As I noted 4 months ago, a Spanish satire mag El Jueves got into legal trouble for publishing a cartoon showing the Spanish Crown Prince and his wife en flagrante delecto, the caption, “Do you realise that if you get pregnant . . . It will be the closest thing to work I’ve done in my life?” on the cover.
The two cartoonists have now been fined €3000 each. If I were them, I’d appeal to the European court of human rights.
Making fun of the royals should be a basic human right.
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A man put his shotgun down, and his dogs blasted hunter with his own shotgun.
Luckily, dogs do not know the difference between bird and buck shot.
It’s called the Bhut Jolokia, and it rates 1 MILLION Scovilles*. The next hottest is a habanero at 577,000 Scovilles.
It’s grown in India.
I’m pretty sure that this would more than I could possiubly bear, and the experience 12-36 hours later might be even less pleasant.
*A measure of the spicy-hotness of peppers
Ummm…I have nothing further to ad about this report.
Sometimes, the headline is all you need.
This woman is going to jail for 10 Years.
Her name is Tiffany Sutton, and she is just 24 years old, basically a kid, and a troubled one at that, and she is going to jail because she ran out of mental health coverage.
The newspaper misses the point and goes with the sensational headline, Woman sentenced in blood-drinking sex case. (Yes, I know that it is a great hed, but still)
Here are the details you really need to know:
Houck [Suttons’s attorney] submitted a memo to the court stating that Sutton suffered physical and sexual abuse from ages 3 to 13, and she has had mental health problems since she was 14.
Sutton improved with mental health counseling and medication up until her insurance ended six months before her February arrests, Houck wrote.
According to prison health records, Sutton thought she was a vampire for the first several weeks she was in jail, Houck wrote.
No health insurance coverage for her meds, so she self medicates, and she and while drunk and stoned, convinces her 46-year old consort to let her tie him up, and then cuts him and tries to drink his blood.
Does it sound like she was in her right mind????
The judge, one David Udall*, decides that the solution is to sentence her to TEN YEARS IN PRISON.
This woman needs help, and she will not get it under the tender confinement of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
*Anyone know if he is related to the late Congressman Morris or his son Congressman Mark Udall?
There is something quintessentially Iowan about the “Butter-Cow Lady” Promoting Obama In Radio Ad.
It appears that when the Japanese fight crime, they go the route of the Coyote in the Road Runner Cartoons.
What can I say, but “Beep Beep”!!!
So, Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are 8th cousins. There’s not much that I can say to add to that, but there is something that I can sing (to the tune of the Patty Duke Show Theme Song):
But they’re cousins,
Identical cousins all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.
Where Barack adores a good debate,
True equality, and fighting hate,
Our Dickey loves to play the troll,
And babies blood makes him lose control —
What a wild duet!
Still, they’re cousins,
Identical cousins and you’ll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike —
You can lose your mind,
When cousins are two of a kind.
It appears that Gary Aldridge graduated from Liberty University and later worked for the late Jerry Falwell.
From the Coroner’s Report:
EVIDENCE OF INJURY
The decedent is clothed in a diving wet suit, a face mask which has a single vent for breathing, a rubberized head mask having an opening for the mouth and eyes, a second rubberized suit with suspenders, rubberized male underwear, hands and feet have diving gloves and slippers. There are numerous straps and cords restraining the decedent. There is a leather belt about the midriff. There is a series of ligatures extending from the hands to the feet. The hands are bound behind the back. The feet are tied to the hands. There are nylon ligatures holding these in place with leather straps about the wrists and ankles. There are plastic cords also tied about the hands and feet with a single plastic cord extending up to the head and surrounding the lower neck. There is a dildo in the anus covered with a condom.
Fowl Foul play is not suspected.
Ummmm…OMFG!!!!
Kids in car during sex, drug bust
By PAUL NELSON, Staff writer
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First published: Tuesday, October 2, 2007SCHENECTADY — In what one officer called one of the most despicable acts he can recall, a Saratoga County woman is accused of prostituting herself and then snorting cocaine from the stomach of her newborn son while breast-feeding him.
Police said Wendy Cook of Saratoga Springs was on a drug-fueled spree Monday when she was arrested during a crackdown on prostitution in the Hamilton Hill, Central State Street and Vale Cemetery areas.
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I hope that this woman gets her life together, but I doubt that she will.
But snorting coke off her baby’s stomach????
Cool…Click image for source.
Well, those wacky folks at Google Maps have added a new feature, you can measure straight line distances by almost any unit you can imagine.
Just go to “My Maps”, then “Distance Measurement Tool” followed by “I’m feeling geeky” and select from the drop-down menu.
I’m fond of Smoots…I’ve been on the bridge, and seen the original, and the new smoots after the reconstruction.
Women dressed as Ninjas rob a gas station with swords. I smell movie. Either some sort of Thelma and Louise thing, or pr0n.
No really. An anonymous senior Bush administration official has called Barack Obama “intellectually lazy”.
The author of the article is right wing hack Bill Sammon, but still, the idea that someone working for George W. Bush would call anyone intellectually lazy is un f$%#ing believable.
George W. Bush has Terri Schiavo beat in the intellectual laziness department.
Remember when I wrote about members of a 60+ year old running group being prosecuted under terrorism statutes for marking a trail? The local constabulary were talking about pressing charges for the “Hash House Runners”, a “Drinking group with a running problem”. For marking a running path with flour.
When the doctor who marked the path saw the commotion, he explained what it was, and offered to eat some of the flour, but these folks still kept freaking out, despite the fact that the FBI had sent out a notice about the “Hash House Runners” saying that they were not a problem some tome previous.
There has been a settlement, with the doctor and his sister doing some community service.
If I were them, I’d tell them to pound sand, and file suit against the city for malicious prosecution. They’ve run these races in Washington, DC without incident.
A meteorite crashes to earth, strange fumes incapacitate people who come near.
It sounds an awful lot like those awful 1950s movies, doesn’t it?
“Yes, it’s an unfortunate acronym“, he said, laughing his ass off.
The Seattle Department of Transportation is constructing a streetcar line for South Lake Union.
While its official name is the “South Lake Union Streetcar”, it appears to have started out as the “South Lake Union Trolley”, which is what everyone calls it.
Great T-Shirts though:
Also, I like transit cars, though I prefer those with their own right of ways (i.e. no traffic lights)
Jack Hanna, flamingo trapped in airport turnstile – CNN.com.
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