff Messer. The body was found wrapped in a newspaper dated Jan. 9, 1957.
When the unidentified woman and her husband went to Security Self Storage Monday, they “found an old suitcase, opened it up, and inside was another suitcase. When they opened up that suitcase, they found the baby,” Messer said.
The cause of death hasn’t been determined. The rattled woman wondered “if this could be a sibling,” Messer said.
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Monday - January 08, 2007
The End Times
New York Choking In Strange Gas
The smell of gas throughout much of Manhattan forced the evacuation of buildings and the suspension of a commuter train service on Monday, authorities and media reported.
There were no immediate reports of injuries. “We are getting several calls of a foul odor. Our units are responding. It’s in various parts of the city,” a police spokesman said. Part of the New York-New Jersey PATH commuter train system, which carries 225,000 passengers a day, was shut as a result.
“The service has been suspended between Hoboken and 33rd (Street) and Journal Square and 33rd pending an investigation by Con Ed and the fire department,” PATH spokesman Pasquale Difulco said. New York’s CBS affiliate reported several Manhattan office buildings and schools were evacuated.
(REUTERS - NEW YORK)
Dead Birds Falling Out Of The Sky in Austin
Austin police have shut down Congress Ave. from Cesar Chavez St. to 11th St. after finding between 40 and 60 dead birds around 3 a.m. along Congress Ave. between 6th and 8th Streets.
Experts tested the air for any sort of environmental contaminant or gas or chlorine leaks that might have killed off the birds, police spokeswoman Toni Chovanetz said, but no traces were found. The birds will now have to be examined by experts to determine what killed them. Bird species included grackles, pigeons and sparrows.
There were no reports of any humans harmed, but a 10-block stretch of Congress Ave., several side streets and all buildings in the area were blocked off and expected to remain off-limits until about noon, Chovanetz said.
(CBS-TV 42 AUSTIN)
Killer Bees Swarming In New Orleans
Testing from the Department of Agriculture and Forestry revealed a swarm of Africanized bees—more commonly known as “killer bees”—were discovered inside a St. Bernard home in October 2006, Department Commissioner Bob Odum said Friday.
This is the farthest east Africanized bees have been found in Louisiana, Odom said. The house in question was located in the 2200 block of Esteban Street in Arabi, Odom said. The contractor hired to knock the home down noticed a high population of aggressive bees living in the structure and contacted a local beekeeper.
After discovering the severity of the problem, the beekeeper notified local mosquito control officials, who treated the area and collected samples to be sent off to the Department of Agriculture and Forestry for positive ID, Odom said.
(WWL-TV NEW ORLEANS)
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Wednesday - January 03, 2007
Scooby-Snacks
Connecticut Woman Accused of Using Dog’s Name to Get Painkillers
FARMINGTON, Conn. (FOX NEWS) - Wednesday, January 03, 2007
A Burlington woman has been charged with trying to get painkillers from a drug store by using her dog’s name.
Kymberly Smith, 38, faces more than two dozen charges related to her alleged repeated attempts to fraudulently obtain painkillers at a Farmington pharmacy under her dog’s name.
Police said Smith is charged with using her dog Zack’s name to get Hydrocodone, which is marketed under several names including Vicodin.
Simsbury police said Smith was also arrested in June after she was allegedly caught calling in a fraudulent prescription for the same drug.
Farmington police said Smith was a veterinary technician for several area veterinarians when she began using their ID number to call in prescriptions for herself under the name “Zack Smith.”
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Sunday - December 31, 2006
Year-End Closeout Sale On Moonbattery: 50% Off
- Turtle sets off fire alarm in Dorset, UK! Brussels blamed. Well, Brussels Sprouts anyway.
- A bit of science news perhaps? Philips is researching a laser razor that can make one shave last more than a month. Smooth!
- Brits feel America does at least one thing right: we’re better drivers than anyone! And we make it easy to rent a car!
- Spanish woman becomes first time mother, of twins, at 67!
- Godzilla celebrates 50th birthday. A real smashing party in Tokyo?
- What, Fallujah again? How many times to we have to take this shithole?
