`You saw the stories that dominated the headlines in 2006: the war in Iraq, North Korea’s nuclear tests, and the U.S. midterm elections. But what about the news that remained under the radar? From the Bush administration’s post-Katrina power grab to a growing arms race in Latin America to the new hackable passports, FP delivers the Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006.’
`Unfortunately, calling me alarmist or paranoid doesn’t address what I’m saying, it does nothing but calm your fears. The existence of a “global elite” is perfectly real, although the reader is of course welcome to deny it. And a great many of the men — and it’s all men, folks — who make up this global elite are on record, again and again, in no uncertain terms, stating that they would like to remove a large portion of the humans currently living on Earth.
To make matters worse, the technology to do this exists — in fact, there is an over-abundance of methods for mass murder at this point in human history. So here we have a very dangerous and disturbing nexus, a point where several threads overlap and intertwine. We have a small group of very powerful humans who have expressed the desire for “population reduction” and have the means to accomplish that goal within their possession.’
I went to sleep in class once. My teacher was nice enough not to disturb me, and I woke up halfway through lunch time in an empty room. :)
This is a little logic puzzle game, kinda cool. I got as far as level 10 before I decided I couldn’t be bothered. :)
Here’s some comments some fellow left for his bosses when he quit Verizon.
It’s vaguely amusing..
‘This is a clip from ‘Troop of One Hundred’, taken from a Japanese comedy/prank show, where a 100 people chase after random strangers and you see their reactions. Totally harmless but their reactions are priceless.’
`Danny Robert Villegas liked prison so much he staged a robbery just to get back in, police say. Officers were called to the Kennedy Space Center Federal Credit Union on Monday after Villegas allegedly walked inside, told the teller he was robbing her and said, “You might as well call the police now,” according to a police report.
Police Lt. Ron Wright said Villegas then sat on a couch in the bank lobby to wait for police.
“He said he wanted to rob a federal bank because he wanted to go back to a federal penitentiary,” Wright said. “Apparently he robbed a bank in Fresno, California, 10 years ago, was sentenced to 70 months in a federal penitentiary in Phoenix and he enjoyed his time there.”‘
`Eager to try out a new prescription for the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis, a couple in their fifties is facing indecent exposure charges after they were caught having sex on a balcony at a family resort in South Carolina. William McGinn, 57, and Patricia Scott, 53, were arrested Saturday afternoon when other vacationers at the Breakers Resort spotted them engaging in a variety of sex acts on their third-floor balcony, according to a Myrtle Beach Police Department report, an excerpt of which you’ll find below. One witness told cops that McGinn and Scott ignored requests that they take it inside, away from the view of guests, including children. When police confronted the couple, they claimed that onlookers were just “jealous,” adding that if other guests “did not want to see them, then they didn’t have to look.” [..]’
I don’t entirely understand what they were hoping to achieve. But, they achieved something. [shrug] :)
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`They say money talks, and a new report suggests Canadian currency is indeed chatting, at least electronically, on behalf of shadowy spies.
Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets of at least three American contractors who visited Canada, says a branch of the U.S. Department of Defence.
Security experts believe the miniature devices could be used to track the movements of defence industry personnel dealing in sensitive military technology.’
`A 51-year-old Malcolm X College instructor who was demonstrating a math problem on her blackboard Tuesday was stabbed in the back by a student who apparently became frustrated with the exercise, authorities said. [..]
The incident occurred around 11 a.m., when a 40-year-old female student in the class repeatedly asked the instructor to explain a math problem and apparently became upset when she couldn’t grasp the material, Chicago Police said.
The student pulled a small steak knife and stabbed the teacher in the left shoulder area, said Monroe District Capt. John Kenny.
Kenny said that before the stabbing the student repeatedly said: “I don’t understand. . . . Explain to me.”’
‘Oh candy pants, lets climb the ladder of romance.. [..]
You’re such a honey dripper, I would forget all about your zipper..
Girl you smell so sweet, I wouldn’t even give you a chance to take off your pants..’
And he’s a minister of sobriety too.
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`A college student who mistakenly submitted a compact disc loaded with child pornography images to his professor last week is now facing felony kiddie porn possession charges.
Andrew Erickson, 18, of 57 Lee’s River Ave., Swansea, was arrested by Fall River and Swansea police late last week. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released after a family member posted his $500 cash bail. [..]
Police reports quote an e-mail Erickson sent to his professor, in which he appears to attempt to shift ownership of the disc from himself to an unnamed friend.
“Oh snap, I am sorry. I accidentally gave you my friend’s mixed music CD that I meant to keep here and install the music on my computer,” Erickson said in an e-mail to his professor. “I found the CD with the (final exam) on it. If there’s some way I could send it to you, that would be great. [..]’
`Carlos nonchalantly asks whether his drink was made with whole or skim milk. He takes a moment to slurp on his grande Caffe Mocha in a crowded Starbucks, and then he gets back to explaining how much he wants HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. His eyes light up as he says that the actual moment of transmission, the instant he gets HIV, will be “the most erotic thing I can imagine.” He seems like a typical thirty-two-year-old man, but, in fact, he has a secret life. Carlos is chasing the bug.’
