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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Today's Idiot
Sir Jimmy Savile ...
Who???
... has been robbed by a woman in Leeds - but described it as a "marvellous" experience.
The veteran star, aged 81, said the thief made off with his John Lennon-style glasses as he was leaving a function at the Queens Hotel. Sir Jimmy reported it to police, but compared the experience to being chased by fans in the 1960s. "The fact I've not been mugged for over 50 years, I thought it was marvellous, it was just like old times," he said.
It could have been better only if she had pushed me to the ground, so I could break my hip.
The former DJ and TV presenter, who lives in Roundhay, said he was walking down the hotel's corridor at about midnight on Wednesday when the woman pounced.

"She was walking alongside me and the next thing she reaches up - I thought she was going to give me an embrace, but she grabbed my glasses and took off down the corridor," he said. "I thought, I've been mugged. How wonderful."

Sir Jimmy said that the unexpected theft hadn't left him unable to see as he has a spare pair of glasses. He added: "I've told the police that if the girl turns up and I get my glasses back, I will give her a box of chocolates for giving me a 1950s thrill in 2007."
Barf.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/15/2007 12:41 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Musta been a slow news day at the beeb.
Posted by: GK || 11/15/2007 18:49 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
I have 200 orgasms every day...
And I thought Restless Leg Syndrome was rough. Be sure to read the bit in the last story on the link by Doctor Hillary Jones about Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS). I wonder if her treatment is covered by the National Health Service.

PRETTY Sarah Carmen is a 200-a-day orgasm girl who gets good, good, GOOD vibrations from almost anything.

The rumble of a train on the tracks, the purr of a hairdryer, the rhythmic drone of a photo-copier are all enough to make her go oh oh oh, ahhhhh.

She had FIVE orgasms during our 40-minute interview. But I can't take the credit—it was just talking about her sex life that set her off.

Sarah, 24, suffers from Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS), which increases blood flow to the sex organs.

She said: "Sometimes I have so much sex to try to calm myself down I get bored of it. And men I sleep with don't seem to make as much effort because I climax so easily."

As she chatted, Sarah became increasingly flustered.

"Sorry, you'll have to excuse me for a minute. I'll be with you in a sec," she mumbled before letting out a long sigh.

Sarah, from London, developed PSAS after being prescribed anti-depressants at 19.

She believes her condition was brought on by the pills.

She said: "Within a few weeks I just began to get more and more aroused more and more of the time and I just kept having endless orgasms.

"It started off in bed where sex sessions would last for hours and my boyfriend would be stunned at how many times I would orgasm.

"Then it would happen after sex. I'd be thinking about what we'd done in bed and I'd start feeling a bit flushed, then I'd become aroused and climax.

"In six months I was having 150 orgasms a day—and it has been as many as 200."

She and her boyfriend split— and new partners struggle to keep up with her sex demands. "Often, I'll want to wear myself out by having as many orgasms as I can so they stop and I can get some peace," she said.

Sarah is a beautician and working in salons filled with whirring hairdryers and skincare gadgets can cause problems.

"If I start coughing and run to the loo, the girls know to fetch the client a magazine or a cup of tea," she said, adding, "Sometimes I'd like to just have a normal life."

All together now, aaaahhhhh!
Posted by: Delphi || 11/15/2007 15:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Each day is either a pleasure or hell. Seems like it would be tiring. Of course I am a guy on the late side of 60. Whatever is the opposite of PSAS is probably what I have.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/15/2007 18:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Uh, uh, errrr, TOO MUCH INFORMATION??? FARK CATS FUN PHOTOS > WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN, HEARD ....UNHEARD, etc.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/15/2007 19:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I have the same problem with Scotch.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 11/15/2007 19:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/15/2007 20:01 Comments || Top||

#5  I had PSAS from about 14. Recovery began with my 50th birthday.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/15/2007 21:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Too bad she couldn't bottle them wiggley things up and put them on sale!

ô Cockles and ô Orgasms Alive Alive 'O ♫
Posted by: Red Dawg || 11/15/2007 21:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Direct from an episode of House
Posted by: Sherry || 11/15/2007 22:42 Comments || Top||


Moonbat blames spelling errors on the international Jewish conspiracy
James Taranto, "Best of the Web," Wall Street Journal

The Concord (N.H.) Monitor misspelled a word the other day, and one reader blames the Jooz:

What is a "kafuffle"? It's not in the dictionary. Is it just another proofreading error? Or is it a further example of your acquiescence to the Israelization of American culture by attempting to pass obscure Yiddish words into the mainstream of the American language?

It's bad enough that we are steered toward war with the entire Arab world and beyond because our "friend" Israel won't relinquish its occupation of Palestine and make peace with its neighbors. Still we are suckered into giving Israel, the 14th richest country on earth, billions and billions of our tax dollars in foreign aid every year, and we gave it carte blanche to rampage through Lebanon destroying everything in its path and inflicting collective punishment on its people, an aggression internationally condemned as a war crime, yet condoned by the Bush administration and sheepishly accepted by the American people.

