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Sri Lanka claims smashing 'final' Tiger defences
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Six dead in South Korea fish knife frenzy
See what happens when you let fish play with knives?
Posted by: Mike || 10/20/2008 16:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Everybody was fish knife fighting...
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/20/2008 16:59 Comments || Top||

#2  ION SOUTH KOREA, WORLD MILITARY FORUM > SOUTH KOREA MAY BECOMING ANOTHER "ICELAND", MAY ASK CHINA FOR HELP + SOUTH KOREA IS ASIA'S MOST VULNERABLE [US Financial Crisis], JAPAN WILL NOT SAVE CHINA'S POSITION + CHINA REALIGNS, INCREASES PLA BORDER FORCES TO IMPROVE NORTH KOREAN DOMESTIC STABILITY + KIM JONG-IL MAY APPOINT SECOND SON KIM JONG-CHOL/CHUL AS SUCCESSOR. Since Jong-Chol/CHUl was reportedly born in 1981, it would appear that KIM JONG-IL = NOKOR IS ANTICIPATING OR SUPPORTING A OBAMA VICTORY IN THE USA [Youth-to-Youth]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/20/2008 23:52 Comments || Top||


Man jailed for "activity" at car wash

Whaddya mean by "activity", Muldoon?
Just read the report, okay, sarge?

A 29-year-old Swan Creek Township man was in the Saginaw County Jail for "receiving sexual favors from a vacuum" at a Thomas Township car wash, police say.
Is that law on the books?
A Thomas Township resident called police to report "someone acting suspicious" at a car wash around 6:45 a.m. Thursday, said Police Sgt. Gary Breidinger.
Whaddya mean by suspicious, sir?
Ummmmm...could you just send somebody?

The officer parked some distance away, approached on foot and caught the man in the act, Breidinger said.
Soooo...was it good for you?
"I've seen some strange things, but this is the weirdest thing I ever heard," he said.
If he put his quarters in, would that be considered "consenual"?
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/20/2008 11:38 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Talk about getting hosed!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/20/2008 13:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Dave Oreck had no comment......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/20/2008 14:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Hoover's my brand...
Posted by: DK70 the Scantily Clad7177 || 10/20/2008 14:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Under an Obama administration
the Swan Creek Township man would not be discrimiated against for what he does in the privacy of his automobile. He would also receive a tax rebate on carwash vacuum use.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/20/2008 15:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Under an Obama administration,
this poor victim of Bush-o-nomics will have to look else where for his next 'liasion,' as the spreading the wealth around' tax will put the car wash out of business.

perhaps this young man will then be forced to turn his affections towards a nearby In-sink-er-ator......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/20/2008 16:19 Comments || Top||

#6  What's with the prejudice against vacuums?

You're all a bunch of machinists!!
Posted by: Adriane || 10/20/2008 16:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Beating off with a car wash vacuum in public is a protected human right according to Obamaland.

Yuck.

Posted by: ex-lib || 10/20/2008 17:12 Comments || Top||

#8  You're all a bunch of machinists!!

Ahem, I do not think the word means what you think it means...
Posted by: Tranquil Mechanical Yeti || 10/20/2008 17:28 Comments || Top||

#9  OK. You're all a bunch of ah, um, uh biologists!!
Posted by: Adriane || 10/20/2008 17:59 Comments || Top||

#10  *giggle*
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/20/2008 18:10 Comments || Top||

#11  Suck factor Only '5' Pounds!

Only 5 Pounds!!!

Book Em Dano!

The Thomas Township Car Wash is committing *Hose-Rape* again.

Muldoon
Posted by: Muldoon || 10/20/2008 18:20 Comments || Top||

#12  Has anyone mentioned yet the old axiom that nature abhorrs a vacuum?
Posted by: Tranquil Mechanical Yeti || 10/20/2008 20:19 Comments || Top||

#13  “I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on” -- Roseanne Barr
Posted by: Darrell || 10/20/2008 20:23 Comments || Top||

#14  "Weirdest thing I'd ever heard" > MISSED "MAN HAS SEX WITH A HOLE", and other Prior, didn't we???

Doing their all for GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER, and the World-Conquering USSA versus Weak Anti-sovereign OWG Global SSR United Soc Republiks of Amerika, aren't they???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/20/2008 20:27 Comments || Top||

#15  Joe, I met a young (very)Navy person last weekend who is now on her way to Guam. Nice young
lady. I told her to watch out for you.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/20/2008 20:38 Comments || Top||

#16  The way those car washes eat quarters, wouldn't it be cheaper to rent the real thing?
Posted by: ed || 10/20/2008 20:50 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Japanese team finds 'yeti footprints' in Nepal
KATHMANDU (AFP) – A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.

"The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Japan, told AFP in Kathmandu on Monday.

Takahashi was speaking after he returned with his seven-member team from their third attempt to track down the half-man-half-ape, tales of which have gripped the imaginations of Western adventurers and mountaineers for decades.

Despite spending 42 days on Dhaulagiri IV -- a 7,661-metre (25,135-foot) peak where they say they have seen traces of yetis in the past -- the team failed in their prime objective of capturing one on film.