`The Colorado Springs Gazette reported that Gregory Lynn Burr, 28, is accused of regularly hitting players in the groin, exposing them to pornography, and pouring water on them when the weather was cold. [..]
The paper reported that one boy had scrotal surgery for an injury he attributed to the coach’s strikes. Police said other students said the strikes to the testicles were “the kind of hits that made you lay down” or “made you stop for a minute to catch your breath,” according to the Gazette. [..]
One student said Burr would ask the boys what the capital of Thailand was and when they would answer, “Bangkok,” he would hit their groin area.’
`That’s what happens when a llama and a penis crossbreed…’
Works best in IE.
`You are looking at pictures of our family home in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).
The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.’
`A laundry engineer was trapped in a washing machine in chest-high hot water after he got stuck while trying to repair it.
Raymond Bloomer, 42, suffered burns and torn ligaments when he became tangled in clothing and was pinned to the back wall of the washer.
Sheffield JPs heard he was caught for 20 minutes before a colleague heard his cries.
Laundry firm Abbey Glen admitted breaching Health and Safety regulations and was fined £5,000 for having no rescue procedure in place.
A spokesman said: “We learned a serious lesson.”’
`A New Zealand yachtie clung to his sinking 31-foot trimaran for five hours after the vessel collided with a humpback whale.
Lindsay Wright was airlifted to safety just before 6pm (1600 AEDT) on Tuesday.
He says his new yacht was worth $NZ38,000 ($A33,675) and the New Plymouth yachtie is now appealing for someone to lend him a boat to race in. [..]
“He (the whale) was maybe sleeping on the surface and I hit him and he sort of woke up with a start and did a bit of a flick and knocked a big hole in the hull,” he said.’
‘Male Camel Toe, or MCT, is an embarrassing spilttage of ball-matter into two lobes.’
The ballgonda is amusing. :)
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`Bay Area residents use more drugs than any other metropolitan area in the country, and medical marijuana could be part of the reason, according to officials.
The percentage of people interviewed who had used marijuana, cocaine or heroin in the Bay Area, which included Fremont and Oakland, was 12.7 percent — 3 percent higher than Seattle, the second highest-ranking area with 9.6 percent. [..]
The Bay Area’s drug results were higher than expected, according to Jim Stillwell, San Francisco County’s Alcohol and Drug Program administrator.
“San Francisco has always been high, but I’m surprised that it’s that much higher than the others,” Stillwell said.’
That’s nothing. I’m sure there was a survey recently that put Australians closer to 50%. :)
`Possibly the neatest piece of kit we’ve run into at CES so far is a simple keyboard with coloured lights behind it. It is called the Luxeed by a small Korean company named Luxiium.
There are two versions, a semi-transparent key model and a black one with lit letters. They both have the same software, basically a keyboard layout and a color picker. You pick your color, paint the keys, and click apply and it lights that color.’
‘As Mariana Todorova stares at the ugly scar running down her side, her eyes fill with tears.
It is an agonising reminder of how organ traders tricked her into selling her kidney.
Now Mariana is ill and ashamed at being conned into losing her organ for just £689. [..]
Last night Mariana, 27, said: “I wanted to buy a home and clothes for my two children. All I got was a colour TV. We have nothing. I was desperate but I was tricked. [..]
“Every day I look down at the eight-inch scar and I�m reminded I sold my kidney. I have cried and cried with frustration.” [..]
Mariana is one of an ever-growing number of victims preyed on by organ traders who are selling body parts to the wealthy.’
`A San Mateo woman is getting messages from God and painting them in five-foot-tall letters on the roof of her house.
The city wants her to stop doing it. Her neighbors want her to stop doing it. But Estrella Benavides says she can’t do that.
“I am going to keep going, because it is all I can do,” she said. “God chose me to be His servant. There is such a thing as freedom of speech.”
Benavides, a 48-year-old woman who lives alone in her yellow house on Cottage Grove Avenue, began painting the giant messages about a year ago, about the time her husband moved out and she lost custody of her son. Last month, she had two large pins inserted through her lips, to keep her from eating as part of a religious fast. God told her to do that, too.’
`This is a pretty cool trick with Corona beer. These guy put it in the freezer but it does not freeze until they tap it against a table and then you can watch it freeze near instantly.’
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`Australian geoscientists and mining experts have labelled a US report linking the 1989 Newcastle earthquake to coal mining in the area as “far fetched”.
The study by Dr Christian Klose from Columbia University in New York claimed 200 years of coal mining under Newcastle triggered the earthquake, which killed 13 people and injured 160. [..]
Geoscientist Professor Stephen Cox from the Department of Earth & Marine Sciences at the Australian National University, said Dr Klose had drawn a “very long bow” in linking the earthquake with coal mining in the area.’
Follow up to: Coal Mining Causing Earthquakes, Study Says.
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