How can we hold our heads high and proud when our own county illegally attacks and invades an Arab country that had done nothing to us, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and wrecking their entire infrastructure, clearly Bush war crimes, all for the benefit of Israel because Saddam was assisting the families of Palestinian martyrs in their struggle against the illegal Israeli occupation of their land? We shouldn't be proud to be associated with Israel, and I don't appreciate their insidious adulteration of our language.

PETER DAVIS
Laconia

He's a proster chamoole, this one. Besides, any shlub knows the proper spelling of "kafuffle" is "meshugas."
Posted by: Mike || 11/15/2007 13:21 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  (The word "kafuffle" appeared in a Sunday Monitor Viewpoints column called "A tip for Clinton: Change the subject" by Hillary Nelson on Nov. 11. Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English defines it as "disorder" or "commotion." It can also be spelled curfuffle, kafuffle and gefuffle. The etymology is not Yiddish but rather Gaelic. Ed.)

Must be those Learned Elders of Brittany at it again.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/15/2007 13:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, Peter, you douchebag, did I spell "douchebag" right?
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/15/2007 14:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Wrong, tu. You'd better check under your keyboard for lurking Zionists. "Douchebag" is actually spelled s-c-h-m-u-c-k.
Posted by: Seafarious || 11/15/2007 15:44 Comments || Top||

#4  What a putz.
Posted by: Excalibur || 11/15/2007 16:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually, Schmuck, Israel is about #28 in GNP per capita and well below Kuwait, another country we've spent a lot of money to defend. So what's all the kafuffle about? Just sit down and aich te bheal.
Posted by: Darrell || 11/15/2007 16:43 Comments || Top||

#6  I thought it was kerfluffle.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 11/15/2007 22:33 Comments || Top||


Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women
Ya hope this is bullshit, but I doubt it...
SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday. Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.

One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute.

"Gimme a break," said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids."We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they," she told the Telegraph. "Leave Santa alone."

A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was "misleading" to say the company had banned Santa's traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself.
Misleading...but true? I see the email server at Westaff blowing up sometime today...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/15/2007 09:16 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mind boggles.
Posted by: twobyfour || 11/15/2007 9:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, whiny ass pussies like you offend me. So stay away before I knock your teeth so far down your throat you will have to chew your food with your butt cheeks. Got it?
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/15/2007 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Before I linked to the article I assumed it was Scrappleface. I was wrong. God help us.
Posted by: Mark Z || 11/15/2007 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4  How about something women like: Dic, Dic, ah screw it.
Posted by: Bad Santa || 11/15/2007 11:15 Comments || Top||

#5  "I wish to thank those who have been admirably relentless in reminding us when the line between doing a good thing and thinking a bad thing has been crossed."
-- Frank DiGiovanni, city manager
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/15/2007 11:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Santas warned banned from sayin 'ho ho ho' 'cause it be offensive to women

Oh Oh Oh gawd No,
Ho Ho Ho's is next to my Lovin Heart!
Posted by: Red Santa Dawg || 11/15/2007 12:21 Comments || Top||

#7  In other news, Officials in Boise fear that there will be a move to change their state's name as it may give people the wrong impression as to a native's occupation ("I da ho")
Posted by: USN,Ret. || 11/15/2007 14:33 Comments || Top||

#8  USN, Ret. - with the distinguished senator's stance, it is a possibility...
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/15/2007 16:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Heard about the Aussie pirate arrested for soliciting; "Yo ho ho!"?
Posted by: DMFD || 11/15/2007 18:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Some of the stuff going on today makes my eyes spin around in their sockets and the mind then goes boggle, boggle. Damn PC.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/15/2007 19:08 Comments || Top||


Video: Strange entity flies around Ohio Gas Station
A strange blue cloud seen floating and darting around customers, freezing for 30 minutes and then speeding from an Ohio gas station, remains unexplained even though it was caught on security cams.

The ghostly image was seen moving near and over cars at a Marathon gas station located near the corner of State Road and Pleasant Valley in Parma on Sunday. An image showed it flipping and then sitting in the same location for 30 minutes. It then flies off the screen at a high rate of speed. Security video then shows it coming back and resting on a car window before floating away.

Several people said they believe the image is a ghost or an angel. "It was an angel," a witness said. "There was an angel here."

The owner of the gas station said he was happy the image went away and has not come back. "I actually watched it for 30 minutes and then actually I watched it move and that is when I got freaked out," said owner Amed Abudaaria.

Groups of people have traveled to the gas station after word spread of the unexplained event.
Posted by: Delphi || 11/15/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....the image went away and has not come back.

