Today's STFU Award goes to....
Chavez: Halloween part of U.S. culture of terror

Sunday, October 30, 2005

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelan parents not to dress their children in costumes for Halloween, calling it a U.S. custom that has no place in the South American country's cultural traditions. Speaking during his weekly radio and television show Sunday, Chavez called Halloween a "gringa," or North American, custom. "Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches," Chavez said. "That is contrary to our ways."
PC thugs are everywhere, not just in the US anymore. It's a fun holiday, kids get to dress up and get candy. Lighten up, jackass.
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Urban Legend no more?
Border opens as police nab kidney thieves
October 31, 2005
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India agreed to open their heavily militarised border in disputed Kashmir yesterday to help get aid to the victims of the devastating October 8 earthquake......

The move came as police in Pakistan arrested a gang of Afghans who were caught removing kidneys from the bodies of Kashmiri earthquake victims.
Kashmiri Kidney Caper! Soon to be a punk band and a cable movie starring Corey Feldman.
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God speaks out...with Lightning!
Sunday, October 30, 2005 · Last updated 10:42 p.m. PT
Texas pastor electrocuted during baptism
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WACO, Texas -- A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after adjusting a nearby microphone while standing in water, a church employee said.
What is it with Waco, Texas? Cults, lightning bolts from Heaven...maybe someone's trying to tell us something?
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Blizzard works for the MAN
Last Updated: Monday, 31 October 2005, 08:40 GMT

Warcraft game maker in spying row
By Mark Ward Technology Correspondent, BBC News website

Warden watches as gamers explore Warcraft's worldGame maker Blizzard has been accused of spying on the four million players of World of Warcraft.
Net activists branded software used to spot cheats "spyware" because it gathers information about the other programs running on players' PCs.
In its defence Blizzard said nothing was done with the information gathered by the anti-cheat software.
Great, you can't even trust nerds nowadays.
- posted by Jasper @ 4:36 AM 0 comments

 
Crazy Russians...
Russians well endowed in art
www.ananova.com
A sculptor is coining it in by making statues of wealthy Russian businessmen showing them with huge penises and six testicles.
Or as the rest of the world calls it, Chernobyl Genitalia.
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Headlines that shouldn't be-part 2 today
GOP gay leader dodges a pie
By JESSICA ROCHA, Staff WriterHAPEL HILL -- The head of a national gay Republicans group got "pied" Monday night while giving a speech at UNC-Chapel Hill for National Coming Out Day.

Patrick Guerriero, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, was speaking on the future of sexual politics when a person ran down toward the lectern and hurled a chocolate-laced cream pie at him.
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I did it for you, Polident!
Sly Stallone to start "Rocky 6"
POSTED ON 10/12/05 AT 12:30 P.M.BY ETHAN AAMES
Production Weekly reports that Sylvester Stallone has been given the greenlit after many years to go forward with "Rocky 6." He will direct the feature in addition to starring in it as Rocky Balboa once again. Stallone also wrote the screenplay.

"Rocky 6" takes the aging boxer out of retirement, where his match against reigning heavyweight champ Mason "The Line" Dixon causes a media frenzy that puts him in the spotlight again. Shooting will begin in Los Angeles in December.
Rocky VI: Clubber Lang stole my Metamucil! This will probably be like the Kung Fu tv sequel David Carradine did, the one where he moved so slowly it was painful to watch.
Why doesn't he just run for governor somewhere?
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How is this news?
Man prefers jail to wife's nagging
www.ananova.com
A man sentenced to nine months house arrest begged a judge to jail him instead because he couldn't stand his wife's nagging. Algerian Ahmed Salhi, 24, was sentenced to a nine month curfew at home with his Italian wife in Ferrara, northern Italy.

But he went back to court after a week and begged the judge to jail him because he could not bear her nagging.
Who is actually surprised by this? Guys that have never been married and idiots. And George Bush.
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Hooray! We get our own Watergate.
'Watergate-Level Event' About To OccurIn Washington?
By Wayen Madsen10-6-5

After it was reported that Karl Rove had agreed to give further testimony to the Grand Jury investigating the CIA leak, Rove's attorney Robert Luskin denied his client had received a target letter from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, a formal "heads up" sent to individuals who are about to be indicted.
Not too sure it qualifies as a 'Watergate' since that took down a President, but conspiracy nation is buzzing with rumors of indictments up to Georgie's level. The idea is that leak was intentionally done as retribution for the anti-Bush comments by CIA agent Valerie Plame's husband (former Ambassador to Iraq).
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Microsofts one-play DVD (via Slashdot)
Microsoft invents a ‘one-play only’ DVD to combat Hollywood piracy

By : Tony Glover Technology Editor
October 02, 2005

COMPUTER software giant Microsoft has developed a cheap, disposable pre-recorded DVD disc that consumers can play only once.
Bill Gates: Because getting paid for something once is just unfair to a millionaire. Maybe it will help combat video piracy, but somehow I think that if you can play it then people will find a way to record it and somewhere in China they'll churn out a hundred thousand copies or so. And the only people affected are the US consumers who have to pay again and again...so thanks Bill.
This is probably a hoax or some new urban myth, again via Slashdot.
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Homer: Leader leader leader leader lea-der
Dolphins sing 'Batman' theme
Jennifer Viegas
Discovery News
Monday, 3 October 2005

Scientists have taught dolphins to combine both rhythm and vocalisations to produce music, resulting in an extremely high-pitched, short version of the Batman theme song.
Good job scientists, now go cure something.
- posted by Jasper @ 4:51 AM 0 comments

 
Bush nomination of Miers a payoff?
UPDATED: New Supreme Court nominee's ties to Bush's National Guard scandal
Breaking News: President Bush on Monday nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, reaching into his loyal inner circle
......she does know better than just about anyone else where the bodies are buried (relax, it's a just a metaphor...we hope) in President Bush's National Guard scandal. In fact, Bush's Texas gubenatorial campaign in 1998 (when he was starting to eye the White House) actually paid Miers $19,000 to run an internal pre-emptive probe of the potential scandal. Not long after, a since-settled lawsuit alleged that the Texas Lottery Commission -- while chaired by Bush appointee Miers -- played a role in a multi-million dollar.
I don't really know if it's breaking precedent to nominate a person that's never been a judge, but it sure looks like a reward.
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George does it again
Bush Chooses Miers for Supreme Court
By DEB RIECHMANN
The Associated PressMonday, October 3, 2005; 8:21 AM
WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Monday nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, reaching into his loyal inner circle for a pick that could reshape the nation's judiciary for years to come..........Miers, who has never been a judge.....
Well, Georgie appoints crony to Supreme Court. Big surprise. But shouldn't he have at least picked one that had actually been a judge?!?
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