Archive for September, 2009
Man Punched So Hard He Loses Half His Skull
Two British thugs who punched a young man so hard surgeons had to remove half of his skull have escaped charges.
Steve Gator, 26, has been told the teenagers who ambushed him will not face court after British Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case.
The CPS said it did not have enough evidence to proceed but Steve’s mother, Nina Gator, expressed her disbelief at the decision.
“Our boy is walking around with half a head — what more evidence do they need?” Nina Gator told SkyNews. “I can’t believe it.”
Satan-Loving Teen Lights Church Fire
ORANGEVALE, Calif. — A 15-year-old girl who allegedly worships Satan was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of lighting a fire at her Orangevale church.
The blaze occurred at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at the corner of Hazel and Cherry avenues.
Christian Pebbles of Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said the teen made it clear why she started the blaze, which damaged church pews.
“She hates the church and she worships the devil,” Pebbles said. “That’s the reason why.”
Blueprint For A Better World
New Scientist:
We live in an imperfect world. Poverty, disease, lack of education, environmental destruction – the problems are all too obvious. Many people don’t have clean water, let alone enough food, and the unsustainable lifestyle of the wealthy few is storing up catastrophic climate change.
Can we do anything about it? You bet we can. Technology is a double-edged sword, but science and reason have made our lives immeasurably better overall – and only through science and reason can we hope to make a real difference in the future. So here and over the next few weeks, New Scientist will explore diverse ideas for making the world a better place, and the evidence backing them.
This week in part 2, we report on what you as an individual can do to make a difference.
Next week, we’ll explore what many see as the fundamental problem: overpopulation. And finally, we’ll ponder the profound and…
The 13 Most Unintentionally Disturbing Children’s Toys
Rich Wallace on Cracked.com: As clowns have taught us, there is a very fine line between mirthful and downright creepy.
But when you look at some children’s toys from the last few decades, you can’t help but wonder how in the hell they designed these things without realizing how deeply, deeply unsettling they are. Just take a look at…
#13. Sixfinger: We like to think we’re above pointing out that this thing totally looks like a cock, which by the way, it does. A cock that shoots dangerous projectiles that can put an eye out (chew on that, Freud).
But besides clearly looking like something mom mistakenly bought for herself, the Sixfinger fulfills every child’s dream of having a grotesque birth defect. As you can see from the downright nightmarish ad, it might as well be a strap-on clubbed foot that’s also a water pistol.
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9/12 D.C. Tea Party — March Footage With Interviews
America: are you getting dumber, or just louder?
21 Percent of Conservative New Jersey Voters Think Obama May Be the Anti-Christ
A new public policy polling survey of New Jersey voters has some shocking results: 21 percent either believe or aren’t sure that President Obama is the Anti-Christ.
Twenty-nine percent of Republicans and 35 percent of “conservative” voters also either believe he is or aren’t sure.
Paris Catacombs Vandalized
Paris’ underground bone collection, the catacombs, has been closed to the public indefinitely after being vandalized.
Ordinarily, the creepy collection of human remains — cleared from city cemeteries long ago — is orderly, with bones piled in stacks along underground tunnels. But a post-vandalism photo in Le Parisien newspaper showed bones and skulls scattered along the walking paths
Taking Readers For A Ride: The Harry Potter Theme Park
Alison Flood blogging in The Guardian:
You can mock but you know that the new Harry Potter theme park is going to be huge: after all, if there are already 200 quidditch teams registered around the US, then just think how excited the Pottermaniacs are going to be to visit a world where they can buy Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans and everything they need to play quidditch, as well as ride the Flight of the Hippogriff rollercoaster and take the Dragon Challenge.
Details revealed yesterday evening make it sound more exciting than Dickens World, where you can “jump on board the Great Expectations Boat Ride for splashing good fun”, and “take a trip back in time to a Victorian School complete with nasty schoolmaster” – what a fun day out. Visitors at Potterland (it’s actually called Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey) will even be able to buy butterbeer at the Three…
Scientists Levitate Mice
Live Science reports:
Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields.