Just a quick glance at the pump prices I suspect.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/15/2007 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Iff this is the same dream/vision I had back in the 1990's, IT WAS AN ANGEL. ITS EITHER AN ANGEL OR INTEL-PYWAR MIND CONTROL + PSYCHOPROGAMMING - you know, the MIC/MAFIA - FINALLY GOT ONE ON ME.
D *** NGED US ARMY-CIA + DELICIOUS PENN STATE SUB SHOPS - D *** YOU PATERNO + ED DAMES! Nah, I trust my own mind and my God and the Holy Mother, etc - my guts on the ANGELS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/15/2007 0:47 Comments || Top||

#3  OWG-SWO NOW, D *** NG IT, theres treason afoot at the aromatic Penn State Creamery!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/15/2007 0:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Okay, who let out Specimen DH-487362. Put it back in it's jar!

Hmmmm, besides, it's not even close to ready for field testing. It didn't eat a single Democrat.
Posted by: Haliburton Dimensional Research Division || 11/15/2007 1:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Who ya gonna call?...
Posted by: McZoid || 11/15/2007 2:45 Comments || Top||

#6  [Aris Katsaris has been pooplisted.]
Posted by: Aris Katsaris || 11/15/2007 4:38 Comments || Top||

#7  ...I know that station well, I used to live in that neighborhood many moons ago. Probably kielbasa fumes.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/15/2007 7:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Bah, just some blue lint charged with static electricity getting moved around on the plastic camera lens by air currents.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 11/15/2007 7:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Sigh, I saw the video. Took me all of 30 seconds to ID it as a bug crawling on the camera lens. That close it was out of focus and looked like a blue blur, but you can see by it's shape and the way it moves, it's a bug. Idiots.
Posted by: Steve || 11/15/2007 7:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Maybe that's the Blue Smoke that got out of my electric cookstove last Saturday. I don't need it back. I got a new one.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/15/2007 7:58 Comments || Top||

#11  blue lint charged with static

yep, that waz just Alex aimlessly floating around in the either again right after he'd been poop-listed...

/i hear it's painful
Posted by: Red Dawg || 11/15/2007 8:00 Comments || Top||

#12  *Aris*

:)
Posted by: Red Dawg || 11/15/2007 8:01 Comments || Top||

#13  Kucinich's district?
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/15/2007 9:15 Comments || Top||

#14  Actually, tu, it is.
Posted by: Rambler || 11/15/2007 9:58 Comments || Top||

#15  Hmmmmm. Maybe his "entity" got out of the yard?
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/15/2007 10:03 Comments || Top||

#16  Mike K - could this be a Ghoulardi or Big Chuck and Little John stunt?
Posted by: GORT || 11/15/2007 10:49 Comments || Top||

#17  Drosophila melanogaster or Tephritidae or "Fruit Fly" from what I can tell. Very common in Florida and if not feasting on Grapefruit, Oranges, etc., WILL head to down to the local camera lense to terrorise Floridians.

I would just shoot the %@*^! camera!
Posted by: Greanter Sinatra3214 || 11/15/2007 10:57 Comments || Top||

#18  I've seen this before. The cops and robbers in the area suddenly found their pistols were gone and instead they had knives and swords and a cumpulsion to fight. Be careful and laugh and it'll leave.

/trek geek
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/15/2007 14:06 Comments || Top||

#19  Iff I recall correctly, in my dream/vision, the "angel" [wings and all] caringly/lovingly opened up his arms to the people/customers of the station. MOTHMAN FASHION STATEMENT???
Compare wid WND/OTHER > FLAME-FIRE PHOTO OF DECEASED POPE "JOHN PAUL II WAVING".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/15/2007 19:14 Comments || Top||

#20  "JOHN PAUL II" > another dream/vision of mine. save that JP2 + I were confabbing about God, heaven, and mankind's future = destinies of Nations-Peoples.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/15/2007 19:18 Comments || Top||

#21  Kucinich's district?

Yeah, he's just flying back home.
Posted by: DMFD || 11/15/2007 20:57 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Two attacks on top secret South African nuke facilities revealed
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/15/2007 11:42 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Women get 'virginity fix' NHS operations in Muslim-driven trend
Women are being given controversial "virginity repair" operations on the NHS, it emerged last night. Taxpayers funded 24 hymen replacement operations between 2005 and 2006, official figures revealed.
All this while NHS is running out of money, closing hospitals and laying off doctors in training. Then again, NHS pays for aromatherapy ...
And increasing numbers of women are paying up to £4,000 in private clinics for the procedure apparently under pressure from future spouses or in-laws who believe they should be virgins on their wedding night.

Doctors said most patients are immigrants or British of ethnic origin.
Do tell ...
The trend has been condemned by critics as a sign of social regression driven by Islamic fundamentalists. Some countries have made hymen reconstruction operations illegal.

