We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
The clip:ROME - Italian state TVhas suspended a cooking show host who shocked the nation by saying cat stew is a Tuscan delicacy he swears he has enjoyed many times.
RAI TV confirmed on Wednesday that it had suspended Beppe Bigazzi
When his 27-year-old female co-host looked stunned as Bigazzi said he has eaten cat stew "many times," the white-haired, grandfather figure defended his tastes.
I don't understand a word they're saying, but the cohost's reaction was amusing anyways.
A bird?A 52-year-old Louisiana woman has pleaded guilty to two counts of sale of a minor for trading two children to a couple in exchange for an exotic pet bird and $175.
Donna Louise Greenwell received 15 months of hard labor on each count on Monday, which she will serve concurrently.
The Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court's Office tells The Advocate newspaper that Greenwell will begin serving her sentence March 25.
The couple, Paul James Romero and Brandy Lynn Romero, each pleaded guilty to the same charges in October.
Greenwell was accused of selling the couple a 4-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy in return for the cash and a cockatoo. Both children were in Greenwell's care after their biological parents had left them with her.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
At least they weren't her kids, and some of those birds are ass expensive.
Whoops!(CNN) -- The diabetes drug Avandia is linked with tens of thousands of heart attacks, and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew of the risks for years but worked to keep them from the public, according to a Senate committee report released Saturday.
The 334-page report by the Senate Finance Committee also criticized the Food and Drug Administration, saying that the federal agency that regulates food, tobacco and medications overlooked or overrode safety concerns found by its staff.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Chantix - A drug to help users quit smoking by mimicking nicotine. Most Notable Side Effect In My Opinion (MNSEIMO): Vivid and easily re-callable strange/unsettling dreams.Originally Posted by Nessus
Ambien - A drug to help people sleep. MNSEIMO: Sleep anything. Sleep walking, sleep eating, sleep raping, sleep sex, sleep driving your car a few dozen miles and murdering someone, sleep dear all that is holy where did all this blood come from, where are my pants, and why am I in the back of a minivan with a very happy looking German shepherd and half a hooker.
Alli - A drug to help people lose weight by blocking a portion of protein absorption. MNSEIMO: Well, the protein that gets blocked has to go somewhere. I'll give you a few hints, they suggest not eating too much of it, making sure that you have a bathroom readily available and quickly accessible, and that if you get the urge to go, don't ignore it.
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Apparently, women's lives are the new price of the fundie vote is in this state.COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina would cease state health insurance payments for abortions for victims of rape or incest under a measure approved Monday by a House budget panel.
State Rep. Rex Rice, an Easley Republican, said his proposal was more about philosophy than saving the state money in a tough budget year.
“This is basically saying that we cannot afford to fund any abortions in the state health plan,” Rice said as he introduced the measure. He was pressed for how much that would save as legislators scrambled to come up with cash to balance the budget.
“I don’t have any idea,” Rice said. But “I don’t think we ought to be funding any abortions.”
State law now provides exceptions for rape, incest and to protect the health of a mother. But that would end, at least for a year, if Rice’s measure became part of the state’s budget law.
It left Democrats on the panel stunned.
House Minority Leader Harry Ott said if his wife’s doctor told her she’d have to have an abortion or die, “you would not want my health insurance to do what my doctor said was needed in order to save my wife’s life?”
“I don’t believe we ought to be funding abortions with the state health plan,” Rice responded.
The amendment was adopted with a voice vote but its fate is far from certain in the weeks ahead that will shape the budget in the House and Senate.
“That’s going to start a fight,” state Rep. Joe Neal of Hopkins said after the meeting.
Neal noted Rice’s bid for a U.S. House seat.
“This is more about politics than what’s best for the people,” Neal said. “You’re saying a woman must die if she can’t afford to pay for it. ... I just think that’s too extreme.”
Driving home today listening to the local rock station. The dj goes, "This band became famous after the song Uprising. Here's Muse with Resistance."
A bad song from a bad album.
Add one to my list of DJs who dont know shit about music...
