‘Former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, the outspoken proponent of polarising immigration policies, has discovered she is of Middle Eastern heritage.
Ms Hanson said she was “amazed” and “mystified” to learn of her ancestry.
A recent DNA swab, taken with Ms Hanson’s permission by The Sunday Mail, has revealed the controversial former MP’s genetic makeup is drawn from a rich multicultural background, with 9 per cent originating in the Middle East, 32 per cent from Italy, Greece or Turkey and 59 per cent from northern Europe.
When told of the results, the former fish and chip shop owner appeared flustered, making references to “rape and pillage” in ancient times, adding: “All I can think of is that probably down the track it eventuated from some war.’
‘US preparations for an air strike against Iran are at an advanced stage, in spite of repeated public denials by the Bush administration, according to informed sources in Washington.
The present military build-up in the Gulf would allow the US to mount an attack by the spring. But the sources said that if there was an attack, it was more likely next year, just before Mr Bush leaves office. [..]
But Vincent Cannistraro, a Washington-based intelligence analyst, shared the sources’ assessment that Pentagon planning was well under way. “Planning is going on, in spite of public disavowals by Gates. Targets have been selected. For a bombing campaign against nuclear sites, it is quite advanced. The military assets to carry this out are being put in place.”
He added: “We are planning for war. It is incredibly dangerous.”‘
‘A truck driver distracted by a digital music player overturned his semitrailer early this morning on Interstate 43, spilling nearly 40 tons of cow intestines and bones and, according to Sgt. Blaine Spicer of the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department. [..]
According to the sheriff’s department:
Engle entered the shoulder and was unable to regain control as the load shifted and the truck fell onto its right side in the east ditch.
About 76,000 pounds of beef byproduct spilled into the ditch and onto the freeway. The right lane of northbound I-43 was closed for two hours as crews cleaned up.’
‘More than three-quarters of Australians say they would drink recycled sewage water, contradicting the NSW Government’s insistence that Sydneysiders find the idea distasteful.
The Herald/ACNielsen poll taken at the weekend shows that 78 per cent of Australians (80 per cent in NSW) would support the introduction of recycled water.
Support was consistently high across states, age groups and political parties; 19 per cent voiced opposition.’
‘US immigration officials insisted the sufferer of an anal infection remove a small piece of medical thread which was being used by doctors to treat the condition. The man required treatment under general anaesthetic as a result.
The man had an anal fistula, which is a painful channel that can develop deep into the anus, caused by infection or digestive conditions such as Crohn’s disease. [..]
The seton was made of a blue braided medical suture material knotted and passed into the hole where the fistula surfaced. After one baffled immigration officer pulled “very hard” on the seton, the patient was given the choice by the baffled immigration officers of either getting on the next plane home, or submitting himself to a procedure to have it removed. [..]
The seton was duly removed by an airport doctor, who claimed to have no idea what it was. The man now requires treatment under general anaesthetic to have a replacement inserted.’
You’ve got your propane BLEVE, then you’ve got your perchlorate plant. Fun. :)
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‘With unbelievable restraint, Captain Eric Moody addressed British Airways flight 009 as his Boeing 747 drifted inexorably down towards the Indian Ocean.
Displaying the stiff-upper-lip spirit that built an empire, he uttered the words that are every air passenger’s worst nightmare: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get it under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
‘For Selina Picon, the sudden death of her son Nicholas from an undetected heart defect last fall was the first shock.
The second blow came less than a month after his burial, when she learned that the San Mateo County coroner had kept her son’s heart after his autopsy.
She went into action, winning the return of the heart of the sensitive, artistic 23-year-old – one of 105 organs the San Mateo coroner has kept from about 1,800 autopsies since 2004. And she’s fighting a little-known state law that allows authorities to keep body parts after autopsies without notifying relatives.’
‘A Belle River man who had been campaigning for the past three years to remove a tree stump from Lake St. Clair died late Friday night when he struck it with his snowmobile.
“The one who was concerned about getting it out was the one who got killed by it,” sobbed Grace Case, whose 47-year-old husband Robert Case was pronounced dead on the scene after striking the massive stump just before midnight Friday.
“I’m still trying to understand. This is the worst thing in my life. I lost my life.
“We didn’t have much but we had each other. I’m so mad at ERCA.”‘
‘Melbourne surgeons have miraculously saved a teenager who was speared through an eye with a metal chair leg.
Shafique el-Fahkri, 19, was admitted to Royal Melbourne Hospital with the chair leg embedded about 10cm through his head to his neck, where it had partially severed an artery.
He walked out of hospital on Friday, 19 days after being admitted, with no brain damage or loss of sight.
The horrific injury was sustained in a brawl in the city outside Metro nightclub in Bourke St. Fireman cut the chair away from Mr el-Fahkri’s head at the scene.’
Trying to prevent wrinkles in the 80’s. Hooray. :)
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‘Australian police are investigating a report that bodies donated to a Sydney university for medical research were sexually abused and that coffins were filled with parts from multiple bodies.