Dr Magdy Hend, consultant gynaecologist at the Regency Clinic, Harley Street, London, who started hymen reconstruction more than 18 years ago in the Middle East and the Gulf, said: "In some cultures they like to see that the women will bleed on the wedding night. If the wife or bride is not a virgin, it is a big shame on the family."
So you're going to facilitate this nonsense and help bring Sharia to Britain. Clever, very clever ...
Dr Hend said he was surprised by the "very good response" to the service and said there is "big competition on the market".

Most of his clients, he told More4 News, are in their teens or early 20s. "They might be British of ethnic background, they might be immigrants, or some people come from abroad, Asia, Middle East, the Gulf, and they don't want to have it done back home," he added. Dr Hend said demand is increasing, particularly from UK residents.

The operation can involve suturing of a tear in the hymen, such as might be caused by sexual assault, to help healing. But it can also be conducted as a purely cosmetic procedure. A membrane is constructed, sometimes including a capsule of an artificial blood-like substance. This operation is intended to be performed within a few days before an intended marriage.

Tory health spokesman Mike Penning expressed concern.
Why yes, one might well express 'concern'. I personally would express 'outrage' but then I'm not a politican ...
He said: "If there is any cultural or other pressure being put on the women from any source to have this done, that would be a very retrograde step.

"If a woman has been violated or raped and lost her virginity, clearly everything possible should be done to assist her.

"But what nobody would understand is if taxpayers' money is being used to fund operations of this kind for cultural or cosmetic reasons."

Labour MP Ann Cryer said she was "absolutely horrified" to learn of the phenomenon. She added: "We should be trying to protect girls from this. It is a form of abuse of women and it may be that the woman who is asking for the operation to be done does not recognise the abuse that is taking place against her, but in later life she certainly will.

"We have to also ask whether our National Health Service should be providing this sort of facility. I don't think it should be available on the NHS."
Good for you. I'm glad to see one woman politican who sees through this nonsense.
The Department of Health said "certain cosmetic procedures" are available on the NHS "to secure physical or psychological health".

Virginity repair operations have become a source of controversy in France, where gynaecologists report a growing number of requests from women. The procedure is supposed to be funded by the state only if the patient claims she has been raped. But some doctors agree to carry it out for cultural or cosmetic reasons.

Isabelle Levy, an author who studied the issue for her book Religion in the Hospital, said young Muslim girls are "modern and they have adventures like other Europeans - which never happened in the past.

"But on the other hand, fundamentalism is spreading and these girls are getting sent back to their countries of origin to marry. And they will be rejected if it is found out that they are not virgins."
Or if they rode horseback, or did certain gymnastics, or any of the dozens of activities other than sexual intercourse that can split a hymen. Pfeh.
Posted by: Delphi || 11/15/2007 14:50 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm thinking they should get little guillotines installed.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/15/2007 15:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "In some cultures they like to see that the women will bleed on the wedding night."

Yep, guillotines are a sure-fire answer to their needs.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/15/2007 15:27 Comments || Top||

#3  If they wanna see them bleed, maybe they could hook up with this guy from a few weeks ago...

Video: Saudi Cleric Explains Proper Islamic Wife Beating to Teens
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/15/2007 15:35 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian doomsday sect threatens mass suicide
Luke Harding in Moscow

To locals in the Russian village of Nikolskoye they were simply a group of eccentric Christian believers. And when 29 members of the sect abruptly vanished last month, villagers assumed they had packed up and gone.
In fact, the religious doomsday cult had taken up residence in a remote underground cave. They had decided to barricade themselves inside until May 2008 - the date when their spiritual leader told them the world was going to end.

Today, authorities were attempting to talk to cult members by bellowing through a ventilation shaft cut into the cave's roof. So far, however, the members - who include 25 adults and four children, one of them a 16-month-old baby - have refused to emerge.
"They have covered the entrance and refuse to come out and are threatening to blow themselves up. They threaten to detonate a gas tank," an official in the local prosecutor's office said. "They say they are fine. They tell us to go away," another added.

The sect members are hiding out in a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia, about 60 miles from the town of Penza.

The chief prosecutor of the region's Bekovsky district, Alvetina Volchkova, said they moved in at the end of October.

"I talked to them last Thursday," she told the Guardian today. "The temperature outside was freezing. They told me they were fine and that the temperature inside the cave was plus 17C. They've lit candles and paraffin lamps. I asked if I could come in and have a look around but they wouldn't let me in.

"They don't have a name as such. They don't regard themselves as a sect but refer to themselves as 'the chosen ones'. They also say that they are representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church."

The police had sealed off the area and were trying to negotiate, she added.

"No-one wants to take on the responsibility of provoking them ... because our information is that there are children among them,' a police spokeswoman told Reuters.

The cave is two miles from the modest tin-roofed prayer hall where sect members used to gather to sing songs. Elders began secretly preparing the cave last month - bringing in supplies of gas and kerosene, as well as half a tonne of honey and a lot of jam, locals said.