But Takahashi said the footprints were proof enough.

"Myself and other team members have been coming to the Himalayas for years and we can recognise bear, deer, wolf and snow leopard prints and it was none of those," he said.

"We remain convinced it is real. The footprints and the stories the local tell make us sure that it is not imaginary," he added.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/20/2008 18:49 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah the stories the locals tell, and that Yeti fur they had that turned out to be mountain goat skin. I'm sure the locals also have snowshoes with big yeti-style footprint makers on the underside. I would if I were them.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/20/2008 20:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Say, .. . anyone seen Abdominal Snowman today? I think he said he was going out of town for a few days, didn't he?
Posted by: Mike || 10/20/2008 21:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I had to change to this "nickname" because the old one was generating confusion with Autobartender when abbreviated.

Although now I'm having regrets; maybe I should have picked the Thing From Snowy River?
Posted by: Tranquil Mechanical Yeti || 10/20/2008 22:39 Comments || Top||

#4  And I thought the Japanese would just _GO AWAY_ when I told them that NO, NONE OF OUR PEOPLE HAVE TENTACLES. I thought they'd go chase lake monsters in China after that.
Posted by: Tranquil Mechanical Yeti || 10/20/2008 22:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Just my opinion, Yeti, but I do like the Snowy River angle.

'Course, I liked the Snowman too - and I didn't confuse you with the Bartender.

But.... Your nym, your choice. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/20/2008 22:59 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi investigates blackmail against women
The Saudi Ministry of Interior has formed a committee to look into blackmail cases, particularly involving women, following a study that revealed the scope of the problem, local press reported Sunday.

The study conducted by the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice indicated that the victims age ranges between 16 and 39, although minors as young as eight have been subject to blackmail, the Saudi newspaper Okaz said Sunday. Photos seized in several cases showed humiliating and violent scenes including, sexual abuse and women being beaten.

Blackmail in Saudi Arabia can occur in many forms, but often involves threatening to harm a woman's reputation. This can include telling a woman's family or husband scandalous information about an alleged indiscretion or threatening her with compromising pictures, videos, or voice recordings, said the head of the Commission's research center, Abdul-Mohsen al-Qufazi.

Women, and men, have been lured into sending pictures -- often digital -- of themselves to potential suitors upon promises of a marriage proposal or to so-called employment agencies or job ads that turn out to be phony.

In a conservative society where most women are veiled and social norms prohibit mixing between unmarried men and women, such pictures can prove a powerful weapon in the hands of a blackmailer.

A woman who had sent pictures of herself to a man was blackmailed for 14 years by a blackmailer seeking more than 800,000 riyals (about $213,000), according to a report in the Arab News in June.

Cases of extortion typically occur in situations where men and women co-mingle, like the workplace, added Qufazi. Some extortion schemes have been committed against Saudi women by non-Saudi men seeking huge sums of money.

The committee will address at the problem of blackmail through 3 stages, added Qufazi, the preventive stage, that prevent the crime, the crime stage, which focuses on catching the offenders in the act, and the post-crime stage focusing on rehabilitation institutions.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's easier than that. It goes something like this:

"Keep your mouth shut about the fact that I just raped you or I will tell your-dad/my-brother that you took a shower without your burkha on thereby shamelessly tempting me while I happened to be innocently watching through the keyhole. Custom dictates that it is all your fault. What's a cat supposed to do, after all?"
Posted by: gorb || 10/20/2008 4:09 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Former Beijing Official Receives Death Sentence With Reprieve
Beijing's former vice mayor received a suspended death sentence for taking more than a million dollars in bribes, his lawyer and state-run media said Sunday.
Bet that suspension cost him a pretty penny.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bet that suspension cost him a pretty penny

More than 100,000,000 of them, probably.
Posted by: gorb || 10/20/2008 4:02 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2008-10-20
  Sri Lanka claims smashing 'final' Tiger defences
Sun 2008-10-19
  Taliban stop bus- massacre 30
Sat 2008-10-18
  Kidnapped Chinese engineer escapes Pakistani Taliban
Fri 2008-10-17
  Missile Strike Targeting Baitullah Country Kills 6
Thu 2008-10-16
  18 Talibs titzup in attack on Lashkar Gah
Wed 2008-10-15
  Puntland Coasties free Panama ship from pirates
Tue 2008-10-14
  DPRK regrants IAEA inspectors access to its nuclear facilities
Mon 2008-10-13
  12 boomers among 27 zapped in Wazoo
Sun 2008-10-12
  Lankan president asks LTTE to surrender
Sat 2008-10-11
  North Korea taken off US terror list
Fri 2008-10-10
  15 dead in suicide blast at Pakistan tribal meeting
Thu 2008-10-09
  Boom Bitch Kills 10 in Diyala Province
Wed 2008-10-08
  World's Stock Markets Plunge
Tue 2008-10-07
  Iran forces down Corporate Executive ''Fighter Jet''
Mon 2008-10-06
  Saudi hosts Afghan peace talks with Taliban reps


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