- First it was a fatwa against french fries, now it’s no rubbers (not even those tiny Indian ones)! What’s a poor disaffected Indian muslim youth to do?
- India to attempt to overload cell phone net on New Year’s Eve: more than 1 billion SMS messages to be sent that day.
- Kim Jong Il might try to get around international sanctions by selling gold in London. He’s done it before, after all.
- Locust plague in Eritrea. Moses could not be reached for comment.
- Swan plague in England. Shoot them? Hell no, but here’s a recipe just in case!
- And finally, you’ve got to go to Pravda to get the best headlines: “Saddam Hussein thrown in the garbage of history”. Good title, comrade!
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Friday - December 22, 2006
Under The Yurt
As we reported here last Spring, the Krazy Kazakhs of Kazakhstan were in the process of building a giant pyramid in their new capitol city. It was financed with all the oil money flowing in that used to go to Moscow. So what happened to the giant pyramid in the middle of the Asian steppe? Well, it was built and is now open for business with yak milk for all ....
He also wants an opera house to rival Glyndebourne or Covent Garden, a national museum of culture, a new “university of civilisation”, and a centre for Kazakhstan’s ethnic and geographical groups. All these will be slotted into Foster’s pyramid, which is 203 feet tall and 203 feet square at the base (62m by 62m). It is raised higher by being set on a broad podium (315 feet square or 96 by 96 metres) roughly 50 feet high surrounded by an earth berm. This podium contains the opera house.
-- GABION: Hugh Pearman (February 20, 2005)

So what do you do now if you’re the repressive dictator of a miserable third world backwater? Well, you gather your thoughts (and your money) and you decide to enclose a good part of your capitol city under a giant tent (yurt) to keep out the -31 degree winds of winter on the the steppe. And you use a special fabric for the Giant Yurt that traps sunlight so your peoples can enjoy swimming and golfing in winter. Not that any of them know how to swim and none have ever seen a golf course. Those are just details ....

Astana lies in the very heart of the Central Asian steppe. Temperatures there often drop to -30C in the winter. The final shape of the world’s biggest tent was revealed in a 3D model by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Astana could have its own beach all year round
Underneath, in an area larger than 10 football stadiums, will be a city with squares and cobbled streets, canals, shopping centres and golf courses. The idea is to recreate summer, so that when the outside temperature is -30C, the residents of the Kazakh capital can play outdoor tennis, take boat rides or sip coffee on the pavement cafes.
Called Khan Shatyry, the project is designed by Lord Foster, who has recently built a giant glass pyramid in Astana. “Nothing of the sort has been done before, and from the engineering point of view it’s an extremely difficult project,” says Fettah Tamince, the head of Turkey’s development company Sembol that is building the tent. Mr Tamince is nevertheless confident the company can complete the construction in just 12 months.
-- BBC (December 9, 2006)

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Sunday - December 10, 2006
Through The Looking Glass

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Saturday - December 09, 2006
Mini-Indians
Unexplained Mystery #69: If their dinguses are so small then why are there so many of them? One thing’s for sure, we won’t be outsourcing porn flick production to India any time soon. Mheh ....
Speak up, sir...You need the extra small condoms?
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fri Dec 8, 8:21 AM ET
Condoms designed to meet international size specifications are too big for many Indian men as their penises fall short of what manufacturers had anticipated, an Indian study has found.
The Indian Council of Medical Research, a leading state-run center, said its initial findings from a two-year study showed 60 percent of men in the financial capital Mumbai had penises about 2.4 cm (one inch) shorter than those condoms catered for.
For a further 30 percent, the difference was at least 5 cm (two inches). A poor fit meant the prophylactics often didn’t do the job they were bought for, and led to some tearing or slipping off during use.
“One of the reasons for a failure of up to 20 percent (of condoms) is the association of the size of the condom to the erect penis,” the council’s Dr. Chander Puri told Reuters, adding another reason was couples often put them on in a hurry.
Puri said many men in India, which has the world’s highest HIV positive caseload, were too shy to ask for condoms. “We need more vending machines for condoms of different sizes so people can pick a condom with confidence that is suited to their needs,” he said.