The sect's leader is Pyotr Kuznetsov - a divorced 43-year-old architect from Belarus. Kutnetsov travelled across Belarus and Russia, spreading his message of apocalyptic doom, before settling in the village 18 months ago, locals said.

Several dozen believers followed him. They moved into abandoned houses, refusing to use electricity. "They are simple Christians," a local priest, Father Georgy, told NTV television. "They say: 'The church is doing a bad job, the end of the world is coming soon and we are all saving ourselves.'"

After decades of state suppression, the Russian Orthodox Church is now enjoying a revival. But many Russians and ex-Soviet nationals have also fallen under the sway of local and foreign sects. Some even refuse passports and taxpayers' numbers, claiming the figures conceal "satanic" meanings.

However, the tradition of religious dissent in Russia and defiance of secular authority goes back much further. In the seventeenth century, one group, the Old Believers, founded their own church in protest at reforms to orthodox rituals. To escape persecution, many settled in extremely lonely communities.

The cave in Penza was discovered after the daughter of one of the missing cult members complained to the local prosecutor, Russian media said. Police then arrested Kuznetsov - who led investigators to the entrance. When they tried to approach together with another priest gunshots were fired in the air, NTV reported.

"Kuznetsov is their spiritual leader. He told them that the world would end in May and that the only way for them to save themselves was to go underground," Pavel Shishkin, a reporter with Komsomolskaya Pravda in Penza told the Guardian today. "They believed him. They've gone to sit it out."

Izvestiya newspaper yesterday reported that Kuznetsov suffered from schizophrenia and that in the last few months he had been sleeping in a coffin.

"He said his followers should not be disturbed, that they are the chosen ones, and that no one else is allowed to get in the cave," a law enforcement officer told the paper.

Police and ambulances have sealed off the approach to the cave, which is scarcely visible from the outside and hidden by a sloping ravine. Relatives of cult members are expected to arrive at the scene shortly from Belarus and Ukraine to try and persuade their loved ones to give up. This may be tricky, however, as cult members have apparently taken a vow of silence.

Asked whether Russian special forces would storm the cave with their usual finesse, Volchkova said: "For the moment the police are making sure that the situation is OK and under control."
"Right now, the special forces guys are drunk, we'll have to wait".

Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation under article 235 of Russia's criminal code, against illegal religious societies, she added.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/15/2007 13:06 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  May 2008? Interesting choice of days. That is about the same time that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to come into operation. It's designed to create the Higgs boson (God Particle), but an unforseen consequence from the whole thing might lead to a miniature black hole being created, which will in turn destroy the Earth.

http://www.lhcdefense.org/LHC_FACTS.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
Posted by: KenAnglan || 11/15/2007 13:54 Comments || Top||

#2  In the immortal words of 'Mater: Goood Byeeeeeeeee!
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 11/15/2007 14:02 Comments || Top||

#3  "They say they are fine. They tell us to go away," another added.

Which you should. If these people want to live in a cave I cannot see the problem.
Posted by: Excalibur || 11/15/2007 16:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Promises, promises.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 11/15/2007 17:04 Comments || Top||

#5  AFAICR, this isn't unheard-of in Russia. I believe there were sects in the 1800s that would gather in the local church and torch the place around them.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/15/2007 17:43 Comments || Top||

#6  HHHHHMMMMMM, Comet HOLMES, "Blue Cloud" Angels, Surfer Dude wid Theory of Everything, Benazir being labeled as MORTICIA, now Russ Sect and May 2008, ...............................@etal. ONCE AGAIN, ME DOTH THINKS "PAULA ABDUL" REMEMBERS TOO MUCH, TOO MANY, long long ago in the future of the present, on a far far far away land(s) I'm standing on, when a little child girl named MADONNA made her first MTV videos before going to first Baptismals-Confessionals??? And then theres OSAMA + WHITNEY! Time for the FBI-CIA-DOD-INTEL - you know, the Mafia + University - to turn RUSSELL CROWE chemically PDeniably schitzo in A BRILLIANT MIND. As KEVIN COSTNER in Oliver Stone's "JFK" said back in the 1960's, while Oliver was serving in Vietnam > "LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD OR THE HEAVENS FALL"!

D *** NG IT, WHAT KIND OF ANGELINA JOLIE COMMIE LARA KROFT SUPERMODELS IS SOUTH AMERICA PRODUCING DURING THE VIETNAM WAR!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/15/2007 19:04 Comments || Top||

#7  daring it? dyking?
Posted by: KBK || 11/15/2007 20:00 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: DMFD || 11/15/2007 20:56 Comments || Top||

#9  REDDIT > DISCOVER MAGZ - DID A COMET CAUSE THE FLOOD? Pert's evidence leads to belief that 5000 years ago a 3-mile wide object may had circled around the Sun and then crashed/slammed into Earth's Indian Ocean near Madagascar, wiping out 80% of all human life on earth. Event sparked NOAH'S FLOOD + OTHER WORLD FLOOD MYTHS???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/15/2007 22:29 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Diabetes, obesity on rise for children in China
AoS at 11:30 EST: image removed. It was indeed in bad taste.
More Chinese children are becoming overweight and prone to diet-related diseases like diabetes due to unhealthy lifestyles and high stress linked to their studies, state media reported on Thursday, citing a top health official.