Other researchers have made live frogs and grasshoppers float in mid-air before, but such research with mice, being closer biologically to humans, could help in studies to counteract bone loss due to reduced gravity over long spans of time, as might be expected in deep space missions or on the surfaces of other planets.
Repeated levitation tests showed the mice, even when not sedated, could quickly acclimate to levitation inside the cage. After three or four hours, the mice acted normally, including eating and drinking. The strong magnetic fields did not seem to have any negative impacts on the mice in the short term, and past studies have shown that rats did not suffer from adverse effects after 10 weeks of strong, non-levitating magnetic fields.
Jay-Z’s New World Order and Occult Symbolism
Jay-Z’s latest video called “Run This Town” (featuring Rihanna and Kanye West) contains occult symbolism relating to secret societies. It has been long rumored that Jay-Z is part of some sort of occult order (probably Freemasonry) due to the hints slipped in his songs and his imagery. ”Run This Town” certainly adds fuel to the fire. We’ll look at the symbolism in this song and in his clothing line, Rocawear.
A look at the spooky, spooky Masonic, occult and New World Order themes and messages hidden in the music of Jay-Z and Rhianna. Is their hit single “Run This Town” an announcement of the coming of a New World Order, lead by secret (Luciferian) societies? Some people say yes.
A Taste of AFRICOM: Some History on Somalia to Put the Most Recent U.S. Attacks into Perspective
American commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, one of the most wanted Islamic militants in Africa, in a daylight raid in southern Somalia on 15 September 2009. This attack is a good “indication of the Obama administration’s willingness to use force against Al Qaeda’s growing influence in the region.”…
Some have been heralding this as a great achievement, while others, including myself, see no difference between what the Bush administration was doing and what the Obama administration is now doing, other then escalating the war by putting ground troops in Somalia, which this attack just did…
So while our Western Mainstream Media continues to feed us government sanctioned propaganda, we should remember why and how Somalia became a failed State, some of the reasons as to why Somali pirates became so active in the region, and what the real agenda is for Africa.
Jimmy Carter: ‘Hamid Karzai Has Stolen the Election’ in Afghanistan
Former President Jimmy Carter called the election in Afghanistan “despicable,” and that President Obama should not be sending more troops to that country.
Editor’s Note: Jimmy Carter has been speaking his mind quite a bit recently. Check out Addie Stan’s blog on Carter’s response to Obama-haters: “Many white people” believe “African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country.”
Former President Jimmy Carter, who has monitored elections in countries across the globe, called the elections in Afghanistan “despicable” Tuesday. “Hamid Karzai has stolen the election,” the former president told a small group of donors to his Carter Center in Atlanta. “Now the question is whether he gets away with it.”
Official counts have given the Afghan president, who was installed after a U.S.-lead coalition toppled the Taliban in 2001, 54 percent of the vote. His main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, alleged fraud and a recount is currently underway.
Carter said that the election reminded him…
Psychedelic Tea Brews Unease
WSJ: SANTA FE, N.M. — A secretive religious group that fought a long legal battle for the right to drink hallucinogenic tea in pursuit of spiritual growth now plans to build a temple and greenhouse in a wealthy community here — to the dismay of local residents.
The church was founded in Brazil in 1961 and remains most popular there, but about 150 people in the U.S., including about 60 in Santa Fe, practice the faith, which goes by the Portuguese name Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal, or UDV. Members say the church is based on Christian theology but also borrows from other faiths and finds spirituality in nature.
Since the U.S. branch of the religion emerged in the late 1980s, practitioners have imported from Brazil their sacramental tea, known as hoasca, which is brewed from two Amazonian plants and contains the psychedelic compound dimethyltryptamine, or DMT. The U.S. government classifies…
Ku Klux Klowns
How many white, middle-aged, overweight, pissed-off right-wingers does it take to unscrew a light bulb?