A Sydney newspaper reported Tuesday that University of New South Wales (NSW) documents showed that body parts had been interfered with sexually in the school of anatomy, which had its license to conduct anatomy classes revoked last November over improper labeling and storage of human remains.
The Sydney Morning Herald said university documents showed a staff member fondled breasts and vaginas of bodies and used the head of one body in a degrading way.’
‘At one time or another, every middle-aged guy wishes he had the virility of a man half his age. In this case, that wish came horribly true. In what doctors call “an unfortunate traumatic accident,” a 44-year-old Chinese man lost all but the last half-inch of his penis. To replace it, they offered him the 4-inch member of an anonymous 22-year-old brain-dead patient whose parents had agreed to donate the organ. The surgery was performed at Guangzhou General Hospital by – I am not making up this name – Dr. Weilie Hu.
This isn’t an operation you’d undertake lightly. [..]’
‘A policeman watched helplessly as a teenage suspect he had stopped for questioning leaped into his patrol car and sped off early yesterday.
The shocked officer was left standing at the roadside as the 16-year-old girl led police on a 30km chase.
The teenager’s joyride came to an end only after she crashed the car, “absolutely totalling” it according to one police officer.’
‘NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak stalked her romantic rival for two months before attacking her in a parking lot at Orlando International Airport Monday morning, a hand-written statement by the victim reveals.
Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, stated that Nowak was an acquaintance of her “boyfriend” but the two had not met until the astronaut doused her with pepper spray.
Nowak drove from Houston to Orlando to “physically confront and assult (sic) me,” Shipman wrote when applying for a restraining order against Nowak.’
‘This guy gets totally owned by a big blue ball. It looks like this started out as a setup but I dont think anyone expected it to hurt that much!’
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‘A 39-year-old North Little Rock man has been charged with one count of felony child endangerment after a toddler was taken to Arkansas Children’s Hospital with super glue in his eyes and chemical burns on his face. [..]
The Child’s father, Bryen Robison, says his son was blind for a day and a half before receiving medical treatment. He says doctors are hoping the toddler will not have to undergo plastic surgery, but they’re not sure.
Robison told Channel 7 the injuries are the result of super glue, and acetone that was used to remove the glue.’
‘Denmark’s animal bordellos reportedly draw Norwegian clients, but both countries have loopholes that make such establishments legal.
Neither Denmark nor Norway has a prohibition on sex with animals, as long as the animals do not suffer. [..]
In correspondence with the animal owners, the newspaper was told that the animals involved have many years of experience and that the animals themselves wanted sex. The cost to the client varied from DKK 500-1,000 (USD 85-170).’
‘An Alsatian police dog named Edge cornered two suspects on a cliff side after a grocery store robbery in Napier, police said Thursday.
One of the suspects leapt down the slope and landed almost directly into the hands of police officers waiting at the bottom. The other suspect, who was armed with a knife, took on Edge and bit the dog in the struggle.
“He bit the dog first,” Detective Sergeant John McGregor told The Associated Press.
Edge was unfazed, sinking his teeth into his attacker.
“The dog did win the fight, the offender ended up with one or two lacerations,” McGregor said. “I think he knew he was going to get bitten — so he bit the dog first.”’
‘The apparent key to the difference was that LSD activated the receptor in a subtly different way from natural chemicals, said Mount Sinai’s Stuart C. Sealfon, a co-author of the paper. The receptor seems to be “like a switch that can go on in more than one direction,” he explained.
When the mind-bending drug activated the receptor, it not only triggered the typical changes in the cell, it caused additional cell responses, he said. The evidence for this, the group reported, was that the LSD seemed to cause a characteristic chain reaction of brain chemistry involving a class of molecules called G proteins, which are often involved in normal signaling processes.’
‘Our past contributions to the field of gelatin-related studies include our quest for the Ultimate Jell-O shot, setting a Jell-O shot on fire, and mixing homemade ballistics gel. If anything involves Jell-O and science, we’re there. So it was with great interest that we read Graeme Cole’s groundbreaking research into the feasibility of securing Jell-O to a vertical surface by means of manually impacted cylindrical metal fasteners – otherwise known as “nailing Jell-O to a wall.”’
‘Blame global warming. An Albany, N.Y., man is accused of riding nude in a gondola at Stratton Mountain Resort on Dec. 15. William N. Barrett III, 46, pleaded not guilty to felony lewd and lascivious conduct and misdemeanor marijuana possession Tuesday in Vermont District Court.
A witness reported to lift attendants that Barrett was nude and touching himself inappropriately while riding the lift.
Barrett, who was fully clothed when he reached the bottom of the hill, denied being nude. He told police he had taken off his jacket and shirt because of the nice weather.’
‘As you know, many women are getting their vaginas surgically enhanced (designer vaginas) to make them prettier and more feminine. Can you distinguish which female genitals designer vaginas and which are natural?’