The Times of India reported the ICMR survey had studied 1,400 men between 18-50 years of age in cities like Mumbai and New Delhi as well as in rural areas in a report. It entitled its story “Indian men don’t measure up.”
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Wednesday - December 06, 2006
Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)
Don’t Pull My Finger
NASHVILLE (WBIR-TV) - December 6, 2006
Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning.
American Flight 1053, from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, made an emergency landing here after passengers reported smelling struck matches, said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority.
The plane landed safely. The FBI, Transportation Safety Administration and airport authority responded to the emergency, Lowrance said.
The passengers and five crew members were brought off the plane, together with all the luggage, to go through security checks again. Bomb-sniffing dogs found spent matches.
The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal body odor, Lowrance said. The woman lives near Dallas and has a medical condition.
The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on the plane. “American has banned her for a long time,” Lowrance said.
She was not charged but could have been. While it is legal to bring as many as four books of paper safety matches onto an aircraft, it is illegal to strike a match in an airplane, Lowrance said.
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Monday - December 04, 2006
Return To Sender
ATTENTION: The US Postal Service wants you to know that if you have Christmas cards or phone bills that are addressed to zip code 10048 your mail will probably not be delivered due to circumstances beyond their control ... namely the fact that the address no longer exists. The USPS suggests you get your stupid butt up to date on current events and possibly update your mailing list. Thank you for your cooperation ....
Mail Still Being Sent to World Trade Center 5 Years After Terror Attacks
(FOX NEWS) - Monday, December 04, 2006
It’s the kind of holiday mail that might have been tossed aside, discarded like any other piece of junk mail: a special offer for a facial at a local spa. Only the address on the letter no longer exists. And the woman the letter is addressed to died more than five years ago in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Hundreds of pieces of mail destined for the former trade center still arrive every day at a post office facing ground zero — the relics of the unfinished lives of Sept. 11 victims.
Telephone bills, insurance statements, wine club announcements, college alumni newsletters, even government checks populate the bundles of mail. Each bears the ZIP code once reserved exclusively for the twin towers: 10048.
“I guess sooner or later they’ll realize the towers aren’t back up,” said letter carrier Seprina Jones-Sims, who handles the trade center mail. “I don’t know when.”
Some of the nation’s most recognizable companies and organizations, from retailers to research hospitals, are among those sending the mail. Much of it seems to result from businesses not updating their bulk mailing lists, said U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Pat McGovern.
The postal service declined to identify the senders and recipients of the letters according to policy. Several companies formerly housed in the towers also declined comment. The trade center mail meets varied fates once it arrives at the Church Street station.
A handful of companies pay for a service that forces the post office to hold the mail until a messenger picks it up. The rest of the mail travels various routes. Some will be returned to the sender, some will be forwarded to the company’s current address and some will be sent to a Brooklyn recycling firm to be destroyed.
That the Postal Service is even forwarding mail from a nonexistent address five years later is rare. “Normally we’d only forward mail for a year, but we’re making an exception here,” McGovern said.
The trade center’s mail used to travel from the Church Street post office and up through the towers. It would start on the ground tucked in the letter carrier’s bag and continue up higher and higher — to the 68th floor, the 89th floor, the 104th floor.
The morning’s mail never made it through the flames and smoke on Sept. 11, 2001. It stayed put with the letter carriers, who silently observed the chaos that unfurled outside the post office.
Flying debris blew out most of its windows. After a three-year restoration, its doors officially reopened in August 2004.
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Sunday - December 03, 2006
SAVE THE GOAT!
It has been months since I have been able to run a goat story. I was beginning to despair of ever hearing of another goat like the one on a pole in Pakistan. This has bothered me greatly. After all, one of the primary missions of this blog is to protect the goats of the world from the Muslims who take great pleasure in humping our precious goats.
Now finally I have stumbled across another heart-warming goat story to help spread holiday cheer through the world. This goat is in Sweden, the country that gave us gorgeous blondes, Viking marauders, Bjorn Borg and ABBA - quite a set of accomplishments from a country that is frozen most of the year. This goat is huge and made of straw - which probably means it is safe from the Muslim goat “lovers”. Maybe.