Depends on who you ask.
Organizers for this past weekend’s anti-Obama protest in Washington, DC, were slinging around crowd-size estimates of two million people before the curtain was thankfully drawn on the thing, despite the fact that the number was actually in the vicinity of 30,000. They were in the nation’s capitol, so they said, to protest against too much governmental control over the lives of Americans, to protest taxation in general, to screech about birth certificates, to denounce President Obama and to see and be seen amid a throng of fat, white people who look just like them.
Call it a group hug for the demonstrably deranged. But there was more to it than just standard-issue anti-Obama sentiments being aired in the streets. Layered beneath the whole scene was a hard vein of bitter racism the participants…
20 Most Bizarre Craigslist Adverts Of All Time
Craigslist, the anarchic classifieds website, has developed a reputation for hosting some of the oddest adverts on the internet. Earlier this year the website agreed to drop its “erotic services” section over claims that it promoted pornography, but otherwise the unmoderated, anything-goes ethos on which its success was built continues.
While some were undoubtedly posted as pranks, they still reflect the spirit of a website that proudly keeps itself open to all internet life.
1) Ralph Nader chair
“Yes, that’s right. Ralph Nader, perennial Green Party candidate for the U.S. presidency MAY have sat in this very chair! It was used in his Washington, DC campaign headquarters until I purchased it on Craiglist several months ago. It has a nice red, commie upholstery and a sleek black plastic backing. The wheels don’t function well, but that is a small price to pay for state control of the means of production.”
FBI: Be On Lookout For Homemade Bomb Ingredients
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Counter-terrorism officials on Tuesday urged local police to be on the lookout for evidence of homemade bombs, a day after the FBI raided four apartments in Queens looking for bomb-making components.
Police departments are being urged to be on the lookout for specific indicators of terrorist activity.
“I believe it’s prudent to put that information out. We welcome it,” said NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly.
The directive speaks of the possible use of hydrogen peroxide in bombs, and to look for people who may have burns on the face, hands and arms.
Officials Monday were apparently looking for an Afghan national from Colorado who may have links to al-Qaida. Sources said he stayed at the home of an acquaintance on a recent trip to New York.
Open Thread: Race in America
The subject of the alleged racism of the Obama “Joker” poster associated (I believe- though please correct me if I’m wrong) with the Alex Jonesephiles came up at a PDX0 BBQ recently. A friend asked me if I thought it was racist. I said that I hadn’t even seen the poster, but that my intuition told me that it probably is. I’m still not really sure what I think of it, other than that it seems stupid, irritating, and vaguely fascistic. I’d reproduce the image here, but I’m really kind of grossed out by it for reasons that I can’t articulate.
Then comes Jimmy Carter’s assertion that Joe Wilson’s recent outburst worthy of the NSDAP (who were always ready to disrupt parliamentary procedure in the Reichstag and then cry out that “democracy doesn’t work”) was “racist.” The common thread is the disruption of normal democratic forms in favor of goonism. From the…
Open Thread: Race in America
The subject of the alleged racism of the Obama “Joker” poster associated (I believe- though please correct me if I’m wrong) with the Alex Jonesephiles came up at a PDX0 BBQ recently. A friend asked me if I thought it was racist. I said that I hadn’t even seen the poster, but that my intuition told me that it probably is. I’m still not really sure what I think of it, other than that it seems stupid, irritating, and vaguely fascistic. I’d reproduce the image here, but I’m really kind of grossed out by it for reasons that I can’t articulate.
Then comes Jimmy Carter’s assertion that Joe Wilson’s recent outburst worthy of the NSDAP (who were always ready to disrupt parliamentary procedure in the Reichstag and then cry out that “democracy doesn’t work”) was “racist.” The common thread is the disruption of normal democratic forms in favor of goonism. From…