More than one in five children were classified as obese and over 2 percent suffered type 2 diabetes, the China Daily said, citing a survey of 17,311 children aged eight to 18 by the Beijing Children's hospital.

Type 1 diabetes, a genetic condition, is the most common form of diabetes in children, whereas Type 2 diabetes is linked with poor diet and a lack of exercise and is far more prevalent in adults.

"The number of children with type 2 diabetes has risen sharply in recent years," Kong said.

"The figures reflect the trend that the number of children suffering from type 2 diabetes might soon exceed the number of those with type 1 diabetes," the paper quoted Kong Lingzhi, deputy director of the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau under the Ministry of Health, as saying.

There are about 20 million people suffering from diabetes in China, according to the Ministry of Health Web site (www.moh.gov.cn).

"The number of children with diabetes has accounted for 5 percent of all patients, and it is increasing by 10 percent every year," Xinhua news agency quoted Li Qiang, an endocrine secretion professor, as saying.

The rise in diabetes and obesity rates in China comes hand in hand with an economic boom that has brought more wealth for families to spend on food and less need to toil in fields for a living.
More toil. Less wealth.
The World Health Organization and Chinese Health Ministry warned last year that a surge in chronic diseases could kill up to 80 million people in China alone in the next decade.
Surge? Or more accurate reporting?
Posted by: gorb || 11/15/2007 04:48 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They're only children, so they get spoiled. And the #1 thing that little spoiled kids like to do is eat at KFC. I see them every time I go in there, grabbing and shoving people out of the way.

PS that child is not fat, he is suffering from a genetic disorder. It's in bad taste.
Posted by: gromky || 11/15/2007 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks fat to me, even if it is caused by a genetic disorder. And yes, it is in bad taste, regardless. But then, I, and a lot of us here, can be rather tasteless.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/15/2007 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  He looks like The Michelin Man...
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/15/2007 10:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh, well, they might as well get fat and bad looking, it's not as if they will find girlfriends anyway.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/15/2007 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  By the way, either those quaint brown people die in droves because of hunger (must be our fault, too, our lifestyle and all), and it's hand-wringing time, or they die in droves because they over-eat and become fat lil porkers (ditto), and it's hand-wringing times.

Could the msm/Enlightned Elites make up their mind, please?
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/15/2007 11:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Do chinese too have a genetic predisposition to fatten, as was reported for indians in a very similar article about the exact same issue a while back?
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/15/2007 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  all the fault of Deng, and capitalism.

back when Mao was in charge, Chinese children didnt suffer from obesity.
Posted by: Liberalhawk || 11/15/2007 12:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Moose, it's Darwinism. The closer a group of people are to vagaries of food supplies, the greater the genetic pool to efficiently process it. Those who lack the genetic ability to squeeze every last bit of nutrition out of what food may be available weren't around long enough to sustain a couple generations into the 'lean times'. The Chinese are just now hitting the point were availability of food is not a survival issue. Same for the Native Americans. Regardless of what they say, it hasn't matter whether its been a Donk or a Trunk in control of the White House or Congress, real poverty has continued to exist on several large reservations. Now some of that is free choice wanting to stay with the 'old ways'. However, the government not wanting to get caught with charges of malnutrition and deprivation has made sure 'food' is not an issue. So after many generations, they too have sustained and consistent access to food with the efficient processors doing what evolution expected of them. Pack it away for lean times.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/15/2007 17:51 Comments || Top||

#9  CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > SINODAILY > ANALYST: CHINA'S ECONOMY 40% SMALLER THAN ESTIMATED. 300Milyuhn Chinese live below UN World Bank's dollar-a-day poverty line which is circa 200M more than previously estimated, China's GDP in 2005 was US$5.0Trilyuhn versus $12.0T for USA during same.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/15/2007 22:33 Comments || Top||


China gives reporter 1 year for cardboard-stuffed dumpling story
Zi Beijia, a Chinese reporter who fabricated a TV news saying that Beijing dumpling makers used cardboard as a filling, was Sunday sentenced to one year behind bars with a fine of 1,000 yuan for the crime of "infringing commodity reputation".