The Gävle Goat, or “Gävlebocken” as it is known in Sweden, is older than Santa Claus. Unlike Jolly Old Saint Nick however, the Gävlebocken doesn’t bring presents or keep a list of who is naughty and nice (Muslims in the first category by default). No, the Gävlebocken just stands there in the middle of town - a massive statue of straw. Which brings up the subject of ... fire.
“Fire?”, you ask. Yes, the Gävlebocken has become the target of choice for Christmas terrorists. Year after year, the local fire department in Gävle has had to rush out in the middle of the night to save the goat. These goat-burning fanatics are members of the Axis Of Naughty. Yes, I can reveal all now - Glenn Reynolds and his evil minions have been behind the annual burning of the goat! And unless he gives me an “instalanche” real soon now, I’m turning him over to the Swedish Homelannden Securytie.
Key quote in the story below: “not even napalm can set fire to the goat now.” Yeah, right. Has anyone checked out the recent large shipment of ”willy pete” to a certain lawyer-type blogger in Tenessee? The Swedes better keep an eye out for Reynolds. He hates goats ... and puppies. Trust me. Would I lie to you .... ?
Swedes Guard Christmas Goat From Vandals
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - December 3, 2006, 11:52 AM EST
For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car. But officials in the Swedish city of Gavle are guaranteeing that this year’s giant straw Christmas goat—the victim of Sweden’s most violent yule tradition—will survive unscathed.
The 43-foot-high goat—a centuries-old yule symbol that preceded Santa Claus as the bringer of gifts to Swedish homes—has been burned down 22 times since it was first set up in Gavle’s square on Dec. 3, 1966.
But for its 40th anniversary Sunday, officials think they have finally outsmarted the resourceful vandals by dousing the battered ram with flame-resistant chemicals normally used on airplanes.
“It is impossible to burn it to the ground this year, although you might be able to singe its paws,” said Anna Ostman, a spokeswoman for the committee in charge of building the goat. “After 40 years, we think we finally found the solution.”
The company providing the fireproof treatment is so sure of its resilience that its spokesman Freddy Klassmo told newspaper Aftonbladet that “not even napalm can set fire to the goat now.”
For those who want to follow its fate, a 24-hour Web cam has been set up to film the straw goat where it stands on the central square in Gavle, 90 miles north of Stockholm. However, the security guards that have watched over previous versions have been called off, Ostman said.
“We can sleep very soundly at night now,” she said. “The goat can too.” While the origins of the Christmas goat are unclear, the symbol is believed to date back to Norse mythology and the two goats that drew the carriage of Thor, the god of thunder.
Many Swedes place a small straw goat underneath their Christmas tree, or hang miniature versions on the branches. Since 1966, just 10 of Gavle’s giant goats have survived beyond Christmas Day. Aside from being burned, several were beaten down and the 1976 goat was hit by a car.
The vandals are seldom caught, but the 2001 culprit—51-year-old American Lawrence Jones—was convicted and spent 18 days in jail. The 2005 vandals—who witnesses said were dressed up as Santa Claus and the Gingerbread Man—remain at large. The pair fired flaming arrows at the goat, reducing it to its steel skeleton.
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Wednesday - November 15, 2006
Weird News Bytes
- Five-year-old kindergarten kid busted for bringing a pocket knife to school. The boy held police off for hours while sucking his thumb and screaming, “You’ll never take Rico alive, coppers!”
- Global warming is messing up bears hibernation patterns in Russia. The bears are wandering around and can’t sleep because Al Gore is keeping them awake with his endless babbling.
- If E.T. looks down on Earth he will see the Great Wall of China and ... Kentucky Fried Chicken. Will he land and say “Take me to your Colonel!”
- In Australia, a lot of dead men are getting traffic tickets. “But officer, I was only on the way from the morgue and I only had a single beer. Really!”
- Bats are taking over Americus, Georgia! Get Commissioner Gordon on the phone and tell him we need Batman ASAP - we’ll be hiding in the bat room.
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Thursday - November 02, 2006
Phallic Fantasies
Aussie “Wonderjock” Shows Size Really Does Count
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thu Nov 2, 2006 3:51 AM GMT137
Size really does count, just ask Australian underwear maker AussieBum which has just launched the “Wonderjock” for men who want to look bigger. Since the launch seven days ago, AussieBum says it has sold 50,000 pairs of “Wonderjock”, mostly on its Web site http://www.aussiebum.com and a handful of stores around the world.