"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/p...vorable_reportDavid M. Crane, the former U.N. prosecutor for the Special Court in Sierra Leone, and his chief investigator, Alan W. White, were once on the front lines of the international effort to hold war criminals accountable for their misdeeds, securing an indictment in 2003 against the former Liberian warlord and president Charles Taylor.
The two American war-crimes specialists, who now run a consulting firm called CW Group International, LLC, recently used their expertise on behalf of the government of Guinea's former military leader, Moussa Dadis Camara (above left), who stands accused by a U.N. commission of inquiry of responsibility for the Sept. 28, 2009, murder and disappearances of more than 156 civilian protesters in the country's national soccer stadium.
CW Group signed an agreement with Guinea's military junta on Oct. 15, three weeks after the massacre, to "conduct a confidential investigation into recent allegations of shootings and sexual assaults, including gang rapes, that occurred on September 28, at the national stadium." The findings of the investigation were first published early this week by the newsletter Africa Confidential, but Turtle Bay has independently obtained a copy of the secret report and secured the first interviews with Crane and White.
The report confirms that an elite Guinean presidential guard -- known by their red berets -- opened fire on opposition demonstrators at the national soccer stadium, and sexually assaulted women inside and outside of the stadium. But the death toll -- 59 -- and the scale of the violence described by Crane and White, is lower than that described by international human rights investigators. The report also downplays the role of the Guinean leadership in the killings or the abduction of scores of civilians and makes no mention of a coverup of the crimes, which has been claimed by the U.N. commission and Human Rights Watch. "Simply stated it appears from the facts extant that a crime against humanity was not committed by government forces on September 28th," the report states.
On the contrary, CW cites the efforts of key military commanders to defuse the standoff and to protect the opposition leaders who had gathered in the national stadium to protest Camara's effort to run for president in 2010. CW places some of its greatest emphasis on criticizing the country's opposition movement, Le Forum Des Forces Vives, for carrying out its demonstration in defiance of President Camara's wishes...
Hope is the denial of reality
Loki's WTFing about that article made me go WTF.
Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
Comments are funnnnnny!After days of controversy over a white group's win in a step competition, sponsor Coca-Cola says the second-place team will share top honors.
Coca-Cola said in a statement Thursday that a review of the scoring from Saturday's national contest revealed a "scoring discrepancy" that it declined to explain. This is the first year of the Sprite Step Off competition, but step contests are typically dominated by black sororities.
Step is a historically black art form of rhythmic stepping and clapping. A YouTube video of the winning performance by a group of white Zeta Tau Alphas from the University of Arkansas generated hundreds of comments, some of them inflammatory.
Coca-Cola said Thursday the Alpha Kappa Alpha team from Indiana University, whose members are black, would share first place.
The j00-tube ones are, too.
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We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
That sucks.
Likey hugely sucks.
If a white team achieve a higher result than a black team, confounding expectation, good for them.
It is then up to the black teams to up their performance if they want to win. It is not up to the fucking organisers/judges to bastardise the result and injustly award a black team when they don't deserve it.
lolli, you circumsized your youtube link.
What. A. Fucking. Tool.
Weird.A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday.
An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.
"The beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze," the Komsomolskaya Pravda paper said.
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It added he has now been transferred to the city of Kazan, about 500 miles east of Moscow, for rehabilitation treatment.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
I don't think you understand how prevalent drinking and smoking are in Rushki-land
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I find it odd that people are able to reach the chimp in the zoo to give him a drink and a smoke.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Pirates have spokesmen now?
What is the world coming to ...
Don't know about you, but i find that rather funny. A spokesmen for pirates ... who would have thought.
Arrr, these landlubber will not ..
Oh forget it.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
My manager just said to me, quite seriously "Why are pirates called 'Pirates'?", i knew what was coming but to make him feel great i gave him time to lead with the punch line - "Because they Arghhhh".
Sweet Geezus!
What does a pirate say when he's having a heart attack?
Arrr! Me heartie.
Swivel me timber!
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
It seems I am pretty damn distant from the world-view of so many people. I honest to goodness thought this was a parody ad until I was convinced otherwise.
America, what the fuck
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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