Zi hid the truth to the Beijing Television Station, enabling his program to be aired in a slot known as "Transparency" on July 8 at the Live Channel of the station. The program caused baneful social effects and severely ruined the reputation of the relevant commodities, according to the court ruling.
Because China doesn't have a reputation for shoddy products.
Zi pledged guilty at the court and said he was muddled-head at that moment, which cheated Beijing Television Station and the audience.
Actually, it was a great hoax, as many people, including myself, were not surprised at all. I could easily see a dumpling vendor substituting ingredients. Here in my town, if you buy a fish at a restaurant, you make a mark on it or something, to make sure the same fish comes back to your table. There have been verified incidents where they substitute a cheaper fish after you pay for the expensive one. He really touched a nerve with his story, otherwise he would have gotten away with an otherwise commonplace journalistic invention. The government's solution to the problem is to denounce the messenger, not start an intensive food safety campaign. Likewise this summer when all the tainted products were found in America, the Chinese government denied everything and came up with excuses to return imported products, thus assuaging damaged national pride.
Zi made a sincere apology to the audience, Beijing Television Station and the people concerned. He advised journalistic staff to learn lessons from him and follow obey journalistic ethics.
The commies are really big on the self-criticism and confession.
Posted by: gromky || 11/15/2007 03:39 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The government's solution to the problem is to denounce the messenger, not start an intensive food safety campaign.

Or maybe the "fake but true" line didn't sale as well in China? 'Free Press' has gotten away from the Zenger principle - fact/turth is a defense. We've all seen what happens when the product of 'journalism' is as corrupted as any shoddy or tainted product.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/15/2007 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Wanna guess what they're gonna feed this guy while he's in prison?
Posted by: Zenster || 11/15/2007 16:39 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
The Islamic World's Little Secret: They're The Champions When It Comes To Surfing Pr0n
John (not yet)Frum had linked in the past to Google trends country by country, where this was heavily apparent.

Despite all their protestations of piety and clean living as well as their condemnation of anything they deem to be “Unislamic” it seems that our friends from the Religion of Peace have a keen desire to dive right in to internet pr0n.

In fact, it looks like they surf pr0n more than anyone else. I’ve highlighted some of their favorite internet, er, hobbies:

Arabic is the 2nd most common language that is used to search for gay sex. It's the number one language for search involving sexy. As you can see in that same graph, Iran is at 3 and Egypt is at 4, listed under regions where search on sexy was most conducted.

Arabic is the 2nd most common language that is used to search for gay man. The countries that most search for this is currently Malaysia (#1) and Indonesia (#2). For gay girl, Arabic is also the 2nd most common language

For child pr0n, Turkey is the 2nd country where this is most searched. Turkish is the #1 language used

Turkey has one of the most searches for the word pr0no. Morocco is at 5. Turkish is #1 language used to conduct the search in. Indonesia is currently #1 country that search for the word vagina.

Turkey is not an Arab country, nor are some of the other countries I listed. But they are Muslim, so I thought the findings were fascinating to say the least. All of this information is not in the least bit shocking, but it�s quite ironic.

Oh, those naughty, naughty boys. Covering their women while they surf porn with sweaty-eyed gusto. And here are some more fun filled facts about our sexually repressed representatives of the Religion of Peace:

Egypt is currently #1 for fat sex.
Hey, I may have an opening in egypt... though, on second thought, I don't think they allow wimmen to access computers, damn.

Pakistan, Morocco, Turkey and Egypt are at the top of the list when it comes to animal sex.

For children sex, Pakistan is at #1, Egypt #2 and Iran #3. The most common languages used to conduct the search in are Arabic and Turkish

For sexy child, Pakistan is #1, followed by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey. Common languages are Persian, Arabic, and Turkish

For homo sex, Indonesia is #1, Morocco is at 6

For rape, Pakistan is at 1. Malaysia is at 3

For bird sex, Egypt is at 1. (Come ON!)

These are evidently very busy people. Between blowing people up, protesting en masse, condemning Israel and the U.S. they find the time to surf some serious pr0n on the web. And judging from the categories they appear to have searched I’d say that these people have some dark issues. Note the number of child sex, gay sex, and violent sex related sites that are searched.

But we’re the immoral ones.

Yeesh
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/15/2007 11:31 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ????Bird Sex?????
Posted by: AlanC || 11/15/2007 13:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Poultry and some duct tape, I'd venture.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/15/2007 13:26 Comments || Top||

#3  ????Bird Sex?????

Giggity giggity goo!!!
Posted by: Glenn Quagmire || 11/15/2007 13:58 Comments || Top||

#4  reminds me of that unfortunate misunderstanding about "stuffing the turkey" a couple years ago
Posted by: Frank G || 11/15/2007 16:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Must be doing research. You know, all those islamic scholars. intellectuals, even.
Posted by: PlanetDan || 11/15/2007 16:48 Comments || Top||

#6  For bird sex, Egypt is at 1. (Come ON!)

Chicken Love?

Tawdry Turkey Sex?

Hen Peckered Tranny?

MILF Layer: Cluckoldress Any Cock-a-Doodle-Do?