“The design of the underwear separates and lifts. The fabric cup protrudes everything out in front instead of down towards the ground,” said “Wonderjock” designer Sean Ashby. “There is no padding, rings or strings,” said Ashby, a co-founder of the Internet-based AussieBum firm.
Ashby said the idea for the “Wonderjock” was the result of online feedback from customers who expressed an interest in looking bigger, just like women using the “Wonderbra”.
“When you go to a department store to buy underwear you usually get a grandmother serving, which is not the ideal way to get feedback,” said Ashby. “Our customers give us feedback. We didn’t realise that big is better.”
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Sunday - October 29, 2006
Hell No!
Who On Earth Would Pay $1 Million For Hell?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fri Oct 27, 7:35 PM ET
No one was buying hell on Friday—or at least its red-hot Web address. HELL.com was among hundreds of Internet domain names up for auction in Hollywood, Florida, by domain asset management provider Moniker.com, a unit of marketing services firm Seevast Corp.
The owner put a minimum price of $1 million on the underworld’s domain, confident of high interest after the salacious address, Sex.com, sold for about $12 million earlier this year. But there were no takers with bids failing to reach the reserve price.
“The world is still alive and well. Nobody is going to hell right now,” Seevast Chief Executive Lance Podell told Reuters, adding that the domain would now be part of a silent auction.
Moniker was selling HELL.com on behalf of a group called BAT Flli LLC, whose founder Kenneth Aronson registered the name in 1995. It’s not the first time that Aronson has tried to sell HELL.com. He put the address on the auction block in April 2000, at a starting bid of $8 million.
In an interview with Reuters in 2000, Aronson said members of The Final.org, an enigmatic collective of digital artists and creative visionaries, were using HELL.com as a private destination for their work. According to the site, HELL.com is a “private parallel web” not accessible with a Web browser.
The auction on Friday included a list of domain names such as cameras.com, which pulled in $1.5 million. Sexeducation.com that sold for $120,000 and babies.net which went for $26,000.
Flowers.mobi, an address with the new extension for mobile devices, went for $200,000, while fun.mobi pulled in $100,000. A boom in Internet advertising driven by companies such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) have sent prices for sought-after domain names soaring.
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Thursday - October 26, 2006
Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)
This story caught my eye not just because of the ridiculous nature of the “crime” but the location. Cornelia, GA is a little-bitty pissant town of about 4,000 in Northeast Georgia ... about 30 miles southeast of where they filmed “Deliverance”. I know. I was living in the area when Burt Reynolds and crew descended on the area back in the early 70’s. In fact my oldest son was born in Toccoa, about 10 miles east of Cornelia.
To answer your next question ... yes, them mountain folk up there in them parts are a little strange. Very clannish - but basically good folks ... I got Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty’s autograph ... but I never got to meet that banjo player. Maybe this little feller is some of his kinfolk what done drifted south out of the mountains? Now, where’d I put my guitar ... ?
10-Year-Old Charged for Making Threats to Blow Up School
CORNELIA, Georgia (FOX NEWS)
October 26, 2006
A 10-year-old boy has been charged with making a terrorist threat after threatening “blow up some teachers” and bring bombs to his elementary school, officials said.
The boy was arrested after one of the children relayed the threat to school officials and, on Oct. 20, officials and police found the student’s backpack in a classroom with two devices inside. The boy said the devices were bombs, but officials said they were not flammable or explosive.
The boy has been charged as a juvenile with four counts of making terroristic threats and two counts of possessing a destructive device. Ford said the charges. The boy’s name was not released because he is a minor.
One of the devices was described as a small glass jar containing a solid white substance and a plastic sandwich bag. The other was a candy wrapper containing a tubular piece of cardboard, about the size of an index finger, stuffed with the white solid substance, said Habersham County Board of Education Police Chief Don Ford.
The “destructive device” charge was leveled because, “If you represent it as such, then you can be charged with it,” Ford said.
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