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Greg Miller's Guide to Lock Picking for Beginners

Hong Kong toilet paper holders.


'nuff said:



The Goatse Nebula:


New Orleans from the water:


Cooking an egg with your mobile phone.
"Note: We cooked our egg during the evening using free local calls"

Rick "Frothy Fecal Matter" Santorum on the solution to people being unable to evacuate: Arrest 'em!

American judges, on why they are refusing to hear the cases they're legally required to hear, on "moral" grounds.

Finally,
An HIV-positive ex-convict who said he tried to kill several police officers and a psychiatric hospital employee by biting them or spitting blood in their faces was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in prison.

Robert Murray, 33, was not in court when state Supreme Court Justice William A. Wetzel imposed the sentence. He had sent a message saying the Hannibal Lecter-type restraints the judge ordered were "humiliating" and he refused to wear them to court. The judge said that he ordered the restraints for Murray because of his prior behavior. Murray, a former mental patient, had threatened in past court appearances to attack people around him.

Murray also had been accused of chewing a chunk of flesh out of the arm of a mental health worker at the maximum-security Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, prosecutors said.

Today's hurricane outrage.

Media Matters on the Washington Post reprinting Bush's lies without fact-checking them.

A whole collection of FEMA's fuckups.

Speaking of which, the FEMA director has been bitchslapped, stripped of his authority, and assigned an "assistant" who will take over all his duties.

The forgotten survivors: Finally, help is arriving for the stranded and the left behind. Graffiti outside the staging area to leave the dead city: "Mortui Vivis Praecipant"

The diseases that hurricane victims are at risk of.

DOD briefing: Everything went exactly according to plan, executed flawlessly. Inexplicably, the DOD did not include visual aids. Respectful Of Otters has provided them.

Chief counsel for the AFA: Looting food and water makes you Hitler.

John Stossel: Price gouging is not just moral, but virtuous and should be encouraged. (The column Stossel is plagiarising is available here)

The Wall Street Journal, on why New Orleans needs to be rebuilt without all those dirty poor people:

"The power elite of New Orleans -- whether they are still in the city or have moved temporarily to enclaves such as Destin, Fla., and Vail, Colo. -- insist the remade city won't simply restore the old order. New Orleans before the flood was burdened by a teeming underclass, substandard schools and a high crime rate. The city has few corporate headquarters.

"The new city must be something very different, Mr. Reiss says, with better services and fewer poor people. "Those who want to see this city rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way: demographically, geographically and politically," he says. "I'm not just speaking for myself here. The way we've been living is not going to happen again, or we're out."

One last paranoid thought:
1. There's a shitload of homeless, jobless people coming out of New Orleans.
2. There's that little Iraq thing going on, desperately in need of bodies and offering... shelter, food, and money.

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"Fact and rumour" - clearing the dust raised by the spin machines, and explaining in detail why "the Feds hands were tied by the State" is bullshit.

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Ah, yes, the AFA again. Remember, these are MAINSTREAM. These are your policy makers in the USA.

The pastor explains that for years he has warned people that unless Christians in New Orleans took a strong stand against such things as local abortion clinics, the yearly Mardi Gras celebrations, and the annual event known as "Southern Decadence" -- an annual six-day "gay pride" event scheduled to be hosted by the city this week -- God's judgment would be felt.

"New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."

The original source

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Texas resident kills "chupacabra"
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Thai Buddhist monk creates "moral" cellphone ringtones.

The ringtones, developed by popular monk Phra Phayom Kalayano, will consist of Buddhist mantras such as "Anger is stupidity; fury is madness"; "Compose yourself before answering this call"; and "Don't let mobile phone conversations lead to premature sex and pregnancy."

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Yes, they DID just say that "Don't let mobile phone conversations lead to premature sex and pregnancy." is a Buddhist mantra.

I want to be a Buddhist now.
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Mexican army crosses US border, headed for San Antonio.
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President of Czech Republic posts signs: "The EU does not extend onto my private property"
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Harvard Med School now adding hot peppers to pain drugs for arthritis patients!
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Hmm, my Notre Dame season's tickets were delivered to the wrong address - the delivery guy's home!
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German Anarchist Pogo Party commercials: "Rather than offer any presentation of policies, the party's campaign spot spliced together scenes of debauched revellers smashing furniture, pouring beer down each other's throats and groups of couples kissing and groping each other, all set to a frantic heavy metal soundtrack."

Of course, their party motto is "Arbeit ist Scheisse"
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Movies I want to see:

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The proper way to pay people for helping you move is pizza and beer, not a 7.62 rifle round to the groin.
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Ah, weather. Three more hurricanes currently in the atlantic, heading fast for the largest number of named storms ever. They might just run out of names.

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They said it, not me.

That's Sky News Ireland.

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Curing fauly mithondrial DNA problems - by making a composite out of *two* women's eggs.

UK scientists have won permission to create a human embryo that will have genetic material from two mothers. The Newcastle University team will transfer genetic material created when an egg and sperm fuse into another woman's egg. The groundbreaking work aims to prevent mothers from passing certain genetic diseases on to their unborn babies.

Studies in mice show it is possible to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease by moving the pronuclei - the genetic material which will go on to form a nucleus - from a fertilised egg containing bad mitochondria and putting it into another fertilised egg which only contains good mitochondria.

Professor Doug Turnbull, professor of neurology at Newcastle University, and Dr Mary Herbert, scientific director of Newcastle Fertility Centre at the city's Centre for Life, now plan to do the same in humans.

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"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt."
- Hunter S Thompson, Feb 16th, 2005. Four days before his suicide, after breaking his leg and needing a hip replacement.

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The landlords of an Orlando entertainment complex are suing two restaurateurs for refusing to move into a renovating building because they claim it is haunted. Subcontractors who worked there and other people have reported seeing ghosts or other apparitions, said Lynn Franklin, attorney for the restaurant owners.

"It's very serious," Franklin said Thursday. "A lot of people are corroborating having seen incidents in this location."

The $2.6 million lawsuit filed last month by the owners of the Church Street Station entertainment complex says an offer to hold an exorcism was refused.

"I asked them if these were good ghosts or bad ghosts, and if they were good ghosts why it was a problem," said David Simmons, an attorney representing the building's owners, who include boy band promoter Lou Pearlman. Simmons is also a member of the state House.

Christopher and Yoko Chung, the owners of Amura Japanese Restaurant, had planned to move into the building last October, but backed out of the lease.

Franklin said Christopher Chung's religious beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness required him to "avoid encountering or having any association with spirits or demons," and Chung also objected to the offer for an exorcism because it is a Roman Catholic rite not accepted by his faith.

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The Battle Of New Orleans.

As imagined by flemco, ed_dirt, stormfeather, and others.

We asked for help and the FEMA said "it's coming"
We ain't seen any rescue though that was a week ago.
We asked for help and nobody came a-runnin
And now the levee's broken and we got nowhere to go...

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Canadian army arrives in New Orleans neighbourhoods faster than US relief efforts. This combines with the news of the Mexican army reach San Antonio with some interesting results.

The last time the Canadian army entered the USA, they sacked Washington DC and burned down the White House.

The last time the Mexican army entered the USA, they sacked the Alamo.

torrain: "Given that record, I suppose it's fortunate that New Orleans comes pre-destroyed."

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Florida mother of 5 arrested for parading her children (aged 5 to 15) down the street naked and waving Bibles. The woman says that God told her that she and her children should walk down the street naked.

... apparently God knows she's batshit crazy, and decided to arrange for her children to be better taken care of.

There's a story behind this.