~:)
/heh so what if they're shaggy! rolf!
Posted by: Red Dawg || 11/15/2007 16:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Needle dick poultry packers! I knew it!
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 11/15/2007 17:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Arabic is the 2nd most common language that is used to search for gay sex.

Arabic is the 2nd most common language that is used to search for gay man.


Yet, we all know for certain that homosexualism isn't rampant in the MME (Muslim Middle East). At least someone around here believes Ahmadinejad.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/15/2007 20:22 Comments || Top||

#9  "Arabic is the 2nd most common language that is used to search for gay man. The countries that most search for this is currently Malaysia (#1) and Indonesia (#2)."
Last I recall, neither Malaysia nor Indonesia are in the Middle East. If it's "rampant" in the MME, then it must be pervasive in Malaysia and Indonesia, eh Zenster? It's a wonder and Muslim men there even bother to take wives.
/sarcasm off
Posted by: Woodrow Elmomomp1598 || 11/15/2007 20:46 Comments || Top||

#10  I may not be able to prove it, but you sure as hell can't disprove it either.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/15/2007 20:49 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Indonesian 'Tree Man' has experts baffled
AN Indonesian man known as "Tree Man" - because of incredibly long warts on his hands and feet that resemble tree roots - is still baffling many experts about the cause of his condition.

After cutting his knee as a teenager, 35-year-old Dede now has “warty roots” coming out of his arms and legs in what was believed to be a life-threatening condition.

The UK’s Telegraph newspaper reported that Dede’s wife left him and he was sacked from his job because of the condition.

But the newspaper reported that a US expert now believes that Dede may be cured from the condition.

The University of Maryland’s Dr Anthony Gaspari said that the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) was the cause of the condition and that a course of synthetic Vitamin A should clear the problem up.

A Discovery Channel documentary on Dede has premiered in the UK.

It is not yet known how many people watched the feature.

Video at link or click HERE
Posted by: Oztralian || 11/15/2007 20:49 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Cambridge boots Boy Scouts, calls support for soldiers 'pro-war'
Cambridge. The Beating Heart of the Peoples Republic...
Cambridge - Was it just too pro-war for Cambridge?
Of course, they "support the troops", but to allow something like this would actually make it almost look like they actually mean it...
A troop of Boy Scouts is wondering why their donation boxes meant for troops in Iraq were thrown out of polling stations last week. Election officials ordered the removal of donation boxes set up by a troop of Cambridge Boy Scouts of America during last Tuesday’s municipal election.
A "troop"! Oh, my, how warlike! Effie...my salts!
The boxes were set up inside the 33 polling stations around the city to collect donations for soldiers serving overseas in the war in Iraq.
Well, boys, your first mistake was not setting some up to collect for the insurgents too. Would've been interesting to see which one filled up first...
Marsha Weinerman, executive director of the city’s Election Commission, said the boxes were removed after a resident complained to commission workers about their implied “pro-war” message.
Then she jumped in her Mercedes and drove away...power to the proletariat!
“We contacted the law department, and it was determined that the best course of action would be to remove the boxes,” Weinerman said.
Oh, my...one complaint? Guess we'd better cave.
In a column that appears in this week’s Chronicle, Troop leader Jamisean Patterson said the commission twice granted the scouts permission to set up the boxes at the polling stations. “We have never seen anything like this decision in Cambridge before,” Patterson wrote. The city is changing for the worse if decisions like this are allowed to be made.”
Guess he hasn't been around Cambridge that long...
Weinerman cited a law that prohibits political messages near any polling station in an election. But state law prohibits political messages pertaining to a particular election within 150 feet of any polling station, according to a spokesperson for Secretary of State William Galvin’s office. There is no law stopping someone from promoting an unrelated political message within 150 feet of any polling place.
Put some in requesting donations for illegal immigrants and see how fast they get pulled out...
While most of the boxes were set up in the lobbies or front entrances of the polling stations, some were placed in the same room as voting booths, according to election workers. Weinerman said the scouts were never given permission to set up the boxes inside the 150-foot boundary.“This was not supporting the war or any politician or political view,” Patterson wrote.
Obviously, this is dangerous precedent and these children must be reeducated. Notify the Cambridge School Committee that we have a People's Emergency!
Election officials kept the boxes in storage until a troop leader was able to pick them up.
I worked over there in the Eighties. They dedicated their Vietnam memorial on one of the Veteran's Days and a few of the guys I worked with that served over there said they were going down to check it out make sure it was meant for Americans and not the Viet Cong. I think they were kidding.
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/15/2007 12:52 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  tu3031,

When I saw this, I thought for a minute. Let's see Boy Scouts, Soldiers, a banning of support for the troops donations. It just had to be Cambridge Mass; The Peoples Republic of Moonbats and Moonbat Central.

If the Boy Scouts were collecting money to buy Carbon Credits, the locals would have been falling over themselves to donate.
Posted by: Delphi || 11/15/2007 15:26 Comments || Top||



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